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12.21.2008
deployable habitats : andres toro
This thesis explores the realms of architecture and film; this interest came out after I started using animation software, within which I got interested in the relationships between space, time and movement, three key elements in the experience of architecture –Perception-.
The interest on animation and movement drove me to subsequent topics such as aliveness, responsiveness, displacement and the biggest concept that covers them: Life. I am talking here about live understood, in relationship to architecture, as the living beings that inhabit an architectural object, the living environment that surrounds it, and the useful life of the object.
Safeguarding human life is the reason of being for architecture, but ironically architecture is one of man’s enterprises with the deepest ecological footprint, footprint that has reached very high levels as we all know, hazarding human’s live.
This contradictory position and a personal concern in human’s way of inhabiting the world, and the kind of structures humans have risen to dwell, emerged as the argument for a mockumentary film which illustrates an utopian setting, that although realistic in its location and characters, does not trespass into reality.
12.18.2008
see and be seen, between fringe and center: surveillance, fashion and prison: emily hsu
Architecture is like a shelter that people cannot move or bring anywhere and clothing is like a movable building for our body. In both architecture and fashion design, there are many components which have some reciprocity with each other. Walls and floors weave the space and the interlacement of solid and void spaces connect and define the territory. The space between our skin and clothes exists the outside and inside of vision and hidden and exposure ambiguous relationship. For example, fashion designers and architects use the concept with folds, present not only the texture of the clothing design but also characteristics of the form and structure of architecture. Folding expresses a continuous force filed and presents a concept of infinite repetition. Folding structure clothe with wearer’s moving and the architecture with solid and void spaces intertwining, there is fluidity presents the sense of three-dimensional, expansion, scale, order and gradation.
The other issue of this research is surveillance. People’s lives are controlled by monitors, cameras, and information systems, along with other improvement of technology. This system blurs the boundary of private and public space and changes the definition of “watching and being watched” in our surroundings. So how architecture and fashion respond to this surveillance in our milieu and culture structures is the issue which will be studied in this thesis.
According to the surveillance issue and “see and be seen” concept, a prison will be the project of this thesis. The site will be chosen in downtown Manhattan instead of isolated space or a place in a boundary and try to deal with the issue between a prison and a neighborhood. So the surface of the prison here will have some dialogue with the neighborhood and will be a main design object for studying how it can define or blur the boundary.
Hybrid modernity of adaptive bodies - Trushit Vyas, grad thesis, fall'08
The purpose of the project is to examine the complex relationship between form, function, technology, urban contexts and society with the hybrid building establishing a coherent balance of parts.
The formulation of the project
The task is technique based, process driven, per formative in which open organizations develop a new sensibility of geometric ambiguity and new ways of occupation in space and composite forms.
The motive of the subject is to mix programs to create emergent events, differentiate spaces using structures in continuous variation and apply composite materials to organize experiences that affect the subject.
Thereby the intention is to illuminate the question of between and within relationships – the hybrid – that emerges from the network of interrelated systems active across any site and to promote a design process that respond to it.
The site chosen is the Chase Manhattan Plaza in lower Manhattan financial district, NYC, NY. The reason it being selected is because of it having the density of overlapping contexts of varying scales such as contexts that include public infrastructure, business practices, high speed global connectivity, art and cultural programming among others. Also the linkage creates an accessible public space connecting the subway system, open plazas, through block arcades, glass enclosed semi-private, semi-public lobbies.
Design approach
The complex and composite arrangement of the human anatomy as a concept connects to the subject of architecture in a way that allows new modes for the occupation of space, the organization of programmatic activities and the design of structures.
The idea is not to replace or erase parts of the existing building but change interior conditions and reconfigure architectural qualities, such as apertures and circulation to create spatial effects.
12.17.2008
altered landscapes : dhruv chandwania
The development of architectural structures can be described as a spiral ascent of discoveries and innovations and materials. In this excitement of human ingenuity, there has been a departure from our connection to nature. According to Benyus biomimicry can be achieved on different levels: form or function, the process level, and the system level.The design is an attempt of developing the language of connection between land and water, with study on amphibians, as to understand their dual life and the nature of flow of water in the delta regions.
Attributes of amphibious animals:
Tactility, Porosity, Metabolism, Energetic, Phenotypic Plasticity, Metamorphosis.
Attributes of Delta region:
Meanders, Marshy Lands, Flows, Variable.
The above two defined characters are set as two levels / layers. One directs to a static condition and other to a dynamic condition. The fluidity and variability in the merging the two layers suggests a system which will be dynamic in terms of site conditions and static in terms of built forms. The built form negates a defined boundary and resetting a new edge condition showing rhythmic variations time to time. These variations are adapted with the functional aspect of the program providing varying activities as the site conditions change.
"the street" : a veritable market place : tapasi mittal
The Market place/Bazaar is considered in urban studies as one of the most significant socio-spatial systems in cities. This Thesis explores the meaning and significance of Markets as a positive integrator of the community in the urban fabric. The market place, which is an “Urban Catalyst”, houses a complex system which is indicative of a city and its prevailing social/economical/cultural climate. The market place is the city in microcosm.
The traditional bazaars and market streets maintained a quality of conviviality and spatial order, where people congregated to enjoy the aspects of everyday life. Present day society seems to have moved away from this idea of human thriving in the street, where the “thrills of the bazaar are traded in for the conveniences of sterile supermarkets,” which erases the sensuous feeling and rhythmic diversity of being the street. Sorkin regards this as the emergence of a new kind of city, a “city without a place attached to it”, where a disaggregated patchwork of fabric forms a bland, senseless urban environment.
To be able to explore architecturally the possibilities of infusing a ‘Bazaar’ like spatial quality to a cities existing sterile commercial zone is my core subject of interest. Also market places do not function solely as commercial zones but plug into the urban fabric on multiple levels which leads to the architectural complexities within cities. The Bazaar forms the life line of continuity in the city, enriched with activity, forming a tapestry of spaces linked together.
“The urge to make separations, between clean and dirty, ordered and disordered, ‘us and them’, that is to expel and abject, is encouraged in western cultures, creating feelings of anxiety because such separations can never be finally achieved.”
(D. Sibley, Geographies of exclusion)
This being said, for me the public/private interface holds the most credence particularly in the case of a ‘Bazaar’ where the public and private tend to overlap in complete harmony. Also addressing the concept of the built and the unbuilt or building/landscape juxtaposition is necessary in the design process and hence ‘the street’ being the perfect testing ground for sighting a project of this nature. The design may express itself at the macro level as a transformative organizational sequence, which then at the micro scale plugs in to the overall scheme as episodic suggestions. These interventions need not necessarily be formally programmed, but are open to the ad-hoc use associated with the vernacular of the street. The intent of using Maya hair dynamics as a digital tool is to be able to develop a prototypical, computational module which when deployed on different environments will ideally generate site specific, strikingly unique set of design parameters.
reclamation of a quarry: sanksshep mahendra
This is about a few urban spaces too new to be re-told. And is unfortunately like this:
Blasted by the past and lacking the drive, the tainted sites create Urban spaces, which are quarried by their poisons and their past. Abused, abandoned, underused. With, heavy metals, lead, dynamites, RDX, and what not; traversed by plumes of oil, they stand in the wrong space; with the wrong past. But whatever their contents, their chief crime may be that they attract no architects SURPRISINGLY very few urban designers towards them.
So why would advocates and urbanites, developers and preservationists peruse such orphaned lots? reason being, these anonymous downcasts now have a name. That name is "Abandoned Space". Politicians, builders and environmentalists, private and public sector agents alike have to reclaim these hazardous Abandoned Spaces. Once the pharaohs of preservation and conservation, the stigma of urban existence, turn a blind eye towards them and name it an Abandoned Space the pre existing green land is lost, and that is because we abuse the land as we regard it as a property belonging to us. When we see land as a space to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect, we might give it the moral and ethical value it deserves, than running after the momentary gains it provides.
The word and the concept of restoring Abandoned Spaces can only be understood by considering their origin the green benchmarks that they were. These so-called green benchmarks were the untouched lands on the fringes preferred by sub dividers.
Preservationists have always dealt with bare landscapes, environmentalists always expressed concern, developers looked for ready parcels. But today's Abandoned spaces with their environmental hazards and impoverished neighborhoods look beyond what they stand for today. While we recycled and revived old buildings, and cleanups occurred, these abandoned urban addresses unraveled, eroding further their own self and resulting in an outward drift.
Enter the spaces which have been used and then disposed off for better deals. Overages, it seems, these poisonous places are far off from even being thought of revival.
This provides a challenge to a designer to restore these orphaned lots and get them running.
A Quarry site gives us an inspiring sense of place, the contours speak for the life on the edge, the standing boulders give us the sense of balance, confidence and strength. Hence making an abandoned quarry site in itself a place to create a community which can feel the dimensions of life. Its gradual improvement from an abandoned land to a land holding an urban mass would show its adaptability to surroundings when it is just left as, it is not found useful any more.
It is this insensitivity that robs a invaluable land / land form from a generation. Revitalizing this insensitivity to a sensitive one so that one gets to interact with these land forms understand and feel them is a challenge. People will realize the value when this abandoned land form which was supposed to be hazardous turns out to be the green "bench mark" for the urban society.
This brief sets out the physical requirements to the envisaged mixed use of development. This brief does not seek to apportion funding responsibilities. As context to the determination to the principles to be applied to the redevelopment of the site, the preference is given to the site itself under two sections, ie the site features – some that act as constraints, others that provide opportunities and also that both could be on the same platform. Then the other being, the overall development of the site with regards to the demands of the surroundings.
Blasted by the past and lacking the drive, the tainted sites create Urban spaces, which are quarried by their poisons and their past. Abused, abandoned, underused. With, heavy metals, lead, dynamites, RDX, and what not; traversed by plumes of oil, they stand in the wrong space; with the wrong past. But whatever their contents, their chief crime may be that they attract no architects SURPRISINGLY very few urban designers towards them.
So why would advocates and urbanites, developers and preservationists peruse such orphaned lots? reason being, these anonymous downcasts now have a name. That name is "Abandoned Space". Politicians, builders and environmentalists, private and public sector agents alike have to reclaim these hazardous Abandoned Spaces. Once the pharaohs of preservation and conservation, the stigma of urban existence, turn a blind eye towards them and name it an Abandoned Space the pre existing green land is lost, and that is because we abuse the land as we regard it as a property belonging to us. When we see land as a space to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect, we might give it the moral and ethical value it deserves, than running after the momentary gains it provides.
The word and the concept of restoring Abandoned Spaces can only be understood by considering their origin the green benchmarks that they were. These so-called green benchmarks were the untouched lands on the fringes preferred by sub dividers.
Preservationists have always dealt with bare landscapes, environmentalists always expressed concern, developers looked for ready parcels. But today's Abandoned spaces with their environmental hazards and impoverished neighborhoods look beyond what they stand for today. While we recycled and revived old buildings, and cleanups occurred, these abandoned urban addresses unraveled, eroding further their own self and resulting in an outward drift.
Enter the spaces which have been used and then disposed off for better deals. Overages, it seems, these poisonous places are far off from even being thought of revival.
This provides a challenge to a designer to restore these orphaned lots and get them running.
A Quarry site gives us an inspiring sense of place, the contours speak for the life on the edge, the standing boulders give us the sense of balance, confidence and strength. Hence making an abandoned quarry site in itself a place to create a community which can feel the dimensions of life. Its gradual improvement from an abandoned land to a land holding an urban mass would show its adaptability to surroundings when it is just left as, it is not found useful any more.
It is this insensitivity that robs a invaluable land / land form from a generation. Revitalizing this insensitivity to a sensitive one so that one gets to interact with these land forms understand and feel them is a challenge. People will realize the value when this abandoned land form which was supposed to be hazardous turns out to be the green "bench mark" for the urban society.
This brief sets out the physical requirements to the envisaged mixed use of development. This brief does not seek to apportion funding responsibilities. As context to the determination to the principles to be applied to the redevelopment of the site, the preference is given to the site itself under two sections, ie the site features – some that act as constraints, others that provide opportunities and also that both could be on the same platform. Then the other being, the overall development of the site with regards to the demands of the surroundings.
vertical city in manhattan: santiago ortega
What is a skyscraper at the beginning of the XXI Century? What are the historical and social contexts of these mega structures? What are their responses towards the urban fabric? Is the modern skyscraper a city by itself? Is the human scale lost?
The urge to build tall is not new; It is inherent within us, part of the same drive that leads us to climb mountains or to explore outer space. At the beginning of the XXI century there are by far several reasons for building tall like demographic, cultural, environmental and economic. The major challenge for New York City for the following years is to accommodate more people at greater densities creating a higher quality of urban life.
The urge to build tall is not new; It is inherent within us, part of the same drive that leads us to climb mountains or to explore outer space. At the beginning of the XXI century there are by far several reasons for building tall like demographic, cultural, environmental and economic. The major challenge for New York City for the following years is to accommodate more people at greater densities creating a higher quality of urban life.
Supreme achievements of engineering and design, corporate icons, expressions of modernity and civic pride, real state bonanzas, familiar and reassuring landmarks, potent symbols, testimonies to human spirit whether any or all these things, skyscrapers arouse more controversy than any other building form. Love them or hate them one thing we cannot do is ignore them.
The vertical city in Manhattan intends to translate urban life into the sky. Skyscrapers have become cities within cities, where complex programs complement each other and create adaptable, flexible, functional and sustainable spaces.
The vertical city in Manhattan intends to translate urban life into the sky. Skyscrapers have become cities within cities, where complex programs complement each other and create adaptable, flexible, functional and sustainable spaces.
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