Schragger MArch1 Portfolio 032010 by dave schragger

David A. Schragger

Resume

References

Mission Statement

Hualos _ Fall 2007 Systematic Research, Site Development, Dynamic Nested Structures

The Erie Canal Museum _ Spring 2007 Site Development

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Gestural Solar Topography _ Spring 2008 Modular Medical Facility

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Wingspan _ Spring 2008 Formal Study, Modular System Study

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CBST Urban Synagogue _ Fall 2008 Solar Site Research, Programmatic Study

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W 56 Street Proposal _ Summer 2008 Zoning analysis, FAR analysis, Massing Study

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W 24 Street Facade Detailing _ Summer 2008 Fabrication Feasibility Study, Detailing Study

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E_FLUX Tower _ Fall 2008 Integrated Wind Turbine Research, Modeling and Fabrication

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Wallice _ Summer 2009 Digital Design and Fabrication, Installation

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Thumos _ Spring 2007 Digital Modeling, Algorithmic Extrapolation, Rendering and Fabrication

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Emergent Canopies _ Fall 2008 Reactive Canopy System, Installation

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FOODstand, Fast Slow Food Studio _ Spring 2009 Brand Instance, Agriculture Study, Operable Structure

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WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline _ Fall 2009 Thesis on Disappearing Urban Environments & Remediation Ecologies

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Miscellaneous Debris

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David A. Schragger 24 Hilvista Boulevard _ Trenton, NJ 08618 tel. 609.731.6236 _ email. daschrag@syr.edu education _________________________________________________________ Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY. December 2009 M.Arch 1 Thesis | WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline, a remediation ecology Connecticut College, New London, CT. May 1999 Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Minor in Studio Art, Minor in Classics The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ. June 1995 experience ________________________________________________________ 2006-2009 Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY _ Teaching Assistant: - Co-taught Architectural Design Studio - Representation - Introduction to Computer Applications in Architecture _ Research Assistant: - Integrated Wind Technologies into the Built Environment - Assisted P. Michael Pelken in his research, design development, and production -3 D modeling, consultation, and analysis with the Computational Fluid Dynamics lab - Prototype fabrication for wind tunnel analysis - Production for competition & publication submissions sum 2008 Intern, Archi-Techtonics, New York, NY _ Site survey and documentation _ Production for competition & publication submissions _ Detailing for a parametrically generated faรงade _ Assisted with concept proposal for residential building: W. 56th Street, NYC _ Zoning and Code analysis 2002 - > Freelance Designer _ Continuing design work for local, national, and international clients _ Worked both independently with clients and in cooperation with in-house marketing teams _ Responsible for developing projects from conception through production _ Projects include branding, logos, advertisements, publications, catalogues, packaging, direct mail, signage, and event collateral

2000-2004 Art Director/Designer, VCG2, Princeton, NJ _ Employed as an Art Director and Designer for an international advertising, marketing, and design firm _ Responsible for the oversight of project development and production, as well as the creative direction of projects encompassing print, Internet and radio _ Work included the design of branding, logos, catalogues, product packaging, newspaper and magazine advertisements, posters, phone cards, direct mail, user manuals, and apparel awards ___________________________________________________________ _ Thesis is nominated for the 2010 James Britton Memorial Best Thesis Design Award _ 4 projects were chosen for the 2009 Graduate Architecture Students Recent Works exhibit skills _____________________________________________________________

_ Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Cinema 4D, Autocad, SketchUp, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Processing _ stereo lithography printer, CNC mill, laser cutter _ Adobe CS4, QuarkXPress, MS Office, Dreamweaver, and HTML

references ________________________________________________________

Mark D. Linder Chair, Graduate Programs, Associate Professor Syracuse University School of Architecture Principal, CLEAR mdlinder@syr.edu / 315.443.2256

Aaron Sprecher Assistant professor, McGill School of Architecture Partner, Open Source Architecture aaron.sprecher@mcgill.ca / 514.398.5242

Thomas Barry Associate Managing Partner, ARCHI-TECTONICS tb@archi-tectonics.com / 212.226.0303

mission statement: Throw it against the wall, see what sticks.

Hualos _ Fall 2007 Critics: Aaron Sprecher John John Bohn Systematic Research, Site Development, Dynamic Nested Structures Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad Plexiglas Sectional Model, Stereolithic Print, Museum Board Model

Hualos is any stone transparent like glass. The name invokes materials produced by the site. The parameters of this project were defined by the G2 competition for the Venice Lagoon Park. The site, Sacca San Mattia, is an island created by canal system dredging. The field is a composite of polluted silt and waste materials from the Murano glass factories. The process of fusing contaminated silt and glass waste produces an inert substance with a range of ceramic to glass-like qualities. The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tainted elemental properties provide the opportunity to transform Sacca San Mattia into a recreational park made of ceramic and glass that serves as a gateway to the Venice Lagoon territory. The organizational patterning of the park was derived algorithmically through spatial relationships between sampled topographic values. Volumes scaled through a proportionate derivative of the algorithm resulted in varying field densities that created a structural framework for developing the site. Layering the site patterning created a dynamic scalable fracturing that accommodates function. Each nested derivative's new scale accommodates a new mode and function. Fields evolve into buildings. Buildings evolve into rooms. Rooms evolve into apertures. Apertures evolve into building details. The iterative process thus creates an inhabitable form derived by a fractal system with an infinitely dynamic framework.

nested derivative volumes 4

Hualos

Venice Lagoon pollution map and glass factory locations

glass factories as lagoon remediation opportunity

initial site patterning

Program 1_boat line 2_boat rental 3_welcome center 4_sports 5_festival 6_industry

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Hualos

view towards Murano

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Hualos

Built Inhabitable Built Appendages Glass Sand B uilt / Natural & Sculptural N atural Ground Sculptural Glass Sand Planting Natural Thicket N atural Thicket / Sculptural Landfill

derivative site plan

volumetric extrapolation

dimensional extrapolation 10

Hualos

derivative 1

derivative 2

derivative 3

Hualos

plan cut of 3 integrated systems

circulation diagram Store

Departure Dock

Arrival Dock Storage

Gallery

Material Circulation

Offices Pre_Alchemy Processing

Welcome Center

Furnace

Visitor Path

Factory Observatory

Bathroom Post_Alchemy Processing

Cafe

sectional model composite of interior space

sectional model, acrylic and cardboard

stereolithic print detail

site model, stereolithic print and museum board

Hualos

view from the NE corner towards construct

view from the NW towards Murano

The Erie Canal Museum _ Spring 2007 Critics: Ted Brown Lori Brown Site Development Rhino, 3D Studio Max V-Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad Chipboard Waffle Model

The Erie Canal was built to facilitate trade through the northern striation of New York State. A weighlock is a structure used as a pit stop for barges on the canal to be weighed or repaired. Eventually technology rendered the canal obsolete and it was filled in. The weighlock building in Syracuse, NY is the last remaining structure of its kind. Today it resides in its original location and houses the Erie Canal Museum. The project of renovating and expanding the Erie Canal Museum brought about the opportunity to restore the canal to the site. Currently the canal is only filled within the city limits; its original stretch exists in the county and is used for recreation. Reconnecting this waterway will occur in three stages. The first step will be to excavate and flood Erie Boulevard between Montgomery Street and State Street. The second phase will be to extend the canal out to Clinton Square and McBride Street. The final movement will be to connect the canal with the existing waterways. Reinstating the canal creates a bridging and development opportunity for the northern portion of the site. Restructuring the parking lot and adding a children's extension onto the northern bank creates an interior/exterior park under the underpass of the I81 & I690 exchange. This park is influenced by the previous constructs on the site as well as the vertical pattering which bridges the new and old sides of the park. The ground plane also undulates to interact and shy away from the elevated highway.

Bringing Back the Canal

view of regenerated canal

3 stage time line of the replacing of the canal for years 2007, 2010, 2020, and 2050

Erie Boulevard, once the site of the Erie Canal

site plan

site patterning studies

Bringing Back the Canal

site pattern with sections

view of the museum

Gestural Solar Topography _ Spring 2008 Critics: Terrance Goode Kevin Lair Modular Medical Facility Rhino, Explicit History, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, Cinema 4D, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad The program of this structure is a clinic that will give a certain level of care and rehabilitation to its visitors. It is a self sustaining low-tech facility for remote insertions, designed to capture natural ventilation and solar exposure. The form of the building is a modular response to parametric environmental factors. The roof system is designed to optimize the placement of Photo Voltaic panels and to collect water into a cistern through the structural columns. The offset from the topography creates raised platforms that offer shade to travelers and the ability for construction on unsettled terrain and flood plains. The topography data gave values for the 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; floor plate and column system. The solar data generated two parabolic forms: a convex and concave roof surface from a composite of an annual trajectory of the sun through its azimuth and altitude. The site specific forms can be customly mass fabricated from plywood with computer regulated mitered joints. Moreover, these surfaces act as airfoils and allow them to be refitted and used as wind scoops for the walls and roofs to direct air in and out of the building. The initial design is a derivative of the topography and solar orientation. The second derivative is the influence of programmatic necessity. This prototype exhibits the tension between the initial optimization and the programmatic distortion.

Catacamas, Honduras access routs

Gestural Solar Topography

azimuths 21

composite of solar arcs to create a vaulted surface

panelization of surface to achieve a buildable surface

module to that is responsive to the topography to create interior and exterior shelters

Gestural Solar Topography

convex and concave forms maximise surface area for solar exposure while allowing interior exposure

Solar Response Modules Catacamas, Honduras

Solar Response Modules Trenton, New Jersey 23

section

enclosure

long care rooms

programmatic matrix EBOLA

CANCER

INGESTION

INSECTS

DISASTER

BODILY FLUIDS VECTOR ANIMALS

BUBONIC PLAGUE

AIR BORNE ANTI-BIOTIC

ANTHRAX

PREVENTION MALARIA

LIGHTING NEEDS VENTILATION NEEDS

PACK ANIMAL

TRANSPORTATION

BIRD FLU

HELICOPTER

DOCTOR ON STAFF LONG TREATMENT

CHOLERA

SOLAR

CLIMATE

SANITATION

BOAT DISABILITY

STATIONARY

PRECIPITATION

WATER

BACK PACK TRAILOR

NEEDS ISOLATION NEEDS

SARS

TEMPERATURE COMMUNICATION

ACCESSABILITY

TRUCK

INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE

HEALTH

MATERIAL

GEOGRAPHY

PRODUCTION

ECONOMY

MALNUTRITION COMPLETE MOBILE COMPONENT

SYPHILIS GONORRHEA

COMPLETE COMPONENT

CONSTRUCTION TERRAIN

GOVERNMENT

BACTERIAL DISEASE

VIRAL

DEPRESSION

SOCIAL

TYPOLOGY

URBANISM

INFECTION

STRUCTURE

POPULATION COMPLEX COMPONENT

STD

ARCHITECTURE

SIMPLE COMPONENT

ENERGY

EDUCATION SETTLEMENT

WAR & CONFLICT CORRUPTION

RELIGION GENDER

PARASITIC

RACE

SKILLED LABOR

Quality of roads: 62 Bacterial

Climate

Transportation

Back Pack

Airborne

Social

Skilled Labor

Simple Component

ventilator

incinorator

Air Tank

Wind

Solar

Precipiataion

Terrain

Scale

Construction

40 in - 100 in Honduras

Micro Climate Average Clearness: .59

61.25˚F to 88.34˚F

Photovoltaic Pannels

Eastern Wind

Extruded Aluminum Frame Aluminum Fastiners Plywood Pannel Wood Laminate Screen Glass

Gestural Solar Topography

programmatic extrapolation

plan

Wingspan _ Spring 2008 Critics: Terrance Goode Kevin Lair Formal Study, Modular System Study Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator

This project experiments with the idea of modularity and design. This system is developed through an accumulation of modular units derived from the average arm span from the human physique. This dimension was rotated and arrayed on a field where it was broken apart through its overlapping segments. The pattern was reduced to three distinct forms, which were reflected and rotated into a base configuration that could be arrayed into a structure system through the act of transposition. The possibilities of this modular unit are flexible and can be adapted to address any programmatic or environmental needs by interchanging the fill within the structural frame. This modular concept was applied to the programmatic needs of an examination room. This was done through addressing the needs of natural lighting, public/private vision, stack ventilation and the technological needs of the space. These elements, combined with the narrative path for the doctor, nurse, and a patient, were accommodated by this space. This project is a formal experiment, applying 2-D graphic geometries that were used to structure an ergonomic framework for a spatial distribution of a 3-D environment. The goal is to organize the space to be in and out of reach.

Wingspan

exploded axon 27

pattern evolution to form

Wingspan

plan

section

patient table sink changing area

storage doctor examination area storage table

examination table

circulation

program

private table

day lighting

floor ventilation

view from changing area

view from exam table

view from desk

Wingspan

exterior vent detail

frame

fill

frame & fill

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CBST Urban Synagogue _ Fall 2008 Visiting Critics: Stephen Casel Adam Yarinski Solar Site Research, Programmatic Study Rhino, Grasshopper, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Light Study Models, CardBoard Model

This studio focused on creating a permanent place of worship for the gay and lesbian Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. The congregation needs a site that can house both the religious and social necessities of the community. The challenge of this project was to insert all of the programmatic and cultural necessities into an infill slot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Because of the compression of the infill sight, a way to liberate the exterior force is to open the building through vertical integration achieved by a light shaft that runs along the northern perimeter of the building. The program is composed and filtered by two interlocking screens that separate and integrate the sacred and community spaces. The patterning of the screens is achieved through varying apertures that are organized through a random generator subjugated through attractors of programmatic necessities. Walls, windows, and door location influence the size of apertures within the randomized field. Moreover, the mediation of light and shadow alter the interior space throughout the course of the day and the year. The patterning changes as the light changes throughout the course of the day; at dusk the only direct natural light perforating the building is in the sanctuary where the light progresses across the sanctuary towards the arch and exits through the skylight towards Jerusalem.

CBST Urban Synagogue

external layer

augmented internal layer

sanctuary light composition Ark

aperture scale redistributed to accommodate program

formal composition of interlocking screens

physical light model

CBST Urban Synagogue

digital light model

210 Bowery St New York, NY

sectional solar migration from dawn to dusk

sanctuary solar migration from dawn to dusk

north / south section

east / west section

sanctuary

library

music/cultural

admin

community

lobby 38

CBST Urban Synagogue

sanctuary

library

music/cultural 39

CBST Urban Synagogue

W 56 Street Proposal _ Summer 2008 Archi-tectonics: Internship Zoning analysis, FAR analysis, Massing Study Rhino, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator

This work was done as an intern under Winka Dubbeldam and Thomas Barry for a concept proposal for a luxury apartment building on West 56th Street in New York City. The extent of this work transferred zoning analysis into its architectural potential. The design began with the constraints of street wall, front and rear setbacks, and sky exposure plane. Another main constraint was the percentage of balconies on the facade. The focus of the design was to morph the maximized volume defined by the zoning boundaries to elevate FAR by perforating the building envelope and floor plates. This allowed the elevation of the living spaces and desirable apartments. The main concern with this approach was the core positioning and usable floor space constrained by the sky exposure plane. The redistribution of FAR resulted in a five story lobby that could be programmed with building amenities and retail.

SECTION & LOBBY/PUBLIC FLOOR PLAN

SECTION AND TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

ENLARGED FLOOR PLANS

W 56 Street Proposal

site model and zoning envelope

TYPICALLY

what if...

FAR vertical redistribution to optimize unit value (images done by colleague)

final massing 43

material studies

lobby

W 56 Street Proposal

W 24 Street Facade Detailing _ Summer 2008 Archi-tectonics: Internship Fabrication Feasibility Study, Detailing Study Rhino, Maya, CATIA, Illustrator

The renovation of a brownstone on West 24th Street in New York City resulted in a parametric design of the faรงade. Because of the complexity, the office was working with an automotive fabricator to build a milled wood faรงade. Trying to keep faithful to the existing shape, we had to figure out how to insert operable windows and doors into the form. Projecting the details of the shape in order to find out how the detailing would impact the assemblage.

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W 24 Street Facade Detailing

detailing

pre-existing image & form by Archi-techtonics

E_FLUX Tower _ Fall 2008 Research Internship under P. Michael Pelken Integrated Wind Turbine Research, Modeling and Fabrication Rhino, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Computer Fluid Dynamic Analysis, Wind Tunnel Prototype

These images for the E_FLUX Tower were created while assisting P. Michael Pelken with his research in integrated wind turbine technologies. Working together with Professor Dr. Thong Dang and Andrew Wells in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the project focused on developing architectural and sustainable potentials of forms optimized by the principles of fluid dynamics. This was done through digital modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis along with the fabrication of a physical model and pending wind tunnel testing. The scale of P. Michael Pelken's work applies from a street lamp to a highrise building. The airfoil increases pressure exerting more force on the turbine. The turbine in return consumes the force, dissipating the power of the wind. Refining a form that optimizes these principles creates an opportunity to yield performance and a new building typology. United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231 prototype fabrication

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling by Andrew Wells

E_FLUX Tower

omnidirectional turbine

United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231

form variations

module

E_FLUX Tower

optimized form

module section

horizontal compression

vertical compression

United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231

Wallice _ Summer 2009 Critic: Clare Olsen Partners: L. Brody Nevel Brendan G. Rose Digital Design and Fabrication, Installation Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Wood, Metal, and Mylar Model

This installation is an exercise in the tension between digital modeling and fabrication. It generates a design through computational processes and the impact fabrication methods have on that design. The resultant structure is a product of this tension. The structure is an wooden diagrid with a six degree camber that created the barrel vaulted skeletal geometry. Some of the frames are backed with metal pots that can hold plantings. Attached to this grid are scales of mylar. The morphology of the scales is determined by their position on the grid. The position of the grid alters the width of the base and the length of the stem and wisp. The detentions of these features were then translated to a two-dimensional template and labeled for fabrication on the laser cutter. The scales were than fixed to a diagrid cell that was bolted together to form an arch. The wall has an imbedded structural system of a wall and the properties of a lattice. It is a finite structure that can order a secondary of infinite possibilities. The potential of this Wallice is the variations that the skins can achieve to accommodate different performative orientations.

fabricated model

Wallice

digital model

diagrid patterning

orthographic projections 1.5˚

3˚ 3˚

20”

1.5˚ 10”

cell modules scale morphology

whisp

stem

base

20”

10”

form translation for fabrication

Wallice

Thumos _ Spring 2007 Critic: Aaron Sprecher Partner: J.J. Jordano Digital Modeling, Algorithmic Extrapolation, Rendering and Fabrication Rhino, 3D Studio Max V-Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad

Thumos is an Ancient Greek word expressing the concept of spiritedness, indicating a physical association with breath or blood. The word is also used to express the human desire for recognition. Architecture through the ages has strived to express and wanted to embody the spiritedness of humankind, yet has been limited by requirements of both function and buildability. With breakthroughs of technology, we are finally beginning to liberate our structures, free our imaginations. At the heart of this project is something of the human emotion, boxed in to the point of eruption. Thumos. The thumos is that part of the soul in between the logos and the epithumiai, in between the call toward the invisible, the divine, and the needs of the body and its passions and desires, that has to make choices in favor of one or the other, and thus lead the soul as a whole to war or peace. Bulgarian artist Valkova Stoicheva began her piece titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eruptionâ&#x20AC;? with four porcelain cubes that she distorted to simulate an eruption. We considered this notion of the formalized box that could no longer maintain its shape because of the forces acting in it. Our attempt to translate this reaction into structural form is at the same time an attempt to capture thumos in physical form. In studying the forces acting upon the object, we utilized Rhino software to recreate the explosion in digital form. Analyzing the movement of the explosion across a series of 192 points along the explosion edge from time = 0 to time = 4, we were able to extract equations indicating the spatial forces acting upon the object. We then projected the data set to time = 8, and used the resulting equations in the process of creating the new form. We applied a portion of these equations to a line and gave it a time progression similar to the original object. The resulting forces of an eruption are varying and random, acting in many directions. In the same way our created object as built structure can be considered in multiple positions. We have chosen to investigate its use as a canopy. 56

Thumos

inside canopy 57

Valkova Stoicheva's â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eruptionâ&#x20AC;?

artifact analysis surface edge deformation and projection T0-T8

digital model design

variation analysis

initial shape creation lofting between states

morphed design objectives and constraints

point analysis line analysis length and direction partitioning

projection on new object

extrapolation of forces

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orthographic projections of emergent form

Thumos

view looking NW

view looking S

Emergent Canopies _ Fall 2008 Critic: Brian Lonsway Partners: Peter S. Wintermantle L. Brody Nevel Reactive Canopy System, Installation Cinema 4D, Xpresso, Mograph, Projected Media on Mesh and PlexiGlass

This installation was done as a final image for the Coding : Drawing course. It was the creation of an image through computational processes that cumulated in a projected installation that filtered the image into inhabitable layers. The coded image was generated by a system composed of a field of articulated canopies erected by their proximity to particles within that field. Two sets of particles were set into motion with gravity to one another and areas within the field, and each canopy blossoms to enclose the activity within the field. The form is determined by the position of these particles at any given time. The viewer is drawn into the image through the constructed layering of information. Dueling projectors combine two images onto a piece of Plexiglas. This intertwined image is detangled by mesh screening to create an environment where the viewer can analyze each system and interact with it.

Emergent Canopies

inhabiting the image

combined

particles instance

Emergent Canopies

reaction

installation

execution

FOODstand, Fast Slow Food Studio _ Spring 2009 Critics: Brian Lonsway Kathleen Brandt Brand Instance, Agriculture Study, Operable Structure Geographic Information Systems, Rhiho, Gtasshopper, Cinema 4d, Xpresso, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Actuating Physical Model

This a prototype to establish a presence for a slow food network. The morphology of the menu and restaurant space is defined by a seasonal menu determined by ingredients procured from an existing transportation system from local organic farms. This instance offers an opportunity to define space through the movement of opening. It not only utilizes the binary state of open and closed as a signifier but also becomes a malleable space that can generate a multitude of forms and spaces determined by the repetition of a constrained articulation. Composed of two layers, the interior is actuated by a cable system driving it to displace the exterior offset to accommodate a vertical progression from each lateral direction. The articulation of the movement is regulated as an average between the two end points to allow a variation in aperture in response to environmental conditions. The building is a terminal to the slow food network and placing it adjacent to the Centro bus terminal merges the flow of both. The structure can expand and contract to create shelter and to augment circulation. The reactive articulation of the form is determined to mediate the interaction of these two networks.

FOODstand organizational potential

FOODstand

creating a network of organic farms through an existing transportation network

farmers market @ Washington St parking lot

Site

Salina

bus stop

Fayette

positioning this instance between existing temporary farmers market and transportation hub 65

construct of operable panels

frame covered with reused billboard skins

exterior membrane

slave frame

jointing

interior membrane

driver frame

interior panels

FOODstand

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CENTER

RIGHT

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articulation arrangement

transmission

FRZ

SINKS

FRIDGE/SALAD

RANGE/ OVEN

down

shoot deliver

down

cable gearing FRIDGE

TST

COUNTER

REG

closed

open

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FOODstand

physical model

WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline _ Fall 2009 Critics: Mark Linder Clare Olsen Research on Disappearing Urban Environments and Remediation Ecologies Geographic Information Systems, Rhiho, Grasshopper, Cinema 4d, Xfrog, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator

World Takes is a study of the decline of the small American city of Trenton, New Jersey. Urban formations that were generated by industry and the infrastructural necessities of density are currently being redefined by the dissipation of these forces. The new forces that are shaping the environment are enabled by absence and dereliction. A transgressive ecology is seeking a natural equilibrium within the augmented environment. World Takes is an architectural intervention that attempts to mediate and promote this ecological equilibrium within the post-industrial urban environment. If capital is no longer the main generator for urban organization, what alternative force will organize urban formations? The current dominant force that is exerted on the urban environment is transgressive nature. This seeks to envelop and dismantle the derelict structures. The intervention is a structural membrane that facilitates the dissolution of the feral structures while promoting these emergent formations within the urban habitat. The establishment of this new urban ecology relieves stresses on the environment and the inhabitants that were created by industrial development.

WORLD TAKES

augmented landscape

augmentation of the natural landscape by industrial evolution

water industrial zones augmented landscape / fill zones industrial / fill overlap topo

heat islands

vegetation index

Augmented Landscape Natural features changed for industrial purposes augmented the landscape for industry and increased population density strains and stains the inhabitants.

flooded downtown

new frequent flood zones created by development toxic areas of the city

brownfields of contaminated soil and water

WORLD TAKES

abandoned properties / typical city block

Lenox Ceramic factory, Oak St.

transgressent remediation of landscape

Emergence of a dormant Ecology In the current ecosystem, urban development has given way to natural encroachment through the derelict and abandoned areas of the city Absence of energy will allow a dominate force to emerge through fractures taking advantages of weak points of a system exploiting them to seek an equilibrium

C.S. Hollingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diagram of the 4 ecosystems cycle choreographs and the energy transition of the rise and fall of ecological dominance.

Decay of city transformed by transgressent growth

Networking Urban Parks, Forests & Derelict Sites to project transgressent growth throughout the city

building footprints

urban parks, forests & derelict sites

derelict building footprints

Networking algorithm studies

Network : d.1

Network : d.2

Appropriating derelict infrastructural conduits to facilitate the new ecology Network : d.3

water works cole fire power plant Network : d.4

WORLD TAKES

Emergent Urban Ecology The old city becomes re-defined by this new force leaving pockets of activity. The new city emerges with territories transformed by the co-opting ecosystem.

Visualizations of the new territories and augmented infrastructure.

SyntheticArmature organism construct Ecology Organism & Colony

nutrient pouches nested habitats

colony of habitats

H2O CO2

Morphology of pockets to attract ecological diversity

emergent growth level

4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

appropriated runoff

controlled cultivation level

decayed structure nesting Remediation cultivation level

lead from gas main to deliver CO2

lead from water main

The armatures structures the emergent ecology to focus its proliferation. This is achieved by creating an articulating growing surface that can be implemented into the derelict urban environment.

Radiolaria

â&#x20AC;&#x153;modern mind has become more and more calculating. The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas.â&#x20AC;? _ Georg Simmel

WORLD TAKES

studies of structural generation based on amoeboid protozoa's mineral skeletons

The organism is constructed through the systematic relationship of the space frame, articulating surface pockets and circulation conduits. The Surface formations are manifolds that deliver H2O and CO2 and control drainage. The variations in pocket formations allow for a diversity of plant growth and animal nesting. drainage conduit

structural frame

nutrient pouch combined H20 & CO2 manifold

CO2 H2O vertical tension cable

Armature becomes a colony of interacting habitats â&#x20AC;&#x153;More technically, the idea is that despite the fact that at any one time an evolved form is realized in individual organisms, the population not the individual is the matrix for the production of form.â&#x20AC;? _ Manuel De Landa

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Structure p.1

23'-0" Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

-7'-0" Basement

Lead From Gas Main Lead From Water Main

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0"

23'-0" Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Floor Plan @ Third Floor 1/4" = 1'-0"

p.1 79

Structure n.1

Structure n.2

Structure n.3

-0" ic Space

33'-0" Attic Space

-0" rd Floor

23'-0" Third Floor

0" cond Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

0" ound Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

-7'-0" Basement

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0"

33'-0" Attic Space

23'-0" Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

Floor Plan @ Third Floor 1/4" = 1'-0"

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

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3'-0" Ground Floor

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

-7'-0" Basement

Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0"

n.1

33'-0" Attic Space

23'-0" Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

-7'-0" Basement

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0"

33'-0" Attic Space

33'-0" 33'-0" Attic Space Attic Space

23'-0" Third Floor

23'-0" 23'-0" Third Floor Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

13'-0" 13'-0" Second Second Floor Floor

3'-0" 3'-0" Ground Floor Ground Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

13'-0" 13'-0" Second Second Floor Floor

Floor Plan @ Third Floor 1/4" = 1'-0" Front Elevation Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

3'-0" 3'-0" Ground Floor Ground Floor

Front Elevation Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"1/4" = 1'-0"

n.2

-7'-0" -7'-0" Basement Basement

Section A-A Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

Floor Plan Floor @ Third Floor Floor Plan @ Third 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

33'-0" Attic Space

23'-0" Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

-7'-0" Basement

Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0"

33'-0" Attic Space

33'-0" 33'-0" Attic Space Attic Space

23'-0" Third Floor

23'-0" 23'-0" Third Floor Third Floor

13'-0" Second Floor

13'-0" 13'-0" Second Second Floor Floor

3'-0" Ground Floor

3'-0" 3'-0" Ground Floor Ground Floor

13'-0" 13'-0" Second Second Floor Floor

Floor Plan @ Third Floor 1/4" = 1'-0" Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0"

Front Elevation Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

3'-0" 3'-0" Ground Floor Ground Floor

Front Elevation Front Elevation 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

-7'-0" -7'-0" Basement Basement

Section A-A Section A-A 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

n.3 81

"Architects must embrace the decay of their buildings, at least mentally. They should forget about perfection, the complete realization of their design, and understand that the only truly finished building is a heap of rubble." _ Lebbeus Woods

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;To linger! If we could but linger again in those places whose beauties never wane; surely we would then be able to endure many difficult hours with a lighter heart, and carry on, thus strengthened, in the eternal struggle of this existence.â&#x20AC;? _ Camillo Sitte

Miscellaneous Debris

An assemblage of drawings, images, models, and advert materials.

Barcelona Pavilion, one point perspective, graphite on paper, fall 2006

sectional model, paint on acrylic, spring 2007

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waffle model, chipboard, spring 2007

American Loft Building, Philadelphia PA, PhotoShop work done for Archi-tectonics

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rendering done for Brendan Rose's "Venice the Menace," Fall 2007

Los Vegas landscape, fall 2007

sectional collage, spring 2007

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d_rive, Static Geographic Mapping, spring 2008 91

Rochester, NY model and light study, fall 2008

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modular huts, spring 2008

advert created for Elsevier's ScienceDirect database product, 2003

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packaging designed for Jack Daniel's Wood Smoking Chunks, 2002

logos created for local and international clients Paradise Found, apparel, Princeton NJ, 2003 Monkey Internal Publications, New Hope PA, 2001 Bayview, media production company, Hamilton BDA, 2002

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