Creative collisions : a RISD case study

Collisions

Creative

A RISD Case Study

by Hannah Liongoren

Acknowledgments:

Ernesto Aparicio

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Consultant, Graphic Design

Ben Cornelius

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Consultant, Structural Engineering

Nick Heywood

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Adviser, Writing and Thesis Book

Stephen Turner

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Consultant, Energy, Systems and Sustainability

Creative Collisions A RISD Case Study

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Design in Interior Studies [Adaptive Reuse] in the Department of Interior Architecture of the Rhode Island School of Design

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Hannah Liongoren 2017

Approved by Master’s Examination Committee: ________________________

Jonathan Bell

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Thesis Advisor ________________________

Heinrich Hermann

Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Thesis Advisor ________________________

Wolfgang Rudorf

To Alex and Lumen,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Precedents

Site Analysis

History | Program | Circulation | Solar orientation

A Creative Platform

Superimposition| Program

Intervention to Host Building

Design Concept | Approach| Resolution

Annotated Bibliography

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In a creative environment like RISD, brilliant minds are common but it takes more than

just a brilliant mind to produce creative work . Often, new ideas are driven by what I

call “Creative Collision” or chance encounters of creative people. More often than not,

these are unplanned social events that cross the bounds of disciplines and social lines.

By nature, creative collisions are unplanned serendipitous events. It is my belief that the

design of a space can greatly affect the chance of these creative collisions occuring. It

can play a key role in the creative output of a space.

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Abstract

Creative collisions play an important role in artistic work. These encounters broaden an artist’s perspective, exposing them to new processes, ideas, disciplines, and collaborators. The exact nature of creative collisions is difficult to pin down, as they flourish in an ever-changing mix of social interaction and creative inspiration in a setting of multidisci-plinary work. A little-known example of a serendipitous collision between artists occurred between Gustav Klimt and designer Emilie Floge, whose individual medium and style influenced the others’ work, and together they dominated the Viennese Secession movement. A similar creative relationship developed between Charles and Ray Eames who met at the Cranbrook Acadamy of Art, and RISD’s very own David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads, whose shared art school experience gave birth to one of the objectively coolest bands of all times. While you may never see a story of creative collision play out the same way twice, it is possible to influence collisions by design, creating spaces where collisions are more likely to occur, and giving rise to a robust artistic community that engenders creative outputs that challenge assumptions.

The Rhode Island School of Design is an ideal setting for creative collision – the school hosts a community of students and faculty from diverse backgrounds, working across a multitude of disciplines. While the atmosphere is ripe for creative exchange, the topology of the campus gets in the way of serendipitous encounter. The reason for this goes back to the very beginnings of the university. When RISD was founded, it started out with just one building purchased in the middle of Providence. As RISD expanded, it did so in an ad-hoc way, acquiring more nearby buildings to make space for a growing number of students and departments. The resulting campus is sprinkled throughout the city, with no common space for people to congregate and little casual exposure to the work going on between departments, even in neighboring buildings.

Creative collision will be orchestrated via a central transit platform corridor in the heart of the RISD campus, on the Museum Block bordered by North Main Street and Benefit Street. The intervention has three tenets: designing for circulation to bring together a high density of RISD students and staff from different disciplines housed in various buildings on the block, designing a program that facilitate and attracts serendipitous encounters, and designing the space to reveal the creative process and output of the disciplines housed in the Museum Block. It is the goal of this thesis to elevate opportunities of creative collisions on campus, advancing a culture where the free exchange of ideas broadens and refines the work done on campus and beyond.

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Growing up with artist parents, I was surrounded by artists, musicians, patrons and after three decades of watching how artists operate from the conception of an idea to execution, I came to the conclusion that artists are a lot like uranium. You laugh, but it fits! I used to watch artist friends sit around doing nothing for hours, then get struck by sudden inspiration and dash off a pile of artwork in a creative frenzy. It feels very similar to how a U-238 atom can sit around for years, then suddenly undergo spontaneous fission and release a pile of highly energized neutrons. When an artist would burst into a creative frenzy, artists around him would become inspired, leading to their own creative outbursts.

Which brings me to RISD, an art and design school that offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 19 majors. The potential opportunities for creative chain reactions are limit-less. But as the diagram on the left page shows, the campus is scattered around downtown Providence, limiting these encounters to a minimum.

What kind of architecture can create opportunities for stu-dents across disciplines to rub shoulders and stimulate ideas, projects and connections?

4 Creative Collisions ILLUSTRATION UG: 289 TOTAL : 289 FURNITURE G: 22 UG: 65 TOTAL : 89 CERAMICS G: 11 UG: 9 TOTAL : 22 G: 12 UG: 87 TOTAL : 99 GLASSG: 6 UG: 12 TOTAL : 19 JEWELRY & METALSMITHING G: 10 UG: 30 TOTAL : 42 GRAPHIC DESIGN G: 36 UG: 183 TOTAL : 219 SCULPTURE G: 12 UG: 57 TOTAL : 69 APPAREL DESIGN G: 0 UG: 65 TOTAL : 65 PRINTMAKING G: 15 UG: 30 TOTAL : 45 TEXTILE GENERAL PUBLIC RISD FACULTY PAINTING G: 20 UG: 122 TOTAL : 132 PHOTOGRAPHY G: 14 UG: 24 TOTAL : 38 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN G: 55 UG: 260 TOTAL : 315 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE G: 79 UG: 0 TOTAL : 79 ARCHITECTURE G: 84 UG: 114 TOTAL : 198 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE G: 61 UG: 33 TOTAL : 94 STUDENT POPULATION GRADUATES TOTAL : 482

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Precedents

A collection of curated inspirations that informed the architectural approach of my project.

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Seattle Central Public Library Architect : OMA / LMN

Year Built: 2008 Location: Seattle Program: Public Library

Relevance: Architectural and Programmatic

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Seattle Central Public Library Architect : OMA / LMN

Year Built: 2008 Location: Seattle Program: Public Library

Relevance: Architectural and Programmatic

The Seattle Central Public Library is an excellent example of a public space that is designed to encourage social interaction. The so called “Mixing Chamber” is explicitly designed to consolidate the library’s human and technological intelligence: the visitor is surrounded by information sources (books and computers) and the inevitable human interactions that occur in the open space.

The Book Spiral that traverses around the first level to the fifth floor of the library encourages exploration and curiousity from the visitor.

Seattle Central Library fifth floor mixing chamber computer lab (photo by Liz Thelen-Torres, Gould Evans)

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MIT Infinite Corridor Architect : William W. Bosworth Year Built: 1913

Location: Boston

Program: Corridor; Indoor route that connects mutiple buildings. Relevance: Programmatic Technology Square McDermott Court Eastman Court Killian Court duPont Court _Saxon Tennis Courts 158 Mass. Ave. Lot Windsor St. Lot

N10 Lot _{N10 Annex Lot}

Main Lot Lowell Court Gray Way Technology Square Garage P 139 Mass Ave Visitor Lot Gr H Pierce Laboratory Homberg Bldg Bush Bldg Hayden Memorial Library Dorrance Bldg Dreyfus Bldg Compton Laboratories Maclaurin Bldg Sloan Laboratories Guggenheim Laboratory EG&G Education Center Sloan Laboratory McNair Bldg Maclaurin Bldg William R. Dickson Cogeneration Plant Cyclotron Parsons Laboratory Pratt School Walker Memorial Green Bldg Whitaker Bldg Alumni Pool Eastman Laboratories East Campus Alumni Houses Ralph Landau Bldg Biolo Rogers Bldg Wi Cooling Tower Albany Garage MIT Museum Cormick Hall Bexley Hall Chapel e m

Stratton Student Center du Pont Athletic Center

Cage Maclaurin Bldg du Pont Athletic Gym Bldg High Voltage Research Laboratory Superconducting Generator Test Facility

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Ray and Maria Stata Center orts & enter Koch Wood Hayden Munroe Goodale Bemis Walcott Sciences Complex

Brain & Cognitive

Admissions Office 3-108 Masseeh Hall C 300 TS M Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research 32G 68 17 E W S N N52 N51 W32 16 43 N16A ₄₈ 44 N4 N16 N9 N10 42 41 7 11 10 13 31 39 37 35 33 9 34 38 36 24 8 26 18 54 56 57 W20 33 W31 64 62 66 E15 E1 W1 W11 W15 5 3 1 6 4 2 14 50 W2 W16 W4 W13 7A NE49 NE47 NE48 46 32 N16T 6C 2 E14 6B 76 NE46 NE45 NE8 12 12A STREET SE MA T E E RT S MAIN STRE_ET STRE ET BR OA DW AY GALI LEO STATE STR_EET VASSAR STREET STREET OSBO RN ST REET AMHERST PORT LAND STRE ET STRE_ET STRE ET STRE ET MAIN STR_EET FRO_{NT S} T WIN DSOR AV EN UE ALBANY PORT LAND SMAR TST REET GE ST AMES W AY M A SS A C H U SE TT S AV E N U E CARD INAL DAVIS STRE ET MOOR E STR EET 3 7 10 4 8

A corridor that connects multiple buildings in Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), encourages the culture of creative collision. The Infinite Corridor is the hallway, 251 meters (825 feet) long, that runs through the main buildings of MIT specifically parts of the buildings numbered 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8 (from west to east). The corridor is important not only because it links those buildings, but also because it serves as the most direct indoor route between the east and west ends of the campus. Twice per year, in mid-November and in late January, the corridor lines up with the plane of the ecliptic, causing sunlight to fill the entire corridor, events that are celebrated by students and staff.

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from L - R image from http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-infinite-corridor-set-alight , http://web.mit.edu/planning/www/mithenge.html , https://gecd.mit.edu/parents-heres-how-we-help-mit-students

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New School

Architect : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Location: Manhattan, New York Year Built: 2014

Program: Educational Institution and Dormitory

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The stairs connecting each of the lower seven floors of The new school building is called the “grand avenue” of staircases. It promotes not only healthful activity, but the multiple public landing spaces they create also encourage interaction and communica-tion. The University Center is a hive of activity, visible from the street through large glass windows, allowing the outside a slice of life happening inside the building.

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Bell Labs

Architect: Mervin Kelly Year Built: 1941 Location: Murray Hill, Program: Laboratory

Relevance: Theoretical and programmatic

The campus inspired a great innovative time in America and gave birth to inventions like the transistor, the cell phone and solar cells that define the modern age. Thanks to the physicist, Mervin Kelly, the campus is designed architectur-ally to encourage the culture of creativity through interdisciplinary mingling.

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The renowed art nouveou painter, Gustav Klimt would not be known as Gustav Klimt if not for Emily Floge, his partner and collaborator throughout his career. This intersection of talent and interdisciplinary collaboration created revo-lutionary works of art.

Emilie Flöge (1902) an oil painting by Gustav Klimt

L - R Emilie Floge by Hans Bohler, 1910 , Austria. Gustav Klimt & Emilie Flöge, 1910 by Hans Böhle

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RISD BUILDINGS

MUSEUM BLOCK

N O RT_H M A IN S T. BE_N EF IT _ST . WATERM AN ST. COLLEGE HILL N S E W

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My site takes place mainly in the museum block along North Main St. and Waterman St in Provi-dence, Rhode Island. I have two host buildings : The Metcalf Building and the RISD Central Power-plant. The Metcalf building is located at the corner of North Main St. and Waterman st. while the Central Powerplant is behind it. These two proper-ties are one of the first acquistions of RISD between 1893 - 1920 specifically built for the school’s use. The school eventually acquired the adjacent properties in the museum block and other properties downtown, but the museum block remains the center of the campus.

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RISD BUILDINGS

MUSEUM BLOCK

N O RT_H M A IN S T. BE_N EF IT _ST . WATERM AN ST. COLLEGE HILL N S E W Metcalf Building

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The Metcalf building was donated by the Met-calf family to the RISD Campus as a tribute to Jesse Metcalf, a wealthy textile manufacturer during the industrial revolution in Rhode Island. He was the main main benefactor of RISD since its foundation in 1870 by his wife and RISD co-founder, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf. The building was designed to look and func-tion as a textile factory to teach students about the practical manufacturing of fabrics, as well as developing their design. As RISD’s focus eventually move to fine arts from industrial arts, the building housed a total of 6 material and process-based departments under Fine Arts and Architecture+Design Departments.

Looking northeast from corner of North Main Street and Benefit Street, View of west-facing façade from North Main Street - Night time. Image from http://academicaffairs.risd.edu/locations/metcalf-building/ 1920, exteriorr view of southwest corner from North Main Street

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Transit & Utility Furniture Sculpture Jewelry Ceramics Glass Textile

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This page 1915

site 9 North Main Street Providence from Metcalf Alley.

Next Page 1915 Description

site: 9 North Main Street, Providence; from photo: “back of RISD museum (see Green Door), alley between museum and Metcalf / can see church steeple in background / over head shot”

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The RISD Central Powerplatn has no written documentation of the history of construction. I was able to find pictures you see here. If you observe the picture closely, the powerplant use to be a single story building as shown on the image on this page. The addition of a second level was probably constructed to make room for more equipment when the school expand-ed. The Powerplant produces steam and heat to the following buildings: Carr, Waterman, Museum, Chace, Metcalf, Memorial Hall, Bank, College, Market House, Auditorium, Design center, ISB and 20 Washington Place. It also produces chilled water to cool the

Mu-image from http://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdbuildings/35/

Level 1 0' - 0" Level 2 14' - 1 3/16" Level 0 -10' - 0" Level 3 31' - 1 3/16" 1/8" = 1'-0" 1 West 1/8" = 1'-0" 2 S outh 3 {3D}

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Section of Metcalf Building

1st F loor 0' - 0" 2nd Floor 16' - 2" 3rd F loor 30' - 3" 4th Floor 44' - 4" 15 16 17 14 18 19 Penthouse 58' - 5" Basement -10' - 6" Level 1-2 10' - 0" Level 2-3 20' - 2" Level 3-4 38' - 6" Level 4-R OOF 54' - 6"

Level 1 at stair tower -1' - 0 25/32" 1st Floor B alcony 8' - 6" Level 1 0' - 0" Level 2 14' - 1 3/16" Level 0 -10' - 0" Level 3 31' - 1 3/16"

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BASEMENT 1ST FLOOR 2ND FLOOR

MECHANICAPERSONNEL’S OFFICE

ACCESS ROUTE TO THE MECH ROOM OF THE MUSEUM ACCESS ROUTE TO THE BACK OF THE MUSEUM HOT WATER BLOW DOWN FACILITY BOILER ROOM

CHASE WAY - PIPE ROOM

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CONDENSATE RETURN TANK DRAFT AIR WINDOW HEAT HEAD ENGINEER’S OFFICE OPEN PROPERTY MUSEUM MUSEUM BACK UP BOILERS CATWALK ACCESS TO BOILER GEARS ROLL DOWN WINDOW DELIVERY DOCK METCALF ALLEYW AY METCALF ALLEYW AY OPEN PROPERTY CATWALK ACCESS TO BOILER GEARS

There are two smaller boilers we run in the summer. They are Bryan boilers, 2007, rated for about 2,500 lbs of team per hour, each. They run on natural gas.

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On the second level over the boiler room there is a chiller room with two water-cooled 300-ton centrifugal Carrier chillers, an 80-ton air-cooled Trane chiller, and a 100-ton plate and frame heat exchanger that we can use in economizer cycle with the cooling tower when the weather is cold.

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BOILER 1 NAME PLATE BOILER 2 NAME PLATE BOILER 3 NAME PLATE

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Cleaver Brooks 1985 or so

Rated for 40,000 lbs of steam/ hour. Run at 100 psi.

It is also dual fuel, #6 oil or gas. B1 & B2

Babcock and Wilcox 1957

Rated for 20,000 lbs of steam / hour Run at 80 psi

Fired with #6 residual oil or natural gas. Using natural gas primarily for the last few years.

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Photos description 1 East side tunnel

2 Close up of East side tunnel bus waiting shed

3 Metcalf building corner of north main st and Benefit st viewed from the 2nd floor of ISB building 4 Metcalf textile big loom 4 View from ISB building, second floor, 5 Radake building view Chace center plaza 6 View of the chace center plaza from the Market House

7 Alley way between the Metcalf Building and the central power plant

8 View of the power plant Work roo m 15 Work roo m 12 Buil ding Se rvic es 12A Sto r. 11E Sto r. 11F Sto r. 11G Work roo m 11A Sto r. 11D Sto r. 11C Sto r. 11B Mult i U se Clas sro om 11 Stai rw ell 10 Hall 16 Lav 13B Jan ito rial 13C Hall 13A Lav 13D Sto rag e 17 Elev ato r

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Activating creative collisions required me to pay close attention to the programmatic occupa-tion of the buildings of the Museum block. Pin-pointing under-utilized areas within the museum block that will interact closely with the site of my intervention is integral in the selec-tion of the site. In this diagram I’ve mapped out the public accessibility of the buildings in the museum block. Identifying that the central power plant is a prime spot in activating social interactions because of the possible flow of foot traffic from different members of the community. Collision Oportunities 1 2 2 3 ENTRY WAYS

Image : RISD Masterplan

A diagram that showing probable encounters of interactions from different members of the community. . WATERM AN STREE T COLLEG E STREET BE_N EF IT _ST RE ET N_O RTH M A IN S_TR EE_T Collission Opportunities 207 FT 54 FT 14 FT 15 FT

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Center for Student Involvement (CSI) Disability Support Services (DSS) Intercultural Student Engagement (ISE) Office of International Student Services (OISS)

Student Affairs Student Conduct Office The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collections

10 — BANK BUILDING Furniture Design Offices + Studios risd:store 3D

60 — WATERMAN BUILDING Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab Experimental and Foundation Studies Offices + Studios Waterman Gallery

EAST SIDE TRANSIT TUNNEL ENTRY WAYS

Image and info based from RISD Masterplan

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Architecture + Design Division Offices Environmental Health + Safety Faculty Association Offices

Liberal Arts Division Offices + Classrooms Painting Studios

Textiles Offices + Studios Writing Center 38 — MEMORIAL HALL Painting Galleries, Offices + Studios

Printmaking Studio Tap Room

39 — METCALF BUILDING Ceramics Offices + Studios Furniture Design Woodshop Glass Offices + Studios Jewelry + Metalsmithing Offices + 51 — RISD MUSEUM — (52) Pendleton House — (53) Farago — (54) Radeke — (55) Waterman Galleries 18 — CHACE CENTER Dryfoos Student Media Gallery Experimental and Foundation Studies Studios

Jacques + Natasha Gelman Student Gallery

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium Minskoff Center for Prints, Drawings + Photographs Museum Special Exhibitions Galleries

RISD WORKS Museum Shop + Café Student Gallery Lobby

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Center for Student Involvement (CSI) Disability Support Services (DSS) Intercultural Student Engagement (ISE) Office of International Student Services (OISS)

Student Affairs Student Conduct Office The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collections

10 — BANK BUILDING Furniture Design Offices + Studios risd:store 3D

60 — WATERMAN BUILDING Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab Experimental and Foundation Studies Offices + Studios Waterman Gallery

EAST SIDE TRANSIT TUNNEL ENTRY WAYS

Image and info based from RISD Masterplan

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Architecture + Design Division Offices Environmental Health + Safety Faculty Association Offices

Liberal Arts Division Offices + Classrooms Painting Studios

Textiles Offices + Studios Writing Center 38 — MEMORIAL HALL Painting Galleries, Offices + Studios

Printmaking Studio Tap Room

39 — METCALF BUILDING Ceramics Offices + Studios Furniture Design Woodshop Glass Offices + Studios Jewelry + Metalsmithing Offices + 51 — RISD MUSEUM — (52) Pendleton House — (53) Farago — (54) Radeke — (55) Waterman Galleries 18 — CHACE CENTER Dryfoos Student Media Gallery Experimental and Foundation Studies Studios

Jacques + Natasha Gelman Student Gallery

Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium Minskoff Center for Prints, Drawings + Photographs Museum Special Exhibitions Galleries

RISD WORKS Museum Shop + Café Student Gallery Lobby

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Center for Student Involvement (CSI) Disability Support Services (DSS) Intercultural Student Engagement (ISE) Office of International Student Services (OISS) Student Affairs Student Conduct Office The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collections

10 — BANK BUILDING Furniture Design Offices + Studios risd:store 3D

60 — WATERMAN BUILDING Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab Experimental and Foundation Studies Offices + Studios Waterman Gallery

EAST SIDE TRANSIT TUNNEL ENTRY WAYS

Image and info based from RISD Masterplan

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17 — CENTRAL POWER PLANT (CPP) Facilities

21 — COLLEGE BUILDING Architecture + Design Division Offices Environmental Health + Safety Faculty Association Offices Liberal Arts Division Offices + Classrooms Painting Studios

Textiles Offices + Studios Writing Center 38 — MEMORIAL HALL Painting Galleries, Offices + Studios

Printmaking Studio Tap Room 39 — METCALF BUILDING Ceramics Offices + Studios Furniture Design Woodshop Glass Offices + Studios Jewelry + Metalsmithing Offices + 51 — RISD MUSEUM — (52) Pendleton House — (53) Farago — (54) Radeke — (55) Waterman Galleries 18 — CHACE CENTER Dryfoos Student Media Gallery Experimental and Foundation Studies Studios Jacques + Natasha Gelman Student Gallery Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium Minskoff Center for Prints, Drawings + Photographs Museum Special Exhibitions Galleries

RISD WORKS Museum Shop + Café Student Gallery Lobby

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Blobs merging together and flowing and bumping into bigger blobs was a fascinating allusion to collision that informed the shape of my intervention.

Program

WAITING SHED

By demolishing the spray room shed, we allow an entryway from the East Side Tunnel waiting shed. People can meander through the alleyway behind the Metcalf building ex-posing them to the woodshop and metalshop of the Scuplture and Furniture department. The alley way leads up to the the plaza of the Chace center.

PLATFORM ACCESS POINTS

Two access points from Waterman St. and the east side providence tunnel and a bridge connecting the parking lot

HEATED PLATFORM

A construction of a platform that connects the second floor bridge from Waterman St. will harness the excess heat from the boiler room on the first level of the powerplant.

COFFEE ROASTER & CAFE Smell stimulation: The roasting smell of coffee will draw people into the platform.

GALLERY

Sight stimulation: Opening a gallery from the

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47 Creative Collisions Furniture Sculpture Jewelry Ceramics Glass Textile Platform to Metcalf Elavator access BOILER ROOM DAMPER SYSTEM GALLERY DISPLAY WINDOW GALLERY EAST SIDE TRANSIT TUNNEL NORTH MAIN ST WATERMAN ST WAITING SHED CAFE RADIATOR FIN EXTERIOR BOILER ROOM METCALF BUILDING RISD POWEPLANT HEATED PLATFORM

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A RISD Case Study

ILLUSTRATION UG: 289 TOTAL : 289 FURNITURE G: 22 UG: 65 TOTAL : 89 CERAMICS G: 11 UG: 9 TOTAL : 22 G: 12 UG: 87 TOTAL : 99 GLASSG: 6 UG: 12 TOTAL : 19 SCULPTURE G: 12 UG: 57 TOTAL : 69 TEXTILE GENERAL PUBLIC RISD FACULTY PAINTING G: 20 UG: 122 TOTAL : 132 PHOTOGRAPHY G: 14 UG: 24 TOTAL : 38 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN G: 55 UG: 260 TOTAL : 315 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE G: 79 UG: 0 TOTAL : 79 ARCHITECTURE G: 84 UG: 114 TOTAL : 198 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE G: 61 UG: 33 TOTAL : 94 STUDENT POPULATION GRADUATES TOTAL : 482 JEWELRY & METALSMITHING G: 10 UG: 30 TOTAL : 42 GRAPHIC DESIGN G: 36 UG: 183 TOTAL : 219 APPAREL DESIGN G: 0 UG: 65 TOTAL : 65 PRINTMAKING G: 15 UG: 30 TOTAL : 45

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GALLERY LOOM BOILER ROOM OFFICE PLATFORM ROASTER COUNTER BAR WATERMAN PARKING LOT BRIDGE TO METCALF WOODSHOP METAL SHOP CHACE CENTER MUSEUM SHOP RISD 3D STORE MUSEUM OFFICE ENTRANCE BUS STOP SMALLER BOILER ROOM SMALLER BOILER ROOM

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Boiler Room and damper system design

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The Radiator fins are designed to harness heat from the boiler room with a controlled damper system. The flow of the heat will circulate around the fins up to the height of a seated person.

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Elevation view of the platform from the North East side Elevation view of the platform from the North East side

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This thesis was inspired by waiting for my bus at the east side tunnel in a group of creative people standing in isolation, zoning out or staring at our phone screens. This sterile scene struck a stark contrast to the creative wonderland ten feet away behind the brick walls of Metcalf. It seemed funny to me that minds capable of creative work in their respective studios would shut down as soon as they stepped outside, rather than being engaged when they’re finally mixing with creative people from other disciplines. In the world of this intervention I’d like to see the dulled eyes and phone screens from that bus stop replaced with lively conversation with strang-ers and wide-eyed interest at the labyrinth of creative activity going on all around.

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Annotated Bibliography

Chabot, Jeroen, Florian Cramer, Peter Troxler, and Paul Rutten. Reinventing the Art School 21st Century. 600th ed. Rotterdam: Willem De Kooning Academie Kenniscentrum Creating 010, 2013.

-- Reflections on art education / Jeroen Chabot -- interventions, experimentation, markets / Florian Cramer -- Art, creativity and economy / Paul Rutten -- The Need for open design / Peter Troxler.

Gertner, Jon, “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation”, Penguin book publishing on History / business, March 2012

--Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century’s most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs.

Henderson, Robyn, Joan M. Conway, and Lindy Abawi. Creating Connections In Teaching And Learning. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 4 Dec. 2016.

-- Reflections on social aspects learning from the educator’s point of view.

Lindsay, Greg. “Engineering Serendipity.” The New York Times, April 5, 2013, New York Edition ed., Sunday Review sec. 2013. --- Instigating candid conversations ; “casual collisions of the work force.”

Stadler, Mathew Stadler, “Deventer”, Naio010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2013

--- Told in the manner of a well plotted novel, about a mid-sized Dutch city of Deventer, a routine real estate deal became the site of innovation in urban design when a cross-disciplinary team of architectects, business experts, financiers, artists, and planners, chose to ignore developers’ influence towards a city in economic crsis.

Author Anonymous, “MIT Infinite Corridor, Wikipedia.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Corridor accesed on Decem-ber 6, 2016.