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United Nations Environmental Council

2014· article· en· W1601097145 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch Repository (Delft University of Technology) · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicArchitecture, Modernity, and Design
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCenter (category theory)Repetition (rhetorical device)Quarter (Canadian coin)Natural (archaeology)Plan (archaeology)Simple (philosophy)Architectural engineeringGeographyEngineeringArchaeologyEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The design of the Environmental Council for the United Nation’s Head Quarter (UNEC) in Manhattan Island of New York which is to be the center for sustainable development, is challenging in terms of spatial qualities and urban typology. The rectangular grid of the city and the cubic high-rises suggest a bold form for the new UNEC building. Starting with a simple cubic form and to develop the final shape of the building from it, makes it more contextually responsive and creates a unity of forms between the new building and the existing ones. In relation to the natural surroundings, the boldness of the selected cubic from contrasts with the fluidness and motion of the river nearby, which makes the building stand out. This rectangular from is then divides horizontally into several identical parts being pushed out from one corner, suggesting a piled up shape in an organized manner which creates an overhang on one side and terraces on the other. This spontaneous repetition of forms stacking on top of each other creates a rhythm in the building’s form and at the same time the overhang brings a sense of instability which contrasts with the existing UN building’s forms, making it stand out while connected. This distinction is also visible from the situation plan where it’s positioned off-center closer to the river to avoid having shadows casted on it by the nearby tall buildings which contrasts with the location of the General Assembly building located at the center of the site. Also the building is rotated 45 degrees emphasizing it among the rest of the surrounding buildings. So while being unified with them it also stands out and creates a sense of dominance. These contrasts help each building to have their own character while being connected. Use of overhang in front of the building leads the visitors towards it and demonstrate itself as an entry point. A double height ceiling level at the entry point leads to the central atrium 4 floors high and 1 floor deep to the basement level. This height gradation makes for hierarchy and a majestic entrance which generates a step by step interior routing. All these features are symmetrical in the building, balancing the from, making it visually calm and pleasing. The public space is then located at the right side of the site making a connection between the main road at the front and the water front at the back of the site, aiding in the continuation of the public space, keeping it’s integrity and unity. I employed the context, urban typology and their relation to spatial qualities which aided my design of the UNEC to be more rational and well structured which is a necessity for a strong thesis project and I believe that I have been able to achieve this goal in this project with the help of my tutors.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.767
Threshold uncertainty score0.481

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it