Adrian Harrison
Portfolio 2022
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Adrian Harrison ARCHITECTURAL EMPLOYMENT: A: 95 Prescott St. #47 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA P: +1 (650) 576 - 9939 E: Harrisadge@gmail.com I graduated as a Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design and received my Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Architectural Design with a minor in Computer Science at Stanford University. I have worked at a range of architectural offices in different regions and with different scales including SOM, Atelier Peter Zumthor, Johnston Marklee, and most recently, Machado-Silvetti Architects. I am interested in the relationship between craft and architecture, and the relationships between program, spatial experience, and materiality.
EDUCATION: Harvard Graduate School of Design Master of Architecture w/ Distinction 2017-2022 Stanford University Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Architectural Design) w/ Honors Minor in Computer Science 2012-2016 (3.8 GPA)
SKILLS: CODING: Java, C, C++ DIGITAL: Rhinoceros, V-Ray for Rhinoceros, Adobe CC, AutoCad, Revit, Vectorworks, SketchUp MAKING: Hand Drafting, Woodworking, Concrete Formwork, Metal Foundry work, Paper Modeling Techniques, Lasercutting, 3D printing
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MACHADO-SILVETTI Kuala Lumpur Embassy Advancade Planning ARCHITECTS Led design options for the masterplanning of a $1,3 billion US Embassy Designer compound in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Boston, MA Bogota Embassy Masterplan Feb, 2022 - ongoing Contributed design options for the masterplanning of a $1 billion annex and retrofit of the US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia New Bedford Whaling Museum Masterplan Contribute design options to the conceptual design phase of a masterplan for the extension and renovation of a complex historical museum. JOHNSTON MARKLEE Kunstmuseum Basel Renovation Architectural Intern Won competition in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein. Conceptualized Cambridge, MA revitalzation of museum spaces through illustrations and stop-motion May - Aug. 2021 animation. (3 months) La Jolla House Rennovation & Extension Concept Design for an addition to a historically designated house Paradigm Office Rennovation & Extension Schematic Design for an interior re-design and fit-out. ATELIER PETER ZUMTHOR LACMA (Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art) Architectural Intern Construction Documents, Studies of interior & exterior finishes, landscape & Haldenstein, CH foliage, and gallery distribution through physical modelling at a variety of 2019- 2020 scales (12 months) House for Sheikh Jassim & Sheikha Al-Mayassa Schematic Design, Studies of program adjacency and fitness, Room study models at 1:20 & 1:33, & Material & Atmosphere study models for animation and presentation Haldenstein Home Concept Design, Site, massing, and material studies Antwerp Tower Zero Schematic Design, development of facade and room layout strategies SUPERNORMAL SolBe Pre-School Design Architectural Intern Construction Administration & FF&E for montessori style pre-school. Cambridge, MA City Clubhouse Jun - Aug 2018 Real estate suitability analysis using ArcGIS & Concept Design for a new (3 months) inclusive club type Eating Together, Alone Construction Administration, Signage design, FF&E for novel restaurant type SKIDMORE, OWINGS, Chengdu Aerotropolis & MERRILL LLP Masterplan for a new city of Three Million outside of Chengdu for a new Architectural Intern international airport hub. Developed architectural principles for integration San Francisco, CA into masterplan as well as proposed designs for major cultural attraction 2016 - 2017 points including museums and mjnicipal buildings for the center of the city. (12 months) Wuhan Guohua Tower Concept Design for a 450m tower and mixed use center UC Merced Campus Extension Schematic Design for a new lab building, and Design Development for a new student center and dining hall.
TEACHING: 2021 Head Teaching Assistant GSD Spring Professor: Jon Lott Studio: Core 4 Housing 2020 Teaching Assistant GSD Fall Professor: Martin Bechtold & Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez Structures II 2016 Teaching Assistant Stanford Spring Professor: Beverly Choe Studio: Intermediate Studio APPEARANCES: 2022 Kirkland Gallery Dia-Logue/Dia-Eikon Collaborator: Huma Sahin Gallery opening of joint work on the topic of image production and exchange in the age of the digital. 2022 Room 1000 Professor:Jennifer Newsom Contributed project images & narrative 2018 Vennice Biennale Participated in the Harvard GSD students' collective drawing "Close Encounters" as part of Tom dePaor's installation at the International Pavilion at 16th Venice Biennale
AWARDS: 2021 RAMSA Travel Fellowship Finalist - Selected as one of five finalists 2019 John Belle Travel Fellowship Nomination - Nominated by Harvard GSD as one of two applicants 2020 mOOOArch [POPS] London Honorable Mention - in collaboration with Huma Sahin 2020 & 2021 Robert P. Hubbard Fellowship Recipient 2020 Walker Beale Scholarship Recipient 2016 Goodwin B. Steinberg Award - Awarded for excellence in design and leadership at Stanford University 2016 AIAS Stanford Founding President 2012 Student Foreign Delegate. Dhillon-Marty Foundation Community Week. Punjab, India. Design-build workshop to find context-driven solutions to public sanitation issues in Punjabi cities. 2012 Chappell-Lougee Art Grant - Funded ten weeks in Nepal and Thailand conducting self-directed research on Buddhist Architecture. STUDENT WORK: 2012-2014 Seismic Deisgn Team Stanford, CA Co-Captain Lead team to design and build a balsawood tower to perform under simulated seismic activity 2013 Student Researcher Stanford, CA Stanford School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Studied & characterized new mixes of High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites using Finite Element Analysis and physical stress testing 2012-2013 Solar Decathlon Stanford, CA Corporate Contribution Co-ordinator Helped identify building components and organize in-kind contributions from relevant companies
2015 Wired Magazine Professor: Brian Shiles Contributed project images & narrative 2013 Ahmitav Ghosh Blog Professor: Russell Berman Contributed short essay
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Woven Systems Type: Academic Building Category: Academic - Harvard GSD Spring 2021 - Option Studio Site: Rice University Campus, Houston, Texas Instructors: Mark Lee & Hanif Kara Situated at the termination of two central axis on the Rice Campus, this new Center for diversity and inclusion becomes a porous block that both blends into the brick vernacular of the campus, and also challenges its normative monolithic legibility. Supported by a super structure, the floor plates of the project remain open and flexible for different uses, while the ground floor is cleared for large gatherings. The woven brick facade allows mediated light and air and creates variable readings of solidity - porous when viewed frontally and solid from an angled approach. At night, the superstructure shines through as an illuminated sculpture.
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Left, Top: Detail Section showing structural relationship of brick facade to interior floors Left, Middle: Plan showing megastructural tubes creating pockets of space and providing infrastructural service spaces Left, Bottom: Section showing floors suspended above ground by megastructural tube system.
Right: Render showing how woven brick facade mediates light and air. Woven brick details show mesh bed reinforcement and calibration of brick sizes.
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University Garage Type: Residential/Academic Building Category: Academic - Harvard GSD Fall 2020 - Option Studio Site: Sunnyvale, California Instructors: Kersten Geers & David Van Severen
The dream and apparent reality of Silicon Valley is that great societal change comes through individual genius. Architecture has historically had little to do with this. Rather, the greatest ideas, ostensibly, come from the most humble of places. The mythical power of the garage – an impromptu, networked, and flexible unit – lies claim to this domain. The Harvard Garage proposes to be nothing more than a
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collective garage for a new Harvard innovation extension at the South end of the Bay Area. The parti is simple. This is a parking garage up against an array of garage units, both housed in a basic shed form. The building systems are coordinated to prioritize entirely the individual unit. The unit, in turn, becomes a flexible, adaptive space, created and re-created under the dominion of the self.
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Far Left, Top: Detail Plan shows configurable core per 'garage' unit Far Left, Bottom: Short Section shows parti of garage inside a barn. Bottom: Long Section shows parametric distribution of unit sizes across form Top Right: Render showing effect of "Cabinet" of different types of individual approach to innovation.
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Left: Render showing the life of a student innovator. Provided with a garage unit, it is up to the entrepeneur to program the life inside. Top Right: Render Showing the shared 'driveway' in which activity from the individual garages may spill out. Top Right, Low: Attic of the barn collects artifacts from generations of entrepenuers. Bottom Right: Detail Axon shows the relationship of Exterior Shade, configurable core, and interior roller-door
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Internet Archive; Truth-seeking in the Digital Age Type: Digital Archive Category: Academic - Harvard GSD Fall 2021 - Thesis Site: Manhattan Waterfront Advisor: John May The archive is a typology challenged by the advent of digital systems. Starting from Boullee, the concept of an archive of world knowledge was that it became a space of encounter in which consensus about truth could be formed. With the subtraction of books from the traditional archival imagingation, this project addresses new forms of social gathering around shared spectatorship. The building, as an animated bodily cocoon and instrument of shared projection becomes a space in which people may share archival content and discuss its meaning. The small cocoons and lever arms exteriorized to be on display to a general public act as a weathervane for the dissapearance of content from the Internet, signalling the activity of the internet archive (data center) inside the concrete wall structure, and the performativity of remembering archival content
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Left: Night Render shows 'lung' balloons pulsing up and down with the passing of archival content. Right: Diagrams show dynamic structure pumping air and heat from data center into balloon as internet content is forgotten. The lungs create a 'last breath' for forgotten content.
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Kunstmuseum Basel Renovation Competition Type: Museum Renovation Category: Professional Johnston Marklee July, 2021 Site: Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Project Team: Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee, Nelson Byun, in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein Renderer: Filipo Bolognese 26
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This proposed intervention took a light touch approach to the revitalization of the original 1936 museum building, tactically opening up connections to improve wayfinding and space utilization for new kinds of art and art curation. The emphasis of the proposal was about re-thinking the life inside the museum rather
than large-scale building changes. Along with proposing interventions, I was tangibly responsible for creating linework renders for the competition boards that emphasized the possible new life of museum spaces. This also included creating an animation for the competition presentation with the same collaged graphics.
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Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill Work
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Type: Academic/Lab, Masterplan/ Urban Design, Urban Design/ Mixed-use/Tower Category: Professional - SOM 2016-2017 Site: UC Merced; Chengdu, China; Wuhan, China Project Team: Michael Leung, Sean Regasa, Leo Chow, Michael Duncan & others
1. U.C. Merced Campus Extension Dining Hall & Lab Merced, CA USA. Schematic Design & Design Development. 2. Chengdu Aerotropolis Chengdu, China. Masterplan and architectural studies for a new city. Proposing architectural guidelines responding to climatic conditions and the clients desire for a sustainable city infrastructure. 3. Tower & Mixed-Use Complex Wuhan, China. Project proposed a pleated form to accomodate office in lower half and residential in upper half.
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WUHAN GUOHUA FINANCIAL CENTER LOCATION
WUHAN, CHINA
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Left: Plan shows core layouts, which I helped layout for form that transforms from square at the bottom to star shaped at the top to maximize leasable office space, but also provide panoramic residential views at the top.
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Atelier Peter Zumthor Models Type: Residential; Mixed-Use/ Residential Category: Professional Atelier Peter Zumthor 2019-2020 Site: Doha, Qater; Antwerp, Belgium Project Team: Peter Zumthor, Sai Alon, Mierta Feuerstein, others Responsibility: Model Making
Pg. 1 House for a Sheikh & Sheikha Doha, Qatar. A Complex residential program for a young Sheikh family, with the concept of three types of rooms: Loggia, Courtyard, and Garden. Pg. 2 Tower Zero Antwerp, Belgium. A 100 unit residential tower in a new downtown development.The design utilizes a "casco" structure for flexible unit types.
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- Tower Zero, Antwerp Study Model-
Left & Right: Study Model for scale, proportion, and facade strategies at 1:50
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Long House - Tall House Type: Single Family/Residential Category: Professional Independent 2020 - ongoing Site: Sea Ranch, CA USA Project Team: Steve Harrison, Hüma Şahin Status: Permitting
Situated along the Northern California coast, Sea Ranch is known for its strong design principles derived from observations of the ecological systems it is situated in. The Long House and the Tall House are together a single family home that emphasize the space between the buildings as much as the buildings themselves.
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So doing, they bring living into contact with the prairie, coastal forest, and ocean that lie adjacent. The goal was to have a house that was modest, but also tactically out-standing. To achieve this, it leans heavily on considerations of sequence, type, and proportion as well as the traditional barn form.
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Left: Construction Plan shows "Long" house and "Tall" House relationships to privacy and exterior space. Right: Elevations show sculptural pitched roofs.
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Dia-Logue/Dia-Eikon Type: Exhibition Category: Independent Work Site: Kirkland Gallery of the Harvard GSD Collaboration: Hüma Şahin, Ines & Nuria Benitez Ours is a world of increasing mediation, with images, especially digital, becoming a ubiquitous component of relationality. Yet this type of relationality (often oneto-many, rather than one-toone or few-to-few) has seen a correspondent increase in feelings of isolation and alienation. Dia-Eikon proposes co-opting the form of digital image exchange for a more intimate type of exchange - a form of discourse that eschews the finished and final in favor 42
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of the sketchy and discursive. Through this format, autonomous intellectual zones are formed, which can perhaps be the groundwork for truly being together. The project is a series of three ‘Dia-Logues / Dia-Eikons’ (image exchanges) totaling over 500 sketches exchanged nightly between participants, and two accompanying crafted works (that were the result of the thinking within the dialogues). They were displayed
in Kirkland Gallery in April 2022, during which the audience was invited to participate in the atmosphere of dialogue through sketches of their own. The dialogues are ongoing and are open to new paths of exploration. The project was conceived with Huma Sahin, and in addition to being a sketch exchange participant, I was also the primary fabricator of phsyical models.
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Sculpture & Design Type: Sculpture Category: Academic - Harvard GSD Fall 2021 - Sculpture Studio Instructor: Katarina Burin
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1. This series of sculptures explores the relationship of failure and form. Through various formal expressions of slippage, with deliberate relationships of surface finishes, the forms play on ideas and expectations of 'finish' and 'finality'. the family of forms are made of chipboard, but finished with a variety of treatments ranging from plaster, to lacquer, paint, & graphite.
2. A pair of Salad Forks and an accompanying stand play with the idea of serving food. The forks have an anthropomorphic quality, which suggest a defamiliarized hand that is both inviting and refined.
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