Arch 454

Studio Libeskind Museum Tower

Arch 454/554

Vertical Design Studio

Spring 2020

National Pulse Memorial & Museum

Instructor: Bruce Haglund <bhaglund@uidaho.edu>

Course Requirements

The course is being offered as a vertical studio.

Concept

Your project’s concept is not the form, shape, or floor-plan; it is much better to frame it as a question that you are trying to answer.—Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang

Project Brief

[Sustainability] is going to take forever. And that’s the point.—William McDonough

COMPETITION OVERVIEW The National Pulse Memorial & Museum International Design Competition, developed and led by Dovetail Design Strategists, the country’s leading independent architect selection firm, launched on March 25, 2019, and was structured in two stages.

Stage I was an open call—where architects from across the globe were invited to form and lead a visionary, multi-disciplinary team to include urban design, landscape design, and exhibition design professionals, as well as artists. The competition attracted 68 teams representing 19 countries. In total, 168 firms and 47 individual artists participated on those teams. A selection committee of onePULSE Foundation stakeholders chose six world-class teams that strongly displayed empathetic sensibilities and a deep understanding of the complexity of this project.

Stage II. These six shortlisted teams were invited to participate in Stage II of the competition where they were asked to develop concept designs that make one message clear: We will not let hate win.

Full competition info at https://onepulsefoundation.org/international-design-competition/

Your Challenge is to work as the project architecture team to develop one of the short-listed designs to a buildable project. The winning team announcement declared, "The winning team’s concept design serves as a starting point for discussion and a basis for the design but is not the final, finished memorial and museum. Over the next year, Coldefy with RDAI | HHCP will work to further refine the designs so they can best reflect community feedback."
In a similar vein, your team will take your assigned project beyond concept to schematic design while maintaining the concept and meeting criteria for Architecture 2030 and addressing the AIA-declared Climate Crisis.

Our question is, "How can you build sustainably in Central Florida?"

https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/an-urgent-message-from-ed-mazria_o?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=Article&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AN_070819&

https://www.architectureeducationdeclares.com/

https://architecture2030.org/aia-climate-action-urgent-sustained/

https://www.ribaj.com/culture/stirling-prize-winners-issue-climate-emergency-plan-of-action

https://www.architectsdeclare.com/

http://bit.ly/JuneCOTE

Project Resources

Wood for humid climates: https://www.accoya.com/

The other goals for your project are:

Carbon Neutral
Energy Positive
Waste Neutral
Water Efficient
Stormwater Neutral
Durable
Beautiful

The importance of building for a sustainable, perhaps regenerative future is driven home by a wide variety of advocates—from Arup to Architecture2030, to the UIA World Congress 2050 Imperative, to the 2016 Paris Accord (the US is still a participant until 2020), to Pope Francis who in his 2015 Encyclical urges us to act, "I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all. The worldwide ecological movement has already made considerable progress and led to the establishment of numerous organizations committed to raising awareness of these challenges. Regrettably, many efforts to seek concrete solutions to the environmental crisis have proved ineffective, not only because of powerful opposition but also because of a more general lack of interest. Obstructionist attitudes, even on the part of believers, can range from denial of the problem to indifference, nonchalant resignation or blind confidence in technical solutions. We require a new and universal solidarity. As the bishops of Southern Africa have stated: “Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation.” All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents."

Architecture 2030’s 2030 Palette will provide design guidance to help answer, "Can you design a building that will resonate with future conditions of its local environment and the needs of the global community?"

References

https://www.architectsdeclare.com/

http://architecture2030.org/programs/2030-palette/

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12039-continuing-education-biophilia

Bullitt Center Benchmarking

http://www.woodworks.org/wp-content/uploads/CS-Bullitt.pdf

NAAB Requirements

This course aims to meet the NAAB Student Performance Criteria in Realm A, Critical Thinking and Representation, and Realm B, Building Practices, Technical Skills, and Knowledge.

Realm A: Critical Thinking and Representation. Graduates from NAAB-accredited programs must be able to build abstract relationships and understand the impact of ideas based on the study and analysis of multiple theoretical, social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental contexts. Graduates must also be able to use a diverse range of skills to think about and convey architectural ideas, including writing, investigating, speaking, drawing, and modeling.

Student learning aspirations for realm A include:

Being broadly educated.
Valuing lifelong inquisitiveness.
Communicating graphically in a range of media.
Assessing evidence.
Comprehending people, place, and context.
Recognizing the disparate needs of client, community, and society.

Realm B: Building Practices, Technical Skills, and Knowledge. Graduates from NAAB-accredited programs must be able to comprehend the technical aspects of design, systems, and materials and be able to apply that comprehension to architectural solutions. In addition, the impact of such decisions on the environment must be well considered.

Student learning aspirations for realm B include:

Creating building designs with well-integrated systems.
Comprehending constructability.
Integrating the principles of environmental stewardship.
Conveying technical information accurately

See pages 15-17 of NAAB's 2014 Conditions http://www.naab.org/accreditation/2014_Conditions for details.

Project Teams


Team DSR Mohit Atchakolu, Hector Valdez, Vincent Galindo	Team Libeskind Mark Finlinson, Brooke Collaer, Rami Barbour

Team MASS Megan Pape, Olamide Olorunkosebi, Oashan Shrestha	Team MVRDV Mai Pham, Trinity Dion, Dakota Jones

Team Heneghan-Peng not assigned	Team Coldefy not assigned

Schedule

Bruce will be happy to critique anyone on any day after the scheduled crits!

	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Jan	13 No class	15 Studio Intro/Organization	17 Research Assignment
	20 MLK Day No Class	22 Desk Crits	24 Conceptual Design Presentation Red Room
	27 Desk Crits	29 Desk Crits	31 Desk Crits
Feb	3 Desk Crits	5 Desk Crits	7 Climate/Site Crit Shop Crit....Hala
	10 Desk Crits	12 Desk Crits	14 Desk Crits
	17 Presidents Day No class	19 Desk Crits	21 Structure Crit 3:30 Red Room...Carolina
	24 Desk Crits	26 Desk Crits	28 Desk Crits
Mar	2 Desk Crits	4 Desk Crits	6 Enclosure Crit Shop Crit...Diane
	9 Desk Crits	11 Desk Crits	13 Desk Crits
	16 Spring	18 Break	20 No class
	23 Desk Crits	25 Desk Crits	27 Integration Crit 1 Red Room...Hala + Omar
	5:00 Kiel Moe, Clearwater	25 Desk Crits	27 Integration Crit 1 Red Room...Hala + Omar
Apr	30 Desk Crits	1 Desk Crits	3 Desk Crits
Apr		1 Desk Crits	3 Desk Crits
	6 Desk Crits	8 Desk Crits	10 Integration Crit 2 Shop Crit...Scott
	13 Desk Crits	15 Desk Crits	17 Desk Crits
	20 Desk Crits	22 Desk Crits	24 Penultimate Design Presentation Shop Crit...Phil
	27 Desk Crits	29 Desk Crits	1 Desk Crits
May	4 Crit Week	6 Final Design Presentations	8 Debrief/Celebrate
	10 Finals Week	12 No Final	14

Archival Projects

Fall 2019
Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art

The Graph

Matt Vollendorf
Noah Jensen
Evan Woodworth

Mack Intervened

Kristin Williams
Mars Cantrell
Justin Gandy

Tree House

Gabby Keim
Vincent Galindo
Luke Whitbeck

Revamp

Brendan Lempesis
Tyler McCurdy
Will Huynh

Spring 2019 Musical Performance on the Palouse
Leah Bafus	Jackson Miller	Lauren Johnson

Mai-Anh Doan	Gaelle Sawadogo	Beniya Shakya

Fall 2018 Palouse Prairie Charter School: Safe and Sustainable
Aura Kangasniemi Kayla Duclos Nick Grover	Mae Baja Kia Terho Karlee Peterson	Abby Korn Jackson Miller

Catherine Flerchinger Kade Hern Garrett Lyons	Lauren Johnson Nate Wilde Esmeralda Deloera	Alex Nelson Samantha Jesser Zhimin Zhu

Spring 2018 Southmere Village Library, Thamesmead
Shudan He Baoning Sun Gaelle Sawadogo	Haonan Xu Giovani Florenca Chase Macaw	Nicole Collie Becca Behrens	Deaona Swager Adam Harfman Addy Nolan