robots.energy.weather.v.meyers.univ.of.cincinnati.2012

CHANGE

R - E - W

Energy

Robots Weather

NYC

GLOBAL

WARMING

SUSTAINABLE

DESIGN

CINCINNATI

science historian George Dyson

Food Urbanism

New York City, New York

Battery Park City North Neighborhood

Ecological Urbanism

How social networks and the web / Google Earth are changing concepts about :

- Design,

- Urban Design,

- Dwelling and

- The City

Battery Park City North Neighborhood,

New York City

Community Spaces + Retail Spaces = Social Network

Battery Park City :

Energy Conservation as

Theme Park

Energy Conservation as Theme Park : Buildings use heat pumps, high-efficiency condensing boilers, micro turbine co-generation, photovoltaic panels, geo-thermal wells, wind turbines and extensive insulation and air/vapor barriers

Battery Park City as part of a larger social

Network of green spaces in Manhattan

Green roofs : 80% of the roofs are planted and open to public use

“Woven Fabric” diagram : green roofs + green landscapes

Isometric view of BPC’s green roofs and parks system

Bloomberg’s PlaNYC

PlaNYC BPC – North End Avenue

Irish Hunger Memorial : A piece of Ireland in NYC Dublin City Development plan : ‘Green City’

Irish Hunger Memorial Green = The New International Style

Landscape / city / food / architecture Merge

Weather Internet

Change

Urban Design

Architecture

Space

Change Form

Internet

Space

Architecture

Urban Design

==

Ancient Architecture

Contemporary

Architecture

Sustainable /

Green Design

=Vitruvius Weather

hMa projects with porosity :

1) Battery Park City Master Plan :

Woven Fabric

2) Pratt Pavilion :

Visceral Space

3) Holley Loft :

No Space

4) DWi-P :

Porous Edge

5) Won Dharma Center:

Absolute Zero

6) Pearson Sculpture

On (In) Landscape

Woven Fabric

Battery Park City Master Plan : ‘Woven Fabric’

Battery Park City ca. 1960

isometric massing study first massing model

Isometric diagram showing green roofs and green landscapes

green roofs

Diagram showing park spaces Diagram showing woven fabric of the cities’ buildings and parks

North End Avenue dog park

North End Avenue : A green street

Nelson A. Rockefeller Park

Irish Hunger Memorial

Irish Hunger Memorial

Teardrop Park

Teardrop Park

aerial view of Teardrop Park showing green roofs and heliostats

heliostats

view of glass wall; ballfields to the right

bird’s eye view of ballfields and ballfield terrace

ballfield terrace park benches for sitting and watching

Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

ramp to ballfield terrace

‘Tribute in Light’

Pratt Pavilion : Visceral Space

DeKalb Avenue : ‘Buildings Face Out – Not In’ New Master Plan: ‘Buildings Face Campus’

Public Face : New Design Center Original Condition

the public face of new Pratt Design Center

New Campus Entry Original entry 2004

Entry Ramp

new entry vestibule original site of entry vestibule

new entry vestibule : stair to gallery

MATERIALITY

STAINLESS STEEL

MATERIALITY

COR-TEN

Menashe Kadishman’s “Suspended” at Storm King Art Center

Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass at LACMA

EDGES: second floor gallery space

view from second floor gallery

courtyard

Pratt campus view courtyard

VISCERAL SPACE

PRATT PAVILION: SUSPENDED VESSEL

today1999

Holley Loft : NO space

wood rooms floated in white Robert Lazzarini sculpture:

wood floated in white

2 boxes float in white

Development Concept :

DIAGRAM

2 boxes

Light lines

LIGHT

ANAMORPHIC BOX

DWi-P : Porous Edge

DWi-P

DWi-P Entry / Green Roof (Ballfield Terrace) / SCAPE Landscape architects

Bird’s eye view : Ballfield Terrace

Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

View of Ballfield Terrace from

Teardrop Park

entry

view from Ballfield Terrace entry to teardrop park

Entry to Ballfield Terrace

Entry : Ballfield Terrace

Central stair / central courtyard

Central stair “Finger” – toward Ballfield

View of Terrace from North

The egg Central terrace

Ramps and stairs connecting to Warren Street – North side

View from Warren Street to Terrace

North side ramp at Warren Street

Stair up from south side of Dwi-P Terrace at Murray Street

Ramp up from Murray Street to Dwi-P green roof south side

Entry lobby

Ballfield Level - Plan

Ballfield level lobby

Ballfield Level

Fitness area Corridor looking north

Pool (WaTER)

Gym

The Glass Wall

PRECEDENT STUDY

PROCESS : DUCHAMP : FRAMED GLASS

PHYSICS WRITTEN ON GLASS

MUSIC & GLASS

ARCHITECT / COMPOSER COLLABORATION

Sample at site early WaTER score

MUSICAL SCORE WaTER

The Glass Wall

Glass wall

North Courtyard Central Courtyard

South Courtyard

ARCHITECTS DESIGN MUSIC

TABLE WATERFALL

Green Diagram

=

ABSOLUTE ZERO

GEOMETRY

+

NO SPACE IN THE LANDSCAPE

Won Dharma Center : Absolute Zero

A POROUSCOURTYARD INNER

MEMBRANE

WON DHARMA CENTER

Robert Smithson : Spiral Jetty Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates : Tidal Pool

SPIRAL = OPEN (POROUS) FORM

David von Schlegell -

Storm King Art Center

Meditation Space marked by a floating Rectangular Roof

Dynamic Open Spirals / vs / Stasis beneath a Rectangular Roof

THE SITE : The starting point “Ground Zero”

Meditation Administration

Plans – Through the landscape

Meditation : Roof Plane // a space for introspection

A spiral path defines a journey from mundane (cafeteria) to spiritual practice

Spirit World

A “chord” that

connects World to

Spirit

Cafeteria

Meditation

Live

Open Spirals : movement diagrams

Fractal Roofs Spiral Plans

+ =

Dynamic

(Mundane)

Space

2 visiting residences connect A dynamic connection through site // paths

DIAGRAM : Wood Screens

Trees + Screened Buildings = Infinite Bleed of Edge

Meditation Hall + Wood Screens // Buildings = Site

Residence Halls + Screened Porches // Buildings = Site

Porches blend wood buildings to Site

Custom Wood Furniture - Site comes Inside // Zero Carbon Footprint Diagram

NY Art friends : Bruce Pearson (painter)hMa Artist/ Architect Collaboration

Bruce Pearson Sculpture : Text On (In) Landscape

Pearson / hMa Sculpture collaboration : “Contains Real Hard Won Insight”

‘On / In’ Landscape : Text + Urban Field = disruption in the cellular dialogue

Sculpture as Urban Intervention: Pedestrian Circulation // Urban Gallery for Artistic Communication

Future: A Porous Edge: Buildings become Landscape

Future: A Porous edge :

Materiality Reality

‘Designing with Light’ 2006

hMa RESEARCH

‘Shape of Sound’ 2013

Dwi-P LightScore

Architecture + Natural Phenomena