SELECTED PROJECTS | 2006-2012
CONTENTS ACADEMIC Interface
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Stamford Green
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Recreating Place in San MartĂn
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A More Civic Center
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Soundbox
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Hostel for Musicians
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Woven Urbanscapes
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Sketches of Rome
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FABRICATION Fold.Unfold.Fold
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Carve & Cast
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Yale Building Project
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PROFESSIONAL Pueblo County Judicial Center
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Winter Park H.S. 9th Grade Center
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United States Courthouse
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Modernization of George C. Young Federal Building
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Graphic Design
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INTERFACE
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Fall 2011 | CRITIC: Joel Sanders published in Retrospecta
Concept diagram
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The project is driven by two parallel interests. At the scale of the site, there is an aim to create a relationship between the existing fabric of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the proposed Brooklyn Kunsthalle for Contemporary Art in which both entities benefit from the presence and activity of the other.
back of house
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Within the BKCA, there is an aim to create a world in which the traditional boundaries between public circulation, gallery space, and back-of-house program are blurred. This goal is expressed by a continuous ‘public surface’ that acts as an interface between these three zones.
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belvedere Circulation & program gallery offices artists education cafe / media lounge lobby / multipurpose / shop
sculpture yard
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Conceived of as an extension of the Navy Yard itself, this surface first appears outside of the building as a public sculpture park and event space. It then continues into the building’s interior to create a series of platforms as it spirals upwards towards a public belvedere.
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PLANS & SECTION 1. gallery 2. artists’ studios 3. storage 4. education center 5. museum offices 6. belvedere
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These platforms hold ‘open’ program such as lobby, multipurpose space, museum shop, media lounge and café. They also hold traditionally back-of-house program including the education center, artists’ studios, and museum offices. This organization encourages overlap and interaction between separate user groups. +3.0
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West elevation
Tectonic diagram
membrane
The ‘public surface’ is intersected by a ‘gallery volume’ which contains a series of stacked white-cube gallery spaces. This volume is wrapped by a glazed membrane that negotiates the boundary between formal gallery space and the ‘open’ program of the ‘public surface’. As the circulation sequence spirals upwards, it occupies the space between the gallery volume and the membrane. gallery volume
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Gallery configurations
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Operable panels in the membrane allow the galleries to operate in various spatial configurations, ranging from ‘closed’ to ‘open’. The goal is to create a series of reconfigurable spaces that gives curators the freedom to calibrate degrees of publicity and privacy between galleries and other parts of the kunsthalle. They can have orthodox white-cube spaces or not, depending on the needs of the exhibition.
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View from media lounge into main gallery
This flexibility establishes a dynamic spatial and visual relationship between formal exhibition spaces and surrounding ‘open’ program, allowing opportunities for the traditional boundaries between these two constituents to be completely dissolved.
Daylighting studies
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STAMFORD GREEN
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Spring 2012 | CRITIC: Alan Plattus in collaboration with Sarah Gill published in Retrospecta stamford green stamford green
PROPOSAL The physical proximity of Stamford, Connecticut to Manhattan has resulted in an interchange of intangible goods and services at local, regional, and national scales. In spite of the fact that it is closely bracketed by Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien (some of the wealthiest communities in the United States), Stamford suffers from weak socioeconomic relationships with its neighbors. These surrounding communities currently operate as autonomous units, rendering Stamford as an isolated entity with no sense of place, identity, or stamford green community. How do we negotiate the divisions between local, regional, and national systems that exist in Stamford? We propose an urban agricultural network. This network involves the systematic deployment of a new infrastructure throughout the city and integrates new structures with existing open spaces. The intent is that the network will not only generate new linkages within Stamford, but also with its surrounding neighbors. The network also operates as an alternative to the existing market of financial institutions that exists in Stamford. Our proposal juxtaposes the unstable nature of the financial market, which produces non-physical goods, against the stable nature of the agricultural market, which produces physical goods. In short, there will always be demand for food.
Market comparison stock market
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agricultural stable agricultural physical output stable
financial financial unstable non-physical unstableoutput non-physical output non-physical output
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STAMFORD GREEN While there is an obvious reference to the physical presence of greenery and foliage that is typically associated with urban agriculture, the project aims to challenge this preconception. Instead, it proposes an urban agricultural network that also generates a new identity and public realm for the city of Stamford. Ultimately, in creating this new identity, the project could begin to rejuvenate the city in various ways.
CROSBY + GILL
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campus research facility job training land banking management brownfield redevelopment center food biosecurity center events spaces local market commercial & retail
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Agricultural Technology & Research Campus
SITE #1
URBAN AGRICULTURAL NETWORK
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• hydroponic farming nodes • regional distribution warehouse • Long Island satellite storage • oyster farm • ferry terminal • community composting center • gardening information centers • community gardens
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION CENTER Northeast Regional Hub
SITE #2
SITE #1 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Agricultural Technology and Research Campus
The network is anchored by two sites that establish two parallel means of production. Firstly, there is the production and dissemination of knowledge. The University of Connecticut Research Campus at Stamford, located in the city’s downtown area, is a multi-tower, mixed-use development. With an emphasis on agricultural technology and research, the campus design includes an elevated park, hydroponic façade systems and bridges of social program.
Program Distribution
building enclosure
Program Types commercial event institutional puplic park research / laboratory residential parking social exterior gardens
Program Types commercial event institutional puplic park research / laboratory residential parking social exterior gardens
research hubs
social bridge
research hubs
meetings rooms cafe reading rooms research library multimedia lounge recreation rooms
meetings rooms cafe reading rooms research library multimedia lounge recreation rooms
auditorium
auditorium student housing
vertical campus
classrooms computer labs faculty offices meeting rooms job training brownfield remediation land bank management biosecurity research
student housing
research labs
classrooms computer labs faculty offices meeting rooms job training brownfield remediation land bank management biosecurity research
exterior gardens
research labs exterior gardens
elevated park
public park public park
dining services community center athletic facility
dining services community center athletic facility
theatre / lecture hall exhibition hall amphitheater porous plinth
theatre / lecture hall exhibition hall amphitheater
campus bookstore grocery store student services administration and visitor’s center parking structure
campus bookstore grocery store student services administration and visitor’s center parking structure
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SECTION 1. research library 2. student lounge 3. lobby 4. cistern 5. storefront vertical farm 6. auditorium 7. covered plaza 8. event space 9. elevated park
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SITE #2 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION CENTER Northeast Regional Hub
Secondly, there is the physical production and supply of goods. The Stamford Agricultural Production & Distribution Center, located on an undeveloped site at the city’s periphery, includes facilities for growing, processing and distributing agricultural products locally, regionally and nationally. The center also includes a public realm component which includes a ferry terminal, communal agricultural resources and recreational facilities.
Program Distribution Program Types industrial greenhouses w/ aquaponic systems unconditioned rooftop greenhouses public circulation & commercial facilities ferry terminal community amenities processing , packaging & storage parking
1 visitor entrance reception 2 industrial greenhouses
6 public circulation classrooms job training rooms offices employee lounge
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7 robotic processing refrigerated storage inspection and packaging
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10 communal gardening storage gardening services athletic facilities
3 unconditioned rooftop greenhouses 4 cafe 5 ferry terminal 8 rooftop track & tennis courts
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SECTION 1. athletic center 2. parking structure 3. community center 4. public lobby 5. tree nursery 6. root top greenhouse 7. distribution services 8. ferry terminal 9. oyster beds
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RECREATING PLACE IN SAN MARTíN UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Summer 2006 | CRITIC: Alfonso Perez-Mendez
The presence of water in San MartĂn, Mexico, acts as a catalyst for social interaction. With this in mind, the project aims to revive the site of the existing church in San MartĂn and proposes a new civic space that celebrates the presence of water in the landscape. Through a process of drawing and analyzing the ground, an emphasis was placed on the relationship between land and water. The movement of water through the site became an important part of the design process. Water carves the ground and defines the place.
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SITE PLAN 1. promenade 2. bull ring 3. portal 4. plaza 5. public restrooms 6. entry hall 7. chapel 8. baptistry
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Situated on the site of an existing church and an adjacent lot, the project consists of three programmatic elements: a new church, public restrooms, and a plaza. The spaces are activated by the everyday use of the church and restrooms, in conjunction with the seasonal use of the existing bullring adjacent to the site. A promenade connects the two bullring entrances, negotiating the edge between the bullring and the new plaza.
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SECTION 1. entry hall 2. upper entry hall 3. confessional 4. choir 5. chapel 6. prayer room 7. altar
Entry hall
Conceptualized as an object suspended in the landscape, the church appears to hover over a large reflecting pool. Its floor plate folds down towards the reflecting pool where it is supported by a monolithic rock. This rock pierces through the chapel floor to become the altar.
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The chapel space dominates the plaza-facing faรงade of the church. With large punctures and screening elements, this faรงade relates the interior of the church to the plaza and allows diffuse and refracted light into the chapel.
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A MORE CIVIC CENTER
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Fall 2012 | CRITIC: Gregg Pasquarelli in collaboration with Otilia Pupezeanu published in Retrospecta THEMES
The project proposes the insertion of a network of public spaces into the core of Manhattan’s Civic Center that stitches together the assembly of disjointed buildings, circulation systems, and neighborhood boundaries on and around the site. By defining a series of coherent spaces that connect the Civic Core with the Brooklyn Bridge, reestablishing erased linkages with surrounding neighborhoods, and condensing various programmatic uses onto the site, the project aims to redefine the civic nature of the superblock from the perspective of Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, and Lucio Costa. We propose a programmatic armature that can accommodate flexible governmental/office and commercial/retail space along with more fixed institutional, educational, and residential space. This program is anchored by a network of civic spaces, along with a more robust public promenade across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Robert Moses
Jane Jacobs
Lucio Costa
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Connecting to Context Shaping Public Space Defining Programmatic Uses
Manhattan Civic Center Core
Municipal Building City Hall Park
One Police Plaza
Brooklyn Bridge
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History of Manhattan’s Civic Center
Collect Pond (18th c.)
Analysis: Existing Programmatic Uses
US Federal Courthouse
Five Points (1827)
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorages (1885)
governmental institutional
residential commercial
NY Supreme Court
St. Andrews Catholic Church NYC Municipal Building
US Federal Courthouse
Chatham Towers Metropolitan Correctional Building Chatham Green 1 Police Plaza Pace University Murry Bergtraum HS 375 Pearl
Southbridge Towers
City Hall Park and Park Row (1911)
City Hall Post Office (1878-1938)
Analysis: Connections to Context
City Hall (1811)
Tweed Courthouse (1872,1881)
Brooklyn Bridge Terminal (1883-1944)
Municipal Building (1914)
traffice flow traffic barricade
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Existing infrastructure
Existing infrastructure + public surface
Public surface + program
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Unfolded site section
elevated promenade auditorium
Park Row tunnel entry
lawn
middle school entry
upper lobby
Pearl St. passthrough
amphitheatre
Park Row retail
light rail terminal + bridge promenade
student union
media plaza
Municipal Plaza
Anchorage Park
Brooklyn Bridge Gateway
Southbridge Square
Pace University
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Foley Square
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Ground surface plan
Municipal Plaza
Park Row retail
Chatham Park
ST. JAMES PL.
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Anchorage Park
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elevated promenade
community theater
ST. JAMES PL.
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Brooklyn Bridge Gateway
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SOUNDBOX
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Fall 2010 | CRITIC: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen published in Retrospecta
Site Plan
PLANS 1. soundscape 2. courtyard 3. performance space 4. covered plaza 5. gallery 6. atrium 7. performance space (below)
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The project began with an interest in transforming musical performance from a primarily aural experience into one that is also visual and physical for both the performer and the viewer. A 10’ spatial lattice into which architectural elements are “transcribed” is used to organize a series of acoustic vessels, public circulation, supporting program and backof-house spaces. The two primary vessels are indoor performance halls that project outward towards the city.
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Approach from soundscape
SECTION 1. soundscape 2. covered plaza 3. performance space 4. gallery 5. rehearsal space 6. offices 7. lobby / atrium
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The vessels are enveloped by a perforated wrapper. At moments, this wrapper becomes operable through a series of louvers that allows occupants and performers to “tune” the building’s relationship to sound, light, and sight. Secondary acoustic vessels are embedded into the ground, resulting in a pedestrian ‘soundscape’ that extends beyond the walls of the existing tobacco warehouse.
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HOSTEL FOR MUSICIANS
Organizational Concepts
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Spring 2011 | CRITIC: Trattie Davies
Site Concept (approx. 1/16” = 1’)
Organization Diagram Organization Diagram
Organizational Concepts
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Site Concept (approx. 1/16” = 1’) The project inserts a hostel for itinerant musicians into a narrow lot located in New Haven, Connecticut’s 9th Ward. Positioned adjacent to an existing public park, the 17’-wide site presented a challenge in accommodating the required program which includes multiple musical performance and rehearsal spaces, eight temporary dwelling units and various interior and exterior communal spaces.
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PLANS 1. covered passageway 2. lobby 3. performance space 4. small rehearsal 5. storage 6. dwelling unit 7. communal space 8. terrace
Interior circulation
The design solution takes form as a series of nested surfaces that articulate at various scales to respond to human occupation. The first surfaces organize the primary program: the public zone, two rehearsal zones, a dwelling zone and a communal zone.
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While these primary surfaces define a series of stacked spaces, they simultaneously define two parallel bars in plan. The northern bar contains program, which capitalizes on views of the park and maximizes natural daylight. The southern bar contains circulation and receives borrowed light from the first bar through the use of translucent internal partitions.
SECTION 1. communal space 2. terrace 3. dwelling unit 4. small rehearsal 5. covered passageway 6. performance space 7. large rehearsal
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store Store
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A second set of surfaces defines a series of modules within the rehearsal and dwelling zones. Lastly, a third set of surfaces operates within each dwelling unit, enabling the units to transform from work spaces to living spaces. Organized as a set of eight, the units can be occupied individually or opened up to create continuous suites, allowing for flexible room arrangements.
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WOVEN URBANSCAPES
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COURSE: Architectural Design | DATE: Fall 2006 | CRITIC: Nancy Clark in collaboration with Adam Pollock
Massing concept
Located in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, the project seeks to simultaneously preserve and rejuvenate the historic fabric of the quickly changing area. Including three blocks situated along the Westside Highway and overlooking the Hudson River, the site is bounded by 14th St. to the north, Washington St. to the east, and Gansevoort St. to the south. The immediate context is relatively small in scale with buildings ranging from four to eleven stories in height. The character of the place is unique featuring a mixture of uses that has intensified over recent years. The main design objective is to mark the site as a cultural landmark, bringing density to the Meatpacking District while also maintaining its character and scale. The design centers on three urban rooms: the Civic Room, the Playscape, and the Garden Room. Situated along the High Line, these rooms torque the building’s form to create volumes around which circulation and program are organized.
Site organization and concept
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The Civic Room gathers multiple programmatic and civic elements. Anchored by an aquarium, this room is further activated by an event space and two public lawns. The Playscape is covered by the Public Promenade, an elevated park that spans the three-block site. As an urban interior, this room marks a shift from the northern public domain to the southern private domain and features a large water fountain that can be converted into an ice skating rink during the winter months.
1. aquarium 2. event space 3. aquarium gift shop & cafe 4. media screen lawn 5. sculpture lawn 6. aquatic playscape / ice skating rink 7. gallery 8. green space
9. hotel lobby 10. commercial space 11. condominiums 12. athletic center 13. office space 14. the High Line
sky garden
aquarium
elevated promenade
restaurant
athletic center
media screen lawn
public roofscape
sculpture lawn
hotel
office space
condominiums
retail / commercial
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The Garden Room collects program of multiple scales around a glass-covered garden, a conservatory, and subterranean program. Surrounding cafes and retail spaces are conceived as transparent volumes that allow people to filter from the street into the interior covered garden. Adjacent programmatic elements such as the hotel lobby, private residence entry, and parking garage are oriented towards the street.
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Facade studies
The building’s massing responds to the linearity of the High Line by taking on a ‘mat building’ typology that allows the project to accommodate multiple programmatic elements within one expressed and articulated form. The first layer of the mat is a sculpted Public Ground that holds hardscape, water features, green space, and subterranean program. The second layer is a transparent, multi-story volume that holds a majority of the commercial program. Above, the High Line marks a shift in density as office, residential, and recreational program become interwoven. The top and final layer is an urban roofscape.
aquarium
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SKETCHES OF ROME
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Rome - Continuity & Change | DATE: Summer 2012 | CRITICS: Alec Purves, Bimal Mendis & Stephen Harby
Bocca della Verità
Roman Forum ruins
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Castel Sant’Angelo
Chapel of the Magi
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Hadrian’s Villa
Hercules & Athena
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Capitoline Hill
Garden of Ninfa
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FABRICATION
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UNFOLD
process] [process]
FOLD.UNFOLD.FOLD
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Visualization 3 - Fabrication and Assembly | DATE: Spring 2011 | CRITICS: John Eberhart & Ben Pell in collaborationDigital with Weave, Derek Brown, Tal Liu &California Eric Gronstal Lisa Iwamoto : Stage Set for John Jaspere, AEDS/Ammar Eloueini published in Retrospecta Digital Weave, Lisa Iwamoto California : Stage Set for John Jaspere, AEDS/Ammar Eloueini
The initial interest of the project was to create an installation that explored movement influenced by human interaction. The team began with a series of small-scale origami and tiling studies. These studies developed into a surface that acts as both fabric and interactive mechanism.
:as Stage for John Eloueini Jaspere, AEDS/Ammar Eloueini fornia : Stage SetCalifornia for John J pere,Set AEDS/Ammar
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The design limitations were bracketed by two perimeters: the hybridization of the folding and tiling process and the mass production of only three distinct units. The team proposed to embed the unit-to-unit connections within the design of the units themselves. This allowed for the surface to be quickly assembled and to maintain a high level of movement and flexibility.
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CARVE & CAST
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Visualization 3 - Fabrication and Assembly | Date: Spring 2011 | critics: John Eberhart & Ben Pell in collaboration with Derek Brown
Unit prototypes
Unit assembly diagram
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Cast unit
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Casting process
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Zlotnicki. Christopher Parkinson. Benjamin Sachs. Daria Solomon.
YALE BUILDING PROJECT
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COURSE: Vlock Building Project | DATE: Spring/Summer 2011 | CRITICS: Adam Hopfner & Paul Brouard in collaboration with YSOA Class of 2013
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Since 1967, the Yale School of Architecture has offered its students the unique opportunity to design and build a structure as part of their graduate education. The design brief called for a 2,500 sq. ft. 2-family home, including a 900 sq. ft. rental unit, to be built in a low-income neighborhood in New Haven, CT.
Label Key:
1. Exterior View, Photograph 2. Plans 3. East-West Section 4. Owner Living Room, Rendering 5. Tenant Living/Dining, Rendering 6. Four Square Transformation 7. Diagram: Program follows roof skew.
Working with Neighborhood Housing Services, a local non-profit organization, the class of 2013 designed and built the home on a challengingly narrow lot. Construction began in May 2011 and continued until the home’s completion in August 2011.
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PROFESSIONAL
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PUEBLO COUNTY JUDICIAL CENTER PUEBLO, COLORADO | DLR GROUP
PROJECT ROLES: Exterior elevation and massing design, Digital modeling and rendering, Schematic Design and Design Development packages, Presentation graphics AIA Orlando 2009 - Award of Honor & Jury’s Favorite
The design for the Pueblo County Judicial Building includes 171,000 sq. ft., with five stories above grade and a partial basement. Initially, the courthouse will house 14 completed courtrooms, with shell space for an additional two, along with the Clerk of Courts, Court Records, the Probation department, Court Administration, Training and Operations offices, and 16 judges with their attendant clerks. SITE ORGANIZATION AND URBAN DESIGN With a north-south orientation, the building seeks to engage its context at a broad scale. This orientation seeks to attain two goals: firstly, to anchor the west end of the 5th St. axis, using the rotunda as a termination point, and secondly, to recognize a diagonal axis that cuts across the site. The latter, which is the remnant of a rail line, could potentially become a pedestrian walk, linking the courthouse site with a public plaza to the south-east. MASSING The curved courts tower seeks to relate the project to the historic courthouse and public library, creating a “bracketing” of the Pueblo downtown area. The bent bar also reflects the termination of the 5th Street axis into the site. The second component of the building is the plinth that grounds the courts tower. Extending from the east where the public entry is located, it moves under the tower and turns up on the west side to become a tower of judges’ chambers.
Building organization
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rotunda
chambers
public entry
entry plinth
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SPATIAL ORGANIZATION A key organizational element of the interior spaces is an extension of the 5th Street axis. This axis extends into the rotunda, past the public elevators, and into the entry of the judicial chambers. This interior connection links the public and private realms on each floor and reinforces the building’s massing. This axis also bisects the main public circulation, which runs the entire length of the courts tower.
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REFERENTIAL SPACES The rotunda uses the kiva, a ceremonial space typical of most Pueblo Indian cultures, as a unique precedent. The design interprets this idea of outer enclosure and inner sanctum, suspending a wood-framed pavilion within a glass cylinder. The form of this structure is also reminiscent of the coke ovens sprinkled throughout this region of the country.
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WINTER PARK H.S. 9TH GRADE CENTER WINTER PARK, FLORIDA | DLR GROUP
PROJECT ROLES: Exterior elevation and massing design, Digital modeling and rendering, Schematic Design and Design Development packages, Presentation graphics AIA Orlando 2011 - Award of Merit
Over the past 70 years, the existing school has become an iconic historic fixture in the community. The first building was constructed in 1927, and the campus expanded throughout the 1950s and 60s. However, over the past twenty years, the buildings had fallen into considerable disrepair.
1927 building
The client charged the design team with several overarching goals: to restore and modernize the historic architecture of the campus; to create a learning environment that safely and effectively provides for the ongoing needs of the students, faculty and administration; and to create a cohesive vision for the campus that blends with the context of its surroundings.
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The transformation of the campus began with major interior and exterior renovations to modernize four existing buildings. The centerpiece of the campus, a new 80,000 square foot classroom building, was positioned at the edge of Pennsylvania Avenue to give the campus a strong urban presence and to allow the existing campus to remain operational during construction. More importantly, the building creates a central courtyard that visually and spatially unifies the entire campus.
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UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE BILLINGS, MONTANTA | DLR GROUP
PROJECT ROLES: Project coordinator, Consultant liaison, Exterior elevation and massing design, Site design, Digital modeling, Plan development and department layout, Exterior materials selection, and Presentation graphics
DEPOSITION DE.PO.SI.TION noun 1. The geological process whereby material is added to a landform. This is the process by which wind, water, or ice create a sediment deposit through the laying down of granular material that has been eroded and transported from another geographical location. While rooted in the principles of modern courthouse design and planning, the architectural language for this new courthouse is derived from the local context and geological conditions that exist in and around Billings, Montana. Deposition, the stratification of earth over a period of time, became a driving concept. This idea of layering influenced decisions in the building’s overall massing and programming strategy.
1. enclosure
2. courts volume
3. atrium
4. office volume
5. plinth
6. foundation
Building organization
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CONNECTION TO COMMUNITY Fourth level - Courts
With so few opportunities for people to gather in downtown Billings, it was imperative that this project address the neighboring park. Unique to the building massing is the expression of the courtrooms. Although a physical connection to the park couldn’t be established, the cantilevered courts volume projects towards the park, visually and spatially linking the two. The articulated ground plane creates a natural buffer between the courthouse and the street edge. Using a series of low walls and terraces, this adjacent park is extended onto the courthouse site. This relationship defines a public realm that engages the city and identifies the courthouse as a civic destination.
First level - Entry
South elevation
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LEVEL 4 1. District Chambers 2. District Courtrooms 3. U.S. Attorneys
LEVEL 3 4. Magistrate Chambers 5. Magistrate Courtroom 6. U.S. Attorneys
TRANSPARENCY LEVEL 2 7. U.S. Marshals
LEVEL 1 8. Atrium 9. Office Building Core 10. Probation 11. U.S. District Clerk
BASEMENT 12. Secure Parking
Program organization
Atrium - east elevation
The proposed project site spans 26th Street, a major north-south artery through downtown Billings. Once built, the courthouse will interrupt this axis. To prevent a complete break in the urban fabric, the design addresses the interruption of 26th Street by maintaining transparency through the building along the axis. This solution suggests an implied connection from the termination of the axis, into the site, through the building’s atrium, and to the city beyond. The building’s 4-story glazed atrium sits atop the axis. Citizens arriving at the courthouse enter the building at this point and transition from the scale of the city to that of the atrium. The atrium’s transparency allows the public to reference the city and context beyond as they move vertically in the building.
Atrium - west elevation
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MODERNIZATION OF GEORGE C. YOUNG ORLANDO, FLORIDA | DLR GROUP
PROJECT ROLES: Exterior elevation and massing development, Site design, Interior design, Digital modeling and rendering, Schematic Design and Design Development package submittal, Presentation graphics AIA Orlando 2011 - Award of Merit & Jury’s Favorite
The comprehensive modernization of the George C. Young Federal Building and Courthouse includes 187,000 SF of renovated space along with a 15,000 SF addition. The six-story Late Modern structure, built in 1975, was re-envisioned as an efficient, but dense, multi-tenant building. The design repositions the importance of the existing courthouse as the defining structure of the judicial campus. The project includes high aims for energy-efficiency with a goal of LEED Gold.
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Ground floor plan
Courts floor plan
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PLANS 1. entry pavilion 2. main lobby 3. office 4. connection to annex 5. public circulation 6. courtroom 7. judicial chambers
Main lobby
Judicial circulation
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
ARCHITRAVE STUDENT MAGAZINE and DLR GROUP - ORLANDO, FL
Architrave
PRIMARY ROLES: Graphic design conceptualization and execution
DLR G r ou p
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