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001 Movement in Space Over Time
009 Architectonic Assemblage
019 Terrirorial Diagrams
027 Aquatic Center Roof Structure
029 Zen Tower
031 Preformative Architecture
039 Sonic Landscapes
041 60x to 100x
043 A View From Above
045 Research Library of LUHCA
069 Cowboy Bunkhouse
073 A Monks Cell
077 A shell for living
083 Post Industrial Landscapes
087 Furniture
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Spring 2008 Level: 1st YearProfessor: Brian T. Rex, Marti GottschDuration: 12 weeks
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MOVEMENT IN SPACE OVER TIME
Spring 08_ Brian T. Rex, Marti Gottsch
Movement in space over time:The course was rooted in teaching principles of guided inquiry and questioning through intensive hands-on making. The course is made up of five distinct units that deal with bounding spaces. We indexed and categorized event/fiat space. Finally, we used the spatial data that we categorized to generate models representing spatial relationships.
A system of diagramed events in a dorm room with the consideration of frequency and duration represented by height, density, and angle. Material: dressmaker pins and 2” Extruded polystyrene foam.
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MOVEMENT IN SPACE OVER TIME
Spring 08_ Brian T. Rex, Marti Gottsch
Wire models of event spaces and their bounding spaces. Specific models express individual spacal territoryies from a categorized index of events.
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Translate a square section from a ventilated drawings in to the sand surface and then itterate that surface into dry sand using nylon as a retaining structure.
Place 13 solids(2”x2”x10”) in a wire frame translation of the sand surface. With these solids defined two spaces; formed with straight lines and orientated to each other.
MOVEMENT IN SPACE OVER TIME
Spring 08_ Brian T. Rex, Marti Gottsch
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Using section cuts of the combined specific wire models recreate the positive & negative spaces using high density insulation foam.
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Fall 2008 Level: 2nd YearProfessor: Bennett NeimanDuration: 12 weeks
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We made a series of architectonic assemblages from found objects that were measured, analyzed, developed, and articulated through analog and digital drawing, and three dimensional modeling and fabrication.
The process unfolded through four stages:
Stage 01: Introduction Initial assemblages; introductory skill development; digital two-dimensional drawings; planimetric and sectional analysis; constructed isometrics; photographic documentation; point, line, plane, and volume, hierarchy, and formal consistency.
ARCHITECTONIC ASSEMBLAGE
FALL 08_ Bennet Neiman
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Stage 02:Reapplication volumetric assemblages are constructed, modeled, analyzed, and articulated with form•Z; plan, section and isometric cuts; constants and variables introduced.
Architectonic Assemblagea set of assemblages are constructed; constants and variables, precincts, spatial sequence and movement systems, and treatment are introduced
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Stage 03: Articulation precincts, spatial sequence, movement systems, and treatment are introduced; designs are further articulated through reapplication of digital technologies.
Architectonic Synthesis the conceptual strategies, procedures, elements, ordering systems, vocabularies, and formats discovered in the previous projects are synthesized into a building program configured within a self-referential site.
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Stage 04: Synthesis the conceptual strategies, procedures, elements, ordering systems, vocabularies, and formats discovered in the previous projects are synthesized into a building program configured within a self-referential site.
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Spring 2009 Level: 2nd YearProfessor: Chris TaylorDuration: 12 weeksSite: Downtown Lubbock, TX
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Territorial Diagrams:This studio investigated generative and multivalent forms of measuring, mapping, and diagramming to develop an understanding of the potential of program in architecture. We continued to expand and use the tectonic language as we examined extrinsic factors in the making of architecture.
Section 01: MAP / TERRITORY / DIAGRAM - Here we will utilize mapping to describe a territory and develop diagrammatic methods to construct a data set of spatial and material boundaries.
Section 02: PROGRAM / EMOTIONAL DIRECTIVES / PHYSICAL DESIRES - In this section we will utilize multiple forms of program analysis and development to inform architectural agendas.
Section 03: EVENT THRESHOLDS - And, and finally we will activate our analysis of boundary conditions and programmatic agendas to create architectural interventions within the city of Lubbock.
TERRITORIAL DIAGRAMS
SPRING 09_ Chris Taylor
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(50) Sarah Boyle imagines, in her mind’s eye, cleaning, and ordering the great world, even the Universe. Filling the great spaces of Space with a marvelous sweet smelling, deep cleansing foam. Deodorizing rank caves and volcanoes. Scrubbing rocks.”
-The Heat Death of The Universeby Pamela Zoline
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A passage was selected from a short story and a site from an earlier photographic survey, From this a parasite was developed through iterative drawing, modeling, and photography.
There is a desire to order the world by changing and cleansing it of undesirable things. As seen in the site there is an attempt at order by demarcating the parking lot. The site also has the desire to remove waste through the drain, which is the focus of the parking lot’s terrain. Wall and stair become one in the same because of the system of construction. The system uses multiple non-uniform units that are connected from face to edge (never F-F, or E-E). The system is focused on compartmentalizng disordered elements by inserting and removing pieces to order them directionally. The model is segmentally organized by multiple aligned pieces of equal width but unequal length. The model engages the sites drain with crossing tension lines, and extruded walls from the parking grid.
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Fall 2009 Level: 3rd YearProfessor: Urs Peter FlueckigerDuration: 12 weeks Site: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
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A study in structure and connections in which a lamella arch spans 159’ allowing an unobstructed space that is naturally ventilated and lit by a system of skylights and louvers. The simple arch speaks to the form of the quonset hut, which are abundant in the south plains.
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FALL 10_ Upe Flueckiger
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A four story hyperboloid tower located at the highest ellevation in Lubbock, at Texas Tech’s Urbanovsky park. A meditative space for overworked students to rest and reflect.
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FALL 10_ Upe Flueckiger
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Spring 2010 Level: 3rd YearProfessor: David DriskillDuration: 12 weeks Site: Bordeaux, France
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Bordeaux is a center of wine production in southwest France. Winery tours are a major industry. This mixed-use project establishes a tasting room representing the entierty of the regions wine industry. While tourists are welcome to the tasting room, it is designed for wholesale buyers. The wholesale marketing of wines requires a staff to communicate with buyers/sellers and to arrange for distribution of the wine. As is common in Bordeaux, at least one housing unit is to be included in the project.
Green streets: convert Rue Andre Darbon into a green street to connect the large blocks of apartments and the promenade between them
Access to Water: define Rue Bareyre as an avenue to water- people have a fundamental yearning for great bodies of water. Currently The neighborhood is blocked by other housing
Shopping street: connect the site to Rue du Faubourg- Shopping centers depend on access: they need locations near major traffic arteries. However, the shoppers them selves don’t benefit from traffic: they need quiet, comfort, and convenience, and access from the pedestrian paths in the surrounding area.
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Intersection of axis Community Entrance
An open lot, 44 rue Barreyre, in a historic row of structures just off the waterfront in Bordeaux. The street immediately north and parallel to rue Barreyre is recently redeveloped in but in different architectural language. The site may extend into the adjacent development. You as the architect are asked to develop a convincing architectural concept that respects the historic patterns and develops the public appreciation for architecture design at its best.
Apartment Blocks: The random character of local densities confuses the identity of our communities, and also creates a chaos in the pattern of land use.
Site Community of 7000:Individuals have no effective voice in any community of more than 5000-10,000 persons. There are boundaries in the city that section a neighborhood leaving an opportunity to create a grouped population
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Four Story Limit- There is abundant evidence to show that high building make people crazy. The surrounding buildings and the city of Bordeaux is built under four stories
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Fall 2011 Level: GradProfessor: Chris TaylorDuration: 12 weeks Site: Texas, New Mexico, Arizon, Utah, Nevada
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FALL 11_ Chris Taylor
Land Arts of the American West
Sonic Landscapes:A collection of work produced during Land Arts of the American West 2011. An Aeolian Harp constructed from a found tub from a washing machine. The harp was set up and recorded in seven places in three states. A map with video loops of the tub harp playing were installed in a map for exhibition.
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FALL 11_ Chris Taylor
Land Arts of the American West
60X to 100X:An investigation in scale. Throughout the 2 months and 7000 miles traveled in the American West I took photographic enlargements of inorganic materials and minerals. A viewing device made of hexagonal tubes with matte black interiors had slides of the enlargements mounted and back light. The differing length tubes created a forced perspective and loss of scale. When viewed in sequence the backlighting projects a mindbending series of colors.
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A VIEW FROM ABOVE
FALL 11_ Chris Taylor
Land Arts of the American West
A view from above:A collection of work produced during Land Arts of the American West 2011. Time lapse videos shot from suspended cameras (kites, trees, cliffs, etc.)
Below: Land Arts Exhibition 2011Right: Construction of a Rokaku kite from a mylar safety blanket. Diagonal: Still from video, Mimbres River NM.
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Spring 2012 Level: GradProfessor: Bennett NeimanDuration: 12 weeks
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SPRING 12_ Bennet Neiman
Graduate Comprehensive Studio
Extending the mission of creating and maintaing a community arts center that is available, educational, and affordable to local artists, the Art Research Library is an integral addition to the Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts. The Library is a cultural center, an educational service institution and a resource for the
community it servers. Located just north of LHUCA, the Art Research library is a regional hub for scholarly are research, archiving, distribution, access and education to facilitate collaboration and exchange of ideas amongst the individuals and organization in the South Plains and the world at large.
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Program Relative Sizes & Relationships
T3 Janitor's Room 50 0.59% R9 Study Room 3 80 0.95% S4 Staff Toilet 60 0.71% R8 Study Room 2 120 1.43% R7 Study Room 1 140 1.67% M2 Misc. Functions 150 1.78% S3 Librarian's Office 150 1.78% R1 Control Desk 175 2.08% S2 Staff Lounge 175 2.08%
R2 Dedicated Computer Catalog Counter 200 2.38%
A3 Archive Media Rooms (4) 240 2.86% R5 Periodicals Area 250 2.97% A2
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A simple 5x5 open grid arranged to respond to its outer context, the Library anchors the north of the LHUCA campus while creating a place for social interaction through the collections and dispersal of material and ideas.
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The entry vestibule links the library and the public meeting space. This allows easy accessibility to the space after library hours and allows for the opportunity for the space to be used as a gallery during First Friday Art Trails.
Left: Exploded axonometric of all building components.
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The Large glass facade brings light into the reading room thus opening the library to the street and the community at large. The corridor between the Library and the Charles Adams Studio is framed by the exterior girders, linking loosely associated parking and the LUHCA campus. Illuminated by the Library, this space is an arcade for interaction.
Left: Structure and mechanical systerms diagram.
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Left: Plan with sectional markers, landscape, and parking.
A courtyard illuminates interior spaces in the building, and provides a contained area where library materials can be taken outside or echibited.
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The Journals and Periodicals envelope study and meeting spaces on the north end of the building.
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Left: Axonometric of building systems, Detail of Cruciform column to glazing, interior, & exterior walls.
Study carols and computer stations are wrapped with shelving. View of Stacks looking towards entry.
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Assembly (meeting) 729.21803 7 104.1740043 104Reading 2084.09851 15 138.9399007 138Library Stacks 1477.60367 100 14.7760367 14
P R O J E C T A D R E S S:
Research Library of LUHCA 1156 5th Street, Lubbock, Texas, United States
G O V E R N I N G C O D E S:
2006 International Building Code
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Maximum exit access travel not to exceed 200' Common path of egress travel not to exceed 75'
P L U M B I N G F I X T U R E S:
Required_ # Occupants = 137.5 F, 137.5 M F: WC - 137.5/65= 2.11, LAV - 137.5/200=0.6875 M: WC - 137.5/125= 1.1, LAV - 137.5/200=0.6875 Provided_ F: WC - 3, LAV - 2 M; WC - 1, UR - 2, LAV - 2
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Spring 2012 Level: GradProfessor: John Grabel, Mark Wellen, Tom KundigDuration: 4wk, 3wk, 2 wk
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Cowboy Bunkhouse:Situated on a ranch in El Jardin County Texas, 60 miles north of the Mexican border A compound for cattle hands is developing. John Grable Architects has already taken a commission on this project and as an experiment John challenged us to propose a housing solution.
My proposal was for four individual bunk houses to house two ranch hands each. John’s client needed this lodging for single individuals who work in 12day increments. Family housing was already under construction.
The bunk houses were carefully sited in
response to sun angles, the prevailing winds, and the sensitive nature of the flora on the desert floor.
A sequenced entry through an unconditioned mud shower into the living space is intended to set the stage for exiting the work environment.
Because the workers spend extensive time outside, they are likely to acclimatize making their thermal comfort levels different. To respond to this the cabins are designed to use the Venturi effect to move air through the spaces. the roof line creates high and low pressure systems around the operable openings.
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FALL 12_ John Grabel
Graduate Visiting Critique Studio
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The owner of the ranch is also an avid pilot and owns an airstrip approximately 2 miles to the east of the site. He is very partial to preserving the vegetation and controlling the vehicular scars on the landscape, because that is what he sees from the cockpit. To embrace this I sited the buildings around existing heavily etched paths in the desert floor, and isolated the lighter areas to assist with recovery. This will help with with wind erosion and other dust related issues.
To create wide open spaces the bunkhouses us a system of bifold doors.
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A Monks Cell:Situated on a ranch in Real County Texas, in between two sheds; one for work/meet processing one for sleep, there remains an quadrilateral curb making the perimeter of an old ranch house. Within this outline there is the opportunity to create a place of observation and reflection for the caretaker and the hunters.
This project aims to create a place of meditation by presenting three spatial experiences (within, above, beyond). The condition of “within,” is reached by elevating people using a ramping plinth that pinches space following site geometries. The
plinths height and axial qualities are derived from existing conditions in the site. A horizontal plane framed by the edge of the second level further supports this experience. The second level deck creates a space above the current tree line, changing the existentiality between the viewer and the horizon. The condition of beyond is rationalized through a rectangular oculus framing sky.
The horizontal plains are aluminum torsion boxes constructed similarly to an air plane wing. The vertical surfaces and columns are coursed rubble limestone from the surrounding fields.
A MONKS CELL
FALL 12_ Mark Wellen
Graduate Visiting Critique Studio
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“What is the smallest shell you can build around
yourself, and feel comfortable…imagine yourself
living in an environment like this (cinco camp) or
a more difficult environment, that really requires
you to protect yourself. How do you open yourself to
the sky or the landscape? And how will this create
some sort of resonance to how you feel as a person”
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A Shell For Living:This project was conducted in two weeks in Fall 2012, and was the final project for the Visiting Critique Studio. We met with Tom and Jenie Kundig in Marfa Texas November 8th-11th, toured the Chinati Foundation, Cinco Camp by Mark Wellen and other regional fare.
While at Cinco Camp Tom prompted us with our next project, a shell for living. We were tasked with exploring our own standard for comfort. And the logistics of building in a remote place.
Growing up in West Texas I always knew that the horizontals (ground and horizon) dominated the landscape. I designed an 80ft2 cabin to occupy the space between the horizontals.
The structure was componentized so that all individual parts weighed less than 200lb’s, so that they could be carried in.
A SHELL FOR LIVING
FALL 12_ Tom Kundig
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Amarillo Helium Plant:National center for U.S. helium production, shipping, and scientific research
A STRATIFIED LANDSCAPE
FALL 12_ Jeff Nesbit
Post Industrial Landscapes
A strategy for future development of a unused post industrial complex that was onece the leader of world wide helium production and research. A lynchpin in the military complex of the cold war, this facility was defended by the navy, because Helium is crucial for many things from nuclear cryogenics to weather balloons.
As a conceptual strategy we purposed that the site should sedimented upon, squeezing and mixing the past with the future. This strategy calls upon a metaphor of the refinement of Helium, and the plate tectonics that cause its formation.
Published in:
Post Industrial Landscapes : vol 1 As urban interventionsAvailable on Blurb.com
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Gas Field
Pipe Lines
Major Roadways
Railroads
Macro Events
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crude natural gas
monoethanolamine
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SCRUBBER
monoethanolamine plus carbon dioxide
MOLECULAR SIEVE
water
ACTIVATED CARBON ABOSRBER
heavy hydrocarbonsHEAT EXCHANGERHEAT EXCHANGER
warm gas
upgraded natural gas
cold nitrogen
PretreatingSeparating Purifying
EXPANSION VALVE
EXPANSION VALVE
HIGH-PRESSURE FRACTIONATING COLUMN LOW-PRESSURE FRACTIONATING COLUMN
pressure drops to about 145-360 psi rappidly cooling the gas methane starts to liquefy
liqud methane settles at the bottomnitrogen and other gases flow to the top
CRUDE SUBCOOLER
methane
nitrogen + other
pressure drops to about 22 psi
remaining nitrogen is separated
CONDENSOR REFLUX SUBCOOLER
cold crude helium
nitrogen
upgraded natural gas nitrogen
HEAT EXCHANGER
cooled to about -315° Fremaining nitrogen and methane condense
and are drained off.
oxygen
PRE-HEATER CATALYST COOLER PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION UNITMIXING VESSLE
methane + nitrogen
+crude helium
remaining hydrogen reacts with oxygen
WATER SEPORATOR
water
purified helium
[DISPROGRAMING]
Refinement processes analysis
Sedimentation + Events
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crude natural gas
monoethanolamine
+
SCRUBBER
monoethanolamine plus carbon dioxide
MOLECULAR SIEVE
water
ACTIVATED CARBON ABOSRBER
heavy hydrocarbonsHEAT EXCHANGERHEAT EXCHANGER
warm gas
upgraded natural gas
cold nitrogen
PretreatingSeparating Purifying
EXPANSION VALVE
EXPANSION VALVE
HIGH-PRESSURE FRACTIONATING COLUMN LOW-PRESSURE FRACTIONATING COLUMN
pressure drops to about 145-360 psi rappidly cooling the gas methane starts to liquefy
liqud methane settles at the bottomnitrogen and other gases flow to the top
CRUDE SUBCOOLER
methane
nitrogen + other
pressure drops to about 22 psi
remaining nitrogen is separated
CONDENSOR REFLUX SUBCOOLER
cold crude helium
nitrogen
upgraded natural gas nitrogen
HEAT EXCHANGER
cooled to about -315° Fremaining nitrogen and methane condense
and are drained off.
oxygen
PRE-HEATER CATALYST COOLER PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION UNITMIXING VESSLE
methane + nitrogen
+crude helium
remaining hydrogen reacts with oxygen
WATER SEPORATOR
water
purified helium
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BIRD FOOT TABLE
SPRING 11_ Upe Flueckiger
Product Design
The Texas Tech College of Architecture’s Sustainable Cabin at the Peace River Foundation in Crowell TX is a living laboratory for the college.
While taking a product design elective in spring 2011, I designed and built the bird foot table. Material: Poplar and Walnut.
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MODELING
Commissioned
Modeling:Cabin and site model for Boy Scout camp outside Crosbyton TX. Designed by Upe Flueckiger & Daniel Pruski.
Site model is constructed of ~60 layers of 1/31” chipboard, with rasered ariel photography
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Spring Break 2010 Level: 3rd YearProfessor: Mary Alice Torres-MacDonaldTeam: William Cotton, Amador Saucedo, Brian Wills, Ryan WoodsDuration: 30hrs Site: Junction, TX
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Lake Junction
South Llano River
North Llano River
Llano River
The Revival:The city of Junction Texas hosed a two day Charrette for fresh ideas to revitalize the town. We proposed the creation of nodes along an axis through the city to attract visitors and development. The nodes and axis would form a district that embrace past, current, and future developmental projects. The district would revolve around the traditional center around the court house.
Junction city plana revivalWilliam CottonAmador SaucedoBrian WillsRyan Woods
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Defining The District
1. Court House2. Post Office3. New Museum4. Police Station
5. Standifer Hospital6. Holekamps Feed and Supply7. Texan Theatre8. Community Park
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Western Playscape
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Western Playscape
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Land ofLivingWater
View from I-10 - I-10 bypassed the entrance to the city, we suggest creating a landmark to identify
Main Street- We recommended filling the empty storefronts with collages of Junction to improve image and promote revitalization
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Junction from the interstate and funnel people into the city from the historical access point
Main Street- We recommended filling the empty storefronts with collages of Junction to improve image and promote revitalization
LivingWaterTower
99Modular Farmers Market - Stalls are divided by user controlled panels of water for flexible stall division - the citizens of Junction
A Farmers Market:The people of Junction were frustrated with the single grocery store that ran all competition out of town, reducing grocery quality. We suggested a farmers market that would sell local foods and create an attraction for visitors.
100Modular Farmers Market - Stalls are divided by user controlled panels of water for flexible stall division - the citizens of Junction
VEGETABLE
MEAT
FRUIT
CRAFT
RETAIL
GROCERY
OFFICE
COFFEE
RESTROOMS
FORUM
FLEXIBLE LOW VOLUMESPACES
MAIN STREET
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COLLEGE STREET
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