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GARRETT ROCK/1 E. Balbo Avenue, Apt. 304Chicago, IL 60605
337.438.1135garrettrock@gmail.com
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Studio/Competition Works
Dematerialized Poolscape 06
Studio Nine: Fall 2011, Prof. John Ronan
New Acadia: Retrofitting Urban Decay 22
Creative Action [Imagine Downtown] Competition
Science of Sleep 32
Studio Ten: Spring 2012, Prof. Leslie Johnson
Corridor City 46
Studio Eight: Spring 2011, Prof. MP Mattson
Retail Collective 56
Studio Seven: Fall 2010, Prof. Andrew Schachman
Pop Up Shop 62
Publications
Field Atlas 64
More or Less 65
Photography 66
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DEMATERIALIZED POOLSCAPE
The aquatic center—pools, saunas, steam rooms, and park—is based on a bottom-up approach where materiality dictates design. The project explores the use of acrylic chambers to dematerialize form and allow atmospheric conditions to provide visual legibility. As the visual boundaries disappear and reappear, it is the flux of conditions that governs the perception of the aquatic center.
The site is split between public park and private aquatic center. The streetwall is bound by an acrylic wall; punctures around the site lead to compartmentalized public spaces—including a water playground,dog park, and outdoor cinema. The views between the public and private site components are left unobstructed to reiterate the ability of atmospheric conditions to provide visual disruption of differently climatized aquatic spaces.
Prof. John Ronan
The meandering form of the aquatic center links individual components—whirlpool, steam rooms, and sauna—through a series of thresholds and vestibules that separate the specific atmospheric conditions. The order the bather circulates recalls the Roman Bath’s orderly sequence from cold to hot.
The poolscape also exploits the annual climatic shift. Certain tree species were selected to usher in the year at different moments. The outdoor lap and wading pools become heated in winter, emitting steam that condensates on the adjacent acrylic surfaces. Indoor components of the aquatic center, like the steam room, are able to accommodate the winter swimmer surplus by expanding to the chamber volume’s outer limits. The poolscape is able to adjust its spatial boundaries by dematerializing and allowing the atmospheric conditions to dictate form.
Fall 2011
Site: Lakeshore Park, Chicago IL
Program: Aquatic Center/Public Park
Studio Nine
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The steam rooms, a series of acrylic boxes, are flooded w i t h s t e a m t o accommodate the influx of bathers.
Awards: Schiff Fellowship nominated; featured
project at IIT College of Architecture Open House and
Graduation 2012; featured on IIT’s website under
Student Work.
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A series of studies e x p l o r e d t h e introduction of steam into a transparent chamber. An espresso m a ch i n e ’s s t e a m nossle was directed into a plastic cylinder, g l a s s c u p s , a n d finally two concentric acyrlic boxes. Light was directed into the chambers amplifying t h e s t e a m ’ s concentration.
The implicit definition of the transparent vo l u m e b e c o m e s defined more clearly with the introduction of a new atmospheric condition.
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Acrylic was chosen as the primary building material. The angle of refraction of l ight that passes through acrylic and water is similar; this is why aquariums use acrylic to structure their underwater exhibits. The view between the spectator and the water is less distorted because the water and the acrylic read as a singular material.
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Sauna.RH15%, 140-200F
Steam Room.RH 100%, 100-120F
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Whirlpool.RH70-100%,100F
Locker Room.RH 50-70%, 72F
Shower Room.RH 70-100%, >72F
This model shows the extents of the interior volumes, outlined in red, of the aquatic center. The form circumvents various outdoor volumes as it zigzags along the long, narrow site.
The aquatic center’s programmatic components rely on specif ic environmental conditions. Relative humidity, air temperature, and water temperature are controlled within each chamber. Mechanical rooms and transition corridors (yellow) help to keep the chambers’ conditions standardized.
The precursor to contemporary aquatic centers is the Roman bath; the bath’s experience was organized around an orderly sequence of chambers from cold to hot. Each chamber was governed by a specific role and atmospheric condition as part of the bathing experience. Mimicking this sequence of chambers, the aquatic center’s specific interior programs—pools, whirlpool, steam rooms, and saunas—are organized in a series of acrylic compartments that are visually continuous but physically separated.
The project was influenced by a number of precedent ideas in the art world. The work of installation artist Olafur Eliasson and painter Gerhard Richter explore the theme of distorting perceptions by blurring conventional ideas of visual representation.
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Olafur Eliasson, Your Atmospheric Color Atlas.
Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, Tate Modern.
Olafur Eliasson, Yellow Fog, Vienna.
Gerhard Richter, Woman Descending the Staircase.
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These views portray a time elapse of the steam room expanding its volume in the aquatic center. The transparent chambers give the atmospheric conditions the ability to constantly readjust spatial limits. As the number of occupants increases, the steam room grows to accommodate.
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SITE SECTION4’ 8’ 16’ 32’
1 entrance2 outdoor cinema3 administration/lobby4 locker rooms/showers5 lap pools6 whirlpool7 wading pools/pool deck8 steam rooms9 water playground10 dog park11 sauna12 sloped park
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SITE DISTRIBUTION
(10.A) Acrylic Walls
transparent acrylic
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(10.B) Pools
reflecting ponds
recreation pools
(10.C) Courtyard Parks
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private pool garden
(10.D) Interior/Climatized Space
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SECTION, December 202’ 4’ 8’ 16’
SECTION, June 202’ 4’ 8’ 16’
SECTION, October 202’ 4’ 8’ 16’
The temperature fluctuation throughout the year affects the perception and use of the aquatic center. As winter approaches, the program becomes more interior. In the winter exterior, wading pools are heated becoming steamy bodies of water, while jetted fountains in the water playground become geysers and jets of vapor. The acrylic acts as a neutral medium where water in its various forms can come into contact.
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The winter renders the water playground unusable. The jetted fountains and misters omit heated water vapor that steams in the frigid air like a series of small geysers.
At night a spectacle of colored lights is cast on the jets of steam illuminating the acrylic courtyard.
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The details for the aquatic center focus on simplifying form to create a minimalist enclosure with sealed concrete floors, stainless steel ceiling-roof sandwich and columns, and a double acrylic facade.
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LAP POOLS WHIRLPOOL BATH
SAUNA SLOPED PARK
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NEW ACADIA
Lafayette, like many mid-sized American cities, is losing a young and highly-educated creative class of millennials. These children of baby boomers raised most often in a suburban condition are seeking out stimulation brought about by more walkable cities defined by their streetlife. According to market research, sixty-four percent of college-educated millennials choose the city they wish to reside first and then seek jobs; seventy-seven percent of these individuals choose to live in the urban core.
New Acadia is a response to a growing demand for pedestrian-friendly and self-sufficient neighborhoods within Lafayette’s urban core. By creating a layering of diverse programs over the site, the neighborhood is used more evenly and efficiently. Local residents can benefit from reduced travel times by commuting closer and spending less money on transportation.
Convent Street is closed to car traffic between Johnston Street and Lee Avenue; it becomes a promenade for pedestrians and bikers to permeate across the site. The blocks between Main Street and Jefferson Street are divided between north and
NEW ACADIA:RETROFITTING URBAN DECAY
Place d’Acadie, formed between two blocks, functions as the social and cultural hub for the new neighborhood.
The interstitial space between two apartment buildings becomes a lively passageway with seating and light displays.
Spring 2013
Site: Downtown, Lafayette LA
Program: Mixed-use Neighborhood
Design Competition
south to create an open axis that becomes the heart of the new neighborhood. Street lanes are narrowed to twelve feet to slow drivers down and a dedicated two-way bike lane is introduced on Johnston Street linking the site with ULL’s campus.
The neighborhood is designed around self-sufficiency and multiplicity of program. Retail and restaurants occupy the ground floor while housing, offices, and institutions constitute the upper floors; three to five story buildings replace current single story structures to increase density in a site appropriate manner. A variation in housing types, from micro-unit studio apartments aimed at college-aged students to three-story town homes geared toward families, ensures the neighborhood’s diversity of user groups.
The network of interstitial space created leaves an exceptional situation for urbanism to materialize. The streetscape is arranged around a series of public spaces, or nodes, that act as hubs of interconnected informal social spaces that mediate between home and work. The landscape and site elements are arranged in rows; this module of continuous variation provides a cohesive language for site organization. Finally, the site accommodates all modes of transportation to act seamlessly together in hopes that residents will opt to walk and bike more safely and efficiently.
FIRST PRIZE AWARD
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SITE CONSIDERATIONS
The site straddles the trajectory between downtown Lafayette and the University of Louisiana’s ULL Campus. (Exploit the location.)
The site is less than a quarter-mile wide which translates to a five minute walk from one end to the other. (Exploit the compact nature of the site.)
Like many American cities, the retail core of Lafayette has expanded along arterial roads and far flung expanses of the city’s periphery. (Exploit recentralization of amenities.)
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Convent Street is closed to car-traffic between Johnston Street and Lee Avenue creating a pedestrian promenade
Blocks are divided north to south creating an open axis for foot traffic
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NODES/A way of prioritizing public space by creating a network of interconnected hubs of streetlife and informal gathering. The city should be designed to connect public spaces as a continuum.
ROWS/A way of organizing the streetscape in modules of continuously diverse landscapes, infrastructure, and architecture; the row recalls the vernacular agriculture of the region. The city should be designed as a cohesive system with a coherent language.
FLOWS/A way of accommodating all modes of transportation to work seamlessly together. The city should not be designed around the car but rather the individual.
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BIKESHARE
BUSSTOP
CARPARK
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RUE STEWART RUE PRINCIPALEPLACE D’ACADIE
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY + CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
MAISON DE LA CULTURE
CENTRAL MARKETGROCERY AND CAFÉ
MAISON DE LA CULTUREA multipurpose cultural space that houses temporary exhibitions, a small theatre, and stepped seating on its rooftop.
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARYA new branch of the Lafayette Library System that specializes in digital and graphic media; it contains movie theatre that screens independent films.
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIESA co-working center for aspiring entrepeneurs of digital startups with rentable workspaces and access to mentors, programming, and educational resources.HOTEL ACADIEN
A midlevel hotel that offers business and leisure visitors proximity to streetlife. Recreation facilities and an outdoor roofdeck can be accessible amenities for locals.
Retail and restaurants accessible on the first floor of each building provide a continuous condition of lively public spaces.
CENTRAL MARKET GROCERY AND CAFEA local grocery store that specializes in locally
sourced produce, meat, and seafood. Small startup restaurants and cooking studios
occupy the second floor while a large rooftop deck welcomes cafe diners.
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The neighborhood is designed to be self-sufficient and mixed-use. The ground floor is occupied by a series of public restaurants and retail while the upper floors contain housing, offices, and institutions. A diversity in housing types and programs assures that the site is used more evenly.
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SCIENCE OF SLEEP
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The Washington Square Sleep Center is a space for rehabilitation by fusing a clinical component with a private art collection. The integration of these two complex and opposing programs in such a dense site provides a dynamic interplay between private-public and night-day.
The private art collection wraps around the sleep center, nesting the sleep rooms and technologist spaces in the center of the site. Two large courtyards separate public from private while instigating views between programs. The courtyards also introduce conditions of mutability between times of the day. The sleep rooms have a motorized shading device that opens during the day allowing uninterrupted views to the art collection.
SCIENCE OF SLEEP
Prof. Leslie Johnson
Spring 2012
Site: 880 N. Clark St., Chicago
Program: Sleep Research Center
Studio Ten
Featured project at IIT College of Architecture Open
House 2012.
The nighttime view of the streetwall, c o m p o s e d o f channeled glass, emphas i zes t he active spaces of the Sleep Center.
The same elevation as viewed during daylight emphasizes the entrance and vertical circulation. The uninterrupted f o r m o f t h e curtainwall acts as a thin veil between the busy streetscape and the inner courtyard.
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The street wall, composed of a profiled glass curtain wall, conceals the sleep center during the day but exposes the control rooms as they become illuminated at night. The main entrance into the building is the same for all visitors; a series of thresholds open and close according to time allowing the appropriate barrier between the two users while blurring the boundaries.
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The site faces Washington Square Park, a small green space in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. The northern extent of the site functions as circulation while two main courtyards offset the majority of the program into layers away from the busy front facade on Clark Street.
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The art collection (red) wraps around the sleep center (black), envelopping it to provide acoustic and light control from its urban context.
T h e s i t e , a t t h e nor thwest edge of downtown Chicago has the opportunity to exploit the heavy foot traffic in the area. The public component, the art collection, shares the area’s legacy for institutions of ar t. Other art collections are highlighted in red circles.
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TIME ANALYSIS
6:00 PM 8:00 AM9:00 PM midnight 3:00 PM
Incorporating the time specificity of the dual programmatic arrangement, this series of isometric diagrams, beginning with the sleep patients arrival at 6:00PM, helps to qualify the activation and deactivation of the program.
The technologist workroom, offices, and the control center are placed at the edge of the site. The light omitted from these spaces shows through onto the street wall, a curtain wall composed of channel glass.
The dialogue between night and day began with a detailed exploration of the relationship of adjacencies and user groups. The relative size of each circle corresponds to the floor area while notes remark the appropriate furnishings and conditions.
During the night, the public components are deactivated while the technologist spaces and control room become the hub of activity in both day and night conditions.
The different user groups form a web of connectivity where components are activated and deactivated.
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permanent exhibition
temporary exhibition
theatre
multimedialibrary
publicrestrooms
security
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nurseworkstation
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mechanical, equipment
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research facility
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Rush/Oak
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web
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approxiamtely 10% gross floor area
good quality of natural, diffused/indirect light
good quality of natural, diffused/indirect light
adjustable walls and surfaces to allow multitude of displays
organized in volumes, long narrow volumes work best
group seating for 12 people; dining area; computer stations
sloped theatre space designed for 80+ people, researcher lectures, video museum display
group seating for 24 people, dining area, conference area
stations for 6 nurses; supplies and closet space for medications and equipment
seating for 12 people; dining area; conference space
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The section through the center of the site reveals the use of the courtyard as visual linkage between the diverse elements of the sleep center’s program. The sleep rooms and art gallery are left with uninterrupted views knowing that as one is occupied, the other will be empty.
The sections at the north end of the site reveals the main circulation for all user groups. A series of thresholds in the corridor open and close at particular times in the day to provide the appropriate physical separation.
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Vital information relating to a sleep research study is gathering while the patient is sleeping. The conduit is linked through a bedside cabinet where it is connected to a nearby control room via a horizontal chase.
The sleep research center contains eight sleep rooms total, four on the first floor and four on the second floor. Each sleep room is equipped with a private restroom, climate control system, and motorized shading device.
The public art gallery and p r iva te s l eep center share a central courtyard. The views between the two are mediated by the time of occupancy; the sleep rooms are only used at night when the gallery is closed.
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DOOR TWOopen 10AM-6PM
DOOR ONEoperable 10AM-6PM
LOBBYopen 10AM-6PM
DOOR THREEoperable one way (out)
DOOR FOURoperable one way (out)
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This perspective portrays the corridor during daytime. The public slips past the sleep center entrance to circulate to the gallery space.
The art collection is meant as a private exhibition for a privileged few. Visitors are scheduled ahead of time in small groups to visit in hour increments between 10:00AM and 6:00PM. Visitors to the art collection are ushered through a series of thresholds within the same corridor, slipping past the entrance to the sleep center. The theatre on the third floor may also be used for small public screenings; entry is granted in the reverse direction.
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CORRIDOR CITY
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Englewood is in decline. Over the last ten years, the neighborhood has hemorrhaged a quarter of its population. This continued pattern of exodus has added large swathes of vacant lots and disused buildings to a pre-existing condition of urban decay. What if this abandoned territory became Englewood’s greatest asset—a re-appropriation of urban density by introducing a corridor of productive landscapes?
Corridor City, a two-mile territory, is an urban alternative for Englewood. Over the course of the elevated rail embankment, a series of moves are made to create a layering of artificial topography to stimulate programmatic interventions. Having served as an industrial and manufacturing rail line, the corridor is littered with traces of historical past. By juxtaposing new relationships with the terrain, these foundations, loading docks, and abandoned structures serve as commemoration of Englewood’s distant history.
CORRIDOR CITY
Prof. MP Mattson
Many neighborhoods in inner city Chicago, like Englewood, have large fragmentation o f underut i l i zed land. Corridor City aims to reimagine these fragments with moments of activity and liveability.
A sectional strategy exploits the raised topography of the embankment as a device for instigating p r o g r a m m a t i c interventions.
Spring 2011
Site: Rail Embankment,
Englewood, Chicago IL
Program: Urban Park/Recreational Center
Studio Eight
The two-mile corridor is split into six zones of varying topography and program strategy. These zones are connected to each other and to the urban fabric by a continuous elevated path that connects to street level. In its foreground, the blocks between 59th and 58th Street are tranformed into specified centers of recreation, education, energy production, and urban farming. The corridor forms a spine of density in this flighted community.
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Awards: Dwight T. Black Scholarship 2011; featured
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The immense scale of the embankment rallies sub-organization. The diverse programs of a city ( farming, energ y product ion , education, recreation) are condensed along the course of the site in specific zones.
The language of the embankment , i t s topograhy, is replicated to differentiate program and planting. An inendated surface becomes a wetland, a hill becomes a lookout point, and a sloped surface becomes a theatre.
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T h e s i t e p l a n i s organized into a plaid network of varying condensed ecosystems and pathways parallel and perpendicular to the existing embankment. This suborganization into vegetative inter-blocks utilizes the formal language of the Chicago grid to assemble the variation in landscapes.
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The Center for Urban Ecology occupies this zone. It utilizes the surrounding natural typologies as exhibition o f M i d w e s t e r n ecosystems and their coexistence with the urban environment.
The rail embankment is excavated, opening north to south. This opening brings light and movement between the block while incorporating the main entrance to the Center for Urban Ecology.
P rev i o u s s ke t ch e s examined the manner in which architecture can be sited in proximity to the embankment.
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Paris is a city defined by its streetscape and spaces of display. Circulating on foot, the Parisian is drawn forward by glimpses of semi-private spaces and subtle visual cues. This curiosity in approach is applied to the retail collective—store, design studio, and worker housing—that is organized in concentric layers. The layering of activity piques visual interest and allows the pedestrian to slowly discover the breadth of the retail process through an unraveling of the collective’s programs.
RETAIL COLLECTIVE
Prof. Andrew Schachman
The concentric form of the three interlapping p r o g r a m s i s influenced by the form of traditional Parisian apartment buildings. T h e p r o c e s s o f entering an apartment is prolonged by a series of thresholds a n d i n t e r s t i t i a l spaces, often exterior courtyards. In the collective, the retail forms the outmost l ayer o f d i sp lay while enveloping the workspace which in turn envelopes the housing. The sectional strategy reveals the manner in which the levels are offset to instigate views between layers.
Fall 2010
Site: Butte-aux-Cailles, Paris
Program: Urban Housing/Retail
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By incorporating three integral programmatic elements of the retail process, the visitor can explore the greater implications of clothing production and design.
The site is located in the up and coming Buttes-aux-Cailles neighborhood of the 13th arrondissement. The area feels like a rustic village; mostly residential in nature, the area’s architecture contains many courtyards and lightwells that puncture the block.
The site directly influenced the concept of approach. Studies of view from key distances explored the perception of openings.
Second Floor Plan.
First Floor Plan.
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POP UP SHOP
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A Pop-Up shop is a temporary retail space that functions as both a place of purchase as well as a form of advertisement; its placement in the most frequented parts of the city add to the visibility of the brand represented. This pop-up shop, placed near the Tribune Tower, is used to merchan-dise clothing by using a semi-transparent skeleton with a series of slits to reveal its contents. The shop, occupying under 1000 square feet, can be easily assembled and disassembled, closed off and protected when not in operation.
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POP UP SHOPSpring 2012
Prof. Alphonso Peluso
Site: 401 N. Michigan Plaza, Chicago
Program: Retail Pavilion
Parametric Modeling
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T h e P o p U p S h o p , b e i n g temporary and sited in a variety o f l o c a t i o n s , i s d e s i g n e d to incorporate moments of the surrounding city. The entire length i s l e f t s e m i -transparent and more open at eye-level to display merchandise from the exterior.
Here the Pop Up Shop is sited at the 401 N. Michigan Avenue Plaza.
The structure is formed from a steel skeleton, g l a z i n g , a n d wooden platform.
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“Field Atlas” is a book that was produced to document the work of students participating in IIT’s College of Architecture Paris program for Fall 2010. The book covers four classes—studio, history, drawing, and urban exploration—in their own sections. My work on the book included formatting and editing my personal work for each section.
FIELD ATLASFall 2010
Paris Program Student Book
732 Pages.
Publications
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“More or Less” is a student publication of the IIT College of Architecture used to showcase non-studio student work. Students submitted photographs, maps, notes, furniture, pot tery, and other personal works to be included. My work on the publication included editing and formatting content, submitting photography, and selling the work at IIT’s Open House 2011.
MORE OR LESSSpring 2011
Student Magazine
62 Pages.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography
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1 Mount Baker National Forest, Washington. 2 Mount Baker National Forest, Washington. 3 Seattle Public Library, Seattle.4 Holocaust Memorial, Berlin.5 Bibliotheek, Amsterdam.6 Montmartre, Paris.7 Heinz Chapel, Pittsburgh.8 Taylor Street, Chicago. 9 Vatican Museum, Vatican City.10 Igualada Cemetery, Igualada, Spain.11 Flatiron Building, Montmartre, Paris.12 Isar River, Munich.
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