Arcadia Architect

[Solana Axton]

ARCADIAdesignworks LLC, is a multi-disciplined design consultancy providing architecture, industrial (product) design, and challenge based creative thinking services to corporations, organizations and individuals.

My idea was to start from Operational Analysis, to show how it can support the business, through concurrent engineering, management of interfaces and organizing sub-contracts through EPBS etc., and better connect from user-needs to engineering. Showing Actors as named points of contact for practically who to contact for things like modeling and architecture, with their job roles.

There are a couple of organizations I know that did what you are looking for. Nothing public yet as far as I am aware, but there is a good chance some of them may present their work in the future. Not sure when though.

Stephane

Thanks @Epictetus for your comment.

We do have a similar task to capture the organization process. The work has been postponed several times.

I thought it could start from the Operational Analysis capturing the different stakeholders who do have an interest in Arcadia for an organization and it could end at Physical Architecture with tools to achieve their goals. However, it depends on what objectives you are aiming for your reference architecture.

I believe you may have all the support needed from a project/organization. From the diagrams, you are trying to capture what are the user needs and what is needed to deploy and support the MBSE effort from your organisation, correct?

Another point you may wish to consider and from my point-of-view, I would keep the business case and process analysis to a single layer: Operational Analysis. Why? It may be easier to show to and navigate to non-Arcadia/Capella users and less work to define and validate.

Unless, you would like to reuse the process for future projects. A topic that you may have the answer already.

Miro Rivera Architects (MRA) is an award-winning architectural firm in Austin, Texas. Winner of the 2016 Texas Firm Achievement Award, MRA offers a wide range of architectural services including: urban design; educational, institutional, commercial, and residential architecture; and interior design.

In 1881, William Welsh Harrison, the 31-year-old co-owner of the Franklin Sugar Refinery, purchased the Rosedale Hall estate in Glenside. After buying neighboring properties, he eventually acquired 138 acres. By 1891, Harrison decided to enlarge the main house, add a gatehouse, and improve the stables. For renovations, he turned to a 23-year-old architect, Horace Trumbauer, who would go on to gain renown for signature buildings such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In January of 1893, a raging fire destroyed the main house of Rosedale Hall, and the family fled to the stables for refuge. Harrison called on Trumbauer to build a new home on the site of the old building. The architect planned for a grand structure inspired by, but not directly copied from, Alnwick Castle, the medieval seat of the Duke of Northumberland in England. The new residence was estimated to cost $250,000.

By the end of 1893, work on what would be called Grey Towers Castle was well underway. Greystone was quarried in nearby Chestnut Hill, and Indiana limestone was crafted into exterior trim for doors, windows, and other elements. Local craftsmen were called upon for the vast amount of hand-carved woodwork involved in the interiors. The decor of the principal rooms represented French styles dating from the Renaissance through the age of Louis XV.

All the tapestries in Grey Towers were provided by William Baumgarten & Co, Inc. of New York City. On each floor there is a balcony which rings the Great Hall, and tapestries line all of these spaces.

The Library has walls lined with inset book cabinets whose original glass fronts have been replaced with wood panels. Walnut frames carved in a Renaissance style outline the cabinets and the ornamental plaster panels above. Below the ceiling cornice runs a plaster frieze molded with cupids and garlands. The original moldings and paint are still visible on the coffered ceiling.

The ceiling depicts the four seasons as women, attended by cupids, floating against a sky cut by the path of the zodiac. Within the cove separating the walls from the ceiling runs a vine motif ornamented with cupids, long-necked birds, and female figures.

William Baumgarten and Company Inc. of New York City provided all of the tapestries throughout the house, as well as the ornamental painting on the ceilings and walls. Judging by signatures on the tapestries and carvings, the interior decoration of Grey Towers was complete by the fall of 1898.

Harrison died in 1927. Two years later, Beaver College, located in Jenkintown, purchased Grey Towers from the family for $712,500. For years, classes were held in both Jenkintown and Glenside, but in 1962 the College transferred completely to the Grey Towers property. In October 1985, Grey Towers Castle was declared a National Historic Landmark, properly recognizing its architectural and historical significance.

Today, Grey Towers Castle is a vital part of campus life. Select first-year students have an opportunity to spend their first year in traditional and suite-style dorms on the third floor. Downstairs, the Rose and Laura Minerva Korman Mirror Rooms frequently hold lectures, book readings, panel discussions, and Senior Capstone Presentations. Annual events like the Empty Bowl Benefit Dinner, dances, dinners, and memory nights, also take place. The Castle is home to administrative offices and conference rooms that hold meetings for campus organizations and student groups.

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A growing architectural rivalry between the two men is a key part of a construction wave that is radically remaking Arcadia. Blocks that were once sleepy, with single-story ranch houses from the 1940s set comfortably back from the street, are now lined with bloated villas pushed near the front of their lots as if clamoring for attention.

In fact, the activity reflects a careful strategy, drawn from both the Chinese philosophy of feng shui and some basic real-estate math. The ideal tear-down site occupies a precise location that developers know will appeal to Chinese buyers: in the middle of the block, facing south. (North-facing houses are a close second; corner lots are less valuable.) Many of those buyers expect circular driveways in front, requiring a lot that is at least 75 feet feet wide.

One 4,500-square-foot house designed by Chan in a tidy Spanish idiom, with a red-tile roof, was on the market not long ago for nearly $2.5 million. It faced west on a fairly busy north-south street, dimming its appeal.

But a Sunny sales rep, Eddie Tsui, was eager to show off its amenities, including a wok kitchen and double-height foyer lined in gleaming marble. Asked what percentage of the prospective buyers were Asian, he laughed.

In 2011, a 2,200-square-foot house on Walnut Avenue was purchased for $1.6 million and torn down. Its replacement? A six-bedroom, nine-bath, 11,945-square-foot house that Tong designed in a lavish Italianate style.

As a south-facing house with a circular drive, wok kitchen and 10-seat, 3-D home theater, the new residence ticked virtually every box on the Chinese-buyer checklist. It sold last year for $5.5 million. It recently went back on the market at $7.8 million. One block away, also on a south-facing lot, a new house with seven bedrooms in 11,000 square feet is asking $6.7 million.

Even so, developers are not required to appear before a citizens commission as they are in neighboring cities. Once builders figure out how to navigate the system, they can turn out one multimillion-dollar house after another.

Their architecture is reassuring to Chinese buyers not just because it suggests American suburban plenty. It also reminds them of newly built and highly sought-after residential architecture on the outskirts of Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Their high prices are produced by a near-perfect balance, in post-immigrant Southern California, between an increasingly intense flow of money from mainland China and an established Chinese American community.

Juan Mir has lectured and published extensively on the work of Mir Rivera Architects and the role of the architectural profession in civic life. He is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Miguel Rivera is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the AIA National Young Architect Award. He has lectured in the United States and abroad, and his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America.

Scottsdale-based custom architecture firm Candelaria Design, founded in 1999 by award-winning architect Mark Candelaria, was built on the principle that home design needs to be a collaborative process. The Candelaria Design team works closely with each client and vendor from start to finish to ensure the final product fully encompasses what a dream home should be. The Spiekerman home, a traditional ranch-style home in highly-desired Arcadia, Arizona, was no exception.

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