Hunts Point - Vision Plan

 

Hunts Point Peninsula | NYCEDC

Hunts Point Peninsula | NYCEDC

Request for Proposals: Hunts Point Food Festival | NYCEDC

Request for Proposals: Hunts Point Food Festival | NYCEDC

NYCEDC Seeks Proposals For Development of a 200,000-Square-Foot Rooftop Farm in Hunts Point Section of the Bronx | NYCEDC

NYCEDC Seeks Proposals For Development of a 200,000-Square-Foot Rooftop Farm in Hunts Point Section of the Bronx | NYCEDC

NYCEDC and Congressman Serrano Open Hunts Point Landing, a New 1.5 Acre Waterfront Open Space | NYCEDC

NYCEDC and Congressman Serrano Open Hunts Point Landing, a New 1.5 Acre Waterfront Open Space | NYCEDC

NYCEDC Seeks Proposals For Food Festival In Hunts Point Section Of The Bronx | NYCEDC

NYCEDC Seeks Proposals For Food Festival In Hunts Point Section Of The Bronx | NYCEDC

Street Sensations - Fall Final

I will work on another proposal that addresses the issues emerged from this proposal and tackle architecture at its core during the break period and will update you via the blog. Thank you professor for having my back today in my "little" mishap, I have no clue what happened to me!

Pin-Up order

Hi All,

Pin-Up order in Rm 136 as follows:

 

John

Stephen

Robert

Amr

Chris Ka

Tania

Chris Km

Kelly

Thoughts?

I know as of now this is a bit of a mess, but before I start fixing things I just wanted to get some feedback before I start adding and fixing things.  

What I know I still need to do :
- progress with plan and section diagrams/changes, what is there is just an example of how i am going to show changes.
-change how the community animation came out.  I wanted to get the point out that although there is 'static' program, the community coherently runs through the whole prototype.

Thoughts about a day in the life ? Should I continue with different scenarios in that fashion or illustrate it differently?  I had a thought about somehow showing it as someone "walking through" via plan diagrams that run simultaneously with that illustration. 

30x40 Board_TP

Walk through board

30x40 board

30 x 40 board

30 x 40 board

Walk-through Board?!

I can't get the size under 1.2MB without having unreadable text! I already have very pixlated images. Is that ok?!

TAIWAN RAIL DEVELOPMENTS

Union-Station-Greenway

Urban Greenways: Other Projects Around the World | Livin' The High Line

Urban Greenways: Other Projects Around the World | Livin' The High Line

Eco-wall or segregation: Rio plan stirs debate - CNN.com

Eco-wall or segregation: Rio plan stirs debate - CNN.com:

Concern over real purpose of Rio walls

http://bcove.me/65j7odt5

Are the walls in Rio de Janeiro being built around the city's favelas serving as eco-barriers, or hiding the city's social problems?

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, site of 2014 football world cup and 2016 Olympicshas begun planning and building over eight miles of so-called "eco-barriers" around hundreds of its sprawling favela slums to protect the rainforest.

But many think that these eco-concerns are serving as cover for another, less benevolent purpose: walling in, and containing, the city's slums.

The state government in Brazil are planning to build eight miles of concrete walls around 19 favelas in Rio De Janeiro.

Dona Marta in the North of the city is where one the controversial walls was finished earlier this year.

Rochinha in the south, home to 150,000 residents, has a new wall under construction.

And in downtown Mare, the biggest cluster of favelas in Rio, the government wants to build a barrier to protect the locals from the sound of a nearby motorway.

Bustler: Steven Holl Architects Wins Master Plan in “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” Competition

Bustler: Steven Holl Architects Wins Master Plan in “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” Competition

Steven Holl Architects Wins Master Plan in “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” Competition

Steven Holl, Edge of a City

Le Corbusier, plan for Rio de Janeiro, 1929.

Le Corbusier Algiers

Various Grounds

Intervals

http://nicksworldofsynthesizers.com/flashorgan.php

Thesis Comprehensive Diagrams

Orpheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus

Black Orpheus

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award

Walk-Thru Boards

You are each to prepare a 30 x 40 proportion (not inches!) "board" as a PDF file of 1 MB maximum. Put your file in the Cody Section and use the last 4 digits of your student ID as your file name. 

On your board, please be sure to include the following information in enough clarity and detail (but no more!) that we can all understand your thesis, and intention. 

1. THESIS TITLE and BRIEF description of the problems and issues you have identified, as well as your intentions and approaches to studying them. 

2. PRECEDENT STUDY including functional/spacial/plastic/other? analysis and indication of how these precedents are relevant to your thesis. 

3. PROGRAM INFORMATION in 2 and 3 dimensions, to scale as appropriate. Functional relationship and other diagrams as appropriate. 

4. SITE INFORMATION be sure to include sufficient context so that anyone can quickly find where in the world your site is. Show plan, section, and other information such as access, services, historical evolution, and so on. Show site information in as many scales as is needed to communicate your intentions.

5. PLASTIC RESEARCH. Photo and drawing documentation of any and all appropriate 2 and 3D studies of form, transformation, spacial organization, etc. and make clear how they have guided your thesis. 

6. ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES that integrate all of the above information into more or less rough proposals into a design for human scaled habitable space. 

This board is to be a quick precis and summary of your thesis, not the whole thing. You do not need to show everything on this board, and most likely you won't be able to. Rather than all plans and sections, say, one significant well-developed plan and one well developed section will show the general progress of your work at this time. The rest of those drawings can be presented during your final review jury.

It would be nice if your board is clear and beautiful. I am happy to review your drafts of these boards on your computer during Tuesday's class if you wish.

Thesis Final Reviews on Monday December 17 and Tuesday December 18 will proceed in person and as originally scheduled.

Ideas of Boat Lifts for the Cargo Barge. What do you guys think?

and

Robert_pin up

Time Line of site
(showing existing, addition of rail, change of zoning)

Begin studies on relationships and shared program

Kentish Town Health Centre

 http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projectDetails/19/Kentish-Town-Health-Centre
 http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projectDetails/19/Kentish-Town-Health-Centre?sub=design

Adaptable Futures

http://adaptablefutures.com/our-work/toolkit/

Jon Gertner's Breathtaking History of Bell Labs

Jon Gertner's Breathtaking History of Bell Labs - Brainiac:

Tesla Model S

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/technology

MIT Media Lab

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/1006MIT_Media_Lab-1.asp

emilio ambasz gardens

http://progressivetimes.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/the-garden-city-vs-the-green-city/

https://alanamuir.wikispaces.com/5+-+PRECEDENT

Ken Yeang

http://www.trhamzahyeang.com/project/main.html

http://www.trhamzahyeang.com/project/masterplans/jabal01.html

http://archinspire.org/river-frontage-green-building-concept/

Status Update

Thankfully I am doing alright after this storm and all.  Haven't had power the whole week until yesterday morning.  Been steadily continuing with the organization of my boards and all.

Ironically, taking into consideration with all that has happened as a result of Hurricane Sandy, I can utilize the statistics that will generate in the next couple of weeks, and my own personal experiences, to enhance the Disaster preparation, relief, and fortification design factors related with my thesis project.

Storm status

I got lucky with the storm, I have not had power. So I have been spending the sfew days helping friends on the south shore. I hopefully have power when get home and wll be able to get back to school work.

Work Progress

I am still working my 3D model and then my model trying to tie the major program spaces conceptually.

Storm status

We lost power the whole week but no major damages. We just got power today. I will continue working on my presentation and post my progress soonoresrbt

All ok?

Hi all,

I hope everyone is safe and sound without too much disruption or major damages! Please post or email that you are all ok!!

Regarding your projects and presentation, continue on your current path and use this time if you are able to focus your work. We will have the 2nd half of the pin-up as soon as NYIT is back online.

Post or send me your progress and I'll (we'll) do my (our) best to assist in moving your ideas forward.

Build and rebuild those models and drawings.

RC

I think I got it?!

So, I think I was over thinking my goal for the past 2 weeks. And it just hit me that I had what I needed all along. So, basically my strategy is translating the major forms of arts i.e. Painting, Sculpting, photography, digital arts, music and theater into architecture tectonics; that is finding how they are similar, where do they overlap and how are they different. So, it all trickled down on how each form of art is projected in the real world i.e. 

- a painting is projected on a canvas which is architecturally speaking is a simple 2D plane (Even though on the deep micro scale there is the relief of the brush strokes which deems it a 3D surface, but am not focusing on that level of deepness in the analysis)

- A Sculpture is a frozen moment in 3D space.

- Music is just sound with a meaning so that could translate as some sort of transparent element in space since it only exists as a reference in space.

- Theater, could be interpreted in the form of motion or the circulation through the previously discussed tectonics.

I don't know why I was in search of a deeper meaning or method of translating art into architecture that it drove away from my initial intent.

Please comment on your thoughts.