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Upper Frick Park, Pittsburgh
Professor Jen Gallagher
Third Year Fall 2008RETREAT FOR RELIGIOUS DEBATE
The necessity for the privatization of the retreat has led to it’s being depressed into the landscape.
This allows for an optimum environment for study and meditation above that which would be offered
by simply being elevated over the surrounding communities.
Not only are there specific locations for meditation and study, the building itself works to allow the
visitor to enter the appropriate state of mind in order to do said actions - that is to be relaxed and to
have mind free of negative thoughts.
A majority of religions utilize repetitive movements, sounds, actions, or images to aid in entering into
a state of readiness for meditation - a similar state I speculate would be appropriate for optimum
study and information retention. the repetitive forms which constitute the retreat are meant to aid in
the process of preparation.
The spine that moderates the organization of the building is also a generator of repetitive form with its repetition of stone block.
Having the building designed along modular pieces creates some limitations, however these limitations also create guidelines
for generating the boundaries of the retreat as well as the ways in which it approaches its surroundings.
The series of precedents explain the importance of privacy and seclusion in a religious environment, especially when meditation
is meant to be a key aspect of the program. In order to maximize the seclusion these monasteries are built into their respective
monasteries either horizontally or vertically. The precedents also stress an importance of an organizational and circulatory spine
which is explore through diagram.
When sight was lost, the world was changed. People became highly dependent
on each other, and gravitated towards more intimate and enclosed spaces.
In Homestead PA, a series of tunnels connecting buildings and infrastructure
made up a networked community of subterranean dwellers. These people,
the mole-people, lived in nest like burrows while foraging for remnants of the
past. When Cleo, the first child born with sight, was found, the prophecy was
fulfilled.
It had been promised that one would come forth and make a great sacrifice to
give light to the rest of the world. It wasn’t known that this was a literal issue
until Cleo was killed in an accident on the site of the Reaper construction. The
blood of Cleo streamed onto the body of the hulking machine in a simple arc,
a symbol that would be repeated and idolized. This symbol is the basis for all
construction in this post-apocalyptic situation.
The Reaper was created to alleviate the pains of reconstructing civilization
upon return to the surface. The Reaper wanders the region in search of build-
ings to devour, and to turn into material once again to be used in construction.
Waterfront, Pittsburgh
Professor Jonathan Golli
Third Year Spring 2009POST-APOCALYPTIC COMMUNITY
Currently the McConway & Torley industrial complex acts as an insulated box, positioned in the Lawrenceville
community as an inaccessible void separating the existing residential fabric with the Allegheny River. The layout of
the selected programmatic elements across the site works to allow pedestiran exploration. Instead of surrounding
the facility with a fence, there will be a highly porous envelope. New alleys, gaps in building walls, processional
corridors, and small plazas become the new threshold onto the McConway & Torley site.
The final result is a complex open to the community.
Lawrenceville
Urban Lab
John Folan & John Kline
Fall 2010 - Partner - Chris Bridgman
MCCONWAY & TORLEY SPORTS COMMUNITY
Residential Retail Recreation Parking Interior Public Public Plaza
Town House Style Apartments
Sports Retail
Restaurant
Sports Retail and Restaurant
Short Term Housing
Sports Retail
Restaurant
Live Work Lofts
Parking
Apartments
Outdoor 400 Meter Track
Indoor 200 Meter Track
Ice Box Skate Rink
Football Field
Field House and Stands
Connection SystemsConnection Syste
Residential Retail Recreation Parking Interior Public P
Plaza Connection Systems
The positioning of program within site is pivotal in the organization of the project. Each piece of program is being inserted into
an occupied site, the majority of the program is to be insterted within existing brick and steel structures.
The objective of the alteration, as an adaptive reuse project, was to utilize as much of the pre-existing site as possible. The
two buildings being added to the site are part of the indoor track building and a parking structure. Eliminating some buildings
on the site opened up a great deal of space for small plazas and connecting space between certain elements of the program.
Areas adjacent to restaraunts and stores were especially chosen to recieve plaza space so that outdoor dining and transitional
space could be achieved.
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As an adaptive reuse project it was a natural move to utlize re-constitured materials as a means for linking the entire program
together. By utilizing brick claimed from buildings on the site set to be demolished, multiple variations in experience can be created.
By composing spaces using these experiences several plazas have been formed within void spaces between buildings being retained.