portfolio submission 2012 spreads

talia pinto handler

education:Yale School of ArchitectureMasters of Architecture: 2013

The University of Michigan: TCAUPB.S. in Architecture: 2010

Pre- College Architecture Program: 2005

Carnegie Mellon University: CFA

awards, publications + exhibitions:Yale School of ArchitectureRetrospecta 2011-2012: Drawing & Architectural Form Retrospecta 2010-2011: Design Fabrication (collaborative) Formal Analysis Final Drawing

Civic Friche Studio Exhibition (collaborative) Wallenberg Studio Competition: Research (colaborative)

The University of Michigan: TCAUP

talia pinto handler

designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33 linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 . deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

buildfoam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71

past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75 ground condition ....................................................................... 79 kinderTANK ................................................................................. 83 alveole 14 .................................................................................... 89

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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 model, plan + section drawings semi-inhabitable sculptural study matte board, graphite on strathmore

The first in a series of small-scale design proposals, this preliminary spatial study works to address through highly calibrated part-to-whole relationships issues of scale, material, surface, porosity and enclosure while blurring the boundaries between figure and field conditions.

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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 site photos + design drawings semi-inhabitable sculptural study graphite on strathmore

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This design proposal for Socrates Sculpture Park, a public park used for the showcasing of local art in the Long Island City neighborhood of Brooklyn, incorporates different means of transportation into the design in order to provide more feasible access. These modes of transportation include vehicular ciruclation, port amenities, a bike terminal, and pedestrian access from Vernon Boulevard and Broadway, all of which are used to drive the formal language of outdoor public spaces and galleries.

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brooklyn tobacco warehouse10

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yale school of architecture architectural design I studio critic: ben pell fall 2010 model, plan, section + rendered perspective drawings brooklyn bridge performing arts center mixed medias

The final study in a series of three, this urban intervention proposal for the Brooklyn Tobacco Warehouse provides performance, exhibition and recreational facilities to the growing Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO communities. Relying heavily on the desire to cut access across the site to engender movement to and through the tobacco warehouse, the resulting formal strategy folds itself around the preexisting structure of the warehouse as well as the larger scale cut.

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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16

hostel for itinerant musicians16

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yale school of architecture architectural design II studio critic: jennifer leung new haven hostel for itinerant musicians winter 2011 diagrams, plan, section + axonometric drawings, study + final models retrospecta 2010-2011 nomination

A hostel as well as a music venue located in the heart of downtown New Haven, this hybrid proposal attempts to reinvent the spatial as well as programmatic standards of both. Conceived of through a reformatting and abuse of the traditional stair, the design for this hostel privileges the public space necessary for a music arena while providing the amenities and privacy required by visiting artists and travelersch ap el

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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16

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yale school of architecture vlock building project professor: alan organschi, et al. winter - spring 2011 site analysis, diagrams, plan, section + elevation drawings, renderings + models collaborative work autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator http://www.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp11

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Developed alongside nine other collaborators, The New Haven House proposal for the Vlock Building Project of 2011 was conceived as a design that would speak to its environment. Inventive in its formal and spatial qualities yet respectful in its overall composition, The New Haven House achieved a level of impact through simplicity and careful, caluculated design that won both the juries approval as well as that of the client.

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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 16

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culturememorials historic sites cultural/historical art museums

artsdesign centers contemporary art museums public art installations

theatreperforming arts music venues informal performing arts venues

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yale school of architecture architectural design iv studio critic: joel sanders fall 2011 live-work kunsthalle at the brooklyn navy yard diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings

1 Brooklyn Historical Society 2 Brooklyn War Memorial

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (pelham bay park)

American Folk Art Museum

4 Amos Eno Gallery

Public architecture is explored through the design of a medium-scale institutional building, an arts center located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The center includes a public exhibition component conceived of as a kunsthalle an art museum that mounts only temporary exhibitionsas well as a private artists residency component. Not serving as a shrine of rare and honorific objects to which the community makes awe- filled pilgrimages, the Kunsthalle functions as an arena of provocation in which audience and discussion are stimulated. In mixing production and exhibition, it serves not as an institution of passive reception but one of active, and necessarily identifiable, intellectual exchange and debate. - Fall 2011 Studio Brief, Keith Krumwiede. Program at the BNY is split into two legs, one side reaching down into the bay designated for the production of art, and the other lifting upwards, reserved for the latters display. The two halves are joined at the theater and the sculpture yard; these spaces, both accessible at grade, are conceived of as the portions of the building in which both production and display occur simultaneously.central park upper west side

Conference House (park slope) Center for Jewish History Dyckman House and Farmhouse Museums Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (fordham manor) El Museo del Barrio Ellis Island Immigration Museum (ellis island) Fort Schuyler (locust point) Fraunces Tavern Museum Girl Scout Museum Gracie Mansion Greater Astoria Historical Society Harbor Defense Museum (fort hamilton) Hendrick I. Lott House Hispanic Society of America (washington heights) Historic Richmond Town (staten island) International Freedom Center Irish Hunger Memorial Japan Society Jewish Museum Judaica Museum of the Hebrew Home King Manor Museum Kingsland Homestead (flushing) Korea Society Lefferts Historic House (park slope) Lewis H. Latimer House (flushing) Louis Armstrong House (east elmhurst) Lower East Side Tenement Museum Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Morris-Jumel Mansion (washington heights) Merchant's House Museum Museum of American Finance Museum of the City of New York Museum of the Moving Image Museum of Chinese in America Museum at Eldridge Street Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum of Television and Radio National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of LGBT History Sports Museum of America New York City Police and Fire Museums New York Historical Society 3 New York Transit Museum Queens County Farm Museum (glen oaks) Ripley's Believe It or Not! Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYC Scandinavia House Skyscraper Museum South Street Seaport Museum Statue of Liberty (liberty island) Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre The Little Red Lighthouse (riverside drive) The Old Stone House (park slope) The Paley Center for Media The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (east flatbush) Tribute in Light Trinity Churchyard Valentine-Varian House (the bronx) Van Cortlandt House Museum (fieldston) World Trade Center Memorial Yeshiva University Museum

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Art in General Artists Space Asia Society Asian American Arts Centre Astor Place Cube Axelle Fine Art Belanthi Bronx Museum of the Arts (the bronx) Brooklyn Children's Museum (crown heights) Brooklyn Museum (prospect heights) Center for Architecture Chelsea Art Museum Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture Children's Museum of the Arts Children's Museum of Manhattan China Institute in America Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cooper Union's Study Center of Design and Typography Dahesh Museum of Art Demu Gallery Dia Art Foundation (long island) DUMBO Arts Center Faith Art Gallery Fashion Institute of Technology Fisher Landau Center Forbes Galleries Frick Collection Governors Island (governers island) Highline Park Hut Gallery International Print Center New York Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (queens) Jewish Children's Museum (crown heights) Liberty Street Gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art Municipal Art Society Museum for African Art Museum of Arts & Design Museum of Biblical Art Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Museum of Modern Art Museum of the Moving Image National Academy of Design National Museum of Catholic Art and History Neue Galerie New Museum of Contemporary Art New York School of Interior Design New York Tattoo Museum Nicholas Roerich Museum (morningside heights) Parsons The New School for Design Pratt Institute P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Public Art Fund Queens Museum of Art (queens) Rafael Fodde Editions Rotunda Gallery Rubin Museum of Art Sarafina Schickler Howard Fine Art SculptureCenter Shades of Art Smack Mellon Studios Socrates Sculpture Park Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sony Wonder Technology Lab Spring Studio Museum in Harlem (harlem) The Cloisters (fort tryon park) The Drawing Center The Noguchi Museum Time Warner Center Williamsburg Art & Historical Center White Columns Whitney Museum of American Art

92nd Street Y 92Y Tribeca A Gathering of the Tribes AMC Loews Theater 19th Street AMC Theaters Empire 25 Angelika Film Center Apollo Theater Arlenes Grocery Avery Fisher Hall 19 Bargemusic BB King Blues Club and Grill Birdland Jazz Club Blue Note Jazz Club Bowery Ballroom Boys Choir of Harlem (harlem) Bitter End 20 Brooklyn Academy of Music 21 Brooklyn Philharmonic Cafe Wha Carnegie Hall Cinema Tropical Cinema Village City Winery Clearview Cinemas Ziegfeld Crash Mansion Dance New Amsterdam David H. Koch Theater Film Forum Grammercy Theater Hammerstein Ballroom Highline Ballroom IFC Center Jazz at Lincoln Center Joes Pub Joyce Theater Kaufman Center La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Landmark Sunshine Cinema Manhattan School of Music Mannes College of Music Mercury Lounge Metropolitan Opera New York City Center New York Collegium New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Nuyorican Poets Cafe Quad Cinema Symphony Space The Juilliard School The Public Theater Radio City Music Hall Rockwood Music Hall Roseland Ballroom Santos Party House Smoke Jazz Club Snug Harbor Cultural Center (staten island) Sobs Terminal 5 The Living Room The Town Hall Tribeca Cinemas UA Battery Park Stadium 11 UA Union Square Stadium 14 Village East Cinema Village Vanguard Webster Hall Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

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manhattannoho soho lower east side

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designfigure : field ................................................................................. 3 socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7 brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11 hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17 the new haven house ............................................................. 25 split personality ....................................................................... 33

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yale school of architecture architectural design iv studio critic: alan plattus collaborator: brittany brown hayes winter 2012 urban studio project: stamford, connecticut diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings

[The goal of] this studio [is to] examine how one represents, analyzes, constructs and projects the future design of an urban site... Urban design is by nature a complex endeavor with immediate as well as long-term effects. Proposals at the city scale involve negotiations between public and private interests; global, regional and local forces and needs; collective and individual expression. - Ed Mitchell, studio brief In order to appropriately address the already existing fabric as well as the nature of the city of Stamford, this design proposal attempts to alleviate fissures in the urban grain locally. Both the downtown and water sites are treated as separate entities; each utilizes similar formal linking strategies to create new public spaces and connective typologies.washington boulevard tressor boulevard ubs warburg park south end vertical circulation

ramp to lower deck elmcroft road

atlantic street ubs warburg park

veterans park

waterside pedestrian bridge

pedestrian bridge

veterans park

wetlands

docks ferry terminal

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waterfront site strategySite PlanStamford, Connecticut 1:500

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yale school of architecture formal analysis professor: peter eisenman fall 2010 computer-generated drawing series 15th-17th century architecture autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator studio award: free analysis competition finalist retrospecta publication: 2010/2011

A semester-long course devoted to the study of the object of architecture or canonical buildings in its history, the following drawings attempt to analyze them not through the lens of reaction and nostalgia but through a filter of contemporary thought. Moving across history, these studies hope to establish and represent the formal tendencies of some of the most influential buldings of the Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist periods.

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yale school of architecture drawing projects instructor: turner brooks winter 2011 series of measured hand-drawings various subjects of study graphite on strathmore

fetal development cross-section

human brain #4:

This set of drawings, devoted to the spatial mapping of change in objects over time, devotes itself predominantly to three different subjects: snow (as it melts), the human brain (as it develops and decays) and architecture (as it appears). Drawn sequentially over the course of four months, each piece serves as a representative of the compilation as a whole, of the changing tendencies, comforts and crutches of the hand at work.

fetal development long-section

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melting snow #3

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human brain #662

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drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59

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yale school of architecture drawing and architectural form instructor: victor agran fall 2011 selection of hand-drafted drawings graphite on strathmore retrospecta 2011-2012

[An examination] of descriptive geometry and perspective through the practice of rigorous constructed architectural drawings, the methods and concepts studied serve as a foundation for the development of drawings that interrogate the relationship between a drawings production and its conceptual objectives. - studio brief, Victor Agran Using the constraints of the course to provide rigidity, this set of drawings attempt to push the limits of proscriptive drawing techniques. By allowing the drawing to be manufactured solely by virtue of the process and with no predisposition for specific visual outcomes, playful, explorative and bizarre geometries are generated, giving insight into the boundaries as well as potentials of established drafting methods.

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case study: archigram

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processing: light 68

piero della francesca: perspective 69


drawformal analysis ......................................................................... 55 maps ............................................................................................... 59 deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

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yale school of architecture visualization III: fabrication + assembly instructors: ben pell + john eberhardt winter 2011 full-scale foam installation collaborators: andrea leung, own detlor, raymond tripodi low-density styrofoam + plywood retrospecta publication: 2010/2011

This project , designed as the final project in a digital technology course, works to make evident the nature of the relationship between a design, its fabrication, and the finished product Both additive and subtractive, the intent was to create an installation that integrated structure into the pieces formal composition. and played with light and shadow to produce new and unique lighting conditions.20.7

Andrea Leung. Owen Detlor. R.J. Tripodi. Talia Pinto- Handler. Materials:20.75 x 82.375 sheet of thick Ultralite MDF 20.75 x 82.375 x 31.25 block of Styrofoam

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Step 1:Cut MDF to size on the table saw if larger than necessary. Paint one side of MDF red.

Step 2:Cut Styrofoam to size using the wire cutter if larger than necessary.20.75

Step 3:Mill MDF using the given AutoCAD file. The file is located on the server at Q:\1016B - Fabrication and Assembly\Tali_Owen_Andrea_RJ\File Handover Use the 2D toolpathing tools in MadCAM to toolpath the file. (Either the pocketing tool or the profile tool.) If you use the profile tool, be careful that when the mill removes the circles from the sheet, the circles do not fly up off the bed and interfere will the milling. Additionally, be sure that the toolpathing will not completely remove the finished piece from the surrounding MDF, because the piece will become loose before the milling is complete. Instead, remove the finished piece from the surrounding MDF with the table saw. Cut the piece on the large mill. Remember to orient the MDF with the red surface facing down. Note that the nominal radius of the circular apertures in the MDF is 1/16 smaller than the nominal radius of apertures in the foam. This is because the foam cutter removes a small amount of material. Because we have adjusted the files, the foam and MDF should fit together tightly.41 31.25

Step 4:Wire cut Styrofoam using the given DXF files. The files will be labeled according to order of cut. Open up the first file in Croma Designer, import as a polyline, make sure the file is scaled correctly, save it as a PRJ file, and make sure the origin is in the top left corner (and at the same point for each subsequent file). Remember to always select the EPS3lb option for foam cutting. Place pieces of scrap foam below the piece to be cut so that the wire can travel the whole tool path because the wire will not cut within 1 of the bed. Orient the piece of foam on the bed so that it corresponds to the dimensions of the cut. Always make sure the piece of foam is oriented perpendicular to the wire. Open up Croma Output, and import PRJ file. Zero the wire in on the topmost left corner. Cut. Make sure the wire is zeroed in on the origin at the topmost left corner for every single subsequent cut Consult http://www.architecture.yale.edu/dmonline/Tutorials/foamcutter/foamcutter.pdf for reference. After cutting, use tape to hold all the pieces together, but make sure the sticky side of the tape is facing away from the Styrofoam at all times.82.375 20.875 37.25 3.25

Step 5:Bring MDF and Styrofoam to the site (the small window in the stairwell closest to the laser cutters between the fifth and sixth floors). Push pegs into the MDF with the red surface closest to the ground. Slip the rest of the foam onto the pegs. This will take advantage of the wiggle room between the foam pegs and the foam tubes. Place the entire assembly on the window with red side closest to the window. Pull Styrofoam some rods out towards wall across from glass at the top of the foam piece and secure with pins.

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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture & urban planning raoul wallenberg studio: borderline personality studio critic: steven christensen winter 2010 research material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings san ysidro-tijuana border crossing building proposal mixed media raoul wallenberg competition: honorable mention: studio research material

The San Diego Tijuana Metropolitan Area is a territory of continuous urban fabric that includes the city and suburbs of San Diego in the US and Tijuana, Playas de Rosarito, and Tecate in Mexico. As the busiest border crossing in the world, this site offers a unique opportunity for Mexico and the US to replace a banal and congested piece of infrastructure with a public work that is a reflection of regional/national identity and civic pride. Could this central piece of infrastructure be the locus for an architectural intervention that reflects the shared aspirations of North America's largest bi-national community; a counterpoint to the proposed 'Triple Border Fence' it traverses? How can a gesture of alliance go beyond simply whitewashing a highly contentious political divide and actually improve the user experience? Should this community, in understanding of its unique relationship to the border, assert its connectedness in defiance of a divisive national rhetoric through a public work that offers new opportunities for occupation and political action? Rather than lingering in the realm of utopian illusion, this studio recognizes the continued existence of the border and seeks tactical, speculative, and timely solutions to the critical design problem of the threshold. - Steven Christensen, studio brief. The first half of the design studio, focused on site research and culminating in the compilation of maps and drawings into a book, consists of a heavy focus on the historic and geographic aspects of the San Diego - Tijuana border region. The resulting design project, a border tower devoted predominantly to an inversion of the concept of Duty-Free, is a formal study embodying the intention to redefine the notion of the architectural symbol, reinvent the concept of the border crossing station, and make public the subverted identities of the US-Mexico border. A tower located in no mans land and dedicated predominantly to office space to be filled by the adjacent publics, the suggestive nature of this megastructure calls into question the communicative aspects of the skyscraper as well as the potential for buildings to both sublimate as well as promote the more sinister characteristics of a region.

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research material1824 creationof the united mexican states

growth + production facilities designated use facilities hotel + hostel accomodations1840creation of the republic of the rio grande guatemala wins independence from the frca

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creation of the republic of texas

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the republic of the rio grande rejoins mexico

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east-west sectiongeology + land use 0

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precipitation

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past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75

ground condition78

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university of michigan:taubman college of architecture + urban planning study abroad: argentina studio critics: gerardo caballero + juan rois spring 2009 photographs, diagrams, plan + section drawings, model mild ground mediation + large infrastructural proposals watercolor + graphite on bond, museum board

This studio, aimed at engaging in a formal exploration of staggering topographical differences in the argentine landscape, hopes to accentuate the drastic difference between the flatness of the pampas/lowlands and the towering height of the 20th century skyscraper. Studied at two vastly different sites, both landscape and building proposal attempt to underline as well as develop this differentiation of scale and create suitable environments in relation to human occupancy.

buenos aires

rosario

crdoba

mendoza

site plan 80

section b

final model: urban intervention 81




past workbody politic ................................................................................. 75 ground condition ....................................................................... 79

kinderTANK82

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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture + urban planning kinderTANK studio studio critic: rosalyne shieh fall 2009 process material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings + models mixed mediasesc pompeia

k i n d e r T A N K, is a Chicago-based, not-for-profit coalition of educators and concerned citizens who believe the contemporary approach to education is wrongheaded and only delays our responsibilities to the present. Rather than working from a distancethat is, rather than investing now in a future that is always distant, with an attitude towards early education that assumes an yet-unconsummated future, with hopes that the children of today will someday benefit the society of tomorrow, kinderTANK promises invest and engage children in the present as fully active participants of society and turn their minds towards the problems of today. Society is not made up of children and adults. There is no such thing as a child, simply full members of society who have lived on this earth for fewer or greater years than others. Younger members may possess less knowledge of the world, but may also suffer less from the desensitization that comes with age. Members of society under the age of 10 represent the largest yet-untapped think tank in modern society. The goal of kinderTANK is to turn these young minds toward the so-called adult issues of the day. - studio brief, Rosalyne Shieh This proposal organizes program according to its level of integration and interaction with active members of the public. While some of the spaces consist of private classrooms and enclosed spaces of learning, others are designed to espouse more open, fluid methods of education, communication, and discovery. Not a building shackled to the spatial tropes of the generic institution, the kinderTANK attempts to achieve sufficient irregularity and malleability so as to continue to provide inventive methods of learning for decades to come.

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case study comparison: sao paolo + chicago

program diagram

movement study84

massing model85

discussion space open workshop space



girls bathroom

boys bathroomaccessible green roof garden indoor play area

auditorium

discussion space open workshop space gallery



girls bathroom

boys bathroomaccessible green roof garden indoor play area

auditorium

playground

gallery

playground exhibition space patio meeting hall gallery meeting hall meeting hall exhibition space patio exhibition space administration space

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exhibition space

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meeting hall

girls bathroom

boys bathroom

girls bathroom

boys bathroom

kitchen

auditoriumdining room

girls bathroom

boys bathroom

kitchen

indoor event space

auditoriumdining room

gallery

accessible green roof garden

gallery

accessible green roof garden

lecture hall

lecture hall

floor plan elevation 16

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lecture hall

floor plan elevation 55

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parking garage

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alveole 1488

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university of michigan: taubman college of architecture + urban planning study abroad: civic friche studio critics: anya sirota + steven christensen + jean louis farges + combes/renaud spring 2010 computer-generated analysis series collaborators: ivan adelson + erika lindsay alveole 14: saint nazaire, loire atlantique, france autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator civic friche studio exhibition: tcaup fall 2010 http://www.civicfriche.com

industry value of production

commerce/trade value of production

food = 2.1%

food = 3.3%

energy = 2.1%

energy = 3.3%

pays de la loire

intermediate goods = 5%

loire-atlantique

intermediate goods = 3.6%

the transatlantic telegraphthe transatlantic telegraph: experiementation in the1860s in the Bay Biscay attempting to link Western Europeto the Americas.

goods + automotive equipment = 6.5%

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pays de la loire

personal services = 4.1%

loire-atlantique

A paradoxical coupling of terms the institutional with the abandoned Civic Friche refers to the tactical appropriation of marginal sites for public function. Distinct from traditional strategies of reuse, Civic Friche describes a new approach tourbanism through civic initiative, temporary and interim uses, and public participation. Civic Friche is an ideology. A term that resists translation (wasteland being its most direct and reductive English counterpart), Friche has been embraced by a cadre of architects, landscapes architects, artists and thinkers as an opportunistic strategy with liberating potential... A friche site, whether reappropriated or new, begins with an intimate understanding of the physical and cultural context, yet it assumes that things will change. New programs will emerge. Cultural and economic shifts will invariably take place. The architect, released from the post of dogmatic creator, envisions solutions that may be fragmented, temporary, cheeky, and even subversive. - http://www.civicfriche.com Alveole 14, an abandoned Nazi u-boat bunker located in the city of Saint Nazaire in the Loire-Atlantique region of France, is studied in a series of seven other friche projects. Recently adapted by LIN Architects for VIP LIFE, this heavy piece of infrastructure embodies and serves as a constant reminder to its citys citizens of a more sinister era in French history. LINs intervention, a design consisting largely of strategically placed lighting and and access amenities, serves to break up and mediate the immensity of scale of the u-boat bunker. Now functioning as a music and performance venue, Alveole 14 serves as a testament to the indelible mark of architecture on its environment as well the powerful implications of urban spatial reappropriation.

transportation = 4.1%

transportation = 4.3%

financial + property activity = 16.8%

financial + property activity = 16.7%

business services = 14.6%

business services = 17%

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personal services = 4.3%

railway evolution: rail evolution

Chemin de Fer de Paris Orlans railroad company of Orlans connects Saint-Nazaire to Nantes

non-market services = 20.2%

Nmayenne

construction = 8.6%

construction = 6.7%

sarthe

trade = 11.1%36 72 144km

trade = 11.6%15.375 30.75 61.5km

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3,450,409

1,234,089

population

population

under age 20

pays de la loire

loire-atlantique

maine-et-loire

under age 20

bay of biscay

321,628

saint-nazaire

885,803

population

loire-atlantique

68,838

under age 20

16,629

between ages 21+74

between ages 21+74

vendee

2,267,339over age 75

between ages 21+74

818,096

45,4190 1.25 2.5 5km

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15.375

30.75

61.5km

over age 75

94,365

over age 75

6,790

1,453,677/148,138

529,596/56,346

employment/unemployment



agriculture = 17,707

37,929/4,491

agriculture = 178

agriculture = 79,653

construction = 1,909



industry = 281,302other = 1,759

other = 315

industry = 82,435 services = 392,264

industry = 9,126other = 923

pays de la loire

loire-atlantique

estuaire-de-la-loire

services = 984,833

saint-nazaire

services = 25,793

saint nazaire

bay of biscay

palais de tokyo

le lieu unique

alveole 14

le channelatlantic ocean

unemployed = 148,1380 36 72 144km 0 15.375 30.75 61.5km

unemployed = 56,346

unemployed = 4,491

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N1934: louis joubert dry dock

pays de la loire

loire-atlantique

1881: basin penhot

rate of stability = 93.2 per 100little morrocco or za sud chantiers

rate of stability = 90.1 per 100

1856: halluard city

35.8 per 10,000

48.6 per 10,000

rate of entrance = 7.7 per 100

rate of entrance = 11.1 per 100

migration 2001-2006

migration 2001-2006

old saint nazaire

le pass 90

cit du design

belle de maichantiers datlantique: founded in 1861, government nationalizaes all shipyards into one state-owned entity as result of 1936 national general strike0 36 72

rate of exit = 5.9 per 100144km

rate of exit = 8.7 per 1000 15.375 30.75 61.5km

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portfolio submission 2012 spreads

Documents

section drawings

design drawings

section aa b plan

design figure

section b125

unrolled section b

design proposals

studio critic