University of Illinois at ChicagoJoanna Nika

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city market

PROJECTS

SENSIBILITY

ECOLOGY

FRAMEWORK

HYBRID

COMPOUND

alabasterInstructor: Jimenez Lai - ARCH 366 - Spring 2011

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Alabaster is a project that showcases the most important art shows in the United States. It hosts special parties, and exhibitions. It is a cultural and social highlight for the citizens. The project is located in the State of Arizona directed by five investors. Vitra and Taschen are main investors mainly because are known for their high standards and creativity. The SENSIBILITY of the project is an environment filled with colors and textures that evoke a range of moods, desires, and feelings. This is a great place to introduce various styles of art and emotions they are evoking.

The story begins somewhere off the highway in Arizona...

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Form Development Final Result

HOTEL:Four Seasons

CREATIVE CONTRIBUTORS:Vitra & Taschen

LOCATION:Arizona State

GAS STATION:Shell

RESTAURANT:Alinea

Atmospheric relationships of and between the main Five Investors.

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Program Diagram

Hotel Restaurant Meeting/LectureVolumes

All Exhibition Volumes

Section North - South - Detail 1

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Section East - West - Detail 1

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Section East - West

Plan - 2nd Floor

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Plan - 7th Floor

Physical Model Shoots/ Exterior

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Physical Model Shoots/ Interior

artificialarchipelago

Instructor: Clare Lyster- ARCH 365 - Fall 2010

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CITY ISLANDS ARTIFICIALECOSYSTEMS

Chicagos shoreline, stretching from Evanston on the north to the Indiana border on the South, comprises 30 miles of lakefront since the Citys incorporation in the 1820s. 26 of the 30 miles have been developed as a public lakefront park system, unrivaled for its beauty and accessibility. Artificial Archipelago, an ECOL-OGY project comprises a series of A-all and Iceberg shaped islands that extended the public landscape of the Lakefront by multiplying the extent of natural habits and creating a more accessible space with wide range of recreational, educational, cultural activities for Chicagoans of all ages. Islands are arranged in five clusters: Urban cluster, Lakefront cluster, Interior cluster, Boat cluster, and Deep cluster. Program is scattered among the islands that are linked by a continuous floating base platform and include: educa-tional programs such as research centers, recreational programs and cultural institutions. Islands program not only offers activities across the seasons which many of the lake front parks are not able to do. The islands also provide indoor and roof gardens with wide range of non-native habitats such as desert climate like plants, to temperate climate.

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Chicago regionRivers

County preserves and city parks

County preserves and city parks/ Chicago Lakefront Chicago Lakefront/Navy Pier

Nature preserves and scientific areas

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SOUTH SHORECULTURAL CENTER

MUSEUM OF SCIENCEAND INDUSTRY

PROMONTORY POINT

BURNHAM SKATE PARK

MC CORMIC PLACE

NORTHERLY ISLAND

ADLER PLANTERIUMSHEDD AQUARIUMFIELD MUSEUM

BUCKINGHAM FOUNTAIN

ART INSTITUTE

LINCOLN PARK CULTURAL CENTERLINCOLN PARK ZOO

THEATRE ON THE LAKE

PEGGY NOTEBEARTNATURE MUSEUM

SYDNEY R AROVITZGOLF COURSE

CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

OSAKA GARDENS

DU SABLE MUSEUM

NAVY PIER

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Soft Praire Landscape Rigid Desert Landscape

Navy Pier/Artificial Archipelago

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LakefrontCluster

InteriorCluster

BoatCluster

DeepCluster

Zooning Diagram

Program Diagram

Plan Diagram

Research Center Recreational Program Cultural Institutions Indoor Gardens

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Close Up Artificial Archipelago Rendering

Artificial Archipelago Long Section

Artificial Archipelago Long Plan

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Sectional ground Floor Plan

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Sectional underground Floor Plan

Artificial Archipelago Rendering

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Sectional Physical Model Pictures

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mGLVWLOOHGnNQRWInstructor: Kelly Bair - ARCH 466 - Spring 2012

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The concept of the project derived from the scorpions studies with the main focus on the hard and soft textures as well as scorpions sensory hairs which detect temperature changes and certain environmental information which help scorpions to survive. All those elements developed the concept of a distillery. The form is very smooth and organic and the faade is covered with hundreds of pipes which are also a part of the distillation process. The pipes change its color when the temperature increases or decreases making the projects FRAMEWORK a peculiar scene for a viewers.

ReshapedFinal Form

Alcohol Distillation Tower

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Scorpion covered in thick hairs sensitive to direct touch. Distiled knot covered with pipes which detects different temperatures.

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Distilled knot Plan Level 1

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Distilled knot Plan Level 2

Distilled knot North - South Section/First Cut

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Distilled knot North - South Section/Second Cut

Distilled knot Exterior View

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red ribbonInstructor: Bruno Ast - ARCH 465 - Fall 2011

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Red Ribbons conceptual idea is to reinforce the relationship between the progaram and circulation. The form of the project contains four stacked and shifted floors and continuous circulation that passed through each program and connects to them individually, however, still maintaining the binding effect. Red Ribbon is a multi-use project, HYBRID, composed of commercial, office, and residential program. There is also additional component green wall which is acting as urban boundary yet still providing a human qualities such as relief, calmness, and light to each of the functional spaces bordering on this wall.

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Site Circulation

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1. Spiral staircase to the 2nd level of townhouse.2. Entrance to the coffee shop.3. Display walls.

4. Residential outdoor space.5. Fire escape for the right side of the building.6. Childrens playground.

7. Lounge space.8. Spiral staircase to the 2nd level of townhouse.9. Fire escape for the left side of the building.

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RESIDENTIAL42.5 %

RESIDENTIAL42.5 %

PRIVATE52 %

PUBLIC48 %

RETAIL30 %

OFFICE SPACE15 %GREEN ROOF7.5%OTHER5 %

GREEN ROOF7.5%

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bedroom

living room

bathroom

bathroom

extra room

closet

hallway

storage

storage

kitchen

mechanicalroom

parking

bathroom

kitchen

mechanicalroom

mechanical room

make-up/costume

meeting/presentation room

copy/printingroom

lobby

stairselevator stairs

elevator

sitting/table area

wine storage

gallery space

bar

loading dock

women/men bathroom

bedroom

living room

half-bathroombathroom

extra roomwalk-in closet

kitchen

mechanical roomparking

half-bathroom

kitchen

mechanical room

office roomoffice room

make-up/costume room

meeting/presentation roomcopy/printing

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wine storagegallery spacebarloading dockwomen/men bathroom

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RETAIL25 %

OFFICE SPACE20 %

Program Analysis

office

First Floor/Commercial space

Second Floor/Commercial Space

Third Floor/Residential Spece

Fourth Floor/Residential Space

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Section Perspective

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city marketInstructor: Teddy Slowik - ARCH 206 - Spring 2010

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The ambition of this project is to propose the study of curvature as the main focus. Our research compared two major curve types: the catenary (Loosely) and the Bezier (Tightly) curve which is developed in this project. The studies of the Bezier Curve will lead to the creation of a COMPOUND which manipulated in number of ways such as mirroring or rotating will create a final canopy system for the City Market. Our site is described by a set of bounding edges: River, at grade train tracks, elevated train tracks, the street, and the surrounding buildings. The project is interested in addressing how the canopy system will meet those edges. It is a requirement of the site that 30% (16,350.00sf) of its net area be left un-built and reserved for future development or park area.

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Section Bezier Curve Model A Exploded Section Bezier Curve Model A

Building Stages of Beziers Curve Physical Model A

Exploded Plan Bezier Curve Model B

Building Stages of Beziers Curve Physical Model B

Plan Bezier Curve Model B

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Component extracted from Axonometric Bezier Curve Model Aand further developed in Field Studies.

Axonometric Bezier Curve Model A

Axonometric Bezier Curve Model B

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Mirrored and intersected with another component; mirrored again and connected in the middle with previous component.

Secondary system of curves.

Basic Component

Loading and ReceivingCirculation

Public ParkPermanent Storage

Temporary Market AreaPermanent Market Stalls

Program Diagram Level 1 Program Diagram Level 2

Final Development of the Curvature System based on Field Studies

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Component Mirroredfour times.

Component Mirrored and intersected with another component:Mirrored again and connected in the Middle with previous component.

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Final Bezier Curve System over a Program Diagram

City Market Interior View

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Thank You.