DAN RAPOPORT Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture B.Arch 2013
BEECHVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER Located at Broadway and Belasco Avenues in Beechview, this new mixed-use building reconnects the urban fabric and ties together an existing cluster of public uses. The project transforms a steep section of the Belasco Avenue right-of-way into a new building with a ZLYPLZ VM W\ISPJ VWLU ZWHJLZ HUK H YLJVUĂ„N\YLK public staircase. Today this section of Belasco is a dilapidated staircase connecting the light rail stop, school, church and library, with residential sections of the neighborhood below. The new building weaves both residential and community programs around an enhanced stair connection to complement and celebrate the existing public facilities and transform this key link in the neighborhood. Uses for the building were selected based on a survey of existing uses and activities along Broadway Avenue and their users. As part of the design process local residents were interviewed to gage what they wanted and thought was missing in their neighborhood. Based on this investigation the building was designed to include a restaurant, gym and yoga studio, residences, and theater. In addition a residential component will ensure a constant stream of people, make [OL WYVQLJ[ TVYL LJVUVTPJHSS` MLHZPISL HUK Ă„SS H gap in the current available housing market for studios and 1-bedroom units.
View from Belasco Avenue
Entry from Broadway Avenue
View from Cafe
Physical Model
BEECHVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER
Revitalized basketball court
View up stairwell
BEECHVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER
Watching Sports
Gym
Outdoors Activities
Partying and Clubbing
Design and Art
Movies/ Books/ Music
Politics/ Economics
Eating
BEECHVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER
The project also improves the surrounding streetscape on Broadway Avenue and enhances existing trails and park spaces on the hillside below. Ultimately the project seeks to transform the Belasco corridor into a vessel of integrated collective life by connecting and collecting people and activities on a small but catalytic site in the neighborhood. I worked on this project with my friend and colleague, Adriel Deller.
AALTO UNIVERSITY 2015 CAMPUS PLAN The Aalto Campus 2015 competition strives to “[interweave] a natural way and create the foundation for a university city of the future� by the year 2015. I designed this entry to the competition with my colleague Matthias Neumann and several others at Ethelind Coblin Architect in New York City while working as an intern designer during the summer of 2012. Our entry focuses on the creation of a new Arts building for a recently recombined Aalto University in Otaniemi, Finland, near Helsinki. Our main goal is interconnectivity between the seemingly disparate campus buildings completed between the 1950s through the 2010s. The original plan and former main building of the existing Otaniemi campus, as well as several others, were designed by Finnish architect and university namesake Alvar Aalto. I shared design responsibility and produced all imagery and 3D models for this entry in Rhinoceros and Photoshop, respectively. I also used GIS and Revit to design an accurate site model digitally.
View from Roofscape
AALTO UNIVERSITY 2015 CAMPUS PLAN
Aerial View
Floor Plan - Level 1
Floor Plan - Level 2
Floor Plan - Level 3 and Roofscape
AALTO UNIVERSITY 2015 CAMPUS PLAN
View from Cafe
View from Lobby
AALTO UNIVERSITY 2015 CAMPUS PLAN
View of Arts Wing
Multidisceplinary Studio
View of Library and Arts WIng
Site Plans
JFK TERMINAL 4 EXTENSION
Aerial View
This extension of Delta’s Terminal 4 concourse at JFK International Airport in New York City, New York is inspired by the works of Eero Saarinen ZWLJPÄJHSS` [OL ULHYI` ;>( ;LYTPUHS HUK 40;Z Kresge Theatre) and Felix Candela. The terminal is comprised of 8 mirrored, identical modules, each of which is shaped to allow diffused, Northern sun in at all times more solar radiation in the winter. The jogged form offers naturally daylit gate lounges.
View from Skyway
The integrated concrete columns act as structural support and carry all systems, including electrical, HVAC, rainwater collection, and water. The roof is lined with 1400 southern-facing solar panels, which generate enough electricity for all secondary systems. The panels lay atop a closed-loop glycol system, which heat exchanges with the aquifertapping cooling system to keep the panels at VW[PTHS LMĂ„JPLU^J` HUK [LTWLYH[\YL
JFK TERMINAL 4 EXTENSION
Southern view down terminal
Longitudinal Section
Floor Plan - Level 1
Sectional Detail
JFK TERMINAL 4 EXTENSION
Northern view down terminal
View outside from Gate Lounge
JFK TERMINAL 4 EXTENSION
Aerial View
URBAN DESIGN/BUILD HOUSE
The Urban Design/Build House, affectionately known as the Shotgun house, is designed as a low-cost, innovative, green, and mass-producible housing \UP[ PU .HYÄLSK ULHY 7P[[ZI\YNO 7LUUZ`S]HUPH >L KL]LSVWLK H ¸:OV[N\U¹ Z[`SL OV\ZL ¶ H OVTL that is long and narrow, measuring 16 feet wide and 80 feet long. The bedrooms are clustered on the western side and create a central core, along which runs a long band of glass and polycarbonate. The eastern side of the home is walled only with polycarbonate, which allows warm, diffused light to ÅVVK [OL SVUN OHSS^H` [OH[ SLHKZ [V [OL ZV\[OLYU end. The hallway space opens to a large kitchen and living area, as well as a beautiful city view.
URBAN DESIGN/BUILD HOUSE
SHOTGUN HOUSE: 1280 SQFT
AIRFLOW ANALYSIS
GREENSBURG DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
STREET ENTRANCE
ENTRANCE/STUDY LAB
LOBBY
Greensburg Digital Media Center: a place to learn and work. Greensburg is a small city southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The town center is in need of revitalization, which can most practically be achieved through investment in attracting nearby Seton Hill students to the city. The Greensburg Digital Media Center will programmatically and architecturally act as a beacon and draw students and citizens alike to learn or enhance valuable and practical skills in computing and manipulating digital media. The center also encourages seniors of the nearby Penn Towers Retirement Facility to easily navigate a series of circulatory ramps and accessible classrooms that demystify modern technology.
GREENSBURG DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
B. GARAGE
1. THEATRE/OFFICES
2. LABS/CAFE
3. CLASSROOMS
RAPID PROTOTYPES
Over the course of my time at Carnegie Mellon University, I have learned to design and build furniture using the Digital Fabrication lab. I sketch my design, model it in Rhinoceros, and then use RhinoCAM or VisualCAM to mill it on out CNC router. The table above was inspired by a summer visit to Scandinavia and ancient Viking construction methods. I used tell-tale viking structural ribbing to create a two-tiered coffee table. It houses a projector, PC, speakers, and a Nintendo 64 game console. The middle item is my family crest laser-etched into milled MDF and stained to look like wood. The lamp at right was inspired by a visit to an antiques shop in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the physical manifestation of my fascination with the both the Art +LJV Z[`SL HUK [OL [PTL WLYPVK [OH[ PUĂ…\LUJLK P[
THE WILSON LAMP
This lamp was commissioned by a friend of mine and inspired by the works of Alvar Aalto and 1940s stylistic sensibilities. I designed this lamp digitally and cut 0% of it by hand. The wood pieces were milled out of 3/8” Mahogany on the CMU Dfab Lab’s CNC Mill. The lampshade is a continuous piece of lasercut 1/64” 2-ply Baltic Birch. I soaked and shaped the birch plywood to mold it to the frame of the lamp. There was no glue used in the construction of this SHTW HSS WPLJLZ HYL MYPJ[PVU Ä[
HOME DATABASE MODULE
The OwnPlace Home Database Module is a WVY[HISL YLJVUÄN\YHISL \UP[ KLZPNULK [V PUMVYT PUOHIP[HU[Z VM .HYÄLSK 7( HIV\[ SVJHS YLHS LZ[H[L and home-ownership opportunities. The module offers access to the OwnPlace database website, which posts local home listings. This project is part of wider plan to encourage home-ownership and increase property values in .HYÄLSK PU [OL ULHY M\[\YL The module is made up of eight primary pieces, one of which houses a computer and touchscreen. After the initial assembly of each piece, all are easily combined due to their specially designed joints. ,HJO WPLJL Ä[Z [OYV\NO H Z[HUKHYK KVVY^H` W N `
LYMAN DAVIDSON DOOLEY