DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
SHELL
Joeb Moore + Partners Architects with Thalassa Curtis and Dave Reilley
This renovation of a residence in Scarsdale, NY adds two additional wings to a stone and stucco tudor home. The new east wing uses the stylistic vernacular of the existing structure to create a seamless balanced composition. The west wing mirrors the heavily volumetric quality of its new landscape to create a closed and understated contemporary facade. The rear opens onto the landscape with a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces intended for a constant flow of activity moving between the gardens and living and entertaining spaces.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
INTROVERT
Joeb Moore + Partners Architects with Thalassa Curtis
This farmhouse in Washington, Connecticut functions as a weekend retreat for a family of four. The addition tucks behind the original structure and is further set behind an earth berm at the first floor and wood screen at the second floor. The living space is thus open to the private gardens in the rear of the house while maintaining a discreet and unassuming presence in the neighborhood. Vertical circulation marks the boundary between the existing house and the new wing, creating a split between two narrowly defined typologies; the farmhouse stands rooted in place while the addition appears to float slightly above the raised earth and apart from the original structure.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
MEADOW PAVILION
Joeb Moore + Partners Architects with Jake Watkins, Nate Wooten, Jason Bond and Elise Renwick
This guest house in Scarsdale, NY acts as a node for social activities intended to occupy a larger landscape. The house is divided by a water feature into two disconnected volumes. The first, open and sculptural in form acts as a link between the spectacle of the landscape and the social activity housed within it. The second volume is more subdued. Situated beneath a garden, it emerges only so far from beneath the landscape as to permit a view into the cloistered water feature between the two volumes.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
BAC Staircase: renovation study THE YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Louis Kahn’s British Art Center is an icon of modern American architecture. Here the main staircase has been isolated as a study in renovation. Timber has been added as a secondary tectonic element and the staircase rerouted to create new landings to create additional points of entry and to facilitate certain views beyond the concrete shell.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
BROKEN COIL: UVA student center THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Broken Coil explores the possibility of an architectural equivalent to surrealist automatic writing. This student center is derived through the interpretation of marks as signifiers in plan and section. What begins as a burn on a gridded sheet of paper becomes an addition to Jefferson’s UVA campus. The intercessory signifier is the primitive hut as described by Semper.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
FILTER FEEDER: YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
kunsthal for 21st century art
Our strategy for a new museum in Munich involves expanding exhibition space beyond the confines of the museum and into the landscape. Our design moves the walls of the museum out of the building envelope and into the urban fabric where temporary works such as specially commissioned murals, light installations and projected works can establish a contextual relationship with the urban environment. The walls of the museum are in turn inflected by the streetscape, curving in order to create suggested spaces of occupation without creating enclosures that would be too overt in dictating use or impeding pedestrian traffic.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
HAMBURG LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTER EISENMAN ARCHITECTS with Caroline O’Donnel, Julia Cho, Anupama Garla and Jesung Park
The site for the library overlays the original foundation for the church of St. Marien and is situated next to the existing cathedral of St. Petri. The form of the library maps the shift in intercolumniation of these two churches, thereby exposing the history of the site and deliniating a new public processional space connecting two socially distinct quarters of the city.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
GROUND SWELL: SEZ in Delhi THE YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Traditional Indian architecture has a long history of using landscape to designate and condition microclimates with both open and enclosed characteristics. A new Special Economic Zone uses this strategy to create a highly flexible work environment through geothermally cooled workspaces set into the gardens of a larger multi-function complex.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
MUSEUM OF SYNTHETIC LIVING SYSTEMS: miami science museum YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Museum of Synthetic Living Systems curates instances of the symbiotic relationship between natural and artificial living systems. Car exhaust feeds a mangrove stand. Biodiversity is protected through expanding culinary demand. Learned social behaviors within endangered Whooping Crane communities are reintroduced via ultralight flight patterns. Curated exhibitions often polarize between highly charismatic and information rich displays. Here, the museum circulation follows an information dense loop, punctuated by charismatic cores (aquarium, aviary and energy playground) in order to achieve a more cohesive experience.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
FROZEN MUSIC: magnet high school for music and ethics in lower manhattan THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE COOPER UNION
Primary education has become increasingly specialized. A magnet high school specializing in music and ethical studies is not intended to focus only on those disciplines but rather to use their paradigmatic structure to inform the overall teaching process. The architecture of the school can take the same approach. Here, Hegel’s spatially formulated conception of ethics and of aesthetics generate the plan. Both define the nature of the singular object within a field and the relationship between multiple objects.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
DYNAMIC PATCHWORK:
olympic village, Chicago with Amy Chang and Chris Starkey
THE YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Our aim in this project was to direct future development along a trajectory of social integration and environmental activism. We devised a new scheme of plot division and circulation to simultaneously encourage dense development and suture the site back into the city fabric. Open space in the neighborhood becomes a palette of community garden plots and urban agriculture. Formally, the Olympic Village buildings recline and twist to maximize solar and wind performance.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
TILT:
pavilion and housing for an exposition on verticality in architecture
THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE COOPER UNION
This housing complex establishes an alternative to the skyscraper, the predominant urban vertical typology. By rotating these units, legible vertical relationships are created between distinct tectonic components and interior spaces. Different degrees of rotation expose a range of possibilities for the function of basic architectural components.
DAVID PETERSEN
272 saint john st. new haven ct 06511. 212-203-5847. dcpetersen@gmail.com
TWISTER CUBE:
a spatial investigation of group dynamics
THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE COOPER UNION
Twister Cube, based on the Milton Bradley game, explores the spatial ramifications of coordinated group behavior. Playing this game on the six interior surfaces of a cube, participants cause the cube to distort, collapse, and reconfigure within the confines of a small room. Participants and observers must respond to the two fluctuating spatial volumes of room and game cube.
David Petersen 272 Saint John St. New Haven CT 06511 212-203-5847 dcpetersen@gmail.com
Education 07-10
Yale School of Architecture M. Arch II
02-07
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union B. Arch
98-99, 01-02
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Relevant Courses Yale
Cooper Union
SAIC
Advanced Design Studios Urban Ecologies with Karen Seto Modeling Geographic Space with Dana Tomlin Restorative Environmental Design with Steven Kellert Globalization Space with Keller Easterling Digital Fabrication with Kevin Rotheroe Design I-V Structural Analysis I-IV with Ysrael Seinuk Environmental Technology I&II Advanced Urban Design with Graham Shane Systems Information Mapping with David Turnbull Landscape Design with Sean Scully Architectural History I-III History of Art and Architecture Advanced Architectural Theory
Experience 12/10-2/11
6/08-9/08
6/06-9/06
6/05-9/05
6/03-8/03
6/03-8/03
5/02-8/02
Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, L.L.C. Design Architect Design high-end single family residential projects. Also involved in marketing, graphic design and model building. Edward Mitchell Architects Design Intern Participated in several urban planning and design competitions dealing with brown field reuse and infrastructural development, residential design. Shigeru Ban + Dean Maltz Architects Design Intern Designed and completed construction documents for residential apartment project. Constructed temporary installation for the Safe exhibition at MoMa Eisenman Architects Design Intern Worked as member of the design team for Hamburg Library competition Acconci Studio Design Intern, Model maker Constructed models and participated in the design of various projects. City Expeditor, Inc. IT Specialist Improved efficiency of ordering and dispatch system by upgrading server, creating a new office network and updating company website to allow for online orders Balzer and Associates Inc. Roanoke, VA Survey Department, Field Surveyor Conducted field surveys for topological studies, new construction initiation, and updated preexisting maps of property and construction.
3/99-4/01
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Missionary Coordinated organizational efforts in the formation of Spanish speaking congregations, trained new local leadership, taught classes in ESL and church doctrine.
Skills Computer Programs: AutoCad, ArchiCad, Rhino suite, ArcGIS, Adobe Suite, Office Suite, Stella, SolidWorks, FinalCut Craft skills: Carpentry, Masonry, Drafting, Architectural Model making, CAM production, wielding Language Skills: Spanish Honors/Exhibitions 08 07-09 07 03-05 02-05 02
Yale Feldman Award Nominee Yale Merit Scholarship Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal Recipient Cooper Union End of the Year Show Cooper Union Scholarship Merit Scholarship at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Interests/Service Carpentry, Sculpture, Painting, Tai Chi, Longboarding, Boy Scouts of America, Bee keeping, currently serving as Bishop of the New Haven Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints