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

Sunday, May 18, 2008

study model: reflection

Okay it's been a little while since I posted the images from the May 9th of a current progress
model. Understanding that there is no text to help convey my thoughts and investigations, here is a few thoughts before I move on...

Study model 01 is as far as I think I am going to take it. The exercise looked at how the programmatic elements formed in somewhat arbitrary individual massing could begin to penetrate/perforate/fracture the exist box condition. The focus was only on two major portions of the program, the meditation garden (green strips that push out into the site) and the training rooms (brown rectanular cubes). The sketch below shows some of the thoughts about perforation/fracture... along with some of the last revisions to the study model.




As I move on to the next study model, I can a take a couple of things from the first...
1. Use a larger prgram. The current garden sizes are too small as listed on the program and need to reflect the larger scale of the full site in order to engage both the interior of the box and the site.
2. Adding more training rooms to the program. Instead of 4 large training rooms, there will be 6.
3. Add a new program piece... an exhibition hall for public exhibitions of martial arts and larger national and international seminars that commonly take place.
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