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A Library in Paris : 5th year fall studio, Rice University : Kent Fitzsimons, professor
Completed during a study-abroad studio in Paris, this project involved a new library and school building on reclaimed industrial land in the 13th arrondissement. The city has in recent years covered over the rail yards for the Gare d’Austerliz and is repopulating the space with commercial and residential blocks. My solution involved drawing attention to the artificiality of this new ground plane by “pulling” it up into a switchbacked neighborhood park-- a sorely needed resource for the area. The library was then inserted beneath this new ground plane, with storage areas at the bottom and terraced reading rooms sitting above, with views out into the new park space. The park also punctures through the building to allow a pedestrian shortcut. 4
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Live/Work Prototyping Facility in Shenzhen, China : 5th year spring studio Rice University : Clover Lee, professor
This project received the Fossi fellowship award for best graduate level project, 2006 This final school assignment challenged us to imagine a new industrial future for Chinese Special Economic Zones (SEZ’s). The given program was a large industrial/residential complex outside of Shenzhen, north of Hong Kong. Our project posited that a new type of factory could be built, one that combined prototyping, testing, and production to make limited-run, high-craft versions of common objects. The product I chose to highlight was seamed nylon, used to make tents, bags, and protective gear. 6
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Live/Work Prototyping Facility in Shenzhen, China : 5th year spring studio Rice University : Clover Lee, professor
This project received the Fossi fellowship award for best graduate level project, 2006 The complex is organized as a series of parallel intertwined strands of program. To one side is a two-story factory structure with ramps, freight elevators and a series of loading docks that allow the floor to be reconfigured as multiple smaller loops or one large facility. Administrative areas are embedded within this space. On the other long edge of the site are the residential buildings, configured as a field of individual units organized around various amenities. These amenities are paired with various testing stations used to check the performance of the manufactured goods to extreme temperatures, winds, and rain. The project play with the idea of “social cogeneration�, using industrial waste heat and energy to improve the quality of life, not the efficiency of the complex. Thus waste heat and water is used for a greenhouse, and the wind and cold air is ejected into neighboring courtyards, creating local artificial microclimates that are an outdoor twin to the tiny test landscape within the factory.
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Case Studies at Scale ^The Pierce Elevated
The Urban Ecology of Houston : Rice Design Alliance research grant
“The Urban Ecology of Houston� is research project completed with the help of the Rice Design Alliance, in a grant received my final year at Rice. In a team with Jean Daly and my wife Katherine, we collected, analyzed, and projected new ways of integrating infrastructure with public space in contemporary cities. We chose a segment of elevated highway south of downtown, the Pierce Elevated, to show how these ideas might be implemented. 8
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Conditions Cross traffic - The direction of the space is perpendicular to a common travel direction. The space is not understood as a single pathway, although it is linear, but as a series of linked passageways.
Essential Homogeneity-Creating an environment composed of identical elements. These elements can conform within a defined network, or be scattered through out an existing group of diverse objects. They create of sense of homogeneity in that they are intrinsically identical.
Thoroughfare - The direction of the space is the same as the direction of travel.
Incidental Homogeneity- Generating a group of common elements by applying cosmetic similarities. These similarities only affect the exterior of the object, and does not alter its over all design or function. This exterior alteration post applies links between formerly varying elements.
Island - Space is created by overlapping boundaries. These boundaries define and isolate the interior space from the outside.
Use Districting - Creating a "draw" to the space by grouping similar programs within the same area.
Visual Bridging-Aligning monumental points along an axis to link one area to another.
Strategies Nature intensive - An attempt to compensate for the artificiality of infrastructure through a use of green space or plantings.
Program intensive - The use of scattered programming to compensate for the derelict conditions of a site.
Defined Borders-Rigidly implemented limits that divides one element from another and maintains this division.
Fluctuating (Evolving) Edge-Allowing the space a program occupies to grow and shrink according to need and availability. One program is permitted to occupy another's space in order to fulfill a certain function.
Abets Passage - promoting passage through the site or across the dominant infrastructure (often used when there are existing pathways through the area)
Interiorization - walling in the space created by an overhead object (usually programmed)
Found Conditions and Strategies
Strategies at the Pierce
Strategies at the Pierce
The Urban Ecology of Houston : Rice Design Alliance research grant
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The hope is not only to provide valuable public venues for adjacent communities but to ameliorate, eliminate or even reverse the divisive, detractive force infrastructures can generate. To put it simply, what if the Pierce Elevated became not a dividing line but a organizing and uniting seam between scales and neighborhoods? What if the periphery can become a kind of center?
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Module in the Factory
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Marmol Radziner Prefab
My time at MRP has been an intense introduction to what I feel is the future of architectural production. Whether component-based or modular, prefabrication is going to be seen increasingly in the future, the result of growing complexity, shorter time schedules, and the need for more precision. I have learned an incredible amount during the last three years, due to both the compressed schedule of each project and my ever-growing list of responsibilities. Since coming to MRP I have worked on more than a dozen projects. While my primary role has been as a project architect, managing BIM models and drawing sets, I also am responsible for agency research, MEP design and coordination, and developing standards and methods for our implementation of Autodesk Revit. 10
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Marmol Radziner Prefab
When I arrived at MRP the office was just beginning to incorporate Building Information Modeling (BIM), using Autodesk Revit, as standard practice. I began contributing to efforts to implement the program more fully early on, and now am the office’s (part-time) Revit administrator. In addition to tutoring and file maintenance, I work to help the office implement the program more fully, bringing to bear the full set of synergies that Revit has to offer. This includes working with Revit-savvy structural engineers, dynamic takeoffs and schedules, automatic keynoting, component-based detailing, interoperability with 3dMAX for quick renderings, and a host of other initiatives and side-projects. 11
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ARUP CONSULTING ENGINEERS 12777 WEST JEFFERSON BLVD, SUITE 200 LOS ANGELES, CA 90066 T: (310) 578-4432 F: (310) 577-7011
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MELENDREZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE JAMES OVIATT BUILDING, 11TH FLOOR 617 S OLIVE ST LOS ANGELES, CA 90014 T: (213) 673-4400 F: (213) 673-4410
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NEWSON BROWN ACOUSTICS 2001 WILSHIRE BLVD, SUITE 301 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403 T: (310) 829-6343 F: (310) 829-9112
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84 SHERMAN STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA 02140 T: (617) 354-4502 TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
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The drawings and specifications and designs represented hereby are and shall remain the property of the Architect, and no part thereof shall be used or reproduced for any purpose other than the specified project for which they have been prepared and developed without the written consent of the Architect. Written dimensions shall have precedence over scaled dimensions. The Contractor shall verify and be responsible for all dimensions and conditions on the jobsite and report any discrepancies to the Architect. The drawings and specifications indicate the general scope of work and required technical performance of the building systems and do not necessarily indicate or describe all the work required for full performance and completion of the construction contract. Based on the scope of work indicated Contractor shall furnish all items required for the proper execution of the project.
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In 2009 I joined the team at Clive Wilkinson Architects to help the firm adapt to a BIM workflow, using Autodesk Revit. The impetus was a new extension campus for Santa Monica College, including a new headquarters for the groundbreaking public radio station KCRW. CWa, a thought leader in the design of forward thinking, creative workspaces, was interested in aggressively pursuing new methods and workflows to move towards a more collaborative (and paper-free) design process. In addition to seeing the KCRW building through design development as Project Coordinator, I also brought online a new BIM methodology for the office, working at all stages of the process from schematic design to construction administration. In the course of this work I installed, configured, and maintained of a suite of new software, created new office BIM standards (including a manual), and oversaw the BIM training of the office (approx. 25 people in 3 teams). I also set up a support structure and continuing education system to ensure that the office BIM culture will enjoy continued growth. 12
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My focus at the GSD is in Technology, and in the last six months I have worked on projects running the gamut from software programming to topology optimization to electronics and digital fabrication. Last semester’s projects included investigation into optical flow processing as a design input device, and a flatpack sinusoidal dividing wall that used curved origami to achieve stiffness and form (currently on display at the Google office in Cambridge). I am currently helping to produce an interactive lighting installation, aFLOAT, for the MIT 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science, and Technology (FAST). I am also completing my thesis, which is investigating the cutting edge of data visualization and game interface technology for application in the world of design. 13