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ALEX GORMLEY Spring 2015
PRESENCE VOIDS Peter Zumthor defines presence as “a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.� Bringing the phenomenon of presence into architecture comes into play throughout my architecture portfolio through the act of the void. By creating spaces that void the occupant of outside distractions, a moment is created, and presence can be achieved. This is a guiding principle in my work.
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Timber in the City
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Rise/Run Project
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Simple Retreat
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History of Place
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Barrie School
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Data Sciences Building
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Process and Ritual
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SPRING SEMESTER 2013
location: brooklyn, ny professor: lucie fontein partner: andrew sommervill e
TIMBER IN THE CITY Using the construction of a new timber high-rise structure in Red Hook as both a response to hurricane sandy and a look forward into the future of sustainable timber construction.
BROKEN TIMBER Hurricane Sandy exposed many new and forthcoming problems the city will face in the coming years as projections show that storms of this magnitude will become more frequent. It also became where we drew our inspiration from for the design of our high-rise timber structure. The competition site lays in an area of the former industrial shipping area of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Lying near the harbor, the site is in danger of flooding with the growing treat of stormsurges and in area of Red Hook that is lacking any identity other than a nearby IKEA. The creation of a new tower is an opportunity to offer the community both a new high-effiency living condition, and a space the survivors can reflect upon the damage done by the storm.
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In order to maximize enfficency and address the growing trends in urban housing, the tower has been laid out to have more studio and one bedroom spaces than two bedroom or more. All the units have been designing to the new standards in compact living.
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The pier/column structure is used throughout the building to create unique units.
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The main tower is slashed and scarred, breaking the traditional mass and exposing the wood structure to the exterior much like a wound that has yet to be healed. The tectonic moves in this section are representative of the emotional damage done by Hurricane Sandy.
These wounds/scars in the massing focus on the main atrium space which is designed to let the weather into the building and connect the occupants which the past while they look towers a more sustainable future. In the hyperexperiential atrium, massing shifts were generated to establish movement and to create an alluring space for residents to occupy. This is a space in which presence is felt.
Intersecting the atrium space, is the major landscape feature, the pier-scape. Drawing inspiration from the numerous abandon docks in the New York harbor, a field of timber columns will be created to add spatial interest on the ground level. These ‘piers’ will
be randomized to continue the storm battered motif and as they approach the underside of the tower they become the main structural element of the tower. The angling of the columns in towards each other creates a rigid structure that will resist any future storm to come.
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SPRING SEMESTER 2013
location: cincinnnati, ohio professor: lucie fontein
RISE RUN Cincinnati’s 399 stairways, once a symbol of a thriving pedestrian city, are in a grave state of disrepair. Rejuvenating the stairways and reinventing the once active inclines are an opportunity to bring life back to the city.
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cultural high point of the city 3 presidents, 2 national conventions, 8 firsts, explosion of cultural buildings
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private residents start building wooden steps throughout the city
city slowly replaces wooden stairs with more permanent concrete steps
city starts to produce precast steps to ease repairs of deteriorating stairs
city fills in stairs along columbia parkway due to ‘lack of use’
fairview incline lifespan bellevue incline lifespan mt.adams incline lifespan price’s hill incline lifespan
City Inclines
mt. auburn incline lifespan mt. auburn horse-car line established
expositional convention of the ohio valley and central states
Push Back to City
with a new revitalization effort to develop a public transit system
first city to establish a municipal fire dept.
first night baseball game
roebling bridge completed
riots of 1884
first city to establish a municipal university
cincinnati stock exchange opens
republican national convention
mahler’s 5th symphony world premier
boy scouts of america founded first university to offer cooperative education
print campaign begins to draw attention to steps
union terminal completed cincy/dayton/hamiliton railway completed
street car groundbreaking I-75 cuts through west end
I-71 completed through city
cincy/lake erie railway completed
race riots of 2001 great flood of 1937
rutherford hayes elected president
US Events
ulysses s. grant elected president
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model t first benjamin harrison elected president
FIELD RESEARCH
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In order to better grasp the problem of the degrading stair infrastructure, I conducted a large amount of field research, which entailed going and visiting as many of the staircases in all the various states of disrepair.
Cincinnati’s cultural rise and fall can be closely tied to the success of the city steps and the former inclines. During the ‘hay day’ of these two infrastructures Cincinnati was a cultural icon and a city others aspired to be like.
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stair networks are formed around stairexisting districts formed the communities
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roits of 1853
music hall completed
first concrete skyscraper built (ingalls building)
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william h. taft elected president
new deal signed providing money for renovations to existing infrastructures.
federal aid highway act signed by eisenhower
However the city has gone through a long slow decline, the inclines have vanished and the stairs have fallen into disrepair. In recent years the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) has made dramatic strides towards rejuvenating the Over
the Rhine downtown neighborhood of Cincinnati. Gentrification of a number of blocks along Vine Street as well as a major face lift to Washington Park, has sparked a new interest in living downtown.
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MAPPING THE PROBLEM Despite the degraded state of the stairways, and in the case of the inclines, their disappearance altogether, the locations of these once important urban connectors represent an important infrastructural opportunity for Cincinnati to reestablish its downtown core as a safe and vital pedestrian environment.
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Rise/Run proposes to build upon these developments, by extending a safe pedestrian environment northward along the former route of the Mount Auburn stairs and incline, to ultimately connect with the University of Cincinnati Campus.
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BUILT INTERVENTION Build a community structure at the top of the former incline locations to create hillside community destinations and activate interest and engagement with the stairway network.
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Center of Attention
revitalization efforts in the historic OTR district have lead to a boom for the local culture and community
third floor: drinking hall social gathering space
price’s hill second floor: community history room group learning spaces
first floor: community meeting rooms entry hall
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RISE/RUN MOVEMENT
IF THESE STEPS COULD TALK MT. AUBURN STEP ASSOC.
*The city steps are due for a comeback, be part of the movement and help bring one of Cincinnati’s unique features back to life.
RISE/RUN MOVEMENT
THE HILLS ARE BACK
MT. AUBURN STEP ASSOC.
*The city steps are due for a comeback, be part of the movement and help bring one of Cincinnati’s unique features back to life.
RISE/RUN MOVEMENT
RESPECT THE PAST BUILD THE FUTURE
MT. AUBURN STEP ASSOC.
*The city steps are due for a comeback, be part of the movement and help bring one of Cincinnati’s unique features back to life.
RISE/RUN MOVEMENT
WHERE ARE OUR STEPS
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mt. auburn & prospect hill
step map
physical installations
cincinnati parks department
*The city steps are due for a comeback, be part of the movement and help bring one of Cincinnati’s unique features back to life.
stair district map guerilla poster campaign
final booklet design
Begin to strategically place signage promoting the necessity of the stairs. By bringing attention to the closed stairs, a public backing for a project can be achieved. By using posters, stair installations, and social advertising, flexibility can
be achieved in order to reach a broad audience. A graphic identity will be created similar to that of the friends of the high line movement, to offer citizens something to associate to the movement.
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In addition to the guerilla print campaign, stair network maps will be created for each hillside district showing the future possibilities of fully operational stair networks. A booklet will be created to distribute to key
partners and community leaders in order to explain the project’s goals and the necessity of it’s success for the city moving forward.
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SPRING 2014
location: sackville, nb competition submission
BLUR THE LINES Can architecture blur the lines between the built environment and nature. A simple cabin in the woods that takes on this challenge with a minimalistic design centered on letting nature take presence.
A SIMPLE RETREAT The pattering of rain on a roof. The warmth of a wood fire on cold feet. The cool touch of a window on a winter’s night. The tranquil peace of the mist lifting in the forest beyond. The embedded quality of a well crafted detail. These are the many simple, yet truly complex experiences that a cabin in the woods must treat its users to. For it is a cabin in the woods that can truly help a person break away from the many distractions of everyday life, come back to the physical. The clean and simple formal nature of cabin’s architecture, which is inspired by the regional vernacular architecture of the pioneer house. The cladding was chosen to fit in with the other buildings already existing on the site.
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The cabin’s design centers largely around the placement of two picture windows, one in the loft and one in the main space. This picture windows a designed to limit views out of the space unless the occupant is either sitting or laying in bed. Both this positions encourage reflection and mediation in the presence of the surrounding nature.
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FALL SEMESTER 2014
location: columbus, in professor: tom bible
HISTORY OF PLACE The Columbus Antheneam will serve as the beacon of cultural display for an already historic town of Columbus, Indiana. Using the poeticism of its architecture, the Antheneam will seek to transcend its surroundings and elicit the histories of the setting.
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The design of the Antheneam was heavily process driven, with the goal in mind of having a highly integrated building concept. During this process, hand sketching was a integral part, along with hand modeling and computer drafting, in figuring out the various nuances of the building’s program and strategies.
The parti developed looked at pushing architecture past digital parametric ism and into a more natural form of parametric ism using the natural cuts of rock the create elaborate surfaces. In the parti sketch it was envisioned that the building become a series of floating masses which house the protected gallery programs, which were intersected and surrounded by the
public circulation void space. These two moves would then be held together with a integrated fabric facade which will act as a shading device both on the elevations and on the roof to shade the skylight openings.
daylighting while also heading the protection of the artifacts of display. Throughout the building a complexity is created through a simple material palette, but which a complex approach to material implementation.
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The interior concept of the building is driven by the programmatic needs of natural
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As the main public thoroughfare, these void spaces inhabit the areas between masses are ambient light fillet in contrast to the heavy weight of the masses.
Dark and secluded, the archives are the hidden yet an omnipresent. A control amount of daylighting is brought into the space from the above voids.
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The upper gallery spaces feature signature oculi which filter and focus light into the spaces highlighting specific works while shielding others.
The lower gallery spaces are the most frequented spaces in the building. The spaces offer varied light conditions from the elevational curtain walls.
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The journey through the museum is a path which takes the viewers through series of varied light conditions and spatial compressions. The culmination of which is the upper gallery spaces and gardens(seen hatched in plan) with their specialized oculi.
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location: silver springs, md team: chet bartels, daniel, kelly, anne, peter co-op experience
BARRIE UPPER CAMPUS The design of this Montessori school reflects the schools ideology of respect to nature. The new innovative learning centers are designed to fit into the site in the least disruptive way.
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The upper campus of the Barrie school is meant to act both as a school campus and a summer camp, reflecting the core values of the school. The architecture of the buildings reflects this through their aesthetic and formal language.
The site constraints, such as creek setbacks and signature trees, morphed the layouts of the buildings into unique shapes. This combined with the flexible classroom design, creates a signature school which the community can be proud of.
WINTER SEMESTER 2015
location: rochester, ny team: frano j. violich, sheila kennedy, alex shelly, belinda valenti, robert white
DATA SCIENC E S BUILDING Located in the intersection of the traditional and new campus at the University of Rochester, the New Data Sciences building seeks to “break the box� of the traditional university building topology.
The ground level of the new Data Science’s building is defined by a main public gallery space articulated into various spatial zones by interior place-making and articulations. The space pictured to the right is the formal entry into an audtiorium space and one of the main entries into the building.
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location: cincinnati, oh professor: vincent sansalone
PROCESS AND R I T UA L Stools that allowed the process of making to inform their design with the end goal of a collaborative dining event in mind.
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type: dining stool weight: 5 lbs. dimensions: 18” x 20” x 7.5”
The design is the result of trial and error, while having a general aesthetic guideline of expression of the assembly.
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collecting marks dinner with mike griffen collaboration through discussion, this dinner was the intersection between two design projects that focused on the overlap of the phenomenology of a dinning event.
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