Victoria Meyers architect: Landscape as form

Landscape as Form

h = horizon line Ma = space

TABLE LANDSCAPE

Landscape as Form

hMa Professional Works :

1) Battery Park City Master Plan :

Complex Urban Infrastructure

2) Pratt Pavilion :

Institutional Space

3) Infinity Chapel :

Interior Architecture / Light + Space

4) DWi-P :

Large-Scale Public Building

5) Holley House :

Residential Architecture

6) Won Buddhist Retreat :

Large Public Compound on a Rural Site

Woven Fabric

Battery Park City Master Plan : ‘Woven Fabric’

BATTERY PARK CITY MASTER PLAN

isometric massing study first massing model

Isometric diagram showing green roofs and green landscapes green roofs

Diagram showing park spaces Diagram showing woven fabric of the cities’ buildings and parks

North End Avenue dog park

North End Avenue : A green street

Nelson A. Rockefeller Park

Irish Hunger Memorial

Teardrop Park

aerial view of Teardrop Park showing green roofs and heliostats

heliostats

view of glass wall; ballfields to the right bird’s eye view of ballfields and ballfield terrace

ballfield terrace park benches for sitting and watching

Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

‘Tribute in Light’

Pratt Pavilion Public Face: new design center New Master Plan: buildings face campus

New Campus Entry Night view

Entry Ramp

new entry vestibule Stair to 2nd

floor

Menashe Kadishman’s “Suspended” at Storm King Art Center

PRATT PAVILION:

SUSPENDED VESSEL

INFINITY CHAPEL

Interior Architecture and Space

CHAPEL = 4th

DIMENSIONAL OBJECT

Diagrams and Space

Sound + Light Paths

DWi-P : Large – Scale Public Building

DWi-P

DIGITAL WATER PAVILION

DWi-P Entry / Green Roof (Ballfield Terrace) / SCAPE Landscape architects

Bird’s eye view : Ballfield Terrace

Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

view from Ballfield Terrace entry to teardrop parkEntry to Ballfield Terrace

Entry : Ballfield Terrace

Central stair / central courtyard

Central stair – toward Ballfield

View of Terrace from North

The eggCentral terrace

Ramps and stairs connecting to Warren Street – North side

View from Warren Street to Terrace

Stair up from south side of Dwi-P Terrace at Murray Street

Ramp up from Murray Street to Dwi-P green roof south side

Entry lobby

Ballfield Level - Plan

Ballfield Level

Ballfield level lobby

Fitness area Corridor looking north

Pool (WaTER)

Gym

Dance Studio

The Glass Wall

PRECEDENT STUDY

PROCESS : DUCHAMP : FRAMED GLASS

PHYSICS WRITTEN ON GLASS

MUSIC & GLASS

ARCHITECT / COMPOSER COLLABORATION

Sample at site early WaTER score

MUSICAL SCORE WaTER

The Glass Wall

Glass wall

North Courtyard Central Courtyard

South Courtyard

Green Diagram

HOLLEY HOUSE

Won Buddhist Retreat : Large Public Compound on a Rural Site

WON DHARMA CENTER

Dynamic Open Spirals / vs / Stasis beneath a Rectangular Roof

THE SITE : The starting point “Ground Zero”

Meditation Administration

Plans – Through the landscape

Meditation : Roof Plane // a space for introspection

A spiral path defines a journey from mundane (cafeteria) to spiritual practice

Spirit World

A “chord” that

connects World to

Spirit

Cafeteria

Meditation

Live

Open Spirals : movement diagrams

Fractal Roofs Spiral Plans

+ =

Dynamic

(Mundane)

Space

2 visiting residences connect A dynamic connection through site // paths

DIAGRAM : Wood Screens

Trees + Screened Buildings = Infinite Bleed of Edge

Meditation Hall + Wood Screens // Buildings = Site

Residence Halls + Screened Porches // Buildings = Site

Porches blend wood buildings to Site

Custom Wood Furniture - Site comes Inside // Zero Carbon Footprint Diagram

Teaching

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

MTA Transit Station

Upper Level Graduate Studio

UTA - Spring 2012

site: 125th Street, Harlem, New York City

The MwEE will become the newest Urban Gateway in NYC

Formally, and Programmatically, The site - bounded on the East by the Elevated Number One track. The Number One Train is the

Primary North – South connector between downtown Manhattan and Harlem. The intense pressure of population expansion, and

gentrification in New York City is forcing sites that had been seen as undesirable to take on a new aspect. MwEE will be a major ‘HUB’

within NYC in the future

Transit Hub for a Dense Urban Site

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Navid Tehrani

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Ali Mojdehi

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Kristin Perkins

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Kristin Perkins

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Gaby Lollar

Manhattanville “M(w)EE”

Gaby Lollar

L a Ng uA G E Institute

Upper Level Graduate Studio

UTA - Spring 2012

site: Sara Delano Roosevelt Park, NY, NY

Language Institute: a new building to knit the two sides of SDR Park Together

The site is Sara Delano Roosevelt Park, a park that runs north-south through several blocks, bounded by Christie Street on the West, and

Forsythe Street on the East. The primary train connections to the park include the F train at Houston; the J/Z trains at Delancey, and the B/D

trains at Canal Street, at the base of the Manhattan Bridge.

30,000 sf Building in a Dense Urban Site: Sara Delano Roosevelt Parkway

L a Ng uA G E Institute

Timothy Ballard

L a Ng uA G E Institute

Timothy Ballard

Tonal Motion Experimental Theater

Upper Level Studio IV

CUNY - Spring 2009

site: 125th Street, Harlem, New York City

ACH 48100 is the second semester of the 4th year design studio sequence. The objective of this semester is for students to

understand how to design a complex public building.

The project for this semester is a 43,000 square foot experimental theater for two clients: Michael Schumacher (sound artist); and Liz

Gerring (choreographer) who together have formed a not-for-profit organization combining music and dance called Tonal Motion.

Michael has supplied copies of CD’s of his experimental sound pieces for the studio to review. The studio will be going as a group to

see a performance by Liz Gerring Dance, which will be accompanied by one of Michael’s sound pieces.

Public Theater for Sound and Dance on a Dense Urban Site – Site was an empty lot next to Apollo Theater

Tonal Motion Experimental Theater

Line

Advanced Studio V

Columbia GSAPP - Fall 2004

site: Berlin

The focus of the semester’s investigations is the idea of the line as a basic geometric concept. According to Euclid, ‘a line is a length without

breadth’. In the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp, a line is ‘infrathin’: a slice of a higher dimensional entity which can be projected from it.

The site for the semester’s investigations is Berlin, which until recent times was divided by a line. The studio travelled to Berlin where we

investigated three sites located along the ‘line’ of the former Berlin Wall, separating East and West Berlin.

Students were tasked to design a public building, and to undertake that design within the context of an analysis of the urban fabric within, and

surrounding their chosen site. Each site has been selected as an area that has been chosen for urban renewal by the central Berlin planning

authority.

The studio was met by one of the urban planners from the Berlin planning authority, Professor Matthias Neumann, who agreed to accompany

the studio to the three sites during our Berlin trip, and to offer background materials for each site, for the studio’s use. Professor Neumann,

who also teaches at the University in Berlin, has agreed to come to New York, to Columbia, for our mid-jury to review the projects.

Professor Neumann also made a lecture/ presentation on the recent history of urban design in Berlin, as well as a brief discussion of the Berlin

Wall, and the Berlin public’s sense of the former landmark which had divided the country.

Program:

Students are to choose a program of either: public library; museum; or Kunsthalle. Buildings are to be between 30,000 – 100,000 square feet

in area, with an emphasis on unique structural or mechanical design. Professor Neumann specializes in green design solutions, and special

attention to the mechanical systems functioning will be the focus of his review of your projects.

Line

Line

Time / Passage Way

Advanced Studio V

Columbia GSAPP - Fall 2003

Site: area near Brooklyn Academy of Music

The focus of the semester is Time as it relates to architecture. The studio studied structures which allow time to be captured within the

architectural project. Time can be marked through sequence, or through serial repetition. Sequences or serial repetitions can be stretched,

shortened, or overlaid to read as rapid or slow time passages.

The studio searched within related disciplines to find time relationships. The studio was asked to review modern mathematical models and

equations which, projected into form, yield figures that exceed three dimensions. Assuming the fourth dimension represents time, students

were encouraged to find formal and physical methods of interpreting these through architectural structures and materials.

Students will start the semester by reviewing hypercubes, hyperspheres, and complex torus configurations. As humans, we are only able to

‘see’ three-dimensional spaces, so our investigations will take the form of ‘slices and shadows’ of the more complex figures under review,

allowing us to develop secondary figures, in three dimensions. The studio will incorporate complex four-dimensional relationships within

students’ final projects through the invention of an architectural language for time registration, in order to register the fourth dimension.

The studio was taught in collaboration with Professor Benji Fisher from the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Prof. Fisher gave

invaluable assistance to the studio, teaching a brief seiminar on fourth dimensional mathematics at the beginning of the term. Prof. Fisher

also sat in on juries, where his commentary assisted students and outside critics with clarifications regarding detail and conceptual issues

related to klein bottles, hyper-spheres, and hyper-cubes.

The site for the investigation was the area around BAM in Brooklyn, New York. Readings included Edwin A. Abbott’s book Flatland. The

studio went as a group to see a contemporary interpretation of Alice in Wonderland by Robert Wilson, at BAM, as a way of starting the

investigation.

Time / Passage Way

Spa

Advanced Studio IV

Columbia GSAPP - Spring 2001

site: New Paltz, New York

The site for this semester’s investigation is New Paltz, NY, adjacent to Mohonk Mountain House Lodge. The Mountain House is owned by a

family who has purchased as a protected preserve over 10k acres of land around the Inn. The Mountain House is built from stone quarried on

the site, and overlooks a glacial lake.

Materiality Study in a 30,000sf public Spa on an Open Rural Site

Spa

PUBLISHED WORKS

Designing with Light - 2006 Shape of Sound – in progress, 2014