Benjamin Winters - bwinters314@gmail.com - 860-798-7318
Office Work
“Pulse� Fountain, Dilworth Plaza PA. I served as project manager on this project for Studio Echelman, which involved collaboration between our studio with Olin Landscape Architects, CMS fountain consultants, ARUP Engineering and Koolfog Inc. Construction underway. Renderings by Olin and prototypes on left by Koolfog.
3D Renderings of a proposed layout for new athletic fields and facilities, Danvers High School, Danvers MA, created from 2D Autocad files used for presentation and approval of new field arrangement to the client.
Illustrative planting and playground plan I created from scanned pen and ink sketches provided to Date: 5 December 2013 Scale: 1”= 20’-0” 0’ 20’ 40 60’ me. Angiers Elementary School, Newton MA.
gier Elementary School
wton, Massachusetts
Conceptual renderings of an urban development feasability study for Sullivan Square T Station and surrounding neighborhood, Somerville MA.
Watercolor and Photoshop plan rendering I created for healing garden proposal from an Autocad file, Lawrence Memorial Cancer Center.
Quick concept renders for a succesful proposal to a private donor to create an outdoor classroom/ auditorium at a new public high school in Concord, Massachusetts.
Above are 3D renderings I made for the healing garden design proposal. Images are stills of an animated fly-through presented to the client. This project is currently underway.
Designs, renderings and animation of a proposal to replace overly-shaded trees with custom scrims composed of stainless steel and transparent acrylic rods lit by color-changing LED lights. Work performed for James Heroux of Brown Sardina as part of Avalon Communities redevelopment of their properties at the Prudential Center, Boston. Sketchup, Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro.
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Design and renderings for a custom pre-cast concrete, stainless and dura-lam bench at the entryway to Avalon properties. Designed in Rhino to be cast using CNC fabricated molds.
3/8-INCH X 1-INCH TITANIUM COUNTERSUNK ALLEN HEAD SCREWS - TYPICAL 1/4-INCH T SS TOP WALL PLATE BRUSHED SATIN FINISHED PRECAST CONCRETE WALL BELOW - 5/8-INCH SS PLATE OVERHANG PRECAST CONCRETE WALL BELOW - 1/16-INCH SS PLATE OVERHANG 1/4-INCH T SS TOP GEO-LAM PLATE BRUSHED SATIN FINISHED
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CD set I contributed drafting work to of custom concrete seat wall/bench for Avalon Properties
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Renderings/form finding simulations I created for Studio Echelman of the sculpture “Impatient Optimist� using custom software developed by Autodesk Inc. which simulates catenary forms of hanging nets. Developed in a custom plug-in which ports to Maya 2013, rendered and animated with Mental Ray. Photo of installation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on lower left.
Construction documents I created for the sculpture “Impatient Optimist” in collaboration with Clayton Binkley of Arup Engineering.
Concept render and 3D simulation for Echelman sculpture at the “GLOW� beach art festival, Santa Monica. Maya and Mental Ray. Photos of completed installation on the right. My role included mocking up configurations for the net sculpture, creating construction docuemnts for fabrication, and managing consultation with landscape architects, engineers and suppliers over project implementation details. More images at: www.echelman.com/project/the-space-between-us/
3D Renderings I created for Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge, interpreted directly from 2D engineering Microstation drawings to allow for aesthetic oversight and evaluation of proposals for a major highway bridge over Kentucky Lake. Sketchup and Photoshop.
CADD work I contributed to for a planting plan and construction documents relating to the replacement of the Forest Hills Overpass with a pedestrian corridor, connecting Olmstead’s Franklin Park to the SW Corridor Park, for Crosby, Schlessinger and Smallridge.
Detail drawings I created for Casey Overpass/Franklin Park connection project. Autocad.
Plans, sections and perspectives developed of the Boston Green Line Extension for public review of Lechemere Station section, created for Crosby, Schlessinger and Smallridge.
Spatial studies for Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge of proposed retaining walls and infrastructure configurations for the Green Line metro extension, Boston MA.
Proposal for a new quad or student park at Clark University. Wall made of cor-ten steel or aluminum fins are each rotated 3 degrees more than the previous one to hide parking in the rear and evoke the gradient pattern on the facade of the building. Project underway.
Illustrative site plan, proposal for Clark University. Watercolor, Autocad and Photoshop.
Illustrative site plan for the Martin Luther King elementary school, Cambridge MA.
Competitions
Renderings for a competition to design an architectural facade proposal for Baltimore’s 30 Light St. garage. Finalist. Design involves an LED light screen driven by digital animations of water, referencing maritime history of the site. Sketchup, Maya & Photoshop. In collaboration with designer Aidan Acker and Peter Boyer of Autodesk.
Renderings for a competition to inexpensively beautify a series of underpasses along high tension wires in Toronto, ON. Mural and lighting proposal involves color and designs related to the EM fields produced by the transmission wires. Sketchup, Vray and Photoshop, in collaboration with designer Aidan Acker.
Art commision for the City of Boston. Yellow traffic paint on blue stained concrete barriers. Hand cut stencils applied using supervised volunteer labor, in collaboration with artist Vaclav Sipla and the Boston Public Arts Commission.
Student Work/ Personal Projects
Photomontage renderings and planting plans for campus redevelopment, Brandeis University. Studio project. Concept was inspired by campus’s history as a orchard and dairy farm.
Circulation and spatial studies for a studio project involving redesigning the Western half of MIT’s campus.
Residential design proposal I made to homeowners in Somerville MA, SketchUp.
3D printed parametric jewelry. Designed in Grasshopper, rendered in Maya; brass, bronze and silver.
Early pattern tests for thesis project. Laser-cut 100% cotton paper. Pieces produced both at GSD facilities and subsequently at a private facility in Cambridge, MA. Laid out in AutoCAD.
Public fountain prototype I designed in Grasshopper and Rhino, laid out in MasterCAM, CNC routed on 3-axis mill with ball end bit. Polystyrene mold used to make plaster reverse for casting concrete.
Concept for a custom precast wall design for a sea-wall using digital fabrication techniques, with a patten referencing the undulating waves. Thesis project.
Rendering and shadow-study, custom sea wall railing concept, rendered with Podium in Sketchup.
Concept for a digitally fabricated, traditional landscape focal point. Vegetation infiltrates the base.
‘Perforated obelisk’ allows sunrays to draw patterns across a hypothetical city park. Designed in Rhino and Grasshopper, proposed to be fabricated from reinforced, molded concrete.
Prototype exploring concrete cast into CNC-cut polystyrene. Designed in Sketchup, Grasshopper & Rhino, laid out in MasterCAM. Welded rebar frame & reinforced portland cement.
Finished prototype. Cast high-strength white concrete, reinforced with welded rebar frame and fiberglass mesh.
Painted plywood seating prototype I fabricated for local urban design firm. Top panels contain CNC routed maps and texts relating to local history provided by client. Panels cut by hand from CAD models, surfaces CNC routed, laid out in MasterCAM.
Decorative concrete stamping test. Designed in Grasshopper, laid out in CamBam and milled on a home-built Blackfoot CNC 3-axis mill at the Artisan’s Asylum using various bits.
Layout and construction of wall for landscape art installation “Surface Deep.� Framework milled from nautical-grade plywood, bolted to the ground with custom waterjet-cut steel brackets. Decorative surface patterns of my design milled from PVC sheets. G-code and tool paths from MasterCAM, designed in Sketchup, Grasshopper and Rhino.
Photo of completed installation at the Internationl Garden Festival, Metis ON. Decorative panels hold living moss in place. Structure bolted to poured-concrete foundation hidden beneath the soil and gravel walkway.