01URBAN OASIS

02SEE AND BE SCENE

03BRIDGING THE GAP

04SHADE GROWN JAVA

ARMAN HOSSEINIPORTFOLIO_M.Arch

01URBAN OASIS

02SEE AND BE SCENE

03BRIDGING THE GAP

04SHADE GROWN JAVA

ARMAN HOSSEINIPORTFOLIO_M.Arch

Urban Oasis is a building that seeks to be carbon negative and scrub CO

2 from Tribeca, NY while

acting as a beacon for progressive change required to combat global warming.

Located by the Canal Street Holland Tunnel exit, where over one-hundred thousand cars pass every day, Urban Oasis utilizes fluid dynamics to filter the surrounding air.

Utilizing the stack effect, the building enables cross-flow filtration, pulling particulate matter from the air and into plant beds, resulting in increased vegetation growth and the return of the native wilderness to Manhattan.

01URBAN OASIS

In Progress, ARCH602

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AIR MONITORING STATION

AIR PROCESSING

WATER COLLECTION

TANK PARK

AIR INDUCTION

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SEMINAR ROOM

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STADIUM SEATING

CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE

RESEARCH CENTER

AIR PROCESSING STATION

PUBLIC WALKWAY

Second Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

BIFURCATIONINTRODUCES OPPORTUNITIES

FOR EXTENDING

SIPHON COLUMNPULLS THE COLLECTED PARTICULATES

TOWARD NEGATIVE PRESSURE TO PROVIDE VEGETATION WITH NUTRIENTS

NO2 CO2

NO2 CO2

EDGE SURFACEINDUCES A LOWER PRESSURE ABOVE, WHICH CREATES THE SUCTION FOR THE SIPHONS

SIPHONFEEDS CAPTURED AIR

PARTICULATES TO FEED PLANTS

AIR DUCTAIR PASSES THROUGH THE DUCT

AND GETS FILTERED THROUGH ACTIVATED CARBON

Conceptual Section

Air Filtration Process Overview

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ENTRANCE / EXITTO NYC METRO

AUDITORIUM“SUN WELL”

CLASSROOMS

EXHIBITION

LABS

Building Section

STACK EFFECT SYSTEMSVarious mechanical and programmatic tubes converge systematically to create a symbiotic relationship.

The exterior surface contours promote greater air velocity above, creating a stack effect that will draw air particulates up for plant bed nutrition.

PATH TOEXHIBITION

RESEARCH CENTER

LIBRARY

OASIS

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There is a grandiose mentality that is present in Miami, where great wealth is put on display. This is showcased through high-end fashion, art, luxury condos, and especially high-end classic and super cars. The latter makes Miami a car-focused city.

The synergistic opportunity between the car culture and glitzy lifestyle is what makes Miami home to designer parking structures as Herzog and de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road, Zaha Hadid’s Miami Beach Parking Garage, Enrique Norten’s One Ocean, and Frank Gehry’s Pennsylvania Avenue Garage. Yet the trend for high-end parking structures has evaded the Art District.

The potential for such a structure peaks beside the Wynwood Walls, one of Miami’s most visited tourist attractions. The relationship between tourists wanting to see and residents wanting to display invites a parking condo for extravagant cars. The gallery condo hybridizes the experiece of car culture with the experience of residence.

02SEE AND BE SCENE

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EXISTING CIRCULATIONTourists visiting Wynwood Walls enter the park to see unique and dynamic art.

PROPOSED CIRCULATIONThe adjacent sight aims to become a part of Wynwood Walls by serving as an extension of the gallery.

View from Wynwood Walls Park

Parking Platformshang beneath individual units

Creates car "display case”for ground floor to engage

parked cars

Car Entrance Ramp

Car Exit Ramp

To First Floor

Pedestrian circulationthrough the ground level

Perspective of Ground Level

Typical Unit ArrangementIndividual parking lots below units provide a display case for the cars, visible from the public park.

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Private Car Parking Deck

Pedestrian Circulation

Car Circulation

Private Residence Garage Ramp

Pedestrian Deck and Entrance to Roof Deck

Private Garage / Car Showcase

Plan - 1st Deck Duplex, Upper Level

Plan - 1st Deck Duplex, Lower Level

Pedestrian Roof Deck

Car Cul-De-Sac

Private Car Garage Decks (open air)

Plan - 3rd Deck

Plan - 2nd Deck Duplex

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STACKED ADJACENT SLEEVECORE

Section depicting public, resident, and parked car relationships

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DE-CENTRALIZED / STAGGERED

GARAGE-TO-UNIT TYPOLOGYThe traditional grouped parking lots separate the resident from the car.

By fragmenting the parking into individual lots and staggering throughout, the resident and car experiences coalesce.

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In an effort to reconnect downtown Philadelphia with the dilapidated immediate north, the shared working space is designed to attract the general public to walk through the galleries, lounge areas, and the apex “bar/club” under the Benjamin Franklin bridge.

The site takes advantage of being at the epicenter of a dynamic context, surrounded by a forking road, train, and two highways. The result is an active workspace to inspire the creativity within.

The natural circulation will attract individuals to the region north of the bridge, serving a major role in reconnecting the fissured city tissue.

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CLUSTERINGTo understand the movement of people and the attractive force of art, an in-depth study was taken on the art of murals, sculpture, installation, and relief throughout the Center City region. These locations (marked with a black dot) naturally occur in clusters.

Theory: public art tends to be exprienced grouped with other art, bridging these groups will provide a method for experiencing the city.

By replicating the clustering pattern, the structure's programmatic spaces can be experienced in clusters, which will allow ease of navigation and experience all the art and creativity that is produced within.

PUBLIC AMMENITY

WORKCLUSTER 3

WORKCLUSTER 2

WORKCLUSTER 1

APEX CLUB

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Typical Cluster ArrangementContains a complete grouping of studio space, workshop, and other support spaces. These spaces are connected through open view and sound, so the inhabitant of any space may find inspiration from other cluster-mates.

Arrangement of Clusters

The objective of the food-cart garage is to spur urban development around a self-sustainable harvest and sales of goods unique to the region.

Growing coffee under shade is slower than traditional sun-bathing, but yields a higher quality in flavor, health benefits, and supports biodiversity of the local ecology.

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge provides an untapped opportunity for shaded coffee farms, which will boost the local economy, give way to better coffee, and result in a better social atmosphere.

The food-cart garage acts as a sales center, where customers may learn about growing coffee, enjoy the product, and be exposed to the vacant space available for their own coffee plants.

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One-Week Competition

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ELEVATIONShows the base structure, the overhanging canopy, and the sample coffee tree display.

EXPANSIONThe parked food-cart becomes an extended branch of the garage’s second level deck, providing additional seating oriented towards the bridge's gardens.

Franklin Square

Liberty Bell

The Bourse

TRUST Gallery

Franklin Fountain

Lower Space

Restrooms

Upper Deck

PROPOSED FOOD-CART ROUTEThe modified food-cart has a top deck for lounging and passenger rides.

The cart makes stops throughout the city to promote the coffee and offer a ride back to potential coffee-growers (red), or distrubute coffee to famous restaurants and banquet halls (black).

PLANS Dotted lines mark the mesh canopy. Lower level plan shows the position of a sample tree at the center.

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emailarman.r.hosseini@gmail.com

address2215 W. Addison St, Unit 2

Chicago, IL 60618

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