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[Distinction] Building and Urban Design in DevelopmentUCL - The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Honduras 2008-2010Louisiana State University

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META-NARRATIVES OF PHILIPPINE URBANSIM | BU3: URBAN INTERVENTION STUDIO - INDIVIDUAL DESIGN RESPONSE | [BUDD] BUILDING AND URBAN DESIGN IN DEVELOPMENT, UCL 2012/2013

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NMCritical Intervention Studio (BUDD) MSc Building and Urban Design in DevelomentConceptual Design Response (The Philippines) The Bartlett Development Planning unit

POTENTIALIMPOTENTIALITY INCREMENTALLY21 3It’s important to work iteratively back and forth between the abstract (detachment) and the concrete (attachment), individual and collective, local and regional/global. Maintaining and staying stuck in one particular mode will result in a singular type of result.

This series of conceptual interventions is less about intervening and has more to do with exploring the idea of taking a step back as our first step forward.

An interplay or blurring of the role of the ‘professional’ and the role of the ‘amateur’ could be an instrumental way for communities to begin navigating the complexity that confronts them

In this imagined space one’s perspective can expand around the big picture and envision ideal scenarios for the community.

In Canumay East opportunity exists to turn a dividing space into a productive space. The restrictive space below the power lines could potentially be cleared (incrementally) to create infrastructure for flood water retention and public space.

Matina Arroyo could potentially take a communal approach to building a super-structure to raise and connect all houses. Construction could begin in strategic locations, as funds are availabe, to allow informal / temporary structures to be infill between them.

West Habog has opprortunities to utilise empty land saturated by flood water. Floating structures could fill these spaces to continuously provide circulation, public space and green space regardless of the water level.

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overcrowding design responses

livelihood design responses

Field Research Report Baan Mangkong-Secure Housing Program (Bangkok)

Weaving Urbanism in Bangkok. Analysis and proposals for CODI’s Baan Mangkok Secure Housing Program. One month of preparation research, two weeks of field research and three weeks of report writing. Collaboration between fifteen other researchers.

Responsibilities:Preliminary research, facilitated field workshops with community members and drafted proposals for planning principles and guidelines. Architectural and graphic design.Team Image Credits:-Nathan Mahaffey-José Francisco Vergara Perucich-Cristian Olmos

Design Pattern ExplorationsAddressing cross-cutting issues:- Standardized Accommodation- Land Scarcity- Urban Layout and Public Space

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NMPeace Corps (Honduras) Community Design-Build FacilitatorCommunity Park & Playground Urban & Regional Planning Volunteer

Construction Photos * images of completed project and high-res were lost in a flood Community Design Workshops

Transverse SectionLongitudinal Section

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Community Park & Playground:- Participatory design strategies - Rainwater harvesting- Cultivation and sale of plants

Projects required collaboration with community leaders, various organizations and other volunteers.

Responsibilities as Project Director included:- Prepared cost estimate- Facilitated design and construction planning meetings- Design and Construction Drawings - Supervised construction.

The site work for the park removes earth from the hill creating different levels for different activities; rock walls frame the spaces. Within the areas contained by the rock wall is a level space for a playground and stepped levels for controlled planting. The areas created outside the rock wall are for less controlled planting and leaves the highest ground as a place for sitting, for watching kids at play and viewing the mountains across the valley of Jamastrán. The playground structures will touch the ground both inside and outside the walls, reducing them to subtle boundaries, allowing the kids to play freely.

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NMPeace Corps (Honduras) Community Design-Build FacilitatorRammed Earth Community Center Urban & Regional Planning Volunteer

PROCESS ORIENTED DESIGN --SKILLS TRAINING AND COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT

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$5,000 grant funding received to cover:- Rammed Earth skills training for masons from the community.- All material costs

Project required collaboration with community leaders, various organizations and other volunteers.

Responsibilities as Project Director included:- Prepared cost estimate- Coordinated skills training and construction consultation with CEASO- Facilitated design and construction planning meetings- Design and Construction Drawings - Supervised construction.

Collaboration with CEASO(Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Agricultura Sostenible - Siquatepeque, Honduras)

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University of Buraimi (Oman) Project DesignerUniversity Masterplan - Winning Design Competition Hoehler + Partner Oman

Administrative & Academic CoreMasterplan Layers Classrooms and Green Axis

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Complete university masterplan and architectural design of four academic buildings.

Responsibilities included: Project design and coordination from Pre-Design through Schematic Design.

Tasks included: - Created winning design competition proposal - Sun and wind studies- Site analysis and masterplanning - Design research book- Design intent presentations- Team coordinator of schematic design drawings and design development

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NMGerman University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) Project DesignerStudent Housing - Masterplan and Architectural Design Hoehler + Partner Oman

Architectural design and masterplanning of four student housing buildings dealing with energy efficiency and sustainable design in a desert climate. Design development through construction documentation and tendering.

Responsibilities included: Project design and coordination from Design Development through Construction Documentation.

Tasks included:- Elevation studies - Facade design- Team coordinator of Construction Documentation and Detailing.

Elevation Studies

Hoehler & Partner LLC OES Oman Educational Services LLC

German University of Technology in Oman Masterplan

Design PhilosophyGerman standards at the GUtech UniversityThe new GUtech University of Technology in Oman will mark a great step in the development of educational standards in Oman. It will combine german standards of learning and technology with a respectful dealing with omani traditions and environmental elements. It will also generate a milestone in sustainable building.The university will offer the fundamental order for students to develop. It will promote a new spirit of living and learning on the campus. Freedom and individual responsibility of the students will be able to grow in a manifold life on and besides the campus. The GUtech’s design will ref lect a technical way of thinking, similar to the dispassion showed in spirit and design of German universities.As Oman is one of the most liberal and progressive countries in the region, the GUtech will take on and boost the social advance among the community. This means that the university will be open for both men and women, by respecting the traditional separation in different housing areas.

Sustainable, modern architecture, respecting the traditional RootsThe masterplan of GUtech relays to a couple of traditional omani elements of urban structures, combined with modern elements. Although the traditional settlements often were designed originally in a regular, plan-ned system, they are outgrowing and proliferated in the course of their development over this system.The choice of additive “open systems” for settlements allowed structures to grow an to expand, without loo-sing its form quality. The campus of the new University concludes all functions of a classical city structure. The chosen form of functionally separated stripes and the positioning of the stripes enable the structure to grow without loosing its form and rules. Each function is able to grow separately in its own stripe. The structure is able to grow in two directions, with the main building as central point. The stripes with different functions are connected by a central green axis, the lifeline of the campus, leading from each stripe to the heart, the main building of academia. Beside the main access of the campus, a huge shopping centre is located, as well as for the needs from inside the campus, as for external clients. Between the public spaces of shopping and mosque, the spin off buildings act as a puffer to the semi-priva-te zone of academia with main building, faculty buildings and faculty research. These buildings are placed on a huge platform, creating an additional “Layer” on which faculty life can grow. All traff ic and parking for the academia uses acts under this platform and is not disturbing the university-life above. From the main building, the heart of the campus, the structure develops in two directions; along the central green axis to the east and west with the “Stripes” of other functions and along the “academia plat-form” to the north and south with additional faculty buildings.

Enclosed structuresPalaces, forts, larger complexes and even whole towns in Islamic architecture often are enfolded with walls, including gates and towers. Each entrance to a complex is located with a gate, representing control of the access to the complex but even more expression of hospitality and bearer of a specif ic identity. Gates and doors at the entrances avoid direct views form the public space in private zones. This element is used as a reference for the faculty buildings as well as for the housing quarters. The housing functions are subdivided in smaller units of “hou-sing quarters”, in which separate houses surround like a wall a sequence of outer courtyards, leading to the inner courtyards of the single houses. Different kinds of housing are summarized in closed Quarters, like male or female students, apartments for staff and guests and staff villas. The faculty buildings are also created as courtyard-houses. Each Faculty has its own semi-private outer courtyard and its faculty-private inner courtyard. Each faculty also has a speci•c research courtyard.

Separation of functionsIn the traditional Omani urban structure, different functions (traditionally different religious congregations) are organised in separated quarters (haras). Buildings with an outstanding function like the palace, the mosque or the suq are placed at highly remarkable position in the urban pattern and are also recognisable by a differentiated height development. A homogeneous architectural language and a coherent materialisa-tion helps to unify the whole complex. In the urban structure of GUtech, the different functions, like acade-mia, housing and social functions are seperated in different “stripes”, but they will be reunited in a similar architectural language. The structure of the whole campus is rotated to the main directions of surrounding streets and building areas. This demonstrates the function of the Gutech University as a specif ied building.

PrivacyA special topic in omani architecture is the relation between public and private space. There is a radiation of privateness: The intersection between private and public is less abrupt compared to Europe. This principle is translated to the building structures of GUtech. Sequences of different courtyards def ine a hierarchy of privacy gradation. From the public central green axis over the semi-public outer courtyards to the private inner courtyards the privacy is rising.

Respect of the elements in the modern architecture and structure of GUtech

Light„The Alchemy of the light“ enables the architecture in the same manner as lead is convert into gold.The whole concept of GUtech-Masterplan has as one focus the orientation and the handling of Light. The widness of the streets, the distances between buildings and the orientation of rooms inside the buildings reach the optimal use of lights, and, even more important, of shadow.Water“Water is the metaphor of the soul.”In traditional architecture, water basins are used for cooling the cour-tyards during the day, feeding water-canals (falaj) lead cooled water to this basins and can be shown unco-vered in green areas. In GUtech structures water also plays an important role. Water basins bring coolness into the small courtyards of the housing quarters and the central green axis is pervaded by falaj.AirThe traditional typology of the courtyard-house allows a good air circulation inside of the building. Beside the use of courtyard houses on the campus, the positioning of the whole urban structure in the plot is a reaction to wind directions. The chosen rotation of the grid in an ankle of about 45° gives the chance to the incoming wind to create a good climate on the whole campus. The rising heights on the whole campus from east to south are also related to the passing wind directions.

With this concept, GUtech will represent a milestone in education, cooperation between the countries and in architecture. To feed the growing needs of the University, there will be enough space for expansion without the need to overlap the existing basic structures of building.

MasterplanPrelimenary design - scale 1:1000

Hoehler & Partner LLC OES Oman Educational Services LLC

German University of Technology in Oman Masterplan

Design PhilosophyGerman standards at the GUtech UniversityThe new GUtech University of Technology in Oman will mark a great step in the development of educational standards in Oman. It will combine german standards of learning and technology with a respectful dealing with omani traditions and environmental elements. It will also generate a milestone in sustainable building.The university will offer the fundamental order for students to develop. It will promote a new spirit of living and learning on the campus. Freedom and individual responsibility of the students will be able to grow in a manifold life on and besides the campus. The GUtech’s design will ref lect a technical way of thinking, similar to the dispassion showed in spirit and design of German universities.As Oman is one of the most liberal and progressive countries in the region, the GUtech will take on and boost the social advance among the community. This means that the university will be open for both men and women, by respecting the traditional separation in different housing areas.

Sustainable, modern architecture, respecting the traditional RootsThe masterplan of GUtech relays to a couple of traditional omani elements of urban structures, combined with modern elements. Although the traditional settlements often were designed originally in a regular, plan-ned system, they are outgrowing and proliferated in the course of their development over this system.The choice of additive “open systems” for settlements allowed structures to grow an to expand, without loo-sing its form quality. The campus of the new University concludes all functions of a classical city structure. The chosen form of functionally separated stripes and the positioning of the stripes enable the structure to grow without loosing its form and rules. Each function is able to grow separately in its own stripe. The structure is able to grow in two directions, with the main building as central point. The stripes with different functions are connected by a central green axis, the lifeline of the campus, leading from each stripe to the heart, the main building of academia. Beside the main access of the campus, a huge shopping centre is located, as well as for the needs from inside the campus, as for external clients. Between the public spaces of shopping and mosque, the spin off buildings act as a puffer to the semi-priva-te zone of academia with main building, faculty buildings and faculty research. These buildings are placed on a huge platform, creating an additional “Layer” on which faculty life can grow. All traff ic and parking for the academia uses acts under this platform and is not disturbing the university-life above. From the main building, the heart of the campus, the structure develops in two directions; along the central green axis to the east and west with the “Stripes” of other functions and along the “academia plat-form” to the north and south with additional faculty buildings.

Enclosed structuresPalaces, forts, larger complexes and even whole towns in Islamic architecture often are enfolded with walls, including gates and towers. Each entrance to a complex is located with a gate, representing control of the access to the complex but even more expression of hospitality and bearer of a specif ic identity. Gates and doors at the entrances avoid direct views form the public space in private zones. This element is used as a reference for the faculty buildings as well as for the housing quarters. The housing functions are subdivided in smaller units of “hou-sing quarters”, in which separate houses surround like a wall a sequence of outer courtyards, leading to the inner courtyards of the single houses. Different kinds of housing are summarized in closed Quarters, like male or female students, apartments for staff and guests and staff villas. The faculty buildings are also created as courtyard-houses. Each Faculty has its own semi-private outer courtyard and its faculty-private inner courtyard. Each faculty also has a speci•c research courtyard.

Separation of functionsIn the traditional Omani urban structure, different functions (traditionally different religious congregations) are organised in separated quarters (haras). Buildings with an outstanding function like the palace, the mosque or the suq are placed at highly remarkable position in the urban pattern and are also recognisable by a differentiated height development. A homogeneous architectural language and a coherent materialisa-tion helps to unify the whole complex. In the urban structure of GUtech, the different functions, like acade-mia, housing and social functions are seperated in different “stripes”, but they will be reunited in a similar architectural language. The structure of the whole campus is rotated to the main directions of surrounding streets and building areas. This demonstrates the function of the Gutech University as a specif ied building.

PrivacyA special topic in omani architecture is the relation between public and private space. There is a radiation of privateness: The intersection between private and public is less abrupt compared to Europe. This principle is translated to the building structures of GUtech. Sequences of different courtyards def ine a hierarchy of privacy gradation. From the public central green axis over the semi-public outer courtyards to the private inner courtyards the privacy is rising.

Respect of the elements in the modern architecture and structure of GUtech

Light„The Alchemy of the light“ enables the architecture in the same manner as lead is convert into gold.The whole concept of GUtech-Masterplan has as one focus the orientation and the handling of Light. The widness of the streets, the distances between buildings and the orientation of rooms inside the buildings reach the optimal use of lights, and, even more important, of shadow.Water“Water is the metaphor of the soul.”In traditional architecture, water basins are used for cooling the cour-tyards during the day, feeding water-canals (falaj) lead cooled water to this basins and can be shown unco-vered in green areas. In GUtech structures water also plays an important role. Water basins bring coolness into the small courtyards of the housing quarters and the central green axis is pervaded by falaj.AirThe traditional typology of the courtyard-house allows a good air circulation inside of the building. Beside the use of courtyard houses on the campus, the positioning of the whole urban structure in the plot is a reaction to wind directions. The chosen rotation of the grid in an ankle of about 45° gives the chance to the incoming wind to create a good climate on the whole campus. The rising heights on the whole campus from east to south are also related to the passing wind directions.

With this concept, GUtech will represent a milestone in education, cooperation between the countries and in architecture. To feed the growing needs of the University, there will be enough space for expansion without the need to overlap the existing basic structures of building.

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Ingenieurbuero Dr. BinnewiesAlsterterrasse 10a, 20345 Hamburg, Germany, Tel +49 40 41 52 00 -0, Fax +49 40 41 52 00 -99


Simon Engineering & PartnersPO Box 1695, Athaibah PC 130, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Tel +968 244 92 365, Fax +968 244 95 862

Technical Infrastructure Consultant

Ebert Consulting Group GmbH & Co KGHanauer Strasse 85, 80993 Muenchen, Germany, Tel +49 89 149 812 -724, Fax +49 89 149 812 -10

Site Infrastructure & Mechanical Engineering

Majan Engineering ConsultantsPO Box 2973, Ruwi PC 112, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Tel +968 24 60 76 00, Fax +968 24 60 75 54

Traffic Infrastructure Consultant

Schmeck Ingenieurgesellschaft mbHGotenstrasse 14, 20097 Hamburg, Germany, Tel +49 40 696 525- 21, Fax +49 40 696 525- 99

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tenable FIRE ENGINEERING CONSULTANCYPO Box 250, PC 118, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Tel +968 99 47 22 11



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SPECIAL EXPLANATORY NOTES:MEASURES AND PLANS:

Materials:

- The contractors should read, check and get informed with the information and specification of the project.

- The contractors should return to Hoehler and Partner LLC beforestarting any work to arrange the correct specification to be used.

- The contractors should clear all recognized differences betweensite

construction and drawings, or differences of drawings of architectand specialists with Hoehler and Partner LLC.

- No changes are allowed in the design; if required then a writtenpermission is to be collected form Hoehler and Partner LLC.

- The contractors should assure that all holes have to be closed afterend of assembly according to the fire regulations.

- The contractors should assure that every door- and window-soffithas to have a cutting check of 1 meter above finished floor level.

- The contractors should refer to the measurement regulations for thedoor and window openings:- The width is always measured from shell construction weather in

concrete block or concrete columns and beams construction.- The Height is always measured from finished floor level to shell

lintel (except window-doors)- The contractors should refer to the measurement regulations of

•• • • • • •• • • • •• • • •••••••••••••••••- The Height is always measured from the top of breast to the lintel.- If there is no breast it, the reference measurements should be to

finished floor level.

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German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Masterplan

Housing Elevations - Green AxisCourtyard Perspective

Courtyard Section

All images © Hoehler + Partner LLC

EKU - STARBUCKS

Brick Option 1

3-7-08

BRICK OPTION 1 - CURVED ACCENT

- Standard Brick Veneer. Colors to match context.

- Curved brick inlay.

- Easiest construction. Leaves no water / snow shelf.

- Subtle shadow texture.

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NMEastern Kentucky University Intermediate ArchitectUniversity Coffee Shop PLUS one [Design + Construction]

Brick Facade Studies

Pre-Design through Construction Documentation.

Responsible for working independently to create high-quality design presentations, meet tight deadlines, 3D modeling and rendering, create design and construction drawings, coordinate changes with engineers and received project management experience.

Tasks:- Site selection and planning- Facade and material studies- 3D modeling, drawings and illustrations to explore design concepts and development.- Detailed plans, secitons & elevations.

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Eastern Kentucky University

Scheme 2 Rendering

Scheme 1 Rendering

Scheme 2 Aerial View

Scheme 1 Aerial View

Scheme 2 Plan

Scheme 1 Plan

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NMCarroway Nicholson Condominiums Intermediate Architect14 Housing Units PLUS one [Design + Construction]

Typical Section

Pre-Design through Design Development.

Tasks:- 3D modeling, drawings and illustrations to explore design concepts and development.- Detailed plans, secitons & elevations.

KEY1 TWO-CAR GARAGE2 MECHANICAL CLOSET3 LAUNDRY & STORAGE4 BATHROOM5 BEDROOM6 ENTRY7 OUTDOOR STORAGE8 LIVING9 DINING10 KITCHEN11 PANTRY12 BALCONY13 HVAC CHASE14 OPEN TO BELOW15 MASTER BEDROOM16 WALK-IN CLOSET17 MASTER BATH18 BUILT-IN DESK

AREA SUMMARY (CONDITIONED SPACE)FIRST FLOOR 388SECOND FLOOR 638THIRD FLOOR 430TOTAL 1,456

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Typical Unit - Floor Plan

First Floor Second Floor Third Floor

KEY1 ONE-CAR GARAGE2 MECHANICAL CLOSET3 LAUNDRY 4 1/2 BATH5 OFFICE6 ENTRY7 CLOSET8 LIVING9 DINING10 KITCHEN11 PANTRY12 BALCONY13 HVAC CHASE14 OPEN TO BELOW15 MASTER BEDROOM16 WALK-IN CLOSET17 MASTER BATH

AREA SUMMARY (CONDITIONED SPACE)FIRST FLOOR 330SECOND FLOOR 525THIRD FLOOR 437TOTAL 1,292

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Carroway Nicholson Condominiums

Typical Floor PlansUnit 13 Floor Plans

Site Plan

Elevation

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NMThe Rockefeller University Junior ArchitectCollaborative Research Center Mitchell | Giurgola Architects

B Level Floor Plan A Level Floor Plan First Floor Plan Fifth Floor Plan

Transverse Section East Elevation

Planning through Schematic Design.

Responsible for working as a member of a team to create high quality drawings and presentations to coordinate and communicate design and construction.

Tasks:- Physical Study Models- 3D models and drawings to explore complex geometries and spaces.- 3D modeling of sun studies- Detailed plans, secitons & elevations.

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The Rockefeller University

West Elevation

Longitudinal Section

Rate of Change

WEST ELEVATION

MAPPING STUDIES 01 02 03 04 05 06

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BONNET CARRE SPILLWAY - Site Overview

Mississippi RiverLake Pontchartrain

Intervention Sitenorth

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NMUIA World Congress of Architecture Competition Architecture Undergraduate Student WorkBonnet Carre Spillway - Park Service Facilities Louisiana State University

Following the 1927 Mississippi River flood, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designed and built the Bonnet Carre Spillway to allow complete discharge of water from the Mis-sissippi River into Lake Pontchartrain. The spillway site measures 7,700 feet by 5.7 miles and is located 25 miles west of New Orleans, Louisiana amidst a hot and humid sub-tropical climate. Political and social reasons for the location were essentially to protect the city of New Orleans, (whose port is the third largest in the U.S. and the fourth largest in the world) from complete annihilation.

The control structure regulates the rate of change of the river’s flood waters into the spillway that spans the 7,700 ft. distance between the north and south guide levees. Comprising the structure are massive, six foot concrete weirs supporting seven thousand, ten ft. tall, wooden needles. Im-mediately adjacent concrete baffles break the force of the turbulent flood waters. Two cranes lift the wooden needles individually over a period of 35 hours to filter the flood water through. Although the batture area between the river and the control structure is flooded six months out of a year the struc-ture is only fully permeated approximately once every eight years in the event of a ma-jor flood. When open, the control structure has sustained 350,000 cubic feet per sec-ond of water flow.

The control structure marks a threshold be-tween two extreme conditions, the batture and the actual spillway. The topography of the batture stretches from the river to the control structure and is constantly inundated with the Mississippi River’s rich river sedi-ment. This condition creates an extreme rate of change of flora growth. Trees and thick brush grow here at a rapid rate of one inch per day and are just as quickly smoth-ered by the rising river, only to begin anew. The spillway topography, on the other hand, is more static as the control structure only fully opens once every eight years. Here, trees grow to full height and stay that way.

The scenario exists at this key moment where the architecture seeks to frame these extreme conditions and the histor-ical significance of the control structures construction. The architecture attempts to become part of the and its site and provide spaces that allow the inhabitants to experi-ence the changing levels of these extreme conditions. A national park as a recreational facility is fitting here as a stated goal of the National Park Service is to preserve historic sites and events. The National Park Service will also serve to frame the already present recreational activities of the site.

annual flood level

dry condition

extreme flood level

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Pella Student Design Competition (1st Place)Visual and Performing Arts Center

[Distinction] Building and Urban Design in DevelopmentUCL - The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Honduras 2008-2010Louisiana State University

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