Intersight v17 by University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo

EDITORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As editor of Intersight 17, I focused on fully representing the student body. The ideas, designs, and products that have come from this group of individuals epitomizes what our future holds. It has been a privilege to be part of such a diverse and talented group of students and faculty.

This publication is made possible through the Fred Wallace Brunkow Fellowship, an endowment created by Kathryn Brunkow Sample and Steven B. Sample, former president of the University at Buffalo, and the continued generosity of Cannon Design. I have the utmost gratitude for their commitment to the professions, the education of architects and planners, and continued support which makes this publication possible.

I am extremely grateful to Dean Robert Shibley, Chair Omar Khan, and Chair Ernest Sternberg for entrusting the success of Intersight to me. Sincere thanks to Debra Eggebrecht, Norma Everett, Barbara Carlson, Rachel Teaman, Jordan Geiger, and Mark Shepard for every ounce of support and guidance though this process. Of course Intersight 17 would not represent the student body without a student voice, many thanks to Micaela Barker, Kun Chen, Julia Hunt, Daniel Kleeschulte, and Adam Schiffmacher. Brian Fiscus, William Becker, and Adam Grenci were also very pivotal in the production. Finally, thank you to my teammate, Timothy Reap.

Intersight 17 has been the most incredible and fulfilling experience while at the University at Buffalo. I am very proud to present the student work of 2014 to you. -Madelyn McClellan Fred Wallace Brunkow Fellow, 2014-2015

ARCHITECTURE

Julia Hunt

So.

Liyao Chen

So.

Scott Fortner, Julia Hunt, Qiong Wu

Christian Ureña

Ryan Hughes

John Costello, Ryan Hughes

Se.

Kun Chen, Brandon Small

Se.

Taras Kes

3.5

Feifei Sun

3.5

Seyed Pouyan Bizeh

3.5

Rania Al rawwash Hashim Ajlouni, Olivia Arcara, Micaela Barker, George Behn, Orghya Bhattacharjee, Daniel Fiore, Robert Miller, Eric Multer, Louis Rosario, Timothy Ruhl, Kimberly Sass, Mohammadhosein Soroush, Carl Stanbro, Marc Velocci

Mahan Mehrvarz

Chen Lin

Jingyan Li , Christopher Osterhoudt, Pooja Bhatt, Sara MirzaRasoolzadeh

BUFFALO IN...

PLANNING

Shen Hao Chang, Jie Dai, Yan Duan, Hyeongmo Goo, Taewoo Kang, Jade Lewis, Mozhu Li, Jinhe Liu, Yuki Toda, Vivek Thanumalayan, Lingyu Wang, Hao Zhang Jeffery Amplement, Nicholas Batson, William Becker, Caryn Blair, Tanveer Dhillon, Aparna Gopal, Imran Gulzar, Zhuoxing Jiang, Nathan Neuman, Jake Palant, Amirhossein Shahabnia, Christopher Snyder, Hailey Stern, Xin Wang, Jennifer Whittaker

Bruno Avila Eca de Matos, Evan Murphy

Jie Dai, Yuning Li, Jared Parylo, Hao Zhang

Matthew Austin, Oxana Bazhenova, Rushikesh Bhadane, Andrew Dearing, Nicole McMahon, Rebecca Yanus, Yanqi Zhang

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Vincent Krause, Nima Vakili, Jan Poneβ

Brian Belluscio, Di Chen, Ashlie Clement, Matthew Hamann, Mozhu Li, Geraldine Liquidano, Moath Rababah, Daryl Ryan, Saeid Saadatmand, Todd Sileo, Kurt Stavdal, Samuel Wells

Alexey Mokhov

Peter Schmidt

Albis Ariel Del Barrio Batista, Wei Dai, Peter Foti, Xiaosu Guan, Philip Gusmano, Stefanie Holzheu, Alicia Marvan, Adam McFillin, Chan Yu Ou, Lisa Pusch, Daniel Vrana

Nicholas Batson, Abdul Engin, Dillon Galvis, Leah Kiblin, Madelyn McClellan, Aaron Salva, Joseph Tuberdyck

Charles Schmidt

Jose Pesantez

Gabrielle Printz

Barcelona

Costa Rica

Estonia

Netherlands

Tokyo

Clarkson Chairs + Lectures

ACSA Competition

IIDEX Competition

LETTER FROM THE DEAN Intersight is the Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning’s annual journal of student work. It presents the products of their engagement with the design and planning challenges of our time. Rich with inspired work, the following pages reflect the spirit of critical practicebased learning and research that underpins our programs and the future of the professions. Whether designing the University at Buffalo’s solar home entry into the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon or building sustainable food systems from New Mexico to Maine, our students constantly “do” and “make” through applied research, built works and creative activities. The Buffalo School’s close engagement with our regional context is apparent as our students design preservation plans for Buffalo’s historic neighborhoods and innovate architectural manufacturing through 3-d design and fabrication techniques. Meanwhile, this year’s Intersight presents a range of global inquiries as our study abroad program puts students face-to-face with people and landscapes across the continents. These ways of working uniquely prepare students of the Buffalo School for today’s research-driven practice environment. Indeed, research and experimental practice are not just platforms but the basis for our programs in architecture and planning. From working with engineers on architectural robotics to bringing public health to the study of environmental design, we reach across the disciplines of the University at Buffalo, a flagship campus of The State University of New York and one of 34 public research universities in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Our students – future leaders of our professions – bring talent and dedication to their pursuit of a practice that creates more equitable, sustainable and well-designed environments. And it shows. Enjoy this inspiring collection of their work. Robert G. Shibley, FAIA, AICP Professor and Dean

UNDERGRADUATE

ARCHITECTURE

GRADUATE

The Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BS Arch) is a four-year, preprofessional baccalaureate degree with a pedagological approach to instill students with the skills needed to pursue an architectural profession. The freshman year aims to reconstruct the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; understanding of architecture and space through extensive drawing and modeling at a variety of scales. Sophomore students are introduced to the use of precedents through historical buildings while designing through process. Each exercise throughout the second year encourages the students to hone their representational skills. The third year introduces building systems within the design approach. Program and responsiveness to environmental factors become the design motivations and encourages students to consider these as part of space making. Senior students undertake a comprehensive project. Throughout one semester they implement all of the skills they have acquired: predesign analysis, concept, building systems design, and architectural representation. The BS Arch degree culminates in a well-balanced, complete architectural education in preparation for an accredited graduate program.

The Department of Architecture is built on the philosophy that architects are stewards in the spatial realm. The department seeks to inspire students to see the full implications of their designs and the aesthetic, cultural, and social contributions they have. Students are taught to curate the environment and use architecture as both a tool and a form of expression. Research and process are highly encouraged. Exploration and experimentation are sought. Through this program, students emerge with great skill, vision, confidence, and curiosity.

The graduate program offers two accredited professional degrees. First, the two-year accredited professional Master of Architecture (MArch) degree program follows a BS Architecture degree, adding to the necessary education for licensure. Second, the three-and-one-half-year Master of Architecture program allows individuals with degrees other than architecture to begin a path to licensure by means of a comprehensive architectural education. Within the graduate program, students use research as a driver which produces mindful proposals that embody the past, present, and future. Each student eventually identifies with one of the four Graduate Research Groups (GRGs) in which they are encouraged to explore and innovate, implement, and design. Ecological Practices (EP) critically engages environmental systems, both manmade and natural, and examines the role that architecture and urbanism play in harnessing and stewarding them. Inclusive Design (ID) is a global movement that seeks to improve the usability of environments, products and systems, and is based on the principles of social justice. Material Culture (MC) investigates and implements material innovation at a variety of scales. Situated Technology (ST) focuses on the design of artifacts, spaces, and media that are responsive to their context. The graduate program cultivates passionate individuals capable of changing the architectural landscape through research.

IMMURED VESSELS Scott Fortner, Julia Hunt, Qiong Wu

Dennis Maher

Karen Tashjian + Matthew Hume

Coordi n a tor

Fres hm an Des ig n S t ud io ARC 102 | U n d erg rad uate

The series of projects concentrated on the conceptual and constructive possibilities of poche as a design catalyst for architecture. Process was essential in this project, beginning with bundling random objects and cutting the assemblage. This was then abstracted to extract spatial qualities which were then translated into architectural space. Methods employed paid particular attention to relationships between manipulation of media and the spaces created. Collage, photographs, and hand-drawn images were used to emphasize spatial qualities and reinforce spatial hierarchy, order, composition, organization, and scale. After individuals created scaled models, the students were paired. Together they selected spatial qualities from their projects and incorporated them into one large scale model. Material choices became crucial in the spatial representation of the collaborated designs.

PROJECTED VIEWS Julia Hunt

G e org Rafailidis Co o rd i n a to r

Soph o m o re D e si g n S t u di o ARC 2 0 1 | Un de rg ra du a te

The four gasometers, located in Vienna, Austria, tower over the district of Simmering at an impressive 75 meters tall. Plans and sections of the repurposed gasometers were layered, exposing the form and transformed spatial qualities. Extracting these qualities, this design uses the Williamsville, New York, site as a frame of reference. The building is located among a naturalized urban area that bridges the life and commerce of Main Street with the naturalism and peace of Glen Park. Each projected room is oriented towards points of interest on the site, natural and urban. The intersecting wedge volumes allow for multiple spatial readings and establish a sense of transparency througout. A steel-truss structural system acts as connective tissue between the spaces.

Physical Model Construction Technique: Each Projection includes walls composed of steel trusses and external cladding along with a ceilng and floor made entirely out of plywood. A

Interior Perspective Photo Cafeteria C

Interior Perspective Photo Conference Room C

Plan C

Interior Perspective Photo Chapel

Interior Perspective Photo Library

South East SIde View

Circulation Axon 15 Hunt

Hunt 16

15 Hunt

17 Hunt

Hunt 18

Model

cludes walls composed of steel trusses and external cladding oor made entirely out of plywood.

Top View

19 Hunt

South East SIde View

Park Level Entrance

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

Project description Ommolupta verspid itatetur, aut quisto milla premporrori dis dolorep tature nus as es peritam incto quo maiossuntus aceprae pero denis quiatquam ad magnim re natus. Ossi omniend emquidus atiis repuda venes diciis dis vit ut et enduciet rest, officipietur sunt doles nullabo rionsero ex es eatur moluptae laut que comniaerio comnia qui as modit, odio cuptate si odit, nesequis doloreperat est, si od ut facipsa simolupta nonse eumquas as am doloren tiant. Ibea nimin enimillam il eatias expelenihit aut voles nem etur andandi omnit re core vidus magnis conet, omnis enis enimaximi, optatius, excestrum ere am es abo. Itatem dolore magnis dolorec erferiam, enempor ehendit am et voloreri corpora erciet alit laniet excepro eaquae nis aut inullenis moles re aut abo. Nam a es aut acipiciatem repelectiae pelentibust destioresed eatur si cus dolent offici offic tota dolecae mil idelenderem es venit res consequae. Aboraecatur, quam esto od evenditios dolest asimolore, cor adit, sedis sum as maio temquia ssinvel maxim iundel molorepel maximen duciaessima vent, sitat quiam eariae. Itate eici optus eici dis rat voloriorem fugitiore voluptur? Ces as volore velestibus est, ute pedit, et quodips aeriaest ut dolupic aborepu dandis nihicae essinve

CULINARY INSTITUTE Liyao Chen

Gregory Delaney

Laura Garofalo- Khan

Coordi n a tor

S op ho m o re Des ig n S t ud io ARC 202 | U n d erg rad uate

Driven very much by the visual experience, this project examined the visual qualities of the Villa Foscari in Mira Venezia, Italy. Playing with waves, both interior and exterior spaces are created. These forms also indicate where views are allowed or blocked. The waves work at several scales, the largest creates the occupiable volumes and their components as well as bridges. As the waves scale down, they can become elements such as benches. Selective use and placement of the waves were dictated by land use, water ways, vegetation, and infrastructure. Ultimately, the site plan connects the main road and a bridge, acting itself as a form of infrastructure, connecting two neighboring towns.

BUFFALO WELLNESS CENTER Christian Ure単a

M i g u el G u i tart

J i n Yo u n g Song Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC 3 0 1 | Un de rg ra du a te

A healthy and social environment drives this project through the use of a green roof canopy that acts as an elevated path and alternate artificial landscape. The space created enables people to run on a track and take part in social activities within event spaces, while also providing fresh air and natural light to enter the spaces underneath. The subtle slope inclinations are integrated into the design in a way to provide runners/visitors with changing surface conditions that adjust to the building heights of the masses underneath the canopy. This creates a roofscape that has a dominating iconic presence on Main Street that performs as a healthy urban connector for the people of Buffalo.

PROJECT TITLE

INCLINE

Student(s)

Ryan Hughes

P rofes s o r

Jin Young S ong

P rofes s o r

Kennet h M acKay

Co o rd i n a to r

Coordi n a tor

+34’-6”

+48’-0”

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

7 14

1:20

1:30

1:20

Project description Ommolupta verspid itatetur, aut quisto milla premporrori dis dolorep tature nus as es peritam incto quo maiossuntus aceprae pero denis quiatquam ad magnim re natus. Ossi omniend emquidus atiis repuda venes diciis dis vit ut et enduciet rest, officipietur sunt doles nullabo rionsero ex es eatur moluptae laut que comniaerio comnia qui as modit, odio cuptate si odit, nesequis doloreperat est, si od ut facipsa - OFFICE LEVEL 3 11 PLAN nonse simolupta eumquas as am doloren tiant. Ibea nimin enimillam il eatias expelenihit aut voles nem etur andandi omnit re core vidus magnis conet, omnis enis enimaximi, optatius, excestrum ere am es abo. Itatem dolore magnis dolorec erferiam, enempor ehendit am et voloreri corpora erciet alit laniet excepro eaquae nis aut inullenis moles re aut abo. Nam a es aut acipiciatem repelectiae pelentibust destioresed eatur si cus dolent offici offic tota dolecae mil idelenderem es venit res consequae. Aboraecatur, quam esto od evenditios dolest asimolore, cor adit, sedis sum as maio temquia ssinvel maxim iundel molorepel maximen duciaessima vent, sitat quiam eariae. Itate eici optus eici dis rat voloriorem fugitiore voluptur? Ces as volore velestibus est, ute pedit, et quodips aeriaest ut dolupic aborepu dandis nihicae essinve

OPEN TO BELOW OPEN TO BELOW 1

5 5

6 6

1:30

SCALE

11 E AVENUE

1’- 0” = 3/32”

1’- 0” = 1/8”

1:30

+38’-6” +52’-0”

12 PLAN - ROOF LEVEL SCALE

1’- 0” = 1/8”

J un io r Des ig n S t ud io ARC 302 | U n d erg rad uate

An office situated along a continuous inclined plane to create physical and visual connection within the workplace. The manipulation of the groundplane begins to encourage both the flow of workers and ideas throughout the space, while also turning the studio space into a working gallery. Incline also aims to push the ideology behind structure and systems through the inclusion of a cast-steel structure in tension and systems that aim to reduce the building’s consumption of energy and other resources.

HOUSE20 John Costello + Ryan Hughes

Erki n Ozay

An ne tte L e Cuyer Co o rd i n a to r

Seni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC 4 0 3 | Un de rg ra du a te

Set in the Allentown neighborhood and integrated within the Olmsted Park system, this housing complex reacts to the diverse population of residents in the area. This is done through the inclusion of a public green space and bath at the ground level, which is paired with a flexible residential system above. Here, the residential form is derived through a series of bands and module sizes to create a range of units both in size and quality of space. The mixed aggregation of unit types aims to create a socioeconomic mixing of residents within the massing. This mixing becomes a reflection of the social interaction happening at the ground plane below.

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

LIQUID LIGHT Kun Chen + Brandon Small

Annet te LeCuyer

Coordi n a tor

S en io r Des ig n S t ud io ARC 403 | U n d erg rad uate

The urban strategy within this project is shaped by the natural light at the times of the day when people are most active: leaving home in the morning, lunch time and returning home in the evening. This light organizes the scheme into nine ‘grounded’ towers of dwellings, which range from one to eight stories, and two ‘hanging’ towers of gardens, all of which are linked by glazed corridors on three levels only. This allows the natural sunlight to pierce through the site to Allen Street, which is an active pedestrian landscape. The towers are ambiguous in scale, registering both as large monoliths and as a miniature city. The cluster of towers, situated around the perimeter of the site and occupied by small shops and cafes at ground level, define a public plaza dedicated to play. During the summer, programmable water jets that mark the lines of light penetrate the site and make a splash pad/ urban lida. During the winter, the plaza is flooded, freezes and becomes an outdoor ice-skating rink that is illuminated by lines of lights strung between the towers.

MORPHOLOGY + CONTEXT Taras Kes

J oyce Hwang Co o rd i n a to r

3. 5-Ye a r D e s ig n S t udi o ARC 5 0 2 | Gra du a te

This new library complex, located at Oppian Hill, Rome, is yet another layer of history. The mission of this new library is to provide historical references to survived site ruins, to the history of the site, and to Rome.

BOOK STORAGE BOOK STORAGE

The contemporary layer is considerate to the historical content of the site and references the original site conditions through the â&#x20AC;&#x153;seamsâ&#x20AC;? that serve as a connecting element between layers of history. Ultimately, this library will provide traditional sources of knowledge such as books and periodicals, as well as several remote digital stations across the site.

The building form is rythmic, reminiscent of a musical crescendo, growing in both plan and section. Programmatically, the private, public and semi-private areas are hierarchically placed within the layering. However, the layered building form establishes spatial relationships through visual connections between these spaces as well as to the external environment that the library serves.

SPACE DENSITY SPACE DENSITY

Studio ARC-502, Spring 2014, Taras Kes

PLAN PLAN

ANALYTICAL MODEL ANALYTICAL MODEL

A SPATIAL VOLUMES SPATIAL VOLUMES A

PROJECT TITLE

WORK/PLAY

Student(s)

Feifei Sun

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r

Annete LeCuyer

Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

Coordi n a tor

3. 5-Year Des ig n S t ud io A RC 504 | Grad uate

North Facade

Addressing a variety of scales, this mixed-use building is composed of an architectural office and a 100-person occupancy performance space. Combined with site and program research, this project promoted the interaction across three levels: building and urban site, work space and performance space, and architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio and office support. West Facade Steel Truss Concrete Panel Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Retaining Wall Footing

Each program has a dedicated entrance on Chippewa Street, engaging in the urban context. The work and play program were separated vertically to introduce an active exterior space. The performance space is sunken into the ground, and work space hangs in the air. The open-floor workspace lacks hierarchy which increases the social dynamic within the hanging box. In the middle of these opposing spaces are office support rooms at the east side and two transparent egress stairs at the west side, which also act as a structural system to hold the open office box. The workspace is naturally cross ventilated and generously daylit by the sawtooth roof and a fully glazed envelope with folded-metal sunshading in two configurations, one responding to south light and the other to light from the east and west.

Structure ARC 504 Spring 2014 Feifei Sun

BUFFALO CLOUD Seyed Pouyan Bizeh

Ke nn eth MacKay Co o rd i n a to r

Com pre h e n s ive D e si g n S t udi o ARC 6 0 5 | Gra du a te

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buffalo Cloudâ&#x20AC;? is a learning commons prosposed to extend the existing Buffalo Public Library located in Lafayette Square. Focused on the integration of new technologies, the new space will utilize the concept of cloud sharing to drive the design both physically and virtually. The spatial arrangement provides unexpected interaction with the surrounding urban landscape in front of the existing library and in the larger scale of the City of Buffalo.

This proposal invokes the imagery of a cloud in both the cantilever and the translucent envelope material. The space beneath the cantilever, irregular in form, creates an environment conducive to impromptu and planned events.

PROJECT TITLE

INNOVATION CENTER

Student(s)

Rania Al rawwash

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r

Edward S teinfeld

Co o rd i n a to r

Coordi n a tor

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

I nclu sive Des ig n Res earc h S t ud io A RC 605 | Grad uate

Project description Ommolupta verspid itatetur, aut quisto milla premporrori dis dolorep tature nus as es peritam incto quo maiossuntus aceprae pero denis quiatquam ad magnim re natus. Ossi omniend emquidus atiis repuda venes diciis dis vit ut et enduciet rest, officipietur sunt doles nullabo rionsero ex es eatur moluptae laut que comniaerio comnia qui as modit, odio cuptate si odit, nesequis doloreperat est, si od ut facipsa simolupta nonse eumquas as am doloren tiant. Ibea nimin enimillam il eatias expelenihit aut voles nem etur andandi omnit re core vidus magnis conet, omnis enis enimaximi, optatius, excestrum ere am es abo. Itatem dolore magnis dolorec erferiam, enempor ehendit am et voloreri corpora erciet alit laniet excepro eaquae nis aut inullenis moles re aut abo. Nam a es aut acipiciatem repelectiae pelentibust destioresed eatur si cus dolent offici IC II eighth floor offic tota dolecae mil idelenderem es venit res consequae. Aboraecatur, quam esto od evenditios dolest asimolore, cor adit, sedis sum as maio temquia ssinvel maxim iundel molorepel maximen duciaessima+99.00 vent, sitat quiam eariae. Itate eici optus eici dis rat voloriorem fugitiore voluptur? Ces as volore velestibus est, ute pedit, et quodips aeriaest ut dolupic aborepu dandis nihicae essinve

Located at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in Buffalo, NY, the Innovation Center is currently home to 30 start-up businesses. The current facility is at capacity and an additional building and parking structure is needed.

This growing space is designed to accommodate small to medium companies seeking office, wet lab and/or research space on varying leases. Research and development space houses life sciences and biotech companies as well as companies offering support services like IP attorneys, talent acquisition, sales and marketing.

+99.00

IC II eighth floor

IC II seventh floor

Inspired by the existing building, this design is intended to make connections between different users of the center: person to person, group to group, and company to company. Bridges between the incubator spaces and the post-incubator spaces metaphorically and physically represent these connections. The informal connective spaces provide essential collaborative spaces where individuals and groups can intermingle.

CHAPEL OF LOST AEDICULES Hashim Ailouni, Olivia Arcara, Micaela Barker, George Behn, Orghya Bhattacharjee, Daniel Fiore, Robert Miller, Eric Multer, Louis Rosario, Timothy Ruhl, Kimberly Sass, Mohammadhosein Soroush, Carl Stanbro, Marc Velocci D e nn is Ma her Co o rd i n a to r

M ate ri a l Cu l t u re Re se a rc h S t u d io ARC 6 0 5 | Gra du a te

According to John Summerson in “Heavenly Mansions: An Interpretation of Gothic,” the aedicule (literally, little building) is a primary perceptual and conceptual device in architecture, one that is especially legible in the gothic period. The gothic church, in particular, was a compendium of aedicular devices that framed and housed various aspects of the liturgical environment. Summerson asserts that the aedicule has psychological and philosophical underpinnings, noting that, “This miniature temple used for a ceremonial, symbolic purpose may even enshrine one of man’s first purely architectural discoveries, a discovery re-enacted by every child who establishes his momentary dominion under the table.” This design studio explored the theme of the aedicule as a framework for constructing a new microarchitectural structure within the former Immaculate Conception Church. Students re-imagined the host building at 4in=1ft, assembling rebuilt fragments of the church in order to construct a “Chapel of Lost Aedicules.”

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

TOWARD A MOVING STRUCTURE Mahan Mehrvars

N icholas Bruscia

Coordi n a tor

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

S itu ated Tech nolo g ies Res earc h S t ud io A RC 605 | Grad uate

Due to the near-ubiquity of computational-design processes in architecture, along with the steady maturing of embedded technologies in materials and building components, it is possible that new generations of buildings may be designed to accommodate shifting forces and will be able to sense, transform, and rethink human interaction with (and within) the built environment. This project represents a set of studies proposing a structural system that can respond to load, force and actuation by transforming from a linear element to a threedimensional surface. Using computer-aided simulations and physical modeling, this project seeks to recognize and explore geometrical characteristics of the system. Continuous, thin and lightweight bands of semi-rigid material are cut to specific profiles and connected along varying resonances. The ability for the material to bend under the internal forces created during assembly creates a space held in equilibrium between the materialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flexible but structural integrity and applied external forces.

BIRD HABITAT PARK Chen Lin

S e a n B urkholder Co o rd i n a to r

Ecol o g i ca l P ra c t i c e s Re se a rc h Stud io ARC 6 0 6 | Gra du a te

In the post-industrial age, brownfield sites are becoming more of a place of opportunity in urban areas. This project aims to create a park which supplies bird habitat while developing ecological tourism at the Buffalo Outer Harbor. The regional planning for the Buffalo Outer Harbor is based on three aspects: ecology, society and economy. Ecology was the primary motivator for this project. The site connects the existing natural preserves in the area ̶ Times Beach Nature Preserve and Tifft Nature Preserve. By connecting these sites, it creates a green belt along the Buffalo River and Lake Erie, a pivotal stopover for the Atlantic Flyway bird-migration path. Six habitats have been implemented on the site, based on an analysis of avian-habitat needs. The core operation of the site design is the creation of two bays. Oriented with the direction of the migration path, protected wetland rivers and marshlands are generated with a high-density woodland creating a buffer between the urban area and the natural preserve.

With the analysis of avian nesting and foraging range, several bird blinds were designed to allow the most visual exposure without disrupting the birds. Facades mimic the type of vegetation coverage in the area.

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

THE TRANSECT Jingyan Li + Christopher Osterhoudt; Pooja Bhatt + Sara MirzaRasoolzadeh

S ean Burkholder

Coordi n a tor

S em in ar A RC 537 | Grad uate

The Transect is the riverian connection between Lake Huron and Lake Erie which has a long history of urban development. This seminar provided an opportunity for students to study the real-world implications of urban ecology along the highly variable landscape. Students produced a series of topicbased analyses that called attention to what they considered to be the most important characteristics and conditions along this linear zone between the lakes. Some of the topics included a typological study of the range of islands that exist along the transect and how each of them operate socially and ecologically, or studies of the unique subsurface geology of the region as a way to understand surficial landuse. Layering research and data with graphic representation of the context culminated in 32â&#x20AC;? x 84â&#x20AC;? boards. The products of this seminar were curated and shown in the Littoral Edge Symposium held at UB in November of 2014.

DOCOMOMO_US Nicholas Batson, Abdul Engin, Dillon Galvis, Leah Kiblin, Madelyn McClellan, Aaron Salva, Joseph Tuberdyck

Buffalo Evening News Building Edward Durell Stone

B a rb ara Camp agna Co o rd i n a to r

Semi n a r ARC 5 9 1 | Gra du a te

Preservation of modern heritage is quickly becoming a hot-button issue. As time passes, buildings of the Modernist era creep onto the radar of architectural preservationists, but the question of how to accurately preserve and restore these buildings and their experimental materials and systems causes a lot of debate.

This seminar discussed the issues that often arise from these historical preservation projects. Using local Buffalo examples as case studies, students researched the building’s history and construction and created fiches which were then submitted to docomomo_us. The online registry for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement (www.docomomo-us.org) “promotes the study, interpretation and protection of the architecture, landscape and the urban design of the Modern Movement.” This effort by the students gave Buffalo a presence on the website and signified the location as a place of significant Modernist architecture.

Temple Beth Zion Max Abramovitz Willart Park Courts Frederick C. Backus

Metropolitan Transportation Center Cannon Design

One Seneca Tower Skidmore Owings and Merrill Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Kideney & Associates Albright Knox 1962 Addition Skidmore Owings and Merrill

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

DRAWING LOST CITIES Charles Schmidt

Dennis M aher

Coordi n a tor

S em in ar A RC 594 | Grad uate

This is a course devoted to experimental architectural drawing. Students explore techniques and concepts of architectural drawing beyond traditional types (plan, section, elevation, perspective), focusing especially upon hybrid forms of graphic communication. The experiments conducted in the course aim to test perceptions against unknown dimensions of experience, bridging the divide between the visible and the imaginable and proposing possibilities for architecture in the absence of absolute constraints. The theme of the semester was lost cities. Work began with conducting research on some important and intriguing lost cities of the past: Pompei, Machu Picchu, and Angkor, for example. After reading a short story by Jorge Luis Borges entitled “The Circular Ruin,” students strove to “re-discover” a lost city by exercising a thought experiment similar to that of Borges’s shaman. Each student was asked to identify a special place in their everyday life where they could begin to, in slow and recurrent fashion, conjure the semblance of their chosen city into being. While probing the attributes of vanished places, students operated as archaeologists of their own mindscapes, seeking to unearth the presence of mysteriously distant architectures within ordinary surroundings.

FORM|WORK Jose Pesantez

Ch ris to phe r Romano T hes i s Ch a i r

J e a n La Ma rche An ne tte L e Cuyer T hes i s Co m m i t te e

M Arch T h e s i s

The casting process is often neglected and viewed merely as a means to an end, with the product being considered more important. However, when the entire casting process is analyzed, sequenced and thoroughly understood, new outcomes and possibilities emerge. | This research seeks to shift the emphasis from the final product to the making process and, in doing so, explore new design and construction parameters based on material properties and processes as opposed to standardized construction conventions. This will be achieved by synthesizing the process of forming the finished product with the physical work required to complete it, such that they become integral and evident parts of the final form. Form|work sheds new light on the possibilities of the casting process | and challenges preconceived material properties of cementitious materials. Form|work, as represented by the trials and prototypes presented at the final thesis defense, showcases a material that most everyone present thought they knew, achieving forms and connections that they had not anticipated. It instilled a question in their mind, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this material was able to do this, what else can it do?â&#x20AC;? This question is a positive and powerful outcome of this research, a result that suggests an ongoing iterative process of problem finding and problem solving.â&#x20AC;? D

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PROJECT TITLE

SUBJECT/SURFACE: REDRESSING THE ARCHITECTURAL BODY

Student(s)

Gabrielle Printz CHEST WIDTH/2 = 24.25 cm

BACK WIDTH/2 = 18.5cm

BACK WIDTH = BUST/8 + 7.4cm

Joyce Hwang

P rofes s o r

+ CHEST WIDTH = BUST/8 + 6.2cm

T h e si s Com m i t te e

Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

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gender_female age_41 bust_91 cm waist_77 cm

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gender_female age_26 bust_ 97 cm waist_81 cm

gender_female age_24 bust_116 cm waist_102 cm

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gender_female age_68 bust_104 cm waist_89 cm

MA rc h T hes is

BODY WIDTH = BUST/2 + 6cm

Annet te LeCuyer N icholas Bruscia

CENTER BACK LENGTH = 36cm

P rofes s o r

gender_female age_25 bust_104 cm waist_74 cm

T h e si s Ch a i r

BUST LINE = BUST/12 + 13.7cm

gender_female age_52 bust_97 cm waist_81 cm

gender_female age_25 bust_86 cm waist_69 cm

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gender_female age_24-68 bust_97-116 cm waist_69-102 cm

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The body is the origin from which architecture necessarily extends. Like clothing or the physical surface of the body itself, architecture comprises an intermediate condition between self and space. For this reason, architecture replicates the space of the body to varying degrees of specificity. Problematically, “the body,” upon which architecture is contingent, constitutes an ideal mathematical reduction of human form, an historic “well-shaped man” that homogenizes an infinitely diverse spectrum of actual, particular bodies—our bodies.

This thesis operates in the apparent chasm between the schematic body that organizes architecture and the bodied subject that ultimately experiences architecture. Contextualizing this schematic figure (the drawn, the dimensioned body) as a condition of both historical architectural convention and a contemporary cultural condition that is rooted in identities of difference and multiplicitous subjectivities, it considers what kinds of spaces or what kinds of bodies might be produced and how they are produced.

URBAN + REGIONAL PLANNING The Buffalo School has actively engaged with Buffalo’s city fabric, socially, culturally, environmentally and historically. By using the region as a laboratory, students engage with constituents and stakeholders, as well as residents and policy makers.

The Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program at the University at Buffalo intends to prepare students to become versatile and ethical professionals. We provide such capabilities through instruction in theories and methods of planning, planning practicums, and exposure to specialized fields within urban planning, including urban design, community development, international and economic development, environmental planning, and geographic information systems. We are committed to growing excellence in conveying such capabilities, doing so in ways that engage students in issues of diversity, and extending our teaching to students of diverse backgrounds. Along with the dual MArch/MUP with the Department of Architecture, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning offers a JD/MUP program in conjunction with the Law School.

The environmental design BA provides students with the skills to understand, analyze, and solve problems associated with urban development and the design of sustainable environments. Environmental design applies knowledge of social science and design to plan and develop community environments that affect and are affected by human behavior. While concerned about humanity’s use, misuse, and abuse of the natural environment, environmental design also is concerned with the planned environment that humans build – the “artificial” or designed physical environment – and its ability to meet community needs.

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

REVITALIZING BAILEY-GENESEE NEIGHBORHOOD Shen Hao Chang, Jie Dai, Yan Duan, Hyeongmo Goo, Taewoo Kang, Jade Lewis, Mozhu Li, Jinhe Liu, Yuki Toda, Vivek Thanumalayan, Lingyu Wang, Hao Zhang Hiroaki H at a

Coordi n a tor

P lan n in g S t ud io U R P 566 | Grad uate

Tactical Urbanism has been experimented with by Harmac Medical Products, located on Buffalo’s East Side, through beautification of properties along Bailey Avenue. The design recommendations incorporate the best practices of 21st century urban design from architecture, land use planning, geographic information systems (GIS), landscape architecture, sustainable design, healthy living, economic development and more. This studio’s focus was on proposing tactical urbanism which emphasizes the creation of a shortterm strategic plan for the site that fits within the framework of City of Buffalo’s Comprehensive Plan. The complete product of this studio is a conceptual plan for the immediate site and suggestions for the greater community. Students were encouraged to ‘stitch’ the new plan into the surrounding urban fabric by enhancing the site’s walkability and diversity. This involves strategic insertion of linear public green corridors and amenities on underutilized spaces. The central element to achieving this goal is introducing an Olmsted-inspired residential parkway called the Green Spine on which to develop higherdensity housing typology.

LESSONS FROM SHORELINE APARTMENTS Jeffery Amplement, Nicholas Baston, William Becker, Caryn Blair, Tanveer Dhillon, Aparna Gopal, Imran Gulzar, Zhuoxing Jiang, Nathan Neuman, Jake Palant, Amirhossein Shahabnia, Christopher Snyder, Hailey Stern, Xin Wang, Jennifer Whittaker

Ke rry Traynor Co o rd i n a to r

P l an n i n g De si g n S t u di o UR P 5 8 1 | Gra du a te

This studio provided the student with an opportunity to analyze and evaluate a historic Buffalo neighborhood that still exists, as well as one a block away that was “renewed” as part of Buffalo’s Waterfront Development Plan. This neighborhood is rich in history, and tells a unique story in planning history and urban design. The community, though rich in history, has been subjected to a number of stresses, and currently faces a new set of stresses. Specific preservation planning tools were studied to develop a preservation planning framework that proposed a master plan and design guidelines that are consistent with neighborhood character-defining features. The planning framework is consistent with DHCR guidelines and Buffalo’s new Green Code. The appropriateness and fit of each for this neighborhood were analyzed following a thorough study of the Urban Renewal Experiment and Public Housing, the neighborhood’s history, material fabric, current demographic conditions, existing needs, and potential stresses and opportunities for growth.

This project assessed the contextual relationships between the neighborhood that once was as well as what exists now and drafted a framework for redevelopment of the site.

Define the Streetscape

Sight Lines for Crime Prevention

Lighting for Crime Prevention

Mixed Use Character

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Porches as Social Space

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SOCIAL VULNERABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

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Bruno Avila Eca de Matos + Evan Murphy

JiYoung Park

Coordi n a tor

P lan n in g GIS S em in ar U R P 569 | Grad uate

Based on the South Carolina Emergency Preparedness Division handbook, this project aims to determine which areas in Erie County are vulnerable to hazards and to what extent the different kinds of threats might affect this territory, considering both social circumstances and environmental conditions. The intent is to ascertain which zones have higher overall vulnerability to hazards. The amount of people in Erie County living in different vulnerability classes as well as the land area covered by each class was uncovered in this study. This assessment can be a valuable instrument for both pre-impact planning and post-event response and support governmental decision GIS-Based Hazard Assessment in Erie County, NY: Social Vulnerability and Environmental Threats making and future countywide Map 01: Social Vulnerability Index Map 02: Flooding Zones Map 05: Overall Vulnerability Score public policies.

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COURT STREET STREETSCAPE DESIGN Jie Dai, Yuning Li, Jared Parylo, Hao Zhang

Hi roa ki Hata Co o rd i n a to r

Urba n D e s i g n S e m i na r UR P 5 6 5 | Gra du a te

In addition to being an area where many people work and spend a lot of time, Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown is also the area primarily experienced by visitors to the region. Currently, the downtown area, specifically the stretch of Court Street from Niagara Square and Buffalo City Hall to Main Street and Lafayette Square, consists of spaces that do not give a strong sense of place and do not accommodate multiple forms of transportation, including pedestrians and bicyclists. This area of Court Street, like many areas of Buffalo, also includes an excess amount of at-grade, street-level parking, impervious surfaces, and buildings with poor transparency. Despite these issues and factors that make this area less than ideal for pedestrians, many pedestrians do need to use this space. In response to this, a streetscape was designed to decrease road area, increase pedestrian and green space, and repurpose, modify or construct buildings to meet the changing needs of the area. When designing the area, three major design goals were: reorganize the street from four lanes to two lanes to introduce a large and permeable sidewalk; introduce a new mixed-use supermarket and apartment building; construct an open, green plaza space; and reuse existing buildings to accommodate small commercial storefront businesses.

PROJECT TITLE

Town of Clarence: Trails andTRAILS Greenways Master Plan TOWN OF CLARENCE: & GREENWAYS

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Approximately 55 miles in length, the design connects two existing trails and will connect users to a variety of parks, businesses, and neighborhoods. Decisions were carefully considered based on analysis of policy, funding mechanisms, and current conditions, which resulted in a comprehensive master plan complete with design guidelines, cost estimates and funding resources. AMHERST

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Residential connectivity and exposure to the natural environment drives this proposal for a system of trails and greenways for the town of Clarence. Running through the town is a creek system which provides an opportunity to bring residents closer to their immediate surroundings and promotes outdoor activity and conservation of these areas. om

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INTERDISCIPLINARY There is not one department represented here. This grouping of projects was designed looking outside of their domain, often letting other disciplines lead the project.

Students throughout the School of Architecture and Planning actively seek inspiration and design agency in disciplines beyond that in which they reside. These efforts connect students to areas such as media studies, education, and manufacturing and bridges two schools. Projects within this group do not simply address issues outside of their discipline, rather they use design as a catalyst and follow the progression of a project to unfamiliar fields. The results become something much more substantial and integrated within the context.

DOPPELGÄNGER Vincent Krause, Nima Vakili, Jan Poneβ

M ark S hep ard

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Jens Geelhaar

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Doppelgänger is a public communication sculpture and a sound installation realized in the form of a tunnel structure. Two telematically connected tunnels at remote locations create an apparatus for meeting and communicating virtually, yet spatially perceivable, with others merely through the sound of your footsteps. This happens with the aid of 16 speakers and 16 contact microphones that are built into the floor platform of each tunnel. Microphones pick up the sound of your footsteps that then gets transmitted to the other tunnel to be played back on the corresponding speakers in real time.

Two participants simultaneously enter each tunnel and walk towards each other while they only hear the other person approaching. They meet at some point along the tunnel and then pass through each other, as it is only wide enough for one person in the middle.

Doppelgänger investigates the communicative qualities of human gait, as a counterpoint to existing visual, verbal and textual communication protocols. It introduces subtle, culturally varying aspects of situated interactions to digital-communication media and reevaluates the potential of walking as an embodied, contextualized mode of interacting and being in the world.

REIMAGINING THE NIAGARA GORGE M.Arch: Brian Belluscio, Moath Rababah, Daryl Ryan, Kurt Stavdal MUP: Di Chen, Ashlie Clement, Matthew Hamann, Mozhu Li, Geraldine Liquidano, Saeid Saadatmand, Todd Sileo, Samuel Wells Hi roa ki Hata Co o rd i n a to r

Interd i s ci pl i na ry D e si g n S t udi o UR P 5 8 1 & A RC 6 0 9 | G ra du a te

The Town of Niagara has been largely disconnected from the socially and ecologically significant Niagara River Gorge. The core mission of the studio was to extend visions stated in the 2007 Comprehensive Plan and to further explore potential for a next step of the future of reshaping the Gorge assuming the existing Robert Moses Parkway would be demolished: how and what to replace the existing parkway with. The investigation explores an area that locals never embraced. Thus the studio challenge was to retrofit the highway into a series of better places and great paths: an accessible and attractive place for locals and tourists to visit and enjoy the wonder of the Gorge throughout the year. Students engaged with major stakeholders in the community to intergrate necessities of the urban fabric. The site included 200 acres of reimagined land and land use, capped by the Intermodal Transportation Hub to the north and the Cultural District to the south.

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Alexey Mokhov

P rofes s o r

Dr. Edward S teinfeld

T h e si s Ch a i r

P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

Dr S ue Weidem ann Dr. Korydon S m it h

T h e si s Com m i t te e

MA rc h T hes is

Figure 47 – Section A‐A’ Project description Ommolupta There is a lack of reliable and Figure 68 – Buffer space before the classroom entrance verspid itatetur, aut quisto milla comprehensive guidelines in the premporrori dis dolorep tature nus area of the design of learning as es peritam incto quo maiossuntus environments for persons on 117 aceprae pero denis quiatquam ad the Autistic Spectrum. With no magnim re natus. appropriate model for knowledge Ossi omniend emquidus atiis repuda translation, there remains a gap of venes diciis dis vit ut et enduciet knowledge between psychological rest, officipietur sunt doles nullabo evidence and design implications. rionsero ex es eatur moluptae laut These factors have often led to (G 16, S 1). Figure 48 – Section B‐B’ que comniaerio comnia qui as arbitrary and intuitive designs of  Access to the garden is provided to provide possibilities for outdoor learning and modit, odio cuptate si odit, nesequis learning environments that do not Annotations (for Fig. 47, 48): physical activity (G 15, S 4; G 16, S 1). doloreperat est, si od ut facipsa always accommodate the special  Intense summer daylight is reflected back from the exterior light shelf. This helps to simolupta nonse eumquas as am behavioral and cognitive needs of prevent overheating of the LE (see G 25.1; S 1). doloren tiant. persons on the Autistic Spectrum.  Winter sunrays reflect from the light shelves and deliver the diffused light into the LE (G Ibea nimin enimillam il eatias This thesis strives to address these 5.1; S 2). expelenihit aut voles nem etur problems focusing on elementary Translucent material of the exterior light shelf reflects a portion of a light but still diffuse and transmit some of its amount into the LE (G 5.1; G 5.2). Translucent material also andandi omnit re core vidus magnis aged students. conet, omnis enis enimaximi, Classroom Design. Circulation: 86 optatius, excestrum ere am es The accommodation of perceptual abo. Itatem dolore magnis dolorec and cognitive needs and the provision Figure 51 – Thermal conditions in the LE erferiam, enempor ehendit am et of support for learning are the two voloreri corpora erciet alit laniet most important goals for design  Annotations (Fig. 51): excepro eaquae nis aut inullenis of the learning environments. It is  Mechanical air system is able to maintain a proper air exchange rate to eliminate air moles re aut abo. Nam a es aut critical for designers to understand contaminants in the LE (G 24, S2). acipiciatem repelectiae pelentibust the complex network of perceptual destioresed eatur si cus dolent offici  The aerodynamic shapes of a ductwork will reduce turbulence and noise (G 10.1, S 1). factors that need to be embedded in The noise produced by fan can be reduced by the non‐fibrous sound absorption or different features of the environment. offic tota dolecae mil idelenderem baffles. es venit res consequae. Aboraecatur,  The water radiant heaters embedded in the wall under the windows will block the drafts This work provides an important quam esto od evenditios dolest (G 24, S 1 and S 2). asimolore, cor adit, sedis sum as step forward to address the lack of maio temquia ssinvel maxim iundel comprehensive knowledge regarding molorepel maximen duciaessima the interaction between those on the vent, sitat quiam eariae. Itate eici Autistic Spectrum and environment 91 optus eici dis ratFigure 67 – Furniture properties voloriorem fugitiore and the knowledge gap between the voluptur? design and scientific communities. Annotations (Fig. 67): Ces as volore velestibus est, ute  Mesh used for table surface material in order to prevent a dust accumulation (G 24, S 3). pedit, et quodips aeriaest ut dolupic  Chairs are made of light plastic and handles in the backs are provided to allow students aborepu dandis nihicae essinve In addition, the doorframes have distinct colors. This will assist students in navigation and decision‐making (G 23, S 1).

Figure 54 – Classroom Interior 1

Annotations (Fig. 54):

 Movable boards and letter‐boards are provided to present the information in places where it is most relevant (G 4.1, S 3).

 Neutral and light palette is used for background elements (G 8, S 1; G 5.2, S 1).

 Semi‐indirect lighting and diffused daylight provide soft visual environment (G 5.1, S1 and S 2).

 Monochromatic palette is used for functionally linked objects to help students construct the concept of the “activity” occurring in the space (G 18, S 1).  The number of saturated objects and details is minimized (G 8, S 2 and S 3).

 Doors of the LE have an embedded glazing to enhance the space transitions (G 1.1, S 3).

Figure 55 – Classroom Interior 2

Annotations (Fig. 55):

In addition to its primary function, the information board defines center of the LE (G 21,

easier manipulation of the furniture (G 2, S 2).

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The current dynamic between the architect and manufacturer remains undeveloped and distant. However, advances in technology and manufacturing techniques can now align, which presents an opportunity to change this dynamic. This thesis seeks to investigate the changing relationship between architects and manufacturers. The creation of a manufacturing tool provides a manufacturer with the ability to create more customizable parts. It also gives architects the ability to change the product created by the manufacturer. This suggests an alternative to the catalog spec-based architecture prevalent in modern construction.

Wire cutting has been used in industrial terracotta production since the industrial revolution, when rotating wirecutters were used to slice extruded bricks to accurate lengths. These machines predominately utilized a single axis of movement to modify one dimension (the length) of a manufactured part. The four-axis wirecutter is meant to give designers control over the manufacturing process. By creating feedback systems that expose the constraints of terracotta, designers should be able to incorporate the properties of terracotta into their works rather than simply using existing terracotta shapes.

Figure 5-10 Z-Axis control vertical motion of the gantry, a large steel plate, which is actuated by a vertical ball screw.

construction could commence. First the table height had to be adjustable, extruded profiles come out of the extruder at various heights depending on the shape of the die. The extrusion machine must remain stationary while the wirecutter must adjust its height to accommodate. The initial plan to have two smaller stepper motors move the two halves of the conveyor belt was also scrapped. Tests were conducted and the force required for moving terracotta across the table plus the cutting force was too great for stepper motors, instead a servo motor which produces higher torque would have to be used. Servo motors are more expensive and more difficult to control. Rather than attempt to synchronize two stepper motor it was decided that it would be easier to

Figure 5-11 C-Axis controls rotation of the cutting wire, which is actuated by a timing pulley attached to a large ring gear.

mechanically connect the two table conveyors and power them off a single more powerful motor. After numerous torque calculations were performed a motor was selected as well as a 50 to 1 gear box to increase the torque and lower the speed of the servo motor. The y axis design also required a redesign of several components before it was ready to be constructed. The two parallel threaded rods were replaced with a single ball screw. Threaded rod was an issue for controlling linear movement of the machine due to the high amount of backlash <note> and the percentage of force lost to friction in the threaded nut. While the ball screw was more expensive it provided a 95% force transfer, this allowed stepper motors to be used

Figure 5-8 X-Axis a conveyor belt driven by a single large servo moves parts along the belt and integrates into production.

Four Axis Wirecutter Upon completion of the directed research phase of the thesis project, I began discussions with engineers to ensure the constructability of the conceptual four axis wirecutter I was proposing. Every axis needed several changes to allow it to withstand use in an industrial facility. These changes were discussed at length with various engineers mechanical and electrical both in and out of the field of industrial terracotta production. Following discussions with the engineers, I produced shop drawings depicting the various parts that had to be redesigned before all the parts were sent to a machine shop for custom manufacture. As many parts as possible were selected from the catalogs of

Figure 5-9 Y-Axis moves the gantry from left to right, the axis is housed in a steel frame which is driven by a horizonal ball screw.

numerous industrial suppliers, however several parts had to be milled for the machine. Designing the machine using parts that were not off the shelf proved to be significantly more costly and required a greater turnaround time, however, given the rigorous demands for the machine successfully integrated into the existing extruded terracotta workflow, these parts were deemed necessary. Force calculations were performed on every bearing block, electric motor and ball screw before it was purchased, the calculations can be found in their entirety in the appendices. Before each part was ordered, calculations checked several part variations to determine which would best suit the proposed machine. The x axis required significant redesign before

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

NETWORKED ECOLOGIES Albis Ariel Del Barrio Batista, Wei Dai, Peter Foti, Xiaosu Guan, Philip Gusmano, Stefanie Holzheu, Alicia Marvan, Adam McFillin, Chan Yu Ou, Lisa Pusch, Daniel Vrana M ark S hep ard

Coordi n a tor

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

S itu ated Tech nolo g ies Res earc h S t ud io A RC 606 | Grad uate

Our lives are increasingly entangled with a variety of networks at a variety of scales. We find ourselves trying to untangle them in an effort to better understand them. Mapping networked ecologies is by no means new. Yet, when doing so, unexpected associations often emerge, and new avenues for intervening within them present themselves. This studio provided a critical context for experimental practice engaging in contemporary networked ecologies. Two tactics were used as a foil for the operative milieu: the ruse and the exploit. The ruse manifests itself within contemporary mediaart practices that draw on cultures of hacking and appropriation, where the performance within physical “public” space of a critical action gains agency through its proliferation throughout networked media and information systems. The exploit involves taking advantage of something ̶ a person, situation, a network ̶ unethically or unjustly for one’s own ends. Alternatively, an exploit may take the same thing and make better collective use of it, which was not originally intended. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex relations between human, natural and artificial systems, the team investigated contemporary assemblages of networked ecologies and study how they can be influenced, shaped and mediated by a variety of techniques and technologies.

BUFFALO IN... Traveling can enhance architecture studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; awareness of the world and bring them closer to understanding global diversity and appreciating what is universal and unique to a culture.

The School of Architecture and Planning offers exchange programs, study abroad programs, trips within the United States, and global summer studios each year at local and international locations. Exchange programs, US travel programs, and summer study abroad programs are offered on a regular basis. Global studios are offered each summer at differing locations from year to year in order to provide the most diverse studio opportunities for students. Just as the university promotes outward exploration by students, the school also seeks relevent pioneers in the fields of architecture and planning to engage with students at the school. This exposure aids in broadening the academic awareness and provides opportunities for the student body to learn from professionals and academics outside of the school. Even on their own, students actively seek opportunities to represent themselves, their work and the school through design competitions.

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

BCN ON ITS HEAD John Costello, Rahul Ghera, Kensie McNamara, Robert Miller, Sara MirzaRasoolzadeh, Christian Narvaez, Caroline Niederpruem, Matthew Rosen, Jennifer Salton, Charles Schmidt, Brandon Stone, Marc Velocci Dennis M aher N erea Feliz

Barc elo n a, S pain S u mmer S t udy Ab ro ad P ro g ram

Antoni Gaudi was an architect who turned a discipline on its head. His visionary work demonstrates not only an original synthesis of architectural history—one that fused Gothic and Oriental precedents with forms observed in nature— but also a unique sensibility for materials and geometry that has led to a recent resurgence of interest in his technical methods. During the semester in Barcelona, students took a cue from Gaudi’s tactic of inversion and from the story of Gaudi’s unfinished church at Colonia Guell—a church that was designed with the aid of Gaudi’s upside-down models but, for financial reasons, was never completed. Each student pursued a design project by inverting an iconic building within the city of Barcelona and imagining that inverted building as a half-finished construction and conducted research on that building, searching within it for clues as to how its inversion might be completed today.

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

A CENTRO DE EDUCACIĂ&#x201C;N CREATIVA

Storm Lee Armstrong, Garrett Herbst, Caitlyn Keyes, Tomas Mason, Harlee Tanner

S e a n B urkholder

M o n teve rd e , Co st a R i c a Summ e r St u dy Ab ro a d P ro g ra m

The students worked on three projects while in Costa Rica. All projects focused on the issue of water. One project looked into how to screen or beautify a series of existing waterdistribution tanks in the city of Santa Elena. Another worked on a watercentric masterplan for a local school campus that addressed problems of flooding, erosion and pollution in ways that were both aesthetically pleasing and educational. The last project was the construction of a new headquarters for the watermanagement authority, AYA, in Monteverde that used water in its Entrance Perspective various conditions of cleanliness to inform both the building and the site. 72

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TERE TARTU

Student(s)

Eric Chambers, Ashlie Clement, Matthew Esposito, Patrick Jacobitti, Hongkai Li, Sicong Ma, Thomas Mascari, Liam Robinson, Matthew Waldman, Rio Zhao

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r

Dr. Daniel Hess

Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

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E s to n ia S u mmer S t udy Ab ro ad P ro g ram

PROMENADE PROPOSAL PROMENADE PROPOSAL

The course takes place in the Baltic States and is centered in Estonia, recognized for its high standard of living, wholesome way of life, upand-coming economy, and export of technology.

Students first investigated the nature of cities and explored different theoretical approaches to understanding cities and urbanization. Taking European and Baltic cities as examples, students carefully examined the architecture and built environment of these cities and explored their foundations in history, politics, economics, culture, urban planning and building laws. They paid particular attention to the different histories of national intervention and local initiatives, as these gain new importance in regard to European unification. While this first portion concentrated on Europe, the analysis provides a backdrop for studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; understanding of American cities and urban and regional planning in the United States. Students then compared urban sustainability planning and policy in Europe and the U.S. Students met with planning officials, urban planning scholars, and activists to learn firsthand about the sustainability issues facing northern Europeans.

SECOND NATURE: FUTURE GROUNDS Adam Grenci, Xiaosu Guan, Lauren Josselyn, Catherine Maier, Edgar Martinez, Kaitlyn Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell, Anthony Santoro, Kiernan Smith, Michael St. John, Peter Urban, William Van Deusen Jr. M a rk Sh epard

Nethe rl a n d s Summ e r St u dy Ab ro a d P ro g ra m

Second Nature: Future Grounds focused on contemporary urban agglomerations through the ecologies of human, natural and artificial systems that constitute them. Coincident with the increasing urbanization of the planet is the advent of intensifying social and environmental pressures, ranging from ever-more- powerful superstorms and regional flooding to accelerating socio-economic inequality, unrest and upheaval. Within this context, cities cannot be understood in isolation from the regional contexts that surround and support them. Second Nature: Future Grounds explored new strategies and tactics for the design and planning of urban regions that are understood not in opposition toâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;but in consort withâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;natural processes. Relations between peoples, the natural world and the built environment were examined. Students explored how these can be influenced, shaped, and mediated by a variety of new and emerging techniques and technologies. Emphasis was placed on transnatural, bio-mimetic and other post-sustainable design methods for addressing social and environmental change within urbanized regions.

PROJECT TITLE

TOKYO 2014

Student(s)

Andrew Barkhouse, Zakaria Boucetta, James Kubiniec, Daniel Lamm, Leslie Loo, Ryan Macari, Kyle McMindes, Gabrielle Roncone, Louis Rosario, Michael Rigaglia, John Sanchez, Nick Traverse

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r

N icholas Bruscia Christop her Rom ano

Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

To k yo , J apan S u mmer S t udy Ab ro ad P ro g ram

Tokyo 2014 was the Department of Architecture’s fourth trip to Japan in recent years. The program is very much in-situ, requiring firsthand documentation and exhaustive fieldwork throughout the city. The studio workshop entitled Adaptive Metrics, Faraway Measures, attempted to interpret the data taken from the fieldwork to propose a flexible, non-dimensional metric able to span the continuous urban transformations inherent to Tokyo. The trip also includes a week-long excursion by high-speed rail to visit some of Japan’s most significant historic architectural sites, including Ise, Nara, Kyoto, Osaka, Himeji, Hiroshima and Fukuoka.

TOKYO UNSEEN 東京見えない measuring the internal paths connecting Tokyo, Japan Annotation Key 解法 [ ] Elevators [ ] Escalator [ ] Horizontal Circulation [ ] Point of Transition [ ] Ramp [ ] Stairs [ ] Turnstile Exit [ ] Vertical Circulation [ ] Vertical Path [ ] Vertical End

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Yebisu Garden Place Tower: Floor 39 Lookout Area

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Platforms 1+2: Yamanote Line Platform 3+4: Saikyo+Rinka-Shonan Shinjuku

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In addition, the program collaborated with Professor Daisuke Hirose and students from the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) on an intensive fiveday digital-fabrication workshop supported by Shioya Sangyo Ltd, a 100-year-old metals fabricator based in Fukushima. The student team designed and assembled a fullscale hyperbolic steel frame that was fabricated using Shioya’s industrial 6-axis 3D laser-cutter.

JAMMAL LECTURE

Jonathan Richmond International Planning

A scholar and advisor on transportation and governance, Jonathan Richmond’s greatest current concerns are about stemming the corruption that destroys chances of effective growth taking place in many of the world’s developing countries. He also seeks to build better governance by harnessing the enthusiasm and integrity of the younger government workers who generally have high ambitions for their countries, hate corruption, and wish to move their nations forward. His lecture, “Approaches to Professionalism in the Face of Mismanagement or Corruption in Developing Countries” touched upon his experiences.

CLARKSON CHAIRS

Guy Nordenson Architecture

A professor of architecture and structural engineering at Princeton University, Guy Nordenson has been a practicing structural engineer since 1978. He also co-founded the Structural Engineers Association of New York in 1994. Currently he and his team have been developing “Structures of Coastal Resilience,” research on climate adaptation and flood-hazard mitigation in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. While at UB, he offered several workshops, visited several classes and presented a public lecture, “Reading Structures.”

Emily Talen Planning

The 2014 Clarkson Chair in Planning, Emily Talen, is Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability. Her research is devoted to urbanism, urban design and social equity. As the Clarkson Chair, she held a public lecture as well as a community workshop which addressed the topic of neighborhood-level diversity and how planning can address challenges in achieving it.

BANHAM FELLOW

Jordan Carver Architecture

An architectural writer, researcher, and educator, Jordan Carver was Managing Editor at GSAPP Books at Columbia University and is currently a co-organizer of Who Builds Your Architecture? an advocacy group working on globalization and labor. As the Banham Fellow, his work examined the relationships between state funding, public infrastructure, and civic identity in the Buffalo region. This research was realized through site-specific installations and a public symposium, “The Aesthetics of Citizenship.” The symposium simply asks, “What does taxation in the built environment look like?” Less simply, “How do those aesthetic qualities influence the ways in which the public understand their role as tax provider, voter, and public-space user?”

PROJECT TITLE Student(s)

BLOK Andrew Koudlai + Moath Rababah

P rofes s o r P rofes s o r Co o rd i n a to r

Juni o r D e s i g n S t u di o ARC xx x | Unde rg ra du a te

I I DE X Can ad a Wo o d s ho p S electe d E n t ry fo r E x hib it io n

The International Interior Design Exhibition in Canada sought design entries, which proposed solutions to the ever-increasing supply of infected ash trees. Introduced pests like the Emerald Ash Borer have caused a significant amount of ash trees to be cut down. These trees generally are destined for landfills, however, â&#x20AC;&#x153;IIDEX Canada Woodshop will reduce the nimber of ash trees headed for the landfill by proposing innovative, market-ready commercial and consumer prototypes.â&#x20AC;?

Blok is a minimalist furniture piece that appears as a single cube and comes apart to provide two tables, two chairs, and a storage space. The design uses ashwood as the structure, which traces the edges of each piece of furniture to form various doubly cantilevered structural frames to which glass panels are affixed. The result is a series of intertwined structural lines of wood, floating within a transparent cube.

THE LOTUS RESORT HOTEL Wei Dai + Minku Jeon

B ri a n Carter M i c ha el Williams

As s o c. o f Co lle g i a te S c h o o ls o f A rc h. Fabri c i n A rc h i te c t u re Co m p e t ition Secon d P l a ce 2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 3

Fabric being characterized by its tensile and compressive abilities, it best annotates the balance and relationship between architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s geometric form and the natural characters of the material. Considering not only the ductility quality, the fabricâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s light-weight quality largely reduces the load of floating device, which best suits this purpose.

Juror Comments: This design submission is both romantic and adventurous while creating striking imagery inspired by the natural structure of a lily pad. Achieved through biomimicry, Lotus Resort Hotel displays an evident comprehensive understanding of the tensile roof system being deployed. With fewer complexities and challenges of a large-scale project, the design has an overall greater sense of detail and thoughtful refinement. While the concept is strong, the project poses important questions of life safety and structural stability. However, there are many exciting possibilities to resolve these issues and further develop the structure, such as working with the buoyancy of the pod structures.