JUSTIN OWENS 2013 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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Coral reef and Colonized Hardbottomcolonized Hardbottom (Spur and Groove)

Uncolonized(Reef Rubble)unstable coral

Uncolonized Hardbottom

Seagrass Continuous and Patchy 1970 1990 2000

Surface CurrentsBottom CurrentsEmergent Barrier Reefs

Constrain zonesBarrier reefsColonized reefsseagrass

Possible water transportation

Conversion to Acclimatization Sustainable Bio-Marine Research Center Salt River Bay of St. Croix, Virgin IslandsThis bio-marine research laboratory is located in the Virgin Islands of St. Croix. Its design adapts to the many existing conditions of both its immediate and overall environment. At the bottom of St. Croix is the Hovensa Oil Refinery, which has recently been shut down. The reuse of materials from the refinery becomes crucial to producing an efficient building that works as a sustainable living machine causing minimal impact to its environment. The recycling system focuses on reclaiming old oil piping and repurposing it as the main structure. The structural piping will assimilate the acropora coral structural and morphology attributes. This technique will help elaborate precise conditions that will embrace the environment (mashrabiya), organize programs and develop a structural design. It also integrates itself with the surroundings acclimatizing the inhabitants through the architecture. In the Salt River Bay the preservation of coral reefs motivates the project to integrate a bio-rock that will serve to revive un-colonized coral reefs. The incorpo-ration of the wetlands will provide a water purification system, through the processing of natural filtration grey water can be recycled multiple times to enhance water efficiency and minimize water waste.

Water Current

Hurricane Path

Air Flow

Water Current

Hurricane Path

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Acclimatization: Interaction with the environment through the architecture

Community Outreach:The touch tanks become a medium to learn about marine life and water preservation

Hovensa Oil Refinery

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Steel Panels

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Pipes FromThe Refinery

Mashrabiya Acropora Coral

Structural Strategy

Traditional ArabicArchitecture Screen

Re purposed Pipe Wall

Partners: Justin Owens and Gabriela Colmenares

BEARING STEEL TUBES

ROUND ERW STEEL PIPES

FLUID TRANSMISSION PIPE

PIPE CONDUIT

Triple Helix Turbine (Tidal Energy)Total Energy -120 A-H/ DayEfficiency is 28%

Tide Going In Tide Going Out

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Community OutreachThe touch tank become a medium to educate people about marine life and water preservation

Recolonization Through Bio-RockThe incorporation of Bio-Rock will provide the accretion process that accelerates coral reefs growth even within unstable conditions.

1KW POWERS 30 M2 32 SQ/F

POSITIVE CHARGE ATTACHED TO METAL MESH IN A PLASTIC TUBE.ANODE (+)

ION FIELD PRODUCED BY THE ANODE

CATHODE (-)NEGATIVE CHARGE ATTACHED TO STEEL STRUCTURE

Warm Air Exhaust

Cool Breeze

CoralPipes

Temporary Housing:Children and adults will be able to enjoy sleeping in hammocks during hot summer nights

Storage Tanks Steel PipesWater TanksPetroleum Cracking Pipes

Recycled Materials From The Refinery

Hamocks

Touch Tanks

Fresh Water StorageFresh Water Touch Tanks

Pump

Salt Water TanksSalt Water Touch Tanks

Water Recovery Process Tank

Triple Helix Tidal Turbine

Wetlands

Beam To Column Connection Detail

Course MediaImpermeable Liner

Bio-RockStructure Conversion To Coral:The bio-rock will provide coral restoration for uncolonized areas.

Vernacular ConditionsIndigenous homes are based on few vertical supports, deep porches for sun protection; and high ceilings to minimize humidity. This approach takes the architecture to sustainable results as well as embracing and reconnecting with tropical cultures.

Load Bearing Wall

Structural StrategyThe acropora coral reacts to the density of its skeleton. Using pipes from the refinery the main structural support of the building will be based on the ar-rangement of the pipes and their density. The results will vary in strength and permeability. The dense areas will allow vertical loads to be carried down from the roof to the ground. Permeability will be dictated through the density of piping arrangement. Less dense areas are more porous allowing light air circulation and provides views out into the landscape.

Top View

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Hammocks Developed by native inhabitants of tropical weather areas the integration of hammocks as part of the temporary housing experience will provide a direct connection with the environment. The acclimatization experience will be part of the housing.

High CeilingsDeep Porches

Minimal Enclosure

Wetlands: Organic Water Purifying System-Fresh and Salt water marshes-Adapted vegetation to saturated soil conditions-Water filtration from sediments and toxic substances.-Food supply to native habitat

Emergent Vegetation

Outlet ZoneWater Level Control

EffluentReusable Type A Water

Gravel Bed ZoneInfluentGrey Water

Wetlands Cooling SystemThey create a barrier for heat gain. The wetlands become an organic cooling for the rooms below due to its thermal mass.

When constructed, each pipe would have to be layered and welded on its edge to all other surrounding pipes.

FabricationPipe Wall

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REDCAT Theater Contemporary Art Center for Innovative Visual, Performing and Media Arts Hill and First Street, Los Angeles CAThrough the analysis of the film Manhattan, directed by Woody Allen, the camera technique used in the gallery scene creates paral-lax through movement. The camera technique of tracking of the actor’s movement creates a blur of the environment. Through the mapping, tracking and overlapping of the perspectival views this concept sparked many ideas of the perception of how one experi-ences space. The site is located in downtown Los Angeles, two blocks south of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The current Red Cat Theater is located at the back corner of the Disney Concert Hall site. This project embodies the focus of the Red Cat Theater, a contemporary art center for innovative visual, performing and media arts. The site poses new design problems, the project is posi-tioned upon a very steep hill making it difficult for pedestrians to travel from one edge of the site to the other. By engaging the sub-way and leveling off the site the project allows an ease of access for pedestrians to circulate through the lobby and exhibition space out to the top of the hill. The visual connection of multiple programmatic spaces enhances the layered idea of parallax, blurred by the movement of people, performance, and broadcasting digital media.

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Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen

Perception of PerspectiveLobby / Reception

LoungeParking Lobby

Black Box TheaterScreening Rooms (2)

Post PerformanceExhibition Space

Multipurpose RoomLibrary / Film Archive

Classrooms (4)Office

Book / Gift StoreCafe

ResturantKitchen

Outdoor SpaceStorage

Restrooms / Utility

Program Analysis Experiential Facade

The abstracted model demonstrates how the audience interprets the composition of the scene. From observing this clip the audience can identify the movement of the characters in relationship to its surround-ings. What we don’t realize is that the camera creates a new move-ment, one that is highly interactive. Our eye follows the perspective lines as the camera tracks the movement of the actors. As the space becomes more and more clear defined our eye follows the boundary lines, interior walls, which draws the attention towards the back wall.

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Walt Disney Concert HallRed Cat Theater

The Broad Museam

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Million Dollar Theater

Arts Trajectories and Circulation

Screening visual films

Performance space for theatrical arts Exiting from subway station

Ground Floor Plan

Experiential Section

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The Main Square of Lu Village Lu Village in The Yellow Mountains, ChinaOne of China’s seven historical villages is Lu Village, located up in the yellow mountains. Many of the cultural ways of living are still used by locals today. This village used to be self-sustaining, by using locally planted foods, locally dried plants and rice, the use of clean river water for washing and local jobs. Today that way of life has diminished to where young adults are moving away to larger cities seeking better lifestyles. The people left behind in this little town are the elderly and the very young. Lu Village is historical but doesn’t offer much to its visitors. The main square was intended to be a space for large gathering and activities but lacks the ne-cessities for human interaction. After living and observing the liveliness of Hong Won Village, a most successful and famous village due to its growth in tourism, different elements tailored for human activities were recorded and analyzed. Elements such as water, seating, open space, shading, circulation, orientation, and privacy were all incorporated within this square. Each element served many purposes for resident’s daily life routine as well as providing a tourist-engaging destination.

History of Lu Village Square’s History

Lu Village

The square is a key site for this slowly dying village. Reinventing this empty space will draw tourists and villagers back to this village.

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Chess Exercise Sitting Conversing

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Villagers and Tourists Social Activities

Buildings Vegetable Farm Drying Space

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Partners: Justin Owens, Nona Dokolian, Li Tian-jiao, Wang Dan-heng, and Wu Wen-hui

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This bare plaza would be reinvented to host more socializing opportunities through the use of shading devices, natural water channels, seating, virescent plants, and a centralized stage. This reinvented square is key to the survival of this historical village.

Local and Tourist

Virescent System Water System Boundary Analysis Entrance Analysis

Gathering Analysis Visual View Analysis Function Analysis

Canopy Horizontal and Vertical Zone Buffers

Canopy Patterning

These repurposed bamboo constructed canopies not only pro-vides shade but brings color into the space through the projections onto the surfaces below.

Activity At Different Times of the Day

Public gathers to do Taoist Yoga exercises under the cool night sky.

Small retail shops sell food and homemade merchandise

Locals set up their retail booths and shop for fresh foods

Lu Village Main Square

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Bio-Remediation Through Wetland Living Systems Santa Susana Field Laboratory of NASA, CAThroughout the years NASA has made it possible to reach towards the deep depths of outer space. Through the advancement of rocket technology, the development of propulsion engines were designed to pierce through the atmosphere to unobtainable worlds. Rocket engines that put man on the moon were tested at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. The aftereffect of these tests resulted in polluting the soil as well as contaminating the natural groundwater. Much of the existing ecology has been affected by the TCE, Boeing undergoing the extensive process of cleaning it up. Through the integration of a wetland system scientists will be able to monitor the water remediation through the use of the plants and micro-organisms, breaking down the trichloroethylene (TCE) toxin into non harmful elements which are collated and disposed of through this treatment. Since this test site contains much of the his-tory to NASA’s success, these retired testing facilities are to be transformed into national landmarks. The vertical architecture is to be brought back to life through the installation of the articulated skin as well as the exhibition and wet laboratory space. This will serve as a educational tool for the history of NASA’s accomplishments as well as the side effects of the testing.

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Environmental Control

Air- Conditioned

Appearing on Site

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Experiencing the Landscape

Environmentally Conditioned

Shaded Elevated Tower

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Departing From Site seam

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Controlled Skin System Fabric Connection to Structure

Skin is flatter and most porous, maximizing natu-ral lighting and visibility to the landscape

The density of the fabric or its translucency is coordinated with the different types of program that is being protected.

Skin becomes most volumetric and most dense, shielding natural lighting, solar gain and visibility

Visitors experience the magnitude of the serpent like semi-transparent skin.

Fabric Cut Out

ThickerFabric Patch

Shading Solar Panels

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Coca Test Stand #4

Coca Test Stand #3

Hydrogen Storage Tank

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Hardscape Conversion to Wetlands

Existing Top Soil To Be Turned

Heavily Concentrated TCEDispersed Levels of TCE

Heavily Concentrated TCEDispersed Levels of TCE

Water Table

Turned Soil Bio Digestive Organisms and / or Chemicals

Heavily Concentrated TCEDispersed Levels of TCE

Water TableWetland Integration

Current Vegetation

Current Conditions

Costal Live Oak

Santa Susanna Tarplant

Rock Outcrop

Existing Structures

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HVAC Air SupplyThe wet/dry laboratory must be comfortable and controlled for the scientists working there.

Noise DampenersThe wetland test tanks project noise up towards the rippled sound dampening panels.

Vertical Truss StructureFabric skin is supported through wooden beams held through tension cables.

Enviormential ControlFabric skin conditions and shades interior space.

Storm Water CollectionThrough roof drainage system

Collected water is reused to fuel wetland testing tanks and used as flushing waste.

Wetland Subdivision into Controlled Cells

Disbursement of water

Receiver of water

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Solar panels serve as energy producers as well as shading devices. Since the climate can get pretty war during the summer months these shading devices are crucial for the survival of the wetland plants. The energy produced is used for the hydro pump system, this water pump is what keeps the water circulating and keeps the plats hydrated.

After the toxins are filtered out the water is recirculate back into the wetlands. Released at the highest points along the edges of wetlands

Solar Powered Water Pump System

The water cleanses of the earths surface while enriching the enviorment for animals.

Storm Water Runnoff

Southern Willow

Venturan Costal

Dispurced Levels TCE

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Residential Stage Set 2649 N Beachwood Dr., Hollywood, CAThe growing film industry that has developed within Hollywood inspires this project’s design. This housing unit complex was de-signed to be individual stage sets where residents would be able to expand into the neighboring void, dressing up both the exterior and interior with props while reconfiguring its program. The housing units are split in half. Inside one half resides the main essential programs and utilities that humans cannot live without, while the other half is an empty void. These voids are only limited to its con-fining boundaries where the prefabricated framed walls are already in place where residents can clad and design both the interior and exterior. The vertical circulation wraps inside the core and the horizontal circulation wraps around the exterior of the units. The external horizontal bands intersect and connect each unit by interrupting the private space inside all of the void space. Therefore, every private unit has to co-exist with the public circulation that intersects them. This Imposes different interaction to occur where residents are forced to interact with the public in different scenarios. In this design, residents open up their homes in order to sell or display items such as clothing, food, drinks, souvenirs, hand carving and even art all within their home.

Covenants Conditions and Requirements for DesigningCC&R #1 - All void spaces need to be at least 70% filled with natural lighting.

CC&R #2 - All exterior facades must be cladded with some kind of transpar-ent materials in order to achieve the 70% of natural light.

CC&R #3 - All pathways must be uninterrupted, but their direction of the path may be redirected due to the placement of program designed by its resident.The inspiration for the design intention comes from the Elemental House by

Alejandro Aravena. His design was for low income families where half of a house was constructed, the main essentials for living, while the other half was left as a void. When the family had enough money they would build out into the void, customizing it to their own needs according to their family size.

Time Laps SequencingUnits expansion into the void.

Resident opens up his kitchen into a small cafe, serving locals as well as tourists during the breakfast and lunch.

Resident displays her custom made shirt designed products for sale

Conceptual Expantion Into the Void Half a House Expantion

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Describing the relationship between the private and public spaces and the interac-tions that are forced upon the residents

Describing the relationship between the private space facing the inner core and public spaces which wrap around the exterior of the units.

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Second Floor Plan

The intention is that the exterior facades of the units act as canvases, being modified yearly by new residents showcasing their interests through self-expression. Since this location is a hot touristic spot, being right under the optimum view towards the Hollywood sign, this becomes a desirable residence to pursue ones dreams.

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Case Study: Department of Global Ecology at Stanford UniversityEHDD Department of Global Ecology is designed to create a low energy laboratory while providing a great level of comfort and work efficiency. The Cooling Tower delivers a small amount of cooling air into the main space even with its doors open. The wind catcher on top is designed to capture the breeze passing by. The temperature decreases through the thermally driven down draft, which spill out into the lobby. The “Night Sky” cooling system uses naturally chilled water from the external holding tank and sprays recycled water onto the roof. During summer nights a thin film of water resides on the roof, cooling it from the daytime exposure, and creates chilling insulation. This chilled water system works just as well as indoor air-conditioning but a lot more energy efficient. The Structure is laid out to maximize the flexibility of the interior spaces. Furniture such as cabinetry is suspended from the ceiling and desk and workbenches are moveable/ future changes will produce minimal discarded materials. The Radiant Cooling and Heating System also use recycled naturally chilled water and circulates through the floor plates. The emission of hot or cold temperatures affects the interior spaces above.

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HVAC System1/2 Lab Exaust

Fume Hoods

Air Handling Unit

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Structural System Night Sky System Radiant Heating and Cooling System

Photovolatic Panels

Radiant HeatingCooling System

Night SkyRoof Spray system

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Passive Cooling System

Cool Air Supply

Radiant Heating Cooling System

Chilled Water Tank

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HVAC System

Night Sky Roof Spray System

Skylight WindowsMaximize Overhead Day Lighting

Cooling Tower

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Drive In Car Show Salt Flats in Salt Lake City, Utah The Drive-In Car Show is off the I-80 highway in Salt Lake City, on the Salt Flat deserts of Utah. This proposal suggests a rest stop that exhibits classic race cars and car demonstrations, as well as racing events. As you enter the site, passing under the double skin canopy, you are able to view the outdoor gallery of displayed classic racecars. After driving through the main space, you exit to the back where you can pull into one of the parking spaces. Parking is on a cascading hill allowing cars to view the vast Salt Flats from their parking spots. Car demonstrations are displayed and performed on the flats where parked cars and spectators can then view the events. In the main structure on the ground floor is for vehicular traffic, while the double skinned canopy is for pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians are able to navigate through the different retail shops and food stores on the second floor of the first skin. The second skin suggested programs such as eating tables, viewpoint look outs (towards the car demonstrations or to the art insula-tion across the highway), small private shops, cafes, and areas for relaxation. Pedestrians are then forced to navigate through the double skin in order to reach their desired destination.

Section AVehicular circulation occupies the ground while the pedestrian circulation resides within the canopy.

Aerial view describing the breaks in the canopy allowing visitors to jump between levels.

The break in the canopy allow visual access to the displayed race cars down below.

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Site plan Describing how vehicles flow down the cascading parking, looking out into the salt flat car demonstrations.

First Floor PlanDescribes the main vehicular path with vintage racing cars displayed on the sides. Housing resides on the first level.

Second Floor PlanDescribes the elevated human circulation, bridging the two main structures where restaurants and retail programs dwells.

Section BVehicular circulation occupies the ground while the pedestrian circulation resides within the canopy.

Study of undulation through the process of folding one sheet of paper

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