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Graduate Architecture Portolio 2011-2014 2
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Shuttle: Enterprise Visitor Center
Term: Fall 2013 Course: Design V Project Duration: 8 weeks Site: Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ The NASA test Shuttle, Enterprise, is currently being housed in a temporary exhibit aboard the “Intrepid� Museum. Our project was to design permanent housing for the Shuttle exhibit in Liberty State Park in New Jersey, in addition to a supplementary program. Students were given the option to design their project in any location on the park, and in response to Superstorm Sandy, we were required to address how the building would respond to the flood plane. The design process began with understanding and working with object oriented imagery, then using ideas generated through the image making process to inform how we view the shuttle as an object, and in turn, how it would be presented to the museum visitors.
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LOCATION PLAN
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Shuttle: Enterprise Visitor Center
PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
CIRCULATION STRATEGY Shuttle Access
Library Access
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Visitor Center Areas Exhibition Spaces Laboratories Education Programs Storage Administration Mechanical
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GROUND LEVEL VISITOR’S CENTER 1.1 Main Entrance Space STORAGE 5.9 Misc Museum Storage EXTERIOR FACILITIES 8.1 Outpost of Main and Service Entrance 8.3 Parking Space 8.4 Hauling and Loading Area
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VISITOR’S CENTER 1.2 Ticket Information Control 1.3 Cloakroom 1.4 Guide’s Office 1.5 Public Relations Lounge 1.6 First Aid 1.7 Restrooms For Disabled Persons 1.8 Museum Shop EXHIBITION SPACE 2.6 Temporary Outdoor Exhibition Space
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VISITOR’S CENTER 1.10 Resturant 5.6
EXHIBITION SPACE 2.1 Exhibit A- “History of the Launch Pad” 2.3 Exhibit B- “The Vehicle Assembly Building” 2.4 Exhibit D- “History and Design of the Heat Shield” 2.5 Exhibit E- “Space Objects
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EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 3.1 Educational Multimedia Space 3.2 Auditorium / Multi-purpose Hall STORAGE 5.4 Exhibition Storage 5.6 Restaurant Storage
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LEVEL THREE VISITOR’S CENTER 1.9 Cafe’ EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 3.3 Library STORAGE 5.8 Cafe’ Storage
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LEVEL FOUR EXHIBITION SPACE 2.2 Exhibit C- “The Evolution of Shuttle: Enterprise” LABORATORIES 4.1 Ceramic and Glass Laboratory 4.2 Wet Wood and Organics Laboratory 4.3 Tile Laboratory 4.4 Metals Laboratory 4.5 Casts Laboratory 4.6 Chemistry Laboratory 4.7 Restrooms - Changing Rooms 4.8 Reception for Shuttle Parts 4.9 Tanks for Fixing and Cleaning 4.10 Photography Laboratory 4.11 ConservatorH’s Office 4.12 Open-Air Reception Space STORAGE 5.1 Ceramic Storage 5.2 Metal Storage 5.3 Treasury 5.7 Tool Storage 5.9 Misc Museum Storage
ADMINISTRATION OFFICES 6.1 Admin Enterance 6.2 Secretery /Archives 6.3 Accounting 6.4 Conference Room 6.5 Scientific Personnel’s Office 6.6 Engineer’s Office 6.7 Electronic Support and Programming 6.8 Kitchen / Restrooms 6.9 Guard’s Office 6.10 Control Room 6.11 IT Room
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MECHANICAL ROOMS 7.1 Electrical Room 7.2 Engine Room 7.3 Fuel Tank Area 7.4 Fire Fighting Pump Machinery 7.5 Recycling Tanks for Laboratories EXTERIOR FACILITIES 8.2 Personnel’s Courtyard
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TRANSVERSE SECTION
Level Four +56’ Level Three +46’ Level Two +36’ Level One +18’ Existing Train Shed +15’ FLOOD PLAIN +14’
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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Weirwood Bird Blind
Term: Fall 2011 Course: Design I Project Duration: 4 weeks Site: Great Swamp Wildlife Reserve Harding, NJ For my first graduate project at NJIT, I was tasked with creating a bird blind in the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge located in Harding, New Jersey using a wood construction system. The concept for the design to create a building that would emulate the feeling of being inside a forest while bird watching.
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Newark Waterfront Event Space
Term: Fall 2011 Course: Design I Project Duration: 6 weeks Site: Waterfront, Newark NJ The project was to create a small 15,000sqf event space along the waterfront of Newark, NJ using a wood structural system. The massing for this project was generated through the required technique of holding the street edge and establishing views along the waterfront by means of employing a series of “cut lines� generated from the site. My strategy was to use the grade as means of creating a building that could be sandwiched between an upper and lower terracing space. The main service space was located in the center to provide convenience of access to the gallery and terracing spaces that spiraled around the service area.
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GROUND LEVEL
PUBLIC / PRIVATE Public Private
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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION Event Space Terrace Kitchen Bar Coat Check Storage Offices Vestibule Bathrooms Mechanical
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New York Public Library Music Center
Term: Spring 2013 Course: Design IV Project Duration: 8 weeks Site: Manhattan, NY The idea behind this project was to create a civic structure that would act as a branch of the New York Public Library. Students were given the opportunity to create their own program in order to articulate their own vision of civic architecture. My civic structure is based on the idea that a library can not only be a place to consume information and meet socially, but a place where people can actively participate in the creative process in both a private and public way. Focusing on music, my building creates a multilayered civic ecosystem where the library offers joined public and private spaces, creating an ideal place to read, listen, play, record, and share ideas about music. The main purpose of this studio was to reassess the function of a library and how that reflects the way varying programs could be mixed.
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Playing / Practice Rooms Reading / Listening Rooms Classical Performance Area Jazz Performance / Dance Floor
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Playing / Practice Rooms Instrument Rental Recording Studio
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Playing / Practice Rooms Balcony / Exterior Performance Spaces Instrument Repair / Restoration
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Auditorium Playing / Practice Rooms Balcony / Exterior Performance Spaces
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LEVEL ONE
Cafe Auditorium Book Store
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GROUND LEVEL
Cafe Lobby Exterior Waiting Area Exterior Cafe Bodega Loading Dock Storage
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ELEVATIONS AND SECTIONS
Level Six Level Five Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One Ground Level
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House Plus Term: Spring 2014 Course: Design VI Project Duration: 12 weeks Site: Alpine, TX For our comprehensive design project, students were tasked to study one unbuilt home by a master architect. The concepts and architectural ideas we pulled from our research were meant to inform our own design idea for our home. Consider that it is not 2014 and the ideas of architecture and how we inhabit space has changed. To address this change in some way, I was required to integrate ideas of construction and environmental control into the design to reinforce my idea. For this project, I was given Mies Van Der Rohe’s “House with Three Courts,” which relied heavily on ideas of spacial continuity and is a prime example of Mies’ idea that “less is more.”
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Between 1931 and 1938, Mies Van Der Rohe designed a series of courtyard houses centered around the concept of a constant flow of space. The house itself is confined within a square composed of large monolithic, brick, walls. This creates an interior made up of both exterior and (traditional) interior spaces connected visually through panes of glass. This allows all major spaces in the house are visually connected through exterior courtyards. There have been many versions of court houses designed, most of which remain unbuilt. The main house discussed is referred to as “House with Three Courts.” This house in particular is “T” shaped with a bedroom and living room wing. The bedroom wing is flanked by two courtyards, one of which is shared with the living room wing.The exceptions to this are the walls that are part of the exterior walls and one interior partition separating the kitchen from the courtyard specifically associated with the bedroom.
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Courtyards act as spaces that can link programs together. The courtyards themselves can also become shared spaces between rooms and programs.
Brick coursing pattern found in the exterior walls of “House with Three Courts.”
Typical massings of the courtyard houses were “I” shapes, “T” shapes, and “L” shapes.
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“The Box�
Circulation Axis Circulation Axis
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50% Living Spaces 50% Courtyards Circulation Axis
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The first step in transforming the concept of the Miesian Courtyard House into my own project was organizing the program and courtyards in a balanced way that allowed special continuity to to move and shift between sections of the house depending on how the walls were opened. The house itself is bisected down the center with a main circulation corridor. The square footage of the house was divided in half producing equal courtyard Circulation Axis and living spaces. They then became organized so that one side was more open with a 2/3 courtyard space, while the closed side would create more intimate spaces
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Meditation and Inward Reflection
Socialization and Outward Projection
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Specificity through shuffling couryards with spaces
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Spacial Continuity
My main deviation from “House with Three Courts” was through the exterior skin. Miesian’s idea was that the contents of the house would be hidden through a monolithic brick wall. Rather than close off the house from the surrounding landscape, I opted to open the house to allow the endless plains of Texas to flow through the home.
The “Miesian” view of communities as he saw it in relation to his courtyard house projects was a community of homes closed off to each other each hiding their own worlds. The result is a monolithic, hidden identity society akin to what I imagine a suburban distopian future would be like.
Entry Opening
Miesian Box
Views Toward Mountains
Views Out Toward Seemingly Infinite Grasslands
In a world with the continuous rise in urbanization in our society, where does the single family house exist? The single family home is no longer a module for constructing society, but rather a vehicle for separating yourself from society and forming a stronger union between yourself and the natural world.
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The design process consisted of a series of models which began with a model of Mies’ Courtyard House. Initially I took the ideas of structure and spacial continuity that exist within his house and explored different ways of utilizing those ideas. Through experementations with opening methodologies, part vs.whole relationships, and the idea of rested volumes, I began to understand the way in which my house would work in plan.
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ALPINE, TX
My main focus in choosing a site was looking for an area that could take the idea of spacial continuity as it exists in the Mies house and extend that into the landscape itself. Alpine, Texas was the perfect location for this project because of the seemingly infinite plains. In addition to the beauty of the landscape, and the infinite plains, one of the views was a small mountain range that allowed a certain amount of variation in what the potential home owners would see when they looked out into the land. Right: SITE PLAN 1’=1/200” Above: LOCATION PLAN 1’=1/1000”
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1. Main Entry 2. Courtyard: Cactus Garden and Fire Pit 3. Yoga Studio 4. Locker Room/Bathroom 5. Courtyard: Zen Garden 6. Kitchen 7. Dining Room 8. Living Room 9. Bar 10. Courtyard: Herb Garden and Breakfast Nook 11. Master Bedroom 12. Courtyard: Swimming Pool
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SECTIONS 1’=1/16”
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ELEVATIONS 1’=1/16”
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6” rammed Earth 2” insulation 6”rammed Earth reinforced with 10mm reinforcment bars placed in a 2’x2’ grid
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1” polished concrete finish 3/4” sheet of cement board 2”extruded polystyrene rigid insulation 3” concrete 4” gravel
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double glazed curtain wall with Nanawall SL70 Inserts 10’opening comprised of 10 2’ folding doors glazing system spaced 4’x8’ glass above the 8’ mark is frosted glass
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1” polished concrete finish 5 3/4” concrete 4” gravel
gypsum board ceiling supported by metal track hung from the structure metal studs 2 Layers of Gypsum Board eggshell finish paint (in exterior conditions gypsum will be switched out for green board, a mud coating, with a painted finish)
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green roof
1” polished concrete finish 3/4” sheet of cement board 2”extruded polystyrene rigid insulation 3” concrete 4” gravel
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ASSEMBLIES ENVELOPE STRUCTURE
The structure of this house is as if it was from a page out of Mies Van Der Rohe’s book. Like his Courtyard Houses, the exterior shell is a loard bearing wall, while the interior is supported by light steel columns. However, due to the environmental and site differences, my building’s exterior walls are constructed out of rammed earth in lieu of the bricks that Mies used. onouB olleD noitargre noxA
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House Plus
Rammed earth provides an excellent solution to controlling the energy usage in my house. The external walls of our rammed earth buildings are a minimum of 1 ft. thick, providing excellent protection from climate extremities. The thickness and density of the material means that heat or cold penetration of the wall is very slow and the internal temperature of the building remains relatively stable, with the end result of it feeling warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than the outside temperature. Heat takes approximately 12 hours to work its way through the wall, radiating warmth throughout the cooler evenings.
Keeps space cool during the daytime
Keeps the space warm during the cooler desert evenings.
6” Rammed Earth
10mm Reinforcement Bars Spaced 2’ in the Horizontal and Verticle
2” Extruded Polystyrine Rigid Insulation 10mm Reinforcement Bars Spaced 2’ in the Horizontal and Verticle 6” Rammed Earth
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Green roofs provide an excellent passive answer to solar gain, particularly in environments with harsh exposure to the sun. One of the main issues concerning the use of a green roof in places such as Texas, is the lack of rain water. Based on a comprehensive study from Texas A&M on the use of green roofs in Texas revealing several options suitable for the environment I was designing in, I ultimately I felt that T. Calycinum was the most reliable option. Environmental Benefits of a Green Roof: 1. Reduces Heat load on the roof by 64 degrees on the surface and 80 degrees at the roof membraine 2. Reduces temperature of water runoff 3. Improves water quality from roof runoff 4. Reduces energy needs by 10%-30% 5. Extends Roof Membraine 2-3 times over
All plants survived the first growing season. Plants were damaged in January when temperatures dropped to 19 degrees F. Plants continued living throughout the spring but began to fade during the summer heat and drought. None survived through August.
Vegetation
T. Calycinum
S. Kamtschaticum
Self-sewing. Very drought and heat tolerant. Winter dormant.
Drought and heat tolerant once established. May need irrigation to establish.
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Filter Fabric Moisture Retention Composite 2” Extruded Polystyrine Rigid Insulation 1/4” PVC Root Barrier 1/4” Asphalitic Protection Boards Liquid Applied Polyurethane Water Proofing Membrane Metal Decking
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