Danielle N. Davis by Danielle Davis

Danielle Davis

Contents Academic Peabody Museum Interstice Dance Machine Building Project - Team C CASIS Headquarters Coney Island(s) Kunsthaus Bregenz Study Light Fingers Whitney Museum Reinterpreted Craft & Materials - Creative Formation

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Professional Building Project Internship 35 Work Experience - Summer Internships 37

Peabody Interstice Imagined to puncture the ground plane and activiate the Yale Science Hill plaza, this project is an extension of Peabody Natural History Museum. Meant to intrigue and inform any passerby - whether there for a moment or a day, the exhibition is housed in a series of illuminated columns that reach above and below the plaza in varying degrees.

opposite page Large-scale model of main plaza this page top: Cross-section through back end of courtyard bottom: Detail view of model showing the column type, height, & display differences

Critic: Joyce Hsiang Year 1 Fall Semester

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Taking cues from the approach up Science Hill as well as Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colonnade, the columns - thin, thick, grouped, fre e-standing - establish a pattern and rhythm of movement through the exhibit that links the experiences on both sides of the ground plane through light and glimpses of view. During the day, light from above illuminates the lower level. At night, light from below activates the dark plaza.

opposite page top: Ground Plan bottom: Longitudinal section this page far left, top: Lower Level Plan far left, bottom: View from below ground plane of exhibition columns extending below right: Model view showing the reciprocity between upper and lower levels (see through the empty footprint of the Kline Biology Tower)

Dance Machine Beneath the Guastavino vaults of the Williamsburg bridge in New York City, a new dance center weaves the program for and the passage of dancers and visitors through the masonry arcade of the facade. The new facade dives behind the columns of the bridge and then slips out again to enclose an auditorium space where the stage is framed by the original arches. The new envelope further splits and wraps to define glass-bounded rehearsal spaces and back-of-house behind the stage and arcade.

opposite page Section model photograph through stage proscenium this page left: Diagrammatic sketches of movement through arcade right, top: Program & flow diagram of users of the dance center right, bottom: Section through bridge, auditorium, and one dance rehearsal studio

Critic: Joyce Hsiang Year 1 Fall Semester ENTRANCE

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opposite page top: Ground Plan with main auditorium, lobby, back-of-house, and lobby this page top: Diagrams - public access, public/ private program, private access bottom: Second Floor Plan with offices, rehearsal studios, and the auditorium mezzanine

Building Project - Team C with Bobby Cannavinno, Elisa Iturbe, Bryan Maddock, Leeland McPhail, Cristian Oncescu, William Sheridan

To promote owner/tenant autonomy, this Vlock Building Project proposal interlocks the units subtly within the simple volume through a stacked stair.

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Critic: Joeb Moore and Jennifer Leung Year 1 Spring Semester

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To express the interlock and provide light that would otherwise have been blocked by the other unit, an articulated roof also subtly links the two residences.

opposite page Model view from Tenant backyard this page top: Site Plan bottom: Diagram of concepts to â&#x20AC;&#x153;double the frontageâ&#x20AC;? of the house & diagram of the layered arrangement of void, solid

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Both owner and tenant are afforded front and back entries with liminal access paths that only overlap in the most public of places - the cornerfacing front porch. This porch is the massingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acknowledgment of the corner condition of the site as well as the symbol of community connection.

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opposite page First Floor Plan, Owner Unit to left this page Second Floor Plan

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The units are viewed as interlocking in three ways: - light, core circulation, and overlapping view ranges.

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opposite page Sectional perspective render through living spaces and tenant entry

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this page top: Elevation view - eroded porch expressed through cladding bottom: Diagram expressing the moments of interlock

CASIS Headquarters The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space is a new institution founded to bring scientific research of private companies and organizations to the International Space Station. To this end, a powerful new headquarters will express their innovation, discretion, and stablility on strategic site near the United Nations in New York City. The headquarters incorporates a public exhibtion, private offices and research labs, and conference facilities. Located on the corner of 1st Ave and 40th St, the building is accessed from either the front (future East River Park and the UN) or the back (Manhattan and the subway). Entering at the heart of the site, visitors for the exhibition wrap around the access path - ascending and then descending through the other side of the site. Jutting upward from this base, a crystal-like structure encases the rest of the headquarters in a series of multi-level zones.

Critic: Michael Young Year 2 Fall Semester

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opposite page left: Study models right: Final massing model with skin system expressed this page Dual cladding systems

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opposite page Basement - exhibition & lecture hall Ground Plan - lobby & upper level of lecture hall 2nd - Exhibition and ramp down to basement level 3rd - Educational classroom and breakout spaces this page left: 5th - main office and research lab 7th - VIP lounge right: Sectional model of atrium

21| CASIS Headquarters

opposite page top, left: Aerial night render top, right: Render of back from Manhattan bottom: Back entry view this page Longitudinal section showing multilevel lobby, exhbition and lecture hall with upper level private zones

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Critic: Peggy Deamer Year 2 Spring Semester - with Elisa Iturbe & Thomas Day

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Tied into physical infrastructure, a social infrastructure of services and community space is integrated through the islands - creating interdependencies on a large scale and self-sufficiency on a small scale.

With the radical assumption that the ground level should be allowed to completely accommodate incoming water, there is a loss of the ground plane that stimulates new types of connections and transportation.

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opposite page Sectional model of transit-hub intersecting an existing residential tower and extending into new buildings

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this page top: Phase III Plan of new Coney Islands bottom: Mapping diagrams of islandwide and neighborhood-level social infrastructure

25| Coney Islands - Midterm Review

By identifying existing social infrastructures and mapping the drastic losses that sea level rise will inflict, this became a critical programmatic driver for the new city. Formally, tall residential towers were viewed as the most resilient physical construction, so they will be fortified against rising waters and (along with the transit connections) will anchor the new development. They are modeled in white.

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this page (from top) Diagrams of towers identified to fortify, map of lost social infrastructure by sea level rise in 2050, diagram of existing social infrastructure phases of loss

Building Technology Following an analysis of Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz, a 2’ x 2’ sectional model was composed to reveal the key components of the structure and systems. These were identified as the light filtration system and facade construction, focusing on the ephemeral qualities they created.

opposite page Front view of model this page left, top: Panel detail left, bottom: Detail of panel support right: Interior ceiling panel reveals strategy of indirect illumination

Kunsthaus Bregenz Study with Constance Vale

Light Fingers Conceived as a prosthetic extension of Rudolph Hall, the “light fingers” installation activates the dim landings and window nook between the second and third floors in the York tion Street stairwell. The installation invites viewers to the edge of the landing to better understand the multilevel space beyond the stair. The “fingers” intervene with increasing complexity across four lights that typically illuminate reliefs on the far wall of the stairwell. In this way, the fingers extend from the edge of the platform to enliven this peripheral space. Published in Retrospecta 2012

opposite page Top view of Light Fingers installed this page top: Construction sequence diagram bottom: Plan and section of the installation and context

Team Fabrication in Visualization II with Jackie Kow, Julie Kim, Sheena Zhang

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Visualization IV The first image uses a sectional view of Marcel Breuer’s Whintey Museum to highlight the idea of the public realm entering under the stepped facade. The “moat” becomes the link, not the separator. In the second image, an aerial view and interior view are juxtaposed to emphasize the inversion of objectfield (building as object, building as field). In the final image, our group parametrically “redesigned” museum that elevates the building entirely to allow total public possession of the ground floor. Drawings were produced after building a digital model in Revit. 1st image published in Retrospecta 2012

Whitney Museum Study with Cristian Oncescu and Leeland McPhail

Creative Formation I Beginning with an original watercolor painting, the image went through a series of digital manipulations to arrive at a pattern. When tiled, the pattern produces a variety of beautiful corner conditions that blur the reading of figure and ground. In this first stage of the project, a 3D plaster print was produced of one tile.

opposite page 3D printed tile from front and side this page top: Original watercolor and digital manipulations bottom: Detail of 3D tile when backlit; Digital surface patterning

Craft, Materials, & Computer-Aided Artistry Critic: Kevin Rotheroe

Building Project Internship - YSOA Summer 2012 The winning proposal for Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vlock Building Project was constructed in the summer of 2012. The foundation and main structure were built by the entire graduate class of 2014, but 14 interns were selected to complete the construction over the summer.

opposite page View from corner this page top, left: View from Starr St. top, right: Ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard and deck bottom, left: Top of Owner stairs bottom, right: Access to Owner deck, upper window, stair detailing, and door combine for impression of transparency

Work Experience - Summer Internships Corgan Associates - Education Summer 2011 Assisted in the construction administration of Lady Bird Johnson Middle School (shown on right & opposite page) and other schools in Irving, TX. Also contributed to design development and construction documents of over 5 schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

HKS - Hospitality Summer 2008

Assisted in the design development stages for the Four Seasons Sharm elSheikh (shown on left) and schematic development of a resort in South Caicos. Also compiled a working database of the graphic data of over 20 Hopsitality projects.