epidote
waste to energy recycling center mushroom farm pratt semester 2 professor baker-rice
vallée verticale residential tower pratt semester 1 professor schoenenberger
portal
hyperloop transportation hub uwm semester 4 professor nemec
viewfinder
domestic cube uwm semester 1 professor furgiuele
time’s labyrinth
urban cemetery uwm semester 2 professor ross
treehouse
residency hall uwm semester 3 professor wolosz
Epidote waste to energy recycling center mushroom farm
academic spring 2021 professor dylan baker-rice project with paola bokobsa
epidote The site gave an opportunity to create an industrialized nature by breaking down the dichotomy of human-built and natural habitat. The reinterpretation of sea caves as natural environments to architecturalized spaces created various moments of speculation. How can natural spaces be reshaped through architectural means? Epidote aims to create a retreat from the city while being conscious of the constraints of time and environmental change. It is a space for reflection and introspection.
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The mushroom farm located at the north end of the site serves as an allegory for the program at large. This farm acts as a contained ecosystem for Wallabout Bay while also being a part of the onsite production of mycelium panels. The transitions between the masses, symbolize the link between the fragmentation in materiality and their volumes and connect back to a singular massing, shaping unique circulations.
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Through overlapping of material fragmentations, a passive ventilation system was generated by these conditions in the enveloping walls. A lumber mill to the north of our site became a significant construction material source. Channel glass reveals the movement and activity through each programmatic space.
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By using the program’s destructive and regenerative qualities, the project investigates the different conditions of architectural space and, or within, its natural habitat. In other words, the edifice instrumentalizes the intangible lighting and materiality of the sea cave. Public energy infrastructure intimately cohabits with Wallabout Bay, that which welcomes people into these new hybrid spaces and architectural formations between the ground and the water.
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Vallée Verticale residential tower
academic fall 2020 professor erich schoenenberger project with paola bokobsa
vallée verticale Vallée Verticale investigates the blurred lines between the living and the public spheres. We are accomplishing this by creating layers of seclusion and togetherness, allowing transitional spaces between residential and public activities. The building breaks away from the typical high-rise residential typology, by stripping away the normative hierarchy. In addition, we offset amenities and public spaces throughout the tower and tie them with localized and delocalized circulation.This vertical motion transforms into a kinetic, varied experience, much like that of New York City. The facade shifts, bends, and transforms to reflect the animated interior. The facade started with a sustainable material, seashell concrete, for our primary structure. In contrast to the heaviness of that material, we opted for a perforated metal screen, with undulating gradients, to reflect the various levels of the privacy of the interior. The screen and concrete is punched with wide apertures, creating personal panoramic views. In some instances, where the facade shifts dramatically, the metal screens and concrete disappear, letting transparency take their place. In the night, these moments become a beacon for the neighborhood. Our facade holds an ambiguity of what is understood as residential and what could be.
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The interior of the edifice starts with the atrium, which allows for what feels like a lobby on every floor and a new opportunity to get away from the private space and into a new experience. The strands of the tower not only serve as circulation, but also function as the primary structure. The floor plates are all in tension with these clusters of tubes, found throughout the exterior and interior of the highrise. This tension morphs the atrium, creating a dynamic floorplate and generates various qualities of light, shadows, and views.
paola bokobsa // brook boughton pbokobsa@pratt.edu bboughto@pratt.edu paola bokobsa // brook boughton pbokobsa@pratt.edu bboughto@pratt.edu
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The organizational layout of the apartments exists in tandem in its relationship with local circulation paths found on each floor and lie among program space. Three typologies emerged from this: Studios, Duplexes and Triplexes. They all find a unique spot and interrelate with each other’s spacial interiorities. The latters aggregate on both extremities of the building, to allow for the main tubes and program areas to exist at the heart of the structure. By blurring the lines between the private and public, and between the old and the new, our project symbolizes a timeliness approach to live collectively. Through a dynamic structure, site specific materials and environmental research, Vallée Verticale stands as a kinetic machine during a time of rapid change. triplex isometric
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portal hyperloop transportation hub
academic spring 2017 rework, fall 2019 individual
portal
Portal is a multi-use transportation hub that makes Chicago a revolutionary city of the future and a major hub of the American Midwest. My design of Portal is underscored by research I did for Badgerloop, an award-winning student team working on hyperloop pod designs.
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Hyperloop is a new form of transportation that is under development by multiple teams. It’s similar to a train in its point to point connection and utilizes a rail. It uses a vacuumed tube to reduce air friction, and once at speed, uses little energy to keep it at speed. It’s projected to reach speeds up to 800mph(1,290kmh), and possibly up to 4,000mph(6,440kmh) as the technology matures. (01.) Passenger efficiency is the number of round trips a single plane, train, and hyperloop pod can make in a day, based on a 90-mile journey. The number of vehicles in each system varies. Planes are limited by the capacity of airports and the number of dedicated routes. The number of rails limits trains, but the length of the tube only limits hyperloop. A hyperloop, with perfect efficiency, could send a pod out every 2 minutes, meaning up to 7 pods could be traveling in a 90-mile tube at once. More pods allow for more personalized departure times for busy schedules. Hyperloop can significantly change societies and revolutionize travel. (02.) The system will create regional, national, and international connections allowing citizens to build more extensive personal networks of cities on moving between living, work, leisure, and everything in between. In the rest of the feasibility study, I went into route alignment, cost analysis, political factors, energy efficiency, and site development. I also proposed the next steps to make this technology more real once it becomes technologically feasible. Rest of the study can be found here.
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Portal utilizes a tension and compression ring structural system to achieve a floating roof. This system allows for unobstructed views throughout the entire transportation hub, celebrating the hyperloop and setting a precedent for the next generation of travel. The roof structure appears as if the force of the hyperloop is pulling it downwards, creating an awe-inspiring oculous in the center of the transportation hub.
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second skin, natural light, temp control
Layering is the universal design element for portal. It’s apparent in its second skin and circulation, which also doubles as the organization of the lower levels, where the hyperloop loads and unloads.
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maracanã stadium, rio de janeiro, brazil, 2013
hyperloop portal, chicago, usa, 2020
All graphics by: Brook Boughton
viewfinder domestic cube
academic fall 2015 individual
viewfinder
The viewfinder was a semesterlong project that was developed through experimentation into light, air, structure, space, and material. The light cube explored negative space, which traped and distorted light. The air cube, with its fragile, ribbon-like structure, allowed air to easily pass through. Combining these two cubes, created the supercube. The supercube further experimented with negative space and the lightness of the air cube. The interior spheres created both spaces inside and outside and acted as a means to move through the super cube.
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Viewfinder, a domestic cube, took the concepts developed throughout the semester and applied them to a home for an astrologist and meteorologist. This domestic cube was placed into a hypothetical valley which included 14 other student projects. The mid-eighteenthcentury picturesque landscape design theory greatly influenced the final design of the building. Creating viewsheds to each of my peer’s projects through the placement of fenestration allowed the occupants a unique view of the sky to study. These viewsheds influenced the circulation of the building, creating the pyramidal forms of the interior space.
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time’s labyrinth urban cemetery
academic spring 2016 individual
“Everyone sees the world in a different way; so when someone dies, it is - in a way - the death of an entire world.” 01. discovery
time’s labyrinth
Time’s Labyrinth is an answer to a growing problem in many cities, the use of valuable, urban land for cemeteries. A universal solution is creating a single, skyward cemetery, becoming a monument to those who have passed. This concept of a cemetery grows over time with the use of ceremonial ashes recycled into vertical bricks. Different materials would work, such as glass bricks filled with ashes. Although the renderings shown, use bricks that are made with concrete mixed with ashes. It would take well over 100 years to reach the qualities demonstrated in the last step of the diagram and renderings. The practicality of a labyrinth for healing is proven. Since ancient times they have been used to reduce stress. With modern testing, we have learned that walking a labyrinth slows heart rates, lowers blood pressure, and patients routinely say there is a perceivable reduction in their pain levels. Dealing with the death of a loved one is painful. Walking through Time’s Labyrinth may help reduce one’s pain, all the while creating a tranquil and solemn environment to reflect on those who have passed. The renderings tell a story of this place, many years in the future, in a disturbing alternate reality. labyrinth plan
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All graphics by: Brook Boughton
The “found” paintings tell the hypothetical end of days on earth. In telling the story, religious, mythical, and renaissance characters face contemporary issues. These issues are in the news every day, including; war, climate change, the breakdown of privacy, rampant consumerism, and matters of immigration. As each of these issues progress, without any real solutions presented, let alone pursued, society reaches a new low with every passing day. This somber feeling is expressed through the darkening of skies, the agony of characters, and macabre scenes. One repeating character is Charon, who is moving souls across the hypothetical River Styx, the boundary between Earth and the Underworld. This version of Time’s Labyrinth is constructed with concrete mixed with funeral ashes. The use of concrete gives the structure an overbearing brutalist feel, something which once you are inside, feels like there is no escape from its massive walls. This material could be used by oppressive regimes of the future, which could lead to something similar to that in the renderings. Discovery (01.) is a painting at the beginning of the end. War has decimated the area, transparency of governments are a thing of the past, and angels weep as they know the end is near. The painting Journey (02.) takes place soon before the end. Expectation of privacy is a thing of the past, pollution is darkening the skies, and hyper-corporations handle the dead. The End (03.) painting takes place on the last day. Angels have turned their backs, people are left for dead, and Charon completes his job. The dead dance as they have inherited the earth, in this palace of despair and death.
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treehouse residence hall
academic fall 2016 rework, fall 2019 individual
Model by: Brook Boughton
treehouse
Treehouse, a residence hall for the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, sits at a quiet corner of campus. To its west is a large natural area, called the Downer Woods, which it directly engages. Lifting the structure in multiple locations allows neighbors and pedestrians a view into the forest. Residents of the Treehouse get to reside in the woods, not only from their rooms, all facing the woods, but together in gathering spaces both indoor and outdoor. The structure of the building mimics the Downer Woods by using wood materials for the majority of the project. Making the columns askew, match the natural growth of trees, which gives an illusionary effect. Standing in the forest looking towards the building, it becomes difficult to tell where the forest ends and the residence hall begins. The first level of Treehouse is used for classrooms, meditations spaces, and flexible program so students from across campus can help create a lively and engaging environment. forest perspective site plan
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Treehouse is designed to be socially connected but also a hideaway in the woods. All rooms are off the ground plane and face the Downer Woods turning each room into a personal treehouse. When a resident wants to be social or needs a new environment to study, they can use the various social spaces throughout the building. Many of these spaces are more in-depth into the forest, allowing for a more tranquil environment to study. Habitable green roofs are only a few steps away for all residents to catch some sun, get some fresh air, or join some fellow residents hanging out.
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Treehouse is an environmentally conscious residence hall making use of a variety of sustainable methods.
yakisugi local red cedar
In plan, Treehouse weaves between pockets of forest growth and removes as few trees as possible. Those trees that did get removed were recycled using the process below.
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Treehouse uses yakisugi, which is the product of the shou sugi ban process of burning wood panels. Yakisugi is naturally fire-resistant, water repellent, and, if maintained, can last for 80 plus years.
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In the experiments below, I used three species of local wood: eastern pine (a), red cedar (b), and maple (c). I brought them to two levels of char. A deep char (.1) and a medium char (.2.) In all but a.2, I used a natural tung oil to finish and seal the yakisugi boards. In a.2, I used a water-based blue wood dyed to achieve a subtle blue tint in the wood grain. Finally, lifting the treehouse off the ground minimizes disruption to existing ecosystems and creates new ones with gardens on multiples floors. Using rainwater collection, the structure self hydrates the gardens, which serve a double purpose of keeping the internal temperature balanced year-round and provide a second space for the students.
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awards & projects
education
AIAS Imagine: Top 60 on 60 // Weekend conference with Disney Imagineers Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 // Designed Awareness Exhibition Kahler Slater PARK(ing) Day Coordinator // 2017 & 2018 Installations Chicago Art Department 2016 Crystal Ball Gala Installation // Project Leader UWM SARUP SUPERJury // Three Nominations Christopher Kidd & Associates Scholarship Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence Logo Design // Colomo Climbing & Odyssey Climbing Co
skills Bluebeam Bridge Grasshopper Outlook MS Suite Newforma
Master of Architecture Pratt Institute Advanced Standing Placement Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Urban Planning Research // Hyperloop Planning Magna Cum Laude Associate of Applied Science in Architectural Technology Madison College Dean’s List - High Honors // All Semesters
Master Canidate // Expected May 2022
Kahler Slater Architects // Designer Involved in all phases of architectural design and construction Masterplans, environmental branding, and sculptures Key projects: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Center, Brookfield Conference Center Sculpture, Pearce Science Center, University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Masterplan, University of Tennessee School of Dentistry Strang Inc. // Architectural Intern Graphics and masterplanning Pierce Engineering // Structural Technician Structural draftsperson
May 2017 // July 2020
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prior jobs Pratt GAUD // Student Studio Graduate Assistant SARUP Resource Center // Student Assistant Madison College Admissions // Peer Advisor Woolwich Dairy // Goat Cheese Maker
Graduated // May 2015
experience
involvement Podium Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lightroom 3D Printing
Graduated // December 2017
Pratt Institute GAUD - Graduate Student Council // Advanced Standing Representative Univeristy of Wisconsin - Milwaukee SARUP // 2018 - 2019 Juror American Institute of Architecture Students // 2017-2018 Vice President Directed the ArcCulture and MentArch mentoring programs. Moderated a two hour streamed panel for AIAS Nationals. Set up two design charrette with local firms and organizations. Set up school wide and AIAS lectures and workshops. Badgerloop // Feasibility, Media, and VR Team Member Independently created a feasibility study of a hyperloop connection between Madison and Milwaukee. NCARB // 2016-2018 UWM Student Architect Licensing Advisor Update students on AXP and ARE programs and answer questions on licensure. SUPERjury // Coordinator 2017 Coordinated a two day school wide event featuring three esteemed jurors from Yale, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Madison College Vice President Student Board // Member United Performing Arts Fund // 2018 & 2019 Kahler Slater Co-Chair
June 2016 // August 2016 October 2014 // August 2015