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Lifted Topographies

Transit Plaza Redux

770 to F.I.T.

Design/Build CMU

Fall 2009Grad Studio 3

Fall 2008Grad Studio 1

Spring 2008U.grad Studio 5

Spring 2007U.grad Class

Joshua Tree National Park and Twentynine Palms, Ca

The confl uence of the high desert ecology and urban development: the hillside landscape continues as a canopy over the terraced ground plane of Star Dune Road, and establishes a new large covered public gathering space below.

Natural and urban morphology

integration deformation solar and wind paths

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Site plan Ground plan

museum

Front elevation and entrance

Three program elements are contained within the roof plane: residential units, an institute, and a museum. The residential units are removed from the ground

plane, inverting the relationship between residential building and privatized property. The museum and institute serve public functions, therefore they

are easily accessible to pedestrian realm on the ground level.

Roof Plan

institute

residences

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Section through residences and public space

Section through museum and institute

Interior light projection

Canopy detail

top surface layer

metal decking

truss grid

light and wind portals

translucentfabric layer

ground plane

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Public amphitheater and museum entrance

Exploded axon

top surface

20’ x 15’ truss grid

elevated residences

bottom roof layer

ground plane

program spaces

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Perspective from north east corner

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MacArthur Park, Westlake, Los Angeles, Ca

The goals for the redevelopment project are to maintain the cultural identity, activate the site and streets, increase safety, respect the Metro structure in place, and respond to the site’s environmental needs. These can be accomplished by creating spaces for families and vendors, increasing the number of eyes on the site and park, defi ning a new portal to the Metro, controlling the sun/shade, and utilizing natural heating cooling systems.

Westlake

Zoning

Los Angeles

Westlake

MacArthur Park

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Circulation

Structure

Metal and planted screen

Site plan

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public restrooms

community services

retail

communal spaces

landscaping/gardens

storage, mechanical, etc

commercial offices

Ground plan

Section

Metro entrance and plaza

3rd fl oor plan

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Plaza looking towards the park

Residential fl oors plan

Roof plan

SRO

Residential Unit Plans

Environmental section

Senior apt

1br apt

2br apt

3br apt

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Fostoria’s Iron Triangle, Fostoria, Oh

200 trains screech, whistle and rumble through Fostoria’s Iron Triangle each day. The site for the railroad museum is surrounded by three sets of tracks that stretch from coast to coast. The museum seeks to enhance the rail fan’s experience of the locomotive by heightening their auditory sense. The building and it’s elements take cues from the working of a human ear to capture, manipulate, and reproduce the sounds of the Iron Triangle.

Site Plan

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Site Axes

Entrance ramp

The objective of the museum is to submerge the visitor in an auditory rich experience. The entry ramp into the museum intends to separate the visitor’s visual and auditory connections to the site. Other systems in place on the site and in the museum enhance, distort and distribute sound waves, providing a twist on the rail fan’s experience.

First fl oor plan

Second fl oor plan

Third and fourth fl oor plans

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Site section

Rail museum section model

audio gallery

audio gallery

rail museum gallery

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audio gallery

roof terrace

rail museum gallery

public entrance level

museum administration level

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Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

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The program called for the design and construction of a structure using concrete masonry as the main material. Our intent was then to create varying spaces within the prescribed 8’ x 8’ area. This was achieved by adding water, aggregate, and rebar within, and surrounding, the three-sided space. The experience of the space begins from the exterior, where the rebar rise from within the cmu walls. Two openings provide access into the structure, where you share a tight space with clusters of rebar. The textures of the ground vary, further heightening the user’s experience as they travel through and around the site.

Section bb

Section aa

Plan

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Excavate, reinforce, and level 8’x8’ pit

Set fi rst courses with rebar, then fi ll with earth

Construct third and last wall, which stands independent from the two additional walls

As wall construction was completed, fi nishing touches were added

Construction took place over one week. Concrete blocks were provided for the class. Our group chose to use the masonry blocks similar to their use in construction. We sought to construct them in a way that made them seem elegant and clean, as a whole. During the process we found that reaching heights around 8’ would require rebar and compacted earth within the blocks. After the exposed rebar in the interior was driven into the ground, we fi lled the space with gravel from the site. The fi nal touches were a paintball diagram of the rebar placement on the short wall, and water and sand to fi ll the triangular spaces left by the angled walls. In all, it was a celebration of concrete masonry construction materials and methods.

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Elevations

North elevation

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