Architecture Portfolio vol.1 2014

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Studio Projects Case Studies Digital Models Diagrams Conceptual Drawings

Corlandus Lang

Studio Projects Case Studies Digital Modeling Diagrams Conceptual Drawings

Corlandus Lang

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CONTENTSIntroduction.......pgs 1&2

Forward..............pg 2A Studio Projects......pg 4ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & Form...pgs 5-8ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic Systems...pgs 9-14ARH 250 Site Culture & Integral Urbanism...pgs 15-20

Case Studies......pg 22Utrecht Double House...pgs 23-28Church of the Light...pgs 29-34

Digital Modeling......pg 36ARH 390 Church of the Light Model...pgs 37-46ARH 210 Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility Mode...pgs 47-60ARH 250 Information Center Facility Model...pgs 61-70Tessellations, Modifiers & Parametrics...pgs 71-84

Diagrams......pg 86Sketch Diagrams...pgs 87-98Conceptual Diagrams...pgs 99-102Abstract Diagrams...pgs 103-106

Conceptual DrawingsDrawings...pgs 109-136

Tools & Credits..... pgs 137 & 138

“As our personality and design palette define our conceptualization methods, we begin to understand that simple minded architecture is a thing of the past. No longer are we visualizing the golden mean of architecture, but more to the freedom of organics in nature, parametric experiences and experimental evolution. We begin to hybridize the unnatural, as the realities of the world influence our deep passions of new spatial experiences and fuel the minds eye, to inherit the next generation of curiosity. The seed has been planted and we must continue to nourish the experience of spatial voyage to next programmatic elements that define the architectural civilization.”

Philosophy

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This presentation is the collectiveworks of the academic learningoutcomes into the world of architecture. Taking in the differentspectrum of this profession, we seehow the combined components areemerged together to display anoverall professional ability intowhat an architect should portray. This portfolio consists of finalizedprojects in course work over a spanof two years. The portfolio consists of studio work, case studies, com-puter generated modeling, concep-tual drawings, and diagramming.

“Emerging the Spectrum”School: Academy of Art University School of Architecture

Undergraduate DirectorJennifer Asselstine

Instructors:Beverley ChoeGeoff GibsonMonica TiulescuTobi AdamolekunPeter StrzebniokDoron Serban

Studio Courses:ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & FormARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic SystemsARH 250 Site Culture & Integral Urbanism

Digital Courses:ARH 390 Digital Modeling

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The architectural world of today is moving toward the infinite limits of the impossible that are reaching new heights in structural presentations. The visual and censorial perceptions of architecture will increase in the possibilities of human habitation and experience. This new type of architecture is what I plan to embrace. The goal is to produce the physical and visual experience of architecture in a more intensified perception. Taking the landscape and planting the site with the seed of planned structure, and giving it water and nutrients of program,circulation, activity, and human behavior. Examining thelandscape giving birth to this new genre of architecture, we watch the growth of the structure overtime. As it swells and decreases with circulation and activity of habitation,it changes the landscape and forms to its surroundings, becoming a harmonious sequence of external and internal experiences. This new type of architecture can be visualized as a living organism, that survives off of the behavior of human activity. This is where I plan to take architecture to a new level of extreme performances.

FORWARDCorlandus Lang

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ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & Form...pgs 5-8ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic Systems...pgs 9-14ARH 250 Site Culture & Integral Urbanism...pgs 15-20

STUDIO PROJECTS

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The idea of Observation

STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & Form

This course teaches fundamental design skills from which studentscan pursue their architectural interest. Projects coveringprecedent analysis, diagramming, model making, conceptualthinking and the design of a small building collectively, that willimprove the students ability to conceptualize, develop, andcommunicate spatial ideas.

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The objective of this project is to design a hybrid building for three interrelated programs: dwelling, research space and exhibition. The three programs will be housed within a single building on a site located within the hills of the Presidio in San Francisco. The client is an anthropologist. His or her expertise consists of observing human behavior, relations and religion. This inspired the concept of the design, in which the physical act of observing is explored as a way to relate to programmatic elements. Using a vocabulary of interconnected volumes, operations of pushing and pulling are used to create a specific experiences for the client and visitors. For example, the research space was depressed below the floor, into an exhibition space, creating a visual connection between the visitors and the anthropologist. Circulation, strcuture and landscapeare integrated into the design.

Final Project: Hybrid Program

Exhibition Space

Research Space

Dwelling Space

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STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & Form

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Final Project: Hybrid Program

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STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic Systems

This course will emphasize the design process and rule driven design methodology. Students will develop two and three dimensional drawings and experiment with model-making techniques based on specific methods of design. Focus will be placed on understanding the behavioral aspects of space and structure.

Program Diagram

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Semester Project: Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility

Our site is a dynamic and complex territory. The site is located in the Corona heights park in the Castro and Corona heights neighborhoods of San Francisco. The hill has several trails that reach the peak as well as plateous out of which one houses the Randall Museum for arts and sciences.

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STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic SystemsThe site is also nested within dense urban neighborhoods. Site strategy will be based on clearly established relationship between site performance and spatial performance. The project will be divided into specific objectives that will describe the conceptual framework and rules (Vocabulary of methodology) for model making and drawing and architectural process.

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Semester Project: Rock Climbing & Kite Flying FacilityThe main project will focus on multiple identities of San Francisco. The building will have a hybrid program including an instructional center for the practice of Extreme Rock Climbing and a Kite making/flying school. The building and landscape will respond to the conditions of the environment, including the ecological diversity, topography, climate changes, and the site, as a public touristic infrastructure. Programmatic narratives will determine spatial distribution and circulation.

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STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic Systems

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Semester Project: Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility

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STUDIO PROJECTS: ARH 250 Site Culture & Integral Urbanism

This course explores the role of architecture within the context of evolving urban environments. It unearths the history, currency, and culture of our urban terrain while developing a mindful discipline for articulating a stance and conceiving a responsive program within the parameters of a specific site.

Movement ofpeople and traffic can be altered by certain circum-stances or agendas that each individualpossesses.

People willeither movein unison oron to their own personaldestination.Movement will be effected depending on general area.

Traffic can beeither slow,moderate,orfast dependingon driver, motives, andcircumstancesor general area.

Within the city orurban rural area,their areconditions ofdifferent types ofmovement withdifferent typesof speed.

City Context Traffic PeopleCircumstances & Agendas

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Semester Project: San Francisco Information Center

Through the term of the course, the main objective of the project is to focus on two cities which were Lagos, Nigeria and Singapore. Resulting facts summarized intothe contrast and comparisons of both cities. Then to observe similar conditions located in San Francisco, CA. A site was chosen within San Francisco that contained these conditionsthat were discovered within the research. Moreover, further research and development ofprogram and building were established, based on the findings of the site conditions.

Information Objective: Investigative ApproachPhysical or mental factors may aide or hinder the progression into gaining information to survive.

Understanding of the cityWhen there is a convergence of individuals who’sdestinations and priorities are multi-directional,the gestures of movement become moderate andthe pace is in a steady mode of motion. Obtainingresources for survival, become equalized becauseof the accessibility of basic needs.

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Influences from nearbybuildings and movement,will alter the shape as well.

The site transforms by the movement and speedof traffic conditions. Moreover, this will help shape the overall context of the building.

The conditional forcesof traffic and pedestrianactivity, will push towardthe site, giving an overalltriangulated shape.

Information display locations

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“Understanding architecture as a spatial form with internal activity, but also understanding it as an organism that evolves from natural site conditions,evolution of change and mutation. Blending and combining programs into a melting pot of transitionsand circulation, will have an extreme effect on how the body forms and maneuvers through the space; as well as invoke on the visual and physical perception of internal and external experiences. We see architecture perform in a variety of ways as internal activity and behavior, will generate extreme performances as the human eye perceives it. Nature and evolution generate structure and spatial programs, as human behavior and activity perform the censorial experiences intermixing through spatial fluidity. All of these conditions will cause the human body to form and adapt to the ever changinginternal and external forces. New experiences and visual connections will be established from these changes. Whatever changes occurinternally, will have an effect on the external experiences and surrounding urban context. Overtime, the structure will blend with the context of its surroundings, or stand out andovertake the area, due to the conditions that are present.”

Generative Behavior and GrowthCorlandus Lang

Utrecht Double House...pgs 23-28Church of the Light...pgs 29-34

CASE STUDIES

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Architects: Bjarne Matenbroek & Winy MaasLocation: Utrecht , NetherlandsYear: 1997

CASE STUDIES: Utrecht Double House

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A master plan developed, by Matenbroek and Maas of MVRDV Architects, A residential project that would house a two family residence within one structure. The conceptwas arranged by splitting the structure into two separate spaces. Moreover, both families will aquire equal living space, as well as views of the outside world.

MVRDV Architects

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Generation Diagram


An interlocking systemwas developed. Thewalls portray a slithering system towhich a zig-zagpattern takes affect.In conclusion, by separating the spaces in this pattern, spatial features and views are shared equally.

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MVRDV Architects

Each floor gives asense of push andpull. As one floor pushes on the other, the adjacent space looses spatial features, while the following space, reverses thisaction.

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Located in the small town of Iberaki ,Osaka, Church of the Light is a primeexample of outstanding architecture,tightly knit within the urban fabric.Designed by Japanese architect,Tadao Ando in 1987, and completed in 1989.

CASE STUDIES: Church of the Light

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Using brutalistic material,such as concrete and applying the duality of light, Ando was able todefine the coexistingdifferences of solid/void,light/dark, and stark/serene. Ando’s principlefocus was on simplicityand minimalistic aesthetics.

Architect: Tadao Ando

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As it is free of any ornamentations,the occupants become aware of the spiritual and secular within themselves. The formal order of the church, is founded on basic but integral principles and geometric shapes, which are influenced bysacred geometry.

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The church consists of three 5.9meter cubes. In plan, circles areindicated that also reflect a symbolic representation to thecosmos. The 3 God heads: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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“I think the architecture of today is missing the “Opportunity Factor”, what I mean by that is, architecture should involve more opportunistic advances of how the design itself, has more beneficial factors to the building, instead of just placing or adding unnecessary programs or spaces that hinder the contribution to the overall design of the structure. For example, if you decide to hybridize programs together, think about how circulation will be affected, will behavior and activity merge or separate. How will the design be affected or changed, and what opportunities can be established from these decisions. If you’re going to put a roof over a walkway, think about opportunities that can arise from that decision. What else can the roof top contribute to the overall design; a sustainablecomponent, pedestrian accessibility, etc. Let these opportunities you seek contribute to that detail of the design. However, with that mindset, everything within your design, will have a purpose within your structure, not just wasted space or random placement of programs.”

Opportunity factor in ArchitectureCorlandus Lang

ARH 390 Church of the Light Model...pgs 37-46ARH 210 Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility Model...pgs 47-60ARH 250 Information Center Facility Model...pgs 61-70Tessellations, Modifiers, & Parametrics...pgs 71-84

DIGITAL MODELING

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DIGITAL MODELING: ARH 390 3D Modeling

The model expreses just how existing light is abstracted to create a spatial identity, Light passes through the building, reforms and sculpts the structure.

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Church of the Light

The model expreses just how existing light is abstracted to create a spatial identity, Light passes through the building, reforms and sculpts the structure.

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DIGITAL MODELING: ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic Systems

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This project consists of experimental qualities of how architecture can modify and change structure internally and externally to adapt to its surroundings. However, in the organic realm of nature, we see the endless possibilities of organic form emerge to an extreme level of structure, stability, and spatial attributes. Spatial attributes can always be formed due to natural conditions, as well as human participation whch occurs within this natural space. Nevertheless, individuals learn to adapt and form to the movements of the space.

Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility Conceptual Diagram Models

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Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility View of site

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Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility Internal views of the facility

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Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility view of the site

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Rock Climbing & Kite Flying Facility Final Model

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DIGITAL MODELING: ARH 250 Site Culture & Integral Urbanism

Information is transparent; it can be defined through a variety of factors. Information also can control our daily lives to a degree of spectrum’s. Movement and speed are factors of information. Controlling how fast we proceed to our destination is one of the key performances that is a part of our daily lives. 61

Information Center Facility Front Facade

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Information Center Facility Back of Facade

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Information Center FacilityInformation ineractive glass panels

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Information Center FacilityIneractive information components

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Information Center Facility Evening at the center

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As architecture and nature collide, we see the forces of lateral and seismic conditions, pull and tug upon a collegian structure. As a spider begins to web its living status in the parameters of reality, we observe asimilar process, as structure achievesto maintain its survival within a concrete jungle.

Tessellations, Modifiers, & Parametrics

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The concoction of string and enzymes produce the strongest substances, to uphold itself within an ever changing atmosphere. Nevertheless, this design begins to embrace upon the same principles of survival. Moreover, it molds and adapts to the natural conditions that nature has crafted over time.

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“It starts with a straight line, and with that line you are able to manipulate it into an infinity of possibilities. We are all used to visualizing perfection; straight lines, perfect angles, and unified shapes. But, once in a while, it’s good for the human mind to relax and admire a structure that contains none of these standards.”

Corlandus Lang

Sketch Diagrams...pgs 87-98Conceptual Diagrams...pgs 99-102 Abstract Diagrams...pgs 103-106

DIAGRAMS

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An idea can be an idea, but a ideathat expresses the bountifulness of essence and thought,can produce an array of opinion, thatcan lead to a perception of mind.emotion, and direction.Diagrams are the essence of that thoughtprocess. It is the silent language that ourminds speak. Giving into the realm of animationand appearance, thatcrosses the tangent ofart and communication. It’s considered a mapping of relations that oversee all abstract and concept. It is the new language forthe future.

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Sketch DiagramsGeneration Diagrams

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Sketch Diagrams Site Diagram

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Sketch Diagrams Concepts

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Conceptual Diagrams Vector Drawings

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Diagrams can express forces of conditions, andhow these conditions represent action in a performativelanguage.

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Conceptual Diagrams Photo Montage

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Diagrams can also expressa hierarchy of events. How atmosphere and time canhave an affect on certainmaterials, and how theybehave on a performace level.

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Abstract Diagrams Program Diagram

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Diagrams alsoexpress programrelationships, and how activity and behavior of a programcan have an affecton other programs.

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Abstract Diagrams Variety

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How can natural site conditions and evolution, have an effect on the end result of how a structure will finalizeits position within the context of an area, and its surroundings. Will it become one with the area, or overtake it?

If I were to take architectural plans, and place theminside of a player piano, would you hear a harmonious sequence, or a sound of confusion? What is your take on this matter. Is architecture considered a harmony of rhythms based on the experiential design, or does design come before rhythm?

Questions on spatial identitiesCorlandus Lang

Drawings...pgs 109-136

CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS

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Drawing is the escape from the simple realities that bind our true nature of what we see the world as. Imagination is the focal point of what our minds eye dissect. Without the world of imagination, life would be impossible to please itself, and we would not express our true perspectives on how creative each individual is capable of producing.

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The boundary between reality and imaginary fuels the mind into the creation ofdimensions and worlds. Drawing is the creation of cross-breeds of whatthe eye sees and what can be seen between the lines of appearance andabstraction. Nevertheless, drawing is one step before the spectrum of color invites itself in.

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TOOLS:

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesign

Autodesk MayaAutodesk RevitAutodesk CADAutodesk 3ds MAX Rhino 5.0

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CREDITS:

ARH 210 Semester Project Collaboration effort: Saleh M. Annaim

ARH 150 Spatial Ordering & FormBeverley Choe

Geoff Gibson

ARH 210 Site Operations & Tectonic SystemsMonica Tiulescu

ARH 390 3D ModelingTobi Adamolekun

ARH 250 Site Culture & Integral UrbanismPeter Strzebniok

Doron Serban

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“The spatial mind has its way of 3 dimensional influences of what it wants to become, until the fluidity of its final inhabitants define what the transitional spaces will be experienced as. The people are the definition of the space, not what the mind wants it to be. We control the circulation as the space controls our movement and transitions.

We bring life to the space as the space introduces the experiences to us. We touch, observe and inhale the surrounding inner workings as the space reveals its spectrum of asymmetrical voids. Our eyes breathe in each gradient of detail until the space defines itself as it’s supposed to be, an experiential factor of spatial exploration.”

Corlandus LangAcademy of Art UnversityB.Arch Student

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