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Bukhubalo Community Complex (1 person group) 2013-14The people in Bukhubalo, Uganda do not have the economic means or access to education, health care, or cultural development. This thesis aims to bring the community of Bukhubalo together through a facility that provides these opportunities. It will include a secondary school, tertiary school, medical center, and cultural center.
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Secondary Schools
Health Center II
Health Center III
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Hospital
Sub Parish Church
Parish Church
Administrative Diocese
Mosque
Cement Manufacturing
Steel Manufacturing
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Bukhubalo Community ComplexThe site is 16 acres, 10 acres is open for development and 6 acres will be kept as is. There are two possible locations for bore holes to be placed to retrieve water for the complex. It will be continuously pumped and stored in the air to create a gravity flow system. There are also two possible locations for the sewer drain fields.
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Bukhubalo Community ComplexThe education portion is the heart of the complex, but has easy access from the road for the children coming to school. The cultural center is also located near the entrance so it is the first building seen and visited by the community. The health care center is pushed slightly to the outside in case there is an infection outbreak and it needs to be quarantined.
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Bukhubalo Community ComplexGuastavino tile is a thin shell structural tile. A method called graphical statics is used to create an arch that is always in compression where the uniform load goes directly through the material without having to change direction. This allows for very thin bricks to be used without any steel reinforcement as a structural material.
Cafeteria Section B
Cafeteria Section A
Cafeteria Render
45% Attendance in Frankfurt Kindergartens
47% Attendance if an additional 250 students added
48% Attendance if an additional 500 students added
50% Attendance if an additional 900 students added
all children
children under 6
While at the Frankfurt Zoo at 17:00 on October 24th, I observed the percentage of children who walked on the 45 cm ledge along the walkway.Weather - Overcast
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Population Size and Number of Schools in Ostend and Neighboring Districts
1.36 Children per Family 64,000 Households in Frankfurt 87,040 Children
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Ostend Playground and Kindergarten (1 person group) Fall 2012There is currently a lack of kindergarten spaces available in Frankfurt, Germany. Starting in the summer of 2013, all children will have a legal right to a place in a Kindergarten. Currently, 65% of children in Frankfurt do not have access to a spot in a Kindergarten facility. Based on the number of children in Frankfurt, I decided to create 900 facility to make the overall kindergarten attendance 50%.
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Travel Time to SiteSurrounding Schools
Ostend Playground and KindergartenThere are many kindergarten facilities and playgrounds in Frankfurt, but few are in Ostend. Many of the schools are small, so even though there are many schools, they only hold about 30-40 students each. Parents consider 30 minutes to be a reasonable amount of travel time to school so this school will target those children.
Administration
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Multifunctional Classroom3,150 sqm
Cafeteria
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POD 3Jungle Gym168 sqm
Seesaw40 sqm
POD 2Hedge Maze510 sqm
POD 1Tether Ball130 sqm
POD 5Slide and stairs from bridge to ground level
POD 7Pond for rainwater storage645 sqm
POD 9Jungle Gym235 sqm
POD 10Adult Fitness60 sqm
POD 4Pond for rainwater storage645 sqm
POD 6Accessible green roof on top of Kindergarten 1,770 sqm
POD 8Zip Line60 sqm
POD 11Sandboxcovered120 sqm
Ostend Playground and KindergartenThe playground is on a continuous bridge that links the two edges of the Frankfurt green belt. It starts at Ostpark, goes over the train tracks, and continues down to the new European Central Bank. Each playground pod has a different program for children to enjoy and learn about conserving water. There is also a bike path for people to enjoy and get exercise.
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Ostend Playground and KindergartenThe kindergarten has classrooms that surround an atelier where the kids can work on projects together and leave the boundaries of the normal classroom. The small courtyards are also a central part of the kindergarten pods as they give the children a smaller outdoor space that they can explore, but not feel overwhelmed by the size of the school. The school’s auxiliary buildings, like the gym and cafeteria, are placed closer to the train tracks to protect the rest of the campus from the noise.
Central Piazza Atelier
Marine Biology Center (2 person group) Spring 2012For a project with such complex program specifications, we sought to braid spaces together. This “braid” was the overlapping of three occupant domains (scientist, student, public); each of which weave together to form points of interaction where those occupants could intermingle.
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Marine Biology CenterSocial interaction is responsible for the spread of knowledge through the campus. The points at which the public can associate with scientists, and scientists with students are all moments for learning. The paths of circulation flow between the various strands and unify them as one. Through this, each occupant type is drawn across the building in and around at various levels, creating places of various views into other spaces and to the site.
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braided spaces
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scientist domain
student domain
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Marine Biology CenterThe location of the educational center, right on the edge of Salt River Bay, allows for virtually 360 degrees of gorgeous, intricate, and inspirational site views. Each space associates itself with a unique visual relation with the site and its surroundings. Additionally, the large atrium interaction spaces anchor the project on the site in this building of cantilevered components that float over the sensitive landscape.
Marine Biology CenterThe touch tank area at sea level serves as a direct collaboration between what visitors are physically engaging with and where it comes from. The featured exhibits teach the community about the local environment on the micro scale. The public can then venture out to the sea’s edge to learn about the environment on the macro scale. This space blurs the edge of interior and exterior while demonstrating a direct parallel of the importance between the two.
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Bath House, Restaurant, and Theater (3 person group) Summer 2012Linking street to sea, two spatial walls expand the three meters of public French coastline to increase access to site sensations. Opportunities for site experiences are organized along two stepped walls that carve a direct path from street to sea. As stations along these walls, the programs of bath, restaurant, and film gallery familiarize the visitor with certain qualities of the coastline as they move to and from.
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Bath House, Restaurant, and TheaterThe bathhouse extends the opportunity to experience pure water to those who may fear the unpredictability of the sea. The bath is fed by a stream of water that runs within the wall. Pedestrians follow the movement of the water downwards until reaching an entry volume that protrudes from the wall, where the water disappears from sight. A gradual stair leads visitors towards a shallow pool fed from above by the wall, allowing the stream of water to descend into the space.
Bath House, Restaurant, and Theater The restaurant provides three unique ways of experiencing food that connect visitors with site characteristics as well as local flavors. Diners choose between dining on the water, in a taste container, or with a view. “Water Dining” takes place in pools of various depths allowing visitors to sit in the water. The taste container obstructs views of the surrounding landscape and focuses the diners’ attention on the food, and the dining room frames views of the coast.
Bath House, Restaurant, and TheaterThe film gallery is in an existing building deprived of many important site qualities such as views and access to the water. It generates its own sensory experiences through the programs that occupy its designated spaces. Various volumes allow for different ways of viewing film, and influence a roof landscape above that give pedestrians ways of sitting or moving that relate to the method of viewing below.
Light Together, Reuse Forever (1 person group) Fall 2013The interaction between community members is essential to learning and growing, especially for children when they are engaging with other children and adults. This piece brings people together by requiring interaction with the lamp to power the light. This engagement brings people towards a common object and goal: light.
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Light Together, Reuse ForeverWe spend our evenings surrounded by light that is produced for us, but we do not always consider what it takes to receive this light. By powering our own lamp, we can appreciate what we are using and the energy it takes. The paper used in the lamp shade is made from recycled Mustang Daily newspapers and reminds us of the steps required to make a material that we constantly use in our day to day lives.
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