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Beginning with a piece of furniture as a precedent, the program required a display gallery for a furniture company. much like the seat of the chair is supported By the l-shaped supports, the furniture gallery floats within a three-dimensional matrix of structure.

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the dull landscape of present day suBurBia is primarily driven By economics and practicality. the design proBlem was approached By synthesizing a practical and ef-ficient floor plan with a new aesthetic endpoint. the point of departure from tradi-tional housing is achieved By superficially altering the design and eroding the fun-damentals of exterior that we know as housing.

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to address the urBan edge of the commercial street, all of the program was overloaded on one side of the site. certain programmatic elements were then pulled out from this mass to respond to puBlic/private relationships Between the functions. the separation of forms relates urBanistically to the surroundings By Breaking up the large program into more characteristic smaller structures of the area.

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single room occupancy housing of-fers places for the homeless to live at little or no cost. the units are arrayed within long Box trusses, mimicking the common use of steel framed Bridges within the city of cleveland. the simple enclosure suggests the minimal life of the homeless and their constant expo-sure to the puBlic from a lack of privacy. Below the units, a market gives the residents a place for em-ployment. this lower level Becomes the point of interaction Between the homeless and the puBlic people. By comBining a minimal setting for the occupants with a complex common area and market, the residents Be-come more likely to intermix with the rest of society.

1. ENTRY2. COMMUNITY ROOM3. COMMUNAL KITCHEN4. LAUNDRY5. COUNSELING OFFICE6. MANAGER UNIT7. PUBLIC RESTROOMS8. MALACHI MART OFFICE9. MARKET SPACE10.SEASONAL MARKET11.LOUNGE

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FALL 2007 DRESDEN GERMANY

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a design team of six students collaBorated to develop a masterplan for a large vacant site in dresden, germany. the solution was to create a ruptured perimeter Block. By pull-ing apart the perimeter Block, an axis was created to connect two of the city’s land-marks. after the masterplan was estaBlished, each student received a Building to design.

the northeast corner of the site Became the most visiBle location from the Busy trans-portation node nearBy. to address the motion of the traffic, a linear method is taken on this side of the Building. the opposite side of the Building is treated with a more static appearance to Be more welcoming for pedestrians traffic.

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site plan

the new high speed train station proposed By nor-man foster will relo-cate existing rails under-ground. the masterplan for the surrounding area calls for a mixed-use de-velopment that can Be used By travelers or Busi-ness people.

By investigating the existing conditions of the lay-ered city, the site can Become a new interpretation of layering. each piece can work together to cre-ate the faBric as we see it holistically.

a contempo-rary art mu-seum utilizes the structure of the Building as a sculptural element, merging the similarities of art and archi-tecture.

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totaling under 60,000 sf, the program comfortaBly fits within the site. approxi-mately one third of the site can remain unused By simply making one story volumes.

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passive solar design played a large role in the devel-opment of the design. the apartment structure to the south of the site is sixty- five feet in height. when sun angles are lowest in the winter, this Building casts a shadow over a maJor por-tion of the site. By pushing the Buildings to the north and creating a pedestrian linkage Between the univer-sity and the student union, the design can react to Both climactic and urBan issues.

THE FENESTRATIONS REACT TO THE PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE ORIENTATION THEY FACE. BY COMBINING THIS TECHNIQUE WITH THE PLACEMENT OF THE BUILDINGS, THE INTENT IS TO CAPITALIZE ON PASSIVE STRAT-EGIES. EACH TYPOLOGY REACTS TO THE SITE IN A DIFFERENT WAY, HOWEVER, THEY AL HAVE CONSISTENCY IN FORM IN OR-DER TO LINK THEM TOGETHER

ON THE SITE.

JON PELLEGRENE