Alexander Farley Design Sheets

LABORLANDSCHAFT

STUDIO: MIT THESIS - ADVISOR ANDREW SCOTT DURATION 3.5 MONTHS - FALL 2014 SITE: SEAPORT, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

This thesis proposes to redesign the industrial pharmaceutical laboratory typology by rethinking the composition of the laboratory module; the smallest functional sub-unit of the laboratory type. The design for this thesis applies contemporary corporate counter-culture spatial organizational ideas onto the laboratory module. Central to these concepts is an architecture that is user-oriented and environmentally sensitive rather than managerially-oriented. The spatial organization seeks to flatten the managerial hierarchy by eliminating explicit office spaces. The laboratory is instead spatially divided according to affinity for behaviors and activities rather than strict programmatic designations.

However, architectural design cannot control occupant’s behaviors, but it can endorse a specific networked culture through the configuration of spaces. The use of common flexible spaces endorses and encourages social interaction. Likewise the form and figure of the laboratory establishes an environmental tone by allowing the research spaces to sit within an open field. This open field aspect allows for maximum daylighting and greater levels of visual and social interaction. Through a “plug and play” service infrastructure, the lab benches and fume hoods can behave more as setting and furniture rather than rigid spatial datums. Additionally, these spaces also provide for reconfigurability and easy upgradeability. By seeking to move away from standard laboratory spatial solutions and conventions the design takes the position that a laboratory field condition encourages new modes of scientific interaction and production. This laboratory functions as much as an intellectual play ground as it does a functional research laboratory.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON FARLEY | afarley@mit.edu 82 PLEASANT ST., CAMBRIDGE, MA | 626-429-2280

Bench services tap [gas, vacuum, electrical, data]

Bench services manifold [gas, vacuum, electrical, data]

Lab bench plugs into sub-floor service manifold

Lab bench can rotate about the service port

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RHINOCEROS, DIVA, MASS MOTION, GRASSHOPPER, MAXWELL, V-RAY, THE ADOBE SUITE AND PHYSICAL MODELLING WERE UTILIZED THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER

SHOALING PIER

STUDIO: MIT - ANDREW SCOTT DURATION 3.5 MONTHS - SPRING 2013 SITE: RINCON PARK, SAN FRANCISCO

ALEXANDER HAMILTON FARLEY | afarley@mit.edu 82 PLEASANT ST., CAMBRIDGE, MA | 626-429-2280

The technology boom has brought a great deal of money into the San Francisco Bay area, but it has also created a housing shortage in the city of San Francisco. At the same time the city’s port sits largely unused and underdeveloped due to a desire to maintain complete public access to the waterfront. This design proposes a high density housing community that elevates design on the waterfront to a key visual element of the city while maintaining waterfront access to the public and retaining the neighborhood atmosphere of the city. The project offers a heterogeneity of unit types, deployed to form a wall to block the strong winds of the bay as well as use the winds for natural ventilation. The program of the development mixes both private housing and public access sailing and kayaking amenities. The individual units each have a public program on the ground floor, livework spaces on the second and third floors, and one, two, and three bedroom apartments on the fourth floor.

RHINOCEROS, GRASSHOPPER, MAXWELL, V-RAY, THE ADOBE SUITE AND PHYSICAL MODELLING WERE UTILIZED THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER

The neighborhoods of northwest Minneapolis have become separated from the natural amenities of the Mississippi River and the cultural programs available to the rest of the city. At the same time Minneapolis seeks both future-looking commercial opportunities and a brand identity that allows it to remain relevant as a city. The siting of an architectural intervention that systemically integrates a data center with a botanical garden on the northwest bank of the Mississippi River and expands pedestrian infrastructure provides a means for the city to reconnect the northwestern neighborhoods with the river park system, create a cultural destination, and spur economic growth. Minneapolis is a city that has long used the river as an economic engine. However, this has resulted in a tension between the unavoidable impact of industry on the land and the sacred relationship that Minnesotans have with nature. This design seeks to relieve the historic tension between industry and nature through the integration of the botanical garden’s climatic systems with the data center’s infrastructural systems out of which a larger ecology can emerge. The garden can become a media-rich environment warmed and enveloped in an inflatable system generated by the data center waste heat and the data center more efficiently regulate its environmental systems through the mass and biological features of the plants.

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STUDIO: MIT - SHEILA KENNEDY DURATION 2.5 MONTHS - FALL 2012 SITE: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

Inflatable manifold skin

Inflatable - Top Surface

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Botanical garden

Botanical Garden Inflatable - Bottom Surface

Inflatable manifold skin

Entrance Level + Community Gardens

Park Walkway

Rigid structure + Service chases

Cold Water Inlet

Community gardens

Server racks

Inflatable - Top Surface

Service Level

Botanical Garden

Cold water inlet

Inflatable - Bottom Surface

Entrance Level + Community Gardens

Park Walkway

Cold Water Inlet

ALEXANDER HAMILTON FARLEY | afarley@mit.edu

RHINOCEROS, PYTHON, GRASSHOPPER, 3DS MAX, MAXWELL, V-RAY, THE ADOBE SUITE AND PHYSICAL MODELLING WERE UTILIZED THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER

82 PLEASANT ST., CAMBRIDGE, MA | 626-429-2280

Inflatable - Top Surface

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STUDIO: MIT - MARIA ALESSANDRA SEGANTINI DURATION 3.5 MONTHS - SPRING 2012 SITE: PARCO SAN GIULIANO, VENICE, ITALY

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The rising tides and eroding ground of the Veneto lagoon demands a strategy to connect with the mainland. A failure of many contemporary architectural designs in Venice is the paradoxical embrace of Venetian history and culture with contemporary design. In essence it must exist and not-exist at the same time, a kind of sublimation between solid and void. This cultural center propses an adaptation of the Venetian palace typology with its long piano nobile and portego spaces pivoting around a piaza space that visually connects the center with the island of Venice to the West. The center is skinned with a louver system that offers environmental control as well allowing the building to simultaneously exist as a solid and void.

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ALEXANDER HAMILTON FARLEY | afarley@mit.edu 82 PLEASANT ST., CAMBRIDGE, MA | 626-429-2280

RHINOCEROS, PYTHON, GRASSHOPPER, 3DS MAX, MAXWELL, V-RAY, THE ADOBE SUITE, AND PHYSICAL MODELLING WERE UTILIZED THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER

The current Lincoln Laboratory campus is overcrowded and decentralized. This design opens the laboratory space and offers opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration within an environment maximized for human comfort. The laboratory is an environment that has traditionally acquiesced to the technical and infrastructural needs of the program. This ignores the importance of the human capital that the laboratory serves. It is the comfort of the scientists that leads to innovation. This laboratory proposes a return to the envelope as the source of light and air in order to best serve the researchers. The envelope provides a microclimate that elevates the comfort of the occupants while providing for efficient thermal control of clean room, production and assembly spaces. As an extension of this, the tectonic elements of the laboratory dissipate with each floor; all beneath a roof comprised of nimbular aerogel-insulated ETFE pillows.

LINCOLN LABORATORY

STUDIO: MIT - ANDREW SCOTT - YEAR 2 CORE DURATION 3.5 MONTHS - FALL 2011 SITE: LINCOLN LABORATORY, LEXINGTON, MA

A. Aluminum cladding B. Steel curtain wall hanger C. Fiberglass insulation D. Tubular steel column E. Steel mounting flange F. Steel J-anchor G.Tensegrity roof tensioning cable H. ETFE foil I. Tubular steel column J. Tensegrity tubular steel tension rod K. ETFE pillow pressure-regulation hose L. ETFE pressure-regulation valve M. Bird guard N. Grate O. Aluminum gutter P. Granular aerogel insulation

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A. Low-iron insulating glass B. Aluminum window sill C. Oak window sill D. Medium-density concrete E. Gypsum drywall F. Oak floor baord G. Moisture barrier membrane H. Aluminum floor riser I. Floor finish J. Interior glazing K. Extruded aluminum framing L. Drop-ceiling hangers M. Drop ceiling O. Low-density conrete light shelf P. Awning Q. Spider-sytem tensioning cable R. Stainless steel aluminum cladding wall anchor S. Extruded polystyrene insulation T. Alucobond dry-seal aluminum cladding z-clip system U. Spider clip rod V. Spider clip depth-adjustment element W. Spider clip X. Silicone seal Y. Laminated float glass Z. Vertical spider system tensioning cable

ALEXANDER HAMILTON FARLEY | afarley@mit.edu 82 PLEASANT ST., CAMBRIDGE, MA | 626-429-2280

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