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.B2B. - PLASTIC PROCESSING PLANTDEGREE PROJECT - PROFESSOR ADRIAN LUCHINI
B2B (Bottle to Bottle Recycling) is a recyclable plas-tic processing plant. Located adjacent to a barge port, railway, and highway along the waterfront in St. Louis, B2B is poised to maximize the most effi cent methods for receiving and ship-ping raw material for the industry. The plant buildings follow along the fl uid path of people, material, vehicle and river from point of entry to exit. The building tectonic celebrates indus-try and infrastructure. On the other hand, like the Mississippi River which responds to the geology beneath it by cutting a sinuous path in the earth, the roofscape and plan celebrate the adaptive irregularity of nature by transforming to the needs of the program. At one point the structure even lifts off the ground to span overtop the levee wall.
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RIVER CITY ECOLOGYDESIGN THINKING - PROFESSOR PABLO MOYANO
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HOW DO DIFFERENT MODES OF TRANS-PORT COMPARE IN THEIR USE OF FUEL?
River Barges are by far the most efficient.
WHAT IF ALL MODES OF TRANSPORT COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE?THERE ARE SPOTS NORTH & SOUTH OF THE ARCH THAT ACCESS TO TRAIN, RIVER BARGE,LOCAL ROADS, AND INTERSTATE HIGHWAY.
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. WHERE DOES YOUR RECYCLING GO.After a brief trial period the City of St. Louis has decided to move forward with a Single Stream Recycling Program. In addition to a the feeling of goodwill that comes from an eff ort that works toward more sustainable practices, the City of St. Louis has been able to increase revenue by charging for reycling service while avoiding the cost for “tipping” at landfi lls.
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Single Stream Recycling takes all the eff ort out of recycling. The consumer places all of their recyclables into a single bin or takes their recyclables to a collections center. There is no need to separate. A recycling truck comes and collects the recyclables and brings them to Material Recovery Facility (MRF). The MRF is responsible for separating all of the recyclables from one another. Althought most everything is recyclable the city of St. Louis accepts only bottled glass, steel cans, aluminum cans, card-board, newspaper & scrap paper, and plastics #1-5 & 7.
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. OBSERVEDDESIGN METHODOLOGY
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RIVER’S EDGE URBAN STRATEGY
INHABITING THE SKY
When considering the water as an edge another edge needs to be addressed the sky. Spanning the sky is not possible but reaching into and inhabiting it is possible. This architecture is diff using the hard edge of the city, the edge is beginning to feel more like a city fringe.
RIVER CITY ECOLOGY analyzed the interaction between nature and industry on the St. Louis riverfront. The analysis informed my decision to select a site and program that endorsed symbioitic contact between the river and the city. A design strategy emphasized a weaving of discrete programmatic elements. The primary program is a plastics processing plant. The site is adjacent to the river south of the McKinley bridge. Proximity to industry trans-port and resources and accessibility to the river were important for site selection.
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..the GUIDE CURVES set the domain of the point charges..
..the POINT CHARGES are evaluated locations about the guide curves which determinethe shape of the metaball..
.. the DIRECTION OF ROTATION along the guide curves..
..the globular METABALL is the resultant shape froma cross section of the sum of rotated hyberbolic curvesabout the point charges..
..the ISOCURVE INTERSECTOR is a point at which the rotated hyperbolic curves intersect..
..the START OF ROTATION is the evaluated point on the guide curve at which the point charge begins..
DIAGRAM OF SINGLE COMPONENT COMPONENT MODULATION
- rotation about a line perpendicular to the oriented vector expanding as distance increases from an attractor point
- rotation about z axis to orient a vector toward attractor point as distance increases from an attractor point
- rotation about z axis to orient a vector toward attractor point
- elevation increases and opening of circle widens as distance increases from an attractor point
OPTIMAL TOWER CONFIGURATIONS IN EACH SITE SUN EXSPOSURE REPRESENTED IN GRADIENT
DIAGRAM OF SINGLE COMPONENT
PRIMORDIAL ORGANISMPARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION - PROFESSOR JOHN DOLCI
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FLINT HILLS STUDIO - PROFESSOR WENDELL BURNETTE
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Plan of Visitor Center Program
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The TALLGRASS RETREAT consists of lodging and a visitor center for the National Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Emphasis was placed on the continuance of the National Park tradition of a lodge as a park amenity that enriches the park experience. The project took two focuses, fi rst, using the public program to draw visitors out into the prairie to explore its natural beauty, the second, was to give visitors staying overnight a relaxing stay that capitalizes on the quiet vastness of the prairie. Simultaneously, an ecological responsibility to the preserve motivated a focus on sustainability in the developemnt of the project.
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This site was selected because it is adjacent to the preserve; It is located beside an existing road therefore it does not require creating a road and developing new infrastructure; It is remote; south facing; the quickest route to the site is through Strongy City and then throught the preserve, rather than coming from the West and avoiding the small towns.
Interior view of a unit room
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Sectional perspective of a unit room
Floor plan of side by side units
FIRST FLOO1/2” = 1”
ELLIPSE TABLEFURNITURE DESIGN - PROFESSOR CARL SAFE
solid walnut 4/4 boards | wipe-on polyurerhane fi nish
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city WORKSHOPSTUDIO 512 - PROFESSOR ZEULER LIMA
renderings & imges | collage & drawing
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city WORKSHOP was designed for a neglected infi ll site near the old city center of São Paulo, Brazil. The purpose was to create a new program that would give back more than it took from the city. The project introduced a sustainable wood workshop and educational facilities for promoting resource management in the Mata Atlântica to an area of the city with few public amenities. Pocket parks within the campus bring tropical greenspace back into the uban landscape. All ar-chitectural drawings were produced with Revit Architecture 2010.
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Second Floor Front Facade in the Evening
Front Facade Living Room
Ground Floor Plan1/4” = 1’0”
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STUDIO 511 -PROFESSOR DON KOSTER
Developer: City of University CityArchitect of Record: ARCTURIS
Design Parameters:2 & 3 Bedroom LEED Platinum homes. Progressive designs but no space-ships. Price Parameters: 120K to 200K.
Final Price Point: 150K
Platform: Revit Architecture 2010
The project currently remains un-built due to fi nancing issues fol-lowing the market downturn.
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I - CARES RESEARCH FACILITYSTUDIO 318 - PROFESSOR JEN MAIGRET
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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OFWET & DRY LABS SECTION
COURTYARD SPACES
WIND BLOCK ACCESS
MAXIMIZING BUILDING PERFORMANCE
sunny wind protected courtyard spaces extends the time outdoor spaces can be used into the winter
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optimizing solar gain in the winter by exposing at least one building face, sometimes two, and orientingbuildings so the longest horizontal is perpendiclar tothe south
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geometries help to deflect wind in between spaces,also overhangs create larger outdoor area protected from wind
PERFORATION - BRIDGING & OPENNESS - LIGHT FILTERING AND SHADING
REDIRECTING- OPENNESS - WIND PROTECTION
geometries can be used to block sun during certain hours and allowing it to penetrate during others,orienting the axis so that people can walk across without touching a column and be shaded the entiretime while still being surrounded by pockets of light
geometries naturally provide shading from sun. examples below show that moreof the interior is exposed to sunlight during the hottest hours of the day in the winterwhile deflecting the hottest midday rays in the summer due to changes in the sun inclinationand their relation to the anles of the geometries
SHADING - SEPARATION AND FUNCTION - AVOIDING DIRECT SUN
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318 Studio was driven by climate and form making studies. The complex ge-ometry was developed from observations of portabello mushrooms gills. The result-ing geometry was employed to passively re-spond to solar radiation and prevailing winds diff erently in the summer and the winter.
The program was a research facility. The site was a steep hill in the Tyson Research Center.
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