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Thesis
Investigation and Development of Architectural Process through the Adaptive Reuse of "Big Box" Architecture.
Abstract
Through the exploration of adaptive reuse of residual, no longer viable, commercial buildings in economically challenged urban zones develop an over arching guide and process upon which to base future architectural practice, solidifying design principles that have the potential to define specific approaches to architectural strategies and form making. The adaptive reuse of architecture, specifically "big box" architecture, in a form that captures and utilizes natural daylight, artificial light, and inspires the human spirit addresses many key issues prevalent in today’s practice and design discourses. The notions that the proper lighting of space effects its occupants is not new, but one that is very seldom maximized in the built environment that we occupy. In addition, the importance of recycling building products and materials is at a peak in the world today. The building industry is one of the largest contributors to the degradation of our planet. Adaptive reuse of buildings is quite simply the recycling of architecture.
fracture of rigid form
thin outlines of light
natural and artificial
of worlds on a journey
who grin at the day
to the evening breeze
Abstract
Through the exploration of adaptive reuse of residual, no longer viable, commercial buildings in economically challenged urban zones develop an over arching guide and process upon which to base future architectural practice, solidifying design principles that have the potential to define specific approaches to architectural strategies and form making. The adaptive reuse of architecture, specifically "big box" architecture, in a form that captures and utilizes natural daylight, artificial light, and inspires the human spirit addresses many key issues prevalent in today’s practice and design discourses. The notions that the proper lighting of space effects its occupants is not new, but one that is very seldom maximized in the built environment that we occupy. In addition, the importance of recycling building products and materials is at a peak in the world today. The building industry is one of the largest contributors to the degradation of our planet. Adaptive reuse of buildings is quite simply the recycling of architecture.
fracture of rigid form
thin outlines of light
natural and artificial
of worlds on a journey
who grin at the day
to the evening breeze
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- parti: process post... in progress
- parti sketch: notebook
- existing sketch model
- panaramic backgrounds for over drawing
- "big box" : existing prototype
- site analysis: location
- site analysis: zoning
- site analysis: land values
- site analysis: over drawing
- site analysis: figure ground
- site analysis: surface
- site analysis: axis
- site analysis: access utilization
- program: adjacency study
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- program: mass comparison
- program: space list
- program: descriptive
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About Me
- rbutera
- M.Arch student at the Boston Architectural College. 1994 graduate of The Ohio State University, BS in Arch. Project designer and manager for Meyer+Bates Architects and Planners in Perrysburg, Ohio.
2 comments:
[From Denise]
Rick. saw the program analysis. looks good. the program pieces seem to be concrete elements apart from one another. is that really the case...are there any specific program elements which overlap? or is the the outer ring piece that is the glue between pieces?
can't wait to see the site analysis...
then after the 15th, lets see what happens when you drop the program diagram into the site. and overdraw on it.
anyway, looks great. thanks for your efforts.
Denise
Denise, I think that many of the program pieces do/could overlap. The large and small training areas, both types of meditation spaces, plus the gardens (rings) have a congruent use. The support pieces stacked in the center may not have overlapping potential, except perhaps the lobby and retail spaces... hmmm... maybe if I squished the diagram?...
I am not necessarily enamored with the form of the diagram (circular) as specific building form, except that it served to illustrate the core support (verticle center) with teaching/learning spaces supported by core and finally encompassed by the gardens. The diagram could have been a straight linear form, at the same time it is important to build on some of the symbology and principles of the practice of aikido. The gardens could also intertwine within and overlap.
I think some good exploration of overlapping could happen in the partis after the 15th.
A couple of other things that are going to come back into play are phenomonology and the photographic documentation that I outlined in my proposal.
~Rick
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