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Arch 101: Architecture design Studio Student Learning Por6olio
Eric Taborelli Final Project Fall 2012 City College of San Francisco
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A Sculptural Biography Transient Places for accidental encounters and sensing the briefness of beauty
Program/Brief • All design and construcEon shall respond to the unique context of site,
including varying climaEc condiEons (e.g. sunlight, wind, precipitaEon, views, etc.).
• All design and construcEon shall be related to establishing the noEons of Place and Journey, the evocaEon of related memories, and the transient transformaEons wrought by Eme.
• The design and construcEon of Path and Nodes should encourage inhabitants to occupy in both physical and metaphysical (noEons related to being, knowing, substance, cause, idenEty, Eme, and space) ways.
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The Site and its qualiEes we wished to emphasize and use to our advantage
• Curvilinear courtyard organized by a grid of orthogonal lines • Tapered retaining wall marked by an array of ¾” threaded
holes • Two rows of three 6 foot square concrete panels marked with
the faces of previous students • Predictable light paUerns cast on floor and retaining wall
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Le Charret: iteraEve design process For the first 3 weeks, individuals of each group carried out an exploraEon of design concepts. In which they explored relaEonships between specific site responses, place, journey and the construcEon of paths and nodes using an iteraEve process and a variety of different mediums. Mediums Included but were not limited to sketches, gesture drawings, trace overlays and Small scale models
Small Scale Models
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Drawings
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CollaboraEve Design Process A]er the first two weeks of individual designs, members of the group were to agree upon a single unified approach toward for building a full scale installaEon. By this point we had all agreed on a specific site, and a unified theme, involving a response to sunlight and the six face panels. However the only obstacle we faced was creaEng a collaboraEve design which accurately encompassed the varied design approaches of each individual, which respond to site specifics and demonstrate a knowledge of transient spaEal experiences using a tectonic language. Angel and Stevens’ design languages are composed strongly of curvilinear forms, where as Ricci and I’s Designs comprised of recElinear geometric forms. In our final design (boUom right) you see that we created a combinaEon of Angel’s earlier designs and Ricci’s use of repeEEve triangulaEons. The dome like shapes mimic the curvilinear nature of the courtyard and allow for a cheap and easy construcEon process, while the triangulaEons mimic the tapering of the retaining wall and control the amount/quality of light allowed to reach the second layer of the skinned dome, creaEng a stark contrast in the light and shadow within the interior.
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Materials • BLACK NYLON AND LYCRA
• WHITE ½ INCH PVC PIPE
• 45 DEGREE ANGLED PVC FITTINGS
• RE-‐USED SHIPPING PALLETS
• 1/8 INCH PLYWOOD SHEETS
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ConstrucEon Process and Status Reports By
week (excluding thanksgiving holiday)
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Status Report: Week 4 (November 5) Installa:on Ini:ated, 25% comple:on
Successes • Overall consensus + collaboraEve design achieved • CompleEon of final model and working drawings • Shipping pallets gathered • Pallets dismantled, cut out and arranged according to floor plan Major “Holes” • Designing and construcEng a light weight, C-‐shaped bench that will properly support
the weight of guests in the communal node • Finding cheap flexible materials that will provide a rigid structure for the tensile shell
of the interior and exterior spaces (i.e. ½” PVC pipes, Bamboo SEcks, Wire e.t.c) • “Dressing up” pallet base to prevent eyesore and foot injuries
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Status Report: Week 5 (November 12) Installa:on con:nued, 50% comple:on
Successes First layer of design (pallet base) completed according floor plan and oblique’s Plywood and 2x4 purchased and cut to “dress up” pallet base PVC pipes, metal C-‐ brackets, 45 and 90degree elbow connectors purchased for next phases (2nd and 3rd layers) of construcEon Plywood skin traced and cut in order to “dress up” pallet base C-‐shaped bench designed and 75% complete for installaEon Major “Holes” Properly construcEng the four rectangular members of the bench in a way where they will not wrack when sat on Finding cheap flexible materials (similar to tent poles) that will provide a rigid structure for the tensile shell of the interior and exterior spaces (i.e. ½” PVC pipes, Bamboo SEcks, Wire e.t.c)
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Status Report: Week 7 (November 26) InstallaEon ConEnued & 75 % Complete by End of Week
Successes • Four components of C-‐ Shaped bench assembled onsite and aUached to base • Framework of pvc elements assembled over smaller nodes using a radial array of arched
domes aUached to the base and threaded holes in the wall • PVC elements making up the larger dome are aUached to the verEcal supports of the bench
and are bent into the center point where they are sloUed into a wooden ring • Major “Holes” • Applying plywood sheets in a “seamless” manner posed a major challenge. Sesng us back
on Eme and compromising the cra] of the base with a “patchy” appearance • CreaEng a rigid structure of PVC pipes that will meet the demands of our design and will not
buckle when the skin is stretched over it
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• large communal dome: harvests natural sunlight light and forces it through thousands of pinholes simulaEng the feeling of being under a nights sky in
• personal space 1: Series of slits cut into fabric create a dappled light source doubling as peepholes which frame mulEple viewoints
• personal space #2: UUer Darkness behind curtain
SpaEal Experiences
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SpaEal Experiences
I. communal dome: Thousands of pinholes cut into lycra skin force natural sunlight into the interior evoking sensaEons of being under a nights sky
II. personal space 1: Pairs of horizontal slits cut into fabric to create a dappled light source and doubling as mulEple view points
III. personal space #2:UUer darkness and isolaEon behind curtain
I II III
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Post Mortem Strengths: • Very low cost construcEon • Responds successfully to the selected site condiEons. I.E.
curvilinear nature of courtyard, face panels, and sunlight Weaknesses: • Exterior appears “boring” due to missing layer • Issues of cra] ensued when construcEng the base and PVC
Framework Missed Opportuni:es: • Due to the Eme and budget constraints, we were forced to leave
out the third layer of our hierarchical system. This third layer comprised of an array of white triangulated sails that followed the tapering of the retaining wall.
Challenges remaining: • Build layer of triangulated sails to complete third layer, cast extra
layer of shadows and address homogeneous nature of the exterior • Explore new ways to emphasize the theme of darkness and
isolaEon in 2nd node