Space Exploration Adam G. Michalak AIA Architect Designer
Contents Professional Expedia - Core and Shell New Construction Core and Shell Schematic and Design Development Design Team at ZGF Architects Seattle, WA 2017
Expedia - Office Interior New Construction Interior DD and CDs for Interior Fit Out Design Team at ZGF Architects Seattle, WA 2018-2019
UC Irvine - Classroom and Office Building Competition New Building on Campus Inner Ring Design, Visualization and Physical Model-Making Design Team at ZGF Architects Irvine, CA Summer 2016
Stuart Lake Hospital New Hospital to Replace Aging Small Town Facility Design and Coordination Design Team at ZGF Architects Fort St. James, BC 2021
Centre 425 Core and Shell Office Building Schematic, Podium and Lobby Design Design Team at NBBJ Bellevue, WA 2014-2015
Academic + Audiovascular Seattle Design Jam Competition Winner Interactive Sculptural Installation Seattle, WA Small After-Hours Team at NBBJ Fall 2013
Museo del Tango Washington University Design Studio Tango Museum and Milonga San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instructor Fabian Llonch Fall 2011
Railyard Velocity Washington University Degree Project Studio Indoor Vertical Drag Strip North Downtown St. Louis, Missouri Instructor Ben Fehrmann Fall 2012
Finished Photography
Expansion Building Exterior
Expedia Core and Shell New Construction Core and Shell Schematic and Design Development Seattle, WA Design Team at ZGF Architects 2017
Final Site Design
The Expedia HQ Development transformed a former biotech campus into a tech company’s new headquarters. For me, this project was defined by a moment where the project’s design goals (and budget) shifted dramatically. We initially presented the client designs for an expansion based on harmony with existing buildings, and a building-block approach to phasing and expansion. However, the client had internally updated their project priorities, and following that presentation pushed our team to make something bolder. The next weeks saw an intense series of redesign presentation sessions. As part of a high stakes charette team, I produced a range of ideas and options, with the client picking the most aggressive direction more that once, until we arrived at the curving, twisting and leaning, yet singular form that became the expansion building. From there, we resolved the issues that often accompany a deceptively simple and transparent design. Parts that I worked on included rationalizing the twisting column geometry, resolving the intersection of one floor “layer” with another, and integrating details such as the twelve-inch seismic joint that bisects the new building. I found this project exciting, demanding and rewarding because of the rigor required in our push to make something special.
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Schematic Design - First Path
Sketchup, Photoshop
Initial Phasing Plans; Based on Phasing and Parity with Existing Buildings
And Then… Complete Redesign
Dozens of Fast Iterations to Find a new Form
Sketchup
Shape Refinements Begin Once New Direction is Found
Sketchup
Finished Building
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Final Drone Photography
Seismic Joint Cover; Movement Allowed for Within Skin, Slabs and Interior Elements
Seismic Joint Covers Preserve Continuity
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On-Site Photography
Level 1
Maximum Transparency Defines the Entry and Campus Connection
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On-Site Photography
Revit, Enscape
Wood Ribbons Form Occupiable Sculpture within a Continuously Sweeping Space
Expedia Office Interior New Construction Interior DD and CDs for Interior Fit Out Seattle, WA Design Team at ZGF Architects 2018-2019
Color Schemes Subtly Aid Wayfinding
After the client was satisfied with the new design for the curved expansion building core and shell, I moved to the interior design team to help develop the defining interior features and design and coordinate the exposed ceilings. The client was looking for a light, airy design, with tones of Scandinavian and pacific northwest. A couple of elements made this project unique. One, our core and shell design is both repetitive and challenging for interior layouts. Each floor is a consistent radius curve with standard floor depths, but the floors shift and the leaning columns are unique in every location. Also, The building is completely open, with exposed structure and floor to ceiling columns. There was a need to create enclosed space without detracting from the flow and sense of a larger continuous form within the floors. The solution was a series of wood “ribbons” of program elements that form radial strips throughout the building. These ribbons create meeting rooms, open kitchenettes, breakout zones, and even tiered seating for team gatherings.
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Ribbon Kitchenette Frames Views
Typical Ribbon (With Subtle Color to Aid Wayfinding)
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Ribbon; Sculptural Solution for Amenity Spaces in an Open Office
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Part of my work on the building interior included coordinating ceiling equipment. Most spaces in the building are open to structure, intentionally showing off the simple yet dramatic concrete bones. That means designing layout and placement of many layers of exposed equipment. I worked on zone diagrams that established hierarchies and arrangements of ducts, lighting, pipes, electrical and data equipment, etc. We also worked to establish design and finish expectations with consultants. In showing off the machinery of the building, we strove to display it with rhythm and grace. When Nothing is Hidden, Coordination is Crucial
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Revit Process Render
Lighting Design; We Drew Several Options, and Ended with a Constellation of Can Lights
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View From Central Aldrich Park; Narrow Building Massing Preserves Campus Sightlines
UC Irvine Learning Pavilion Invited Competition for New Building on Campus Inner Ring Design, Visualization and Physical Model-Making Irvine, CA Design Team at ZGF Architects Summer 2016
The UC Irvine Learning Pavilion was an invited competition to add an interdepartmental classroom and technology building to the historic central ring of the mid-century campus. The design was an exercise in looking forward to future needs of a premiere university while also looking back to the circumstances of confidence and optimism that surrounded the college’s creation.
Project Site Within 1964 Campus
Our solution accomplished several goals. We created a simple and architecturally legible shape that complements the original campus grouping. We also worked with grade to “hide” some of the program, preserving site lines through campus. Finally, we designed the building to be porous to through-circulation, inviting students both in and through the new collaborative space.
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Circulation
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Plans
Campus Rings
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Building Entry from the Outer Ring
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Illustrator, Rhino
Benefits of Garden Level; Distributed Circulation and Reduced Visual Bulk
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Perspective of Garden Level and Level 1 with Shaded Hillside
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Digital Model; for Generating Cut Sheets for the Physical Model
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As part of our design competition entry, we built a large 2-piece display-quality model. The model is split down the middle with magnetic connectors to better illustrate the massing and sectional qualities of our design, which minimizes visual bulk while maximizing program area, introduces a garden level to encourage student pedestrian flow through and around 2 levels of the building and creating 2 day-lit ground floors. To build the physical model, we extrapolated the team’s design model used for rendering and drawing, and rebuilt it in rhino to the material tolerances of foam-core, acrylic, wood dowels and cork veneer.
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The Main Entry Collects Visitors to All Parts of the Hospital
Stuart Lake Hospital New Hospital to Replace Aging Small Town Facility Exterior Design, Planning, Structural Coordination, BIM Coordinator Fort St. James, BC Design Team at ZGF Architects 2021
Stuart Lake Hospital is a new regional hospital in Ft. St. James BC, a small town on a lake in rural British Columbia. The project is to be owned and operated by the Northern Health Authority of the Province of British Columbia, and as such is subject to rigorous and detailed requirements of both scope and budget. Our task has been to design a warm, welcoming, inclusive, and compassionate facility for the town and region that will be a hub of care for the area for decades to come.
Site Aerial
This project also has a fully remote design team. The ZGF team came from Vancouver, BC, Seattle, WA, and Portland OR. Through the pandemic and work from home, we have relied solely on Teams and Zoom meetings, server hosted files and communication, digital red-line sets and shared cloud models
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Small Panel Offsets and Color Shifts to Add Texture and Shadow Lines to a Simple Facade
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Centre 425 Schematic, Podium and Lobby Design Core and Shell Office Building Bellevue, WA Design Team at NBBJ 2014-2015
The Centre is a boutique office buildng in Bellevue marketed toward technology tenants, with large shared amenity spaces intended to facilitate higher employee density on tenant floors. I worked as a designer on this project with a small team, from schematic design through construction documents.
Street Engaged Facade
When this project started, the city of Bellevue was just picking up speed in a movement toward urban growth and densification that continues today, in some ways paralleling the growth now happening in urban Austin. Centre 425 started as a spec office building by a local developer. We were tasked to design a versatile space. To make something economical yet desirable, we designed it with a simple, elegant skin punctuated by a dramatic “fish bowl”, a two-level cantilevered glass box at the corner that acts as a living room space that both enlivens the experienced space and activates the street.
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Formal Development: Simplicity, Focal Point
Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Photoshop
Formal Development: Jewel Box Scale, Podium Creates Urban Edge
Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Photoshop
Study Model, Podium
Rhinoceros, Lasercutting, Hand Fabrication. Foam Core, Acetate
Elevated Living Room Amenity and Primary Entry
Study Model, Jewel Box Scale and Sitelines Study
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Rhinoceros, Lasercutting, Hand Fabrication. Acrylic, Museum Board
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The building skin also reflects a pragmatism that came from maximum flexibility for future interior uses. Facade cadence follows a 5 foot planning grid. Glazing transparency subtly shifts by building side, creating well-lit space on all sides while still establishing some formal hierarchy and legibility. HVAC, hinted at by louvers in the photograph below, serves floors individually for maximum tenant leasing flexibility.
Tower Skin Studies
Subtle Skin Variations
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Site Photographs
Site Photographs
Parametric Real-Time Iteration of Twisting Wood Wall
Site Photographs
Parametric Real-Time Iteration of Twisting Wood Wall
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Children (And Adults) Drawn to Experiment and Play
Audiovascular Seattle Design Jam Competition Winner Interactive Sculptural Installation Seattle, WA Small After-Hours Team at NBBJ Fall 2013
I had a lot of fun creating audiovascular with a small team for the 2013 Seattle Design Jam, for which we won that years’ grand prize. The piece is a functional polyphonic musical instrument, as well as occupiable sculpture. It encourages creative expression and exploits the correlation between music and heart health. Parametric design played a large role in helping us quickly bring this project to reality. In addition to shape and visual evaluation, we used grasshopper to maximize recycled material utilization and minimize off-cuts, as well as to facilitate the tuning of playable notes.
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Design Inspirations; Cylinder as Pixel, Topography
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Cmajor
F#3
O.0 (1' - 4 1/2") O.1 (1' - 4 1/2") Q.5 (1' - 4 3/4") O.2 (1' - 5")
17
F#3
16
F#3
15
E4 F#3
F#4
G4
G4
C3
14
F#2
13
F#2
12
F#2
11
F#2
10
F#2
B2
F4
F#3
C#
F#3 F#3
F#3
Dmajor
F#3
9
F#2
F#3
8
F#2
7
F#2
F#3
6
F#2
F#3
5
F#2
F#3
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F3 Bb2
E3
A2
Eb3
Bb3
E4
F4 F4 F4
A3
F4 C4
D3
D4
F4
G#3 G#2
G3
B3
E4 C#4
G2
E4 D3
3
Eb3
G2 G2
F4 F4
G2
F4
1
F4
A B C D E F G H
song sample hot crossbuns
I
H.0 G.0 N.1 F.0 M.1 E.0 L.1 K.1 J.1 I.1 H.1 G.1 N.2
J
(1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 1/2") (1' - 5 3/4") (1' - 5 3/4") (1' - 6") (1' - 6") (1' - 6")
F.1 (1' - 6 1/4") P.4 (1' - 6 1/4") M.2 (1' - 6 1/4") E.1 (1' - 6 1/4") O.3 L.2 K.2 Q.9 J.2 I.2 H.2 G.2 N.3
C#3
4 2
Eb4
J.0 (1' - 5 1/4") K.0 (1' - 5 1/4") L.0 (1' - 5 1/4") D.0 (1' - 5 1/4") M.0 (1' - 5 1/4") N.0 (1' - 5 1/4") C.0 (1' - 5 1/4") B.0 (1' - 5 1/4") A.0 (1' - 5 1/4") I.0 (1' - 5 1/4")
(1' - 6 1/2") (1' - 6 1/2") (1' - 6 1/2") (1' - 6 3/4") (1' - 6 3/4") (1' - 7") (1' - 7 1/4") (1' - 7 1/2") (1' - 7 1/2")
F.2 (1' - 7 3/4") M.3 (1' - 7 3/4") E.2 (1' - 8") L.3 (1' - 8 1/4") K.3 (1' - 8 1/2") J.3 (1' - 8 3/4") O.4 (1' - 8 3/4") I.3 (1' - 9") H.3 (1' - 9 1/4") G.3 (1' - 9 3/4") P.5 (1' - 9 3/4") F.3 (1' - 10") N.4 (1' - 10 1/4") E.3 (1' - 10 1/2") M.4 (1' - 10 1/2") L.4 (1' - 11") K.4 (1' - 11 1/2") Q.6 (1' - 11 3/4") J.4 (1' - 11 3/4") I.4 (2' - 0 1/4") O.5 (2' - 0 3/4") H.4 (2' - 0 3/4") G.4 (2' - 1 1/4") F.4 (2' - 1 3/4") N.5 (2' - 2 1/4") E.4 (2' - 2 1/2") M.5 (2' - 3") D.1 (2' - 3") A.1 (2' - 3 1/4") C.1 (2' - 3 1/2") L.5 (2' - 3 3/4")
9.5 9.5 9.75 11 13 14.25 14.25 14.75 16 16.5 16.5 16.75 17 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.25 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.75 17.75 18 18 18 18.25 18.25 18.25 18.25 18.5 18.5 18.5 18.75 18.75 19 19.25 19.5 19.5
19.75 19.75 20 20.25 20.5 20.75 20.75 21 21.25 21.75 21.75 22 22.25 22.5 22.5 23 23.5 23.75 23.75 24.25 24.75 24.75 25.25 25.75 26.25 26.5 27 27 27.25 27.5 27.75
652.6275 652.6275 635.9351923 563.8547727 430 393.47 393.47 384.707839 363.11625 352.1588636 352.1588636 350.9131343 345.7752941 348.1442645 348.1442645 348.1442645 348.1442645 348 344.6589493 344.6589493 344.6589493 344.6589493 344.6589493 339.7575 339.7575 343.575 343.575 343.575 343.575 343.575 343.575 338.7580986 338.7580986 334.075 334.075 334.075 329.5202055 329.5202055 329.5202055 329.5202055 325.0885135 325.0885135 328.7006081 324.3391667 324.3391667 320.0925 315.9561364 311.9258333 311.9258333 307.9975633 308 304.1675 303.7334568 300.0490244 296.4533735 296.4533735 292.9433333 289.5158824 282.8973563 285.9723276 282.7411364 279.5825562 276.4941667 276.4941667 270.5188043 264.7977128 265 265 259.4181959 254.2106566 254.2106566 249 244.1422791 238 237.5317925 233.1635185 233.1635185 231.0394954 228.9540909 227
Calculated Frequency
701.75 701.75 683.8012821 606.2954545 513.2884615 468.4166667 468.4166667 452.5974576 417.375 404.780303 404.780303 398.7649254 392.9264706 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 387.2572464 381.75 381.75 381.75 381.75 381.75 381.75 381.75 381.75 376.3978873 376.3978873 371.1944444 371.1944444 371.1944444 366.1335616 366.1335616 366.1335616 366.1335616 361.2094595 361.2094595 361.2094595 356.4166667 356.4166667 351.75 347.2045455 342.775641 342.775641 338.4588608 338.4588608 334.25 330.1450617 326.1402439 322.2319277 322.2319277 318.4166667 314.6911765 307.4971264 307.4971264 304.0227273 300.6264045 297.3055556 297.3055556 290.8804348 284.7287234 281.75 281.75 275.9768041 270.4368687 270.4368687 265.1163366 260.0024272 255.0833333 252.6933962 248.0462963 248.0462963 245.7866972 243.5681818 241.3896396
0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.837736 0.84 0.84 0.85 0.87 0.87 0.87 0.88 0.88 0.899 0.899 0.899 0.899 0.898627 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.910007 0.91 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.92 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.94055 0.94055 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.93921 0.939 0.933028 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.94 0.940388
G4 G4 F#4
F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4
E4 E4 E4 E4
392 392 370
349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2 349.2
329.6 329.6 329.6 329.6
Eb4
311.1
D4
293.7
C#4
277.2
C4
261.6
B3
246.9
Bb3
233.1
B.1 (2' - 3 3/4") K.5 (2' - 4 1/4") J.5 (2' - 5") P.9 (2' - 5 1/2") P.6 (2' - 5 3/4") I.5 (2' - 6") whitein column E= interpolated H.5 (2' - 7") G.5 (2' - 8") F.5 (2' - 9") O.6 (2' - 9 3/4") E.5 (2' - 10 1/4") O.9 (2' - 11 1/4") N.6 (3' - 0 1/4") M.6 (3' - 1 3/4") N.9 (3' - 2 3/4") L.6 (3' - 3 1/2") Q.7 (3' - 4") M.9 (3' - 4") K.9 (3' - 4 1/2") L.9 (3' - 4 3/4") K.6 (3' - 5") J.6 (3' - 6 1/2") I.6 (3' - 8 1/4") D.2 (3' - 8 1/4") H.6 (3' - 9 3/4") A.2 (3' - 9 3/4") P.7 (3' - 10 1/4") G.6 (3' - 11 1/2") C.2 (3' - 11 1/2") B.2 (4' - 0 1/2") F.6 (4' - 1") O.7 (4' - 2") E.6 (4' - 2 1/2") N.7 (4' - 4 1/2") A.3 (4' - 5 3/4") M.7 (4' - 6 1/4") J.9 (4' - 6 1/4") L.7 (4' - 7 3/4") K.7 (4' - 9 1/2") B.3 (4' - 9 3/4") A.4 (4' - 10") J.7 (4' - 11") C.3 (4' - 11 1/2") D.3 (4' - 11 3/4") A.5 (5' - 0 1/2") I.7 (5' - 0 3/4") I.9 (5' - 1 1/4") A.6 (5' - 1 3/4") B.4 (5' - 2 1/4") H.7 (5' - 2 1/4") A.7 (5' - 2 1/4") A.8 (5' - 2 1/4") Q.8 (5' - 2 1/2") A.9 (5' - 2 1/2") G.7 (5' - 3 3/4") C.4 (5' - 4 1/4") B.5 (5' - 4 3/4") D.4 (5' - 5 1/4") H.9 (5' - 5 1/4") F.7 (5' - 5 1/2") B.6 (5' - 6 1/4") B.7 (5' - 6 3/4") B.8 (5' - 6 3/4") C.5 (5' - 7") E.7 (5' - 7") B.9 (5' - 7") P.8 (5' - 7 1/4") remove.25" G.9 (5' - 8") D.5 (5' - 8") C.6 (5' - 8 1/2") C.7 (5' - 9") C.8 (5' - 9") C.9 (5' - 9 1/4") O.8 (5' - 9 1/2") F.9 (5' - 9 1/2")
27.75 28.25 29 29.5 29.75 30 31 32 33 33.75 34.25 35.25 36.25 37.75 38.75 39.5 40 40 40.5 40.75 41 42.5 44.25 44.25 45.75 45.75 46.25 47.5 47.5 48.5 49 50 50.5 52.5 53.75 54.25 54.25 55.75 57.5 57.75 58 59 59.5 59.75 60.5 60.75 61.25 61.75 62.25 62.25 62.25 62.25 62.5 62.5 63.75 64.25 64.75 65.25 65.25 65.5 66.25 66.75 66.75 67 67 67 67.25 68 68 68.5 69 69 69.25 69.5 69.5
227 223 218.3520259 214.6791737 212.8890441 211 204.8 199.084375 194 190 187.5 180.8823582 177.5 170 166.4283871 164 162.12 162.12 160.1393673 159.1672776 158.4 152.7 145 145 142.2 142.2 140.4401014 137 137 134.003183 132.6 129.9 129.1 124.3 121.0794477 119.9790726 119.9790726 117.5 113.7 112.8099621 112.3309914 110.8 109.5416912 109.0904236 107.7589979 107.9 106.4601786 105.6118269 105 105 105 105 104.36475 104.36475 103.3 102.0943872 101.3191216 100.5557375 100.5557375 100.3 98.55290094 97.82732678 97.82732678 97.4 97.4 97.4 97.11254182 96.06007353 96.06007353 95.37123175 94.69237319 94.69237319 94.35662004 94.02328237 94.02328237
241.3896396 237.1482301 231.0603448 227.1737288 225.2794118 223.4166667 216.266129 209.5625 203.2651515 198.787037 195.9105839 190.4024823 185.1982759 177.9089404 173.3629032 170.1044304 168 168 165.9475309 164.940184 163.945122 158.2205882 152.0324859 152.0324859 147.1051913 147.1051913 145.5337838 141.75 141.75 138.8634021 137.4642857 134.75 133.4331683 128.4166667 125.4709302 124.3306452 124.3306452 121.0325112 117.4021739 116.9015152 116.4051724 114.4618644 113.5147059 113.0470711 111.6673554 111.2150206 110.3214286 109.4423077 108.5773092 108.5773092 108.5773092 108.5773092 108.15 108.15 106.0637255 105.2519455 104.4527027 103.6657088 103.6657088 103.2767176 102.1273585 101.3754682 101.3754682 101.0037313 101.0037313 101.0037313 100.6347584 99.54411765 99.54411765 98.83029197 98.12681159 98.12681159 97.77888087 97.43345324 97.43345324
0.940388 0.94034 0.945 0.945 0.945 0.944424 0.946981 0.95 0.954418 0.955797 0.957069 0.95 0.958432 0.955545 0.96 0.964114 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.966177 0.965108 0.953744 0.953744 0.966655 0.966655 0.965 0.96649 0.96649 0.965 0.964614 0.964007 0.967526 0.967943 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.970814 0.968466 0.965 0.965 0.968008 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.970193 0.965 0.965 0.967053 0.967053 0.967053 0.967053 0.965 0.965 0.973943 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.971177 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.964321 0.964321 0.964321 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965 0.965
A3
G#3
220
207.7 remove 3/8"
G3
196 remove.25"
F#3
185 remove.25"
F3
174.6 remove.75"
E3
164.8
Eb3 D3
155.6 remove .5" 146.8
C#3
138.6 remove .5"
C3
130.8 remove 3/8"
B2
123.5
Bb2
116.5
A2
G#2
G2
110
103.8
98
Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Pitch Pipe
Parametric Music: Identify, Test, Label and Display Musical Tubes
23
Rhinoceros, VRay
Visual Evaluation
On-Site Photography
Testing and Installation
24
Street Elevation Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, Illustrator, VRay, Photoshop, Photography
Museo del Tango Washington University Design Studio, Tango Museum and Milonga Tango Museum and Milonga San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instructor Fabian Llonch Fall 2011
While studying in Buenos Aires, I designed a museum devoted to tango that incorporates exhibition space as well as a dance hall, cafe and bookshop. The museum is located in the neighborhood where tango was invented. My design is a literal extension and manipulation of the street plane, as tango began in the streets of Buenos Aires. One experiences the building in a double helix circulation that echoes both the duality and rhythm of tango. This looping experience takes the user in and out of the building through interior spaces and a programmatically varied roofscape that includes outdoor exhibition, walking paths, cinema, assembly space and restaurant. Front Aerial
Milonga (Dance Hall)
25
Street Approach Collage
Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Photography
Interior Exhibition Space
Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Photography
26
Section- Indoor/Outdoor Circulation Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Illustrator
Tango Museum 27
Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator
Section Through Milonga and Galleries
Rhinoceros, Illustrator, Photoshop
Roofscape +14.0 m
28
Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Photography.
Multi-Axis Rotating Car Lift, Cars Waiting to Compete
Railyard Velocity Washington University Degree Project Studio Indoor Vertical Drag Strip North Downtown St. Louis, Missouri Instructor Ben Fehrmann Fall 2012
St. Louis is a city of relics. Among vacant lots, decommissioned industrial structures remain empty for decades, their size or condition defying easy reuse. There could, however, be an enticing solution. Let the strangeness of these hulks suggest an equally interesting new purpose.
Activity Around the Cotton Belt Terminal, circa 1910
The former Cotton Belt freight terminal is one of St. Louis’ most unique old structures. Over an eighth of a mile long, yet only thirty feet wide, it was originally arranged to maximize rail freight loading efficiency. The rails are gone now, but the terminal’s proportions still evoke linear motion, the endless loading bays have a rhythm, the railroad history speaks of massive machines and motion. Railyard Velocity responds to these conditions with an indoor drag strip, capturing this movement and mechanical history.
Aerial Showing the Cotton Belt in the context of St. Louis
29
Pendulum Counterweight Arresting System
Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Photography.
Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator
Overall Site Plan Showing Existing Building at Top, Grandstands and Paddock
30
Multi-Axis Rotating Car Lift
Counterbalanced Elevating Grandstand
Railyard Velocity 31
Section Model: Pendulum Arresting System
Section Model: Structural Intervention
Railyard Velocity 32
Studies in Mechanics: Structure, Cantilever, Pulley, Counterweight, Track, Lever, Multi-Axial Rotation
Section Collage: Drag Race in Progress
Site Section: Race Track, Queueing, Grandstand and Paddock
Railyard Velocity 33
Hand Sketches, Ink on Trace
Digital Collage: Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, Photography.
Rhinoceros, Illustrator
Railyard Velocity 34
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