GEORGIA TECH

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN + RESEARCH

GEORGIA TECH
DESIGN + RESEARCH

ISBN 978-1-300-10013-3

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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2011

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Introduction

009 BS_Arch Studios

011 019 027 037 047 069 145 086 Common First Year I Common First Year II Design Studio I Design Studio II Design Studio III Design Studio IV Design Studio V Design Studio VI

203 Inquiries
204 206 210 214 216 218 Theory and Criticism I gray matter(s) Furnishing Buildings / Building Furniture Shape Grammars Introduction to Design Computing Zero Energy Housing

091 M_Arch Studios

093 097 103 109 123 145 163 182 Core I Studio Core II Studio Core III Studio Options I Studio Options II Studio Design + Research I Design + Research II Master of Science in Urban Design

221 Events + Travel

222 224 226 230 231 232 234 238 Summer Study Abroad Foreign Exchange Students Lecture Series Harris Dimitropoulos Exhibition Cooper Carry Studio Dedication Neuro-Salon Portman Prize Competition Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair Donors + Sponsors Faculty + Staff Publications Students

185 PhD Research

186 188 190 192 194 196 198 200 Analysis of Design Intent Communication Patient Safety Bayesian Calibration Sub-Optimal Component Performance Energy Consumption Fault Detection Task Interruptions Agent-Based Modeling

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Imagining a Better Future through Architecture, Design, and Research

Architects can only serve society if they are as attentive to enduring needs as they are open to new possibilities. Likewise, desire for social progress ought to be at the heart of architects aspirations to derive truly progressive architectures, ones equally transformative of practice, use, and form. In contentious times, however, the measures of progress can seem difficult to define and impossible to agree upon. The very concept of progress is itself open to debate, ambiguous, perhaps even anachronistic in this age of perpetual novelty. Things dont get better, some would argue; they just get other. In uncertain times like these, I maintain, the difficult question of how to gauge social progress in and through architecturemust be a central focus of our inquiry, the main objective of our creative and productive work. Over the past year, the Faculty of Architecture made some important adjustments to its undergraduate, professional, and advanced studies curricula with the aim of fostering and enhancing the kind of intellectual climate within which such important questions could be summoned and tackled. After a decade of experimental and ad hoc approaches to integrating digital modalities of design and fabrication within existing foundational studios, new workshops in architecture modeling and media have now been systematically structured to support design inquiry: first, by providing students with a platform of crucial knowledge and necessary skills; and then, by sketching a framework to accommodate the constant revolutionizing of generative and representational media. In the field of architecture, aesthetic sensibility and technical capability must walk hand in hand. With the aim to organize discourse and unleash debate about the social, political, and economic grounds of disciplinary and professional knowledge, revamped courses in the theory and practice of architecture have been developed. Theory of Architecture is unfolded around four thematic topicsprogram and function, context and site, rhetoric and representation, tectonics and styleeach seam of thought offered from distinct and varying faculty perspectives. Similarly, Practice of Architecture extends beyond a singular definition of some professional status quo to address the dynamic social, historical, and ethical contexts of architectural practice, the demands for and characteristics of enterprise and leadership, office organization and project processes, and importantly, the rising role of research in the generation of emergent, alternative models of practice. Introduction to Architectural Research in the Doctor of Philosophy Program has also been reconceived; indeed, its development has instigated many of the aforementioned changes. Six units are organized in three coursescausation, simulation, representation, interpretation, historiography and epistemology, and theories of design. These focal topics prepare doctoral students for the distinct methodological challenges of conducting interdisciplinary research in the field of architecture; and they impart to them the necessary task of accounting for the interrelatedness of buildings, culture, and life. Where so many of these initiatives overlap and intersect is in the School of Architectures new Design and Research Studios. Topics of enduring and emerging professional concern in urban design, digital design and fabrication, building performance, and health and design among others, are here framed and illuminated by domains of research expertise from among School faculty and adjacent design and engineering disciplines, from leading practitioners and local firms. The collaborative ferment and creative tension cultivated in this architecture innovation factory will over time come to define, we expect, the sort of enlightened, performanceoriented and research-driven architectural practices against whose work the terms of social progress will again be known.

George B. Johnston, PhD, AIA

Professor of Architecture and Chair

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Ambitions
The work in this years Design and Research Annual marks the beginning of another transition in the 100+ year life of the School, and is indicative of the extraordinary curiosity and passion our students and faculty have for the making of the built environment through design, research and scholarship. The changing nature of architectural practice, coupled with an increasing demand for deep working knowledge of digital design platforms and research oriented design training, prompted a number of faculty-led conversations centered on strengthening linkages between our various degree programs in three targeted areas: design foundations, building technology and performance, and design as research. We are likewise extending our reach beyond the walls of our college to build bridges amongst the rich varieties of course offerings across campus in order to promote a shared culture between design, engineering and the humanities. While changing currents push us all back and forth and in ever new directions, every architecture school must address perpetual and fundamental questions related to design education: what should we as architects know, how do we learn, and by what means do we assess what weve learned? Commitment to excellence in teaching, dedication to innovation within the curriculum, and the creation of a positive learning environment governed by a relentless ambition; this is our challenge as educators if we are to ensure that our students can lead the technological, social and policy dialogues affecting the ways in which our future worlds are made. As you will see in the following pages, a number of richly detailed conversations are unfolding between faculty, students and the profession regarding the power of architecture to create alternative futures, by engaging tradition and technological innovation to establish new ways of seeing and making. Foundations Students in the graduate and undergraduate foundation studios are challenged to examine the world through a variety of analytical lenses, instrumental, affective and cognitive, all aimed at understanding discourses of architectural representation. Faculty-led dialogues were concentrated on what constitutes our core curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate level, and how might they inform one another. Under the guidance of a highly skilled instructional core, the sophomore studio was the locus of constructive debate around the future of foundational design pedagogy. Students were immersed in a reinvigorated studio curriculum aimed at investigating new approaches to architectural form and technology via a variety of software platforms. Emphasis was placed on the ability to read patterns in terms of generative rules, the ability to write these rules in scripts, and the ability to modify the scripts to generate building forms. Critical in all of this is the transition from 2-D into 3-D patterns and the subsequent interrogation of 3-D patterns into precise interpretations of program, site and context. This is unquestionably some of the most ambitious work to ever emerge from the core design studios at Tech. Building Workshops + Building Performance We are addressing an increased desire for hands-on fabrication and detailing exercises through a number of efforts in and out of the design studio at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Digitally designed and manufactured installations along Atlantas Beltline, in the Castleberry Hill district, in Paris, France and Chattanooga, Tennessee, each spoke to an ever growing interest to get our hands dirty to make something. Generous support from faculty and staff contributed to the success of these efforts. The Portman Prize and Portman visiting critic program continues to operate at the center of the graduate Options II Building Workshop: a studio based comprehensive building exercise bound to several courses in building technology and physics. In practice, architects simulate the act of building via the making of drawings and models. The Building Workshop is focused on the productive act of making drawings and models, through which a student creates the conditions of a building site in order to work through the various categories of problems associated with assembly. Examples from the studio and support courses are included, and our goal is to extend our reach beyond the School and into other related disciplines on campus, namely structural, environmental and civil engineering. Design as Research Greater emphasis is now being placed on the ability of the architect to participate in imaginative and focused research-driven dialogues. The emerging field of design as research is moving architecture away from the self-referential metalanguages of the 1990s, or the purely instrumental formal investigations of the early 21st century, toward more fruitful dialogues around simple quality of life questions related to house and home, work, recreation, transit and infrastructure. Throughout the year, faculty and students were challenged to engage research-driven questions in concentrated areas: building energy and performance, healthcare, urban and environmental design, shape grammar and space syntax, digital design and fabrication, urbanism, landscape urbanism, and practice, each of which is further explicated through themes in construction, representation and history. The Atlanta metropolitan region faces a number of significant long-term challenges at the level of infrastructure, population growth, the environment, and civic identity. Our School of Architecture will be a leader in these discussions through the varied platforms set forth via the design and research studio setting.

Embracing the creative tension between funded research and design in order to promote innovation in architecture
At the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, three research laboratories have emerged through cumulative efforts over many years with welldefined intellectual missions; leadership in their respective fields nationally; and, a track record of external funding that allows them to continuously support doctoral students in the corresponding areas of research of our Doctoral Program. 1. The Digital Buildings Laboratory. The Mission: the enhancement of the computational tools that facilitate: the generation of designs; the representation and evaluation of buildings and their parts; the integration of expertise within the design process; the integration of design, factory fabrication and on-site construction. The High Performance Buildings Laboratory. The Mission: the development of better models, controls and metrics of building performance, particularly with regard to energy costs and environmental quality and sustainability. SimTigrate Design Laboratory. The Mission: to support evidence-based design decisions by translating research findings into design guidelines, design models and design prototypes. The SimTigrate Lab uses physical and virtual simulation in order to develop and test innovative ideas, with an emphasis on health care design. More precisely, the measure of success is documented impact that matches the ambitions, informed intentions and expectations of those who commission, develop and implement designs. However the relationship between research and design is not simple. The output of design, when realized, is a building or place with all of its physical properties, including the control of environment, the organization of space and affordances for human life. The output of research on design is specialized, generalizable and testable knowledge on: 1. Building components, construction and assembly; 2. The affordances and performance implications of particular physical properties; 3. Tools that support design decisions by helping to evaluate design alternatives or the intrinsic potential of places and programs; 4. Technologies that support the representation, development and physical realization of designs; 5. Tools that support the effective use and re-use of buildings over time; 6. Principles and practices that support the education of well-qualified architects. Thus, quite frequently, the outcomes of the design studio and the research laboratory do not coincide. The relationship between the more holistic orientation of design and the more particular orientation of research is best managed as a creative tension even as design and research equally engage imagination, intuition and rigor in formulating and testing propositions. The bridges between research on design and research through design are the innovative project and the demonstration project, extending the repertoire of design solutions and our sense of what is possible and desirable in architecture. We look to strengthen our contributions to such projects through our links to practice and through our work in the studio and the laboratory alike.

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Each of these labs is also associated with a concentration in our M.Sc. with a major in Architecture: Digital Design and Fabrication; Health and Design; and High Performance Buildings respectively. With the new structure of Research and Design studios during the entire final year of studies for the professional M.Arch. Degree, these labs are also poised to support and inspire projects that demonstrate and test new possibilities. Their success, like the success of any of our other efforts, is linked to the ability of the students and the faculty as a whole to collectively sustain an intense culture of inquiry on architecture, its technological basis, its functions, its historical development, the purposes its serves and the values it expresses. The measure of success is documented impact on architecture and the built environment.

John Peponis, PhD

Professor of Architecture and Associate Chair for Advanced Studies and Research

Michael Gamble
Architect and Associate Chair for Undergraduate and Professional Studies

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BS_Arch Studios

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COA 1011 | COMMON FIRST YEAR

Fundamentals of Design and the Built Environment I

Ann Gerondelis with Helen Crawford, Young-Seon Choi, McLean Jenkins, Hyun Lee, Joseph Minatta, Martin Scoppa, Raja Schaar, Jihan Sherman, and Ann Stewart

We learn to see a thing by learning to describe it.

[Raymond Williams]

Drawing is both the object and the apparatus of inquiry.

COA 1011 is the first of two design studios in the Common First Year curriculum. The course is required of all undergraduates entering the College of Architecture including Prearchitecture, Pre-building Construction, and Pre-industrial Design. The animating desire of the Common First Year curriculum is to sponsor and support a curiosity about the world (and everything in it) and to provide the tools with which to engage this world in all its potential complexity and immediacy. The structure and sequence of exercises apprentice students in learning to see, to describe, and to understand the world as part and parcel of the process of re-presenting, reimagining, and re-proposing it. Each exercise introduces and reprises a range of different media and genres of thinking, looking, making, and inquiring. Students develop a facility in a broad range of conceptual and technical modes and methods, as well as in their strategic selection and use.

FUNDAMENTALS I

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Elvin Chu

Skylar Westlake

Kara Kenna

Krishi Patel

Steven Fischer

Students observe carefully to defamiliarize their seeing, learning to draw what one sees, and not what one thinks one sees. As they describe, students experiment, and draw out qualities of the immediate environment through a broad range of drawing and modeling methods and procedures. Focused inquiries inform variations of genre, media, language, context, distance, size, speed, and density. The diverse descriptions operate not only as residual sites of careful looking, but as artifacts to be read anew. Media and genre experiments facilitate their re-imagining.

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Steven Fischer

Various lenses foreground inquiry of the object itself, the object animated by the body, and as a component of a larger situation. How something is made (conceived and produced), used (consumed and experienced), and re-made (construed and interpreted) is all part of the mix. Acts of careful looking and their resultant representations serve as grounds for exploration, and propositional re-imagining.
Alyssa Mellett

Annette Almonte-Malagon

Anne Meadows

Stephanie Douthitt

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Corinne Bartlett Amanda Foster

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Amanda Foster Stacy Politykina

The exercises invite students to build skills in design agility, and expansive design thinking and making. Former descriptions resurface as artifacts to be re-read, formally, spatially, at multiple scales and through multiple lenses. New readings set new trajectories that inform productive, imaginative design operations.

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COA 1012 | COMMON FIRST YEAR

Fundamentals of Design and the Built Environment II

Ann Gerondelis with Helen Crawford, Young-Seon Choi, McLean Jenkins, Hyun Lee, Joseph Minatta, Martin Scoppa, Raja Schaar, Jihan Sherman, and Ann Stewart
COA 1012 is the second of two design studios in the Common First Year curriculum. The course includes both a lecture and studio component that continues to build students skills in seeing, describing, and imagining the designed and built environment. The lecture component is grounded in the act of imagining. It is structured to build imaginative skills help students to confidently trust their imaginations, to reveal their imaginations through multiple descriptions, to cultivate their imaginations through multiple practices, and to embrace the power of their imagination as they undertake design projects. The imagination is explored through a series of conversations with various thought leaders in the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech, and the Industry. Students maintain a physical journal throughout the semester where they explore the individual imagination. They also design and create a group event to stimulate the public imagination. The studio component focuses on a series of exercises at the scale of the building; in the site of a window. Students understandings and imaginations expand as they investigate window contexts, window measures, and window materials and assemblies. Procedures for framing inquiry, for setting up the problem, as well as the process, are foregrounded in the final exercise: the design of a window situation.

FUNDAMENTALS II

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Tianjing Guo Quy Le

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Krishi Patel

Paloma Longhi

Maryam Al-Atassi

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Quy Le

Suzanne Solis (top) Steven Fisher (middle) Tianjing Guo (bottom)

Students explore the window as a series of analogs, as a cultural artifact, and an object situated within diverse larger contexts, as a system of diverse measures and a composition of materials. Interpreting or reading the window as a second skin, as an expander of space, as a thick threshold, for example expands student notions of the window. Students describe window/ building sites through several metrics of measure, through a variety of drawing and modeling genres. They identify large ordering systems and take dimensional measurements while also exploring kinetic measures of body and light.

Elvin Chu

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Common First Year | Gerondelis

Angie Yim Kaleigh Sawyer

Students investigate various building components and materials to understand system logics at the window and building envelope. The process begins with visible knowledge of surfaces, materials and dimension to support informed speculation of structure and assembly. Students set up the problem and process of designing a window situation. The artifacts of earlier studies serve as foundation for movement across the multiple genres and issues introduced during the semester.
Quy Le

Hyunkyung Lee

Jin Woo Lee Quy Le Quy Le

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ARCH 2011

Design Studio I
Lars Spuybroek, coordinator Daniel Baerlecken + Marcelo Bernal + Jihan Sherman Gernot Riether + Sarah Soh + Alice Vialard
Architecture, more than any other artform, deals with what is called mereology, the study of the relationship between the whole and the parts. For architects it might be the most normal thing in the universe that a wall is made of bricks but for a philosopher to say that the bricks are things and that the wall, again, is a thing is an almost unsolvable problem, and considered solvable only with metaphysics. We dont have to go that far well, not for now though we need to establish right away that such a notion can jump the distinction between building and architecture, since the put-togetherness of the former now starts to inform the latter, which we are going to research as the problem of aggregation. Aggregation means foremost that the whole is a collaborative act of the parts. So, the parts are (1) active parts, (2) they only act in relation to others, and (3) they act upon each other as to create a whole. It does not necessarily mean the parts succeed in doing so, or that the whole acts on the parts, and tells the parts where to stand. One movement in art and design that favored aggregation was the picturesque, a direct influence of landscape design (landscape painting even) on the design of objects, mostly architectural ones. Its main model of design was the cottage; book after book was published in the early nineteenth century on cottages and farms. It was the main model for understanding things as grown or aggregated. Often the object would start as a single volume and as the owner started a shop, a small volume was added to the house; when children came, more volumes were added; and when animals were acquired even stables, all aggregated into an irregular object of multiple volumes. The idea for the course is certainly not to come up with picturesque architectures (in England the picturesque hardly influences the architecture of landscape or village buildings), but urban architecture, such as Manchester City Hall, a block, which is very much composed as an aggregation, where even the smallest part is articulated. Aggregation is not a kit-of-parts architecture, where parts pre-exist the building, and only systemacy can bring the two together. Here the parts are virtual entities; they can vary, they can act, they can lock into each other, slide along each other, barely touching or fully connecting. In short, the parts are not prefixed, they are flexible, and they relate to one another with flexible rules that merely control the local connections, not the global whole or its proportions.

AGGREGATES

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Design Studio I | Baerlecken + Sherman

Shaowen Zhang

Anthony Ranallo

Michelle Kraus

Phillip Richardson

Anthony Ranallo, Phillip Richardson

Anthony Ranallo, Phillip Richardson

James MacDaniel

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Design Studio I | Baerlecken + Bernal

Keyla Nightingale

Keyla Nightingale Geoffret Rees

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Design Studio I | Riether + Vialard

Victoria Acevedo

Luke Kvasnicka

Anna Brooks

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Design Studio I | Riether + Soh + Vialard

Briana Rinderknecht

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Caitlyn Simpson

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ARCH 2012

Design Studio II
Lars Spuybroek, coordinator Daniel Baerlecken + Katherine Johnson + Alice Vialard Stuart Romm + Sarah Soh + Jihan Sherman
All materials, when sufficiently mobilized, find ways to organize themselves. Even in human crafts we find similar ways to create patterns, as long as the materials are allowed to be flexible and to configure step by step into a final shape. This applies to the forging of iron as much as to the weaving of baskets or the cooking of a dish. The studio prioritizes material techniques to generate individually distinct patterns, and to research more possible interactions between architecture, site and program. The studio is based more on material experimentation than the acquiring of digital skills, and develops both materiality and technique in the realm of analog computing a term that can be applied to Sempers Stoffwechselthese (e.g., textile weaving becoming stone carving), Gaudis catenary techniques (e.g., hanging chains becoming stone arches) or Frei Ottos form finding (e.g., wrinkled paper becoming a concrete roof). The techniques range from the ornamental to the structural, and anything in between. The research focuses on existing figuration (the type of loop, knot or interconnection) that leads to specific patterns: Lacework, Macrame, Knitting, Plaiting, Weaving, Braiding and Quilting. More abstract techniques are studied, where individually distinct figurations had to be invented leading to specific configurations: Felting, Pleating, Interlacing, Figuring, Combing, Wettening, Sticking, Draping. The studio focuses on the transformation of the existing Federal Reserve Bank building on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. The place of architecture in the expression of the status of banking has always been very prominent. For instance, national banks tend to be built in stone (and in classcial style), while commercial banks often choose glass and steel (in hightech) to express transparency and reliability. Clearly things have changed since the collapse of Lehmann Brothers in 2008. What role can architecture play in the tense field of the politics of values? Should architecture play it safe and clean up old symbolisms, or does it need to help invent new symbolics, or should it even go further and invent new types of interaction within the public realm?

MATTER MATTERS

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Victoria Acevedo, William Mccollum Luke Kvasnicka, Wesley Herr

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Design Studio II | Baerlecken + Johnson

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Design Studio II | Baerlecken + Vialard

David Varner, Morgan Strickland

David Woods, Eliah Cappi

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Design Studio II | Romm + Soh

Anthony Ranallo, Philip Richardson

Cameron Kolar, Paul Neiswander

Anthony Ranallo, Philip Richardson

Michelle Kraus, Michael Janulewicz

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Victoria Mansell, Marc Whitley

Design Studio II | Romm + Sherman

Kelly Skaggs, Kayla Nightingale Geoffrey Rees, Deborah Hudson, James MacDaniel

Geoffrey Rees, Deborah Hudson

Kelly Skaggs, Kayla Nightingale

Marc Whitley, Victoria Mansell

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ARCH 3011

Design Studio III

Sonit Bafna | Judy Gordon | Jude LeBlanc | Minjung Maing | Charles Rudolph
In the history of the arts, including architecture, attitudes toward Nature have found a great range of expression: idealist perfection (romanticism), harsh and violent beauty (the sublime), transcendent dematerialization (abstraction), empathetic desire (expressionism) everyday grittiness (realism). How Nature is perceived and thought about is directly reflected in how we make and represent our world of things. In this studio what is of primary interest is the creative activity, the making of the world that connects works of art and architecture to each other vis--vis Nature: Artifice. The definitions of Artifice from Websters: 1a: an artful strategem: TRICK. 2a: an ingenious device or expedient, b. clever or artful skill: INGENUITY. What is found at the end of the Websters entry is VERY interesting. The use of the word in a sentence suggests that Artifice has sacrificed something to gain something: not a show of artifice but a genuine creative effort. One might interpret the genuine effort as something unattainable, an ideal, as in a divine creation only. It follows, that in relation to Natures spectacular evidence and abundance (violent chaos and/or beautiful perfection), Man can only (hope to) be an Artificer. If the architect is conscious of her role in creating/conducting Artifice vis--vis Nature, then how best to craft the strategy? To what ends and toward what goals do we construct our strategies of Artifice? The fall junior studio explores other conditions, critiques, and practices of reasoned harmony through projects united around the theme of Art/Nature/Architecture and the complex delights of Artifice. The objectives of the studio are to examine the Nature:Artifice question through the design of two projects that include the Garden as a central conceptual problem. The first project requires that a garden be designed as part of a building, in the city. The second project requires that a building be designed as part of a garden, in this case the bucolic landscape of a university campus south of Atlanta. Both projects will include a brief but intensive phase of site and precedent research, which will direct and inform the trajectory of design production and speculation for each project.

NATURE+ARTIFICE

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Design Studio III | Bafna

Bryce Truitt

Lauren Tanguay

Bryce Truitt

Bryce Truitt

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Design Studio III | Gordon

Timothy Niou

Anjamarie Gaztambide

Barry Moore

Timothy Niou

Timothy Niou

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Design Studio III | Gordon

Barry Moore

Barry Moore

Timothy Niou

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Design Studio III | LeBlanc

Erica Lee

Ralf Iberle

Natasha Sanjaya

Erica Lee

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Design Studio III | LeBlanc

Erica Lee

Greg Hall

Erica Lee

Natasha Sanjaya

Jose Pajares

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Design Studio III | Maing

Shota Vashakmadze

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Design Studio III | Maing

Ben Smith

Hannah Griggers

Ben Smith

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Design Studio III | Rudolph

Vee Hu

Soleen Karim

Vee Hu

Michael Fox

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Design Studio III | Rudolph

Xueping Li

Soleen Karim

Soleen Karim

Soleen Karim

Vee Hu

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Design Studio III | Rudolph

Vee Hu

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Michael Fox

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DIGITAL ECOLOGIES

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Design Studio IV | Dimitropoulos

ARCH 3012

Design Studio IV
Harris Dimitropoulos

Immediate and Mediated Bodies A Meeting Place

The basic premise of this studio is that the environment we occupy and the architecture found in this environment are molded around and predicated by the human body. It is easy to identify the inscription of our bodies in our surroundings because human beings are (to this day) the intended recipients of every architectural act. The human body is also defining virtual volumes and paths of moment in the actual spaces that it occupies. In addition, architectural spaces are replete with sub-programs (connoted) and hierarchies of use and habit. The program for this studio is that of a building with an array of Telepresence stages/theaters intended for local, national and international audiences. These can be used for long-distance meetings, product demonstrations and other paying, commercial uses. In addition, the site will accommodate an outdoor amphitheater with the same technological capabilities as the interior rooms.

Lauren Tanguay Barry Moore

pitching a baseball, front

pitching a baseball, top

Margot Montouchet

Jasmine Kent, Lauren Tanguay

Ellen Burge, Laura Camp

Margot Montouchet

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ARCH 3012

Design Studio IV | Khan

Design Studio IV
Sabir Khan

Mosque
I chose the topic of the mosque for a number of pedagogical reasons that are essential to an architectural education: to defamiliarize our understanding of architecture, making us see architectural elements, program, and space afresh; to work with a simple architectural program with very few elements, allowing us to concentrate on core disciplinary issues: structure; enclosure; sitework; the performance of the body in space; to discover and explore a body of architecture of great quality that has both breadth and currency. While a design studio on the mosque offers various possible approaches and emphases, the learning objectives for this studio were: an ability to develop compelling architectural expression and experience through the active manipulation of primary architectural elements; an ability to develop tools and methods for working with unfamiliar programs, situations, and cultures;
Keefer Dunn

an understanding of how cultural and architectural ideas and motifs circulate and evolve across regions and time; a basic visual, formal, and cultural literacy in the art and architecture of the muslim worlds, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, and the diasporic communities in contemporary Europe and North America. The studio worked on the mosque at a number of different scales (at the scale of the individual, the group, and the community) and through a set of different research and design methods (deep dives, focused inquiry, site visits, large-scale models, etc.). The studio problematized both the architecture of prayer the temporary marking and making of space by the individual or by a group as well as the genius loci of the site a suburban intersection at the edge of historical downtown Fayetteville, Georgia. The design proposals explored the particular terrains staked by these two markers.

Hamza Hasan William McCommon

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Design Studio IV | Khan

Ryan Terrell

Ryan Terrell Hamza Hasan

Bryce Truitt

Bryce Truitt

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Caroline Montague

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Design Studio IV | Mojdehi

ARCH 3012

Design Studio IV
Mariam Mojdehi

Marine Research and Education Center: Sustainable Lab in St. Croix

In the future, genetics will cease to be a biological metaphor for modern society and will become instead a circulation network of identity terms and restriction loci around which and through a truly new type of autoproduction will emerge, which I call biosociality. If sociobiology is culture constructed on the basis a metaphor for nature, then in biosociality, nature will be modeled on culture understood as practice. Nature will be known and remade through technique and will finally become artificial, just as culture becomes natural. Were such a project to be brought to fruition, it would stand as the basis for overcoming the nature/ culture split. [Paul Rabinow, Artificiality and Enlightenment] Under a cooperative agreement, the National Park Service and Joint Institute of Caribbean Marine Studies seek a facility to aid in the understanding of the marine environment, promote education, and assist in the development of public policy within the Caribbean. The 60,000 SF Research and Education Center will be located on a 96-acre site on the north central coast of St. Croix and offers access to one of the largest coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean. Due to the sensitivity of this site, all designs privilege an ecological sensitivity to water and waste water systems, minimize the use of fossil fuel for energy use, and integrate adaptable solutions with restorative design strategies. Lab facilities are one of the largest energy users among buildings; as such, the studio will privilege sustainable solutions as understood through the lens of biomimetic design. Biologically inspired design employs nature as a design tool to look for opportunities to translate natures forms and synergies into design applications. It encourages a systems based approach to assembly, materials, and production. The studio fostered engagement in scientific discourse and addressed questions such as: How does nature achieve specific functions/ performance? How do we design systems to sustainably mediate between man and nature? How do we strengthen the ties between design, construction, operations, and maintenance?

Chelsey Dail

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Design Studio IV | Pearsall

ARCH 3012

Design Studio IV
Frederick Pearsall
As with Rosalind Krauss mapping of sculptures expanded field, there are important possibilities for expanding the powers of architecture contained in certain dialectical relationships between itself and other fields. This studio Expanding the Field was set up to research and develop such possibilities through the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Freshkills Park, near Staten Island, NY an ideas competition to design a site specific public artwork that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, has the ability to harness energy cleanly from nature and convert it to electricity for the utility grid. Seminar readings and presentations provide an understanding of relevant theories and sustainable practices of place-making, land and environmental art, landscape ecology, bio-mimetics, and renewable energy systems from which teams and individuals collaborate to develop their own rigorous lines of research and design applications. Dialectical thinking, mapping, and experimentation are central to all investigation processes, supported by advanced modes of representation and diverse media physical and digital deployed in critical, skillful, and imaginative ways. Along with the demonstration of clear and compelling alternative futures, those of constructability, beneficial impacts, and an explicit indexing of the human body are central to all of these investigations and outcomes.
James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze

James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze

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Michael Miller, Patrick Di Rito

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Design Studio IV | Pearsall

Michael Miller, Patrick Di Rito

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Design Studio IV | Pearsall

Melissa Doss, Julia Sibert

Vee Hu, Ben Smith

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Design Studio IV | Riether

ARCH 3012

Design Studio IV
Gernot Riether

Pruitt-Igoe Now Competition

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm. [Charles Jencks] Today the site of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project is an overgrown brownfield forest marking modern architectures most contested moment and St. Louis urban renewal trauma. As the legacy of Pruitt-Igoe is critically examined again, the site itself beckons. Can this site be liberated from a turbulent and mythologized past through re-imagination and community engagement? We need your answer. [Competition brief.] The studio responded to the call for design ideas in the architecture competition PruittIgoe Now: The Unmentioned Modern Landscape. Some of the questions identified in the competition brief pertaining to the redevelopment of the site included: How do we proceed from here? Who should have say? Who is most affected? Who has the most claim to this space? What connections can be made between the site and the surrounding St. Louis neighborhoods? The studio was organized into three parts: A research part that focused on housing, environmental systems and the history of Pruitt-Igoe; a development of ideas for the competition part; and a third part that allowed students to develop one part of their projects in further detail.

Megan McDonough (top), Jose Pajares (bottom) Jose Pajares

Li Xueping

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Ralf Iberle

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ARCH 4012

Design Studio VI | Spuybroek + Gokmen

Design Studio VI
Lars Spuybroek + Sabri Gokmen

On Beauty
During the twentieth century beauty became more and more suspect in the aesthetics of art and architecture. When looking carefully at the main aspects of modernist aesthetics, architects have encountered words like fracture, process, abstraction, deconstruction, fragment, purity, etc., etc., words that are generally associated with the adverse of beauty, namely the sublime. Now, after those hundred years of minimalism, genocides and abstractions, this studio searches a way back to beauty. Commentators that often advocate the return to beauty are on the Prince-Charles team of aesthetics (Scruton, Turner), who consider classicism, harmony and proportion as the only way to repair things by going back to the Greeks. However, the research scope of this studio was to look at John Ruskins notion of Vital Beauty, a beauty of imperfection, fragility and variation. Vital beauty means beauty of active parts, not of parts that are balanced and in rest, but participating, entangling and constructing, thereby making the onlooker a participant as well; in short, defining beauty by agency. As a digital design studio, the research on beauty was carried not through mere inspiration and subjectivity, but via method and techniques. In the first half of the semester, the studio was divided into eight pairs of students. Each pair looked at one given aspect of beauty. These selected aspects were: roughness, imperfection, opulence, grace, incandescence, veiling, fragility and smoothness; that are studied first by images, and then by digital diagramming. In the second half of the semester, the students distilled from these design techniques by applying them to a building typology, site and program. Some of these aspects applied to massing, others to structure, while others to ornament. The studios overall goal was to maintain consistency: diagrams do not generate a part of the architecture, but inform all elements of design.

Yeun Kim

Michael Chaney

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Design Studio VI | Spuybroek + Gokmen

Jessica Greenstein

Heta Naukkarinen

HyoJae Lee

Andrea Puccini

Hannah Griggers

Hannah Griggers

Lauren Cundiff

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M_Arch Studios

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ARCH 4021

Core I Studio
Charles Rudolph + Lane Duncan + Sabri Gokmen
The architect is trained to imagine and visualize a transformed physical reality by constructing, evaluating, and manipulating abstract representations of this reality. To command this eye-to-hand skill with confidence requires time, patience, and perhaps most importantly, thoughtfulness and care. Drawing, model-making, and freehand sketching remain necessary skills for architectural design, even in the age of digital media. The goal of the studio is to build visual acuity, compositional rigor and spatial sensibility that will support the later command of the most sophisticated digital media. The Core design curriculum is organized around the following goals and priorities: Introduce the discipline and the culture of architecture through exercises and critical discussion. Build skills in both analog and digital drawing and making that are fundamental for architectural design. Develop ability to combine and apply analytical and representational skills in a speculative design context. The summer Core studio is the setting for all three of the above, most notably skillbuilding. Each student brings a different background, knowledge base and sensitivity to the program, yet we all must learn to converse with and within the language of our discipline. Architectural representation (drawings and models of spaces, buildings, environmental conditions) functions as that language. It is based in abstraction, whether in two or three dimensions, on paper or in the computer, as a detail or as a city plan. Quite simply, there is no architecture without representation, and representation of architecture requires abstraction.

FOUNDATIONS

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Core I Studio | Rudolph Duncan + Gokmen Core I Studio | Rudolph ++ Duncan + Gokmen
William Ramhold William Ramhold James VanHorn

Holden Spaht

James VanHorn

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ARCH 4022

Core II Studio
Harris Dimitropoulos + Mariam Mojdehi
The educational intent of the studio is to provide the necessary tools to incoming M.Arch students with a prior degree in a field other than architecture. The main areas of concentration include architectural representation, introduction of digital media into the design process, codes and conventions of architectural drawings, craftsmanship, the study of precedents and architectural thinking. The implementation of these objectives involved three distinct projects: The analysis of a painting. The resulting analysis was interpreted in three dimensions and the ensuing model was drawn in conventional orthographic projections. An earthworks proposal. This assignment covered the introduction of site issues, site representation in drawings, models and digital media, cut and fill, stereotomic understanding of site, conceptual design thinking, and program. A mixed-use housing development. The emphasis of this assignment was on program, orientation, urban integration, simple structural systems, tectonic articulation, passive cooling, and modes of inhabitation. This studio was substantially related to the Introduction to Design Computing and to Construction Technology I The students were required to devote equal attention to issues of program, site, and context. The analysis of iconic projects from form to program, rituals of use, site, and context, revealing clear design strategies embedded in seminal architectural projects was a common strategy employed in all three studio projects. The studio projects were of increasing complexity and the second and third were based on the knowledge acquired in the process. The studio was founded on an understanding of analysis and tectonics as expressed through various representational modes and conceived in relation to Modern and Contemporary precedents. Each student was engaged in the development of all aspects of architectural conventions, i.e., both two and three dimensional analog and digital drawing, model making, collage, as well as written and verbal communication.

POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION

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Core II Studio | Dimitropoulos Mojdehi Core II Studio | Dimitropoulos ++Mojdehi

Ekram Hassem

Elaheh Damircheli

James VanHorn

Madona Cumar

Elaheh Damircheli

James VanHorn

Elaheh Damircheli

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Core II Studio | Dimitropoulos + Mojdehi

James VanHorn

Madona Cumar

Ekram Hassem

Elaheh Damircheli

Madona Cumar

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ARCH 4023

Core III Studio

Judy Gordon | Tim Harrison + Daniel Baerlecken
ARCH 4023 is a comprehensive design studio which stresses each students ability to independently produce a comprehensive architectural project based on a building program and a site. This includes the development of programmed spaces, as well as, demonstrating an understanding of structural and environmental systems, building envelope systems, life safety provisions, wall sections and building assemblies and the principles of sustainability. The essential concepts stressed in the studio were phenomenology, place-making, and tectonics/techne. The program was that of the Atlanta Friends Meeting House and Outreach in the neighborhood of Reynoldstown, on the edge of Cabbagetown, between Field Street and Marcus Street in Atlanta, Georgia. From the weight of the described comprehensiveness came the lightness of conceptual thinking. For the Friends waiting is a means to potential and is essential to their meeting. The practice of sitting together in silence is often called expectant waiting (Excerpt from the Quaker Information Center). Thus to prolong the investigation to wait or allow a solution to come resulted in exactitude a preciseness in each project. The conceptual exercises allowed the time for the spatial relationships to develop from the students understanding of the Quakers core beliefs: community, inner light and simplicity. Architecturally, the quality and type of light, the spatial sequence through the building and site, the clarity of detail and spatial relationships and ultimately the potential of these relationships to shift and change to respond to daily life were of the utmost importance. The meeting house is not a consecrated edifice, and if there is anything holy about it, it must be the lives of the people who meet there. The Friends feel that there must be a vital and sustained connection between worship and daily life. When their ideal is attained, their meeting is merely the community search for that guidance which they covet for every important act of their lives. [William Wistar Comfort]

PHENO PHENOMENON OF LIGHT

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Core III Studio | Gordon Core III Studio | Gordon

William Ramhold

Hee Jin Cho

Madona Kumar

William Ramhold

Mihir Patel

William Ramhold

Ekram Hassen

Holden Spaht

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Core III Studio | Harrison + Baerlecken Core III Studio | Harrison + Baerlecken

Bunny Tucker

Maria Velasquez

Migyung Sky Ko

Maria Velasquez

Holden Spaht

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ARCH 6051

Options I Studio
Mark Cottle | Athanassios Economou | David Green Frederick Pearsall + Richard Dagenhart | Stuart Romm
Overview: The Options I Studio is first of four upper-level options studios in the Master of Architecture curriculum, and the beginning of an academic year focused on professional studies. Students choose among separate studio sections each of which foregrounds advanced studio problems in architecture by emphasizing study in the areas of history and theory, urban and environmental design, culture and practice, and construction technology. The 2011 Options I studio will focus on issues related to architectural production after the end of modernism via two key themes: The City, Sites and Cultural Contexts; and Architectural Form, Program and Type. The co-requisite theory and criticism course will serve as a bibliographic reference for the collective and individual work of each studio. Organization: Methods of urban analysis and research will preface each studios foray into one collective exercise of three weeks duration on the theme of City/History. The first problem is designed to allow assessment of students variable skill level, and facilitates the integration of students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to establish an espirit de corps and a shared sense of identity as part of the graduate program. For the remainder of the term, each instructor will focus on a distinct and provocative studio agenda. The challenge is to stoke the architectural imagination by framing critical approaches to the city, and changing concepts of the architectural program in light of new media and new means. Objectives: While each instructor proposition is distinct, all studios share common performance indicators and learning outcomes. The question is what should you as students know at the end of the course that you did not at the beginning? To this end, the objective of the studio is to develop each students: Ability to analyze with greater skill urban sites and contexts and design projects which respond to the surrounding urban framework and to understand urban form and its constituent parts, and understand the organization of urban territory and its subdivision into public and private domains. Ability to prepare a comprehensive program for an architectural project as a means to exploring site and building in robust ways, and understand the spatial requirements, dimensions, site arrangements, and densities of a variety of building types and automobile parking arrangements that exist in the private domain. Understanding of the primary ingredients of the public domain, including streets, parks, public spaces and public buildings. Ability to develop drawing and modeling strategies which not only relate to a set of common requirements across all studios, but belong to a larger search for precise modalities related to expressing an architectural idea.

DESIGNING THE CITY

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Claire de la Sayette

Claire de la Sayette

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Options I Studio | Cottle

ARCH 6051

Options I Studio
Mark Cottle

Program and Pattern

In an investigation of program how it can serve as starting point, organizing structure, and/or critical frame for the design process this studio operated according to three primary learning objectives: To grasp the technical requirements of a given program with sufficient rigor to afford them a robust role in the development of a design proposal -- that they become an integral part of the formal response to the brief. To incorporate the temporal and spatial gestures, patterns, and dimensions inherent in the program into an embodied occupation of the project. To push the limits of conventional architectural representation in two directions: towards clear communication of technical information and design concepts; and towards the evocative description of time, temperature, and other phenomenal attributes of space. The technical exigencies of a community bathhouse, together with the rituals associated with hygiene and health, formed an opportunity to engage these objectives. Proposals were sited on the Georgia Tech campus, adjacent to the health center and the recreational facilities, for the use of students, faculty, and staff. Given the diverse, cosmopolitan, and international demographic, the project allowed us to consider bathing within a variety of cultural registers. In addition to research on three historical bathing cultures hamam, onsen, and sauna students grappled with three preliminary exercises: Four Rooms, a two-word brief, where the problem resided in an exploration of four-ness and room-ness. A cube puzzle, pursued in diagrams together with digital and physical models, that foregrounded explicit patterns of spatial logic and sequence. And a documentation exercise [words, photographs, drawings] focused on descriptions of the ritual of making tea.

Meredith James

Meredith James

Claire de la Sayette

Brittney Davis

Dylan Bussey

Meredith James

David Duncan

David Duncan

Dylan Bussey

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Options I Studio | Economou Options I Studio | Economou

ARCH 6051

Options I Studio
Athanassios Economou

Landhuggers: On The Aesthetics of Variation

My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraint one imposes, the more one frees ones self of the claims that shackle the spirit. [Stravinsky, Poetics of Music, 1952.] The studio is structured around formal techniques and methods to engage variation. The underlying formalism is shape grammars, a computational tool that uses visual recursion for the generation of designs. All designs produced will be the outcomes of systematic recursive computations and will collectively comprise families of designs that will share similar characteristics. The program of the main studio project focuses on housing and explores compositional issues such as unit, type, variation, and aggregation. The formal program of the studio project focuses on low-rise courtyard structures (landhuggers) and their ability to maximize surface exposure and proximity to the ground. The potential for energy gains vis--vis these two main design characteristics will be considered in the end as well. The pedagogy of the studio has been designed to a) privilege low-rise courtyard structures (landhuggers) as one of the most powerful urban and architectural mechanisms to produce affordable, sustainable and energyefficient architecture because of their ability to maximize surface exposure and proximity to the ground; b) constructively understand compositional issues foregrounded in housing such as unit, type, variation and aggregation; and c) critically relate, juxtapose and otherwise test these findings within a complex urban setting. The extended site that has been selected for the generation and testing of these ideas is the intersection of Midtown and the academic campus of Georgia Tech, a space dominated by the 85/75 interstate.

Jessica Marquart, Keyan Rahimzadeh

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ARCH 6051

Options I Studio
David Green

Considering Architecture in Time

This studio explored the relationship of design to architectural history, materiality and tectonics using four historically significant buildings on the Georgia Tech campus: French Hall (built in 1898 for textile engineering), the Holland Plant (1914, the first central power plant on campus), the Engineering/ Science/Mechanics Building (1939, now houses part of the Aerospace Program) and the Skiles Classroom Building (1959, the Math Department is the primary current occupant). The semester was organized into four phases of exploration. The first segment was a period of reading and discussion considering concepts and positions related to architecture, and to preservation theory and practice. The second phase of the semester was a team project focused on research, documentation and assessment of the subject buildings. The product of the teams research, documentation and assessment work for this phase was a compendium of drawings, findings and judgments regarding building character and condition. In the third phase of the semester each student developed a use program for campus functions compatible with the fundamental characteristics (historic floor plan, preservation of important character defining features, etc.) of their assigned building. The final phase, from fall break to the final review, was spent developing individual design schemes to accommodate proposed uses in the historic building context. Final schemes thoughtfully explored creative interventions to support new uses within the buildings significant historic fabric. The outcomes were a diverse range of solutions that link the past with the future.

Ann Rogers, Jennifer Lewis, Ahra Koh, Graham Cannady

Ann Rogers, Jennifer Lewis, Ahra Koh, Graham Cannady

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INFRASTRUCTURE: Boundary City David Duncan, Molly Herlong, Dana McClure, Claire Pardo

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Options I Studio | Pearsall Options I Studio | Pearsall + Dagenhart

ARCH 6051

Options I Studio
Frederick Pearsall + Richard Dagenhart
After completing the Ed Bacon Competition in which two teams from our studio won honor awards, we turned to the set issues of urban design, programming, and technology outlined below, focusing on a study area in Atlanta along the divide between Downtown and Midtown suffering from a range of environmental problems. The discourses of ecological urbanism were engaged in seminars to help students frame new lines of design research. Analysis of the study area then resulted in the collective development of a new set of working principles for revitalizing it. Following this, studio members applied this to the development of their own programs and projects for specific sites each with its own subset of agendas and research propositions. Studio Research Problem: thinking narrowly, the field of architecture does too little to regenerate healthy ecologies for cities and bioregions containing them, failing to help their ecosocial systems co-evolve flexibly across essential space-time scales. Research Question(s): how can we use our studio to engage this challenge in productive and just ways, letting go of those ideas and practices that contribute to environmental decline and imagining new ones that can reverse that direction? Research propositions were developed with a new design imagination-method rooted in the present, between the virtual and actual, and art and science aided by new mapping / modeling tools to help us better engage design with urban ecological processes. Program-Related Agendas: new ideas and techniques for programming were grown in relation to the ecological processes of urban sites and applied to developing new types of flexible, broadly-responsive public and private realm interventions. Technology-Related Agendas: techn was explored as practical, craft-like applications of knowledge: urban landscape ecology principles with new digital techniques like point cloud modeling to design more timebased performative sites and architecture. Learning Objective + Outcomes: students developed advanced abilities to gather, classify, compare and interpret information, apply it innovatively / appropriately to the design solutions of the research problem, and explain this process and its implications.

LANDSCAPE: City Pull

LANDSCAPE: City Pull

LANDSCAPE: City Pull Charles Lindberg, Audrey Plummer, Sean Wilson, WenWen Zhao

INFRASTRUCTURE: Boundary City

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Center for Environmental Art Atlanta (CEAA) Sean Wilson

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Options I Studio | Pearsall Options I Studio | Pearsall + Dagenhart

Center for Environmental Art Atlanta (CEAA) Sean Wilson

Theater of the Sublime | In-town Outpatient Clinic Audrey Plummer

Theater of the Sublime | In-town Outpatient Clinic Audrey Plummer

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Options I Studio | Romm Options I Studio | Romm

Options I Studio
Stuart Romm
Within the lifetime of a single generation a rustic and in large part wild landscape was transformed into the site of the worlds most productive industrial machine. It would be difficult to imagine more profound contradictions of value or meaning than those made manifest by this circumstance. [Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, 1964. ] The Machine in the Garden, cited above, not only refers to an American utopian dream, one of limitless mobility fueled by ever-advancing technology, but even touches on international urbanist fantasies ranging from surrealists to futurists. The consequences of this rapidly realized global trajectory of unprecedented urbanization have weighed increasingly upon our natural environment, leading to widespread perceptions of industrial technology as the often intractable foe of both natural and social orders: machinic vs. organic. But is this an irreconcilable standoff or can reconceptualizations and innovative technologies be harnessed as allies toward the sustainability of our natural and social environments? What are the potentials for re-deploying aging transit infrastructures optimized for earlier generations of rail transit and individual gas-powered vehicles? The imminent arrival of alternative-fuel vehicles not only raises the need for networks of electric refueling stations, but suggests new paradigms of public spaces that might accommodate the extended rhythms of these energy exchanges. This studio invites speculation as to program typologies that might emerge in Atlantas residual corridors (over or under transit structures, ramps, or buffers). Smaller-scale hybrid projects are possible that could educate people on environmental sustainability issues, introducing in its design technological elements that help to reduce pollution such as photovoltaic panels, windmills, etc. A diverse complex might include an ecologic vehicle sales and rental showroom, an electric refueling station, or even labs dedicated to the study and research of sustainable energies. But our studio will also prioritize experimental types of gathering spaces for these future transiences, in the form of a visionary public garden or park, where re-imaginations of drive-in or fuel stop might lead to new co-existences between pedestrians and zeroemission vehicles. Ultimately our objective will be to tap the cross-currents between the machinic and the organic, between industrial design and landscape design.

Jill Frederickson

Mary Coleman Rogers

Dawn Riley

Mary Coleman Rogers

Jill Frederickson

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ARCH 6052

Options II Studio
Michael Gamble | David Green | W. Jude LeBlanc | Minjung Maing | Charles Rudolph
Overview: The Options II Building Workshop/ Portman Prize emphasizes comprehensive design and coordinates instruction with the Construction Technology II and Structures II courses. The semester is partitioned such that each proposal/project is brought to a high level of schematic completion by mid-term. Via a variety of manual and digital platforms, the remainder of the semester will be dedicated to making of detailed building representations and narratives i.e. construction documents. In practice, architects simulate the act of building via the making of drawings and models. Technologyasrepresentation can be defined as the productive act (making a drawing, manually or digitally) through which a student creates the conditions of a building site in order to work through the various categories of problems associated with assembly. Portman Prize: In order to encourage student accomplishment and excellence in the integration of technical considerations as a key constituent of the design process, the Portman Prize will be awarded by a jury comprised of the Portman Visiting Critic as jury chair; representatives of the firm of John Portman & Associates; and other invited participants. Students will be advanced to the final jury stage through a prior juried selection process. The final jury will award ranked prizes each carrying monetary awards. The top prize winner will also be offered a summer internship in the office of John Portman & Associates. Should the top winner be unable to accept the summer internship for any reason, then that offer will defer to the second or third place winner. Studio Procedures: The studio is programmed in 4 distinct phases. The first one develops a brief acquaintance with the specific constraints of the design problem. The other 3 phases comprise the heart of the design studio and develop a series of strategies that engage constructively rule-based formal techniques, the development of public/social/private programmatic narratives and engage critically digital design media. The projects that will be developed during the course of the studio will become a key addition to your portfolios, and will demonstrate clearly your knowledge of design and assembly. Changing Campus Infrastructure: The Georgia Tech Eco-Commons is a unique project that leverages the development of a new storm water management system as an opportunity to provide new wooded and open areas for education, research, and passive and active recreation on the Georgia Tech campus. In keeping with Georgia Techs focus on sustainability, this innovative concept will provide significant improvements to the quality of life on campus through effective land use, while at the same time serving as an outdoor lab for storm water management and hydrology studies.

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Jill Frederickson

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Options II Studio | Gamble Options II Studio | Gamble

ARCH 6052

Options II Studio
Michael Gamble

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

[Will Durant]
Buildings that Teach: If we accept the premise that architecture and urban design mirror the values of a society, then one could posit that societal change can be facilitated by the way in which we build. Likewise, one could argue that an intelligently conceived building may in fact change the way we inhabit the world and inspire new cultural, ecological and political identities. A close look at late twentieth century American buildings and cities could lead one to believe that our broader societal values are first and foremost preoccupied with profit and return how else do we explain our collective aversion to quality, durability, and most importantly, healthy, sustainable lifestyles? A House of Learning: The premise that buildings can teach may in turn inspire us to think of architectural typologies that have the capacity to reach the greatest numbers of citizens. Statistics show that up to 20% of all Americans go to school each day. If we follow this line of logic, an educational program has great potential to be an excellent vehicle for exploring a didactic architecture. In fact, the U.S. Green Buildings Council is challenging educators and architects to place greater emphasis on the quality of learning and teaching environment via day lighting, ventilation, acoustics and thermal comfort. The program for the semester will be a charter high school for environmental science and technology. The challenge to each building workshop participant is to design a highly intelligent house of learning. Georgia Tech Eco-Commons: The EcoCommons is a unique project that leverages the development of a new storm water management system as an opportunity to provide new wooded and open areas for education, research, and passive and active recreation on the Georgia Tech campus. In keeping with Georgia Techs focus on sustainability, this innovative concept will provide significant improvements to the quality of life on campus through effective land use, while at the same time, serve as an outdoor lab for storm water management and hydrology studies.

Polya McCain

Patrick Deveau

Ahra Koh

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Jill Frederickson
Roof Garden Roof Garden Atrium Atrium

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Options II Studio | Gamble

Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1 Beam Structure Type 1

Reinf. Conc. Column and Reinf. Beam Structureand 2 Conc. Column Type Beam Structure Type 2

LIGHT LIGHT
Elevator Elevator Fire Stairs Fire Stairs Atrium Stairs Atrium Stairs

Reinf. Conc. Column Type 3 Reinf. at Curtain Wall Type 3 Conc. Column at Curtain Wall

Reinf. Conc. Walls with Reinf. Exterior Brick Veneer Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors

Roof Garden Roof Garden

STRUCTURE STRUCTURE

Roof Garden Roof Garden

Atrium Atrium

CIRCULATION CIRCULATION
Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type Reinf. Conc. Column and 1 Beam Structure Type 1

Atrium Atrium

Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Folded Plate Roof Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1 Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 1

Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 2 Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type 2

Reinf. Conc. Column and Beam Structure Type Reinf. Conc. Column and 2 Beam Structure Type 2

LIGHT LIGHT
Elevator

LIGHT LIGHT
Elevator

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Elevator Fire Stairs Fire Stairs Stairs Atrium Atrium Stairs

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Reinf. Conc. Column Type 3

Elevator Fire Stairs Fire Stairs Atrium Stairs Atrium Stairs

Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Walls with Exterior Brick Veneer Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors

Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors

Reinf. Conc. Slab Floors

WATER COLLECTION

STRUCTURE

CIRCULATION

WATER COLLECTION
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CIRCULATION

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Claire Pardo

Jill Frederickson

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Options II Studio | Green

Options II Studio
David Green

Health, Research, Translation, Incubation

Health, research and universities are poised to provide a transformation in how we live. It is not simply the work that transpires in the respective buildings, but the manner in which these institutions are becoming agents for reconceiving the city. While these institutions have embraced the notion of collision and interaction internally and programmatically; they have, as importantly, provided an economic and conceptual framework for the growth of these experiences outside of the campus; leading to a transformation of the city. Much as heavy industry did in the nineteenth century, research and its translation into an economically viable commercialization, is bringing people back to the city. Remote healthcare campuses, suburban research parks, and internally focused university campuses are recalibrating to embrace the rich urban condition. Unlike the heavy industry of the nineteenth century, this project is predicated on the idea of broad sustainability: social, economic and ecological; and not only ideas of sustainability but sustainable project elements tested throughout the semester. The design process will provide a vehicle through which each student will test assumptions about the efficacy of design decisions, and to the greatest extent possible, align the goals of each project with the proposed outcomes. Each project will be an exercise in aligning its goals with the decisions made through the design process, to produce a desired result. The program for the building will generally comprise a series of programmatic elements that support health and the research into health and healthy living; a kind of sustainable healthcare design research hub. This project represents a new type of healthcare organization that connects the healthcare delivery with research into the efficacy of the care being delivered; actively delivering healthcare services while at the same time (and in the same place) conducting research on the relationship between the built environment and wellness a living lab in a sense.

Erin West

Molly Herlong

Liz Teston

Chuk Lindberg

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Chuk Lindberg

Molly Herlong

Chuk Lindberg

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ARCH 6052

Options II Studio
W. Jude LeBlanc

Burdell Museum of Art at Georgia Tech

Since the turn of the last century a primary issue in art discourse has been ontological what is art? This essential question was most reified in the varied art works of Marcel Duchamp. And at the beginning of this century, the question remains. This studio is structured to pose similarly open questions, related to architecture, which will be situated within a very precise architectural program and place. This is a project about media the medium, the in-between. Issues related to media will be encountered: in the art work to be housed, the means by which the proposal is developed and presented by each author throughout the term and finally, in the materials proposed in the making of a hypothetical environment. Between art and engineering: An art museum at a college campus dominated by engineering schools provides a promising and timely provocation for architects. Adolf Loos famously stated that the only true architecture is the monument and the tomb, two types of edifice the sole function of which is a kind of historical expression, a function of art. Many now argue that the future of the profession lies in issues related to building performance; we can ask the not-so-simple question of how architecture and engineering are similar but different. Between art and nature: The site is adjacent to a proposed park. The ancients believed that art was an imitation of nature. The concept persists. Both art and nature are terms that are notoriously difficult to define. Some have clarified definitions in relating one to the other for example, we might say that art is that which is not natural, that which is art-ificial. When art imitates nature it does so in terms of representation, signification, and sometimes presentation. Between campus and city: Located on Tenth Street, the design proposal is an opportunity to affect: the development of how the proposed park might be constituted; the presentation of Georgia Tech to the city; and the further development of an urban proposition at the town-gown edge, the space between the city and the Institute.
Brittney Davis

Ian Fralick

Jessica Marquart

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Marion Filiatre

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Dawn Riley

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Options II Studio | Maing

ARCH 6052

Options II Studio
Minjung Maing

Design Modules: Urban Ecology Community

The studio will ask the question of how to craft living spaces to create communities concerned and committed to healthy exchanges and ecological conservation within a learning and research campus. The research campus is actively seeking innovations for cleaner environments and living, however these evolving attitudes require a transformed interactive, spatial and systematic approach to designing of spaces for larger social commitment. The focus of the studio will be to design modules of living that aggregate to form a collective within an urban module and to synergize the ecological functions of both module types. Implementation of principles for sustainable design and sensibility will be connected through understanding of systems at the urban scale, community scale, nature and human scale. Integration of building systems, faade performance factors, fabrication processes, construction efficiencies, environmental comfort, and lighting will be emphasized at select points throughout the design process. Building systems and how they are represented into the idea of mass modularization and fabrication will be studied in the second half of the semester. The evaluation of the effectiveness of the design modules will be made both from analytical, deductive and logical approaches. The importance of understanding the fundamental references and the judgment of the architect is a critical aspect to designing for sustainability.

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WenWen Zhao

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WenWen Zhao

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Options II Studio | Rudolph

Options II Studio
Charles Rudolph

Living to Learn, Learning to Live

The Architectural Ambition: The physical living environment that an institution provides for its students and teachers has an enormous impact on the quality of teaching and learning that takes place there, as part of a social and collective contract. The domestic spaces and places where scholars (both teachers and students) study, rest and socialize are the very life and spirit of the university, its collective heart. Architecture is called upon, in the setting of this studio, to provide, nurture, and sustain this heart and to infuse it with spirit. Created, expressed and sustained by architecture, learning becomes living. In an inspired architecture, spirited living becomes learning that is celebrated daily. An architecture of learning is simultaneously an architecture of living. The Architectural Problem: Georgia Tech is embracing a new concept of on-campus residential life one that brings students and faculty together to foster more creative and dynamic possibilities for learning. The architecture of the new residential colleges as they will be called, has the potential to strongly communicate institutional values and attitudes. These values at their core are ethical and spiritual, and relate to education in a world dominated by science and technology. Georgia Tech has claimed as its primary ambition to become the leading technological university of the twentieth-first century. The model project of a new residential college within such a university must necessarily respond to the technological question(s) in very specific ways: How is it made? How will it be used? How will it be maintained for future scholar residents? Architectural Technology is, therefore, a key locus of the architectural problem joining art, design and philosophy. Representation AS Constructional Intent: The Options II Building Workshop emphasizes comprehensive design and coordinates instruction with the Construction Technology II course. In practice, architects simulate the act of building via the making of drawings and models. Technologyasrepresentation can be defined as the productive act (making a drawing, manually or digitally) through which a student creates the conditions of a building site in order to work through the various categories of problems associated with assembly.

David Duncan

Christine Cangelosi Cynthia Ocampo

Christine Cangelosi

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Emily Tuttle

Cynthia Ocampo

Dana McClure

Graham Cannady

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Design & Research I | Al-Haddad

ARCH 4011 / ARCH 6053

Design & Research I

Tristan Al-Haddad
Research on the relationship between surface and structure is fundamental to contemporary architectural practice and theoretical discourse. While most discourse has focused on the duality between surface and structure, other prominent figures have focused on the structured potential of the surface itself. Mid-twentieth century architects and engineers such as Buckminster Fuller, Piero Luigi Nervi, Felix Candela, Frei Otto, and Heinz Isler explored the potential of thin-shells, minimal surfaces, catenary forms, tensile membranes, and other such systems in order to tackle the architectural problem of the long-span condition, while also understanding the aesthetic intensity of such structures. The studio platform was based on research into the domain of minimal energy surface structures in order to understand the performative potential of such systems both in terms of efficiency and effect. The studio was organized as a series of exercises focused on design, representation, material, and making which led to the design and construction of a collection of full-scale experimental pavilions on the Atlanta Beltline, a 22 mile rail loop which will become light rail, pedestrian paths, and public spaces. The studio had a strong emphasis on core knowledge in digital design and digital fabrication as a vehicle for design exploration and acquisition of professional skills in digital technologies and principles of construction. Additionally, this studio had an intensive interface with the Digital Fabrication Laboratory (DFL), the College of Architectures full-scale CNC research facility. The studio was organized as individual research & design exercises along with team projects. Each student was required to vigorously engage both their own individual research and the research of their teams.

HYPARail Taylor Pitelka, Jessica Hardin-Steele, Sandra Wahba, Ronak Vaidya, Sam Kim

Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, HYPARail is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which promotes both physical and visual relationships as a through condition for users of the corridor and as a visual link between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods in the West End. The project uses a simple material, Southern Yellow Pine, in combination with parametric modeling technologies and 5-Axis CNC machining to transform site, material, form, and experience on the Beltline. The Hyperbolic Paraboloidal morphology used in the design allows for ground to peel away into surface and reveal a trace of the unlaying order of rail ties below.

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The Geometer Wade Nolan, Alexandra Barletta, Steve Cochoff, Paul Judin

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Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, The Geometer is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which promotes both physical and visual relationships as a through condition for users of the corridor and as a visual link, or stitch, between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods of Ansley Park and Ansley Mall. The structure transforms the humblest of materials, stud grade 2x4s, into an intricately woven self-supporting latticework through the use of parametric modeling and 5-Axis CNC technology. The multi-order twisting hexagonal geometry modulates light and view for users while creating a visual landmark on the Beltline from key points in the environment.

Vaulted Voronoi lena Klein, Scott Kittle, Chuck Smith, Taylor Walters, Patrick di Rito

Working with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, Vaulted Voronoi is an urban intervention directly on the Atlanta Beltline which creates a threshold condition for users of the corridor and acts as a visual link between the Beltline and the adjacent neighborhoods and high usage transportation corridors of Dekalb Avenue and the East/West rail line of MARTA. Using projective geometry and irregular tessalations the project creates a variable structural module to be economically produced in 1/2inch CDX plywood. This variability produces a range of lighting conditions, shadow plays, and visual effects as one passes from Dekalb Avenue onto the Beltline through this temporal passage.

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Design & Research I | Bell + Yocum

Design & Research I

Brian Bell + David Yocum
The School of Music at Georgia Tech is in the midst of an extraordinary transformation. What began as an informal student-run choir in 1906, became home to the Glee Club and the M.Arching Band, currently sponsors 12 different performance ensemble groups, is now fostering some of the most inventive music and technology pursuits in the world. The SoM has unburdened itself from assumed limitations and has become a provocateur among music schools across the country, testing the limits of how music is made, performed, and consumed nothing short of a total reconsideration of what music means and how it operates in our culture. Instead of asking what music is, they are asking what music can become. So whats the problem? The SoM is currently located in a repurposed elementary school building on the western campus of Georgia Tech. At best, in its simplicity, the building offers a degree of flexibility, but otherwise there is no real support for the contemporary needs of music education, experimentation, and performance. But this situation is about to change. The Institute is rapidly seizing on the importance of the arts on campus and the fertile overlap between research and performance, engineering and the arts. There is the potential for a new SoM building on campus specifically dedicated to the creation, performance, and scholarship of music on campus. What is the space for new music? Where is the place for music we havent heard yet? How is a building an instrument? This studio will operate at the confluence of music, technology, and architecture. While each student will spend the semester developing a proposal for a new School of Music building on a specific site on campus, the work will be inspired by and produced through collaboration and interaction with music and other related disciplines, such as performance, acoustics, structure, and digital technologies. The process will incorporate study of existing SoM spaces, precedent analysis, and immersion into current SoM activities and performances. It will be interdisciplinary and will explore the relationship of experimentation and architecture. The studio will require development of full architectural proposals for a 140,000sf building, including technology, cladding, and detail strategies, realized in large-format drawings and largescale 2D and 3D presentation site and building models.
James Murray, Anthony Payne

Emily Schmitz, Kjersten Tucker

Emily Schmitz, Kjersten Tucker

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Design & Research I | Dunham-Jones

Design & Research I

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Revitalizing Lithonia, GA
How can older small downtowns in lowincome and largely bypassed communities compete and thrive? What kind of catalysts and activities can stimulate redevelopment in a down economy? What can designers learn from the local community and contribute to reimagining new futures? Architecture and planning students addressed these questions and more in proposals to revitalize downtown Lithonia, GA. Presentations at three community meetings and sponsorship by the Georgia Conservancys Blueprints Program stimulated retrofit approaches that were both practical and creative. Three teams developed immediate, near and longer-term actions to replace a mostly-vacant grocery-anchored 1960s strip mall while reinforcing the citys two-block stretch of 1-2 story historic granite and brick buildings. To build momentum for change, the Tactical Urbanism team built four temporary installations on Main Street highlighting different community assets and produced a video online at: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vytzMTxUiuI. The near-term team proposed demolition of the publicly-owned section of the strip mall and re-establishment of the original cross street so as to increase walkability and access to the historic downtown. They proposed establishment of a community center and garden on the tobe vacant site, re-use of an existing shed as a farmers market, re-use of the pawn shop at the tip of the site with City Hall, and new 1-2 story mixed-use buildings along Main Street. The longer-term vision includes replacement of the grocery store with a more publicly-oriented market with parking on the roof, continued low-rise retail development wrapping the site, and the introduction of housing and new public spaces to further activate the downtown. A fourth team looked at improving connections to downtown by restoring urban frontages through use of a Form-Based Code and identifying new catalysts at either end of Main Street. They demonstrated how a new green community surrounding the beautiful, and now largely defunct, Big Ledge quarry would restore the quarrys original role as an economic engine for Lithonia the city of granite.

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ARCH 4011 / ARCH 6053

Design & Research I

Jack Pyburn, FAIA

Considering Architecture in Time

Jack Pyburn is a historic preservation architect with a particular research interest in the relationship of building technology to architectural design. His research is focused on mid-century architectural precast concrete technology and architectural expression in that period. He was the Principal in Charge of the Hinman Building rehabilitation for the College of Architecture. He has experience with virtually every extant building type, style of architecture and spectrum of construction technology in the south. A building is a temporal construct. Its relationship to time begins upon conception and extends through construction and occupancy. This link precipitates a factual narrative and physical patina that embody and project the society, economy, politics, tectonics and aesthetics of its life span. This studios objective was to research, assess, evaluate and document selected historically notable buildings on the Georgia Tech campus, as well as to consider what the narrative and patina of each reveals of their value to the present and future. Collectively, in teams and individually, the studio explored preservation theory, building technology, materiality, past, present and future use and approaches to the treatment of an historically significant building. The semester was organized into four phases. An initial period included an orientation to preservation theory and practice with readings and related focused writing assignments, discussion and individual recordation of observations of historic buildings. The second phase consisted of documentation and assessment of an assigned historically significant building on the Georgia Tech campus. The studio was organized into three teams for this phase of work. Then, a focused charrette period followed that considered building use past, present and future. Finally, each student was to produce a preservation intervention strategy for his or her teams campus building based on a proposed future use.

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David Cates

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Almir Divanovic

Design & Research I | Spuybroek + Gokmen

Design & Research I

Lars Spuybroek + Sabri Gokmen

Beauty and Agency

During the twentieth century beauty became more and more suspect in the aesthetics of art and architecture. When looking carefully at the main aspects of modernist aesthetics, architects have encountered words like fracture, process, abstraction, deconstruction, fragment, purity, etc., etc., words that are generally associated with the adverse of beauty, namely the sublime. Now, after those hundred years of minimalism, genocides and abstractions, this studio searches a way back to beauty. Commentators that often advocate the return to beauty are on the Prince-Charles team of aesthetics (Scruton, Turner), who consider classicism, harmony and proportion as the only way to repair things by going back to the Greeks. However, the research scope of this studio was to look at John Ruskins notion of Vital Beauty, a beauty of imperfection, fragility and variation. Vital beauty means beauty of active parts, not of parts that are balanced and in rest, but participating, entangling and constructing, thereby making the onlooker a participant as well; in short, defining beauty by agency. As a digital design studio, the research on beauty was carried not through mere inspiration and subjectivity, but via method and techniques. In the first half of the semester, the studio was divided into eight pairs of students. Each pair looked at one given aspect of beauty. These selected aspects were: roughness, imperfection, opulence, grace, incandescence, veiling, fragility and smoothness; that are studied first by images, and then by digital diagramming. In the second half of the semester, the students distilled from these design techniques by applying them to a building typology, site and program. Some of these aspects applied to massing, others to structure, while others to ornament. The studios overall goal was to maintain consistency: diagrams do not generate a part of the architecture, but inform all elements of design.

Almir Divanovic

Hrach Burtoyan

Irene Yim

Auditorium Auditorium

Lobby 2,000 sqf

1st Enclosure
Circulation 4,000 sqf Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf

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Exhibition Hall 2

Administration Sta O ce

After the 1996 Olympics, millions of visitors a year now visit the park. The park hosts several events including the popular music concert series (Wednesday WindDown) as FILIGREE well as an annual Independence Day concert and fireworks display. Portions of the park are available for rental for private events.
Image Courtesy of http://www.centennialpark.com/

2nd Enclosure
Gallery Multiuse LATERAL VEINS Hall
Networked Area

Fold Rule

159
1

Storage 6,000 sqf Technical 6,000 sqf

INSECT WING TAXONOMY

Exhibition Hall 1 Spatial Relationships 12,000 sqf

Storage / Maintenance Storage

Fountain of Rings

PARALLEL VEINS

Design & Research I | Spuybroek

Exhibition Hall 2 8,000 sqf

Linearly oriented structural elements

Exhibition 4,000 sqf

Toilet

Ticket Info O ce Desk

Approximately 1,000 sqf Entrance

Hall 3 Technical Room

Gallery 1 2,000 sqf Gallery 2 2,000 sqf

A key feature of the park is the Fountain of Rings, interac- of line -Traceable through continuity -Parallel veins begin at the tive fountain which features computer-controlled lights start of wing or o another played and jets of water synchronized with musicprimary from -Parallel must end at the boundary or speakers in light towers surrounding the fountain.
another parallel vein

Exhibition lel veins

-network of veins that connect two parralparral-small maximum length of element

Connections to Parallel Veins

Exhibition Hall | Program List

Exhibitions Area: Total 28,000sqf DRAGONFLY Exhibition Hall 1: 12,000sqf Exhibition Hall 2: 8,000sqf Exhibition Hall 3: 4,000sqf Gallery 1: 2,000sqf Gallery 2: 2,000sqf 3 Public Area: Total 14,000sqf Auditorium: 8,000sqf Entry Hall (Lobby): 2,000sqf Circulation, Ramp, etc.: 4,000sqf Service Area: Total 14,000sqf Staff Office / Ticket Office: 2,000sqf Documentation Center/ Storage: 6,000sqf I H Technical Space (Visual Media Room / RestRoom): 6,000sqf F G
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Management Multiuse Hall

Spatial Relationship Based on Program

Sta Entrance

Program and Circulation Auditorium

8,000 sqf

BUTTERFLY

Site Access Based on Urban Context

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SAWFLY

CADDISFLY

2 LACEWING

Entrance Sta O ce

Public Areas Entrance

Truck Loading

Gallery 3

Lobby Ticket O ce

Auditorium
Main Ent.

Storage

Gallery 2

Info Desk Toilet

2
Service Ent.

A1 a 5 f 9 A2 a 4 f 6 A3 a 2 f 7

Gallery 1 Technical Room

2
Exhibition Hall 1 12,000 sqf Exhibition Hall 2 8,000 sqf Exhibition Hall 3 4,000 sqf

B1 a 3 f 5 B2 a 4 f 6 B3 a 9 f 9 C1 a 4 f 8 C2 a 5 f 6 C3 a 2 f 7 D1 a 3 f 5 D2 a 4 f 6 D3 a 9 f 9

F1 a 3 f 8 F2 a 5 f 6 F3 a 2 f 7

Exhibition Room

Toilet

Ticket O ce

Gallery 1 Hall
Hall 2 2,000 sqf Hall 3 Gallery 1

Gallery 2 2,000 sqf

Auditorium 8,000 sqf

Lobby 2,000 sqf

Circulation 4,000 sqf

Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf

Storage 6,000 sqf

Technical 6,000 sqf

Main Ent.

Main Ent.

G1 a 3 f 5 G2 a 4 f 6 G3 a 9 f 9

H1 a 4 f 8 H2 a 5 f 3 H3 a 2 f 7 I1 a 3 f 8 I2 a 5 f 4 I3 a 2 f 7

Toilet

Ticket Info O ce Desk

Gallery 2

Level 03 + 35
Lobby

Technical Room

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Exhibition Hall 1

Auditorium Auditorium

1st Enclosure
Circulation 4,000 sqf Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf

2,000 sqf

2nd Enclosure Level 01 + 0

Level 02 + 17

Fountain of Rings

Fold Rule

Fold Variable Input Based on Program

Fold Amplitute - Light Quality Kitchen
(a10) Diffused Light Required ... (a 0) Direct Light Required

E1 a 4 f 3 E2 a 5 f 6 E3 a 2 f 7

Auditorium

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Exhibition Hall 1 12,000 sqf
Spatial Relationships

Administration Sta O ce

Storage 6,000 sqf Technical 6,000 sqf

VENATION
Gallery Multiuse Hall Exhibition

Number of Initial Elements (E) Parallel to Lateral (PL) Parallel Bifurcation (PB) Parallel Bifurcation Distance (D) Parallel Bifurcation Angle (A) Lateral Bifurcation (LB)

Dining Area 400 sq ft

Kitchen Dining Area 400 sq ft 400 sq ft

Dining Area 400 sq ft 400 sq ft

Fitness Center 700 sq ft

Kitc 400

Exhibition Hall 2

Exhibition Hall 2 5 8,000 sqf

Fold Frequency - Spatial Element

Storage / Maintenance

Exhibition Hall 3 4,000 sqf Storage Gallery 1

Technical Room 2,000 sqf

Exhibition Hall | Program List

2
SAWFLY

(f10) Small Scale Element (3 feet) ... (f 0) Large Scale Element (30 feet)

Toilet

Ticket Info O ce Desk

Approximately 1,000 sqf Entrance

Gallery 2 2,000 sqf Auditorium Management 8,000 sqf Multiuse Hall

BUTTERFLY

E = 1-4 PL = 0-1 PB = 0-8 A= LB = 0 PC = 10.0-11.12 E= 2 PL PL = 0 0-5 PB = 0-5 19o-89o A = 19 -89 LB = 0 E = 1-4 10.14-11.05 PC = 10.14-11.05 .14 PL = 0-1 PB = 0-8 E = 1-2 A= PL = 1 LB 0 PB == 0-4 PC = 10.0-11.12 A= LB = 0 E= 2 PC = 10.0-10.27 PL = 0 PB = 0-5 E= 2 o o E = 19 A= PL = 01-4 -89 PL = 0-1 LB 0 PB == 1-7 PB = 0-8 PC = 10.14-11.05 A= A= LB = 0 E = 1-2 1LB= 0 2 PC = 10.09-10.49 PL 1 PL PC = 10.0-11.12 PB = 0-4 0-4 E = 2-4 o o E = 20 -61 A= 2 PL = 02 0 -61 PL = 0 LB 0 PB == 0-6 PB = 0-5.0-10.27 PC = 10.0-10.27 10.0A= A= LB = 0 2 EE= = 1-4 LB= 0 PL 0 PL = 0-1 PC = 10.14-11.05 PB = 1-7 PB = 0-8

Exhibitions Area: E = 3-6 Exhibition Hall 1: 12,000sqf CADDISFLY PL = 0-2 Exhibition Hall 2: 8,000sqf PB = 0-11 A= Exhibition Hall 3: 4,000sqf LB = 0 Gallery 1: 2,000sqf PC = 10.0-11.64 3 Gallery 2: 2,000sqf
E = 3-6 3-6 PL 1-2 PL = 1-2 PB = 0-8 0-8

Mens 175 sq ft Total 28,000sqf

LACEWING
A= PC = 10.0-10.58 E = 6-8 6-8 PL = 3 PB 0-7 PB = 0-7 41o-137o -13 A = 41 -137 LB = 0 LB PC 10.0-10 .0-10.19 PC = 10.0-10.19 10.0-10.19 A=

Mens 175 sq ft

Mens 175 sq ft
DRAGONFLY

Auditorium

Public Area: Total 14,000sqf Womens -12 A E = 26 Auditorium: 8,000sqf = 26 -121 3-6 1 LB = = 0 PL Entry 00-22-11.06 Hall (Lobby): 2,000sqf PC = = 1 0-11 .12 .1 175 sq ft PB 10.12-11.06 Circulation, Ramp, etc.: 4,000sqf A=
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Bar / Lounge 600 sq ft Womens 175 sq ft

F1 a 3 f 8 F2 a 5 f 6 F3 a 2 f 7

Womens 175 sq ft

Bar / Lounge 600 sq ft

Bar 6

Exhibition Hall 1 12,000 sqf

Exhibition Hall 2 8,000 sqf

Exhibition Hall 3 4,000 sqf

Gallery 1 2,000 sqf

Gallery 2 2,000 sqf

Auditorium 8,000 sqf

Lobby 2,000 sqf

Circulation 4,000 sqf

Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf

Storage 6,000 sqf

Technical 6,000 sqf

PL = 1-2 Service Area: Total 14,000sqf PB = 0-8 Staff Office / Ticket Office: 2,000sqf A E = 3-6 = LB = I 1-2 Documentation EPL = 0 3-6 Storage: 6,000sqf Center/ = PC == 10.03-10.64 H PB PL = 0-8 Technical Space (Visual Media Room 0-2RestRoom): 6,000sqf F G / A = PB= 0-11

LB = 0 E = = 3-4 PC 10.0-11.64

A= A=

LB A == 0 E = = 3-4 PC 10.12-11.06 LB = 0 PL = 0-3 PC = 10.0-11.64 PB = 0-9 A E = 3-4 = 3-4 LB = = 0 3-6 PL 1-2 P= 1-2 EL PC == 10.22-10.82 PB 0-8 0-8 PL = 1-2

Art / Display Space 600 sq ft

G1 a 3 f 5 G2 a 4 f 6 G3 a 9 f 9 H1 a 4 f 8 H2 a 5 f 3 H3 a 2 f 7

A=

Lobby 2,000 sqf

1st Enclosure
Circulation 4,000 sqf Staff/Ticket Office 4,000 sqf

2nd Enclosure

Fold Rule Grid Structure

B PC 10.12-11.06 A= Fold Variable Input= Based on Program A LBDiagrid Structure = 0

Fold Amplitute - Light Quality
PC A= = LB = E= PC = E= PL PL = EPB = = A = 0-8 EPB= 3-6 = LB (a10) Diffused 0 A PL == 1-2 PC 10.22-10.82 LB = 0 PB == 0-8 0 5-6 10.12-11.06 0-9 03-49 E = 3-4 PC = 10.0-11.64 PL 0-3 E = = 3-4 PB = 0-9 PL = 1-2

20 20 A = 0-8 -125 EPB= 3-6 -125 = LB 0 A PL == 0-2 E = = 5-60.03-10.64 PC 10.03-10.64 1 LB = 0 .03 PB = 0-11

E = 7-8 7-8 A= PL = 2-6 2-6 PB = 0-7 PB 0-7 o o -12 -127 A = 7 -127 LB = 0 LB PC 10.01-10.29 10.01 PC =A = .01-10.29 10.0 -10 A=

D1 a 3 f 5 D2 a 4 f 6 D3 a 9 f 9 E1 a 4 f 3 E2 a 5 f 6 E3 a 2 f 7

Art / Display Space 600 sq ft

Art / Display Space 600 sq ft

Day Care / Child Care 450 sq ft

I1 a 3 f 8 I2 a 5 f 4 I3 a 2 f 7

A= A= A= A=

Storage 6,000 sqf Technical 6,000 sqf

Exhibition Hall 1 12,000 sqf

E = A A = 1-2 PL = 1 LB = LB = 00 PB = 0-4 PC = 10.09-10.49 PC = 10.0-11.12 A= EE= = 22-4 LB= 0 PL PL = 00 PC = 10.0-10.27 PB = 0-6 PB = 0-5 E = A A= 2 PL = PL = 0 LB LB = 00 PB = 1-7 1-7 PC = 10.14-11.05 o -46o A = 9 -46 E = = 1-2 LB 0 PL = 1 0.09-10.49 PC = 10.09-10.49 1 .09 PB = 0-4 E A = 2-4 PL = 0 LB = 0 PB = 0-6 PC = 10.0-10.27
o o A = 17 -70 E == 2 LB 0 PL = 0 PB = 1-7

Diagrid Patten

Light Required ... 10.03-10.64 (a 0) Direct Light Required

Teen 50
7 2-7 2-7 0-5 0-5 39 -159 -15 39 -159 0 10.01-10.41 10.01-10 10.01-10.41 .0
o o

A= E= A = PL = PB PB = A= A= LB = LB PC PC =

Exhibition Hall 2 8,000 sqf

3-4 3-4 Fold Frequency - Spatial Element 0-3 0-3

Exhibition Hall 3 4,000 sqf

Gallery 1 2,000 sqf Gallery 2 2,000 sqf Auditorium 8,000 sqf

(f10)1-2 o-113o Scale Element (3 feet) 40 40 -113 A PL = Small LB 0 ... == 0-8 PB 10.22-10.82 .22 PC A 0) 10.22-1 Scale (f = = Large 0.82 Element (30 feet)
LB = 0 PC = 10.03-10.64 E = 5-6 E = 3-4 PL = 0-3 PB = 0-9 A= LB = 0 PC = 10.22-10.82

A= A= A=

1 3

A= LB = 0 PC = 10.09-10.49 E = 2-4 2-4 PL PL = 0 a 5 PB9 0-6 f = 0-6

A1 A2 a 4 Af = 6 A3 a 2 LB 7 f= PC = B1 a 3 Ef=5 B2 a 4 PL6 f= PB = B3 a 9 f 9

17o-70o 17 -70 0 10.03-11.12 10.03-11.12 .03 2 F1 0 F2 0-8

E = 5-6 5-6 PL = 1 PL PB = 0-9 0-9

Entrance / Reception 500 sq ft

H F G 3 D C A B E

C1 a 4 PC8 10.03-10.41 f 5 f = G1 a 3 C2 a 5 f 6 G2 a 4 f 6 C3 a 2 f 7 G3 a 9 f 9 D1 a 3 PC = 10.03-11.12 f 8 f 5 H1 a 4 D2 a 4 f 6 H2 a 5 f 3 E= 2 D3 a 9 PL = 0 f 9 H3 a 2 f 7 PL E1 a 4 A 3 f= E2 a 5 LB = f6 PC = E3 a 2 f 7

PB = 0-8 0-8 10 -71o 10o-71a 3 f 8 I1 0 I2 a 5 f 4 10.03-10.41 10.03-10.41 .03

A= LB = 0

a3 f8 a5 f6 F3 a 2 f 7

40o-117o A = 40 -117 LB = 0 PC = 10.0-11.27 10.0-11.27 .0-

E = 5-7 5-7 PL = 4-9 4-9 PB 0-4 PB = 0-4 65o-157o -15 A = 65 -157 A= LB = 0 LB PC PC = 10.08-10.58 10.08-10 10.08-10.58 .0

Entrance / Reception Rental / Flexible 500 sq ft Space 1000 sq ft

Entrance / Reception Rental / Flexible 500 sq A ft Space 1000 sq ft

Classroom 500 sq ft Renta S 10

E= PL = PL = PB = PB = A= A= LB = LB = PC = PC =

5 1-2 1 0-9 0-9

o 40o 0 -117 0 10.01-11.26 10.0-11.27

A=

Triangulated Enclosure

E= 5 PL 1-2 PL = 1-2 PB = 0-9 0-9 18o-112o A = 18 -112 LB = 0 PC = 10.01-11.26 10.01-11.26 .01

B Level 1 Scale: 1/8 = 1-0

Diagrid Patten

B Level 1 Scale: 1/8 = 1-0

I3 a 2 f 7

Vanessa Lira, LevelZach Stanton 1 Level 2

Scale: 1/8 = 1-0

Irregular Triangulated Patten

Seon Ji Yi

Grid Structure

Diagrid Structure

Suhee Oh

Dining Area 400 sq ft

Kitchen Dining Area Dining Area 400 sq ft 400 sq ft 400 sq ft

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Design & Research I | Williams + Lewitt

ARCH 4011 / ARCH 6053

Design & Research I

Jordan Williams + Eric Lewitt
Images and representations form the cornerstone of architectural inquiry and practice. They are used to facilitate the design process, as well as communication between members of a project team. They also operate as the primary means of presenting designs to clients and the general public. The history of architectural images has witnessed dramatic shifts in representational modes, engendered in large part by correlations with the particular cultural values and architectural theories that circumscribe specific epochs and situations. This history demonstrates that the architectural image is anything but stable, thus exposing the need for designers to be conscious of how representations are produced and deployed in the process of creating and presenting architectural projects. Contemporary architectural images reflect a shift away from representational imagery, as digital models and photorealistic software are leveraged to create simulations that strive to depict buildings as hyper-real, even before they are constructed. CAD, BIM and rendering technologies are constantly evolving to allow increasingly complex projects to be designed, represented and documented in an accurate and efficient manner. We will explore the extension of this technological trajectory by introducing real-time simulation as a primary component of both design methodology and the feedback process. By utilizing real-time rendering technology, we propose to collapse the interstice between design and representation, fostering a more immersive and integral understanding of the design process and a more experiential and interactive understanding of its artifacts. The primary objectives of this studio are: 1. Explore historical precedent to develop an awareness of the contingent relationship between modes of representation and the architectural theories and design strategies they support. 2. Investigate contemporary modes of architectural representation and their constituent images as a transformation from the realm of representation to the realm of simulation, and explore the possibilities inherent within this shift. 3. Develop a working knowledge of real-time rendering software, allowing each student to explore how this technology affects the design and presentation of projects. 4. Utilize this knowledge to design and present a programmatically complex project set in a dynamic urban situation. Design solutions should engage real-time technology as a tool that allows concepts to be inhabited and tested within an immersive, experiential and interactive framework that more closely reveals the complex ways that a building interacts with and constitutes the real world.

Emilio Hernandez

Robert Nuttall

Kimberly Wadelton

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Design & Research II | Andreotti

ARCH 7090

Design & Research II

Libero Andreotti
The Atlanta Beltline Collective (ABC) is an activist studio that combines individual research projects with joint initiatives actions and research to repoliticize the culture of architecture. Against a cult of professionalism that since the 1980s especially through the mantra of modernisms so-called failed utopias has restricted the scope of a discipline that was once at the forefront of the struggle against poverty, racism, and social injustice, ABC participants use the idea of a constructed situation (a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed through a collective organization of an atmosphere and a play of events) to expose the dark side of the city, to reveal the naked tensions that structure, separate and divide spaces, and to challenge the violent regulatory logic that dictates legitimate uses of city space. Individual research agendas, developed in the Fall semester seminar on Architecture and Spectacle, range from temporary installations to long-term urban design proposals, homeless encampments, community assistance centers, farming cooperatives, and worker-managed production centers in each case questioning the priorities of market-driven urban redevelopment as it is normally practiced today and challenging the motives behind many large-scale urban design proposals, including their funding mechanisms based on socializing costs and privatizing gain, and their falsely universal claims to be serving the general interest. From the ABC declaration: We oppose the global homogenization of life and culture reflected in the impoverished, generic vision for the Beltine as a transit corridor and a nature walk / We are aggrieved at how the economic needs of unrepresented communities are cast aside in favor of corporate profits / We protest against the use of a regressive public tax to fund land and real estate speculation / We decry the marketing image of the Beltine masquerading as genius and imagination.

Toni Cliett

Anthony Payne

Anthony Payne

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Design & Research II | Cottle

ARCH 8803

Design & Research II

Mark Cottle

The Detail: From Alberti To Zumthor

Through the example of our ancestors, the advice of experts, and constant practice on our part, thorough understanding may be gained on how to construct marvelous buildings. [Alberti] Every act of seeing leads to consideration, consideration to reflection, reflection to combination, and thus it may be said that in every attentive look we already theorize. [Goethe] The detail, by definition, confronts particularity and circumstance. It is also the moment where technical and experiential considerations intersect, and where modes of production encounter protocols of use, as Walter Benjamin describes in his essay The Storyteller, the crossover point where the fingermarks of the potter intertwine with the grip of one who lifts the cup to drink. This studio followes a seminar that surveyed the detail as it has been theorized and enacted, both from within the discipline, as well as the larger cultural context. While the seminar was structured around an intertwining of readings with close examinations of exemplary practices (contextualized under the rubric building cultures), in the studio the projected wall section, drawn at a large scale, in series, formed the primary locus of inquiry. Students drew their own specific inquiries out of the material of the seminar; these included: an investigation of the parametric opportunities afforded by engineered wood; a focus on air as a building material, in ventilation and insulation, with an eye toward a reappraisal of the southern vernacular; a study of the layers that comprise the contemporary wall assembly, understood historically and experientially, an exercise in translation, from one building culture to another; a questioning of the relation between the ground and dirt; and an investigation of the way buildings interact with time, in multiple registers.

Victor Cochoff David Cates David Cates Victor Cochoff Matthew Belt

Matthew Belt

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Design & Research II | Economou

ARCH 7090

Design & Research II

Athanassios Economou

SORTS: f(xn)
A studio linking architectural design to current research in the area of Design Computation. The studio focuses on the design, use and test of computational tools to support and improve domain-specific design. The underlying formalism is shape grammars, a computational tool that uses visual recursion for the generation of designs. The proposed design domain is the courthouse design that exhibits one of the most complex contemporary building programs. The title of the studio, f(xn), uses the Semperian algebraic formulation of style as a function modified by a series of variables x1, x2, xn including programmatic, physical, social, political, cultural, environmental and so forth variables, to link the studio discourse with the wider theoretical discourse of constructive understanding of architectural type and language. The studio builds upon two current research projects in SOA that cover nicely both foundations of this inquiry. These two projects are: a) The research database of federal courthouse design (Courtsweb 20072012, PI Economou, 4926605, GSA); and the shape grammar application for visual design and specifically its version for courthouse schematics. Embedded within this larger project on the analysis and generative description of federal courthouses, the aim of the studio is to critically reflect upon the existing courthouse discourse and to engage constructively the design of these complex buildings. The platform for this inquiry is the current building brief and prospective site of the new Federal Courthouse of Mobile, Alabama. The brief of the project has been drafted in collaboration with the Public Buildings Service (PBS) and GSA (General Services Administration). A series of four preliminary studies kicks off the studio tackling various issues related to site strategies and formal strategies at different scales of the building.

Irene Yim

Kelly Heyer, Robert Woodhurst

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Kelly Heyer, Robert Woodhurst

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Kelly Heyer, Robert Woodhurst

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Design & Research II | Farrow

ARCH 7090

Design & Research II

Robert Farrow
Healthcare architecture can play a vital role in: the resolution of reducing costs (both capital and operating costs); providing environments that improve patient and staff safety and reduce infections; providing a higher level of positive healthcare/healing outcomes, impacting such factors as reducing length of stays (LOS) and creating a more positive patient experience. Taking a cue from medicine itself, much research has been conducted, within the last decade on how the built environment impacts the issues stated above. A significant body of research and data has been gathered under the banner of Evidenced Based Design (EBD). These finding will also be a foundation for design exploration. This studio will, on the basis of individual areas of research and interest, explore very specific design solutions to address these topics. As a continuation of discussions and research held in lecture class, this studio specifically explores fundamental for healthcare architects/ designers questions and research topics: Design that allows for future expansion/ expandability Determining appropriate size of rooms/ facilities. How big is big enough? Design that facilitates reduction of medical errors Design of safer environments for both the patient and the staff Design for an unknown future (facilities that are both flexible and adaptable) Improving the healing process for patients Design of facilities to be more efficient for staff (less walking distances, etc) Improving wayfinding Improving the patient experience Design that is more sustainable and energy efficient Design of exterior spaces which may have an impact on healing

Alison Bahe, Emily Marvel

Kristin Kellogg Kristin Kellogg

Joyce Gemarino

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Emilie Schmitz, Jessica Steele-Hardin

Emilie Schmitz, Jessica Steele-Hardin

Emilie Schmitz, Jessica Steele-Hardin

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Urban Design + Research Studio | Yang

CP6052- CP8882 + AaR8806

Urban Design + Research Studio

Perry Yang

Agrarian Urbanism
Ecological footprints of a city go far beyond its geographic boundary. The resources that cities rely upon today, including energy, materials, water and food are more connected to the global hinterlands rather than to their adjacent local surroundings. The concept food miles, how far the food travels, is not sufficient for understanding its ecological effects. The embodied energy and then its carbon emission that the food takes to produce, process, transport and distribute is far greater than we can imagine. The studio investigates agrarian urbanism: an emerging approach to reconstructing communities and cities ecologically, and its design and policy framework for reorganizing neighborhood and urban spaces by embedded sustainable food and agricultural system grounded on locality. Agrarian urbanism explores how flows generate forms, a counter proposition to the modernist idea of form follows function. We argue that contemporary urban forms and landscape patterns should emerge from sustainable approaches to designing flows of energy, materials, water and food. Agrarian urbanism questions contemporary meanings of public space, urbanity and nature. It is an alternative approach to a globally regulated and controlled food system that results in inequity. It facilitates processes that generate cultural identity of productive land/landscape as a new form of public space, and a creation of the sense of self sustained community. It redefines a new urban-nature relationship. Agrarian urbanism advocates continuous productive landscape in cities, a proposition that challenges the idea of landscape as picturesque, experiential and visual elements. It is a high performance productive urban landscape system that accommodates continuous horizontal flows across landscape mosaics to ensure its functionality. A productive landscape is an ecological intervention in the context of hybrid landscape, an interweaving urban, infrastructural and natural environment. It evaluates both performance and productivity of the urban ecological system that integrates its operations and aesthetic appearances of the landscape.
Lena Klein

Dominique Baker

Elizabeth Ward

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Urban Design Studio I | Dunham-Jones

COA7011

Urban Design Studio I

Ellen Dunham-Jones
Required for the MsUD degree, the studio worked on three projects with very different economic, environmental, and social conditions. They were selected to strengthen students basic skills of laying out streets, blocks, lots, and building footprints while expanding their creative capacity to imagine, program, and design public spaces. The first project was the two-week ULI Hines Urban Design Competition. Students assembled multi-disciplinary teams to create development proposals for a 24-acre downtown site on Houstons Buffalo Bayou. The entry shown here won honorable mention coming in fith out of 139 entries worldwide. If the first project required developer-oriented creative problem-solving in a booming city, the second project allowed for more personal reflections on the purpose of urban design and the best graphic or videographic means for its expression (See http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=N-SB0vGk2Zo). The ideas competition for the site of the failed Pruitt Igoe public housing project in St. Louis asked simply Can this site be liberated from a turbulent and mythologized past through reimagination and community engagement? Various individually-researched strategies emerged for dealing with the problems of the shrinking city from regreening and agriculture to infill proposals reconnecting the site to the rest of the city and centered on education, entrepreneurial expression, and event spaces. The final project included an introduction to the techniques of new urbanism and engagement with local urban design practitioners, as students developed designs for transitoriented development at the Sagrada Corazon stop of the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A visit to the site over Spring Break and a charrette with a parallel studio at the University of Puerto Rico equipped students to calibrate form-based codes to the local climate and building traditions.

Artesano | Honorable Mention in ULI Hines Urban Design Competition Jessica Florez, Ryan Hagerty, Logan Tuura, Christina Span, and Audrey Plummer Marius Mller, finalist in the Pruitt Igoe Now competition Marco Garcia, finalist in the Pruitt Igoe Now competition

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Sherif M. Abdelmohsen
Advisor: Nancy J. Nersessian

An Ethnographically Informed Analysis of Design Intent Communication in BIM-Enabled Architectural Practice

The building information model (BIM) is assumed to encompass all the required parameters, constraints, rules and attributes about a design product and process for AEC practitioners in a way comprehendible by all disciplinary participants sharing the model and that communicates their goals, needs and intentions, besides communicating design information. The socio-cognitive interactions that occur in the workplace however, such as the negotiation of meaning and the active participation of multiple communities of practice, imply that there are discrepancies between what is exchanged among participants as design information when sharing a building model and what is exchanged as goals, needs and possibly conflicting intentions and interests when sharing a common ill-structured problem. The dissertation presents the findings of an ethnographic study conducted with the aim of developing a deep understanding of how design intent is communicated in BIM-enabled practice in the context of an architectural project. The study was based on the broad question: What are the affordances and limitations that exist in BIMenabled architectural practice in terms of communicating design intent among teams of designers working in interdisciplinary collaborative environments? The study also addressed the following questions: do the current exchange mechanisms in BIM convey what design teams really intended? Is there critical design knowledge not conveyed using BIM data exchange capabilities and authoring tools? How is the knowledge produced in internal design thinking sessions, meetings or informal communication transferred to other participants? To what extent should that information be embedded in the shared building model? How effective is a shared building model in practice in terms of communicating product data, design decisions, tacit knowledge and expertise? To what extent is it hindered by tool complexity, learning challenges, the need to express some forms of communication informally and address flexibility in design? Using personas as an additional method of analysis, and grounded theory coding as a basis for analytic induction, the dissertation presents the following major conclusions: (1) Affordances and limitations of BIM differ according to individuals, disciplines and communities. Affordances included: affordances with respect to the tool such as visualization capacity and parametric flexibility; and affordances with respect to collaboration such as coordination of information and conflict resolution. Limitations included: incompatibility among tools, the cost of 3D modeling for participants and teams, the need for supplementary representations and communication channels, and conceptualization limitations. (2) The communication of design intent involves not only interdisciplinary interaction between architects and consultants, but multiple and overlapping communities of practice that embrace interdisciplinary, intradisciplinary and non-disciplinary interaction, in addition to emergent communities that develop along the course of a project, focus on specific issues and involve members of different communities. (3) The BIM model can be described in terms of states that denote the level of its completeness and correctness and describe how effective it is in conveying and capturing the intent of participants in the context of their practices and interactions. These states underscore issues such as the potentially unconscious design decisions

imposed by the rigid structure of BIM tools, the incorrect modeling of building elements due to inexperience with tools, the loss or misrepresentation of information among participants due to incompatibilities between tools and interoperability problems, the lack of standard conventions for building elements that facilitate understanding the information needs of other participants, the partial representation of building model elements for the purpose of efficiency and reduction of modeling load, the ruling out of some of the underlying assumptions embedded within modeling or analysis tools, the required channels of communication external to the process of model exchange, and the need for forms of representation to supplement the BIM model for better conceptualization. (4) The shared BIM model can be represented partially as a boundary object with different relative weights and meanings in each design stage and for each community of practice. It represents a different value for members of different communities. (5) The BIM model presented an amplification of the participation and reification processes in the workplace; multi-membership and mutual recognition among participants belonging to different and overlapping communities of practice augmented the sense of participation, while the model provided different values and levels of interpretation for members of different primary and secondary communities of practice through reification. (6) In principle, the BIM model as a shared repository of information and a boundary object is assumed to take into account all participation and reification activities. However, in practice, the convoluted meaning making processes, and the goals, needs and intentions of multimember communities entail much more interaction patterns that are not necessarily captured in current BIM systems. (7) The differences in multimemberships, values of BIM for different members, participation and reification activities, and the structure of primary and secondary communities of practice, should all be accounted for in technology development efforts in the larger population of AEC firms and practices.

PhD Research | Abdelmohsen

Fig. 1 explores what BIM offers in principle to AEC interdisciplinary teams with varying perspectives versus their needs upon day-to-day interaction in practice. Fig. 2 examines and revisits interfaces in the research study, at the BIM model space shared among all AEC disciplinary participants. The figure shows nine interfaces featuring three types of interaction: interdisciplinary interaction, intradisciplinary interaction, and non-disciplinary interaction. Fig. 3 is an example of interdisciplinary interaction at the interface between the architect and cost estimator in the research study. The figure shows the communication channels and representations used at schematic design. In this interface, a lot of additional assumptions and manual input are required to fill in the gaps of necessary information for the estimation process.

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PhD Research | Choi

Young-Seon Choi
Advisor: Craig Zimring

The Physical Environment and Patient Safety: An Investigation of Physical Environmental Factors Associated with Patient Falls
Patient falls are the most commonly reported adverse events in hospitals, according to studies conducted in the U.S. and elsewhere. The rate of falls is not high (2.3 to 7 falls per 1,000 patient days), but about a third of falls result in injuries or even death, and these preventable events drive up the cost of healthcare and, clearly, are harmful outcomes for the patients involved. This study of a private hospital, Dublin Methodist Hospital, in Dublin, Ohio analyzes data about patient falls and the facilitys floor plans and design features and makes direct connections between hospital design and patient falls. There is growing evidence that demonstrates the role of the physical environment and architectural design factors in improving organizational functioning such as surveillance, peer and situation awareness, and timeliness (Fig. 1). The current study also aims to promote a better understanding of the relationship between visibility and organizational functioning as linking visibility to the key safety outcome (i.e., patient falls) of hospitals. In addition, emerging evidence also established the direct association between visibility and patient-related outcomes (i.e., patient falls and mortality rates) (Fig. 2). The current study aims to contribute to the understanding of the impact of the physical environment, especially visibility, on one of patient safety-related outcomes (i.e., patient falls). This particular hospital, which was relatively recently constructed, offered particular advantages in investigating unitlayout-related environmental factors because of the very uniform configuration of its rooms, which greatly narrowed down the variables under study. This thesis investigated data about patients who had suffered falls as well as patients with similar characteristics (e.g., age, gender, and diagnosis) who did not suffer falls. This case-control study design helps limit differences between patients. Then patient data was correlated to the location of the fall and environmental characteristics of the locations, analyzed in terms of their layout and floor plan. A key part of this analysis was the development of tools to measure the visibility of the patients body to nurses, the relative accessibility of the patient, the distance from the patients room to the medication area, and the location

Fig. 1 Healthcare architecture, visibility, and organizational function.

Fig. 3 (a) The integration graph of the unit, (b) the visibility graph of the unit, and (c-h) the visibility from patient in room.

Fig. 4 The spatial dashboard of patient falls: The analysis of fall rate per room (Units 3200, 3300, 4200 respectively).

Fig. 2 Healthcare architecture, visibility, and patient safety.

of the bathroom in patient rooms (many falls apparently occur during travel to and from these areas) (Fig. 3). From the analysis of all this data there emerged a snapshot of the specific rooms in the hospital being analyzed where there was an elevated risk of a patient falling (Fig. 4). While this finding is useful for the administrators of that particular facility, the study also developed a number of generally applicable conclusions. The most striking conclusion was that, for a number of reasons,

patients, whose upper half bodies were not visible to caregivers working from their seats in nurses stations and/or from corridors ,had a higher risk of falling, in part because staff were unable to intervene in situations where a fall appeared likely to occur. The implications for hospital design are clear: design inpatient floors to maximize a visible access to patients (especially their upper half bodies) from seats in nurses stations and corridors.

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Yeonsook Heo
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe

Bayesian Calibration of Building Energy Models for Energy Retrofit Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Energy retrofit of existing buildings is essential to reach reduction targets in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. In the current practice of a retrofit decision process, professionals perform energy audits, and construct dynamic simulation models to benchmark the performance of existing buildings and predict the effect of retrofit interventions. In order to enhance the reliability of simulation models, they typically calibrate simulation models based on monitored energy use data. The calibration techniques used for this purpose are manual and expert-driven. The current practice has major drawbacks: (1) the modeling and calibration methods do not scale to large portfolio of buildings due to their high costs and heavy reliance on expertise, and (2) the resulting deterministic models do not provide insight into underperforming risks associated with each retrofit intervention. This thesis has developed a new retrofit analysis framework that is suitable for large-scale analysis and risk-conscious decision-making. The framework is based on the use of normative models and Bayesian calibration techniques. Normative models are lightweight quasi-steady state energy models that can scale up to large sets of buildings, i.e., to city and regional scale. In addition, they do not require modeling expertise since they follow a set of modeling rules that produce a standard measure for energy performance. The normative models are calibrated under a Bayesian approach such that the resulting calibrated models quantify uncertainties in model parameters while representing actual building operation. Bayesian calibration models can also incorporate additional uncertainties associated with retrofit interventions to generate probability distributions of retrofit performance. Probabilistic outputs can be straightforwardly translated into a measure that quantifies underperforming risks of retrofit interventions and thus enable

Fig. 1 Enabling more informed retrofit decisions by incorporating uncertainty into building energy.

decision-making relative to the decisionmakers rational objectives and risk attitude. As displayed in the figure below, Bayesian calibration model serves as the base for the probabilistic analysis while incorporating major sources of uncertainty in predictions. This thesis demonstrates the feasibility of the new framework on retrofit applications by verifying the following two hypotheses: (1) normative models supported by Bayesian calibration have sufficient model fidelity to adequately support retrofit decisions, and (2) they can support risk-conscious decisionmaking by explicitly quantifying risks associated with retrofit options. The first hypothesis is examined through case studies that compare outcomes from the calibrated normative model with those from a similarly calibrated transient simulation model at three levels: (1) calibration results, (2) model prediction, and (3) ranking of retrofit options. The case studies proved that the calibrated normative model can capture actual building behavior and correctly evaluate energy retrofit options without compromising the degree-ofconfidence in final decisions. Under the same evaluation criteria, the second hypothesis is examined through a case study that compares outcomes derived by the proposed framework with those derived by standard practice based on deterministic analysis. As shown in the criteria 1, Bayesian calibration enhances the reliability of model predictions by providing uncertainty in calibration parameter values and assuring the reliability of baseline models. Moreover, as shown in the criteria 2, Bayesian calibration model results in different magnitudes of uncertainty associated with each option while accounting for major sources of uncertainty in prediction of simple payback time. As a result, the new framework yields different ranking of retrofit options depending on scenarios with different risk attitudes while the standard practice does not quantify uncertainty in outcomes and support only scenario 1 (concerning overall performance). The new framework will enable cost-effective retrofit analysis at urban scale with explicit management of uncertainties.

PhD Research | Heo

Fig. 2 Evaluation Criteria 1: Calibration Results

Fig. 3 Evaluation Criteria 2: Model Predictions

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Javad Khazaii
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe

Effects of Sub-Optimal Component Performance on Overall Cooling System Energy Consumption & Efficiency
Expected cooling system performance plays an important role in HVAC system selections and designs. Predictions of cooling system energy consumption and efficiency need assumptions about individual component performance. The main hypothesis of the thesis is that the quantitative appraisal of the uncertainty (lack of knowledge) in these assumptions will help (1) design practitioners to select and design systems, (2) energy contractors to guarantee future system energy cost savings, and (3) codes and standards officials to set proper goals to conserve energy more accurately. Our lack of knowledge has different sources, notably unknown tolerances in equipment nameplate data, and unpredictable load profiles, the latter resulting from variability in the physical behavior and usage scenarios of the building. Both causes lead to variability in energy consumption predictions, and as a result decrease the reliability of the outcomes of energy simulations that commonly are used to verify system performance during the design and construction stages. The target of this research is to add to the current body of knowledge by presenting a new method for calculating the overall energy consumption and efficiency of HVAC systems in specific types of buildings. To do that, we have introduced the concept of uncertainty into these calculations. We have presented a way to look at these outcomes as probabilistic numbers instead of deterministic numbers as they are usually projected in the current state of the industry. The first step on this path was to determine the sources of uncertainty that are usually ignored by design engineers. We found that the equipment performance test allowance is the prime source of uncertainty for all the HVAC equipments that compose a specific system. The next step was to prepare a procedure for the calculation of hourly energy consumption and efficiency of the system. The effects of equipment performance test allowances are included in these calculations. An Excel-based platform was developed to calculate the effects of these parameters on different types of HVAC systems. The next step was to use Model Center software to run a Monte-Carlo simulation for the different systems and analyze the outcomes. This research makes a contribution to improving our fundamental understanding of variability of performance of HVAC systems as a result of component performance tolerances and load variability. This has led to the quantification of risk in decisions related to the selection and sizing of six mainstream HVAC cooling system design concepts. The main outcomes of the research can be enumerated in the following findings. (1) This research showed that choosing between different candidate systems for a specific application utilizing a probabilistic method, can be based on expressions of risk of the following form: there is X% chance to reduce the overall energy consumption by as much as Y%, by selecting a specific system over another system for a specific application. The thesis specifies the values of X and Y for different systems. (2) This research also showed that with introduction of a probabilistic analysis in the current state of energy modeling, the chances that a real building performs worse than what a deterministic simulation can predict can be represented in a performance risk format such as there is X% chance that the real system performs Y% worse than what a deterministic simulation can predict. The thesis specifies the values of X and Y for different systems.

(3) The research showed that reducing the performance tolerance for the most influential components in the system can be translated to an average reduction of the overall energy consumption of the considered system by as much as 1.7%. This finding is important in the pending discussions of how a decrease in allowable manufacturing tolerances might not only reduce the uncertainty in the energy

cost expectations, but in fact improve the average energy performance by almost 2%. It is expected that testing agencies and code officials will pay more attention to this tradeoff between stricter tolerance testing and across the board energy savings.

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Fig. 1 Research Targets.

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Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe

Management of Building Energy Consumption and Energy Supply Network on Campus Scale
Building portfolio energy management at the campus or larger scale involves decisions about energy retrofits, energy resource pooling, and investments in shared energy systems, such as district cooling, community photovoltaics (PV), wind power, combined heat and power (CHP) systems, and/or geothermal systems, among others. There are currently no tools to help a portfolio or campus manager make decisions about these issues through a rapid comparison of variants. In order to improve the design of large-scale building energy systems, regional policy makers and environmental administrators require knowledge of expected energy use and emissions on a large-scale, together with the ability to predict the outcomes of ongoing efficiency changes as well as new policies imposed on the building sector. The thesis develops a model for Network Energy Performance (NEP) assessment to support energy efficient design at district scale focusing on the multiple relationships between energy consumers and producers in the district. The model uses (1) a building energy model to quantify the energy performance of buildings as energy consumers on an hourly basis, and (2) a network to analyze energy flows and quantify the overall performance of a wide variety of energy supply systems shared by buildings (energy consumers). The NEP represents energy consumers and energy producers on the community level, allowing alternative ways to connect them in an overall energy supply topology. The essence of the model is a directed graph, consisting of nodes and connectors (arcs). A node represents an energy consumer or producer and arcs represent ways in which they are connected. Arcs come in different types, each type representing a particular way in which a supplier and consumer can be connected. Building nodes represent energy consumers at the highest level. At a lower level, a building node contains sub-nodes that represent the individual consumer systems (heating, cooling, lighting, fans, pumps, domestic hot water, and other services) in a building. Producer nodes represent various electrical power and thermal energy supply systems, including power generation from fossil fuel power plants (this is typically an external node), renewable source systems and thermal energy distribution from district heating and cooling systems, in conjunction with combined heat and power plants. After a graph is constructed and all properties of the system nodes are provided, the calculation runs in the background and shows energy consumption and generation at the network level as well as the node level in a given climate. Each arc that crosses a node represents a quantity of purchased or delivered energy flowing to or from the node. The figure illustrates the process of energy performance assessment from a building level to the campus scale considering different energy supply topologies. The NEP model allows campuswide energy performance assessment, testing different supply topologies, i.e., which consumer nodes connect to which local suppliers and which connect to global suppliers (i.e., utility providers such as the electricity grid or the natural gas grid). The prototype implementation shows how a portfolio or campus manager defines a model of the consumer and supply nodes on a campus and manipulates the connections between them through a graphical interface. Every change in the graph automatically triggers an update of the energy generation and consumption pattern, and results in a campus-wide energy performance update. It helps macro decisions on the generation side

(such as decisions about adding campus-wide systems) and the consumption side (such as planning of new building designs and retrofit measures). This model provides a lightweight tool that supports rapid decision-making for energy efficient system design on a portfolio scale in the building sector. There is no deep simulation required as the goal is to manage macro design decisions, not micro operational decisions. The premise of this approach is that an energy performance assessment of each node, based on normative calculation methods, is accurate enough to support macro, system-level decision-making. The model is scalable to larger portfolios and systems, and is flexible enough to explore different topologies by adding or taking away nodes. The main distinguishing feature is the way that nodes and their connections can be managed in the graphical interface while the underlying representation maintains the consistency to perform fresh calculations at any time. Compared to approaches used in the smart

grid or GIS field (mostly based on statistical models with few categorical variables per node), the approach here deploys a more accurate and more configurable model. Compared to models for operational building energy management (typically based on real time embedded simulation), the approach uses a lightweight, more flexible approach that avoids intensive simulation. The energy performance quantification of buildings, energy supply and energy generation systems bring rich information to decision-makers who will be well-positioned when they seek reductions in primary energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The model helps energy efficient system design based on system-wide outcomes, consequently achieve energy savings in the building sector and avoide negative environmental impacts. A major benefit resulting from the research is that it has the capability to support decisionmaking in large-scale building sector energy policy planning, i.e., beyond campus scale such as on a metropolitan scale.

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Zhengwei Li
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe

Principal Principal Component Component AnalysisAnalysis Method Method

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Rule Augmented CUSUM Method

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Why do we need fault detection and cooking (3.7 %) for HVAC systems? Lets diagnostics cooking (3.7 %) (FDD) look at some statistics. The Buildings Sector refrigeration consumed 40.1% (39.38 Quads) of U.S. refrigeration (4.2 %) (4.2 %) primary energy in 2012, of which commercial lighting building shares (8.5.%) Among all the energy lighting (8.5.%) 18.8%. cost, that consumed by HVAC systems occupies 38.9%1 (Fig. 1). Overall, the faults studied increase commercial building primary energy consumption by approximately one quad, or about 11% energy consumed by HVAC, lighting, and larger refrigeration systems in commercial buildings.2 Faults electronics electronics (8.6.%) (8.6.%) relating to HVAC systems represent between 1% and 2.5% of total commercial building consumption.3 water heating water heating (12.8.%) (12.8.%) problems in fault What are the current detection and diagnostics for HVAC systems? A literature review reveals the following points.

(1) There exists multiple FDD methods, each has its strength and weakness. No single method outperforms other methods in all space heating space heating (35.4%) (35.4%) aspects. (2) The FDD results presented to the user is dicult to interpret. (3) Method uncertainty is not quantied. (4) The performance (scalability, sensitivity and accuracy) of current FDD method is not satisfactory. How does the work in this thesis address above problems? In this thesis, four dierent FDD methods with diering characteristics are studied: rule based method, model based method, and two dierent statistical methods. A three step other other (18.8.%) (18.8.%) approach is used to address the current problems. First, the performance of each method is quantied with a set of parametric experiments. Second, each method is

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extended in a probabilistic context and tested with the parametric experiments, space cooling (2.8 %) to investigate the inherent uncertainty of each method. Finally, all four methods are wet cleaning (3.3 %) integrated in a probabilistic framework, which in principle could help improve the cooking (3.7 %) performance of each individual method (Fig.2). refrigeration (4.2 %) do the results of this thesis say What to the FDD community? (1) Rule lighting (8.5.%) augmented CUSUM method requires relatively less knowledge about the system, therefore is more scalable. It can detect abrupt faults and serious incipient faults. (2) In general, model based method is the most accurate due to its component level diagnostic approach, PCA method is the most sensitive due to its sensitivity to non-control electronics (8.6.%) related sensors (Fig. 3). (3) Bayesian probabilistic integration produces results that incline to the method with best performance, therefore this water heating (12.8.%) approach is a reliable method to improve the overall FDD performance. However, this approach requires accurate estimate of the method uncertainty, therefore needs a pretraining stage in real use.

LLC,T. (2005). Energy Impact of Commercial Building Controls and Performance computers (2 %) Diagnostics: Market Characterization, Energy Impact of Building Faults and Energy Savings ventilation (0.7 %) Potential. Building Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy. 3 Wiggins, M. & Brodrick, J. (2012). Emerging Technologies: HVAC Fault Detection. ASHRAE space heating (35.4%) Journal, 54(2), 3.
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Hyun-Bo Seo
Advisor: Craig Zimring

An Investigation on Task Interruptions and the Physical Environment for Human Performance
Many dangerous or tragic events such as medical errors and airplane crashes are often the result of human errors, and these errors are often the result of a professional worker being interrupted during a critical task. Although the impact can be serious, the ways that interruptions are affected by the physical environment have rarely been examined in the study of healthcare, human factors, and design. This study investigates how the physical environment helps manage the interruptions by observing the process of medication administration by nurses in hospital units. The key question of this study is: how can we design a unit that helps to manage interruptions during critical tasks such as medication administration while supporting other important tasks such as patient monitoring and communication? Given that the previous studies suggest that the characteristics of physical environment such as visibility and accessibility affect encounters, this study suggests the following hypotheses during medication administration: (1) Nurses will be interrupted more frequently when they are in areas where they can see others and are seen more easily by others. (2) Nurses will be interrupted more when they are in areas that are more accessible (reachable with fewer turns) to others. Methods: The study was done in neurological intensive care units in an academic medical center in Atlanta, Georgia. The settings were two differently designed intensive care units (ICUs) (Fig. 1) that serve the same type of patients with the same pool of caregivers. For example, all nurses come from the same pool and they rotate between the two units regularly. Patient rooms are typically full and patients are assigned based on availability of the rooms. Each nurse is typically assigned two patients.

Observation: The researcher observed medication administration of nurses. The observation started when nurses arrived at the medication station and ended when they entered a patient room. The path, interruption, content of conversation (private versus work-related), role of interrupter (nurse, physician, clerk, other staff, patient, and family) and duration were recorded on floor plans with simplified coding. Variables: Independent Variables The average visibility and accessibility was calculated by a computer program called Depthmap (Turner, 2010). This program uses a representation of a floor plan in the AutoCad format as an input and overlays small square tiles (for example, one foot by one foot) on the floor plan. For example, for visibility, the program counts all the tiles that it can reach from any particular tile with straight lines without going through boundaries such as walls. An actual graph of visibility analysis for the 2D West wing is shown in Fig. 2, where color ranges from red to blue represent values from high to low. Dependent Variable Number of interruptions. An interruption was any verbal interaction between the nurse who was getting medication and other people. The dependent variable was narrowed down to the number of interruptions that were initiated by others during medication trips not including ones around the medication station.

Analysis: Given that most medication trips (68) did not have any interruption, some (15) had one, and only one had two interruptions. Poisson distribution was assumed. The observation was also certain at a interval of the medication trips. Results: After series of Poisson regression analysis with 84 observations, only visibility significantly predicted (p=.005) number of interruptions. Log (no. of interruptions) = B1 (Visibility) + B Discussion and Conclusion: Two specific conclusions were made based on observation and data analysis. The average visibility of potential work areas in nurse stations significantly contributed to nurses interruptions that were initiated by others during medication trips from a medication station to a patient room. Another conclusion is that spatial experience for a task such as medication administration might be perceived or described by the entire trip path, but analysis of the entire path as a unit did not reflect interruption events that nurses experienced. Not every part of the path had effects on interruptions. Instead, segments of the path that are divided by visibility reflected the interruptions events during the medication trip. Based on the first conclusion, a hypothetical alternative medication station location is tested for predicted number of interruptions and it showed less number of interruptions while visibility for patient monitoring was improved. The culture of interruptions should be noted in this discussion, which was that nurses were usually willing participants in the observed interruption events. A substantial percentage of self-initiated interruptions (41%) and private conversations (25%) observed for this study might confirm the notion. Nurses did not seem to avoid interruptions during medication administration, and they might even feel obligated to talk to others when others are nearby so that they do not offend others by not conversing with them.

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Fei Zhao
Advisor: Godfried L. Augenbroe

Agent-Based Modeling of Commercial Building Stocks for Energy Policy and Demand Response Analysis
The importance of developing a method to bridge the gap between the current trend of CO2 emission from the commercial sector and the target emission level for ensuring long-term sustainability has increased. An efficient and rational building implementation of large-scale1 energy conservation strategies and demand response analysis requires the application of comprehensive building stock models that have the ability to estimate the baseline energy demand profile of the existing building stock,2 explore the technical and economic effects of different retrofit technologies over time (energy efficiency) with respect to building owner preferences, and identify the interaction between building stocks and the power grid (demand response). Managing a sustainable built environment with a large number of buildings rests on the ability to assess and improve the performance of the building stock over time. Building stock models are cornerstones to the assessment of the combined impact of energy-related building interventions across different spatial and temporal scales. However, such models, particularly those accounting for both physical formulation and social behaviors of the underlying buildings, are still in their infancy. This research strives to more thoroughly examine how buildings perform aggregately in energy usage by focusing on how to tackle three major technical challenges: (1) quantifying building energy performance in an objective and scalable manner, (2) mapping building stock model space to real-world data space, and (3) quantifying and evaluating energy intervention behaviors of a building stock.

This thesis hypothesizes that a new paradigm of aggregation of large-scale building stocks can lead to (1) an accurate and efficient intervention analysis model and (2) a functionally comprehensive decision support tool for building stock energy intervention analysis. Specifically, this thesis presents three methodologies. To address the first challenge, this thesis develops a normative building physical energy model that can rapidly estimate single building energy performance with respect to its design and operational characteristics. To address the second challenge, the thesis proposes a statistical procedure using regression and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling techniques that inverse-estimate building parameters based on building stock energy consumption survey data. The outcomes of this statistical procedure validate the approach of using prototypical buildings for two types of intervention analysis: energy

retrofit and demand response. These two cases are implemented in an agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) framework to tackle the third challenge. This thesis research contributes to the body of knowledge pertaining to building energy modeling beyond the single building scale. The proposed framework can be used by energy policy makers and utilities for the evaluation of energy retrofit incentives and demand-response program economics.

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Large-scale in the context of this study refers to a scale larger than the single building level. It may refer to the scale of a nation (an entire country or the majority of a country), a region (multiple states), a state, or a city. 2 A building stock in the context of this study refers to a cluster of individual buildings located close to one another.
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Theory and Criticism I | Johnston + Peponis

ARCH 6131

Theory and Criticism I

George Johnston + John Peponis

Theories of Working Drawings: Rhetorics of Architectural Representation

The manner by which we construct the world, both physically and intellectually, affects and is affected by our ability to describe it. Furthermore, our approach to describing the world orders our capacity to conceive interventions into it, to anticipate their perceptual and otherwise intended effects, and then to realize them all, through more acts of design and construction. Today, as drawing, the active site of design, is progressively displaced by the rise of digital and algorithmic descriptions of the world, the question is begged: What are the implications of this change upon the acts and motives of architectural design? As reflections upon this condition, students were asked to create supplemental annotated drawings, composite drawings in which the tension between conceptual ends and means was made rhetorically evident. These rhetorical drawings are meant to crystallize the work that architectural drawings can do, exceeding mere description to provoke constructive interpretation.

Wen Wen Zhao

Anne McCarthy

Freya Schlemmer

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COA 4801 / COA 8831

gray matter(s)
Benjamin Flowers

graymatters.gatech.edu gray_matter(s) is a student-led collective operating under the advisement of Benjamin Flowers in Georgia Techs College of Architecture. It is a forum for experimentation a design hive of student artists and designers.

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FLUX 2011
A winning proposal by gray_matter(s) for a one-night art installation at Castleberry Hill selected by flux projects for FLUX 2011. [September 30, 2011] project featured in: Creative Loafing Burnaway.org ZOO ATLANTA Exploring the jangals of Castleberry Hill, we were drawn to the fenced-off lots that diluted Atlantas connective tissue. We found holes, gaps in the city. There were vacant fields animated by strange new citizens. An old horse, tied to the trailer of a neglected truck, stared at us through the fence. There was a rooster too. They knew where they were, probably better than we did. We propose the transformation of these sites into embodiments of urban mythologies, bringing the unused sites into dialogue with the neighborhood and recognizing what may not be, but could: the neighborhood as the zoo, populated by unimaginable creatures in the captivity of vacant lots.

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A curation by gray_matter(s) at whitespaces whitespec. [December 10-31, 2011] A series of experiments in turning a white spec gray. Between light and shadow lies an undefined territory of balance. A poise defined not by negating, but by distilling oppositions, looking for a union of extremes rather than a consistent neutrality. It is the both-and, inherently unstable and immeasurably different in every instance. The exhibition presents a series of transformations embracing such an inclusive and plastic understanding of perception. Through processes of analogy, layering, and gradation, different media are brought into dialogue, the space becomes a hidden dimension of variation. Difference becomes a relative term, understood through observed realities rather than representations or ideals. In a field of endless subtlety, we find ourselves lost in our own perceptions.

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Furnishing Buildings | LeBlanc

ARCH 6417

Furnishing Buildings / Building Furniture

W. Jude LeBlanc
This seminar/workshop is devoted to an examination of furniture by: finding its place within the larger context of architectural discourse and design, exploring its potential for expression and meaning, and speculating on the possibilities of technologies and materials in its production. Introduction, study and analysis of selected furniture support discussion of theories and styles of furniture design. The goal of the course is to develop a working method for the design of furniture, or related elements with significance to a broader discussion of concepts related to architecture, art and culture. In order to promote a close relationship between conceptual clarity and design development, the course is composed of both lectures / seminars and workshop sessions. The projects created during the course include: wallpaper patterns, mirror or indexical device, found object, flexible surface, and plat plate.

David Cates, William Gravlee | indexical device | Boolean Classics - Timeless and inspiring famous modern chairs cast into concrete and becoming outdoor furniture that will be around for as many generations as have been inspired by the original prototypes.

Kasia Zycinska | Three signs for coffee: index, icon, and symbol.

Hrach Burtoyan, Steve Cochoff | indexical device | A cheval mirror a chair and a vanity. Aluminum and glass. Seon Yeong Ji | A pattern based on a radical two rectangle that creates optical effects related to scale and perspective.

Hannah Griggers, Benjamin Smith | indexical device | Shaped mirrors applied to interior or exterior surfaces can create provocative formal and spatial effects as they perceptually alternate from flat figures to spatial apertures to perspectival illusions.

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Hrach Burtoyan, Steve Cochoff | flexible surface | Carpets move off the floor to make tables and desks.

Brittany Porter, Wesley Herr | found object | A metal frame that transforms a bean bag chair into a rocker.

Kasia Zycinska, Marion Filliatre | found object | Recycled clothing functions as suspended containers.

David Cates, William Gravlee | found object | Recycled plywood containers for a laptop allude to the drawing surfaces that the computer has made obsolete. Seon Yeong Ji | flat plate | Abstract planes function as a working chair in three dimensions. When not in use and hung on the wall, they appear nominally flat and allude to paintings.

Kasia Zycinska | plat plate | A faceted construction of triangular cells of corrugated cardboard functions as a shade that diffuses light.

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Shape Grammars | Economou

Shape Grammars
Athanassios Economou
Shape grammars is a powerful formal system for the generative description of designs. Their unique difference with all other generative systems is that they perform entirely visual computations rather than symbolic computations. Shape grammars are intended to form a basis for purely visual computation and in this sense they belong in the heart of design education and practice both in precedent analysis and in a studio setting. The course discusses the foundations of shape grammar formalism, provides a constructive understanding of the formalism through hands-on workshops and offers a generous overview of the history and logic of several of its applications in design research. The course is divided in three parts. The first part is given on the theoretical foundations of the shape grammar research discourse and more specifically on the systematic exposition of the design schemas and in the ways schemas are ordered and combined to produce a compositional taxonomy of design. The objective of the first part is to produce pictorial illustrations of the basic schemas, their inverses and their combinations in sums and products, in terms of symbolic rules, shape rules, parametric rules and spatial examples. The second part is structured around two extended workshops that promote a constructive, hands-on understanding of the shape grammar formalism. The first workshop focuses on tactile, physical, recursive computations with the Froebel kindergarten blocks. The Second workshop focuses on digital, visual computations using the Grape, an AutocAD plugin developed to facilitate visual composition with emergent shapes (Grasl and Economou, 2011). The third part discusses various applications of shape grammars in different fields including architecture, landscape, painting and decorative arts.

Kasia Zycinska

3D Weaves Grape Software Explorations

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Design Computing | Riether

ARCH 4011 / ARCH 6053

Introduction to Design Computing

Gernot Riether with Suhee Oh
The course provides an historic and theoretic background of digital architecture. It also introduces concepts and methods of digital design as well as a wide range of tools in 3d modeling, rendering, scripting and digital fabrication. The course is structured into weekly lectures and workshops. Guest lectures at the end of the semester provide an overview of digital agendas of different disciplines present at Georgia Tech. Workshops are used to introduce different software platforms and provide tutorials and individual technical support for three assignments given during the semester. The assignments are organized around a case study as well as digital design and fabrication methods. The outcomes of the assignments reflect the understanding of digital design concepts and methods, theoretical background discussed during the course as well as technical skills. Software platforms used include Maya, Rhino + Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop and Power Point for 2d presentations and 3d printing and laser cutting for fabrication.
Claire de la Sayette Kim Yeun

Haedeun Kim Haedeun Kim James Bramlett Migyung Ko

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Zero Energy Housing | Avgenbroe + Castro-Lacouture + Gamble + Gentry + Granier + Zhao

Zero Energy Housing

Fried Augenbroe + Daniel Castro-Lacouture + Michael Gamble + Russell Gentry + Marcel Granier + Fei Zhao

Design, Simulation and Feasibility

Zero Energy Housing: Design, Simulation and Feasibility focuses on the design, analysis, operation, construction, and cost feasibility of net zero energy buildings. The semester focuses on the design of small-scale ecologicallysensitive residential developments. The key to the design activity is incorporating high-performance active and passive systems. Students work in cross-disciplinary teams to develop their proposals, characterizing: energy demand, energy production, building operational strategies, mechanical and electrical systems, construction specifications and building process, initial cost estimating and return on investment, risks associated with implementing new technologies, building simulation, and life-cycle assessment. The mantra for this course is prove it all design decisions and building system selections must be justified through analysis, simulation, and calculations. The course meets twice a week with one day used for lectures and one day for in-class working sessions/tutorials. Student teams also meet weekly in working session that the instructors can join as necessary. The once-per-week lectures complement the research trajectory. Lectures focus on building technology, case studies, introduction to simulation tools, construction specifications and cost estimating. The course introduces a spreadsheet-based methodology for tabulating energy demands and production and leads the tutorials on building simulation tools.

Sandra Caballero, Maria Davaki, Amber Einarsson, Obi Ezekwe

Katrine Bundgaard, Nai-Yuan Chang, Mindy Ren, Roya Rezaee

Sandra Caballero, Maria Davaki, Amber Einarsson, Obi Ezekwe

Katrine Bundgaard, Nai-Yuan Chang, Mindy Ren, Roya Rezaee

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Summer Study Abroad

MAMC + Greece/Italy
Summer 2011 Barcelona, Berlin, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece
The College of Architecture Graduate Summer Program in Europe explores architecture, landscapes, and urban design in Barcelona, Berlin and the Netherlands. The extended residence in each location allows time to understand each locations historical, urban, and environmental structure; to visit important modern and design projects; and to experience everyday urban life in context. The Program examines the modern and contemporary city through the lens of the historical urban structure of each place and the ways that buildings, landscapes, and urban design have shaped it. We especially focus on the period after the middle of the 19th century, when urban politics, urban reform, modern architecture, and urban design began to flourish and build the modern city and its contemporary successors. Students in all three disciplines - architecture, landscape architecture, and planning - study these movements in academic coursework and recognize their importance in contemporary theory, research, and professional practices. However, classroom instruction, using texts and slides, can never substitute for direct observation. The program has three objectives: To introduce students to the physical forms and structures of cities and the complex sources of that shape them landscape, politics, ideals, imagination, identity, conflict and the roles that design has played in constituting urban form and reality. To deepen the students understanding of the complex relationships of 20th Century architecture and urbanism to specific cultural settings, historical events, and political movements through lectures, seminars and visits to cultural and historical museums and exhibitions. To immerse the students in contemporary architecture, landscapes and urbanism in Europe and their relationships to the century of modernism through lectures, seminars and visits to significant contemporary buildings, urban projects, and landscapes, as well as to professional offices.

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Marion Filliatre
Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) I found this year at Georgia Tech in the school of Architecture very fullling. I learned a lot thanks to the competent teachers and the students who were always really helpful. First I have enlarged my knowledge and discovered a new way of thinking, but I have also completely extended my computer skills. All the conditions meet to allow a good experience of work: the teachers are fully dedicated to their students; they always care about them and push their work further without being overwhelming. The facilities and the building are amazing, I had the chance to work in the Hinman building, everyone has his individual desk and works together that enables contacts and a sharing of knowledge. Finally, during the second semester, I could express myself and take part in a rst stimulating competition in a great atmosphere.

Claire de la Sayette
Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) This year spent at Georgia Tech as an exchange student was incredible. I have experienced a new way of learning architecture, and considerably enriched my knowledge. More focused on the concept, the studio gave me a new point of view to approach each project in a dierent way. I acquired complementary skills in association to my French background which will certainly help me a lot in the future. I discovered a dierent learning environment. Having my own space in Hinman with all the other students brings a motivating working atmosphere. It was a luck to work in such great conditions. Sharing with the American student on a project helped a lot. Each culture can bring something dierent.

David Nahmani
Paris, France 2nd year graduate student
Ecole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Paris La Villette (ENSA) My motivation was always high, and even if Grad School is not easy, all the conditions, as working in studio with other students, were stimulating. I had the chance to learn dierent ways of using the tools, dierent methods of architectural conception, but did not forget what I had learned in France. The professors, always available, were satised when I showed some knowledge from my personal French background. One of the fascinating things about this experience is sharing with people who have a very dierent culture from mine. Sharing is a reciprocal action. Not only I could learn the American architecture background, and use the strengths of American design tools, but I could also share my knowledge, because Europe has always been a good basis for architecture theory. The exchange was very stimulating, and I hope some of my American friends will once come to visit me in France, so I can introduce them my everyday life.

Ralf Iberle
Munich, Germany 4th year undergraduate student
Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM) The experiences I gained during my exchange year at the College of Architecture helped me a lot in advancing with my architectural studies. The close contact to teachers and professors was extremely helpful for this. Moreover, without exception, all the people who are in charge of the College of Architecture helped you not only with architectural questions but also with problems besides architectural studio. In addition to that the experiences you can have outside of school are also really diverse. I also enjoyed the broad range of activities that were oered, for example the activities at the Campus Recreational Center. Activities like running and playing soccer with other students made schooldays more diverse and interesting.

Michael Fox
Munich, Germany 4th year undergraduate student
Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM) The opportunity to study abroad is a mind-extending experience. The year of my undergraduate studies in architecture at Georgia Tech was truly one of those experiences. I was able to integrate a completely new way of thinking into my design work, adapt to dierent challenges, and extend my knowledge in aspects of architectural education that are not taught like this at my home university, the Technische Universitt Mnchen. I had the benet of learning from great professors, as well as from very talented fellow students. As well as the personal connection to faculty and students, I was able to built up throughout my time at Georgia Tech. At the School of Architecture this was a strong factor as well. I had the opportunity to enjoy the life and amenities of Ga Tech campus as well as the city based on the great location of the campus in Midtown of Atlanta. I enjoyed the strong community feeling in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech.

Marius Mller
Cottbus, Germany 2nd year graduate student
Brandenburgische Technische Universitt (BTU) As an architect and graduate student in city- and regional planning, my studies and research in the MSUD program were great successes for me and great time for intercultural experience. The major of my research, redevelopment of brownelds, transformation of inner city areas, and urban process management had been pushed forward by the excellent and professional members of the faculty. I was able to learn the American specialties and gave feedback from my European perspective of urban design. Small classes, less than ten students at the studios, intense exchange between professors and students and among each other are giving me the opportunity to evolve my skills and personality. To go aboard is never easy or something what will come like a all-inclusive holiday package, it is hard work, a challenge and daily improvement. But it is the best thing you can do, during your time in university.

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future PRACTICE
2011-2012 lecture series

Events | Lecture Series

Kinder Baumgardner
WEDNESDAY_

WEDNESDAY_

09.07.2011

Principal and Director, SWA Houston

co-sponsored by Central Atlanta Progress and The Midtown Alliance

Achim Menges

WEDNESDAY_

10.12.2011

Jeff Sheppard Jeanne Gang

WEDNESDAY_ TUESDAY_

09.14.2011

Lecture Series
Future Practice

Principal, Roth Sheppard Architects

Director, Institute for Computational Design Stuttgart University

11.01.2011

Principal, Studio Gang Architects

Michael Ra
Principal, Front Inc.

WEDNESDAY_

11.16.2011

Michael Oliveri
Artist, ART X Expanded Forms

11.02.2011

Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla

University of Minnesota
WEDNESDAY_

WEDNESDAY_

01.11.2012

Lisa Iwamoto Mimi Hoang

Partner, n Architects
FRIDAY_ WEDNESDAY_

02.08.2012

Danielle Roney

WEDNESDAY_

01.25.2012

Artist

Principal, Iwamoto Scott Architecture

02.15.2012

co-sponsored by Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

Patrik Schumacher
Partner and Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
WEDNESDAY_

02.17.2012

Marcos Cruz
Bartlett/UCL

02.22.2012

Bill Sharples
Principal, SHoP Architects
WEDNESDAY_

WEDNESDAY_

02.29.2012

Francisco Rodrguez
WEDNESDAY_

WEDNESDAY_

03.07.2012

Dean of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico

Mark Mueckenheim
Principal, FRAMA Architects Chair for Principles, Architectural Design, TU Munich
WEDNESDAY_

03.28.2012

Scott Ingram

03.14.2012

Artist

Phil Bernstein
Vice President, Autodesk
Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture | 247 4th St Atlanta, GA 30332 | 404. 894. 3880 | www.arch.gatech.edu

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Harris Dimitropoulos Exhibition

Digital Work
November 16 - December 16, 2011 Stubbins Studio Gallery, East Architecture Building
This work is an experiment in digital media. This experiment is based on the question: Can we produce difference and particular identity by using the default functions of the computer? This question engenders the dialectic between two competing and mostly mutually exclusive realms; of virtuality and embodiment. In using a system of software and hardware, our intellectual and physical products are both facilitated and limited by the technology. Is it possible to discover and exploit the limitations of this system? Can we then produce objects and images that appear to be uniquely conceived and whose digital DNA is melded with our own?

Cooper Carry Studio Dedication

Dale A. Durfee
February 29, 2012 West Architecture Building
Long time College of Architecture supporters, Cooper Carry, dedicated four design studios on the third flour of Architecture West in later February. Three of the design studio spaces bear the name of the firm, Cooper Carry, and the remaining studio is dedicated in memory of Dale A. Durfee, Professor Emeritus, who taught in the School of Architecture from 1966-2000. School of Architecture alumni and Durfee family members attended the reception for the unveiling of the dedicatory plaques, which was hosted by Dean Alan Balfour and professor George Johnston, Chair. Jerry Cooper, Kevin Cantley, and Roger Miller from Cooper Carry spoke from Cooper Carry expressing their gratitude to the School of Architecture and their deep appreciation for the teaching of Dale Durfee. Photos: courtesy of Terry Kearns

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Events | Neuro Salon

Neuro-Salon
Consider Attention
April 11-28, 2012 Stubbins Studio Gallery, East Architecture Building
projects on display: Incline_Frederick Pearsall, Matthew Swarts (1,2) | A Camera Obscura Installation_James Murray, Patrick Di Rito, Shota Vashakmadze (3,5) | Vibrating Glove_Jun Ueda (4) | A Fraction Away from Understanding - Aude Sapere_Harris Dimitropoulis (6) | Crystal Palace - Emergent Formations_Daniel Baerlecken, Gernot Riether, Aaron Coffman, Almir Divanovic, Daniel Dixon, Emilio Hernandez, Azzam Issa, Cole Loomis (7,9) | Animapping_Ali Mazalek, Claudia Rebola, Paul Clifton, Scott Hoag, Andy Wu, Jason Clark, Chelsea McClinton, Sarah Nelson, Vivek Sangubhotla (8) | Hippocampal Memory_Audrius Plioplys | Julie_David Bashwiner

PORTMAN PRIZE
School of Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology
Portman Prize and Visiting Critic Program
The Georgia Tech School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of Maryann Thompson, FAIA, principal of Maryann Thompson Architects, as the 2012 Portman Visiting Critic. Ms. Thompson is recognized for her accomplishments in the area of design excellence as her projects reconnect architecture with the landscape by celebrating tectonics and materials. She will participate as a visiting critic, guest lecturer and serve as jury chair for the selection of the Portman Prize recipients. As Portman Visiting Critic, Ms. Thompson will contribute to the schools comprehensive building design workshop organized in the second year of the three-year Master of Architecture program. This graduate design studio integrates coursework in architectural and site design, construction technology, and the art of detail.

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2012 Portman Prize Competition

Options II Studio Building Workshop
April 27, 2012
jury chair: Maryann Thompson, FAIA_Maryann Thompson Architects, Cambridge, MA 1 2 jurors: Volkan Alkanoglu_2012/13 TVS Design Visiting Critic | Gordon Beckman_Portman Holdings | Brandon Clifford_Ohio State | Roy Decker_Duval+Decker Architects | Alex Duval_ Portman Holdings | Lisa Hsieh_Princeton University | Howard Wertheimer, FAIA_Georgia Tech competition finalists: Minjung Maings studio: 1_WenWen Zhao, 2_Dawn Riley | David Greens studio: 3_Chuk Lindberg, 4_Ann Rogers_3rd Place | Charles Rudolphs studio: 5_Christine Cangelosi, 6_Dana McClure_2nd Place | Michael Gambles studio: 7_Patrick Deveau, 8_Jill Fredrickson | W. Jude LeBlancs studio: 9_Marion Filliatre_1st Place, 10_Kasia Zycinska

Maryann Thompson, FAIA

Maryann Thompson, FAIA, was educated at Princeton University and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she is now a member of the Architecture faculty. Thompson carries degrees in both architecture and landscape architecture, bringing to her practice an interdisciplinary approach where issues of site and landscape are central to design thinking. She founded Maryann Thompson Architects in 2000, following her tenure as a founding partner of Thompson and Rose Architects. She specializes in architecture that is sustainable and regionally driven with a heightened sense of site and landscape. Her architectural investigations are centered on an ambiguity between inside and outside; the utilization of light as a material; and an accentuation of a sense of place with warm, natural materials. Thompsons work has garnered some 60 design awards, including two AIA National Honor Awards and numerous AIA New England Design Honor Awards and BSA Honor Awards for Design Excellence.

Final Review
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Hinman 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Jury Chair
Maryann Thompson, FAIA Maryann Thompson Architects, Cambridge, MA

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Volkan Alkanoglu
2012/13 TVS Design Visiting Critic

2012 Portman Prize

In order to encourage student accomplishment and excellence in the integration of technical considerations as a key constituent of the design process, the Portman Prize will be awarded by a jury comprised of the Portman Visiting Critic as jury chair, as well as other invited participants. Students will be advanced to the final jury stage through a prior juried selection process. The final jury will award ranked prizes, each carrying monetary awards. The top prize winner will also be offered a summer internship in the office of John Portman & Associates. Should the top winner be unable to accept the summer internship for any reason, then that offer will defer to the second or third place winner.

Gordon Beckman
Portman Holdings

Brandon Clifford
Ohio State

Roy Decker
Duval+Decker Architects

Alex Duval
Portman Holdings

Lisa Hsieh
Princeton University

Portman Prize History

The Portman Prize and Visiting Critic Program has been generously supported for over a decade by the Atlanta firm of John Portman & Associates, Inc. Portman is an internationally recognized architectural and engineering firm with a team of more than 40 professionals and offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Shanghai, China. Established in 1953, Portman has over 50 years of expertise in designing hotels, universities, offices, trade marts, and mixed-use urban complexes around the world. Vision, creativity, and an entrepreneurial spirit are the fundamentals of their human-centered design philosophy . Georgia Tech is proud to be a partner with Portman in advancing these values through the Portman Prize.

Howard Wertheimer, FAIA

Georgia Tech

Student Awards
1st Prize: $5000 + opportunity
for summer internship with John Portman and Associates

2nd Prize: $2000 3rd Prize: $1500

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Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design

Marc Simmons of Front, Inc.
May 3, 2012
The School of Architecture at Georgia Tech has appointed Marc Simmons to the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design. In this capacity, Simmons, founding partner of international design and faade consulting practice Front, Inc. will advance the Schools teaching and research in emerging modes of architectural practice and lead collaborative ventures with students and faculty in architecture and related disciplines at Georgia Tech. A leading advocate for innovative and critical practice, Simmons has produced seminal works in contemporary architecture including most recently: China Central Television Headquarters with OMA; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center with Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Dee and Charles Wyly Theater with REX; Yas Hotel with Asymptote; and Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art with Sejima Nishizawa Associates. An international search resulted in Simmons

selection in large part due to the strong alignment between his expertise and the School of Architectures aspirations for uniting design and technological innovation. His firm, Front, is known widely for its successful execution of original and ground-breaking work, and for its progressive approach to design integration among building disciplines. Fronts work methodology embraces architectural, engineering and cultural challenges with a first-principles approach for the evolution of creative and buildable designs. The digital-age practice of architecture will rise on creative contact between design and research across fields and disciplinary boundaries, said George Johnston, chair of the School of Architecture. We at Georgia Tech are ambitious in charting this direction, and I am certain Marc Simmons and Front will become powerful catalysts in this endeavor. The Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design is made possible by a generous endowment created in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Tom Ventulett, founding partner of tvsdesign in Atlanta. The intention of the Ventulett Chair is to engage an exceptional practitioner with a record of international leadership and excellence in architecture to teach in the School and to develop significant initiatives to heighten the critical importance of design in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, nationally and internationally. It is a privilege to be named Ventulett Chair and to be afforded the opportunity to engage Georgia Techs robust educational and research

platform for the experimental deployment of ideas and lessons evolved by Front through years of innovative practice, said Simmons. We look forward to working with students, faculty and the broader design community to execute studio, seminar and symposium formats that critically engage issues of the contemporary envelope. Prior to establishing Front in 2002, Simmons worked for the international faade engineering practices Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners and for Meinhardt Faade Technology. Originally trained in architecture, Simmons graduated from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Canada, and worked for Foster and Partners. He served as faculty member at Princeton University School of Architecture from 2005 to 2012, conducting graduate seminars on the subject of faade technology and practice, and teaching collaborative design studios. He has also lectured widely on the work of Front. Previous holders of the Ventulett Chair include Monica Ponce de Leon, now dean of the Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Nader Tehrani, founder of architectural firm NADAAA and professor and head of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, and Lars Spuybroek, founder of art and architecture design firm Nox, and currently a full professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Alan Balfour, dean of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture, commented, Marc Simmons practice offers a clear demonstration of the means by which the architect of the future can be empowered.

Marc Simmons

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Dominique Bonnamour Lloyd Scholarship

Awarded to the undergraduate student with the best third year design studio project studying in Paris. William McCommon Sponsor: The Estate of Dominique Bonnamour Lloyd

James Bowden Addy Memorial Scholarship

Awarded to deserving students based upon academic achievement. Marie Acalin Victoria Acevedo Sponsor: James Bowden Addy Memorial Fund

Donors + Sponsors

Donors + Sponsors
School of Architecture 2012 Awards

Portman Prize Awards

Options II Studio Competition 1st Place: Marion Filliatre 2nd Place: Dana McClure 3rd Place: Ann Rogers Sponsor: John Portman

Annual Ed Bacon Student Design Competition

Designing the Fair of the Future Honorable Mention: For Infrastructure proposal: Claire Pardo Dana McClure Dave Duncan Molly Herlong For Landscape Design proposal: Audrey Plummer WenWen Zhao Sean Wilson Chuk Lindberg Sponsor: Ed Bacon Foundation

Robert D. Betzel Jr. Scholarship

Awarded to a deserving student participating in study abroad. Justin Wallace Sponsor: Robert Daniel Betzel Memorial Fund

A. Frank Beckum Memorial Award

Awarded to deserving students based upon academic achievement. Elizabeth Slagel Sponsor: A. Frank Beckum Endowment

Paul M. Heffernan Travel Abroad Scholarship

Awarded for study abroad that extends the learning experience. Heta Naukkarinen Jessica Greenstein James Keane Erica Lee Sponsor: The Estate of Paul M. Heffernan

Spirit of the Studio Award

Selected by peers in Junior Studio. Lauren Cundiff Sponsor: Katherine Molyson

Masonry Award
M.Arch Students Masonry Competition 1st Place: Group 6, Tapete Block: Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Laura Richter Rebecca Riley Ann Rogers 2nd Place: Group 7, About Face Block: Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Junying Shi Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle 3rd Place: Group 8, Built with Light: Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Sponsor: National Concrete Masonry Association

Alan Salzman Memorial Scholarship

Awarded to deserving undergraduate students based upon academic achievement. Ekram Hassen

Dorothy Spence Memorial Scholarship

Awarded to M.Arch students who have demonstrated exemplary academic performance, design ability, leadership and service to the school and design community. Kasia Zycinska Mary Coleman Rogers Nicholas Coffee Sponsor: Architecture Foundation of Georgia

Andrew D. Jarrett Memorial Fellowship

Awarded to a deserving undergraduate or graduate student participating in a College of Architecture study abroad program. Travis Hampton Sponsor: Andrew D. Jarrett Memorial Fund

Sponsor: Alan Salzman Memorial Fund

Lewis Lanter Award

Awarded to a senior for excellent performance in the Senior Design Studio sequence. James Murray Sponsor: Friends of Lewis Lanter

McCoy-Shipley Scholarship
Awarded to a student participating in study abroad, who has demonstrated excellence in design. William McCommon Sponsor: Vernon McCoy, Jr and William J. Shipley Memorial Scholarship

Ruth Kaigler Goode & D. Rex Goode Scholarship

Awarded to a deserving student in architectural research or urban planning. Melissa Ting Sponsor: The Estate of Ruth Kaigler Goode & D.Rex Goode

Stanley, Love-Stanley Award

Awarded to the most improved graduate and undergraduate students of African descent. Dvaqnuyah Reuven Sharod Alford Sponsor: Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C.

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Stevens & Wilkinson Award

Awarded to a minority student with exceptional professional promise. Shaowen Zhang Sponsor: Stevens & Wilkinson

Charles Brown Urban Design Fellowship

Awarded to graduate students studying urban design or architecture. Chuk Lindberg Emilie Schmitz Jessica Steele-Hardin Joshua Tooill Sponsor: Charles R. Brown Urban Design Fund

Faculty Award of Merit

Best M.Arch Project Award. Anthony Payne Kelly Heyer Robert Woodhurst

Faculty Award of Merit

Best Doctoral Dissertation. Sherif Abdel Mohsen Title: An Ethnographically Informed Analysis of Design Intent Fei Zhao Title: Agent-Based Modeling of Commercial Building Stocks for Energy Policy and Demand Response Analysis

Donors + Sponsors

John William Sandeford Memorial Scholarship / Fellowship

Awarded to a student from the Central Savannah River Area, or from outside of the Atlanta area, based on academic performance and professional promise. Andrew Miller Sponsor: John William Sandeford Memorial Fund

Albert Lee Hawes Memorial Scholarship

Awarded to a deserving student of Architecture. Alice Vialard Sponsor: The Estate of Albert Hawes

T. Gordon Little Fellowship

Awarded to highly qualified Master of Architecture applicants who show exceptional academic and professional promise. Anne McCarthy Sponsor: T. Gordon Little Foundation

This year we extend special thanks to: Patricia Lanter, for permanently endowing the Lewis Lanter Prize. Alex Roush, for permanently endowing the Alex Roush Scholarship in Architecture.

King Student Medal

Awarded for excellence in architectural and environmental research. Yeonsook Heo

Gwinner Student Leadership Fellowship

Awarded to the President and Vice President of the GT Chapter of AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students). Natasha Sanjaya, President Jessica Hughes, Vice President Sponsor: Ken Gwinner, Sr. Vice President, Planning, Architecture and Construction, Turner Properties

School of Architecture PhD Fellowship

Awarded upon admission and based upon academic excellence. Chen Feng Zachary Porter Qinpeng Wang

Sponsor: Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC)

Alpha Rho Chi Medal Marthame Sanders Fellowship

Awarded to students in architecture who best demonstrate the following: 1. Outstanding Academic Achievement 2. A marked flair for creativity, and 3. Evidence of determination to make a contribution to the betterment of society. Christine Cangelosi Dawn Riley Sponsor: Marthame Sanders Fund Awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated leadership, service to the school, and professional promise. Benjamin L. Smith Sponsor: Alpha Rho Chi Honorary Architecture Fraternity

Henry Adams AIA Gold Medal & Certificate of Achievement

Awarded to the two top-ranking graduate students for their academic achievement and general excellence in Architecture. Emilie Schmitz, Medal Allison Bahe, Certificate Sponsor: American Institute of Architects

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Faculty + Staff

Publications

Full-Time Faculty
Al-Haddad, Tristan Andreotti, Libero Augenbroe, Fried Baerlecken, Daniel Bafna, Sonit Balfour, Alan Brown, Jason Carpo, Mario Cottle, Mark Dagenhart, Richard Dimitropoulos, Harris Do, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Ellen Eastman, Charles Economou, Thanos Flowers, Benjamin Gamble, Michael Gentry, Russell Hollengreen, Laura Johnston, George Khan, Sabir LeBlanc, W. Jude Maing, Minjung Peponis, John Riether, Gernot Rudolph, Charles Sharp, Leslie Spuybroek, Lars Yang, Perry Zimring, Craig

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Assistant Professor Professor Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor + Dean Assistant Professor Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Professor Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor + Associate Chair Associate Professor Associate Professor Professor + Chair Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Professor + Associate Chair Assistant Professor Associate Professor

Part-Time Faculty
Allen, Douglas Bell, Brian Dusseault, Ruth Farrow, Robert Gordon, Judy Green, David Harrison, Tim Lewitt, Erik Mallgrave, Harry Mojdehi, Mariam Parker, Ennis Pearsall, Fred Rodgers, Richard Romm, Stuart Shaw, Jonathan Sherman, Jihan Soh, Sarah Stafford, Barbara Swarts, Matthew Williams, Jordan Yocum, David

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Professor Emeritus Lecturer Visiting Assistant Professor Lecturer Senior Lecturer Professor of Practice Lecturer Lecturer Adjunct Professor Lecturer Professor of Practice Senior Lecturer Lecturer Senior Lecturer Research Scientist II Lecturer Lecturer Visiting Professor Research Scientist I Lecturer Lecturer Lars Spuybroek Mario Carpo

The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

NAi Publishers

The Alphabet and the Algorithm (Writing Architecture)

The MIT Press

Libero Andreotti Spielraum: W. Benjamin et larchitecture

La Villette

Staff
Andr, Lucie Cinquemani, Amanda King, Samantha Pereira, Brenda Tucker, Robin Assistant Director Academic Assistant Administrative Professional Academic Advising Manager Academic Advisor Robert M. Craig

Assistant Dean + Academic Professional Professor Associate Professor Professor

The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith

University of Georgia Press

Alan Balfour Solomons Temple: Myth, Conflict, and Faith

Wiley-Blackwell

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Students

Fall 2011
COA 1011 First Common Year
Katelyn Adcock Maryam Al-Atassi Annette Almonte-Malagon Joseph Ayala Stephanie Azahar Christina Bacallao Deok Bae Benjamin Bailey Naimo Bakar Rachel Barber Corinne Bartlett Samuel Bell Jordon Blackmon Courtney Blanchard Jennifer Blyth Lauren Brett Mary Briatta Piper Brownlee Emerald Chafin Elvin Chu Yoonyoung Chung Cody Clegg Candice Cobb Macy Corbin Bob Cousseillant Olivia Davis Amelia Deaton Norwood Dennis Andisheh Dianat Nadia Dorado Stephanie Douthitt Benjamin Dunnaway Lauren Ellsworth Cody Fallenstein Steven Fendley Steven Fisher Amanda Foster Sean Fowler Sebastian Garcia

Frank Gibase Christopher Girardot Omar Gonzalez Jared Greathouse Paul Griffin Jack Grove Patrick Guiney Tianjing Guo Cameron Guthrie Rosario Hanon Andrew Helbling Kelsey Hollington Vivianne Hutt Sung Hye Jeon Damon Johnson Jamal Johnson Christa Kelly Katherine Kenna John Kennedy Cameron Kessler Leida Khodadadi Daniel Kim Sol Kim Songmi Kim Taylor Kitchens Viviana Kreisel Charles Kroeber Andrea Kuklenyik Quy Le Jong Lee Monika Lee Eugene Lee Michael Lee Jin Woo Lee Michael Lehman Dimitra Lewis Sophia Linebaugh Paloma Longhi Hoang Luu Sina Mahzari James Mccord Hannah Mccord Catherine Meadows Alyssa Mellett Catherine Meschia

Jeffrey Miller John Miller Maria Moersen Leila Moghimi William Moore Kelsey Musick Mediha Nazli Kaj Niegmann Colin Noronha Regan OConnell Lena Oliver Katherine Olson Morgan Orvino Morgan Painter Victoria Palacios Krishi Patel Vijal Patel Krisha Patel Grey Peterson Eryn Phillips Anastasiya Politykina Matthew Porter Glenn Powell Kendall Putmon Zhiwen Qiu Paul Reynolds John Robinett Dillon Roseen Claudia Ross Jana Rossouw Kaleigh Sawyer Lindsey Schwartz Candace Seda David Serna Sheena Shahangian Suzanne Solis George Sun Samantha Svedlund Karah Tarpley Elaina Thompson Victor Tran Kieulai Tran Katie Turner Steven Victor Brennan Wall

Ruoxi Wang Kiana Ware John Warrener Tarnisha Washington Skyler Westlake Colton Wheatley Stoney Wilbanks Dylan Williams Gloria Woods Angie Yim Orezioghene Zaudu Aki Alfredo Zavaleta

ARCH 2011 Sophomores

Victoria Acevedo Christopher Allen Virginia Bradbury Anna Brooks Eliah Cappi Blake Carson Kiyah Crittendon Jennifer Dreisbach Michelle Everett Eric Goldstein Wesley Herr Jorri Hill Deborah Hudson Jessica Hughes Christopher Hunter Pavan Iyer Smruti Keshani Gitanjali Khote Olivia King Cameron Kolar Sae Joung Kou Michelle Kraus Luke Kvasnicka Emily Lenke James MacDaniel Victoria Mansell Tyler Martin William Mccollum John Mcmillon Andrew Miller David Moore Paul Neiswander Morgan Nelson Kayla Nightingale Linda Ortiz Charles Parrish Catherine Quigley

Anthony Ranallo Geoffrey Rees Philip Richardson Briana Rinderknecht Caitlyn Simpson Sean Sims Kelly Skaggs Anna Skipper Elizabeth Slagel Carly Smith Morgan Strickland Oreta Taylor Jennifer Taylor David Varner Anqi Wang Marc Whitley Helen Winter David Woods Shaowen Zhang

ARCH 3011 Juniors

Marie Acalin Ellen Burge Kathryn Burrough Laura Camp Michael Chaney Ann Charleston Allison Clark Ciera Crowell Lauren Cundiff Jared Davis Sarthak Dhingra Rebecca Duncan Mason Elledge Megan Fowler Michael Fox Anjamarie Gaztambide Clara Gilbert Jessica Greenstein Hannah Griggers Gregory Hall Carly Hansen Michael Howard Yunxin Hu Ralf Iberle Soleen Karim Nikos Kavoori James Keane Jasmine Kent Yeun Kim Haedeun Kim

Scharl Young Koh Edwin Krenson Weston Landis Tri-An Le Hyo Jae Lee Ka Yeon Lee Xueping Li Colin Lienhard Kyle Mahoney James McClure Elyse McClure William McCommon Megan McDonough Alyssa McKay Michelle Mendenhall Jon Moore Heta Naukkarinen Brendan Nichols Timothy Niou Joong Suk Oh Jose Pajares Brittany Porter Andrea Puccini Brianna Rindge Ashley Rodriguez Peter Ryan Natasha Sanjaya Soojung Shin Benjamin Smith Justin Southard Lauren Tanguay Ryan Terrell Melissa Ting Bryce Truitt Shota Vashakmadze Catherine Wong

Students

ARCH 4011 Seniors

James Bramlett Katherine Braswell Stephen Crouse Chelsey Dail Stacy Davis Patrick Di Rito Melissa Doss Keefer Dunn Lauren Griffith Hamza Hasan Seon Yeong Ji Phillip Judin Samuel Kim

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Vanessa Lira Michael Miller Caroline Montague Margot Montouchet James Murray Robert Nuttall James Park Julia Sibert Carolina Sitterson Zachary Stanton Ronak Vaidya Taylor Walters Arian Zarrabi

ARCH 4022 Core II Studio

James Boyer Hee Jin Cho Nicholas Coffee Madona Cumar Elaheh Damircheli Caitlin Gaddy Ekram Hassen Migyung Ko Scott Myers Jeremy Nash Mihir Patel Allen Pierce Stefann Plishka William Ramhold Junying Shi Holden Spaht Bunny Tucker James VanHorn Morgan VanHorn Maria Velasquez Kristan Wagner

ARCH 6051 Options I Studio

Johnny Aguilar Melissa Baird David Baxter Sukanya Bhattacharya Roberta Boron Katelyn Bouret Philip Bruno Dylan Bussey Sherene Cadet

Christine Cangelosi Graham Cannady William Collar Sara Damiani Brittney Davis Claire de la Sayette Patrick Deveau David Duncan Eric Esposito Marion Filliatre Ian Fralick Sara Frederick Jill Fredrickson Lisa Goubeaux Olivia Hallquist Yi He Molly Herlong Meredith James Kyung Jin Ashwin Kamath Frank Kliesrath Ahra Koh Jennifer Lewis Chuk Lindberg Joshua Lohr Canon Manley Jessica Marquardt Polya McCain Anne McCarthy Dana McClure Mari McLeod David Nahmani Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Keyan Rahimzadeh Laura Richter Dawn Riley Ann Rogers Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle Joshua Tooill Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Sean Wilson Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Kasia Zycinska

ARCH 4011 / 6053 Options III Studio

Patricia Andre Allison Bahe Dominique Baker Alexandra Barletta Matthew Belt Jennifer Burt Hrach Burtoyan David Cates Toni Cliett Victor Cochoff Aaron Coffman Kelly Darby Jacob Davis Almir Divanovic Daniel Dixon Ho Hyun Eum Harolana Fambro Jason Garza Joyce Gemarino Jonathan Gould William Gravlee Emilio Hernandez Kelly Heyer Azzam Issa Clifton Jones Milan Jordan Nicholas Kahler Kristin Kellogg Sheldon Kittle Lena Klein Cole Loomis Christopher Loyal Emily Marvel Wade Nolan Su Hee Oh Anthony Payne Jessica Pierce Taylor Pitelka Dvaqnuyah Reuven Emilie Schmitz Thomas Segars Charles Smith Jessica Steele-Hardin Catherine Taylor Kjersten Tucker Kimberly Wadelton Sandra Wahba Elizabeth Ward Robert Woodhurst Joshua Word Tao Yeh Irene Yim

Spring 2012
COA 1012 First Common Year
Maryam Al-Atassi Katelyn Adcock Joseph Ayala Stephanie Azahar Deok Bae Benjamin Bailey Naimo Bakar Rachel Barber Corinne Bartlett Samuel Bell Jordon Blackmon Courtney Blanchard Jennifer Blyth Lauren Brett Mary Briatta Piper Brownlee Emerald Chafin Elvin Chu Yoonyoung Chung Cody Clegg Candice Cobb Macy Corbin Bob Cousseillant Olivia Davis Amelia Deaton Norwood Dennis Andisheh Dianat Nadia Dorado Stephanie Douthitt Lauren Ellsworth Cody Fallenstein Steven Fendley Steven Fisher Amanda Foster Sean Fowler Sebastian Garcia Frank Gibase Christopher Girardot Omar Gonzalez Paul Griffin Jack Grove Tianjing Guo Cameron Guthrie Rosario Hanon Kelsey Hollington Vivianne Hutt Sung Hye Jeon Christa Kelly

Katherine Kenna John Kennedy Cameron Kessler Daniel Kim Songmi Kim Sol Kim Taylor Kitchens Viviana Kreisel Charles Kroeber Andrea Kuklenyik Quy Le Jong Lee Monika Lee Jin Woo Lee Michael Lehman Dimitra Lewis Sophia Linebaugh Paloma Longhi Hoang Luu Sina Mahzari Hannah Mccord Alyssa Mellett Catherine Meschia Jeffrey Miller John Miller Maria Moersen Leila Moghimi William Moore Mediha Nazli Kaj Niegmann Colin Noronha Regan OConnell Lena Oliver Morgan Orvino Morgan Painter Krisha Patel Krishi Patel Vijal Patel Grey Peterson Anastasiya Politykina Matthew Porter Glenn Powell KendallPutmon Zhiwen Qiu Paul Reynolds John Robinett Jana Rossouw Kaleigh Sawyer Lindsey Schwartz Candace Seda David Serna Suzanne Solis George Sun Samantha Svedlund

Elaina Thompson Kieulai Tran Victor Tran Katie Turner Steven Victor Ruoxi Wang Kiana Ware John Warrener Tarnisha Washington Skyler Westlake Colton Wheatley Stoney Wilbanks Gloria Woods Angie Yim Orezioghene Zaudu Aki Alfredo Zavaleta

Students

ARCH 2012 Sophomores

Victoria Acevedo Christopher Allen Virginia Bradbury Anna Brooks Eliah Cappi Kiyah Crittendon Jennifer Dreisbach Michelle Everett Eric Goldstein Wesley Herr Deborah Hudson Jessica Hughes Christopher Hunter Pavan Iyer Michael Janulewicz Smruti Keshani Gitanjali Khote Olivia King Cameron Kolar Sae Joung Kou Michelle Kraus Luke Kvasnicka Emily Lenke James Macdaniel Victoria Mansell Tyler Martin William Mccollum John Mcmillon Andrew Miller David Moore Paul Neiswander Morgan Nelson Kayla Nightingale

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Linda Ortiz Charles Parrish Catherine Quigley Anthony Ranallo Geoffrey Rees Philip Richardson Briana Rinderknecht Caitlyn Simpson Sean Sims Kelly Skaggs Elizabeth Slagel Carly Smith Morgan Strickland Oreta Taylor David Varner Anqi Wang Marc Whitley Helen Winter David Woods Shaowen Zhang

ARCH 3012 Juniors

Marie Acalin Ellen Burge Laura Camp Michael Chaney Ann Charleston Allison Clark Ciera Crowell Lauren Cundiff Jared Davis Sarthak Dhingra Rebecca Duncan Megan Fowler Michael Fox Anjamarie Gaztambide Clara Gilbert Jessica Greenstein Hannah Griggers Gregory Hall Carly Hansen Michael Howard Yunxin Hu Ralf Iberle Soleen Karim Nikos Kavoori James Keane Jasmine Kent Haedeun Kim Yeun Kim Scharl Young Koh

Edwin Krenson Weston Landis Tri-An Le Hyo Jae Lee Ka Yeon Lee Xueping Li Colin Lienhard Kyle Mahoney Elyse McClure James McClure William Mccommon Megan McDonough Alyssa McKay Michelle Mendenhall Jon Moore Heta Naukkarinen Brendan Nichols Timothy Niou Joong Suk Oh Jose Pajares Brittany Porter Andrea Puccini Brianna Rindge Ashley Rodriguez Peter Ryan Natasha Sanjaya Soojung Shin Benjamin Smith Justin Southard Lauren Tanguay Ryan Terrell Melissa Ting Bryce Truitt Shota Vashakmadze Catherine Wong

Michael Miller Caroline Montague Margot Montouchet James Murray Robert Nuttall James Park Julia Sibert Carolina Sitterson Zachary Stanton Ronak Vaidya Taylor Walters Arian Zarrabi

Arch 4023 Core III Studio

James Boyer Hee Jin Cho Nicholas Coffee Madona Cumar Elaheh Damircheli Ekram Hassen Migyung Ko Scott Myers Jeremy Nash Mihir Patel Allen Pierce Stefann Plishka William Ramhold Junying Shi Holden Spaht Bunny Tucker Charles Vanhorn Morgan Vanhorn Maria Velasquez Kristan Wagner

ARCH 4012 Seniors

James Bramlett Katherine Braswell Stephen Crouse Chelsey Dail Stacy Davis Patrick Di Rito Melissa Doss Keefer Dunn Lauren Griffith Hamza Hasan Seon Yeong Ji Phillip Judin Samuel Kim Vanessa Lira

ARCH 6052 Options II Studio

Johnny Aguilar Melissa Baird David Baxter Sukanya Bhattacharya Roberta Boron Katelyn Bouret Philip Bruno Dylan Bussey Sherene Cadet Christine Cangelosi Graham Cannady

William Collar Sara Damiani Brittney Davis Claire de la Sayette Patrick Deveau David Duncan Eric Esposito Marion Filliatre Ian Fralick Sara Frederick Jill Fredrickson Lisa Goubeaux Olivia Hallquist Yi He Molly Herlong Meredith James Ashwin Kamath Frank Kliesrath Ahra Koh Jennifer Lewis Chuk Lindberg Joshua Lohr Canon Manley Jessica Marquardt Polya McCain Anne McCarthy Dana McClure Mari McLeod Elena Naydenova Cynthia Ocampo Claire Pardo Audrey Plummer Keyan Rahimzadeh Laura Richter Dawn Riley Ann Rogers Mary Coleman Rogers Freya Schlemmer Elizabeth Teston Derrick Tittle Joshua Tooill Emily Tuttle Justin Wallace Erin West Sean Wilson Austin Wright Tao Yan WenWen Zhao Kasia Zycinska

ARCH 6053 Options III Studio

Patricia Andre Allison Bahe Dominique Baker Alexandra Barletta Matthew Belt Jennifer Burt Hrach Burtoyan David Cates Toni Cliett Victor Cochoff Aaron Coffman Kelly Darby Jacob Davis Almir Divanovic Daniel Dixon Ho Hyun Eum Harolana Fambro Jason Garza Joyce Gemarino Jonathan Gould William Gravlee Emilio Hernandez Kelly Heyer Azzam Issa Clifton Jones Milan Jordan Nicholas Kahler Kristin Kellogg Sheldon Kittle Lena Klein Cole Loomis Christopher Loyal Emily Marvel Su Hee Oh Anthony Payne Jessica Pierce Taylor Pitelka Dvaqnuyah Reuven Emilie Schmitz Thomas Segars Jessica Steele-Hardin Catherine Taylor Kjersten Tucker Kimberly Wadelton Sandra Wahba Elizabeth Ward Robert Woodhurst Joshua Word Tao Yeh Irene Yim

PhD
Michelle Ossmann Sharon Tsepas Joseph Goodman Roya Rezaee Yuming Sun Mate Thitisawat Marcelo Bernal Verdejo Andreas Cavieres Pedro Ruiz Soza Sabri Gokmen Paula Gomez Zamora Katherine Johnson Seunghyun Lee Myrsini Mamoli Paola Sanguinetti Hugo Sheward Garcia Matthew Swarts Frank Wang Donghoon Yang Seok-Joon You Altug Kasali Chih-Pin Hsiao Lorissa MacAllister Adetania Pramanik Francisco Valdes Qinpeng Wang Hoyoung Kim Hyunkyung Lee Alexander Magruder Marietta Monaghan Carrie Pavel Zachary Porter Robin Prater Thomas Shelby Chen Feng Stephanie Dawn Haynie Young-Sean Choi Yeonsook Heo Sherif Abdel Mohsen Martin Scoppa Alice Vialard Julie Zook Hui Cai Zhengwei Li Sang-Hoon Lee Vicki Haberman Sean Hay Kim Javad Khazaii Olubi Babalola Fei Zhao

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www.arch.gatech.edu School Chair: George B. Johnston, PhD Editor: Michael Gamble Art Direction: Michael Gamble Sabri Gokmen Kasia Zycinska Copy Editing: Hani Stempler Photography: Patrick Heagney, Patrick Heagney Photography Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Terry Kearns Jessica Steele-Hardin

Imprint Published by: Georgia Tech School of Architecture Press For additional information, please visit: www.arch.gatech.edu Gamble, Michael Georgia Tech School of Architecture D+R 2012 7.44 x 9.68 inches ISBN 978-1-300-10013 1. Architecture Research Georgia Atlanta 2. Architectural Design Research Atlanta Georgia 3. Georgia Tech College of Architecture. Georgia Tech School of Architecture 2011-12 Design and Research Annual Printed in the United States by LuLu Copyright 2012 Georgia Institute of Technology All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture School of Architecture 247 Fourth Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0155

Acknowledgments: This publication would not be possible without the faculty and students of the School of Architecture. The Georgia Tech School of Architecture 2011-12 D+R Annual represents selected studios, seminars, research, events, and exhibitions from the academic year.