Briyana rainer
design Portfolio / 2019
Briyana Rainer P: 901– 834 – 6131 E: briyana.rainer@gmail.com
About me I am a “sensitive” designer concerned with questions of aesthetics and how to not to do the same thing twice // I am “conscious” designer concerned with questions of race and how to change the world quietly.
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The new opera house of Chicago f 18 // Super Boolean Block Studio w. Mason Bolen _ Maged Guerguis
transparencies
f 17// Architecture at Zero Studio w. Sydney Flannery_ Kevin Stevens
adaptive sensory detector
sp 17 // CultureLab Studio _ Brian Ambroziak + David Matthews
Dynamic morphological facade sp 17 // CultureLab Studio w. Agata Pawlik, James Halliwell, + Rachel Mingle _ Brian Ambroizak + David Matthews
loose fit
f 16 // Local Programming Studio _Tricia Stuth
The new opera house of chicago
f 18 // Super Boolean Block Studio w. Mason Bolen _ Prof. Maged Guerguis The premise of the Super Boolean Block Studio was to explore the promise of the boolean functions, which are a set of commands that can union, difference, or intersect two or more geometries. After exploring the limitations and uses of these functions, we looked and explored the applications of boolean logic in the built environment and then developed a strategy of our own. The New Opera House of Chicago™ is a responsive adaptation to the ever changing landscape within the urban context of the historic Midwest city. An architectural expression of the novel effects derived from geometric boolean operations, the building is defined by the nature of its intended purpose. Seeking the marriage of form and function, the opera house activates the site and surrounding context providing access to the public and private realm through multiplicities of program.
The New Opera House of Chicago™ E NORTH WATER ST
The site is a 500,000 square foot area located on an empty parking lot, 225 parking currently on E. North Water St. It has access to the existing river walk and the underground drive. Important and notable buildings nearby includes the NBC Tower and the Michigan Ave. Apple Store. Our approach to the site was based around site circulation. We wanted the flow through the opera house to connect pedestrians from the street down to river walk allowing the building’s atrium to become a 24 hour enclosed breezeway. These site lines became the basis for how we constructed our boolean forms.
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Chicago River
THE SUPER BOOLEAN BLOCK STUDIO FW18
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OPAQUE PANEL FACADE
PLAZA STAIRWALL
SEAMLESS STRUCTURAL GLASS
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ELEVATION SOUTH
CENTRAL CIRCULATION
detail The building is constructed of a regular structural grid with space trusses supporting the boolean openings in the atrium. The floor slabs are constructed of concrete with vertical supports occurring at every 30.’ The exterior finish of the building consists of a translucent window paneling system with transparent openings to allows for views out to the river and surrounding architecture. Opaque wall surfaces are made of GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete) in order to create paneling along the curved interior surfaces shaped from the resulting boolean geometries.
section The Main Hall is designed to hold about 2,000 guests. The form of the space is derived from a shoe box shape plus the resulting boolean geometries. The resulting forms in addition to providing the space for seating and the stage also creates and shapes the acoustic paneling. Below the main hall is support and storage spaces for the performers and underground loading and parking.
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Outdoor Plaza Amphitheater Roof Garden/Restaurant Chicago River Entrance Restrooms Retail Storage Information / Ticketing Desk Public Lookout Administration Founders Room Main Hall
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The street level ground floor contains two main entryways from the north and west corners of the site. The atrium acts as a pathway to facilitate movement up from the street down to the Riverwalk.
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Recital Hall Multipurpose Hall Gallery / Media Library Third Level Balcony Restaurant Roof Garden
interiority Guests move throughout the interior space through the openings that direct you to the main hall, to the river walk, the outdoor plaza, or up into the atrium space to access the upper floors. The stair’s curve is formed from the boundary of the boolean geometry, which can be seen in plan. The curved ceremonial stair emphasizes the movement of the atrium from the ground up to the sky revealing the shape of the boolean geometry used to form the space.
transparencies
f 17// Architecture at Zero Studio w. Sydney Flannery_ Kevin Stevens
Transparencies was a design for the international Architecture at Zero competition. The prompt given was to create a net-zero research center that can be used to educate the public on the local aquatic life. The site of the project is the Romberg Tiburon Center Campus in Tiburon, California. The current center is a small handful of buildings scattered around the site; the current pull to the site isn’t necessarily the current infrastructure, but the many events hosted on site. Our part in this narrative was provide a space for the such activity to happen. Our design placed first out of all entries.
context When first analyzing the site, the best strategy was to take advantage of the mild weather and continuous sunlight and to create a form of transparency within the project. Thus, allowing the occupants to feel a connection to the exterior world. The necessity to create connections to the environment was also very important because this unique site is characterized by elevation and terrain changes that are celebrated within the site plan. The building layout was configured based on existing and proposed relationships on site implied through both of the ground floor plans.
THE IMMERSIVE FACADE The eastern facade of the immersive center features system that includes (1) curtain wall glazing, (2) a vertical louver system, and (3) a cantilevered roof to create a covered gathering space. Allowing all three of these systems to work together allows for increased energy efficiency shielding the facade from sunlight while optimizing daylighting on the interior.
Total Monthly End Use Consumption
detail The rooftop hosts a series of photo-voltaic panels set at an angle of 37.90 degrees for maximum sunlight exposure. Little cloud cover and constant sunshine makes the area a prime candidate for solar energy panels. According to the PV Watt Calculator, maintaining the recommended panel angles will generate an estimated 6,310 kWh/year of clean, usable energy serving as the main source of the buildings on-site energy production. The building was constructed with energy efficiency in mind with the goal of utilizing majority passive strategies. Integrated into the center are several light wells that are used as the primary light source in certain areas. The roof cantilever allows for maximum shading that prevent the interior walls of the building from max heat absorption as well as providing shade over pedestrian walkways.
Adaptive sensory detector
sp 17 // CultureLab Studio _ Brian Ambroziak + David Matthews
The suburban home, acting as the shell, should be able to adapt and react to the internal and external factors that influence the atmosphere of a home. Internal factors, being the way that people inhabit the space on a daily basis, their rhythms, patterns, and movements throughout the home, paired with the external factors, being climate and circulation of people to place, provide a data base for the house to process and adapt to. The static suburban condition allows for an exploration on how the average daily habits can be used to alter the interior-exterior relationship between the user and the space. From studying the geometry of the human face to the patterning of the fingerprint, there was a realization that identity can be read both internal and externally in relation to the facade. The facade one wears can create an identity in itself, or contrastingly create a shell in which identity is concealed.
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The system can track the orientation and rotation of the objects in order to relay particular commands. Gyroscopic sensors detect movement with a high level of accuracy. The signal is then sent via radio technology the same way a wireless mouse works. The cubes are charged with contact-less induction technology, so there is no need for a power input. If integrated into the main wood stud structural system, the cubes could be used to track and record movements throughout the home.
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02 3D veneers Lightweight wood veneers made flexible from scoring the wood and adhering the strips onto weft yarns. The material allows conventional wood veneers to be treated in such a way that they can be curved, folded in one direction, or creased to form 3-dimensional objects.
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03 Flexible wood paneling Similarly to the 3D veneers, the wood paneling acts as a stable member of the of the wall system.
Encoding and responsive mesh 02
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04 polycarbonate sheets This material serves as a clear barrier between the interior and exterior environment.
Pressurized Sensor
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Entry Reactivity Based within the Splicing House designed by Gordon Matta Clark, the plan is based within the traditional housing plan, meaning you move through singularly planned spaces from the front of the house to the back exit. The system plays upon that existing framework. Upon entry, the adaptive sensory detector begins to detect information for system utilization.
The time-based shifting of the system expresses the amount of reaction or interaction within the home. It is able to determine whether of not the energy source, mood, tension etc. is coming from internal sources (self ) or from external sources (your environment). It’s ability to read and deduct sensory and psychological information allows its physical form (02) to adjust accordingly for max comfort.
Dynamic morphological facade
sp 17 // CultureLab Studio w. Agata Pawlik, James Halliwell, + Rachel Mingle_ Brian Ambroizak + David Matthews
Morphology / Camouflage / Patterning / Juxtaposition Identity can be defined in many terms, but the challenge of this piece is to represent and celebrate the ambiguity of the word identity and the meaning behind it. First, from studying the essential geometry of the human face to the individual patterning of the fingerprint, there was a realization that this may not be that of identity at all. Identity has been misconstrued as merely a reading of the facade. The facade one wears can create an identity in itself, or contrastingly create a shell in which an identity is concealed. We then asked what could a dynamic morphological facade look like when its manifested into a physical form based on data in regards to both a wearable fashion and in the built environment.
extraction The dynamic facade consumes and processes the identity. The system takes into account every visitor and processes their data [age, amount of time visited, body temperature, speed of circulation, points of interest, etc.] The facade will then adjust accordingly.
Loose fit
f 16 // Local Programming Studio _Tricia Stuth
The Lenoir City Schools Building should serve as a catalyst for future development of Lenoir City. The strategy of design that I will investigate establishes various areas of influence radiating from the site. The first area addresses the immediate site problems and then grows to start creating relationships between the adjacent street fronts. Over time, the area of influence should begin to radiate and integrate itself in the Lenoir City fabric. Although, the influence will not be immediate, it will begin to manifest as a chain reaction from growing connections between people and place.
Existing conditions The proposed school building plans to take shape within the existing bank. The first floor is dedicated to the public while the upper two floors are to be for private administration usage. Upon analyzing the climatic conditions of the site, I determined the best positioning and usages for the spaces.
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EXISTING FLOOR PLAN + PROPOSED PROGRAM MAPPING
[01] Board Meetings
Large, public meeting space Workshops Small Auditorium Classroom Street front view
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[03] Potential Bathroom Storage Atrium Common space Waiting Room Study Space Cafe Computer Resources Center [05] Vault [A] Tutoring Private Study [06] North Fire Stair [B] West Fire Stair [C] Elevator [D]
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Reading and Study Spaces
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Exhibition Spaces
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Meeting and Collaboration Spaces
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Interaction with street front and downtown area Community Interaction
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// programming questions Is there a sense of connectivity throughout the building? Is there a sense of community between people in the building? How does design help initiate or deter connectivity and community within a space? What does a vault mean to an interior space? How integrated into the space is this vault? If it were to be altered, what would the repercussions be if any? Why is the bank teller station where the focal point of the room would naturally be due to the atrium space? Was there any programmatic needs that would have influenced the choice of placement?
A rt wo r k
Untitled_01 intaglio 8” x 11” 2017
UNTITLED_02 intaglio 8” x 11” 2017
Process Design Ink on Paper; collage; intaglio 6� x 9� 2017
Scanned by CamScanner
lightness: a series Oil on Wood Panel 4” x 5” 2016
lightness: a series
Oil on Wood Panel 4” x 5” 2016
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Oil on Canvas 4’x 5’ 2016
Briyana Rainer P: 901– 834 – 6131 E: briyana.rainer@gmail.com