talia pinto handler
Dec 04, 2014
talia pinto handler
education:Yale School of ArchitectureMasters of Architecture: 2013
The University of Michigan: TCAUPB.S. in Architecture: 2010
Pre- College Architecture Program: 2005
Carnegie Mellon University: CFA
awards, publications + exhibitions:Yale School of ArchitectureRetrospecta 2011-2012: Drawing & Architectural Form Retrospecta 2010-2011: Design Fabrication (collaborative) Formal Analysis Final Drawing
Civic Friche Studio Exhibition (collaborative) Wallenberg Studio Competition: Research (colaborative)
The University of Michigan: TCAUP
talia pinto handler
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 . deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71
past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75 ground condition ....................................................................... 79 kinderTANK ................................................................................. 83 alveole 14 .................................................................................... 89
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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 model, plan + section drawings semi-inhabitable sculptural study matte board, graphite on strathmore
The first in a series of small-scale design proposals, this preliminary spatial study works to address through highly calibrated part-to-whole relationships issues of scale, material, surface, porosity and enclosure while blurring the boundaries between figure and field conditions.
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socrates sculpture park6
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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 site photos + design drawings semi-inhabitable sculptural study graphite on strathmore
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This design proposal for Socrates Sculpture Park, a public park used for the showcasing of local art in the Long Island City neighborhood of Brooklyn, incorporates different means of transportation into the design in order to provide more feasible access. These modes of transportation include vehicular ciruclation, port amenities, a bike terminal, and pedestrian access from Vernon Boulevard and Broadway, all of which are used to drive the formal language of outdoor public spaces and galleries.
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7
brooklyn tobacco warehouse10
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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 model, plan, section + rendered perspective drawings brooklyn bridge performing arts center mixed medias
The final study in a series of three, this urban intervention proposal for the Brooklyn Tobacco Warehouse provides performance, exhibition and recreational facilities to the growing Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO communities. Relying heavily on the desire to cut access across the site to engender movement to and through the tobacco warehouse, the resulting formal strategy folds itself around the preexisting structure of the warehouse as well as the larger scale cut.
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plan c: +301/100 = 1 13
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16
hostel for itinerant musicians16
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yale school of architecture architectural design II studio critic: jennifer leung new haven hostel for itinerant musicians winter 2011 diagrams, plan, section + axonometric drawings, study + final models retrospecta 2010-2011 nomination
A hostel as well as a music venue located in the heart of downtown New Haven, this hybrid proposal attempts to reinvent the spatial as well as programmatic standards of both. Conceived of through a reformatting and abuse of the traditional stair, the design for this hostel privileges the public space necessary for a music arena while providing the amenities and privacy required by visiting artists and travelersch ap el
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16
the new haven house24
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yale school of architecture vlock building project professor: alan organschi, et al. winter - spring 2011 site analysis, diagrams, plan, section + elevation drawings, renderings + models collaborative work autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator http://www.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp11
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Developed alongside nine other collaborators, The New Haven House proposal for the Vlock Building Project of 2011 was conceived as a design that would speak to its environment. Inventive in its formal and spatial qualities yet respectful in its overall composition, The New Haven House achieved a level of impact through simplicity and careful, caluculated design that won both the juries approval as well as that of the client.
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Total Volume of Excavated Earth = 293 y 3 Total Linear Foot of Foundation Wall = 143 lf 1. Foundations27.5 ft 44 ft
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Total Surface Area of Exterior Walls = 3,062 f 2 Total Building Footprint = 1,210 f 2
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Total Surface Area of Interior Walls = 5,461 f 2 Total Volume including basement = 42,955 f 340 ft
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rigid insulation plywood metal roofing standing seam
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16
split personality32
culturememorials historic sites cultural/historical art museums
artsdesign centers contemporary art museums public art installations
theatreperforming arts music venues informal performing arts venues
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yale school of architecture architectural design iv studio critic: joel sanders fall 2011 live-work kunsthalle at the brooklyn navy yard diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings
1 Brooklyn Historical Society 2 Brooklyn War Memorial
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (pelham bay park)
American Folk Art Museum
4 Amos Eno Gallery
Public architecture is explored through the design of a medium-scale institutional building, an arts center located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The center includes a public exhibition component conceived of as a kunsthalle an art museum that mounts only temporary exhibitionsas well as a private artists residency component. Not serving as a shrine of rare and honorific objects to which the community makes awe- filled pilgrimages, the Kunsthalle functions as an arena of provocation in which audience and discussion are stimulated. In mixing production and exhibition, it serves not as an institution of passive reception but one of active, and necessarily identifiable, intellectual exchange and debate. - Fall 2011 Studio Brief, Keith Krumwiede. Program at the BNY is split into two legs, one side reaching down into the bay designated for the production of art, and the other lifting upwards, reserved for the latters display. The two halves are joined at the theater and the sculpture yard; these spaces, both accessible at grade, are conceived of as the portions of the building in which both production and display occur simultaneously.central park upper west side
Conference House (park slope) Center for Jewish History Dyckman House and Farmhouse Museums Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (fordham manor) El Museo del Barrio Ellis Island Immigration Museum (ellis island) Fort Schuyler (locust point) Fraunces Tavern Museum Girl Scout Museum Gracie Mansion Greater Astoria Historical Society Harbor Defense Museum (fort hamilton) Hendrick I. Lott House Hispanic Society of America (washington heights) Historic Richmond Town (staten island) International Freedom Center Irish Hunger Memorial Japan Society Jewish Museum Judaica Museum of the Hebrew Home King Manor Museum Kingsland Homestead (flushing) Korea Society Lefferts Historic House (park slope) Lewis H. Latimer House (flushing) Louis Armstrong House (east elmhurst) Lower East Side Tenement Museum Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Morris-Jumel Mansion (washington heights) Merchant's House Museum Museum of American Finance Museum of the City of New York Museum of the Moving Image Museum of Chinese in America Museum at Eldridge Street Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum of Television and Radio National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of LGBT History Sports Museum of America New York City Police and Fire Museums New York Historical Society 3 New York Transit Museum Queens County Farm Museum (glen oaks) Ripley's Believe It or Not! Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYC Scandinavia House Skyscraper Museum South Street Seaport Museum Statue of Liberty (liberty island) Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre The Little Red Lighthouse (riverside drive) The Old Stone House (park slope) The Paley Center for Media The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (east flatbush) Tribute in Light Trinity Churchyard Valentine-Varian House (the bronx) Van Cortlandt House Museum (fieldston) World Trade Center Memorial Yeshiva University Museum
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Art in General Artists Space Asia Society Asian American Arts Centre Astor Place Cube Axelle Fine Art Belanthi Bronx Museum of the Arts (the bronx) Brooklyn Children's Museum (crown heights) Brooklyn Museum (prospect heights) Center for Architecture Chelsea Art Museum Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture Children's Museum of the Arts Children's Museum of Manhattan China Institute in America Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cooper Union's Study Center of Design and Typography Dahesh Museum of Art Demu Gallery Dia Art Foundation (long island) DUMBO Arts Center Faith Art Gallery Fashion Institute of Technology Fisher Landau Center Forbes Galleries Frick Collection Governors Island (governers island) Highline Park Hut Gallery International Print Center New York Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (queens) Jewish Children's Museum (crown heights) Liberty Street Gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art Municipal Art Society Museum for African Art Museum of Arts & Design Museum of Biblical Art Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Museum of Modern Art Museum of the Moving Image National Academy of Design National Museum of Catholic Art and History Neue Galerie New Museum of Contemporary Art New York School of Interior Design New York Tattoo Museum Nicholas Roerich Museum (morningside heights) Parsons The New School for Design Pratt Institute P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Public Art Fund Queens Museum of Art (queens) Rafael Fodde Editions Rotunda Gallery Rubin Museum of Art Sarafina Schickler Howard Fine Art SculptureCenter Shades of Art Smack Mellon Studios Socrates Sculpture Park Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sony Wonder Technology Lab Spring Studio Museum in Harlem (harlem) The Cloisters (fort tryon park) The Drawing Center The Noguchi Museum Time Warner Center Williamsburg Art & Historical Center White Columns Whitney Museum of American Art
92nd Street Y 92Y Tribeca A Gathering of the Tribes AMC Loews Theater 19th Street AMC Theaters Empire 25 Angelika Film Center Apollo Theater Arlenes Grocery Avery Fisher Hall 19 Bargemusic BB King Blues Club and Grill Birdland Jazz Club Blue Note Jazz Club Bowery Ballroom Boys Choir of Harlem (harlem) Bitter End 20 Brooklyn Academy of Music 21 Brooklyn Philharmonic Cafe Wha Carnegie Hall Cinema Tropical Cinema Village City Winery Clearview Cinemas Ziegfeld Crash Mansion Dance New Amsterdam David H. Koch Theater Film Forum Grammercy Theater Hammerstein Ballroom Highline Ballroom IFC Center Jazz at Lincoln Center Joes Pub Joyce Theater Kaufman Center La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Landmark Sunshine Cinema Manhattan School of Music Mannes College of Music Mercury Lounge Metropolitan Opera New York City Center New York Collegium New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Nuyorican Poets Cafe Quad Cinema Symphony Space The Juilliard School The Public Theater Radio City Music Hall Rockwood Music Hall Roseland Ballroom Santos Party House Smoke Jazz Club Snug Harbor Cultural Center (staten island) Sobs Terminal 5 The Living Room The Town Hall Tribeca Cinemas UA Battery Park Stadium 11 UA Union Square Stadium 14 Village East Cinema Village Vanguard Webster Hall Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
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moma ps1long island city25 min
manhattannoho soho lower east side
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bushwick williamsburgh
production + display
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brooklyn navy yardbrooklyn heights
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theater6,800 LF
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Section D: 1/8=10Talia Pinto- Handler studio critic: Joel Sanders
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33
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yale school of architecture architectural design iv studio critic: alan plattus collaborator: brittany brown hayes winter 2012 urban studio project: stamford, connecticut diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings
[The goal of] this studio [is to] examine how one represents, analyzes, constructs and projects the future design of an urban site... Urban design is by nature a complex endeavor with immediate as well as long-term effects. Proposals at the city scale involve negotiations between public and private interests; global, regional and local forces and needs; collective and individual expression. - Ed Mitchell, studio brief In order to appropriately address the already existing fabric as well as the nature of the city of Stamford, this design proposal attempts to alleviate fissures in the urban grain locally. Both the downtown and water sites are treated as separate entities; each utilizes similar formal linking strategies to create new public spaces and connective typologies.washington boulevard tressor boulevard ubs warburg park south end vertical circulation
ramp to lower deck elmcroft road
atlantic street ubs warburg park
veterans park
waterside pedestrian bridge
pedestrian bridge
veterans park
wetlands
docks ferry terminal
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waterfront site strategySite PlanStamford, Connecticut 1:500
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mall level plan: 1 = 350
street level plan: 1 = 350
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
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yale school of architecture formal analysis professor: peter eisenman fall 2010 computer-generated drawing series 15th-17th century architecture autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator studio award: free analysis competition finalist retrospecta publication: 2010/2011
A semester-long course devoted to the study of the object of architecture or canonical buildings in its history, the following drawings attempt to analyze them not through the lens of reaction and nostalgia but through a filter of contemporary thought. Moving across history, these studies hope to establish and represent the formal tendencies of some of the most influential buldings of the Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist periods.
alberti
sebastiano serlio
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scamozzi + sansovino56
borromini
bramante
free analysis drawing57
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55
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yale school of architecture drawing projects instructor: turner brooks winter 2011 series of measured hand-drawings various subjects of study graphite on strathmore
fetal development cross-section
human brain #4:
This set of drawings, devoted to the spatial mapping of change in objects over time, devotes itself predominantly to three different subjects: snow (as it melts), the human brain (as it develops and decays) and architecture (as it appears). Drawn sequentially over the course of four months, each piece serves as a representative of the compilation as a whole, of the changing tendencies, comforts and crutches of the hand at work.
fetal development long-section
human brain #5:
human brain #2:
dementia
melting snow #3
melting snow #560
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human brain #662
melting snow #463
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59
deviant drawing64
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yale school of architecture drawing and architectural form instructor: victor agran fall 2011 selection of hand-drafted drawings graphite on strathmore retrospecta 2011-2012
[An examination] of descriptive geometry and perspective through the practice of rigorous constructed architectural drawings, the methods and concepts studied serve as a foundation for the development of drawings that interrogate the relationship between a drawings production and its conceptual objectives. - studio brief, Victor Agran Using the constraints of the course to provide rigidity, this set of drawings attempt to push the limits of proscriptive drawing techniques. By allowing the drawing to be manufactured solely by virtue of the process and with no predisposition for specific visual outcomes, playful, explorative and bizarre geometries are generated, giving insight into the boundaries as well as potentials of established drafting methods.
isometric projection
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case study: archigram
processing: light 67
processing: light 68
piero della francesca: perspective 69
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 24 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
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yale school of architecture visualization III: fabrication + assembly instructors: ben pell + john eberhardt winter 2011 full-scale foam installation collaborators: andrea leung, own detlor, raymond tripodi low-density styrofoam + plywood retrospecta publication: 2010/2011
This project , designed as the final project in a digital technology course, works to make evident the nature of the relationship between a design, its fabrication, and the finished product Both additive and subtractive, the intent was to create an installation that integrated structure into the pieces formal composition. and played with light and shadow to produce new and unique lighting conditions.20.7
Andrea Leung. Owen Detlor. R.J. Tripodi. Talia Pinto- Handler. Materials:20.75 x 82.375 sheet of thick Ultralite MDF 20.75 x 82.375 x 31.25 block of Styrofoam
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Step 1:Cut MDF to size on the table saw if larger than necessary. Paint one side of MDF red.
Step 2:Cut Styrofoam to size using the wire cutter if larger than necessary.20.75
Step 3:Mill MDF using the given AutoCAD file. The file is located on the server at Q:\1016B - Fabrication and Assembly\Tali_Owen_Andrea_RJ\File Handover Use the 2D toolpathing tools in MadCAM to toolpath the file. (Either the pocketing tool or the profile tool.) If you use the profile tool, be careful that when the mill removes the circles from the sheet, the circles do not fly up off the bed and interfere will the milling. Additionally, be sure that the toolpathing will not completely remove the finished piece from the surrounding MDF, because the piece will become loose before the milling is complete. Instead, remove the finished piece from the surrounding MDF with the table saw. Cut the piece on the large mill. Remember to orient the MDF with the red surface facing down. Note that the nominal radius of the circular apertures in the MDF is 1/16 smaller than the nominal radius of apertures in the foam. This is because the foam cutter removes a small amount of material. Because we have adjusted the files, the foam and MDF should fit together tightly.41 31.25
Step 4:Wire cut Styrofoam using the given DXF files. The files will be labeled according to order of cut. Open up the first file in Croma Designer, import as a polyline, make sure the file is scaled correctly, save it as a PRJ file, and make sure the origin is in the top left corner (and at the same point for each subsequent file). Remember to always select the EPS3lb option for foam cutting. Place pieces of scrap foam below the piece to be cut so that the wire can travel the whole tool path because the wire will not cut within 1 of the bed. Orient the piece of foam on the bed so that it corresponds to the dimensions of the cut. Always make sure the piece of foam is oriented perpendicular to the wire. Open up Croma Output, and import PRJ file. Zero the wire in on the topmost left corner. Cut. Make sure the wire is zeroed in on the origin at the topmost left corner for every single subsequent cut Consult http://www.architecture.yale.edu/dmonline/Tutorials/foamcutter/foamcutter.pdf for reference. After cutting, use tape to hold all the pieces together, but make sure the sticky side of the tape is facing away from the Styrofoam at all times.82.375 20.875 37.25 3.25
Step 5:Bring MDF and Styrofoam to the site (the small window in the stairwell closest to the laser cutters between the fifth and sixth floors). Push pegs into the MDF with the red surface closest to the ground. Slip the rest of the foam onto the pegs. This will take advantage of the wiggle room between the foam pegs and the foam tubes. Place the entire assembly on the window with red side closest to the window. Pull Styrofoam some rods out towards wall across from glass at the top of the foam piece and secure with pins.
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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71
past work
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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture & urban planning raoul wallenberg studio: borderline personality studio critic: steven christensen winter 2010 research material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings san ysidro-tijuana border crossing building proposal mixed media raoul wallenberg competition: honorable mention: studio research material
The San Diego Tijuana Metropolitan Area is a territory of continuous urban fabric that includes the city and suburbs of San Diego in the US and Tijuana, Playas de Rosarito, and Tecate in Mexico. As the busiest border crossing in the world, this site offers a unique opportunity for Mexico and the US to replace a banal and congested piece of infrastructure with a public work that is a reflection of regional/national identity and civic pride. Could this central piece of infrastructure be the locus for an architectural intervention that reflects the shared aspirations of North America's largest bi-national community; a counterpoint to the proposed 'Triple Border Fence' it traverses? How can a gesture of alliance go beyond simply whitewashing a highly contentious political divide and actually improve the user experience? Should this community, in understanding of its unique relationship to the border, assert its connectedness in defiance of a divisive national rhetoric through a public work that offers new opportunities for occupation and political action? Rather than lingering in the realm of utopian illusion, this studio recognizes the continued existence of the border and seeks tactical, speculative, and timely solutions to the critical design problem of the threshold. - Steven Christensen, studio brief. The first half of the design studio, focused on site research and culminating in the compilation of maps and drawings into a book, consists of a heavy focus on the historic and geographic aspects of the San Diego - Tijuana border region. The resulting design project, a border tower devoted predominantly to an inversion of the concept of Duty-Free, is a formal study embodying the intention to redefine the notion of the architectural symbol, reinvent the concept of the border crossing station, and make public the subverted identities of the US-Mexico border. A tower located in no mans land and dedicated predominantly to office space to be filled by the adjacent publics, the suggestive nature of this megastructure calls into question the communicative aspects of the skyscraper as well as the potential for buildings to both sublimate as well as promote the more sinister characteristics of a region.
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research material1824 creationof the united mexican states
growth + production facilities designated use facilities hotel + hostel accomodations1840creation of the republic of the rio grande guatemala wins independence from the frca
growth/recreation
commercial/institutional
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creation of the republic of texas
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the republic of the rio grande rejoins mexico
san diego arizona imperial county andrade san ysidro otay mesa tecate calexico vicente guerrero puerta mesa detecata mexicali san luis otay mexico tijuana mexicali san luis san luis rio calexico east nuevo mexicali colorado san luis r.c. lukeville nogales sonoyta sasabe nogales la garita de la ladrillera nogales
california
new mexico
coronado island
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us-mexico border crossing centers customs + supporting program
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sweetwater reservoir
san diego bay sweetwater river upper otay reservoir
cochise county douglas naco douglas naco agua prieta agua prieta
columbus el paso santa teresa el paso fabens san jernimo ciudad jurez puerto palomas ciudad jurez
1845
the us gains texas as the 28th state guatemala cedes soconusco & chiapas to mexico
1848
canada gains the north miller county from the us the us receives the mexican cessation the yucatn wins independence from mexico
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tijuana, mexico
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presidio presidio ojinaga ojinaga
baja californiapacific ocean
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tijuana water shed
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yukon territory joins the canadian provinces the republic of hawaii is annexed by the us
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newfoundland joins the canadian provinces mexico gains rico rico, texas from the us
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colombia nuevo laredo
gulf of mexico
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roma rio grande brownsville city hidalgo brownsville ciudad miguel progreso matamoros aleman ciudad camargo reynosa nuevo progreso reynosa rio bravo matamoros
territorial evolutionn 345 15
ground covergila little colorado river brazos
water infrastructuremiramar reservoir san visente reservoir
pacific oceantrinity
330
30
el capitan reservoir
10
315 20
45
lake jennings
30 300 40 1st jun 50 1st may 285 60 1st jul
pecos asuncion
coloradomunicipality of san diego
lake murray
loveland reservoir
1st aug
60
75
sweetwater reservoir upper otay reservoir
70
1st sep
1st apr 270
80
pacific ocean90 1st oct
magdalena lake amistad
sweetwater river
lower otay reservoir otay river
1st mar
N1 in 128 ft latitude: 32.54 longitude: -117.03
255 1st feb
105 1st nov
Nhigh population density low population density 0-10 inches 60-80 inches waterways border
rio grande conchos
international wastewater treatment plan
rio tijuana
1st jan 17 240 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
1st dec
120
225
135
falcon international reservoir
gulf of mexico
Nsettlement water pump water treatment plant well aqueduct pipeline pumping equipment proposed pump station proposed pipeline potential future waste water treatment plant potential future desalination plant
municipiality of tijuana
10-20 inches 20-40 inches 40-60 inches
abelardo l. rodrigues dam
210
150
195 180
165
gulf of california
east-west sectiongeology + land use 0
solar chart
precipitation
10
76
77
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71
past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75
ground condition78
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university of michigan:taubman college of architecture + urban planning study abroad: argentina studio critics: gerardo caballero + juan rois spring 2009 photographs, diagrams, plan + section drawings, model mild ground mediation + large infrastructural proposals watercolor + graphite on bond, museum board
This studio, aimed at engaging in a formal exploration of staggering topographical differences in the argentine landscape, hopes to accentuate the drastic difference between the flatness of the pampas/lowlands and the towering height of the 20th century skyscraper. Studied at two vastly different sites, both landscape and building proposal attempt to underline as well as develop this differentiation of scale and create suitable environments in relation to human occupancy.
buenos aires
rosario
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mendoza
site plan 80
section b
final model: urban intervention 81
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71
past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75 ground condition ....................................................................... 79
kinderTANK82
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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture + urban planning kinderTANK studio studio critic: rosalyne shieh fall 2009 process material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings + models mixed mediasesc pompeia
k i n d e r T A N K, is a Chicago-based, not-for-profit coalition of educators and concerned citizens who believe the contemporary approach to education is wrongheaded and only delays our responsibilities to the present. Rather than working from a distancethat is, rather than investing now in a future that is always distant, with an attitude towards early education that assumes an yet-unconsummated future, with hopes that the children of today will someday benefit the society of tomorrow, kinderTANK promises invest and engage children in the present as fully active participants of society and turn their minds towards the problems of today. Society is not made up of children and adults. There is no such thing as a child, simply full members of society who have lived on this earth for fewer or greater years than others. Younger members may possess less knowledge of the world, but may also suffer less from the desensitization that comes with age. Members of society under the age of 10 represent the largest yet-untapped think tank in modern society. The goal of kinderTANK is to turn these young minds toward the so-called adult issues of the day. - studio brief, Rosalyne Shieh This proposal organizes program according to its level of integration and interaction with active members of the public. While some of the spaces consist of private classrooms and enclosed spaces of learning, others are designed to espouse more open, fluid methods of education, communication, and discovery. Not a building shackled to the spatial tropes of the generic institution, the kinderTANK attempts to achieve sufficient irregularity and malleability so as to continue to provide inventive methods of learning for decades to come.
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case study comparison: sao paolo + chicago
program diagram
movement study84
massing model85
discussion space open workshop space
discussion space open workshop space
discussion space open workshop space
girls bathroom
boys bathroomaccessible green roof garden indoor play area
auditorium
discussion space open workshop space gallery
discussion space open workshop space
discussion space open workshop space
girls bathroom
boys bathroomaccessible green roof garden indoor play area
auditorium
playground
gallery
playground exhibition space patio meeting hall gallery meeting hall meeting hall exhibition space patio exhibition space administration space
floor plan 1 N floor plan elevation 80 4 elevation 4N floor planelevation
meeting hall gallery meeting hall meeting hall girls bathroom meeting hall boys bathroom
administration space
10
exhibition space
floor plan floor plan elevation 28 28 elevationfloor plan elevation 28
1 80 1 80
10
4
1 80indoor event space
meeting hall
girls bathroom
boys bathroom
girls bathroom
boys bathroom
kitchen
auditoriumdining room
girls bathroom
boys bathroom
kitchen
indoor event space
auditoriumdining room
gallery
accessible green roof garden
gallery
accessible green roof garden
lecture hall
lecture hall
floor plan elevation 16
1 80lecture hall
lecture hall
floor plan elevation 55
1 80 1 80
floor plan floor plan 1 elevation 16 elevation 16 80
10
floor plan floor plan elevation elevation 28 55
10
parking garage
east- west section
10
final modell86
east-west section
1 80
87
designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43
drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65
buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71
past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75 ground condition ....................................................................... 79 kinderTANK ................................................................................. 83
alveole 1488
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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture + urban planning study abroad: civic friche studio critics: anya sirota + steven christensen + jean louis farges + combes/renaud spring 2010 computer-generated analysis series collaborators: ivan adelson + erika lindsay alveole 14: saint nazaire, loire atlantique, france autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator civic friche studio exhibition: tcaup fall 2010 http://www.civicfriche.com
industry value of production
commerce/trade value of production
food = 2.1%
food = 3.3%
energy = 2.1%
energy = 3.3%
pays de la loire
intermediate goods = 5%
loire-atlantique
intermediate goods = 3.6%
the transatlantic telegraphthe transatlantic telegraph: experiementation in the1860s in the Bay Biscay attempting to link Western Europeto the Americas.
goods + automotive equipment = 6.5%
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goods + automotive equipment = 5.1%
consumer goods = 2%0 36 72 144km
0
15.375
30.75
61.5km
consumer goods = 1.3%
commerce/trade value of production
commerce/trade value of production
pays de la loire
personal services = 4.1%
loire-atlantique
A paradoxical coupling of terms the institutional with the abandoned Civic Friche refers to the tactical appropriation of marginal sites for public function. Distinct from traditional strategies of reuse, Civic Friche describes a new approach tourbanism through civic initiative, temporary and interim uses, and public participation. Civic Friche is an ideology. A term that resists translation (wasteland being its most direct and reductive English counterpart), Friche has been embraced by a cadre of architects, landscapes architects, artists and thinkers as an opportunistic strategy with liberating potential... A friche site, whether reappropriated or new, begins with an intimate understanding of the physical and cultural context, yet it assumes that things will change. New programs will emerge. Cultural and economic shifts will invariably take place. The architect, released from the post of dogmatic creator, envisions solutions that may be fragmented, temporary, cheeky, and even subversive. - http://www.civicfriche.com Alveole 14, an abandoned Nazi u-boat bunker located in the city of Saint Nazaire in the Loire-Atlantique region of France, is studied in a series of seven other friche projects. Recently adapted by LIN Architects for VIP LIFE, this heavy piece of infrastructure embodies and serves as a constant reminder to its citys citizens of a more sinister era in French history. LINs intervention, a design consisting largely of strategically placed lighting and and access amenities, serves to break up and mediate the immensity of scale of the u-boat bunker. Now functioning as a music and performance venue, Alveole 14 serves as a testament to the indelible mark of architecture on its environment as well the powerful implications of urban spatial reappropriation.
transportation = 4.1%
transportation = 4.3%
financial + property activity = 16.8%
financial + property activity = 16.7%
business services = 14.6%
business services = 17%
1842 1843 1847 1850 1856 1860
personal services = 4.3%
railway evolution: rail evolution
Chemin de Fer de Paris Orlans railroad company of Orlans connects Saint-Nazaire to Nantes
non-market services = 20.2%
Nmayenne
construction = 8.6%
construction = 6.7%
sarthe
trade = 11.1%36 72 144km
trade = 11.6%15.375 30.75 61.5km
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0
non-market services = 20.7%
3,450,409
1,234,089
population
population
under age 20
pays de la loire
loire-atlantique
maine-et-loire
under age 20
bay of biscay
321,628
saint-nazaire
885,803
population
loire-atlantique
68,838
under age 20
16,629
between ages 21+74
between ages 21+74
vendee
2,267,339over age 75
between ages 21+74
818,096
45,4190 1.25 2.5 5km
atlantic ocean
N
0
36
72
144km
297,267
0
15.375
30.75
61.5km
over age 75
94,365
over age 75
6,790
1,453,677/148,138
529,596/56,346
employment/unemployment
employment/unemployment
employment/unemployment
agriculture = 17,707
37,929/4,491
agriculture = 178
agriculture = 79,653
construction = 1,909
construction = 106,130
construction = 36,875
industry = 281,302other = 1,759
other = 315
industry = 82,435 services = 392,264
industry = 9,126other = 923
pays de la loire
loire-atlantique
estuaire-de-la-loire
services = 984,833
saint-nazaire
services = 25,793
saint nazaire
bay of biscay
palais de tokyo
le lieu unique
alveole 14
le channelatlantic ocean
unemployed = 148,1380 36 72 144km 0 15.375 30.75 61.5km
unemployed = 56,346
unemployed = 4,491
0
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2.5
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N1934: louis joubert dry dock
pays de la loire
loire-atlantique
1881: basin penhot
rate of stability = 93.2 per 100little morrocco or za sud chantiers
rate of stability = 90.1 per 100
1856: halluard city
35.8 per 10,000
48.6 per 10,000
rate of entrance = 7.7 per 100
rate of entrance = 11.1 per 100
migration 2001-2006
migration 2001-2006
old saint nazaire
le pass 90
cit du design
belle de maichantiers datlantique: founded in 1861, government nationalizaes all shipyards into one state-owned entity as result of 1936 national general strike0 36 72
rate of exit = 5.9 per 100144km
rate of exit = 8.7 per 1000 15.375 30.75 61.5km
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