A.Mittman Designs_
NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF CULINARY ARTS
MAY, 2012
A strong notion of economic growth and community rebirth in New Orleans is underway. Around the site, the area is populated with many local businesses and churches lining the street, community gardens, a boxing gym and after-school activity centers. New Orleans’ College of Culinary Arts pushes the use of steel through a figural, structural steel-skinned tower, which plays an active role on the stage of the site and rebirth of the area. It houses meditative space such as lounges, classrooms and a two-story wine room. Its structure penetrates though the single-story restaurant and serves the public at the street edge, while the Culinary Arts School occupies the main six-story tower.
HOLY CROSS REDEVELOPMENT, NEW ORLEANS
AUG, 2012
ROYAL ST
PARCEL E
RIVER
PARCEL D
MISSISSIPPI
PARCEL C
DESLONDE ST
PARCEL B
PARCEL A-2
T4
2-STORY 8-UNIT RESIDENTIAL (TYP.)
6-STORY RESIDENTIAL ABOVE PARKING T3
COMM
3-STORY RESIDENTIAL
PRIVATE DRIVE
A
A
419,204 SF
OFFICE RE-HAB OF EXISTING HIST. BLDG. PARKING BELOW PLAZA
PLAZA
PARKING/ SITE AMENITIES
PARKING/ SITE AMENITIES 2-STORY COMM BLDG.
T2
PARCEL A-1
PARKING ON GRADE
T1
REYNES ST
N. RAMPART ST
BURGUNDY ST
DAUPHINE ST
ROYAL ST
PARCEL F
1-STORY COMM; 2-STORY RESIDENTIAL ABOVE
6-STORY RESIDENTIAL ABOVE 1-STORY OFFICE
CHARTRES
6-STORY RESIDENTIAL ABOVE PARKING ON-GRADE
GRAPHIC SCALE 60
0
30
120
60
1" = 60'
PARKING BENEATH ROOF PLAZA
CLOCK TOWER @ 85’
84’ 24’
A
36’
A
240
REVIT, PARAMETRIC BUS STOP
MAY, 2012
TEAM MEMBERS: Aaron Mittman Hex-panel design William Nemitoff Bus stop; rigging Devin Reynolds Steel; signage
Double Hex-Grid Glazing Concept, Fabrication and Lighting Components by Aaron Mittman Rendering By William Nemitoff
Bus stop designed to seat 3 + 1 ADA. Contact with the ground is made at only two points. A mobius strip was used for inspiration whereby the double-hexogonal grid provides the seating, structure and environmental protection. Glue-laminated wood encase the structure, provide additional support and beauty/ clarity. Contained inside the grid are the LED lighting components. Rendering By Devin Reynolds
TECHNICAL_REVIT, RULE-BASED PARAMETRIC SKY BRIDGE
LOCATION: 860 LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO
MARCH, 2012
PARAMETERS FLEX
Custom parameters - in the form of mathematical formulas - are used to generate form. In turn, the frames and windows flex as parameters change by the user; this is a snapshot of one design.
TYPE PARAMETERS
Frame - Flat, Triangle-based Rig Frame Width = 6” Frame Depth 1 = 3’-0” Frame Depth 2 = Frame Depth 1 * 1/3 Frame Depth 3 = Frame Depth 1 * 2/3
NESTED FAMILIES
WINDOW HOSTED IN FRAME
FRAME
TYPE PARAMETERS
WINDOW
INSTANCE PARAMETER
URBANbuild PROTOTYPE HOME DEC, 2011
- Open up the typical dark shotgun corridor - Culminate corridor with covered light/ open spaces - Maximize daylighting of corridor - Outdoor covered entrance and rear deck frames views of the neighborhood
GLASSWORK, ART & DESIGN. 1998-PRESENT
Green Machine. Glass Sculpture. Found Engine, Glass and Steel, 2001.
Untitled Still-Life. 2’X3’Pencil On Cold Pressed Illustration Board, 1998.
GRAPHIC & MENU DESIGN_ROOSTERFISH ‘POPUP’ RESTAURANT
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Octopus Confit Terrine 7 celery, potato, smoked aioli
Seared Scallop 9
sweet corn butter,cranberry relish, pickled mustard
Escargot 8
garlic cream, sweet herbs pain perdu, fennel salad
Gulf Fish 8
potato blue cheese croquette, melted onion, tarragon emulsion
Smoked Redfish 7
crispy cauliflower, Cucumber cream, mint, golden raisin
Crab-Gnocchi 8
caramelized pumpkin, brown butter sage, candied pumpkin seeds
Fried Oysters & Pork Belly 8
frisée, pickled celery, radish, sherry gastrique
Ciabatta 6
buratta, choupique, truffle, fleur de sel
Roasted Vegetable Salad 7
marinated mushrooms, roasted cauliflower, hearts of palm, puquillo pepper, olives, roasted tomato, manchego emulsion
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U-10 Shrimp 8
butternut squash purée , corn salad, cilantro pudding
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IMAGES FROM CUBA. DIGITAL IMAGES.
2002
Import. Home
Terracotta Roof Vista
Cuban Woman On Balcony
Wealthy Interior Preserved
Cuban Icon
Wooden Truss Support System
C O N C L U S I O N F R OM R ESEAR C H EN TITLED : Digital Regression: Intuitive Practice and the Future of Architecture (2011). “Architecture has a long history independent from computer science; however, digital technology has become imbedded into our contemporary society at a global scale. As a global society, our values are also changing as the degree of separation between computer aided thinking and human thought comes closer together. Digital technology has the capacity to render what were otherwise unattainable ideas into fully realized solutions. Hand-drawing and fast thinking allow for a less fragmented creative process compared to the slow thought necessary to process computer generated ideas quickly. Our schools are teaching students to rely upon slow thought technology early during the design process. Computers can process information quickly but they cannot think intuitively and I don’t believe there is a substitution for a human’s ability to create. New generations of architects are being introduced to complex thoughtprocess thinking via digital technology at an increasingly early age. I wonder if this introduction to computers will enable students and practitioners of architecture to design more intuitively in the future. My hope is that students of architecture, and the profession, do not reduce their ability and responsibility to generate ideas using their natural intuition. They are the sources responsible for the generation of ideas. Human intuition continues to guide digital technology and not vice versa.“
Taking Nature By Force. 10”X4’Cast Glass, Salvaged Live Oak, and Steel.