erich gerlach_cv_2011.09.01 - e-mail: [email protected]- tel. +4528749904 >’barbed-wire’ urbanism >Australian outback - Simpson Desert, Central Australia >Cornell University - Thesis advisors: Krystan Keck, Jim Williamson >Undergraduate architecture thesis >Deriving from a study of ‘time-sharing urbanism’- a net worked society within the outback of Australia, I propose a thesis argument for a series of outposts in the desert that physically support this infrastructure. The examination involves using and building the virtual space of flows thereby investing in milestones for zero-waste off grid communities focused on sustain- able developments within hostile environments. The paradox an invisible urban territory combined with the rich history of utopian settlements in the landscape connected physi- cally and virtually defines the thesis “barbed-wire urbanism.”
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erich gerlach_cv_2011.09.01 - e-mail: [email protected] - tel. +4528749904
>’barbed-wire’ urbanism>Australian outback - Simpson Desert, Central Australia
>Cornell University - Thesis advisors: Krystan Keck, Jim Williamson
>Undergraduate architecture thesis
>Deriving from a study of ‘time-sharing urbanism’- a net worked society within the outback of Australia, I propose a thesis argument for a series of outposts in the desert that physically supportthisinfrastructure.Theexaminationinvolvesusingandbuildingthevirtualspaceof
>Professors: Vincent Mulcahy, Henry Richardson Summer 2004.
>Iperformedasadesignstudiocriticfor14prospectivestudentsexploringfundamentalsof principle architectural concepts through drawing, model-making and collage.
Beginning with a cube construct they generated tectonic relationships using a operative wordasadevice.Fromthisrelieffieldsaregeneratedtoreducethelanguageto
landscapephenomena.Thefinalstudyisaninterpretationoftheconceptsintoadwellingfor a hypothetical client .
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operativecubeexercises
operative relief models
dwellings on an inclined plane
>assistant professorship student work
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>academic: gt-50 modesto high school>Modesto, CA USA
>Cornell University - Professor Val Warke>150 000 ft2 Suburban High School
>The impetus for a high school in a banal suburban landscape is built upon the fetish and desires of social by-products; in this instance the automobile. According to popular culture,thecariscommonlyidentifiedwithcoming-of-ageexperiences(tailgateparties,
races, drive-ins) This study investigates the primary attachment of youth with the locker while serving as storage and an individualized entrance into school thereby arriving from car door to locker door to high school door. Upon ascension from the parking lot/locker
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>academic: gt-50 modesto high school
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>academic: aqueous processor>Morristown, NY USA.
>Cornell University - Professor Lily Chi - Fall 2001.
>5 600 m2 - INS border crossing station restaurant and hotel.>Examiningtherolebordersparticipatespatiallyandphenomenally,thisferry-crossing
immigration station combines the language of technologies inherent with an assembly setting to create a link between town and marina-urban and open. The combination of
theINSpassageandprogramheldaboveafloorformovablehotelroomsaremanifestedwithin a series of spatial ‘liners’-the method of intervention
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>academic: aqueous processor
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>academic: culinary transport tailgater>1988 Volkswagen Golf/GTI 2 door
>Cornell University - Professor Lily Chi - Fall 2001.>Car - dining facility
>The intention of this group design/build project is to use an as-is engineered site to create a semi-formal dining/buffet environment. Given the constrains of the interior compart-ments, a series of constructions are attached, hung and cantilevered to facilitate and
stage the event.
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>academic: culinary transport tailgater
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>academic: dwelling for a bather and surveyor>Ithaca, NY. USA.
>Cornell University - Professor John Miller - Spring 2002.>1 200 ft2 -Dwelling
>Using visual and spatial cues from the site, this dwelling places the user within a bridge-like structuretocreateasettingforstudyandcontemplationinsubtleextremesoftheenviron-
ment.
>academic: dwelling for meditator and artist>Lansing, NY. USA.
>Cornell University - Professor Kimberly Ackert- Spring 2001.>900 ft2 -Dwelling
>Based upon the nine square grid framework, this dwelling considers dual client roles, a ritualistic meditator and an artist both to function by natural light performance within the