3. Concepts Development Floor Plan
Third Floor
Second Floor
First Floor
Single Cube CubeTransparency
Cube Multiplication
Cube Size Manipulation
Programs Development
Filling of Negative Space
WashingtonAve.Mix-use Residence
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4. Building Sections
AssemblyWall Building Section Perspective
Project Description
The goal is to design a single-unit living quarter on Washington
avenue, Houston, that can also function as a public gathering spot
in order to highlight the social aspect and nightlight culture of
Washington avenue.
The concept is purism, which includes only cubes with transparent
facade at different size to create a straightforward clean floor plan.
The cubes act as the positive space of the projects, which include
all the main programs while all the negative space between the
cubes serve public spaces.
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7. Recreation Facility forWoundedWarriror Project
Project Concepts
ConnectivityBalance Accessibility
Based on the core values and the Wounded Warrior Project programs, the facility will have three main values that will facilitate the veter-
ans with the best benefits:
Balance - Connectivity - Accessibility
The project is designed to be reasonably proportional between spaces and programs. Each space will be well connected with each other
for easy access and engagement.
The swimming pool is the buidling
core and other programs are
arranged around the pool with
reasonable proportion to maintain
the balance between spaces and
building size.There are two types
of activities: physical activities and
psychological activities
Besides internally engaging with
each other through the pool
courtyard and the arch circulation,
the building also engages with the
outside through transparent
facade.
There are only two main
circulations in the buidling along
the core. Although circulation is
not orthogonal, it still keeps the
simplicity of accessbility from
space to space.
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8. Project RequirementsDesign Strategies
Massing
Angle Manipulation
Shape Transformation
Core Formation
The project is required to address basic design issues of construction, materiality and life safety. Beyond
that, the technical aspects of accessibility, structure, code requirements and environmental control
systems must all work together to form a complete design solution. In addition, the project also needs
to be explored more carefully into the potential architecture has for complex social impact. The
challenge is to interpret and execute a universal space for a specific user group with the intent to honor
those served.
The design is expected to address the fundamental design problem to a high level of resolution, as well
as set an ambitious personal design agenda that challenges the abilities and insight acquired over the
previous years of study. Formal strategies related to landscape, light or a transformative process like
procession,growth,emergence and evolution could become tools in addressing the values and needs of
the clients.
Mind
Body
Service Service
Service Service
Engagement
Economic
Empowerment
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9. Recreation Facility forWoundedWarriror Project
Floor Plans
N
0' 10' 30' 60'
A
B
406'
27'
27'
27'
27'
27'
27'
27'
27'
11'
16'
125'
260'
80'
26'
1
3
1
4
2
N
0' 10' 30' 60'
HolcomeBlvd
CambridgeSt
Brays Bayou
A
B
Ronald
McDonald
House
Section A
0' 10' 30' 60'
Section B
0' 10' 30' 60'
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11. Recreation Facility forWoundedWarrior Project
Cap Finish
Base Coat
Swimming Pool Details
Reinforced Concrete
Slab
Underslab Insulation
with Vapor Barrier
Zero Compaction
Gravel
Reinforced Concrete Slab
Sand and Gravel Substrate
Wall Reinforcement
Reinforcement Rebars
Reinforcement Concrete
Strip Footing and
Reinforcement
Sections Perspective
3D Section Perspective 1
Section Assembly
3D Section Perspective 2
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12. Renderings
Main Entrance Perspective
Main Gym Exterior Perspective
Swimming Pool + Public Space
Swimming Pool Core
Swimming Pool Core from 2nd Floor
Building Structural SystemMain Basketball Court Public Space
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13. CultureCulture Culture
Culture
Housing
Housing
Housing
FactoriaSt.
Cienfuegos
Cardenas
Economia
Castilo de San salvador
de la Punta
National Museum
of revolution
Memorial Granma
Manzana de gomez
National museum
of Fine Arts
Cuba National Capitol
Old Havana Heritage Core
Connection
City Grid Extension
Zoning Band
Expansion of Havana,Cuba
Site Plan Project Description
Housing City Grid Mass vs. Mass
Housing vs. Cultural Building
Mass vs.Void
Buildings vs. Open Space
Havana Urban Planning
Using the heritage core of Old Havana, defined by Avenda
Belgica and Agramonte, the project intends to create a
connective piece of the current urban planning.The started
ambition is to highlight the cultural heritage core while
introducing new programs and building volume to
accommodate the expansion.
The program proposes to have new mixed-used cultural
center; serving as an extension of the existing heritage core,
and a new housing complex, formed by the extension of the
city housing grid.The initial band is then multiplied to create a
series of program,adapting to the city traffic flow.By reflecting
different urban planning styles of the city, the project aims to
sensitively extend the existing urban block morphology with
appropriate programmatic mixes.
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14. City Housing Grid Extension
Circulation
Mass vs.Void
Units Plan
Open Space
Greenery Plan
Development Diagram
Havana Cultural values vs. Program Proposal
MusicCuba revolution CuisineLiterature Sport
Theater
performance hall
Auditorium
Public Performance
Museum
Gallery
Memorial
Local Food
Coffee shop
Event Concession Stand
Bookstore
Library
Recreational Park
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Main circulation - city to site
Internal circulation
Entrees
Pedestrian traffic
Cultural units
Housing units
Multipurpose green space
Boulevard
Occupiable green roof
Landscape
Unoccupiable green roof
Garden
Recreational green space
19. Future City - HOUSTON
Project Requirements
I-45 & Gulfgate intersection programs analysis
Sectional programs analysis
The project requires students to research and analyze the
city of Houston in order to identify problems that the city is facing.
From their research and analysis, students are to pick one problem
and one major area of the city to start designing a new prototype
that could solve the city’s struggle. Moreover, the prototype has to
show their impact on the city as a whole and how it can start
shaping the city’s evolution in the future.
The analysis aims to provide a
full understanding of the area’s
programmatic value. Most of the
buildings are highly isolated from
each other. Orientation of build-
ings and relationship between
them are not clear. Besides, park-
ing lots take a significant amount
of landuse, which is very in
efficient while the city population
is growing.
The project proposes that all
the programs to be categorized
and merged in multi-functional
towers while embedding them
with living spaces to provide
better accessibility and
interaction. The highway is
proposed to be reconstructed
to serve more transportation
modes and become more
pedestrian friendly.
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To get a good understanding
of the area in term of relationship
between the highway and
surrounding programs, it was
necessary to look into the sectional
condition. The programs are
isolated from the higway with
inefficient land use for parking lot.
The project proposes
multi-functional towers attach to
the highway. Parking lot will be
moved underground, allowing
more vacant land for future
development. Building footprint
will be significantly reduced due
to the new vertical orientation of
categorized programs.
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20. Conceptual Diagram
Modes of Transportation
Recharging
Shopping
Working Business Learning Living
Linear City
EatingPlaying
Population Projection Houston Traffic Volume Analysis
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1000000
2000000
3000000
4000000
5000000
6000000
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2030 2050 2100 2120
Source: US Census Bureau
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100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
700000
800000
900000
2010 2030 2050 2100 2120
Source: US Department of Public Transport
Federal Highway Administration
Introduction of SHAREWAY
I-45
US-59
I-610
US-290
I-10
A study of Houston population from 1960 - 2010 was conducted to
determine how the population has grown. The data is later used to
estimate how much the population will grow in the next one hundred
years from now.A population projection is done in order to understand
how much space and accommodation SHAREWAY will be able to
provide for Houstonians.
In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of Houston
traffic volume on major highways of the city, the project also
reviews the Annual Average Daily Traffic. This study helps
understand current condition of Houston traffic in order to
further investigate how SHAREWAY will be able to improve the
city traffice condition
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21. Future City - HOUSTON
Programmatic Section Diagram - Existing
Programmatic Section Diagram - Proposed
Business separated from each other
Business have little to no
interaction with each other
Parking lot only serves
adjacent buildings
Inefficient landuse
for parking lot
Street primarily serves car
Traffic flow is isolated from
business
Housing is isolated
from business
Business merged together
to make a multi-functional
complex
High speed traffic is
moved underground
Easy accessibility
for pedestrians
Addition of traffic
layer for lower
speed vehicles
Vacant properties
for green space and
future development
Underground parking
to reserve space
Convenient accessibility
between housing and business
Conveninent accessibility
for vehicles and pedestrians
Housing is integrate
with business
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22. Project Concepts
In the year of 2065, Greater Houston become Mega Houston,
defined by the sprawling networks of suburbs, exburbs and high
density corridors. Infrastructure across the city is failing. The housing
developments sprawls are foreclosed. We can no longer afford our
current models of mobility in financial, environmental and social
terms. The traditional incarnation of the American Dream is equally
outdated and precipitated the future development of the city.
In 2115, as the population keeps rising and the crisis keeps
putting pressure on urban development, within the infrastructural
leftovers of the outdated dreams, lies the possibility of conceiving
Mega Houston as highly orchestrated platform, from which we
might find an alternate path for the American Dream.
SHAREWAY, a new invention is staged for augmenting infra-
structure that generates a new future of public and personal mobili-
ty. To treat highway as a platform for divergent forms, a “street of
desire” with attaching programs instead of a street that only serves
traveling purposes. SHAREWAY aims to project the existence of Mega
Houston through leveraging the highways as a platform to connect
the unrelenting expanse of undifferentiated urban material. I-45
corridor is reimagined as the first platform for staging other infra-
structural narratives and moments of political, social and spatial
difference. With a strong focus on open space, nature, mobility and
sustainability, the new Mega Houston will serve as a model for future
developments. The plan is to combine all related program into one
common area, embedded with living space, forming several
multi-funcational towers, attaching to a multi-layered freeway. The
newly proposed SHAREWAY will provide easy accessbility, variety of
transportation modes and efficient landuse for future urban devel-
opers.
SHAREWAY Axonometric Diagram
Hi-speed traffic
Vacant land for green space
Programs relocation
Low speed traffic
Living
Shopping
Eating
Learning
Recharge
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23. Future City - HOUSTON
Section Perspective of Proposal
Business located along
the street of low-speed
layer for easier accessibility
Underground parking
Housing integrated with
business, lifted higher
to reduce noise but still
provide easy accessbility
Future development
Pedestrian friendly layers
also function as noise barrier
Hi-speed layer
Low-speed layer
Multi-functional towers Vacant land
Project Phasing
Insertion of Hi-speed
underground freeway
Underground freeway complete
Renovation upper layer I-45 for low
speed vehicles and pedestrians
Programs insertion with the new
highway system
SHAREWAY becomes a city-wide
system, vacant lant for future
development
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24. Site Plan
W-E I-45 from upper layer
I-45 - W-E upper layer
Pedestrian layer + living + shopping
Gulfgate + I-45 main plaza shopping + living + business +low speed traffic layer
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