CRICKET DAY
graduate portfolio 2015
CRICKET DAY
PennDesign mla/m.arch 2015
• Miami MEADOWS LARP 701
2015
• Holland Tunnel AIR JETTY ARCH 602
• LOOP In
Competition
2014
2013
• BARRIER Staten Island LARP 502
2013
• TRAVERSE Bartram’s Garden ARCH 502
• INFO Block ARCH 502
2012
2012
• KINDER Struct ARCH 501
2011
• TRACES and INSCRIPTIONS Print Series
2013
• VISUAL Studies ARCH 521
2011
• GROWTH and DECAY Competition
• Bike CANOPY Co+Lab
• SHADE Break Deployable Structure
2012
2013
2013-2014
MIAMI MEADOWS LARP 701 • Fall 2014 Critic: Karen M’Closkey
The Miami studio was sited on Virginia Key, a barrier island south of Miami Beach that is home to a waste water treatment plant, the historic Marine Stadium, and Miami Seaquarium. The Seaquarium has amazing views of downtown Miami, a robust manatee rescue program, and is adjacent to large swaths of sea grass, perhaps the most vital plant in Florida’s benthic ecology.
Sea grass provides a nursery for around 70% of commercial fish, is the primary food source for Green Turtles and Manatees, and sequesters 3x the amount of carbon as terrestrial forests. Boaters cause a significant amount of damage to sea grass beds. This proposal provides a means of restoration via bird stakes and educational opportunities through wake-powered rehabilitation buoys.
Biscayne Bay: Sea Grass Distribution Turtle Grass
Thalassia testudinum
Manatee Grass
Shoal Grass
Syringodium filiforme
Halodule wrightii
Blades per m² 1 - 99 100 - 499 500 - 1000 > 1000
Sea Grass: Sectional Ecology, Fish Nursery, Salinity Matters
1m 2m 3m
Shoal Grass Halodule wrightii
10 - 25 ppt Salinity - early colonizers of disturbed areas - shallow rhizome system
Manatee Grass Syringodium filiforme 20 - 36 ppt Salinity - prefers high current flow areas - shallow rhizome system
Turtle Grass Thalassia testudinum
28 - 48 ppt Salinity - “climax” species - deep rhizome system (up to 25cm) - does well on sandy/gravelly substrates
Restoration Strategies: Accelerating slow growing sea grass meadows Bird Staking: Bird waste as fertilizer
TERF Method: sunken cages pre-planted with sea grass plugs
Virginia Key:
Boater traffic and critical manatee and sea grass areas
SeaQuarium Healthy Seagrass Patchy Seagrass Boat Share/Private Marina Public Boat Launch Idle Boats Boats in Motion Manatee Protection Area Critical Wildlife Area Bike Lanes
Miami Seaquarium: Prime real estate in need of change
Rhizome Growth / Crystal Analogue
Initial Grid Flow Vector Studies
Bird Stake Density Simulations: Low Density / High Flow
Med Density / Restricted Flow
High Density / No Flow
Two-toned Stake study model
Final Model: Bird Stakes, Mangroves, Pier, & Buoys
Stake Grid –> Planting Grid Manatee Rehab HypoSaline Buoy Parking Storm water Basin Mangrove Propogule Buoy Kayak Launch Ramp Tidal Pier Disc Boat Launch Tidal Terracing Manatee Rehab Buoy Lawn Berms Stepped Beach Manatee Buoy Hypersaline Buoys Coral Reef Buoy
Buoy Typologies: Wake power & Halocline membranes Sea Grass Rehab: BioRock Meadow - Catalyst
existing patchy conditions charged Terf mats with new shoots electrode wake generator boat access
Sea Grass Specimen: Aquiporin membrane - Hyposaline
aquiporin membrane low salinity seagrass boat access pump housing solar still
Coral BioRock:
BioRock Electrode Reef - Catalyst
transplanted coral scaffolding electrodes to scaffolding viewing bathyscopes turbine housing wake generator
Sea Grass Specimen: Aquiporin membrane - Hypersaline
aquiporin membrane high salinity seagrass solar still pump housing boat access
Sectional view of coral reef rehab buoy with bird stakes and downtown Miami
Holland Tunnel Air Jetty ARCH 602 • Spring 2013 Group Project with Jon Canter Critic: Shawn Rickenbacker
The Holland Tunnel Air Jetty is a proposal for an infrastructure-scaled air cleaning system. Seated at the exit of the Holland Tunnel in Tribeca, the building positions itself to collect and treat air in different zones, from different sources and by different methods and systems. Initial fluid dynamics studies showed turbulence could be embraced to slow the flow of air (breakwater systems) and regularity could be used to stabilize flow over numerous surfaces (Bell’s tetrahedral kites). These aggregates paired with new materials like TiO2 gave us multiple opportunities to treat air passively as well as actively with concentrated electrostatic precipitation systems.
The site is at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel and site at 6th ave and Canal St. over the 1-2 and A-C-E subway lines. As a piece of public infrastructure, the Jetty opens up to accommodate a central plaza with connection to the subways. It also hosts a roof garden, public class rooms, and auditorium, and gallery space. 1-2
The remaining space is dedicated to offices and labs with a significant portion of interior space allotted to plenum. The double-skin system is layered up with steel-framed aggregate TiO2 panels over a large induction plenum leading to a number of electrostatic precipitators. This actively cleaned air is then exhausted into the plaza below.
6th Ave
Holland Tunnel Varick
A-C-E
Canal
Pollution Strategy: different elevations : different sources : different strategies Upper Elevation Pollution Passive Ambient Porous Structure
Exhaust
Street Level Pollution Active High Concentration Close To Source
Lab space focusing on TiO2 facade panel tests
Office space within third floor diagrid/truss section
Stairs over precipitator unit and exterior public plaza
1st floor
Cross Section:
2nd floor
3rd floor
dirty air intakes on street side, then scrubbed and exhausted
Longitudinal Section:
plenum to precipitator, gallery spaces, auditorium, transit connection
Facade Mock-up model: acrylic plates 3D printed structural frame
View from the James Hotel
large-scale, low-tech water filtration. As water is coursed through the metropolitanscale living machine, it is cleaned and eventually returned back to the Day River or used in on-site agricultural production.
VARIED AND COMPELLING URBAN FORM
The water and logistics circuits combine to organize the city into a series of distinct neighborhoods, each with its own scale, relationship to the water, and ambient character. Residents of LOOP IN have quotidian and essential relationships to water, both as an amenity and as a productive resource. As a hub for regional commerce, LOOP IN provides a local sustainable economy based on production and trade related to water that ties directly into the broader economy of Hanoi. As a distinctive urban district, LOOP IN provides a range of urban lifestyle experiences that are consistent with the culture of Hanoi, yet are emphatically contemporary in their definition and qualities.
LOOP IN
Vertical Cities Asia 2013 PennDesign Team w/ Mairen Foley and Ming Zhong Critic: Chris Marcincoski Held by the National University of Singapore
Over the summer of 2013 I worked on one of of two teams of three from PennDesign as part of the Vertical Cities Asia Competition. Ten international universities are invited each year to Singapore to address a particular brief for a new city district in asia occupying one square kilometer for 100 thousand residents. OGISTICAL CIRCLE TRANSIT This year’s prompt was titled “Everyone Harvests” and suggested a theme of self sufficiency or sustainability in terms of food supply, water, and energy. The site is located 17 kilometers outside of Hanoi in a rural, rice paddy dominatend landscape along an existing highway and at the intersection of a proposed bypass highway around Hanoi TIEN LE
Hanoi is projected to become the second fastest growing city in Asia by 2025. Rapid growth of this sort is almost inevitably characterized by sprawl and significant environmental degradation to both air and water. The infrastructural and logistical systems that underpin this economic CIRCULATION expansion are often the chief sources of this environmental impact. LOOP IN proposes the coiling up of these linear systems as a strategy for generating a more compact, efficient and resilient city structured around a synthetic ring of logistical services and water processing. PHUONG BANG
PHUONG BANG
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SONG PHUONG
THON GAN
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DISTRICTS
WATER TREATMENT
PARK INFILATRATION
INITIAL SETTLING, MECHANICAL REMEDIATION
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SUBSURFACE FILTRATION, HEAVY METAL REMOVAL
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SAND FILTER
WATER QUALITY STABILIAZION
LOGISTICS
WATER
Located at the intersection of two major highways, and bounded by the Day River to the west, the development of this particular territory has been planned as a major hub for goods and agriculture moving into and around Hanoi. Typically, these logistical hubs consist of massive warehouses strung along highways pushing out into the hinterland at a city’s periphery. LOOP IN takes these large footprint infrastructural buildings and buries them within a sunken logistical ring, creating a stacked core that becomes the foundation for high density occupation of the surface above.
With this rapid growth comes a significant amount of waste and pollution. This consequence of urbanization is clearly evident in the current state of Hanoi’s hydrologic systems today. Hundreds of kilometers of canals constructed in the 1960’s channel water to and from the Red River for agriculture and industrial use alike. The lack of proper management of this water infrastructure leaves both the population and the economy at risk. LOOP IN takes advantage of the artificial elevation gained from building over the buried logistical hub to engineer a new topography optimized for largescale, low-tech water filtration. As water is coursed through the metropolitan-scale living machine, it is cleaned and eventually returned back to the Day River or used in on-site agricultural production.
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around around Hanoi. Hanoi. Typically, Typically, thesethese logistical logistical hubshubs consist consist of massive of massive warewarehouses houses strung strung along along highways highways pushing pushing out into out the intohinterland the hinterland at a at city’s a city’s periphery. periphery. LOOP LOOP IN takes IN takes thesethese largelarge footprint footprint infrastructural infrastructural buildings buildings and and buries buries themthem within within a sunken a sunken logistical logistical ring,ring, creating creating a stacked a stacked core core that becomes that becomes the foundation the foundation for high for high density density occupation occupation of theofsurface the surface above above
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SYSTEMS AND PLANNING University of Pennsylvania
DAO NGUYEN
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CIRCULATION
GREEN INFILTRATION / PUBLIC REALM
The transit breaks up the city into 6 distinct districts. The typology and program of these districts is based both on the corresponding stage of water treatment inside the district as well as proximity to the logistical loop in the center. LOGISTICS LOOP
Secondary road circulation pulls out from the major transit lines toward the periphery and weaves around the water as it pools and moves through the city. The Water Loop road allows forWATER secondary lateral circulation, linking the districts together.
The city rings around local agriculture operations to the west, which allows for the rural space to infiltrate the city. This is done by pulling public space into the market along green corridorsTRANSIT to blur the edge between rural and urban.
LOOP IN
PHUONG BANG
INITIAL SETTLING, MECHANICAL REMEDIATION
TERRACES FOR BIO-PURIFICATION
TIEN LE
SUBSURFACE FILTRATION, HEAVY METAL REMOVAL
Greywater from city PATHOGEN REMOVAL, NUTRIENT REMOVAL
SONG PHUONG
THON GAN
Agriculture
AERATION CLEAN WATER
SAND FILTER
University of Pennsylvania
WATER QUALITY STABILIAZION
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DAO NGUYEN
LOGISTIC LOOP
WATER
TRANSIT
By pulling the highway into a loop around the city, the distance between production and market is drastically reduced, increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of city function. This allows the products of local agriculture to be distributed
Water is pulled in through the existing river and pumped up to the first terraced settling pool. It then moves into large wetlands, after which it begins to break up into smaller ponds. Finally it makes its way into canals where it is used for large-
The major transit lines connect to the surrounding villages, tying the site together and allowing for exchange to happen between the existing context and the new city. These major lines contain trams and road space, and they connect to a
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Large scale remediation
PHUONG BANG
CIRCULATION
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PERFORMANCE
individual roof gardens wetlands-based crops ecological habitat
WATER
biopurificalion terraces subsurface filtration heavy metal removal
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THE PONDS
Shared rooftop gardens Individual rooftop gardens
SIZE AND SPACE 2-4 stories
9 m2 per person PROGRAM
Pocket garden courtyards
65% residential 15% commercial 15% public space 5% water
Multifamily residential
Commercial ground floor
PERFORMANCE
shared building gardens aquaculture hydroponics
Recreational pond Water from adjacent pond
WATER
nutrient removal aeration
TYPOLOGY
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tube house
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SIZE AND SPACE
DISTRICTS
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PROGRAM
20% residential 60% commercial 20% public space 0% water
PERFORMANCE
logistics core loop goods transfer touchpoint flexible informal selling
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SUBSURFACE FILTRATION, HEAVY METAL REMOVAL
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flood control overflow recreational edge
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CLEAN WATER
SAND FILTER
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SIZE AND SPACE 8-52 stories
Upper level residential
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Sand filtration ponds
PERFORMANCE
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Shared building amenities
WATER
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BARRIER STATEN ISLAND LARP 502 • Spring 2013 Critic: Ellen Neises Winner: 2nd Place, ONEPrize: Stormproof 2013
Blue/Green Belts
water management & recreation
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PROPOSED
Green Belt
Willowbrook Ravine
richmond creek jack’s pond
new creek
wood duck pond
Fr. Capodonna Tr.
sweet brook
oakwood creek
blue heron arbutus creek wolfe’s pond sandy brook mill creek butler manor
Sandy surge line
Midland -20’
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• homes destroyed by Sandy Oakwood
Great Kills
This 7.5 mile island will defend Staten Island better than any man-made structure. The island is programmatically connected upland via the Willowbrook Ravine, a former highway right-ofway along the degraded former course of the Great Kill. Combining the Blue and Green Belt systems in a controlled and deliberate form can provide miles of habitat, recreation, and storm defense.
Staten Island Coney Island
Rockaways
East Shore perpendicular to storm surges
Surge
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Barrier Islands act as funnel
Sandy Hook Digital Elevation Model 10’ Bathymetry contours
Great Kills and High Knuckle Park
a new coast in the most vulnerable borough • up to 5 sq. mi of salt marsh to offset regional losses due to sea level rise • linking uplands to wetlands creates a valuable regionally important natural resource
Blue/Green Connections A New East Shore
integrated recreation and coastal defense
accelerating forces at play to create a new coastal amenity
FT. WADSWORTH 26’
GREEN BELT
hiking Tibetan art museum Green belt nature center
NEW CREEK BAY
kayaking
MIDLAND SPIT fr. capodanno trail sunken forest
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WILLOWBROOK RAVINE hiking biking
new creek bridge
sports fields 18’
MILLER BEACH GREAT KILLS kayaking fishing
HIGH KNUCKLE
biking running picnics
18’ 72’
OAKWOOD ISLAND concerts
STATEN’S BARRIER ISLAND
boating
“sand motor” Knuckles
anticipated longshore drift
CROOKE’s POINT surf fishing
Blue Belt crossings new Green Belt trails
Blue/Green Connections Willowbrook Ravine
stitching SI together
highway right-of-way
active green belt trail and blue belt
weir wall trails stilling ponds
GREAT KILLS
GREEN BELT
regrading for improved runoff flow improved ecology & habitat dual speed trails
Fr. Capodanno Trail
shore road
fore and back dune ecologies restored maritime forest stabilization lattices boardwalk trail
dune stabilizer
High Knuckle / Great Kills
Blue/Green Belt nexus
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• geologically & hydrologically, what the shore wants • intercoastal water way supports huge amounts of human activity and animal habitat
New Creek
Miller Field
Great Kills
Great Kills
Great Kills bike park finished
creeks of great kills High Knuckle trails wetlands trail barrier trail fox beach stage oakwood beacon weir wall path movie night cove kayak cove fishing cove habitat coves great kills marina
Miles of trails on a former landfill High Knuckle Bike Park HIGH KNUCKLE PARK - The region’s premier bike track and trails HK Velodrome
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Green Ring
- 1.34 mi. - easy access to adjacent HK programs - smooth elevation changes - easiest ride in the park
Blue Trails
Black Diamond
- 3.6 mi. - multiple access points and adjacencies - moderate elevation changes - medium difficulty
Salt Spray
No Wheels
- 1.2 mi. - concentrated and segregated from other trails - extreme elevation changes & trail obstacles - Single Diamond - Difficult - Double Diamonds - Experts Only
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4.7 mi. footpath access to all parts of park elevation changes moderate pedestrian access to viewing platforms
Great Kills Boardwalk
Inner Ring Tunnel Track Crossing Bridge Track Crossing
2020 - 2030
2040 - 2050
2060 - 2070
New Creek
2080 - 2100
New Creek salt marsh bay
Miller Field maintained as High Ground
• phasing accompanies the gradual retreat from the shore • building out Green Belt improves mobility across the shore
TRAVERSE: BARTRAM’S GARDEN LARP 501 • Fall 2012 Critic: Dilip De Cunha
This studio is designed to build up methodologies for observation, drawing, making, and projecting. Our site was the historic Bartram’s Garden in west Philadelphia. My particular area of interest is the constructed wetland on the southern end of the grounds which is bordered by a long row of old Lindens, a community garden, and the Schuylkill river.
Detail: Site Triangulation
Four traverses are used to gain a holistic appreciation of sites: Triangulation, Serial Sections, Photoworks, and Plotting. Each adds another layer of understanding and lead to a design intervention that is intended to work with the site and change over time. Detail: PhotoWorks Traverse
Detail: Serial SectionsTraverse
Canada Goose Sternum: Perspective Projection
Canada Goose Sternum: Isometric Projection & Measuring Device
Avian Residency: Bartram’s Gardens Migratory Range
B a r t a m ’s
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September
American Black Duck
Red - Tailed Hawk
Northern Cardinal
Belted Kingfisher Double - Crested Cormorant
Red - Bellied Woodpecker
Mallard Duck
Canada Goose
Ring - Billed Gull
Yellow - Bellied Sapsucker
Great Blue Heron
Greater Scaup
White - Throated Sparrow
Ruby - Throated Hummingbird
Pied - Billed Grebe
Common Loon
Wild Turkey
Green Heron
Avian Habitat Amplification: Bartram’s Gardens
FORAGE
Spring
Grasses
SOAR | GRAZE
Sedges
Perches provide hunting locations for Hawks
Clover These are some of the first plants to appear in the Spring and are an important Food source for Turkeys and their young.
Perches disrupt grass field used by Geese Obstacles discourage grazing
Summer
Blackberries Wild Grape Abundant food supplies, such as the Spring grasses and the insects the insects contained within are supplanted by these fruits.
HOVER
Autumn Jewel Weed (Impatiens capensis) Swale keeps moisture content high Fast sreading plant (Explosive Dehisence) Bearberry Red Cedar Dogwood
Deer browsing helps control growth Mow before seeds grow (early Spring)
As previous seasonal food supplies are depleted the fruits and seeds from these plants become critical
Winter
Shagbark Hickory Swamp White Oak Red Oak Pin Oak Pitch Pine Mockernut Hickory Turkeys depend on mast crops during the winter to survive. Evergreens provide important winter roosting sites as well.
WADE | DIVE The Pier takes people off the shore line, freeing it for Herons and other shorebirds The pylons create new habitat for fry and shade for larger fish The addition of a new aquatic structure increases the food supply for all fish eating birds
Final Armature Model
Pier and Foraging field from Schuylkill River
View of perches cutting through farm area
View down Linden path and jewel weed swale
HOVER
A swale is cut so that the adjacent wetland periodically inundates the soil. This encourages the growth of Jewel weed which is a primary food source for migrating Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds. In the fall, deer browse on the jewel weed, controlling its spread.
FORAGE The strip of road parallel to the linden path is torn out and planted with species that provide food sources for resident Wild Turkeys all year. Grasses in spring, seeds and berries in fall, and mast crops for winter.
WADE / DIVE
The pier takes people off the shore line, freeing it for Herons and other shorebirds. The pylons create fish habitat and the decking provides shade. This enriches the food source for Double-Crested Cormorants.
SOAR / GRAZE A continuous series of tall perches provide resident Red - Tailed Hawks with excellent hunting positions. The perches also disrupt the open field, making it less appealing for grazing by migrating Canada Geese.
INFO BLOCK ARCH 502 • Spring 2012 Critic: Mark Krueckel
Wi Fi
Newspaper
The 502 studio was tasked with designing a Co-Op office and Market space on an empty lot in Philadelphia. Info Block is the result of an extensive mapping of information flows in the neighborhood. The mapping of newspapers, mailboxes, and wifi signals were used as a means to connect the building to the community and as an organizational scheme.
Info Block houses a complex mix of programs. It organizes tech-oriented office studios, educational rooms, a market space for book sellers, a public roof garden as well as a free neighborhood “white space� wifi network. The goal was to distribute these programs so that each would be linked by social areas, creating opportunities for more interaction between occupants.
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co - op work space
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print market
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classroom
auditorium
lounge workshops
library
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Small Digital Studio Large Digital Studio Lounge Area Library / Computer Lab Small Digital Studio & Meeting Room Workshop Room
Longitudinal Section studio
auditorium
cafe gallery
Atrium Interior
CafĂŠ & Gallery Section
lounge
office space
lounge work shops
KINDER Struct ARCH 502 • Spring 2012 Critic: Julie Beckman
KinderStruct was the final studio project for the 501 semester of architecture. Elements of structure and ergonomics were explored in previous furniture studies and then applied here. For this project the studios each examined a film as an accelerant from which certain themes could be employed in the building design.
The primary design element for the kindergarten is the use of a closed loop system and alternating observers with the observed. Apertures and spatial speeds are used as the secondary elements in the overall organization. Smaller apertures are associated with fast spaces, larger openings with slower spaces.
Large Aperture - Slow Space Medium Aperture - Variable Speed Small Aperture - Fast Space
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TRACES and INSCRIPTIONS Print Making Elevtive • Fall, 2011 Critic: Anurada Mathur
The original copper plates began as figural references to an empty lot on the corner of 17th and South st. in Philadelphia. The etching process became a strategy for altering the site, conceptual methods of erasure and layering. After certain processes had been established, a third plate was introduced with the intention of reverse engineering the previous plates to intentionally create different atmospheres or field conditions.
SUBTRACTIVE Removal of material from either the ground laid onto the plate or the copper itself. This could include, but was not limited to, spraying SoySolve over hard ground, sanding, rotary tools, spray paint over water, or diffusion of printer toner in alcohol.
ADDITIVE Includes processes that alter the amount of ground initially added; modulated aquatint, flecking of hardground, or dusting of toner.
ABRASION Involving the use of sand paper, steel wool, burnishers, scrapers, sand blasters, or dremels.
SPRAY Any process where control was given up in favor of the movement of liquifs through misting, splashing, submerging, or spraying.
FIGURE ETCH Acid is used to etch what is perceived as object.
FIELD ETCH Acid is used to etch what is perceive as ground.
250° Processes that involved heating the plate to melt down solids (Soft ground), set powders (toner), or evaporate (spray paint on water, toner or alcohol).
72° Processes that took place at room temperature, using solids as abrasives or using liwuids as subtractive agents.
VISUAL Studies I ARCH 521 • Fall, 2011 Critic: Lasha Brown
This course was a semester long representational study in primarily line drawings. After analyzing and documenting a found object, a series of permutations, based in the logic of the original object were applied. In this case a pair of binoculars were transformed according to how light passed through prisms. The final result was a lens tree whose branching patterns change as the prism fields are raised or lowered.
Light’s Passage through Porro Prisms
Sectional Binocular Model
Rendering over Prism Field
Variable Branching Diagrams
Lens Clustering Study
Lens Tree Growth
Lens Tree Plan
GROWTH from DECAY competition A mushroom’s affinity for decay drives its growth. Given a site stricken by neglect and using what remains as a catalyst for growth, “Mobile Mushroom” cultivates its own gourmet mushrooms using coffee grounds from local shops. While dining under the Franklin Bridge, patrons can observe fungus harvesting from the “Morel Mushroom” inspired pylon casing, illuminated by the “mycelium” light strands above. The mobile truck follows a weekly schedule, setting up at another neglected or under utilized site. Afterwards the truck stops by a number of coffee shops to collect grounds for composting. By attracting regular customers, Mobile Mushroom hopes to reclaim and inject new life into decayed areas.
Schenk-Woodman Honorable Mention, 2012
Bike CANOPY: +
SIMPLE ASSEMBLY EASILY CONSTRUCTED
CO+LAB student design group
FLEXIBLE INTERFACE
HI-TECH
MYRIAD OPPORTUNITIES
SUNBRELLA FABRIC 1-1/4” STEEL ELBOW
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9a
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STRUCTURAL INTERFACE HP
HP LP
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36” ANNUAL PRECIPITATION PHILADELPHIA, PA
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RAIN FRONT ELEVATION
SHADE
SIDE ELEVATION
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FU LL Y
CO VE RS BIK ES
RAINWATER COLLECTION
GARDEN TEST PLOTS FOR STUDENTS + FACULTY
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STANDARD 9’ BIKE RACK
VERSATILE
LOW MAINTENANCE
LP
PLANE
RESILIENT
YEAR-ROUND PROTECTION
SIMPLE FABRIC CUT
HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID TENSILE CANOPY MEMBRANE
TILTED HP
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EASY STRUCTURAL INTERFACE
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SUNBRELLA HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID BIKE CANOPIES COOL BIKE SPACES + DRY BUTTS FOR ALL! The courtyard outside of PennDesign’s Meyerson Hall contains 15 standard 9’ bike racks. However, none are covered, leaving dozens of bicycles exposed to the rain and sun. The Bike Canopy blends low-tech pipes and bolt construction to support a Sunbrella hyperbolic paraboloid that shades and sheds rain.
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The connections and assembly are specific to these racks, widely used throughout campus, allowing the Bike Canopy to proliferate and aggregate.
The author is one of three lead designers/coordinators and one of several prototype and final builders
SHADE Break: Deployable Structures ARCH 632 • Spring, 2014 With Emily Gruendel & Jingxian Xu
SHADE SHARD came out of a study in spacefilling geometry and the ability to compress and expand the overall form. Truncated Cube Octohedrons and Truncated Octohedrons are combined and a single shell is removed from the aggregate which becomes the diagram for the MDF scissor joints. The vellum shading plates were derived from several studies examining a process of enclosing the original aggregate with offset surfaces.
The final result is a structure that when compressed forms a solid shell of polygonal shade panels. When the structure is deployed, the panels disassemble normal to the joint at each center point, resulting in a fractured shading system that casts dappled light. The structure consists of 356 members, 164 joints, and 35 plates. Aluminum tubing joined members and joints together. The vellum shade panels are held up by an extension of the joint mounts.
Shell Selection
aggregate
members
full plates
culled plates & members
final plates
x 356
x 212
x 164
member and connective joint detail
scissor member and joint assemblies
back cover: visual studies project, 2014
CRICKET DAY MLA/M.ARCH 2015