James Bevilacqua—Portfolio

J a m e s B e v i l a c q uaPortfol io of Design Work

James BevilacquaMaster of Architecture Candidate2012University of [email protected]

04 ActiveAlleys TravelDesignStudio(China)Fall2011 Instructor:LarsGrbner

34 RiverFrontArtists DesignStudioWinter2011 Instructor:ChristianUnverzagt

56 MegaChurch DesignStudioFall2010 Instructor:McLainClutter

72 ChicagoDistrictLibrary DesignStudioWinter2010 Instructor:AnyaSirota

88 DetroitCenterforUrbanAgriculture DesignStudioFall2009 Instructor:CraigBorum

100 SoutheastMichiganArtPavilion DesignStudioFall2009 Instructor:CraigBorum

104 AnnArborBathHouse DesignStudioSummer2009 Instructor:ChristianUnverzagt

110 OtherAcademicDesignWork 20092012

Active Alleys (withTarltonLongandKurtSchleicher)Nansha Coastal Garden Hotel and Urban Housing StrategyInstructor:LarsGrbner

The proposed site planning strategy responds to the adjacent urban conditions prevalent throughout the Nansha district, along the Pearl River Delta in southern China. The current mode of urban planning is problematic, where land is divided into extremely large superblocks with large, multi-lane roads surrounding them. This strategy for development typically separates users over great distances and contributes to extremely low street level pedestrian activity. Streets empty of public interaction typically

result in unprofitable commercial development. Furthermore, the large city blocks in Nansha are typically surrounded by a perimeter wall of commercial buildings with large private spaces in the center of the block for the residentswhich mostly is unused. This condition escalates the lack of street level activity because all public space is pushed to the perimeter where the especially large streets are not conducive to public, street level shopping and community gatherings and events.

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SHENZEN

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SUPERBLOCK

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The primary strategic objective is to break up the large superblock and to create more pedestrian street level activity, thus increasing the real estate value of the commercial program. Inserting retail oriented walkable streets and injecting public activity into the site by slicing the property into smaller neighborhoods adds a vitality to the area that is missing in the current model. Similar to the urban villages that still exist along the undeveloped landscape in Nansha, these streets lined with retail and nodes of gathering points are much more conducive to activity and more welcoming to visitors. The retail program would benefit from more customers that are necessary to make commercial program on the site economically viable.

Simultaneously, the importance of privacy for the residents of the development is not ignored by raising each neighborhood on a constructed landscape with the commercial space and parking below. The potentially problematic cutting of public streets through the site will actually add privacy as the neighborhoods are smaller and more intimate. The large plinths would have secure points of access so that landscaped spaces on top would remain private, but strategic topographical shifts can allow for visual connections outward at specific sites. Furthermore, the plinths could begin to be broken up into smaller gardens and courtyards with each building having its own intimately scaled gathering space.

Initial Planning Proposal

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Position Housing to the East and South for Access to Preferred Light Conditions and Proximity to Water

Hotel Placement to the Northwest for Preferred Views of the River and for Visual Prominence from Metro, Government Building, and RiverWalk

Raise the Neighborhoods Above the Commercial Alleys to Separate Public from Private Residents and Provide for Parking

Divide the Neighborhoods into Courtyards and Gardensfor use by Individual Residential Buildings

Breakdown the Superblock to Smaller Neighborhoods Responding to Irregular Site Condition and Dominant Wind Patterns

Articulate the Landscape for Visual Porosity of the Neighborhoods Towards the Public Commercial Alleys and RiverWalk

Inject Commercial Density to the Neighborhood StreetsSuperblock with Commercial Perimeter

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Rendering of Initial ProposalBirdsEyeViewfromSouth

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PROGRAM

HOTEL ROOMS

TYPICAL

Clear separation of users andconventional notion of public and private space

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CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS

Distribute programs throughout the hotel creating nodes of activity

LOCALIZED CONNECTIONS

Network of voids connect the programs and provide varying performative qualities such as natural light

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM

Take advantage of natural and constructed landscape to connect a business hotel with a luxury resort

MORE CONNECTIONS

Puncture the massing of the resort similar to the business tower to create areas of interaction

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Manipulate perspective and skew building geometry towards views to create a unique local landmark

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The guiding concepts for the design of the Nansha Coastal Garden Hotel are to fit the logic of the its organization into the overall urban approach and to manipulate the given program to formulate a hybrid business and leisure hotel.

In response to the clients desire for an iconic hotel that operates as a conference/business hotel with additional leisure based program, the design proposal rejects combining hotel and conference program in a typical arrangement where the hotel tower sits on a large podium of both conference and leisure program. This type of hotel results in awkward interactions between business guests and leisure guests and limits the potential of each program. Instead, the program is flipped vertically, restructuring the tower to contain both accommodations specific to business visitors as well as open levels of conference and banquet

program. The raised plinth is stretched and landscaped with larger leisure accommodations and landscaped courtyards and gardens filled with resort amenities.

The result is a business-leisure hotel that can be better at each program type. The business program is efficiently arranged vertically in the sky and is more attractive for special events due to the expansive views the site provides. The leisure program is landscape oriented, keeping the accommodations closer to the gardens, pools, and other amenities. The best of each type are thus combined, sharing a large entry space and all raised above public retail program. The tower and resort programs are linked by a network of voids. These voids are not continuous spaces, but rather pulled apart according to different opportunities and programmatic constraints. The voids provide natural lighting, ventilation, and circulation at different moments. The voids are constructed of a combination of concrete and Chinese masonry arranged in perforated patterns. They appear both solid and figural, as well as dematerialized and transparent. The voids contrast the smooth, white concrete construction prevalent in much of the project, thus further heightening their experiential impact.

PROGRAM

HOTEL ROOMS

TYPICAL

Clear separation of users andconventional notion of public and private space

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

PROGRAM

HOTEL ROOMS

HOTEL ROOMS

CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS

Distribute programs throughout the hotel creating nodes of activity

LOCALIZED CONNECTIONS

Network of voids connect the programs and provide varying performative qualities such as natural light

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM

Take advantage of natural and constructed landscape to connect a business hotel with a luxury resort

MORE CONNECTIONS

Puncture the massing of the resort similar to the business tower to create areas of interaction

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VERTICAL INTEGRATION

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Hotel Design Concept

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STRUCTURE

HOTEL ROOMS AND EGRESS

PROGRAM VOIDS

PLINTH/CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE

PUBLIC LEVEL

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GALLERY

PRIMARY ENTRANCE

LOADING DOCK

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RECEPTION

SECONDARY ENTRANCE

GIFT SHOP/RETAIL

STREET Lobby & Commercial

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STREET Lobby & Commercial

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TENNIS COURTS

RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE

B.O.H.

SWIMMING POOL

RESORT HOTEL ROOMS

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Terrace

Business Center

Conference Center

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Sky Bar and Restaurant

Roof Terrace and Pool

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Typical Business Hotel Guest Room PlanFloors 4-7,10-12,16-20

Primary Conference CenterFloor 8

Business Support CenterFloor 9

Primary Banquet HallFloor 13

Banquet Level Upper TerraceFloor 14

Small Banquet and Breakout Conference LevelFloor 15

Sky Bar and RestaurantFloor 21

Roof Terrace and PoolFloor 22

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FLOOR 3Resort Accomodations

FLOOR 7Typical Room Level

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Active AlleysPart II (withDoraChanandDouglasSharpe)Reconsidering Nansha Urban Housing StrategyInstructor:LarsGrbner

The guiding objective for our design and development strategy of the site is to extend the concept of the social spine, which was presented by the corresponding hotel submission, throughout the site. The primary area of concern with the initial strategy is that it lacked the intermediate connections between the major programmatic catalysts, the hotel, the Riverwalk, the North commercial zone, and the riverfront commercial zone; and that it created a visual barrier, essentially hiding the hotel from the South.

Our first response to these challenges is to activate these zones of activity through a series of connections throughout the site, extending the social, public component from the riverfront to the commercial entrance of the hotel. The connecting lines are based both on the position of important nodes of program and on axial trajectories projected from the hotel design. Important connections are from theMetro to the hotel, from the Riverwalk to the new boardwalk, and from the two commercial zones to

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Integrating Water Features

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the hotel. These paths begin to define the separationof public and private space and the intersection ofthese paths opens a public plaza at the heart of thesite. The transition from public space to privateresidential areas is accomplished through variousconditions: change in topography, insertion of waterelements, placement of commercial buildings and insome cases the lifting of landscape as both fenceand shading device for the paths. The importance ofvarying these different separation strategies is that it

offers the security and privacy desired by a residential community, but also engages the residential users visually with the activity that is taking place on the boardwalk and in the public heart of the site.Utilizing the potential shift in topography from the existing street level, down to the water level, allows for greater security and restricted sight into the private residences while providing the residential community with views outwards.

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RiverFront ArtistsArtists vs. Blight DetroitA New ModelInstructor:ChristianUnverzagt

Over the last few years, the national press has begun to take notice of the Detroit art world as demonstrated through articles written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Most of the concentration has been focused on the cheap property values and the possible effects that artist communities can have on building identities and creating an environment for urban renewal without government involvement. Right now in Detroit, artists can purchase a house for

as little as $100 per lot and are starting to create small artists colonies that include live/work spaces and residency programs. This is not a new trend; artists have been creating bohemian villages in blighted areas as early as the 1960s. SoHo and Tribeca in Manhattan, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Fort Point Channel in Boston, River North and Wicker Park in Chicago, and the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles are examples of the transformational power that artists

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possess. In most cases, the artists are ultimately displaced once their inside-out form of urban renewal spurs gentrification. But now, with the real estate market collapse, economists and urban planners believe that artists have an opportunity for ownership in communities. The widespread economic hardships may help create a new model for the urban artist colony. There has been some debate as to whether gentrification would even be possible in Detroit.

Due to the vast surplus of vacant lots is it possible to cause massive displacement of the current residents? Considering that families are leaving Detroit without the forces of gentrification at play the 2010 U.S. Census shows Detroits population shrank by close to 25% over the last ten yearshow will Detroit move forward?

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Private Exhibition

Public Exhibition

Private Exhibition

Public Exhibition

LiveWork

During the emergence of the artist community in SoHo in the 1960s, raw space was the phrase used to describe a loft in need of repairsoften having cracked walls and ceilings and broken windows. Renovation described the process of making the space usable. In effect, Detroits raw space does not exist only within the walls of the abandoned warehouses and factories; it exists amongst the streets, the empty shops, the burnt-down homes, the vacant lots, the sense of identity . . .

Raw SpaceTheGlobeTradeBuilding

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Private Exhibition

Public Exhibition

LiveWork

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Replace

Restore-Adapt-Reuse

Maintain

Remove

R e m o v e . W e a t h e r . D e t e r i o r a t e . M a i n t a i n .

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Entrance

Public Exhibition/Open Market

Live Work Private ExhibitonRemoval

R e s t o r e . A d a p t . P r e s e r v e . R e u s e . R e p l a c e .R e m o v e . W e a t h e r . D e t e r i o r a t e . M a i n t a i n .


The RiverFront Artist Cooperative is a live-work community consisting of eight units. The five units on the South side of the building are meant to be occupied by permanent residents while the three East units are for visiting artists. Both types of units contain a sleeping loft to separate the work area. The permanent resident units have an additional separation of live and work on the lower level by a hallway. The sleeping loft in these units acts as a bridge between

the two programmatic elements. The living areas are positioned on the South side of the volume to allow for river views and passive solar heat gain in the winter. The work areas to the North allow for access to even ambient light and a visual connection to the public space below. At the Southeast corner of the building is a shared terrace space and access to an additional roof terrace.

RiverFront Artist CooperativeSoutheastCorner

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Ground Gallery Live__Work Live/Work


Live_Work Relationship

SectionPermanent Resident Artist UnitScale: 1-0=1/16

SectionVisiting Artist UnitScale: 1-0=1/16

Domestic Scale

Industrial Scale


Entrance to the Dequindre Cut Gallery is accessed through the original Globe building at the Northeast corner, directly off of the Dequindre Cut Greenway. The Gallery space consists of 15,000 square feet of open exhibition areas. The North wing hovers above the entrance to the courtyard, connecting the original Machine Shop and Foundry of the Globe Trade Building. Natural light is brought into the gallery from above. The West Gallery sits on the existing

structural system and overlooks the triple height space of the Machine Shop which is used for large scale installations. Just below the West Gallery, situated between the Machine Shop and the courtyard is a glass enclosed exhibition space and coffee bar. This is meant for the display of local artists work that does not require the controlled conditions of the elevated gallery space. It also allows for art to be viewed when the private gallery space is closed.

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SectionWest Gallery and Public ExhibitionScale: 10=1/16

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SectionNorth Gallery and CourtyardScale: 10=1/16


Detroit is home to many types of contemporary artists and the Dequindre Cut Gallery is meant to bring all the artists together in the hope that the collective spirit of Detroits artists will help to bring positive change to the city. The Globe Trade Building, as well as the underpass walls of the Dequindre Cut, have served as a

canvas to many Detroit graffiti artists. The Dequindre Cut Gallery would add to the landscape for Street Art. The faade of the gallery is meant to be marked, tagged, and illustrated. Additionally, the grounds outside the gallery are open for public art installations.

Extending the Gallery WallStreetArtandOutdoorExhibition

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A major factor in the rebuilding process for Detroit will be a realistic model for sustained growth. Downtown Detroit is mostly associated with the cluster of skyscrapers that huddle to the West of the Globe Trade Building. Unfortunately, the economy that built those buildings no longer exists in Detroit. The city must be re-imagined at the scale of a smaller

industrial city. This is not to say that Detroit must rely on its dissappearing manufacturing base to support growth, but rather to think in terms of flexible, mixed-use, adaptable buildings that can support new businesses, artists, craftsmen, and build a closer knit community that promotes residential and work environments.

Urban Scale DetroitAReturntoanIndustrialScaleCity


Located in the heart of downtown Detroit, William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor is the first urban state park. It is a showcase of the natural resources collected throughout all of Michigans state parks. This green oasis in the heart of the city provides opportunities for picnics, walks and shore fishing. The addition of a local art gallery and public exhibition of local artists work would add a cultural element and attract

additional park-goers. The Dequindre Cut Gallery and RiverFront Artist Cooperative would be a destination point connecting the RiverWalk with the Dequindre Cut Greenway as they merge into the parkgrounds. The completely open ground level and courtyard acts as an extension of the park, elevating the public interaction with both the gallery and the original Globe building.

Extending the Public SpaceMillikenStatePark

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live space

work space

private exhibition space

public space

open exhibition space

open market space

vertical circulation core

vertical circulation core

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Milliken State Park

Detroit River Walk




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Art is one of the last things outsiders associate

with Detroit. But drive the streets and you quickly

realize the city possesses an energetic, grassroots

creative class that not only spreads color, whimsy

and provocation across the landscape, but also

serves as an engine of redevelopment.

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December 18, 2007


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. . . It might seem utterly bizarre to decry the future effects of gentrification in Detroit, a city that is now desperate for investments of any sort and hopes of any kind. And yet, what might be even more bizarre is how just this same desperation and hope once characterized SoHo itself. In 1962, the City Club of New York published a report entitled The Wastelands

of New York, which focused on the area that is now known as SoHo. The report described that area as an enormous commercial slum with disastrously low property values. A few decades later, of course, the problems facing SoHo became entirely differentthe problems of a massively overdeveloped enclave of and for the wealthy.

From SoHo to Detro?DetroitFreePressArticlewrittenbyAndrewHerscher,April1,2009

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MegaChurchA Collective for the Exurban LandscapeInstructor:McLainClutter

Visibility and accessibility are vital to the success of the Megachurch, which most often situates on highways and the borders of communities with greatly varied income levels and varied modes of transportation. These are areas that are underdeveloped for community use. As the exurban landscape continues to sprawl with housing developments and strip malls, the void of community grows. The Megachurch is positioned to fill such a void.

The chosen site places the Megachurch at the intersection of two major highways and at the threshold of two demographically different mid-sized urban communities that are surrounded by newer exurban developments. The project amplifies the scale of the Megachurch with the intent to increase the presence as a billboard to the fast-moving traffic in all directions, and to encompass other large programmatic community

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catalysts and their necessary adjacencies intended to meet the continuous experiential demand of a sustainable collective. Exaggerating the moments of intersection between programs creates moments for unexpected interaction, recognition of shared interests, and thus the potential for community developments. The building, the programmatic interactions, and the people inside all get to be part of the billboardthe spectacle seen from the road.

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CHAPEL SCHOOL RETAIL/COFFEESHOPS

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VERTICALAGGREGATION HORIZONTALAGGREGATION OVERLAPPINGAGGREGATION

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MultipleAdjacenciesUnrestrictedDirectionalityofMovementProgrammaticOverlapPromotesCentralCollectionofActivity

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DifferentReadingFromAllSidesUnbiasedDirectionalityAdditionalSurfacesCreatesDepthandShadows

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POROUSSKINSHOWACTIVEPROGRAMSTHROUGHUSEOFLIGHTANDVISIBLEDENSITYOFFOOTTRAFFIC

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Chicago District LibraryIntersectionInteraction InterconnectionInstructor:AnyaSirota

The Chicago District Library and Bloomingdail Trail Day School is a response to the programmatic challenges that technology presents for the future of the library as a public institution as well as the challenging site conditions that exist at the proposed location. The library site is in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago, an area with a rapidly changing demographic. On one side, gentrification has pushed up property values and young

urban professionals have moved in, while on literally the other side of the tracks it remains a working class, minority dominated area. The site is the intersection point for an abandoned freight line, the Bloomingdale Trail, and a functioning elevated train line. There is a current proposal to transform the freight tracks, which run fifteen feet above grade, into a public park.

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The library and school do not favor either neighborhood and provide entrance points coming from all directions, including the Bloomingdale Trail, where the roof of the building widens the trail to provide a resting point and outdoor seating for the Librarys cafe. The stacks have been incorporated within the reading and computer spaces and can be removed as access to digital media increases.

Embracing the oddity of the site conditions, the elevated train track splits the childrens library and the school. While soundproofing attempts to minimize the distraction to library patrons, the visual connection to the El is both a tribute to a recognized symbol of the city and an exciting experience for the younger generation of scholars.

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DETROITCENTERFORURBANAGRICULTURE

Detroit Center for Urban AgricultureRethinking Urban GrowthInstructor:CraigBorum

Located in downtown Detroit, the Center for Urban Agriculture consists of laboratories, classrooms, gallery space, a market, and an underground seed vault. The design allows for deep penetration of direct sun light as the third story clerestory is angled to face directly South. The laboratory spaces all have southern exposure and their glass curtain wall has a structural shelving system to allow for organization of seedlings. The ground floor

is recessed with an exaggerated height to the overhang to encourage pedestrians to enter the public gallery of the building. The design engages with the unique site conditions presented by the adjacent elevated train line and the triangular site of the library directly across the street. The second story continues the street-side urban condition and the building slopes in height to respond to the varying scales of the surrounding buildings.

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Southeast Michigan Art PavilionPaintings in Natural Light and WindInstructor:CraigBorum

The Southeast Michigan Art Pavilion provides an exhibition purposed structure which solely uses natural lighting and ventilation. The seven-feet high, gridded panels provide diffuse lighting conditions ideal for the display of wall-hung art work. Ventilation patterns were tested using a flow table and light studies were conducted on digital and physical models to determine the ideal placement of the lower art walls.

SECTION ASECTION BSECTION CSECTION D

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Southeast Michigan Art Pavilion 101

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Ann Arbor Bath House & TheaterA Return to the Urban NucleusInstructor:ChristianUnverzagt

The bath house was once thought of as an important actor in the center of the urban core. It was a place for exercise, cleansing, relaxation, and contemplation and usually situated in close proximity to other public institutions. The Ann Arbor Bath House and Theater returns the bath house to this context, sited at a major intersection within the city. It becomes part of the entertainment nucleus of the University and urban landscape and provides a synergistic entertainment opportunity with the modern-day odium and outdoor film projection accessible to the public.

BUILDING CONSTRAINT3.5 FLOOR AREA

STANDARD

- Street Frontage- Limited Outdoor Space

PRIVATE TOWER

- Recessed/Private- Limited Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light

PUBLIC TOWER

- Street Frontage- Limited Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light- Passage to Alley

DISPLACEDPUBLIC TOWER

- Street Frontage- Additional Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light- Passage to Alley

DISPLACED PUBLIC/PRIVATE TOWER

- Recessed Entry- Facade Holds Street Edge- Multiple Outdoor Spaces- Varying Light Conditions

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SITE PLANScale: 1/64 = 1

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The site is the primary visual focus on the central axis between Main Street and State Street

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The site is the primary visual focus on the central axis between Main Street and State Street


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ExternalReflectingSurfaceStructureRaisedOverWater

InternalLightShelf

SlitSkylight(SkylightbyWall)HiddenSkylightwithWallWashofLight

TransparentDoubleGlazingPreventsHeatLossandCondensation

ReflectedLightTransmittingCavity

ReflectiveSurfaceMaterial(InternalandExternal)

InteriorView-LookingNorthInteriorView-LookingSouth

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SOUTHERNLIGHTTRANSMITTANCESTRATEGY

VerticalRoofMonitorLightScoopFacingSouthinColdClimate


ExternalShadingDeviceOverhangingroofsprovidedshadeandpreventexcesssolarheatgainandUVpenetrationduringsummermonths

SummerSolsticeNoonSunAngle

WinterSolsticeNoonSunAngle RecedingReflectiveSurfaceWalltoIlluminateAdjacentSurfaceswithAmbientLight

TheChurchonWaterattemptstoharnessnaturallightinamannerthatisbothefficientandmeaningful.Bycontrollingandredirectingnaturallight,thedesignstrivestocreateamomentforinternalreflection.ItisforthisreasonthattheChurchonWaterrejectsdirectdaylightonitsinteriorandprovidesnoviewsof itsexteriorsurroundings;everythingexperiencedisaninternalreflectionbothphysicallyandmentally,aplaceforlookinginward.

Ambientlightandilluminatingsurfacesareachievedbymakinguseof numerousdaylightingtechniques,theresultof whichisamoremystic,glowinglight.Byincorporatingalightingdesignschemethatfocusesonthepotentialforindirectlight,thechurchutilizeshighlyreflectiveinternallightshelvingtoredirectdirectlightandilluminatethegentlecurvatureof theceilingbringinglightfarintothebuildingduringdaylighthours.Similarly,deephidden,highlyreflective,skylights,slitskylights,runalongthemaintranseptcreatingacontinuouswallwashof light.Thiswallwashiscomplimentedbyexteriorlightbeingreflectedoff thewaterbeneaththebuildingandbackontothesamewallviaaslitinthefloorandareflectivesurface.

Church on Water (withMattNickelandKurtSchleicher)A Moment for Internal Reflection

The Church on Water attempts to harness natural light in a manner that is both efficient and meaningful. By controlling and redirecting natural light, the design strives to create a moment for internal reflection. The Church on Water rejects direct day light on its interior and provides no views of its exterior surroundings; everything experienced is an internal reflection both physically and mentally.

A central slit, forming the base of a cross in plan view, runs the length of the building floor and allows for reflected light to penetrate deeply inside the building, again lighting the space from a bottom up approach. This groundlight, for lack of a better term, leads one to a back semi-circular wall, which is located at the base of a roof monitor. The monitor scoops light from the south and creates an ambient backlighting for the head of the congregation. All eyes are drawn to this stage that is both elevated in height and ambient light.

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ExternalReflectingSurfaceStructureRaisedOverWater

InternalLightShelf

SlitSkylight(SkylightbyWall)HiddenSkylightwithWallWashofLight

TransparentDoubleGlazingPreventsHeatLossandCondensation

ReflectedLightTransmittingCavity


InteriorView-LookingNorthInteriorView-LookingSouth

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SOUTHERNLIGHTTRANSMITTANCESTRATEGY

VerticalRoofMonitorLightScoopFacingSouthinColdClimate


ExternalShadingDeviceOverhangingroofsprovidedshadeandpreventexcesssolarheatgainandUVpenetrationduringsummermonths

SummerSolsticeNoonSunAngle

WinterSolsticeNoonSunAngle RecedingReflectiveSurfaceWalltoIlluminateAdjacentSurfaceswithAmbientLight

TheChurchonWaterattemptstoharnessnaturallightinamannerthatisbothefficientandmeaningful.Bycontrollingandredirectingnaturallight,thedesignstrivestocreateamomentforinternalreflection.ItisforthisreasonthattheChurchonWaterrejectsdirectdaylightonitsinteriorandprovidesnoviewsof itsexteriorsurroundings;everythingexperiencedisaninternalreflectionbothphysicallyandmentally,aplaceforlookinginward.

Ambientlightandilluminatingsurfacesareachievedbymakinguseof numerousdaylightingtechniques,theresultof whichisamoremystic,glowinglight.Byincorporatingalightingdesignschemethatfocusesonthepotentialforindirectlight,thechurchutilizeshighlyreflectiveinternallightshelvingtoredirectdirectlightandilluminatethegentlecurvatureof theceilingbringinglightfarintothebuildingduringdaylighthours.Similarly,deephidden,highlyreflective,skylights,slitskylights,runalongthemaintranseptcreatingacontinuouswallwashof light.Thiswallwashiscomplimentedbyexteriorlightbeingreflectedoff thewaterbeneaththebuildingandbackontothesamewallviaaslitinthefloorandareflectivesurface.

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Passive House (withJasonChernakandKurtSchleicher)Aspirations for a Sustainable Future

Major strategies:direct gain/passive heatingshading ventilationmass cooling

Jimmy BevilacquaKurt SchleicherJason Chernak

evaporative coolingearth integrationstrategic vegetation

The Passive House is an investigation using passive heating and cooling principles to inform design. The large southern window with slight overhanging roof allows for solar heat gain in the winter and shades the steeper sun angle in the summer. The concrete floor and kitchen counter act as thermal mass while operable windows on the East and West sides allow for natural ventilation from the predominant Southwest summer wind. The patio reflecting pool assists the cooling process through evaporation of the warmer air.

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Major strategies:direct gain/passive heatingshading ventilationmass cooling

Jimmy BevilacquaKurt SchleicherJason Chernak

evaporative coolingearth integrationstrategic vegetation

earth embracing

earth integration

retractable window curtain (provides night insulation)

strategic vegetation to promote ventilation

winter

summ

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thermal mass

cross ventilation(capitalizing on predominant SW wind)

southern overhang(shade in summer)

evaporative cooling

deciduous tree provides shade in summer sunlight in winter

sloped roof for water drainageinto evaporative pool

smaller East/West windows

earth embracing

earth integration

retractable window curtain (provides night insulation)

strategic vegetation to promote ventilation

winter

summ

er

thermal mass

cross ventilation(capitalizing on predominant SW wind)

southern overhang(shade in summer)

evaporative cooling

deciduous tree provides shade in summer sunlight in winter

sloped roof for water drainageinto evaporative pool

smaller East/West windows


Untitled Chair No. 1 (withSeanBaxter,AllisonGrimm,DeniseHuangandJustinMast)Steam-bent Wood Chair

Using a manufacturing technique pioneered by Michael Thonet in the 1840s, the white oak blanks were soaked, steamed, and bent by hand. The design uses the bends for structure, material efficiency, and formal qualities.

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Untitled Chair No. 2In-Chair-ogation

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