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How can we combine suburban and urban ways of life in one megastructure Troy, New York Spring, 2015

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GROTESQUE INTERMEDI-

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“Designing something over and over again until you get the best possible result is a cultural act in and of itself that contains a good dose of optimism.” Mark Foster Gage.

Aesthetic Theory Excess

Grotesque 1. a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.

Grotto

The Grotto Troy , New York.

“A grotto (Italian grotta and French grotte) is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically. Naturally occurring grottoes are often small caves near water that are usually flooded or liable to flood at high tide.”

Intermediary 1.a mediator, go-between 1.b medium, means 2. an intermediate form, product, or stage.

Iteration 1. the action or a process of iterating or repeating: such as 1.a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result.

Suburban Urban The Rensselaer campus is located atop a hill, geographically separated from the city of Troy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grotesque Intermediaryâ&#x20AC;? is a housing project that seeks to create a link between the city and the campus.

Exploded Axonometric From Left to Right Student Housing Towers Private and Public Parking Garage Upscale Family Homes for Troy Residents. Grotto

Ground Level Entrance Cafe/Outdoor Seating Performance Plaza Performance Hill Back of House Offices Loading Dock

American suburban life is demarcated by social insecurities. The white picket fence, the cookie cutter house, the pastel painted houses, it creates an image of safety and unity that wants to defy the factual reality of american suburban life. We wanted to create a beautiful image, a picturesque place to live in, with views of the Hudson and the aging city of Troy. At the same time we wanted to create a dialogue; a push and pull between community and comfort. Diagrammatically the student housing units are interlocked and stacked. They are surrounded by cantilevering program boxes, which create a sense of security from the outside world, whilst pushing an agenda of community and shared space. We wanted a sense of privacy to come from the interaction between people and spaces, not from isolation.

Student Tower Troy , New York.

Detail Troy, New York.

Glass House Studies Troy , New York.

From Mies and Phillip Johnson to Sejima and Bohlin, glass is a material with a loaded history of antithetical social understanding and architectural deployment.

The Glass Box We like to think that the glass box was the formal theme that tied the project coneptually. It provides visual clarity and aesthetic playfulness, because its ability to reflect light in some instances and to be seethrough in other instances. Glass mediates the public and private, it operates in world that is impossible, by contextualizing the novel. 12

The glass boxes are covered in concentric layers of concrete that act as shading devices and provide a degree of privacy that analogous to the white picket fence. This language of layering and booleaning is developed over multiple iterations of boolean operations. The desired final aesthetic is thin and complex layers that act as punch out windows. We called this formal excess the grotesque.

Residential Kitchen Troy, New York.

Longitunal Section Troy , New York.

Residential Housing Troy, New York.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT.

How can movement effect form? The circulation gesture originated from the juxtaposition of linear movement and meandering. The clear upward movement of an elevator shaft, from floor to floor is then mirrored to create a orthogonal grid of circulation. The core placement allows for Southern and Northern performance regions of performance to occur naturally, their massive scale also acts as a physical curtain, for an informal stage. Billowing walls, always in an “S” act as mediators between the cores. They lead visitors in and out of exhibits, inhibit staircases, and create their own sight lines.. It is through the simplicity of the core that the veils become playful.

Open Box

Diagrams Conceptual Program Diagram Circulation scheme a.

The hybridization of the black box theater and street performance creates the “open box” : a type of performance space that remains informal, whilst theatrical. Furthermore, by intersecting the open box with a classic gallery space (the white box) a new opportunity for programmatic adjacency arises. Formally, this adjacency factor is called the veil: a doubly curved concrete wall that swivels in-and-out determining soft boundaries of the performance spaces.

Study Models a. three volumes connected by an atrium b. stepped volumes covered by translucent skin c. criss-crossing volumes

Massing Study c. criss-crossing the open box with the white box.

Final Massing a. three intersecting volumes connected by a central atrium.

Ground Plan Entrances Public Plaza Bookstore Kitchen Back of House Public Rest rooms

Floor plans Read from Left to Right.

Ground Level Chelsea , New York.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;He creates a sort of digital portrait in which we can see ourselves through the lens of machines we have recently created. â&#x20AC;&#x153; On Tony Oursler

Southern Entrance Chelsea , New York.

Sixth Floor Chelsea , New York.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Arrived Once the visitor enters the building, she is prompted to move up to the sixth floor and make her way down the first level. The sixth level holds three major performance spaces: two galleries on either side of the main space, one remains permanently closed during small movie showings and another constantly open for gallery pieces. The third space is tucked around the elevator cores, and is meant for performance artist to use at their own discretion.

Sixth Floor Interior Chelsea , New York.

“I’m a panda. You can punch me. I wear a chest protector. You wear boxing gloves. It’s free. No parties and don’t send me as a surprise. I prefer one on one, but roommates are fine. It’s a safe place to punch someone.” Nate Hill

Chelsea, New York The site sits adjacent to the iconic high line in Chelsea. The neighborhood of galleries and studios, is capped by the recently completed Whitney Museum of American Art. Meanwhile across the high line there is a dense residential area, and so we are given the choice to intertwine the cultural energy from one side of the high line with the people living across it. to the artist to manipulate this interaction. 30

Architecture as a connector. As the building meets the streets it widens, the glass facade matches the edge of the street grid, allowing the passerby to look inside the public plaza. At the high line level the veils still widened meet inwardly angled glass facades. The angle shift makes intimate high line â&#x20AC;&#x153;plazoletasâ&#x20AC;?, this is meant to give performers the ability to take their performances outside or inside the building at the high line level.

Working Model Chelsea , New York.

Northern Facade Chelsea , New York.

Southern Elevation Chelsea , New York.

Glass Gallery boxes protrude from the veiling walls. Overlooking the city. Floating: objects of spectacle and mystery.

How can movement effect form? The circulation gesture originated from the juxtaposition of linear movement and meandering. The clear upward movement of an elevator shaft, from floor to floor is then mirrored to create a orthogonal grid of circulation. The core placement allows for Southern and Northern performance regions of performance to occur naturally, their massive scale also acts as a physical curtain, for an informal stage. Billowing walls, always in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sâ&#x20AC;? act as mediators between the cores. They lead visitors in and out of exhibits, inhibit staircases, and create their own sight lines.. It is through the simplicity of the core that the veils become playful.

Elevation Working Model Chelsea , New York.

PARALLEL UNIVERSES.

Frantically he mapped and graphed, assigning a different color to each reality, trying to decipher clarity within the visual jitter. The jitter that only he could see. He hypothesized that one day a future traveler As the time traveler grew would find guide in his deeper into his madness, he construct. began to see two parallel realities overlapping with ours. The old man wrote books on

Heterographs & Homonyms

Dimensional Mapping Nowhere

syntactical curiosities that were prevalent in parallel dimensions, and that seemed to appear in every culture he had visited. After many years he began to speak only in heterographs, making it impossible to discern meaning in anything he had to say. A local doctor tried to

understand him, he became the study of many philosophers hiding in the huge private university atop the hill. The old man’s mysterious aura engendered a new school of linguistics devoted to his n specific case. “Gerigonzas”, one expert claimed. “Esperanto” another

with certainty would determine. A witch doctor, a priest, two witnesses carrying the word of god himself, tried to dispel the man’s complex dialect, for they believed it to be the word of Satan himself.

Site Plan Troy, New York

First Level Model Troy, New York

Ground Level Troy , New York.

North-South Section Troy , New York.

Interior Perspective Troy, New York.

Exterior Courtyard Troy, New York.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

A D L P

Professional Experience

Education

Honors

Software Proficiencies

Asymptote Intern

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Awards

Modeling

Troy, New York

Faculty Award, Fourth Year Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhinoceros 5 Grasshopper Zbrush

Pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Studio Art. Class of 2018

Founders Award of Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

BIM

Summer 2016 Worked closely with shop manager Krista Glanville, making models of different scales. Used varied techniques of digital fabrication.

Pure Source Factory Employee Summer 2015

GPA: 3.76 Academic Experience

Teaching Assistant

As a Pure Source employee I was responsible for the packaging and inventory of various medicines and creams. An unconventional job, that has left a lasting impression on me.

2016-Present

HOK Student Internship

2016

2013 As a required course for my high school program, I had the opportunity to work for HOK during the school year.

Digital Constructs 2 Part of a digital modeling and fabrication series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, taught by professor Adam H. Dayem

“The Founders Award of Excellence was established in 1994 to honor students who embody qualities of creativity, discovery, leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer.” Faculty Award, First Year Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1st Place, “Gateway to the Design District” Competition Team Partner: Daniel Villegas

First Year Studio Professor Anthony Titus

Sponsored by the De la Cruz Collection and the Knight Foundation

Research Assistant