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THE EARTH-SKY CHAMBER (Phase III of IV)
Objectives: Using land surveyed by a previously developed tool, make an incision into the earth and develop a space which will house three sacred bodies and reference the horizon.
FALL 2010EARTH ARCHITECTUREINSTRUCTOR: BETH TAUKE
DESIGN PROPOSAL
The basic idea of the chamber is to challenge the standard conventions of observing the dead. The earthworks become a place where the user engages the sacred bodies and is essentially a space of play, where the user can do anything he or she wishes.
The form of the Earth-Sky chamber is based on a relationship with the Earth. Two of its three paths follow the most notable feature of the site, a depression in the landscape. The third path serves to bisect the other two, avoiding linearity and creating the potential for continuity in circulation through the space. All three mimic the landscape they occupy, allowing the user to experience walking over the same terrain at their side.
The sacred bodies housed within the incision are actual deceased bodies encased in stone caskets. Their varying positions within the site serve as both obstacles and enabling objects to movement, to be climbed under and over, to be both avoided and engaged.
THE LIVING WALL
Objectives: Transform a 6" x 6" x 8" cube, removing internal mass in order to accomodate six sleeping spaces and circulation, while providing for the existence of neighboring structures on either side. Design transitions from massing, to programming, culminating in a final full-scale wooden structure.
SPRING 2011THE LIVING WALLINSTRUCTORS: BRUSCIA, HUME, NAZARIAN, ROMANO
DESIGN PROPOSAL
The driving concept of this single unit of the living wall becomes to create a space within the "interior" of the original mass, which functions as an exterior space. Circulation functions cyclically, where one may move in either directon through the project around the aforementioned exterior space.
SPRING 2012FORT NIAGARA THEATERINSTRUCTOR: MATT ZINSKI
THEATER & VISITOR CENTER (PHASE II of II)
Objectives: Develop a proposal for a theater and visitor center located at Fort Niagara in New York using a previously constructed bundle and resulting analyses as inspiration. Proposal should be framed as a continuation of bundle analysis and contain an artifact display room, rare book room, map room, service space, ticketing space, and bathrooms.
DESIGN PROPOSAL
A diagrammatic analysis of the previous figureground calls out two distinct circulations which intersect and integrate into one another at various points. This dual circulation becomes the focus of the Fort Niagara design proposal. In the steel site model, "poche" is defined as anything man-made within the fort and recreated out of wood. The Visitor Center design proposal creates two seperate circulations which deal with this poche. The Theater design works through a circulation entitled as "Inhabiting the Poche", while circulation throughout the rest of the fort is entitled "Observing the Poche."
Site plan representing design proposal in black over lighter pre-existing poche.
The site plan identifies and categorizes three different typologies of interaction between the two circulations.
Intersection occurs where the two circulations meet or cross but do not interact beyond visual connections.
Integration occurs where the two circulations meet and the opportunity to exit the fort and integrate into a larger system is present.
Porosity occurs where the two circulations intersect and the opportunity is present for them to leak into one another.
The Theater circulation, entitled "Inhabiting the Poche", follows the pre-existing poche of Fort Niagara. New instances of poche conglomerate onto the old poche, pushing into existing structures and opening up new viewpoints and perspectives into them. The pre-existing structures then become individual stages for re-enactments to be viewed from the new structures conglomerating around them.
Plaster is cast in fabric over the existing structures to create the massing for new structures.
Plaster study models were cast to explore interior conditions of the new forms. Framework mimicking an important linear model from the bundle phase is used to cast concrete, creating a distinct interior texture upon removal. This study in materiality originates in the poche texture used to illustrate plans and sections and explores the potential for that texture to generate an actual material condition within the final design.
GATED COMMUNITY (PHASE III of IV)
Objectives: Taking into account both micro and macro analyses of prison precedents done in past phases, an experimental prison program must be developed and organized. Based in Buffalo, the prison must be designed for 100 inmates and show an emphasis on prisoner-public interface.
FALL 2012GATED COMMUNITYINSTRUCTOR: STEPHANIE VITO YARD
MANUFACTURING
DINING/KITCHEN
LAUNDRY/LIBRARY
SALES
GUARDS
MINIMUM SECURITY
MEDIUM SECURITY
MAXIMUM SECURITY
12 AM 12 PM 12 AMPUBLIC
PRIVATE PUBLIC
LOW
HIGH
PARKING
OUTDOOR REC
COMMUNITY MARKETS
DINING HALL
CLASSROOMS
CHAPEL
GYM
INDOOR REC
LIBRARIESFOOD DELIVERY
MEDICAL ROOMS
LAUNDRY
LOW SECURITY SUITES
MED. SECURITY SUITES
DINING STAFF ROOM
BARBERMAIL ROOM
ADMIN OFFICES
MARKET OFFICE
UNIT STAFF OFFICES
PRODUCTION
COMPUTER ROOM
KITCHEN
MAIL SORTING
HIGH SECURITY CELL
INMATE ARRIVAL
FOOD STORAGEMARKET STORAGE
LAUNDRY STORAGE
VISITATION
SHOWERS
UTILITIESUTILITIES
SURV
EILL
ANCE
LOW PUBLIC ACCESS HIGH PUBLIC ACCESS
LOW OCCUPANCY DURATION HIGH OCCUPANCY DURATION
PRIVATE PUBLIC
DARK
LIGHT
PARKING
OUTDOOR REC
COMMUNITY
MARKETS
DINING HALL
CLASSROOMS
CHAPEL
GYMINDOOR REC
LIBRARIES
FOOD DELIVERY
MEDICAL ROOMS
LAUNDRY
LOW SECURITY SUITES
MED. SECURITY SUITES
DINING STAFF ROOM
BARBER
MAIL ROOM
ADMIN OFFICESMARKET OFFICE
UNIT STAFF OFFICES
PRODUCTION
COMPUTER ROOMKITCHEN
MAIL SORTING
HIGH SECURITY CELL
INMATE ARRIVAL
FOOD STORAGEMARKET STORAGE
LAUNDRY STORAGE
VISITATION
SHOWERS
UTILITIESUTILITIES
PARKING
OUTDOOR REC
COMMUNITY
MARKETS
DINING HALL
CLASSROOMS
CHAPEL
GYM
INDOOR REC
LIBRARIES
FOOD DELIVERY
MEDICAL ROOMS
LAUNDRY
LOW SECURITY SUITES
MED. SECURITY SUITES
DINING STAFF ROOM
MAIL ROOM
BARBER
ADMIN OFFICES
MARKET OFFICE
UNIT STAFF OFFICES
PRODUCTION
COMPUTER ROOM
KITCHEN
MAIL SORTING
HIGH SECURITY CELL
INMATE ARRIVAL
FOOD STORAGE
MARKET STORAGE
LAUNDRY STORAGE
VISITATION
SHOWERS
UTILITIES
DESIGN PROPOSAL
Sited in the Lovejoy District of Buffalo, a low value residential area, the goal of the experimental prison becomes to dissolve an obvious boundary between east and west neighborhoods and strengthen both sides economically with the introduction of a prisoner-public market, where the surrounding community can purchase prisoner-produced goods at the source for cheap, and can also install their own markets to not only sell to the public, but to allow prisoners to reinvest their wages in the community as well. This is accomplished by bisecting the site with two pathways.
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$520,000
$96,500
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$204,000
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$86,900
IDENTIFIED LACK OF MARKET PRESENCE
CONNECT DEPRIVED AREAS WITH PRISON MARKET STREET RESULTING BALANCED MARKET PRESENCE
Centered around the intersection of these two pathways, the prison develops radially around a dedicated purely public park space. A central tower in the center, holding the prison's highest security prisoners (red), also contains a dedicated floor for public program at ground level. Because of the need for both security walls and market interface between prisoner and public along both pathways, a folding market wall is developed, where prisoner shops push into public space and community shops do the opposite. As a result, this concept of folding becomes the driving force for the structure and circulation of the prison itself.
1/64” = 1’-0”
ADMINISTRATIVE WING
EDUCATION WING
SERVICE WING
MEDICAL/REC WING
BF
CE
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D
PROGRAM WALLS
CIRCULATION WALLS
STRUCTURAL WALLS
MARKET WALLS
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3
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45
6
68
9
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6
3
3
3
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2
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27
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28
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27
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FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
FIFTH FLOOR
19 - EXAM ROOM20 - MEDICAL OFFICE21 - PRISONER MARKET22 - PUBLIC MARKET23 - CHAPEL24 - LIBRARY25 - COMPUTER ROOM26 - CLASSROOM27 - VISITATION28 - HOLDING CELL29 - PROCESSING30 - CONFERENCE ROOM31 - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE32 - SECURITY OFFICE33 - HIGH SECURITY CELL34 - SHOWERS35 - PRODUCTION FLOOR36 - OUTDOOR TOWER REC
3231
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3131
SECOND FLOOR - ADMINISTRATIVE BRIDGE (1 OF 2)
PLANS
1 - DOUBLE BEDROOM2 - BATHROOM3 - PATIO4 - DINING HALL5 - KITCHEN6 - STORAGE7 - CIRCULATION HUB8 - LAUNDRY9 - MAIL ROOM10 - GYM11 - INDOOR REC12 - OUTDOOR REC13 - PHARMACY14 - WAITING ROOM15 - DENTAL CLINIC16 - OUTPATIENT CLINIC17 - LAB18 - X-RAY