Adrian Corbey Portfolio by adriancorbey

Adrian Corbey Architecture & Design Portfolio

CONTENTS

Aiko’s House

Plywood Lounger

Roppongi Handicraft Museum

Natural Patterning

Bath House

Body, Motion & Intervention

Digital Fabrication

Waffle Model

Rethinking the Row

Artificial Intimacy

Media Intersection

Living Single, Living Tpgether

Some Assembly Required

Ordinary, Except

01 Aiko’s House

Nishi-Nippori, Tokyo

Spring 2020 — Studio VI — Instrtuctor: Andrew Wit 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 1/4” = 1’

REF

FRZ

DISH

Kitchen

Genkan

Bathroom W/D

Dining Bedroom

Living

Office/Spare Room

1/4” = 1’

02 Plywood Lounger

Design, Materiality, Practicality

Spring 2020 — Materials & Methods — Instrtuctor: Clifton Fordham

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

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 — Instrtuctor: Jim Lambiasi 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 — Instrtuctor: Andrew Wit 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 — Instrtuctor: Ian Smith 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.

Body, Motion & Intervention Orchestrated Stair Procession

Spring 2018 — Foundations Studio II — Instrtuctor: Chris Ren

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 — Instrtuctor: Justin Bernard

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?

Digital Joint 1

08 Waffle Model

Digital Geometric Manipulation

Spring 2017 — Foundations Studio II — Instrtuctor: Andrew Wit

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 — Instrtuctor: Ian Smith 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

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 — Instrtuctor: Andrew Wit 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 — Instrtuctor: Robert Shuman 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.

Living Single, Living Together Resilience in Duplex

Fall 2021 — Core I Studio — Instrtuctor: Jenny French “The plan implicates a double condition: an abstraction waiting to be acted upon and the anticipation of something to come. As a foray into architectural design, we will utilize the home as a prompt to think socially, spatially, and formally. To respond to a growing diversity of familial and communal relationships, we will speculate on how we might live more collectively and densely while maintaining degrees of privacy and solitude.” A duplex to posit alternative modes of making space and family, and how those people and places respond to and adapt with crisis. Porch becomes dock, living room staging room for first responders, dormer vantage point and lighthouse. As you live with those around you, you also live with the realities of your environment.

Harsh as they may be. Lifted above the ground with redundent entrances at split heights, the house is able to take on high water. The design is a gradient of permanence to impermancence. From cast concrete, to timber, to stud framing. Reparable and resolute. A house reducible to an abstraction of itself. To be a canvas for community to come of a commemoration for community lost.

t of Destruction

“Some Assembly Required” Jump-Cut

Fall 2021 — Core I Studio— Instrtuctor: Jenny French “The given sections are jump cuts. They appear incompatible in their geometry, axes, structure, location of circulation, and volumetric distribution. As disproportionate, partial pieces of documentation, they leave gaps which require an approach as an archaeologist, genealogist, or tailor in order to analyze incomplete patterns. One should seek to read, reveal, and reinvent buildings from these available clues. The sections articulate varied spatial figuration within the three-dimensional volume they describe.” An assembly space revolving around alternative definitions of the term assemble. With that I developed a ‘Spec’ assembly building with somewhat generic and adaptable spaces. The building hosts two primary programs being a recording and

production studio and a concert venue. There is a tension between the two programs around how they resolve shared conditions including day and artificial lighting, privacy and perceptability, circulation, and acoustic isolation or openness. The site is an urban infill wedge condition. With two primary exposures, and some more nestled faces. The facade serves as a mediator with an outer regularized fram and an interior adaptable frame to negotiate the exterior perception of the building with its complex innerworkings.

Plan 01 1/8" = 1'-0"

Plan 04 1/8" = 1'-0"

Section 01 1/8" = 1'-0"

Ordinary, Except

Dispositions on Artists’ Residency

Fall 2021 — Core I Studio— Instrtuctor: Jenny French “This project will encompass the design of an artist residency situated within and between two existing residences. This combination of domestic and institutional programs will generate a small institution for creative practice, collective engagement, and living.” This concept for an artist’s residency in Cambridge MA. Our take on place, typology, and program are major drivers in out coming design resolution. In the synthesis of these we found space to make the ordinary the exceptional. Beginning this project considering the scope of the definition of disposition, and how each of these unique approaches to the term can be used to create a framework for architectural intervention at the neighbourhood scale. Ultimately our research

Project Partner: Honor Bishop and design iterations led us towards a focus on disposition as relating to ownership, and how our design intervention challenges conventional notions of property to enhance the collective living environment. To inform our understanding of the neighbourhood and what gave us our contemporary conditions as it exists now. Going back into historic documentation. It was here that we landed upon the theme of unitization and sub division of property ownership, a concept driven by the shifting property lines over time. An observable and physicalized effect of shifting culture, priorities, and wealth. The planning and usage of land was adapting to meet the needs of the time and of the people reliant upon it.

Section 01 3/32" = 1'-0"