MASS DESIGN GROUP
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATIONAL
Umubano Primary School Location: Kigali, Rwanda Size: 375,000sf Budget: $235,000 Role: Job Captain, Construction Admin. Programs: Rhino, AutoCAD, Sketchup The Global Health Corps is inspiring organization which places fellows in partner organizations with the goal of leveraging distinct skillsets to improve health outcomes. As an employee of MASS Design Group, I spent a year working on the design of a number of hospitals and health centers. However, the primary focus of my time and effort was the Umubano Primary School for Orphaned Children. Over the course of the year, I contributed to the DD and CD phases as well as oversaw the entirety of its construction. I was heavily involved in all aspects of the project, from permit drawings to revisions, to site supervision. The Fellowship ended with the Rwandan President, Paul Kigame’s ceremonial inauguration of the school. BRANDEN COLLINS
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MASS DESIGN GROUP
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EDUCATIONAL
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The site of the Umubano Primary School was a unique design challange and allowed for a novel organization. A commonly found element in Rwanda’s agricultural landscape are terraced plateaus, We mitigated the steep slope of the site with terraced play areas, outdoor classrooms and grade specific buildings. Each level and building is connected by steps and ramps which wind their way through the site, decending to the wetlands and cuminating in a soccer pitch. The favorable climate of Rwanda allowed the primary design considerations to refocus from envelope tightness to a that of daylight and cross ventilation. Natural and local materials play a primary role in nearly all finishes. Hand formed artisnal brick, papyrus ceilings and reed woven doors play warm earth colors against painted concrete and metal. BRANDEN COLLINS
BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
MASS DESIGN GROUP
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATIONAL
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BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
ZGF ARCHITECTS
PROFESSIONAL
HEALTHCARE
BAPTIST HEALTH CANCER CENTER Location: Miami, FL Size: 375,000sf Budget: $400 million Role: BIM Project Coordinator Programs: Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup This Baptist Health facility is a progressive, comprehensive cancer treatment center. The program includes substantial exam space, a breast center, infusion bays, radiation oncology, and imaging. I joined the design team in the late SD phase. I began translating the conceptual design sketchup model into each of the the necessary families and components, assigned worksets, and ultimately controlled the exchange of information between our design model and the local architect. At the completion of DD, the model was carefully split into a core and shell, and an interiors model. The completion of the exterior CD package was completed by the local architect with technical and BIM leadership from ZGF. My primary focus shifted to public interiors which included the lobby and the elaborate three story jellyfish tank. BRANDEN COLLINS
BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
ZGF ARCHITECTS
PROFESSIONAL
1200 17th is a Class A office building blocks from the Whitehouse. I began working on the development of this project during the SD phase where the initial representation of the terracotta paneling was first explored. Numerous studies of the material’s reading on the façade favored a a thinner grid, with terracotta spandrel every other floor, with a T-shaped stainless infill divider. Though uniform in appearance, the paneling of the family and the angles of the panels required significant planning when transllating from Sketchup to Revit. I saw the model through the DD phase, fully modeling the scheme and beginning the detailing.
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Sketctchup Model Development
COMMERCIAL
1200 17th St. Location: Washington DC Size: 169,000sf Budget: $110 million Sustainability: LEED Platinum (expected) Role: BIM model creation Programs: Revit, Sketchup, Autocad
BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
ZGF ARCHITECTS
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SUNY New Paltz Science Building Location: New Paltz, NY Size: 76,000sf Budget: $48 million Sustainability: LEED Silver (expected) Role: Envelope modeling and detailing Programs: Revit, Autocad
The New Paltz Science Building is a interdisciplinary science building with program as diverse as robotics and geology labs. The exterior underwent numerous design revisons to address condensation potential inside of the vapor barrier. The size of the project allowed for an intimate team and a chance to be involved in most aspects of the project and take ownership over certain elements of the design. I was able to contribute to the design decisions, coordination and detailing of many of the public spaces including the lecture hall.
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ZGF ARCHITECTS
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SUMMER SOLSTICE
LABORATORY
Max Planck Florida Institute Max Planck Florida Institute is an neuroscience research building. I worked on the early schematic design phase Location: Jupiter, FL modeling early forms and materials Size: 100,000sf and and conducted preliminary shadBudget: $64 million ing analysis in Sketchup and and VRay. I was given the opportunity to lead Sustainability: LEED Gold the office’s first forray into Revit as I Role: Study models, lighting analysis, developed the office’s first Revit model Revit development on this project. Though the project Programs: Sketchup, Revit, Autocad evolved substantially, the attitude toward the site, and the material use was informed largely from these inital studies. AUTUMN EQUINOX WINTER SOLSTICE
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ZGF ARCHITECTS
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH LABORATORY
TEACHING LABORATORY TEACHING
OFFICE / SUPPORT IES Analysis
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-Best solar heating and shading -Energy efficiency adequate but potentially affected by large skin to volume ratio -HVAC systems are potentially efficient
Dartmouth Engineering Building
-Lesser site impact -Good daylight autonomy -Trades benefits in HVAC efficiency for phasing ability
Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering requested proposals for an expansion feasibility study to connect their existing buildings and double the size of the Engineering campus. The heavily constrained site left discrete opportunities for siting such a substantial addition. From a variety of initial explorations we chose 3 schemes to examine in depth. Each scheme proposed a particular set of constraints, advantages and attitudes toward the campus and its future development.
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Location: Hanover, NH Size: 130,000sf Budget: feasibility Role: Concept design, modeling Programs: Revit, Autocad, 3dsmax
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BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ACADEMIC
This thesis asserts that an understanding of self and place may be deepened by architectural organization. This project serves as a mediation between the history and the present of the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn. It is a reflection and re-stitching of the public sphere in the urban realm which at one time was ingrained in the bock. It is a celebration and expansion of the public realm expressed through a network of public spaces connected by canopy along the rooftop of of one of its most venerable and permanent and iconic institutions . By lifting the public realm to the rooftop, the project declares the primacy that should be inherent in publicity. At the same time, the intervention undercuts Erasmus High School’s private courtyard making it a public thoroughfare. Bringing the community to its public gardens, theater, and library, the new public square is conspicuously positioned to be both a catalyst for, and a recipient of renewed commercial activity.
REPOSING THE PUBLIC SQUARE M.Arch I THESIS
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
BRANDEN COLLINS
ACADEMIC
REPOSING THE PUBLIC SQUARE M.Arch I THESIS
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Bloomburg Gannett New York Times
Bloomberg Time Warner Viacom
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Retail Bloomberg Hearst New York Times Time Warner Viacom
Tower and Base Bloomberg Hearst New York Times Time Warner Viacom
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VERTICAL INTERFACE
This studio began as an examination of the commonalities between various examples of the “Media Tower”. Essential to the character was a strong identity through form, a base and a tower relationship, retail and office space, and very often, a public engagement by the use of a courtyard or atrium. Without exception, the office occupied the tower and the public engaged only with the base. St. John’s is an enormous building containing Manhattan’s largest floor plates. It naturally lends itself in size and orientation to a groundscraper. With this toppling of a typical office organization, a new type of public interface is required as well. It is proposed that the public sphere might be elevated and a unifying court yard or atrium would provide the interface between the private office and the public itself. This proposal plugs program into existing shafts and stairs creating a connection between the streetscape and the roofscape. Exhibition space, auditoriums and restaurants punctuate the roofscape below and elevate the public to a position of prospect usually reserved for the tenants alone.
BRANDEN COLLINS
BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
BRANDEN COLLINS
ACADEMIC
COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN OMA STUDIO
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ASSORTED
CRAFT
Gallaudet Residence Hall
Dartmouth Engineering Campus
Lasercut Handstiched Wallet
Stanford University Children’s Hospital
Residential Addition BRANDEN COLLINS
SELECT PROJECTS
Two-sided CNC Milled MDF
Hand Carved Butternut Bculpture BC@BRANDENCOLLINS.COM