Operation Grow Something, by Simeon Vialva

This Blog, titled Operation Grow Something, is my(simeon vialva) emisson and detailed account of my journey of my last design semester of grad school at Pratt Institute. This Blog isn't meant to brag or showcase the latest rendering techniques, or show cool affects in after affects but rather show in detail the challenges a thesis architecture student goes through. The last design semesters I've dealt with WATER & AEROPONICS as my main characters, in Carla Leitao and Peter Macapia Design studios. Dealing with public schools of finding ways how architecture can engage not only the social engagements of students but find ways of creating an innovative environment for the re-use of water and farming. To designing a Vertical farms in dense areas of NYC. These Two design studios have led me to on a course directed at my thesis research of finding key solutions of designing a New York City of the future.

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new screenshots

modeling is almost finished - will start on renderings soon.

columbarium

using the script to generate the core and the facade of ceremony room/niches storage. the park/plaza penetrating the columbarium lead to the children center on the higher level and and the senior center on the lower level. the exposed structure can be filled as the deceased increase.

SKIN TEST

TEST RENDERING WITH SHRIN WRAPPED SKIN/NET.

Operation Vertical Growth. Act 4.1: Tower growth

These are more studies on the 1.) Tower membrane, highlighted in green, as you can see it is essential a sine wave, if you can imagine at the base of this membrane it spreads into the land, and as it progress up its becomes tighter and wraps the housing and more aeroponic green houses. Then pertruding out at the sides, are more farm fields. I imagine that many of these farm cells are traditional as it goes out onto the land. As, of this moment the skin its not yet articulated, just a rough sketch of where im at. 2.)Also, attached are some diagrams of how I see the farm ground being used. Idon't see the the farm land being flat, but as an adaptive ground system where it will create a surface to be adjusted to the plants root zone + water supply. These sketchs highlight my interest in developing an adaptive ground for the farm.

Hi, sorry for the delay.

he is where i stand as of... 6:55, im tired so i explain it more in the morning...err... when i get back to work.

Operation Vertical Grow: Act 4: Tower Growth

These are the latest renders of how I see the the tower growing and spreading on the landscape. The strategy behind the placement, is having the center of the model house the apartment units, and to the left and right of it, it will lead into the aeroponic green houses, and then as it reaches farther out to more traditonal farming. I've also tested out the aeroponic green houses by covering each indvidual cell.