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My Most Sincere Project...

Farm Park

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Art Therapy Museum Design Thesis

Casuality Center

Convention Center

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Documentation Center: CambodiaPhnom Penh, CambodiaNGO - Research/School/Museum CenterDc-Cam Proposal 8,900 sq MColumbia University GSAPPCritic: Studio MDAFall 08

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Hypothosis - if we create a building based on the events of genocide, so that we lay down a foun-dation from where to continue from. It could cre-ate a threshold that becomes a starting point to a different better warmeressence for cambodia. While still paying respect to the forgotten.

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By creating a systematic unifi cation of the existing events to capture a threshold of letting go to move towards a warmer (more sensible) essence (future), while creating an awareness and understanding of sensory information of the past in order to pay respect (not to forget their existence).

This is not to be taken literally as a way of creating design through a clich of pain, or suffering. No, it is more used as what the continuation of the actual victims is and how they are treated and how they feel about Cambodia. IT HAS NO PLACE AND NO IDENTITY. So the system is more on a conceptual level of, the after of the genocide. As offensive as this sounds, what happened, already happened, and instead of creating a memorial, create instead a threshold that may allow people to forget and PERMIT them to move forward.

My Most Sincere Project...Mumbai, India/New York, NY NothingObject Proposal 10,000 sq. ft.Columbia University GSAPPCritic: Reinhold MartinSpring 09

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If we create an object, as architecture and plug it into a city, without giving it a meaning or purpose, it will infl uence the city more than a predetermined building. If we give it to the people then I believe it can truly act as a force to the city, as a beginning of some-thing that can then grow more into the city acting as an injector instead of a subjector.

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Study SketchesCan we create nothing, or something meaningless. Why? Because, why do we always to justify ourselves or create something based on something else.

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The architecture is not whats important, its the idea if the UGO changing its landing zone, by allowing the people to give it its meaning, adapting it instead of adapting to it.

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So even if we would try to justify our actions we wouldnt be able to. Subjectivity does not exist, therefore our actions can be equal by just doing them without any justifi cation or a re-griding of a city to make a project.

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My Most Sincere Project...cold feetIt is more important what the project becomes than how you get to the project. Justifi cation is only a way of pretending what we as architects/designers actu-ally matters. Nothing matters. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for anything. There is no program, no set site, no justifi cation for the form, yet it is still archi-tecture none of that stuff matters. Create an object drop it into a site and the reaction is more important than the object itself. Nothingness is characterized by an egoless state of being in which one fully realizes ones own small part in the cosmos. We as architects let our ego get in the way of why and what we design, justifying everything as if it had a meaning to save the world especially in academia. So, no more justifi cation, rather persuasion, that is why it is more important what the people do to the project and what the object becomes than what I as Mr. Architect can say it is, and thats why I say the form, site, and program do not matter.

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Farm ParkNew York, NY USAGreen House Art ParkPlotGreen NYC ProposalColumbia University GSAPPCritic: Kate Orff Summer 08

Organizing the Ground Plane

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Different experiences for the different people who live around here. Children, adults, elderly, a place that they can fi nd the usefulness of the space while at the same time giving them a sense of place (ownership) when they are there.

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The place that is created should have many different experiences for the different people who live around here. Children, adults, elderly, a place that they can fi nd the usefulness of the space while at the same time giving them a sense of place when they are there. It should be treated as a park but a park that is taken care of by it owners which in this case is the whole community. This sense of community brings this idea of community gardens, community parks, community farms, for people to enjoy as well as take advantage of. The project should engage this area of the water and make the connection back to the people through its different uses that we may propose. The threshold area will act as a transition and a sense of beginning to know where you are going to and what you might experience. The area of the threshold maybe could be divided into space for public use and some for more specifi c uses such as planting of different vegetable and fruits. It should be a place for the community to use but not to take advantage of, a place that they can see as a refuge but also a place that they must work for to take care of, a place with many differ-ent experiences can bring the community closer together. To give a sense of place to the community, while giving them responsibility of that place.

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Farming and Playing

Walkways with public art wallsGreen HousesPublic Garden Plots

People have a fundamental yearning for great bodies of water. But the very movement of the people toward the water can also destroy the water.Either roads freeways and industries destroy the waters edge and make it so dirty or so treacherous that it is virtually inaccessible; or when the waters edge is preserved, it falls into private hands

When natural bodies of water occur near human settlements, treat them with great respect. Always preserve a belt of common land, immediately beside the water. And allow dense settlements to come right down to the water only at infrequent intervals along the waters edge.

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-Christopher Alexander

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Public Art PavilionNew York, NY USARenderingPublic PavilionColumbia University GSAPPCritic: Daniel Vos Fall 08

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Graduate PortfolioArt Therapy MuseumNew York, NY USAJourney of Perception of SelfRenderingsFlorida Atlantic UniversityCritic:Josh Uhl Spring 06

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Graduate PortfolioSentinalOuter SpaceRenderings/Animation/ DesignColumbia University GSAPPCritic: Chris Whitelaw Spring 09Team: Tana Hovland - David Gonzalez

Graduate PortfolioArchitectural ObjectAnywhereUGOCan we classify Architecture: What is it?Renderings/DesignColumbia University GSAPPCritic: Reinhold Martin Spring 09Unfi nished

What if we took an object called it architecture , and drop it on a site. Does this mean the site is changed? or is it the object that will adapt to the site. What if there was nobody to inhabit the object, will it still be architecture?

Or the complete opposite, what if it was overtaken by people, would this

make it great architecture?

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