JASON M MOULDUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Primitive Alterations:reinterpretations of existing foundations through tweaks, adaptations, and positive misreadings

Glitched MatrixSpring 2011

Penelope Dean / Andy Moddrell

RumspringaFall 2012

Sarah Dunn

Book of BaysFall 2011

Jimenez Lai

Open InversionsSpring 2012

Xavier Vendrell

Primitive TwistFall 2010

Paul Preissner / Laura Fehlberg

Glitched MatrixThe choices are usually open office, or the corridor office plan. However, with this project, a new type of office plan is created in which the corridor and the office become one system. Within a primitive grid, rooms and spaces are allowed to have their own persona and characteristics, and with a simple tweak of this gridded system, more variation occurs. This system is generated by a basic structural system of intersecting walls that form a three dimensional grid. By pinching these walls together, the spaces become less uniform in the horizontal condition, by having large spaces and small spaces all within the same system. Vertically, the walls are then twisted in order to diversify the spaces as they move upward, thus making every room within this system different from the next. The corridor is integrated within the office setting, and is defined by the furniture of each room. Wrapping this entire building is a semi-opaque skin that hides the activities that occur within the building, but hints at the at the grid organization. Cut outs within this skin expose rooms to the exterior so that each floor has outdoor space intermixed with each office plan. This new office plan brings circulation, program, and structure into a single coherent whole yet provides great difference and diversity.

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DIFFERENTIATED SPACES

initial studies: tweaking identical spaces into differentiated ones

plans site - 3 : organizing circulation and interweaving program create difference

elevations north and east

model uncovered: revealing the range of interior program volumes

plans 4 - roof : as the building moves up walls twist and rotate to accommodate program and to enhance variety

elevations north and east

model covered: shadows hint at the form of the tweaked grid on the inside

plan 1: room organization creates personalities and contrasts between the programs within the same matrix

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close-ups: openings in the skin specializes and reveals the nature on the interior

plan 2: location of occupiable grid spaces were chosen to create a variety of room heights and allow sky lighting

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close-ups: the final design enables each room to be different from the next

Open InversionsOpen Inversions starts with the primitive concept of the townhouse and its semi-autonomous vertical lifestyle. The vertical arrangement of the townhouse tends to stratify the programs into discrete zones that become more closed the further they are from the street. This project embraces the stratification as a means to organize bands of lifestyle/living, but creates different forms of openings to facilitate a blend of outdoor functions. The 36 units aggregate around 4 courtyards which act as new semi-public fronts. On the lowest level, the units have a flexible live-work space that can expand directly onto the shared plaza. The next level is occupied by the typical living necessities which are fronted by terraces that overlook the common courtyard. Finally, the uppermost level is a place of rest, with semi-sheltered private spaces and open balconies. Through this mixing of indoor and outdoor, private and shared, a new type of lifestyle and community emerges. The system is introverted, creating opportunities for shared moments, yet still providing the flexibility for each unit to retain intimate spaces.

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third flooropen private outdoorresting indoor

OUTDOOR LIVING

unit core / circulation floor by floor programmatic distribution

outdoor extensions / inversions

VERTICAL LIVING

unit aggregation facing courtyard bands of programmatic living final enclosure and wrapper

INTROVERTED LIVING

facadeopen or enclosed greenery

first floorpublic outdoorworking indoor

ground floortenants can run business shops located at ground level and access their units via the hallway staircase

public courtyard: tenants enter into a shared 9 unit courtyard or front yard

ground interior: can be used for multiple types of indoor/ outdoor programs including working, recreation, or additional living

core: acts a backbone to units allowing access and mechanical flow

floor 1: creates opportunity for live/work

floors 2 and 3: four courtyards aggregate together to create a 36 unit complex with a communal internal atmosphere wrapped by private, individual outdoor and indoor moments

west and south elevations: perforated skin allows seclusion from streetside while still allowing light into private spaces

site view: distinct separation from the buildings exterior world to its open internal world

interior views: (top) enclosed and private outdoor; (bottom) resting indoors

section: each floor provides various indoor/outdoor lifestyles, with the most exposed program at the bottom and the most concealed at the top

interior views: (top) living indoors; (bottom) open and private outdoors

Unit Type A (8 units)1,200 sf

Unit Type B (8 units)1,200 sf

Unit Type C (12 units)700 sf

Unit Type D (8 units)1,600 sf

third floor second floor first floor (flex-space)

courtyard view: the collection of units create a community of living with collective moments and private pockets

RumspringaRumspringa is a point in a young Amish persons life where he makes the decision to either leave the Amish way, or become a full member of the community, contributing to its resources and taking advantage of the opportunities it offers. Looking at the primitive suburb, the majority of individual homes offer the same lifestyle and redundant resources, and yet there is no strong sense of neighborhood identity. In the Amish community, although families have their own separate homes or spaces, there is a strong community because they are linked together either architecturally, or by means of a shared resource. The Rumspringa neighborhood ties this resource-sharing technique with the desire to stay connected to generate a new, super-dense communal suburb that focuses on social hubs instead of personal space. Within the neighborhood, a range of lifestyles are accommodated, from condo-living with more traditional spatial arrangements to commune-living where everything becomes a shared resource. Here, programs required for living are pooled to create communal spaces with new social opportunities, and typical amenities expand to become autonomous luxuries.

AMISH ATTACHMENTS(top left to right) shift, hip, rotate, bridge

AMISH CASE STUDYhouse is a mix of family units each with their own private sectors and shared collective spaces

speculation of amish extension in suburb: extensions link separate homes into shared moments and new common outdoor spaces

ORIGINsuburb is separate and private with clearly delineated boundaries

LOCATE CONSISTENCIESgarage becomes a datum to link separate forms and frame exterior spaces

INFILL GAPconnections thicken to delineate new social hubs

LIFTform maintains isolation between hubs, while elevating to allow others to link together

sample view of new suburb: uses infrastructure of old while increasing density and opportunities for alternative lifestyles

roof plan (left): courtyards enable a new social spot for homes allowing flexible programming and iconic form

second floor (right): lifts allow for linking courtyards outside the system while enhancing interior qualities and lifestyles

ENTRYgarage become identifiable component of system establishing a consistent point of entry

CONDO LIVINGmore traditional kind of living with minimum number of shared conditions

SHARED CONDO LIVINGsingular resource to be accessible to four units, creating a micro-communal space

COMMUNE LIVINGmultiple shared resources among a mass of people while retaining small personal spaces

entry garage way, consistent throughout new suburb

condo living individual households with private lifestyles

shared condo living the programmatic and physical link between multiple households

commune livingfinal binding system which allows complete flow through network of the suburb

ground floor: programs bleed together along single line of form

intersection: shared moment of transition for both commune and condo citizens

shared social hub: enhanced outdoor living for multiple households

condo household: private household with access to rest of commune sections

private hub: small personal space for those living in commune section

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condo property: private spaces are clustered around entry, while open, shared forms overlook exterior courtyards

section: system creates a continuity of living that can blend one lifestyle across many

communal necessities: the required programs for living become pooled to create shared resources with new social opportunities

interior views: internal divisions created by walls and furniture facilitate access to shared resource

commune property: new programs infill shared communal spaces, giving inhabitants access to greater resources as well as social support of peers

interior views: commune space enables constant connectivity to other members of household via access to resources

intersection knot: typically private activities in the home take on social implications as the resource is opened to all in commune

communal luxuries: pooling space creates opportunity for typical amenities to expand into autonomous luxuries and social opportunities

interior views: intersection allows for a visual barrier between condo and commune, while still physically allowing the two to come together

Primitive TwistThis project took concepts and ideas used in the duplication and modification of Peter Eisenmans House VI Drawings, and placed them into a new original project. Prior techniques were blended with the iconic pitched roof primitive house, in order to create a livable, recognizable, yet contemporary house. Once again using the multipurpose surface from the previous project, what may be acting as a roof in the front of the house ended up acting as a wall in the back. This enabled control of the technique by having more normal and recognizable surfaces at the ends, and placing the more intense moments of the curve in the middle. This technique created livable program spaces, and fluid movement in between.

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sections: twisting enables transition and vertical movement from one space to another

view: (top) back garage; (bottom) back exterior

Book of BaysThe interest with this project was based on using the typical facade and window organization of a building to create occupiable voids and develop new programmatic thresholds. This initial study began with evaluating a building not as a whole, but rather as thin bays of program laminated together. Within these bays a more normative slab program exists, but embedded within each bay are specialized programs that are represented by means of iconic shapes and figures. These icons allowed for an alternate use of form, and more importantly, a alternate way that program can occupy space. Each bay is simplified into specified yet specialized zones of program and by laminating them together, a new way of cross programming occurred. Rather then blending two contrasting programs together, a strong threshold is created in between separate atmospheres of space that are defined by form and function. However, even though this threshold is created, visual and physical connections occur through multiple bays of program allowing for occupants to be in one space, yet see through multiple others. This tower is a new reading on the layering transparency of a buildings facade, and enables difference as well as organization through the adaptation of the primitive box tower.

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