Andrew Dadds Portfolio Graduate

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ANDREW DADDS 2013-2016 YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE


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YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2013-2016

ACADEMIC WORK


New Datum Thessaloniki - Fall 2015 Urban, Residential, Cultural 4-35

Playtime Architecture School UPenn - Fall 2014 Institutional, School 36-53

Dance Machine - Fall 2013 Institutional 54-57

Building Project Prototype - Spring 2014 Residential 58-65

Building Project Team F - Spring 2014 Residential 66-75

Bridgeport Sports Park - Spring 2015 Mixed Use, Urban 76-91

Minimum # Lines Maximum # Things - Spring 2016 Speculative, Urban, Mixed-Use 92-123

Selected Work Artifact, Analysis, Drawing 124-139

Machined Body - Summer 2012 Institutional, Accessible * Waterloo School of Architecture Throwback* 140-151

The Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery - 2012-Present Winery * With Gren Weis Architects* 152-159

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FALL 2015 ADVANCED STUDIO WITH ELIA ZENGHELIS

NEW DATUM - THESSALONIKI 4

The 1950’s in Greece saw rapid socio-economic changes and urbanization, under such urgency that there was no time for theory or planning. The resulting typology from this urbanization was the Polykatoikia, a five to seven story private block development which forms a relentless datum across the ever expanding city. The Polykatoikia forms walls around streets and urban voids, which are almost exclusively archaeological sites. As a result public and green space is in crisis in Thessaloniki. The premise of the studio aims to densify the center, consolidating the borders of the city while


gifting the city with new public park space. Whilst this project doesn’t claim to provide a solution to the Polykatoikia problem, it does seek to ask provocative questions. Can the center of Helexpo decongest itself of desolate buildings and bring a new urban park to the city while simultaneously providing mass housing to residents and dormitories for nearby Aristotle University of Thessaloniki? Can the prototypical separation of housing types, dormitories, single family, studio, one and two bedrooms be combined and benefit from one another’s presence? Can eclectic financial and social

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Precedent Manifesto: Extraction and Transformation of the Baths of Caracalla.

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demographics exist inside of a coherent and architecturally unified environment? The project tests ambitious design merged with contextual specificity; engaging with “Greekness� as an expression of democratic design. The Polykatoikia is met with a provocative extension of its type, a new datum for the city of Thessaloniki.


Emblematic Image: The image is a collection of disparate experiences, happening simultaneously behind the scenes and in the spotlight. In this mixing chamber, social stratification becomes exposed through its immediate adjacency. Emperors mix with thieves in a space of no escape. Masked from the city, an inward looking building, whose exteriority becomes inverted, a mask flipped inside out. The outside is on the inside and the inside is on the outside, a two sided mirror to society and its stratifications.

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A Regulating Lines: 1: Hebrard 2. 3rd September 3. B Existing Helexpo buildings to be retained and reprogrammed. Center of radial array at Statue of Alexander the Great. C Relentless datum of Polykatoikia.


Top Group site model. Bottom Group site drawing of collective projects

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Baths of Caracalla Emblematic Image re-purposed to site conditions.


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Left Program at ground level: Student house & student plinth (pink) Commercial plaza & connections to metro (orange) raised & underground passage park space (green) Right Radial array of massing center generated from existing 60’s modernist radial building.


Top Polykatoikia datum is broken by radial arc. Bottom Radial arc & historic Hebrard axis framed by two student towers.

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Communal programming at the ground level


Smaller tightly spaced cores respond to semiprivate communal spaces for larger housing types, where larger and consolidated cores respond to taller, denser housing types with large communal spaces. Pinwheeled units on cores respond to large openings in the building acting as public rooms.

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Typological variations: dormitory, temporary housing, studios, large bedrooms, house, live work, communal.


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Typological variations: continued.


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Top Interaction of two voids: planometric and elevational Bottom Section showing relationship of commercial to Metro station, large public “room� apertures grow as the building types recede.

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Grand Public Interior: the re-programmed Palais Des Sports as a Student House for body & politics (emblematic image inspired) A promenade through urban rooms which puncture the housing masses.


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Elevation oblique with Student House & public armatures.

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Typological Array A Student House “Body & Politics” B Sport Field Promenade C Plinth “Study & Exercise” D Semi Enclosed Plazas


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View of public rooms & promenade.


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FALL 2014 STUDIO

PLAYTIME ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL - UPENN 36

The project’s massing takes on a radial form stemming from the center of the quad, the sides of which are cut by a long diagonal pathway and an adjacent building. Studio spaces are partitioned into smaller milieus, arrayed around the perimeter of the building, and clinging to an inflated facade system. Glass windows interrupt the ETFE facade, allowing for clear views and ventilation for the students, and spiral around the envelope in a corkscrew formation. The perimeter studios are stitched together through programmatic bridges that distort and inflect themselves on the facade. The bridges


provide enclosed classrooms and research spaces, the tops of which provide places of spontaneity in the form of unprogrammed collective space. Individual studio spaces are subjected to collective bridges to promote contradiction and serendipity.

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Burolandshaft

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A Conceptual imagery B Sketches of interior and exterior spaces C Conceptual diagram of Larkin Building crossed with Burolandshaft, Playtime performance collage: individual spaces meet cross programmed spaces of spontaneity, sketch of studio hive and open floor spaces.


Top Site plan showing center of arc in the middle of the main quad, the radius cuts two facades relating to the existing library to the south & the long diagonal path to the north. Bottom Radial section depicting the individual studio spaces as a thickened facade, and the collective bridges.

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Top Ground floor plan of cafe, auditorium, & exhibition spaces Bottom Typical floor plan of studio spaces & collective space at bridges


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Opposite & Above Cross section revealing collective spaces.



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PREFINISHED METAL FASCIA WITH DRIP EDGE HSS SUPPORT FRAMING 3 4"

SHEATHING

PREFINISHED METAL

GRAVEL BALLAST FILTER FABRIC TAPERED RIGID INSUL ROOF MEMBRANE

SLOPED ROOF ASSEMBLY 2%

Level 8 105' - 0"

STEEL DECK

5 LAYER ETFE GLASS FABRIC (OPACITY VARIES)

ROCKWOOL FIREPROTECTION BETWEEN MULLION AND SLAB LIP GRATING COVER FLUSH WITH CONCRETE FLOOR

STEEL DECKING REFER TO STRUCTURAL POLISHED CONCRETE SLAB REFER TO STRUCTURAL

PREFINSIHED METAL CAP ON FIREPROOFED ALUMINUM MULLION

Level 5 60' - 0"

STRUCTURAL ANGLE SUPPORTING MULLIONS DOUBLE GLAZED CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM FIREPROOFED STEEL FRAMING

REINFORCED CONCRETE LIP SUPPORTING FACADE WITH SUPPORT CLIP FOR WOOD FINS PREFABRICATED OAK FINS

SLOTTED GWB FOR RETURN AIR VENTS

NEGATIVELY PRESSURED FALSE CEILING

6" COLD-ROLLED STEEL STUD CHANNELS FOR GWB AND RECESSED ROLLERSHADES RECESSED ROLLERSHADE FASTENED TO STEEL STUDS DOUBLE GLAZED CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM

THREADED ROD ATTACHED TO U/S OF DECK 5 8"

PREFINISHED CAP ON MULLION OPERABLE WINDOW

GWB CEILING

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METAL FURRING CHANNELS 16" O.C TIED BACK TO SUPPORT CHANNELS

1-1/2" COLD ROLLED CHANNELS AT 4' O.C

Level 4 45' - 0"

COMPRESSED AIR TUBE WITH SENSOR

COMPRESSED AIR TUBE WITH SENSOR

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STEEL SUPPORT STANCHION FOR OPERABLE DESK ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT DESK CHANNELS WITH THREADED ROD CRANK MECHANISM LINE OF ADJUSTABLE DESK ABOVE WOOD HANDRAIL ABOVE

SS GUARD CABLE TENSIONED TO WOOD FIN

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Opposite & Above Details of hybrid ETFE & operable glazed window facade system.

Level 3 30' - 0"


REINFORCED CONCRE SUPPORTING FACADE SUPPORT CLIP FOR W

PREFABRICATED OAK

SLOTTED GWB FOR RE AIR V

6" COLD-ROLLED STEEL CHANNELS FOR GW RECESSED ROLLERSH

RECESSED ROLLERS FASTENED TO STEEL S

DOUBLE GLAZED CU WALL SY

PREFINISHED C MU

OPERABLE WIN

FIREPROOFING STRUCTURAL STEEL BLOCKING AS REQ'D COUNTER SUNK SCREW 5 LAYER ETFE COATED GLASS FABRIC 3/16" POWDER BENT PLATE (OPACITY VARIES)

COMPRESSED AIR TUBE SE

ROCKWOOL FIREPROTECTION BETWEEN MULLION AND SLAB LIP

STEEL DECKING REFER TO STRUCTURAL

GRATING COVER FLUSH WITH CONCRETE FLOOR

POLISHED CONCRETE SLAB REFER TO STRUCTURAL

PREFINSIHED METAL CAP ON FIREPROOFED ALUMINUM MULLION

STRUCTURAL ANGLE SUPPORTING MULLIONS DOUBLE GLAZED CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM FIREPROOFED STEEL FRAMING

REINFORCED CONCRETE LIP SUPPORTING FACADE WITH SUPPORT CLIP FOR WOOD FINS PREFABRICATED OAK FINS

SLOTTED GWB FOR RETURN AIR VENTS

NEGATIVELY PRESSURED FALSE CEILING

6" COLD-ROLLED STEEL STUD CHANNELS FOR GWB AND RECESSED ROLLERSHADES RECESSED ROLLERSHADE FASTENED TO STEEL STUDS DOUBLE GLAZED CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM

THREADED ROD ATTACHED TO U/S OF DECK 5 8"

PREFINISHED CAP ON MULLION

GWB CEILING

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METAL FURRING CHANNELS 16" O. TIED BACK TO SUPPORT CHANNELS

OPERABLE WINDOW

1-1/2" COLD ROLLED CHANNELS AT 4' O.C

COMPRESSED AIR TUBE SE

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STEEL SUPPORT STANCHION FOR OPERABLE DESK FIREPROOFING STRUCTURAL STEEL BLOCKING AS REQ'D COUNTER SUNK SCREW 3/16" POWDER COATED BENT PLATE

CL LINE OF GYP CEILING BULKHEAD ABOVE COMPRESSED AIR TUBE WITH SENSOR

SEAM BETWEEN CONCRETE FLOOR AND MMULLION

ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT DESK CHANNELS WITH THREADED ROD CRANK MECHANISM LINE OF ADJUSTABLE DESK ABOVE WOOD HANDRAIL ABOVE

SS GUARD CABLE TENSIONED TO WOOD FIN

ALUMINUM MULLION HOLDING FOUR LAYER ETFE

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ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT DESK CHANNELS WITH THREADED ROD CRANK MECHANISM LINE OF ADJUSTABLE DESK ABOVE WOOD HANDRAIL ABOVE

SS GUARD CABLE TENSIONED TO WOOD FIN

OPERABLE WOOD DESK WITH CRANK SAFETY RAIL STAINLESS STEEL CABLES WITH GALVAIZED STEEL PLATE BALLUSTRADES

ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT DESK INTEGRATED WITH SAFETY BARRIER

ALUMINUM FRAME HOLDING FOUR LAYER ETFE

Level 2 15' - 0"

NEGATIVELY PRESSURED CEILING - SEE MECHANICAL DWGS

VENTED GWB WITH NEGATIVELY PRESSURED CEILING CAVITY

INSULATED GLAZING UNIT

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INSULATED ALUMINUM MULLION

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PREFINISHED METAL FLASHING PREFINISHED METAL WITH GUTTER

SLOPED PAVING ASSEMBLY 2%

STONE PAVERS SLOPED AWAY FROM BUILDING

Level 0 -15' - 0"

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FALL 2013 STUDIO

DANCE MACHINE - HIGHLINE 54

The project explores the dance studio through the lens of simultaneity. Three dance studios array themselves around a central gathering space that envelopes the inhabitants within a performance. The dance studios spiral sectionally until meeting at the central auditorium volume that defines the roof of the gathering space. The multifaceted volumes are defined by view corridors placed at key contextual approaches to the site, hiding and revealing itself to the city.


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Bottom Ground floor plan of central gathering space and surrounding rehearsal spaces.


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Top Section A & Section B Bottom Third floor plan of central performance space & access to the Highline.

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SPRING 2014 STUDIO

BUILDING PROJECT PROTOTYPE - NEW HAVEN 58

The Yale Building Project began with a small prototype of 800sf, subdivided into an owner’s unit of 500 sf and a tenant’s unit of 300sf. The project uses a utility wall to separating living from sleeping spaces, as well as supporting the tenant’s unit, which cantilevers slightly at the main entrance. The wall, in the shape of an “L”, holds the bathroom, as well as the kitchen. This core terminates with a skylight & green roof. The contraction of an owner & tenant unit are expressed as two volumes of differing materials & fenestration patterns. Windows are placed as regularly as possible. A staircase


carves the tenant’s side and reveals a terrace & separate second floor entrance for the smaller unit. The staircase can alternatively be covered over and connected to the main owner’s unit to create one large enclosed house. The parking is placed at the rear of the site. To mediate the small size of the house in relationship to its neighbors, a forecourt is placed at the front to give the house more prominence & shared space.

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Studies of relationship between owner, tenant unit, and exterior spaces.


Left Ground floor plan Right second floor plan tenant unit.

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Detail of core at green roof, skylight, and intersection of tenant’s and owner’s unit.


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Studies of core & materiality.


House as a representation of two parts mediated by a core.

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SPRING 2014 STUDIO

BUILDING PROJECT TEAM F - NEW HAVEN 66

The Yale Building Project continued with the development of a detailed design proposal in a team of seven students. Our proposal utilized a cruciform core holding the functions of integrated systems, bathrooms, & kitchens. The relationship of the owner to tenant unit is defined by the cruciform, dividing the tenant and owner into two units on the ground floor, under a single volume. The owner’s unit has a mudroom, kitchen & living space on the ground floor, with a staircase incorporated into the cruciform core leading to a master bedroom, bathroom, and balcony. Both units have


facades facing the front and back of the house. The back yard is split between a large lawn for the owner, and a smaller private terrace for the tenant’s unit.

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A Core armature of owner’s unit

core armature of owner’s unit

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Waste vent to roof

Dryer vent to roof

Gas washer/dryer

Gas stove (owner unit) Electricity from City power line Electrical panel located beneath stair

Gas stove (tenant unit) Toe kick register, typ. Floor register, typ.

Gas furnace Main return air duct Gas meter Gas-fired water heater

Main supply duct

Access panel to crawl space Cold water from City of New Haven Natural gas from City of New Haven Soil to municipal sewage line

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Core showing integrated systems


OWNER TENANT

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SPRING 2015 COLLABORATOR: PEARL HO

SPORTS PARK - BRIDGEPORT 76

Bridgeport, CT, is in dire need of coastline resilience strategies, storm water treatment, and economic & public space improvements. During Hurricane Sandy, Bridgeport suffered major infrastructure inequalities; the storm water system overflowed with 19.5 million gallons of partially treated sewage that flooded streets and parks, 20 times that of neighboring cities such as Stamford. Our proposal for Bridgeport takes on vacant lots and residual space around the I-95 in the area of the Bridgeport Stadium. Currently this swath of vacant land, together with the highway, cut off the central


downtown area with the waterfront. Parking lots that are left empty except on game days do not contribute to the urban life in Bridgeport, offering desolate, unlit spaces within the city. As a means of increasing revenue, public life & safety, our research into digital billboards determined that these vacant lots could generate an extra 4.2-9.5 million dollars for the city annually, while simultaneously generating light in unsafe places. Using the light generated from digital billboards as well as their revenue, the city can invest in a sponge-like

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fountain stores water and debris

water drains downwards

water drains along road

cistern below

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sports park for storm water collection and urban play. The sports park is designed to accommodate large soccer fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pools, and volleyball courts. A typical garden cistern system becomes the inspiration behind using subtle elevational changes to storm water in the event of overflows. Our site can hold up to 22.6 million gallons of water, which would significantly reduce local property damages from events like Hurricane Sandy.


rainwater drains down from highway

porous paved roads

absorbing turf with cistern

porous parking surface with cistern

rainwater drains downwards

absorbing turf with cistern

rainwater drains downwards

Drawings and diagram stills from a promotional animated video made to explain the project’s ability to leverage ad revenue into a spatial product that tackles urban, economic, social, and storm-water resiliency issues in Bridgeport.

rainwater drains down from railway

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INSTALL 10 DIGITAL BILLBOARDS

RETROFIT STATIC BILLBOARDS

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0toAoripEro


UNDERGROUND WATERWORKS OUR SPORTS PARK WILL PROVIDE A THOROUGH AND MULTI-LAYERED SOLUTION TO STORM WATER CHALLENGES IN BRIDGEPORT. AS WATER IS CARRIED DOWN FROM THE MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE ABOVE, THE PARK WILL ACT AS A TRUE SPONGE FOR THE HIGHWAY AND RAILWAY, AS WELL AS ALLOW BRIDGEPORT TO RECLAIM THE UNIQUE SPACE THAT IS CURRENTLY DIVIDING THE CITY INTO TWO.

RAINWATER DRAINS DOWN FROM HIGHWAY

ALL ROADS ARE POROUS SURFACES

CARBON AND WATER STORING PLANTS IN PARKING FORREST WATER DRAINS INTO SUNKEN SPORTS COURTS VIA RAIN WALL

5.9 MILLION GALLONS

RAINWATER DRAINS DOWN FROM HIGHWAY

CISTERN UNDER FOUNTAIN

PLANTS SERVE AS FIRST FLUSH FILTER

CISTERNS BELOW PICNIC AND ROCK GARDENS

HIGHLY ABSORPTIVE GROUND COVERAGE

RAINWATER DRAINS DOWN FROM RAILWAY

19.5 million

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STORMWATER AND DEBRIS STORAGE DURING HURRICANE SANDY, BRIDGEPORT SUFFERED FROM A 19.5 MILLION GALLON SEWAGE OVERFLOW. WITH THE NEW SUNKEN SPORTS PARK, 22.6 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER CAN BE STORED BOTH ABOVE AND UNDER GROUND. ABOVE GROUND, THE SUNKEN SPORTS COURTS WILL ALSO FUNCTION TO HOLD DEBRIS AFTER STORMS.

TYPICAL NEW STREET PROFILE

3.2 MILLION

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SUNKEN MULTI-SPORTS COURTS

UNDER FOUNTAIN

5.4 MILLION ABOVE GROUND

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8 MILLION IN CISTERN BELOW

SOCCER PITCH AND PARKING

Top Underground Waterworks Multi-layered solution to storm water in Bridgeport. Major infrastructure runoff is absorbed into the sponge-like park. Middle Garden cistern becomes proliferated as a site strategy. Below Storm-Water And Debris Storage during Sandy, Bridgeport suffered from 19.5 million gallons of sewage overflow. 22.6 million gallons of water can now be stored both above and under ground.

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path to transit hub supermarket stop bus line

stadium bus line

water directed to treatment plant

ABSORPTION

C A PA C I T Y

HIGH

low hedging

WATER

air filtering

water purifying

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BIRD WATCHING

PARKING/HIGHWAY

SOCCER PITCHES

Pairing Plants With Program: planting decisions are made according to the performing functions of each vegetation and paired with the program appropriate to it. Vegetation heights and water filtering functions as well as carbon absorption are all taken into account.

SUNKEN COURTS

PUBLIC PATH

PUBLIC SPACE

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SPRING 2016 ADVANCED STUDIO WITH SAM JACOB & SEAN GRIFFITHS

MINIMUM # LINES MAXIMUM # THINGS - PECKHAM 92

The project is presented as a collection of things. Grids, lines, artifacts, architectural hybrids, constructed artifacts, become a project about the possibilities of architecture. Early “Gridscapes” combine Corbusier’s monumental project of modernism and hygiene, the Villa Savoye, with John Smith’s 1612 map of Virginia. Mechanized space of the 20th Century crosses with calligraphic landscapes of 17th Century representation. Constructed artifacts deal with the nature of the line as a hybridized thing, capable of changing material properties from charred to natural wood, seamlessly spliced with resin.


Early artifacts and Gridscapes deploy themselves on a site in Peckham. The project becomes a world enveloping contradictory things, Spa and Meat Market, Gallery and Residential spaces, self-referential proportions, and calligraphic ribbon windows all come together in a Polyphonic world about representation and architecture.

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Offsets Digital Media


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Cusp of Combustion Charred Paper


Woven Grid Ink on Paper

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A Tensile Artifact Rope, charred wood, steel B Dancing line Ink and burnt paper C Assorted References Map of Virginia 1612 John Smith, Villa Savoye Le Corbusier, NASA landing profile TMA-17M


Grid # 1 Digital Media; Study to combine references (C)

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Grid # 2 Digital Media; Study of heraldry; Study of 20th century modernist hygiene vs 17th century calligraphic map


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Grid # 3 Digital Media; Study of the five points & Map of Virginia


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Grid # 4 Digital Media; Study to combine Offsets & references


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Grid # 5 Digital Media; Study of Corbusian plan inverted with landscape & NASA landing profiles


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9 Square Grid Digital Media


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Poem of the 45 Angle Wood and Resin


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Cube Wood and Resin

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Peckham Market Digital and manual drawing

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Previous Spread Peckham Redu Site Plan Digital Media; Irregular site rationalized to Golden Section, new internalized compound referencing fragmentary nature of Peckham, Bussey Building & other key sites depicted at 1/4 scale.


Peckham Redu Five Points Digital Media; Institutional building referencing five points and earlier gridscapes, ground floor market.

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Synthetic Model Wood, Acrylic, Aluminum, Resin; Model combining interior room & overall site plan; Calligraphic “ribbon window�.


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Offsets translated into second ribbon window.


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ARTIFACT , ANALYSIS & DRAWINGS

SELECTED WORK


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Drawings of New Haven’s skyline.


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Drawing of Louis Kahn’s Esherick House

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Diagrammatic Analysis with Peter Eisenman, Drawings & models of Corbusier’s Maison Jaoul.


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Formal Analysis with Peter Eisenman


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Human/Nature with Joel Sanders, Drawings of Mies’s Villa Tugendhat vs Herzog & De Meuron’s De Young Museum.


Spatial Concepts of Japan with Yoko Kawai, Drawings of Ando’s Vitra Conference Pavilion.

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The project is an exterior cladding system comprised of sandwiched clear pillows that are mirror images of one another for the purposes of aesthetics, thermal, and lighting effects. Concepts of frozen animation, coupled with liquid-like transparency and reflectivity were the basis of the exploration.


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*WATERLOO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE THROWBACK*

MACHINED BODY - CAMBRIDGE 140

The project brief called for complex hybrid programming of a wheelchair fabrication shop, gallery & retail spaces, a cafĂŠ, fitness & wellness center, and small residential units. The building was therefore conceived of as an entire workshop; a traveling armature of mechanized work stands liberate the workspace to extend throughout the building. Research into surrounding turn-of-the-century industrial buildings also revealed a rich history of warehouse and factory typologies; photographic research into the Cambridge area uncovered evidence of boilerplate and stamping machines


whereby each individual worker possessed a prosthetic hydraulic armature that allowed the work to be done. The hydraulic arms of the workshop cross site specificity with pragmatic accessibility. Material explorations were informed by the local history of stamped materials, intertwining reflection with opacity. The workshop distills and distributes program in a mechanical way, taking the inner mechanisms of a watch as inspiration. The corner site is absorbed into a large mat building with four courtyards, which change their character based on adjacent programs.

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Model of solids and voids; courtyards & distribution of enclosed spaces.


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Facade Detail

Above Concept diagrams showing overlay of watch mechanism. Below Sections depicting stamped & perforated facade; section at glazing with hydraulic arms on tracks.

Section B

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Above Model with mechanical arm base & light-box. Below Historic photographs of mechanized industrial facilities in surrounding area.


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A Axonometric without perimeter enclosure. B Glazed courtyards. C Workshop track containing hydraulic arms D Semi-enclosed rooms E Infrastructure: cafe, storage, bathrooms, etc.

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WITH GREN WEIS ARCHITECTS 2012-PRESENT

THE WAYNE GRETZKY WINERY - NIAGARA 152

Currently under construction, the design of the Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery integrates itself into a vernacular rural Ontario context. The site plan of the winery is buffered with vegetation on all sides, including vineyards at the north and west facades, as well as a tree grove to the south. The winery is a bold low-rise building with a gabled roof at a scale appropriate to its inhabitants and the surrounding landscape. The glazing strategy in the winery not only maximizes day lighting, but also allows for seamless views between interior spaces and the landscape beyond. Large views are an


important feature to set up a point of appreciation and engagement with the vineyards. The inset glazing follows the form of the gable, meant to exaggerate its image as a contemporary yet vernacular building of rural Ontario. The building’s materiality also pays homage to the surrounding context, using a light metal roof, stained wood siding, and a mixture of concrete/stone interventions. The building’s materials strengthen the image of a historically sensitive design, while remaining minimal, allowing for an appreciation of its surroundings.

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M.Arch I 2016 Yale School of Architecture B.A.S 2012 Waterloo School of Architecture andrewdadds@gmail.com

ANDREW DADDS

Andrew Dadds

2013-2016 YSOA


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