Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Student portfolio from Tulane University 1st and 2nd year
Citation preview
Christopher A. HaackPortfolio :: Fall 2011 - Spring 2013
Christopher A. [email protected]
Selected WorkSpring 2013
1 :: Visitors Center 7:: Precedent Analysis
Fall 2012 9:: Museum of the City
15:: Urban Analysis :: The French Quarter 17:: Urban Analysis :: The City
Spring 201219:: Feret Street Fete
23::Object Gallery25:: Exquisite Object
Fall 201127:: Site as Dwelling / Dwelling as Site
31:: Painting Analysis33:: Architeckton
Deanery Garden & Spring 2013 :: 2nd Year :: Proffesor Scott RuffClubhouse
Deanery Garden &
Deanery Garden and Clubhouse came about as the synthesis of a precedent analy-sis of Maison Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas, and a need for a visitor’s center on Sir Edwin Lu-tyens, Deanery Garden. The visitor’s center exists as an extension of the house. It sits on the axis of one ofthe pedestrian entrances into Deanery Garden. Like Maison Bordeaux, the structure is concieved of as three seper-ate houses. The top volume contains recep-tion, information stations and a lounge and bar combination. The ground level is non-ex-istent save for the lift shaft that connects to the basement floor which contains the gal-lery, bathroom and other service functions.
By floating above the site there is min-imal disturbance to the garden itself, while still existing as a conspicously contemporary object within the context of a an Edwardian estate. The ramp into the bottom level allows visitors to measure themselves against the landscape and recieve the inverse experience of the numerous grand stairscases which ex-ist on the site.
perspective
facadeopposite: exterior rendering
top plan ground plan basement plan
Deanery Garden & ClubhouseSpring 2013 :: 2nd Year :: Scott Ruff
section :: A
section :: B
sITE SECTION :: 1/16 SCALE
section :: A
section :: B
composite site plan
seperate houses
circulation box manipulation
service vs. served
site
circulationfolLies
gardenbucolic
hedgecarefree
radiant
gallery
bathrooms officestorage
reflective
chambered
resplendentconcealed
Lounge
canopy
free
relaxation
floating
Views
barinfo bar
reception
Precedent AnalysisSpring 2013 :: 2nd Year :: Scott Ruff
Bordeaux House :: Panoramic vs Connective Views Bordeaux House :: Service vs Served
Bordeaux House :: Seperate Houses
Bordeaux House :: Public vs Private
As a key component of creating the subsequent visitors center was the study of a historially significant precedent. The prec-edent studied was Rem Koolhaas’s Maison Bordeaux, a private residence in Bordeaux, France. The house was designed for a parapal-legic client and his family. The building itself employs several diagramatic elements which were represented in both 2 and 3 dimensional formats. These ideas of spatial and tectonic organization were then employed in the visi-tors’s center project as a way of better un-derstaning the language which may inform design. seperate houses
service vs. servedviewspublic vs. private
structure
structure
voids
voids
public vs. private
public vs. private
Museum of the CityFall 2012 :: 2nd Year :: Proffesor Cordula Roser-Gray
Taking the ideas we had found in the analysis of the French Quarter, we constucted a museum of the city. The inspiration behind the museum was to highlight the relationship between the incredibly exposed and public street facade, and the private and secluded condition of the center of the block. The mu-seum itself focuses around projecting views. Upon entry the visitor sees the back courtyard area, a space typically left visually inaccess-able. As the visitor moves upstairs they proc-cess to a balcony overlooking the street they just traveled. Views are also present of the front courtyard once the circulation is com-pleted.
Tectonically the building deals with sub-tracted strips from solid block forms which provide light into the interior of the building. At the front of the structure there is a mechanical gate which slides to cover the auditorium in the daytime and slides closed at night to keep the front courtyard safe until the morning.
opposite: front facade
back
side
Museum of the City
Museum of the CityFall 2012 :: 2nd Year :: Cordula Roser-Gray
top plan ground plan
section :: A
section :: B section :: C
wall of the city
wall of books
wall of light
wall of the surveyor
entranceway
hallway
Urban Analysis :: The NeighborhoodSpring 2013 :: 2nd Year :: Cordula Roser-Gray
After moving from the scale of the entire city, we moved to the scale of the neighborhood. In specific I ex-plored the French Quarter. This research included study-ing the history of the Quarter, the topography and the other elements which make the neighborhood unique. This study was translated into diagrams which described these elements in depth.
zoning
roadways
public vs private
street facade
Urban Analysis :: The CitySpring 2013 :: 2nd Year :: Cordula Roser-Gray
We began the year with an analysis of New Orleans. We studied all the individual elements which exist within the city. From that research we produced diagrams which represented those findings in an instructive way. The emphasis of the project was to find the diagramtic ideads which are recurring and important to the city to help inform future design work.
roadways
crime rates
neighborhoods
building age
Feret Street FeteSpring 2012 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Thaddeus Zarse
The Feret Street Fete developed the ideas in the exquisite object project into a fully functioning gallery space on Feret Street in New Orlean’s Uptown neighbor-hood. The Fete takes advantage of a large site to provide a full gallery space, coupled with office, auditorium and service function. A winding staircase column allows visitors to measure the procession through the floors while providing a dynamic relief to the mono-lithic form of the building.
Small, punched windows provide spe-cific views while adding lightness to the thick wood-clad form. The building is topped with a large cafe area with views of Feret Street, a anvenue whose comerical and social via-biltity was galvanized with post-Katrina de-velopment.
west elevation
east elevationopposite: southeast corner
Feret Street Fete
Feret Street FeteSpring 2012 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Thaddeus Zarse
bottom floor plan 1st floor plan 2nd floor plan
section :: A section :: B
section :: C
The Object Gallery project looked to the tec-tonic and spatial characteristics discovered in the Exquisite Object project and saught to apply them to a gallery space. Ideas which help define the gal-lery space include ideas of monumentality, juxta-position between thickness and thin, solid and void as well as a ratcheting motion which defines the circulation. The experience begins in a small and com-pressed entrance which releases in a volumonous gallery space containing suspended volumes seem-ingly subtracted from the walls. The visitor contin-ues the proccesion to the end where a staircase is revealed in a wall segment the allows passage to a mezzanie level. The mezzanie allows passage over the entrance area which contains a cafe and seat-ing and allows for a reflection on the circulation the occupant just completed.
interior render
gallery render
Object GallerySpring 2012 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Thaddeus Zarse
section :: A,B,C
section :: Dplan
Exquisite ObjectSpring 2012 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Thaddeus Zarse
The Exquisite Object proj-ect looked to an a kinect household device (in this case a pipe clamp) for inspiration to create a gallery space holding three select famous works of art. The initial stage was dia-graming out the object in the form of a digital dyptych. Following that, a model was made to essentially hold the object itself generating a form from negative space. Finally plans and sections were drawn and the gallery was formed based on the kinect ideas of ratcheting and horizontal shift.
digital dyptych
model photo :: 1 model photo :: 2
serial sections
21” _SECTION 10
19.5” _SECTION 9
19” _SECTION 8
18” _SECTION 717.25” _SECTION 616.75” _SECTION 515.5” _SECTION 414.5” _SECTION 3
13” _SECTION 2
3” _SECTION 1
Site as Dwelling / Fall 2011 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Tiffany Lin
Dwelling as Site
back
side
Site as Dwelling / Dwelling as Site was the first exploration into the realtionship be-tween building and its relationship to the site it exists on. Both elements were crafted to have a dialouge with each other and both inform and/or contradict one another. The site is a long plot of sloping land in between a river at the bottom, and a road-way at the top. The house sits on the end of a promenade in between two graceful curvilin-ear hills. The path down is obscured by trees on the first hill with the exception of two small views down to the house. The path continues through cornfields until the visitor reaches the house. The top story acts as a viewing box for the river and land beyond. This is in addition to cantilevering over a small creek to a pri-vate swimming pool on the opposite hillside. The bottom floor contains a dance studio and is embeded within the hillside allowing one to complete the circulation to the banks of the river.
opposite: southeast
Site as Dwelling /
Site as Dwelling / Dwelling as SiteFall 2011 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Tiffany Lin
plans and diagrams
longitudinal section
latitudinal section
The painting analysis project was the first introduction to the ideas of finding the diagramtic elements present within any given composition. The composition studied for this project was Van Doesburg’s “Study of a Cow”. The painting contained numerous ideas abouts repition and meter. Be it through lines if geometrically primitive shapes, the painting ex-hibits the very formal and reductionist approach of the De Stijl moement. In this case a photo realistic painting of a cow was reduced down to its most basic composition until it reached the intellectually rich painting that was then rebuilt and investigated through models and diagrams
model photo 1
model photo 2
Painting AnalysisFall 2011 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Tiffany Lin
service vs. servedviewspublic vs. private
service vs. served
The first project ever completed in architec-ture school, the Architekton was a study in the most basic formal and tectonic principles that exist in ar-chitecture. The project began as a study of planes, sticks and poche as elements present in architec-ture . From there there was a synthesis of all three elemnts into what would become the architekton. The architekton, more than just a synthesis of three elements was formed by a study of a verb which helped shape the building. The verb choosen was “channel” paired with a secondary word being “platforms.” The structure contains four distinct “floors” with three elements that connect each in-dividual “floor”. Within each floor element there are bits of subtracted forms which create the shape of each individual piece. Not only does each “floor” have a channel cut into it, but the connection between acts as a channel which keeps the whole structure together.
model photo 2
ArchitektonFall 2011 :: 1st Year :: Proffesor Marcella del Signore
west elevationeast elevationexploded axon
