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The Architectural Portfolio of Melissa Blair
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of Melissa Blair
2008-2011
The Architectural Portfolio
Commercial
Housing
Research Lab
Museum
[Interweaving freeway]
[urban infill]
[techtonic experimentation]
[perspective extrusion]
Degree Project[reviving healthcare]
[Interweaving freeway]
This commercial mega-structure weaves through existing freeway infrastructure, making use of neglected space. The roof forms geometry is based on data collected referencing the speed, volume, and directionality of the tra c. Analyzing unseen elds of these dynamic forces allow the structure to be a direct response to its siting.
Vectors represent height, speed and ditectionality of tra c.
NSCALE: 1/32 = 1-0
GROUND FLOOR
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SECOND FLOOR
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NSCALE: 1/32 = 1-0
THIRD FLOOR
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NSCALE: 1/32 = 1-0Roof Plan Floor Plans
DUPLICATION OF PATTERN
TRANPARENT/OPEN
OPAQUETRANSLUCENT
APPLICATION OF ABSTRACTED PATTERNS TAKEN FROM SITE
THE GREYSCALE SHADES INFLUENCE OPACITY OF THE ROOF STRUCTURE MAKING THE MASS APPEAR MORE UNIFORM WITHIN ITS CONTEXT
FREEWAY CAMOFLAUGE
START
START
END
END
STILLS TAKEN FROM AT EVERY 2 SECONDS
PATTERNS EXTRACTED FROM STILLS
PATTERNS INFLUENCE ON ROOF
GALLERIA
BREN
TWO
OD
EAGER
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DUPLICATION OF PATTERN
TRANPARENT/OPEN
OPAQUETRANSLUCENT
APPLICATION OF ABSTRACTED PATTERNS TAKEN FROM SITE
THE GREYSCALE SHADES INFLUENCE OPACITY OF THE ROOF STRUCTURE MAKING THE MASS APPEAR MORE UNIFORM WITHIN ITS CONTEXT
FREEWAY CAMOFLAUGE
START
START
END
END
STILLS TAKEN FROM AT EVERY 2 SECONDS
PATTERNS EXTRACTED FROM STILLS
PATTERNS INFLUENCE ON ROOF
GALLERIA
BREN
TWO
OD
EAGER
N
The roof forms geometry is based on data collected referencing the speed, volume, and directionality of the traffi c. By analyzing video taken while driving through the site, patterns were extracted and applied to the structure, acting as camou age, connecting the building to its context.
DUPLICATION OF PATTERN
TRANPARENT/OPEN
OPAQUETRANSLUCENT
APPLICATION OF ABSTRACTED PATTERNS TAKEN FROM SITE
THE GREYSCALE SHADES INFLUENCE OPACITY OF THE ROOF STRUCTURE MAKING THE MASS APPEAR MORE UNIFORM WITHIN ITS CONTEXT
FREEWAY CAMOFLAUGE
START
START
END
END
STILLS TAKEN FROM AT EVERY 2 SECONDS
PATTERNS EXTRACTED FROM STILLS
PATTERNS INFLUENCE ON ROOF
GALLERIA
BREN
TWO
OD
EAGER
N
DUPLICATION OF PATTERN
TRANPARENT/OPEN
OPAQUETRANSLUCENT
APPLICATION OF ABSTRACTED PATTERNS TAKEN FROM SITE
THE GREYSCALE SHADES INFLUENCE OPACITY OF THE ROOF STRUCTURE MAKING THE MASS APPEAR MORE UNIFORM WITHIN ITS CONTEXT
FREEWAY CAMOFLAUGE
START
START
END
END
STILLS TAKEN FROM AT EVERY 2 SECONDS
PATTERNS EXTRACTED FROM STILLS
PATTERNS INFLUENCE ON ROOF
GALLERIA
BREN
TWO
OD
EAGER
N
[urban infill]
This is the final semester of the core studio sequence. The studio focuses on multi-family housing in the city of St. Louis. Each student was asked to consider environmental conditions such as natural lighting and ventilation. The program requirements allotted one unit per 1,000 square feet of property, in order to create a dense urban housing project. The average site square footage was around 30,000 sf; meaning 30 units had to fit within the property lines. Other requirements were to go no higher than 45 feet and no more than three stories.
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The fi nal design proposal created emphasizes a shared courtyard. There are two distinct living conditions on the site. The front buildings house balconies that slide in the front of the building and the towards the courtyard, allowing interior light and cross ventilation.
Floor Plans
The set of front buildings act as a gateway to the private court behind. The second set of buildings are designed as garden units, acting as shifting volumes, with the repetition of the current context on the street. The layering of spaces creates di erent degrees of public and private, exterior and interior. Each unit had at least one outdoor patio, many of which overlook others emphasizing neighborhood.
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1 bedroom 2 bedroom 3 bedroom
Typical Units
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[techtonic expression]
This studio was the second in the series of core studios. The program introduced was a research laboratory for Washington Universitys International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability, I-Cares. Specific programmatic needs include labs with corresponding offices as well as living units and support spaces. The allocated site was located on a plain adjacent to a forest near St. Louis Missouri. The climatic shift of seasons is addressed by building siting and porosity of materials
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SUMMER WINDS
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SUMMER SUN
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Material Assembly
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TOP FLOOR
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WINTER WINDS
The perimeter walls clamp the roof structure in place, and act as a framework allowing for its material compression.
The design process began by examining pattern formation in nature. Strips of paper were used in tracings of abstracted photographic images. Models were further manipulating the patterning by making two distinct volumetric conditions. The major conceptual idea that was investigated in this set of models, and later addressed to the scale of the building is the tectonic expression of compressing a set of materials and the expression of the excess. As the strips were woven into place, the slack could be manipulated into a large independent volume, or a series of smaller variations. The strips were later interpreted into structure of the roof and excess into offi ces, hovering above their respective offi ce.
[perspective extrusion]
The design of the Cartography Museum in Barcelona, Spain started by the creation of a collage, manipulating the extrusion of perspectives taken from photographs on site from access points. These extrusions were first thought of as lines and then later interpreted into volumes. The extension and volume of the perspectives grow greater as elevation increases.
neighborhood
pedestrian
mediteranian
dens
ity
length
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CC
Melissa Blair b2 6/14 BSS/10
7 METERS
7METERS
7METERS
neighborhood
pedestrian
mediteranian
dens
ity
length
CB
A
Interpreting idea of chromatism as fusion of perspectives, the form is generated by the continuation and intersection of existing perspectives on the site. The interpreted density and length of the planes extended from perspectives is introduced as the space making component of the structure. The ground level is at a pedestrian scale including a courtyard that is open to the floors above. As the structure progresses upward, the perspectives (now indicated as walls) are less interrupted, therefore longer and more simplified than that of below.
Melissa Blair b1 6/14 BSS/10
entrance
entrance
conf
confconf
cafeexhibition and eductationaladmin
archives
research
conference area = 255 square metersresearch area= 75 square metersarchive area = 255 square meters
exhibition and eductational area = 350 square meters
cafe area = 81 square meters
admin area= 77 sqaure meters entrance area= 168 sqaure meters
total estimated area= 1450 sqaure meters
7 METERS
7METERS
7METERS
neighborhood
pedestrian
mediteranian
dens
ity
length
CB
A
Interpreting idea of chromatism as fusion of perspectives, the form is generated by the continuation and intersection of existing perspectives on the site. The interpreted density and length of the planes extended from perspectives is introduced as the space making component of the structure. The ground level is at a pedestrian scale including a courtyard that is open to the floors above. As the structure progresses upward, the perspectives (now indicated as walls) are less interrupted, therefore longer and more simplified than that of below.
Melissa Blair b1 6/14 BSS/10
CLAVEGUERAM
CLAVEGUERAM
CLAVEGUERAM
CLAVEGUERAM
SITE PLAN 1:500
FLOOR 1 1:500 FLOOR 2 1:500
FLOOR 3 1:500 FLOOR 4 1:500
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B
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SECTION A 1:500 SECTION B 1:500
SECTION C 1:200
7 METERS
7METERS
7METERS
neighborhood
pedestrian
mediteranian
dens
ity
length
CB
A
Interpreting idea of chromatism as fusion of perspectives, the form is generated by the continuation and intersection of existing perspectives on the site. The interpreted density and length of the planes extended from perspectives is introduced as the space making component of the structure. The ground level is at a pedestrian scale including a courtyard that is open to the floors above. As the structure progresses upward, the perspectives (now indicated as walls) are less interrupted, therefore longer and more simplified than that of below.
Melissa Blair b1 6/14 BSS/10
The interior is formed by the circulation path, which moves the inhabitant inward towards the city, then upward and out giving a view of the ocean. The large center staircase is also meant to give this same e ect. The structure is composed of large concrete vertical elements which fold and penetrate through the oors dividing up the interior program. The structure is continuous throughout the building and can be seen through the glazing of the faade. Structural mullions help support the oor plates and are distanced in order to allow the passerby to see the interior structure.
Study Models
FLOOR 3
FLOOR 1 GROUND FLOOR
FLOOR 2
FLOOR 3
FLOOR 1 GROUND FLOOR
FLOOR 2
Floor Plans
FLOOR 3
FLOOR 1 GROUND FLOOR
FLOOR 2FLOOR 3
FLOOR 1 GROUND FLOOR
FLOOR 2
Watson
Trianon Parkway
[reviving healthcare]
This comprehensive studio is my degree project, for which I have creating the program, and architectural intention. The building is a de-centralized healthcare facility focusing on preventative and comprehensive medicine. The goal of the project was to create a new typology of healthcare that replaces the strip mall infill cites common to St. Louis. The site chosen was selected because of its downfalls, common to a strip mall, an obtrusive drainage ditch, disconnect from the community, and lack of green space. The building is meant to have an unintimidating, human scale, that would draw people to use the space when they are healthy. An emphasis was put on views of nature, natural light, privacy, circulation, and programming.
Early conceptual study models
Final Model
Transverse section showing connection to adjacent topography and circulation from the community
hydrotherapy
hydrotherapy laundry
aid office
w. lockerm. locker
physical therapy/ massage waiting
m. locker
w. locker
laundry
cafe
fitness entrance
nutrition waiting
group therapy
community education entrance
minor surgery
cast
lab
clean storage
dirty storage
consultation
consultation
nurse station
family medicine/ psychology waiting
psychology sub-waiting
group therapy
dispensery
pharmacy entrance
x-ray
raquetball court
raquetball court
group fitness group fitness
outdoor group fitness
Bottom Floor
Top Floor
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COMMUNITY
PHARMACY
PHYSICAL THERAPY
NUTRITION
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1/4= 10
COMMUNITY
PHARMACY
PHYSICAL THERAPY
NUTRITION
Y
YYYYYY
Y
Elevations
Vectors represent height, speed and ditectionality of tra c.