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Sustainability is an integral part of the design process, where naturally occurring phenomena (water, light, wind, air) are used to inform the process of design itself. Beyond choosing materials, instinctual, original ways of resourcing necessary living needs have been at the forefront of the concept. Collecting natural light drives and holds the idea of togetherness in the house. A communal, public space, is wrapped in windows in order to stress the importance of family and growth. Water is celebrated through a rain water harvestingharvesting system which will cascade down the house with view from the spark space into the garden/courtyard where family members can collect and use the water.

COLLECT, HARVEST, CULTIVATE

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Place is cultivated through a sense of ownership and through familiarity that comes with the maturation of time. For a family uprooted, a sense of place and community is vital. As such, the house must integrate itself into the context. The house is to take root and be informed by the surrounding context but also be a tool for transforming the community fabric. While the house is designed to be a steadfast foundation for a family adjusting to a new way of life, it must also accommodate for flexibility-- a flexibility that responds to changing needs.

FlexibilityFlexibility is approached through a ‘kinetic’ architecture. This type of architecture will allow the family to customize and personalize the spaces in which they live. Architecture that is capable of moving or being reconfigured embodies the idea of the “spark.” A certain quality of spontaneity becomes intrinsic to the house and moreover the creative hub dubbed the “spark space.”

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Charleston’s street edge is a false display of the interior condit ion of the ci ty where facades become only signif iers of the program or spatial divide. The city plugs i tself into the shel led street condit ion to reinforce the harsh street edge defined by bui ldings. Through a penetrate and puncture gesture, this arts center begins to display i ts internal formation and spatial interact ion to the city. Puncturing the shel l , this bui lding becomes performance and begins to offer the interact ion of i ts internal program to the rest of the ci ty.interact ion of i ts internal program to the rest of the ci ty.

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THE SHELLED STREET CONDITION

Third Year, Design SixCritic: Levent KaraCharleston, SC

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Charleston’s street edge is a false display of the interior condition of the city where facades become only signifiers of the program or spatial divide. The city plugs itself into the shelled street condition to reinforce the harsh street edge defined by buildings. Through a penetrate and puncture gesture, this arts center begins to display its internal formation and spatial interaction to the city. Puncturing the shell, this building becomes performance and begins to offer the interaction of its internal program to the rest of the city.

city precedent studies plan & site study

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dancers practice beneath the sky perforation on display for spectators on East Bay Street and in the main courtyard

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Performance vs. practice is the driving concept which orders the pieces that puncture the courtyard facade. Building as display becomes the joining factor in integrating the city with/to the building especially to visually connect the inner spatiality with the life/movement occurring on the exterior and in the city. The descending black box theatre slowly carves into the ground as an anchor to continually connect the project to the city, visually and physically.physically. Stacked performance spaces are housed in a glass volume to contradict the present state of the facade-as-veil reoccurrence. The courtyard becomes the viewing space for the city rather than an internally constructed piece so that movement, view, and sound through the site can all be experienced even while not directly occupying or destined to a specific programmatic piece of the arts center.

THE SHELLED STREET CONDITION

practicing painters are on display for the spectators in the courtyard

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Fourth Year, Design Seven

Critic: Levent Kara

New york City, NY

Team Member: Yoko Shimajuko

REFLECT, RESONATE, PROJECT

MeldingMelding the New York enviornments through digital projections

and interactive media, this hotel in Hell’s Kitchen begins to

reexamine the lived condition of New York. Occupants and patrons

move through an open entry and are immediately greeted by an

open air atrium swarming with projections of the New York

environments. A retrospective view of a recent experience begins

a critical reflection of one’s environment.

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EXPOSURE THROUGH A VERTICAL ATRIUMThe atrium of projections and interactive media is wrapped by hotel program so that view into the reflective process is always present. Exposing the New York environment onto surfaces becomes an interactive projection back onto the city once occupants begin to manipulate the media through its production and after. Bodies in space begin to change the character of the projection by representing the lived condition inherently.condition inherently.

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HELL’S KITCHEN: 10th AVE & 56th ST

Fourth Year, Design Seven

Critic: Levent Kara

New york City, NY

Team Member: Yoko Shimajuko

AnalyzingAnalyzing the way the site already exists in terms of program and density; the density of built is heavier inward while the density of people is heavier towards the water. This directly corresponds with the way program is prescribed inward and becomes increasingly more ambiguous toward the water. A filtering process occurs and was then translated into our site decisions where an echoingechoing process beings to mark the pieces that stretch the site and stitch the city blocks together.

An initial collection of structues would begin to resonate smaller echoing pieces along the site. A thread, or an ambiguous set of paths emerges out of the end of the site bringing the ambiguity of path and program from the end of the site inwards. A resonating nodal sequence occurs along this path while it creates view and begins to mark a field. Lingering through the site, the thread carries ground into an urbanurban core. This core is the major urban space where all internal and external programmatic elements can be viewed in a culmination of space. This space becomes the key emanating center.

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A symbiosis between ‘moving’ and ‘static’ elements begin to describe the paradigmatic shift that ex-plains the placement of the programmatic pieces. A transitory program based around community is set within ‘static’ architecture whereas the static program happens within ‘moving’ pieces of architecture. Program is grouped throughout the site in an erratic way to echo the unscripted experience of life/living in the layered network of New York. Programmatic sets include seminar rooms stacked next to the-atres, single family housing adjacent to dorm rooms, office spaces share open air atriums with local school rental halls, etc. A bazaar runs the length of the site to continue the constant movement of pro-gram, transitory life/time/space, held within a crystalline, static box. The ‘moving’ pieces which form nodes along a moving thread (paths), echo the scattered language of scale within the city. These pieces begin to determine where the grid of the site breaks and bends, and where the ground shifts.

THREAD: NODE , MOVING:STATIC

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Movement through the site proves the true dichotomy and duality of the moving and static elements. Entering the tower and slowly moving up through shared public spaces described as ‘urban plateau’, and ‘urban canyon’, a view to a shifting scale of housing and study becomes apparent. The critical shift at the dorm building goes to a larger urban core to tighter, more linear spaces reminiscent of spaces through the city blocks. Variety of spatial scale shifts then occurs again while approaching the park. The bazaar holds the scale of the city while stitching the city blocks across 11th ave, but the park then controls the extreme shift with the contradictory void/anamoly within the matrix.

PROGRAM: STACK, TWIST, FOLD & DETACH

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the libraries: small echoes of the urban core and housing pods

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