arts camp
DESCRIPTION
ARTS CAMP section of my portfolio.TRANSCRIPT
CAMPARTS
INSTRUCTOR | Christine Brill DATE | Fall08
collage (paper and photographs)
This project began with a series of exercises to gain a full understanding of the landscape. The possible locations for the specific program were anywhere within the lower portion of Frick Park in pittsburgh. This area of the park is centered around the Nine Mile Run creek bed and bounded on the south by the Monongahela River. Historically, this area was leased by Pittsburgh steel companies and used as a dumping location for slag, a by-product of the steel manufacturing process. Over time the slag dumping locations grew into large, non-porous plateaus above the creek bed on which very little vegitation has been able to grow. Lower Frick Park is not officially maintained by the city and is far less developed than the upper region of the park. Because of a lack of super-vision over this area, a large amount of debri has been dumped on the site over time, drastically effecting the landscape. Despite this abuse, many people from the surrounding neighborhoods have been using the landscape for recreation, creating a series of bike paths that extend throughout the site. As a group project, two exercises were performed to study this unique landscape. The first was a transect drawing taken accross the creek val-ley and slag plateau. The second was the construction of an installation. The installation was composed from a collection of dumped materials found on the site built into a circular structure, revealing the use of this area as a dumping site for a variety of discarded materials.
ARTS CAMP understanding the landscape INSTRUCTOR | Christine Brill
DATE | Fall08
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
installation (recycled materials found on site)
installation (recycled materials found on site)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
installation (recycled materials found on site)
transcect (pencil drawing)
process model (chipboard, cardboard)
After numerous site visits, the decision was made to focus my attention on crest of a ridge, spanning from the upper of the two slag plateaus to the edge of the hill which overlooks the river and Homestead neighborhood. This area offers a very interesting change in perception as movement occurs along the existing paths. The openness of the plateau created a strong visual connection to the neighborhood across the valley. As one moves up the hillside, a seperation from the surrounding city is perceived as dense vegitation and change in slope pro-vides a sense of enclosure. At the edge of the hill towards the river, views of the surrounding urban condition open back up. This change in perception through the landscape proved to be a very important concept which would influence the design of the architecture. The initial design featured studio spaces which were enclosed by vegitation and placement within the landform as well as those which were opened towards the river as the hillside sloped below. This design was re-eval-uated with the development of a sereies of vertical planes which moved across the ridge. While defining a hierarchy of programmatic spaces, these planes also reinforce the idea of directionality of movement and change in perception through the landscape.
ARTS CAMP process work + concept INSTRUCTOR | Christine Brill
DATE | Fall08
building plan (pencil, colored pencil)
building plan development (Rhino rendering)
building plan (pencil, colored pencil)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
building plan development (Rhino rendering)
process section drawings (pencil, pen, Adobe Photoshop)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
The final design brings together ideas from earlier iterations by resolving the way in which the architecture fits into the landscape. Landform manipula-tion and planting serves to enhance the sense of enclosure and openness of the spaces. Variation of the width of the vertical planes creates a hierarchy of spaces. An intermediate zone of public gallery space was developed which con-nects to the surrounding neighborhoods by means of an existing pathway. The language of folded roof and floor planes acts to define the programmatic, while not detracting from the directionality set up by the vertical planes. The archi-tectural detailing of the spaces also reinforces this directionality with the use of board-formed concrete, corrugated roofing, and hardwood flooring.
ARTS CAMP final design stage INSTRUCTOR | Christine Brill
DATE | Fall08
parti (pencil drawing)
detail of section drawing (Rhino, pencil, marker, Adobe Photoshop)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
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arts camp
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REGISTRATION DESK
9 MILE RUN CREEK
MAIN ENTRANCE
SQUIRREL HILL
PUBLIC GALLERY
SWISSVALE
LIBRARY
DUCK HOLLOW
MONONGAHELA RIVER
HOMESTEAD
VIEW CORRIDORS
STUDIO
STUDIO
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STUDIO
STUDIO
STORAGE
ARTISTS’ QUARTERS
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THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
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plan (Rhino, Adobe Illustrator)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
bird’s eye view (Rhino, pencil, pastels, ink, Adobe Photoshop)
THESISARTS CAM
PGREEN HOTEL
LAWRENCEVILLE
OTHER WORK
SURFACELIGHT M
USUEUM
detailed section (AutoCad, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop)
section drawing (Rhino, pencil, marker, Adobe Photoshop)
