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BENJAMIN E THOMAS GRADUATE WORK


Architecture is a pleasantly complex practice in which attention paid to the smallest details can result in the largest impacts. Details, however, must not be relegated simply to fastening hardware and material selections of the built environment. Progressive architectural intervention succeeds best when it is appreciative of the details of the built, contextual, and personal environments of human behavior. It is in this appreciation that I position my own work in order to afford the opportunity for best practices on physical and non-physical scales; to retain theoretical ingenuity within the scope of plausible reality. Through my work experience I became actively engaged with the realities of scope, budget, bidding process, scheduling, board reviews, and team leadership. The critical thinking skills acquired through this exposure, when applied to design, posit the fact that all aspects of the design process are opportunities for successful work. Academically, this success is cataloged through the multiple projects archived as teaching tools, a publication in the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee architecture student magazine, Studio 2131, exhibited work at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez as well as the University of Michigan, and an awarded installation at NOLA DesCours through the AIA, New Orleans chapter. The work within is evidence of how progressive thinking coupled with realistic grounding allows the conversation of architectural intervention to be had at multiple scales. Moreover, it highlights the agency of architecture outside of the built environment as it aids in the narration of the everyday, aiding the individual’s ability to move, interact, play in-, and contribute to the environments in which we exist.

Benjamin E Thomas

414.333.2799 I bthomas425@gmail.com


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Descours: aia nEW oRLEANS fall 2011

mega-terminal

Option studio: fAITH mclain clutter fALL 2010

mOBILE aGGREGATION

COMPREHENSIVE studio mICHAEL kENNEDY FALL 2011

El MUSEO DEL NORTE

COMPREHENSIVE studio mICHAEL kENNEDY FALL 2011

NSS HEADQUARTERS

Option studio jENNIFER hARMON WINTER 2011

EXPANDING INWARD

THESIS STUDIO, ANCA TRANDAFIRESCU WINTER 2012



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Descours: Installation, aia nEW oRLEANS. 2011 TEAM LEADER:

Lecturer Jennifer Harmon

CONCEPT AND PROPOSAL:

Joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Benjamin Thomas, Grant Weaver

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT:

Missy Ablin, Joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Will Martin, Catherine Pyenson, Benjamin Thomas

ASSEMBLY:

Missy Ablin, Ashley Banks, Joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Michael Gelnboski, Will Martin, Catherine Pyenson, Andrew Stephens, Benjamin Thomas, Grant Weaver, Logan Wiedman, Wencan Xue

INSTALL:

Missy Ablin, Spencer Kroll, Catherine Pyenson

CONSULTANTS:

Peter von B端low, Maciej Kaczynski

ADDITIONAL CREDITS - Benjamin Thomas: - Material Research and Project Budgeting - Project Scheduling - Proposal Renderings - Initial Connection Assembly Concept - Connector Plate Cut Sheets Cut Sheet: Connection Plates


λ GIAUSAR : 334 ly τ DRA : 150 ly ε TYL : 146 ly

κ SHAOWEI : 498 ly

χ BANTENTABAN : 26 ly δ ALTAIS : 100 ly

ψ DZIBAN : 289 ly α THUBAN : 309 ly ζ ALDHIBAH : 340 ly

η ALDIBAIN : 88 ly ι EDASICH : 102 ly

θ SHANGZAI : 68 ly ξ GRUMIUM : 111 ly ν KUMA : 99 ly

β RASTABAN : 361 ly

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mega-terminal

Option studio: fAITH, mclain clutter. fALL 2010 The goal of this studio was to develop a conceptual project concerning the evolution of the Megachurch in the exurban landscape. Various trips to such institutions as well as comparative studies with other building types such as large “big box� retail were the point of departure. Of primary effort in this studio was understanding the programmatic incorporation and distribution within the church as an example of interior urbanism. This work projects the incorporation of mass transit into the programmatic concerns of the church. Vehicular access into the interior begins to create a completed whole of the institution as a metropolis. Moreover, ideas of network distribution and iconographic imagery speak to the attitude of building as billboard, associating the programmed interior with a single exterior expression.

Site Discovery: Preliminary Mapping


Site Plan


MAINTENANCE

PERSONAL VEHICLE

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Site Phasing

User Routes by Transportation Type


Partial Plan: Terminal Level


Objectified Metropolis

Strategy: Programmatic Stratification and Objectification



mOBILE aGGREGATION

COMPREHENSIVE studio, mICHAEL kENNEDY. FALL 2011 ‘LA CARPA’ MOBILE MUSEUM’

In conjunction with the University of Michigan’s Latino Studies department and El Museo del Norte public committee of Southwest Detroit, the project was to design a mobile museum to help tell the history of Latinos in the area. Each student was to develop a unique proposal that was showcased to the public for consideration. The proposal below called for the development of flexible nodes that could be easily transported and reconfigured to accommodate a variety of sites, audiences, and programmatic intents.

Axon: Constructing the Node



Handling and Distribution


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Southwest Detroit Art Walk


On-Site Curation


Learning in the Park



El MUSEO DEL NORTE

COMPREHENSIVE studio, mICHAEL kENNEDY. FALL 2011 To promote the efforts of the Southwest Detroit community, the studio was geared towards the development of a permanent museum to house performances and exhibits centered around the Latino culture in the area and the larger context of the city. One proposal per student. This project makes use of an existing ironworks building from the 19th century as a contrasting agent to a proposed addition. Through their dialogue, the new and old relate to the historical sensitivity of the surrounding Latino community. Incorporated into the project is the knowledge that the visitor is at once patron and exhibit, living history. Therefore, the project is designed to fully expose the community to itself through active display and interactive activities such as the offering of the exterior to local artists and the bleeding of performance space from building to exterior neighborhood.

Building the Discussion: Past, Present, Future


PROPOSAL ONE: OPEN SITE

ZONE 1A: ABOVE GROUND

This level will house a more permanent collection as well as administration

ZONE 1B: GROUND LEVEL

Lower-level of museum will house more dynamic programming and even space with exhibits constantly changing. It will have the ability to open to exterior to extend programmatic footprint.

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ZONE 3: MOBILE HOUSING

The museum will serve as housing for its mobile component. When docked, the mobile museum will serve as major frontage of the museum along the street edge.

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General Exhibition

Spatial operation will be denoted by compression and expansion of spaces through manipulation of the vertical and horizontal planes, emphasizing the nature of conduct relative to program.

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Site Selection Extension to Exterior

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GENERAL PLAN

NOTES -Exterior to maintain language expressed by mobile museum. Emphasis on verticality on exterior and horizontality on interior.

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Staying in the same vein as the mobile component, El Museo del Norte should be an active player within the community it serves. As a museum of history, it should locate itself near a historical anchor, which it references through its curated exhibits and physical proximity. Access to areas of public engagement such as recreational centers, parks, and/or schools allows the museum to lend itself as an extension of focused program. Within the site and its context there should be ample room for the museum to: 1) expand physical footprint, 2) occupy multiple areas to increase range of visibility and deploy/store portions of the mobile unit per its intent, 3) interact with the community at both large and small scales. Southwest Detroit is part of Detroit’s ‘Empowerment Zone’ initiative; therefore, the museum should site itself within a particular area of revitalization as a gesture to the community’s progressive nature and historical sensitivity. Moreover, it would be ideal to have a site housing a pre-existing building that the new museum can interact with, furthering this gesture.

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Site Summary

-The museum will house utility at core to open exterior to programmatic perimeter.

Located on Porter Road between St. Anne’s Street and Stanton Park, the site houses a 3-storey, masonry building measuring 40’ x 80’ and a slightly larger lot on the building’s East side. It is the location of 19th century T.X Rosseau Iron Workers Manufacturing Co. The building is surrounded by single-family residences, except for a slightly larger lot to the North. Other open lots available nearby to relieve the need to house all necessities on one site such as parking or large events. Open lots also offer potential for mobile unit deployment, engaging publics that may not pass directly by site. St. Anne’s is visible to the South; Detroit skyline visible to the East. Historically, the neighborhood has always been ZONE 1: BORROWED FRONTAGE small residential with commercial sites scattered throughout. The T.X. the Iron Workers building is one of Working with an existing shell, buildings still remaining from the 19th century museum adhere tothe thefew language consistent of development. It can be speculated that many of the areas the block in which it is located. residents worked at the nearby iron working building and other commercial developments to the north, along Bagley St. Using this site for the museum exposes the ZONE 2: VACANT SPACE potential to reestablish a node that has provided for the ideally, additional space will be The building can serve its community community it inhabits. found adjacent to the in aexisting similar building fashion shell. to the German Turnverein associations thewith early 19th century. Their goal, through their Preference given toofsites bordering halls, to develop commercial operations aswas to implant the sound body and minds within the community. This was done by providing program that was museum as an active participant within the physically and intellectually engaging, such as gymnasicontext of a main artery in the neighborhood. ums and tutoring services.

-Materiality TBD

PROPOSAL TWO: SHARED SITE

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ZONE 3: MOBILE HOUSING

Mobile museum serves as barrier from interior to exterior with points of visual and physical accessibilty

GENERAL SITE PLAN

Preliminary Data Major Development Type: Single Family Residential Density: Around 50% Historical Anchor: St. Anne’s Church Nearby Institutions: Preston School, Roberto Clemente Recreation Center, Michigan Hispanic Chamber, Welcome Center

CONTEXTUAL CONSISTENCY

The museum will address the proportions of any new facade based on the rule set defined by adjacent structures. While the development in the vacant lot may have material difference and, perhaps, a unique character, it must abide by the proportional system in place to not be perceived as a foreign body amongst well known establishments.

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Transit: City Bus Lines – 49 (1/8mi), 19 and 27 (1/4mi) Smart Bus – 125, 150 (1/4mi) Site Area: 90’ x 105’ = 9,450 sf

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GENERAL SECTION

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The interior structure of the existing building will be preserved and highlighted through renovation. The addition will Nodes take Contextual on a different character, making obvious its 1 Mexicantown office relationship with the building it uses to

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Elevation: Community Character


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NSS HEADQUARTERS

Option studio, jENNIFER hARMON. WINTER 2011 The studio was charged with the task of designing a headquarters for the National Speleological Society. After collective research aimed at defining the needs of the society was published, each student was to propose a building design. This project employs the play between interior and exterior, above and below ground, to create moments of tension and intrigue that work to heighten the experience of the whole. The three publics of the building (caver, administrator, public) are purposefully given moments of overlap to extend their programs to one another, creating hybrid environments for education and interaction. The architecture actively presents key features of program to each other, increasing the legibility of space and the components that define the NSS as a society. The transfer of information from caving society to touring public will increase, further solidifying the NSS as a serious, conservation-minded institution whose efforts are on multiple fronts: research, training, education

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EXPANDING INWARD

THESIS STUDIO, ANCA TRANDAFIRESCU. WINTER 2012 Prompted by the proposal for compaction initiated by the city of Chicago, Illinois, this thesis investigates the latent potential of physically constrained sites. Engaging the exposed interstate rail platforms of the Blue Line, the project’s curiosity comes from the negotiations between the 15 foot width of the platform, the commuter culture of the rail, and the programmatic aspirations of the project. Using the YMCA Headquarters as the pressurizing agent, careful physical considerations are coupled with programmatic overlays that not only accommodate the constraints of the site, but offers a plausible dynamic of integration. Methods include exploration through isometric drawing, vignette, and conceptual section to draw out the plausibility of action through exactness of execution.

Sectional Elevation


POPULATION INCREASE

CHICAGO, IL.

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City Compaction: Population Increase 1960 - 2010

Strategy: Phase I Distribution

Vertical Training


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VISUAL REGISTRATION

STRUCTURAL SEPARATION EMBEDMENT

ACCOMMODATION

VERTICAL CONNECT

INSERTION / CAP NEW PROGRAM ALLOWANCE

REINTRODUCTION

VERTICAL MOVEMENT

ACCESSIBILITY

Strategy: Negotiating the Constraint TRANSITIONAL COMPROMISE

DIVIDING THE HORIZONTAL


SECTION: MOVEMENT

SECTION: BRIDGING �/��” = �’

SECTION: OPPORTUNITY

SECTION: ACCOMODATION

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�/��” = �’

SECTION: FLEXIBILITY

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�/��” = �’

main terrace

overlook � maint terrace

to courts

to courts outdoor court �

outdoor court �

sauna

lockers

intermission

brainstorming workshop �

brainstorming workshop �

brainstorming workshop �

platform

platform

platform

platform

platform

main terrace

overlook � overlook � outdoor court � outdoor court �

outdoor court �

transition lockers

entry

platform

intermission

information

rental

first aid

brainstorming workshop �

sauna

brainstorm

platform


SECTION: STRATEGY

SECTION: EDUCATION

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SECTION: DEVELOPMENT

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main terrace

congretional play

SECTION: ACTION

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SECTION: EXPOSURE

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obedience training

outdoor play

outdoor play

intermission

snackatorium

balcony

makers gallery/gates

ballroom

entry

interior waiting

adopt-a-puppy

kennel

workshop access brainstorming workshop � teach and talk

makers workshop

rail entry

platform

Cross Section Series

Section: Programmatic Cohesion

outdoor play

obedience training

intermission

brainstorming workshop � makers workshop

balcony

snackatorium

teach and talk makers gallery

ming workshop �

rail entry

adopt-a-puppy interior waiting

street entry

ballroom kennel



Interior: Makers Workshop / Teach and Talk



Exterior: Rail Access / Outdoor Play



Benjamin E Thomas

414.333.2799 I bthomas425@gmail.com



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