ANDREW MAGNUS 2020 workbook 1
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ANDREW MAGNUS 856.220.1197 asm2270@columbia.edu Columbia GSAPP, M.Arch 2022 Vanderbilt University, BA. Biochemistry and Art History, 2019 Skills: rhino + grasshopper, revit + dynamo, adobe suite, sketchup, vray, charcoal and ink media, 3DSMax, ArcGIS, AutoCAD
The XR School 3
Market Arcades 21
Pavilion for the Humanities 29
Spatial Data 33
VU Lanscape Plan 41
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The XR SCHOOL Spring 2020 Critic: Gordon Kipping
What: K-8 School Where: East Village 5
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9th street view
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Activism, in all forms, is fundamentally about healing injustice. This implies that health and healing are radical practices, and architectures which promote healing should be built to enourage these transformations. The XR school encourages student activism by proximity with nature to engender a sense of environmental responsibility. Meant to bridge a traditional structure with more radical community involvement, the existing wings of the school are interjected by woven mass-timber bridge structures. This establishes a dynamic axis for occupants - community activities at the 8 site analysis
center operate year round, while school activities at the wings offer more specialized programs - and the terrace platforms persuade both students and community members to embrace stacked vertical farms. The result is an elevated system of urban farms that reflect the community garden network of the surrounding streets, and act as a magnet for environmental advocacy. operations
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roof + class views
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The site at Old P.S. 64 in the East Village is sited precariously in time and in space. The building itself if flone prone and isolated in a food desert. This project affirms farming as medicine in three ways. Produce from the farm can provide key nutrients, gardens can act meditatively, and, by acting as a third space for children and families,
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the farm can strengthen social bonds. Two types of classrooms reflect the two main types of gardens. Traditional walled classrooms for younger students look onto gardens and provide a safe space. For middle-schoolers, flexible canvas partitions enable creative combinations of spaces to pollinate cross-disciplinary thinking strategies.
7th grade class; art class
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E/W section
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The structure of the intervention is a novel mass-timber (LVL) woven span, which can bridge the 80’ gap between classroom wings. Carbon neutral and column-free, these spans create the farm terrace 16 14
structure
connections
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aerial
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MARKET ARCADES Fall 2019 Critic: Lindsey Wikstrom
What: Fresh Food Market Where: City Hall Park 21
Market Arcades installs a fresh food market at the intersection of Broadway and Park Row, adjacent to City Hall Park. The assembly of structures, made of sidewalk-shed scaffolds from around the city and moveable panels, celebrates the entire life cycle of food and demystifies the growth, consumption, and waste process for New Yorkers. Moving counterclockwise, Market Arcades features an urban greenhouse, food storage, a market, and a composting center. 22
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These forces revolve around a new pedestrian intersection, sheltered under repurposed sidewalk shed, to create a vibrant node between the Financial District and its adjacent neighborhoods. At a closer level, panels hanging from horizontal pipes are made of plastic-bag-reinforced-concrete, and use three plastic bags for every square foot of panel. For the 600+ panels in the structure, more than 10,000 plastic bags will be used in the tensile loops and decorative finishes that
panorama + section
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diagram + model scenes
remind consumers of their waste practices as they shop at the market. By pairing the right to fresh food with an agile construction typology that is quintessentially New York, Market Arcades offers new life to this luxury food swamp. What will happen to the millions of square feet of sidewalk shed when a NYC proposal further regulates their use? Each year, the
Department of Buildings entertains up to five propositions that limit the extent and frequency of sidewalk decks and scaffolds. While this might improve storefront traffic or push landlords to improve conditions in a more timely manner, the imenent influx of industrial scale aluminum alloy beams offer uniqure opportunities to build volumes.
plastic-concrete panels
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36”
3/4” STEEL SCREW 1”
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7/8” STEEL HEX NUT 7/8” WHITE PLASTIC CAP 1.5” DIA. CRIMPED PIPE 17”
LOOPED PLASTIC TWINE (2” DIA.) BRAIDED PLASTIC TWINE (3/16”) PLASTIC REINFORCED CONCRETE
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1/4”
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8 x 20 mm PLASTIC FIBERS WOVEN HORIZONTAL TWINE (3/16”) EMBEDDED DIAGONAL TWINE (1/4”)
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3” DIA PIPE
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USE
1/4”
1 1/2” 2.5”
CUT
1”
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7/8”
BRAID
2”
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3/8”
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LOOP
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This project pairs heavy-duty scaffolding with single use plastic to create lightweight panels that transform scaffolding into flexible spaces. Plastic bag twine in tension, as well as plastic shreds are used instead of glass fibers to reinforce the durability of the panel. Decorative flourishes and textures from casting within plastic bags deepens
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construction scheme
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the connection between an inhabitant in the space and their consumption habits. Every square foot uses four single-use grocery bags. Weather proof and available at any scale, these panels are erected, removed, and shifted by one person (and a wrench) in minutes to transform entire spaces.
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PAVILION FOR THE HUMANITIES Fall 2019 Critic: Zachary White
What: Art Pavilion Where: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 29
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When it was first proposed to accompany the Rio de Janeiro Climate 2020 conference, the Pavilion for the Humanities installed suspended masses of shipping containers inside a scaffold mesh. The experience inside the building is meant to be dizzying: a maze of ramps, stairs and elevators move tourists, locals, and politicians through art galleries, lecture halls, open vistas, and back to the ground. Trying to capture the frailty of the human condition, the building is exposed to air, hear, rain, wind and noise. These forces reverberate through the scaffolding. Expanding on
the work of Carla Juaçaba and Bia Lessa in 2012, this redrawing of the Pavilion for the Humanities moves to another land in need of reevaluation: New Jersey. Here, as before, the main goal for the Pavilion is to sustainably borrow construction materials. The scaffolding that builds the pavilion can be dismantled, replaced, or returned to the field. The living building, an optimistic view on architecture’s role in climate crises, offers hope. Below, a bricolage model from acrylic waste creates a living sectioned model, and closes to express the envelope detail.
1:200 model detail
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SPATIAL DATA 2020 Critic: Quentin Yiu
What: ??? Where: Manhattan 33
I (used to) pass by these places on my morning commute. I took them for granted. After 6 weeks inside, my recollection has warped and collided these experiences in unexpected ways. Iterations of computational bricollage create a representation that challenges what memory and vision mean in a post-pandemic world. I hope to pass by these places again, but I’m unsure if it will feel the way I used to. First, a manual collage from photographs was fed to a computational script. 34
123rd street photographs
collage
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computations
faberge
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moodscapes
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VU LANDSCAPE PLAN Released 2019 Office: VU Construction and Planning
What: Arboretum Master Plan Where: Vanderbilt University 41
WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD CANOPY AND GROUND 1996
2000 32 %
16 % 4%
2004 32 %
18 % 5%
20 %
18 %
5%
22 %
2008 32 % 21 %
2012 32 %
18 %
5%
23 %
6%
2016 32 %
18 %
5%
21 %
FutureVU Goal 32 %
18 %
28 %
22 %
36 %
47 %
6% 6%
7%
52 %
7%
50 %
8% 50 %
50 %
PEDESTRIAN WALK
2000 38 %
18 %
38 %
25 %
50 %
BUILDING
ROADWAY / PARKING
SHADED ROADS
2008
18 %
21 %
39 %
5%
24 %
SHADED WALKS
PEABODY CANOPY AND GROUND
2004
18 % 6%
23 %
10 %
HARDSCAPE
SHADED GREEN SPACE
1996
6%
8%
50 %
LANDSCAPE GREEN SPACE
7%
2012
36 %
4%
21 %
FutureVU Goal
21 %
36 %
4%
21 %
SHADED / SRI ROOF
2016
21 %
36 %
4%
23%
BLDG FOOTPRINT
22 %
21 % 50 %
8%
30 % 5%
6%
45 %
5%
5%
44 %
45 %
GREEN SPACE
5%
29 %
43 %
43 %
43 %
LANDSCAPE
5%
HARDSCAPE
SHADED GREEN SPACE
PEDESTRIAN WALK
SHADED WALKS
BUILDING
ROADWAY / PARKING
SHADED ROADS
BLDG FOOTPRINT
SHADED / SRI ROOF
HIGHLAND CANOPY AND GROUND 1996
2000
2004
34 %
30 %
33 %
19 %
3%
2%
37 %
34 %
34 %
35 %
GREEN SPACE
PEDESTRIAN WALK
SHADED WALKS
48 %
6%
2%
21 %
5%
6% 23 %
34 %
34 %
HARDSCAPE
SHADED GREEN SPACE
10 % 28 %
21 %
6%
7%
LANDSCAPE
33 %
22 %
3%
5%
FutureVU Goal 33 %
33 % 33 %
23 %
4%
5%
2016
33 % 33 %
21 %
2%
5%
2012
33 %
34 %
31 %
18 %
2008
BUILDING
ROADWAY / PARKING
SHADED ROADS
BLDG FOOTPRINT
SHADED / SRI ROOF
CENTRAL CORE CANOPY AND GROUND 1996
2000
19 % 49 %
3%
28 %
49 %
11 %
49 %
11 %
49 %
10 % 23 % 48 %
4%
31 %
30 %
HARDSCAPE
SHADED GREEN SPACE
PEDESTRIAN WALK
SHADED WALKS
31 %
25 %
34 %
30 %
52 %
12 %
10 %
10 %
32 %
FutureVU Goal
23 % 47 %
4%
29 %
11 %
32 %
2016
23 %
3%
29%
LANDSCAPE GREEN SPACE
2012
19 %
3%
29 %
32 %
32 %
2008
19 %
19 %
2%
11 %
2004
BUILDING
ROADWAY / PARKING
SHADED ROADS
BLDG FOOTPRINT
SHADED / SRI ROOF
HISTORIC MAIN CAMPUS CANOPY AND GROUND 1996
2000
23 %
41 %
5%
27 %
2004
23% 27 %
34 %
34 %
26%
5%
7%
7%
39 %
25%
41%
5%
2008
GREEN SPACE
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GIS tree canopy analysis
SHADED GREEN SPACE
25 %
34 %
39 % 28 %
5%
2016
ROADWAY / PARKING
47 %
3% 8%
34 %
SHADED WALKS
10 % 29 %
27 %
3%
23 % 6%
23 %
34 %
HARDSCAPE PEDESTRIAN WALK
30 %
28 %
8%
34 %
FutureVU Goal
35 %
39 %
25 % 4%
8%
7%
LANDSCAPE
2012
BUILDING SHADED ROADS
BLDG FOOTPRINT
SHADED / SRI ROOF
For the development of Vanderbilt University’s Landscape Master Plan, I organized a diachronic analysis of canopy coverage, and found a 12% decrease since 1994. 2.9 million ft2 of tree coverage has vanished in the last two decades, largely due to capital projects like the newly built residential college system. Methodologically, to discover the most important facets of the campus’ built environment, stakeholder outreach was used
as data, to user experiences were mapped regionally to create site-specific goals. A similar method for gathering information and prioritizing assets was used for the mobility, access, and water-use portions of the document as well. The result was a document that proposed new land-use valuation for construction enables a net gain in year-toyear tree plantings, and preserves the makeup of this Nasvhille Arboretum. published spreads
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