Portfolio Bryn Martin
The body of work enveloped in this portfolio aims to track a spatial journey through territories of the human Imagination. In short, it is a collection of stories rooted in space. Bryn Martin
Academic Project Completed in Partners 3 Weeks
Women’s Dormitory The Women’s Dormitory project started with a case study of Kazuyo Sejima’s Saushunkan Seiyaku Women’s Dormity in Japan. The primary interest of studying this particular project lay in the unique relationship between public and private space as defined by the dormitory typology. Noticing Sejima’s design revolved around the articulation of public spaces over private spaces, the goal of the redesigned womens dormitory was to introduce ‘soft’ private spaces while still allowing for the carefully designed public spaces to remain intact. The soft private spaces were created in the vertical domain by staggering vertical extrusions of private spaces at varying heights. This allows for a gentle distinction between the private spaces and public spaces - allowing public interaction to operate in the horizontal domain. The project was completed with Atousa Blair who crafted the physical model. My contribution was the design scheme for ‘soft’ private spaces and the digital production of all drawings.
Public Interaction on the horizontal
Soft private space along the vertical
Starting Unit Circulation along the horizontal
Unit Drag The unit is dragged diagonally to morph the horizontal and vertical occupation space
Vertical Extrusions Vertical extrusions allow for a stratified introduction of soft private spaces along the vertical axis while public interaction remains intact on the horizontal axis.
Academic Project Individual 3 Weeks
Cubic Interaction The goal of Cubic Interaction was to break down the rigid structure of ‘the grid’ to redesign a public square in Toronto. The TD Centre by Mies Van Der Rohe is predicated on the strength of the grid as a means to create occupiable space. Taking inspiration from the green roof planters on top of the TD Centre (which was also arranged in a grid field , the new design would bring this green roof grid down to the pedestrian plane. Blocks were then removed in specfic locations to break the regidity of the grid structure and to facilitate circulation where the existing pedestrian movement naturally occurs on site. The blocks were then extruded at various heights to premote public interation at the furniture scale, human scale, and building scale.
efine istin o ers Usable Space
Green Roof efine
Green Roof Grid Brought Down to Pedestrian Plane
Movement Natural Movement Pattern Through Building Nodes
Extrude Extruded Grid Blocks to Facillitate Public Interaction
Site Plan 1:1000
Furniture Scale
Human Scale
Building Scale
Academic Project Individual 1 Month
Canine House anine ouse is a hyper specific housing project designed with the goal of creating an environment for dogs and their owners to live and thrive in a community atmosphere. There are three different housing types - each to suit the specific needs of small, medium, or large dogs and their owners. These created housing types are arranged within a structural frame and are stacked to create a three storey structure called a ‘wolf stack’. These stacks can house anywhere between dogs simulating the size of an average wolf pack in the wild. irculation between levels as well as outdoor space for each housing unit allows for an effective community for both owner and companion alike. These wolf stacks are then arranged to fill the given site located along King Street in Toronto making up a total of housing units.
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King Street
Frame Occupiable space is created by reducing rectangle to base vertices
Program Fill Program extents and circulation are defined and ound t e vertices
Wolf Stack Units are arranged with small dogs on level 1, medium dogs on level 2, and large dogs on level 3
Competition Group 4 Months
Jet Stream Catcher The following future-skyscaper competition proposal was a group effort to create a new energy paradigm that sought to explore an architectural energy production system that could shift current unsustainable practices in favour of new carbon-free solutions. The Jet Stream Catcher system consists of two key elements first, the Genecopter (Generator + Quadcopter) situated in the jet stream zone, and an nergy ub on the ground. My specific contribution to the project was the design of the nergy ub. The system utilizes the constant wind energy from the jet stream and disperses that energy to the rest of the city. The energy stored in the nergy ub will supply energy to electric vehicles cars, buses and subways and the excess will saturate the existing energy grid with carbon-free, sustainable energy.
Partners: Yuijie Wang, Linru Wang, Tian Wei Li
Wind Turbine Quadcopter Charging Ports
Genecopter
Quadcopter Landing Pad
Quadcopter Discharge
Electric Car Charge Station
Pedestrian Space
Energy Hub
Academic Individual Semester Long
RIBo House Bo ouse’s primary function is to provide an architecture that chases moments of optical and aural significance on the site. t’s final form is a result of an intensive study of asa Malaparte which sought to determine the relationship between occupiable space and framed views. This deconstruction of ‘the whole’ resulted in a series of abstract models that dematerialized the building leaving only the skeleton relationship between view and movement. The goal of Bo ouse was to establish a similar skeleton structure that was defined by a series of points in -d space associated with specific views and or sounds of interest on the site. By connecting these points the skeleton structure of Bo ouse is revealed. The roof then ties the structure together in a coheisive skin. The overall structure resembles a ribcage, idicative of the processes that created the final form. ence the name of the project ib- ptical ouse or Bo ouse for short.
Imposed Geometry
Geometry Sliced
Negitive Circulation
Combined
Casa Malaparte (Case Study) - Investigation of Movement The case study investigation sought to illuminate the relationship between movement and geometry by reinterpreting the plan of Casa Malaparte. By superimposing geometry over the existing building envelope a new circulation relationship was created.
superimposed windows (views)
circulation plates (movement)
window placement (view curation)
Points of Interest s in aced
cartesian
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Z - Axis Push s u ed in direction and connected to i e ase s e eton
Plane Creation
Circulation Creation
ic ness and at sections are introduced to create an occu ia e s ace
Connections added for circulation between ribs
Drape Roof
Puncture Roof
Roof draped to create a skin to unify the structure
Roof punctures for light and nature to permeate structure
Road Axis - 6m
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Roofscape - 9m
People - 3m
oo ess ite Train - 9m
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Trees - 6m
Brush - 3m
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3m north
3m east
3m south
3m west
6m north
6m east
6m south
6m west
9m north
9m east
9m south
9m west
Section A
Section B
Section C
Interior Rendering