Undergraduate Portfolio // Peter C. Zuroweste

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Curriculum Vitae

Warschauer BrückeFachhochshule Potsdam // Fall 2008The Living Bridge Studio // Manfred Ortner

West Bottom Water WorksUniversity of Kansas // Fall 2009ARCH 809: Building Typology 1 // Richard Farnan

Lamborghini MuseumUniversity of Kansas // Spring 2008ARCH 301: Core Studio IV // Dennis Sander

Central Park AnalysisThe Cooper Union // Fall 2007Architectonics // Georg Windeck + Anthony Titus + Tamar Zinguer

PaintingsThe Cooper Union // Fall 2007Drawing I // Michael Webb

Found Object ZoningThe University of Kansas // Fall 2006ARCH 200: Core Studio I // Curtis Simmons

A Garage for a 1939 FordThe University of Kansas // Spring 2006ARCH 114: Architectural Graphics II // Bruce Johnson

Hand DrawingsThe Cooper Union // Fall 2007Drawing 1 // Michael Webb

The Library of BabelThe Cooper Union // Fall 2007Drawing I // Michael Webb

Forged MorphologyUniversity of Kansas // Fall 2009SCUL 253: Introduction to Sculpture// Professor Matt Burke

Tuberous Root TaxidermyUniversity of Kansas // Fall 2009SCUL 253: Introduction to Sculpture// Matt Burke

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2005-2010 University of Kansas // Master of Architecture, *With Highest DistinctionLawrence, KS

2008-2009Fachhochshule Potsdam // Graduate Studies in Urbanism, *Ewart ScholarBerlin, Germany

2008Internationales Kultur Institut // Undergraduate Studies in German languageVienna, Austria

2007The Cooper Union // Undergraduate Studies in ArchitectureNew York, NY

2010 Charles Tyrwhitt // New York, NYSenior Sales Associate + LogisticsInitiated and administered a logistics overhaul both locally within the store’s Manhat-tan location, and in collaboration with administrative personnel at HQ in London. Key accomplishments include: optimization of square footage through spatial reor-ganization strategies and new storage unit construction; analysis and reconfigura-tion of telecommunication and shipment workflows between London (HQ), Queens (Shipping and Storage), and Manhattan (Retail) into a more intelligent data ecology that balanced incoming supply against local demand, resulting in an overall increase of net square footage and a more lucrative retail environment. Responsible for daily account balancing, weekly trade analyses, and overall store supervision.

2008Kansas Department of Health and Safety // Lawrence, KSJunior Designer + Project CoordinatorAdministered the design and proposal of a rainwater detention pavilion as part of the Green Energy Gateway Project, resulting in online and print media publications and the Blue Skyways Collaborative Partnership Award from EPA Region 7. Sought funding and material donation through personal initiative and collaboration with the Federal EPA and Zarco 66 Earth Friendly Fuels. Managed negotiations for site plan, right-of-way, and utility line issues with City of Lawrence Planning Commission and local utility providers.

2007Global Homes Design-Build // Lawrence, KSIntern ArchitectAssisted the principal during initial design phases in the conceptualization and vi-sualization of residential and commercial projects, emphasizing Rastra block wall systems and vernacular building technologies. Acted as general contractor for the construction of a 2,300 sq. ft. healing center. Responsibilities on this project includ-ed material calculation and shipment coordnation, subcontractor communication, client relations, and scheduling and budget administration. Managed experimenta-tion and mockups for wall assembly solutions, resulting in a fabrication strategy that processed on-site tall grass prairies and red clay deposits into Straw-Bale wall assembly components.

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// ProfessionalExperience

Curriculum Vitae // Nov. 201016 Luquer St. // Apt. 2ABrooklyn, NY 11231913.232.3070 // [email protected]

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2010M.Arch, *With Highest Distinction // University of Kansas Reserved for students that rank in the upper 3 percent of their graduating class.

2008Donald P. Ewart Scholarship in Architecture // University of Kansas Awarded to students with high levels of academic achievement to study abroad in Europe for a period of three semesters: two semesters at a recognized school of architecture, and one prepatory summer semester of intensive language training.

Herbstakadamie Nuekloster Grant // University of Kansas Awarded to students with demonstrated design and research excellence to partici-pate in Universität Dortmund’s Internationale Herbstakadamie Nuekloster.

2007Full Tuition Scholarship // The Cooper Union School of ArchitectureAwarded to all students admitted into The Cooper Union.

2005Freshman Achievement Scholarship // University of Kansas.Awarded to top graduates from Kansas high schools in recognition of out an oust-anding record of academics, community service, and demonstrated leadership.

April 2010Eagle’s Lodge // Lawrence, KS.Lunar Gathering. A collection of wax casts, polyurethane skins, and plaster shells examining the casting of tuberous roots as an architectonic process.

October 2009University of Kansas Department of Visual Art // Lawrence, KS.Permutations. Forged steel and basswood sculptures investigating the modulor aesthetic of spinal structures.

September 2008Fachbereich Design der Fachhochshule Potsdam // Potsdam, GermanyI-Robot. Models, drawings, and renderings for a homeless robot that confronts met-ropolitan subjects through gestures of desperation and appreciation.

June 2008Zarco 66 // Lawrence, KS.Green Energy Gateway Grand Opening. Models, drawings, and renderings for aRainwater Detention Pavilion.

May 2008The Cooper Union Foundation Building // New York, NY.The Cooper Union End of the Year Exhibition. Analytical drawings and model of New York City’s Central Park.

“A Code in the Stone: Reading Prora and St. Marien,” in Gernot Nalbach (ed.), Stein auf Stein: Learning from Prora, proceedings of the 16th annual Internationale Herbstakadamie Neukloster (Universität Dortmund: 2008).

“Kenzo Tange: von Funktionalismus bis Strukturalismus,” in Claus Baldus (ed.),Modern Architecture from 1950 to 1980: Critical Analysis and Open Discussions, proceedings of SS08 Architekturtheorie MA Seminar (Fachhochshule Potsdam: 2008).

“Rainwater Detention Strategies at 2005 W. 9th St.,” presentation delivered to the Lawrence City Commission, Lawrence City Hall, KS (May 28, 2008).

“Concrete Sky,”Ayler Records, September 2007. An “environmental tuning” improvisational jazz rooftop performance at 257 Grand St., Brooklyn, NY. Post-produced and released by Ayler Records as part of Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut’s Digital Box Set.

// Awards & Honors

// Exhibitions

// Research,Publications, & Presentations


// Extracurricular 2010Fresh Produce Art Collective, Member

2008Le Corbusier Seminarwoche, ParticipantA travelling seminar examining the architecture in Le Corbusier in France. Included site visits to Villa Jeanneret-Perret, Villa Schwob, Firminy (Unité d’HabitationStadium Firminy-Vert, Maison de la Culture de Firminy-Vert, Church of Saint-Pierre).Concluded with a series of lectures and student presentations at Sainte Marie de la Tourette during a four day period, allowing students the opportunity to draw, photo-graph, and dwell in the convent.

The Cooper Union New Academic Building Committee, Student Representative.Expressed the interests and concerns of The Cooper Union student body to Mor-phosis Project Architects during the design and construction of Cooper Union’s New Academic Building.

2006-2007Lawrence Youth Football League and Shawnee Mission South High School,Volunteer Coach

2005-2006March of Dimes Foundation, Logistics Volunteer


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WarschauerBrücke

Site AnalysisThis project proposes hybrid program-ming as a strategy for establishing an alternative form or urbanism on Berlin’s eastern frontier of gentrification. Follow-ing an analysis of plans for the develop-ment of the Spreeufer zone, Warschauer Brücke (Warsaw Bridge) was declared as the site for intervention. Suspending discussion of river-front beautification in favor of a more critical discourse in-vestigating the urban ethics associated with the site’s position amongst past and present sociopolitical thresholds, the site’s status as a principal trans-portation interchange point was taken as the constant variable for a series of programmatic experiments that tested mixed-use types against existing traffic and utility infrastructures. Rooted amidst residues of historically shifting political grounds and current definitions of eth-nic boundaries, programmatic and aes-thetic agendas were problematized as issues of exchange and identity.

Berlin’s Urban Complex // Residual + Transition + Established + Green + Water

Spreeufer // Eastern Expansion Geometries

Friedrichshain + Kreuzberg // Oberbaum Stadt as Mediating Island


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Scheme 1 gathers U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Auto, and Tram transportation lines and their vectors to establish a central public zone (platz), defined along its perimeter by conventional bahnhof and media oriented programs. The platz af-fords linkage to previously inaccessible landscape adjacencies, and provides a public space for telecommunication and data exchange that transforms this urban sink into a major cultural node.


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Scheme 2 constructs an architectural interface for the online and print media magazine Tip Berlin. This proposal spa-tially realizes the publication’s agenda for dispatching the contemporary culture of Berlin by internalizing it’s existing structure: Kino & Film, Musik & Party, Kultur & Frezeit, Essen & Trinken, Community & Blogs, Kleinanzeigen & Partnersuche.



Fashion CityFashion City collects the fiber based waste of Berlin and couples convention-al textile manufacturing and recyclying programs with the institutions neces-sarry to process raw material into high fashion and contemporary art. The com-plex is arranged vertically around two voids: the first is publicly oriented and services programs such as U-Bahn + S-Bahn platforms, the Warschauer School of Fashion, the The Textile Museum, and a boutique shopping sector. The second void services programs that demand more autonomy such as the Textile Re-cylcing Center and live/work studios for resident artists and designers.

Fashion City consolidates regional in-dustry networks and crystallizes Berlin’s fashion culture into a singular iconic en-tity, providing the city with a platform for creation and critique at the international level.


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This project is an architecture of container and contained, The facade is crafted though porosity gradients and picture window placements that adjust light and privacy levels for optimal programmatic function. Punctures in the exterior shell and interior glazing opacity levels were used as tools for building the desired mode of exchanged between a high density anterior traffic terminal, sensitive interior hybrid configurations, and an exterior condition where cardinal directions align with socially and politcally significant pasts, presents, and futures.


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Type 1 // fillet radius = 20 cm Type 2 // fillet radius = 50 cm Type 3 // fillet radius = 80 cm Type 4 // fillet radius = 150 cm


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HIGH POROSITY: 75 % // circulation tower, ceiling// office, walls// office, ceiling// media library, ceiling// event center, walls

MEDIUM POROSITY: 50%// circulation tower, walls// theater lobby, walls// dining, walls

LOW POROSITY: 15%// club, walls + ceilings// event center, ceilings// theater, walls (0%)// u-bahn (0%)


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S-Bahn Platforms

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v6.0 // Vehicle Circulation Truss

v7.0 // Roofgarden + Towerv7.0 // Massv7.0 // Void

v7.0 // Terminal Court + Performance Court + Tower

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v5.0 // Suspended Performance Theater v5.0 // Circ. Tower + Offices v5.0 // Sky Lobby + Convention


ForgedMorphologyThis steel sculpture is fabricated from single piece of thirty foot rebar. Each rib component was cut to seventeen inch-es and smith forged, drawing the hot material out along the anvil in a process of striking and rotating that reoriented the grain of the material and trans-formed the cross section profile from circular to rectangular, thus increasing each unit’s structural “I-Value.” Each of the 18 pieces was then individually forged open-die into a unique curva-ture, and gas welded to the remaining four foor section of rebar.


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Found ObjectZoningThe objective of this exercise was to perform an analysis for a site located at the threshold of residential and light industrial zoning. Built strictly with ma-terials found on site, the piece is com-posed with grated steel, sheet steel, rebar, and a bike seat. The rectilinear and abrasive nature of the light indus-trial building stock was translated with a plasma torch to the grated steel, while the softer and more continuous forms of the 19th century neighborhood were transferred to the sheet steel. The bicycle seat was welded to a sleeve and attached to an eight inch section of rebar; this new tectonic object was then positioned as the central architec-tural object, anchoring the composition with it’s verticality and mediating the gradient from rectilinear/abrasive to continuous/soft.


Born on the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, Kansas City

emerged during the 19th century as a critical locale in the western expansion of the United States. Settling occurred mostly on the southern banks of the Missouri River, at the base of limestone and bedrock cliffs that were formed dur-ing Pleistocene epoch glaciations. The resulting topography, when coupled with the humid continental climate, re-sulted in a complex ecology; variable and rapidly changing river conditions, high-volumes of storm water runoff due to dramatic topography, wetlands to mitigate the complex hydrology, nutrient rich top soil, and a thriving wildlife popu-lation—especially for migratory birds. Military forts and suppliers initially settled here, and Kansas City soon became a primary node of trade, existing as the origin point for countless trails facilitat-ing expeditions to the West. As the cen-tury progressed, and the trade networks

developed into transportation networks, Kansas City—and particularly the area at the southern-most bend in the Missouri River—became a major transportation center, anchored in part by the original Union Station. Commercial, industrial, and housing developments expanded continuously south across the river val-ley from this point, violently disrupting the locale’s ecology and establishing the infrastructural geometries for what is now referred to as ‘The West Bottoms.’

At the beginning of the 20th century, the bottoms fell victim to the Great Flood of 1903; timber constructions were de-stroyed, and masonry structures heavily damaged. The following years saw the migration of commercial, residential, and infrastructural programs away from the flood prone river valley; most economic investment was directed towards the plateau that is now Downtown Kansas City. Fueled by the political Pen-

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dergast Machine and federal funds fromthe Depression Era, Kansas City was amongst the most lucrative of the Mid-west manufacturing centers during the first part of the 20th century, boastingthe largest cattle and meatpacking in-dustry in the nation. During this period, the West Bottoms was compartmental-ized as the industrial core needed tosupport the growth and expansion of Kansas City; most of the landmark structures that temporally and materially define the district—for example the12th street viaduct and the Kansas City Livestock Exchange—were constructed at this time.

Following this era of rapid develop-ment in the secondary economic sec-tor occurred a sequence of unfortunate events imperative to Downtown Kansas City’s—and particularly the West Bot-toms’—current state of urban dysfunc-tion: the Great Flood of 1953, post-WWII suburbanization, the construction of the Interstate System (signed into action c. 1956), and Kansas City’s general shift towards the tertiary economic sector. In retrospect, it is Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Interstate System that has proven to be the most catastrophic event in the his-tory of Kansas City. Effectively operating as a noose, the Interstate System physi-cally separates Downtown as the city’s geographic and temporal center from the West Bottoms to the west, the Riv-er Market district to the north, and the Crossroads district to the south, debili-tating it’s potential as a socially active ur-ban core. The resulting condition is one characterized by poly-centricity, where a multitude of smaller cores are attached to the periphery of Downtown as a so-cially and culturally devoid, islanded mass—as something to be traversed, not occupied.

The goal of this project isn’t to provide a master plan for the redevelopment of Kansas City, but rather to develop a West-Bottoms specific prototype that provides precedent for continued pe-riphery development—a sort of text-book surgical incision for the threshold zones (i.e. interstitial/in-between spac-es, “urban sinks”) found between Down-town and it’s satellite districts. It must be recognized that Downtown does not necessarily need new construction to achieve the status as an active urban core. It already contains a plethora of constructed space ripe with program-matic potential—it merely needs im-proved access and linkage in order for that potential to be realized. Executed by means of algorithmic procedure, the proposed prototype identifies four com-ponents that are vital to successful ur-

ban intervention—social relationships, technical performance, legal implica-tions, and economic consequences.

Prior to the Great Flood of 1903, Kansas City’s spatial configuration was defined by a favorable contrast between “upper” Kansas City (located on the bluff, afford-ing panoramas of the river) and “lower” Kansas City (located in the bottoms, en-gaging the river); the two were linked by the 8th street Bridge and a subterranean tunnel that allowed for an uninterrupted, socially active space—a sort of active urban corridor. West Bottoms Water-works must re-restore this concept of a linked, active urban corridor, but in a manner diametrically opposite to much of the recent building that Downtown has seen (e.g. The Power And Light District). This proposal must respond to existing destructive Capitalist processes by favoring community-driven initiative over corporate development, agricul-tural production over product consump-tion, and ecological responsibility before economic profit. In addition to the his-torical restoration of social space, West Bottoms Waterworks should strive to restore The Bottoms to its original eco-logical function. The prototype must be capable of handling the large amounts of storm water run-off generated by the impervious surfaces of Downtown, while mitigating the dramatic behavior of Missouri River, and providing refuge for wildlife—particularly for birds along their intercontinental migratory patterns. The project will also fulfill the Bottoms poten-tial as an agricultural valley, utilizing the nutrient rich topsoil as natural resource for the city—both in terms of food pro-duction and access to green.

These measures will combine to alleviate the stress on the existing sanitary sewer system. Currently, the system combines wastewater (i.e. black water)with stormwater (i.e. grey water), result-ing in raw sewage backup into the streets of our communities. Since 2002, Kansas City has been in discussions with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Department of Natural Re-sources to address overflows from the City’s sanitary sewer systems. In Jan. 30, 2009, the City of Kansas City, Mo., submitted the Overflow Control Plan as scheduled. The Water Services Depart-ment’s Overflow Control Plan is required by state and federal agencies and de-tails the City’s commitment to decreasethe frequency and volume of overflows from its combined and separate sanitary sewer systems. The plan is the larg-est infrastructure investment in Kansas City’s history with an estimated cost of

West Bottoms, near Union StationThe Great Flood of 1903

Kansas River and The West BottomsThe Great Flood of 1953


Louisville, KYriver elevation: 423’’100 yr floodplain: 463’flooded: 1937

Cincinatti, OHriver elevation: 471’100 yr floodplain: 490’flooded: 1913

Pittsburg, PAriver elevation: 710’100 yr floodplain: 730’flooded: 1936

$2.4 billion (2008 dollars) and will take more than 25 years tocomplete. In order for these social and technical and eco-nomic goals to be realized, two major legal restrictions must be overcome; the separation of high densityresidential pro-grams from agricultural production, and the restriction of residential construction within floodplains. Kansas City’s exisiting zoning statutes have compartmentalized industrial programs from domestic pro-grams, classifying agriculture—along-side steel manufacturing, wastewater treatment facilities, and recycling cen-ters—as industrial programs that are cast by law out of the urban core. Ag-riculture must be liberated from this il-logical statute and hybridized with urban development, realizing the programs potential to reconnect urban dwellers with the rural environment that millions

of years of evolution has equipped us for. However, the coupling of residen-tial programs with agricultural programs is further complicated by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which states that no new residential construc-tion is to be allowed on lots that exist within the 100-year floodplain. Naturally, this restriction was createdto benefit the welfare of homeowners, but in continen-tal humid regions, such as Kansas City, this also means that the river valleys—which offer the best soil and most stable ecology—are rendered unlivable. It is the task of West Bottoms Waterworks to reconcile these issues and to provide the region with a working solution.

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Kansas City, MOriver elevation: 727’

100 yr floodplain: 753’flooded: 1903, 1951



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This proposal seeks to restore the 19th century urban corridor that once physi-cally, socially, economically, and legally linked ‘upper’ Kansas City with ‘lower’ Kansas City. However, a historically accu-rate restoration of this spatial configuration is impossible, due to the relocation of the 8th Street Bridge and the complete dis-solution of the city fabric that once existed there. Casting a compromising eye on the Bottoms leads to a shift in site directly to the south, where the 12th Street Viaduct stretches 2,300 feet, departing from the western edge of Downtown (elev. 960’), and terminating 200’ below (i.e. elev. 760’) amongst an array of past wholesale houses, typically ranging in height from four to six stories. The concrete-encased girder, double-deck construction of this bridge—in addition to its status as an ex-tension of Downtown’s most prominent east-west axis—provides endless possi-bilities for adaptive re-use. Thus, the 12th Street Viaduct is identified as the con-ceptual spine of this proposal, and the component from which all geometries are inspired. Once this single east-west line is established, others may follow as linear gestures towards re-unification of ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ Kansas City. 10th, 11th, and 13th Streets are selected as geometries according to their function as stormwater infrastructure lines. In the north-south di-rection, five lines are extracted, delineat-ing six sectors of differing urban charac-teristics (reading above plan from west to east): low density light-industrial building stock > high-density wholesale house building stock > neglected rail yards (i.e. brownfield site) > high-volume traffic thor-

oughfare (i.e. ‘the noose’) > periphery Downtown > Downtown. The geometries described above—while informed by social, legal, economic, and legal pres-sures—are non-deterministic within the nature of the programming process (i.e. the algorithm). In this sense, the existing linear components of the city are trans-posed via heuristics as seed geometry for an algorithmic procedure whose outcome is unknown, but whose appropriateness is preemptively ensured; it as an informed, experimental sort of urbanism.

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The parameters established in the “Iden-tify” study are used here to generate a field of lines whose density—when inter-sected with each other in the north-south and east-west directions—result in the emergence of specific zones. Acting du-ally as a tool for analysis and as design determinants, these zones provide the urban designer with a new metric by which to engage the site. The West Bot-toms Waterworks proposal engages the brownfield property that sits directly ad-jacent to the 12th St. viaduct, wedged between the bluffs to the east and whole-sale house building stock to the west. The area of this inaugural site is 10 hectares (1,111,594 sq. ft.). Decisions on density for the development of this site should exhibit a balance between social stimu-lus and an ecologically founded scheme that provides for complete self-sufficiency. Comparison of the per head energy con-sumption of various cities reveals a clear relationship between density and energy efficiency. Densely populated cities exhibit an energy consumption reduced by a fac-tor of eight. But with more than 75 per-sons per hectare (i.e. 1 person per every 1,345 sq. ft), the effect of density on en-ergy consumption begins to weaken, and when the population density exceed 150 persons per hectare, only a small savings is still possible. Therefore, West Bottoms Waterworks will have a community of 750 persons (75 persons per hectare x 10 hectares). Standard US agricultural prac-tice today requires at least 13,500 sq. ft. of land to feed a person on a high-meat diet or about 3,000 sq. ft. for a vegetar-ian. The Biosphere 2 experiment in Ari-

zona showed that by applying intensive hand-growing methods using soil-based agriculture, only 921 sq. ft. of land were required per adult, to provide all food, including grain and fodder for livestock (chicken, goats, and pigs) in order to keep the biosphere healthy. Therefore a hectare will support at least 33 people. This figure is for a year-round growing climate. For temperate climates based on this figure, it is multiplied by three to get about 3,000 square feet per person. However, organic food production can be used a manage-ment strategy that provides and enhanc-es agro-ecosystem health—including bio-diversity, biological cycles and biological activity in the soil—while providing for a vegetarian’s entire diet, plus the compost crops needed to sustain the system, on only 600 sq. ft.. Assuming a population of 750 vegetarian persons on 10 hectares of land yields an excess of 6.15 hectares—or the equivalent of 246,00 tomato plants. The irrigational demands of the proposal, assuming the production of small vegeta-ble crops, require 225 acre-inches (3,630 cubic ft.) of water per year. In commitment to the goal of self-sufficiency, West Bot-toms Waterworks must collect at least 40 hectares worth of watershed (4 acres watershed per acre-foot annual water) for watering purposes. A brief survey of the locale’s watershed topography reveals 42 potential hectares, and thus the possibil-ity for complete stormwater retention and closed-loop functionability.

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The lines used to generate the quasi-gridded site plan above were extrapolated from the zone-describing fields generated in the “Densify” study. The north-south lines of the drawing were selected in sec-tor 3 to align with the reinforced concrete columns of 12th street viaduct thus exp-trapolating seed geometry for adherence to these structural elements .All other north-south lines were selected at a higer frequency along the city’s existing block structure; this method was also extended to the selection of all east-west lines. The result is an intelligent matrix whose grid components are site specific and sym-biotic. The square footage of each of these components approximates 600 sq. ft.—the irreducible metric of the propos-al’s program, defined as the necessary square footage to sustain a human being in a temperate climate. Taking land use patterns from Vienna, Austria as an urban environment similar in projected denstiy to the West Bottoms Waterworks, yields the following projected programmatic break-down for the proposal:

1. One-and-Two Family Houses 58,915 sq. ft., 5.3%2. Multi-Family residential 261,266 sq. ft., 23.5%), 3. Mixed-Residential & Commercial 140, o62 sq. ft., 12.6%), 4. Commercial/Office 117,830 sq. ft., 10.4%5. Industrial + Manufacturing 24,455 sq. ft., 2.2%), 6. Transportation/Utility (74, 466 sq. ft., 6.7%),

7. Public Facilities and Institutions 173,410 sq. ft. 15.6%8. Open Space 276,788 sq. ft., 24.9% These programs must be seamlessly in-tegrated with the proposal’s water infra-structures. The hydrological process

1. Water is taken from its source, which may be a reservoir, river, well, etc. Water is pumped or flows by gravity to the treat-ment stage.2. At the treatment stage, impurities in the water are removed or inactivated, and fluoride may be added.3. Clean drinking water is stored in tanks.4. Distribution mains carry water from the treatment stage or tank to service lines and provide water to hydrants for fire pro-tection.5. Service lines connect distribution mains to building plumbing systems.6. Used water from sanitary sewers is piped to the sewage treatment plant.7. At the sewage treatment plant, used water goes through a multiple-step cleansing process.8. Cleaned water is returned to the river where it re-enters the water cycle or is ad-ditionally cleaned and reused for irrigation purposes, such as golf course watering.

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The purpose of this four step stratefy is to formulate a programming process that is specefic to the West Bottoms, yet can function as a protype for floodplain devel-opment. Typical documents prepared in the pre-design stages employ a program-ming procedure to arrive at the statement of an architectural problem; this document investigates the programming of proce-dure, as a tool that mitigates the transi-tion from analysis (i.e. Programming) to synthesis (i.e. Design). Both methods—in the end—provide platforms for schematic design by way of compounding informa-tion strategies, step-by-step, along a time axis. Where they differ is in their handlingof data. In opposition of the traditional model that gathers, dissects, simplifies,and processes data as an indifferent thing, the model presented here treats data as “alive and spontaneous, capable of self-ordering, embedded with vision if you know you how to look” (Arranda & Lasch). Ensuring the necessarily heuristic nature of Programming and Pre-Design, the four steps of this procedure are ide-ated in technical, social, economic, and legal terms that mandate the extra tion of site geometries into an algorithmic pro-cess that is as much about self-genera-tion as it is about the structures of pattern. The resulting forms, then, are an evolving diversity of figures (i.e.shapes, patterns, fields) that have a recursive relationship with technical, social, economic, and le-gal pressures, liberating ‘site’ into a post-Cartesian, post- Jeffersonian realm where space is characterized by a dynamic of interchange that is truly heterarchial, flex-ible and open.

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Roof Farm

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Circulation Datumat 100 yr Flood Elev. 30’

Distribution Main

Transmission Lines+ Structural Filtration Piers

Urban Reservoir


Central ParkAnalysis

Architectural Events

Pedestrian Paths

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An understanding of architecture as something that extends beyond the building and into the more vital arena of the city began for me at the Cooper Union, in Manhattan’s Culture of Con-gestion. My inquiry into the city and its peculiar breed of urbanism was conduct-ed through the lens of Central Park, an entity whose boundaries have remained miraculously intact since their delineation in 1853, providing a taut frame for en-gaging the city. The conceptualization of the park’s role within the city grid began by declaring Manhattan as a spectacle, its magnanimous scale a testament to the degree of free market enterprise and atomized capitalist endeavors on which it was founded. Here, urban form emerges not as the realized vision of any organized or self-conscious faction, but rather as the irrational extrusions of an individualized socioeconomic structure that suppresses the implication of it’s hyper-dense urbanity in pursuit of syn-thetic fantasies. Manhattan never yielded a manifesto because the politics of building were inevitably distilled and split by the grid: a rational diagram permitting irrational urbanism. Situated within this sophistic fervor, Central Park performs as the antidiagram. As a body of composi-tions fully rendered in romantic vision, the park acts as guarantor towards preserving psychosocial balance within a mega-structural city. In my analytical project at Cooper, the park’s layers of synthetic systems( architectural Events, Pedestrian Paths, Parkland, Woodland, Meadowland) were extracted as parts of a retroactively conceived kit used by Frederick Law Olmsted to craft the ulti-mate anecdote to city grid psychosis.


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TuberousRootTaxidermy

Endometrium_SKINlpomoea batatas

Perimetrium_CRUSTlpomoea batatas

A Sweet Potatolpomoea batatas

Myometrium_CASINGlpomoea batatas

Perimetrium_CRUSTsolanum tubersome

A Russet Potatosolanum tubersome

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This series of sculptures is a collection of polyurethane skins, plaster shells, and wax casts and synthetic casings that were produced during the process of cloning a Sweet potato and a Rus-set potato. The resulting artifacts imbue a discussion about the aestheics of real versus synthetic objects. Casings, crusts, skins and casts reveal a logic of architectonics with distinct characterstics of plasticity, surface, and volume.


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The Library of Babel

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infi-nite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low railing. From any hexa-gon one can see the floors above and be-low, one after the other, endlessy. The ar-rangement of galleries is always the same.

-Louis Borges, The Library of Babel


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Hand Drawings


Portfolio

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Portfolio

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Documents

Undergraduate Portfolio // Peter C. Zuroweste