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MILJOPORTFOLIO OF WORK FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

CONTENT About the designer & the portfolio, along with résumé & recommendation

ARCHITECTURE Explore architecture in different climates around the world

TRAVEL Experience timesless places around the world

SCALE A look at modeling, diagramming, pedestrians, and their transit

University Issue2008-2012

A STUDY ON ARCHITECTURE TRAVEL & SCALE

MILJO New York, NY | miljo.tumblr.com | [email protected] | 702.767.6514

The portfolio you are about to read is meant to be an extension of my knowledge gained in the field of design and architecture, from work at the University of Washington to projects and travels outside school. It is designed for easy browsing, with short, descriptive call-outs, formatted newsprint layout, and four sections meant to illustrate work at all different scales and topics. Climate plays an important role throughout the portfolio with each project labeled with its corresponding climate and city zone, or “T” system from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company’s Smart Code, giving you a more detailed context each project.

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Content

The Portfolio ABOUT: Thumb through this book of works by the designer.Professional Contributers RECOMMENDATION: Letters from profes-sional leaders along the way.Resume EXPERIENCE: A reference guide to education, experience, skills, and passions of the author & designer.Cover Letter ABOUT: Get to know the designer through the pre-interview cover letter.

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Architecture

Cooperative MARINE T5-COMMERCIAL: Seattle based boat coopera-tive creates public launch dock and design showroom.Cooperative MARINE T4-COMMERCIAL: Seattle based handmade paper company designs mill inspired by poetic logic. Explore MARINE T1-GREENFIELD: Cleveland Memorial Forest | student explore outdoors with newly designed retreat & campground.Live | Work Studio MARINE T3-RESIDENTIAL: Photographer’s build communal live | work studio in Seattle neighborhood.Door MARINE T3-RESIDENTIAL: A foldable art gallery, dividing and creating space with an expandable door.

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Travel

Jordan ARID: Discover the hidden beauty of the Jordan desert ancient sites and discover a love for travel.Italy MEDITERRANEAN: Browse the sites of Italy with a look at many of its regional jewels.

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Scale

Model MEDITERRANEAN COAST T3-RESIDENTIAL: Devils in the details with Charles and Ray Eames’ Pacific Palisades House.Diagramming HUMID CONTINENTAL T4-COMMERCIAL: Dissect the inner-workings of the Kunsthaus Bregenz.Bus Rapid Transit SUB-TROPIC T5-PUBLIC: Reworking the Chan-digarh public transportation system to include recent modal developmentPedestrian MEDITERRANEAN T6-PUBLIC: Remember the history of Rome through a walk across it’s Tiber river.

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2821 w Horizon Ridge Pkwy #200 Henderson NV 89052 [FEALASVEGAS.COM] P 702.269.6060 F 702.269.6061

June 18, 2010

Subject: Character Reference of Mr. Cory Nestor

To Whom It May Concern:

I would like to expound on my personal experience with Mr. Cory Nestor. Mr. Nestor worked for our firm for two (2) years at the capacity of Design/Drafter. While coming to our firm with a high skill level of CAD Drafting, he quickly became proficient as a Layout Designer, laying out components of large projects.

Our firm provides architectural engineering for some of the largest projects in the United States. Mr. Nestor worked on several large initiatives including Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut, Plaza Hotel Resort in Las Vegas, and the Northern Quest Resort in Washington. During this time, Mr. Nestor was exposed to a design team structure that enabled him to have the supervision and mentoring to further his understanding of project management. He was also exposed to the requirements of “fast track” project schedules and the rigors of producing design documents including working long hours and dealing with all the associated issues including plotter breakdowns, computer file problems and document delivery requirements. Mr. Nestor excelled in his position and became an important part of our organization and could be relied on to help get things done during a sometimes stressful environment.

Mr. Nestor left our firm to pursue the required education to continue his career in Architectural Design. He displayed natural talent for design and the technical aspects of producing drawings. I would personally recommend him based on his character and dedication to any task he is assigned to.

Please feel free to call if any further information is needed regarding his work at our firm.

Respectfully FEA Consulting Engineers

Robert P. Finnegan, PE President

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ABOUT:

Professional Contributor

2010............. University of Washington Global ArchitectureBrigadesPRESIDENT:

Began the UW’s first Global Architecture Brigades club. Position required organizing funding, promoting student involvement, and other club organization needs.

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EXPERIENCE

Résumé

Employment

2005-07........ Finnegan EricksonAssociatesDRAFTER:

Worked as a drafter for FEA Engineering Firm. The job provided first hand experi-ence in the professional work place. Worked with lighten-ing designers and engineers on both residential and casino/hotel electrical.

Digital CommonsTECHNICIAN:

2010-11........

Held a position as a techni-cian, providing printing, net-working, inventory, program assistance and other student services for the College of Built Environments.

2008-12........

BACHELORS OF ARTSIN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES WITH HONORS

GPA: 3.5, Dean’s List, Class Representative

University of WashingtonCollege of Built Environments

Education

GPA: 4.3, Honors

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DIPLOMA

CoronadoHigh School

Volunteering and Community Service

2005-08........ Muscular DystrophyAssociationVOLUNTEER WORK: Volunteered as a camp counselor at Nevada MDA summer camp, providing assistance to Kyle, in his daily routine. Diagnosed with duchenne, Kyle aka Bean was wheel chair bound at age 9.

2012............. Seattle Out and Proud (SO&P)VOLUNTEER WORK:

Provided assistance with the 2012 Seattle Pride festival, including set-up, directing, and event organization.

Programs & Skills04 yr.............. InDesign & Photoshop

PROGRAM:

Worked with the program on several occasions, with two major publications from winter and spring quarter course work.

03 yr.............. IllustratorPROGRAM:

Program was used through-out course work at the university.

02 yr.............. Dreamweaver HTML5 CSS & JavaScriptPROGRAM:

Learned HTML CSS & JS and DW during time at the university to provide as-sistance to students at the digital commons.

07 yr.............. CADPROGRAM:

Worked with CAD dur-ing time at FEA as well as throughout time at the University of Washington.

04 yr.............. Hand DraftingSKILL:

Used hand-drafting to learn the basics to be orthograph-ic and visual presentation.

04 yr.............. Model MakingSKILL:

Extensive model making gave me a better spacial understanding of architecture through scale and several iterations.

Other Positions2010-12........ UW Architecture 2012

REPRESENTATIVE:

Represented 2012 archi-tecture class in meetings with the AIAS, and school officials. Position required lobbying for students desires for their education.

2009............. University of Washington Global Water BrigadesSECRETARY:

Assisted UW Global Water Brigades President with club management. Traveled to Zuzular, a town outside of Tegucigalpa, Honduras to install a sustainable water collection and purification systems.

RésuméContact:628 E. 20th St. Apt. 4FNew York, NY 10009702.767.6514 [email protected]

CORY NESTOR

2011........ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP

Award to a student of academic merit with a strong interesting in pursuing the field of architecture.

Walter H. McAninchAwards

03 m.............. JordanDESERT

03 m.............. ItalyMEDITERRANEAN

Travel

03 w............... Great BritainMARINE

03 m.............. IndiaHUMID SUB-TROPIC

02 w.............. FranceMARINE

18 yr.............. NevadaDESERT

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ABOUT:

Cover Letter

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MARINE T5-COMMERCIAL

Cooperative


Cooperative

Seattle’s kayakers wave on their new boat cooperative! Designed as a public launch and handmade skin on frame kayak co-op, the structure houses a gallery, sales room, warehouse, studio, and half-sunk cork boardwalk, a protective shoring for its weekly kayaking club.

Skin on Frame Kayak CooperativeA skin on frame kayak co-operative wakes up sleepy Union Bay with the launch of their new warehouse

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Seattle’s finest paper making craftsmen and women have come together to build a one-of-a-kind paper inspired manufacturing workshop and artist studio. The building’s inspiration and form pull from the clients need for adaptable and easily maintained working space, along with their love for the quality of handcrafted paper, including strength, flexibility, lightness, transparency, texture, and layers. Weaving together studio and workshop, the warehouse-like space takes on a dual interplay between thinness and strength. Spaces are anchored into the second floor slab from both above and below creating a workspace on the second (entry floor) and studio on the first. The spaces created are enclosed by several different skins wrapping around, over, and under the building in the form of light louvers, horizontal wood siding, and weight flexing first floor decking, creative a sense of shelter and breathability.

Thin as Paper, Strong as Earth

Designing a papermill inspired by traditional handmade paper’s strength and delicacy.

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Cooperative

Entering at the second level, the floor juts out into the space between the lower floor and ceiling above. All things anchor to this mass, emphasizing its weight, while providing divisions of space within. Supports for the roof emphasize the lightness of structure, and are composed of a pair of steel columns joined in their center, allowing both lightness of space and strength of material.

Sky

Earth

Sky

Earth and Air

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Cooperative


MARINE T1-GREENFIELD

Cleveland Memorial Forest is looking for a new camp ground for its youth camping program. Designed as a coming of age exploration, the program teaches students to learn to live off the land. The project required using one of four archetypes for shelter; bridge, lookout, pier, and lean-to. The project pulls from the form of pier and lookout, giving the structure a sense of reaching over the river with its diagonal form. Weight is distributed throughout the building to allow a balanced composition with large equipment storage below and food stores above. Daily shelter, lookout and sleeping is elevated off the ground providing increased protection by the roof. The structure extends across the river in the form of a fire pit, allowing a direct line of site into the “untouched” campgrounds while maintaining and protecting the back country meant for the educational youth program. Like the students, the building’s form reinforces the students aspirations for nature, it too wanting to be on the other side.

Can a building be an educational sculpture for a generation?

Explore

Cleveland Memorial ForestStudent Retreat



Explore



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Circulation DiagramThe ladder acts as the main circulation through the multiple stories of the lookout/pier, and ties the levels together visually. It connects the lower storage area and mud bay, the second story dining and commons, including two beds for night watch, and the attic or third story designated for communal sleeping

River & FireThe river is the threshold into the campgrounds and retreat structure act as the gatekeeper. The fire sits in-line with the longitudinal axis of the tower, giving the night-watch and instructors the ability to see into the camp grounds on the other side. Students are able to find the fire and from there can head back towards the retreat.

Commons

Storage & mud bay

Communal Sleeping

Night-watch

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NORTHWEST ELEVATION

GROUND

CORY NESTOR

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The site -- divided by a stream --

has a strong sense of division.

Touching the existing buildings on

the extended site, the land south-

east of the stream carries many

ideas relating to society and com-

munity, all very extrospective ideas;

while the land northwest of the

stream has the quality of singularity,

individuality and introspection. The

structure, an extension of its inhab-

itants, carries with it their emotions.

Like the students looking to dis-

cover their connection with the land

and themselves, wondering out into

the untouched land, the building

reaches out, yearning for the human

experienceThe idea of extension and reaching

can be seen throughout the different

elements within the structure. The

counter courbels out while still hold-

ing back, having a strong founda-

tion into the grounded end of the

structure -- the storage unit plants

itself firmly into the ground level

allowing for the building to reach

further -- the ground floor beams

extend back anchoring into the land

and creating a threshold for the stu-

dents and instructors to enter and

feel welcomed.

Looking to explore the power of the

diagonal, this structure embraces

its bracing, pulling them into unified

forms that carry down through the

structure and back into the land.

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North ElevationThe north elevation shows the multiple levels of the tower as well as the layers of program spaces. This includs the mud bay and storage, the dining, commons and night watch beds, and the roof and communal sleeping

PosterA practice in visual connection and concept promotion, the poster design looked to the principles of Bauhaus graphic design, while taking principles of traditional drafting and putting a spin on it, mimicking the diagonal of the cross bracing and the windows they provide into the different elements of the design.

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Storage

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Built in union with an adjacent artist home, the Minor White House is a studio, galley and home. A photographer fascinated with movement, the house acts as a camera opsura, gathering and reflecting light into the different levels of the building. Wrapping around an adjacent photographers square tower home, the building form curves, folds and carves spaces around the neighboring structure. A public path moves between the buildings, allowing movement and reflections to bounce off the interior walls of the gallery. The light scoop collects the movement of the sun as it moves across the sky, while almost year around cloud coverage interferes and transforms the light reaching the interior of the building.

MARINE T3-RESIDENTIAL

Live | Work Studio

World Move ‘roundA home and studio for photographer Minor White

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Live | Work Studio

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Live | Work Studio

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Organized into three areas, gallery, studio, and living, the space is connected in procession. “Living” ties the two elements of Minor White’s life together. The basement studio provides solitude and access to heavily controlled light for photo development, while a singular wall allows natural light to flood the space, and lighting up the ceiling. Two-story living allows a density of square-footage and open access to vaulted, natural northern lighting.

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Live | Work Studio

-Bedroom with light-well-


Designed to maximize small gallery space, the rotating, expanding galley boards act as both doors and partition walls. Needing more space, the artist or presenter can unhook and rotate the doors from partition wall to dynamic galley. Hidden panels within the main rectangular form extend out, providing more surface area for additional artwork.


Live | Work Studio Installation

+ RoomCan a singular unit provide for multiple spacial configurations?

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MEDETERRANEAN

ITALY

Rome is a city built of discord, created out of struggles for power, out of grandeur, glory, and ruins - all battling each other for a place within the built environments. Monuments “restored” to their former grandeur sit encased by their protected lands, picturesquely dominating the horizons for all the country to see. Plaques, and stone reliefs catalogue the “who’s who” and “what’s what” of the past powerful. Visitors and natives wander the streets en medius res - awestruck. “Third Rome” has left its mark. It has given us, whether done in the most correct way or not, a city to admire, study, and inhale, connecting time and rectifying discord in effort to unit a country. But in this process of purification, it is not the unity it creates that is of focus, but the showcasing of the discord of Rome that gives Italy its national identity.

Who’s Who, What’s WhatHighlighting Rome and what made it possible

Sports arena for the 21st century

Capitoline Hill and the seat of power

Age and shadow

RomeOrganization for the peoplePietreni, Lungo Teverre, Ponte Sisto, pomidori succi - Rome is full of beauty in all scales. Everything is within walking distance, and every walk has something new to admire. Cafes, artist studios, offices, apartments, piazzas, museums, and of course, churches. Cathedral there, basilica here, chapel around the corner - they dot the city like gems. No longer as devout, Romans now use them as community centers, while some have even been made into apartments. Adaptivity and reuse constantly repurpose the city with new ideas.

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Cinque TerreAncient Trade Cities

Hike along the famous Lover’s Trail and you are bound to wind-up at one of the four sea-side towns known as Cinque Terre. Like barnacles growing on a ship, these small multi-family houses seem to have grown into their site, feeding off the breeze and trade rich seas of the Mediterranean and once acting as ports to major cities in the area including Rome.

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AquaductsInfustructure of the EmpireThe aqueducts were a site to behold. Stretching out for miles in all directions they now mostly lay in ruins as backdrops to agriculture fields, and mid-rise suburban sprawl. Aqueduct Park, holding upwards of 10 different artificial streams, shows you just how powerful and prosperous Rome was in its day, and how beautiful and inspiring it is today.

MEDITERRANEAN

ITALY

Jordan has several castles within its borders. Most, within 20 miles of the capital of Amman, and easily reached by car. They offer a unique political and material history of the region through their architectural remnants while reflecting a modernist view of the built form. Built of locally available materials and responding to regionally intensive summers and winters, they offer an insight into the life before the machine, where monumentality did not necessarily mean size and lavishness, but strength, simplicity, and adaptivity, and where humility played just as important a role as strategy.

The story of Qasr Al-Mushatta is unique, and illustrates just how demanding the Arab desert can be. Designed to be the most lavish palace for Mushatta, it had a rather short-lived splendor, with repetitious barrel vaulting and scale of the building material, the palace designers dreamed big, unfortunately the scale and monumentality was no match for the grueling desert.

A castle some 20 miles outside Amman, and second closest of the three shown, its layout mimics a clear European influence, with sequential rooms laid around a central court. The castle distilled the desires of its European cousins to a necessary simplicity, sheltering the inhabitants of the building from the harsh summer sun.

Qasr KharanaDesert Relative

Qasr Al-MushattaEvolution at it’s finest

My favorite of the three desert castles, Amra bridges the gap between “A”rchitecture and “a”rchitecture, with handmade, individually massed limestone bricks, small interior rooms connecting to a off-centered central living space, and

intricately frescoed interior walls and ceilings, this is a modernist dream building, and an art historian’s oasis, and there is not a soul around to share it with besides your occasional Bedouin calling himself king of the desert.

Qasr AmraShelter from more then just the sun.

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ARID

Jordan

Blistering BeautyCan the desert hold the beauty of Rome?

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Rome has nothing on the splendor that is Petra. Whether you study its trade history, its enormous water collection infrastructure, or just bask in the glory of its Architecture, Petra illustrates the power of human creativity and ingenuity. Centered around “The Great High Spot” or sacrificial mountain, the city seems to worship it. Triumphal processions once encircle the large mountain. Marching to its precipice. Monument after monument of intricately carved sandstone can still be seen for miles in all directions.

Jarash, once a Roman outpost, now stone ghost-town, sits preserved in the sweltering desert sun. Surrounded by limestone apartments and marble mosques, Jarash sprawls across the landscape, housing a theater, circus, throne room, markets, stables, temple, and monumental entrance gate. The massiveness of the stonework (to big to hold) illustrates just how powerful and influential the Roman government was in the area.

The Bedouins’ campground, and once home to T.E. Lawrence a.k.a Lawrence of Arabia for his involvement in the Arab Revolt, Wadi Rum is a oasis of age. While the valley alone is worth noting, it is the creation of small semipermanent tent structures that inspired me most, their skin on frame approach to the desert climate was surprisingly efficient in blocking the harsh mid day sun, while their elevating legs helped keep the friendly, yet highly poisonous scorpions out. When asked about their construction, I was told they were built to preserve the natural beauty of Wadi Rum by allowing sand to move freely across the valley floor.

PetraA sandstone marvel

Wadi RumA Bedouin and scorpion campground

JerashHome away from Rome

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ARID

Jordan

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1 – Qasr Kharana set in the landscape.2 – Qasr Amra main house 3 – Qasr Al-Mushatta facing north4 – Detail of sandstone work5 – Petra’s main entrance & Treasury6 – Line of semi-permanent tents7 – Semi-permanent tent8 – Camel at Bedouin camp9 – Temple Entrance

MEDITERRANEAN COAST T3-RESIDENTIAL

Modeling

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MEDITERRANEAN COAST T3-RESIDENTIAL

Modeling

This exercise looked at representing the concept and details behind the Eames House. From representing its kite-like frame and paneling system, to recreating it’s textures, repetition of form work and secondary steel systems, the exercise illustrates the ability to breakdown and think in different scales and detail levels.

Eames HouseLiving in a Chinese Kite

1 – Main interior living area2 – 1/16 scale model illustrating kite3 – Paneling and seal detail4 – 1/4 scale model with shadow5 – Interior truss system & ceiling membrane6 – Tertiary steel system7 – Retaining wall with strip board form relief

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HUMID CONTINENTAL T4-COMMERCIAL

Diagramming

Kunsthaus BregenzRepresenting integrated systemsThe exercise was both a practice in model making and diagramming systems within the Kunstas Bregans Art Museum in Bregans, Austria. The model and diagrams look at the same three building components, skin, structure, and systems but with two different mediums of model and diagramming.

1 – Main structural system with envelope highlighted2 – Exterior skin illustrating shelter from wind & rain3 – Light penetration & egress4 – Diagram illustrated conditioned & unconditioned zone with ground source heat pump5 – 1/16 scale model at night illustrating lighthouse concept6 – Abstracted radiant floor conditioning system7 – Exterior skin & frame

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MEDITERRANEAN T6-PUBLIC

BUS RAPID TRANSIT

Chandigarh, IndiaGreatest good for the greatest amount of people

The exercise was part of a larger project to map and propose a bus rapid transit system for the city of Chandigarh India, designed by Le Corbusier and the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Understanding the V-system and modal developments within the region,

our team created the basis of a GIS map, including neighborhood densities, existing bus networks, as well as integrated Chandigarh’s proposed master-plan, including subway proposals, zoning, and projected densities, in order to create a integrated sectoral, local, and regional mass transit network.

Bus Rapid Transit

Light Rail

Inner City (W/E)

Inner City (N/S)

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PRES

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+ Ridership

— Ridership

ZONE

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IDER + Personal Transit

— Personal Transit

Inner City Center

Commercial

— Density

+ Density

LAND

USE

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The bridge project started as a museum for the Tiber river and evolved into both a museum and an access point for the people of Rome. The bridge’s basic function is to provide inhabitants of the area with access throughout the city along Rome’s major water way, the Tiber. The Bridge provides bike, pedestrian, and leisure activities on both edges of the water, and sets up a duality to showcase both build and nat-ural landscapes and their response to a rivers edge. The Southeast edge acts as a park, a preserve for ancient mer-chant ruins, and an amphitheater. The northwest provides a plaza, archives, interior museum space, and breaks down the river’s edge with Renais-sance principles of procession.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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MEDITERRANEAN T6-PUBLIC

Pedestrian

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Experience the complex-ity of the Tiber River.



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The project fulfilled the requirements of the museum while providing greater transparency and mobility of the surrounding neighborhoods. The project involved extensive mapping to determine exactly where the bridge could best suit the neighborhood and museum needs.

The bridge was inspired by an American Thanksgiving and everyday communal dinners while in Rome, and attempted to capture the nature of communal dinner when placed in a public space. With extensive seating, positioning of space to capture vanishing point views down the river, and enlarging the nod in the middle of the bridge to allow for large groups and individuals to rest. The bridge and two adjoining river sides create three unique but connected experiences along the water.

Bones helped to understand the structure of a curving bridge, and give it the ability to create a path that both bends to the force of the river, with a curved in plan, and rise in the center to give viewers a belvedere like access point, allowing them to see over the entire museum and park complex.

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