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“Architecture has always been about levels in relation to the ground and the sky. ‘Up’ and ‘down’ have connotations that are symbolic, poetic, and emotional. The experience of being high, on top, above is different from being low, underground, beneath. And both are different from being on the ground.”

-Simon Unwin. Analyzing Architecture, 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge, (2009): 197.

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Architecture2102 HoustonBurnette

Ste. Geneviève Bibliothèque Paris A library built in honor of the patron saint of Paris. The site is located adjacent to the Parthenon de Paris, and was constructed in 1851. This building exposed the use of wrought iron structure through archways and floor supports.

Central Avenue Bookstore & Café A three week design charret in which individual components of a building: Entry, Vertical Circulation, and Facade were intocuced sequencially in which we were given a week to complete and move foward onto the next component of the Rare Bookstore Coffeeshop.

Marquette Building An early tall building in Chicago designed by Holabird and Roche. The Marquette building consisted of a department store and a few smaller vendors in the base and office spaces in the above floors. This building was clad in a terracotta, and became one of the defining examples of the Chicago School.

Mapping Chicago シカゴの漫画 A graphic manga depicting myself and other sudent’s personal experiences and interation with the architecture and the urban environment during our tour to chicago. This sequence illustrates the reactions from specific individuals and the memories that develop within the context of the city.

Pritzker Bicycle Coopertive A tall building in downtown Chicago occupying a corner site southeast of the intersection of Adams & Wasbash Chicago. This building serves the bicyclits of the metro area, offering bicycle storage, repair, and retal, as well as many other program requirements, within the context of dynamic site.

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Ste. Geneviève Bibliothèque

This project was a three week precedent study of the Sainte Geneviève Biblio-thèque in Paris designed by Henri Labrouste. This building was one which was inspired by the drawings of Viollet Le Duc, and reinterpretted the in-dustrial language of girders, beams and trusses, into the classical language of arches. These Wrought iron arches supported a very high ceiling in the reading room, allowing for large aperatures to let in large amounts of light, and high walls for the storage of books and documents.

This precedent featured a deep entry from the street, and an dynamic vertical circulation component in which the individual and curves through a series of stairs and is pulled into the space above. Finally, this building’s facade reveals the lobby and stacks in the articulation of the base, as well as the read-ing room in the definition of the middle, and finally a cornice marking the highest portion of the empyrean above.

This form of stratification is a reoccuring theme in the character of urban architecture.

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Initial Thoughts

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Bressani, Martin and Marc Grigon. “Henri Labrouste and the lure of the real: romanticism, rationalism, and the Bibliotheque Saint Genevieve.” Art history 28, no. 5 (November 2005).

Pierre Saddy. Henri Labrouste: Architecte 1801 - 1875. Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites. 1977.

Van Zanten, David. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1987.

Van Zanten, David. Nineteenth-Century French Govern- ment Architectural Services and the Design of the Monuments of Paris. Art Journal 48, no. 1 (Spring, 1989): 16-22. Above: Coupe Longitudinale et Premieres equisses

du comble.

Above: Assemblage de arcs.

Left: Etage, Rez-de-chaussée, et Sous-sol.

Pierre Saddy. Henri Labrouste: Architecte 1801 - 1875. Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites. 1977. 41, 51 &40

Bibliograophy and Prelimenary Diagrams Houston Burnette

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Bressani, Martin and Marc Grigon. “Henri Labrouste and the lure of the real: romanticism, rationalism, and the Bibliotheque Saint Genevieve.” Art history 28, no. 5 (November 2005).

Pierre Saddy. Henri Labrouste: Architecte 1801 - 1875. Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites. 1977.

Van Zanten, David. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1987.

Van Zanten, David. Nineteenth-Century French Govern- ment Architectural Services and the Design of the Monuments of Paris. Art Journal 48, no. 1 (Spring, 1989): 16-22. Above: Coupe Longitudinale et Premieres equisses

du comble.

Above: Assemblage de arcs.

Left: Etage, Rez-de-chaussée, et Sous-sol.

Pierre Saddy. Henri Labrouste: Architecte 1801 - 1875. Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites. 1977. 41, 51 &40

Bibliograophy and Prelimenary Diagrams Houston Burnette

Diagrams

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This is my parti diagram in which I composed three primary concepts of the building in plan, the grid system, barriers to guide ciculation, and finally, the location of the structure. These diagrams established the basis for further diagraming of spaces and proportions in the building.

Here are the diagrams of, in order of approach and entry, spacial heirarchy and verticality, propor-tion systems, and finally a diagram analyzing the displacement of loads upon the double wrought iron arches in the reading room space.

These diagrams provided a detailed sythesis of the relationships one begins to grasp within the ortho-graphics.

Site Plan

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Orthographics

Plan Fragment

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Section thorugh Approach

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13 Cross Section

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Structural Detail

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Analytique

After completing our orthographics, we con-structed an analytique combining different draw-ings and diagrams to make connections between plan and section simutaneously. These analy-tiques were partly inspired by the beaux arts tradi-tion, but I overlayed and fragmented many of my orthographic representations.

Digital Fabrication Model

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Finaly, a digital model of the prece-dent was created in which we analyzed a specific fragment from the building, and extracted sections to make many layers of a material that would come together to create a fragment. Below is one of nineteen layers to create this model.

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Central Avenue Bookstore & Café

This project involved the use of a 28ft by 75ft site on the southwest corner of the intersection of Central and Thomas Avenue Charlotte North Carolina to design a multistory Cafe & Rare Bookstore during a three week period. Given the requirements of the program and complexity of the semi-urban site, during each week we addressed one aspect of the complete design.

During the first week, we focused on entry at multiple scales, and from mul-tiple circulation axes in the site to understand the way to articulate the con-dition of entry in to the building. In the second week we focused only on vertical circulation and enclosure, understanding the paths taken through the building after one has entered. Lastly, we looked at the building’s facade, and how the exterior surface can inform the concpetual interior relation-ships of the two previous components.

This project was a challenging introduction into the complexity of an urban site and the ways in which one maintains the pre-existing atmosphere of the urban environment.

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This is a diagram of the location of entry into my building along thomas street away from the higher foot traffic on Central. This move also allows one to enter my building aligned with the grain of the plan.

In this diagram I am calling out a threshold space that exists above the entryway. It accends fifty feet to denote the heirarchy of that experience with the composition of the building’s geometry.

This is a ciculation diagram denoting the verti-cal circulation of people through my building on the first cafe floor, and the upper levels of the bookstore.

This final diagram illustrates the layered grid of the facade, which consists of a eight foot square grid with finer grid lines highlighting the center points.

Diagrams

Entry

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These two perspectives were extracted from a digital model I constructed in which I was ea-ger to explore the occupation and experience of my entry. In the perspective to the right, I am observing the entrance into the building as an object, and below I am looking up into the tall space. Later I will analyze the way in which I articulate these views so that one best grasps this concept of entry into a narrow building.

Vertical Circulation & Enclosure

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This is a prelimi-nary model adept for studying only eclosure and verti-cal circulation in-side the building. In the photograph one can note the progession ftom the entry into the building and up the stairs into the upper level space where the book-store program re-sides.

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Facade & Synthesis

Orthographics

Site Plan

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Site Sections

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Orthographics

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Plan

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Longitudinal Section

Final Digital Model

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This last exercise allowed us to design our entire project within the context of the site, and provide ad-equate detail to the facade, and the articulation of the entry, as well as providing a space to extract view of our building upon approach.

In this second image I tried to capture a view of my building from a building down the street, moments like these can encouge an architect to uncover the vast range of opportunities available within an urban environment.

MARQUETTE BUILDING

HOLABIRD & ROCHE

The marqette building is Holabird & Roche’s second skyscraper following the comple-tion of the Chicago Building on West Madi-son Street. This building follows a fairly straight foward square plan on the bottom floor, and is converted to a u-shaped plan for the highrise offices.

Diagram ivan elevation of the marquette building’s fa-cade is diagramed to illustrate the horizon-tality of the building, expressed by the large number of vertical members expressed. In ad-dition, this building is very vertical because of the way in which the supports are pulled from the surface of the facade.

Image iiiin this early photograph of the building, one can realize the begining of skyscraper typology by the absence of competition from nearby structures. the building was cladded with a deep orange teracota that has now turned brown due to years of decay.

Image i & iiAbove are mosaics from the building’s inte-rior illustrating events from the region’s early history, portraying ideas of faith, and commerce.

Drawing iAbove is a plan of the buidling’s floating slab system which enabled the distribution of weight to be stepped down over the slope of the site.

Diagrams i, ii, & iiiTo the right are three diagrams of the bot-tom floor plan that illustrate vertical cir-culation, entry, and department store space. This group of digrams conveys the building’s activation of negative space through com-plex movement through and around element of vertical circulation.

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MARQUETTE BUILDING

HOLABIRD & ROCHE

The marqette building is Holabird & Roche’s second skyscraper following the comple-tion of the Chicago Building on West Madi-son Street. This building follows a fairly straight foward square plan on the bottom floor, and is converted to a u-shaped plan for the highrise offices.

Diagram ivan elevation of the marquette building’s fa-cade is diagramed to illustrate the horizon-tality of the building, expressed by the large number of vertical members expressed. In ad-dition, this building is very vertical because of the way in which the supports are pulled from the surface of the facade.

Image iiiin this early photograph of the building, one can realize the begining of skyscraper typology by the absence of competition from nearby structures. the building was cladded with a deep orange teracota that has now turned brown due to years of decay.

Image i & iiAbove are mosaics from the building’s inte-rior illustrating events from the region’s early history, portraying ideas of faith, and commerce.

Drawing iAbove is a plan of the buidling’s floating slab system which enabled the distribution of weight to be stepped down over the slope of the site.

Diagrams i, ii, & iiiTo the right are three diagrams of the bot-tom floor plan that illustrate vertical cir-culation, entry, and department store space. This group of digrams conveys the building’s activation of negative space through com-plex movement through and around element of vertical circulation.

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Mapping Chicago シカゴの漫画

The following consists of a ten page four-panel graphic manga illustrating the experiences of specific individuals during our faculty guided tour of the city over our spring reprieve. The first two pages introduce the concept, mood, and environment of the story, while a other pages bring to life small events within our trip.

One page in particular provides an on site detailed analysis of the block for our next project. Through a series of diagrams and perspectives I explore the site from different view points and investigate the multiple points of entry and exit into the site. Finally I consisder the presence of natural light and ambient noise affecting the lot.

In conclusion, this exercise trained my awareness to the experiencial nature of the urban landscape and allowed me to capture metaphors unexplored in a typical review of the site in abstract representation.

Below: view from the Hancock Center Chicago.

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Pritzker Bicycle Cooperative

In this project we were given an urban site at the intersection of Adams and Wabash, facing southeast, adjacent to the site is a very tall office building to the north across Adams, an historic music and arts building to the east, a parking lot to the south, and an elevated train over Wabash to the west. This site offeres many dynamic entry points from both sidewalks, pedestrians from the parking lot, and the L, as well as people and/or bicyclists from the crosswalks or a nearby busstop.

The program of this building consists of a tripartite system in which groups of the program are stratified according to the people they serve: pedestrians, bicyclists or office staff. Two lobbies, Offices and repair shops make up the base of the building, over an acre of bicycle storage forms the shaft of the building, and a cafe and observation space define the capital of the building. Our interpretation of these components may honor or abstract the tradi-tional column model of a tall building.

The site as seen from the intersection.

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In the beginning of this project, after gathering our site data, groups of the studio constructed a 32nd scale physical model of the site which we used to put in models to achieve site context. Initially we combined our data from analyzing the site, and con-structed a site response model that abstractly incor-porated factors such as trafiic, regulating lines, and components of the program, each identified by a respective geometry in the language of the model.

Abstract Site Response

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First Sketches

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Site Model and Drawings

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To the left are orthographics of the site at mul-tiple scales, as well as site sections including the building design taken from the lines in sec-tion. On the right is my 32nd scale model for the Bicycle co-op, rendered to express the fa-cade and components of vertical circulation.

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Orthographics

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Plans and Section through the middle. -Ground floor -Office floors -Basement with workshops -Cafe -Upper level lobby -Roof terrace and observation space.

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Orthographics

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Structure & Enclosure Articulation

To the left are sketches I conducted searching for the proper way to portray the surface of the building. As you can see I looked closely at the dimensions, proportion, and scale of the body and bike, in the ways in which they relate to the facade.

To the right is a wall sec-tion revealing the nature of louvres within the layer ed facade, and there po-sition relative the screen on the outer surface and glass on the inside. In ad-dition notice the scale of these louvred walls, and the potential for the dis-play of light within and from afar.

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Below are three massing models in which I studied the best way to mass and enclose the building based on my concept of a shell, through which a cytlinder of light penetrates.Further Below is a detail model of my facade illustrating the operable louvres I developed to manipulate the way in which light enters and leaves the building at different parts of the day and year.

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Rendering & Facade Material Representation

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Final Model

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Discoveries in Perspective

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