IMAGE (left) Union Station Bicycle Transit Center in Washington, DC | 2008
KGP design studio Washington, DC | 2012-Present
KGP design studio (KGP) has collaborated with our clients to transform their specific needs into design solutions that positively affect individuals, communities and cities. With offices in Washington, Honolulu and Manila, the firm benefits from a diverse team, sharing resources on a global scale to provide the best possible support for our clients and craft a unique strategy of development for every project. With over 30 years of experience in transit projects, the firm’s efforts have focused on transit design from its inception. The firm serves as the architectural consultant to WMATA, with a range of projects such as the high profile upgrade of the current Washington Metro underground station. Similarly KGP was the architectural consultant for WMATA providing services the Columbia Pike Transit Initiative, Environmental Planning and Small Starts. Under this contract KGP provided planning and design services for station and yard facilities. KGP is currently the architectural consultant to MTA for the Purple Line - EIS and Preliminary Engineering phases, leading design development of elevated structures, bridge design and station facilities. Project scopes range from new station designs, facilities, canopies, pedestrian bridges, furnishings and graphics as well as connections to MARC Stations. KGP designed all the prototype stations and canopies for the new Honolulu Transit rail line, now under construction, having previously planned the transit oriented development (TOD) in the1993 EIS study. Other major transit projects include the design and construction of 13 stations for Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT), developing a Master Plan TOD next to the EDSA Central station and planning and station design for the Red Line in Tel Aviv.
PROJECTS LIST Bethesda WMATA Station of the Future -DC/MD/VA Capitol View Drive Residence - McLean, VA Chip Chair - New York City, NY Decker Avenue Residence - Baltimore, MD Dumbhouse - Washington, DC Fairfax Drive Multimodal Plaza - Arlington, VA Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge - Washington, DC Kennedy Center Pedestrian Passage - Washington, DC Meshroom Prototypes - Washington, DC Metropolitan Branch Trail Park - Washington, DC MTA Purple Line Station Architecture - MD MTA Red Line Urban Design - Baltimore, MD Riveredge Park Pedestrian Bridge - Aurora, IL Riverdale Park Purple Line Station - Riverdale Park, MD Rosslyn Metro Station Entrance & Mezzanine - Arlington, VA Silver Spring Purple Line Station - Silver Spring, MD West Heating Plant Pedestrian Bridge - Washington, DC WMATA Bike & Ride Facilities - DC/MD/VA www.kgpds.com - WEB
IMAGE (left) Type-2 Exterior Prototype Bike & Ride Facility at West Hyattsville Metro Station | 2014
WMATA Bike & Ride Various Locations DC, MD and VA | 2012-14 As the frame of reference in urban design projects evolves from automobile-centric to include the pedestrian and alternative transportation, municipalities are shifting their focus. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) along with KGP design studio are at the forefront of this new alternative transportation infrastructure. The huge success of bicycle facilities and bicycle public transit programs, such as Capital Bikeshare, has dramatically increased ridership in the Washington DC Metro area. These shifts have altered the landscape of public transportation for both urban and suburban commuters. With such rapid growth, new challenges must be met in order to continue such positive, sustainable growth. While bicycle racks provide an effective, low-cost, short-term parking solution, they only provide a modest amount of security to deter theft. Secure, long-term bicycle parking facilities are an essential component of bicycle based infrastructure and a key component for increasing the capacity of WMATA rail ridership. Two types, an interior-parking garage prototype and an exterior, free-standing prototype we’re developed to accommodate the wide range of locations WMATA intends on deploying these secure parking prototypes throughout their broader multimodal transit network. The design of these facilities considered all possible jurisdictional building codes, regulations and other criteria which could regulate its design very early in the process to minimize site variations without limiting the modularity of the prototypical design process.
EXISTING WMATA PROPOSALS BIKE & RIDE FACILITIES AT COLLEGE PARK, FRANCONIASPRINGFIELD AND VIENNA
DESIGN CRITERIA: Optimize Security Cost Effective Ease of Use CORE STRATEGIES TO TARGET DESIGN CRITERIA: Economy of assembly Modular / Site Adaptable Design Continuity Inside-out / Kit-of-parts approach
IMAGES (top) Proposed WMATA Design for Bike & Ride Exterior Prototype Facility at Vienna Metro (middle) WMATA designed interior Bike & Ride at UMD - College Park Station (bottom) Interior Photograph of WMATA designed Bike & Ride at UMD - College Park Station
IMAGES (top) Diagram illustrating cost optimization and formal logic for ‘boomerang’ shape (bottom) Interior perspective of Type-2 Exterior, Freestanding Prototype facility at FranconiaSpringfield Metro Station
SEPARATE STATION STRUCTURE AND ROOF STRUCTURE
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Type: Bicycle Facilities, Transit, Institutional/Cultural Client: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Cost: $2.4 million (estimated total) Status: Under Construction, 2014 Projected Completion General-JOC Contractor: Haris Design and Construction Co. Engineering Consultants: ARUP (Structural, IT and Electrical) + LANGAN (Civil and Geotech)
IMAGES (top) Vienna Type-1 Interior, Garage Prototype (middle) NoMA Type-X Hybrid Prototype (bottom) Franconia-Springfield Type-2 Exterior, Freestanding Prototype
A range of cost optimization strategies we’re settled upon early in the process to achieve the client’s strict budgetary limitations. Three core strategies to target the design criteria were developed: economy of assembly, continuity between prototypes and a kit-of-parts design approach. The value engineering strategy for an economy of assembly drove the design’s details to minimize onsite welding, utilize off-the shelf and readily available components and fabricate assemblies in the shop to the greatest extent possible. Design continuity between the prototypes and differing site locations throughout the system is established through graphics, materials and adaptability of the prototype for enlargement or reduction depending on site criteria. We achieved these results by designing the kit-of-parts first and developing robust design details which apply to all prototypes regardless of site adapted conditions. Repetition of structural connections, and facade & cladding details between the varying site conditions allows for pre-fabrication of building components to bring down installation and erection costs. The resulting innovative membrane roof and cable mesh structures are a highly visible catalyst, transforming their urban context while expanding transportation possibilities and walk ability.
IMAGES (left) Isometric detail of typical ‘boomerang’ rib assembly for Exterior, Freestanding Prototype (right) Isometric detail of typical column to beam/ rib assembly for both Interior and Exterior Prototype facilities
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IMAGES (top) Inside-Out design approach with typical panel connection details to maintain design continuity (bottom) West Hyattsville Type-2 Exterior, Freestanding Bike & Ride Facility
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IMAGE (left) Meshroom 35-Park with Trek branded PVC membrane advertisement in Dupont Circle | 2013
Meshroom 02.35.70 Product Development | 2011-14 The huge success of bicycle facilities and bicycle public transit programs, such as Capital Bikeshare, has dramatically increased ridership in the Washington DC Metro area. These shifts have altered the landscape of public transportation for both urban and suburban commuters. With such rapid growth, new challenges must be met in order to continue such positive, sustainable growth. While bicycle racks provide an effective, low-cost, short-term parking solution, they only provide a modest amount of security to deter theft. Secure, long-term bicycle parking facilities are an essential component of bicycle based infrastructure and a key component for increasing the capacity of WMATA rail ridership. The prototypes developed offer varying capacity, lowcost, pre-fabricated bicycle parking facilities, securing commuter bicycles from the elements and theft. To utilize a minimal amount of materials both in structure and enclosure, the two prototypes take inspiration from anticlastic tent forms. A exible stainless steel cable net provides secure transparent side walls and a variable fritted ETFE membrane provides overhead protection. Alternating angle racks provide maximum parking efficiency for up to 30 and 70 bicycles for each respective prototype, in a limited footprint. The elongated elliptical plan optimizes interior circulation and reduces potential pedestrian circulation conicts.
IMAGES (top left + right) PVC membrane advertising subsidies to offset upfront costs (bottom) 35-Park structural frame, custom racks and membrane assembly details (opposite bottom) Meshroom 70-Park Elongated Bicycle Parking Prototype Facility
Research Project / Prototype Design Bicycle Facilities (Patent Pending) Project Team: KGP design studio (Don Paine, William Gallagher, Eric Birkhauser, Chris Brown and Alex Lorman) Status: Product Development
IMAGE(S) (left) Decker Ave residence - Interior perspective at entrance/ living room area | 2013-14
Freelance Work Various Locations | 2010-15
Images of various residential, commercial, graphic design and other side projects. PROJECTS LIST Decker Ave Residence - Baltimore, MD La Patrinodomo Skatepark - CUBA SKATE Architecture DC blog - AIA|DC 800 S West Street - Wilmington, DE
IMAGE(S) (left) Decker Ave residence - Detail perspective at kitchen sink with integral concrete drainboard | 2013-14
Decker Ave Baltimore, MD | 2013-14
The transformation of this thin, outdated row home in Canton is a story of space optimization in all regards. The 10’-4” wide row home provided little opportunity for the traditional room structure as we know it and forced KGP’s hand in designing objects which serve multiple functions and nuanced spaces not traditionally used for such purposes. An 8’-0” wide bi-folding glass door was added to the rear of the property enabling the rear yard to function as an outdoor dining and multifunctional space as the weather permits. Natural light enters the dark middle areas of the home via skylights and interior transom windows. The offset linear plan layout optimized the addition upstairs allowing for an efficient plumbing and ventilation stack to minimize the disruption of utilities on the minimal available space. A ductless mini-split heating and cooling system is installed to further emphasize this goal. The kitchen island, a work of KGP in partnership with Baltimore area artisans at LUKE WORKS, LLC utilizes cast serving bowls within a concrete topping slab which is revealed through a slide- out waterfall leg. Wall cabinets used on the island created this 8” void and thus necessitated this truly unique design intervention.
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IMAGE(S) (top) Location map - Canton neighborhood (right) Perspective at rear addition with shiplap cedar rainscreen siding and indoor-outdoor living space (opposite) Floor plans from permit drawing set
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IMAGE(S) (bottom) Existing living room with large masonry ďŹ replace (right) Perspective at living room after renovations with oriiginal exposed masonry party wall and ceiling bulkhead along feature wall to conceal structure supporting addition (opposite) Sections from permit drawing set
IMAGE(S) (left) Existing kitchen with u-shaped cabinet configuration and patio door to late mudroom addition from 1980’s (right) Interior perspective from kitchen after renovation with indoor-outdoor living space accessed via 9’-0” wide glass folding door by La Cantina, mudroom addition has been removed
IMAGE(S) (bottom) Existing kitchen from mudroom (right) Interior perspective from kitchen after renovation with naturally illuminated spaces extending into the core of the rowhome, bathroom transom window in background (opposite) Sliding kitchen island undercabinet surface with removable cast insert bowls for serving, prep and entertaining
IMAGE(S) (left) Bathroom perspective at tub wall with 12” x 24” vertical running bond metal panel wall, salvaged and re-used from old 1930’s CPU room flooring at original rear facade of property (right) Bathroom perspective at service wall with pedestal sink, reclaimed wood vanity and natural bark wall shelf (opposite) Perspective from entrance door after renovations completed
IMAGE (left) The Reef Installation at NYC Storefront for Art and Architecture with Rob Ley, Urbana | 2009
Radical Craft Chicago, IL | 2011-12
Radical Craft (www.radical-craft.com), founded by Joshua G. Stein in 2005, is a Los Angelesbased studio that develops methods for the translation of craft operations into broader scales and domains. It recuperates the role that tradition and technique play in design and in a larger cultural context without forfeiting the advantages to both production and speculation that have been afforded by recent advances in digital technology. Exploring the production of urban spaces and artifacts through traditional or archaic phenomena (from archaeology to craft), the studio seeks to evolve newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by contemporary virtuality, velocity, and globalization. Through public art projects, installations, and speculative proposals, Radical Craft seeks to reconfigure urban and material patterns through a focus on the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary technology, unearthing outmoded concepts and strategies to re-inflect the current applications of novel technology.
PROJECTS LIST Ceramic House / Slip Screen - Los Angeles, CA Deviant Artifacts Exhibition - Los Angeles, CA Trajan’s Hollow - Rome, Italy Warwick Dunes - Warwick, RI
IMAGE (left) Perspective view at garage entrance ramp
Warwick Dunes TF Greene International Airport, RI | 2011
Warwick Dunes responds to the need for this public art intervention to operate both at the scale of the city/infrastructure and the scale of the pedestrian. By creating a flowing canopy of lightweight fi ns, the intervention creates a rippling landscape that like sand dunes, appears to shift over time. The billowing volume composed of brilliantly colored aluminum fi ns will be immediately visible upon arrival to Warwick, offering a visual marker for both the Interlink and the larger neighborhood around the facility. Meanwhile the attachment strategy from garage to street grants those walking along the sidewalk a respite from the scale of infrastructural space – an opportunity to meander along a boardwalk stretching over mounds of seashells dappled with light and shadow from the canopy above. By employing lightweight tension cables as the primary volume-making strategy, Warwick Dunes is able to create the greatest visual impact possible while minimizing the physical and logistical impact on the site. This makes for an inexpensive solution that negotiates the primary goal of screening an immense facade with the major constraints of budget and building code (i.e. open air requirements for the garage). The carefully calibrated rotation of the fins running along the set of 100 tension cables allows for the negotiation of porosity, both for vision and for airflow to the interior spaces of the garage. Because these fins vary in color on their reverse side, they also produce a dynamic undulating effect as one drives past - the surface of the canopy slowly shimmering from one color into another. They also directly reflect the rich nautical history of the region, both visually and technically.
IMAGES (top) Evening perspectives illustrating moire effect of colored metals fins at high speeds of passage (opposite page) Assembly details of cable rigging and panel attachment systems
Cables and rigging strategies have long been employed to manage the largest surface area possible in historical and contemporary sailing technology. Here they create something at the scale of both building and landscape. TF Greene has already keyed into the nautical tradition of Rhode Island, as the boats sheltered in the ticketing atrium demonstrate. The primary benefit t of this proposal is to transform the urban impact of the InterLink while simultaneously granting a more intimate and informal space to the public at the scale of the pedestrian experience. It also integrates local bus travel into the multi-modal InterLink facility by offering a waiting plaza/ experience for the RIPTA #8 to Providence. One of the key issues in making the area west of the InterLink into a viable area for development is creating a sense of place. But this sense must evolve both at the immense scale of the façade and that of the casual passerby. Mitigating the feeling of the infrastructural aesthetic is more than a simply visual issue. Warwick Dunes offers a moment of lightness and pause inside the space of transit infrastructure. It extends an invitation to find nostalgia and imagination in the place of the paradox of delay and acceleration. It uncovers the history of the nautical and the seafaring specific to Rhode Island that has slowly been replaced by new modes ubiquitous travel.
IMAGES (left) Perspective at bus waiting area and entrance to rock garden (opposite) Perspective at rock garden area with matriculated wooden boardwalk path, seating areas and bioretention / stormwater management area for impervious surface area runoff collection
IMAGES (left) Perspective view at south residential wing (right) Ceramic skin slip-cast performance module types
Slip Screen
Los Angeles, CA (Unbuilt) | 2012 Slip Screen is a component-based skin system designed to create an environmentally-responsive envelope for the Ceramic House project. It integrates historic glazed terra-cotta tile façade systems of the late 1800’s with parametric performance-based, digitally fabricated slip-cast modules. While the historic ornamental tiles have become extinct due to their singular aesthetic function, the Slip Screen modules capitalize on the volumetric nature of slip-cast modules, creating a thickened membrane that regulates the environment. The various functions (evaporative cooling, trombe wall, gray water filtration, and more) of this skin inform its ornamental qualities. The production of these modular components hybridizes the repetitive efficiencies of mold/ cast systems with the non-standard production made possible by CAD/CAM technology. Plaster molds halves are directly milled by a three-axis router. While one half is responsible for the geometry of connections to structure and neighboring modules, the other mold half embeds the performance aspects (Solar Water Heater, Evaporative Cooling, Green Wall, etc.) creating a component set of well-calibrated (but not infinite) variability.
IMAGES (left) Prototype slip-cast ceramic performance module for rainwater collection module and cast module photograph in shop (right) Floor plan drawings for residential and institutional wings
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IMAGES (top left) Interior perspective at main entrance (bottom left) Annotated section at residential wing showing ‘draping’ structural logic from concrete armature (right) Exploded isometric of primary architectural systems composed of concrete slab and armatures wrapped in Slip Screen performance ceramic skin
IMAGES (top) Array logic utilizing various chamfered angles to orient surface direction for stacking blocks with typical masonry lintel connection (bottom) Performance mosaic of block modules (opposite) Approach perspective at front entry
IMAGE (left) Manhattan Residence - entrance perspective showing central armature | 2007-09
EL Studio
Washington, DC | 2009-11 E/L STUDIO is the architecture and design collaboration of Elizabeth Emerson and Mark Lawrence, AIA. Together, our experience reects a broad range of project types and scales. We share a deep belief in the transformative potential of design. We believe in the promise of architecture to mitigate social conditions and enable positive change. Operating from bases in New York City and Washington, DC, we draw from our two locations - innovation and exibility from the metropolis, civic and public engagement from the capital. The hybrid of these two environments enables us to envision new solutions. In our work, we resist the tendency to calcify the status quo as we resist customary stylistic distinctions. In search of new tectonic solutions which, through their construction, anticipate new programs and new events, we develop strategies and resolutions which are unique to the problems and potential posed in each individual project. We create an architecture which is anticipatory; which fosters new relationships and growth.
PROJECTS LIST 63rd Avenue Residence - Cheverly, MD Austrade DC at the Embassy of Australia BW Sky Terrace - Washington, DC Jade Residence - Wildwood, NJ Jennifer Street Residence - Washington, DC Lincoln Residence - Arlington, VA M Salon - Annapolis, MD Manhattan Residence - New York City, NY Naylor Ct Residence - Washington, DC NBM Ball on the Mall - Washington, DC NBM Solar Decathlon Exhibit - Washington, DC Noontime Naturals - Beltsville, MD University of Quennsland - Washington, DC Ward 7 Facade Improvements - Washington, DC
IMAGE (left) Stair detail shot
Lincoln Residence Arlington, VA | 2009-10
The goal of this residential renovation was to take greater advantage of the opportunities presented by the volume of the existing structure, increasing square footage while adding minimal new envelope. The result is an addition without “an addition.” A ‘70’s-era modern home, the existing roof pitch of 45 degrees rendered much of the existing floor area of the 2nd and mezzanine levels unusable. A portion of the existing roof was removed to create a ‘pop-up’ producing space for an expanded master suite with new bath and dressing room. Openings sliced in interior partitions and a portion of an interior balcony were removed to improve connectivity and bounce daylight. A new stair links the now-accessible third floor offices to the lower level and provides an anchor to newly-opened interior. This new stair links a third floor mezzanine which was previously only accessible by ladders, creating two new office spaces out of the leftover eave space. The stair was designed with lightness in mind – both visually and literally. The 70’s-era home’s previous stair featured a completely open riser. In order to preserve this effect while still meeting the dictates of contemporary code, the stair tread is tapered at its edges, reflecting the angle of the new popup roof which creates the required vertical clearance. A new skylight is inserted in this roof area and spreads light deep within the interior by means of new glass transoms and the taper of the stair treads which bounce light with their angular shape. New bamboo paneling adds warmth and the opportunity to integrate handrail, micro-fluorescent cove lighting and return air grills.
IMAGES (left) Diagrams of logic governing the shape of stair treads to allow light passage into the lower levels of the house and showing integrated lighting details for handrails and coves (right) Perspective of the new central circulation armature (opposite) Projected section illustration showing scope of architectural interventions for house renovation
RETURN AIR OPENING (N) LIGHT FIXTURE (N) GYP 3/4” LAMINATE BAMBOO PANEL (E) FRAMING AT SLAB EDGE
RETURN AIR
(N) GYP BD. CLG (N) GYP BD. WALLS
(N) WOOD HANDRAIL
(N) WOOD BLOCKING AS REQ’D (N) WOOD TREAD
(N) LIGHT FIXTURE LIGHT
(N) WOOD HANDRAIL
(N) LIGHT FIXTURE HANDRAIL
STAIR SECTION
SCALE: 3/4” : 1’-0”
0” 2”
6”
12”
20”
IMAGES (right) Perspective at living room entrance with opened master bedroom doors to create visual connections to the space below (opposite left) Master bathroom perspective with bamboo chevron paneling bleeding into spaces for continuity of the new central circulation armature (opposite right) Perspective at third oor office & mezzanine
IMAGE (left) Exterior photograph across from historic motel
Jade Residence Wildwood, NJ | 2008-12
Building on the family business, an adjacent motel in Wildwood’s doo-wop district, the Jade residence does double-duty. It’s a vacation home that works hard as well as a retirement home that grows to make space for the next generation. Ground-floor rental units replicating the original motel units are the foundation to the family residence on the upper floors. A doubleheight living room in the residence connects the master and guest levels and features two large openings towards the breeze and view of the ocean and motel pool, respectively. Light monitors above orient due south to provide constant diffuse light to the interior while maximizing solar gain on collectors outside. A geo-thermal system and passive ventilation reduce the extremes of the heating/cooling load and necessity for mechanical HVAC except for the most severe days. Standard cladding and window units are customized to create a hurricane-resistant rain screen with perforations at heights for adults and children alike. Material details translate the doo-wop resort vocabulary to a contemporary idiom transforming form richly saturated color at the heart to increasing lightness at the periphery.
IMAGES (left) Central circulation stair perspective from Kitchen and Dining area (opposite) Kitchen perspective and diagrams illustrating formal logics of houses massing
LIGHT MONITOR/ SOLAR COLLECTORS
CEMENT PANEL RAINSCREEN
PASSIVE VENTILATION
VIEWSHEDS TO OCEAN AND MOTEL POOL
MOTEL UNIT FOUNDATION
IMAGES (left) Detail of cement panel rainscreen prefabricated ‘invisible’ corners (right) Excerpt wall sections from Permit and Construction drawing sets
IMAGES (top right) NE rendered elevation (bottom right) NW rendered elevation
IMAGES (opposite) Color integral CMU blocks diagram for patterned base level structure (left) Solar utilization for hot water heaters and energy collection (right) Perspective from adjacent street
IMAGE (left) Shared access hallway with contemporary carriage-house artifact...a not so subtle hint of the property’s historic use
Naylor Ct Washington, DC | 2011-12
An 1800’s horse stable is transformed from an empty shell on a neglected alley into a classic shop-house with architect’s storefront studio and living quarters above. The studio is a void set back from the alley by an interstitial zone separating entrances for work and home. A rolling gate and folding glass wall spanning the width of the old carriage opening enables the interior to open completely to the street and expands the space from alley to garden in warm months for events. A narrow volume containing stairs and storage frames the interior, creating a buffer to the residence. A floating volume on the second level contains baths and kitchen. Structural reinforcement in the ceiling is accentuated with a series of coves which define the public area. A skylight above the stairs brings light to both levels by means of a translucent box. Much of the historic character of the stable is preserved and highlighted including exposed heavy timber structure, masonry and horse tether rings.
IMAGE(S) (opposite) Exterior perspective from Naylor Ct alleyway entrance (top left) Upstairs living room with curved wallboard ceiling detail (bottom left) Lower level architectural studio office (right) Shared entrance vestibule
IMAGE(S) (left) Residential access stairwell with deep-well, tapered skylight (top right) Master bedroom unit with backpainted glass window well/ pocketing partition door detail (bottom right) Rear yard with original 1800’s warehouse masonry wall to left
IMAGE(S) (above) Upstairs loft space with original masonry facade (right) Shared access hallway details at original historic hore tie-down rings, 1/2� wallboard reveal with painted, ush wood trim