Deployable structures refer to any type of structure that has at least two sizes and/or configurations. Any tent qualifies, as does an umbrella. These object transform radically from their stored state, as compact as can be to facilitate their transport, and full expanded to provide (in both of these cases) shelter from the elements. As... Continue Reading →
A few more photos of yesterday's project.
Back to overpasses and University City. This is a project from Fall 2012, a design for transitional housing for the formerly homeless. My writing from the semester: Our site is one defined by transience, by commute, by Motion. The site is an overlap of anonymous paths and few destinations. In an effort to provide a... Continue Reading →
A few high resolution photographs to celebrate the holiday.
Following up on yesterday's discussion of traffic and energy, I wanted to share a few model photographs of a project which literally builds off of highway infrastructure. The site is along Chestnut Street between 30th Street and the Schuylkill Expressway, across the street from the old Post Office building. This section of Chestnut Street was... Continue Reading →
It took me a while to accept the concept of 'noise pollution', that noise can be a difficult to control nuisance which can lower the quality of life for those exposed to it. I try walking down Walnut Street Bridge while listening to music and I find myself unable to hear anything other than tire... Continue Reading →
Down at the edge of West Philly where University City meets the Schuylkill River two cities exist. The first is a bright world of Penn students power walking across the Walnut Street Bridge to their morning classes. Below them union member park at PennPark and head over to the AFSCME Local 33 building, dodging Postal... Continue Reading →
Another detour today, this time down Main Street, or The Main Street Project, which began in 1977 and (until last year) was operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It started as architectural and economic analysis meant to help local governments come up with strategies to revitalize their downtown. The Main Street Project summarize their... Continue Reading →
The following is an excerpt from an assignment for a theory class taken at the same time as the Co-Lab studio. The assignment was an 'analytical description', essentially an in dept case study or 'precedent study'. I had chosen to analyze the site in Olde City by way of advertisement and visual communication, and I... Continue Reading →
Back to the Co-Lab project, and the use of precedents. I had looked at other Co-Lab arrangements to see how to organize program concerns. For the building elements, I looked towards projects that took an active role in framing views, both from within and from without. These photos were taken at the Bellevue Library... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 