BP Beresford Pratt
Table of Contents
Hajjar: Portal
(Honorable Mention)
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NCMA: Inserting Serenity
1+ 1 =1
Art-Urbain: Social Runoff
Hexplex Installations
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7-10
11-12
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Premio Piranesi (Winner & ADA Award)
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Community Garden
Chisel to Pixel
Hand Drawing
Photography
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(Foreman
Award Finalist)
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Hajjar Competition: Portal Honorable Mention
Residential/ Pavilion Retreat: State College, PA Osmond Street’s typical suburban sprawl is contrasted by the unveiling of a dense woodland landscape tucked away in the south. The client’s book collection consists of high fantasy novel series such as Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. The genre embodies a common theme of parallel worlds, in which a portal manifests itself in a material object or a mental state.
Ariel Model
The residential retreat embraces the idea of a portal as a pavilion that connects the suburban sprawl to the more organic woodland. This concept is achieved through timber construction as structural members and spatial sculpting devices that create visual connections. The density of the woodland is echoed through the density of the pavilion, while the book collection is safe guarded below in the one-person retreat.
Ground Floor
Bath
Bedroom
Kitchen
Upper Pavilion
Writing Studio Library/Collection
North Elevation
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Second Floor
Upper Pavilion
South Elevation Book Collection
Rear View
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Longitudinal Section
NCMA- Inserting Serenity Spa and Fitness Center: Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, New York. Serenity
Swift
Site
George Washington Square
The hustle and bustle of Manhattan breathes a natural sense of urgency and swiftness into the everyday lifestyle. However, George Washington Square provides a welcomed pedestrian friendly interruption from this organized chaos. The park provides pedestrians with interludes and tranquil respite spaces. The spa’s exterior shell nods to the vernacular of swiftness through form and facade treatment. The insert of serenity tucks in as a uniform sleeve that houses the spa’s significant plunge pools. Each pool takes on traditional Roman bath characteristics. The caldarium’s thermal pool located at the southernmost façade, where the most direct sunlight is emitted, is in contrast to the frigidarium’s cold plunges at the northern facade. The ancient Roman baths provided citizens with a social respite outlet from the hectic life of the city; within the urban fabric the baths became inserted serenity.
Transverse Section
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Spa Baths & Pools
Traffic Directionality
Vehicular Density
Pedestrian Density
Park Circulation
Underground Traffic BDFM
RNQ
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Mech. Office
Mech. Room
Frigidarium: Cool Plunge
Mech./ Water Supply
JC
Women’s Lockers Cafe’ / Lounge
Spa Pluges/ Baths
Locker Rooms Men’s Lockers Staff Lounge
Tepidarium: Tepid Plunge
Meeting Room
Natatio: Indoor Pool
Basement
Lobby
Asistatant’s Director’s Office Office
Caldarium: Warm Plunge
Ground Floor
Second Floor
Longitudinal Section
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Third Floor
Balcony
Yoga Studio Small Wieghts/ Fitness Gym
Balcony
Fourth Floor
Fifth Floor
Exterior View
Gym (Light Weight)
Yoga Studio
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1+1=1 Sustainability Center Sustainability can be multi-functional. Singular spaces are more wasteful in comparison to multi-functional spaces. In so far as, conceiving spaces to be versatile minimizes the waste of space. This sustainability center highlights sustainable innovations through visual and interactive exhibitions, while maximizing the utilitarian value of it spaces. 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 auditorium. The center utilizes geothermal heating, photo-voltaic energy, rain water collection and natural day lighting.
Front Exterior
Site Plan
Prevailing Winter Winds
Prevailing Summer Winds
Solar and Wind Study
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Temporary Exhibition/ Auditorium
6,700 sq. ft
3,500 sq. ft
Rear Exterior
2,400 sq. ft
Core
Merging Program 2,750 sq. ft
Egress / Service
Interconnectivity
N/A sq. ft
Longitudinal Section
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Ground Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
Roof/ Fourth Floor
3rd Floor 1’ = 1/16” Scale 1
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Library Partition Adaptability
Exhibition
Longitudinal Section
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Temporary Exhibition/ Auditorium
East Elevation
South Elevation Sectional Model
West Elevation
North Elevation
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Interior Model
Art-Urbain Social Runoff
Urban Design Competition (Group) - Rome, Italy
Existing Riverfront
Existing Via
Site Plan
Piazza Spagna, the head of Via Trinitatis, houses a high density of social activity. In contrast the Tiber’s riverfront, adjacent to the tail of Via Trinitatis, lacks the same social vibrancy. It is often desolate, infested with untamed weed vegetation, and inconsistently pedestrian friendly. A signature stream links Piazza Spanga to the Tiber’s riverfront, while revitalizing Via Trinitatis as a once again prominent pedestrian friendly pilgrimage. Adjacent piazzas are aquatically linked to the passage’s flowing stream by temporary interludes and reflection pools. Below grade, varying piazzas house parking garages to encourage more eco-friendly modes 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.
Existing Via
Proposed Circulation
Patrons gradually 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 conclusion of the pilgrimage is seen where the stream disperses into the river, and invites patrons to create their own pilgrimage along the riverfront as a physical and social runoff.
Architectural Riverfront Catalyst
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Social Stream Nodes
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Intervention End Point
Intervention Sites
Social Stream Riverfront Intervention
Proposed Parking
Proposed Riverfront
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Proposed Via
Partition and Bench Adaptive Installation
Canopy and Bench Adaptive Installation
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Hexplex- Adaptable & Customizable Installations Meeting the needs of social and environmental sustainability through reuse and adaptability. We often view the built environment as something permanent with little flexibility. In contrast people are much more flexible, making man much more malleable than their 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 adaptability? Hexplex applies interlocking module forms to create environments that can be easily assembled and disassembled. Whether one is designing informal benches, an intimate enclosure or a public canopy pavilion, Hexplex encourages multifarious spatial arrangements. Designed to be environmentally sustainable, Hexplex utilizes plastic from reclaimed and reprocessed water 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.
Environmental & Social Sustainability Components
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Modular Construction / Assembly 14
Premio Piranesi
P ANTHE ON
Museum and Theater (Group) - Rome, Italy
ARE A S ACRA DI L ARGO ARGE NTI NA
F ORO I MP E RI AL E P ANTHE ON
Site Plan
Museum Ruin Covering- Largo Argentina
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.
F ORO I MP E RI AL E
Initial Sketches
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 Floor
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.
Ground Floor
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Museum
Aerial View
Circulation
Longitudinal Section
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Street View
Street View
Longitudinal Section
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Theater
Site Plan
Theater- Hadrian’s Villa
Theatre Villa Adriana connects to Emperor Hadrian’s interest in Greek antiquity by 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.
Theater 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 ideal gesture. 18
Longitudinal Section
Community Garden Tool Shed Tool Shed (Group) - University Park, PA Located on the Penn State University Campus is shared community garden for families, faculty members and students. While the garden was thriving in growth the original small decomposing shed became unmanageable, and it failed to keep up with the demand of its user. 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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Youth Walkway
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Longitudinal Section
Remembering the Chisel through the Pixel Foreman Award Finalist
Community Library- North Central Pittsburgh, PA 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.
Exterior
Sectional Model
The library reflects and contrasts these two majorly 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.
East Elevation
South Elevation
Site Plan
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Chamber Planting Medium Nylon Mesh Geo Foam Waffle Board Roof Drainage Mat
Loading Dock
Materials Storage Branch Manager's Office Staff Lounge
UP
DN
Branch Assistant's Office Mech. Shaft
Staff Workroom
Public Service Desk
Staff Coat Room Public Service Desk
Book Drop
Column
Self Check Out
Decking
Auditorium Stage
Public Lab
Janitor's Closet
Steel Mesh (Maintenance Cat-Walk)
New Book/ Gallery
Lo-E Curtain Wall Glazing
Secondary Entrance
Auditorium Top Deck
Air Space Tech Room
Service
UP
UP
Night Rendering High Transparency Lo-E Glazing
Spring/Fall Air Flow Spider Joint
Wall Section
DN
Lobby / Information Center
Main Entrance
Summer Air Flow
Winter Air Flow
Top and Lower vents can be opened or closed to control temperature of cavity
When the top and bottom vents are closed air inside double skin cavity is trapped
Solar energy is caught heating the double skin cavity. Cooler air is drawn into double skin cavity through the open base
Operable windows on each floor allow for natural ventilation
Air within the cavity heats up to create a thermal barrier between external and internal environments
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
Double Facade & Seasonal Adaptability
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Transverse Section
Ground Floor
Mech. Shaft
Teen Loft / Teen Reading
UP
Story-Time Area
DN
UP
Electronic Books
DN
UP
DN
Juvenile Collection Mech. Shaft
Mech. Shaft
Mech. Shaft
Staff Office
Staff Office
Staff Office
Leisure Read / Periodicals / News
DN
UP DN
Teen Study Pre-School Area
Youth Lab
Public Lab
UP
Digital Audio Media
DN
Teen Lab
Non Fiction / Study Area
Non Fiction / Study Area
Mech. Shaft
Fiction / Study Area
Mech. Shaft
Digital Interactive Tools
Children's Reading
UP
DN
Mech. Shaft
UP
DN
Second Floor
DN
Mezzanine
Third Floor
Youth Center
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Structure & Acoustics
Auditorium
Hand Drawings
This compilation of hand drawings varying from sketches, rendering, drafting, illustrates how hand drawing is the foundation of my design education. When communicating my thoughts hand drawing plays an integral role in how I currently design as I make the transition from mind to hand, then paper to computer. 25
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Photography
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“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams
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CV Education The Penn State University (University Park) Bachelor of Architecture Degree (NAAB Accredited) Expected May 2014
Pantheon Institute (Rome, Italy) Aug. 2012 - Dec. 2012
Awards 2012 Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome - Winner 2012 Mark Kates Scholarship - Recipient 2012 Forman Award - Finalist 2011 Hajjar Competition - Honorable Mention 2009 Sonny Kids Foundation - 1st Place Work Experience University Of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview, Minneapolis, MN Intern, Supply Chain Jun. 2011- Aug. 2011 -Redesign of supply rooms for the newly built LEED designed Amplatz Children’s hospital. -Analyzed inventory data to best determine reductions and product fit. -Reduced on hand inventory by 5%, saving approximately $10,000 in excess products by purging and/or returning slow moving overstock to vendor. Accomplishments -Coordinated supply reduction among multi-disciplinary departments by collaborating with key stakeholders, department management with an annual operational budget of $11 million and supplies spend of $120 million. -Developed action plans to assist department supervisors in maintaining sustainable lean manufacturing principles in supply room layout.
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Work Experience, continued JCPenny Corporation – Burnsville, MN Weekend Supervisor & Sales Associate, Customer Service Oct. 2007-Aug. 2012 -Cultivated client focused assistance and completed timely and accurate service in the form of personalized fittings and transactions. -Proven ability to multi task, handle large crowds, resolve customer issues and excel within demanding and high volume settings. Opal Services - Burnsville, MN Direct Support Professional Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012 -Provided direct support for non-self sufficient clients. Disabilities included physical, psychiatric, and/or cognitive impairment. Organizations: NOMAS (Member) Digital Beehive (Instructor) Fresh Jreams (Member) Relevant Works Skills & Proficiencies: Modeling: Autocad 3D, Hand Modeling, Rhino, Revit, Sketch Up Rendering: Flamingo & Toucan (Rhino), Hand Rendering, I-Ray & Mental Ray (3ds max), Revit, V-ray (Rhino & Sketch Up) Documentation: AutoCAD, Hand Drawing, Microsoft Office Suite Image Manipulation: Adobe Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop)
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BP
Beresford Pratt Home 13649 Birchwood Ave. Rosemount MN, 55068 School 320 South Fraser St. State College PA, 16801 (C) 952-693-5614 (R) 952-423-3633 beresford.pratt@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/beresfordpratt