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Ginseng Research & Education Center Milledgeville Civic Center

Lamborghini Exhibition & Dealership

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– Renzo Piano –

“If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It’s much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.”

Ginsendleberg Research & Education Center:The Power of Connectivity

The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit. The project consisted of painting a series of houses on Detroit’s Heidelberg Street with bright dots of many colors and attaching salvaged items to the houses. It was a constantly evolving work that transformed a hard-core inner city neighborhood where people were afraid to walk, even in daytime, into one in which neighbors took pride and where visitors were many and welcomed.

1460 Franklin St Detroit, MI 48207

160,000 sf

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Broken Window Theory

Weak Tie Theory

Realistic Approach

Ginseng

City’s Environment componentsInfluence crime occurrence.i.e)Panhandlers,muggers, robbers, graffiti, VACANT LOTS - factor of the Broken Window

No trust between neighborhoodMain reason of crime occurrenceInfluenced by factor of the Broken Window

Highest unemployment rate in the U.S.

U.S. average 5.2% - Detroit 24.8%Bankruptcy - $20 billion

High value plant

Underdevelopment Market

International & Domestic Markets

Detroit Park

Scenario : Detroit Ginseng Center & Public Plaza

Landmark

Public Public Education

PublicLaboratory

Ginseng Center

Detroit Park is a favorite tourist and recreation area along side the Detroit River. The park provides s i d e w a l k s , b i k e paths, seating, and relaxation places.

There is a large conspicuous funnel in a tower of the Ginseng Center. It has an irregular and organic shaped atrium of glass. People can see the funnel well in Detroit Park, so it can be a new landmark in Detroit

There is no substantial data and information about ginseng in North America. Detroit could be the North American capital of ginseng research and education in order to educate and train how to cultivate and manage ginseng businesses. This ginseng research and education center could not only create Jobs but could change perception of ginseng. Also, Vacant lots would be re-purposed and activity would fill this area of Detroit. People could build and restore their Relationships on the site develop, which can reduce crime rate, and the education can help people to get a Jobs promote income, so the unemployment rate can decrease.

The lower part of the building and the rooftop is for the public. There is an exhibition room, a cafe, public lobby, a library, and classrooms on the 1st and 2nd floors.

The Ginseng Center educates people about ginseng agriculture and marketing. This service is for everyone, and the center has a library and a study room.

This lab experiments and researches about ginseng, so it can provide better information and data about ginseng growth and quality.

Upper parts of the building are private. There are offices, a laboratory, a quarantine lab, and vertical farmland.

The Ginseng Center has public and private floors including a l i b r a r y, e x h i b i t i o n space, and a classroom on the public floors. The private floors have offices, laboratories, and vertical farmlands.

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Design Development

Sketch - Site Plan & Detail Study Model - Sun Study

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Concept & Sketch

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Site Condition

Requirements for Urban Farms & Other Agricultural Uses

Address1460 Franklin St, Detroit, MI 48207

Existing Land UseSD4 (Special Development District,Riverfront Mixed Use)3 Abandoned Buildings - 25,000 sf

Permitted UsesAuditoriumEducational institututionFarmer’s marketFood catering establishmentsHydroponicsLaboratory (conditional use)LibraryMuseumResearch center (conditional use)Urban agriculture

Dimension StandardsNo setbacksMax height 110ftProject area - 3.7 acre

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Parks & open space

InstitutionalT r a n s p o r t a t i o n , communications & utilities

Fencing or Walls Ingress &Egress Loading Areas Trash Containers

and/or Dumpsters

Parks & open space

Institutional

Storage Structures& Items

to be Stored

Site DevelopmentIntegration & Interaction

1460 Franklin St Detroit, MI 48207

Before

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Interaction The Detroit Park is a symbolic place in Detroit. The Ginseng Plaza can be a part of that park, and they have many activity places such as a playground, a sunken plaza, and sidewalks. It will bring more visitors on the site, and they can have dif-ferent experiences throughout the different places. It can im-prove the quality of relaxation. Increasing number of visitors to Ginseng Plaza’s neighboring contexts will promote more attention by the city and investors. There are many vacant lots now, but it can be transformed as recreation areas or a ginseng industry zone. Therefore, the site can be a special, specific, and purposed zone in Detroit.

Integration

Communication and interaction is the most important method for relationship making, but many people do not want connect with the others because of trust. So they think that no commu-nication and interaction are the best ways to avoid crime oc-currence. Ironically, it influences more crime occurrence. The Ginseng Plaza can restore their relationship through walking, seating, and scenery. In Weak Tie theory, face to face situa-tion is the best solution to restore Relationships. Detroit Park and the Ginseng Plaza provide many face to face situation places such as sidewalks and seating areas, as well it shows beautiful scenery and comfortable atmospheres. Those con-ditions induce communication between people.

Horizontal Circulation & Programs

Vertical Circulation & Programs

Core Structure

Vertical CirculationVertical Circulation(1st Floor to Roof-only)

Egress

PrivateService Lab Recreation Area

Farmland Office

PublicRecreation AreaCafe

Exhibition LibraryClassroom

Auditorium

Horizontal Circulation & Programs Vertical Circulation & Programs

1st Floor

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4 th Floor

5 th Floor

Roof

Horizontal Circulation & Programs Vertical Circulation & Programs

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2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4 th Floor

5 th Floor

Roof

Program Development

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Site Plan

Ground Plan

1. Sunken Plaza2. Field Grown Ginseng Farmland (Outdoor Exhibition)3. Cafe & Souvenir Shop4. Main Lobby5. Auditorium6. Exhibition Room7. Elevator (Rooftop Only)8. Loading 9. Mechanical Room10. Security Office

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1. Info Desk2. Study & conference room3. Library4. Computer lab5. Reading Room

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Plan & Elevation

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6. Office7. Mechanical room8. Fan room9. Studio Classroom10. Lecture Room

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This existing building was built in Detroit’s golden age for an industrial building, but the building was abandoned due to automobile and manufacture industries declined. The existing building was not maintained for long time, so it has serious damage on the roof and wall; it looks like present day of Detroit. The abandoned building is a symbol of the past Detroit, but the Ginseng Center can revitalize the building through a re-purposing program. Although the building is adaptively re-used, it needs new structure system. So, the roof and some parts of walls are demolished because of serious damage, but the other parts have new concrete supporting load bearing walls behind existing walls. So, the Ginseng Center demonstrates harmonizing the past and the future Detroit.

1. Tie Hardware2. Folding aluminum sheet/ Fluorocarbon resin finishing3. Open Trench4. Reinforced block/fair-faced Masonry5. On galvanizing steel plate

Existing Wall+ Concrete Wall

Existing Wall+ Concrete Wall + C.M.U

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Adaptive Re-use of Existing Building

Angled louver system(SW)

Section & Detail

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Patterned window & double skin system(SE)

Louver block high sun angle

Wooden panel

Glass

Latticed Mullion

Latticed pillar

Low angle light is allowed in through lovers

Louvers provide multiple different visual experiences

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1. Anchor Bolt2. Steel Bar3. Pipe4. Steel angle folding5. Metal flashing6. Deck plate

Elevator funnel glazing panelization

Atrium - Funnel Design & Strategy

Ginseng - Sketch

Elevator funnel glazing panelization Winter passive design strategy

Summer passive design strategyFunnel pattern from texture

Ginseng - Inspiration

Atrium - Funnel Design & Strategy

Ginseng - Sketch

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Positive Meanings in Business: • Cheerful, happy, playful, fun • Optimistic, uplifting, illuminating • Logical, mental clarity, aids decision-making • Confidence, originality, creativity • Challenging, academic and analytical • Wisdom and logic

Yellow is the best color to create enthusiasm for life and can awaken greater confidence and optimism. Deep yellow indicates luster of the gold, and a symbol of wealth and authority. Yellow is a warm and happy color which creates a sense of cheerfulness and playfulness. Psychologically, it is optimistic, uplifting and illuminating, brightening people’s spirits. Yellow is the most highly visible of all colors which is why it is used for pedestrian crossings, taxis.

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Lamborghini Exhibition & Dealership

Lamborghini is the famous super-car brand. Lamborghini cars are designed by hexagon and wedge shape. Those shapes make Lamborghini cars are unique and iconic in super-cars. So, Lamborghini is called as icons of design. The building has angular facade made by id ea of hexagon’s angle. Angular surfaces make varieties of movement and exotic design. And, super-cars’ design must be considered aerodynamics for top speed. The building coexists aerodynamics’ shape and a simple box shape, which is basic building’s shape.

600 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139

34,000 sf

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Concept & Sketch

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Exploded Axonometric

Structure

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East Elev South Elev

Design Process

Plan & Elevation

Program

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1. Public Sunken Plaza2. Reception Desk3. Exhibition4. Car Elevator5. Storage6. Office7. Mechanical Room8. Cafe9. Lounge

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Fire Exit

Exhibition Area

Office Area

Service Area

Fire ExitTravel Distance HVAC LayoutSupplyReturn

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Rendering

Milledgeville Complex Center Central City Park, S Tattnall St, Milledgeville, GA 31061

79,000 sf03

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The city of Milledgeville is located in Baldwin County in Georgia. It was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868. In November 1864, Milledgeville was vandalized and ransacked by the Union Army. In 1868, during Reconstruction, the legislature moved the capital to Atlanta—a emerging city as the symbol of the New South as surely as Milledgeville symbolized the Old South. Milledgeville struggled to survive as a city after losing the business of the capital. Milledgeville had honor, reputation, and pride as the capital of Georgia, but it was damaged due to downsizing economy. For example, average city income is much lower than State average. Crime rate is higher than State. Milledgeville is neither capital nor normal city of Georgia. Those facts are the main concept of this project; Milledgeville has two faces. Likewise, the Milledgeville Complex Center has two different facade, which makes contrast between East and West facades. The site is located in right next to historical district. City law does not allow fully metal buildings near historical district. East Facade harmonizes with existing architecture, which tries to show reputation of the past of the capital. It is facing the heart of the city, so exterior does not feel repulsion to local people. However, the other shows more modern style design for the present and better future of the city. There are many major cities near Milledgeville. If clients visit Milledgeville, they should take highway 29, which is located in the west site. Therefore, West facade could make better impression to the clients. The site has about 35 feet different height from the lowest ground (East Facade) to the highest ground (West Facade). The lower ground focuses on harmony with Historic District and Buildings in Georgia College. In addition, many existing conditions such as a playground, a park, a baseball field, and many trees are preserved, so lower ground is opened to local people. Likewise, higher ground is also opened to local people and visitors except the main entrance of the hotel.

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Milledgeville, GAThe state of Georgia of capital from 1804 to 1868

Climate Condition

Average 63.15 °FAverage annual precipitation 47.6 in80% Humidity

SUMMER

WINTER

- Warm humid temp.- Snow (less than 3%)- Light wind & Breeze (Natural Ventilation)- Precipitation (52% in Sunmmer)

Residential areaHistoric district

Zoning

Historic District - Thomas St to Franklin St

Materials(new building) - Stucco, brick, rusticated stone, & marble

Metal-sided buildings are not appropriate for the historic district.

New building - compatible with the historic surroundings by borrowing, x copying

Historic District

- Historic District - Thomas St to Franklin St- New buildings should be compatible with the historic surroundings by borrowing, but not copying, design characteristics and materials from adjacent buildings and integrating them into a contemporary expression.- New buildings may be constructed of new materials that are compatible with surrounding historic buildings in the commercial district. Stucco, brick, rusticated stone, and marble are appropriate exterior materials for new commercial construction.- Metal-sided buildings are not appropriate for the historic district.- Private car, bike, school bus, and walking(pool transportation)

Central City Park

Local Historic Distric

National Register Distric

Land Use Build-able AreaSlop of the Site

Walkable distance

Good accessibility

Accessibility Site Condition

Existing playground, baseball &

basketball field

Recreation area (Only public park in the city)

Bad condition of existing site conditionThe flow of rainwater (N to S)

10 - 12O Slope

5 - 11O Slope

16 - 21O Slope

Preserve existing conditionsPublic area

Bldg.10%

Site90%

Playground

Baseball Field

Public Park

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Grand Rapids Art MuseumGrand Rpids, Michigan, USA

The New Grand Rapids Art Museum occupies a single city block in the centre of Grand Rapids. Its iconic role as a symbol of the city and of civic pride is tempered by the humanistic engagement with art that it affords its visitors. At the top of this tower are skylights, which allow filtered natural light to penetrate down into the galleries. At night these skylights become like beacons, expressing the museum’s cultural activities across the city.

Teruel ZillaTeruel,Spain

In 1987 the remains of ‘Aragosaurus ischiaticus’ were dug up in the provine of Teruel. Teruel’s underground, turned into a tourist appeal by thematic parks such as Dinopolis, is full of discoveries that remind us the lost existence of a powerful life in the origins of the province. Facing the existence of an obsolete and underused market builing occupying most of the meagre public space of the nearly nonex-istent Domingo Gascon Square, the decision taken is that of demolishing this old structure and intro-ducing a huge volume of youth leisure activites on the underground, to revitalize and to foster Teruel’s activity, while the old public square existing before the market building was constructed is regained. The public spaceoject takes the expression of a buried Godzilla : a telluric element of contemporary and pop expression.

Historic Bulings with Architectural columns

Grand Rapids Art MuseumGrand Rpids, Michigan, USA

The New Grand Rapids Art Museum occupies a single city block in the centre of Grand Rapids. Its iconic role as a symbol of the city and of civic pride is tempered by the humanistic engagement with art that it affords its visitors. At the top of this tower are skylights, which allow filtered natural light to penetrate down into the galleries. At night these skylights become like beacons, expressing the museum’s cultural activities across the city.

Teruel ZillaTeruel,Spain

In 1987 the remains of ‘Aragosaurus ischiaticus’ were dug up in the provine of Teruel. Teruel’s underground, turned into a tourist appeal by thematic parks such as Dinopolis, is full of discoveries that remind us the lost existence of a powerful life in the origins of the province. Facing the existence of an obsolete and underused market builing occupying most of the meagre public space of the nearly nonex-istent Domingo Gascon Square, the decision taken is that of demolishing this old structure and intro-ducing a huge volume of youth leisure activites on the underground, to revitalize and to foster Teruel’s activity, while the old public square existing before the market building was constructed is regained. The public spaceoject takes the expression of a buried Godzilla : a telluric element of contemporary and pop expression.

Historic Bulings with Architectural columns

Case Study

Design Concept & Strategy

In 1987 the remains of ‘Aragosaurus ischiaticus’ were dug up in the province of Teruel. Teruel’s underground, turned into a tourist appeal by thematic parks such as Dinopolis, is full of discoveries that remind us the lost existence of a powerful life in the origins of the province. Facing the existence of an obsolete and underused market building occupying most of the meagre public space of the nearly nonexistent Domingo Gascon Square, the decision taken is that of demolishing this old structure and introducing a huge volume of youth leisure activities on the underground, to revitalize and to foster Teruel’s activity, while the old public square existing before the market building was constructed is regained. The public spacecraft takes the expression of a buried Godzilla : a telluric element of contemporary and pop expression.

The New Grand Rapids Art Museum occupies a single city block in the centre of Grand Rapids. Its iconic role as a symbol of the city and of civic pride is tempered by the humanistic engagement with art that it affords its visitors. At the top of this tower are skylights, which allow filtered natural light to penetrate down into the galleries. At night these skylights become like beacons, expressing the museum’s cultural activities across the city.

Teruel ZillaTeruel,Spain

Grand Rapids Art MuseumGrand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Design Sketch

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Facade 1

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Hotel

Civic Center

Vehicle

Pedestrian

Program Response

To-plighting can be provided eighter by skylights, with horizontalor low-sloped glazing, or by roof monitors, with vertical or steeplySloped glazing. Because of variation in the brightness of thesky from horizon to directly overhead, illumination levels fromSkylights are roughly three times greater than those associatedwith sidelight windows of the same opening area. Illumination isHighest directly below a skylight opening and diminishes withincreasing horizontal distance. With roof monitors, which admitdaylight from the side, highest illumination levels tend to beoffset to the side opposite the monitor glazing.

Top-Lighting

Stack Ventilation relies on convective pressures (the naturalbuoyancy of warmer air compared to cooler air) to move airthrough the building. As interior air gains heat, it rises andthen is exhausted from openings located high in the building,While cooler outside air is drawn in lower down. Stack ventilationis an effective alternative to cross ventilation wherePrevailing winds are weak or unpredictable. However, stackVentilation requires structures of sufficient height to producethe necessary convective forces.

Stack Ventilation

Water Fountain & Basketball Court

Pond Outdoor Stage Public Park Playground

Site Plan Ground Plan

1. Playground2. Basketball Court3. Terrace4. Lobby5. Conference Room6. Info. Desk7. Security Office8. Mechanical Room9. Laundry10. Auditorium11. Ballroom12. Office13. Storage14. Loading Dock

Ground Plan

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1.Cafe2.Recreation Green Area3.Lecture Room4.Studio5.Computer Lab

6.Private Studio7.Shower & Locker Room8.Storage9.Sleeping Room

1.Lobby2.Restaruant3.Employee Lounge4.Storage

5.Lighting Tower6.Mechnical Room7.Cooling Tower

2nd Floor 3rd Floor

Plan & Section

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1.One Bed Room2. Two Beds Room3. Mechanical Room

4 - 6th Floors Double Skin (SW Elev) Patterned Wooden Louver

Section Detail

Double Skin(SW Elevation)

1. Duck2. W 12x26 Girder3. W 8x15 Beam4. R-19 Insulation

1. Wooden Floor2. Metal Dock3. Low E Glass4. Column5. Aluminum Frame6. Still Plate

7. Granite Plate8. Iroco Wood Stud Finish9. Iroco Wood Board10. Wood Sleeper11. Sprinkler12. Duck

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Rendering

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