Design Works Collection

a collection of works by

Brian Petrucci New Jersey Institute of Technology undergraduate NJSOA bmp29@njit.edu

Table of Contents

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urban graduate housing india primary school

LEED platinum townhouse bundle tower williamsburg tower

Brian Petrucci

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urban graduate housing

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Urban graduate housing is a medium to high density, mixed-use student and visitor housing for one block in the University Heights district of Newark. It is intended as a place where graduate students, resident scholars, and visiting lecturers can live as part of a community.

Working in groups, each member designed a building on the site. This building focused on studio apartments, one and two bedroom apartments, and duplexes, in conjunction with shared community spaces and retail space. The massing voids are in response to the low rise housing across the street to provide adequate light to the block through the building as not to permanently cast into shodow.

Entry

Parking

Pedestrian Street

Entry

Cafe Terrace Cafe

Playground

Daycare

Water Collection Pond

Water Collection Pond

Mart BACKYARDS

Entry

20’

80’

0 40’

Site Model

Ground Floor Plan / Site

Gallery

McGoverns

Tony’s Pizza

Italian Restaurant

Bookstore

Office

Mail

To Parking Parking Below

Main Entrance Bike Storage

Ground Floor Plan / Building

Maintaining Street Line

Horizontal Void

Pushing Back & Extending Outwards

Vertical Voids

South Elevation

North Elevation

Perspective Section

Building Section

Typical Ninth-Eleventh Floor Plan

Fifth Floor Plan

ROOF GARDEN

MEDIA

FITNESS

LOUNGE

TERRACE

Fourth Floor Plan

Model

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india primary school

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The India Primary School seeks to bring an education center to a rural neighborhood.

Located adjacent to a river in Modasa, India, the site calls for a lightweight construction that emphasizes airflow. Due to the rural location of the site and the rustic community, it was strongly encouraged to use native building materials.

The IPS was a completely hand-drawn project to emphasis the limited use of technology in the area. The design revolves around a modular shape that is applied to both classrooms and larger spaces. The design directs airflow through the spaces while allowing ample natural light in and shedding water out. The design promotes both interior and exterior learning enviornemtnts.

Site Plan

Orientation Diagram

Adjacency Diagram

Continuity Diagram

Model

Building Section Floor Plan

Site Section

Building Section / Design Strategy

Construction Assmebly

Construction Detail / Bamboo Connection

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LEED platinum townhouse

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The Stack House was designed to be a LEED platinum rated townhouse in NYC. The site chosen was in Chelsea, located near major transportation hubs and public green spaces.

The passive design revolves around a stack effect in the center of the building and large openings at the front and rear of the house for airflow. The house is equipped with solar panels designed to handle almost all of the electrical load needed, in addition a solar glass wall. Water harvesting and reuse allows proper recycling of water where allowed and Energy Star systems run the house. The exterior was designed to bring a more modern feel to a historically uniform housing block.

Infill Lot

Neighborhood Green Spaces

416 W 22nd St, Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC

W 22nd St

‘private’ program (bedrooms + sedondary) performative vertical circulation

‘public’ program (main living spaces) Section

Plan

Programmatic Concepts (private/circulation/living)

Ventilation Concepts (stack effect)

distributed hot water distributed greywater return greywater distributed irrigation sewage water electric pump

rainwater cistern hot water heater

rainwater

furnace greywater filter/tank

Rainwater Collection & Distribution

Natural Daylight (rear facade facing due south)

SunModule Plus SW 270w Solar Panel DImensions: 37.5” x 66.0” x 1.25” 35 Fixed Tilt Total # of Panels: 42 (270) x (42) = 11,340w = 11.3 kW

Green Roof Perspective

Solar Panel Output

CW-60 photovoltaic glass Solar Panel DImensions: 48”” x 52” x 1.00” 90 Fixed Tilt Total # of Panels: 36 (60) x (36) = 2,160 w = 2.10 kW

$2,039.28 energy value from main panels $257.67 energy value from pv glass $2,296.95 toal energy value from solar collection

Interior Stair Perspective

Solar Glass Output

Perspective Section

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bundle tower

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The bundle tower is a rethought version of the typical core and shell. The project was split into two sections; the first was group work to develop a prototype, and the second was individual application of the prototype onto a site.

The prototype of the bundle allows for circulation cores and structure to be pulled to the outside of the building, creating their own masses. This provides large, open floor plates for easy customization. The tubes of the tower all shift in and out as the building rises, creating smaller, more private floor plates or large, open floor plates.

Model

Building Section

Lower Floor Plan / Isolated

Middle Floor Plan / Sky Lobby

Middle Floor Plan / Together

Upper Floor Plan / Isolated

Model

East River Bundle Tower

Bundling

East River Pedestrian Density

Houston Street Axis

FDR Drive Axis

Massing Diagram

East River Green Spaces

Main Structure

Supporting Structure

Belt Truss

Structure

Site Section / Ground

Building Section

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williamsburg tower

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The Williamsburg Tower is a hybrid building that lifts the street and invites the public up and into the towers. Stradlling the JMZ line, three towers rise up on either side, giving the mass for a grade school and various housing apartments. The bottom of the building features a concourse that serves Williamsburg bus and train users, as well as the neighborhood, as they are invited through the towers via a ribbon-like concourse filled with music and art. The strong cultural ties encourage learning in both the school as well as the neighborhood, and the tower is intended to serve as the gateway to Brooklyn for people entering from Manhattan.

Building Section

Bus Terminal

School

Concourse

Housing

Concourse Diagram

Bird’s Eye Perspective

User Experience

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