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
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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
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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