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MILDA VAITIEKUNAITE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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MILDA VAITIEKUNAITE

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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A Research Station in the Sonoran Desert 2005 Spring

Floor Plan

East Elevation

West Elevation

Section

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The challenge of this project was to explore the creation of the shelter, for four researchers, in an extreme climate (Sonoran Desert), and the relationship between the environment and men. The whole building is devided into five differ-ent parts: four researches’ stations and the kitch-en that are connected by the courtyard in the middle. The courtyard serves as a gathering and relaxing place. It is shaded from the intense des-ert sun and just the small opening on the top brings in the natural light and also ventilates the space. The pool in the middle of the courtyard cams one down and cools down the surround-ings. Heavy masonry walls retain the spaces cool, overlapping roofs provide shadows as well as protect from the sand storms and winds, small and high windows serve as ventilation.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA

Instructor: Michael Stern

East Elevation

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A Safe Haven is a shelter and supportive housing for homeless, which create a stable and secure environ-ment where residents support each other in their struggles for self-esteem, recovery and the confidence to move forward self-actualization. The building has a very distinct centralized plan, where the lobby is the main focus, as the heart of the building. The whole structure and community life re-volves around it. Cylindrical opened space throughout the entire height of the building brings in and enhanc-es natural light, helps to maintain a climate controlled environment. It is a bright, open, simple design of a vivid and multifunctional building The building applies many sustainable design strategies: green roofs; low e (argon gas filled) glass; solar panels; recycled, reused, low or no VOC materials, custom designed trash cans.

A Safe Haven 2005 Fall:

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COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIAInstructor: Poula Behrens

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A Safe Haven 2005 Fall

The building has a very distinct centralized plan, where the lobby is the main focus, as the heart of the building.

Site Plan with the Roof Plan

Lobby with the reception is located in the middle of the circular space which is the main element of the circulation through the building. Public spaces such as lounges, dining room, launge room and laundry room are located right next to the lobby and have the axes to the outside areas. Accounting department and staff areas are located on the first floor and sleeping spaces for residents are placed on the second floor. The gym is placed in the basement for natural cooling purposes. The outside areas on the ground floor, second floor and the roof top form the multilevel and tridimensional garden.

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CD

A

B

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Second Floor Plan

D

C

CD

B

First Floor Plan

COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN PHILADELPHIA

Instructor: Paula Behrens

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A Safe Haven 2005 Fall

Gym

Sleeping Spaces

Open Space throughout the Building

Second Floors’ Circulation Space

Lobby on the First Floor

Section B

Section A

Tridimensional Section C

Tridimensional Section D

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COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIAInstructor: Paula Behrens

Sleeping Spaces

Second Floors’ Circulation Space

Lobby on the First Floor

North Elevation

South Elevation

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View to the Open Space through the Building

View to the Lobby

Rittenhouse Square Theatre is an urban theatre lo-cated right next to the Rittenhouse Square on the Wal-nut Street between 19th and 20th Streets. The intention of my design is to create a transparency for the public inside and for people walking by the build-ing. The spaces such as gallery and café located next to the south glass wall allow people to peak inside and un-derstand the activities in the building. I intend to create an effect of floating stairs, running through the building and tie spaces together while the open space around them brings the light in and creates the openness. The purpose was to expose the structure- it is obvious that the columns and beams are supporting elements, not the walls. This theater is always active, during the night-time people come to see performances and after or before the performance or even when the theatres are closed people enjoy the gallery and café with a wonder-ful view to the Rittenhouse square. The Rittenhouse square theatre is a gathering place, connects people in that one moment of performance and transforment. It is a place to relax, enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. It is a place to meet people and socialize or rather to enjoy yourself absorbing the view of busy Philadelphia’s center city life.

Rittenhouse Square Theatre 2006 Fall

THIRD YEAR:

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

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The program contains a 150 seat adjustable black box theatre, a 200 seat proscenium theatre, and a public gallery and cafe shop placed in the front of the build-ing to open up the activities and views towards the Rittenhouse Square. The support space circulation is separated from the public cir-culation and is allied to both the-atres.

Mechanical & Electrical Room

Prep Storage

Storage

Storage

Storage

Storage

Actors LoungeGroup Dressing Room

Group Dressing Room

Open to Above

Black Box Theatre

Storage

WCWC

WC

Loading, Trash and Recycling

Coat RoomReception

Café

Gift Shop and Box Office

Open to Below

Second Basement First Basement First Floor

A

A

B B

Section A

Rittenhouse Square Theatre 2006 Fall

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Actors Lounge

First Floor Fifth Floor

Group Dressing RoomWC

Open to Below

Open to Below

Café

Indivudual Dressing Room

Orchestra Pit

Green Room Group Dressing Room

Orchestra Pit

Open to Below

Make-up Room

Fly Space Fly Space

Administration

Meeting Room

Media Control Booth

Open to BelowOpen to Below

Gallery Gallery

Costume Storage

Second Floor Third Floor Fourth Floor

Section B

Set Production Shop

Lounge

Site

5

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Actual Access to the Site

Actual Access to the Site

Visual Access to the SiteVisual Access to the Site

Visual Access to the Site

Visual Access to the SiteActual Access to the Site

Actual Access to the Site

Actu

al A

cces

s to

the

Site

Walnut St.

19th

St.

20th

St.

Rittenhouse Square

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Coming Down on Walnut Street View from Rittenhouse Square

Costume Workshop

Rittenhouse Square Theatre 2006 Fall

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West Elevation

South Elevation

View from Rittenhouse Square

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

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The path of former railroad will be de-signed as a linear park, stretching to the Delaware River, filled with green-ery, walkways, water creeks, and path-ways for runners and bicyclists. These paths will branch out from its main course in various directions creating “green fingers” that would outreach even remote areas of the neighbor-hoods. This “green connector” line will help promote sense of unity between the urban and natural environment as well as provide the residents from both neighboring locals with more inviting access to each other zones. It would also promote their further growth and development.

The current site was attractive be-cause it is located on Allegheny Av-enue and important east west corri-dor, well-served by public transit and close to a dense mix of residential, commercial and institutional uses. The site contains abandoned scrap materials from the automobiles and other potentially reusable and recy-clable refuse.

CITY RESOURCES SITE RESOURCES

Transformed Resources project is a sustainable community learning center in Fairhill/Kensington, neigh-borhood in Philadelphia. This proj-ect was a collaborative work with a partner.

Transformed Resources 2006 Spring

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NATURE RESOURCES MATERIAL RESOURCE HUMAN RESOURCE

The general prop-erty area will be integrated to its maximum poten-tial taking advan-tage of already ex-isting abandoned structure to be incorporated into the building as a daycare and ruins of the factory, to be incorporated into proposed landscape.

The proposed building structure it-self will integrate the structural and green or natural environments. Its location may be viewed as a corner-stone of the entire development with open access from all directions to the residents as well natural sources as sunlight and wind. The building will face south and that will create a sun pocket that will be covered in verti-cal garden. The rain water collection system that provide water streams spreading throughout the site and demarcating the borders between the outside surrounding and inner environment of the building. The water is also channeled to supply vertical garden on the walls of the building.Other sustainable features included in the project are the geothermal system, solar panels, natural lighting, and natural ventilation.

The materials that will be re-inte-grated into our proposed structure include tires (to be incorporated into the base of the wall of the building), reusable low E glass and metal canis-ters (to be stretched out into sheets and remade as insulated panels for the exterior of the building).

Education and Literacy are the fundamental building blocks of a democratic society. The community Learning Center will provide building and gar-dens that will embrace both the human and the natural environment. It will create a calm and supportive place for learning. It will reinvent the and fully employ resources to the valuable human re-sources. The residents of local community will be invited to participate in a process of col-lection of these materials and will be included in a building construction of the learning center.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Sally Harison

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“GREEN FINGERS” REACHING OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN PLACE OF THE ABANDONED RAILROAD

The path of former railroad will be designed as a linear park, stretching to the Delaware River, filled with greenery, walkways, water creeks, and pathways for runners and bicyclists. These paths will branch out from its main course in various directions creating “green fingers” that would outreach even remote areas of the neighborhoods

Actual Site

Transformed Resources 2006 Spring

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN WITH

First Floor Plan with the Site

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Sally Harison

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Floor Plan

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Transformed Resources 2006 Spring

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Section A

Section B

View to the Courtyard

Second Floor Plan

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Sally Harison

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Allegheny St. Elevation

American St. Elevation

Transformed Resources 2006 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Sally Harison

The path of former railroad will be designed as a linear park, stretching to the Delaware river, filled with greenery, walkways, water creeks, and pathways for runners and bicyclists. These paths will branch out from its main course in various direc-tions creating “green fingers” that would outreach even remote areas of the neighbor-hoods.

This “green connector” line will help promote sense of unity between the urban and natural environment as well as provide the residents from both neigh-boring locals with more inviting access to each other zones. It would also promote their fur-ther growth and development.

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Antique Silver Jewerly Repository

The project completed during this semester is the antique jewelry repository, located in Philadelphia on 24th street between Market and Ludlow streets. While maintaining a strong guiding concept, a comprehensive approach was required upon successful completion of the studio. This includes strong consideration and research for building systems, HVAC, structure, and meeting code requirements.

The antique jewelry is very delicate object that are usually founded in the old ruins or greaves; it came from the earth. I decided to represent that by placing these delicate pieces of jewelry into the exposed and rough textured concrete cube. The roughness of the concrete empha-sizes the delicacy of the jewelry. The concrete cube is in the middle of the building and is a hart of it. It also serves as a main structural element, being a load-bearing wall. On the bottom of this cube is jewelry storage; on the first floor from the Market Street level, there is jewelry store or a multipurpose area where replicas of the original pieces would be sold. Also, there would be held annual jewelry shows where local artists could present their work. On two other stories, there are exposition spaces. To represent the history and again to emphasize the delicacy of the object I place the jewelry pieces in the concrete wall, where narrow slits are taken out from the solid concrete.

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 FallFOURTH YEAR:

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Rashida Ng

Site Plan

Site

Market St. Elevation

Market St. Elevation

Market St. Elevation Opposite Side

A

B

Section through the Site ASection through the Site B

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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The roughness of the concrete emphasizes the delicacy of the jewelry. The concrete cube is in the middle of the building and is a hart of it.

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Rashida Ng

The roughness of the concrete emphasizes the delicacy of the jewelry. The concrete cube is in the middle of the building and is a hart of it.

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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A

Section A

Roof deck A B A B A B A B

Mechanical Roomm

Conservation/ Restoration Area

Storage

Loading dock

Public lobby

Store

Fabrication Area

Office Office

Viewing Viewing

Research

Open to Below

Roof deck

Roof deck

Ludlow Street

Market Street

24th

Str

eet

Structure diagram

Steel Beams Load Bearing Walls

Structure: concrete slabs supported by load bearing walls and steel beams

Mechanical diagram

Water plumbingHeating and cooling system:

Air outAir in

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

Mechanical systems overview: the design of HVAC con-sists of two separate VAV systems. These systems service areas through which most of the circulation occurs - exhibition spaces, lobby, display prep, library. Within the exhibition spaces, the return ducts are located at differ-ent elevations than the supply, and since the exhibition space is open, the air pressure differentiates, causing the air to naturally circulate.

A B

A B

C C C C C C

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Section A

Model pictures illustrating mechanical systems and structure

Section C

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Rashida Ng

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Roof deck

Roof deck

Section A

Section B

Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Rashida Ng Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Rashida Ng Comprehensive Studio: Antique Jewelry Repository 2007 Fall

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Possible access to the site. People density and movement

Symmetrical Perspectives. Everything lines up. Same building heights.

Buildings. Similar shaped buildings form courtyards in between.

Repetition of the same element on different period and style buildings.

View to the Pza Dei Ciquecento.View to the site from the Pza Dei Ciquecento.

Studio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Pino Milani

The site is right next to Rome’s main train station Stazione termini. The guiding aspect was to create a visual and physical connection between the new visitor center and Termini with the surrounding urban context and to express the essence of the city. The program consists of visitor center, information deck, assembly spaces, café, documentation offices, hotel and post office. The main idea for this project was to create a city within a city. The program was divided into separate enclosed blocks that are floating and overlapping each other in the big glass box which is partially open in the front. The shapes of the boxes were defined by the most common and most repetitive urban shapes traced on the map of the Rome. The main circulation cure is the circular ramp which is open to the outside and is as an extension of the street which moves up and leads to the different parts of the buildings.

Second floor overhanging over the first one Third floor overhanging over the first and second floors

The Diagram of the Overlapping Floor Plans

The geometry of the most common and most repetitive urban shapes traced on the map of the Rome.

Studio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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Studio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Pino Milani

Section A

Front Elevation

Studio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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Section B Section C

Studio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Pino MilaniStudio in Rome: Visitor Center 2008 Spring

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Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

Site:

Student Dormitory

Bridge

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Francescangelo Possemato

Initial sketch of the residence and the bridge

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The idea was to create an illusion that the piece of the wall, that have been cut to make gaps for the vehicular usability, still exist and is offset back and becomes part of the building. This massive strip of the wall becomes the main circulation spaces and becomes part of the structure. It helps to create a contrast between light and heavy, open and enclosed. The ground floor is an open plaza framed by two walls: the offset piece of wall and an original Wall from across the street.All the public spaces are open and interactive between them-selves and outside: from every public space one has a view to the wall and also axes to the outside areas – roof terraces and balconies.Passing by the building, one has a sense of the activities inside because of its openness and transparency.The private part of the building is enclosed. It is like reflection of the wall tower across the street. It is not exact reproduc-tion of it, but it has similar dimensions and main material – red brick.

Student dormitory is a student residency located right next to the more than 2000 year old Aurelian Wall (surrounding central Rome). An intention of this project was to create a building that does not stand out of the context, yet strongly related with the presence of the Wall.

42

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

Via Compagnia

Via Toscana

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Francescangelo Possemato

Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

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Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Francescangelo Possemato

Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

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To emphasize and contradict the heaviness, massiveness and dark color and dense bricks, the bridge has light and transpar-ent structure and materials. The wall and the bridge are two completely independent structures. Bridge is self supported and barely touches the ancient wall. The overall arc shaped bridge is a gateway to the city.

Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Francescangelo Possemato

Studio in Rome: Student Dormitory + Ancient Wall Bridge 2008 Spring

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Advanced Research Studio: Convention 2009 Fall

FIFTH YEAR:

Simultaneous with the current US election fever, this studio researched and speculated the role of architecture vis-a-vis political agencies and spaces of mediated democracy. Rudy Giuliani’s speech during 2009 Convention was analyzed and transformed into the ornament and pattern and then this pattern was shaped into tridy object.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART Instructor: Srdjan Jovanovic WeissAdvanced Research Studio: Convention 2009 Fall

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Mike Sharir1933 Harry Truman

Susanna Nathan1945 Dwight David Eisenhower

Ian Hayden1953 John F. Kennedy

Milda Vaitiekunaite1961 Lyndon Johnson

1963

Dimitar Pouchnikov

Richard Nixon

1971

Jon WilliamsGerald Ford

Eric Quick1974

Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART Instructor: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Gerald FordEric Quick Jimmy Carter

Shawn Massey1977

Ronald ReaganJason Solano19

81 George Bush, Sr.Paul Grodziak19

89

William Jefferson ClintonMallory Malkasian19

93 George W. Bush, Jr.Vironika Slutsky20

01

Camp David Spectacle of Retreat documents an academic research project on contemporary geopolitics and architecture. The aim of the project was to explore the myth of Camp David as a known US presidential retreat for a selected number of dictators from the world, in this case for Viktor Lukosenko [Belarus].

S p e c t a c l e :

The intention of the study was to formulate and envision key questions about ar-chitecture’s relation to democracy and contemporary geopolitics. The research project emphasized architecture’s relation to media through issues of domesticity, landscape and territory through gathering the architectural knowledge around the subject of re-treat. This project took Camp David, the US model of political retreat as a local case study.

Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

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Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

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R e t r e a t :

The most challenging part of the brief is a speculation that the Camp David site is not used as efficiently as it is expected to be used. Alternative strategies were sought in the studio, including a possibility to use the retreat facilities for other political systems that are in danger of falling apart. What if Camp David becomes a desirable destination for all current autocrats of the world, especially the ones in dispute with the US?

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART Instructor: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Retreat for Viktor Lukosenko [Belarus]

Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

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Camp David redesigned to accommodate many recreational activities

Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART Instructor: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Camp David redesigned to accommodate many recreational activities

Advanced Research Studio: Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat 2009 Fall

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THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture

Introduction:

Many buildings do not inspire or affect an experience in a positive way; they are boring, meaningless, cold and sad. Archi-tecture has lost the sensitive and spiritual qualities; such architecture can make people numb to their environment.What are the sensitive and spiritual qualities that make architecture alive? Sensitive qualities are related to a stimuluson which the strength of the feeling depends. Spiritual qualities are not related to just a belief or an emotion, “the results of increased spirituality are a sense of wellbeing, being self-actualized and being at peace. Being spiritual automatically reduces worry and fears.”1 Architectureshould not be experienced just through the series of “isolated retinal pictures”2, but through the unity of materials and“embodied and spiritual essence”3. To achieve a level of sensitivity and spirituality in architecture, architects shoulddirectly involve the human body and existential experiences, which embody “his/her self – image - or more precisely,existential experience”4. Architecture has to stimulate both the inner and the outer perception and to enhance phenomenal experience whileat the same time expressing the meaning and expanding this quality in a response to the distinctiveness of the site andthe circumstance. A great space evokes the psychical spirit, which is expressed by t feeling and dream. According toarchitect Louis Kahn this “feeling and dream has no measure, has no language, and everyone’s dream is singular.” The driving force of the project is the spatial spirituality without the religion but evoked through the experience. What makes an experience genuinely satisfying is the state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity and total involvement in life. The psychical spirit and the experiential flow are explored through the architecture of walls that divide, unite, direct, stage and define spaces.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally Harison

An Escape in the Urban Environment

Architecture can be a reflection of a person’s spiritual position within his/her own time. Surroundings influence man’smood, behavior and habits. This thesis aims to explore the creation of an emotive architecture that emphasizes thesenses of the human, the spiritual upliftment in experiencing the architecture and sensitive qualities of it that are relatedto a stimulus on which the strength of the feeling depends. Spiritual qualities are not related to just a belief or anemotion, being spiritual automatically reduces worry and fears. This thesis project will be an exploration of the escape- a place that withdraws from something unpleasant, hazardous and provides peace, quiet, privacy and security in thePhiladelphia’s dense urban environment where the main aspect is the wall: its strong presence or absence, its textureand color, its connection with a human scale, its relationship with light and shadow, and the ability to reflect or absorbthe light and cast shadows and its capability to create different sense of the space and to mark out the spatial boundaries.This thesis is an exploration of the architecture of the walls: “the wall that divides us, unites us, and bears responsibilityand power over human relations.”

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5858

Sate Plan Scale: 1/32=1’-0”

Chestnut St. Elevation Scale: 1/32=1’-0”

The movement around the site

Section through the site

Digital model of the site

THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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Instructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally HarisonTEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

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THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally HarisonBehind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally Harison

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Program:

The program was built based on the activities that provide enjoyable experience and encour-age one to think and feel.The whole program was arranged into the sequences as one would experience and move through them. The movementof the person is directed and suggested through-out the project starting from the entrance and ending at theexit.

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ProgramSummary:

Tridimensional paper strip models were made to study the relation-ships, arrange-ments and connec-tions betweenspaces.

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Model in the site (no enclosure)

Model in the site (with enclosure)

Reading Space

Reading SpaceLounge, auditorium for performances and lectures and observation areas could be as three different spaces or used as one multileveled space.

Lounge and waiting area. The openings in the wall shape and frame the views.

THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally Harison

Model picture (no enclosure)

Model picture (with enclosure)

Reading Space

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THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ARTInstructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally Harison

Chestnut St. Elevation

The entrance is a long and narrow slit in the heavy concrete wall

Walkway to the Ranstead St. ( The translucent side wall let’s to have a glimpse to the inside and imbue with the light that comes from the inside to the walkway.)

Courtyard Courtyard wall (light and shadow paly)

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Lobby

Transitional Space: The shadows create different effect and intensity in the space depending on the weather and hour in the day.

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Transitional Space: The shadows create different effect and intensity in the space depending on the weather and hour in the day.

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THESIS: Behind The Wall: Sensitivity and Spirituality in Architecture. An Escape in the Urban Environment

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY / TYLER SCHOOL OF ART

Instructor: Robert B. Trempe Jr and Sally Harison

Pictures of the models of the particular effect, emotion and lighting in the space.

Corridor

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Two parts: old building and later addition

1. Thickness of the wall

2. Window handles

3. Openness of the wall, natural lighting

1

2

34. The change of the staircase on the ground floor a. Existing stairs, which were removed b. New stairs

4a. 4b. Existing staircase on the ground floor Opening in the ceiling

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PSTUDIO, Solopaca (BN), Italy

4. The change of the staircase on the ground floor a. Existing stairs, which were removed b. New stairs

Opening in the ceiling

1. Original window and door found in the wall

2. Massive brick wall and lighter columns

3. Bricks covered with plaster, which is hard to take off.

4. Brick wall against open lighter wall. The possibility to have higher ceilings.

1 2

3 4

Existing condition of the studio space

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1

2

Existing wall paintings in the conference room

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PSTUDIO, Solopaca (BN), Italy

Section 1: option 1. Architectural studio

Section 1: option 2. Architectural studio

Section 2: Architectural studio

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The new staircase from the ground floor to the 4th floor new facilities.

The stairs were designed to be open (Stone treads supported on the steel beams) to create spacious and translucent experience. The natural light from the top and bottom floors travels through the open-ings in the railing and the stairs.

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Extended into the lobby heavier stone block first bottom stair lead to the light, translucent, bright staircase filled with natural lighting.

Options for the stairs and railings

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Lightweight architectural studio tables were designed that they could be ar-ranged in the groups of four. One group of four tables could house two stu-dents on each side, or one student on each side. One supporting side of the table is designed to be narrow to create leg space when two of these type of tables connected; and one person can comfortably move between two tables and use them as one working space.

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View of the site

View from the backyard

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Elevations:

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3D Horizontal Sections:

First Floor

Second Floor

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Pictures during renovation

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View from Manheim StreetSite Plan

Manheim Street

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View from Portico Street

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Backyard Views

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Levels 2 & 3 Spaces

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Level 1 Spaces

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Before and during remodeling pictures

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Backyard

Studio Space

Master Bedroom

Deck

Living Room

DinningRoom

First Floor Second Floor

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View from the backyard

View froms studio space

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Studio SpaceLiving/Dinning Space

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KitchenStudio Space

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Sketches and Drawings

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ART WORK: DrawingsSketches and Drawings

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