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1_thesis Studio fall 2012

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3_graduate Studio spring 2011

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Hunters Point is a neighborhood on the south side of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The East River and New-town Creek meet at Hunters Point, To the west is Manhattan, with the UN and Chrysler Build-ing. South is Newtown Creek and Greenpoint. To the east are the rail yards, and north is Queens Plaza and Dutch Kills.

At Hunter’s Point South, not only will over 5000 new affordable appartments be built in the next 5 years, it wil be done on long-vacant waterfront property that has incredible views of the Manhattan skyline and sits adjacent to one of New York City’s fastest growing neigh-borhoods

With this vacant waterfront land at Hunter’s Point South representing one of New York City’s best opportunities for growth, we need to be smart about how and what we build on this site.

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The combination of over densification, misuse of natural resources and shortage of urban green space has begun to bring about a need for change. Our built environment needs to make less of a negative impact on our planet.

Architecture needs to be responsible to the larg-er social, economic, and environmental context. Cities don’t exist in isolation; they are connected to much larger ecosystems and can damage habitats for many species if not handled cor-rectly. Beneath the steel and concrete of cities are the soil and waterways that are connected to the areas far beyond the city. The air pollution created by cities reduces the quality of the air we breathe at an alarming rate.

Global warming can be largely attributed to the abundant burning of fossil fuels caused by the enormous amount of automobile traffic. This reason alone is why a Mass Transit needs to be encouraged. This can be the beginning to a much larger change.

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Modes of tranportation influencing Transit Center

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A multi-layered, three-dimensional urban organization will foster the interaction between water, landscape, building, and program. By incorporating affordable-eco-friendly mass transportation systems with a public park this project can encourage the thousands of new residents to a more sustainable lifestyle greatly reducing the potential for increase pollution

Bringing green space to the urban landscape is one way that we can have a better relation-ship with the environment. Green space can help with important services including water filtration and absorption, air filtration, noise buffering, and nutrient cycling. Green space can be a place for exercise, relaxation and social interaction, contributing significantly to the quality of life in the city.

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This innovative and integrated design creates a new sustainable strategy that weaves in-frastructure, landscape and architecture, bringing the city to the park and the park to the waterfront. It respects the natural ecology and replaces it, as opposed to carelessly building over it, in contrast with traditional planning methods.

Providing an alternate to defending ourselves with concrete amd steel, the Transit Center opts for a transition zone with islands, wetlands, and graded embankments, allowing the projet to cooperate with the sea, rather than trying to banish it. It is inevitable that the site will be affected by some flooding if a hurricane or severe storm makes landfall anywhere close to New York City (Hurricane Sandy being the most recent example. If nothing is done to anticipate this , HUGE, amounts of money will be wasted long-term.

All final renders created for this project were produced using a combination of an autodesk Revit building model combined with photoshop montage techniques.

The sectional image above was created using a laser-cut chipboard model that was then photographed and rendered using Adobe Photoshop

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The HPS Transit Center will bring new lifestyle, recreation, education and transportation to repair and strengthen the Hunter’s Point South urban com-munity. The project will make a connection with the landscape in which pub-lic green space and architecture intermingle seamlessly. The Transit Center has to respond to the rigid urban grid on one side while respecting the soft waterfront edge on the other.

One subway stop from Midtown, this working-class and industrial neighbor-hood has the potential to transform the way New York Transportation system operates.

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FUNCTION: URBAN GREEN SPACE STRUCTURAL WAFFLE SLAB

PROGRAM: ROOF TOP PARK GREY WATER COLLECTION GREY WATER TREATMENT LOW WATER DEMAND VEG

UPPER LEVEL

FUNCTION: DINING/LEISURE

PROGRAM: RESTAURANT CAFE/LOUNGE BAR KITCHEN WAITING AREAS RESTROOMS

MAIN LEVEL

FUNCTION: TRANSIT PROGRAM: TICKET COUNTER INFO CENTER WAITING AREAS SEATING AREAS RESTROOMS

VERTICAL MOVEMENT

PROGRAM: SUSPENDED STAIRS RAMP ELEVATOR CORE

WATER LEVEL

PROGRAM: URBAN GREEN SPACE

WETLAND PARK FLOATING BOARDWALKS COLLUMN LANDSCAPE

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In the Andalucian region of Spain, there exists one of the world’s greatest architectural and historical treasures: La Alhambra. Truly valuable to the study of archaeology, history, architecture, art, literature, music, anthropology and culture, La Alhambra is a magnificent golden complex anchored to a Hill in the historic city of Granada, with parts dating back to as early as the 7th century.

Located on Sabika hill overlooking the rest of the city, the complex has many concerns in regards to accessibilty and clarity of sequence at the entrance to the complex. After years of restoration and con-servation, and even a 20th century attempt to rectify the entrance to La Alhambra, the space still fails to direct visitors efficiently into the complex.

The area of intervention includes the Plaza de la Alhambra, La Plataforma del Agua, the café, the current entrance pavilion and the adjacent green areas, an area approximately 120,000 square feet in dimension. “Impact areas” were also carefully con-sidered throughout the design process, such as the entry sequence to La Alhambra Archives and the progression through existing parking lots and drop-off zones. These impact zones will be slightly modi-fied to improve the overall dynamic of La Alhambra y El Generalife Complex.

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7. Exterior Entry Space

Hovering just a few feet above your head as you approach the main doors of the Atrio is a massive floating continuation of the perforated brick facade. This screen not only casts dynamic patterns of light and shadow on the tile patio as is found within the Alhambra, but it also creates an amazing outdoor space in this contemporary inter-pretation of a sheltered courtyard space. The lighting qualities acheived with this screen are meant to open the visitors senses so they will be able to truly appreciate lights’ beautiful qualities. It prepares visitors for what is to come once they buy their ticket and go inside the Alhambra, but it also was designed to be so large so that it will easily attract all visitors that may be confused that are trying to get inside simply because it is the tallest structure that can be seen while on the site.

Structurally speaking, this space is accomplished with the use of three post tensioned-prestress concrete beams that are part of the frame structure supporting the rest of the builing. Although It appears as if it is cantilevering, the brick walls are supported with thin steel posts at midspan shortening the span from 80’ to 40’.

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The purpose of this architectural design studio is to create a new building, the Atrio of La Alhambra, which, coupled with massive landscape develop-ment. will resolve all of the issues involved with the entrance. The design project is two fold: creating a functional entry sequence for visitors to La Alham-bra, and creating a space that connects La Alhambra to the city of Granada. The project aims to improve the conditions of the sequence of arrival and access to the monument that the visitors have to experience.

“Alhambra” is an arabic term that literally means “red castle.” Some believe this refers to the color of the building material, however the stone is not re-ally red, but rather a tan color that “by starlight is silver but by sunlight is transformed into gold.” This idea was applied to the materiality of the Entryway in the form of this custom clay brick.

“ Venice, Italy is built with water in the same was that the Alhambra was built on the utopian ideals of nature” -Juan Domingo Santos

Not only is Venice “built” on the water physically, but is also built on the water metaphorically. This same idea applies to the Alhambra and its relation-ship with nature

The three main elements of nature that the Alham-bra is built upon are: Light, Water, and Garden. Light, specifically was the element that largely cre-ated the design. Light allows you to define materi-ality because without light we would not be able to see. Light both builds and reveals textures and can create patterns that are dynamic throughout the day and from season to season.

It is used to highlight moments and direct attention with the help of high contrast light and dark. The visitor gets glimpses of the intricate textures of light on the walls and floor.

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Red Brick Wall -The Homage Tower (horizontal banding & assembly of

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Visiting the Site (taking notice of the overwhelming presence of the fortress

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Abstracted Horizontal pattern Final Brick Wall System(Horizontal/perforation/assembled)

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Mashrabiya is the Arabic term given to a type of projecting window enclosed with carved wood latticework. The mashrabiya is an ele-ment of traditional Arabic architecture used since the middle ages. One of the major uses of the Mashrabiya is for privacy, an essential aspect of Arabic culture. A good view of the street can be obtained by the occupants with-out being seen, preserving and sheltering the private interior without depriving the occu-pants from a vista of the public outside.

Aside from this perforated screen, most struc-tures within the Alhambra were constructed using a packed earth method. The bricks which make up most of the Alhambra were raised by packing a mixture into a framework consist-ing of two parallel planks joined together by a crossbeam. The idea of using brickes for the enclosure stemmed from this.

Daylight is the cheapest material. In the sus-tainable world that we are pushing for today, this is very important for energy consumption because it can reduce electricity usage. Light is an extremely abundant resource. South-ern light is Warm, abundant, and easily con-trolled, So this perforated brick wall wraps every southern facing surface of the building.

The wooden screen with operable windows gives shade and protection from the hot sum-mer sun while allowing the cool air from the street to flow through, while also creating a textured surface - replicating the traditional Moorish patterns, using the historical back-ground of the structure.

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Light study: Summer months (higher sun angle) to Winter Months (lower sun angle)

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At the Atrio, natural light is used as the primary texture to enhance the visitors experience because it is free and always available. In terms of interior comfort, all daylight transforms into heat, but artificial light generates more heat. In the winter months the sunlight puncutring into the building will naturally heat the interior space. The perforated brick system was designed to block a large portion of this sunlight entering so the interior will stay cool.

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Precast Concrete Beam

#5 Bar Steel Reinforcing

Precast Catalan Roof ComponentComposite Catalan Roof Panels

Stacked Bricks Allowing 12" Vent Space

2" thick InsulationArea for Rain Collecting Pipes

Custom Brick (Open)Custom Brick (Closed-Deep)

Custom Brick (Closed-Shallow)

FastenersWater Barrier

3" Rigid Insulation

3 ml Vapor Retarder

4" Concrete Slab

3/16" Corrugated Steel DeckingConcrete Beam Rectangular Ductwork

Air Supply Vent

Curtain Wall Window Casing

Custom Brick (Closed-Shallow)

Ceiling HangerFire Rated Ceiling Panels

Glass Curtain Wall Enclosure

16" x 24" Reinforced Concrete Collumn

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At the Atrio, a Geothermal Heat Pump -Vertical Closed Loop System was chosen for both the en-ergy saving abilities and the environment. With this building having a total cooling load of 276 tons. 138 wells reaching a depth of 400 feet were used because one well at this depth can support two tons of cooling load. All of the piping has a supply and return that are separated into four different mechanical rooms located in the Ser-vice bar running along the back of the building.

The ground floor program includes: a large open lobby space, tickets, information, and tour guide spaces, a large sunken exterior courtyard space, a cafe, book store, and centralized atrium provid-ing a connection to the upper floors.

The second floor program includes, a large exhi-bition space, a lecture hall with accompanying support and reception spaces, a daycare area and several outdoor courtyard spaces.

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Once inside the 25,000 sf lobby space visitors imedeately notice the expansive atrium vertically linking the lobby with the two floors of exhibition space. Flooding in from the South side of the building are bright contrasts of light and shadow speckling the polished concrete lobby floor. The light reflects from the polished floor up onto collumns and interior walls resulting in an-other texture decorating the interior. With these design elements, the floor is can act as a window in terms of light. The lobby, which is the primary function space for the building, was designed to be able to accomodate the possible 5000-8000 visitors per day with gathering and organization space for large groups without interfering with the circulation of the building or the lines at the ticket office. The ticket area is on the right after coming in the main entrance. It is a space where all tickets to enter the complex are sold.

The Information center is adjacent to the ticket area Since many visitors will be from other countires and not speak the native spanish language there are audio guides which allow visitors to rent audio equipment that they can experience a tour in their native language. Attatched are several exterior garden spaces offering a retreat to nature like is done all over the Alhambra and Generalife garden complex. From here there is access several other areas of the building.

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