Spring 2013

ARCH 4012

Jack Pyburn

Chipboard, butterboard, wooden dowels, pvc

11"x17"

 

For Jack Pyburn's ARCH 4012 studio. Constructed in conjunction with Emily Lenke, Allison Clark, and Marie Acalin. This is our model of the 1960s concrete GBQC building, the Philadelphia Police Headquarters, better known as the Roundhouse. The innovative building, using the unique Schokbeton casting system, and surrounding areas have been marked as "likely for redevelopment," with destruction of the building finalized for 2035. Our mission was to team up with graduate historic preservation students from University of Pennsylvania to provide reuse and addition possibilities to suggest to the City Planning Commission that this is a workable building and that destruction is only one option. Our model was to both be a visual copy as well as a structural copy. We used PVC as the three "cores" of the building, emulated the waffle ceiling design as well, and integrated a pull-apart wedge as well to view the inner structural precast ladder.