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P E N N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
Envisioning Hudson SquarePost Flood: Restitching the Urban FabricTussey Mountain Ski LodgeState College Bus StationArchitectural Analytique: San Nicola in CarcereLee Tree HouseSuburban Retrofit: Growth through AccretionArchitectural Analysis: Palazzo Valmarana
student worksEnvisioning Hudson SquarePost Flood: Restitching the Urban FabricTussey Mountain Ski LodgeState College Bus StationArchitectural Analytique: San Nicola in CarcereLee Tree HouseSuburban Retrofit: Growth through AccretionArchitectural Analysis: Palazzo Valmarana
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Envisioning Hudson Square
3 Weeks
Spring 2008
Hudson Sqaure, NYC
Professor: Lisa Iulo
Partner: Robbie Tunon
We are rising to meet the challenges posed by climate change and its impact on the urban environment by taking the threat of sea-level rise and turning it into a generator for positive site renewal and a way to improve the community’s relationship to their habitat . Our vision for Hudson Square is that it can be a model for redeveloping the Manhattan shoreline by regenerating the soft-edge condition.
Global warming threatens the community of Hudson Square with coastal storms and a rising tide. Located at one of the lowest points on the island, Hudson Square needed a response to ensure that the ecological systems at stake are no longer in danger of destroying one another (i.e. Humans would no longer be able to inhabit flooded zones and the Hudson would be contaminated by human waste products).
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ENVISIONING HUDSON SQUARE2
Post Flood: Restiching the Urban
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3 Weeks
Spring 2008
Hudson Square
New York City, NY
Through proposed multi-use, mixed density residential, this project seeks to generate a community awareness of the environmental and climate change issues on the urban environment, as a result of human impact. It reconnects the urban with the organic through a relational architecture that allows both to co-exist and respond to the other’s needs.
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Predicted 5m Sea Level Rise
Predicted 3m Sea Level Rise
Hudson River Manhattan Island
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Site Relationships
Sea Level Rise
ANALYSIS
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Urban Planning Analysis
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“The settlement is good which enhances the continuity of a culture
and survival of its people, increases a sense of connection in time
and space, and permits or spurs individual growth development,
within continuity, via openness and connection.” – Kevin Lynch
CO-E XISTENCE External Forces
Based on the premise of sea level rise affecting cities across the globe, this project recognizes the neighborhood of Hudson Square as part of a larger ecosystem. The proposed wetland within the master planning scheme is used as a termination of the eco-boulevard. My proposed site is the empty lot next to the St. Johns Building which was manifested as the wetland in the urban planning scheme. It suggests taking over empty sites for bioremediation and wetland restoration to allow for the regeneration of the natural landscape. The proposed architecture seeks to structure the urban environment while allowing a natural landscape to flow underneath. With the isolation of building elements within a flowing landscape, the issue of how to reconnect the city grid is also important and was addressed in this project.
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Tussey Mountain Ski Lodge
8 Weeks
Fall 2005
Boalsburg, PA
The ski lodge design enhances the levels of circulation of the ski slopes to allow the users to be participators as well as observers. The Lodge and the ski lift are the two most interesting points of observation; so combining these two programs brings together the observers and participators and allows them to interchange in succession with the uses of the building.
Ski Lodge Perspective
Outdoor Gathering Space
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TUSSEY MOUNTAIN SKI LODGE
Ski Lodge Perspective
Outdoor Gathering Space
Longitudinal Section
First Floor Plan
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State College Bus Station
State College, Pa
Fall ‘06
The State College bus station contains a large and complex programming of a bus station for the town of State College, commercial space, and the housing of offices for the Human Resources and Faculty Services departments for the campus.
The bus station’s site is on the path of an old railway that used to connect State College to other important resources. It is also along a major pedestrian route to the growing west side of campus. The project is based on this conception and occupation of the axis. It is at once rooted in the ground and also part of an infinitely continuous space.
East ElevationStructural Detail
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Structural Detail
STATE COLLEGE BUS STATION14
Basement PlanThird Floor PlanStructural Diagram
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Architectural Anal
San Nicola in Carcere
Rome, Italy
Fall ‘07
Construction of plans elevation and section through site analysis and drawing. Utilizing the columns and foundation of three pagan temples, San Nicola is a representation of modern, Baroque, and ancient Rome. The analysis examines the co-existence of these three spaces in the modern structure.
Temple of Juno Temple of JanusTemple of Spes San Nicola in Carcere
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ARCHITECTURAL ANALYTIQUE18
Reconstruction model of a tree house in Singapore wherein a steel-framed, multi-level timber-slatted house and a tree are allowed to co-exist, without impinging on the other in any way.
Wood Framing
Lee Tree House
Joseph Lim
Fall ‘06
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LEE TREE HOUSE20
Suburban Retrofit: Growth through Accretion
5th Year Thesis
Fall 2008
Completion Date: May 2009
Georgetown South
Manassas, Virginia
Library Section
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SUBURBAN RETROFIT: GROWTH THROUGH ACCRETION
The recent foreclosure crisis brings awareness to many architectural issues that are pertinent to the way we practice architecture and interact with our built environment.
My thesis explores opportunities for growth and accretion in the suburban environment. Urban development and the growth of cities is said to be a gradual accretion over
time as opposed to instantaneous change or development. Failing communities across the country are in need of redevelopment; therefore it is my goal to define how this
re-development can begin to take place in the suburban context as a gradual growth, using the resources already in place. The strategy is to minimize impact through a
gradual, rather than sudden growth. My project couples social programming with repurposed senior citizen residences as a way to rehabilitate communities while they un-
dergo the process of growth or change. The housing foreclosures are an opportunity to regenerate communities, however their dispersed nature makes it difficult to interact
with a single architectural element. As an alternative to most senior care facilities, the program elements are dispersed widely across the community, in which my project is
sited, planting smaller social structures around the area.
First Floor PlanSecond Floor Plan
Library Section
Library Facade Elevation
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Georgetown South is a community in Manassas, VA composed of approximately 800 town homes. Of those, about 300 are vacant or foreclosed. The negative impacts inflicted on the surrounding community are numerous, and the goal is to seek to create an architecture that might improve this condition and strengthen the community. The program seeks to break down the highly privatized boundaries of this landscape, and create more of a sense of interdependence and community awareness. Deconstruction, materiality and aging, and the power of landscape are each important in the expression of architecture in the suburban environment. The exploration for the fall semester involved proper siting of the building and opportunities for public interaction within the highly dispersed and privatized landscape.
“Flex Space” Paired with Senior Residential Units
Senior Care Pods/Vistor Housing
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Elevated Walkway Connecting Community Center Functions
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Architectural Analysis
Palazzo Valmarana
Spring 2008
Vicenza, Italy
Architectural Drawing and Sketching
This investigative analysis facilitated a greater understanding that traditional drawing is a way to represent, visualize and communicate architecture. Through reading architectural images and ideas produced by others, this work enabled a greater sensitivity towards architectural space, form, proportion, texture, matriality, and the effects of light, shade and shadow. The course instruction included an in depth understanding of Sciagraphy, rendering techniques in a variety of media, perspective architectural drawing, paraline drawing, and traditional ortho-graphics.
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ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS