Nuclear Theater Typology: Performance Space, Office, Theater Size: 684,000 sqft Location: Chicago, IL Date: Fall 2009 Instructor: Jimenez Lai Within the theater building the collective network of public spaces emerges in a thick field. This field of public spaces functions as a social collector as well as providing opportunities for unstructured performances to occur that are more akin to street performance than theater productions. These social-nuclei and their adjacent social mixer work together to create a poly-centric field condition that defines the buildings envelope. LOOKOUT Volume: 14,336 ft³ Area: 1024 ft² EDGER Volume: 14,197 ft³ Area: 2650 ft² SUPERVISOR Volume: 19,291 ft³ Area: 1065 ft² PIT Volume: 18,100 ft³ Area: 1298 ft² CROWS NEST Volume: 36,864 ft³ CONGLOMERATE Volume: 75,543 ft³ SYMBIONT Volume: 24,576 ft³ VOYEUR Volume: 71,680 ft³ Area: 1024 ft² Area: 6,458 ft² Area: 2,304 ft² Area: 1,792 ft² AD-HOC Volume: 205,902 ft³ Area: 7582 ft² THE WHALE Volume: 643,711 ft³ Area: 21,728ft² 11 12 13 14 15 06 07 08 09 10 01 02 03 04 05
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Museum of Contemporary Art Typology: Museum Size: 400 000 Location: Columbus, OH Date: Spring 2008 Instructor: Robert Livesey, FAIA The Columbus Museum of Contemporary Art a series of physically discontinuous galleries that retained a level of continuity based upon their organization and juxtaposition within the buildings envelope. The envelope itself is reaction to a number of external and internal stimuli. The galleries of the museum interact with the envelope to create a number for implied galleries for exhibition work or gathering spaces or patrons of the museum that are not disruptive to the viewing of the collection. While the organization of the pavilion galleries appears random they are actually responding to each other on the ground floor as well as the active roof. The procession through the galleries is not dictated allowing for the free movement giving the individual the ability to structure their own experience. An implied circulation path gives the opportunity structured tours. The roof of the museum continues a number of the galleries creating a space for the expansive collection as well as a way to integrate the museums rooftop sculpture garden with its galleries.
Urban Atelier Typology: Housing, Atelier, Gallery Size: 136 000 sqft Location: Barcelona, Spain Date: Spring 2010 Instructor: Josep Ferrando Baramona The project situate itself as a flexible atelier mediating the relationship between public to private and live to work. The city grid holds a logic of division that provides internal passage while expanding the blocks facade to increase light and air. The atelier continues this logic to build its function as a public/artist interface. Further division creates a space extending the passage from circulation to function. The flexible permeability of the block as a whole is carried out on increasingly smaller scale as it facilitates the exterior and interior exhibition space as well as the work/live apartments. 6 5 2 1 1 2 3 4 1 Atelier 2 Exhibition Space 3 Private Studio 4 Apartment 5 Retail 6 Entrance
Urban Atelier GREG RICHARD ANISH Since 1971, Serra has focused not only on sculptural works, but also onlarge-scale drawings on paper using various techniques. His drawing material is the paintstick, a wax-like grease crayon. Serra melts several paintsticks to form large pigment blocks. Major presentations of Serra s graphic oeuvre include exhibitions at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, in 1990; at Serpentine Gallery, London, in 1992; and at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, in 2008. At the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Serra showed a simple litho crayon drawing of an Abu Ghraib prisoner with the LYNN SERRA KAPOOR caption "STOP BUSH."[11] This image was later used by the Whitney Museum to make posters for the Biennial. The posters featured an altered version of the text that read "STOP B S." Serra also created a variation on Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son featuring George W. Bush's head in place of Saturn's. This was featured prominently in an ad for the website pleasevote.com (now defunct) on the back cover of the July 5, 2004 issue of The Nation. Colby College recently acquired 150 works on paper by Serra, making it the second largest collection of Serra's work outside of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Nested Cellular Field Typology: Parametric Design, Digital Fabrication Size: 1 000 sqft Location: Barcelona, Spain Date: Spring 2010 Instructor: Marta Male, Cesar Cazares Mass Customization, set in opposition to mass production, comes with it a new set of problems that must be addressed. When every unit in a system becomes unique they require a level of attention during assembly and information/material management not necessary in a repetitive system. The benefit of the repetitive systems in the ability for single solutions to be compounded across a multitude of instances. The project establishes a similar level of efficiency while taking advantage of the benefits and opportunities of mass customization utilizing parametric design and digital fabrication.