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The Star(v)ing Artist

Dealing with the growing arts district, the Short North, we were prompted to design a multi-use complex that would satisfy various programmatic needs, including a gallery, apartments, offices and studio lofts. A study of broken glass created an operation to arrange the program in a way in which each space clearly defined itself as a disjointed piece of the overall system. The programmatic arrangement in addition to the literal transparency forces a visual interaction between the artists and the general public. The artist is no longer allowed to create in seclusion and the process of creating art becomes as much as a part of the exhibition as the finished product.

Studio Instructor: Michael Denison

Broken Glass Plates of Program

Programmatic Relationships

Symbiote

Team: Jon Blistan, Michael Grieser, Steve ChristyPersonal Role: conceptual design to fabrication

The prompt for this studio was to create an installation using light as a main source for inspiration. We took a different approach and investigated the idea of producing an emotional surface which would create different effects in order to have an ontological change from an architecture of thinking and process to an architecture of sensibility and emotion. Techniques of art nouveau were studied to create an atmosphere that would envelope the user completely. The symbiote uses both the three dimensional (the object) and the two dimesional (the projection) to create an infinite boundary that is forever expanding and invading the pre-existing space. Atmospheres were studied in virtual space using rendering techniques and then precisely recreated in physical space.

Studio Instructor: Gabriel Esquivel

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rethink: rebuild: reMIXThe reMix project is a hybrid building which combines a community athletic center with a library. The design was created by establishing a series of events that oscillate from isolation to discreet interactions between the athletic club and library users. Through the events a narrative is formed which explores how the space can be reflective of permanent programs and still create opportunities for spontaneous relationships. The form of the building echoes the ideologies of the programs contained within and resolves any conflicts that may be inherently present between the two.

Studio Instructor: Tony Caicco

A singular mass does not allow for each program to exist in a form true to its nature. Each has its own ideology, the solitary nature of which can be damaging to mind and body. The first strategy allows programs to remain as separate entities, but exist interdependently with each other by physical connection and visual rela0tionships.

The surrounding area suffers from a lack of public/green spaces. The second strategy is to create a large public forum for markets and outdoor concerts. This is done by lifting and separating the landscape to create a canopy within an urban condition.

The building’s skinning system is composed of circle and square punches for the gym and the library respectively. The assignment of the specific shapes to each program reveals the hybridization of the building on the exterior while reinforcing their individuality. The fenestration also becomes a gradiant within the building as athletic and educational programs begin to overlap.

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PerforatedSeminar Instructor: Stephen TurkDesign Partner: Joshua Lowrance

Every seventy seconds a monobloc plastic chair is produced. This mass production has led to a large scale invasion of kitsch furniture on countless patios and porches all over the world. The act of perforation takes the common aesthetic of the plastic chair and individualizes it with series of surface manipulations. Through the process of perforation we were able to test the limits of the chairs design and material until a breaking point was found. The project then becomes a statement of the reuse and redefining of past designs and materials in order to synthesize a new aesthetic.

I have thought about an ideology which is unreachable but contained. It is an ever changing form of information and speculation. Someone had trapped it in the geometries man found so ideal.

(so naturally it is under control )

Man harvests it, manipulates it, and designs it to his will; but it is always contained.

When we approach it from infinite we understand it. When we are right next to it we understand it. When we are gone we understand and long for it.

It is only when we penetrate its plastic exterior that we are confused.

(our perfect form is a lie)

Contained within is unrestraint and free-will.A man so undisciplined he ad-hocly spews his desires over our little world.

I have thought about this place.

Where morals meet morals only resulting in a distorted view of the old world. Where everyone is perpetually a practice of their own preach.

What I have thought about seems to reject the contemporary issues of form.

(there is no context only solution)

Nature is shaped with the infalliable truths of mathematics. Man is moved by the raw force of nature, artificially rendered. Space has no meaning there, only void. The void which fills our space, reacting to and shaping our thoughts.

(there is nothing, forces controlled, contained within)

I thought the world existed there. The last free world, owned and operated. No longer is it a slave to the individual. No longer can one man impress his view on the populace. Only contribute to the collective ideology.

(a global mosiac of every individual thought)

the garden in the machine

Throughout history man’s attitude towards engaging the landscape has been consistently evolving; ideologies distorted, perspectives changed. However, society’s ability to contain nature persists. The garden in the machine, located in Cleveland, functions as a human ecology center. The project plays on a series of inversions that follow the dictum: the architecturalization of nature and the naturalization of architecture. The landscape is moved to the center of the site and is contained within a proscriptive geometry. Here nature is created, studied, and designed to fit the needs of the researchers. The programmatic spaces [labs + offices] are pushed to the boundries of the site where their forms are manipulated by the [artificially rendered] forces of nature. This inversion is meant to [re]create the duality between man and nature, the singular and the multiple, the real and the virtual, and the monument within the landscape.

Studio Instructor: John Kelleher

Wet Labs

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Foundation Offices

Educational Rooms

Advocacy Offices

Research Support

Building Services

Reflecting Pool

Living Wall

Greenhouse Lab

Computer Lab

Ecucational Lab

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Eye on Malaysia541 feet

Ferris Wheel 264 feet

Shanghai Wheel354 feet

La Roue de Paris200 feet

Wonder Wheel144 feet

Janfusun Fancy World289 feet

London Eye 443 feet

Dubai, the golden child of capitalism, has been the center of the world’s attention, acquiring a collection of international design projects, including the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. This iconic city built from nothing in the middle of the desert is a wonder of economic growth but completely unsustainable. Oil reserves are depleting, the financial crisis has devalued real estate markets, and the United Arab Emirates’ predominance as global tourist mecca is now threatened. While the Burj symbolizes the rise of the UAE, Dubai cannot sustain itself as a collection of iconographic buildings. The Thneed Dubai draws from Dr. Seuss’ fable, The Lorax, which emphasizes the need for careful consumption of the earth’s resources.

The Thneed Dubai attempts to address this paradox of iconography and sustainability through the design of a agrobotic farm that produces energy and food for the city of Dubai, while serving as a tourist and cultural destination. The Thneed Dubai constructs an artificial ecology that offers a series of consumptive and productive environments.

thneed dubai: an agro-eco-techno-topiaStudio Instructor: Lisa Tilder

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Different cultural programs are contained within controlled environments

Visitors ride in temperature controlled cabins to reach the different cultural platforms

Fresh water and electricity generated in pavilions is collected at the ground level where it is used by agricultural machines

Integrated solar system magnifies the sun’s rays to increase temperatures, creating optimal environment for condensation while shielding cultural spaces

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Vinyl condensation piping continues dispersant process and carries water over platforms

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Water passes through cooling system and is networked to the solar skin shade

Glass surface helps to guide the condensation to the collectors

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Converting unused land in the region for agriculture to help offset the amount of food that is imported

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Thneed Dubai consists of the world’s largest Ferris Wheel, which generates solar energy and clean water for its adjoining agricultural complex. The Wheel powers a series of agricultural robots that work together to transform the arid desert landscape into food crops that are distributed locally. The Wheel’s veil of solar panels and desalinization systems synthesize aesthetic effects with energy production. Visitors relax within its series of cultural spaces while observing the dance of the Thneed’s agricultural machines, all the while growing food for the new cities of the UAE. Thneed Dubai is not the cure for all of the ecological problems that face Dubai, but it can serve as an icon for change.

Third Floor Plan Hookah BarTea Room

Second Floor Plan Gallery

First Floor Plan Restaurant

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Top Speed: 10 mphBattery Range: 200 milesStorage Capacity: 12,400 cubic feetPurpose: Irrigation of fieldsRelation: Frequently returns to the home station to fill up its water tanks and recharge its batteries

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a 12,400 cubic feet of fresh water storage tank with the ability to irrigate up to 15 acres

Top Speed: 5 mphBattery Range: turns off when wind is not blowingStorage Capacity: 1000 voltsPurpose: Protect fieldsRelation: Never returns to home station

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gyroscope to provide stability and prevent tipping

single wheel to allow for easy access between rows

medium turbines creating most of the energy used in powering the machine and keeping it stable

small turbines used to scare predators

Top Speed: 15 mphBattery Range: turns off when sun is not shiningStorage Capacity: 400 cubic feetPurpose: Harvesting of fieldsRelation: Returns to the home station to deposit harvested grains

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Top Speed: 40 mphBattery Range: 200 milesStorage Capacity: 400 cubic feetPurpose: Till and Plant fieldsRelation: Returns to the home station recharge and get more seeds

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hydraulic-powered legs that provide versatility and allow for wide range of mobility

internal furnace that burns excess from harvesting process creating nitrogen rich fertilizer that it expels through the rear

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hydraulic-powered joints that provide wide range of mobility

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seeder, dispersing seeds into equal rows 6-8 inches in the ground