ARCH 825
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This studio will provide a model for the entire building design process from programming, financial considerations and all the way to detailing in construction documents. This model will call for design excellence and integrity at every phase in the design of a single public building, pursued throughout the course of the semester with a focus on simple, direct, and elegant design solutions.
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Critics:
Jim Shields Karl Wallick |
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The cast-in-place concrete construction sinks into the site along Prospect Avenue across from the Peck School of The Arts annex - structurally placed using board formed concrete columns, cladded in tactile concrete panels, and glazed using opaque polycarbonate walls. A gallery for student curation is situated in the lower level of the building with a clerestory polycarbonate wall, providing privacy + indirect lighting. The gallery is adjacent to the exterior sunken courtyard, where moss gardens, and storm-water management strategies divide the space for sculpture. To ascend back to ground level, one can accessibly ramp up, climb the amphitheater seating steps, or connect underground using the tunnel between the new construction and the existing historic Tullgren building. Sky bridges bring visitors into the main lobby, giving viewers perspectives downward at the sculpture garden, while the interior atrium provides a unique experience for viewing the gallery space. On the upper level, visitors can explore the Fine Arts Library, and enjoy an exterior reading room enclosed by polycarbonate walls while remaining open to the sky above.
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Peck School of the Arts lost many amenities of campus when moving farther south from UWM. As a result, this design aims to bring back amenities such as a gallery, library, and café within walking distance to the school located on N Prospect Ave. The site chosen holds a historic Tullgren building constructed of a light brick and detailed with orange terra cotta which will host the café program. The new construction to the north responds to the importance of the historic building by remaining detached and framing a space for outdoor seating. The building is constructed of a dark grey terra cotta material to create a neutrality of color while next to the more vibrant historic building. These terra cotta panels are placed in a grid formation with specific pieces made to look as though they are lifting to create window openings with sunshades. The new construction is built with a heavy timber structure with inverted kings post trusses which all remain exposed throughout the spaces. The main entry of the space brings guests into a lobby with expansive curtain walls that allow for views back to the historic building or into the sculpture garden beyond. To one side is the library with a curtain wall view to the sculpture garden and to the other is the double height gallery space. LEED accreditation is a strong interest of the clients which resulted in the addition of photovoltaic array, a VRF system and a green roof.
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The Riverwest Dance Center fulfills urban development principles by aligning with the primary elevations of adjacent buildings. While this longitudinal orientation appears inhibitive, the architecture continually encourages movement from the public streetscape to the semi-private spaces across varying layers and scales. A latticework of structure steel and Corten not only generate a unified façade, but its permeability reveals an intricate layering of polycarbonate, vision glass, and specular paneling. Voids emphasize essential spaces which puncture-thru in the form of 3-tubes. The tubes encourage movement from west-to-east, where: beginning proud of the western lattice, the tubes slide through the lobby, eventually terminating beyond the eastern façade. Continuous paneling, a reveal below, and a 60-foot-long skylight emphasize the momentum of the tube. The 32-foot-wide lobby provides unimpeded movement for community members to access the eastern outdoor spaces for summer performances. A monumental staircase reinforces this directionality while providing vertical movement into the second-floor studios. Relationships between the latticework and the puncturing tubes are apparent in the tectonic study. Section 01 of the tube sill emphasizes the cantilever as supported by the structural steel back-span which slips-atop the foundation wall as it proceeds from west-to-east. Plan 02 demonstrates the dominance of tube wall as it slides past a typical exterior wall. Reveals allow the specular paneling to slice-thru the outmost layers of adjacent walls. In this way, the main idea of west-to-east directionality is manifest not only at larger scales of space and form, but are present within the intricacies of the project.
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The parti of the design is two bars, the top pivoted over the bottom bar to allow for expanded spatial conditions, creating a covered outdoor performance viewing area and a green roof lounge. The building demolished to make way for the dance center is integral to the design itself. Because of a firm belief in material and energy conservation, the demolished building is reused in two ways: first to fill the berm covered in plantings which offers a connection up to the second floor. Secondly the rubble is used as aggregate in land formed concrete tilt-up panels which structure the first floor. This contrasts the glulam construction and wood slat façade of the upper bar. The material idea is a heavy, thick lower bar connected to the earth and the history of the site, and a delicate wood stat bar that pivots above. All of the details tie back to the material and tectonic logic of the project, creating a design rooted in a history of place and a call for movement.
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