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The Center for the Creative Mind
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The Center for the Creative Mind is essentially a school of art and design, where the curriculum is structured around the integration of design disciplines. The program and design developed from studies of precedence, interdisciplinary relationships, phenomenological experience, and composition. The Mission Street project site was chosen due to its cultural, academic, and professional resources, as well as public exposure and integration. Complexities in the program included resolving and integrating multiple building skin systems with the superstructure and building core.
The project features a large residential tower pierced by the thrust of a pair of enormous trusses that support cantilevered studio spaces. A unique curtain wall system was developed for the studio and atrium spaces, featuring large sheets of glass supported by tensile cables and a steel substructure. A system of sliding diffusion panels is fixed to the curtain wall, allowing the studio’s inhabitants to adjust the desired amount of natural light that is emitted into the space. The skin of the residential tower was design around climatic concerns, where building orientation dictated the appropriate amounts and configurations of fenestration. A large amount of the program resides in three subterranean levels that are day lit by a one hundred foot deep light well that cuts transversely across the site.
An art installation featuring this design featured three projections of project imagery originated from an array of three digital projectors controlled by three laptop computers. All of this equipment was suspended by a precise network of steel cabling inside an armature fabricated from tube steel. The armature also acted as an abstraction of the Center for the Creative Mind, being that it resembled a tower supporting a combination of various systems and uses, all working together to display the creative work of the design student. While the projectors and laptops were suspended in space using only tensile forces, electrical and data cables that ran between them were allowed to drape freely in the tower, adding a dynamic free-flowing element which contrasted to the precision and rigidity of steel.
The project features a large residential tower pierced by the thrust of a pair of enormous trusses that support cantilevered studio spaces. A unique curtain wall system was developed for the studio and atrium spaces, featuring large sheets of glass supported by tensile cables and a steel substructure. A system of sliding diffusion panels is fixed to the curtain wall, allowing the studio’s inhabitants to adjust the desired amount of natural light that is emitted into the space. The skin of the residential tower was design around climatic concerns, where building orientation dictated the appropriate amounts and configurations of fenestration. A large amount of the program resides in three subterranean levels that are day lit by a one hundred foot deep light well that cuts transversely across the site.
An art installation featuring this design featured three projections of project imagery originated from an array of three digital projectors controlled by three laptop computers. All of this equipment was suspended by a precise network of steel cabling inside an armature fabricated from tube steel. The armature also acted as an abstraction of the Center for the Creative Mind, being that it resembled a tower supporting a combination of various systems and uses, all working together to display the creative work of the design student. While the projectors and laptops were suspended in space using only tensile forces, electrical and data cables that ran between them were allowed to drape freely in the tower, adding a dynamic free-flowing element which contrasted to the precision and rigidity of steel.
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