Explorations Edition Two
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Dankitecture’s Architectural Universe
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What is this? Well, that’s a good question. I suppose it’s an architectural portfolio. Something to document my academic and work projects. Something to promote myself and my ideas. Hopefully something that’ll land me a job. Who knows, something that may even land me a built project or two someday. This is where I used to include my take on the architect’s personal statement. My manifesto. How I believed in an architecture where form follows fun(ction). Where I embrace the thoughtfully wacky and whimsical. Where somehow in some universe I thought that this would create a better and brighter future for all of us. But forget about that. I’m not here to speak superfluously about what my architectural interests are and how I aspire to change the world through design. What student of architecture doesn’t? Although maybe I’m actually not detailing what my interests are and what the theme of this portfolio is because I can’t exactly pinpoint what it is anymore. Not to build too much on the trope of the architect who believes that each of their projects is unique and contain no aesthetic or conceptual similarities, but I guess this portfolio is meant to be an honest and somewhat raw view into how my architectural process works. A portal into Dan’s brain. A bit non-hierarchical. A lot non-linear. Hopefully a little fun. Welcome to my cabinet of curiosities.
Dan VanderhorsT
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Daniel.Vanderhorst@columbia.edu
WORK ExPERIENCE
Education
Studio North Spring 2019 - Summer 2020 Architectural Intern
Columbia University GSAPP 2020 Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
Participated in the fabrication and design of a variety of projects including
Granted Advanced Placement upon entry as well as being a recipient of the
art gallery installations, residential laneway homes, and restaurants
Avery Scholarship
HUTS NYC 2020 Freelance Designer
University of Toronto Daniels 2015 - 2019 Honours Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies (B.A.)
Designed and created a catalog of a modular kit-of-parts system for micro-
Graduated with High Distinction as a Dean’s List Scholar and a CGPA of 3.85
homes to serve as backyard urban retreats and rural spaces of refuge
Double major in Architectural Design and Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism
derHorst Studio 2018 Furniture Designer + Fabricator Co-founded a furniture brand focused on recycling dead and diseased
Volunteer
natural wood into sustainable tables and chairs
Wimat Landform Construction 2015 - 2018 Construction Foreman Installed small to mid size construction projects ranging from commercial retaining walls to residential demolition, construction, and landscapes
Orientation Leader 2018 University of Toronto AALD Guest Speaker 2021 University of Toronto
Awards + Publications
Hospitality Design Awards Winner 2020 Sidewalk Citizen | Studio North
Hospitality Design Awards Runner-Up 2019 Wellington Info Kiosk | UofT Design-Build
Landmarks Journal 2018 Spadina Avenue and the Creative Economy
Convening Places 2019 Art Gallery of Alberta Terrace Installation
Archisource Drawing of the Year 2020 Shortlisted | Stoop City Oblique
Archisource Drawing of the Year 2020 Longlisted | Republic of Rathnelly
Skillset
Drafting Rhino 3d Revit AutoCAD Sketchup Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Premier 3ds Max Vray Lumion Grasshopper Python Web Design (cargo+Wix) RhinoCAM CNC Milling Lasercutting 3d Printing Carpentry Metalworking Electrical Plumbing Landscaping Concrete Forming Demolition Renovation English (native) French (beginners) Dutch (beginners) Writing Fort-making
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Stoop City Project Time: Fall 2020 Project Type: Academic design Program: Multi-unit residence Instructor: Hilary Sample Partner: Jonathan Chester What makes a housing project an interesting environment to inhabit? Whats stopping a building from being explored the way a city’s streets can be explored? Where visitors and local residents alike can endlessly wander through the winding corridors. Stoop City is a housing project in the Bronx that attempts to create an environment full of wonder and excitement in its public realm. An enivronment that draws you in with its own unique flavors, smells, and noises. Its 4 standardized module types each with distinct circulatory routes combine in near-infinite configurations to create a variety of unique stoop-like conditions. This abstraction of the stoop throughout the circuation of the building allows the corridors to act as social engagement spaces. Spaces to enjoy a slice of pizza. Spaces to enjoy the music of a local artist. Spaces to play a game of chess. Spaces to meet new people. Spaces to explore. 2
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Acoustic analysis of the sidewalk condustions prevalent throughout the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx (left page). Followed by a series of vignettes illustrating how the conditions necessary for such spaces of informal social interaction have been replicated in Stoop City via a network of winding and weaving corridors.
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The cork-clad CLT shear walls of the 2-storey modules create complete acoustic segregation between units, allowing for a great diversity of work/live/study living scenerios next to one another.
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Forty-two House(es) Project Time: Fall 2018 Project Type: Academic design Program: Multi-unit student residence Advisors: Jeannie Kim + Mauricio Quiros Pacheco 42 houses is a design for a 21-storey student residence in downtown Toronto. The residence would be built as part of a public-private partnership between the University of Toronto and a private developer. As an attempt to mediate between the pros and cons of both the old Victorian triplexes that dominate old Toronto and the glass condos that dominate new Toronto, 42 houses seeks to combine both typologies within one building. While the triplexes offer a sense of character and community that the glass towers don’t, they simply do not allow for the density (and therefore financial feasibility) of these towers. And so, this design stacks clusters of units in a way mimicking the Victorian triplexes in a series of 6 different levels, each containing their own neighborhood theme, but all within the same building.
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Rathnelly Manor Project Time: Spring 2018 Project Type: Academic design Program: Single-family residence Location: Toronto, Ontario Advisor: Chloe Town Located in the sovereign nation of the “Republic of Rathnelly”, a unique neighborhood in Toronto, this house for a married artist and writer pays homage to the quirky and playful nature of its location. It sits on the end of the republic’s main avenue, Rathnelly Ave, and takes an iconic, pitched-roof, house form, serving as a symbol of the entire area. The iconic yet playful character of the house is enhanced through the martini glasses, symbols found on Rathnelly’s crest and flag, which are stamped into the houses rosetinted concrete exterior. Each of the house’s three floors contains a different function and forms a u-shape that opens in a different orientation, allowing for a large cylindrical courtyard to penetrate through the house and connect these three unique worlds.
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Astral Waterworks Project Time: Spring 2021 Project Type: Academic design + urban systems analysis Program: Urban masterlan Advisor: Scott Demel Partners: Jonathan Chester, Ethan Davis, Novak Djogo The story of Astral Waterworks revolves around 2 core elements: water and industry. Situated around Brooklyn’s Bushwick Inlet along the East River, this site has had many histories. Its pre-industrial history was reminiscent of an era where humans and nature lived in harmony along the waterfront; where humans could walk down and dip their toes in the river. Then industry changed everything when Astral Oil Works set up shop on the site in the 1770s. But rather than shun the industrial heritage (which has since polluted the now-abandoned site) while favoring the natural history, would it be possible to synthesize the 2? We believe so. Astral Waterworks is a re-imagination of the classic American factory town. However an attempt to make it suitable for the ecological and evironmental concerns of the 21st century. A modern, economically and ecologically resilient work-live community where residents who work on the agro-roofs and in the makerspaces can sell their products and produce in the on-site farmers market. Where an underwater bio-filtration structure doubling as a maritime history museum cleanses the Bushwick ‘lagoon’ creating an extra layer of aquatic park space for the residents to enjoy. Astral Waterworks is a speculation on the future of urban systems and urbanism as a whole. 19
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The site-wide water system uses a series of hardscaped streams, constructed wetlands, biofilters, pumps, and retention ponds to treat greywater and polluted water from the East River.
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Streams On-Site
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The goal of the site design is to purify the water in the inlet and make it a pleasant
Underground Tanks Overflow
After water from the East River pumped to site theand stream and safe place for recreation. Stream bedsiszigzag across the steer bases around the exterior polluted storm runoff water into a series of tanks that purify the water as it flows of the site, the water runs through the stream system where it is treated as it passes through. Once through these tanks, the water is released into the inlet. The inlet is separated from the river until by a filtration system the that cleans water as it flows pools. in. A through UV filters, it reaches circular retention It is stored here until it pump located in the inlet helps bring in a steady flow of water. passes into and replenishes the cleansed lagoon when the water level is low enough. In order to save energy, the pump system only operates when the tidal cycles are low.
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Typical building plan and section showing the light industrial makerspace ground floor, conveyor connected agro-roof, and residential floors in between.
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Sidewalk Citizen Project Time: 2019 Location: Calgary, Alberta Project Type: Professional built project Program: Commercial restaurant renovation + addition Principals: Matt Kennedy + Mark Erickson (Studio North) Role: Played large role in design and fabrication; CNC-milled and assembled structural plywood profiles and built-in furniture, created drawings Sidewalk Citizen is a new restaurant in Calgary’s Central Memorial Park that experiments with wood as a material as well as digital fabrication techniques. The entire structure is composed of CNCmilled plywood sheets laminated together and strengthened only using dowels. This lamella type of structure is clad with translucent standing-seam polycarbonate sheets, thus allowing light to softly eminate through the trusses. Resulting from this is a pointed arched ‘timber cathedral’ that can be used throughout the year. This project ponders and experiments with how wood can be used in more unconventional methods, and how this can set a precedent for Canadian timber architecture in the future.
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