Andrew Basha Portfolio by Andrew Basha

A ndrew B asha Selected Works 2018 - 2020

Andrew C. Basha Bachelor of Architecture + B.S. Architectural Engineering 2022 University of Texas at Austin

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Urban Cove

Bioluminescense

Post Highway Human + Animal Habitat

Parametric Lamp

Nomad Pass

Storyboarding

Transit Hub + Global Warming Research Center

Sketches from Interstellar

Hitchcock’s Lattice

Kierland Residences

Movie Theater Parasite

Multifamily Apartments

Ankh School

Resume

Post-Pandemic Middle School 48

Urban Cove Austin, TX Intermediate Design II, Spring 2020 Professor Nichole Wiedemann UTSOA Design Excellence Winner

The Traverse urban strategy developed as a team for the corridor formerly known as I-35 proposes arterial landscapes for both people and wildlife in an effort to return downtown Austin—Waller Creek and the future Waterloo Greenway—to the historically marginalized communities of East Austin and subsequentially rekindle the urbanite’s relationship with nature. Located on the southmost end of the masterplan, the site is the conﬂuence of pedestrian and bike paths connecting to Palm Park and a fourlane boulevard that dips below grade into a tunnel. Situated at the intersection of these circulation routes, a proposed eight-story residential complex rises out of the terrain shared by Palm Park to its west and abutted by a quiet neighborhood to the east. Balancing the need for proximal cultural and natural habitats, the building and land are shaped together to respond to the natural resources of Central Texas. While the building accommodates 76 living units, residential amenities and commercial programs in 130,000 SF, the structure is articulated to provide unexpected plateaus, crevasses, wetlands, and cliffs, providing distinct habitats for pollinators, urban burrowing birds, and native ﬁsh as well as native plant species. By embracing the ecological processes of the rapidly expanding concrete jungle, Traverse and Urban Cove add an infusion of nature aiming to raise awareness of the local and global biotic context in which people exist.

Urban Condition Diagrams Pedestrian Circulation

Vehicular Circulation

Bicycle Circulation

Light Rail Circulation

View Corridor

Sustainable Systems

Visual Continuity

Residential Connectivity

Habitat + Sustainable Systems

Habitat + Visual Continuity

Habitat + Residential Connectivity

Arterial Landscapes + Sustainable Systems

Arterial Landscapes + Visual Continuity

Arterial Landscapes + Residential Connectivity

Subverted Highway + Sustainable Systems

Subverted Highway + Visual Continuity

Subverted Highway + Residential Connectivity

Traverse Urban Strategy Partner Project with Ania-Yee Boguinskaia + Yasmine Perez 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Traverse Boulevard Underground Cesar Chavez Street The Boardwalk at Palm Park Palm Park Access Low-Density Housing Traverse Boulevard Submersion 4th Street Light Rail Tunnel Plaza Saltillo Access Traverse Esplanade 6th Street Pedestrian Access

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1. Urban Cove

2. Wildlife Basin

Human + Animal Habitat

Animal Habitat

3. Subterranean Boulevard

4. East-West Wildlife Crossing

Human Circulation

Human + Animal Circulation

Travers e Boule vard (P ost I-3 5)

Wate rloo B ike Pa th

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Street Light Rail North Traverse Masterplan

Plaza Saltillo Train

Station

Trav erse Bike Path

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Creek Delta

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E Cesar C havez Str eet

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Intersect

Slice

Shift

Lift

Suspend

Subdivide

Modules

Assembly

Interstitial Space

300 SF Block

Wildlife Habitat

Human Habitat

Unit Arrangement

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Bicycle Cafe Coffee Bar Leasing Office South Elevators Juice Bar Sitting Stairs West Entrance East Entrance Restaurant + Lounge Bar Kitchen North Elevators Bathrooms Terraces to Pool Pool Pedestrian Bridge

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Ground Plan B

Section A

Plan Level 2

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Plan Level 3

Connected Bohemians A Studio - 500 SF A two-story compact unit designed for young urbanites who enjoy cooking, yoga, and socializing. Shared balcony adjoins the Connected Bohemians Unit B to foster relationships between neighbors with common interests.

Connected Bohemians B 1 Bed / 1.5 Bath - 750 SF

A single story unit designed for young urbanites who enjoy cooking, yoga, and entertaining. Shared balcony adjoins the Connected Bohemians Unit A to foster relationships between neighbors with common interests.

Metropolitan Family 2 Bed / 2 Bath - 900 SF A two-story unit designed for young families with a child who enjoy cooking and nature. Shared balcony adjoins the Urban Elders Unit to foster relationships with mature neighbors.

Urban Elders A single story unit designed for middle-aged couples who enjoy cooking and absorbing the natural injections to the city that Urban Cove offers. Shared balcony adjoins the Metropolitan Family Unit to foster relationships with young families.

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1 Bed / 1.5 Bath - 650 SF

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Bioluminescense Intermediate Design I, Fall 2018 Professor Kevin Sullivan Partner: Pranav Subramanian

Based on Jakob + Macfarlane’s FRAC Centre in Paris, this lamp iterates the form’s polygonal apertures and analyzes their potential as organisms. The construct is a series of multiple organisms meshed together that interact in three different manners: conﬂict, chaos, and harmony. These conditions are supposed to change over time as each body grows from a central seed, hence the construct is only a snapshot of the present relationship between the bodies. The behavior of any particular body can be described as a function of its location of seeding, proximity to other bodies, and time. Light is incorporated not as a driving force in the model, but rather as a resultant since the way the structure grows inﬂuences how it receives and emits light.

Conﬂict

Chaos

Harmony

Nomad Pass Austin, TX Intermediate Design III, Fall 2019 Professor Mari-Michael Glassell

Urban architecture is constrained by the vehicle. The American city sanctifies streets and their infinite upward projections resulting in chasms of empty space lined with glass boxes. To move across such chasms, travellers must return to the gridded ground only to climb again. The excessive restriction of horizontal travel to the ground plane is wasteful. Every day in Austin, thousands of cars emit enormous quantities of fossil fuels as they sit idle in traffic. The city’s existing infrastructure is inadequate for anticipated growth and categorically unsustainable. This inconsistency in the built environment warrants a glance at nature for the reinstitution of logic: our urban centers have come to resemble canyons despite being modeled after forests. A canyon bottlenecks flow through a singular channel while trees elevate circulation through their branches thus freeing terrestrial space. Nomad Pass envisions a suspended structure, virtually independent of the space beneath it, that facilitates a light rail network through Austin’s lower canopy. Lofting the hub warrants an expressive language that prioritizes its programmatic function and subsequentially engages the outdoor atmosphere to encourage local accountability for climate change. The center serves as one of several headquarters for a proposed United Nations initiative to fight global warming. Nomad Pass ultimately seeks to minimize its own footprint in its construction and minimize the footprint for intra-city travellers by providing a sustainable public transit alternative.

Site Plan

Circulation + Program Diagram

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Loading Diagram

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Level 1 Plan Light Rail Station

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Cafe

Section A

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Section B

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Storyboarding Intermediate Design IV, Spring 2019 Professor John Blood

Storyboarding is a commonly used tactic in film to visualize experience. These eighteen storyboards are adapted from three and a half minutes of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. The “Miller’s Planet” sequence captures a dramatic moment in which the protagonists arrive on a planet looking for a stranded astronaut only to find the remains of her ship and the massive tidal waves that presumably washed her away. The scene crescendos from calm and suspenseful to intense and alarming. It is largely aided by the score of Hans Zimmer in the film, but breaking down the sequence into keyframes shows how the careful planning of shots was integral to capturing the scene. The initial keyframes are relatively static, with still or slow moving characters, a balanced ground and horizon, and the repetition of similar shots. The camera then shows that the supposed mountains referenced by the characters in the sequence are actually tidal waves and the shots adjust accordingly. The free feeling associated with the horizon is replaced with a looming tidal wave, the focal range shrinks to address the problem at hand, and all of the objects in the frame are put in motion. Thinking about the process of making this scene, it is highly likely that more perspectives were filmed than what ended up in the final cut. It is up to the director and editing team to determine which scenes detract from the final experience. Storyboarding highlights the incredible attention to detail, yet awareness of a larger mission, that is required of designers, directors and architects alike.

Hitchcock’s Lattice Austin, TX Intermediate Design IV, Spring 2019 Professor John Blood

The late filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock made famous an editing technique called the Kuleshov Effect: the derivation of meaning from two juxtaposed shots. It is commonly used as an impressionistic translation of ideas from script to screen, but the year 1954 saw Hitchcock construct the entire film Rear Window as a meditation on this mechanism. To study the Kuleshov Effect, I created a short film of Austin’s Shoal Creek experimenting with how context can alter the meaning of ambiguous shots in illustrating a place. What became more interesting, however, were the accidental associations between keyframes not intended to be paired. Visual similarities in shape, lighting, and subject became the determining factors for shot-pairing in the cinematic reconstruction of Shoal Creek, thereby testing the Kuleshov Effect’s capacity to convey an original understanding of place. Hitchcock’s Lattice is a parasitic movie theater growing across an existing four-story parking garage. It serves an office across the street by day, but warps Austin thrill-seekers into a prismatic reality after hours. The adaptive reuse project converts two floors of parking into a restaurant and four black box theaters which cantilever to maintain vehicular circulation in the garage’s interior core. Like Rear Window, the theater is a metaphor for cinema embodying the Kuleshov Effect in its experiential conditions. Four views—the Austin Skyline, the westward trees, the theater screen, and the dance studio mirror—are keyframes spliced together by a lattice form. The lattice distorts reality and encourages the liberated mind to connect the experiential moments to create meaning. The eventual assembly of such moments induces meaning which is entirely individual. 36

Stills from the Kuleshov Effect ﬁlm Partner Project with Pranav Subramanian

Level 4 Plan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Black Box Theater Theater Entrances Offices To Lounge Theater ADA Access Level 3 Will Call Bathrooms Emergency Exit Elevator Restaurant Kitchen Entry + Stairs Water Tank

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Theater Entrances Dance Studio Lounge Restaurant Access Bar Bathrooms

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Level 5 Plan

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Kierland Residences Phoenix, AZ Internship, Fall 2020 Nelsen Partners Supervisors: George Melara + Janet Quan

Kierland Residences is a five-story, 36o unit residential building proposed for the highly popular Kierland Commons district of Phoenix, Arizona. The overall goal of the project is to provide a quality, modern urban living experience for its future residents and to create a pedestrian friendly, walkable environment along its three roadway frontages for the benefit of the larger community. I was involved on the project from the earliest stages in Conceptual Masterplanning through 50% Schematic Design. My primary responsibilities consisted of elevation design, project graphics, site planning, massing, solar studies, unit mixes, and parking garage design. Kierland Residences brandishes a Sonoran Desert color pallette and is clad with screens to protect residents from the harsh Arizona sun while still celebrating the views around the valley. The language of rhythmic recesses in the facade supplement the shading factor and make the lengthy elevations additionally dynamic. Breeze block walls, with a contemporary pattern derived from an earlier screen concept, enclose the larger ground floor patios from the bustling street scene. The graphics included in this section have been selected from various stages of development and do not constitute a final design.

Ankh School Austin, TX AIA Austin Force Majeure Design Competition, Summer 2020 Partners: Tate Paulson + Ania Yee-Boguinskaia UTSOA Issue XVII Publication

The first documented use of copper as a sterilizer was in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical manuscript. Copper was denoted here by the hieroglyph “ankh” which translates to “eternal life.” Located in East Austin, Ankh School pioneers a new architectural typology that is responsive to the threat of pandemics such as COVID-19. By integrating copper surfaces and ventilation mechanisms, the physical design alleviates pandemic-induced pressures on educational environments. Copper can be found in Ankh School’s high-contact surfaces such as benches, handrails, bathrooms, and doors, but the most significant use of copper is in screens that facilitate natural air changes and kill pathogens that land on their surface. The screens fit into the larger goal of ventilation that is echoed in the slopes of the buildings to create a “valley circulation” effect with the air. Shade structures and air movement are vital to tolerability of outdoor environments where the risk of transmission is reduced. The COVID-19 pandemic unearthed deep systemic inequities that also plague the United States. According to demographic data, the neighborhood surrounding Ankh School is an economically disadvantaged minority community making it susceptible to pandemic-induced hardship. To help mitigate food insecurity for families, Ankh School will supplement federally-funded meal programs with fresh produce from its very own greenhouses which use rainwater harvesting mechanisms to conserve water resources. The implementation of solar panels across campus that double as sawtooth lighting also reduces the school’s energy draw. These measures will generate savings that allow funding to be redirected to areas of greater need for students. Ankh School’s proposed solution for post-pandemic education addresses the multifaceted problems associated with a rapidly-spreading virus to put the physical and financial health of students and their families first to ensure students can continue to learn. 48

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Administration + Entrance Sixth Grade Classrooms Seventh Grade Classrooms Eighth Grade Classrooms Auditorium Gymnasium Cafeteria Electives

9 Oak Springs Elementary School 10 Willie Mae Kirk Library 11 Oak Springs Villas

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Good win A venu e

Solar Orientation + Massing

Slopes + Air Circulation

Screens + Sawtooth Lighting

Shade + Stormwater Harvesting

West Elevation Gymnasium + Bus Turnaround

East Elevation Gymnasium

West Elevation Auditorium

East Elevation

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Electives Building + Courtyard

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Administration Building 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Symptom Screening Cleared Student Entrance Nurse’s Office Re-Cleared Student Entrance UV-Cleaned Suspected Sick Pods Sick Exit Technology Library Administration Lounge Copper Screen

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Classroom Building Offset Glass Panels for Ventilation Socially Distanced Collaboration Space Copper Screen UV-Cleaned Classroom Bathroom UV-Cleaned Copper Stalls Study Room Contactless Sliding Doors Shielded Instructor’s Desk Socially Distanced Desks Operable Windows Science Lab

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Electives Building 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Copper Benches Courtyard Inverted Fin for Rainwater Harvesting Valley Circulation Effect Sound Booths Mesh Impervious to Airborne Droplets Orchestra + Choir Room Socially Distanced Study Space Rain Gutter + Air Escape Greenhouse

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A ndrew B asha andrew.basha@utexas.edu

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Education Anticipated Graduation: Fall 2022 GPA: 3.76

University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Architecture + B.S. Architectural Engineering Business Minor

Achievements + Experience Dean’s Design Distinction 2020 UT School of Architecture 1 of 9 students selected for design achievement following third year portfolio review Design Excellence Award UT School of Architecture “Urban Cove”

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2020

Engineering Honors 2019 UT Cockrell School of Engineering Top 10% of class + degree

2019

Business Minor 2019 UT McCombs School of Business L.A. Fuess Eng. Scholarship 2018 UT Cockrell School of Engineering

Nelsen Partners Aug. - Dec. 2020 Intern • Scottsdale, AZ 30 hrs / wk AXP Hours: 567 Conceptual Masterplanning and Schematic Design for a 360 unit multifamily project in Phoenix, Arizona. Primary responsibilities during Phase I consisted of site planning, massing, solar studies, unit mixes, and garage design. Primary responsibilities during Phase II consisted of elevation design and project graphics.

Swaback July - Aug. 2018 Intern • Scottsdale, AZ 45 hrs / wk Internship in planning. Conceptual masterplanning and land use study for proposed mixed - use project in Anthem, Arizona. Architectural character research for proposed masterplan community in Panama.

2018 Extracurricular Activities + Technical Skills UT Senate Dual Major Ad-Hoc Committee, member M3B Inc. Redesign (brand standards, website + graphics) UT Habitat for Humanity, member UTSOA Mentorship Program, mentor Texas Backyardigens hiking photography club, co-founder UTSOA Society of Engineers and Architects, member Urban Land Institute, student member

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Digital Adobe Suite: Ai, Ps, Id, Pr Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper Revit Lumion Enscape V-Ray SketchUp AutoCAD ArcGIS

Analog Hand - Sketching Physical Modeling Laser Cutting CNC Routing Photography (DSLR)

References Nichole Wiedemann, AIA Paul Philippe Cret Centennial Teaching Fellow University of Texas at Austin wiedemann@utexas.edu

Mari-Michael Glassell, Assoc. AIA Professor University of Texas at Austin marimichael@markodomstudio.com

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George Melara, AIA VP / Managing Director Nelsen Partners gmelara@nelsenpartners.com