THE DECORATORS CLUB EDUCATION FUND, INC. P.O. BOX 732 NEW YORK, NY 10150-0632 www.thedecoratorsclub.org THE DECORATORS CLUB SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS 2018 PROJECT DESCRIPTION FORM Along with your project boards, please provide a maximum 250 word written description of your project. The description should give the jury a brief, clear and comprehensive overview of the design program, including project location, square footage, existing conditions, and user groups as w roblems, challenges, and goals, and how these were resolved or met. Pleaseell as speci�icuse only design this form p for the project description. This document must be uploaded with the project boards as the �irst image to introduce the project. If you are submitting more than one project, include a separate descrition form for each project. Student letter code: Q Course year project completed (sophomore or junior): Junior Studio Professor for project: Barbara Weinreich Project title: Courtyard Project description: This residential project is a duplex apartment for a multi-generational Mexican American family (a couple, their child and a grandparent) within an apartment complex located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. The design integrates each family member’s personal behaviors and habits along with the family’s cultural background and tastes. The project uses the traditional Mexican courtyard house and the architecture of Luis Barragan as inspiration. The design aims to enhance the relationships between family members by both rening boundaries and emphasizing shared family spaces through the use of walls as an organizing interior element. Walls not only dene spaces, but also contain circulation and act as armature for the family’s treasured vase collection. The design also considers the adaption of space as the family ages and transforms. The site is 1,000 SF within a squared duplex with two existing entrances, two adjacent glass curtain wall and two wet walls. The challenge was to design for the family’s needs – including Universal Design strategies for the grandparent- while also incorporating the family’s pottery collection to ensure that the objects are celebrated and reect the family’s background story. Warmly colored walls that reect the Mexican family heritage create the social and shared space which evokes a traditional courtyard, but also act as a device to celebrate the special collection and express the family story. THE DECORATORS CLUB EDUCATION FUND, INC. IS A NEW YORK NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION AND TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATION UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE SECTION 501(c)(3) ENTRANCE VIEW URBAN DWELLING | 1 GRANDPA'S ROOM BATHROOM LIVING ROOM UP ENTRANCE HALL UP DINING AREA KITCHEN POWDER ROOM VIEW LOCATION COURTYARD Q URBAN DWELLING | 2 CLIENT ANALYSIS COLOR MASS DIAGRAM BACKGROUND USER DAILY HABITS PREFERENCE SLEEPING CAMERON 35 y/o, Psychologist, Dallas, TX COMFORTABLE (PARENT) FURNITURE. Hiker STRIPES/SIMPLE Traveller PATTERNS. Mediation Stuff animals/ Hard bed/ Listen to Odd sleeping Nightlight TV on nature hours sounds PLAYING SELINA 33 y/o, Painter, Mexico City, PAINTINGS. (PARENT) Mexico ABSTRACT. Pilates Meditate Ipad/stuffed Relax/ BLOCK COLORS. animals Watch TV Contemporary oil painter OPEN SPACE. WASHING Yoga Philosophy Step stool Posture DRESSING AURORA 5 y/o, Pre-Schooler, New York PINK. (CHILD) City, NY GRAPEFRUITS. BREAKFAST. Friendly SOFT. Extrovert Parent Lay Out Closet Energetic helping Clothing COOKING PETER 68 y/o, Retired Veteran, Dallas, TV. (GRANDPARENT) TX SCI-FI Help Extra COLLECTION. parents Light Posture Grumpy ANTIQUES. DINING Sci-fi film finatic ARMCHAIR. Enjoy the outdoors Screenwriter Q Different Normal seat seating URBAN DWELLING | 3 COLOR MASS DIAGRAM SITE ANALYSIS TOREN 150 MYRTLE AVE. BROOKLYN NY - 11201 ORIGINAL ENVELOPE IDENTIFY GLAZING OPPORTUNITY OF VOID IDENTIFY AND CODE VOID INCREASE ACCESS ESTABLISH CIRCULATION IDENTIFY COURTYARD AND DEFINING MASSES FOR 2ND LEVEL COLLECTION TOREN BUILDING SITE LOCATION Following the Client’s background, the design encompasses the traditions Located in Downtown Brooklyn. and practices of Hispanic culture. In traditional Mexican homes, the courtyard 38 Stories High-rise residential uniquely represents the lifestyle of Hispanic culture. It creates a welcoming outdoor building with 240 Units. environment for socializing, dining and entertaining. The design aims to interpret the Designed by SOM. characteristics of the traditional Mexican courtyards and weave it into a contemporary Market: Commercial + Office System dwelling, creating a shared living space equipped for a multi-generational family LEED Gold Rating (Rainscreen system) routine. The space emphasizes the important values of building family relationships in Facade contains metal + glasswork patch Hispanic culture, in response to the client’s identity. panel Q URBAN DWELLING | 4 CLIENT’S COLLECTION STUDY Mata Ortiz pottery is a recreation of the Application Mogollon pottery found in and around the archeological of terracotta pots in site of Casas Grandes (Paquimé) in the Mexican state of exterior environment in Casa Barragan, Chihuahua. 1948 (Architect: Luis Barragan) UNITED STATES CHIHUAHUA MEXICO PACIFIC OCEAN Named after the modern town of Mata Ortiz, which is near the archeological site, the style was propagated by Juan Quezada Celado. Quezada learned on his own to recreate this ancient pottery and then went on to update it. By the mid 1970s, Quezada was selling his pottery and teaching family and friends to make it and the pottery was able to penetrate the U.S. markets thanks to efforts by Spencer MacCallum and later Walt Parks along with Mexican traders. Options for integrating collection in dwelling Q URBAN DWELLING | 5 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Following the client’s lifestyle and culture, the simplicity of perpendicular planes allow emphasis on the intricate detailings of the pottery collection. Colors and materials are accentuated through natural and artificial lighting. Finalized Color Mass Diagram Casa Barragan, 1948 Casa Barragan, 1948 Exploration of flat planes and light creating spatial adjacencies between private and shared programs. Q URBAN DWELLING | 6 PROGRAM W.C. GRANDPA’S CHILD’S BEDROOM KITCHEN LIVING STAIRS GRAND- BATHROOM STAIRS AREA FATHER’S ROOM ROOM LIVING POTTERY COLLECTION DINING ENTRANCE PATH PATH W.C. COLLECTION STAIRS MASTER BEDROOM DINING KITCHEN POWDER MASTER BATHROOM MEDITATION CHILD’S DRESSING AREA ROOM BEDROOM ROOM AREA BEDROOM W.C. ADJACENCIES DIAGRAM LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 Spatial Relationship and Hierachy between The collection acts as a vertical mass, connecting living, programs according to the relationship dining, stairs as well as the second level. This reinforces the between users. Shared spaces becomes importance of family communication and shared spaces. centralized following the concept of courtyard. Q URBAN DWELLING | 7 FLOOR PLAN LIVING AREA LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 Q DINING AREA ENTRANCE AREA MASTER BEDROOM URBAN DWELLING | 8 ENTRANCE HALL ENTRANCE HALL/STAIRS SECTION Upon entry, guests are greeted by a yellow spatial void, integrating the 2nd floor and highlighting the flat planes. It is balanced between two orange masses of which is the kitchen and stairs. GRANDPA'S ROOM BATHROOM LIVING ROOM UP ENTRANCE HALL UP DINING AREA KITCHEN POWDER ROOM Q VIEW LOCATION DINING AREA URBAN DWELLING | 9 COLLECTION/DINING SECTIONS ENTRY VIEW TO COLLECTION SECTION GRANDPA'S ROOM BATHROOM LIVING ROOM UP ENTRANCE HALL UP DINING AREA KITCHEN POWDER ROOM Q LIVING/DINING SECTION CHILD’S BEDROOM ELEVATION KITCHEN ELEVATION VIEW LOCATION URBAN DWELLING | 10 UNIVERSAL BATHROOM BUILT-IN STEP STOOL COMPATIABLE FOR SINK USAGE BY YOUNG CHILDREN VIEW LOCATION Q STAIRS TO LEVEL 2 URBAN DWELLING | 11 VIEW LOCATION Q.