ARCHITECTURE 101 FINAL PROJECT –

COLLABORATE • ENVISION • PLAN •

DESIGN • BUILD • MARVEL

FALL 2012

NICOLE . SHANE . THET . THANH . HANNAH

NORTH EAST HILL TEAM

[NEHT]

PROJECT DATE:

OCTOBER 15TH – DECEMBER 19TH

LOCATION:

CITY COLLEGE OF SAN

FRANCISCO (CCSF)

BATMALE HALL (BATL)

MARSTON AVE (NO THROUGH

TRAFFIC) BETWEEN CIRCULAR

AVE & CLOUD CIRCLE

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112

SITE & PLAN

MAP AND

LOCATION

www.ccsf.edu/Info/Map/ and http://binged.it/12DBfdp

SITE AND

PERIMETER

SITE & PLAN

NORTH

EAST

AND

SOUTH

EAST

SITE & PLAN

ROW I RIGHT: FRONT VIEW

ROW II LEFT: ISOMETRIC RIGHT-SIDE VIEW

ROW II MID: RIGHT-SIDE VIEW

ROW II RIGHT: ISOMETRIC BACK VIEW

ROW III LEFT: BACK VIEW

ROW III MID: LEFT-SIDE VIEW

ROW III RIGHT: ISOMETRIC LEFT-SIDE VIEW

SITE AND DIGITAL MOCK-UP SOFTWARE: GOOGLE SKETCHUP

SITE & PLAN

CONDITION AND

NEIGHBOR (15‘ FT. DROP)

On the earthen hillside

bordering a set of stairs leading

to Marston Avenue and

neighboring the courtyard

adjacent to Batmale Hall 245,

our project is site specific where

the steepest part of the hill is

situated.

SITE & PLAN

NATURE AND

VIEW

Our selected site is predominately

characterized by the natural world.

Trailing North-East is an upward climb

toward the hill pinnacle facing a forestry

backdrop alongside Marston Avenue.

Within its boundaries the site composed

of earth topped with organic mulch and

three tall trees with their roots and

branches outspread.

SITE & PLAN

PROJECT’S EARLY STAGES:

Series of abstract iterations conveying our team’s and each

individual’s ideas for our site location.

ENVISION & DESIGN

INSPIRATION & CONCEPT

Top: Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine by Yves Rubin

Right: Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan by Jay Van Dam

Concept:

The concept behind our installation is a story of us, community college student who’s taking on the challenges of

architectural design studio 1 of fall 2012. We were expected to explore and practice architectural design as a sculptural

biography throughout the semester. Assignments of designing and creating abstract models were generated in high volume

through the iteration process.

Architecture design studio 1 challenges us as we embark on its journey and everyone experiencing our installation can feel

that challenge in some physical way as we set–in–place a gateway through the steepest part of the slope of the entire

hillside. It’s a metaphor of the experiences that we all had in studio 1 which are struggling to depict abstract ideas from an

emotion or feeling, pushing to design responsively, and striving to present effectively with a design language.

Studio 1 challenges us but once we overcome these hardship, whether it’s 100% or 75% here is what we hope that you will

gain in physical terms. We are turning our emotions, feelings, experiences of learning and challenges of learning into

physical qualities (interpreting and translating these intangible ideas into physicality).

Inspiration:

Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine, Kyoto, Japan inspired us to create a gateway through a series of arches. The array of arches

that are organized by these gates create predominantly a one point perspective and for that we’re drawn linearly into it. We

do have opportunities but they’re only in which that we can stop and look to the left and to the right in which the world

outside of the gates, the public realm and the realm of nature becomes revealed but only revealed as glimpses between our

structure. In the gap portion of those gates, the user has to complete the other missing part of the gate in their mind’s eye,

and in the process what is really there in the gaps are the views beyond that are now part of the structure.

Journey:

We repeated in a repetitive array using multiple gates in order to form a notion of entryway at the bottom of the hill leading

you up the hill through them. In essence, you’re like a croquet ball finding its way through the hoops. The first arch of the

pathway is the widest arch marks an entry point to our installation as how Studio 1 welcomes us at the beginning of the

semester. As you go up the hill they give an optical illusion that the hillside is not as steep as it is because we have with each

a perception of it getting shorter and shorter. In relation to the experience of Studio 1, it’s harder than it looks.

Next we reach a plateau, in relation to Studio 1, this is when we acquired our

foundational learning and know what it is about, now is the challenge of using it. Going

from steep to flat and trekking toward the space between three tall trees, the cocoon. the

three trunks formed the perimeter while their branches formed a canopy overhead. We’ve

altered it and made it more intimate, hence the cocoon such that of a butterfly.

metaphorically relating to Studio 1, towards the end of the semester we start to feel

more comfortable and welcome to this discipline that was so unfamiliar and startled us at

the beginning, now it feels like the place that we can nurture and continue to transform

into the butterfly.

Stages of the butterfly side by side

with stages of our installation

CONCEPT & ENVISION

ENVISION & DESIGN

MATERIALS:

Recycle wooden doors

2” x 4” – 96” Wood studs

3/8” x 24” Rebar pins

Attachments:

oBracing

oScrews

oWires

oTwines

COLLABORATE & BUILD

COLLABORATE & BUILD

TRANSFORMATION & MARVEL

TRANSFORMATION & MARVEL

TRANSFORMATION & MARVEL

TRANSFORMATION & MARVEL

NICOLE . SHANE . THET . THANH . HANNAH

NORTH EAST HILL TEAM

[NEHT] COLLABORATE • ENVISION • PLAN •

DESIGN • BUILD • MARVEL ARCHITECTURE 101 FINAL PROJECT –

FALL 2012