Patrick McAndrews- Work Samples

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Vertical Farm:

A hydroponic farm designed to feed 50,000 people in the Harlem area of New York City. The design is derived from minimum surface and skyscraper explorations and research. The minimum surface is intended to maximize efficiency in sunlight and capacity. - Spring 2011, Group Project.

Student Dormitory:

A critical re-imagination of a quad at Edward Stone's SUNY ALBANY campus, The concept is derived from the windswept sands of the indigenous pine bush landscape. The project intends to unify typical tower and block housing types in a single language. - Fall 2008, Group Project

Al Rostamani Headquarters:

Al Rostamani Headquarters in Dubai, UAE is a new conception of the office tower. A single monolithic block hovers above the water front, providing a view for employees and the public within the tower. The headquarters utilizes tubes as both structural and circulation elements. When the tubes intersect the main block of the building, the leave openings for program variation. - Spring 2011, Group Project

Illusion of Reality:

Developed in two stages, Research then design, this project attempts to find solutions to the extreme social and economic poverty in a major slum of Ahmedabad, India. The project forms as a delamination of an existing slum fabric, pushing a new commercial program space underneath. The structure allows for programmatic flexibility for advancement of knowledge and well being. - Fall 2009, Individual Project

The Socio-Ecological Network:

The Socio-Ecological Network is the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the components of a social network and an ecologic network. The social network is the society and hierarchy that develops codes of conduct for member and context interactions. The ecological network is the context for the social interaction. It is an interface for decision making processes. - Fall 2011 to Spring 2012, Undergraduate Thesis Project

FOLD: chair:

This chair project was undertaken with a specific interest in the term fold or folding and unfolding with the understanding of its root in the work and philosophy of Peter Eisenman in the lineage of philosophy from Gilles Deleuze. It is responding to the specific conditions of a design brief for new Battery Park Green lawn seats in New York, New York and was undertaken as part of a final project during my first semester at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. - Fall 2012, Individual Competition

Peconic Ballet Theatre:

CONTENT:

Francis Bitonti Studio developed this Interior for the Peconic Ballet Theater in Riverhead, New York. White walls hover between the floor and ceiling, pulling you across, around and in. The lighting is situated to create diffuse space, one without shadows, time or solid ground, leaving us with only the dancers to provide us with a sense of time and place. - September 2012 to January 2013, Design Team Intern


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