Alex Stewart Design Portfolio 2017
Clients Toll Brothers City Living Scorpion Fitness Monadnock Development Dream Charter School Type A Projects San Francisco Public Utilites Commission
Critics David Lewis Andrew Bernheimer David Leven Astrid Lipka Peter Wheelwright Yolande Daniels Paul Goldberger Jing Liu Bryan Young Emily Abruzzo Luben Dimcheff Erica Goetz Derek Porter Ed Keller Reid Freeman Bernardo Secchi & Paola Vigano
Content Professional // Academic
1 // 100 Barrow Bernheimer Architecture 2 // The Growery Production for the Post-Industrial City 3 // Counterpart Personal 4 // Bethel House Bernheimer Architecture 5 // Van Dyke Housing Bernheimer Architecture 6 // El Barrio Gardens Bernheimer Architecture 7 // Blurred Lines Lower East Side Light Laboratory 8 // Now You See Me M. Arch Thesis 9 // HELIOcity LEVENBETTS 10 // Reach Higher Installation the White House
100 Barrow Toll Brothers City Living Bernheimer Architecture Expected Completion August 2017 New York, NY, USA Located in the West Village, Bernheimer Architecture was responsible for the design and planning of all interiors for this 35-unit multi-family condo. In addition to the apartments, the project includes the design of an amenity communal kitchen, lounge, gym, spa, wine cellar, and playroom. Building on the history of manufacturing common to the west side of Manhattan, the design combines rich textures and materials with an industrial workmanship, in order to manifest a highly tactile experience. Emphasis was placed on joinery and detail to elicit a modern, craft-oriented design that is overall subtle, yet distinct. Core and Shell design by Barry Rice Architects. In addition, BA designed and administered the construction of a 2,500 sqft commercial sales office adjacent the High Line to compliment the building., completed in May 2016.
View from Barrow Street, looking East rendering courtesy of Encore
View from Greenwich Street, looking Northeast Construction photo courtesy of Toll Brothers 100 Barrow : Toll Brothers City Living
Penthouse Renderings Looking north [top], Looking west
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Current Photos Typical Secondary Bath [top], Unit C Bedroom 100 Barrow : Toll Brothers City Living
Amenity Lounge Rendering of featured millwork ceiling, wine cellar, bar and entertainment alcoves
Amenity Ceiling Construction Photo 100 Barrow : Toll Brothers City Living
The Growery* Production for the Post-Industrial City Parsons Option Studio In collaboration with Kristen Garibaldi Instructor : Jing Liu Fall 2014 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Worldwide economies are migrating to the digital realm, bringing with them a change in the model of urban infrastructure. Meanwhile, efforts to invest in and invent for a new paradigm to utilize these advances is underway. In the wake remains the physical vestiges of an obsolete, industrial era; large-scale facilities ripe for a new type of production. The Brooklyn Navy Yard, occupying prime East River real estate, sits at the forefront of this revitalization effort. Equipped with a concentration of industrial space, the organization is intent on rebranding itself from a naval construction and repair yard to a tech and light-manufacturing hub. No building serves a greater role in this metamorphosis than No. 77, a behemoth of cast-concrete construction, totaling nearly 1 million square feet in leasable space. The Growery is a catalization of these opportunites. It rethinks the productiondistribution loop, and ushers in new forms of urban farming for products uniquely new in their handling; algae for the production of biofuel, and cannabis as America’s future cash crop. By exploiting the inherent capabilities of the building’s structural properties, and introducing a new form of demolition to selectively excavate portions of the existing framework, the two forms of growing are able to exist in harmony across the expansive floor plates. Through calibrated circulation loops, the produce is able to be grown, harvested, and transported by land, by sea, and by air.
* 2015 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Student Award, Winner
Existing Condition A monotonous field of stacked slabs and columns, hidden behind thin, clipped panels (resulting in rumors of the buildings past life as a secret ammunitions depot)
Minimal Exterior Manipulation The structural stability of Building 77 required a specific surgical touch for demolition, in order to accommodate the programmatic requirements for algeum biofuel production
Introduction of Vierendeel Truss placed above existing structural grid
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Extraction & Processing cannabis processes are stretched across the remaining slab
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Calibrated Interior Renovation3. Coring
precise demolition for biofuel tanks
A series of manuveurs enable systematic carving of the interior space, providing the necessary square footage to house grow tanks and the adjoining circulatory piping, cannabis grow, harvest, dry and packaging facilities, and pathways through which drones--the air apparatus by which products are distributed--can pass on their way to and from the building
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The Growery : Production for the Post-Industrial City
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Pinkhouses The grow rooms utilize an advanced technique for incubation employing red and blue LEDs. As plants capture only those two colors from the light spectrum, a controlled environment with a pinkish hue increases size and maturation period, yielding a more robust and economically competitive product The Growery : Production for the Post-Industrial City
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Twelfth Floor, Tank Operations Visible from the exterior as the first level with existing fenestration, the 12th floor operates as the biofuel nerve center, where algae is tested and cultivated via access to the upper most tanks
Live CCTV Feed Images of the interior space at the northeast “pill� shaft with crossing circulation; drones operating within the tubes; and a tank transfer floor The Growery : Production for the Post-Industrial City
Algae - Biofuel Horizontal circulation from grow tanks to cultivation, from storage to ground and water distribution
Visitors Coreographed movement from elevated entry, up escalator system to roofscape
Cannabis Vertical production from grow and drying rooms, to packaging, shipping, and drone delivery
Workers Central, existing core provides vertical movement from new, open private entrance
Circulation Four separate loops of entry and exit for human and product output operate within the walls of No. 77, each with unique speeds and distribution modes
Escalator Detail As the most prominent circulatory apparatus, the series of public escalators that carry visitors through the building acts as a conveyor belt of sorts, displaying the growing and manufacturing procedures using sectional panning, similar to a single-shot film scene. The Growery : Production for the Post-Industrial City
Planning Strategies Process Diagram above, Plans and Sections below
Counterpart Architectural League Folly Entry In collaboration with Laura Suppan and Mariam Alshamali 2016 Queens, NY, USA As a response to the 2016 Folly Competition, we submitted Counterpart, a reflective manifestation on the resolute nature of Socrates Sculpture Park as it commemorates its thirtieth year. Ruminating on the park’s commitment to progressive change and introspection, our proposal formalizes a campus for the education corridor that is elevated by the parallel dialogue between two analog sets of shipping containers. Though of the same origin, Counterpart posits an inversion of these prosaic objects in an homage to the park’s humble roots and democratic resolve. It juxtaposes gritty, hardened steel with a translucent, flexible facade that espouses a willingness to adapt with evolving necessities as the education corridor expands its programming. It is, at once, a poetic meditation on the thirty year history of Socrates Park and a statement on its future as a democratic, educational institution. It speaks to the resourcefulness of the Park’s past, while illustrating the zeitgeist of its present identity. And, it wraps all of these up in two, discarded shipping containers.
Van Dyke Housing Monadnock Development Bernheimer Architecture NYC-HPD Request for Proposal Brooklyn, NY, USA Van Dyke Houses, designed in collaboration with LEVENBETTS and Local Office Landscape Architecture, is a response to an RFP issued by the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation, and Development. Consisting of 187 affordable rental units, the proposed development brings together vital community program and new housing within a dynamic and varied architectural expression. The building contributes density and services to the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn and advances the economic and social development goals for the area; the development proposal reserved space for a new branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, a day care facility, in addition to the housing units. An open ground floor with views through at-grade community facility space draws residents through to the interior territory of an iconic basketball court within the NYCHA grounds, and the materials of the new building complement the surrounding towers: dappled brick utilizes color sampling from the neighborhood buildings and metal panels at large articulated window frames further break down the scale of the facades.
View from ‘the Pit [top], Landscape Diagram
View looking Northeast [top], Site Connection Diagram Van Dyke Housing : Bernheimer Architecture
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View looking Northwest [top], Ground Floor Plan Van Dyke Housing : Bernheimer Architecture
El Barrio Gardens Monadnock Development Bernheimer Architecture NYC-HPD Request for Proposal New York, NY, USA El Barrio Gardens unites city and nature while providing vital housing and workforce training to New York’s East Harlem community. Designed to some of the most stringent environmental standards, EBG offers a density of living and a sense of shared space within a city block that will be defined by lushness, the warmth of colorful and dignified architecture, and a deep pride of place. The design team included Bernheimer Architecture, Baxt Ingui, SCAPE Landscape Architecture and BuildingTyp. EBG, a proposal submitted for consideration to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, includes ground floor community facility spaces to house healthy food production, workforce training, classroom space, as well as space for local businesses. The two buildings in total contain 536 mixed income and affordable units ranging from studios to family-size 3BR apartments, with nearly ž of an acre (31,000sf ) of exterior garden (five community gardens), public plaza, and recreational space for the residents of the building and the community. El Barrio Gardens was designed and modeled to Passive House standards.
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Streetscape Renderings Pocket Park and Garden Entry [top], View through Work-Force Training El Barrio Gardens : Bernheimer Architecture
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View down at Common Gardens El Barrio Gardens :Bernheimer Architecture
Blurred Lines Lower East Side Light Laboratory Parsons Allied Studio In collaboration with Yuliya Savelyeva Instructors : David Leven, Derek Porter Fall 2013 Manhattan, NY, USA
Situated within the metropolis of New York, amidst the high density grid of streets, parks, and subway lines, the Lower East Side Light Laboratory is a respite from the urban milieu. It provides a passage. A manifestation of the developing need for increased light education and exploration, the LESlab is a physically permanent gallery cataloguing the qualities of natural light through an unrepeatable experience, uniquely altered with each passing minute of each day, as the light changes in depth, weather, and season. We began our design with a question: how can separate gallery and laboratory program be packed together within a tight, urban footprint? Experimentation yielded the concept of a dual-purpose “tube” that snakes through the building to capture light opportunities for ethereal display, simultaneously serving as primary mode of circulation and public exhibit. Each lateral shift of the tube engenders moments of reflection and repose, entry or exit. Each vertical rise provides unique visual displays of light play. Its movement disrupts the rectilinear slabs and their specific programmatic boundaries, carving away pieces of floor for increased sightlines and daylighting. Its heavy material quality of precast concrete serves as a juxtaposition against the light, steel structure and thin, fin envelope, the gradual oscillation of which both occludes and exposes the tube from various exterior vantage points while shading the interior.
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Given + Selected As they often do, our site defined our first constraints, delivering a coordinate field through which we could embed a linear light gallery
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Embedding the Tube The process of stitching the gallery from our imagined floor to floor heights, and across the width and depth of the site engendered the formalizing logic of the project itself; moments that capture, disperse, and display light from different directions through constructed apparatuses.
The Structural System Our scheme evolved out of a desire to keep columns and floor plates as light and thin as possible. The solution was a a set of vierendeel trusses cantilevered from two concrete cores, from which the floor plates hung below. Thermodeck precast panels were chosen to minimize depth of structure and ease of running MEP systems. Blurred Lines : Lower East Side Light Laboratory
Fuzzy Node The second tubular light condition employs fiber-optic rods embedded within poured concrete. The effect is a blanket of illuminated points across a dark expanse of solid material. As wind and cloud cover pass across the south facade of the building, the rods themselves reveal the exterior condition through different levels of brightness.
Schematic Drawings Blurred Lines : Lower East Side Light Laboratory
Above: Clevis Joint Hanging floor plates are visibly suspended from truss above
Left: Detail Model 1�=1’ sectional cutaway expressing floor plate composition and curtainwall construction
Expressing the Detail The clevis to Thermodeck relationship became a point of intrigue within the project. As the realities of construction altered initial conceptual agendas, we used the detailing as a way to compromise and enhance the quality of the overall form.
Traversing the Gallery Blurred Lines : Lower East Side Light Laboratory
Cutaway at Entry / Public Space from physical model
View from Office into Library from digital model Blurred Lines : Lower East Side Light Laboratory
Blurred Lines : Lower East Side Light Laboratory
Now You See Me... M. Arch Thesis Parsons Studio VI Instructor : Astrid Lipka Spring 2015 Five Boroughs of New York City
They say New York is a jungle. It’s dense, and it’s only getting denser. I heard once that if the world’s population was as compact as the population of Manhattan, it could fit in the state of Texas. This thesis considers such a scenario. The theory of maximizing available land to accommodate increasing population provides an social condition carefully curated to house, transport and provide for an growing citizenry. In the face of such expanding urbanization, it is imperative that we maintain a sense of the city not as a mass of buildings, but as a collection of urban spaces that cultivate social interaction. To foster both relationships, we must reconsider traditional building parameters in order to investigate new forms of inhabitation, creating value in once peripheral spaces. To cultivate such interaction, Now You See Me... proposes a series of interventions in and on remnant lots—dimensionally quixotic, city-owned parcels deemed unusable by traditional building standards. These shards and slivers are the results of expansion and fluctuation of the city fabric, when building and grid did not perfectly align, or when the vagaries of eminent domain left irregular property patterns in its wake. As a sample set, this thesis investigates three such sites of varied conditions, and proposes three unique interventions, each conceived in partnership with a local actor from which programmatic needs arise and inform the architectural response: public bathrooms in the Lower East Side, a library annex in Harlem, and a digital media canvas in Washington Heights.
Now You See Me... : M. Arch Thesis
Now You See Me... : M. Arch Thesis
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HELIOcity A Solar Guide to a Northern Locale LEVENBETTS Summer 2014 East Lansing, MI, USA
HELIOcity posits a new way of planning cities and conceiving of architecture in direct integrated relation to the omnipresent movement of the sun and the carefully calibrated deployment of electric light. The dynamic nature of the sun, in this new scenario, productively and sustainably disrupts seemingly immutable urban and architectural organizational structures in order to sustain, collect and delight the inhabitants of a place. Seen through the lens of HELIOcity, East Lansing’s Michigan State University football stadium and the spectacle of the game is the paradigm of the collector, social and solar, that transcends the town/gown divide. Extending to the downtown, the HELIOcity university town is now reconsidered along the pedestrian alley running parallel and to the north of Grand River Avenue. A series of spaces and buildings along this linear collector are designed in deference to the daytime sun and provide for an inviting glow in the evening. This urban proposal was developed for East Lansing 2030, an exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing Michigan.
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Macro Investigation Identifying the 12 member universities of the BIG 10 through their rivalry games via the cross-country or cross-state roadways that connect them
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Pigskin Personalities At the heart of each of these schools, and indeed each community, lies the football stadium; a source of pride, a source of defeat, but above all a social catalyst
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Micro Investigations Researching East Lansing through its urban fabric : connection to Detroit, to its county, its motorways, its flood levels, parks, and parking lots
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The New Main Street With these two conditions in mind, we proposed investment into an under-utilized pedestrain street parallel to the over-trafficked state thruway that bisects East Lansing, and developed a list of potential programs that support existing economic infrastructures HELIOcity : A Solar Guide to a Northern City
Program Playbook Potential modes for occupation or operation on existing buildings or ground up construction
Solar Strategies Methods for bringing daylight into structures and using electric light for signage and social attractor
HELIOcity : A Solar Guide to a Northern City
Reach Higher Installation The White House Parsons School of Design Fall 2014 Washington, DC, USA For her first Reach Higher Fashion Workshop, First Lady Michelle Obama recruited students from the
School of Constructed Environments at Parsons to design a temporary installation for the East Room of
the White House, in order to host a series of lectures from fashion luminaires the likes of Anna Wintour, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Ms. Obama, herself.
In the span of two weeks, sixteen students from varying disciplines developed strategies to transform the space using donated books and found materials, reinforcing the tenants of education and sustainability. The results were manifest in sets of table centerpieces, mannequin scarves and headpieces, a hanging backdrop for the speakers, napkin holders, and a lecturn.
Reach Higher Installation: the White House
Reach Higher Installation: the White House
Alex Stewart
jalexstewart@gmail.com 410.353.5913
Education Parsons School of Design
New York, NY Master of Architecture, May 2015
Università IUAV
Venice, Italy Atlantis Program: Urbanisms of Inclusion, Summer 2013
Hobart College
Geneva, NY Bachelor of Arts, May 2007
Awards & Publications Architect’s Newspaper Student Project of the Year 2015 AIA Henry Adams Certificate, 2015 CFA Eleanor Allwork Scholarship, 2014 Jonathan Speirs Scholarship, 2013 Vertical Urban Factory. Nina Rappaport, 2015 “The Seven Ravens.” Places Journal. Visualization and Interview, December 2016 “Michelle Obama Just Held a Secret White House Fashion Event.” Refinery 21, October 2014 “Michelle Obama Hosts First Fashion Education Workshop.” CBS This Morning, October 2014 “First Lady Michelle Obama Invites Parsons Scholars to Decorate the White House.” Architectural Digest, September 2014 Design. Make. Display. Architecture Foundation of Cincinnati. Exhibit Selection, June 2013 “Studio Report: Dwelling and Resistance.” Urban Omnibus, September 2013
Experience Bernheimer Architecture
Brooklyn, NY Designer/Project Manager, July 2015 – present Projects: 100 Barrow, Interiors, 100 Barrow Sales Office, Scorpion Fitness, Harlem Dream Charter School, Gateway to Chinatown Competition, Bethel House RFP, Sevem Ravens - Fairy Tale Architecture, El Barrio Gardens RFP, Van Dyke Housing RFP
LevenBetts
New York, NY Junior Designer, December 2013 – present Projects: East Flatbush Library, East Lansing: 2030, models for Microgreens Housing, TAYSTEE Building References: David Leven dl@levenbetts.com, Stella Betts sb@levenbetts.com
Young Projects
Brooklyn, NY Junior Architect, January 2013 – October 2013 Projects: Universal Music Group Lobby, Architecture League Prize Exhibit, Hamptons Residence Reference: Bryan Young bryan@young-projects.com
Tom Eliot Fisch
San Francisco, CA Junior Designer, October 2007 – March 2012 Projects: Byers Eye Institute, Hoover Pavilion, San Francisco PUC Headquarters Reference: Doug Tom doug@tefarch.com, Alyosha Verzhbinski alyosha@tefarch.com
Software Revit, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, Vray, GIS LEED Accredited