BP
Beresford Pratt
Architecture & Design Portfolio
Table of Contents
Timber In The City: “The New Red Hook Neighbors“ ................................................................... 1-4
Hajjar Residence: “Portal” (Honorable Mention) .......................................................................... 5-6
Sustaining a Navy Yard: “1= 1+1” .......................................................................................... 7-10
Art Urbain: “Social Runoff” ......................................................................................................11-12
NCMA: “Inserting Serenity” ......................................................................................................13-16
Responsive Design: “A Warm Conversation” .......................................................................... 17-18
Premio Piranesi: (Winner & Accessibility Award) ....................................................................... 19-22
Reclaiming Waste: HexPlex Installation .................................................................................. 23-24
Hand Drawing: “Mind To Hand” ............................................................................................. 25-26
Design Build: “Community Garden Tool Shed” ........................................................................ 27-28
MVC: “Liquid Thresholds” (3rd Prize) ........................................................................................ 29-30
Forman Award: Remembering the Chisel Through the Pixel (Finalist) .......................................... 31-34
Mixed-Use - New York, NY (Red Hook)
Timber in the City: “The New Red hook neighbors”
Community Garden ET TRE OS TEG
The residences are broken down into more intimate scales with two neighborhoods that relate to the urban context. The neighborhoods are then broken up into various blocks in which there are need specific room typologies coupled with need specific shared spaces. These needs are based on the shifting demographics in the Red Hook region including: family/ group living, live work residences, single units, and student living. Within these demographic specific blocks shared spaces like a daycare, shared studies, roof gardens, and shared kitchens are thoughtfully integrated with the appropriate domestic typologies.
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The New Red Hook Neighbors consists of a micro community co-operative that aims to create a new and diverse community within Red Hook. The ground level establishes a connection linking the neighboring community garden to the developing Brooklyn Green Way Initiative, adjacent to the water front. The ground level provides an opportunity for social connections and interactions with the external community through a shared public plaza, lobby, bike shop, and a wood working shop. The bike shop is located along Beard Street adjacent to the Brooklyn Green Way Initiative and its existing bike lanes. The wood working shop plays an active role for the rising population of artisans within the Redhook community. The wood working shop allows for small to intermediate scale fabrications through both digital and traditional tools.
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These new Red Hook Neighborhoods aim to sustain lasting relationships, build community connections, and efficiently use natural resources. The Red Hook Neighborhood is a manifestation of a community within a community, a neighborhood within a neighborhood. Family Students
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Bike Shop Lobby
Wood Shop
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Family/ Vendors
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Families/ Students Fifth Level
Live Work/ Singles Fourth Level
Live Work/ Live Work Third Level
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Residential Daylighting Study
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Residence
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Summer
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Building Daylighting Study
BEARD STREET
VAN DYKE STREET
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Two Bedroom Unit (Cal-De-Sac)
BEARD STREET
Bicycle Circulation
Lobby (W/ Flood Control)
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Residence
Workshop Circulation
DWIGHT STREET
Mixed-Use - New York, NY (Red Hook)
Vehicular Circulation
DWIGHT STREET
Timber in the City: “The New Red hook neighbors”
VAN DYKE STREET
Visitor Access
Resident Circulation 1/64”=1’
Studio & One Bedroom Unit (Cal-De-Sac)
Core/ Public Courtyards
Process Models & Massing Progression
Longitudinal Building Section
Pavilion Retreat: State College, PA (Honorable Mention
Hajjar Competition: “Portal”
Situated on the outskirts of University Park, PA’s college city the suburban residential sprawl of State College is contrasted by the unveiling dense woodland tucked south of the site. A book collecting client’s trove of high fantasy novel series such as Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia is redefined as an architectural portal. The genre embodies a common theme of parallel worlds. A portal manifests itself as a material and/or a mental bridge between the two, similarly as a book captivates its reader. These portals often offers an spatial transition between two distinctly contrasting realms.
Ariel View Writing Studio Bath
Bedroom
Kitchen
Library/Collection
Below Grade
South Elevation
Ground Level Floor
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Rear View
The residential retreat embraces the portal as a pavilion that bridges the suburban sprawl with the organic woodland. The locally reclaimed timber as both structural members and spatial sculpting devices mirrors the density of the woodland through typical residential construction materials. The residential retreat offers spaces for a writing, book collecting, and standard living amenities.
Upper Pavilion
Upper Pavilion
Residence Below/ Book Collection
Sustainable Education Center: Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA
Sustaining a Navy Yard: “1 = 1 + 1�
Sustainability is diversity through multi-functionality. Singular use spaces are more wasteful in so far as, conceiving spaces as versatile maximizes spatial utilitarian value. This sustainability educational center highlights sustainable innovations through visual and interactive exhibitions, while maximizing the functionality of it spaces through the merging of programmatic functions.
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Adaptable spaces can convert from private to public, exhibition to auditorium, cafe to bar, and more. The building core is centered around an informal exhibition space, which doubles as an informal lecture hall/ auditorium.
Northern Exterior View
Site Plan Prevailing Winter Winds
Temp. Exhibition/ Auditorium
Prevailing Summer Winds
Site Solar and Wind Study
Auditorium First Floor 6,700 sq. ft
Children’s Exhibit
Children’s Workshop
Second Floor
3,500 sq. ft
Rear Exterior View
Classroom
Third Floor Core
Lecture Space
2,400 sq. ft
Merging Program
Cafe’
Night Bar
Fourth Floor 2,750 sq. ft
Egress / Service
Interconnectivity Photo Voltaic Energy Harnessing
The center utilizes geothermal heating, photo- voltaic energy, rain water collection and natural day lighting, making the building itself an exhibit of sustainability for environmentally conscious design.
Radiant Heating/ Flooring
Outdoor Cafe
Roof Garden
Reclaimed Corrugated Steel
Roof
N/A sq. ft
Geo Thermal Energy Harnessing
Longitudinal Building Section
Sustainable Education Center: Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA
Sustaining a Navy Yard: “1 = 1 + 1”
Ground level
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Third level
Roof/ Fourth level
Classroom/ Library Adaptability Diagram
3rd Floor 1’ = 1/16” Scale
Temp. Exhibition/ Informal Auditorium
Model
Temp. Exhibition/Auditorium Photo-Voltaic Energy Harnessing
Partial Green Roof
Radiant Heating/ Flooring
Reclaimed Timber
Gray Water Collection
Transverse Building Section
Ecological Urban Design: Rome, Italy
Art-Urbain: “Social Runoff”
Site Plan
Existing Riverfront
Existing Via
Proposed Parking Once a vibrant ancient Roman pilgrimage Via Trinitatis has now lost much of its luster. Densely overgrown with limited activity, the Tiber riverfront attracts very little pedestrians. It is often desolate, infested with untamed weed vegetation, and inconsistently pedestrian friendly. However Piazza Spagna, the head of Via trinitatis, houses a high density of social activity.
Proposed Circulation
A signature stream links Piazza Spanga to the Tiber’s riverfront, while revitalizing Via Trinitatis as a once again prominent pedestrian friendly pilgrimage. Patrons descend to the revitalized riverfront by terraced balconies varying in size and intimacy. This provides vertical circulation to the riverfront and views towards St. Peters and Castel Sant’ Angelo. The pilgrimage concludes where the stream and the Tiber kiss to invite patrons to create their own pilgrimage along the riverfront as a manifestation of a physical and social runoff.
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Conceptual Architectural Riverfront Catalyst
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Intervention Sites
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Intervention End Point
Social Stream
Adjacent piazzas are aquatically linked to the passage’s flowing stream with piazza interludes and reflection pools. Below grade, varying piazzas house parking garages to encourage more Eco-friendly means of travel. In addition, the stream provides an outlet to curb storm drainage which often pools in the crevasses of the cobble stone. Water runoff is then harnessed to irrigate surrounding vegetation and feed gray water systems within the piazza interludes.
Proposed Riverfront
Proposed Via
Spa & Fitness Center: Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, NY
NCMA: “Inserting Serenity�
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Serenity
Swiftness
The hustle and bustle of lower Manhattan breathes a natural sense of urgency and swiftness with an urban fabric that weaves together the active NYU campus, business, and residences. However, Washington Square provides a welcomed pedestrian friendly interruption from this organized chaos. The park guides pedestrians through interludes of tranquil respites and green spaces.
Traffic flow
Vehicular Density
Subway Traffic
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Pedestrian Density
Park Circulation
Transverse Building Section
Spa Baths & Pools
Site
Washington Square
The spa’s exterior shell nods to the homogeneous swift vernacular while a sleeve interrupts this homogeneity. The inserted sleeve houses the spa’s plunge pools and baths. Each basin takes on traditional Roman bath characteristics. The caldarium’s thermal pool located at the southernmost facade, where the most direct sunlight is emitted, is in contrast to the frigidarium’s cold plunges at the northern facade.
In contrast the Spas contains more active spaces for a yoga studio, a lifting gym, a cafe, etc. These programmatic spaces are Located on the periphery of the sleeve to contrast the high activity spaces by the more tranquil spaces.
15|16 Spa & Fitness Center: Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, NY
NCMA: “Inserting Serenity”
Yoga Studio Exterior Street View
Cardio and Light Weight Gym
Balcony Mech. Office
Mech. Room
Mech./ Water Supply
JC Women’s Lockers
Cafe’ / Lounge
Small Wieghts/ Fitness Gym
Locker Rooms
Frigidarium: Cool Plunge
Men’s Lockers
Staff Lounge
Spa Pluges/ Baths
Meeting Room
Natatio: Indoor Pool
Lobby
Asistatant’s Director’s Office Office Balcony
Below Grade Level
Ground Level
Third Level
Fifth Level
Tepidarium: Tepid Plunge
Caldarium: Warm Plunge
Second Level Longitudinal Buidling Section
Responsive Artifact: Sensorial Furniture
Responsive Design: “A Warm Conversation”
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“A Warm Conversation” is a social interactive artifact that responds to auditory stimulus. Through dialogue the bench responds to social interaction by radiating heat to acknowledge the presence of a conversation. Inspired by the science of incidental haptics that influence perceived interactions, this artifact explores how warmth can possibly increase social interaction.
Museum Ruin Covering & Theater: Rome, Italy
Premio Piranesi: “Romantic Curves”
Ground Level
Site Plan Largo Argentina, an archaeological site, holds four temples from the medieval period. Each ruin shares the unique relationship of layering from the periods of ancient, medieval, and modern Rome. The design solution is a layering/ covering to conserve the ruins while simultaneously acting as a public square and museum. The public space brings integrity to the Largo Argentina as a piazza where patrons can interact with the ruins as a social and transitional space. The approach dissolves the hard line of the ruin site as the curved roof peels up to reveal the temples’ ruins. The central temple is uncovered to indicate the relationship of the present being that it was the most recently constructed of the four temples.
Below Grade Level
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In addition, the subtle revealing of this temple creates a sneak preview of what is protected below. The medieval road is reestablished as the covering meets grade and provides a direct path across the square. The medieval tower is adaptively reused as the entry point and vertical circulation for the museum. The ancient layer is resurrected by the recreation of the ancient street Via Sacra in front of the temples as the museums underground circulation.
F ORO I MP E RI AL E P ANTHE ON
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Initial Sketches
Below Grade Museum
Aerial View
Via Sacra Circulation
Longitudinal Building Section
21|22 Museum Ruin Covering & Theater: Rome, Italy
Premio Piranesi: “Romantic Curves”
Street View
Street View
Longitudinal Building Section
Theater - Hadrian’s Villa
Theater
Site Plan Theatre Villa Adriana relates to the interest Emperor Hadrian and his passion for Greek antiquity. Through combing both Greek and Roman theatre ideologies into one. The landscaping of both the stairs and terraced seating relates to traditional Greek theatre vocabulary; while the use of an existing built stage is congruent to Roman theatre vocabulary. The theater allows for the ruins to be a significant piece of the drama as a performance stage. Performances take place within the niches of the Centro Camelle. The villa’s original theaters of antiquity are often concentrated around the villa’s perimeter. Seating located at the perimeter and in a formal dialogue with the curvature of the ruins became the central gesture.
Longitudinal Section
23|24 Social and Environmental sustainability - Temporal Environments
Adaptability and Modulation: “Hexplex�
Partition and Bench Adaptive Installation
Canopy and Stool Adaptive Installation
Often the built environment is viewed as something rigid and permanent with little flexibility. In contrast people are much more flexible, making man much more malleable than their spatial creations. People are exceedingly active creatures with diverse needs, agendas and destinations. Why is it that spatial designs rarely reflect this element of life? Shouldn’t built environments embody the very human nature of flexibility? Hexplex employs interlocking module frames to create environments that can be easily assembled and disassembled. Whether the spatial need calls for the Design of informal benches, an intimate enclosure or a public canopy pavilion, Hexplex encourages multifarious spatial arrangements.
Components
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Modular Construction / Assembly
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Environmental & Social Sustainability
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Designed to be environmentally sustainable, Hexplex utilizes plastic waste from reclaimed and reprocessed plastic containers and bottles. Monochromatic Plexiglas provides a capping method to preserve spaces from weather. In addition, it allows natural light to penetrate through, leaving dynamic shadow effects. The light weight prefabricated hexagons allow for maximum portability and flexibility to and from the site. The spatial design possibilities are virtually limitless and client specific. Spatial simplicity is no longer bound to conventionally fixed spatial arrangements. Hexplex aspires to address the realm of spatial liberty through adaptability.
Hand Technical, Sketched, and/or Rendering Documents
Han drawing: “Mind-to-Hand, Paper-to-Computer�
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This compilation of hand drawings varying from sketches, rendering and drafting, illustrates how hand drawing what I perceivable saw has the played a role in my understanding of spatial structures and design. Hand drawing has played a role in how I design as I make the transition from mind to hand, then paper to computer.
Garden Tool Shed - University Park, PA 16802
Design Build: “Community Shed”
Located on the Penn State University Campus is shared community garden for families, faculty members and students. While the garden’s users was thriving in growth, the original small decomposing shed became unmanageable, and it failed to keep up with the demand of its users. Constructed is a larger walk in tool shed that allows for more storage and equipment expansion. The Timber construction is rooted by locust post columns. Much of the construction timber and flooring Trex were reclaimed materials from local demolition projects. Integrated is a community garden sharing wall for gardeners to share or trade their crops with other gardeners. The sliding white oak and slate double doors allow for communicating events with a chalk friendly slate material. A rainwater collection system maximizes the surface area of the roof and stores 20 gallons of rainwater for watering the garden.
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29|30 Glass Blowing, Metal Oxidation & Translucent Concrete
MVC (Material Case Study): “Liquid Thresholds”
An exploration of thresholds in viscous materials and an interaction with illumination. Left: Molten glass + Copper mesh (Steel mold, glass blowing rod, and crafting tools) Right: Rock-ite instant curing patching cement + Fiber optics (clay, nylon and plywood)
31|32 Community Library - Pittsburgh, PA (Foreman Award Finalist)
“Remembering the Chisel Through the Pixel�
Youth Center Walkway
Longitudinal Building Section
It must not be forgotten that throughout time, the passing down of knowledge from generation to generation has varied in mediums. Man chiseled through stone and wrote on paper as a means to impart their wisdom. These analog mediums of transmitting information illustrate that of solid, density and tangibility. In contrast, modern means of communicating intelligence has expanded to more digital realms. Technology has enabled man to disclose information through, lighter, larger, and virtually intangible mediums of nothingness.
Site Plan/ Solar Analysis
Street view
The library reflects and contrasts these two contradictory characteristics, while remembering the past that helped foster the digital age. One can see the range of contrast from materiality, programmatic arrangements, and spatial function. For example, acknowledging speech as the origin of communicating knowledge allowed the auditorium to take its place as the foundation of the library. Architectural characteristics from heavy monolithic carving in contrast to light additive elements and spatial density in contrast to openness embody these two mediums. Through the vast abundance of technological advances, the chisel and what it embodies should not be forgotten.
Sectional Model
East Building Elevation
Chamber Planting Medium Nylon Mesh Geo Foam Waffle Board Roof Drainage Mat
Spring/Fall Air Flow Loading Dock
Top and Lower vents can be opened or closed to control temperature of cavity
Materials Storage Branch Manager's Office
Operable windows on each floor allow for natural ventilation
Branch Assistant's Office
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Staff Workroom
Public Service Desk
Story-Time Area
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Mech. Shaft
Community Library - Pittsburgh, PA (Foreman Award Finalist)
“Remembering the Chisel Through the Pixel�
Staff Lounge UP
Juvenile Collection Mech. Shaft
Staff Office
Staff Coat Room Public Service Desk
Book Drop
Column Self Check Out
Auditorium Stage
Decking
Public Lab
Janitor's Closet
Winter Air Flow
Pre-School Area
Youth Lab
When the top and bottom vents are closed air inside double skin cavity is trapped UP
Air within the cavity heats up to create a thermal barrier between external and internal environments
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New Book/ Gallery
Steel Mesh (Maintenance Cat-Walk)
Secondary Entrance
Auditorium Top Deck
Tech Room
Lo-E Curtain Wall Glazing
Service
Non Fiction / Study Area
Mech. Shaft
Mech. Shaft
UP
Children's Reading
UP
Air Space
UP
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Lobby / Information Center
DN
Main Entrance
Summer Air Flow Solar energy is caught heating the double skin cavity. Cooler air is drawn into double skin cavity through the open base
Ground Level
Second Level
As the air heats it begins to rise within the cavity to create a chimney effect that moves hot air away from the building mass High Transparency Lo-E Glazing
Spider Joint
Acoustics Studies Double Facade & Seasonal Adaptability
Wall Section
Transverse Section
Teen Loft / Teen Reading
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Mech. Shaft
Staff Office
UP DN
Teen Study
Teen Lab
Non Fiction / Study Area
UP
Mech. Shaft
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Youth Center Mezzanine Level
Exploded Construction Diagram
Auditorium
Night Exterior View