PROFESSIONAL WORK HBX STAFF SPACE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE MA A new curricular initiative by Harvard Business School required a quick fit-out of an older building on campus. The project was done in (3) phases, changed contractors mid-construction while all working under a strict budget. The project entailed various user meetings to go over finish options, anticipated user needs, and scope expansions due to quicker than anticipated hiring by HBS.
GREG NORTON
JULY 2014
PROFESSIONAL WORK HESBURGH LIBRARY MASTER PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, SOUTH BEND IN
The Hesburgh Library at Notre Dame is undergoing a phased process to contemporize their interior. We composed a Master Planning document for them helping to explain and visualize the phased process which includes removing collection over time, providing more public seating, and creating a more intuitive zoning scheme that helps in breaking down the massive scale of the floorplates.
DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES
ZONING CONCEPT
GRAND READING ROOM LANTERNS
MATERIALITY
CONCEPTUAL ISOMETRIC
GREG NORTON
FLOOR PLAN
TECHNOLOGY COMMONS JULY 2014
PROFESSIONAL WORK CORNELL UNIVERSITY - eHUB ITHACA, NY
Cornell University has started exploring spaces on campus and their hometown of Ithaca to support their Entrepreneurship@Cornell network (E@C. These hubs will help support and drive Cornell’s existing entrepreneurial network by providing spaces, tools and mentorship to articulate ideas and build prototypes for real-world application. Program components consist of flexible workspaces, classrooms, group study rooms, hangout spaces and support staff offices. ELEVATION A
EXISTING CONDITIONS
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PLAN OPTION 02 GREG NORTON
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - OPTION 02 JULY 2014
PROFESSIONAL WORK CORNELL UNIVERSITY - eHUB ITHACA, NY
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - OPTION 02 GREG NORTON
JULY 2014
STUDENT WORK DEGREE PROJECT RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Architecture provides a way of conceptualizing and constructing on the basis of a combinatorial of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined, while leaving room for any and all assemblies by outside parties in particular ways that could not have been foreseen. A combinatorial definition derived from:
PROGRAM STATIC
Michel de Certeau
Italo Calvino
Umberto Eco
PLACE & SCALE
GREG NORTON
JULY 2014
STUDENT WORK DEGREE PROJECT RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
In order to share conceptual ideas we manifest constructions that attempt to best represent the purest form of our original concept. But within this machine of construction, losses occur and hinder perfect translation for others. Even our own memories suer unavoidable losses, for every recollection / recollection of a memory initiates a completely new construct of the past moment (and therefore a less pure construct), with the gaps filled by fictions we have acquired over our own continuing experiences. How then can architecture, as a construction, deal with loss; loss of memory, loss of concept, loss of life?
GREG NORTON
JULY 2014
STUDENT WORK PASSIVE HOUSE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
An independent study meant for an introduction to basic Passive House technologies, wall assemblies, mechanical specifications and design considerations. The site, in Andover ME, was located adjacent to a camp site frequented every summer by my family.
Roof insulation Water protection membrane
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UltimateAir ReCoupAerator
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Heat Exchanger
3
Solar Hot Water
4
Backup Hot Water
5
Mitsubishi MSZ-FE12NA wall mounted heat pump
Continuous ridge ventilation
Insulation wind baffle
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LAU
2 5
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DW
Continuous soffit vent
Rigid insulation
Wooden siding
Gypsum board
4.5” high density spray foam
Airtight drywall approach
1/2” air space
Substrate to support spray foam
PU Foam
Styrofoam sis sheating
NP1 sealant
Gypsum board
Metal flashing
Sealant Gasket
Light frame f construction
Cellulose C insulation
Adhesive
Sealant 4.5” high density spray foam Closure board
Capillary break
Crawl space vent
Masonry
Masonry foundation wall
Continuous vapor retarder
Concrete foundation
GREG NORTON
Offset frame wallll & additional f ddi i l insulation i l i
Wooden siding & high-R windows
JULY 2014
STUDENT WORK ECUADOR RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
A travel studio within the rainforest in Ecuador, we partnered with a local architecture school to design and build a museum out of treated bamboo in order to help educate the young people in the local village about their heritage.
GREG NORTON
JULY 2014
STUDENT WORK ECUADOR RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Hand drawn record documents for the village
GREG NORTON
JULY 2014