2012 So ABook OPT
2012 So ABook OPT
2012 So ABook OPT
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN + RESEARCH
GEORGIA TECH
DESIGN + RESEARCH
ISBN 978-1-300-10013-3
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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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Introduction
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Ambitions
The work in this years Design and Research Annual marks the beginning of another transition in the 100+ year life of the School, and is indicative of the extraordinary curiosity and passion our students and faculty have for the making of the built environment through design, research and scholarship. The changing nature of architectural practice, coupled with an increasing demand for deep working knowledge of digital design platforms and research oriented design training, prompted a number of faculty-led conversations centered on strengthening linkages between our various degree programs in three targeted areas: design foundations, building technology and performance, and design as research. We are likewise extending our reach beyond the walls of our college to build bridges amongst the rich varieties of course offerings across campus in order to promote a shared culture between design, engineering and the humanities. While changing currents push us all back and forth and in ever new directions, every architecture school must address perpetual and fundamental questions related to design education: what should we as architects know, how do we learn, and by what means do we assess what weve learned? Commitment to excellence in teaching, dedication to innovation within the curriculum, and the creation of a positive learning environment governed by a relentless ambition; this is our challenge as educators if we are to ensure that our students can lead the technological, social and policy dialogues affecting the ways in which our future worlds are made. As you will see in the following pages, a number of richly detailed conversations are unfolding between faculty, students and the profession regarding the power of architecture to create alternative futures, by engaging tradition and technological innovation to establish new ways of seeing and making. Foundations Students in the graduate and undergraduate foundation studios are challenged to examine the world through a variety of analytical lenses, instrumental, affective and cognitive, all aimed at understanding discourses of architectural representation. Faculty-led dialogues were concentrated on what constitutes our core curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate level, and how might they inform one another. Under the guidance of a highly skilled instructional core, the sophomore studio was the locus of constructive debate around the future of foundational design pedagogy. Students were immersed in a reinvigorated studio curriculum aimed at investigating new approaches to architectural form and technology via a variety of software platforms. Emphasis was placed on the ability to read patterns in terms of generative rules, the ability to write these rules in scripts, and the ability to modify the scripts to generate building forms. Critical in all of this is the transition from 2-D into 3-D patterns and the subsequent interrogation of 3-D patterns into precise interpretations of program, site and context. This is unquestionably some of the most ambitious work to ever emerge from the core design studios at Tech. Building Workshops + Building Performance We are addressing an increased desire for hands-on fabrication and detailing exercises through a number of efforts in and out of the design studio at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Digitally designed and manufactured installations along Atlantas Beltline, in the Castleberry Hill district, in Paris, France and Chattanooga, Tennessee, each spoke to an ever growing interest to get our hands dirty to make something. Generous support from faculty and staff contributed to the success of these efforts. The Portman Prize and Portman visiting critic program continues to operate at the center of the graduate Options II Building Workshop: a studio based comprehensive building exercise bound to several courses in building technology and physics. In practice, architects simulate the act of building via the making of drawings and models. The Building Workshop is focused on the productive act of making drawings and models, through which a student creates the conditions of a building site in order to work through the various categories of problems associated with assembly. Examples from the studio and support courses are included, and our goal is to extend our reach beyond the School and into other related disciplines on campus, namely structural, environmental and civil engineering. Design as Research Greater emphasis is now being placed on the ability of the architect to participate in imaginative and focused research-driven dialogues. The emerging field of design as research is moving architecture away from the self-referential metalanguages of the 1990s, or the purely instrumental formal investigations of the early 21st century, toward more fruitful dialogues around simple quality of life questions related to house and home, work, recreation, transit and infrastructure. Throughout the year, faculty and students were challenged to engage research-driven questions in concentrated areas: building energy and performance, healthcare, urban and environmental design, shape grammar and space syntax, digital design and fabrication, urbanism, landscape urbanism, and practice, each of which is further explicated through themes in construction, representation and history. The Atlanta metropolitan region faces a number of significant long-term challenges at the level of infrastructure, population growth, the environment, and civic identity. Our School of Architecture will be a leader in these discussions through the varied platforms set forth via the design and research studio setting.
Embracing the creative tension between funded research and design in order to promote innovation in architecture
At the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, three research laboratories have emerged through cumulative efforts over many years with welldefined intellectual missions; leadership in their respective fields nationally; and, a track record of external funding that allows them to continuously support doctoral students in the corresponding areas of research of our Doctoral Program. 1. The Digital Buildings Laboratory. The Mission: the enhancement of the computational tools that facilitate: the generation of designs; the representation and evaluation of buildings and their parts; the integration of expertise within the design process; the integration of design, factory fabrication and on-site construction. The High Performance Buildings Laboratory. The Mission: the development of better models, controls and metrics of building performance, particularly with regard to energy costs and environmental quality and sustainability. SimTigrate Design Laboratory. The Mission: to support evidence-based design decisions by translating research findings into design guidelines, design models and design prototypes. The SimTigrate Lab uses physical and virtual simulation in order to develop and test innovative ideas, with an emphasis on health care design. More precisely, the measure of success is documented impact that matches the ambitions, informed intentions and expectations of those who commission, develop and implement designs. However the relationship between research and design is not simple. The output of design, when realized, is a building or place with all of its physical properties, including the control of environment, the organization of space and affordances for human life. The output of research on design is specialized, generalizable and testable knowledge on: 1. Building components, construction and assembly; 2. The affordances and performance implications of particular physical properties; 3. Tools that support design decisions by helping to evaluate design alternatives or the intrinsic potential of places and programs; 4. Technologies that support the representation, development and physical realization of designs; 5. Tools that support the effective use and re-use of buildings over time; 6. Principles and practices that support the education of well-qualified architects. Thus, quite frequently, the outcomes of the design studio and the research laboratory do not coincide. The relationship between the more holistic orientation of design and the more particular orientation of research is best managed as a creative tension even as design and research equally engage imagination, intuition and rigor in formulating and testing propositions. The bridges between research on design and research through design are the innovative project and the demonstration project, extending the repertoire of design solutions and our sense of what is possible and desirable in architecture. We look to strengthen our contributions to such projects through our links to practice and through our work in the studio and the laboratory alike.
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Each of these labs is also associated with a concentration in our M.Sc. with a major in Architecture: Digital Design and Fabrication; Health and Design; and High Performance Buildings respectively. With the new structure of Research and Design studios during the entire final year of studies for the professional M.Arch. Degree, these labs are also poised to support and inspire projects that demonstrate and test new possibilities. Their success, like the success of any of our other efforts, is linked to the ability of the students and the faculty as a whole to collectively sustain an intense culture of inquiry on architecture, its technological basis, its functions, its historical development, the purposes its serves and the values it expresses. The measure of success is documented impact on architecture and the built environment.
Michael Gamble
Architect and Associate Chair for Undergraduate and Professional Studies
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BS_Arch Studios
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FUNDAMENTALS I
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Elvin Chu
Skylar Westlake
Kara Kenna
Krishi Patel
Steven Fischer
Students observe carefully to defamiliarize their seeing, learning to draw what one sees, and not what one thinks one sees. As they describe, students experiment, and draw out qualities of the immediate environment through a broad range of drawing and modeling methods and procedures. Focused inquiries inform variations of genre, media, language, context, distance, size, speed, and density. The diverse descriptions operate not only as residual sites of careful looking, but as artifacts to be read anew. Media and genre experiments facilitate their re-imagining.
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Steven Fischer
Various lenses foreground inquiry of the object itself, the object animated by the body, and as a component of a larger situation. How something is made (conceived and produced), used (consumed and experienced), and re-made (construed and interpreted) is all part of the mix. Acts of careful looking and their resultant representations serve as grounds for exploration, and propositional re-imagining.
Alyssa Mellett
Annette Almonte-Malagon
Anne Meadows
Stephanie Douthitt
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Corinne Bartlett Amanda Foster
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The exercises invite students to build skills in design agility, and expansive design thinking and making. Former descriptions resurface as artifacts to be re-read, formally, spatially, at multiple scales and through multiple lenses. New readings set new trajectories that inform productive, imaginative design operations.
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FUNDAMENTALS II
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Tianjing Guo Quy Le
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Krishi Patel
Paloma Longhi
Maryam Al-Atassi
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Quy Le
Students explore the window as a series of analogs, as a cultural artifact, and an object situated within diverse larger contexts, as a system of diverse measures and a composition of materials. Interpreting or reading the window as a second skin, as an expander of space, as a thick threshold, for example expands student notions of the window. Students describe window/ building sites through several metrics of measure, through a variety of drawing and modeling genres. They identify large ordering systems and take dimensional measurements while also exploring kinetic measures of body and light.
Elvin Chu
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Students investigate various building components and materials to understand system logics at the window and building envelope. The process begins with visible knowledge of surfaces, materials and dimension to support informed speculation of structure and assembly. Students set up the problem and process of designing a window situation. The artifacts of earlier studies serve as foundation for movement across the multiple genres and issues introduced during the semester.
Quy Le
Hyunkyung Lee
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ARCH 2011
Design Studio I
Lars Spuybroek, coordinator Daniel Baerlecken + Marcelo Bernal + Jihan Sherman Gernot Riether + Sarah Soh + Alice Vialard
Architecture, more than any other artform, deals with what is called mereology, the study of the relationship between the whole and the parts. For architects it might be the most normal thing in the universe that a wall is made of bricks but for a philosopher to say that the bricks are things and that the wall, again, is a thing is an almost unsolvable problem, and considered solvable only with metaphysics. We dont have to go that far well, not for now though we need to establish right away that such a notion can jump the distinction between building and architecture, since the put-togetherness of the former now starts to inform the latter, which we are going to research as the problem of aggregation. Aggregation means foremost that the whole is a collaborative act of the parts. So, the parts are (1) active parts, (2) they only act in relation to others, and (3) they act upon each other as to create a whole. It does not necessarily mean the parts succeed in doing so, or that the whole acts on the parts, and tells the parts where to stand. One movement in art and design that favored aggregation was the picturesque, a direct influence of landscape design (landscape painting even) on the design of objects, mostly architectural ones. Its main model of design was the cottage; book after book was published in the early nineteenth century on cottages and farms. It was the main model for understanding things as grown or aggregated. Often the object would start as a single volume and as the owner started a shop, a small volume was added to the house; when children came, more volumes were added; and when animals were acquired even stables, all aggregated into an irregular object of multiple volumes. The idea for the course is certainly not to come up with picturesque architectures (in England the picturesque hardly influences the architecture of landscape or village buildings), but urban architecture, such as Manchester City Hall, a block, which is very much composed as an aggregation, where even the smallest part is articulated. Aggregation is not a kit-of-parts architecture, where parts pre-exist the building, and only systemacy can bring the two together. Here the parts are virtual entities; they can vary, they can act, they can lock into each other, slide along each other, barely touching or fully connecting. In short, the parts are not prefixed, they are flexible, and they relate to one another with flexible rules that merely control the local connections, not the global whole or its proportions.
AGGREGATES
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Shaowen Zhang
Anthony Ranallo
Michelle Kraus
Phillip Richardson
James MacDaniel
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Keyla Nightingale
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Victoria Acevedo
Luke Kvasnicka
Anna Brooks
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Briana Rinderknecht
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Caitlyn Simpson
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ARCH 2012
Design Studio II
Lars Spuybroek, coordinator Daniel Baerlecken + Katherine Johnson + Alice Vialard Stuart Romm + Sarah Soh + Jihan Sherman
All materials, when sufficiently mobilized, find ways to organize themselves. Even in human crafts we find similar ways to create patterns, as long as the materials are allowed to be flexible and to configure step by step into a final shape. This applies to the forging of iron as much as to the weaving of baskets or the cooking of a dish. The studio prioritizes material techniques to generate individually distinct patterns, and to research more possible interactions between architecture, site and program. The studio is based more on material experimentation than the acquiring of digital skills, and develops both materiality and technique in the realm of analog computing a term that can be applied to Sempers Stoffwechselthese (e.g., textile weaving becoming stone carving), Gaudis catenary techniques (e.g., hanging chains becoming stone arches) or Frei Ottos form finding (e.g., wrinkled paper becoming a concrete roof). The techniques range from the ornamental to the structural, and anything in between. The research focuses on existing figuration (the type of loop, knot or interconnection) that leads to specific patterns: Lacework, Macrame, Knitting, Plaiting, Weaving, Braiding and Quilting. More abstract techniques are studied, where individually distinct figurations had to be invented leading to specific configurations: Felting, Pleating, Interlacing, Figuring, Combing, Wettening, Sticking, Draping. The studio focuses on the transformation of the existing Federal Reserve Bank building on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. The place of architecture in the expression of the status of banking has always been very prominent. For instance, national banks tend to be built in stone (and in classcial style), while commercial banks often choose glass and steel (in hightech) to express transparency and reliability. Clearly things have changed since the collapse of Lehmann Brothers in 2008. What role can architecture play in the tense field of the politics of values? Should architecture play it safe and clean up old symbolisms, or does it need to help invent new symbolics, or should it even go further and invent new types of interaction within the public realm?
MATTER MATTERS
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Victoria Acevedo, William Mccollum Luke Kvasnicka, Wesley Herr
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Victoria Mansell, Marc Whitley
Kelly Skaggs, Kayla Nightingale Geoffrey Rees, Deborah Hudson, James MacDaniel
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ARCH 3011
NATURE+ARTIFICE
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Bryce Truitt
Lauren Tanguay
Bryce Truitt
Bryce Truitt
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Timothy Niou
Anjamarie Gaztambide
Barry Moore
Timothy Niou
Timothy Niou
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Barry Moore
Barry Moore
Timothy Niou
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Erica Lee
Ralf Iberle
Natasha Sanjaya
Erica Lee
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Erica Lee
Greg Hall
Erica Lee
Natasha Sanjaya
Jose Pajares
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Shota Vashakmadze
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Ben Smith
Hannah Griggers
Ben Smith
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Vee Hu
Soleen Karim
Vee Hu
Michael Fox
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Xueping Li
Soleen Karim
Soleen Karim
Soleen Karim
Vee Hu
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Vee Hu
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Michael Fox
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DIGITAL ECOLOGIES
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ARCH 3012
Design Studio IV
Harris Dimitropoulos
Margot Montouchet
Margot Montouchet
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ARCH 3012
Design Studio IV
Sabir Khan
Mosque
I chose the topic of the mosque for a number of pedagogical reasons that are essential to an architectural education: to defamiliarize our understanding of architecture, making us see architectural elements, program, and space afresh; to work with a simple architectural program with very few elements, allowing us to concentrate on core disciplinary issues: structure; enclosure; sitework; the performance of the body in space; to discover and explore a body of architecture of great quality that has both breadth and currency. While a design studio on the mosque offers various possible approaches and emphases, the learning objectives for this studio were: an ability to develop compelling architectural expression and experience through the active manipulation of primary architectural elements; an ability to develop tools and methods for working with unfamiliar programs, situations, and cultures;
Keefer Dunn
an understanding of how cultural and architectural ideas and motifs circulate and evolve across regions and time; a basic visual, formal, and cultural literacy in the art and architecture of the muslim worlds, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, and the diasporic communities in contemporary Europe and North America. The studio worked on the mosque at a number of different scales (at the scale of the individual, the group, and the community) and through a set of different research and design methods (deep dives, focused inquiry, site visits, large-scale models, etc.). The studio problematized both the architecture of prayer the temporary marking and making of space by the individual or by a group as well as the genius loci of the site a suburban intersection at the edge of historical downtown Fayetteville, Georgia. The design proposals explored the particular terrains staked by these two markers.
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Ryan Terrell
Bryce Truitt
Bryce Truitt
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Caroline Montague
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ARCH 3012
Design Studio IV
Mariam Mojdehi
Chelsey Dail
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ARCH 3012
Design Studio IV
Frederick Pearsall
As with Rosalind Krauss mapping of sculptures expanded field, there are important possibilities for expanding the powers of architecture contained in certain dialectical relationships between itself and other fields. This studio Expanding the Field was set up to research and develop such possibilities through the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Freshkills Park, near Staten Island, NY an ideas competition to design a site specific public artwork that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, has the ability to harness energy cleanly from nature and convert it to electricity for the utility grid. Seminar readings and presentations provide an understanding of relevant theories and sustainable practices of place-making, land and environmental art, landscape ecology, bio-mimetics, and renewable energy systems from which teams and individuals collaborate to develop their own rigorous lines of research and design applications. Dialectical thinking, mapping, and experimentation are central to all investigation processes, supported by advanced modes of representation and diverse media physical and digital deployed in critical, skillful, and imaginative ways. Along with the demonstration of clear and compelling alternative futures, those of constructability, beneficial impacts, and an explicit indexing of the human body are central to all of these investigations and outcomes.
James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze
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Michael Miller, Patrick Di Rito
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ARCH 3012
Design Studio IV
Gernot Riether
Li Xueping
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Ralf Iberle
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ARCH 4012
Design Studio VI
Lars Spuybroek + Sabri Gokmen
On Beauty
During the twentieth century beauty became more and more suspect in the aesthetics of art and architecture. When looking carefully at the main aspects of modernist aesthetics, architects have encountered words like fracture, process, abstraction, deconstruction, fragment, purity, etc., etc., words that are generally associated with the adverse of beauty, namely the sublime. Now, after those hundred years of minimalism, genocides and abstractions, this studio searches a way back to beauty. Commentators that often advocate the return to beauty are on the Prince-Charles team of aesthetics (Scruton, Turner), who consider classicism, harmony and proportion as the only way to repair things by going back to the Greeks. However, the research scope of this studio was to look at John Ruskins notion of Vital Beauty, a beauty of imperfection, fragility and variation. Vital beauty means beauty of active parts, not of parts that are balanced and in rest, but participating, entangling and constructing, thereby making the onlooker a participant as well; in short, defining beauty by agency. As a digital design studio, the research on beauty was carried not through mere inspiration and subjectivity, but via method and techniques. In the first half of the semester, the studio was divided into eight pairs of students. Each pair looked at one given aspect of beauty. These selected aspects were: roughness, imperfection, opulence, grace, incandescence, veiling, fragility and smoothness; that are studied first by images, and then by digital diagramming. In the second half of the semester, the students distilled from these design techniques by applying them to a building typology, site and program. Some of these aspects applied to massing, others to structure, while others to ornament. The studios overall goal was to maintain consistency: diagrams do not generate a part of the architecture, but inform all elements of design.
Yeun Kim
Michael Chaney
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Jessica Greenstein
Heta Naukkarinen
HyoJae Lee
Andrea Puccini
Hannah Griggers
Hannah Griggers
Lauren Cundiff
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M_Arch Studios
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ARCH 4021
Core I Studio
Charles Rudolph + Lane Duncan + Sabri Gokmen
The architect is trained to imagine and visualize a transformed physical reality by constructing, evaluating, and manipulating abstract representations of this reality. To command this eye-to-hand skill with confidence requires time, patience, and perhaps most importantly, thoughtfulness and care. Drawing, model-making, and freehand sketching remain necessary skills for architectural design, even in the age of digital media. The goal of the studio is to build visual acuity, compositional rigor and spatial sensibility that will support the later command of the most sophisticated digital media. The Core design curriculum is organized around the following goals and priorities: Introduce the discipline and the culture of architecture through exercises and critical discussion. Build skills in both analog and digital drawing and making that are fundamental for architectural design. Develop ability to combine and apply analytical and representational skills in a speculative design context. The summer Core studio is the setting for all three of the above, most notably skillbuilding. Each student brings a different background, knowledge base and sensitivity to the program, yet we all must learn to converse with and within the language of our discipline. Architectural representation (drawings and models of spaces, buildings, environmental conditions) functions as that language. It is based in abstraction, whether in two or three dimensions, on paper or in the computer, as a detail or as a city plan. Quite simply, there is no architecture without representation, and representation of architecture requires abstraction.
FOUNDATIONS
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Core I Studio | Rudolph Duncan + Gokmen Core I Studio | Rudolph ++ Duncan + Gokmen
William Ramhold William Ramhold James VanHorn
Holden Spaht
James VanHorn
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ARCH 4022
Core II Studio
Harris Dimitropoulos + Mariam Mojdehi
The educational intent of the studio is to provide the necessary tools to incoming M.Arch students with a prior degree in a field other than architecture. The main areas of concentration include architectural representation, introduction of digital media into the design process, codes and conventions of architectural drawings, craftsmanship, the study of precedents and architectural thinking. The implementation of these objectives involved three distinct projects: The analysis of a painting. The resulting analysis was interpreted in three dimensions and the ensuing model was drawn in conventional orthographic projections. An earthworks proposal. This assignment covered the introduction of site issues, site representation in drawings, models and digital media, cut and fill, stereotomic understanding of site, conceptual design thinking, and program. A mixed-use housing development. The emphasis of this assignment was on program, orientation, urban integration, simple structural systems, tectonic articulation, passive cooling, and modes of inhabitation. This studio was substantially related to the Introduction to Design Computing and to Construction Technology I The students were required to devote equal attention to issues of program, site, and context. The analysis of iconic projects from form to program, rituals of use, site, and context, revealing clear design strategies embedded in seminal architectural projects was a common strategy employed in all three studio projects. The studio projects were of increasing complexity and the second and third were based on the knowledge acquired in the process. The studio was founded on an understanding of analysis and tectonics as expressed through various representational modes and conceived in relation to Modern and Contemporary precedents. Each student was engaged in the development of all aspects of architectural conventions, i.e., both two and three dimensional analog and digital drawing, model making, collage, as well as written and verbal communication.
POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION
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Ekram Hassem
Elaheh Damircheli
James VanHorn
Madona Cumar
Elaheh Damircheli
James VanHorn
Elaheh Damircheli
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James VanHorn
Madona Cumar
Ekram Hassem
Elaheh Damircheli
Madona Cumar
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ARCH 4023
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William Ramhold
Madona Kumar
William Ramhold
Mihir Patel
William Ramhold
Ekram Hassen
Holden Spaht
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Core III Studio | Harrison + Baerlecken Core III Studio | Harrison + Baerlecken
Bunny Tucker
Maria Velasquez
Migyung Sky Ko
Maria Velasquez
Holden Spaht
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ARCH 6051
Options I Studio
Mark Cottle | Athanassios Economou | David Green Frederick Pearsall + Richard Dagenhart | Stuart Romm
Overview: The Options I Studio is first of four upper-level options studios in the Master of Architecture curriculum, and the beginning of an academic year focused on professional studies. Students choose among separate studio sections each of which foregrounds advanced studio problems in architecture by emphasizing study in the areas of history and theory, urban and environmental design, culture and practice, and construction technology. The 2011 Options I studio will focus on issues related to architectural production after the end of modernism via two key themes: The City, Sites and Cultural Contexts; and Architectural Form, Program and Type. The co-requisite theory and criticism course will serve as a bibliographic reference for the collective and individual work of each studio. Organization: Methods of urban analysis and research will preface each studios foray into one collective exercise of three weeks duration on the theme of City/History. The first problem is designed to allow assessment of students variable skill level, and facilitates the integration of students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to establish an espirit de corps and a shared sense of identity as part of the graduate program. For the remainder of the term, each instructor will focus on a distinct and provocative studio agenda. The challenge is to stoke the architectural imagination by framing critical approaches to the city, and changing concepts of the architectural program in light of new media and new means. Objectives: While each instructor proposition is distinct, all studios share common performance indicators and learning outcomes. The question is what should you as students know at the end of the course that you did not at the beginning? To this end, the objective of the studio is to develop each students: Ability to analyze with greater skill urban sites and contexts and design projects which respond to the surrounding urban framework and to understand urban form and its constituent parts, and understand the organization of urban territory and its subdivision into public and private domains. Ability to prepare a comprehensive program for an architectural project as a means to exploring site and building in robust ways, and understand the spatial requirements, dimensions, site arrangements, and densities of a variety of building types and automobile parking arrangements that exist in the private domain. Understanding of the primary ingredients of the public domain, including streets, parks, public spaces and public buildings. Ability to develop drawing and modeling strategies which not only relate to a set of common requirements across all studios, but belong to a larger search for precise modalities related to expressing an architectural idea.
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Claire de la Sayette
Claire de la Sayette
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ARCH 6051
Options I Studio
Mark Cottle
Meredith James
Meredith James
Claire de la Sayette
Brittney Davis
Dylan Bussey
Meredith James
David Duncan
David Duncan
Dylan Bussey
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ARCH 6051
Options I Studio
Athanassios Economou
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ARCH 6051
Options I Studio
David Green
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INFRASTRUCTURE: Boundary City David Duncan, Molly Herlong, Dana McClure, Claire Pardo
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ARCH 6051
Options I Studio
Frederick Pearsall + Richard Dagenhart
After completing the Ed Bacon Competition in which two teams from our studio won honor awards, we turned to the set issues of urban design, programming, and technology outlined below, focusing on a study area in Atlanta along the divide between Downtown and Midtown suffering from a range of environmental problems. The discourses of ecological urbanism were engaged in seminars to help students frame new lines of design research. Analysis of the study area then resulted in the collective development of a new set of working principles for revitalizing it. Following this, studio members applied this to the development of their own programs and projects for specific sites each with its own subset of agendas and research propositions. Studio Research Problem: thinking narrowly, the field of architecture does too little to regenerate healthy ecologies for cities and bioregions containing them, failing to help their ecosocial systems co-evolve flexibly across essential space-time scales. Research Question(s): how can we use our studio to engage this challenge in productive and just ways, letting go of those ideas and practices that contribute to environmental decline and imagining new ones that can reverse that direction? Research propositions were developed with a new design imagination-method rooted in the present, between the virtual and actual, and art and science aided by new mapping / modeling tools to help us better engage design with urban ecological processes. Program-Related Agendas: new ideas and techniques for programming were grown in relation to the ecological processes of urban sites and applied to developing new types of flexible, broadly-responsive public and private realm interventions. Technology-Related Agendas: techn was explored as practical, craft-like applications of knowledge: urban landscape ecology principles with new digital techniques like point cloud modeling to design more timebased performative sites and architecture. Learning Objective + Outcomes: students developed advanced abilities to gather, classify, compare and interpret information, apply it innovatively / appropriately to the design solutions of the research problem, and explain this process and its implications.
LANDSCAPE: City Pull Charles Lindberg, Audrey Plummer, Sean Wilson, WenWen Zhao
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Center for Environmental Art Atlanta (CEAA) Sean Wilson
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Options I Studio
Stuart Romm
Within the lifetime of a single generation a rustic and in large part wild landscape was transformed into the site of the worlds most productive industrial machine. It would be difficult to imagine more profound contradictions of value or meaning than those made manifest by this circumstance. [Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, 1964. ] The Machine in the Garden, cited above, not only refers to an American utopian dream, one of limitless mobility fueled by ever-advancing technology, but even touches on international urbanist fantasies ranging from surrealists to futurists. The consequences of this rapidly realized global trajectory of unprecedented urbanization have weighed increasingly upon our natural environment, leading to widespread perceptions of industrial technology as the often intractable foe of both natural and social orders: machinic vs. organic. But is this an irreconcilable standoff or can reconceptualizations and innovative technologies be harnessed as allies toward the sustainability of our natural and social environments? What are the potentials for re-deploying aging transit infrastructures optimized for earlier generations of rail transit and individual gas-powered vehicles? The imminent arrival of alternative-fuel vehicles not only raises the need for networks of electric refueling stations, but suggests new paradigms of public spaces that might accommodate the extended rhythms of these energy exchanges. This studio invites speculation as to program typologies that might emerge in Atlantas residual corridors (over or under transit structures, ramps, or buffers). Smaller-scale hybrid projects are possible that could educate people on environmental sustainability issues, introducing in its design technological elements that help to reduce pollution such as photovoltaic panels, windmills, etc. A diverse complex might include an ecologic vehicle sales and rental showroom, an electric refueling station, or even labs dedicated to the study and research of sustainable energies. But our studio will also prioritize experimental types of gathering spaces for these future transiences, in the form of a visionary public garden or park, where re-imaginations of drive-in or fuel stop might lead to new co-existences between pedestrians and zeroemission vehicles. Ultimately our objective will be to tap the cross-currents between the machinic and the organic, between industrial design and landscape design.
Jill Frederickson
Dawn Riley
Jill Frederickson
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ARCH 6052
Options II Studio
Michael Gamble | David Green | W. Jude LeBlanc | Minjung Maing | Charles Rudolph
Overview: The Options II Building Workshop/ Portman Prize emphasizes comprehensive design and coordinates instruction with the Construction Technology II and Structures II courses. The semester is partitioned such that each proposal/project is brought to a high level of schematic completion by mid-term. Via a variety of manual and digital platforms, the remainder of the semester will be dedicated to making of detailed building representations and narratives i.e. construction documents. In practice, architects simulate the act of building via the making of drawings and models. Technologyasrepresentation can be defined as the productive act (making a drawing, manually or digitally) through which a student creates the conditions of a building site in order to work through the various categories of problems associated with assembly. Portman Prize: In order to encourage student accomplishment and excellence in the integration of technical considerations as a key constituent of the design process, the Portman Prize will be awarded by a jury comprised of the Portman Visiting Critic as jury chair; representatives of the firm of John Portman & Associates; and other invited participants. Students will be advanced to the final jury stage through a prior juried selection process. The final jury will award ranked prizes each carrying monetary awards. The top prize winner will also be offered a summer internship in the office of John Portman & Associates. Should the top winner be unable to accept the summer internship for any reason, then that offer will defer to the second or third place winner. Studio Procedures: The studio is programmed in 4 distinct phases. The first one develops a brief acquaintance with the specific constraints of the design problem. The other 3 phases comprise the heart of the design studio and develop a series of strategies that engage constructively rule-based formal techniques, the development of public/social/private programmatic narratives and engage critically digital design media. The projects that will be developed during the course of the studio will become a key addition to your portfolios, and will demonstrate clearly your knowledge of design and assembly. Changing Campus Infrastructure: The Georgia Tech Eco-Commons is a unique project that leverages the development of a new storm water management system as an opportunity to provide new wooded and open areas for education, research, and passive and active recreation on the Georgia Tech campus. In keeping with Georgia Techs focus on sustainability, this innovative concept will provide significant improvements to the quality of life on campus through effective land use, while at the same time serving as an outdoor lab for storm water management and hydrology studies.
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Jill Frederickson
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Options II Studio
Michael Gamble
Polya McCain
Patrick Deveau
Ahra Koh
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Jill Frederickson
Roof Garden Roof Garden Atrium Atrium
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Patrick Deveau
Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1 Beam Structure Type 1
Reinf. Conc. Column and Reinf. Beam Structureand 2 Conc. Column Type Beam Structure Type 2
LIGHT LIGHT
Elevator Elevator Fire Stairs Fire Stairs Atrium Stairs Atrium Stairs
Reinf. Conc. Column Type 3 Reinf. at Curtain Wall Type 3 Conc. Column at Curtain Wall
Reinf. Conc. Walls with Reinf. Exterior Brick Veneer Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors
STRUCTURE STRUCTURE
Atrium Atrium
CIRCULATION CIRCULATION
Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type Reinf. Conc. Column and 1 Beam Structure Type 1
Atrium Atrium
Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1 Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1
Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 2 Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 2
Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type Reinf. Conc. Column and 2 Beam Structure Type 2
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Elevator
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Water Drains from Reinf. Conc. Column Type 3 Green Roof at at Curtain WallWater Drains from Reinf. Conc. Column Type 3 Scupper Green Roof at at Curtain Wall Scupper Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors
Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors
WATER COLLECTION
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Claire Pardo
Jill Frederickson
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Options II Studio
David Green
Erin West
Molly Herlong
Liz Teston
Chuk Lindberg
Ann Rogers
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Molly Herlong
Chuk Lindberg
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Options II Studio
W. Jude LeBlanc
Ian Fralick
Jessica Marquart
Kasia Zycinska
Marion Filiatre
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Dawn Riley
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Minjung Maing
Keyan Rahimzadeh
WenWen Zhao
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WenWen Zhao
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WenWen Zhao
Keyan Rahimzadeh
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Charles Rudolph
David Duncan
Christine Cangelosi
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Emily Tuttle
Cynthia Ocampo
Dana McClure
Graham Cannady
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HYPARail Taylor Pitelka, Jessica Hardin-Steele, Sandra Wahba, Ronak Vaidya, Sam Kim
Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, HYPARail is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which promotes both physical and visual relationships as a through condition for users of the corridor and as a visual link between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods in the West End. The project uses a simple material, Southern Yellow Pine, in combination with parametric modeling technologies and 5-Axis CNC machining to transform site, material, form, and experience on the Beltline. The Hyperbolic Paraboloidal morphology used in the design allows for ground to peel away into surface and reveal a trace of the unlaying order of rail ties below.
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The Geometer Wade Nolan, Alexandra Barletta, Steve Cochoff, Paul Judin
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Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, The Geometer is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which promotes both physical and visual relationships as a through condition for users of the corridor and as a visual link, or stitch, between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods of Ansley Park and Ansley Mall. The structure transforms the humblest of materials, stud grade 2x4s, into an intricately woven self-supporting latticework through the use of parametric modeling and 5-Axis CNC technology. The multi-order twisting hexagonal geometry modulates light and view for users while creating a visual landmark on the Beltline from key points in the environment.
Vaulted Voronoi lena Klein, Scott Kittle, Chuck Smith, Taylor Walters, Patrick di Rito
Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, Vaulted Voronoi is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which creates a threshold condition for users of the corridor and acts as a visual link between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods and high usage transportation corridors of Dekalb Avenue and the East/West rail line of MARTA. Using projective geometry and irregular tessalations the project creates a variable structural module to be economically produced in 1/2inch CDX plywood. This variability produces a range of lighting conditions, shadow plays, and visual effects as one passes from Dekalb Avenue onto the Beltline through this temporal passage.
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Revitalizing Lithonia, GA
How can older small downtowns in lowincome and largely bypassed communities compete and thrive? What kind of catalysts and activities can stimulate redevelopment in a down economy? What can designers learn from the local community and contribute to reimagining new futures? Architecture and planning students addressed these questions and more in proposals to revitalize downtown Lithonia, GA. Presentations at three community meetings and sponsorship by the Georgia Conservancys Blueprints Program stimulated retrofit approaches that were both practical and creative. Three teams developed immediate, near and longer-term actions to replace a mostly-vacant grocery-anchored 1960s strip mall while reinforcing the citys two-block stretch of 1-2 story historic granite and brick buildings. To build momentum for change, the Tactical Urbanism team built four temporary installations on Main Street highlighting different community assets and produced a video online at: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vytzMTxUiuI. The near-term team proposed demolition of the publicly-owned section of the strip mall and re-establishment of the original cross street so as to increase walkability and access to the historic downtown. They proposed establishment of a community center and garden on the tobe vacant site, re-use of an existing shed as a farmers market, re-use of the pawn shop at the tip of the site with City Hall, and new 1-2 story mixed-use buildings along Main Street. The longer-term vision includes replacement of the grocery store with a more publicly-oriented market with parking on the roof, continued low-rise retail development wrapping the site, and the introduction of housing and new public spaces to further activate the downtown. A fourth team looked at improving connections to downtown by restoring urban frontages through use of a Form-Based Code and identifying new catalysts at either end of Main Street. They demonstrated how a new green community surrounding the beautiful, and now largely defunct, Big Ledge quarry would restore the quarrys original role as an economic engine for Lithonia the city of granite.
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Toni Cliett
David Cates
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Almir Divanovic
Almir Divanovic
Hrach Burtoyan
Irene Yim
Auditorium Auditorium
1st Enclosure
Circulation 4,000 sqf Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf
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Administration Sta O ce
After the 1996 Olympics, millions of visitors a year now visit the park. The park hosts several events including the popular music concert series (Wednesday WindDown) as FILIGREE well as an annual Independence Day concert and fireworks display. Portions of the park are available for rental for private events.
Image Courtesy of http://www.centennialpark.com/
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Gallery Multiuse LATERAL VEINS Hall
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A key feature of the park is the Fountain of Rings, interac- of line -Traceable through continuity -Parallel veins begin at the tive fountain which features computer-controlled lights start of wing or o another played and jets of water synchronized with musicprimary from -Parallel must end at the boundary or speakers in light towers surrounding the fountain.
another parallel vein
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Level 03 + 35
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Auditorium Auditorium
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Circulation 4,000 sqf Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf
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Number of Initial Elements (E) Parallel to Lateral (PL) Parallel Bifurcation (PB) Parallel Bifurcation Distance (D) Parallel Bifurcation Angle (A) Lateral Bifurcation (LB)
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(f10) Small Scale Element (3 feet) ... (f 0) Large Scale Element (30 feet)
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E = 1-4 PL = 0-1 PB = 0-8 A= LB = 0 PC = 10.0-11.12 E= 2 PL PL = 0 0-5 PB = 0-5 19o-89o A = 19 -89 LB = 0 E = 1-4 10.14-11.05 PC = 10.14-11.05 .14 PL = 0-1 PB = 0-8 E = 1-2 A= PL = 1 LB 0 PB == 0-4 PC = 10.0-11.12 A= LB = 0 E= 2 PC = 10.0-10.27 PL = 0 PB = 0-5 E= 2 o o E = 19 A= PL = 01-4 -89 PL = 0-1 LB 0 PB == 1-7 PB = 0-8 PC = 10.14-11.05 A= A= LB = 0 E = 1-2 1LB= 0 2 PC = 10.09-10.49 PL 1 PL PC = 10.0-11.12 PB = 0-4 0-4 E = 2-4 o o E = 20 -61 A= 2 PL = 02 0 -61 PL = 0 LB 0 PB == 0-6 PB = 0-5.0-10.27 PC = 10.0-10.27 10.0A= A= LB = 0 2 EE= = 1-4 LB= 0 PL 0 PL = 0-1 PC = 10.14-11.05 PB = 1-7 PB = 0-8
Exhibitions Area: E = 3-6 Exhibition Hall 1: 12,000sqf CADDISFLY PL = 0-2 Exhibition Hall 2: 8,000sqf PB = 0-11 A= Exhibition Hall 3: 4,000sqf LB = 0 Gallery 1: 2,000sqf PC = 10.0-11.64 3 Gallery 2: 2,000sqf
E = 3-6 3-6 PL 1-2 PL = 1-2 PB = 0-8 0-8
Mens 175 sq ft
Mens 175 sq ft
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Public Area: Total 14,000sqf Womens -12 A E = 26 Auditorium: 8,000sqf = 26 -121 3-6 1 LB = = 0 PL Entry 00-22-11.06 Hall (Lobby): 2,000sqf PC = = 1 0-11 .12 .1 175 sq ft PB 10.12-11.06 Circulation, Ramp, etc.: 4,000sqf A=
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PL = 1-2 Service Area: Total 14,000sqf PB = 0-8 Staff Office / Ticket Office: 2,000sqf A E = 3-6 = LB = I 1-2 Documentation EPL = 0 3-6 Storage: 6,000sqf Center/ = PC == 10.03-10.64 H PB PL = 0-8 Technical Space (Visual Media Room 0-2RestRoom): 6,000sqf F G / A = PB= 0-11
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1st Enclosure
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20 20 A = 0-8 -125 EPB= 3-6 -125 = LB 0 A PL == 0-2 E = = 5-60.03-10.64 PC 10.03-10.64 1 LB = 0 .03 PB = 0-11
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Seon Ji Yi
Grid Structure
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Suhee Oh
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Almir Divanovic
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Emilio Hernandez
Robert Nuttall
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Toni Cliett
Anthony Payne
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Victor Cochoff David Cates David Cates Victor Cochoff Matthew Belt
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SORTS: f(xn)
A studio linking architectural design to current research in the area of Design Computation. The studio focuses on the design, use and test of computational tools to support and improve domain-specific design. The underlying formalism is shape grammars, a computational tool that uses visual recursion for the generation of designs. The proposed design domain is the courthouse design that exhibits one of the most complex contemporary building programs. The title of the studio, f(xn), uses the Semperian algebraic formulation of style as a function modified by a series of variables x1, x2, xn including programmatic, physical, social, political, cultural, environmental and so forth variables, to link the studio discourse with the wider theoretical discourse of constructive understanding of architectural type and language. The studio builds upon two current research projects in SOA that cover nicely both foundations of this inquiry. These two projects are: a) The research database of federal courthouse design (Courtsweb 20072012, PI Economou, 4926605, GSA); and the shape grammar application for visual design and specifically its version for courthouse schematics. Embedded within this larger project on the analysis and generative description of federal courthouses, the aim of the studio is to critically reflect upon the existing courthouse discourse and to engage constructively the design of these complex buildings. The platform for this inquiry is the current building brief and prospective site of the new Federal Courthouse of Mobile, Alabama. The brief of the project has been drafted in collaboration with the Public Buildings Service (PBS) and GSA (General Services Administration). A series of four preliminary studies kicks off the studio tackling various issues related to site strategies and formal strategies at different scales of the building.
Irene Yim
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Joyce Gemarino
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Agrarian Urbanism
Ecological footprints of a city go far beyond its geographic boundary. The resources that cities rely upon today, including energy, materials, water and food are more connected to the global hinterlands rather than to their adjacent local surroundings. The concept food miles, how far the food travels, is not sufficient for understanding its ecological effects. The embodied energy and then its carbon emission that the food takes to produce, process, transport and distribute is far greater than we can imagine. The studio investigates agrarian urbanism: an emerging approach to reconstructing communities and cities ecologically, and its design and policy framework for reorganizing neighborhood and urban spaces by embedded sustainable food and agricultural system grounded on locality. Agrarian urbanism explores how flows generate forms, a counter proposition to the modernist idea of form follows function. We argue that contemporary urban forms and landscape patterns should emerge from sustainable approaches to designing flows of energy, materials, water and food. Agrarian urbanism questions contemporary meanings of public space, urbanity and nature. It is an alternative approach to a globally regulated and controlled food system that results in inequity. It facilitates processes that generate cultural identity of productive land/landscape as a new form of public space, and a creation of the sense of self sustained community. It redefines a new urban-nature relationship. Agrarian urbanism advocates continuous productive landscape in cities, a proposition that challenges the idea of landscape as picturesque, experiential and visual elements. It is a high performance productive urban landscape system that accommodates continuous horizontal flows across landscape mosaics to ensure its functionality. A productive landscape is an ecological intervention in the context of hybrid landscape, an interweaving urban, infrastructural and natural environment. It evaluates both performance and productivity of the urban ecological system that integrates its operations and aesthetic appearances of the landscape.
Lena Klein
Dominique Baker
Elizabeth Ward
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Artesano | Honorable Mention in ULI Hines Urban Design Competition Jessica Florez, Ryan Hagerty, Logan Tuura, Christina Span, and Audrey Plummer Marius Mller, finalist in the Pruitt Igoe Now competition Marco Garcia, finalist in the Pruitt Igoe Now competition
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Sherif M. Abdelmohsen
Advisor: Nancy J. Nersessian
imposed by the rigid structure of BIM tools, the incorrect modeling of building elements due to inexperience with tools, the loss or misrepresentation of information among participants due to incompatibilities between tools and interoperability problems, the lack of standard conventions for building elements that facilitate understanding the information needs of other participants, the partial representation of building model elements for the purpose of efficiency and reduction of modeling load, the ruling out of some of the underlying assumptions embedded within modeling or analysis tools, the required channels of communication external to the process of model exchange, and the need for forms of representation to supplement the BIM model for better conceptualization. (4) The shared BIM model can be represented partially as a boundary object with different relative weights and meanings in each design stage and for each community of practice. It represents a different value for members of different communities. (5) The BIM model presented an amplification of the participation and reification processes in the workplace; multi-membership and mutual recognition among participants belonging to different and overlapping communities of practice augmented the sense of participation, while the model provided different values and levels of interpretation for members of different primary and secondary communities of practice through reification. (6) In principle, the BIM model as a shared repository of information and a boundary object is assumed to take into account all participation and reification activities. However, in practice, the convoluted meaning making processes, and the goals, needs and intentions of multimember communities entail much more interaction patterns that are not necessarily captured in current BIM systems. (7) The differences in multimemberships, values of BIM for different members, participation and reification activities, and the structure of primary and secondary communities of practice, should all be accounted for in technology development efforts in the larger population of AEC firms and practices.
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Young-Seon Choi
Advisor: Craig Zimring
The Physical Environment and Patient Safety: An Investigation of Physical Environmental Factors Associated with Patient Falls
Patient falls are the most commonly reported adverse events in hospitals, according to studies conducted in the U.S. and elsewhere. The rate of falls is not high (2.3 to 7 falls per 1,000 patient days), but about a third of falls result in injuries or even death, and these preventable events drive up the cost of healthcare and, clearly, are harmful outcomes for the patients involved. This study of a private hospital, Dublin Methodist Hospital, in Dublin, Ohio analyzes data about patient falls and the facilitys floor plans and design features and makes direct connections between hospital design and patient falls. There is growing evidence that demonstrates the role of the physical environment and architectural design factors in improving organizational functioning such as surveillance, peer and situation awareness, and timeliness (Fig. 1). The current study also aims to promote a better understanding of the relationship between visibility and organizational functioning as linking visibility to the key safety outcome (i.e., patient falls) of hospitals. In addition, emerging evidence also established the direct association between visibility and patient-related outcomes (i.e., patient falls and mortality rates) (Fig. 2). The current study aims to contribute to the understanding of the impact of the physical environment, especially visibility, on one of patient safety-related outcomes (i.e., patient falls). This particular hospital, which was relatively recently constructed, offered particular advantages in investigating unitlayout-related environmental factors because of the very uniform configuration of its rooms, which greatly narrowed down the variables under study. This thesis investigated data about patients who had suffered falls as well as patients with similar characteristics (e.g., age, gender, and diagnosis) who did not suffer falls. This case-control study design helps limit differences between patients. Then patient data was correlated to the location of the fall and environmental characteristics of the locations, analyzed in terms of their layout and floor plan. A key part of this analysis was the development of tools to measure the visibility of the patients body to nurses, the relative accessibility of the patient, the distance from the patients room to the medication area, and the location
Fig. 3 (a) The integration graph of the unit, (b) the visibility graph of the unit, and (c-h) the visibility from patient in room.
Fig. 4 The spatial dashboard of patient falls: The analysis of fall rate per room (Units 3200, 3300, 4200 respectively).
of the bathroom in patient rooms (many falls apparently occur during travel to and from these areas) (Fig. 3). From the analysis of all this data there emerged a snapshot of the specific rooms in the hospital being analyzed where there was an elevated risk of a patient falling (Fig. 4). While this finding is useful for the administrators of that particular facility, the study also developed a number of generally applicable conclusions. The most striking conclusion was that, for a number of reasons,
patients, whose upper half bodies were not visible to caregivers working from their seats in nurses stations and/or from corridors ,had a higher risk of falling, in part because staff were unable to intervene in situations where a fall appeared likely to occur. The implications for hospital design are clear: design inpatient floors to maximize a visible access to patients (especially their upper half bodies) from seats in nurses stations and corridors.
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Yeonsook Heo
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe
Bayesian Calibration of Building Energy Models for Energy Retrofit Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Energy retrofit of existing buildings is essential to reach reduction targets in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. In the current practice of a retrofit decision process, professionals perform energy audits, and construct dynamic simulation models to benchmark the performance of existing buildings and predict the effect of retrofit interventions. In order to enhance the reliability of simulation models, they typically calibrate simulation models based on monitored energy use data. The calibration techniques used for this purpose are manual and expert-driven. The current practice has major drawbacks: (1) the modeling and calibration methods do not scale to large portfolio of buildings due to their high costs and heavy reliance on expertise, and (2) the resulting deterministic models do not provide insight into underperforming risks associated with each retrofit intervention. This thesis has developed a new retrofit analysis framework that is suitable for large-scale analysis and risk-conscious decision-making. The framework is based on the use of normative models and Bayesian calibration techniques. Normative models are lightweight quasi-steady state energy models that can scale up to large sets of buildings, i.e., to city and regional scale. In addition, they do not require modeling expertise since they follow a set of modeling rules that produce a standard measure for energy performance. The normative models are calibrated under a Bayesian approach such that the resulting calibrated models quantify uncertainties in model parameters while representing actual building operation. Bayesian calibration models can also incorporate additional uncertainties associated with retrofit interventions to generate probability distributions of retrofit performance. Probabilistic outputs can be straightforwardly translated into a measure that quantifies underperforming risks of retrofit interventions and thus enable
Fig. 1 Enabling more informed retrofit decisions by incorporating uncertainty into building energy.
decision-making relative to the decisionmakers rational objectives and risk attitude. As displayed in the figure below, Bayesian calibration model serves as the base for the probabilistic analysis while incorporating major sources of uncertainty in predictions. This thesis demonstrates the feasibility of the new framework on retrofit applications by verifying the following two hypotheses: (1) normative models supported by Bayesian calibration have sufficient model fidelity to adequately support retrofit decisions, and (2) they can support risk-conscious decisionmaking by explicitly quantifying risks associated with retrofit options. The first hypothesis is examined through case studies that compare outcomes from the calibrated normative model with those from a similarly calibrated transient simulation model at three levels: (1) calibration results, (2) model prediction, and (3) ranking of retrofit options. The case studies proved that the calibrated normative model can capture actual building behavior and correctly evaluate energy retrofit options without compromising the degree-ofconfidence in final decisions. Under the same evaluation criteria, the second hypothesis is examined through a case study that compares outcomes derived by the proposed framework with those derived by standard practice based on deterministic analysis. As shown in the criteria 1, Bayesian calibration enhances the reliability of model predictions by providing uncertainty in calibration parameter values and assuring the reliability of baseline models. Moreover, as shown in the criteria 2, Bayesian calibration model results in different magnitudes of uncertainty associated with each option while accounting for major sources of uncertainty in prediction of simple payback time. As a result, the new framework yields different ranking of retrofit options depending on scenarios with different risk attitudes while the standard practice does not quantify uncertainty in outcomes and support only scenario 1 (concerning overall performance). The new framework will enable cost-effective retrofit analysis at urban scale with explicit management of uncertainties.
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Javad Khazaii
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Effects of Sub-Optimal Component Performance on Overall Cooling System Energy Consumption & Efficiency
Expected cooling system performance plays an important role in HVAC system selections and designs. Predictions of cooling system energy consumption and efficiency need assumptions about individual component performance. The main hypothesis of the thesis is that the quantitative appraisal of the uncertainty (lack of knowledge) in these assumptions will help (1) design practitioners to select and design systems, (2) energy contractors to guarantee future system energy cost savings, and (3) codes and standards officials to set proper goals to conserve energy more accurately. Our lack of knowledge has different sources, notably unknown tolerances in equipment nameplate data, and unpredictable load profiles, the latter resulting from variability in the physical behavior and usage scenarios of the building. Both causes lead to variability in energy consumption predictions, and as a result decrease the reliability of the outcomes of energy simulations that commonly are used to verify system performance during the design and construction stages. The target of this research is to add to the current body of knowledge by presenting a new method for calculating the overall energy consumption and efficiency of HVAC systems in specific types of buildings. To do that, we have introduced the concept of uncertainty into these calculations. We have presented a way to look at these outcomes as probabilistic numbers instead of deterministic numbers as they are usually projected in the current state of the industry. The first step on this path was to determine the sources of uncertainty that are usually ignored by design engineers. We found that the equipment performance test allowance is the prime source of uncertainty for all the HVAC equipments that compose a specific system. The next step was to prepare a procedure for the calculation of hourly energy consumption and efficiency of the system. The effects of equipment performance test allowances are included in these calculations. An Excel-based platform was developed to calculate the effects of these parameters on different types of HVAC systems. The next step was to use Model Center software to run a Monte-Carlo simulation for the different systems and analyze the outcomes. This research makes a contribution to improving our fundamental understanding of variability of performance of HVAC systems as a result of component performance tolerances and load variability. This has led to the quantification of risk in decisions related to the selection and sizing of six mainstream HVAC cooling system design concepts. The main outcomes of the research can be enumerated in the following findings. (1) This research showed that choosing between different candidate systems for a specific application utilizing a probabilistic method, can be based on expressions of risk of the following form: there is X% chance to reduce the overall energy consumption by as much as Y%, by selecting a specific system over another system for a specific application. The thesis specifies the values of X and Y for different systems. (2) This research also showed that with introduction of a probabilistic analysis in the current state of energy modeling, the chances that a real building performs worse than what a deterministic simulation can predict can be represented in a performance risk format such as there is X% chance that the real system performs Y% worse than what a deterministic simulation can predict. The thesis specifies the values of X and Y for different systems.
(3) The research showed that reducing the performance tolerance for the most influential components in the system can be translated to an average reduction of the overall energy consumption of the considered system by as much as 1.7%. This finding is important in the pending discussions of how a decrease in allowable manufacturing tolerances might not only reduce the uncertainty in the energy
cost expectations, but in fact improve the average energy performance by almost 2%. It is expected that testing agencies and code officials will pay more attention to this tradeoff between stricter tolerance testing and across the board energy savings.
Fig. 2 Chances (%) that the actual building (System 1) when it is built can perform worse than what a deterministic simulation can predict.
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Management of Building Energy Consumption and Energy Supply Network on Campus Scale
Building portfolio energy management at the campus or larger scale involves decisions about energy retrofits, energy resource pooling, and investments in shared energy systems, such as district cooling, community photovoltaics (PV), wind power, combined heat and power (CHP) systems, and/or geothermal systems, among others. There are currently no tools to help a portfolio or campus manager make decisions about these issues through a rapid comparison of variants. In order to improve the design of large-scale building energy systems, regional policy makers and environmental administrators require knowledge of expected energy use and emissions on a large-scale, together with the ability to predict the outcomes of ongoing efficiency changes as well as new policies imposed on the building sector. The thesis develops a model for Network Energy Performance (NEP) assessment to support energy efficient design at district scale focusing on the multiple relationships between energy consumers and producers in the district. The model uses (1) a building energy model to quantify the energy performance of buildings as energy consumers on an hourly basis, and (2) a network to analyze energy flows and quantify the overall performance of a wide variety of energy supply systems shared by buildings (energy consumers). The NEP represents energy consumers and energy producers on the community level, allowing alternative ways to connect them in an overall energy supply topology. The essence of the model is a directed graph, consisting of nodes and connectors (arcs). A node represents an energy consumer or producer and arcs represent ways in which they are connected. Arcs come in different types, each type representing a particular way in which a supplier and consumer can be connected. Building nodes represent energy consumers at the highest level. At a lower level, a building node contains sub-nodes that represent the individual consumer systems (heating, cooling, lighting, fans, pumps, domestic hot water, and other services) in a building. Producer nodes represent various electrical power and thermal energy supply systems, including power generation from fossil fuel power plants (this is typically an external node), renewable source systems and thermal energy distribution from district heating and cooling systems, in conjunction with combined heat and power plants. After a graph is constructed and all properties of the system nodes are provided, the calculation runs in the background and shows energy consumption and generation at the network level as well as the node level in a given climate. Each arc that crosses a node represents a quantity of purchased or delivered energy flowing to or from the node. The figure illustrates the process of energy performance assessment from a building level to the campus scale considering different energy supply topologies. The NEP model allows campuswide energy performance assessment, testing different supply topologies, i.e., which consumer nodes connect to which local suppliers and which connect to global suppliers (i.e., utility providers such as the electricity grid or the natural gas grid). The prototype implementation shows how a portfolio or campus manager defines a model of the consumer and supply nodes on a campus and manipulates the connections between them through a graphical interface. Every change in the graph automatically triggers an update of the energy generation and consumption pattern, and results in a campus-wide energy performance update. It helps macro decisions on the generation side
(such as decisions about adding campus-wide systems) and the consumption side (such as planning of new building designs and retrofit measures). This model provides a lightweight tool that supports rapid decision-making for energy efficient system design on a portfolio scale in the building sector. There is no deep simulation required as the goal is to manage macro design decisions, not micro operational decisions. The premise of this approach is that an energy performance assessment of each node, based on normative calculation methods, is accurate enough to support macro, system-level decision-making. The model is scalable to larger portfolios and systems, and is flexible enough to explore different topologies by adding or taking away nodes. The main distinguishing feature is the way that nodes and their connections can be managed in the graphical interface while the underlying representation maintains the consistency to perform fresh calculations at any time. Compared to approaches used in the smart
grid or GIS field (mostly based on statistical models with few categorical variables per node), the approach here deploys a more accurate and more configurable model. Compared to models for operational building energy management (typically based on real time embedded simulation), the approach uses a lightweight, more flexible approach that avoids intensive simulation. The energy performance quantification of buildings, energy supply and energy generation systems bring rich information to decision-makers who will be well-positioned when they seek reductions in primary energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The model helps energy efficient system design based on system-wide outcomes, consequently achieve energy savings in the building sector and avoide negative environmental impacts. A major benefit resulting from the research is that it has the capability to support decisionmaking in large-scale building sector energy policy planning, i.e., beyond campus scale such as on a metropolitan scale.
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Hyun-Bo Seo
Advisor: Craig Zimring
An Investigation on Task Interruptions and the Physical Environment for Human Performance
Many dangerous or tragic events such as medical errors and airplane crashes are often the result of human errors, and these errors are often the result of a professional worker being interrupted during a critical task. Although the impact can be serious, the ways that interruptions are affected by the physical environment have rarely been examined in the study of healthcare, human factors, and design. This study investigates how the physical environment helps manage the interruptions by observing the process of medication administration by nurses in hospital units. The key question of this study is: how can we design a unit that helps to manage interruptions during critical tasks such as medication administration while supporting other important tasks such as patient monitoring and communication? Given that the previous studies suggest that the characteristics of physical environment such as visibility and accessibility affect encounters, this study suggests the following hypotheses during medication administration: (1) Nurses will be interrupted more frequently when they are in areas where they can see others and are seen more easily by others. (2) Nurses will be interrupted more when they are in areas that are more accessible (reachable with fewer turns) to others. Methods: The study was done in neurological intensive care units in an academic medical center in Atlanta, Georgia. The settings were two differently designed intensive care units (ICUs) (Fig. 1) that serve the same type of patients with the same pool of caregivers. For example, all nurses come from the same pool and they rotate between the two units regularly. Patient rooms are typically full and patients are assigned based on availability of the rooms. Each nurse is typically assigned two patients.
Observation: The researcher observed medication administration of nurses. The observation started when nurses arrived at the medication station and ended when they entered a patient room. The path, interruption, content of conversation (private versus work-related), role of interrupter (nurse, physician, clerk, other staff, patient, and family) and duration were recorded on floor plans with simplified coding. Variables: Independent Variables The average visibility and accessibility was calculated by a computer program called Depthmap (Turner, 2010). This program uses a representation of a floor plan in the AutoCad format as an input and overlays small square tiles (for example, one foot by one foot) on the floor plan. For example, for visibility, the program counts all the tiles that it can reach from any particular tile with straight lines without going through boundaries such as walls. An actual graph of visibility analysis for the 2D West wing is shown in Fig. 2, where color ranges from red to blue represent values from high to low. Dependent Variable Number of interruptions. An interruption was any verbal interaction between the nurse who was getting medication and other people. The dependent variable was narrowed down to the number of interruptions that were initiated by others during medication trips not including ones around the medication station.
Analysis: Given that most medication trips (68) did not have any interruption, some (15) had one, and only one had two interruptions. Poisson distribution was assumed. The observation was also certain at a interval of the medication trips. Results: After series of Poisson regression analysis with 84 observations, only visibility significantly predicted (p=.005) number of interruptions. Log (no. of interruptions) = B1 (Visibility) + B Discussion and Conclusion: Two specific conclusions were made based on observation and data analysis. The average visibility of potential work areas in nurse stations significantly contributed to nurses interruptions that were initiated by others during medication trips from a medication station to a patient room. Another conclusion is that spatial experience for a task such as medication administration might be perceived or described by the entire trip path, but analysis of the entire path as a unit did not reflect interruption events that nurses experienced. Not every part of the path had effects on interruptions. Instead, segments of the path that are divided by visibility reflected the interruptions events during the medication trip. Based on the first conclusion, a hypothetical alternative medication station location is tested for predicted number of interruptions and it showed less number of interruptions while visibility for patient monitoring was improved. The culture of interruptions should be noted in this discussion, which was that nurses were usually willing participants in the observed interruption events. A substantial percentage of self-initiated interruptions (41%) and private conversations (25%) observed for this study might confirm the notion. Nurses did not seem to avoid interruptions during medication administration, and they might even feel obligated to talk to others when others are nearby so that they do not offend others by not conversing with them.
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Fei Zhao
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe
Agent-Based Modeling of Commercial Building Stocks for Energy Policy and Demand Response Analysis
The importance of developing a method to bridge the gap between the current trend of CO2 emission from the commercial sector and the target emission level for ensuring long-term sustainability has increased. An efficient and rational building implementation of large-scale1 energy conservation strategies and demand response analysis requires the application of comprehensive building stock models that have the ability to estimate the baseline energy demand profile of the existing building stock,2 explore the technical and economic effects of different retrofit technologies over time (energy efficiency) with respect to building owner preferences, and identify the interaction between building stocks and the power grid (demand response). Managing a sustainable built environment with a large number of buildings rests on the ability to assess and improve the performance of the building stock over time. Building stock models are cornerstones to the assessment of the combined impact of energy-related building interventions across different spatial and temporal scales. However, such models, particularly those accounting for both physical formulation and social behaviors of the underlying buildings, are still in their infancy. This research strives to more thoroughly examine how buildings perform aggregately in energy usage by focusing on how to tackle three major technical challenges: (1) quantifying building energy performance in an objective and scalable manner, (2) mapping building stock model space to real-world data space, and (3) quantifying and evaluating energy intervention behaviors of a building stock.
This thesis hypothesizes that a new paradigm of aggregation of large-scale building stocks can lead to (1) an accurate and efficient intervention analysis model and (2) a functionally comprehensive decision support tool for building stock energy intervention analysis. Specifically, this thesis presents three methodologies. To address the first challenge, this thesis develops a normative building physical energy model that can rapidly estimate single building energy performance with respect to its design and operational characteristics. To address the second challenge, the thesis proposes a statistical procedure using regression and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling techniques that inverse-estimate building parameters based on building stock energy consumption survey data. The outcomes of this statistical procedure validate the approach of using prototypical buildings for two types of intervention analysis: energy
retrofit and demand response. These two cases are implemented in an agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) framework to tackle the third challenge. This thesis research contributes to the body of knowledge pertaining to building energy modeling beyond the single building scale. The proposed framework can be used by energy policy makers and utilities for the evaluation of energy retrofit incentives and demand-response program economics.
Large-scale in the context of this study refers to a scale larger than the single building level. It may refer to the scale of a nation (an entire country or the majority of a country), a region (multiple states), a state, or a city. 2 A building stock in the context of this study refers to a cluster of individual buildings located close to one another.
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A winning proposal by gray_matter(s) for a one-night art installation at Castleberry Hill selected by flux projects for FLUX 2011. [September 30, 2011] project featured in: Creative Loafing Burnaway.org ZOO ATLANTA Exploring the jangals of Castleberry Hill, we were drawn to the fenced-off lots that diluted Atlantas connective tissue. We found holes, gaps in the city. There were vacant fields animated by strange new citizens. An old horse, tied to the trailer of a neglected truck, stared at us through the fence. There was a rooster too. They knew where they were, probably better than we did. We propose the transformation of these sites into embodiments of urban mythologies, bringing the unused sites into dialogue with the neighborhood and recognizing what may not be, but could: the neighborhood as the zoo, populated by unimaginable creatures in the captivity of vacant lots.
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A curation by gray_matter(s) at whitespaces whitespec. [December 10-31, 2011] A series of experiments in turning a white spec gray. Between light and shadow lies an undefined territory of balance. A poise defined not by negating, but by distilling oppositions, looking for a union of extremes rather than a consistent neutrality. It is the both-and, inherently unstable and immeasurably different in every instance. The exhibition presents a series of transformations embracing such an inclusive and plastic understanding of perception. Through processes of analogy, layering, and gradation, different media are brought into dialogue, the space becomes a hidden dimension of variation. Difference becomes a relative term, understood through observed realities rather than representations or ideals. In a field of endless subtlety, we find ourselves lost in our own perceptions.
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David Cates, William Gravlee | indexical device | Boolean Classics - Timeless and inspiring famous modern chairs cast into concrete and becoming outdoor furniture that will be around for as many generations as have been inspired by the original prototypes.
Kasia Zycinska | Three signs for coffee: index, icon, and symbol.
Hrach Burtoyan, Steve Cochoff | indexical device | A cheval mirror a chair and a vanity. Aluminum and glass. Seon Yeong Ji | A pattern based on a radical two rectangle that creates optical effects related to scale and perspective.
Hannah Griggers, Benjamin Smith | indexical device | Shaped mirrors applied to interior or exterior surfaces can create provocative formal and spatial effects as they perceptually alternate from flat figures to spatial apertures to perspectival illusions.
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Hrach Burtoyan, Steve Cochoff | flexible surface | Carpets move off the floor to make tables and desks.
Brittany Porter, Wesley Herr | found object | A metal frame that transforms a bean bag chair into a rocker.
Kasia Zycinska, Marion Filliatre | found object | Recycled clothing functions as suspended containers.
David Cates, William Gravlee | found object | Recycled plywood containers for a laptop allude to the drawing surfaces that the computer has made obsolete. Seon Yeong Ji | flat plate | Abstract planes function as a working chair in three dimensions. When not in use and hung on the wall, they appear nominally flat and allude to paintings.
Kasia Zycinska | plat plate | A faceted construction of triangular cells of corrugated cardboard functions as a shade that diffuses light.
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Shape grammars is a powerful formal system for the generative description of designs. Their unique difference with all other generative systems is that they perform entirely visual computations rather than symbolic computations. Shape grammars are intended to form a basis for purely visual computation and in this sense they belong in the heart of design education and practice both in precedent analysis and in a studio setting. The course discusses the foundations of shape grammar formalism, provides a constructive understanding of the formalism through hands-on workshops and offers a generous overview of the history and logic of several of its applications in design research. The course is divided in three parts. The first part is given on the theoretical foundations of the shape grammar research discourse and more specifically on the systematic exposition of the design schemas and in the ways schemas are ordered and combined to produce a compositional taxonomy of design. The objective of the first part is to produce pictorial illustrations of the basic schemas, their inverses and their combinations in sums and products, in terms of symbolic rules, shape rules, parametric rules and spatial examples. The second part is structured around two extended workshops that promote a constructive, hands-on understanding of the shape grammar formalism. The first workshop focuses on tactile, physical, recursive computations with the Froebel kindergarten blocks. The Second workshop focuses on digital, visual computations using the Grape, an AutocAD plugin developed to facilitate visual composition with emergent shapes (Grasl and Economou, 2011). The third part discusses various applications of shape grammars in different fields including architecture, landscape, painting and decorative arts.
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Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) I found this year at Georgia Tech in the school of Architecture very fullling. I learned a lot thanks to the competent teachers and the students who were always really helpful. First I have enlarged my knowledge and discovered a new way of thinking, but I have also completely extended my computer skills. All the conditions meet to allow a good experience of work: the teachers are fully dedicated to their students; they always care about them and push their work further without being overwhelming. The facilities and the building are amazing, I had the chance to work in the Hinman building, everyone has his individual desk and works together that enables contacts and a sharing of knowledge. Finally, during the second semester, I could express myself and take part in a rst stimulating competition in a great atmosphere.
Claire de la Sayette
Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) This year spent at Georgia Tech as an exchange student was incredible. I have experienced a new way of learning architecture, and considerably enriched my knowledge. More focused on the concept, the studio gave me a new point of view to approach each project in a dierent way. I acquired complementary skills in association to my French background which will certainly help me a lot in the future. I discovered a dierent learning environment. Having my own space in Hinman with all the other students brings a motivating working atmosphere. It was a luck to work in such great conditions. Sharing with the American student on a project helped a lot. Each culture can bring something dierent.
David Nahmani
Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) My motivation was always high, and even if Grad School is not easy, all the conditions, as working in studio with other students, were stimulating. I had the chance to learn dierent ways of using the tools, dierent methods of architectural conception, but did not forget what I had learned in France. The professors, always available, were satised when I showed some knowledge from my personal French background. One of the fascinating things about this experience is sharing with people who have a very dierent culture from mine. Sharing is a reciprocal action. Not only I could learn the American architecture background, and use the strengths of American design tools, but I could also share my knowledge, because Europe has always been a good basis for architecture theory. The exchange was very stimulating, and I hope some of my American friends will once come to visit me in France, so I can introduce them my everyday life.
Ralf Iberle
Munich, Germany 4th year undergraduate student
Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM) The experiences I gained during my exchange year at the College of Architecture helped me a lot in advancing with my architectural studies. The close contact to teachers and professors was extremely helpful for this. Moreover, without exception, all the people who are in charge of the College of Architecture helped you not only with architectural questions but also with problems besides architectural studio. In addition to that the experiences you can have outside of school are also really diverse. I also enjoyed the broad range of activities that were oered, for example the activities at the Campus Recreational Center. Activities like running and playing soccer with other students made schooldays more diverse and interesting.
Michael Fox
Munich, Germany 4th year undergraduate student
Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM) The opportunity to study abroad is a mind-extending experience. The year of my undergraduate studies in architecture at Georgia Tech was truly one of those experiences. I was able to integrate a completely new way of thinking into my design work, adapt to dierent challenges, and extend my knowledge in aspects of architectural education that are not taught like this at my home university, the Technische Universitt Mnchen. I had the benet of learning from great professors, as well as from very talented fellow students. As well as the personal connection to faculty and students, I was able to built up throughout my time at Georgia Tech. At the School of Architecture this was a strong factor as well. I had the opportunity to enjoy the life and amenities of Ga Tech campus as well as the city based on the great location of the campus in Midtown of Atlanta. I enjoyed the strong community feeling in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech.
Marius Mller
Cottbus, Germany 2nd year graduate student
Brandenburgische Technische Universitt (BTU) As an architect and graduate student in city- and regional planning, my studies and research in the MSUD program were great successes for me and great time for intercultural experience. The major of my research, redevelopment of brownelds, transformation of inner city areas, and urban process management had been pushed forward by the excellent and professional members of the faculty. I was able to learn the American specialties and gave feedback from my European perspective of urban design. Small classes, less than ten students at the studios, intense exchange between professors and students and among each other are giving me the opportunity to evolve my skills and personality. To go aboard is never easy or something what will come like a all-inclusive holiday package, it is hard work, a challenge and daily improvement. But it is the best thing you can do, during your time in university.
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2011-2012 lecture series
Kinder Baumgardner
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Achim Menges
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10.12.2011
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Lecture Series
Future Practice
11.01.2011
Michael Ra
Principal, Front Inc.
WEDNESDAY_
11.16.2011
Michael Oliveri
Artist, ART X Expanded Forms
11.02.2011
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01.11.2012
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Danielle Roney
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01.25.2012
Artist
02.15.2012
Patrik Schumacher
Partner and Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
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02.17.2012
Marcos Cruz
Bartlett/UCL
02.22.2012
Bill Sharples
Principal, SHoP Architects
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02.29.2012
Francisco Rodrguez
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03.07.2012
Mark Mueckenheim
Principal, FRAMA Architects Chair for Principles, Architectural Design, TU Munich
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03.28.2012
Scott Ingram
03.14.2012
Artist
Phil Bernstein
Vice President, Autodesk
Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture | 247 4th St Atlanta, GA 30332 | 404. 894. 3880 | www.arch.gatech.edu
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April 11-28, 2012 Stubbins Studio Gallery, East Architecture Building
projects on display: Incline_Frederick Pearsall, Matthew Swarts (1,2) | A Camera Obscura Installation_James Murray, Patrick Di Rito, Shota Vashakmadze (3,5) | Vibrating Glove_Jun Ueda (4) | A Fraction Away from Understanding - Aude Sapere_Harris Dimitropoulis (6) | Crystal Palace - Emergent Formations_Daniel Baerlecken, Gernot Riether, Aaron Coffman, Almir Divanovic, Daniel Dixon, Emilio Hernandez, Azzam Issa, Cole Loomis (7,9) | Animapping_Ali Mazalek, Claudia Rebola, Paul Clifton, Scott Hoag, Andy Wu, Jason Clark, Chelsea McClinton, Sarah Nelson, Vivek Sangubhotla (8) | Hippocampal Memory_Audrius Plioplys | Julie_David Bashwiner
PORTMAN PRIZE
School of Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology
Portman Prize and Visiting Critic Program
The Georgia Tech School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of Maryann Thompson, FAIA, principal of Maryann Thompson Architects, as the 2012 Portman Visiting Critic. Ms. Thompson is recognized for her accomplishments in the area of design excellence as her projects reconnect architecture with the landscape by celebrating tectonics and materials. She will participate as a visiting critic, guest lecturer and serve as jury chair for the selection of the Portman Prize recipients. As Portman Visiting Critic, Ms. Thompson will contribute to the schools comprehensive building design workshop organized in the second year of the three-year Master of Architecture program. This graduate design studio integrates coursework in architectural and site design, construction technology, and the art of detail.
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Hinman 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Jury Chair
Maryann Thompson, FAIA Maryann Thompson Architects, Cambridge, MA
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Volkan Alkanoglu
2012/13 TVS Design Visiting Critic
Gordon Beckman
Portman Holdings
Brandon Clifford
Ohio State
Roy Decker
Duval+Decker Architects
Alex Duval
Portman Holdings
Lisa Hsieh
Princeton University
Student Awards
1st Prize: $5000 + opportunity
for summer internship with John Portman and Associates
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selection in large part due to the strong alignment between his expertise and the School of Architectures aspirations for uniting design and technological innovation. His firm, Front, is known widely for its successful execution of original and ground-breaking work, and for its progressive approach to design integration among building disciplines. Fronts work methodology embraces architectural, engineering and cultural challenges with a first-principles approach for the evolution of creative and buildable designs. The digital-age practice of architecture will rise on creative contact between design and research across fields and disciplinary boundaries, said George Johnston, chair of the School of Architecture. We at Georgia Tech are ambitious in charting this direction, and I am certain Marc Simmons and Front will become powerful catalysts in this endeavor. The Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design is made possible by a generous endowment created in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Tom Ventulett, founding partner of tvsdesign in Atlanta. The intention of the Ventulett Chair is to engage an exceptional practitioner with a record of international leadership and excellence in architecture to teach in the School and to develop significant initiatives to heighten the critical importance of design in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, nationally and internationally. It is a privilege to be named Ventulett Chair and to be afforded the opportunity to engage Georgia Techs robust educational and research
platform for the experimental deployment of ideas and lessons evolved by Front through years of innovative practice, said Simmons. We look forward to working with students, faculty and the broader design community to execute studio, seminar and symposium formats that critically engage issues of the contemporary envelope. Prior to establishing Front in 2002, Simmons worked for the international faade engineering practices Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners and for Meinhardt Faade Technology. Originally trained in architecture, Simmons graduated from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Canada, and worked for Foster and Partners. He served as faculty member at Princeton University School of Architecture from 2005 to 2012, conducting graduate seminars on the subject of faade technology and practice, and teaching collaborative design studios. He has also lectured widely on the work of Front. Previous holders of the Ventulett Chair include Monica Ponce de Leon, now dean of the Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Nader Tehrani, founder of architectural firm NADAAA and professor and head of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, and Lars Spuybroek, founder of art and architecture design firm Nox, and currently a full professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Alan Balfour, dean of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture, commented, Marc Simmons practice offers a clear demonstration of the means by which the architect of the future can be empowered.
Marc Simmons
| Front, Inc.
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Donors + Sponsors
Donors + Sponsors
School of Architecture 2012 Awards
Masonry Award
M.Arch Students Masonry Competition 1st Place: Group 6, Tapete Block: Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Laura Richter Rebecca Riley Ann Rogers 2nd Place: Group 7, About Face Block: Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Junying Shi Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle 3rd Place: Group 8, Built with Light: Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Sponsor: National Concrete Masonry Association
McCoy-Shipley Scholarship
Awarded to a student participating in study abroad, who has demonstrated excellence in design. William McCommon Sponsor: Vernon McCoy, Jr and William J. Shipley Memorial Scholarship
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Donors + Sponsors
This year we extend special thanks to: Patricia Lanter, for permanently endowing the Lewis Lanter Prize. Alex Roush, for permanently endowing the Alex Roush Scholarship in Architecture.
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Faculty + Staff
Publications
Full-Time Faculty
Al-Haddad, Tristan Andreotti, Libero Augenbroe, Fried Baerlecken, Daniel Bafna, Sonit Balfour, Alan Brown, Jason Carpo, Mario Cottle, Mark Dagenhart, Richard Dimitropoulos, Harris Do, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Ellen Eastman, Charles Economou, Thanos Flowers, Benjamin Gamble, Michael Gentry, Russell Hollengreen, Laura Johnston, George Khan, Sabir LeBlanc, W. Jude Maing, Minjung Peponis, John Riether, Gernot Rudolph, Charles Sharp, Leslie Spuybroek, Lars Yang, Perry Zimring, Craig
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Part-Time Faculty
Allen, Douglas Bell, Brian Dusseault, Ruth Farrow, Robert Gordon, Judy Green, David Harrison, Tim Lewitt, Erik Mallgrave, Harry Mojdehi, Mariam Parker, Ennis Pearsall, Fred Rodgers, Richard Romm, Stuart Shaw, Jonathan Sherman, Jihan Soh, Sarah Stafford, Barbara Swarts, Matthew Williams, Jordan Yocum, David
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Staff
Andr, Lucie Cinquemani, Amanda King, Samantha Pereira, Brenda Tucker, Robin Assistant Director Academic Assistant Administrative Professional Academic Advising Manager Academic Advisor Robert M. Craig
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Students
Fall 2011
COA 1011 First Common Year
Katelyn Adcock Maryam Al-Atassi Annette Almonte-Malagon Joseph Ayala Stephanie Azahar Christina Bacallao Deok Bae Benjamin Bailey Naimo Bakar Rachel Barber Corinne Bartlett Samuel Bell Jordon Blackmon Courtney Blanchard Jennifer Blyth Lauren Brett Mary Briatta Piper Brownlee Emerald Chafin Elvin Chu Yoonyoung Chung Cody Clegg Candice Cobb Macy Corbin Bob Cousseillant Olivia Davis Amelia Deaton Norwood Dennis Andisheh Dianat Nadia Dorado Stephanie Douthitt Benjamin Dunnaway Lauren Ellsworth Cody Fallenstein Steven Fendley Steven Fisher Amanda Foster Sean Fowler Sebastian Garcia
Frank Gibase Christopher Girardot Omar Gonzalez Jared Greathouse Paul Griffin Jack Grove Patrick Guiney Tianjing Guo Cameron Guthrie Rosario Hanon Andrew Helbling Kelsey Hollington Vivianne Hutt Sung Hye Jeon Damon Johnson Jamal Johnson Christa Kelly Katherine Kenna John Kennedy Cameron Kessler Leida Khodadadi Daniel Kim Sol Kim Songmi Kim Taylor Kitchens Viviana Kreisel Charles Kroeber Andrea Kuklenyik Quy Le Jong Lee Monika Lee Eugene Lee Michael Lee Jin Woo Lee Michael Lehman Dimitra Lewis Sophia Linebaugh Paloma Longhi Hoang Luu Sina Mahzari James Mccord Hannah Mccord Catherine Meadows Alyssa Mellett Catherine Meschia
Jeffrey Miller John Miller Maria Moersen Leila Moghimi William Moore Kelsey Musick Mediha Nazli Kaj Niegmann Colin Noronha Regan OConnell Lena Oliver Katherine Olson Morgan Orvino Morgan Painter Victoria Palacios Krishi Patel Vijal Patel Krisha Patel Grey Peterson Eryn Phillips Anastasiya Politykina Matthew Porter Glenn Powell Kendall Putmon Zhiwen Qiu Paul Reynolds John Robinett Dillon Roseen Claudia Ross Jana Rossouw Kaleigh Sawyer Lindsey Schwartz Candace Seda David Serna Sheena Shahangian Suzanne Solis George Sun Samantha Svedlund Karah Tarpley Elaina Thompson Victor Tran Kieulai Tran Katie Turner Steven Victor Brennan Wall
Ruoxi Wang Kiana Ware John Warrener Tarnisha Washington Skyler Westlake Colton Wheatley Stoney Wilbanks Dylan Williams Gloria Woods Angie Yim Orezioghene Zaudu Aki Alfredo Zavaleta
Anthony Ranallo Geoffrey Rees Philip Richardson Briana Rinderknecht Caitlyn Simpson Sean Sims Kelly Skaggs Anna Skipper Elizabeth Slagel Carly Smith Morgan Strickland Oreta Taylor Jennifer Taylor David Varner Anqi Wang Marc Whitley Helen Winter David Woods Shaowen Zhang
Scharl Young Koh Edwin Krenson Weston Landis Tri-An Le Hyo Jae Lee Ka Yeon Lee Xueping Li Colin Lienhard Kyle Mahoney James McClure Elyse McClure William McCommon Megan McDonough Alyssa McKay Michelle Mendenhall Jon Moore Heta Naukkarinen Brendan Nichols Timothy Niou Joong Suk Oh Jose Pajares Brittany Porter Andrea Puccini Brianna Rindge Ashley Rodriguez Peter Ryan Natasha Sanjaya Soojung Shin Benjamin Smith Justin Southard Lauren Tanguay Ryan Terrell Melissa Ting Bryce Truitt Shota Vashakmadze Catherine Wong
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Vanessa Lira Michael Miller Caroline Montague Margot Montouchet James Murray Robert Nuttall James Park Julia Sibert Carolina Sitterson Zachary Stanton Ronak Vaidya Taylor Walters Arian Zarrabi
Christine Cangelosi Graham Cannady William Collar Sara Damiani Brittney Davis Claire de la Sayette Patrick Deveau David Duncan Eric Esposito Marion Filliatre Ian Fralick Sara Frederick Jill Fredrickson Lisa Goubeaux Olivia Hallquist Yi He Molly Herlong Meredith James Kyung Jin Ashwin Kamath Frank Kliesrath Ahra Koh Jennifer Lewis Chuk Lindberg Joshua Lohr Canon Manley Jessica Marquardt Polya McCain Anne McCarthy Dana McClure Mari McLeod David Nahmani Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Keyan Rahimzadeh Laura Richter Dawn Riley Ann Rogers Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle Joshua Tooill Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Sean Wilson Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Kasia Zycinska
Spring 2012
COA 1012 First Common Year
Maryam Al-Atassi Katelyn Adcock Joseph Ayala Stephanie Azahar Deok Bae Benjamin Bailey Naimo Bakar Rachel Barber Corinne Bartlett Samuel Bell Jordon Blackmon Courtney Blanchard Jennifer Blyth Lauren Brett Mary Briatta Piper Brownlee Emerald Chafin Elvin Chu Yoonyoung Chung Cody Clegg Candice Cobb Macy Corbin Bob Cousseillant Olivia Davis Amelia Deaton Norwood Dennis Andisheh Dianat Nadia Dorado Stephanie Douthitt Lauren Ellsworth Cody Fallenstein Steven Fendley Steven Fisher Amanda Foster Sean Fowler Sebastian Garcia Frank Gibase Christopher Girardot Omar Gonzalez Paul Griffin Jack Grove Tianjing Guo Cameron Guthrie Rosario Hanon Kelsey Hollington Vivianne Hutt Sung Hye Jeon Christa Kelly
Katherine Kenna John Kennedy Cameron Kessler Daniel Kim Songmi Kim Sol Kim Taylor Kitchens Viviana Kreisel Charles Kroeber Andrea Kuklenyik Quy Le Jong Lee Monika Lee Jin Woo Lee Michael Lehman Dimitra Lewis Sophia Linebaugh Paloma Longhi Hoang Luu Sina Mahzari Hannah Mccord Alyssa Mellett Catherine Meschia Jeffrey Miller John Miller Maria Moersen Leila Moghimi William Moore Mediha Nazli Kaj Niegmann Colin Noronha Regan OConnell Lena Oliver Morgan Orvino Morgan Painter Krisha Patel Krishi Patel Vijal Patel Grey Peterson Anastasiya Politykina Matthew Porter Glenn Powell KendallPutmon Zhiwen Qiu Paul Reynolds John Robinett Jana Rossouw Kaleigh Sawyer Lindsey Schwartz Candace Seda David Serna Suzanne Solis George Sun Samantha Svedlund
Elaina Thompson Kieulai Tran Victor Tran Katie Turner Steven Victor Ruoxi Wang Kiana Ware John Warrener Tarnisha Washington Skyler Westlake Colton Wheatley Stoney Wilbanks Gloria Woods Angie Yim Orezioghene Zaudu Aki Alfredo Zavaleta
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Linda Ortiz Charles Parrish Catherine Quigley Anthony Ranallo Geoffrey Rees Philip Richardson Briana Rinderknecht Caitlyn Simpson Sean Sims Kelly Skaggs Elizabeth Slagel Carly Smith Morgan Strickland Oreta Taylor David Varner Anqi Wang Marc Whitley Helen Winter David Woods Shaowen Zhang
Edwin Krenson Weston Landis Tri-An Le Hyo Jae Lee Ka Yeon Lee Xueping Li Colin Lienhard Kyle Mahoney Elyse McClure James McClure William Mccommon Megan McDonough Alyssa McKay Michelle Mendenhall Jon Moore Heta Naukkarinen Brendan Nichols Timothy Niou Joong Suk Oh Jose Pajares Brittany Porter Andrea Puccini Brianna Rindge Ashley Rodriguez Peter Ryan Natasha Sanjaya Soojung Shin Benjamin Smith Justin Southard Lauren Tanguay Ryan Terrell Melissa Ting Bryce Truitt Shota Vashakmadze Catherine Wong
Michael Miller Caroline Montague Margot Montouchet James Murray Robert Nuttall James Park Julia Sibert Carolina Sitterson Zachary Stanton Ronak Vaidya Taylor Walters Arian Zarrabi
William Collar Sara Damiani Brittney Davis Claire de la Sayette Patrick Deveau David Duncan Eric Esposito Marion Filliatre Ian Fralick Sara Frederick Jill Fredrickson Lisa Goubeaux Olivia Hallquist Yi He Molly Herlong Meredith James Ashwin Kamath Frank Kliesrath Ahra Koh Jennifer Lewis Chuk Lindberg Joshua Lohr Canon Manley Jessica Marquardt Polya McCain Anne McCarthy Dana McClure Mari McLeod Elena Naydenova Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Keyan Rahimzadeh Laura Richter Dawn Riley Ann Rogers Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle Joshua Tooill Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Sean Wilson Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Kasia Zycinska
PhD
Michelle Ossmann Sharon Tsepas Joseph Goodman Roya Rezaee Yuming Sun Mate Thitisawat Marcelo Bernal Verdejo Andreas Cavieres Pedro Ruiz Soza Sabri Gokmen Paula Gomez Zamora Katherine Johnson Seunghyun Lee Myrsini Mamoli Paola Sanguinetti Hugo Sheward Garcia Matthew Swarts Frank Wang Donghoon Yang Seok-Joon You Altug Kasali Chih-Pin Hsiao Lorissa MacAllister Adetania Pramanik Francisco Valdes Qinpeng Wang Hoyoung Kim Hyunkyung Lee Alexander Magruder Marietta Monaghan Carrie Pavel Zachary Porter Robin Prater Thomas Shelby Chen Feng Stephanie Dawn Haynie Young-Sean Choi Yeonsook Heo Sherif Abdel Mohsen Martin Scoppa Alice Vialard Julie Zook Hui Cai Zhengwei Li Sang-Hoon Lee Vicki Haberman Sean Hay Kim Javad Khazaii Olubi Babalola Fei Zhao
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Acknowledgments: This publication would not be possible without the faculty and students of the School of Architecture. The Georgia Tech School of Architecture 2011-12 D+R Annual represents selected studios, seminars, research, events, and exhibitions from the academic year.