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Giancarlo V MoUniversity of Texas at Arl

B.S. Arch, Minor in Architecture H2004

Pursuing Master of Archite

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CubeComposition

The cubic composition for this particular model lent itself to a linearprogression. As a method for demonstrating a rhythmicsequence, a series of frames were strategically placed to exhibit aprogression of variations on a theme.

1 Top down-model2 Close up-model3 Full model elevation4 Longitudinal View-blue and green5 Oblique front view-red, orange and green6 Top down view-red, orange and silver7 Oblique close up-green, orange and silver

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This configuration implied a centrifugal or radiating composition,which was suited for a demonstration of solid to void. The centralcube represents a solid mass with the frames representingambiguous conditions of implied space and delicate structuralmembers.

The five cubes that make up this configuration has strengthdirection, which enables a clear exhibition of the rhyrepetitionthat occurs between the structural members. Oneevenly spaced and allows the rhythmic sequence of the otto occur within it.

The base model was a device that provided contextualinformation for the cube configuration exercises. It was based onnumbers consistent with the Fibonacci sequence, therebyallowing possibilities for proportional relationships across thebase model.

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The semester project was an evaluation of ideas based on simple cube configurations. Thiseventually led to exercises in composition via physical models, drawings and digital learningdevices. By starting off with cubes of specific dimension and an open ended developmentalinterpretation within orthogonal constraints, the evolution of the model helped to develop anintuitive understanding of scales and composition.

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GamingStructureIn the beginning, the objective of theproject was to create a temporary

outdoor gallery space for an art festivalthat takes place in Austin, Texas, everyspring. The task was to construct apossible space for a 10’x20’x10’ spacefrom one sheet of paper and documentthe process through stop motionphotography. The initial assembly isconstructed through a gamingstructure informed by simple arithmeticcalculations. Having the documenta-tion aided in the development of atemporal sensibility. One can look at thephotography and see the finishedpiece and reverse engineer it todiscover its inception.

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Our next task was to integrate systemsand map them into the object. It washere where I started to develop asuspension matrix where the movableparts are informed by a gameboardstructure. This evolved from earlyexperimentation with the conceptbehind algorithms and calculators.

Investigating Potential Arrangements ofGallery Based on Arithmetic Calculations

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As a tool for investigating how art could be observed as suspended objects, Ideveloped a prototype in my apartment. I used the medium of short film tounderstand how temporal changes came into play with the art . A gamingstructure was set up on the perimeter of the apartment as a guide for plug andplay suspension cables to hang the objects.

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The exercises in this studio originated in developing innovative techniques in displaying art andevolved into a variety of solutions for multiple projects. As a studio, we began investigating howto manipulate a sheet of paper as the basis for an outdoor art gallery. As we programmedmapping strategies and developed concepts, we began to distinguish and define our ownprojects.SUSP

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In the beginning, the objective of theproject was to create a temporary outdoorgallery space for an art festival that takesplace in Austin, Texas, every spring. Thetask was to construct a possible space for

a 10’x20’x10’ space from one sheet ofpaper and document the process throughstop motion photography. The initialassembly was constructed through agaming structure informed by simplearithmetic calculations. This evolved into astudy in suspending the art as a way ofvertically experiencing the space and howit influences the art.

MagokS.KoreaThe Magok Waterfront in South Korea wasa group project that blended the ideas ofour individual Austin projects into a centralconcept. As a group, we decided to touchupon the socio-political rift between Northand South Korea as an impetus for a

project based on biological healingprocesses. The site is has a natural inletthat can be seen as a chasm or scar thatneeds to be healed. The pod typologiesthat float in the water act as inhabitablebridges that go across. These are held inplace by the connective tissue thatphysically and symbolically hold theproject together.



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20SUSPThe exercises in this studio originated in developing innovative techniques in displaying art andevolved into a variety of solutions for multiple projects. As a studio, we began investigating howto manipulate a sheet of paper as the basis for an outdoor art gallery. As we programmedmapping strategies and developed concepts, we began to distinguish and define our ownprojects.



The studio was tasked to design a program for the undefinedurban space that occurred at the exit to the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.I initated the project with several studies of the famous city’s urbangrain and rich history. Diagramming the city revealed that SantaMaria della Fiore, the psychological center of Florence andSantaCroce , the burial place of Galileo, create a cross-intersection atthe project site. This initiated a rough organization of the building.Eventually I saw a possibility for two buildings to represent thepast and the present linking the traffic of those exiting the Uffizi tothe neighboring Piazza del Grano. The building immediatelyfacing the Uffizi is a museum celebrating the life of Galileo. Themajor focus is an observatory that houses one of his telescopes.The building that defines the urban edge of the Piazza del Granois a small art-house cinema that shows the most current andcompelling films not found in major box office venues. This givesthe setting an oppurtunity to be utilized at night when the

museum is closed.

Map of Florence indicating Santa Maria della Fiore, the Uffizi Exit Site, and Santa Croce 1First Floor 2

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The University of Texas at Arlington has a great tradition of taking a handful of students to Italy torediscover one of the origins of defined public spaces and utilization of classical Western beautyin an urban context. Our travels took us to various urban centers of Italy in pursuit of piazzas,churches, and how the preservation of the old have influenced the modern. The experience waseventually tken back to studio to turn into a project.

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In the summer of 2006 I traveled to Italy for a study abroad in architecture.While there I sketched and took photographs to further examine how thecountry’s great cities were designed and how architecture was used toinform public space. Our travels took us to Rome, Florence, Verona, Venice,

Vicenza, Lake Como and Milan


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The University of Texas at Arlington has a great tradition of taking a handful of students to Italy torediscover one of the origins of defined public spaces and utilization of classical Western beautyin an urban context. Our travels took us to various urban centers of Italy in pursuit of piazzas,churches, and how the preservation of the old have influenced the modern. The experience waseventually tken back to studio to turn into a project.

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The main project objective was to reverse engineerMarcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase to further understand the temporal conditions andmovements of the work. The process was initiatedthrough studies of how the artwork was organizedas a stationery composition and also how itdemonstrated movement beyond the canvas. Thestudio was then asked to interpolate between thediagrams and create an original composition thatinterpreted the extracted concepts. Through thisprocess, I began to understand that nuances and

technicalities, however intimidating or overwhelm-ing, can be understood and developed into originalsystems.

Large Fields 1Euclidean Geometries 2

Major Delineations 3Fields of Time 4

Intermediate Fields 5Small Fields 6

Vibrations 7Nodes and Trajectories 8

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During this semester, the studio was asked to observe the temporal conditions and nuances thatare potential in static structures but rarely explored. Via diagrams, stop motion photography, andmotion picture, the exercise enabled us to consciously observe static surfaces and armatures asconstantly changing forms.

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Terrain and void begin to amalgamateand take shape

Final image is a dynamic void cthe striking of the piano key, whcollided within the boolean terrasection cut

The studio was asked to choose a mechanism that possessedthree dynamic components. The piano key is a complexmachine that is used to produced sound. I extracted the threemovable components as a genesis for the next step of theassignment, which was to generated a terrain, a spatial objectand a connector piece. Finally, we were asked to convey thistransition from a static object to a dynamic environment through a diptych. This was to demonstrate our understandingof ephemeral conditions in three dimensional objects through atwo dimensional medium.

Static piano key section with multiplemovable components

As piano key is struck a spacedevelops between the hammer and thebase. This is documented in orangeacross the dyptyph.

Section cut dematerializes into aboolean terrain

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TemporalSurfaceThe objective was to develop amethodology of identifyingmovement in an object. Every foldwas monitored as a move wascaptured and exhibited via stopmotion photography. This enableda closer examination of howdynamic surfaces can beaccounted for, and is analogous tologically keeping track of anevolving studio design.

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Our world has become increasinglyfast-paced. Most of the time, theenvironment that lay before us isexperienced in passing. The blurringof static objects causes us toperceive them as something entirelydifferent. Through these digitalexercises, I was able to furtherinvestigate these nuances intemporal armatures and surfaces and began to see how they informour current environment. It was the

ultimate object of the studio tocommunicate these perceptionsthroughmovies and digital media sothat they may be more clearlyunderstood.

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ORGANIZATIONStudying the SoaneHouse revealedtechniques formaximizing narrowspaces by utilizing astrategy of thresholdsand a tri-partitescheme.

TEA ROOMUtilizing JohnSoane’stechnique ofbringing innatural light asa basis ofdesign for thetea room

LIGHT WELLLooking to Borromini andCarravaggio as amethod of bringingnatural light to thestage of the salon

PERSPEC-TIVE ROOMLooking toBorrominiandCarravaggiofor opticalillusions andchangingperceptionsof space.

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CAMERAOBSCURA As part of theprogram, a roomfor a cameraoscura wasincluded as alearning devicefor drawing.

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The study of the organization and methodology of the Soane House led to an understanding ofdesigning for narrower infill spaces and the importance of natural lighting. The program calledfor a series of spaces that would facilitate a school for drawing. This particular studio deliberatelycoincided with an art and architecture history course. The students were encouraged to studyother masters of light and space to enrich the process.


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The studio was an examination of post-modernistconcepts and discovering ways of expressingarchitecture as landscape. The process beganwith a simple idea of “bringing up the ground andpulling down the sky.” It eventually evolved into atheoretical high school for the creative arts to besituated in Los Angeles, California. The mission ofthe charter school was to not merely teachcurriculum but to foster an understanding of howthese typical school subjects are designed

Conceptually, I was tasked todevelop the floors as a seriesof landscapes stacked ontop of one another. Thisinitiated how the spaceswere organized and howlight was to get into thebuilding.

I was asked to create tooptions for the roof of thebulding, which was to act asan outdoor plaza for thepublic. One is composed ofa red, recycled rubbermaterial. The other isessentially a conceptual

The pocket-pivot wallsare designed to beconfigured intoclassrooms or to openup completely foroptimum interaction

between the classes.

The face of the buildingis composed of glassand operable louvers toventilate the buildingwith fresh outdoor air.The arrangement of thematerials implied letters

The floorplans of thebuilding are organizedhave classrooms are theperimeter, open to naturallight. The movable partitionwalls allow the classroomsto be open during anassembly on the middleplatform. This middleplatform not only acts asthe major form ofcirculation, but also asseating for a performance.

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The studio was an examination of post-modernist concepts and discovering ways of expressingarchitecture as landscape. The process began with a simple idea of “bringing up the ground andpulling down the sky.” It eventually evolved into a theoretical high school for the creative arts to besituated in Los Angeles, California. The mission of the charter school was to not merely teachcurriculum but to understand hoe they are designed.

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These studies were based on a dream about an unidentifiable layeredconstruct that housed spatial settings for several reoccurring dreamsthat I have had throughout my life. It is never the same structure twice,however, for the purpose of this exercise, one iteration of the constructwas examined.

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Post graduate life in the workforce and out of a structured pedagogy allowed for a rediscovery ofdaydreamy sketches while using the logical systems of architectural graphics to post rationalizethem. I found this time in my life made me more self aware of how I can see objects orenvironments and take them out of scale or context in order to further examine them.

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These studies involved examinations of the forms andspaces that occur in the human body. By observing the

sinous texture of muscles, the structure of the skeleton invarious positions, and dissecting inner organs, many ideaswere formed on how to communicate complex systemsand generate interesting forms and spaces.

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Post graduate life in the workforce and out of a structured pedagogy allowed for a rediscovery ofdaydreamy sketches while using the logical systems of architectural graphics to post rationalizethem. I found this time in my life made me more self aware of how I can see objects orenvironments and take them out of scale or context in order to further examine them.

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