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Union Point Residential

Union Point was a residential project with Trammel Crow, a southern US based firm looking to expand to the North East. The facade is conceptually broken down as a an enveloped mass. One within, defined by a warm material, and the skin, a thinly articulated  shiplapped cladding. The screen mitigating the parking lot and street interface was also a major design attribute.

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Initial Plans 

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Start Inside 

First step: Connect courtyards.

Kink north bar. This allows deeper views on one side of the courtyard, and an overhang on the second. 

Deeper Views and Canopy

Passive shading. 

Southern Exposure

Diffused Light

Consider opportunities with lighting from southern exposure

Elevation Carving Study

SOMETHING**

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Window Trim Study

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Balconies for Shading

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The Face of Parking 

Having a long perimeter of parking facing the street, the question became, "How do we design a dynamic and interesting sidewalk experience on a street that is seldom used, lined by parking lots?"

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Experiential Studies

First was an attempt to determine the aesthetic direction of the screen while rapidly testing design ideas. These studies are a few of the directions we considered.

Studies

Once the vertical slats and how one experiences them as one walks along the sidewalk became the parti, the next step was to explore how we can study the idea of what it means to be "dynamic" at many scales.

Visibility Study

Plan View

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Elevation View

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Ventilation Study

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Light Study

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Module

Studies on how to create a module for the length of the building. 

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Screen Elevation Studies

Once the modular screen element was determined, the next question became about its implementation along the scale of the entire facade. The following are a small sample of studying how the building would meet the ground.

Final Expression

The following development of work is not by this author. 

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© 2015 Sebastian Toro

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