PORTFOLIO Brian Schmitt 2012 - 2014
STUDIO WORK:
01 Housing Studio Comprehensive Instructor Sean Lally pg: 2-19
02 heater Building
Year End Show exhibitor* Instructor Sam Jacob pg: 20-31
03 Billboard Living
Year End Show exhibitor* Instructor Marina Nicolier pg: 32- 47
04 Fold, Wrap, Project Research Instructor Andrew Zago pg: 48-57
INSTALLATIONS:
05 Foreign Object Competition Winner* pg: 58- 65
06 Nested Sukkah Competition Winner* pg: 66- 73
Contact Details ph: (630) 267-2634 email: Brian.Schmitt3@gmail
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01 Housing Studio Comprehensive Year - Spring 2013 Instructor - Sean Lally
Project Description his Project is a 36-unit housing scheme located at Ashland and Division in Chicago, Illinois. he building is comprised of three diferent units types. he units are aggregated in a way that creates an urban courtyard which allows light to pierce through the open spaces. he building is wrapped in an articulated concrete load-bearing shell which allows for varying levels of light into desired spaces. Each unit exhibits an open loor plan divided by a central volume that acts as utility and furniture.
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02 Sunlight Diagram
03 Unit Aggregation
here are three diferent unit types; (12)500sf units, (12)1,000sf units, and (12)1,500sf units. he aggregation of the units create openings on the sides and top of the building. his allows light to pass through the building into the courtyard. It also provides an outdoor space for the individual units.
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Vehicle Pedestrian Retail Entrance Resident Entrance
04 Circulation Mapping
he site is composed of low to medium rise buildings. he neighborhood consists of a mixture of businesses, retail space, and housing. Main circulation is through two semi enclosed vertical shafts that are open to air, but shielded by the exterior skin.
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Division St.
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Marshfield St.
05 Site Plan
Ashland ave.
Ashland ave.
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06 West Elevation
07 Section A
Marshfield ave.
Marshfield ave.
08 Section B
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09 3rd Floor Plan (500sf unit)
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12’
26’
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23’
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10 2rd Floor Plan (1000sf unit)
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11'-10"
9'-1
40'
15'-8"
10'-5"
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25' 50'
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11 4th Floor Plan (1500sf unit)
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17'-8"
14'-2"
1" 3'-12
11'-4"
25'
7'-2"
6'-3"
18'-8"
7" 12'-116
53'-4"
1" 6'-02
3" 4'-216
11'-77 8"
8'-6"
2'-4"
8'-6"
19'-4"
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Kitchen Living Room Bathroom Bedroom Office Sunroom Outdoor
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10 Gradient Map (1000sf unit)
11 Lighting (1000sf unit)
Each unit has an open loor plan divided by interior elements that act as utility and furniture. At night the efect of the elements are accelerated through lighting. Each element gives of radiant light. his efect adds to the blurring between the interior and exterior boundaries.
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12 Unit Details (1000sf unit)
Spaces/zones are created by loor, volume, and wall. Each element uses wood material in diferent manners. he wall separating kitchen from living room is a wood veneer. he central volume uses wooden slats with gaps that allow light to pierce through.
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02 THEATER BUILDING A Re-imagination of Uptown theater
Year - Fall 2013 Instructor - Sam Jacob
Project Description he Studio’s goal was to explore the ‘representational’ quality of architecture, both as proposal and as drawing. he techniques in the studio presented architecture not only as its own thing but as a representation of something else: using techniques of repetition, reference, and through the graphic quality of a drawing ‘becoming’ architectural. his was done by analyzing Baroque architecture, and applying tactics from the analysis to an existing block in Chicago.
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01 heater Building Model
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Small ornament
Stacked
Thin vertical struture
Stacked Tier 5 Medium sized ornament
Tacked Carved Small non structural column Tier 4 Medium sized ornament
Stacked
Large non-structural column
Tier 3
Folded
Tacked Carved
Tier 2
Tier 1
Rhetorical Architecture he studio examined the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Hawksmoor’s spires are purely rhetorical. Hawksmoor uses the imagery of many diferent kinds of buildings, and than applies them to the spire. Making the spires both abstract and representational and at the same time, both grand and ordinary. he second part of the research was to recompose Hawksmoor’s spire using the same tactics but with new, contemporary references. he image on the right shows the spire redone with elements from suburbia: roof lines, chimneys, and fences.
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02 Hawksmoore re-dux w/references
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Chicago Block Transformed he tactics discovered in the Hawksmoor research was applied to a block in the city of Chicago. With an interest in how the buildings position themselves within the block as well as how they position themselves in relation to the city around them. he block is than synthesized into one building by use of references. he building addresses issues of part to whole relationships, agglomeration of programs, and the dichotomy of diference and sameness.
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03 Uptown heater re-dux (exterior)
04 Uptown heater re-dux (interior)
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05 Uptown heater Plan
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06 Uptown heater Elevation
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07 1-point perspective section
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08 1-point perspective section
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03 Billboard Living Interior Urbanism Year - Fall 2012 Instructor - Marina Nicolier
Project Description he project explores form and communication in architecture. he super-graphic facades act as gigantic billboards that convey and organize diferent lifestyles. he facades address local users, tourists and business travelers. he formal techniques in creating the super billboard result in a catalog of unique spaces that enforce crossprogramming in the interior. he three facades combine together to form a triangular shape in plan allowing the building to have a massive courtyard that allows visual connectivity within the building.
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mega billboard
align
advertise
01 Evolutionary diagram
03 Billboard Facades
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thicken
subtract
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04 Site Plan
05 Site Elevation
he building extends across Lake Shore Dr. and aligns itself with destinations in Chicago. he building aligns itself with the airport, navy pier, and the loop. Each “billboard� houses program to a speciic group(business, local, tourist). Running through each facade is a continuous loop of exhibition space.
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Programmatic Flow
Programmatic Facades
Neighborhood Resort Buisness district
Attached Convention Massing
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07 Building section (zoom)
08 Interior photos
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09 Building section (zoom)
10 Interior physical model photos
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11 Detailed cut-away
12 Detailed cut-away (zoom)
13 Detailed cut-away (zoom)
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04 FOLD , WRAP , PROJECT awkward architectural techniques year - Fall 2013 Instructor - Andrew Zago
Project Description he Studio focused on a set of architectural techniques; folding, wrapping, and projection. With a speciic interest in creating a sensibility of the awkward. he techniques used in class were irst conceived outside of architecture. When translated into architecture, the techniques were confronted with a fundamental problem. Folding a piece of paper is drastically changed when the paper is thickened to a volume. Likewise, wrapping an object always leads to some discontinuity.
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Technique: he Fold Each fold is constructed by determining a crease line and a point from which the rotation occurs. he placement of the point determines the joint of the object. Depending on the point there will wither be a break within the object or an overlap of material. For this exercise we focused on the overlap. he overlap of material was resolved by four intersection types: equal miter, top half priority miter, bottom half priority miter, and dovetail.
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01 Folding matrix
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02 Physical models
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Technique: he Wrap Wrapping a two dimensional pattern onto a three dimensional volume leads to a discontinuity in the pattern due to the changing of directions across the surface. A fully saturated pattern allows the misalignment from the seam of the wrapper to happen along its edges. he research attempts to deal with the problem of the wrap by folding the pattern non-orthongonally to the box and erasing the seams where the misalignment occurs. Creating an efect of precise misalignment.
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03 Physical models
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04 Contortion matrix
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Contort and Project he fold technique was expanded on by multiplying the amount of fold operations onto a volume. Projective drawing techniques were used to generate and understand the geometry. he volume is rotated and folded at varying degrees into a contorted igure. Auxiliary views were used in the drawing process for executing necessary rotations. 55
05 Projected Drawing
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06 Physical model of combined techniques
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05 Foreign Object design-build competition winner Year - Spring 2011 Instructor - Ryan Palider Team Members - Ben Stone and Chris Johns
Project Description Foreign Object was selected to be built from a design-build studio at the University of Illinois at Chicago he main objective was to design a preformative installation to be built in the conined “bridge to nowhere.� he installation was displayed during the UIC Year End Show and acted as both lounge and bar. he studio focused on diferent: spatial, organizational, and graphic strategies, and used multiple strategies found throughout the scope of architecture.
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1. INSERT OBJECT
2. CUT SHAPES
3. APPLY GRAPHICS
How to think inside the box: 1. Place an extruded solid within the ‘box’. 2. Promote circulation through it with program-laden shape cuts. 3. Collect atmospheric afect with graphics and texture. 4. Light appropriately, enjoy responsibly.
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Seat cuts
Lounge cuts
Ledge cuts
Circulation cuts
01 Shape cut catalogue
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02 Axon with program call-outs
03 Longitudinal section
04 Floor Plan
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05 Construction Photos
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06 Installation Photos
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06 Nested Sukkah
Sukkaville 2013 inalist year - Fall 2013 with Ryan Palider
Project Description Nested Sukkah was selected as a inalist in the 2013 Sukkahville competition. he aim of the competition was to create a temporary free standing sukkah to be built in Toronto and viewed during the holiday of Sukkot. Participants were asked to reimagine the design of a traditional sukkah by balancing the dichotomies of new/old and open/closed. Participants were also asked to adhere to traditional constraints of the sukkah. he project exhibits a lattice system that provides interesting spatial and optical efects, and has a connection to traditional sukkah construction methods.
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Shape Within a Shape
he exterior form of the Sukkah is a distorted white box with a single opening in each of the ive exposed surfaces. he interior igure is made of ive red conical surfaces that are linked to the ive openings in the exterior box. he exterior slats and the interior slats are on an alternating rhythm that allows the interior and exterior slats to interlock at each opening in the exterior box. he ofset and interlocking of the two slat wall systems allow the two distinct igures to merge and coexist as one.
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01 exploded axonometric
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02 elevations & sections
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03 Exterior photograph
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