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[opposite] FRONT PERSPECTIVE

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[left] REAR PERSPECTIVE[top] MODEL PHOTOS

10 115948 n. sheridan

[opposite] FRONT PERSPECTIVE

nicholas weissstudio book

[left] REAR PERSPECTIVE[top] MODEL PHOTOS

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[right] GUEST LEVEL

[left] EMPLOYEE LEVEL

[opposite] PUBLIC LEVEL

employee levelpre-production studio

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[1]employee entrance[2]recreation space[3]post-production studio[4]

guest levelpre-production studio[1]main concourse[2]post-production studio[3]independent media center[4]

public levelpublic restaurant

employee circulation

guest circulation

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[1]public park[2]performance area[3]

Utilizing the ground surface as a pliable barrier between fantasy and reality, Hyper_Real Studios organizes the circulatory systems of its users in response to their relationship with the hyperreality. Employees create the fantasy, guests to the studio navigate the fantasy and the public have the fantasy impressed upon them.

Hyper-Real Studios ARCH 476: Therese TierneySpring 2010200,000 sq. ft. animation studio in Chicago, Illinois

Film as a process is not dissimilar from architecture in its ability to create entire worlds separate from the reality that exists outside of the borders of the screen.

Hyper-Real Studios builds off of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on the role of media tand the blur of the real with the simulacrum to create an animation studio that progressively exerts itself onto its context over the creative process of writing and producing animated films.

The project relies heavily on the forces of circulatory infrastructure to interrupt and define the limits of the world created within the animation studio and the world beyond.

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[below] POST-PRODUCTION STUDIO

[opposite] FOYER TO POST-PRODUCTION STUDIO

Symbiotic CommonsARCH 374: Julie LarsenSpring 2009 - Earl Prize in design nominee200,000 sq. ft. youh hostel and homeless shelter in Chicago, Illinois

The largest challenge to designing Symbiotic Commons was the difficulty of situating such a large project along the bank of the Chicago River adjacent to the three tiered street of Wacker Drive. The project units the three levels of the street with riverscape and the city fabric beyond by creating an urban organism that attaches itself to existing infrastructure for structural stability, circulation, and mechanicals. Free to grow and shrink as necessary, Symbiotic Commons fuses the utilitarian language of the street with the lofty aesthetics of the glass facades above while uniting the public at large with traveling youths and the homeless in a creature of circulation, structure, glass and landscape.

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A facade of aesthetic iconicism masks the utilitarian inner-workings of the built urban environment, obscuring the functionality of architecture.

A vernacular of pure function shuns falsi�cation through decoration , displaying the utility of the city in its purest form with no attention to aesthetics

Blurring the simulacrum with the world beneath it will develop an urban organism that maintains functionality alongside elegance.

34nicholas weiss

2006-201033symbiotic commons

A facade of aesthetic iconicism masks the utilitarian inner-workings of the built urban environment, obscuring the functionality of architecture.

A vernacular of pure function shuns falsi�cation through decoration , displaying the utility of the city in its purest form with no attention to aesthetics

Blurring the simulacrum with the world beneath it will develop an urban organism that maintains functionality alongside elegance.

34nicholas weiss

2006-201033symbiotic commons

A facade of aesthetic iconicism masks the utilitarian inner-workings of the built urban environment, obscuring the functionality of architecture.

A vernacular of pure function shuns falsi�cation through decoration , displaying the utility of the city in its purest form with no attention to aesthetics

Blurring the simulacrum with the world beneath it will develop an urban organism that maintains functionality alongside elegance.

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[below] CIRCULATION AXON

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An organic form takes shape as the Symbiotic Commons winds through all levels of Wacker Drive growing along the con�nes of the road structure, taking what needs from the waste of its surroundings.

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[below] CIRCULATION AXON

[opposite] ORGANISM GROWTH

An organic form takes shape as the Symbiotic Commons winds through all levels of Wacker Drive growing along the con�nes of the road structure, taking what needs from the waste of its surroundings.

Health StripGlobal Architecture Brigades Competition - Team: Giorgio Angelini, Alexander Tehranian, Duncan White, Nicholas WeissSpring 20121200 sq. ft. health clinic in Honduras

Designed as a small and easily built clinic, the Health Strip in Honduras remains incredibly mindful of the limited resources and unskilled volunteer labor that would take part in constructing the project. Composed of easily framed walls and concrete masonry units, the project remains simple to construct and assemble despite maintaining certain architectural qualities that might appear otherwise. The sloped roof is constructed separately and bolted to the structure and creates an open gathering space adjacent to the building while covering the open air waiting room .

HEALTH STRIPRice School of ArchitectureG. Angelini, A. Tehranian, N. Weiss, D. White

HEALTH STRIP(BANDA DE SALUD)

Global Architecture BrigadesBUILDing Health Challenge

HEALTH STRIPRice School of ArchitectureG. Angelini, A. Tehranian, N. Weiss, D. White

Cross SectionScale: 1:50

HILLSIDE WAITING STRIP OFFICE STRIP LIGHTWELL + SERVICE