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Words by Katie Gerfen
Who knew a bagel shop delivered to studio? It’s 9:30 on a Friday morning, and nine sleepy fourth- and fifth-year students at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture are preparing to present their research when a cell phone chirps and one person makes a break for the door. “Is she coming back?” asks visiting professor Philip Beesley, down for a biweekly visit from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The student returns, bagel in hand, and the conversation resumes as each student presents information on architectural theory, ranging from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere to Eric Owen Moss’ efforts to, as Beesley puts it, “build [James Joyce's] Finnegans Wake in Culver City.” read more
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Francis Bitonti, principal of FADarchitecture and fellow Professor a the Pratt Institute School of Architecture has taken the time to share his entry for the City Racks Design Competition. It operates like a lurking vine-work of containment to the point where they seem to almost consume the bicycles in a luscious flesh. read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
The skylight apertures are responsive to the geometries of the sun’s seasonal and daily cycles in a way that produces internal spaces that fluctuate in time. Architecture itself, does not physically move in space, however the bit of it reliant on light for the definition of its form may undergo phenomenological change both physically and performatively as a function of light. by Jerome Hord & Athony Morin read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
Treatment of the existing building and site conditions focused on renovation and reinvention rather than demolition is the principal of our intervention. A series of concept driven procedures allows for the essential organization to be based upon people rather than the efficiency of physical matter. These areas then have a correlation to ceiling and roof geometries which drive their program, organization and relationship to lighting effects. A primary and secondary program is recognized through the resultant overlap condition of the different program typologies. This area of overlap provides for dynamic exchange amongst occupants, thus creating heterogeneity in program juxtaposition and varied circulation. Office typology can thus be generated through the use of the skylight as a means to reorganize and introduce natural light into an existing building system. by Scott Sorenson & Karl Roarty read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
Under what type of rules and regulations does one start to create and express the different relationships that exist between programs? One can believe that the fluidity of these relationships carry an important role in determining such rules. The fluidity that exists in physical and programmatic formations should reflect the flow of relations as well as the path created from these relations, a derivative of circulation. Our project tries to represent and portray the fluidity that exists between programmatic moments and the relations between these programmatic moments. The skylight within our project performs as an enhancer of the transitional spaces between flows. by Shirley Dolezal & Andrij Kyfor read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
Our project analyzed the moiré pattern; which is an interference pattern created when two grids are over laid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes. Rotation of a grid produces a moiré pattern. Grids are positioned one on top of the other. The upper grid stays in position while the lower is rotated. We’ve composed three distinct types of moiré organizations, which create three different light qualities. These three light qualities will influence the program in plan depending on the requirements of each programmatic element. by Patricio Andrade & William Ruffenach read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
The building’s form is developed from the articulation of different light qualities. Light that enters from a facade versus light that enters from a ceiling both have differing programmatic applications. Collaborative spaces, circulation, and anchor programs use direct light from perimeter conditions. Conversely, open office and private office spaces require diffuse light that is obtained from sky lighting. The ceiling section reacts to the transition from perimeter program to interior program by increasing in depth and turbulence towards the interior zones. The increasing ceiling depth also corollate with the increasing density of skylight application. by Jasmine Ho & Justin Snider read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
Developed in the 1950s, the CIGNA headquarters was based on departmental adjacencies and assembly line workflow. With the development of current communication systems, the original building organization is consequently superseded. Given that, we decided to replace these current adjacencies with social adjacencies. With respect to that, we with hope to mediate the diffusion of physical communication within the modern workplace. by Edwin Lam, Anna Perelman & Naciem Nowrouzi read more
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Shigeru BAN, Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo and Paris “Recent Projects” Thursday, November 6 2008
Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Auditorium 6pm read more
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