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T H I N K
S E E
H E A R
S P E A K
Becoming
I am learning to be more
thoughtful. I am seeing to know
more. I am listening to
whispers. I am whispering 3to
be heard. I am becoming.
S
T
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NATUR E PAVILI ON
ASTRONOMER’S Retreat
ORNI THOLOGY CENTER
N micro/macro cosmos. at the front
of the explosion lies the bleeding
edge of the needle. the bleeding
O
edge of the needle piercing the

expanses of time and space. the
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human experience so relatively

small and relatively large. how
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could we have accomplished so

much yet so little. it is to this
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t h a t t h e n e e d l e p i e r c e s t h e
absolute darkness as we uncover
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the next frontier.

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PARTI Saguaro Needles

PROGRESSION Graphite on Bristol
CONCEPTUAL SKETCH Needle Pavilion
MODEL STUDIES
RENDERED PERSPECTIVE
Section North Elevation
South Elevation
Floor Plan Roof Plan
DRAWINGS
RENDERED PLAN Graphite on Bristol
RENDERED ISOMETRIC Graphite on Bristol

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ASTRONOMER’S Retreat
T h e A s t r o n o m e r ’ s R e t r e a t
symbolizes a reach toward heaven.
t
An elegant tower demonstrating the

juxtaposition between mass and
a
f r a m e . B a s e d o n a h e a v e n l y
c o n s t e l l a t i o n a n d a v e r b f r o m
Gacrux
e
Richard Serra. The constellation

C R U X i m p l i e s a m y t h o l o g y t h a t
r
begs to be UNRAVELED. The idea of

t w o t o w e r s o n e c o m p l e t e l y
t
submerged in the ground alludes to

the prospect of resurrection. The
e
s m a l l e r t o w e r i s j o i n e d t o t h e
l a r g e r t h r o u g h a l o n g t u n n e l
reminiscent of a tomb. The ascent
R
through the larger tower resembles

a w i n d i n g p a s s a g e t h r o u g h
catacombs always pointing upward.
T h e h e i g h t o f t h e i n t e r i o r s i s
S
o v e r w h e l m i n g . B r e a c h i n g t h e
darkness the final ascent is made
’
into a delicate cage. The tower

having unravelled all of its skin
R
now moves you into the staircase

winding around the apex. Finally at
E
the the top you are immersed in an

Becrux unobstructed view of the heavens.
M
O
N
O
R
T
S
A
Acrux
PARTI CRUX constellation ‘The Southern Cross’

CONCEPTUAL SKETCH Graphite
MODEL STUDIES
PERSPECTIVE Graphite
DRAWINGS Section
DRAWINGS
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unravellin
Digital Panel
Ornithology Center
T h e O r n i t h o l o g y C e n t e r
r
encompasses the idea of a vessel
to facilitate a TRANSITION between
e
t h e b u i l t a n d t h e n a t u r a l .
Observing the image of the birds
t
amongst the reeds, the building is

a container for humans to feel the
n
habitat of these birds. Creating a

sensation of being in the reeds the
e
pavilion is penetrated with ‘reeds’

o f l i g h t t h r o u g h t h e c i r c u l a r
C
fenestration and is comprised of

t w o c o n c r e t e p l a n e s s u s p e n d e d
u p o n f o u r s t e e l c o l u m n s . T h e
b u i l d i n g a c t s a s a b o a t t h a t
protrudes out into the habitat of
y
the birds uniting these two often

estranged worlds.
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PARTI Reeds
REUTTER HOUSE IS A VACTION HOME LOCATED
ON A SLOPING PINE WOOD ON THE CACHAGUA
BEACH, 140KM NORTH OF SANTIAGO. THE
DIFFERENCE IN GRADE BETWEEN TWO ROADS
IS BRIDGED BY A CATWALK LEADING TO THE
ENTRANCE FROM THE UPPER ROAD. THE
HOUSE IS SET BACK AMONG THE TREES TO
PROVIDE AN EXTRAORDINARY VIEW OF THE
COAST, MAKE THE BUILIDING INDEPENDENT,
AND LEAVEA CLEAR SPACE IN FRONT.
THE BUILDING CONSISTS OF TWO BOX-SHAPED
VOLUMES SET ON A PLATFORM WHICH RAISES
THE LIVING QUARTERS FOUR METERS OFF THE
GROUND. THE BIGGER VOLUME CONTAINS THE
SHARED SPACES, WHILE THE SMALLER ONE
CONTAINS THE BEDROOMS AND BATHROOMS. A
THIRD REINFORCED CONCRETE BLOCK RISES
THROUGH THE MAIN SPACE TO FORM A CORE
CONTAINING A SERVICE BEDROOM AND THE
LAUNDRY ON THE LOWER LEVEL, THE KITCHEN
AND TV ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR, AND A
STUDY ON THE THIRD.
LOCATED BETWEEN TWO ROADS SEPARATED
BY A 30-DEGREE SLOPE AND WITH NUMEROUS
PINES CLUSTERED ALONG ITS NORTHERN
EDGE, THE HOUSE IS RAISED OFF THE GROUND
AND DEFINES ITS HORIZONTAL PLANE BY
MEANS OF THE ACCESS: A FOOTBRIDGE 30
METERS LONG THAT CLIMBS ABOVE THE TREE-
TOPS. WHEN IT REACHES THE ROOF OF THE
BUILDING IT SLOPES DOWN TO THE ENTRANCE
ON THE LIVING-ROOM TERRACE. MIXED
MATERIALS WERE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THE HOUSE. THE BASE IS A REINFORCED
CONCRETE WALL THAT SUPPORTS THE FLOOR
DECK. THE TWO PROJECTING VOLUMES HAVE A
METAL FRAME WHICH IS COVERED WITH LARCH
BOARDS IN THE CASE OF THE BIGGER VOLUME
AND COPPER IN THE SMALLER ONE, SO
MERGING THE HOUSE WITH THE TREES AND
THE NATURAL SETTING. THESE MATERIALS
WERE CHOSEN WITH AN EYE TO THE
WEATHERING OF THE TIMBER AND THE
OXIDATION OF THE COPPER, TURNING THE
FORMER GREYISH AND THE LATTER GREEN.
REUTTER HOUSE IS A STRUCTURAL EXERCISE
IN TENSIONS AND BALANCES. IT ALSO MARKS
AN ADVANCE BY MOVING BEYOND THE SERIES
OF WOODEN BOXES LIKE PANORAMIC
OBSERVATORIES INDEPENDENT OF THEIR
SETTING. FROM THIS TIME ON KLOTZ’S
BUILDINGS ARE ALL DYNAMIC ELEMENTS
LOCKED FIRMLY INTO THEIR CONTEXTS. Precedence Reutter House; Mathias Klutz ARQ
301 AVIAN SPECIES
Tundra Swan Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's) Ferruginous Hawk Inca Dove
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
G E O G R A P H Y
s
Ladder-backed Woodpecker Say's Phoebe Winter Wren Pyrrhuloxia
Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow White-
n
crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) Rusty Blackbird Northern
Oriole (Bullock's) Scott's Oriole Purple Finch Pine Sistine Lesser Goldfinch
o
Bewick's Wren Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Basin—a broad area of the earth in which
the strata dip usually from the sides towar
i
Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Boat-
tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole the center.
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Northern Oriole Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared
i
Grebe American White Pelican BROWN PELICAN Double-crested Cormo-
rant Olivaceous Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird American
d
Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue
Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-
Compressive stress—Compression stre
n
crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis White- cause one block of rock to be pushed
and over the other rock.
o
faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-
bellied Whistling-Duck Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross'
C
Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black
Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Constrictions— a ductile, non-brittle,
Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked of deformation which occurs slowly an
depth over long periods of time over w
e
Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Common Golden-
eye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck nonuniform stresses act.
t
Masked Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey American Swallow-
tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite BALD EAGLE Northern Harrier
i
(Marsh Hawk) Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk
S
Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk White-tailed Hawk Red-tailed
Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Crested Caracara American Kestrel Merlin
PEREGRINE FALCON Northern Bobwhite Yellow Rail Black Rail Clapper Fold—a bend or flexure prod
Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Soar Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen forces operative after the d
American Coot Sandhill Crane WHOOPING CRANE Black-bellied Plover consolidation of the rocks.
American Golden Plover (Lesser Gol-Pl.) Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover PIPING PLOVER Killdeer American Oystercatcher
Mountain Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland
Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Hudsonian
Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's
Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted
Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-
billed Gull Herring Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich
Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer
White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Rock Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Lesser
Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-
headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker (Common Flicker) Pileated Wood-
pecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Empidonax Sp.
Eastern Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Ash-
throated Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-
winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay
American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren House Wren Marsh Wren Sedge Wren Golden-crowned
BOSQUE DEL APACHE, NM 33° 54’55.63”N 106° 51’46.72”W Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird
elevation 1403m Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood
Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown
Thrasher Sage Thrasher American Pipit (Water Pipit) Sprague's Pipit Cedar
Waxwing Loggerhead Shrike European Starling White-eyed Vireo Solitary
Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed
Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow
Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped
Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-
throated Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothono-
tary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded
Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer
Tanager Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue
Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Field Sparrow Vesper
Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Le Conte's
Sparrow Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Spar-
row Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-
eyed Junco Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-
headed BlackbirdBrewer's Blackbird Great-tailed GrackleBoat-tailed
Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed CowbirdOrchard Oriole
Northern Oriole
Site Analysis
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
VIEW FROM SITE
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Highw
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Fa
te
Intersta
Rift— a crack or fissure made by breaking,
esses splitting or separating.
up
type
nd at Tensional stress—causes subsidence of a
which block rock, which results on a large scale,
in the creation of a rift valley.
duced in rock by
eposition or
The Bosque del Apache actually lies in the TRANSITION

zone between the Socorro CONSTRICTION and the San
DE
Marcial basin.
AN
GR
RIO
The Rio Grande has formed relatively recently as a
major river and has simply AVAILED itself of the
Loop
depressed areas which were the focus of drainage for
the region. Marsh
Reeds create a haven for the birds
LOW FLOW CHANNEL

Canyon Trail Loop
23
45
&
35
94 &
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Dead Branches serve as perches for 36

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the fowl
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BOSQUE DEL APACHE SITE DIAGRAM
site dimensions: 36” x 6” @ 1/32” = 1’-0”
water depth = 4’ wetland berm = 7’
Marsh Overlook
create the pitcutresque lascensions &&,-*+&
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& NOTE: topo for western hills are missing, 765&&
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of the cranes
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Arroyo depth is also absent, measure site .

scale: +/- 1/64” = 1’
plan
elevation
section
DRAWINGS
MODEL
RENDERED PERSPECTIVE Graphite
Axonometric Section
Perspective
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BECOMING

edge of the needle piercing the

human experience so relatively

could we have accomplished so

the next frontier.

PARTI Saguaro Needles

Floor Plan Roof Plan

RENDERED ISOMETRIC Graphite on Bristol

An elegant tower demonstrating the

Richard Serra. The constellation

begs to be UNRAVELED. The idea of

submerged in the ground alludes to

through the larger tower resembles

into a delicate cage. The tower

now moves you into the staircase

the the top you are immersed in an

PARTI CRUX constellation ‘The Southern Cross’

amongst the reeds, the building is

habitat of these birds. Creating a

pavilion is penetrated with ‘reeds’

fenestration and is comprised of

the birds uniting these two often

VIEW FROM SITE

The Bosque del Apache actually lies in the TRANSITION

Reeds create a haven for the birds

LOW FLOW CHANNEL

Dead Branches serve as perches for 36

Two ponds to the north of the site !"#"$%&

&&,()1& see USGS maps of the area for more info .

Arroyo depth is also absent, measure site .

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