Adrian Corbey Architecture & Design Portfolio
CONTENTS
01
Aiko’s House
02
Plywood Lounger
03
Roppongi Handicraft Museum
04
Natural Patterning
05
Bath House
06
Body, Motion & Intervention
07
Digital Fabrication
08
Waffle Model
09
Rethinking the Row
10
Artificial Intimacy
11
Media Intersection
01 Aiko’s House
Nishi-Nippori, Tokyo Spring 2020 — Studio VI
A response to the growing environmental, social, and technological shifts that its site and context faces, Aiko’s House is a rethinking of conventional ways and means of urban living. A meeting of technology, space, material, craft, and detail. Aiko’s house is one for an 85-year old woman living alone. The intent of the house is as a place where one can live alone without the feeling of isolation. A place that can adapt with the needs of
the user. A space for aging without loss of autonomy. Accessibility and ease of use were key in achieving this. Chiefly consisting of prefabricated wooden modules and is meant to self monitor and regulate to intelligently meet the needs of the user with minimal resource consumption.
Aiko’s Neighborhood Nishi-Nippori, Tokyo
Yorakuji Temple
Rubber Stamp Store
Tabatadai Park
Takinogawa Shinkin Bank Clothing Store
FamilyMart
Supermarket
Public Bath Koryo Inari Shrine
Restaurants Pharmacy Aiko’s House
7-Eleven
Nishi-Nippori Station Mizuho Bank Grocery
Tatami Shop
Tsutaya
250m
Inaka! Bakery
Gym
Bar Post Office
Ramen 500m
Yanaka Music Hall
Fabre Insect Museum Natural Lawson
1000m
1500m
0.875” = 100m
1/8” = 1’
A I K O’S
house
REF
FRZ
DISH
Kitchen
Genkan
Bathroom W/D
Dining Bedroom
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Living
Office/Spare Room
N/S Section
E/W Section
02 Plywood Lounger Design, Materiality, Practicality Spring 2020 — Materials & Methods Comfortable seating positions, ease of assembly, and efficient fabrication were the drivers behind the form the chair took. The chair is to be entirely constructed of two sheets
of 3/4” thick 4’x4’ sheets of plywood. All the cutting is possible with a CNC mill, and the pieces fixed without then need for any glue, or metal fasteners.
+ Cut Pieces
x32
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Dowels
Mallet
What’s Included
Left
Front Brace
Step 1
Step 4
Step 7
Rear Brace
Right
Back
Seat
Step 2
Step 5
Step 8
Step 3
Step 6
Finished
PROJECT:
Plywood Lounger NOTES: Materials:
3/4” plywood
Fasteners:
1/4” wooden dowels Wood Glue
Finish:
Danish Oil
NAME: Adrian Corbey
DATE: 2/28/20
SCALE:
1-1/2” = 1’ & 4-1/2” = 1’
SHEET:
D1.4 - Front Connecti
PROJECT:
Plywood Lounger NOTES: Materials:
3/4” plywood
Fasteners:
1/4” wooden dowels Wood Glue
Finish:
Danish Oil
NAME: Adrian Corbey
DATE: 2/28/20
SCALE:
1-1/2” = 1’ & 4-1/2” = 1’
SHEET:
D1.5 - Back Connect
03 Meditation in Wood Roppongi Handicraft Museum Spring 2019 — Studio V Tokyo Sited in Roppongi Tokyo, positioned near other art institutions, but amongst smaller residential and commercial buildings at the heart of a Superblock ringed with high-rise developments encircling an intimate core. My design was driven by aspects of history observable in the everyday. The physical tenets of wood structures being a joining of many smaller interdependent parts forming a stronger unified whole became a metaphor for the city
structure of blocks, superblocks, and neighborhoods. A meditation in materiality and context. Urban qualities as seen in material qualities and vice versa. The museum showcases three major aspects of wood; those being division, recombination, and transmutation. These qualities each accomplish the three major programmatic tasks of the institution: cultural, commercial, and communal.
04 Natural Patterning Digital Manipulation & Recombination Spring 2017 — Visual Literacy 11 The generated pattern is derived from one occurring within nature. To arrive at my pattern, the natural pattern was reduced to its most essential forms and logics. Then, a series of transformations occurred to accentuate formal
relationships within the constraints of the natural pattern. A series of three patterns were made via the transformative process. The resultant geometries were modeled and their production documented.
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05 Buried History Washington Square Bath house Fall 2018 —Studio III Tasked with designing a public restroom facility for Washington Square Park I sought to create a building conscious of its siting. The design is derived from the history of the site itself. Washington Square park through several points in its history was used as a burial site for Philadelphia’s forgotten. From slaves, to yellow fever victims, and unknown soldiers Washington Square lived it’s first life as a final resting place.. The bath house
itself harkens to this history by resembling an extruded piece of the earth being held above the ground. The screen walls are cross section cuts through porous bone, and the massive roof is the layers of earth that obfuscates these buried histories. The building itself exposes the bodies upon which we have built. A solemn look into the oversought and misunderstood belying what we see as everyday.
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Body, Motion & Intervention Orchestrated Stair Procession Spring 2018 — Foundations Studio II
This project was developed by first forming an understanding of the body’s interaction with architecture by studying human motion on a staircase. Initially, the stair was analyzed, hand drafted, and digitally modeled. Following was a choreographed interaction on the staircase that was captured with video. Point sets were used to track and trace the motion of different parts of the body along the stairs. Depictions
of that movement through the space were modeled. With this intimate analysis and knowledge of movement on a stair, I created an architectural intervention aimed at curating a users experience of the stairs. With the objective to expand the ways and means of using stairs and redefine and add richness to circulatory space.
07 Digital Fabrication
Tool-less joinery & Cabinet of Curiosities Fall 2017 — Special Topics in CNC Milling
Explorations in CNC milling and fabrication. Digital and hand drawings to create and articulate operative concepts, with mechanical CNC milled final assemblies refined with more traditional machining and means of post production. Projects varying from tool-less joints, to rapid assembly and disassembly, to augmented communications. The final project, the “cabinet of Curiosities” is a look into
what is lost in translation and how much of that message we need to glean it’s intended meaning. I ask: is the definition of an object formal or ascribed by association? Do we identify with with sensory information, or with learned meaning, and what is to happen if a layer of our perceptive abilities is stripped away?
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08 Waffle Model Digital Geometric Manipulation Spring 2017 — Foundations Studio II A merging of analog and digital processes. Form finding via digital manipulation. Curves were arrayed within strict boundary conditions and lofted to form interpolated surfaces. The surfaces were offset to form a volume. Then the volume was used to subtract from the boundary conditions the volume existed within. An erosion of the cube. Positive space becoming negative space. Within the extracted space of
the cube was inserted the curves from the Natural Patterning exercise. These curves were projected onto the surface of the erosion to follow its contours. These curves were extruded to make path-like volumes running along the lower face of the erosion. Two abstract systems, one taking nature and making it digital and another digital manipulated to imitate natural, working in tandem.
09 Rethinking The Row 1521 & 1523 South Street Fall 2018 — Studio III A pair of mixed-use living and working rowhomes on a vacant plot in South Philadelphia. The priorities for my row houses are circulation, division of space, merging interior and exterior spaces, and knowledge of context. The switchback stairs are meant to allow for the blurring of hard delineations of spaces from one level to another in an effort to create communal spaces, yet make a gradual shift in privacy as one transitions
from the lower to upper floors. A courtyard and sunken yard are points to introduce the outside to the building and vice versa. The arched windows booke-ending the rowhomes are reflective of historic cornerstones of the neighborhood: St. Peter’s Claviers and Wesley Amez churches.
Rodman Street
Back Yard
Master Bedroom
Den
W.I.C
Living Room
Bathroom 1
Master Bath
Roof Deck W.I.C
Deck
Courtyard
Open to Below
Open to Below
Open to Below
Storage
Deck
Office
Bathroom 2 Laundry Commercial
Kitchen
Bedroom 1 Dining Room
Commercial
Bathroom
Bedroom 2
Storage
Commercial
South Street
Basement
Floor 1
Floor 2
Floor 3
Roof
11 Artificial Intimacy A Place for Play
Spring 2020 — Studio VI A study in the correlation of space and interactivity. In a world of ever expanding modes of communication and interaction, we become farther removed from traditional means of interacting: by simply occupying a common
space. This project seeks to augment and accent this dynamic through the manipulation of space, sight, and sound. Designing for a future where physical proximity is no longer an obstacle and therefore no longer required
10 Media Intersection Mixed-Use Artists Block Fall 2019 — Studio IV This studio assignment was to create a building complex on the site of a current PECO sub station on 16th and Spruce. The buildings are a cafe with upper level office space, a galery space, and a mid-rise tower of artists studios. The chief focuses were on sustainable building techniques and technologies and urban engagement. My project is one formed around a core group of imperatives and logics. A need to be in a sense: bilingual. Communicating both to the other buildings on the site, as well as the urban context they are all located within. The buildings are all existing on a 5’x5’ grid and based on requisite program are multiples of that generative module. Then from that addition of elements expression is found from the
synthesis of logical, environmental, and urban imperatives. Within rules and ration - nuance and elegance. To take the platonic kernel of an idea and allow it to grow into the architecture it seeks to be resolved into. Maintaining the site edges and coming to meet people where they’re at; coming to people on the street. The buildings speak with one another by kneeling on one another. Each is cantilevered over the site in a hanging cloister. The outdoor spaces are geared toward a richness of spaces rather than a clarity of intended modes of use. With many scales and organizations of space allows for a nonprescriptive way to inhabit the site. An allowance for the user to define the spaces they exist within.
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Gallery
16th St.
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DN
Spruce St.
Site Plan 3/32” = 1’
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UP
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UP
DN
DN
Spruce St.
F2 Plan 3/32” = 1’
Spruce St.
N
F3 Plan 3/32” = 1’
N
Roof Plan 3/32” = 1’
DN
UP
N
16th St.
16th St.
DN
UP
Spruce St.
N
Garden Level (F4) Plan 3/32” = 1’
16th St.
16th St.
DN
Spruce St.
CORE i7
CORE i7
CORE i7
CORE i7
CORE i7
North Elevation 1/32” = 1’
East Elevation 1/32” = 1’
