SELECTED WORK: ARCHITECTURE

DAVID CORDARO SELECTED WORK

INTERMENT Location Team Advisor Publication & Presentation

Barcelona, ES Joshua Frank, Liza Walling Ross Exo Adams AHRA Reading Art and Architecture

Across the Humanities Conference,

University of Stirling, UK Skillset Rhino, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Can architecture be more than a residual outcome of capital investment and resolute financial stability?

Above: Constructed for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, the Parc del Forum currently remains vastly empty due to improper planning and lack of structural re-use Above Left: The Museu Blau sitting as a vacant form within the vast context Adjacent: PV arrays provide shade to a seating area and skate park below, now a wasteland

Borrowing from archaeological axioms, this design took similar approach to thataofsite an archaeological It ahas merely become constructed excavation.

This system operated on the assumption to be “contextual” with any mass-urban that as the site had been “buried” and knowledge sprawl... so we buried it erased. The political conflict surrounding these 624 acres is illustrated by a disinterest in the process of rationalizing understanding.

Based on the Chand Baori, the Forum is translated into a historical past and current From this understanding, a process had been sanctuary from the realm of domesticity. laid forth for reinterpreting domesticity within a new system of governance, mocking a selfdepricating statement toward itself.

HABITAT COMMERCE COLLECTIVE

Left: A view inside Habitat, at its simplest form. While the exterior spaces are meant or community, these spaces are flexible and can become an area of refuge Below: A centrally focused interior, unlike traditional projects which emphasize developed ‘views’

Location Team Advisor Skillset

Boston, MA Ali Brunn Rob Whitehead Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

BOSMU Two intersecting volumes lead to a program that gives access to ease of circulation and control.

Two intersecting volumes speak to a separation of collection and non-collection spaces.

Aquarium

Tea Party Museum Children’s Museum

Institute for Contemporary Arts PIER 4, Project Site World Trade Center

0.25 mi

MBTA Bus Stops

0.25 mi

0.50 mi

Water Taxi Stops

0.50 mi

FRANCIS BLAKE In the mid-1880s, Blake designed a focal-plane shutter that allowed him to take photographs with exposure times of 1/1000 to 1/2000 of a second

Waterproof Membrane Concrete Roof Structure Edge Cap Metal Pan Steel Truss

Sprinkler System Placed into Wooden Louver System Electrical Conduit Silicone Sealant Track Lighting Two Layers 5/8” Gypsum Wall Board Metal Stud With Batt Insulation 4” Rigid Wall Insulation Vapor Barrier Air Intake 12” Cast-In-Place Concrete Wall Wood Wall Partition

1/4” Reveal & 4” Wood Baseboard Aligned With GWB Pier With Decking “Bathtub” Foundation

Water Level

THE BOSTON MUSEUM ADMISSION ADULTS STUDENT SENIORS + KIDS

10.00 6.00 FREE

MACHINE VISION Location Advisors Exhibition Skillset

London, UK Tommaso Franzolini & Davide Quayloa Studies in Creativity, Iowa State University Rhino, Grasshopper, VVVV, Various Physical Modeling Tools

Exploring the similarities and differences that the computer can detect and the human eye can’t is the basis for this manifestation of understanding. The resulting models are a further investigation of how different media, medium, and material can all be used to represent the same form.

The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino (1522) Lorenzo Lotto Through the use of x-ray technology, the graphite layer and the changes made by Lotto can be seen. From the thick outlines to the fuzzy shadows, the ordinary viewer can easily see how the painted image, and not the measure of change. The area of greatest interest shows the difference between wood, flesh, and the silky and flowing fabrics in the pillow and tapestry.

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