https://liz-vandyke.com Liz Van Dyke Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:12:31 +0000 https://liz-vandyke.com en https://liz-vandyke.com/Home-Image-Scroll Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:26:03 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Home-Image-Scroll <img width="3497" height="1614" width_o="3497" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08140df9fc951ddaf06c158be6302b7b7328c431adaa0dc2d0db6c271fe5fa4d/IMG_1646.jpg" data-mid="241765995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08140df9fc951ddaf06c158be6302b7b7328c431adaa0dc2d0db6c271fe5fa4d/IMG_1646.jpg" /><img width="4800" height="4800" width_o="4800" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebe733d3c6eec5c1027280ec656829ecb107cb01df535a524c8f95a4b68d491f/Instagrams_Page_3.jpg" data-mid="178480662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebe733d3c6eec5c1027280ec656829ecb107cb01df535a524c8f95a4b68d491f/Instagrams_Page_3.jpg" /><img width="720" height="960" width_o="720" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7f5eca82e1f15d353830143cbafb266dc534bc72cb5b9ed7ecb8d5744725a47/Towers.jpg" data-mid="56110105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/e7f5eca82e1f15d353830143cbafb266dc534bc72cb5b9ed7ecb8d5744725a47/Towers.jpg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56fab3c9bf1c185987578b175c70fe57f77c1e16de883eca96ff3d64fe2f62b5/IMG_7789.jpeg" data-mid="166788013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56fab3c9bf1c185987578b175c70fe57f77c1e16de883eca96ff3d64fe2f62b5/IMG_7789.jpeg" /> <img width="7200" height="7200" width_o="7200" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e845422ed978b0b06804529b712a42c0816a1219e6d4a29a7351b4f1cf64ba32/WhiteSeaLevelRise-03.jpg" data-mid="206790731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e845422ed978b0b06804529b712a42c0816a1219e6d4a29a7351b4f1cf64ba32/WhiteSeaLevelRise-03.jpg" /><img width="3200" height="2400" width_o="3200" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2adc4e09868e013370b61ee8842ccc99903ad54dcb48a302b4fa1babb71c6fc1/Market_04.jpg" data-mid="206790734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2adc4e09868e013370b61ee8842ccc99903ad54dcb48a302b4fa1babb71c6fc1/Market_04.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb7da2a1b539b8427f37a4d1c1b463096167fada0b7acc5ab6de0b7d521e8fac/5B_Spina_SP19_VanDyke_Liz_IMG_07.jpg" data-mid="56110107" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb7da2a1b539b8427f37a4d1c1b463096167fada0b7acc5ab6de0b7d521e8fac/5B_Spina_SP19_VanDyke_Liz_IMG_07.jpg" /><img width="1250" height="1667" width_o="1250" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d15a60faafd37f32808ff22e99ca6f63a21fcb549ac631c2940d66d430361bd7/HyperrealModel_VanDyke.jpg" data-mid="56110108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d15a60faafd37f32808ff22e99ca6f63a21fcb549ac631c2940d66d430361bd7/HyperrealModel_VanDyke.jpg" /><img width="1250" height="938" width_o="1250" height_o="938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92b12cce28fdd61026154ca13e04de8e38c25204bc2f0057ab6ce1ff662e6e06/5B_Spina_SP19_VanDyke_Liz_MD_13.jpg" data-mid="58450581" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92b12cce28fdd61026154ca13e04de8e38c25204bc2f0057ab6ce1ff662e6e06/5B_Spina_SP19_VanDyke_Liz_MD_13.jpg" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/Info Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:26:04 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Info Liz Van Dyke&nbsp;— Architecture Design Liz Van Dyke is an architect working between architecture and landscape design in New York City. She received her Master’s in Landscape Architecture, MLA I AP 2023, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Paul M. Heffernan Travel Scholarship to conduct landscape and heritage research in Greece and the Netherlands. She is interested in landscape memory, and image representation through the architectural lens. Van Dyke holds a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc, 2019, and has taught as adjunct faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. <img width="4672" height="7008" width_o="4672" height_o="7008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a46ada3f9a884ce0c5ed65fadda2ffbc88f5bc326ada4befa092e121dd079d7/DSC04324-3.jpg" data-mid="229268795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a46ada3f9a884ce0c5ed65fadda2ffbc88f5bc326ada4befa092e121dd079d7/DSC04324-3.jpg" /> <img width="3955" height="5932" width_o="3955" height_o="5932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6ff58bed900aa7960e0afe058c4bdf94ed306763969009c13a45a6591a3b47f/DSC04517.jpg" data-mid="224248606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6ff58bed900aa7960e0afe058c4bdf94ed306763969009c13a45a6591a3b47f/DSC04517.jpg" /> lizpvandyke@gmail.com ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.) <img width="1452" height="767" width_o="1452" height_o="767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1695ffd968721aeba7197b3efcd664734e2dc276e100d698840d8cc7451c4e5/elevation4.png" data-mid="56111268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1695ffd968721aeba7197b3efcd664734e2dc276e100d698840d8cc7451c4e5/elevation4.png" /> Icebox MapThe time that alligator ate that fish When the Yongzheng Emperor found that weird dust bunny under his throne The great earthquake of Alexandria The invention of expectation in literature When the heaviest cacao fruit fell in Takalik Abaj Animesh eats his first Fly Agaric mushroom https://liz-vandyke.com/Barnes-Barnes-in-the-Grid-of-Des-Moines Thu, 11 May 2023 16:13:55 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Barnes-Barnes-in-the-Grid-of-Des-Moines 5. A Market Hall + Greenhouse: Barnes’ Barnes In the Grid of Des Moines<img width="4800" height="4800" width_o="4800" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0caaa997fef2f4a3b54d582cdd2396ba986ba43cbe9d1602ee0a008c3a39b6a3/Instagrams_Page_3.jpg" data-mid="178480143" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0caaa997fef2f4a3b54d582cdd2396ba986ba43cbe9d1602ee0a008c3a39b6a3/Instagrams_Page_3.jpg" /> WP / 2023From A Market Hall + Greenhouse: Barnes’ Barns in the Grid of Des Moines Cheese, meats, fresh produce, fish markets &amp; more. The Des Moines, Iowa Market Hall shelters a cornucopia of delights. Neon signs illuminate the vibrant space, casting a lively glow on displays of fresh vegetables and the bustling fisherman’s counter. The concrete floors bear the history of countless seafood shipments, adding to the dynamic atmosphere. Aromatic scents of freshly baked bread waft through the air, complemented by subtle notes of coffee. The market’s architecture becomes an integral part of this enthralling drama, contributing to the overall allure of this bustling hub. The adjacent greenhouse, seamlessly integrated into the market hall experience, nurtures the growth and production of fruits, vegetables, and herbs that find their way into the stalls, breathing life into the vibrant ingredients of the market hall. It’s a celebration of freshness, agriculture, and sustainability, adding another layer of enchantment to this unique culinary experience. This 80,000-square-foot unique market hall and greenhouse offers a farm-to-table experience against the backdrop of a sawtooth roof design. Equipped with aluminum sheds for paneling, glass, and temperature controls, the design allows ample natural light and ventilation, ensuring a community-oriented and multicultural environment. <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab477f758d6984e85c7aa99e7efcb059ca8a7d8659a43c68eb0e31d279e43d07/Model-Photo_01.png" data-mid="178480223" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab477f758d6984e85c7aa99e7efcb059ca8a7d8659a43c68eb0e31d279e43d07/Model-Photo_01.png" /> 1/16“ = 1’-0” Model. A Market Hall is a cornucopia of delights.&nbsp; The expansive views of the surrounding landscape envelop The Des Moines Market Hall and greenhouse, nestled within the sweeping prairie grass plains, adding cultural significance to Iowa. On the east side of the building, Prairie Park captures the undulating sea of grass these prairies impart, creating a distinctive aesthetic beauty and offering a serene and picturesque landscape. Architectural collages, influenced by Mies van der Rohe, choreograph the transformation of these vistas, subtly referencing the interplay between the view, the windows, and the natural landscape.The collaboration of this industrious market hall and greenhouse functions to support a hollistic approach of food production, distribution, and community engagement. At the same time of encouraging sustainability, freshness and an enhanced atmosphere. Locally grown and sourced food contribute to environmental conservation efforts. While the presence of greenery from the greenhouse to the prarie grasses enhances the overall ambience to the market hall. Gone are the barriers that once separated the observation of labor and consumption; making a shift towards greater respect and acknowledgement of the entire process. The project in its entirety is a combination of architecture, landscape, and a harmonious integration of nature and commerce— a testament to the interconnectedness of sustainable living and community well-being. <img width="3200" height="2400" width_o="3200" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2adc4e09868e013370b61ee8842ccc99903ad54dcb48a302b4fa1babb71c6fc1/Market_04.jpg" data-mid="178492874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2adc4e09868e013370b61ee8842ccc99903ad54dcb48a302b4fa1babb71c6fc1/Market_04.jpg" /> <img width="1446" height="509" width_o="1446" height_o="509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33bb19afc9456f76d41b5e067502db6edb3917c622b51a770bfba064900ee83e/Market_05.jpg" data-mid="178492893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33bb19afc9456f76d41b5e067502db6edb3917c622b51a770bfba064900ee83e/Market_05.jpg" /> From Farm-to-Table. Market Hall Interior. <img width="4800" height="4800" width_o="4800" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91b5ea688a7b8da2752860ae2e7f64f0acf793a1966f7edcbc67e5f33d086084/Instagrams_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="178480150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91b5ea688a7b8da2752860ae2e7f64f0acf793a1966f7edcbc67e5f33d086084/Instagrams_Page_1.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b983216d2a618f202d204078ab7a9af7d512d7f59a2a4ec5658e5cb9982e5df/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only7.jpg" data-mid="178492566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b983216d2a618f202d204078ab7a9af7d512d7f59a2a4ec5658e5cb9982e5df/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only7.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64ed2319ae6c2daf4b802584a8317e9033a962247b0658b136d007cc9d882643/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only4.jpg" data-mid="178492565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64ed2319ae6c2daf4b802584a8317e9033a962247b0658b136d007cc9d882643/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only4.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f44031502fad75994a26ef88861a436d56c6f3c6617800b6348efc51f5a08ad/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only17.jpg" data-mid="178492666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f44031502fad75994a26ef88861a436d56c6f3c6617800b6348efc51f5a08ad/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only17.jpg" /><img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f8eed2d4d1dd7edc2b38c40d1261f10f5e82704f13a8bf4e97fa87b9bf4cd6b/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only16.jpg" data-mid="178492634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f8eed2d4d1dd7edc2b38c40d1261f10f5e82704f13a8bf4e97fa87b9bf4cd6b/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only16.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40a510e8a877e09fb842657d562e09baf440f3ac2a36602a2eaaefc36c9adafe/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only19.jpg" data-mid="178492804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40a510e8a877e09fb842657d562e09baf440f3ac2a36602a2eaaefc36c9adafe/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only19.jpg" /><img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/593fd75225bb9215c02a9dc313c335cea306bc604d90d1b2e0ee20e9e497f9d0/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only21.jpg" data-mid="178492810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/593fd75225bb9215c02a9dc313c335cea306bc604d90d1b2e0ee20e9e497f9d0/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only21.jpg" /> This studio will explore the typology of the industrial shed – a 60,000 square foot building – d eveloped from a kit-of-parts assembly to accommodate adaptable agricultural uses combined with multifunctional community spaces. Individual buildings will collectively form a mixed-use urban farming precinct in Des Moines Iowa, a small city in the heartland of America. Situated between the scales and uses of regional industrial agriculture and the bottom-up urbanism of local farmers markets, the building will unite educational spaces with small-scale farming operations. Following the tradition of visionary planning in Des Moines, the projects will frame a functional new urban region within the city, while cultivating an expanded civic realm in buildings and open spaces that contribute to the city’s ongoing evolution. In 1990, Mario Gandelsonas presented the Des Moines Vision Plan. This elastic and evolving plan for the transformation of Des Moines continues to guide urban decisions more than thirty years later. The Vision Plan includes some projects that have been executed and others that have not yet been realized. One of these projects was The Farming Corridor, which took shape in 2015 as an extension of the Downtown Farmer’s Market. Our studio will explore the foundational tenets of this plan programmatically and urbanistically, as a prelude to the development of individual studio projects that together will form a collective precinct: a mixed-use agricultural corridor integrating farming as an extension of informal local markets in combination with educational spaces, all connected by shared green pathways and open space along a rail corridor on the south side of the urban core. Each building will encompass a range of climatic environments, diverse envelope conditions, and temporal use scenarios, in relation to program criteria. Students will develop their project at three scales: from the urban, to the architectural, to the detail. We will develop a considered framework and evaluative metrics, including social utilization, embodied carbon, architectural quality, etc., which will form the basis of collective planning strategies to be implemented by each student in their individual project. Structural Systems + Construction Methods <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87b059127acb2edece35f519417cf89b1918820dcf760a81d595b23e1c01e8c4/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only11.jpg" data-mid="178492715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87b059127acb2edece35f519417cf89b1918820dcf760a81d595b23e1c01e8c4/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only11.jpg" /><img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3804f50138e7f8e1866529fd7f6a5d0319f96f22951115c116386f1b0bd03021/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only9.jpg" data-mid="178492690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3804f50138e7f8e1866529fd7f6a5d0319f96f22951115c116386f1b0bd03021/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only9.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc9b9d257ff0006b6c2bd1631a3a061e134d33afc3689b029f1ae588d2feb272/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only10.jpg" data-mid="178492728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc9b9d257ff0006b6c2bd1631a3a061e134d33afc3689b029f1ae588d2feb272/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only10.jpg" /><img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95c2efed8cba2e2647729a91b097c044853ef06983f99494e2efc019066e7a06/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only22.jpg" data-mid="178492736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95c2efed8cba2e2647729a91b097c044853ef06983f99494e2efc019066e7a06/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only22.jpg" /> <img width="10200" height="6600" width_o="10200" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4355643d7a7d5aae769d6363c62e185ccfe850856c9a05d7233905650e00d81e/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only25.jpg" data-mid="178492730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4355643d7a7d5aae769d6363c62e185ccfe850856c9a05d7233905650e00d81e/05_01_23_Final_MarketHall_Images-only25.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="4800" width_o="4800" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/604bc769cee4c8b8ffb8053453e4529772329f1903716f73a2292481cfa2f503/Instagrams_Page_2.jpg" data-mid="178480138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/604bc769cee4c8b8ffb8053453e4529772329f1903716f73a2292481cfa2f503/Instagrams_Page_2.jpg" /><img width="1446" height="509" width_o="1446" height_o="509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71665ef07455ae03dd805a473c2f308d5e7ed74cfad174f3341eb709b8afe7a5/Prarie-Field_02.jpg" data-mid="178492967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71665ef07455ae03dd805a473c2f308d5e7ed74cfad174f3341eb709b8afe7a5/Prarie-Field_02.jpg" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/Diachronic-Study-of-Aphrodite-Sediments-of-Milos-Aegean-Sea-Greece Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:12:31 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Diachronic-Study-of-Aphrodite-Sediments-of-Milos-Aegean-Sea-Greece Diachronic Study of Aphrodite: Sediments of Milos, Aegean Sea, Greece <img width="3497" height="1614" width_o="3497" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08140df9fc951ddaf06c158be6302b7b7328c431adaa0dc2d0db6c271fe5fa4d/IMG_1646.jpg" data-mid="241420713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08140df9fc951ddaf06c158be6302b7b7328c431adaa0dc2d0db6c271fe5fa4d/IMG_1646.jpg" /> Moonrock Landscapes of Milos, Greece, 2022. Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award, Harvard GSD. WP / 2022From Diachronic Study of Aphrodite: Sediments of Milos, Aegean Sea, Greece Rising from volcanic ash, pumice, and sculpted by the winds of the Aegean Sea, the lunar-white landscape at Sarakiniko Beach in Milos, Greece, shows deposits and erosion shaped across geological time along the island's soft coastal edge. While much of the island was formed by older volcanic rock shaped two to three million years ago, Sarakiniko's soft volcanic tuft makes this coastline young. The photograph approaches the ground as a threshold of the island's material memory, where surface texture holds the slow choreography of wind, salt, and compression. Along this shore, the wind of the Aegean Sea continually strips away the surface, each revealed layer renewing the terrain’s pale surface. Its natural form rises softly, like the sea foam that once bore Aphrodite to shore. A mythic bloom sits between its geological explanation and luminosity.&nbsp; https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Ruinous-Edge-Urban-Assemblages-and-Frameworks Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:28:50 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Ruinous-Edge-Urban-Assemblages-and-Frameworks 1. The Ruinous Edge: Urban Assemblages and Frameworks <img width="7200" height="7200" width_o="7200" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e845422ed978b0b06804529b712a42c0816a1219e6d4a29a7351b4f1cf64ba32/WhiteSeaLevelRise-03.jpg" data-mid="166789021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e845422ed978b0b06804529b712a42c0816a1219e6d4a29a7351b4f1cf64ba32/WhiteSeaLevelRise-03.jpg" /> Spill the Milk—Sea Level Rise in Maverick Square, East Boston. <img width="7200" height="12600" width_o="7200" height_o="12600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caa82bc90e815fa16f87e506e0cdb545a6d205f365a22daa982921b5ae14b7d0/4x7_RuinsPhoto_02.jpg" data-mid="166660191" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caa82bc90e815fa16f87e506e0cdb545a6d205f365a22daa982921b5ae14b7d0/4x7_RuinsPhoto_02.jpg" /> RE / 2022From The Ruinous Edge: Urban Assemblages and Frameworks &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Ruinous Edge and the de-industrialization of inner-city environments shares concerns over postcolonial orderings of cities producing an extended perspective of modern urban buildings, which included the fall of leftover fragments that might be remnants of destroyed or demolished buildings. This edge, in case, has been carried by sea level rise exposure. Abandoned old materials are needed to re-invent the cultural life of inner city environments and seem to focus on high-speed capitalism and can view the development of gentrification. Gentrification in the city means continuing to polish the refinement of the urban environment-- for the worse. By supporting the reuse of these structures, the cultural economies of the city and cultural policies of urban planning, such as the paradigm of the “creative cities,” have proposed the regeneration of inner-city districts. The escape from the over-built work, the ruinous edge leaves a memorial and removal of capital infrastructure. “The urban renewal in the present is no longer futuristic but nostalgic. The city reimagines its future by improving its past.” <img width="7200" height="7200" width_o="7200" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8596bcaeca4a47854da5776f5addf72b24e6395375518e2b80d796b0846a7de2/Network_01_scaled.jpg" data-mid="166788955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8596bcaeca4a47854da5776f5addf72b24e6395375518e2b80d796b0846a7de2/Network_01_scaled.jpg" /> Sea Level Rise in Maverick Square, East Boston. <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d41cb7b877374f2b10e2eeb8bf35960c5f201e25c85970fbbe8b6bbeb60609a/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_7.jpg" data-mid="166654512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d41cb7b877374f2b10e2eeb8bf35960c5f201e25c85970fbbe8b6bbeb60609a/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_7.jpg" /> Edge conditioning. Sea Level Rise in Maverick Square, East Boston. <img width="7200" height="4800" width_o="7200" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/125343395417540692c4b41d8575bd7180a8a9adf9bfc930a6967618fc6bbfa2/Care-Diagram.jpg" data-mid="166650830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/125343395417540692c4b41d8575bd7180a8a9adf9bfc930a6967618fc6bbfa2/Care-Diagram.jpg" /> Degrowth in the City: Cultural Diagram <img width="4227" height="7200" width_o="4227" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d97498e6a81e872fc45faca7ff55c1729423a0a6f895934a1c7e06dd736452ae/Axon_Ruin-Restoration01-01.jpg" data-mid="166915226" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d97498e6a81e872fc45faca7ff55c1729423a0a6f895934a1c7e06dd736452ae/Axon_Ruin-Restoration01-01.jpg" /> <img width="617" height="617" width_o="617" height_o="617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aabdf32daa4b4faefe123e7a55e2234bc23de6b2e5dcf34813de16f2214a5e16/Axon-Exploded_Ruin-Restoration.JPG" data-mid="166915450" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/617/i/aabdf32daa4b4faefe123e7a55e2234bc23de6b2e5dcf34813de16f2214a5e16/Axon-Exploded_Ruin-Restoration.JPG" /><img width="7200" height="12600" width_o="7200" height_o="12600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80186a82535b1c7b6e906877261cf5fe9f6400bce7e6ca5095003f556686d067/VanDyke_Animals_24x42.jpg" data-mid="166651545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80186a82535b1c7b6e906877261cf5fe9f6400bce7e6ca5095003f556686d067/VanDyke_Animals_24x42.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the age of capitalist reproduction, this project is about the un-building and deconstruction of cities that are overly populated by buildings, architecture, and infrastructure by using modern-day ruin to change a cultural context.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Maverick Square is a primarily community-based neighborhood invested in culture and diversity among Latino, Italian and Black communities. But it is currently at risk of high luxury retail development, which started in the 2000s, with rents skyrocketing at $3000 a month. Most of the institutions this neighborhood was founded on have quietly moved to organize themselves in private open spaces such as public parks, community gardens, and places of faith and worship. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The reduction of capitalism starts with an invitation to detach its walls. Deconstructing various walls, windows, and doors will open a new assembly to the landscape’s setting, while the brushed environment allows a landscape estuary to grow. The escape from the over-built world, the ruinous edge leaves a memorial and removal of capital infrastructure. Welcome to the new millennium. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The ruin offers an undoing to this capitalistic infrastructure. The obsession constrains the profession of architecture from classifying the built environment. This designed capacity of ruins declassifies and considers the account of the environment's actual material state. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56fab3c9bf1c185987578b175c70fe57f77c1e16de883eca96ff3d64fe2f62b5/IMG_7789.jpeg" data-mid="166651926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56fab3c9bf1c185987578b175c70fe57f77c1e16de883eca96ff3d64fe2f62b5/IMG_7789.jpeg" /> Sand Study Models: Formal Studies in Estuary Placement of Growth. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81226215b7db9deea6643cfaa44ea4f9bd6481cc80279cc4895f0797bb1a9ce4/IMG_7788.jpeg" data-mid="166651907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81226215b7db9deea6643cfaa44ea4f9bd6481cc80279cc4895f0797bb1a9ce4/IMG_7788.jpeg" /> Sand Study Models: Formal Studies in Estuary Placement of Growth. Assemblages Deconstruction is a way of replacing the cultural values of the previous building. First, defamiliarizing the building by deconstructing its historical significance changes the semiotic experience to comprehend this object like the ruinous clubs in Berlin, seemingly changing ordinary perception by maintaining its pure materials. The columns and walls become performance-based. This leads the ruin to become an open space for creativity and experimentation. <img width="3092" height="3059" width_o="3092" height_o="3059" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97a0b4146588fcbeedd9d49a922718ca42c70dc0884e19776e0f92cb2b57c504/Spatial-Framework_Assemblages-01.jpg" data-mid="166653574" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97a0b4146588fcbeedd9d49a922718ca42c70dc0884e19776e0f92cb2b57c504/Spatial-Framework_Assemblages-01.jpg" /> <img width="4993" height="4800" width_o="4993" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00064fbf6a2edd6af3b7ee5c2943ab0e55a425bb9309ba6c12106dc11b299769/Care-Pacakge_02_Anarchist-Handbook_05.jpg" data-mid="166653642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00064fbf6a2edd6af3b7ee5c2943ab0e55a425bb9309ba6c12106dc11b299769/Care-Pacakge_02_Anarchist-Handbook_05.jpg" /> Process of Un-doing / Unbuilding Materials are chosen: Brick and concrete stay, softer woods go. Windows are punched out. The estuary is planted as the sea washes onto the shore. Values to consider: How these built and programmatic objects contribute to a moral, social, and cultural agency. This is not an abandonment project, as there is a difference between the abandoned and reconceptualizing as reconditioning. 1. Identifying Ruin vs. Architecture 2. Cultural Value Making 3. The memory of the Urban Ruin 4. Found estuary – a new body of water mixed with salt water from the ocean. <img width="7201" height="4800" width_o="7201" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de55d3c3f894616cdcb33f31792f2f6d4e572e3d8ca4925fff1c263d7ca45c3d/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_5.jpg" data-mid="166654535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de55d3c3f894616cdcb33f31792f2f6d4e572e3d8ca4925fff1c263d7ca45c3d/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_5.jpg" /> Plan. 1:200 Scale.&nbsp; <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b5cd491e448674571bb2476adfbe89f063dd2dfafea358e0558d1f23f135b7a/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_8.jpg" data-mid="166654564" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b5cd491e448674571bb2476adfbe89f063dd2dfafea358e0558d1f23f135b7a/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_8.jpg" /> Plan and Sections.&nbsp; <img width="1970" height="2733" width_o="1970" height_o="2733" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a8a108559906580d438310e4d01ff115e5f3a9cf99fba7142a00b777ac2d40c/Land-Systems_01-Final-01-01-01.jpg" data-mid="166654919" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a8a108559906580d438310e4d01ff115e5f3a9cf99fba7142a00b777ac2d40c/Land-Systems_01-Final-01-01-01.jpg" /> <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d53f239ab64d16f3b80a6f58239d52dfabb84c5c7cac3f8f9a8c85b283584b82/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_6.jpg" data-mid="166654537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d53f239ab64d16f3b80a6f58239d52dfabb84c5c7cac3f8f9a8c85b283584b82/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_6.jpg" /> Urban Assemblages. Soil Types.&nbsp; <img width="8640" height="5760" width_o="8640" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ea0e8182deb4f483f58ea56dd9dfe1f01b3b7693aac04311473211d00097602/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_3.jpg" data-mid="166654696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ea0e8182deb4f483f58ea56dd9dfe1f01b3b7693aac04311473211d00097602/FINAL-BOARDS_24X36_Page_3.jpg" /> Estuary, Plant &amp; Animal Ecologies. Urban Assemblages.&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be828e5dd8b878e24186f0f9e7429c14fcffbb9ab8ef64c41cabc1549d7c806f/IMG_7012.jpg" data-mid="166650810" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be828e5dd8b878e24186f0f9e7429c14fcffbb9ab8ef64c41cabc1549d7c806f/IMG_7012.jpg" /><img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26dad35667080d270579300c6851dc04cb6358e90228470331a78849fc40454f/IMG_7050.jpg" data-mid="166915546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26dad35667080d270579300c6851dc04cb6358e90228470331a78849fc40454f/IMG_7050.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f0b7839910243396a9e8b7663086cf578297daa2166bcc9dbaae9aeb7381c51/IMG_7003.jpg" data-mid="166915799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f0b7839910243396a9e8b7663086cf578297daa2166bcc9dbaae9aeb7381c51/IMG_7003.jpg" /><img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cd5e79d0ce6cb8c2c3007017f9bdaa02fe35ee809e47fddff12d4cfe490be1f/IMG_7015.jpg" data-mid="166915560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cd5e79d0ce6cb8c2c3007017f9bdaa02fe35ee809e47fddff12d4cfe490be1f/IMG_7015.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23dbab209d0238ce91948a1565ffbdc4735429975a39c016829c4d88e06015f2/IMG_7042.jpg" data-mid="166915567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23dbab209d0238ce91948a1565ffbdc4735429975a39c016829c4d88e06015f2/IMG_7042.jpg" /> Assemblages of Ruinous Form. https://liz-vandyke.com/Do-Nothing-Landforms Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:11:50 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Do-Nothing-Landforms 4. Do-Nothing Landforms Pastures: From Earth-Art to Sheep Grazing Farm<img width="2730" height="1536" width_o="2730" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/436ea66d36e06431b67c70ff07c6884fb66e09e647da7a551ad5d57a567bfed9/SheepGrazing_Iceland_Plan_03_Resized.jpg" data-mid="166677693" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/436ea66d36e06431b67c70ff07c6884fb66e09e647da7a551ad5d57a567bfed9/SheepGrazing_Iceland_Plan_03_Resized.jpg" /><img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e96a3bbe603ad6f3f9f81eb3b49dee51dae121769defa534039005d7a2a9c0f/11x17_Lumion-Section_Grasses_02-02.jpg" data-mid="166677491" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e96a3bbe603ad6f3f9f81eb3b49dee51dae121769defa534039005d7a2a9c0f/11x17_Lumion-Section_Grasses_02-02.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee6be8c1d251755cdb614acd60899f75ff58f4620ae2ac29355e5b0fb0fdc3aa/Short_Section_Final_Sheep-Grazing-01.jpg" data-mid="166677700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee6be8c1d251755cdb614acd60899f75ff58f4620ae2ac29355e5b0fb0fdc3aa/Short_Section_Final_Sheep-Grazing-01.jpg" /> <img width="9780" height="3938" width_o="9780" height_o="3938" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d8aae7bf5a8e06f95c5e81642458b6bb38776802e6039c4061383783bd53c44/Section_Final_Sheep-Grazing-Converted.jpg" data-mid="166677715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d8aae7bf5a8e06f95c5e81642458b6bb38776802e6039c4061383783bd53c44/Section_Final_Sheep-Grazing-Converted.jpg" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/Dreamscapes-of-Aurora-Geothermal-Landscapes-of-Energy-Rejuvenation Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:26:15 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Dreamscapes-of-Aurora-Geothermal-Landscapes-of-Energy-Rejuvenation 2. Dreamscapes of Aurora: Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation <img width="4296" height="4296" width_o="4296" height_o="4296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0ead8edce4d4574f524fa387e0a4168ca2c886c500a97a8676b8a974e938ec8/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="166657332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0ead8edce4d4574f524fa387e0a4168ca2c886c500a97a8676b8a974e938ec8/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_1.jpg" /> Dreamscapes of Aurora: Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation. Turfhouses in Preserving the Icelandic Vernacular.&nbsp; WP / 2022From Dreamscapes of Aurora: Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “The people’s history of bathing is one of shared space. Histories and practices of the bath belong to histories and practices of the commons. Bathing routines are cultural rituals, architectural forms, and natural environments combined to make arts of living out of everyday necessity…Centered in the restless flux of our anthropo-scene, bathing is a way to dive into the complexities of culture-nature tension up to the points of dissonance and dissolution.”&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; – Christie Pearson, The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This studio will focus on the geothermal landscapes of Iceland, exploring the illuminatory potential of this confluence of physical and metaphysical energy. Existing geothermal infrastructure will frame studies of renewable energy in the face of national and cross-national energy shortages and the global climate crisis. Concurrently, the studio will explore case studies of public bathing in Iceland and beyond, focusing on its cultural history and formal (as well as informal) typologies. Students will develop strategies for how to articulate correspondences between these systems across multiple spatiotemporalities. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The studio will engage the scale of the human body within Iceland’s supra-human landscapes of geologic and geothermal activity. Modalities of experiencing the landscape—from the somatic to the institutional—will be explored, pushing students to site-based design solutions that harness such overlapping energies to engage aesthetic and environmental dimensions in equal measure. The materiality and tactility of the body in water will be placed in counterpoint to the geologic timescale of molten energy moving from the core of the earth, from which we will seek to articulate an infrastructure of the sublime. <img width="4800" height="4800" width_o="4800" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17d053d5e56c68615b07ca79aa598a4380986a0344cc11610f0dacc8e59bc77a/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_2.jpg" data-mid="166657329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17d053d5e56c68615b07ca79aa598a4380986a0344cc11610f0dacc8e59bc77a/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_2.jpg" /> In Bathhouse Rejuvenation. Video still from “Madamn Butterfly” by Malcolm McLaren. 1984.&nbsp; <img width="1051" height="803" width_o="1051" height_o="803" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68925441dbd50095c24f161aad4001089374ab2f36fe44fa7fd9e0da36686e86/TurfHouseSection.JPG" data-mid="166663863" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68925441dbd50095c24f161aad4001089374ab2f36fe44fa7fd9e0da36686e86/TurfHouseSection.JPG" /><img width="1320" height="1320" width_o="1320" height_o="1320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8945fc1a27298f5dc8602e71562c81a1808e81f8b066d1ec404462f18b74284/Artboard-2.png" data-mid="166663788" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8945fc1a27298f5dc8602e71562c81a1808e81f8b066d1ec404462f18b74284/Artboard-2.png" /> <img width="11400" height="7800" width_o="11400" height_o="7800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ddcdc354168a7e58d94c7cae9c85efef67a26c6372d9713f88572d95aa28667/PLANS_Rhino017.jpg" data-mid="166664696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ddcdc354168a7e58d94c7cae9c85efef67a26c6372d9713f88572d95aa28667/PLANS_Rhino017.jpg" /> <img width="4296" height="4296" width_o="4296" height_o="4296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a814f8bfc665f83007f235002cebc60de0cbd493df2f153d94259df6b0a23c8f/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_3.jpg" data-mid="166657330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a814f8bfc665f83007f235002cebc60de0cbd493df2f153d94259df6b0a23c8f/1408_Dreamscapes_Final_Renders_24x24_Page_3.jpg" /><img width="12000" height="12000" width_o="12000" height_o="12000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79a8299714dc4117ca79b8075ecced6cf1a2ef0345a15cd1dcb01da1d61af306/Short-Section_01.jpg" data-mid="166665242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79a8299714dc4117ca79b8075ecced6cf1a2ef0345a15cd1dcb01da1d61af306/Short-Section_01.jpg" /> <img width="12000" height="12000" width_o="12000" height_o="12000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c0e01fcc535a9d332c0a1c3215489280f99be7c25b47e411b02831fb2586d8/Long-Section_11.jpg" data-mid="166665152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c0e01fcc535a9d332c0a1c3215489280f99be7c25b47e411b02831fb2586d8/Long-Section_11.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="444" width_o="640" height_o="444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6efbf589ac982ed6b4aaa87de31643a17e18c5fe57c02847403252a850856ab1/66b5a22d3d2a9844f9285a0b35897a4f.jpg" data-mid="166666570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/6efbf589ac982ed6b4aaa87de31643a17e18c5fe57c02847403252a850856ab1/66b5a22d3d2a9844f9285a0b35897a4f.jpg" /> <img width="1987" height="1550" width_o="1987" height_o="1550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302e39794e0fff5f1d691e7f94cabaf36a6ba98322c175738300427d60116697/ice-house-ii-minneapolis-usa-1972-01.jpg" data-mid="166666597" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/302e39794e0fff5f1d691e7f94cabaf36a6ba98322c175738300427d60116697/ice-house-ii-minneapolis-usa-1972-01.jpg" /> In How to Make Architecture Disappear: Ice House I and II by Gianni Pettena (1971-1972). <img width="1440" height="812" width_o="1440" height_o="812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e5824817869f562ff677d36053f3b656645200ef3cbddf2944d7868389d5540/MicrosoftTeams-image-2.png" data-mid="166668307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e5824817869f562ff677d36053f3b656645200ef3cbddf2944d7868389d5540/MicrosoftTeams-image-2.png" /> <img width="1440" height="812" width_o="1440" height_o="812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de745efdea1380680406305916db88debc5622aa44f1efed6b924dda507229c7/MicrosoftTeams-image-3.png" data-mid="166668316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de745efdea1380680406305916db88debc5622aa44f1efed6b924dda507229c7/MicrosoftTeams-image-3.png" /> <img width="1440" height="812" width_o="1440" height_o="812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcd922435acb0091f1b2dadc11b4657d4a5a4c8e3abbb9ee032e44b854bcad1d/MicrosoftTeams-image-4.png" data-mid="166668370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcd922435acb0091f1b2dadc11b4657d4a5a4c8e3abbb9ee032e44b854bcad1d/MicrosoftTeams-image-4.png" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/930824b3d51e87d8ea7a36754f396a8b3b321cd2cd317251466c82b9ead6b66e/MicrosoftTeams-image-7.png" data-mid="166668371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/930824b3d51e87d8ea7a36754f396a8b3b321cd2cd317251466c82b9ead6b66e/MicrosoftTeams-image-7.png" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Landscape-of-Wind-Synthetic-Natural-Energy-Flows Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:25:23 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Landscape-of-Wind-Synthetic-Natural-Energy-Flows 3. The Landscape of Wind: Synthetic &amp; Natural Energy Flows <img width="2796" height="2509" width_o="2796" height_o="2509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0dca5199787db96ccc6bc5a6ee6d444d2b3038fde0d3774a27f4d2d8be13bc5/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_24.jpg" data-mid="166676530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0dca5199787db96ccc6bc5a6ee6d444d2b3038fde0d3774a27f4d2d8be13bc5/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_24.jpg" /> <img width="10469" height="7163" width_o="10469" height_o="7163" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cb88527ef010194cf47c4bed58121ff05e3e502580f8e6ae9af275fb54969ee/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_02.jpg" data-mid="166676064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cb88527ef010194cf47c4bed58121ff05e3e502580f8e6ae9af275fb54969ee/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_02.jpg" /><img width="8012" height="5360" width_o="8012" height_o="5360" 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height="7249" width_o="5437" height_o="7249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99304569b2d52ae306d3586c04b6c8217264bc6e4d023cb43a24315aac0a907e/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_11.jpg" data-mid="166676100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99304569b2d52ae306d3586c04b6c8217264bc6e4d023cb43a24315aac0a907e/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_11.jpg" /> <img width="1810" height="1019" width_o="1810" height_o="1019" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d207de581d3b064a6c60ded633cbda414ae9f09065fe21f55344dabca42c2d75/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_27.jpg" data-mid="166676244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d207de581d3b064a6c60ded633cbda414ae9f09065fe21f55344dabca42c2d75/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_27.jpg" /> <img width="753" height="396" width_o="753" height_o="396" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dad9e776422df76a043234ed967dd0235327af9019143b8e96e78706f88a6abe/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_25.jpg" data-mid="166676268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/753/i/dad9e776422df76a043234ed967dd0235327af9019143b8e96e78706f88a6abe/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_25.jpg" /> <img width="7340" height="4129" width_o="7340" height_o="4129" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/897bc8c054a36355671bab8c1aa6b0a11b284ade2aab2e74193efad2b3bbda58/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_26.jpg" data-mid="166676285" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/897bc8c054a36355671bab8c1aa6b0a11b284ade2aab2e74193efad2b3bbda58/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_26.jpg" /> <img width="998" height="574" width_o="998" height_o="574" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d61bb74a8390aeb19e26f34cfe75a39849d0ee274acc636d9f5e4eaf4d6c14b/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_14.jpg" data-mid="166676403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/998/i/4d61bb74a8390aeb19e26f34cfe75a39849d0ee274acc636d9f5e4eaf4d6c14b/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_14.jpg" /> <img width="2907" height="1881" width_o="2907" height_o="1881" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b5a604b296b92059feb13fe3a32e833ea7c6742e6d3e0d4129c9de0f6114162/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_17.jpg" data-mid="166676503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b5a604b296b92059feb13fe3a32e833ea7c6742e6d3e0d4129c9de0f6114162/VanDykeElizabeth_STU-1211_2021_Final_Page_17.jpg" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/Pleistocene-Park Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:01:31 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/Pleistocene-Park 3. Pleistocene Park &nbsp; <img width="1272" height="846" width_o="1272" height_o="846" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/707bf4aa3f2ba8bcb43f42f68cef6497f77880426fb669305eb48b358d6934d8/guide_permafrost_579215990_rm_ds_2400.jpg" data-mid="183021453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/707bf4aa3f2ba8bcb43f42f68cef6497f77880426fb669305eb48b358d6934d8/guide_permafrost_579215990_rm_ds_2400.jpg" /> PL / 2021 From Pleistocene Park: Climate By Design&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Pleistocene Park is a project in northeastern Siberia, Russia. As an experiment in ecosystem restoration aims to re-create the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem and is being led by Russian scientists Sergey Zimov and Nikita Zimov. It is predicated on the premise that megafauna of the Pleistocene are vital to maintaining permafrost, and restoration of these mammals has the potential to slow thawing and as a result, stop carbon from being released into the atmosphere.&nbsp; Permafrost is any ground that is completely frozen-- 32°F (0°C) or colder and is a major carbon source. The Siberian permafrost (the frozen layer of Earth’s crust) has begun to melt and if it is oxidized through microbes, 3.4 trillion of tons of CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. The scientists believe that restoring the ecosystem of the “mammoth steppes” could help slow this shift. This change from the tundra to grassland will result in a raised ratio of energy emission to energy absorption of the area, leading to less thawing of permafrost and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases.&nbsp; The hypothesis the project makes is that overhunting, and not climate change, was primarily responsible for the extinction of wildlife and the disappearance of the grasslands at the end of the Pleistocene epoch. The other tenant of the project is to create a genetic hybrid of the wooly mammoth as a keystone species in this restoration. The funding was raised by the new genetics and bioscience company Collasal, co-founded by Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics, George Church, and tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm.&nbsp; <img width="3247" height="2112" width_o="3247" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46d033b5c407ce048b6c8709ae47de441f4d5a4c6a0810c701a17ccdac9d06c2/printhandler.ashx_Page_12.jpg" data-mid="183022291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46d033b5c407ce048b6c8709ae47de441f4d5a4c6a0810c701a17ccdac9d06c2/printhandler.ashx_Page_12.jpg" /> <img width="3434" height="2233" width_o="3434" height_o="2233" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91674472bcc08006713da5fda9cbe3f920e949a39a3b09a097355a001d962bda/printhandler.ashx_Page_06.jpg" data-mid="183021839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91674472bcc08006713da5fda9cbe3f920e949a39a3b09a097355a001d962bda/printhandler.ashx_Page_06.jpg" /> Context. <img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6a3bf6fbb611b0020a9fc4a905bd3f2b6669ff1d1f8a80fd05a95c0abfc83f8/printhandler.ashx_Page_13.jpg" data-mid="183021757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6a3bf6fbb611b0020a9fc4a905bd3f2b6669ff1d1f8a80fd05a95c0abfc83f8/printhandler.ashx_Page_13.jpg" /> Timeline. <img width="3502" height="2266" width_o="3502" height_o="2266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92399472e65a331192f301b5224e3105eef2e8ecd6a65be0f30170abf9d54144/printhandler.ashx_Page_07.jpg" data-mid="183021800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92399472e65a331192f301b5224e3105eef2e8ecd6a65be0f30170abf9d54144/printhandler.ashx_Page_07.jpg" /> <img width="3486" height="2266" width_o="3486" height_o="2266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ded964398055771af7e49896c8b66d795007ad7b477457fbce966a1e7ab983bd/printhandler.ashx_Page_08.jpg" data-mid="183021802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ded964398055771af7e49896c8b66d795007ad7b477457fbce966a1e7ab983bd/printhandler.ashx_Page_08.jpg" /> Ecological Transformations Driven by Melt.&nbsp; <img width="1647" height="1326" width_o="1647" height_o="1326" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7041317e3fc5ab9d360cb11a522e3a8afe3236f6c89f75082facf53f649a3868/printhandler.ashx_Page_09_cropepd2.png" data-mid="183021965" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7041317e3fc5ab9d360cb11a522e3a8afe3236f6c89f75082facf53f649a3868/printhandler.ashx_Page_09_cropepd2.png" />Active Layers <img width="1501" height="1980" width_o="1501" height_o="1980" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92853f58c46a187afccce06bf4884d9fb658a98964221399dfaf0c550fad71f9/printhandler.ashx_Page_09_cropepd.png" data-mid="183021963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92853f58c46a187afccce06bf4884d9fb658a98964221399dfaf0c550fad71f9/printhandler.ashx_Page_09_cropepd.png" />Expo Out of Use <img width="2584" height="1672" width_o="2584" height_o="1672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbff6f538eff7ffbb20796ae7f9942293f6f5d223b23b3a6d8888c852012c898/printhandler.ashx_Page_14.jpg" data-mid="183021814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbff6f538eff7ffbb20796ae7f9942293f6f5d223b23b3a6d8888c852012c898/printhandler.ashx_Page_14.jpg" /> Elevation among an artificial landscape.&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e4f678bd8b6f2b5e90c5007cf8de6b5aecd21d46ae90636051130105571baea/printhandler.ashx_Page_15.jpg" data-mid="183021976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e4f678bd8b6f2b5e90c5007cf8de6b5aecd21d46ae90636051130105571baea/printhandler.ashx_Page_15.jpg" /> <img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b5e0b9ef9613f7aaaa88d8f8f26dab2154835aaeaf0fd9ad8bcae5db810ab34/printhandler.ashx_Page_10.jpg" data-mid="183022052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b5e0b9ef9613f7aaaa88d8f8f26dab2154835aaeaf0fd9ad8bcae5db810ab34/printhandler.ashx_Page_10.jpg" /> <img width="1224" height="792" width_o="1224" height_o="792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b7f5695dae2cd5cdc673ebb762fa5d57194e2249b9331859839953a49ee7ccd/printhandler.ashx_Page_11.jpg" data-mid="183022053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b7f5695dae2cd5cdc673ebb762fa5d57194e2249b9331859839953a49ee7ccd/printhandler.ashx_Page_11.jpg" /> <img width="1445" height="935" width_o="1445" height_o="935" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1bdb0477e39e135b8fe12db135a3ec0f4272e64adcd75d3bd7271a131658881/printhandler.ashx_Page_17.jpg" data-mid="183022229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1bdb0477e39e135b8fe12db135a3ec0f4272e64adcd75d3bd7271a131658881/printhandler.ashx_Page_17.jpg" /> <img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f8864821533460a9d111b61af040e0f0f00879a4500b87b55ad588a5b70d3d0/printhandler.ashx_Page_18.jpg" data-mid="183022230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f8864821533460a9d111b61af040e0f0f00879a4500b87b55ad588a5b70d3d0/printhandler.ashx_Page_18.jpg" /> https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Production-of-Doubt-A-Monolithic-Tower-in-New-York Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:26:05 +0000 Liz Van Dyke https://liz-vandyke.com/The-Production-of-Doubt-A-Monolithic-Tower-in-New-York 1. The Production of Doubt: A Monolithic Tower in New York City <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61e0d8c41e8fbef91062634874638972338545f4d06458b63177360f9a15a769/thumb_IMG_1256_1024.jpg" data-mid="56112340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/61e0d8c41e8fbef91062634874638972338545f4d06458b63177360f9a15a769/thumb_IMG_1256_1024.jpg" /> UKG / 2015 From The Production of Doubt: A Monolithic Tower in New York City, 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This project questions monolith as tower and tower as monolith. Towers in general are stacks of different elements. To define the monolith, we look at its separate chunks and volumes. — Monoliths in architecture are not primitive, but almost primitive. Where simple gestures and angles may appear, the monolith must read as a single figure by a stack of parts that unify.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By precedent Mies van der Rohe’s Freidrichstrausse, we are able to interpret the tower as a column. Textures introduced are implemented through various sorts of images. The model creates a primitive language with use of simple extrusions to magnify a visual affect to the viewer in New York City. <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da93fe78a62f8900ce557fe1d4bcf80c712676f4d65e7cdd6650bea650aea180/thumb_IMG_0041_1024.jpg" data-mid="56112344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/da93fe78a62f8900ce557fe1d4bcf80c712676f4d65e7cdd6650bea650aea180/thumb_IMG_0041_1024.jpg" /> 001a <img width="585" height="1024" width_o="585" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18ea4f4262452f1abfa257dcbe65c9b9f7649a246b5a1cdedcda5a5b74a305f1/IMG_1556_1024_BW.jpg" data-mid="56112322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/585/i/18ea4f4262452f1abfa257dcbe65c9b9f7649a246b5a1cdedcda5a5b74a305f1/IMG_1556_1024_BW.jpg" /> 001b <img width="384" height="477" width_o="384" height_o="477" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64779c47a1c854894bd1f95d3fe9db58c13931db0b24d5a7423bee2e2a3c8144/Friedrichstrausse.jpg" data-mid="56111582" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/384/i/64779c47a1c854894bd1f95d3fe9db58c13931db0b24d5a7423bee2e2a3c8144/Friedrichstrausse.jpg" /> 001c <img width="826" height="1100" width_o="826" height_o="1100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d9e1eb0304a5ec9051e622988cc69fe3cb00106fbd3f6d365d7210b288b8c53/3A_TowerModel_Photo_02.png" data-mid="56111606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/826/i/7d9e1eb0304a5ec9051e622988cc69fe3cb00106fbd3f6d365d7210b288b8c53/3A_TowerModel_Photo_02.png" /> A Production of Doubt &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Doubt is a lack of resolution about the legibility of an object. — Legibility does not refer to something that I know or have seen in the world. Doubt is an internal condition. It reflects anxieties and depressions of persons in a culture resulting from an over burden of corporate content. This “doubt” questions the authority of indifference to a perceived reality by making us question or decide the result of a certain exploration. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Barcodes generate a sense of doubt. While it displays a manufactured code, it distorts its message. By researching Mies van Der Rohe’s Friedrichstraße, we may interpret his drawings — such as his elevations of the empirical barcode — and how we can begin to distort it through a total work of architecture. All barcodes may look the same, but they are certifiably different. This is not theorizing the project, but trying to find Mies’ own reputation of the barcode in a way. <img width="3900" height="3000" width_o="3900" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b946f4e51a204214e2f6b2bc69e1e1ddd2045e524b4b30b59d646467227f0526/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-01.png" data-mid="58452169" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b946f4e51a204214e2f6b2bc69e1e1ddd2045e524b4b30b59d646467227f0526/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-01.png" /> <img width="3900" height="3000" width_o="3900" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d67eff83921bd4971e8a40addafc92a7795f9c97eae21fadd66e4b21f46cae4f/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-02.png" data-mid="58452145" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d67eff83921bd4971e8a40addafc92a7795f9c97eae21fadd66e4b21f46cae4f/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-02.png" /> <img width="3900" height="3000" width_o="3900" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d53ac92ac4972d89d0a8a47e3522f961a3f93e32f5eb04425ed6fec1f32966/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-03.png" data-mid="58452233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d53ac92ac4972d89d0a8a47e3522f961a3f93e32f5eb04425ed6fec1f32966/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-03.png" /><img width="3900" height="3000" width_o="3900" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f13418f955101ebbec356116cb63c94126997ef8da0871be8bfa1da726e418b/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-04.png" data-mid="58452235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f13418f955101ebbec356116cb63c94126997ef8da0871be8bfa1da726e418b/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-04.png" /> <img width="3900" height="1190" width_o="3900" height_o="1190" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae30ed02e6f5e557989e4369c6a8ef04967a9c2ed9d85d0a5e9b1a70464a94ed/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-05.png" data-mid="58452244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae30ed02e6f5e557989e4369c6a8ef04967a9c2ed9d85d0a5e9b1a70464a94ed/MassingTexture-Studies_VanDyke_Studio-3A_1_5-05.png" />Massing studies formed by images to produce silhouette, profile, and texture strategies. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Although never built, Friedrichstrasse remains of of the most important structures in architecture history. For the Friedrichstraße Architecture Competition in Berlin, Mies ignored rules from the guidelines and presented a radical concept to the committee: a skyscraper made entirely of glass and steel. Decades later, this style has come to dominate corporate architecture. The elevation drawing of Mies’ Friedrichstrasse is so striking for its simplicity in repetition of the lines created by thicknesses at different ranges. Structurally, he meant to have an exterior tube tower as the structural idea. It is read more massive and solid with small slivers of openings (Hugh Ferriss’ drawing types). The plan opens up as a massive clear floor space negotiating between the core and exterior. Monolithicity &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Monoliths are seen are very obscure and&nbsp;mysterious things. This project considers the monolithic qualities of the tower and questions whether the tower could be rethought as monolith. Towers in general are repetitive stacks of modular elements. In comparison the monolith is an informal assembly of self-similar elements. Towers in general are&nbsp;primitives. The monolith must be read a single mass. If it is composed of parts they must unify and frequently do so through texture and small scale articulation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; What defines a monolith is its shape. It is a series of parts that stack to unify. Simple gestures and movements may appear to create a slender, type of monolith. Although monoliths are interpreted as stone, or blocky, they are more or less opaque. Returning to Friedrichstrasse, you could interpret his tower as monolithic as we are able to congregate and integrate ideas of transparency to an otherwise continuous and opaque exterior. When Mies continued on a trajectory that resulted in the banality of corporate modernism, Friedrichstrasse suggests another trajectory towards the enigmatic qualities of the monolith used to motivate this project. <img width="11650" height="19800" width_o="11650" height_o="19800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1ad72bf7213b7b3301a44c62f20a755a3c1ee030960b51271322cb726ebe4e/DS1030_Freeland_FA15_VanD_BD_01-01.jpg" data-mid="56875939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1ad72bf7213b7b3301a44c62f20a755a3c1ee030960b51271322cb726ebe4e/DS1030_Freeland_FA15_VanD_BD_01-01.jpg" /> Tower plans and section. <img width="2184" height="890" width_o="2184" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e6b2c3f9074f2d203932b0515cd0c6b3a72aa48cc9cf52eaea8d8bcfca7c8c3/Pallet-Barcode.jpg" data-mid="58457702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e6b2c3f9074f2d203932b0515cd0c6b3a72aa48cc9cf52eaea8d8bcfca7c8c3/Pallet-Barcode.jpg" /> The Barcode. Ranging in different thicknesses.&nbsp; <img width="1538" height="958" width_o="1538" height_o="958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3e02c0f44c9c8e5e7ba7031c2ee9474c2b954c864417d4b85cbb083fd96ef79/mies.jpg" data-mid="60292283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3e02c0f44c9c8e5e7ba7031c2ee9474c2b954c864417d4b85cbb083fd96ef79/mies.jpg" /> Elevation. Mies van der Rohe’s Friedrichstrasse, 1921.&nbsp; Means of Extrusion&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The first form of extrusions that we may think of come from a column. If Mies’ elevation was to produce a sort of unitized column in his drawing, we are able to see the tower as a complete extrusion, or column. This tower comes in 3 parts, the lower is slender, the middle part creates a volume of a glass slot that shifts in, and the head of the building returns. Structurally, the project is based on an exterior tube structure. The columns run alongside the exterior windows. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The project plays between opaque and transparency where the columns are structural and embeddedinto the facade. Irregular cutting of the facade creates opening (section). and produces monolithic exclusionary textures in facade and plan. Linework changes in plan where you may see hints of irregularity, and there is a rhythm to it that produces different sized exterior columns that change as columns run thicker as they start and stop producing a visual illusion at its elevation. Structure &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Support of the building is constructed by a belt frame system, attached at the low, mid and — high rise. The strongest frame is held in the mid-rise and serves as a transfer floor. There are no columns between the exterior and core, producing an open plan for offices. Each exterior column is introduced as an extrusion, or column-like fin that breaks in between windows. The facade both contains exposed glass and opaque exterior facade system. <img width="1063" height="796" width_o="1063" height_o="796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8eadc4cec43061a73bb821f73dc4e70117532d314284a62b060bb95780522ce1/model-elevation.jpg" data-mid="58463629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8eadc4cec43061a73bb821f73dc4e70117532d314284a62b060bb95780522ce1/model-elevation.jpg" /> Podium model detail. Tower exists at The High Line in New York City. Image Study Based Textures &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the primitive notion of stacking and profiling took place trying to develop a scheme for the monolith by series of images cohesive with the overall idea of this tower. An image is a reference to introduce vector based geometry, not image based geometry. A massing study conducted by images may introduce new and different levels of exploring cuts and schemes to interpret profile gestures into the articulation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Images of mist, shattered glass, a face, a sanddune were patterns I chose to influence a type of texture in movement of softness or hardness. These images also allude to sensorial actions that may influence the viewer to the image. Each image is imprinted on the primitive forms. <img width="284" height="360" width_o="284" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/535199bdca29382887cb08f3b1d0a68812f7caca81c3177f42d6037964810ba6/4.1.jpg" data-mid="58457992" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/284/i/535199bdca29382887cb08f3b1d0a68812f7caca81c3177f42d6037964810ba6/4.1.jpg" /> 001a <img width="339" height="446" width_o="339" height_o="446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e84e509c64bc48aff5cfc058d862493a516181aef4cddde80a53fb0eea1d592a/5.3.jpg" data-mid="58459197" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/339/i/e84e509c64bc48aff5cfc058d862493a516181aef4cddde80a53fb0eea1d592a/5.3.jpg" /> 002b <img width="342" height="436" width_o="342" height_o="436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeb1cc8fe309ec307b81c9243f05f9b6fe6b2c461a6f3c33f40669f4a5b6b63d/glass.1.jpg" data-mid="58458008" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/342/i/eeb1cc8fe309ec307b81c9243f05f9b6fe6b2c461a6f3c33f40669f4a5b6b63d/glass.1.jpg" /> 003c Affect of Extrusion &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In addition to precedent Friedrichstrasse, researching other towers including the first World Trade Center, by architect Minoru Yamasaki devised the plan to incorporate the twin towers with extrusions. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oddly, the effect of the Gothic modernist towers containing greatly thickened columns on the outside, resulted in 18-inch windows leading patrons to feel depressed on the inside. Was this a statement for the outcome of a corporate culture in architecture? Architecture may trick the viewer to think twice about where he may be positioned in the world and where his values will lie. <img width="1024" height="945" width_o="1024" height_o="945" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c47b9045ab9f15d9e54e9a890287675e92b7e22f0a0381b27704a1271521928/Rothko-Mural-1024x945.jpg" data-mid="58455462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c47b9045ab9f15d9e54e9a890287675e92b7e22f0a0381b27704a1271521928/Rothko-Mural-1024x945.jpg" /> Untitled (Seagram Mural), Mark Rothko,&nbsp;1959 Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In Mies van Der Rohe’s Seagram Building’s Four Seasons Restaurant, artist Mark Rothko was commissioned to assort a series of portraits. He was told visitors in the restaurant would only cater to wealthy folk. Mark Rothko’s attitude against elitism provoked him to create the series which would be known as his most vulgar paintings. He is said his true intention was, “something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room...” He completed 40 paintings. Rothko known for his effective abstracts, is credited to make a viewer experience a feeling or recall a memory resembling grief, dread, happiness, or even violence. In this series, these mysterious paintings are known to leave one gutted in the stomach due to their color intensity. Colors of crimson, mauve, and plum reach an upsetting discord when abstracted onto a drenched canvas. Some say the amorphous figures Rothko paints appear to be entering portals. Because of Rothko’s selective choice of color on affect, The Seagram Murals are said to be the most effective paintings in history. <img width="1540" height="944" width_o="1540" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5837e0183c926d7917e7361e74536133f9917466c9299bacf6b384c4ccfb077/4seasons.jpg" data-mid="58455467" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5837e0183c926d7917e7361e74536133f9917466c9299bacf6b384c4ccfb077/4seasons.jpg" /> Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, Four Seasons Restaurant, 1958 <img width="2448" height="2448" width_o="2448" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7d4a4e9489b43dfe57d59b83f52ce77d2ca0751d35ecd1309e4b0cb598efd18/IMG_2999.JPG" data-mid="58456772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7d4a4e9489b43dfe57d59b83f52ce77d2ca0751d35ecd1309e4b0cb598efd18/IMG_2999.JPG" /> Photograph of podium model A New York Tower &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This project is ultimately a transition of conveying an architectural system of the monolithic effect — as extrusions in a production of doubt. The model creates a primitive language with use of simple extrusions to magnify a visual affect to the viewer in New York City. Group Credit: Tarun Hari.