Architecture Design Lab OysterPub
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Fourth year
Urban Link Recreation Center
10-17
Third year, AIA Winston-Salem Architecture Runner Up Award
Appalachian Research Center
18-25
Third year
Quinquela Martin Art School
26-31
Second year
Coastal Oregon Natatorium
32-35
Second year
Place of Wonder
36-39
Third year
Container for Water
40-41
Second year
Competitions Tectonic Washroom
42-45
Third Year Competition, Citation Award
Sinking Creek Mountain Shelter
46-49
Second Year Competition, Runner Up
Allegheny Avenue Community Housing
50-51
2013 BLTa Student Sketch Competition
Design, Photography & Drawing Art Gallery
54
First year
Aluminium Box
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First year
Corner Assemblies
56-57
First year
Cincinnati
58
Second year
Charlotte
59
First year
Light and Shadow
60
First year
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OysterPub
The OysterPub is situated at the last natural edge of the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Historic maps of the harbor’s edge show this as one of the most recent locations of water filled in by land. At this site, NOAA’s projected sea level rise indicates floodwater to reach 10’ above sea level by the year 2100. The result being that this piece of land will be taken back by the water within 85 years.
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Inspired by timelines for oyster cultivation and harvesting, the OysterPub follows a timeline of its own, with three construction phases and six flooding phases. Starting out as an oyster hatchery and farm, a market and restaurant are opened to introduce customers to oyster cultivation and restoration practices. Sitting in a flood plain, the OysterPub floods sequentially as sea level rises, reducing programmable space by converting foundation to artificial oyster reef.
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Path of a Cultivated Oyster
Order & Program 4
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The public enters the building from the pedestrian bridge, leading them across the oyster farmed inlet. First one walks past the market, then the Hatchery at the center of the building, and finally opening up into the restaurant seating overlooking the inlet and city to the North.
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A combination of heavy timber cypress walls and treated glulam columns provide the building structure. Brass clad mullions and hatchery roofing offer complimentary weathering with the exposed cypress. Concrete waffle floor slab provides structure and oyster habitat, dependent on its orientation. Modular glass curtain walls allow the faรงade to step back over time. The OysterPub explores what it really means for a building to be sustainable: by adapting to its location to extend its useful life, and by being de-constructible to allow for material reuse.
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Urban Link Recreation Center AIA Winston-Salem Architecture Runner Up Award
Winston-Salem, NC is currently divided by highway Business 40. The site of the Urban Link Recreation Center is an underutilized piece of land surrounding that highway. The project joins downtown Winston Salem to the North and historic Old Salem to the South with several pedestrian paths allowing multiplicities of connection and several joints where interaction can occur. Movement through the urban fabric of Winston-Salem is an idea further explored within the buildings’ program. The gymnasiums, much like the pathways, are a reflected understanding of athlete’s and people’s freedom of movement.
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Starting with a 15’ grid, an incision is made into the form to extract pieces and displace them. But the memory of their original location remains; its former structure spanning over the void to connect what once was whole. The void becomes part of the pedestrian pathway that cuts through the basketball gymnasium and adjacent dance studio. The exposed structural elements continue inside, crossing over one another with chaotic energy. Their depth relates to the slope of Liberty Street, making habitable roof pockets, level with the street, in the space between the structures. Ventilation ducts are also housed within the structural elements. A packaged HVAC unit is stored in one rooftop pocket, along with a storm water collection system.
Order & Program 12
second story weight room and habitable roof pockets overlooking basketball gym 13
The largest space houses two basketball gyms, locker rooms, offices, a group exercise room, and a weight room, while the smaller holds two dance studios. Views are focused inward towards the basketball gym, the activities occurring inside and the crisscrossing structural ceiling elements, from the pedestrian path, weight room, and two of the roof pockets. Natural light penetrates the space from these points as well. The structural elements serve as walls for the roof pockets, and they change in depth between 2’ and 10’ to create more private and more public environments. One pocket becomes a pedestrian bridge that leaps off of the roof and over the highway.
Plans & Sections 14
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Material & Assembly 16
Tan fiber-cement panels cover the exterior walls and roof as a rain screen. Metal panels wrap around the steel structure to create elements that penetrate though the glass curtain wall. The gym interior has burnished CMU walls, wooden floor, and acoustic ceiling panels. The structure is made of steel columns, floor beams on the second floor, and trusses on the roof. The structure was optimized and sized with appropriate live, dead, snow, wind, and seismic loads to meet minimum deflection, drift, and code requirements. The total weight of the primary structure is 494k.
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Appalachian Research Center
Marshall, NC is a town nestled in a mountain valley adjacent to the French Broad River. The site acts as a focal point to the surrounding mountains, making its roof and topography a crucial aspect of its design. The Appalachian Research Center seeks to compliment the veins of movement through a mountain’s valleys by creating valleys that guide people though the building and landscape. The primary valley connects the public and private buildings. Both buildings have a perpendicular valley cutting across them to allow for movement through and habitation of the roof.
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The larger private building is made up of three programmatic levels. The bottommost layer is tucked underground, and is the Geology lab, River lab, and fieldwork areas. The middle floor holds the entryway and offices, and the top level juts out of the roof to hold six individual apartments. The separate public building is made up of art exhibition space and a rooftop garden. The organization of space is derived from the need for privacy. The lab spaces are situated underground for silence during research. The apartments require distance, vertical or horizontal, from the train tracks while maintaining views of the river just beyond. And work areas need distance from public. The form is kept relatively low to the ground to maintain the Main Street building’s views of the river.
Program & Plan 20
The roof shifts up and down, growing higher as one travels away from the center valley. The roof is a landscape of its own, revealing and concealing views and light. Light travels deep into a series of spaces below the roof through light wells. Joints in the roof line dissolve and separate, allowing light to connect the building. The building material is dark precast concrete triangular panels that bring a sense of solidarity and weight to the building. The panels fold over the building form acting as roof, wall, and ground; all of which are supported by cast in place structural concrete walls. Entrances are formed from the exterior surface peeling away, allowing one to slip into the building.
Roof & Material 23
Reflected Ceiling Plan 24
Structural logic is obtained from structural walls holding up girders, which then support beams and roof and floor slabs. Exposed concrete structure spans the roof of the lab spaces, while a lighter wooden structure, tucked into the thickness of the ceiling and floor, supports the upper apartments.
Structure 25
Quinquela Martin Art School
Professor Housing Breakfast Bar Vertical Circulation Art Studio Student Housing Art Gallery Library and Film Archive
La Boca is a colorful, old port neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The site sits adjacent to the town’s cultural hub, the Caminito; a pedestrian walk where artists and craftsman exhibit their work, and dancers tango in the street. As an extension to the existing Museum Quinquela Martin, the art school serves as a studio space and temporary lodging for visiting art students. The first floor holds the studio along with the public art gallery, library, and entry for the second floor cafÊ. Student housing is provided on the first and second floor, while two permanent professors enjoy the most privacy on the third floor.
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The architecture is a dance between forms, a reflection of the bright La Boca context, and an exploration of intertwining constructs which generate an interior courtyard and exterior patios. The curved structure provides a dynamic enclosure that guides the visitor to move, see, and understand the space. There is a sense that the building is bending and flowing around you, while framing views such as the pre-existing mural at the main entry.
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The school has walls of reflective glass, allowing it to pick up colors from its context. However, its roof provides color of its own from different colored metal panels. The interior features wooden ceilings and curved walls to draw the eye upwards. Gypsum encased steel columns, steel beams, and metal deck provide the primary structure, while curved beams support the curving walls. 5’ 1’
Material & Structure 30
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Coastal Oregon Natatorium
The natatorium is an aquatic center for swim training and competition located along the coast of Oregon. It holds a dive pool, lap pool, and two hot tubs. The model on the left page is a material study for a translucent faรงade that fans out to provide a covered entry and interior stadium seating. The idea of translucency is translated into the final design where glulam beams are read as solid from a side view, but open from a front view.
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Fluid glulam beams wrap around the front faรงade and extend across the translucent roof like waves, expressing the structure and directing the movement of the inhabitants within. A central entry and transitional space provides access to the pools and views of the coastline.
Roof Form 35
This is a place of reflection for hikers of the Appalachian Mountain trails. It is designed to amplify one’s experience of nature by sight, sound, and touch. Wind howls, light passes, water drips, and plants sit in the metal pipes creating the space. Upon entering the structure one can step back to the darkness, into the mountain, to ponder and understand the structural nature of their environment.
Place of Wonder
Initial exploration looked into how the same pipe could be repeated and transformed to create walls and roof. The pipe became a sculptural and structural element that is stacked, joined, welded and leaned. Pipes bleed out and disappear back into the ground, over time becoming engulfed by the landscape. The metal pipes rust, plants take over roof pipes, vines creep up the side walls, and bird nests and spider webs make their home in the pipes. The initial bright and shiny bulbous form fades away as part of the landscape, not just an object in it, allowing the architecture to transform over time.
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Exploring Form 37
Environment 38
Container for Water
The Container for Water is a floating retreat for the inhabitant that not only sits in water but collects it for its own pond. The perforated surface creates a nest like enclosure, which acts as an opening for water during the occasional wave. The radiating, rectangular modules create a curvilinear shape that filters light and frames a view.
Modular Surface 41
Tectonic Washroom 3rd Year Competition Citation Award w/ Forrest Bibeau & Megan Gileza
The tectonic washroom is located along Virginia Tech’s public Duck Pond path. Plates of the restroom shift and rotate into the earth as if being compelled by gravity, the essential element for the passive building systems. On the exterior, wooden sections foreshadow and align with interior components organized around a central concrete wet wall.
Gravity 43
A combination of water and antifreeze is pumped through a closed horizontal thermal loop, heating the concrete wet wall, and preventing water in the pipes from freezing. Runoff is collected by the gutter and directed into the wet wall where it is filtered through plants and stored to supply sinks and urinal. Grey water and overflow filtered water is recaptured to supply garden spigot. Black water is removed, and the system is supplemented by running water when necessary. Compost from four toilets and compost receptacles is collected at a single location providing accessible fertilizer.
Passive Systems 44
Sinking Creek Mountain Shelter 2nd Year Competition Runner Up
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The Sinking Creek Mountain Shelter provides a place for gathering, rest and reflection for up to twelve Appalachian Trail hikers. The architecture is shaped by and utilizes the mountain’s views of the rising and setting sun, fresh air, and abundance of local wood and stone. The façade is continually altered by the inhabitants who use and replace the firewood, in effect becoming an interactive sculpture revealing who has arrived and departed.
Enclosure 48
Philadelphia’s Allegheny Avenue Community Housing facility starts at the façade, comprised of a double skin. Effective environmentally, for shading sun light and heat, the outer skin acts metaphorically as a physical shedding of skin in order for one to start a new life. The outer layer is slipping away, like a molting snake, to reveal an ordered interior system of concrete structure. Public functions are held on the main level, where the focal point is a dining area with a large atrium that opens up to outdoor gathering space. The top two floors hold housing units that step back relative to the sloping roof, angled to optimize southern sunlight for solar panels. A green house is tucked below it supporting occupant well-being. The architecture is meeting the street corner in order to welcome one passing by; welcoming their curiosity, and their hope for a better life.
Allegheny Avenue Community Housing 2013 BLTa Sketch Competition
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Design, Photography & Drawing
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The art gallery is organized around two primary axis of movement. A longer angled hallway is highlighted by a clear glass roof. This hallway leads to a contrastingly heavy and private gallery space. A secondary axis, emphasized by a frosted glass roof, is the atrium, which opens up to an exterior sculpture garden. The building form is two golden rectangles comprised of two axes that play with lines of sight by widening from the entrance to the point of termination.
Art Gallery 54
One piece of aluminum is folded to create a box with a triangular indention. The triangle cut outs create a hidden space and viewing windows that allow the eye to explore the reflection of light in the interior and exterior spaces.
Aluminium Box 55
These multimedia drawings describe a series of corners and their form, joints and assembly. Each corner is made up of three planes, each with a central cut out crucial to the working of the joint.
Corner Assemblies 56
These images investigate dynamic facades and interior spaces. They exhibit architectural moves of shifting, bending, and repeating; all of which create drama and intrigue.
Cincinnati, OH 58
Images to the left explore how buildings interact with their environment, like the sun or a lamp post. The image above demonstrates building materials complementing each other through color and thickness.
Charlotte, NC 59
Explorative charcoal studies about capturing contrast.
Light & Shadow 60