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ARCH 551 / CONTROL / Kelly Bair + Thomas Kelley

Investigating formal qualities through axial and perspectival relationships and fundamental operations: scale, orient, multiply

THE BOOK OF FORMS: X, Y AND Z60 pages

A compilation of drawings examining the outcome of formal operations through axial perspectives with a specifi c focus on twin characteristics: duplication, mimicry, conjoined, identical, fraternal

University of Illinois at Chicago | Arch 551 | Fall 2014 | Instructors: Kelly Bair (C.) w. Thomas Kelley

JOHN LEANO XYZ

Y MODEL (CAVE) A: IDENTICALAcrylic, 3D-print

Y MODEL (CRUCIFORM) B: CONJOINEDAcrylic, 3D-print

FORM TO TYPE: GRACELAND CEMETERY

The synthesis of twin forms through the lens of cemetery typology (grave, monument, mausoleum, columbarium, etc.) resulted in the Twin Pavilion: a new cemetery typology accomodating the living and the dead underneath a coffered and tufted ceiling - like a coffin.

STUDIO GRACELAND CEMETERY MODEL

Plywood, dowels, basswood

TWIN PAVILION

UNDERSIDECNC-milled polyurethane foam

ARCH 552 / POWER / Stewart Hicks + Julia Capomaggi

Tracing an idea of power in architecture by exploring character, narrative and collage, culminating in a bas relief model

CHARACTER PROFILE: DOSRockite concrete

DOS made his way from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. While not much is known about its bi-polar halves, Deux and Deuce, he spends most of his time arguing with himself about the “true” orientation of the world. His conclusion: it’s somewhere in the gray area between black and white.

DOS is the product of a specific investigation of duality in relation to power.

Duality implies simultaneity - the existence of two things in the same place and time or multi-purpose.

COLLAGE

As clothing and as context:

DOS is an inhabitant of two worlds, up and down - unique in identity yet linked, where heirarchy is merely relative.

In collage, the plan of Villa Rotunda becomes an urban plan... and DOS’ home.

DOS SITE MODELChipboard

BAS RELIEF:THE DOS BOOK MUSEUM + LIBRARY

The bas relief was an opportunity to programmatically define duality through a museum and library. Duality was subsequently furthered by deploying the book as both educative tool and art object - the book in context and the book out of context.

DOS BAS RELIEF MODEL48 1/16”-chipboard layers

ELEVATION I

ELEVATION II

SECTION I

Beginning in its conventional accomodation on shelves and becoming a decorative profile, placed on a pedestal and ultimately a pile of meaningless objects...

SECTION II

the transition of the book from tool to art is expressed in the programmatic transition from bottom-half library to upper-half museum.

LIBRARY PLAN

MIDDLE FLOOR PLAN

MUSEUM PLAN

Library and museum become both wildly different...

yet equally engaging.

F 2015

ARCH 553 / HOUSE / Penelope Dean + Grant Gibson

Inverting conventional notions of the home by looking at it in reverse; i.e. via the interior: first furniture, object, decor, built-in, structure, and finally envelope.

A HOUSE FOR ACTIVITYThis project re-examines domestic life for a small family at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore through a combination of fixed and mobile furniture. Mobile furniture plays a literally active role for the family - furniture capable of “keeping up” through expediency, convenience and portability.

The tension between a modernist free plan enabled by structural concrete columns and a postmodernist floor manipulation creates the setting for a mixture of events that encourages a more open and fluid lifestyle - the flowing, coincidence and intersection of activity in an uninterrupted space devoid of partition and corridor.

Caster and rollable furniture activate pocketed spaces while the flat perimeter around the pockets accomodate fixed domestic utilities; i.e. the kitchen, bathroom and general storage. The parents' and child's bedrooms are adjoined at the rear of the home, allowing wide views of the forest through floor-to-ceiling shelf-windows. Floor “portholes” allow for viewing the zen garden beneath the home, while two skylights minimally illuminate interior intersections.

The front entry is approached via ramp off the driveway, which continues beneath the home into a two-car garage. Wood paneling across the façade lends material contrast to the industrial homogeneity of the floor and roof slabs.

Meanwhile underneath, a zen garden of stepped gravel beds and a minimal selection of ferns complements the home's interior - allowing for a contemplative break from the activity taking place inside.

ROOF PLAN

MAIN FLOOR PLAN

GARDEN PLAN

SECTION: WEST

SECTION: EAST

ELEVATION: WEST

ELEVATION: EAST

ELEVATION: NORTH

ELEVATION: SOUTH

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