talia pinto-handler portfolio 2012

talia pinto handler

education:

Yale School of ArchitectureMasters of Architecture: 2013

The University of Michigan: TCAUPB.S. in Architecture: 2010

Carnegie Mellon University: CFA Pre- College Architecture Program: 2005

awards, publications + exhibitions:

Yale School of ArchitectureRetrospecta 2011-2012:

Drawing & Architectural Form Retrospecta 2010-2011:

Design Fabrication (collaborative) Formal Analysis Final Drawing

The University of Michigan: TCAUPCivic Friche Studio Exhibition (collaborative)

Wallenberg Studio Competition: Research (colaborative)

talia pinto handler

design

figure : field ................................................................................. 3

socrates sculpture park ......................................................... 7

brooklyn tobacco warehouse ................................................ 11

hostel for itinerant musicians ............................................ 17

the new haven house ............................................................. 25

split personality ....................................................................... 33

linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

maps ............................................................................................... 59.deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

build

foam, foam + more foam ...................................................... 71

past work

body politic ................................................................................. 75

ground condition ....................................................................... 79

kinderTANK ................................................................................. 83

alveole 14 .................................................................................... 89

figure : field

design

/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design I/ studio critic: ben pell/ fall 2010/ model, plan + section drawings/ semi-inhabitable sculptural study/ matte board, graphite on strathmore

The first in a series of small-scale design proposals, this preliminary spatial study works to address through highly calibrated part-to-whole relationships issues of scale, material, surface, porosity and enclosure while blurring the boundaries between figure and field conditions.

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socrates sculpture park

design

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/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design I/ studio critic: ben pell/ fall 2010/ site photos + design drawings/ semi-inhabitable sculptural study/ graphite on strathmore

This design proposal for Socrates Sculpture Park, a public park used for the showcasing of local art in the Long Island City neighborhood of Brooklyn, incorporates different means of transportation into the design in order to provide more feasible access. These modes of transportation include vehicular ciruclation, port amenities, a bike terminal, and pedestrian access from Vernon Boulevard and Broadway, all of which are used to drive the formal language of outdoor public spaces and galleries.

movement diagramssocrates sculpture park

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brooklyn tobacco warehouse

design

figure : field ............................................................................. .... 3


interior courtyard

/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design I/ studio critic: ben pell/ fall 2010/ model, plan, section + rendered perspective drawings/ brooklyn bridge performing arts center / mixed medias

The final study in a series of three, this urban intervention proposal for the Brooklyn Tobacco Warehouse provides performance, exhibition and recreational facilities to the growing Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO communities. Relying heavily on the desire to cut access across the site to engender movement to and through the tobacco warehouse, the resulting formal strategy folds itself around the preexisting structure of the warehouse as well as the larger scale cut.

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plan c: +30plan b: +241/100 = 1 1/100 = 1

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section b1/25 = 1

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final model

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hostel for itinerant musicians

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preliminary study: sound

/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design II/ studio critic: jennifer leung/ new haven hostel for itinerant musicians/ winter 2011/ diagrams, plan, section + axonometric drawings, study + final models/ retrospecta 2010-2011 nomination

A hostel as well as a music venue located in the heart of downtown New Haven, this hybrid proposal attempts to reinvent the spatial as well as programmatic standards of both. Conceived of through a reformatting and abuse of the traditional stair, the design for this hostel privileges the public space necessary for a music arena while providing the amenities and privacy required by visiting artists and travelers

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section a1 = 32

sectional model

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final model

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the new haven house

design

figure : field ............................................................................. .... 3





Total Surface Area of Interior Walls = 5,461 f 2

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Police StationsMedical Facilities

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/ yale school of architecture/ vlock building project/ professor: alan organschi, et al./ winter - spring 2011/ site analysis, diagrams, plan, section + elevation drawings, renderings + models/ collaborative work/ autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator/ http://www.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp11

movement diagram

1. Foundations

2. Enclosure

3. Roofing

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Total Volume of Excavated Earth = 293 y 3

Total Linear Foot of Foundation Wall = 143 lf

Total Building Footprint = 1,210 f 2

Exterior Stairs = 13 risers

Total Surface Area of Roof = 731 f 2

Total Volume including basement = 42,955 f 3

Total Floor Area = 3,830 f 2

Total Surface Area of Exterior Walls = 3,062 f 2

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quantification surveyInterior Construction

Developed alongside nine other collaborators, The New Haven House proposal for the Vlock Building Project of 2011 was conceived as a design that would speak to its environment. Inventive in its formal and spatial qualities yet respectful in its overall composition, The New Haven House achieved a level of impact through simplicity and careful, caluculated design that won both the juries approval as well as that of the client.

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tgi 360 joist

stained redwood horizontal shiplap reveals 3" o.c.

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rigid insulation

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/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design iv/ studio critic: joel sanders/ fall 2011/ live-work kunsthalle at the brooklyn navy yard/ diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings

Public architecture is explored through the design of a medium-scale institutional building, an arts center located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The center includes a public exhibition component conceived of as a kunsthalle an art museum that mounts only temporary exhibitionsas well as a private artists residency component. Not serving as a shrine of rare and honorific objects to which the community makes awe- filled pilgrimages, the Kunsthalle functions as an arena of provocation in which audience and discussion are stimulated. In mixing production and exhibition, it serves not as an institution of passive reception but one of active, and necessarily identifiable, intellectual exchange and debate. - Fall 2011 Studio Brief, Keith Krumwiede.Program at the BNY is split into two legs, one side reaching down into the bay designated for the production of art, and the other lifting upwards, reserved for the latters display. The two halves are joined at the theater and the sculpture yard; these spaces, both accessible at grade, are conceived of as the portions of the building in which both production and display occur simultaneously.

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site map: context

brooklyn

manhattan

bifurcation formal strategy

site condition + view

workshop

theater

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display

brooklyn

manhattan

brooklyn heights

williamsburgh

bedford

bushwick

astoria

long islandcity

lower eastside

soho

chelsea

noho

midtown

centralpark

uppereastside

upperwestside

brooklyn navy yard

moma ps1

moma queens

production + display

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Concept?

memorials

historic sites

cultural/historical art museums

performing arts

music venues

informal performing arts venues

design centers

contemporary art museums

public art installations

culture theatrearts

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (pelham bay park)Brooklyn Historical SocietyBrooklyn War MemorialConference House (park slope)Center for Jewish HistoryDyckman House and Farmhouse MuseumsEdgar Allan Poe Cottage (fordham manor)El Museo del BarrioEllis Island Immigration Museum (ellis island)Fort Schuyler (locust point)Fraunces Tavern MuseumGirl Scout MuseumGracie MansionGreater Astoria Historical SocietyHarbor Defense Museum (fort hamilton)Hendrick I. Lott HouseHispanic Society of America (washington heights)Historic Richmond Town (staten island)International Freedom CenterIrish Hunger MemorialJapan SocietyJewish MuseumJudaica Museum of the Hebrew HomeKing Manor Museum Kingsland Homestead (flushing)Korea SocietyLefferts Historic House (park slope)Lewis H. Latimer House (flushing)Louis Armstrong House (east elmhurst)Lower East Side Tenement MuseumMadame Tussauds Wax MuseumMorris-Jumel Mansion (washington heights)Merchant's House MuseumMuseum of American FinanceMuseum of the City of New YorkMuseum of the Moving ImageMuseum of Chinese in AmericaMuseum at Eldridge StreetMuseum of Jewish HeritageMuseum of Television and RadioNational Museum of the American Indian National Museum of LGBT HistorySports Museum of AmericaNew York City Police and Fire MuseumsNew York Historical SocietyNew York Transit MuseumQueens County Farm Museum (glen oaks)Ripley's Believe It or Not!Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYCScandinavia HouseSkyscraper MuseumSouth Street Seaport MuseumStatue of Liberty (liberty island)Swedish Cottage Marionette TheatreThe Little Red Lighthouse (riverside drive)The Old Stone House (park slope)The Paley Center for MediaThe Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (east flatbush)Tribute in LightTrinity ChurchyardValentine-Varian House (the bronx)Van Cortlandt House Museum (fieldston)World Trade Center MemorialYeshiva University Museum

American Folk Art MuseumAmos Eno GalleryArt in GeneralArtists SpaceAsia SocietyAsian American Arts CentreAstor Place CubeAxelle Fine ArtBelanthiBronx Museum of the Arts (the bronx)Brooklyn Children's Museum (crown heights)Brooklyn Museum (prospect heights)Center for ArchitectureChelsea Art MuseumChildren's Galleries for Jewish CultureChildren's Museum of the ArtsChildren's Museum of ManhattanChina Institute in AmericaCooper-Hewitt, National Design MuseumCooper Union's Study Center of Design and TypographyDahesh Museum of ArtDemu GalleryDia Art Foundation (long island)DUMBO Arts CenterFaith Art GalleryFashion Institute of TechnologyFisher Landau CenterForbes GalleriesFrick CollectionGovernors Island (governers island)Highline ParkHut GalleryInternational Print Center New YorkJamaica Center for Arts & Learning (queens)Jewish Children's Museum (crown heights)Liberty Street GalleryMetropolitan Museum of Art Municipal Art Society Museum for African ArtMuseum of Arts & DesignMuseum of Biblical ArtMuseum of Comic and Cartoon Art Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Museum of Modern Art Museum of the Moving ImageNational Academy of DesignNational Museum of Catholic Art and HistoryNeue GalerieNew Museum of Contemporary ArtNew York School of Interior DesignNew York Tattoo MuseumNicholas Roerich Museum (morningside heights)Parsons The New School for DesignPratt InstituteP.S.1 Contemporary Art CenterPublic Art FundQueens Museum of Art (queens)Rafael Fodde EditionsRotunda GalleryRubin Museum of ArtSarafinaSchickler Howard Fine ArtSculptureCenterShades of ArtSmack Mellon StudiosSocrates Sculpture ParkSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumSony Wonder Technology LabSpringStudio Museum in Harlem (harlem)The Cloisters (fort tryon park)The Drawing CenterThe Noguchi MuseumTime Warner CenterWilliamsburg Art & Historical CenterWhite Columns Whitney Museum of American Art

92nd Street Y92Y TribecaA Gathering of the TribesAMC Loews Theater 19th StreetAMC Theaters Empire 25Angelika Film CenterApollo TheaterArlenes GroceryAvery Fisher HallBargemusicBB King Blues Club and GrillBirdland Jazz ClubBlue Note Jazz ClubBowery BallroomBoys Choir of Harlem (harlem)Bitter EndBrooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn PhilharmonicCafe WhaCarnegie HallCinema TropicalCinema VillageCity WineryClearview Cinemas ZiegfeldCrash MansionDance New AmsterdamDavid H. Koch TheaterFilm Forum Grammercy TheaterHammerstein BallroomHighline BallroomIFC CenterJazz at Lincoln CenterJoes PubJoyce TheaterKaufman CenterLa MaMa Experimental Theatre ClubLandmark Sunshine CinemaManhattan School of MusicMannes College of MusicMercury LoungeMetropolitan OperaNew York City CenterNew York CollegiumNew York Public Library for the Performing ArtsNuyorican Poets CafeQuad CinemaSymphony SpaceThe Juilliard SchoolThe Public TheaterRadio City Music HallRockwood Music HallRoseland BallroomSantos Party HouseSmoke Jazz ClubSnug Harbor Cultural Center (staten island)SobsTerminal 5The Living RoomThe Town HallTribeca CinemasUA Battery Park Stadium 11UA Union Square Stadium 14Village East CinemaVillage VanguardWebster HallWilliamsburg Art & Historical Center

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/ yale school of architecture/ architectural design iv/ studio critic: alan plattus/ collaborator: brittany brown hayes/ winter 2012/ urban studio project: stamford, connecticut/ diagrams, models + plan, section + perspective drawings

[The goal of] this studio [is to] examine how one represents, analyzes, constructs and projects the future design of an urban site... Urban design is by nature a complex endeavor with immediate as well as long-term effects. Proposals at the city scale involve negotiations between public and private interests; global, regional and local forces and needs; collective and individual expression. - Ed Mitchell, studio brief In order to appropriately address the already existing fabric as well as the nature of the city of Stamford, this design proposal attempts to alleviate fissures in the urban grain locally. Both the downtown and water sites are treated as separate entities; each utilizes similar formal linking strategies to create new public spaces and connective typologies.

tressor boulevard

washington boulevard

atlantic street

ubswarburg park

veteranspark

ubswarburg park

veteranspark

downtown site strategy

waterside

southend

elmcroft road

docks

ferryterminal

verticalcirculation

pedestrianbridge

ramp tolower deck

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waterfront site strategy

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view from the docks

formal analysis

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linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

/ yale school of architecture/ formal analysis/ professor: peter eisenman/ fall 2010/ computer-generated drawing series/ 15th-17th century architecture/ autocad, rhino + adobe illustrator/ studio award: free analysis competition finalist/ retrospecta publication: 2010/2011

A semester-long course devoted to the study of the object of architecture or canonical buildings in its history, the following drawings attempt to analyze them not through the lens of reaction and nostalgia but through a filter of contemporary thought. Moving across history, these studies hope to establish and represent the formal tendencies of some of the most influential buldings of the Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist periods.

alberti sebastiano serlio palladio

borrominiscamozzi + sansovino bramante56

free analysis drawing

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maps

design

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linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

melting snow #3

/ yale school of architecture/ drawing projects/ instructor: turner brooks/ winter 2011/ series of measured hand-drawings/ various subjects of study/ graphite on strathmore

This set of drawings, devoted to the spatial mapping of change in objects over time, devotes itself predominantly to three different subjects: snow (as it melts), the human brain (as it develops and decays) and architecture (as it appears). Drawn sequentially over the course of four months, each piece serves as a representative of the compilation as a whole, of the changing tendencies, comforts and crutches of the hand at work.

melting snow #5 melting snow #2

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human brain #2: dementia

human brain #5: fetal development long-section

human brain #4: fetal development cross-section

final drawing:light

human brain #6

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deviant drawing

design

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linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

maps ............................................................................................... 59

/ yale school of architecture/ drawing and architectural form/ instructor: victor agran/ fall 2011/ selection of hand-drafted drawings/ graphite on strathmore/ retrospecta 2011-2012

[An examination] of descriptive geometry and perspective through the practice of rigorous constructed architectural drawings, the methods and concepts studied serve as a foundation for the development of drawings that interrogate the relationship between a drawings production and its conceptual objectives. - studio brief, Victor AgranUsing the constraints of the course to provide rigidity, this set of drawings attempt to push the limits of proscriptive drawing techniques. By allowing the drawing to be manufactured solely by virtue of the process and with no predisposition for specific visual outcomes, playful, explorative and bizarre geometries are generated, giving insight into the boundaries as well as potentials of established drafting methods.

taylors method of perspective

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processing: light

panorama

isometric projection

case study: archigram

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processing: light

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piero della francesca: perspective

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foam, foam + more foam

design

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linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

maps ............................................................................................... 59

deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

build

/ yale school of architecture/ visualization III: fabrication + assembly/ instructors: ben pell + john eberhardt/ winter 2011/ full-scale foam installation/ collaborators: andrea leung, own detlor, raymond tripodi/ low-density styrofoam + plywood/ retrospecta publication: 2010/2011

This project , designed as the final project in a digital technology course, works to make evident the nature of the relationship between a design, its fabrication, and the finished product Both additive and subtractive, the intent was to create an installation that integrated structure into the pieces formal composition. and played with light and shadow to produce new and unique lighting conditions.

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body politic

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linkspace ...................................................................................... 43

draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

maps ............................................................................................... 59

deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

build


past work

ground cover

pacific ocean

desert

grassland

scrubland

tropical scrubland

coniferous forest

border city

sister citylow population density

san diego

tijuana

imperial

mexicali san luis

san luis r.c.

nogales

nogales

cochise county

naco

douglas

agua prieta

columbus

puerto

el paso

ciudad

presidio

ojinaga

ciudad acua

del rio

piedras

eagle pass

laredo

nuevo laredo

reynosa

mcallenwaslaco

rio bravo matamoros

brownsville

nogales

nogales

el paso

ciudad

high population density

pacific ocean

gulf ofmexico

texas

new mexicoarizona california

baja california

sonorachihuahua

coahuila

nuevo leon

tamaulipas

puerta

san ysidrootay mesa

mesa de otay

tecate

tecata

calexico

mexicali

calexico east

nuevo

vicente guerrero

andrade

san luis

san luis rio

lukeville

sonoyta

sasabe

la garita de naco

naco

douglas

agua prieta

santa teresa

san jernimo

fabens

presidio

ojinaga

eagle pass

piedras

laredo

colombialaredo

nuevo laredo

roma

ciudad miguel

rio grande

ciudad

hidalgo

reynosa

progreso

nuevo progreso

brownsvillematamoros

colorado

gulf ofcalifornia

camargo

city

aleman

la ladrillera

negrasnegras

jurez

jurez

palomas

county

mexicali

mexico

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waterways

low population density

high population density

pacific ocean

gulf ofcalifornia

gulf ofmexico

gila little colorado river

conchos

rio grande

pecos

falcon

lake amistad

precipitation

border

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asuncion

magdalena

trinity

colorado

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creation of the united mexican states creation of the republic of texas creation of the republic of the rio grande

guatemala wins independence from the frca

the republic of the rio grande rejoins mexico

the us gains texas as the 28th state

guatemala cedes soconusco & chiapas to mexico

canada gains the north miller county from the us

the us receives the mexican cessationthe yucatn wins independence from

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neutral strip the dominion of canada is formed

the united states purchases alaska from russia

yukon territory joins the canadian provinces

the republic of hawaii is annexed by the us

newfoundland joins the canadian provinces

mexico gains rico rico, texas from the us

canadian territory

united states territory

guatemalan territory

mexican territory

ceding republics

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san visentereservoir

miramar reservoir

lakemurray

lakejennings

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lovelandreservoir

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lower otayreservoir

otay river

sweetwater river

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water pumpwater treatment plant

aqueductpipeline

proposed pump station proposed pipeline

settlement

municipality of san diego

municipiality oftijuana

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internationalwastewater

treatment plan

abelardo l. rodrigues dam

potential future waste water treatment plantpotential future desalination plant

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/ university of michigan: taubman college of architecture & urban planning/ raoul wallenberg studio: borderline personality/ studio critic: steven christensen/ winter 2010/ research material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings/ san ysidro-tijuana border crossing building proposal/ mixed media/ raoul wallenberg competition: honorable mention: studio research material

The San Diego Tijuana Metropolitan Area is a territory of continuous urban fabric that includes the city and suburbs of San Diego in the US and Tijuana, Playas de Rosarito, and Tecate in Mexico. As the busiest border crossing in the world, this site offers a unique opportunity for Mexico and the US to replace a banal and congested piece of infrastructure with a public work that is a reflection of regional/national identity and civic pride. Could this central piece of infrastructure be the locus for an architectural intervention that reflects the shared aspirations of North America's largest bi-national community; a counter-point to the proposed 'Triple Border Fence' it traverses? How can a gesture of alliance go beyond simply whitewashing a highly contentious political divide and actually improve the user experience? Should this community, in understanding of its unique relationship to the border, assert its connectedness in defiance of a divisive national rhetoric through a public work that offers new opportunities for occupation and political action? Rather than lingering in the realm of utopian illusion, this studio recognizes the continued existence of the border and seeks tactical, speculative, and timely solutions to the critical design problem of the threshold. - Steven Christensen, studio brief. The first half of the design studio, focused on site research and culminating in the compilation of maps and drawings into a book, consists of a heavy focus on the historic and geographic aspects of the San Diego - Tijuana border region. The resulting design project, a border tower devoted predominantly to an inversion of the concept of Duty-Free, is a formal study embodying the intention to redefine the notion of the architectural symbol, reinvent the concept of the border crossing station, and make public the subverted identities of the US-Mexico border. A tower located in no mans land and dedicated predominantly to office space to be filled by the adjacent publics, the suggestive nature of this megastructure calls into question the communicative aspects of the skyscraper as well as the potential for buildings to both sublimate as well as promote the more sinister characteristics of a region.

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scheme 2scheme 1program diagram

growth/recreationgrowth + production facilities

designated use facilitieshotel + hostel accomodations

commercial/institutionalproduction facilities

retail + commercial facilitiesoffice space/research labs

rehabilitation centers

border crossing/publicus-mexico border crossing centers

customs + supporting program

east-west section

tijuana, mexico san ysidro, u.s.a.

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draw

formal analysis ......................................................................... 55

maps ............................................................................................... 59

deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

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body politic ................................................................................. 75

final model: urban intervention

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kinderTANK

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draw

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maps ............................................................................................... 59

deviant drawing ......................................................................... 65

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past work

body politic ................................................................................. 75


/ university of michigan: taubman college of architecture + urban planning/ kinderTANK studio/ studio critic: rosalyne shieh/ fall 2009/ process material, diagrams, plan, section + perspective drawings + models/ mixed media

k i n d e r T A N K, is a Chicago-based, not-for-profit coalition of educators and concerned citizens who believe the contemporary approach to education is wrongheaded and only delays our responsibilities to the present. Rather than working from a distancethat is, rather than investing now in a future that is always distant, with an attitude towards early education that assumes an yet-unconsummated future, with hopes that the children of today will someday benefit the society of tomorrow, kinderTANK promises invest and engage children in the present as fully active participants of society and turn their minds towards the problems of today. Society is not made up of children and adults. There is no such thing as a child, simply full members of society who have lived on this earth for fewer or greater years than others. Younger members may possess less knowledge of the world, but may also suffer less from the desensitization that comes with age. Members of society under the age of 10 represent the largest yet-untapped think tank in modern society. The goal of kinderTANK is to turn these young minds toward the so-called adult issues of the day. - studio brief, Rosalyne Shieh

This proposal organizes program according to its level of integration and interaction with active members of the public. While some of the spaces consist of private classrooms and enclosed spaces of learning, others are designed to espouse more open, fluid methods of education, communication, and discovery. Not a building shackled to the spatial tropes of the generic institution, the kinderTANK attempts to achieve sufficient irregularity and malleability so as to continue to provide inventive methods of learning for decades to come.

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