http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/work daily 0.75 2014-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200484860-1F39VBEI98KK3EIL6MDL/40_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_RENDER.jpg Work   The Gateway project speculates on the creation of engaged public space. Sha Tin facilitates overflow from Kowloon and Hong Kong in a capacity of a suburb, with little to no industry or native opportunities for employment. As a next step in its maturation process, Sha Tin must allow for these small-scale economies. Coalescing commercial/retail with office and residential programs along the entire section of the project, as well as bringing in programs related to the larger-scale economies of the new territories, births a micro-economy mentality absent in Sha Tin today. The architecture of the Gateway feeds from and projects back to the city to which it belongs. Shown above is the ‘island node’ the only node to be totally framed by water. The exterior voids that serve as access to ferries and watercraft, when turned vertical, become the exterior voids that articulate vertical public space. This allows light and ventilation deeper into the structure of the building which in turn allows us to occupy a much deeper floor plate with residences whose light and air requirements often dictate more shallow building profiles. This constitutes the ‘extrovert’ deployment of exterior carving and outward-facing spaces that typologically characterize transport hubs and urban residences alike.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200350116-G8GZMH99MEMJQG2QYA6U/POPE_SECTION+DRAWING.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200535329-ZSFPI1VVL1T3N2VC4IBE/49_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_AXO.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200335764-AQDKZV8R2ODWTUQG8VPU/25_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_SECTION+DIAGRAM.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200997775-TKOQGW0LO72YTXQKTWCD/20_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_RENDER.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200275637-5PABEVBJ6JDBU8N8E8ZN/POPE_NIGHT+RENDER.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200498025-9BCQVW27FEFNEMXVJAYA/45_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_INTERIOR+RENDER.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393200394109-1U0VAOPJLL8T6IPR3XCX/41_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_RENDER.jpg Work   ‘Inventing Sha Tin: Gateway’ is a means of addressing the identity and infrastructural crisis that Sha Tin currently suffers. It is a city-sized bedroom community, unable to foster an endemic identity separate from that of a the urbanistic bleed-valve for Hong Kong that it currently has. Shown above the scale, iconicity, and circular geometry of the ‘Gateway’ is intended as a visual counterpart to the Sha Tin raceway, a major landmark that occupies the water-front of the current city development. Hemmed in on both sides by steep mountain walls Sha Tin has cultivated a politically-charged legacy of learning to cope with topologically narrow tracts of buildable land, and amazing public works projects that increased this buildable footprint by depositing sediment directly into the canal to create new land upon which to build. By projecting out over the water the Gateway answers this question of buildable land by subverting the politically-contentious act of destroying harbor space by creating new land. By doing this it is possible to construct our three nodal systems (land, peninsula, island) and cater to our three scales of city, territory, and national identity. Now the iconicity of the engineering projects that created the canal is turned vertical to create an urbanistic architectural icon.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020426631-RE88SDVIY1W208DVVIL6/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020567349-U6VUV58QYZB4C8SYRNQA/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395021148114-C9JBSN932RO2TSX9IDEX/image-asset.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020690751-F5CVHDVNGKBPNWQF2HBH/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020637297-HUH82XN8Y5N5S6WV9SS3/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020853321-KC5Y9OEMSDYT93XWCODW/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020514998-XSZQKC1FFT0HK42MHJYR/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020220108-CTS6Y2J7AVP6C8RK95PC/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1395020382570-IO53SIKJ8M5EO3O0SBAE/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393035818983-BQW3W2W1QC8G4IO39VUV/AIR+WEDGE+TITLE.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393097597480-5ZHZB5SXD0VBYJ0VCU7N/05_MOIRE+TITLE.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393113967031-AXUYTQTDDBV143O59M0B/02_FLOTSAM+TITLE.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393201185279-989Y7MBHI9GY743HCIHY/51_ZDRAVEVA_BOTTS_DOUGLAS_ARCH602_POPE_SPRING+2013_NIGHT+RENDER.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392963112415-5TBXCI5G3J1CRBQC2IBV/DSC_1271.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392964815580-H2GMOW2KSDEM0GTWWRTU/CARLOS_CORNER+1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392964700628-Z30JCOA4JJ9RC4SZOWR9/DSC_0267.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393115490984-7H6I5Q68FFJJ96V9NZ0I/DSC_0891.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392987376615-MPI9EB66FRBVCJC3UUN6/BIM_INTERIOR+RENDER.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392963469093-DNV4ZET982UNT0TFJ0LU/IMG_2289.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393035061921-MST0FF1J2SWJ3IYYDV5E/drawing3.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392962199414-Z9SANN3N2R42C19FZ31Z/AGGRE-CULTURE+TITLE.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1392963002171-XO6LY2C2V17KKJUYO5X6/SCHAUM+TITLE.jpg Work http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/the-finance-pulse daily 0.75 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452896039354-F8P5FPCM3V9HMWHWZ0FE/main.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452896039354-F8P5FPCM3V9HMWHWZ0FE/main.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452895911180-L6DBH16UX5HSJKKQVZQI/close-portrait-4.jpg The Finance Pulse - Futurists and climate change researchers agreed that after oil, the next great precious resource would be potable H2O. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452895911018-5UG8G3WWA6Y9TIC2E0AG/close-portrait-3.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1453239494610-7UD2HPU09F11AQSZQL37/cima-photo-2.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1453239494985-ZBDN9ZAEGKVHFK2PRUUE/cima-photo-4.jpg The Finance Pulse http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/work-1 daily 0.75 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452896039354-F8P5FPCM3V9HMWHWZ0FE/main.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1457571330445-7K8KETI0WJ2IMQ5NER6Z/portrait-black.jpg Work http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/work-2 daily 1.0 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393097218047-AOYPR4VSPC4LX5LRAZSL/01_SHELF+SELF.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393097442967-6V7O8ZK9A6VTIHDB7UTM/03_SHELF+SELF.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393097318280-078L56E7K7RW65CFKB3R/02_SHELF+SELF.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393097348743-93N1JWS05Y8QZ1WZDWWZ/04_SHELF+SELF.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393201776697-YETGJCKI8A6BYNVHMHYN/ALFORD_INTERIOR.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393202288523-W3FA74QCM6GJ76EHZGX0/ALFORD+PLANS_2.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393202305461-2F1IPPJQ2C6X6QD2K66I/ALFORD+PLANS_3.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393201814237-CTP1KXHDP4NH7UO79HS4/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393202690320-CAYV4X6DCUUQY2KF3WUP/ALFORD_LARGE+SECTION_SMALL.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393202232675-XB1659SWBI2Y2XGNVV8Q/RYANBOTTS_2010_ARC402_ALFORD_9.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393203328809-UP9IEMRJEFF8MOGSXSB5/ALFORD_COMBINED+PLANS.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1586057626224-A4NH3S3NRQXG4EH8ONQC/image-asset.jpeg Work - TEST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393202256021-PJ4I7GOJ5OSXF9M2MNJF/ALFORD+PLANS_1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393098427445-AV97ZZWQVH2TEMUF8UZ4/06_TITLE+SHELF.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393203345995-YMV4FV2P9IMN1SOLFOU3/ALFORD_COMBINED+PLANS.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f96a558a65e2431339cdaf/1472766188856-F3WQ35DZFPUMTZFG87V1/novel-final.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f96a558a65e2431339cdaf/1461274021205-581EOYQN0IGUJ69M41SW/pickles-editorial-blue.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f96a558a65e2431339cdaf/1465245043422-VHAQXC27X5R9B34JIFQ6/img1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f96a558a65e2431339cdaf/1465411151470-52H14IV6INJ0O3JA4NYY/american-portraiture-1.jpg Work http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/the-finance-pulse-1 daily 0.75 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452896039354-F8P5FPCM3V9HMWHWZ0FE/main.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452896039354-F8P5FPCM3V9HMWHWZ0FE/main.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452895911180-L6DBH16UX5HSJKKQVZQI/close-portrait-4.jpg The Finance Pulse - Futurists and climate change researchers agreed that after oil, the next great precious resource would be potable H2O. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1452895911018-5UG8G3WWA6Y9TIC2E0AG/close-portrait-3.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1453239494610-7UD2HPU09F11AQSZQL37/cima-photo-2.jpg The Finance Pulse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563bdd38e4b0283238934c89/1453239494985-ZBDN9ZAEGKVHFK2PRUUE/cima-photo-4.jpg The Finance Pulse http://ryan-botts.squarespace.com/about daily 0.75 2013-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53056b6ae4b0933eb4355dca/1393116349329-7I0YF7WZHLLCAIHO17WR/27ef868543abf9c4e16439c1aeb8f0bd.jpg About