Adam Goldberg undergraduate portfolio
Contents
glass institute
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lincoln park library
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campus in the woods
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urban uplift
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performance hall
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modular home
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rest stop
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other design work
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The institute for advanced glass study was designed to serve two purposes. Part of this building is a research facility and work space for the development of architectural glass technologies, while simultaneously serving as a public museum and education center. The primary exhibit is a Dale Chihuly blown-glass sculpture, lifted off of the ground, know as “the sun.�
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The design of this facility is based upon simple
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orthagonal lines, allowing the contrast and complexity of materials to become the integral pieces. To create this harsh contrast, two large structural glass boxes are extruded through the solid polished black marble panels. The elimination of fenestrations creates a dominant, yet streamlined, facade of reflective marble and transparent glazing.
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library 1/8
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This design is a propsal for a new library situated in
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Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. With an elementary school located across the street, the goal of the facade design was create an intriguing and playful move by using intensely variating window modules. These fenestrations are pulled different depths from the surface of the concrete library walls. Additionally, a metal mesh screen sits just off the wall surface, as to create even more depth on the facade.
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The site for this project is a small parcel
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within the 1,500 acre Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois. This heavily wooded portion of the park was proposed to be built with facilities for a summer institute for the performing arts. For this design, there were three separte buildings on a biaxial layout, with a central courtyard linking them together. The largest structure is the “performance and learning center,� where the performances and education would take place.
Performance and Learning North Elevation
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urban uplift
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Urban Uplift is a proposed design for a multipurpose structure in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. This particular area of the city is in the process of a needed rejuvination after nearby housing projects were demolished, and its residents scattered.
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The program of this building is primarily a
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children’s museum and learning center. The families of this neighborhood would benefit from a youth educational facility in many ways. Using this location to help its residents grow was a major goal in this design.
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performance hall
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Located in a forested ravine within Allerton Park, this performance hall is designed to seamlessly integrate itself into its surroundings. The materials and organic shapes throughout the design lend to create a unified building and site. The wedge shape of the structure allows for optimal views in the primary performance space, while the use of prominent clerestory windows allows for ideal natural lighting. The three dominant materials, concrete, dark wood, and copper, work to offer a warm and comfortable feeling, as if being in a cabin in the woods.
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performance hall
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West Elevation
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modular house
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This project required a design solution for a house to be placed on a steeply sloping lot. Additionally, this house was to be designed based on ten foot cubic tartan grids. From this gridded theme, the various modules that resulted were pushed and pulled to create two floors worth of spaces. Beyond that, this proposal was created to have a living facade composing of small vegetables and herbs. As a result of this plan, it could then serve as a market for neighboring homes.
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Section 2
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rest stop
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Set along side a hiking trail through the forest,
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this proposal was to create a rest stop for passing hikers. This design incorporates a two-teir platform, primarily of concrete, with wooden benches, and a restroom. The radial and organic shape of the platforms are intended to guilde the user’s eyes out towards the best views at this site.
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My junior year, I was given the opportunity to assist in assembling a temporary exhibit for a visting architecture firm from Canada. Working along side a handful of my peers, and in conjunction with three professors, we worked to recreate a vast set of acrylic architectural models set on top of an expansive display table. It was a fantastic way of learning how an established and successful architecture firm can 35
show their previous projects in a unified, cohesive manner.
This sectional model is a creation made by myself and a studio partner during sophomore design studio. This was a precedent study, and we were fortunate enough to be assigned to analyze and model Tom Kundig’s “Outpost,” a simplistic home set in the middle of a high plaines Idaho desert. Creating this model in section allowed us to see how a structure’s sectional qualities are integral pieces of the overal design of building, as well as how section reveals spatial relationships in human scale.
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