KEVIN ROCHE

SUBMITTED BY:-HARMEET KAUR3rd YEAR-B24

Kevin Roche

Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922

Irish – American architect

B.Arch. from the National University of Ireland in

1945

known for his creative work with glass.

Professional experience in Dublin with Michael

Scott and in London with Maxwell Fry.

Came to the United States in 1948 and spent one

semester in the Illinois Institute of Technology

Master's program with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

In 1950, joined Eero Saarinen and Associates

at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

By 1954 Kevin Roche was Saarinen's principal

design associate.

assisted him on all of the projects from that

time until Eero Saarinen's death in September

1961.

Roche completed 12 major unfinished

Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's

best-known work: the Gateway Arch, the

expressionistic TWA Flight Center at 

JFK International Airport in New York, 

Dulles International Airport outside 

Washington, DC, the strictly modern 

John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and

the CBS Headquarters building (also known as

Black Rock) in New York City

Gateway arch

Dulles International Airport

In 1966 Roche and John Dinkeloo changed the name of Eero Saarinen and Associates to Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates upon completion of Saarinen's projects.Their first major commission was the Oakland Museum of California, a complex for the art, natural history, and cultural history of California with a design featuring interrelated terraces and roof gardens.His completed works include 8 museums, 38 corporate headquarters, 7 research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, campus buildings for 6 universities, and the Central Park Zoo.Roche received the Pritzker Prize in 1982, the Gold Medal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990, and the AIA Gold Medal in 1993.

Oakland Museum of California

PHILOSOPHIES

Geometrical forms

Attention to detail.

Simplicity and monumental scale of

buildings.

Roche meet requirements via contextual

design Dinkeloo reacting to that design with

technological brilliance.

Specificities of the client-needs combined

with the desire to push the boundaries of

architectural technology

Evolutionary possibilities instead of the

creation of revolutionary inevitabilities.

Allow the time necessary explore innovative

design strategies

Use model for studies.

Convention Centre DublinThe Convention Centre Dublin (CCD) in the Dublin Docklands was opened in September 2010. The building overlooks the River Liffey at Spencer Dock. The building is 45,921 square metres in size.The Main Exhibition Hall, located at the ground floor level, can be subdivided into two parts for dual purpose usage. A second Exhibition Hall, similar in size, can be converted into two auditoriums. A raked floor auditorium, capable of housing up to 2,000 people, is located on the second floor of the complex. The auditorium is a fully equipped hall capable of accommodating many events, from international conferences and meetings to product shows, multi-media presentations, orchestra performances, musical theatre, and opera.

Number of different elements, which can function separately or in concert.8000 delegates, 22 multi-purpose meeting rooms 4500 square m. of flexible exhibition & banqueting space.Escalators, elevators, and stairs connect to all levels from the lobby.

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plans

A tilted glass cylinder, 54 meters high and 39 meters in diameter, the striking seven-story glass-fronted atrium – a key architectural feature in the development.The glass cylinder opens up to the activities inside and makes for a highly visible entrance.thermal wheel heat recovery system and an ice storage thermal unit (ISTU), which chills water overnight to form large ice blocks that melt during the day to provide air conditioning for the entire building.

plans

The Pyramids (Indianapolis)

The Pyramids are three pyramid-shaped office buildings that are part of a 200-acre (810,000 m2) commercial development in College Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The structures occupy 45 acres (180,000 m2) of land situated next to a 25-acre (100,000 m2) lake. They are noted for their abstract quality of the opacity of the concrete walls which face the nearby highway and the reflectivity of the glass curtain walls that face the landscaped grounds.

It decided on a plan by Kevin Roche consisting of nine identical office towers each eleven stories tall and each containing 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2). This would permit it to build towers as it needed additional office space without leaving buildings idle or underused. Only the initial three towers were constructed and take the form of pyramids.

Each tower is made up of two walls of reinforced concrete from which project the unobstructed office floors. Those concrete walls provide the support for the floors as well as serving as L-shaped service cores.The other two walls are covered in blue exterior glass and each building is connected to the others via underground and above-ground passages. The buildings have been described as "abstract" and "sculptural" based on their use of opaque concrete walls.