school of architecture fall'11 portfolio

Children’s Bookhouse PortfolioFreedom Park, NC

ARCH 3101 StudioFall 2011

University of North Carolina at CharlotteCollege of Arts + Architecture

School of Architecture

Table of Contents

Project Introduction - 5

Site Analysis - 8

Parti - 18

Schematic - 24

Design Development - 36

Final - 50

Project Introduction

Freedom Park is interlaced with roads and paths winding and connecting the disparate parts of thecomplex into a natural whole. !e house of books will serve as an active teaching tool that incorporatesgreen features into the building inside and out. !e house of books is to include a restaurant, aperformance and exhibition space, reading areas, storytelling and spaces of creativity for young anddeveloping authors. Echoing the Park’s interlaced landscape, the interior spaces of the project will belinked to the surrounding hillside and wooded landscape by pathways. !ese paths create a "uidpassage of space and movement by merging a variety of di#erent programs into a seamless sequenceand unfolding views of the surrounding landscape. It provides event and exhibition spaces as well as asmall house for books and classes for a variety of themes and activities

“We believe in the power of imagination, the delights of discovery andthe ability of architecture to inspire and improve life.”

Krueck Sexton

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Program

A dynamic and interactive environment that emphasizes the importance of reading by providing a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces for group reading and quiet rooms for individual reading. !is facility is a combination of library/art –an original approach to education, learning and creating arts related to books. At Book House, young people learn in many ways, through instructional classes, reading to writing and creating: “from the page to the stage”.

!e exhibition space should present works of art and writing by children and their families to encourage an appreciation of writing as a creative art.

Interactive Storytelling Spaces for Children:Storytelling can be a powerful tool for communication, collaboration, and creativity!e tools of storytelling can also be a critical part of a child’s world and it can support the development of cognitive skills. !e house of books provide wide range of interaction options, depending on whether children want to listen to stories, interact with them, or tell a story of their own.

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A place that people should be able to get away from the rush of the world to think and be alone with their thoughts.

An action space where creative writing and art meet. An urban garden that stirs the senses and makes imagination blossom. Visitors experience hands on activities that they learned inside the gallery and other reading and storytelling spaces.

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“Architecture belongs to the site. Architecture should be appropriate which means it should recognize in some way the attributes of the site. To understand what these attributes are, to hear how they manifest themselves, should be the architect’s !rst move when starting to think about a building.”

Rafael Moneo

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Bio RegionsWatershed: drainage patternsVegetation and WildlifeSoils, Land Features - TopographyClimate: sun, wind, rain, snow, temperature, humidity

Views & VisibilityPoints of Interest, Land Features and FormsSpatial Qualities: open, closed, de$ned, unde$ned, scale, textureSound & NoisePollution

Architectural ElementsCirculation and Accessibility RegionalMap/Locational MapHistory - Zoning - Existing Uses

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VEGETATIONFreedom Park hosts a variety of plant life. With its far reaching canopy the site is heavily shaded and provides framed views to little sugar creek.

TOPOGRAPHY!e site is gently sloping down toards little sugar creek, that overlooks the rest of Freedom Park.

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WATERSHEDWater drains westward down the site, feeding little sugar creek. !ere exists a 100-year "ood plain.

FEATURES!ere are many landmarks and features in Freedom Park including little sugar creek, the greenway, and bouldar formations.

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Foliage

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Parti

!e parti is the $rst conception of a project, and thus displays simple and concrete ideas about what the project will develop into. !e parti must communicate the core ideas of the project and must be understood by implementing simple drawings that are abstract and diagramatic in character.

Drawings by Ching

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Drawings by Ching

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!e Overlook is organized as a single, eight-foot wide ribbon of concrete that emerges from the earth, rising and falling as it moves to the edge of the cli#s. Along its 150-foot length are eight volumes that open and close to the sky. From a distance the form dissolves and reemerges as line or plane in response to the quality of light, the shape and intensity of shadow and changing point of view.

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!ree forms are connected with di#erent relationships to eachother as well as the park. One form to pull in the axis from the bridge connecting the parks, one form to intercept tra%c from the urban side, and one form to reach out to the snaking greenway.

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Schematic Design establishes the general scope, conceptual design, scale and relationships among the components of a project. !e primary objective is to arrive at a clearly de$ned, appropriate concept while exploring the most promising alternative design solutions.

SoA drawing sample

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Student Hostel, Amsterdam, Hertzberger

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!e Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the $rst years of its existence. Nonetheless it was founded with the idea of creating a ‘total’ work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together. !e Bauhaus style became one of the most in"uential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.

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Form!e form of the bauhaus in"uenced and helped me solve how the forms from my parti would interact and eventually connect. !e rectilinear design of the bauhaus allowed me to investiate how forms and sections of buildings are phsyically attatched.

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!e House for a Musher informed me on how I could develop the land and site. I incorporated landings around my building for di#eent programmatic spaces as well as walkways and driveways for a buss drop-o# and employee parking.

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Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time when concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes a part of the real world.

Peter Zumthor

SoA drawing sample

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BOOKHOUSE : ORTHOGRAPHIC PLANS - 1/16’’ scaleFreedom Park - Charlotte, NCKameron Freeman

PLAN 1

PLAN 2

PLAN 3

A

B

BOOKHOUSE : ORTHOGRAPHIC SECTIONS & ELEVATIONS - 1/8’’ scaleFreedom Park - Charlotte, NCKameron Freeman

SECTION A

SECTION B

EAST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

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BOOKHOUSE : ORTHOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE Freedom Park - Charlotte, NCKameron Freeman

STRUCTURAL PLANS1/32’’ scale

STRUCTURAL AXON

WALL SECTION1/2’’ scale



STRUCTURAL AXON




STRUCTURAL AXON




STRUCTURAL AXON


A structural steel frame sits ontop of a level of concrete bearing walls, creating a datum for further development.

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!e Delta shelter along with other precedents in"uenced how the facade of my building would be. !e Delta shelter has a system of panels and openings based o# the structural bays. I incorporated this into my de-sign by allowing the structural bays to inform the openings and in turn the elavation. !e sub-"oor is all concrete bearing wall, and the rest of the building is clad in concrete panels. !e concrete bearing wall creates a datum and resembles a platform for the rest of the building to stand on. !e concrete panel system blends into the body as a whole.

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6’’ Concrete Floor Slab

8’’ Gravel Bed

Wood Flooring

Ceiling Tile

15’’ Steel Wide Flange Beam

2’’ Metal Decking


1’’ Vapor Barrier

2’’ Rigid Insulation

Roof Membrane

Earth Wall Detail Sectionscale : 1:2’’

French Drain

Metal Flashing

Steel Parapit Wall

2’ Retaining Wall

Double Pane Insulated Glass

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Final

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Site Planscale 1:50

Site Sectionscale : 1:32’’

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GALLERY

Classroom

CAFE

LOBBY

MechanicalRoom

Multi Purpose

Classroom

Underground Floorscale : 1/16’’

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Cafe

Classrooms

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RETAIL

A

B

LOBBY

Outdoor Contemplation

OUTDOORPLAY AREA

READING

Storytelling

Gallery

Quiet Zone

Lobby

ConferenceRoom

Office

Office

Ground Floorscale : 1/16’’

Section A

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North Elevation

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CHILDREN’S BOOKHOUSEFreedom Park - Charlotte, NCKameron Freeman

Site Sectionscale : 1:32’’

Site Planscale 1:50


8’’ Gravel Bed

Wood Flooring

Ceiling Tile

15’’ Steel Wide Flange Beam

2’’ Metal Decking


1’’ Vapor Barrier

2’’ Rigid Insulation

Roof Membrane

Earth Wall Detail Sectionscale : 1:2’’

Freedom ParkCharlotte, NC

French Drain

Metal Flashing

Steel Parapit Wall

2’ Retaining Wall

Double Pane Insulated Glass

Parti Diagrams

Massing-Eastside Massing-Westside

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CHILDREN’S BOOKHOUSEFreedom Park - Charlotte, NCKameron Freeman

RETAIL

A

B

LOBBY

Outdoor Contemplation

OUTDOORPLAY AREA

READING

Storytelling

Gallery

Quiet Zone

Lobby

ConferenceRoom

Office

Office

Ground Floorscale : 1/16’’

GALLERY

Classroom

CAFE

LOBBY

MechanicalRoom

Multi Purpose

Classroom

Underground Floorscale : 1/16’’

Section Ascale : 1/8’’

North Elevationscale : 1/8’’