ANDREW FRIEDENBERG
2018 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
ANDREW FRIEDENBERG
EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture University of Oregon School of Architecture & Allied Arts, Oregon USA Graduation 06/2016 [I accelerated to complete the 5 year NAAB accredited program in 4 years] Our architecture program focused on sustainability and is a leader in the field. EXPERIENCE Architect - Behnisch Architekten Stuttgart Germany 08/2016 - CURRENT I currently work as a Junior Architect (Architect 1) for the international architecture firm Behnisch Architekten in Stuttgart, Germany. I’ve worked on multiple projects of various scales including the design development phase of a community school in Stuttgart and the finalization of a competition for a new commercial district in Vienna. One year of my time in the office has been spent working in a ~8 person team progressing a large swimming complex in Konstanz (Germany) from schematic design through construction documents and now into realization. I am primarily designing the roof, roof structure, and working hand in hand with 3D modeling (Rhinoceros) to coordinate with engineers on the incredibly complex steel structure. Architecture Intern - Gensler Las Vegas USA 06/2015 - 09/2015 I worked at the Las Vegas office of the internationally renown design firm Gensler as a intern. I participated in many aspects of architecture from competition design and rendering, to model making and detailing. Creative Director - University of Oregon HOPES Conference 09/2014 - 05/2015 I was the creative director in an all student team running the HOPES conference which focuses on sustainability and ecology in architectural systems. Guest speakers included Carlo Ratti and Neri Oxman. Volunteer - South Africa & Argentina 09/2010 - 04/2011 I volunteered through the organization Projects Abroad and spent 4 months living in Cape Town building a simply constructed library in a impoverished township. After this I spent 3 months volunteering in a village outside Cordoba, Argentina, working in a community center teaching English to impoverished children. Volunteer (Portland, Oregon) 06/2010 - 09/2010 I spent four months volunteering with the organization Habitat for Humanity constructing small affordable housing units. SKILLS Technical Rhinoceros [9/10] Grasshopper [7/10] Vray [9/10] Adobe CS [10/10] MS Programs [9/10] Physical Modeling [8/10] Hand Media [8/10] Autocad [10/10] Revit [5/10]
Noteworthy Courses Building Enclosures Environmental Control Systems (2) Building Structures (2) Urban Design Principles Minimal Dwelling Spacial Composition Human Context
Specialty / Interests Biomimetics Sustainable design Computational design Integrating new technology + Ultimately creating beautiful space
ORGANIZATIONS & AWARDS AIAS / HOPES Conference / Peer Mentor / Oregon BILDS / 4 Studio Commendations
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COMPETITION // Winter 2017 Project: ARCHMEDIUM, BARCELONA SOCIAL HOUSING Created with Sergio Salas
In the center of Barcelona... The brief called for a transformation of an existing 20th century office building to new social housing units. The existing building has a typical workplace layout with perimeter offices and a large central service core.
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ShiftingHOME the stacked units creates ideal HOME HOME HOME dimensions for the variety of inhabitants HOME HOME (small HOME to largeHOME families, studios, and HOME students) whileHOME forming 2 unique HOME frontages to theHOME building: a setback from SHOP SHOP the street to create an enhanced public space and a terraced facade facing the plaza to the North. FAMILY FAMILY
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On ground individual STUDIOS level, FAMILYclosed STUDENT commercial spaces are substituted for STUDENT a permeable market space uniting the STREETPUBLIC MARKETPLAZA urban fabric. STUDENT STUDENT
Preserving the facade and adapting the current structure to house OBLIQUO means removing non-essential areas of the existing floor plates to disseminate sunlight to the setback units...
...while simultaneously creating a unique space (with invisible guard rails) and identity for the residents to maintain and continually improve.
The public market place acts as a filter between the plaza and the street, creating a porous public environment where an authoritarian obstacle once stood.
Suspended metal screens from an overhead rail system allows for a series of different market configurations. During the daytime the market fragments into a perpetual open public space...
...and during the nighttime it retracts into a sealed zone protecting the merchandise from drunk tourists.
Ground floor In a city of patterns and preplanned urbanism, our ‘mercado’ inspires images of the rationalized space surrounding it while allowing for a completely fluid space, defined by the occupants rather then the walls.
Positioned above the market are 160 new affordable housing units of diverse scales for various inhabitants. The program calls for housing for students, young couples, small to large families, and the largest spaces being allocated to live/work studios.
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A problem arose, to utilize the existing building’s structure, we had to insert a huge assortment of units among inconveniently-placed columns and structural walls. We resolved this by consolidating all hard services (plumbing, gas, electricity, heat) into a simple module which has more flexibility within the differently shaped unit and then positioning them in an overlapping fashion for efficiency.
Additional attachments can be mounted on the module in the space. Similar to a pocket knife, these tools can be personalized for the user type (i.e. sliding dividers for student dormitories).
And together, we have a new model for social housing in the center of Barcelona!!!!
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Make America green again!!! #MAGA
The air seems oddly fresh today Did i just see a deer. on Broadway . .
Hmmm productivity seems to be at an all time high . . . My garden is on the 16th floor!!
MY tax dollars at work!
What the #&$% is TERRAFORM?!
Once i caught a fish on the way to work
TERRAFORM is about transforMing the planet to better sustain life!! Don’t you remember Manhat� tan before??
Farm to table has a whole new meaning
THESIS // Winter 2015 & Spring 2016 // Dr. Hajo Neis Project: REPAIRING THE EARTH / REPAIRING THE CITY Tasked with choosing a global issue that plagues our urban environments, I set out researching the history of human settlement. From explorers and pioneers, to political and environmental refugees, humans have always been on the move with fluctuations of urbanization and de-urbanization happening across different places at different times. Presently we are in the greatest period of global urbanization ever... The Tokyo metropolitan area now accounts for 38 million people, Seoul 26 million, Shanghai 24 million, and the list goes on. In an age where 30% of a country’s population can live in one metropolis, this creates a consolidation of services and economy, causing further centralization as rural populations are forced to these already packed cities in search of a better future. What has arisen from this of migration is a strain on the displaced populations, the urban infrastructure, and especially the ecological systems in proximity to cities where green spaces are often condemned for more economic uses. How can this dynamic be “regenerated” at an architectural and urban level? Historically we have lived in a green environment, however during the Industrial Revolution when we entered the Anthropocene (the epoch of humans) humanity exerted the greatest impact on the Earth’s ecosystems. Since then we have paved a path converting this green natural environment into a gray man-made hardscape. A gradient of intertwined ecological ecosystems to singular human infrastructural ecosystem. A gradient of green to gray.
This gradient of GREEN-TO-GREY can be most easily seen from above. This is a series of maps detailing the complete transformation of Manhattan from a SYMBIOTIC ECOSYSTEM (left) to a SINGULAR ECOSYSTEM (right) over a span of ~400 years... ...from pre-Western colonization Mannahatta...
Traffic has never been better
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SINGULAR (HUMAN) ECOSYSTEM SYMBIOTIC ECOSYSTEM
...to the metropolis we know today.
My thesis proposes a departure from this historical conversion of green-space-to-grey-space, into a symbiotic ecosystem of both green AND gray spaces leading to a more livable city. Looking at a city from above, why does a gray block have to designate a built landscape and a green space designate a park? What if buildings themselves could also act as vertical parks? What if boulevards could also act as streams for run-off management? What if roofscapes could also act as a forest canopy?
This intertwining of ecosystems will be phased into the existing urban fabric spotted with isolated “zoo� like exhibits of nature. These phases follow a study of biology called DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, essentially the process by which plants grow (or anything of organic matter but I will use plants as an example). This breaks down into 3 PHASES:
1. ROOTS
2. SHOOTS
3. CANOPY The negative correlation of human population and (non-human) species population can be clearly seen. Prior to colonization, thousands of species including large mammals such as the ironically named American Black Bear dominated the island of Mannahatta....
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[ Horizontal networking ] Roots, the primary constructor of any organic matter, will unite the existing green ecosystems with ecological corridors, placing roads below surface level, and serve as a catalyst for the entire project. To map these roots, I created a experiment used the organic growth efficiencies of a yellow slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, and viewed each Manhattan park as a food source. The mold radiated from Central Park and established a network connecting the various isolated ecologies (food sources) in the most efficient manner in terms of size and proximity. [ Vertical networking ] Also known as stems, shoots provide the structure and facilitate the processing of resources from the canopy to the roots and vice versa. Phased in along the newly established corridors, the shoots allow for an expansion above the ground level. These self sustaining structures line the streets and create a plug-in system where residents and communities can decide amongst a series of modules spanning from shading devices and solar panels to elevated public spaces and greywater filtering gardens. [ Developed tripartite ecosystem ] Canopy, the upper layer of an ecological community is formed by the collection of root and shoot systems. Evolving from the shoots it envelopes the preexisting desolate roofscape and turns this asphalt landscape into a producer. This canopy captures natural resources such as rainwater, wind, and solar radiation and processes these into a variety of substance. Some of these include vast algaculture farms, turbines, and urban gardens.
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...settling at around 1.65 million today.
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After conducting extensive research on the process of mapping efficiencies, I recalled learning about a Japanese experiment which utilized a slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) to map the incredibly dispersed Tokyo subway system. Slime molds are “eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures�. This single cell grows to create complex systems uniting the isolated food sources into a single network. Atsushi Tero at the Hokkaido University harnessed the organism by creating a map representing Tokyo and then used a food source as the desired train stations. He released the mold in the center and then through the natural process of expansion, the cells created a interconnected network amongst the food sources. It was almost identical to the existing Tokyo subway network which was created by engineers. Could this simple system of organic mapping provide me with the framework to re-establish Manhattan as a functioning ecological ecosystem? ...and so in order to construct a new efficient united ecological map of Manhattan, I built a petri dish model in a dark / moist corner of my basement and to the disgust of everyone, began harvesting mold... Madison Square Park
Bryant Park
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Yellow slime mold: a single celled organism that creates nutrient-channeling tubes between food sources.
Central Park Oat flakes placed on existing parks are the food source for the mold.
Riverside Park Theodore Roosevelt Park
As seen above, the network of organisms expands uniformly yet is continually consolidating to the most efficient connections. The perfect plan for ecological corridors in Manhattan!
Phase 1: Existing ecology
Phase 3: A new urban plan for Manhattan detailing future street corridors, green zones, and concentration of sustainable development
Phase 2: Establish corridors
...for the next phase of the project, I focused on one area in particular, the area in-between Madison Square Park, Union Square Park, and Gramercy Park.
Let us see how this model will manifest on this quadrant of Manhattan...
1: Roots determination
3. Shoots + canopy growth
2. Ecological corridors established
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Green roofscape Gramercy Park
Structural shoots creates new opportunities for building up Union Square
4. Canopy constructed to complete the tripartite system!
The streetscape illustration shows what an ecological corridor will look like on Broadway Avenue.
Housed within this new framework sits a new program. A program of systems. Ecological systems + Infrastructural systems + Social systems. Working together they intertwine the ecosystems of Manhattan through a series of modules. SUN
RAINWATER
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CANOPY TURBINES
GREENHOUSE
DRONE PORT
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URBAN FARM
BEE FARM
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SOLAR WATER HEATER BAMBOO FARM
MIRRORS
URBAN FARM
PLANTERS
SHUTTERS
WATER WHEEL
BEE FARM
BAMBOO SCREENS WATER BARRELS
BALCONY
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[ Vertical networking ] Also known as stems, shoots provide the structure and facilitate the processing of resources from the canopy to the roots and vice versa. Phased in along the newly established corridors, the shoots allow for an expansion above the ground level. These self sustaining structures line the streets and create a plug-in system where residents and communities can decide amongst a series of modules spanning from shading devices and solar panels to elevated public spaces and greywater filtering gardens.
These modules arrayed across existing facades add a new vertical public space.
[ Developed tripartite ecosystem ] Canopy, the upper layer of an ecological community is formed by the collection of root and shoot systems. Evolving from the shoots it envelopes the preexisting desolate roofscape and turns this asphalt landscape into a producer. This canopy captures natural resources such as rainwater, wind, and solar radiation and processes these into a variety of substance. Some of these include vast algaculture farms, turbines, and urban gardens.
[ Developed tripartite ecosystem ] Canopy, the upper layer of an ecological community is formed by the collection of root and shoot systems. Evolving from the shoots it envelopes the pre-existing desolate roofscape and turns this asphalt landscape into a producer. This canopy captures natural resources such as rainwater, wind, and solar radiation and processes these into a variety of substances to be used throughout the city. Some of these include vast algaculture farms, turbines, and urban gardens. This illustration shows what the prototype for future structures built as a canopy will look like. A structure of systems, turns what primarily was viewed as solely human inhabitation, into an incubator of life, whether human or not. The canopy converts roofs to act as leaves, gathering sunlight and water, and the facade into a tree trunk filtering and transporting these resources while simultaneously providing structure for new vertical inhabitation.
In the process of researching efficiencies within modular structures, I stumbled across Euplectella apergillum. This deep sea glass sea sponge synthesizes a diagonally reinforced cage-like skeletal tube that forms a delicate latticework consisting of periodic open and closed spaces which directly inspired the weaving elements which frame the structure of this new prototype of canopy building.
Aside from the stairs as a primary structural element, I viewed them as a means for the public to access the heights that Manhattan has to offer (which today seems only accessible by the incredibly wealthy). Similar to an Escher illusion, I created an continuous public way spanning every dimension.
Diagrammatic drawings demonstrating how the shoots and canopy will envelope an existing building and provide new accommodation while also enhancing the systems within the surrounding buildings.
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Competition // Spring 2017 Project: ArchOutLoud - Propaganda Flash Competition Created with Sergio Salas The period of monumental showboat architecture is over. From the Pyramids in Giza to the Burj Khalifa in Abu Dhabi, society has turned to buildings with increasing height and glamor as a reflection of prosperity. We will change that. Erected alongside modern and historical architectural icons of capitalism, our construct contrasts and overcomes the projection of wealth and gluttony with its simplicity and accessibility to the general public. Following the principles of Alejando Aravena’s architecture, governments and the local populace divert social housing funds into constructing one massive framework with only the necessary amenities supplied. People may now occupy this new space utilizing it for any required program and eventually filling up the space with their collective and individual needs. Our construct of blatant socialism exists amongst these recognizable testaments to wealth and provides the public with a new form of propaganda, furthering our social agenda. In a way, we have created socialism through capitalism. 425 Park Ave? Empire State? Elbphilharmonie? No, Contrast.
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STUDIO 8 // Fall 2015 // Charles Dorn & Nicolas Smith (Hacker Architects) Project: Oregon College of Arts & Craft (O.C.A.C.) Campus Created with Kimberly Thorsell Status: COMMEND We were tasked to create a new campus master-plan and communal building to house the expansion of the art college. The program required a library, a student union/cafe, and a gallery/lecture hall space, a substantial upgrade for the already densely packed and heavily forested hillside campus.
Exploring this historical campus located in the West Hills of Portland, we were taken by the stark contrast between the rustic nature of the old cabin VERNACULAR architecture nestled across the steep site and the CONTEMPORARY construction in recent years which had ignored the context to accommodate the necessary expansion of the school.
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We asked ourselves, how can we provide a contemporary image for the college while remaining in-line with their existing ideals? This being, how can we create a new space that breaks the paradigm of complete separation between exterior and interior? The division of people and nature? Ourselves stumped, we began to examine our classmates slowly tear themselves apart over how to manipulate the steep topography ... and BOOM
The solution lies within the problem ... THE TERRAIN!!!!!
We proposed an alternative typology of architecture which removes the building as a singular element and instead embeds the program within the steep existing topography, using the nature as structure, allowing the campus to maintain its forested character while still accommodating the massive increase in program.
In PLAN, existing contours are carried through the 3 spaces establishing a uniting element, yet allowing the spaces to create their own identity. These identities are seen.... IN SECTION.
1. GALLERY + LECTURE HALL
2. S TUD ENT UNI ON +C AFE
3. L IBR ARY
But how will this fusion of nature and occupiable space realize in an architectural design?
The GALLERY / LECTURE HALL allows existing topography to sculpt a new public space which serves as a cross campus axis and provides the local community with a variety of art gallery conditions and a 150-person lecture hall.
The STUDENT UNION / CAFE acts as the heart of the campus. Its connection to the exterior plaza creates a very different aesthetic where the topography frames the ceiling / roof-scape rather than the occupiable floor space. This allows for the interior to serve as a seamless continuation of the adjacent plaza.
The LIBRARY creates an intimate wooden space framed by a continuation of topography collapsed through the building. It serves as an educational landmark and blurs the definitive line between sculpture and architecture.
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1. GALLERY + LECTURE HALL
2. STUDENT UNION + CAFE
3. LIBRARY
STUDIO 7 // Spring 2015 // Prof. Kevin Nute Project: Cliff House, San Francisco, USA
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Perched on the western-most edge of Western Civilization, the Cliff House represents the evolution of settlement of the Bay Area and the Golden State as a whole. As of today, the Cliff House has two restaurants, a small museum, a lookout point, a gift shop, and a camera obscura. Our studio “burned it down� and we were to propose the next step in this sites long history.
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Assigned to examine the future of the famous Cliff House (currently a conglomerate of restaurants and gift shops), I delved back into the sites’ checkered past of illicit gambling halls, gentlemen clubs, and sleazy restaurants...
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I borrowed from their A-frame structural shelter design and created two separated galleries and restaurant spaces connected by an meandering cultural pathway that follows the existing coastal procession.
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My research showed that the Ohlone people had settled in these harsh coastal conditions long before Europeans had constructed these isolated series of period architectural icons on this rugged point. They were the original inhabitants.
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...and found nothing inspirational to lead to a progressive new design! (examine its built history to the right)
MONUMENT creates a seamless cultural procession of prospect and retreat between historic Sutro Baths...
...and beautiful Ocean Beach...
...while minimizing its ecological impact by sitting within the cavernous remains of the prior structure. Simultaneously these new structures frame a series of unique views out to the ocean, almost like a giant camera obscura. Creating a series of cultural experiences prompted a question: HOW CAN THE IDEA OF HISTORICAL PRESERVATION BE TAKEN BEYOND THE SEMI-TANGIBLE REALM OF ELEMENTS GENERALLY SHOWCASED IN MUSEUMS? ...so playing off the delicate relationship between finely crafted man-made structure and the brutal exterior elements, I preserved the skeletal timber structure of the prior Cliff House. Swooping from the exterior street level into the interior space, it creates a gradient of exposed wood to sheltered wood that over time will become a gradient of decay-to-preserved, representing the constant battle between man and nature in these harsh climatic elements that have claimed so many of mans previous attempts of settlement here. It is a monument.
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