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Ritual Flux by Adrian Lo + Peter VanHage

Ritual Flux reflects the synthetic nature of ideas, technology, and the reciprocal relationships between the body and the built environment. The anatomy of any domestic terrain requires an ingrained flexibility to sustain the broad spectrum of generic processes shared by all humans, while maintaining certain cultural or regional specificity. read more

image by hiepler-brunier

Proposal for the house using Velux skylights. The house is intended for older individuals moving towards retirement. The house is designed to promote an idea of archiving and treasuring the familial goods collected through time, from generation to generation. read more

3rd floor interior rendering

The semester finished with the work at a level of development corresponding to the following images and drawings. read more

Brooklyn - McCarren Park Aquatic Center

The final scheme easily consumes about 50% of the site, but not without providing a full array of both community and professional program activity.

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There is a great video coming from Andrew Payne over @ liftarchitects that begins to explain Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures. He goes into a much deeper description on his site and has the file available for download. >enjoy

Information from the Rhino model of a radiolarian’s cell and skeleton was projected and stretched to produce geometry for a template whose elements were folded (looped, creating an aperture), stretched (grown), and threaded through each other to begin to create a dynamic landscape with the potential to adapt to program requirements. read more

The filtered light demonstrates the porous zones possible for allowing water to flow in and be collected and channeled down through the interstitial compartmentalized chambers and recirculated into use. The dry chambers become programmatic for MEP space. read more

After laying out the ground program, each individual roof component was widened or heightened in response to the program underneath. Each piece nests into one another identically and the chance for water collection and recirculation throughout the exterior/interior chambers acts the same from piece to piece while expanding and stretching the volume of flow respectively. The Diving Pool initiates a heightened structural membrane, while the Olympic Pool initiates a widened structure. read more

The site analysis revealed inefficiencies and opportunities within the current parking and traffic structure of the area in immediate proximity of our building. My proposal uses my site data as support for the removal of a section of Lafayette Ave. to allow for a communal green space. Recent personal events have left me with a great interest in communal hubs and places of social exchange. The new open area has the potential for large-scale public events staging, recreation, and community interaction, all a result of the library project.

More on the innards and workings of the building later. The large scale concepts are being ironed out first in order to decrease the scope of concern for the project as a whole.

The skeleton model shaped with its negative space

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