During my time with SHoP Architects, I was able to work on diverse and exciting projects that shaped the built environment of New York as well as important and symbolic structures internationally. Working from concept design through construction administration, I was able to focus on maintaining the integrity and beauty of our designs through the building process.
During my time with SHoP Architects, I was able to work on diverse and exciting projects that shaped the built environment of New York as well as important and symbolic structures internationally. Working from concept design through construction administration, I was able to focus on maintaining the integrity and beauty of our designs through the building process.
During my time with SHoP Architects, I was able to work on diverse and exciting projects that shaped the built environment of New York as well as important and symbolic structures internationally. Working from concept design through construction administration, I was able to focus on maintaining the integrity and beauty of our designs through the building process.
KELLY BECKMAN
UNIVERSITY METALLURGY LAB | Submersion | Santiago, Chile
ARCH 302 // SPRING 2013 // CARLOS JIMENEZ
This design for a new Metallurgy Lab academic building for a university in Santiago Chile, was influenced by four main foci- site indications (creating two entrances based on two main influences: the pubic street corner and neighboring university), an object-like presence (a strong object in the chaotic, changing area), an interactive / multi-layered courtyard (in keeping with the scheme of the existing university), and Submersion.
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The site is is at the end of the Universidad de Catolica de Santiago campus as well as situated along a semi-major road of the Chilean capitol. Therefore the design features a South (public) entrance and a West (student) entrance directly across the street from the main access point to campus. The site also influenced the design for an object-like presence for the building. With the university campus on one side and a rapidly changing/ developing residential area on the other side, the design features a strong, presence through its monumental shape, giving it a place in the chaotic Chilean scene. One of the main features of the design can be experienced directly off of the student entrance axis, a multilayer, interactive courtyard. This features a larger semi-underground/ ground floor courtyard that serves as a hub for many of the building’s major programs, platforms for viewing and eating, and a surrounded courtyard on the top floor of the gallery, to add relief from the massive interior gallery program.
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Lastly, the design features Submersion, a concept selected originally because of the building’s geological program, but expanded into a tool of interior/ exterior circulation, facade design/ experience, and the building’s object-like force. The project becomes a modern building submerged in Chilean historical surroundings that cultivates the familiar air of campus-wide community. Through this project I was able to take a conceptual term and turn it into a means of architectural design.
