BRANDON HALL
YALE
FORMAL ANALYSIS
ELEVATOR
ARMATURE
SEAM
4000CF
WASH. U. ONEPRIZE
NETWORKS
MEASURING DEVICE
GUTTERTOGULF
PARKING METER
ROW HOUSE
4000CF: Derivative Geometries Professor Ben Pell Fall 2010 Derived from a leaf, this surface represents the molecular ordering as represented by 7 sections. The surface is a sectional exploration, demonstrating a relationship between the ordering of the molecular lines and programmatic functions, which are inserted between the regulating sections. The project capitalizes on the shift in complexity from the molecular structure to simpliďŹ ed program sections. The wall is conceptualized as a solid, which allows aperture for the user to engage simultaneously with the tangible as well as select focuses to the other side of the wall and voids within the wall.
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SEAM: The Visual_Temporal Stratum Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY Professor Ben Pell Fall 2010 Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY utilizes diverse climatic conditions to offer a variety of activities throughout the year. These activities are limited by time, season, and scales creating a situation where activities are in a constantly changing dynamic condition year round. Utilizing two axis as organizing elements, the project situates the temporal space by altering the landscape, and visual space through the articulation of elements on the built form, derived and interpolated from two axis based on site conditions. The axis creates a grid where the visual realm operates parallel to the axis and the temporal operates perpendicular to the axis. The project capitalizes on the changing tides and elevations to create an experience where the interface between art(visual) and water(temporal) is constantly changing.
INTERFACE
Site
Interactive Sculpture
Performance/Movie Space
SUPPORT
Extrude the Site to Visual Line (+5’) Bathrooms
Bike Storage
Kayak Storage
Create Grid Temporal Level: Perpendicular to Axis
TIDE
Wading Area in High Tide
Unused in High Tide
Gallery Entry
PROGRAM
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Implement Axis Axis 1: Beach to Park to Midtown Axis 2: Entry to Water to Roosevelt Island
Bicycle Parking Entry/Meeting/Yoga Space
Derive Building Form From Grid
Performance/Movie Space Boat Staging/Signup Waterside Space(low tide)
Waterside Space(high tide) Boat Dock (low tide)
Implement Form on Site Remove Solid to Create Space
Park Entry (Park Goers)
CIRCULATION
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Water Path Street Entry (Bikes/Boats)
Create Grid Visual Level: Parrallel to Axis
Derive Building Form From Grid
Implement Form on Site Create Space Through Positive Elements
Itinerant Musicians Hostel: ARMATURE New Haven, CT Professor Jennifer Leung Spring 2011 This hostel is conceptualized as a building which acts as both an armature for musicians visiting the New Haven area, as well as an armature for musician’s personal affects. The result is a system where each individual unit is an extension from the main core and provides space imbedded into it that provides accommodations for different functions (i.e. desk, bed, storage). The armature is in a constant dialog with the site and the individual unit, contorting itself to accommodate circulation and service functions, and creating a variety of interactions with the adjacent buildings.
Unit Support Structure
Unit Veneer Panel
Armature Skin
Ribbed Building Support Structure
Roof Structure
Floor Panel
Ribbed Unit Support Structure
Section Structure Floor Structure
Balcony Structure
Insulated Panels
Building Skin
Perforated Panels
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Unit Locations
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Elevator Installation New Haven, CT Professor Ben Pell/John Eberhart Design Team: Teo Quintana, Brittany Hayes, Ollie Niuland-Zlotnicki, Daisy Ames Fabrication Team: Brandon Hall, Ryan Salvatore, Noah Morgenstern, Amy Kessler
Spring 2011 Originally designed by the design team, this ambitious project quickly became a collaboration between the fabrication and design teams to fabricate and build this MDF installation in a matter of a week. Intended to provide a respite for passengers, this installation creates a distinct set of spaces in an otherwise Normal box elevator. The installation acts as a seat, a leaning post, and a ďŹ lter of light. My responsibilities on this project included overseeing the CNC Milling of the pieces as well as heading the assembly and addressing many installation issues.
Formal Analysis Professor Peter Eisenman Fall 2010
Tugendhat House, Mies van der Rohe
Il Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore, Palladio
Sant’ Ivo and San Carlo, Borromini
Tugendhat House, Mies van der Rohe
Unbuilt Pallazzo Plans, Serlio
Row House For A Lifetime Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Bo Christiansen Fall 2009 While studying in Denmark in the fall of my senior year, our studio project assignment was to look at the conventions of the very typically Danish row house. My proposal looked to challenge the normal conventions of row housing to create housing to last a lifetime. The row house was conceptualized as a composition of three parts: the solid, the core, and the void. The idea is that the core unit provides enough space for a couple, while the solid and void units provide necessary infrastructure for expansion, which is carried out via interchangeable prefabricated units and a miniature crane integrated into the solid part to simplify interchangeability. While the mechanics of the system are fairly simple, the discussion became more about the community and social situation in which this system would be effective and sustainable, highlighting how vital the need for the community to work together and encourage the addition and subtraction of space in ways that all residents support.
GROUND FLOOR SCALE = 1:50
FIRST FLOOR SCALE = 1:50
SECOND FLOOR SCALE = 1:50
Voluntary Expansion
Necessary Voluntary Expansion Expansion
Necessary Voluntary Expansion Expansion
Comunal Family Space Expansion Family Room Larger Dining Room Home Office
Bedroom Expan Nursery Bedrooms
Leisure Space/ Storage Expansion Sauna Interior Storage Exterior Covered Storage
Exterior Space Expansion Elevated Green Space Elevated Deck More Balcony Space
RETURN TO CORE U BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Typical Row Housing
Flexible Row Housing NO MASS PRODUCTION OF UNITS
MUST ORGANIZE AND RECYCLE UNITS therefore
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Mandatory Voluntary Subtraction Subtraction
Voluntary Subtraction
Voluntary Expansion
sion Reduction Due to Lack of Space Efficiecy Sustainable Reduction in Space
Community Pressure
Add-On Units Sheild in Communal Space
Need to Return to Core Unit
EXPANSION SUBTRACTION
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e MUST MAKE RESIDENCY CYCLICAL
OM SPREAD FROM EVERY AGE DEMOGRAPHIC FROM ABILITY TO HAVE A COMMON POOL OF ADD ON UNITS
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ULTIMATELY THE COLLABORATIVE NATURE OF SUCH A COMMUNITY BRINGS ABOUT THE KIND OF PROTOTYPICAL SOCIAL EXPERIMENT ENVIRONMENT. BUT IN THE END THE NEED TO ADAPT TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND ADD ON WILL FORCE PEOPLE TO MOVE FROM VOLUNTARY EXPANSION TO NECESSARY EXPANSION. THE NEED TO FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO ENGAGE BOTH WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE DWELLING ARE CRITICAL, BECAUSE IDEALY THE MOST SUSTAINABLE APPROACH REQUIRES CAREFUL PLANNING.
TRASITION FROM VOLUNTARY EXPANSION TO NECESSARY EXPANSION FAMILIES SHOULD WANT TO GET THE NECESSARY SPACE TO GROW INSTEAD OF MOVING OUT. REQUIRES COMMUNAL BARN RAISING MENTALITY
Add-On Unit Installation Sequence
DESIGN PROPOSAL: MAXIMIZING
EFFICIENCY AND FLEXIBILITY THROUGH A COMBINATION OF PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY SPACES
The Key to Flexibility: 3 Separate Zones
All Mechanical Systems are Run Through Chases in the Core Crane Enclosed in Core
Voids Created to Add Space and Fuctionality to the Core Unit
Mounting Points For Additional Units
SOLID
Removable Insulated Panels
Core Sectional Organization of Core Unit
GRND FLR Entry Mechanical Bathroom
1ST FLR Study Family Room Kitchen / Kitchen Table Front / Rear Balconies
Liveable Space (85 m2 Total in Core Unit) Balcony Space (15 m2 Total in Core Unit)
2ND FLR Master Bedroom Master Bathroom Front Balcony Rear Balcony
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BUILDABLE VOID Organization of Core Unit Void for Expansion
Reorganization of Void
Private
Private/ Roof Deck
Semi Private Mechanical / Entry
Semi Private Semi-Public Green Space
Leisure/ Storage
Buildable Void Core Unit
Built Up Area
SOLID CORE BUILDABLE VOID
Parking Meter Gallery St. Louis, MO Professor Liane Hancock Spring 2008 A studio project assignment in the spring of my sophomore year was to select one object of interest and design a collection space for that object on Cherokee Street, a neighborhood street in St. Louis. My chosen object was an ordinary parking meter and my study was about the perspectives created when meters are positioned along a street. The result is a field of meters, arranged within a gallery going over an undulating floor plane which highlights the perspectives that are carried from the street into the space, a standard 30’ x 90’ lot. The lines of parking meters are highlighted by transparent poles. The symbolism of the ever-present parking meter in the urban fabric was highlighted with the use of glass partitions of the building selectively reflecting the street-scape.
Partition wall (combination of reflective and non-reflective glass)
Grid of parking meters (collection of various meters as the gallery component)
Perspective lines and the transparent poles that mark the meters as part of the greater system Transparent panels even out the floor condition
Undulating floor surface highlights the network of perspectives
Testing alternative pole materiality with full-scale mock-ups (transparent and PVC)
Reflective panels bring urban fabric into gallery
Bringing the perspectival lines of the parking meters into the site
GUTTERTOGULF New Orleans, LA Professor Derek Hoeferlin Spring 2009 - Spring 2010 Guttertogulf is a research and design initiative to understand and advocate for legible water infrastructure in New Orleans. The idea being that once the infrastructure that sustains the city is understood it can influence design to help delay and accommodate water that would normally go straight to the water evacuation system. The following pages are dedicated to a variety of projects that I have been a part of in this movement. Cover Page: Layered Systems Model, Spring 2009: Built collaboratively as a studio over two weeks and transported via plane to New Orleans. Displays the layering of infrastructural systems. Page 2: GUTTERTOGULF.COM, Summer 2009 Website created to show work of first Gutter to Gulf Studio to fellow designers and residents of New Orleans. Page 3: Water Neutral House, Spring 2010 Working with two fellow students, Sofia Balters and Jim Peraino, This Competition entry explored the potential of a house that retained all stormwater on site.
Measuring Device and Relief St. Louis Basilica, St. Louis, MO Professor Janice Wang Fall 2007 A studio project in the fall of my sophomore year focused on a study of the St. Louis Basilica. Sketching the vaulted hallway at the back of the pulpit led to an idea for a measuring tool that enables an artist or architect to capture the panoramic view of the geometry of a space such as a vaulted ceiling. The model photographed to the left portrays how the lines of the vault converge and diverge due to perspective, which change in distortion based on the geometry of vault. The lines were then carried into a relief that played between 2D and 3D perspectives, as the geometry of the vault was shown in a at, vaulted, and arched condition.
Panoramas of a single vaulted space.
Distorting one of the panoramas in order to derive lines from the space, which were transferred to the relief
Panoramic Measuring Device
Each individual layer tests how the flat perspective of the panorama changes when recreating the vault of the ceiling, either in the regular or inverse direction
Networks For Sustainability Gammel-Torv/Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Bo Christiansen Fall 2009 Concurrent with the COP 15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen, our studio project was to design a pavilion in the old city hall square. My proposal challenged the concept of a pavilion by utilizing the entire area of the square as a projection screen which would educate visitors and residents alike about how networks zooming out in scale, the pavilion aims to show how Copenhagen’s networks integrate with each other to create sustainable solutions. Utilizing the symbolic nature of the site, which was the footprint of the old city hall, the center of each map is situated on the historical center of the city. The networks range from transportation and power, communication, and information networks, but also for showing how necessary it is to integrate networks on every scale in order to promote sustainability.
HOW TO MAKE NETWORKS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
NO EXTERNAL ENERGY
UNSUSTAINABLE ENERGY NEED TO ELIMINATE NEED FOR FOSSIL FUELS
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
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HIGH DENSITY 10000+/DAY
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BICYCLE ROUTES (WITHIN 4 KM)
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INTEGRATION OF NETWORKS IS KEY BIKE NETWORK PEDESTRIAN NETWORK BUS NETWORK METRO S and REGIONAL TRAIN
REVISING POWER GRID TO BE COMPLETELY CO2 NEUTRAL ENERGY SOURCES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
COPENHAGEN CO2 NEUTRAL 2025
EUROPEAN RAIL NETWORK
SUSTAINABLE POWER SOLUTIONS
UNSUSTAINABLE POWER SOLUTIONS
COAL POWER PLANT
TRASH POWER PLANT
WIND POWER
GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING
ELECTRIC CAR
ELECTRIC TRAIN
GENERAL ELECTRIC
RECYCLING TRASH
CONSUMER
POWER GRID
ROAD (MAJOR ROUTES)
GLOBAL NETWORK (SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)
Redefining the Infrastructural Paradigm St. Louis, MO Professor Gia Daskalakis Spring 2010 ONEPRIZE Competition Semifinalist This proposal seeks to redefine the role of abandoned infrastructure. In this case an abandoned rail trestle in North St. Louis provides necessary infrastructure for the cultivation of urban agriculture. The trestle is conceptualized as an axis, with a series of distribution, storage, and educational ‘nodes’, where infrastructural interfaces are re-established with the three major modal systems of St. Louis: road, river, and rail. Once the axis has been developed a variety of agricultural techniques are able to ‘plug’ into this system.
REDEFINING THE INFRASTRUCTURAL PARADIGM: ST. LOUIS CONVERTING BLIGHTED ABANDONED INFRASTRUCTURAL SPACES INTO PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL CENTERS This proposal seeks to redefine the role of abandoned infrastructure. In this case an abandoned rail trestle in North St. Louis provide infrastructure for the cultivation of urban agriculture. The trestle is conceptualized as the axis, with a series of distribution, storage, and ‘nodes’, where infrastructual interfaces are re-established with the three major modal systems of St. Louis: road, river, and rail. Once been developed a variety of agricultural techniques are able to ‘plug’ into this system.
Geometry of Adjacency
Geometry of Adjacency
REinvesting in the AXIS: A Phasing Guide
Phase 1: Embrace the AXIS Phase 2: Rebuild the Rail
Abandoned Rail Trestle as Agricultural Axis
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Rail Growing Raised Beds Ground Farming Hydroponics
Phase 3: Plug the Agricultural Typologies into the Axis
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Geometry of Adjacency
Infrastructural Node
Phase 4: Using Language of Adjacency, Establish Circulation Paths
Phase 5: Expand Form of Circulation Path to Create a Distribution Core
Phase 6: Add Educational Core on Top of Distribution Core
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Various Methods of Agriculture Demonstration
Auditorium
Circulation of People
Food Storage Vertical Circilation of Food
Exhibition Space
Vertical Circulation of People And Food Containers
Circulation of Food Containers
Restaurant/Market
Traditional Farming
Raised Beds on Warehouse
Raised Beds on Ground
Hydro/Aeroponics
Planting on Rail
River
Storage
Road
Rail
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