SELECTED WORKS 2015-2017
Architecture - Design - Visualization - Creation
ANDREW SHEA
andrewsheadesign.com
ANDREW SHEA
Experience The University of Virginia School of Architecture
New York , NY Summer 2017
845-264-0823 10 Richards Blvd Poughkeepsie NY, 12603 ats2ws@virginia.edu New York, NY Winter 2016
Hart Howerton
Education
Rendering Contractor
Placed on multiple projects throughout the internship located throughout the world and was responsible for all aspects of design, from presentation material preparation, CAD master plan drawings and 3d Modeling + Rendering.
Provided rendering services for the OIC, a business incubator located in the economically depressed Orange, Ma. Conceptual renderings of layouts and designs used for community outreach and government funding proposals.
Architecture Research Office
University of Virginia
Responsible for updating graphics for Professor Van Lengen’s publication on Vassar College and assisting with drawings for various residential projects.
Master of Architecture
Assisted in the Graduate I level Analysis and Representation course designed to teach the fundamentals of physical and digital representational techniques using Rhino 5, the Adobe Creative Suite, V-ray for Rhino, etc.
Poughkeepsie, NY May-Sep 2014
Amherst, Ma 2011-2015
University of Massachusetts
Summer 2016
Smaller based firm specializing in high end residential with work in the Westchester. Was responsible for schematic design, design development and construction documentation.
Provide design support, construction documentation and rendering services on medium scale commercial plus high end multi-family housing projects in the Westchester/ Metropolitan area.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Architecture -GPA: 3.82 Overall Cum Laude- 4.0 Architecture -Departmental Honors with Advanced Scholarship -Commonwealth Honors College -Deans List 4 Years -AIAS -Voices from the Field- NCARB sponsored class for students to gain practical field experience and knowledge through engagement with professionals on site in the western Massachusetts area.
Berlin, Germany Jan-May 2014
PAPP Architects, P.C. Architectural Intern
New York , NY Winter 2015
CIEE- Terreform One Charlottesville, VA Jan 2015-Present 5 Semesters
UVA School of Architecture Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate first year and second year Foundation Studios. Provide assistance, workshops and tutorials during studio hours and outside of class.
Charlottesville, VA Sep 2015-May 2016
UVA School of Architecture Campbell Hall Renovation - Research Assistant Prepare and implement design/construction drawings for multi million dollar renovation of the schools’ studio spaces.
University of Massachusetts Research Assistant Worked directly with a faculty member in the department to research and develop ideas and info-graphics related to building demolition and the adaptive reuse of material in new construction. The work was used in the Eco Building Bargains Store, designed by the faculty member, which is a repository for reclaimed building materials.
Bjarke Ingels Group
Global Architecture and Design- Study Abroad -Awarded a full tuition scholarship to be a member of the inaugural class, working directly in the city of Berlin to create a new vision for the future city, based on contextual sites and histories in the city of Berlin. The overall master plan and project was a team based effort, combining students from architecture schools across the United States.
Amherst, MA Sep-Dec 2013
Architectural Extern Placed on a project team working on a design competition at the port of Miami. Responsible for assisting with model production. Also responsible for 3D modeling/ rendering on various other projects in the office.
Daniel Contelmo Architects Architectural Intern
-Master of Architecture in the 2.5 year Program White Plains, NY Summer-2015
University of Massachusetts Teaching Assistant
UVA School of Architecture Research Assistant - Karen Van Lengen
Charlottesville, VA 2015-2017
Amherst, MA Sept-Dec 2014
Responsible for generating graphics for client presentations as well as attending construction site meetings in Manhattan with the firm’s partners. Also responsible for site modeling and iterative modeling.
Charlottesville, VA Sep 2016-May 2017
Orange Innovation Center
Architectural Intern
Architectural Extern Design Website : Andrew Shea Design.com
Orange, MA Mar 2015-Present
Poughkeepsie, NY May-Sep 2013
AFI Glass & Architectural Metal Design/ Drafting Intern Large scale architectural glass contracting firm with commercial work in the New York City area. Was a member of the in house drafting department, responsible for schematic design, construction documentation and project management.
Tool sets
Recognition International Oct 2017
United States Sept. 2017
International Photography Awards
Showcase
A photo series curated for a photography class was submitted and earned an honorable mention in the non professional night photography category.
Re-centering Delhi Project was showcased in the University of Virginia School or Architecture’s Annual Catalyst publication, a collection of selected studio projects within the past year dealing with prevalent issues in the publication
Architect Magazine Studio Prize Selected as the winner of the 2017 Studio Prize as part of a submission of the studio brief and two other student projects, representing radical new approaches to the studio curriculum at the UVA School of Architecture.
Charlottesville, VA Sep 2016
Selected to present current studio project at the University of North Carolina Charlotte Critical Mass Conference
University of Virginia Competition Selected through a competition to be the designer of the front cover of the 2016 Alumni Card which is sent out to over 7,000 family, friends and loyal alumni of the University of Virginia
Critical Mass Conference Conference
United States Spring 2017
Catalyst Publication
Honorable Mention
Award
Charlotte, NC Spring 2017
Charlottesville, VA Sep 2016
Boston, MA Dec 2014+2015
Boston Society of Architects Student Design Showcase Past studio projects are submitted in competition form to be judged by a jury, which selects certain projects for exhibition at the BSA Space in Boston for two months. Work from the Junior year studio in 2014 and Senior year thesis in 2015 were exhibited.
Photographers Forum Best of College Photography Competition Submitted Photo was a finalist out of 13,000 submissions in the annual competition sponsored by Photographers forum
Charlottesville, VA Spring 2017
Drawing created through the university was selected through competition to be displayed in the new student center at the University of Virginia
The Re-centering Delhi Project was awarded the top student design for the AIA Central Virginia’s annual awards submitted through an on line competition.
Charlottesville, VA 2015-2017
Springfield, MA Summer 2013
UVA School of Architecture Showcase Studio projects from the Fall of 2015 and 2016 selected for all school exhibition and featured in school publications and on the departments website.
Analog -Drafting -Pencil -Ink -Drawing Tools
Western Massachusetts AIA
-3D Printers -Laser Cutters -Hand Tools -CNC Routing
Project was one of two featured in the WMAIA summer newsletter, highlighting the spring studio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of a larger studio project.
Poughkeepsie, NY Spring 2010
-AutoCAD -AutoCAD Architecture -Adobe Creative Suite -Rhinoceros 5 3D Modeling Software -Grasshopper -V-ray / Maxwell Rendering Programs -Diva for Rhino -Ecotect -Sketch up -Revit -Word Processing Programs -Photography -Autodesk Flow Design -Energy 2D -Open Studio -Sefaria
Accepted into the programs chapter of the Tau Sigma Delta honors society based on academic merit.
Summer Newsletter
AIA Central Virginia Honor Award for Design Excellence
Tau Sigma Delta University of Massachusetts Amherst
1515 Student Art Gallery Showcase
Charlottesville, VA Oct 2016
Amherst, MA Fall 2015
Digital
Eagle Scout Rank Boy Scouts of America Successful completion of all requirements for the rank of Eagle after involvement in the organization for over 12 years. Led various community based service projects as well as leadership positions in the troop.
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Statement of Intent As designer, I seek to explore this environment through multiple perspectives, from the human to the infrastructural scale in a rigorous study of site and context. Architectural interventions demand a strong connection to the surrounding fabric to create a highly diverse yet connective public realm. As this realm grows exponentially and urban fabrics become denser, the role of technological and infrastructural systems must be in a constant evolution to meet the demands of self-sufficient cities. My work identifies struggling connections while forging new linkages between the human, social and technological realms to address rising global challenges.
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Contents
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01 - Post Industrial Appalachia :
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02 - Shifting States :
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03 - Digital Space :
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04 - Inter-modal Housing Network :
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05 - Drawings
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06 - Photography
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Environmental and Remediation Center
Alaskan Community Center
Re-imagining the Dissemination of Data
Re-centering Delhi
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Reconstituting Perception Installation
01 | Post Industrial Appalachia :
Research and Remediation Center
Date: Fall 2017 Instructors: Luis Pancorbo and Edward Ford Project Location: The New River Gorge National River - Nuttallburg Town and Coal Mining Complex, West Virginia Project Brief:
This project, located in the former mining town of Nuttallburg West Virginia seeks to create a new connection between the abandoned mining town and the New River Gorge National River. This 10,000 Sq ft visitor and environmental remediation center is sited along the rivers edge leading to the base of the historic tipple structure, which formally loaded coal onto railroad cars moving through the site. The project is designed as a modularized system, which can grow and compress over time. Through the introduction of new industrial infrastructures, the design has the ability to construct and itself using material offloaded from the existing freight railroad. As such, the project becomes a new industrial piece to this post industrial site.
Architect Magazine 2017 Studio Prize Winner
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Post Industrial Appalachia forms a new entrance to the site, framing the view of the tipple as one moves into the town. The massing consists of a series of heavy timber trusses supported by steel support towers over the New River Gorge National River. A series of Cross Laminated Timber modules are offloaded from the train and inserted into the truss by the overhead crane system, forming the programmatic blocks. Embedded into the hill, a bar of services containing mechanical and storage spaces form the spine of the project. In section, the truss seeks to minimize impact on the existing land, while keeping most of the program on grade with the parking area to preserve accessibility throughout the lower site. Because of this, Post Industrial Appalachia forms a new connection between the existing town and the river, negotiating the steep terrain and existing infrastructural pieces of the site to create a new and dynamic insertion into the towns fabric.
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Post Industrial Appalachia The site located along the banks of the New River Gorge National River contains a steep topography, sloping up from the river over 80’ in elevation. As a result, the form of the building was determined by this topography, as well as the active CSX train line below, requiring 20’ of clearance to the top of the locomotive. The heavy rock outcropping along the shoreline act as the foundational system for a series of steel towers supporting the truss and the crane above.
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Baseline Infrastructural All Infrastructural pieces including support towers, crane and foundational systems are in place on site and allow for enough clearance for the train below. These act as the initial framework for the heavy timber truss assembly to be inserted into. The crane structure is utilized to offload modules and materials from the train and move them throughout the site as needed to facilitate the variability of the structural system over time.
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3/4 Truss System The 160’-0” heavy timber truss is assembled on the staging platform to the east and is placed on its foundation and the support tower through the use of the overhead crane. This truss will house interior program blocks with an observation point at the end inside of the tower. The height of the truss is dictated by the 20’ clearance of the underside of the adjacent Tipple structure, creating a relationship to the existing infrastructural typologies on the site.
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Full Truss System The full truss system adds a 40’-0” cantilevered extension on the end of the support tower, allowing for the addition of lecture spaces suspended below over the New River Gorge National River, creating an intimate connection between visitors and the class 5 (double Z) rapids below.
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Nuttallburg, West Virginia
01 New River Gorge National River This project is situated within the lower valley of the New Rover Gorge National River. The tower assemblies form a row of industrial infrastructures which support the crane structure above. The design utilizes the existing rock outcroppings of the river as the foundations for the tower, allowing for a minimum encroachment on the town behind. The project, like the tipple becomes a new beacon along the gorge, acting as a way point for hikers and a docking point for rafters throughout the area while providing unprecedented views above the ‘Double Z’ Rapids raging below
02 A New ‘Station’ of Travel
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By placing the program within the trusses and embedding the infrastructural systems and facilities into the hillside, a new promenade is created into the site ending at the Tipple structure. This move preserves the former loading tracks which lead up the Tipple, from which coal was loaded and moved to the rest of the United States. The materiality of the weathered Steel Grating is meant to evoke the existing industrial character of the site, evoking the rough material qualities of Appalachia. Throughout the site, the new overhead crane structure becomes an important beacon, communicating the potential variability and reorganization of the design over time.
03 Open Spaces The modularized CLT assembly systems allows for the creation of large open spaces, fostering a habitable work environment for visitors and researchers alike. The CLT allows for a minimalist interior devoid of any joints which creates a contrast between the exterior truss assembly. The space is intended to be transparent to the outside, with expansive windows located on the outer edge of the module while the inner edge adjacent to the exterior circulation path has a screening system built into it. The modules allow for shelving and table units to be integrated into the wall system, while mechanical piping and radiant heating are embedded into the raised floor system.
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Each block of program is connected to each other through a transparent glass assembly, blurring the line between the interior and exterior. This assembly is constructed of structural glass, devoid of mullions to maintain full transparency through the structure. This space is protected from the sun by the exterior grating system wrapping the truss assembly. As a series of connective un-programed spaces, the glass volumes become social incubators, which through pivot doors have the ability to fully open to the outside during the warmer months. The exteriors of the program blocks are clad in a dark wood cladding, providing a visual contrast through the exterior shading system.
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02 | Shifting States :
Minto Alaska Community Center
Date: Fall 2017 Instructors: Mathew Jull | Arctic Design Group | Teammates: Michael Tucker, Samantha Kokenge | Project Location: Minto, Alaska Project Brief: Water, in each of its three states, possesses powerful qualities. More over, as it changes its properties through freezing and thawing, water’s capabilities change as well. Using natural phenomena, such as sunlight and wind, how can the power of water be enhanced? How can water be utilized as a natural ‘material’ to develop a set of spatial parameters in the Arctic? Through a series of modulated systems, can water be harnessed and aggregated to form new types of spatial conditions? How can building modules use both these natural and artificially generated sources to create new spatial typologies which respond to the Arctic’s drastic seasonal changes? Harnessing the carrying capacity of wind, can building form and facade be accumulated into a new form to collect wind born snow, which through various collection techniques will be able to insulate and supplement wall systems and assemblies through the build-up of seasonal mass.
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The town of Minto, Alaska will be used as a laboratory for understanding the prevalence and flow of water through an urban area, by identifying the sources of water and snow throughout the urban core. Water exists in various forms, from basic surface runoff to the vapor generated by everyday human activities. Through the lens of water, we propose an aggregation of these systems into a mixed-use community center, a program that has been discussed for the town for decades. Mixed use programs demand a flexible spatial typology, requiring a dynamic built enclosure.
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03 | Digital Space :
Re-imagining the Dissemination of Data
Date: Fall 2016 Instructors: Shiqiao Li Project Location: The National Mall - Washington D.C
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The Museum of the Digital Environment seeks to act as a Project Brief: linkage between the existing institutions of the Smithsonian. This museum seeks to rethink the relationship of the visitor and the way they access information through an un-curated, decentralized format of digital information technology. By providing the physical infrastructures and systems required for the digitalization of over 137 Million artifacts in the collection, this site on the National Mall becomes the epicenter of research and public relations for the institution, becoming a forum of interactive information flows. Moving deep into the 21st century, the role this information must be rethought in the realm of digital tools and objects which surround oneself at all times, influencing the decision we make and the efficiency of our world. The design is based upon the organization of a QR code and bar code, creating a hierarchy of space in a decentralized design. Because of this there is not a clear movement through the building to the user. Instead, they begin to experience different spaces in different successions, allowing for a diverse and rich experience. The building is divided into a series of 5 circulation cores running across the site, anchored by a conference tower and a infrastructural systems core housing the computing servers of the building. These cores rise to the West and dematerialize toward the east becoming level with the institution while breaking apart toward the U.S Capital, creating a new massing typology on the National Mall. The exhibit spaces are a series of modules spread throughout the site, containing interactive screen and glass displays, allowing the user to experience information through the movement of their body. This creates a new environment, anchored by various other building services, such as offices, habitat modules, dining facilities and multipurpose event spaces. The building, through this massing strategy inserts itself into the context without overpowering it, creating a publicly available forum to digital information.
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Basswood Physical Model Mounted on Masonite
Massing Strategy
Networked Institutions
Existing Smithsonian Institutions
Typical Massing Strategy
Existing Smithsonian Institutions
Divided Massing
Meeting the Context
Existing Smithsonian Institutions
Washington, District of Columbia
Dematerialization of the Massing
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Ground Floor Plan
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Pennsylvania Ave
Circulation Core
Entry to Lower Level
Multipurpose Zone
The Glass Room
The Immersion Room
East - West Section
Washington, District of Columbia
1st Street NW
Basswood Physical Model Mounted on Masonite
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The Spatial Operating Lab
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New Delhi, India
04 | Recentering Delhi :
Inter-modal Housing Network
Date: Fall 2015 Instructors: Pankaj Vir Gupta, Inaki Alday, Eric Barr Project Location: New Delhi, India Project Brief:
Re-centering Delhi is a three year research initiative addressing the connections of the city of New Delhi to the Yamuna River, one of the most heavily polluted river systems in the world. Through various site interventions, the goal of the studio is to restitch the urban fabric of the heavily disjointed city and reconnect that fabric to the desolate Yamuna Floodplain. This studio spent a week on site in the city of New Delhi, India to document, experience, and propose new projects both along the floodplain and in the inner city. Through on-site experience, key infrastructural areas, such as mobility, housing, public space and trash remediation were identified as key project rivers in the overall master plan.
AIA Central Virginia Design Excellence Award 2016
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This particular intervention seeks to break the physical barrier formed by the existing regional rail system, which separates the northern and southern sections of the city. This particular site, the Tilak bridge is one of the only pedestrian crossing points for over a Kilometer and is one of the most heavily traveled secondary roads linking the cities cultural monuments. The site furthermore represents a prime area of intervention for an inter-modal transport hub, which contains two major metro stations and an underutilized regional station, all of which are heavily disconnected from each other despite being less then a kilometer apart. This proposal seeks to connect these mobility systems, while integrating a new housing typology to bridge the regional rail embankment, creating cross pedestrian access from north to south, thus reconnecting the northern and southern sections of the city.
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Housing blocks, plugged into the sides of the existing rail embankment contain commercial spaces on the ground level, and residential units in the upper half. The middle of the blocks form a communal outdoor space, level with the central circulation platforms. This space, open on both sides allow the project and the city to visually connect , reinforcing the restricting of the site. Above, the residential blocks will be crisscrossed by skybridges, allowing unhindered circulation between buildings, while offering physical connections between multiple units. Underneath, new utility corridors, adjacent to the existing tracks will be created to service the project and feed into the proposed remediation infrastructures East of the site. On the ground level, new market spaces branch out from the central spine, extending out toward the existing roads, and into the surrounding urban context, while new roads will be created under the rail embankment to connect both sides of the project. Architecturally, the buildings are built around the idea of the solid vs void. The housing blocks, built of concrete form a solid extrusion, creating a sense of control and habitability. This extrusion is linked through the void. a transparent louvered cladding, which forms the main circulation bar. This transparency allows the public spaces to connect to both the city and the inner circulation corridor. As a result, the building appears as a built object, yet allows the city fabric to pass through the public space. As the project moves down the rail line, each housing block decrease in elevation by 15’, allowing it to blend into the existing landscape.
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05 | Hand Drawings Date: 2014 - 2018 Using pen and pencil, these drawings are completed in my free time as a hobby, exploring various historic buildings and places. I choose to draw in black and white to preserve a sense of history in the drawing to allow for dramatic contrasts throughout the drawings while also maintaining control of the tonal values throughout the image. The sketches on the left are a sampling of vignette style analysis drawings of case study buildings.
Page 39 - Yankee Stadium Gate 04 (1923) Page 40 Top - The University of Virginia Rotunda Page 40 Bottom Left - Yankee Stadium Gate 06 (1950) Page 40 Bottom Right - Daylight Steam Locomotive
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06 | Photography Date: 2014 - 2018
01 | The Giant Wheel - Wild-wood New Jersey 02 | New York Skyline - Manhattan, New York 03 | Crossing - Charlottesville, Virginia
Most of my photography over the past few years consists of primarily urban night explorations in regards to light, motion and scale. Through these explorations, I seek to highlight the variability in landscapes, whether they be the movement of a car, the imprint of pedestrians in a long exposure of the temporality of objects within a space. To achieve these shots, there is a high degree of difficulty finding the moment, whether it be through the subject matter, the timing of the photograph or the juxtapositions of multiple elements throughout the frame. The challenges and the unintended results are what drive me as a photographer. Through these challenges, I tend to constantly shift the scales of the subject matter, from the wide expanses of a city, to the perspective of an ant on the ground to a single water droplet, precariously hanging off of a tree branch. Photography allows me to explore the world in different ways, to expose the inherent dynamism of both the natural and constructed reality.
04 | U2 Subway Line - Berlin, Germany 05 | The Weltzeituhr - Berlin, Germany 06 | The Walkway over the Hudson - Poughkeepsie, New York 07 | The Subway - Manhattan, New York 08 | 432 9th Ave - Manhattan, New York 09 | Water Droplets - Poughkeepsie, New York 10 | Radio City Music Hall - Manhattan, New York 11 | The Catskill Mountains - Hunter, New York 12 | Tower Bridge - London, England 13 | Watkins Glen State Park, New York 14 | Grand Central Terminal - Manhattan, New York 15 | Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn, New York 16 | Golden Jubilee Bridge - London, England 17 | Brooklyn Bridge - East River, New York 18 | Brandenburg Gate - Berlin, Germany 19 | Trans - Alaskan Pipeline - Fairbanks, Alaska
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