Caitlin mccabe portfolio 2014

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Caitlin McCabe

Architectural Portfolio Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Bachelor of Architecture 2014



Architectural Portfolio

Student Work B.ARCH 2014 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Caitlin McCabe

(845)249-8983 Caitlinmccabe12@gmail.com 10 Dwyer Lane Wappingers Falls, New York, 12590 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Bachelor of Architecture 2014 Minor in Psychology


Table of Contents NUK II Plein Air Tower Center of Excellence South Bund Redevelopment Apartment Complex Adaptive Resiliency Creating Space Recycled Materials


Table of Contents

Architectural Portfolio

NUK II

Lujbjana, Slovenia Design Development Spring 2013

Plei Air Tower

New York, New York Center for Architecture Science and Ecology Fall 2011

Center of Excellence

RPI Campus, Troy, New York Design Studio 6 Spring 2013

South Bund Redevelopment

Shanghai, China Design Studio 5 Spring 2012

Apartment Complex

Troy, New York Design Studio 5 Spring 2011

Adaptive Resiliency

Poughkeepsie, New York Thesis Spring 2014

Creating Space

Design Studio 2 Fall 2009

Recycled Materials

Design Studio 1 Fall 2009


NUK II

This was a group project in collaboration with Michael Mancuso and Tatianna Hart. In this studio, we started with the schematic design of Kamvari Architects for the National and University Library in Ljubljana, Slovenia and brought the design through to the design development phase. Our main concept was to extend the horizontal plane by lifting it and wrapping it vertically to hover over and preserve the roman ruins excavated on the site. The circulation strategy is a continuous spiral through the entire building by the use of sloped surfaces. Along these sloped surfaces are the books stacks so that you circulate through the books as you wind up the building. The sloped surfaces create a staggered flooring pattern in section which visually connects all the different spaces with in the library.


NUK II

Lujbjana, Slovenia Design Development Spring 2013


building forms a continuous spiral

sectional visual connectivity across courtyard

public garden circulation

improved pedestrain flow through site and ruins

continuous longitudinal form comprises three distinct, rotated bars

building circulation is orthogonal through slabs and cores

micro/macro spiral circulation utiliizing ramping and slabs

sectional visual discontinuity within building interior

integrated interior physical connectivity and exterior visual connectivity

public urban circulation

optimum (time-saving) public circulation avoids contact with site and ruins

unrolled longitudinal form is primarily flat and consistent

garden as urban extension

improved pedestrian traffic engaged with site and ruins

unrolled longitudinal form is dynamic, expanding, and iconic

TUBE BOTTOM TUBE TOP STRUCTURAL TEE NEAR RAMPs FAR RAMPS FLOOR BAR DIVISION CORE CLEARANCE


NUK II

Lujbjana, Slovenia Design Development Spring 2013


Plein Air Tower


Plei Air Tower

New York, New York Center for Architecture Science and Ecology Fall 2011

COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS

345°

14 m/ s

1 5°

330°

NORTHERN WINTER WINDS 30°

11 m/ s 31 5°

45°

FIXED CONNECTION 8 m/ s 300°

60°

5 m/ s

285°

75°

3 m/ s

INTAKE (CLOSED)

255°

1 05°

240°

1 20°

225°

1 35°

21 0°

SOUTHERN SUMMER WINDS

-AIR TOWER towers twist to access panoramic views, accounting for differences in floor height & size

1 50°

1 95°

1 65°

INTAKE (OPEN)

etfe envelope shrinks to cover program, leaving air gap for updraft air circulation

full system accomodates mixed program while creating a variety of environments tailored to the type of user

etfe mullions mapped to skin. they become more dense at residential areas to simulate glazing

400’

250’ 130’

district exposure

regional exposure

local exposure

This was a group project in callaboration with Jessica Bristo, Elizabeth Walsh, and Josh Gerber. Our design solution looks to optimize In designing a tall building for the site at 8 Spruce Street (New York, NY), We intended to capture the wind and solar energies offered by the site’s relative exposure, in an effort to reduce the need for mechanical systems. Specifically, we will accelerate the already prevalent N-W winter winds into the building envelope to generate power, using the building’s overall torqueing geometry, coupled with a textured façade which will aid in creating surface turbulence during the summer. Additionally, the site occupies a busy pedestrian zone – comingling students, commerce, and residents, as well as relative proximity to City Hall. The site will serve as a confluence of program, with the objective of providing a variety of meeting spaces and means of access between the site and neighboring streets.


PLAN

CLOSED CONDITION

SECTION

PLAN

OPEN CONDITION

15’

10’ 12’

6’

20’

3’

SECTION


Plei Air Tower

New York, New York Center for Architecture Science and Ecology Fall 2011


Center of Excellence


Center of Excellence

RPI Campus, Troy, New York Design Studio 6 Spring 2013

Facade Iterations

Unrolled Facade Elevations Facade Iterations

Facade

This project was a Center of Excellence located on RPI Campus in Troy, New York. The building massing is one curve that is generating from the slope of the site it is on, connecting RPI Campus to the City of Troy. There is one grand curving staircase the leads all the way up the terracing floors of the building. The program switches from the North side of the building, allowing for maxium views looking back on RPI Campus, to the south side of the building, allowing for maximum views overlooking the City of Troy. The facade pattern was designed in Grasshopper, and it responded directly to the program with in the building. The more public the space was, the more open the facade was,and vice versa; the more private the spaces, the more closed the facade was.

SECTION

Section 3

Scale 1:1/16


South Bund Redevelopment


South Bund Redevelopment Urban Circulation Diagram

Large Scale vs Small Scale Diagram

Ferry terminal

Massing Diagram

Shanghai, China Design Studio 5 Spring 2012

nodeE

Hotel Indigo

nodeF

nodeD

JiuShi Tower(Office) Golden Bund(Resicents) Riveerview Hotel Tourists Bus Parking Riverview Apartments

nodeC nodeB:LINKING

nodeA:Prologue

nodeC:CONFLICT

nodeD:CROSSING

nodeE:WEAVING

nodeE:Epilog

large scale landscapes] + programs under the ground

Tourists Bus Parking Tunnel Museum Shanghai Old Street

nodeB

Low-income Residents Area Old Town Art World nodeA

park ing plot

Yuyuan Shopping Mall Yu Garden(HuXin Pavilion) City Temple

4from plaza

Yuyuan small theater PUBLIC -----------more open to the citizens and tourists

Shopping Square

PRIVATE----------less easy to get into

5from waterfront park

Culture Event

4from plaza

5from waterfront park

1from old town

6from ferry

2from cross road

6from ferry

small scale of shops +programs above the ground

3from main road

PLANS AND SECTIONS TERMINALL FOR TOURISTS

WATERFRONT PARK

FERRY TERMINAL

x s s x 0

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2

3

4

5

6

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waterfront park

ferry terminal

plaza2 tourist ship terminal

tower3

plaza3 tower1

tower2

tower4

This project was in collaboration with Xie Jie. This was a redevelopment of the South Bund to create a more public accesible uraban strategy. It was located on the Huangpu River front in Shanghai, China.The concept for this project was creating an urban stratagey that allowed people from all different backrounds to come and interact with each other.One thing that interested us the most was the changing of small to large scale program along Old Shanghai Street, from Yu Yuan leading towards our site. This urban stratagey took on the task of interconnecting these two types of spaces tosee them as one instead of as drastically different entities. From this idea, emerged a wave-like project: a mix of landscape and architecture, where you can be on the ground floor of one building and walk a few steps and be ont the top of another. There is a blurring of what is exterior and what is interior.


Apartment Complex


Apartment Complex

Troy, New York Design Studio 5 Spring 2011

ANALYSIS DIAGRAMS

N

N

Summer Solstice

Spring Equinox Autumn Equinox

Winter Solstice

Natural Light Infiltrating the Crevasse

Expanding from Confined to Free

N N

Moving From the Open to the More Confined back to the Open

Extending the River view from the Street

This project was based off a case study house, the Maison Aho by Alvar Alto. The program of this project was a 24 unit apartment complex for visiting and permanent scholars. The location was on the Hudson River in downtown Tory, New York. I took the idea of the confined breaking away to the open from the prilimanary study on Alvar Aalto’s Maison Aho. It started out as one full massing and then started to break away from eachother and the site. The creavasse between the two buildings is a continuation of one of the main roads in downtown Troy. Not only does the building continue the idea of confined moving to the free but the continuation of the main road through the tight space between the buildings opening back up the the Hudson River holds that idea as well.


STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM

PLANS

Third Floor Scale 1/8

First Floor Scale 1/8

Second Floor Scale 1/8

Third Floor Scale 1/8


Apartment Complex SECTIONS

Troy, New York Design Studio 5 Spring 2011


Adaptive Resiliency


Adaptive Resiliency

ON PROJECTIONS

A lot of buildings are designed with one intenEXCAVATION tion. These buildings often become abandoned because they served out their purpose and are no longer relevant to the community. A huge part of the reason their service is no longer needed is because of the advances in technology; the more advanced we, as a civilization become, the more large industries become irrelevant to the city and therefore become abanCONSTRUCTION doned. PROJECTIONS These abandoned sites start to put a strain on EXCAVATION the city; they become holes in the city fabric. These blighted sites lower the economy of the city and have the potential to make surrounding buildings become abandoned as well leading to a decline of a once thriving city. Designing for the future means designing a reactive and adapting building form. Is there a way to design something that reacts to it’s environment, so that it doesn’t matter if we are no longer here and some other life form comes into existence, the design will be able to react and adapt to become relevant to them. My proposal will be able to assess the changing environment and networks of people in the surrounding city and be able to adapt and change the buildings use and morphology without having it be abandoned. How can we revitalize and redesign the SITE MAPPED WITH POLLUTED SPOTS

POLLUTION MAP ALONG HUDSON RIVER

POLLUTION MAP IN POUGHKEEPSIE

Poughkeepsie, New York Thesis Spring 2014

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTIONS CONSTRUCTION

EXCAVATION

ACCRETIONCONSTRUCTION SITE MAPPED WITH POLLUTED SPOTS

FIRST LAYER OF SCAFFOLDING IMBEDDED IN GROUND

TOXICITY OF SITE

FIRST LAYER OF SCAFFOLDING IMBEDDED IN GROUND

SECOND LAYER OF SCAFFOLDING CONSTRUCTED MOST COVERED AREAS ARE THE MOST POLLUTED

MOST COVERED AREAS ARE THE MOST POLLUTED

SCAFFOLDING IS RAISED UP HIGHER IN THE POLLUTED SPOTS FOR A GREATER POSSIBILITY OF FULL ENCLOSURES

ACCRETION IS FORMED BY USING THE POLLUTANTS IN THE SOIL ALONG WITH THE HELP OF A 3D PRINTER BOT TO CREATE CRYSTAL STRUCTURES THAT ARE ABLE TO GROW IN RESPONSE TO THE INHABITANTS INTERACTIONS.

CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION SITE MAPPED WITH POLLUTED SPOTS

FIRST LAYER OF SCAFFOLDING IMBEDDED IN GROUND SECOND LAYER OF SCAFFOLDING CONSTRUCTED MOST COVERED AREAS ARE THE MOST POLLUTED

SCAFFOLDING IS RAISED UP HIGHER IN THE POLLUTED SPOTS FOR A GREATER POSSIBILITY OF FULL ENCLOSURES

ACCRETION CREATE CR

already abandoned sites to allow them to adapt and keep adapting with the changing networks surrounding it? The cause of this abandonment is because of the failing networks that aren’t resilient enough to withstand when one node fails. We need to design resilient networks so that places won’t fail, but will adapt and reorganize itself to the changing environment. Poughkeepsie was a major hub for industry and commerce which helped it connect with other blossoming cities. During the Industrial Revolution, this site was an iron yard. It was a very important part of the growth of the city. It’s location within the city and it’s large size allows for a greater potential of

community interaction, which is a key factor in a thriving city. I chose this site because the site itself isn’t only a hole, but the surrounding but the surrounding roads are very seldomly traveled. This leads to abandonment of surrounding because there is no traffic flow. Since it is an industrial site, there is certain levels of pollution on the site. This leads to complications when trying to the reuse of the site usually, but for my proposal it creates an opportunity for site adaptation.


PROGRAM PROJECTIONS

SCAFFOLDING DIAGRAMS

DIFFERENT PROGRAMS ON SITE

PARK AREA

LIVING LAB

CAFES

CULTURE LAB EVENT SPACES

SITE PROGRAM

USE OF SPACE THROUGHOUT THE DAY

COLLEGE STUDENTS TOURISTS DAY VISITORS RESIDENTS WORKERS

7AM

9AM

11AM

1PM

3PM

5PM

EXTERIOR SCAFFOLDING

INTERIOR SCAFFOLDING

Because I am looking at specifically old abandoned industrial sites, these sites contain different levels of toxins through out the site. The scaffolding is placed on the site in two steps. Step one is scaffolding that gets imbedded in the ground. The more polluted the area, the more metal scaffolding gets placed on top of that area. The next step, the scaffolding is placed and lifted up, 18 feet where the pollution is the worst and 9 feet where the pollution is less. The raised scaffolding allows the accretion in phase 3 to grow in between and create functioning walls and structure. Depending on how much the accretion grows, people would be able to inhabit or walk on the scaffolding and accretion.

SITE USERS

7PM

9PM

11PM

1AM

As time goes on, and the feedback loop continues, body 2 can start to excavate more soil and more structure based on the maps and projections from body 1. It can also begin to extract parts of what body 3 constructs if it becomes irrelevant again. There are two existing buildings. One of them is programed to be a cultural lab and the other one is programmed to be an innovation lab. These programs will help the city become connected to a larger scale of networks through the innovation in technology it is producing but also is able to strengthen its cultural networks on a local scale.


Adaptive Resiliency

Poughkeepsie, New York Thesis Spring 2014


SITE TIMELINE INITIAL STATE

PHASE 1:PROJECTION

PHASE 2: CONSTRUCTION

PHASE 3:ACCRETION

PHASE 4: ADAPTATION

NO GROWTH

SOME GROWTH (SEATING)

MORE GROWTH (WALLS)

CONTINUAL GROWTH (ENCLOSURES)

The slow forming accretion works and reacts with the sites inhabitants. In the diagram of circulation over time, there are lines that show pure circulation and then larger dark spots, the larger and darker the spot, the more people stop there. This map then informs the accretor to start forming accretion in those spots because there needs to be seating and walls

for people to sit on when they stop. This newly formed accretion brings even more people to these specific spots and over time allows the accretion to form into completely inhabitable, semi-enclosed spaces for other possible programs to take over.


Adaptive Resiliency

Poughkeepsie, New York Thesis Spring 2014


Creating Space


Creating Space

Design Studio 2 Fall 2009

This was a group project in collaboration with Elizabeth Walsh, Michael Stradley, Niraj Patel, and Nicole Christenson. We studied the various structures of architecture: the gridshell, the folded plate, the ruled surface and tensegrity. We were to take two of these structural designs and combined them to create one structural element where both systems were dependant on each other. For our project, we chose the gridshell and the folded plate. The folded plate system is weaved through the gridshell to create very interesting lighting effects. Also, the combination of the two systems gives the feeling of and enclosure.


Recycled Materials


Recycled Materials

Design Studio 1 Fall 2009

This project was designed to create interesting space using recycled materials. I chose to use the bottoms of water bottles for my recycled material. To start to create space, I cut the bottoms of the water bottles into five sections and started to interlock them and tab them for extra support. When I started to interlock multiple water bottle bottoms, the clear, transparent quality of the bottle started to change. The more modules that were interlocked, the more opaque they became. I started to use this quality in creating space. Different spaces were more opaque and other spaces were very transparent. This effect also created very interesting lighting qualities.


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