#vjaa

concrete structure with curtainwall (stick-framing) glass facade and sun screen in front.

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VJAA, LONGITUDINAL HOUSE, MICHIGAN

The house, designed for two brothers, is sited on a hundred-foot-high bluff overlooking a lake......the challenge was to calibrate a range of spaces from public to private while preserving connections to the site.

The elongated form of the house occupies the shear line between the lake and the forest, allowing visual access to both zones from nearly every space within the houses. Transverse folds are used to integrate exterior landscaped spaces into its volume while also serving as devices to buffer domestic spaces. The form of the structure also reinforces transverse views.

https://www.vjaa.com/work#/longitudinal-house/

PROGRAM + CIRCULATION - VJAA: Graduate Research and Art Center, American University, Beirut

https://www.vjaa.com/research-and-art-center/

CIRCULATION DIAGRAMS

MSME (Mack Scogin Merril Elam): circulation diagrams, Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk/Poland.  https://www.archdaily.com/134810/museum-of-the-second-world-war-international-competition-mack-scogin-merrill-elam-architects?ad_medium=gallery

VJAA (Vince James Architects):  circulation diagram, Charles Hostler Student Center, Beirut.  https://www.archdaily.com/36324/charles-hostler-center-vjaa

FOREIGN OFFICE: diagrams Yokohama terminal

ANALYTICAL DIAGRAMS 2

VJAA - Charles Hostler Student Center, Beirut

http://www.vjaa.com/educational#/charles-hostler-student-center-2/

E N V I R O N M E N T A L   S T R A T E G I E S

VJAA: Charles Hostler Student Center, American University, Beirut - with TRANSSOLAR as an environmental consultant

image 1:  passive system - a series of diagrams showing the design process and how the building form was reached IN RESPONSE to local climate

image 2-3: site sections summarizing the sustainable design strategies integrated in the design of the building

http://www.carboun.com/sustainable-design/the-american-university-in-beirut-combines-innovation-and-traditional-design/

a building that combines passives design strategies with active systems. the passive strategies reduce energy and water use throughout the year and especially in spring and autumn season, while the active systems (efficient heating/cooling and renewable energy generation) help reduce energy loads and provide a dependable backup to public utilities.

ANALYTICAL DIAGRAMS

image 1-3:  STAN ALLEN - diagrams for Korean-American Museum of Art

image 4:  VJAA - Charles Hostler Student Center, Beirut

http://www.vjaa.com/educational#/charles-hostler-student-center-2/

image 5:  ORDERING PRINCIPLES

image 6:  OMA - IIT, Chicago - circulation/connection diagram

image 7:  S.SHAIKH - density diagram, warehouse district block

VINCE JAMES ASSOCIATES (with WTA as local contact architect) - Tulane University Center

concrete structure with storefront glazing system (stick framing). metal sun screen with fixed horizontal louvers. green screen (stainless wires for growing of vines).