THEODORE BAZIL
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Sherman Creek Community Boathouse
807 N. 3rd Street Mixed-Use
Private Apartment Renovation
NYU Faculty Housing Renovations
Low Rise: LA
Sambou Toura Drame
Synapse: Sudbury 2050
A New Jorejick Residence
III. RESEARCH / EXHIBITION
Have We Ever Been Regional?
Kinesthetic Montage: Hong Kong
/ NEW YORK / NY / USA
PROJECT TYPE: Professional, Expected Completion 2025
FIRM: Bade Stageberg Cox (As Executive Architect in collaboration with Foster + Partners)
CONSULTANT TEAM: Silman (Structural), Plus Group (MEP/FA/SP), Matthews Nielsen (Landscape), AKRF (Civil/ SOE/Marine), Cerami (AV/IT/Security/Acoustics), Tillet (Lighting Design)
PROGRAM: A 16,000 sqft LEED Gold boathouse and community educational center along the Harlem River for a local non-profit dedicated to teaching competitive rowing and para-rowing to New York City public middle and high school students. The mass timber facility includes five boat bays and a workshop space on the lower level, with educational, fitness, coaching, and community gathering spaces above.
ROLES:
+ Junior Project Architect: 50% CD - 100% CD (2021 - 2022)
Assisted the Project Architect and Project Manager with consultant coordination and the completion of construction documents. Primary responsibilities included developing exterior assemblies and details for facade elements, resolving interior finish and millwork details, and coordinating schedules and specifications for building finishes, equipment, and fixtures.
+ Project Architect + Project Manager: Procurement / Pre-construction (2022 - Present)
Led the project team after the issuance of construction drawings through various concurrent work streams including LEED documentation, multi-agency regulatory approvals, coordination of utilities, value engineering, and bid addendum issuances including greater development of drawings and specifications.
NORTHERN LIBERTIES / PHILADELPHIA / PA / USA
PROJECT TYPE: Professional, Completed 2020
FIRM: Atrium Design Group
CONSULTANT TEAM: Structure Labs (Structural), Wachter Engineering (MEP/FA/SP), Ruggiero Plante Land Design (Civil)
PROGRAM: A 40,000 sqft mixed-use building containing 32 residential units on five floors above a 3,400 sqft street level artist studio, lobby, and subterranean parking garage.
ROLES:
+ Lead Designer / Project Manager: SD - 50% CD (2016 - 2017)
Led project from early schematic design through filing of permits and 50% completion of construction documents. Responsible for establishing the building’s characteristic faceted form and street-facing vertical screening strategy, which together foster a sense of rhythm and continuity to the street-scape while adhering to the city’s dimensional limits for cantilevered facade projections.
BUILDING SECTION AT GARAGE RAMP
UPPER WEST SIDE / NEW YORK / NY / USA
PROJECT TYPE: Professional, Completed 2024
FIRM: Bade Stageberg Cox Architecture
PROGRAM: A 3,000 sqft interior renovation of a private apartment in a high rise building near Lincoln Center, featuring field-finished rift-sawn white oak veneer millwork, flush pivoting and pocket doors, concealed architectural lighting, and gently curving walls.
ROLES:
+ Junior Project Architect: CA (2023 - 2024)
Assisted Project Architect and Design Principal with construction administration tasks including field coordination of architectural details and finishes with construction team and reviewing submittals and shop drawings. Primary areas of focus include coordinating concealed and custom lighting solutions, metal fabricated elements, plumbing and electrical components, millwork details, stone selections and grain matching, door hardware selection, and decorative plasterwork details.
PROJECT TYPE: Professional, Completed 2023
FIRM: Bade Stageberg Cox Architecture
CONSULTANT TEAM: Polise Engineers (MEP)
PROGRAM: Multi-phased fast-track renovation of eighty-seven rental apartments within ten NYU operated pre- and early post-war buildings. Many of the apartments required new windows, finishes, and fixtures, as well as extensive layout changes to meet client expectations and comply with NYC Fire Code and Type B+ accessibility requirements.
ROLES:
+ Project Architect + Project Manager: SD - CA (2022 - 2023) Led the design, coordination, construction documentation, filing, and construction administration efforts for all apartment unit renovations over five staggered design and construction phases with notably tight schedule demands.
GREENWICH VILLAGE / NEW YORK / NY / USA DETAIL THROUGH HISTORIC
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LOS ANGELES, CA, USA
PROJECT TYPE: Open Design Competition, Individual Entry YEAR: 2021
PROGRAM: A multi-unit housing proposal for the city of Los Angeles to combat the housing crisis, focusing on strategies for incorporating missing middle housing (2-8 units) into the many low-rise, single family neighborhoods scattered across the city. This proposal for eight ground-up residential units (7,295 square feet) and corner-facing commercial space (500 square feet) is based on a modification of a prototypical Los Angeles residential street corner with rear alley access. Project Duration: 2.5 Weeks.
PROJECT TYPE: Open Design Competition, Individual Entry YEAR: 2020
PROGRAM: A new elementary school for a small and rural Senegalese town, designed with a maximum budget of 80,000 Euros and to be built easily by low-skilled volunteters and local community members. The plan includes seven classrooms, two offices, a library, a student canteen, kitchen, orchard, chicken corral, outdoor play area, rainwater collection tanks, and a composting latrine. Project duration: five weeks.
LEVEL PLAN
SUDBURY, ONTARIO, CANADA
PROJECT TYPE: Open Design Competition, Individual Entry YEAR: 2020
PROGRAM: A multi-phased revitalization plan for the urban core of Sudbury, Ontario, based around the generation of a new citywide multi-modal green transit network, the re-purposement of former railyards into public landscape parkland, and the establishment of new urban fabrics flanking the former rail yards to provide new housing, commercial, and industrial spaces. Project duration: five weeks.
PROJECT TYPE: Open Design Competition, Team Entry YEAR: 2020
COLLABORATORS: Samuel Feldman
PROGRAM: A rural dwelling with a maximum budget of €20,000 for a multigenerational family of fifteen, containing six bedrooms, a shared indooroutdoor kitchen and communal gathering area, and a rainwater collection system for potable and graywater storage and use. Local clay brick masonry and timber construction. Project duration: 5 weeks
PROJECT TYPE: Academic (M. ARCH)
STUDIO: ARCH 8999 Thesis Exhibition / Fall 2019
ADVISERS: Ali Fard / Esther Lorenz
In 1970, the futurist Alvin Toffler speculated that the rapidly increasing ease of global travel and communication would lead to the “demise of geography.” [1] Thirty-five years later, the journalist Thomas Friedman famously declared that these same trends, brought forward into the Digital Millennium, had rendered the world “flat.” [2] Yet, for all the positivistic presumptions of its inevitability, a fully cosmopolitan, “Urban Age” [3] utopia has yet to arrive. While modernity has dramatically re-wired the world’s economies into an inextricable, global web of production and supply chain logistics, and facilitated instantaneous communication and nearly barrier-less mobility across the entire planet, it is less clear that these forces inevitably lead to the societal homogenization of regional geography requisite for a truly cosmopolitan future. It is hard to imagine a world where we will no longer care to ask each other where we are from, because the answer will be so inescapably immaterial.
Yet, places must change, and for reasons both voluntary or inescapable, people will relocate and leave their imprints upon new geographies. The coming decades are expected to see much of both. What happens, then, to the identities we have constructed around particular geographies and their attendant set of qualities when the material world changes much faster than the elasticity of our collective imaginations? Through the participatory medium of public exhibition, this thesis project interrogates the question of whether there is anything inherently definite, material, or immutable about our collective conceptions of geographic, regional identities. Accordingly, it supposes that these identities are constructed over time, are perpetually in flux, and will continue to change and adapt--even within our own imaginations--in relation to their surrounding environments: at a multitude of physical scales, and with no singular or inevitable end-state. As the world rests tenuously on the precipice of major societal, technological, and ecological changes, the project asserts that it is more imperative than ever to engage in a critical and open-ended re-reading of geographic identities as figures informed by context, yet constructed within our collective imaginations through time. Are we, as Toffler and Friedman suggest, witnesses to the inevitable demise of regional geography in a globalized world, or has our collective understanding of place always been imaginary, and therefore, capable of reinvention?
[3] “LSE Cities.” (London: London School of Economics, 2011).
[1] Toffler, Alvin. “The Future Shock.” (New York: Random House, 1970). [2] Friedman, Thomas. “The World is Flat.” (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005).
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Spatiotemporal Narratives Contextual Contingencies
Combinatory Cartographic Narratives
Provocation Questions
Events
INSTALLATION / EXHIBITION AT THE ACCELERATE FESTIVAL 2019 SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, WASHINGTON, DC, USA
DESCRIPTION: Kinesthetic Montage is a design research project by Assistant Professor Esther Lorenz at the University of Virginia school of Architecture that explores the relationship between film, urban space and movement in Hong Kong. The exhibit at the Accelerate Festival presented aesthetic experiences of the city through a physical, interactive installation, and short student films from design studios taught by Lorenz in 2017 and 2018. Project duration: Ten weeks.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS: Ted Bazil, Sam Johnson, Chris Murphy, Monisha Nasa, Sherry Ng. Additional help with construction, shipping, and installation courtesy of Sam Feldman, Philip Goodbread, Jonah Pruitt, and Santiago Roca.
