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Evan Wyatt Bliss
M.Arch
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University of Illinois at Chicago
‘11
B.S. Arch
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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Evan Wyatt Bliss
M.Arch
‘14
University of Illinois at Chicago
‘11
B.S. Arch
University of Nebraska Lincoln
years
cities
Folded Village
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ARCH 553 Urbanism Studio
University of Illinois at Chicago
Critics: Marina Nicollier & Alexander Eisenschmidt
Fall 2013
A proposal for a convention center was shaped by its constraint of lying on a compact, urban site. An intensive study of novel, productive urban conditions resulting from the nature of the contemporary city was used as a catalyst for staging new collisions of events and urban forms. The pitched roof formal typology, with its potential to modulate and accomodate a wide variety of programmatic types, was arrayed over the site to create a ‘village.’ This created a condition of small, tent-like commercial storefronts integrated and connected with long and low convention spaces, as well as scaled-up pitched hotel/office towers. The architecture incorporates a pedestrian-oriented circulation system with dramatic pitch shapes form an identifiable image for the complex.
ARCH 553 Urbanism Studio
Folded Village
FOLD
as formal and spatial device Urban Accordion
Accordion Extend
Lower
Raise
Accordion Expand
Extrude
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Contract
Variable Extrude
Duck Under
Fall 2012
Critics: Marina Nicollier & Alexander Eisenschmidt
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ARCH 553 Urbanism Studio
Folded Village Exhibition Hall
Hotel
Exhibition Hall
Exhibition Hall
1/16=1’
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Auditorium
Auditorium
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Auditorium
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1/16”=1’
Office
Critics: Marina Nicollier & Alexander Eisenschmidt
Fall 2012
Hotel
1/16”=1’
Pool / Recreation
Pool/Recreation
Pool/Recreation
1/16”=1’
1/16”=1’
Bar / Cafe
Bars/Cafes
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Folded Village
1 2 3
Fold
Pattern 20
Fall 2012
Critics: Marina Nicollier & Alexander Eisenschmidt
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Folded Village
Retail shopper Office worker
Circulation Diagram
Program Diagram 22
Exhibition attendee / Hotel guest
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Fall 2012
Create pedestrian axis
Cluster diverse programs, create linear urbanism
Retail / Restaurant Office Hotel
Push long, low exhibition spaces under Lake Shore Drive
View to City
Segregate larger program spaces
View to Lake
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Folded Village
Pedestrian Level
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Folded Village
Plan 42
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Futura Figures
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ARCH 552 Power Studio
University of Illinois at Chicago
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
Spring 2012
The programmatic intention of the project was to be an addition to the Smart Museum on the University of Chicago Campus. Formally, the project was an exploration of the notion of “near-figures,� or those semirecognizable or evocative shapes that conjure up a sense of familiarity or legibility. Form was derived from intersecting and booleaning extruded letterforms from the Futura font, aligning and filleting intersections in order to create new, discernable iconography. The resultant architecture has an identifiable quality, while creating anovel or becoming shape.
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Futura Figures
B P S Physical model
Model section 48
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
Wireframe
Elevation 1
Axon 1 Elevation 2
Elevation 3 Axon 1
Elevation 4
Extrusion paths / trimming faces
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ARCH 552 Power Studio
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
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Futura Figures
North elevation 52
ARCH 552 Power Studio
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
Roof plan 53
Futura Figures
Contour section 54
ARCH 552 Power Studio
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
Section model
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Futura Figures
Ground floor plan 56
ARCH 552 Power Studio
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
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Futura Figures
Site model 58
ARCH 552 Power Studio
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
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Futura Figures
2nd floor plan
3rd floor plan
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4th floor plan
Spring 2012
Critics: Andrew Zago, Grant Gibson & Sara Blankenbaker
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Rossiville Elementary
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ARCH 551 Control Studio
Critics: Paul Preissner & Kelly Bair
University of Illinois at Chicago Fall 2011
Rossiville Elementary School shed its Aldo Rossi exterior baggage and developed its curvy innards into a full architectural system. It seeked to address its context in the Rossi city by creating a new, curvilinear Rossi character. Curves were exploited to form novel interior and exterior typologies, and blend circulatory and occupiable spaces. The building deploys a continuous loop that morphs and adjusts to create differing conditions.
ARCH 551 Control Studio
Rossiville Elementary
La casa Dello studente di Chieti 80/6
I pile foundation for lighthouses with theatre
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A 80/2
Casa d’abitazione a Milano?gallaratese 80/1
Le cabine dell’Elba
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Il cubo di Cuneo, 1962
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Le cabine dell’Elba
80/5
Le case di Bergamo 80/9
La scuola di Broni
Porta a Venezia 80/12
80/10
La case ul Ticino, 1975
Theatre veneziano 80/7
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Fall 2011
Critics: Paul Preissner & Kelly Bair Following a close study of Rossi’s work via reproduction, and subsequently gaining a certain level of expertise, I was presented with the task of literally reversing Rossi’s originals, creating a new set of “counterfeit” drawings. Posing the question of “what would Aldo have done,” the architectures were re-presented as worm’s eye views of their backsides. Occurences and likelyhoods of consistency were carefully balanced with possibilities of deviation. Emphasis was placed on continuity within the whole drawing set, imagining them as characters within the bounds of a unified family.
Rossi’s hollow, empty shell characters were operated on through employing techniques of contemporary “architectural medicine,” giving these poor fellows the benefit of hearty guts. At its core, the exercise centered around reimagining how Rossi might have dealt with his interiors had the notion of the curve in architecture been at his disposal. The rectilinear, regular exteriors became ideal containers for fantastic, curvilinear organs. This is the Rossi no one ever knew - the Rossi with a knowledge of the curve and the right digital softwares.
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ARCH 551 Control Studio
[perspective]
Perspective
[elevation]
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[plan]
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Longitudinal section
Plan
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Fall 2011
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Rossiville Elementary
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Rossiville Elementary “Loop”
“Sweep”
“Droop”
“Pop--up”
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Fall 2011
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Rossiville Elementary
Basement Plan
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Second Floor
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Fall 2011
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Fall 2011
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Alternative Atmospheres
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ARCH 565 Topic Studio Critic: Sean Lally
University of Illinois at Chicago Fall 2013
It is possible that at some point in the not-so-distant future, we may begin to study in-depth, explore, or even occupy other planets. The Keplar Spacecraft has logged over 2,700 potential alien planets, and each of these planets harbors a unique and novel atmosphere, one for which technology and culture may potentially adapt the body to engage with. Tracing a historical trend, we may see humans become more or less suited to these new environments (or that of the earth) over time - through microevolution, we have seen the average size of the pinky finger in humans statistically continue to grow, as its usage in hand manipulations with tools is crucial. One might also cite examples such as mountain Sherpas or Olympic runners where biological, genetic advantages exist or have developed in order to better operate in specific environments. Extrapolating these principals a few steps further, a situation where humans have begun to become more culturally, biologically suited to what we perceive as harsh alien environments of other planets is not out of the question. This would necessitate an architecture back on earth able to ‘play back’ the energies and atmospheres of foreign planets and alternative, fantasy sci-fi environments (from literarature, cinema or otherwise), for the comfort, familiarity, or merely entertainment purposes of its users. The private, domestic landscape/garden becomes the moment for intervention with the re-creation of alien atmospheres through material energies, allowing idealized “nature” from other planets to be reconstructed in ones‘ private space of escape. Sensory augmentation through technological implements merged with the body could allow humans to interact with these new environmental conditions. The private energy landscapes would allow users to take a momentary “trip” to another planet, such that they are in a preferred environment when living or simply vacationing back on the motherland, planet Earth.
ARCH 565 Topic Studio
Alternative Atmospheres
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Alternative Atmospheres
Atmospheric Energy
Body - Atmosphere
Body Energy
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-Thinking modulated by alternative environmental chemicals interacting with brain chemistry
-Breathing in mixture of extraterrestrial gases
-Perception of sight, sounds, and touch changed by varying atmospheric pressures, presence of unusual sound frequencies, vibrations,
-Skin encountering non-earthly frequencies of electromagnetic radiation -Hydrating with solvents other than water, such as ammonia
When the body is outside the energy space, there are no energies being exchanged or emitted from the body nor the space.
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Fall 2013
Interaction LIMBS -Changes in movement abilities due to higher or lower gravity -Different senses in limbschanges in circulation and blood pressure induced by extreme temperature fluctuating over course of day, alien winds, pressure changes
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Plan
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Nested World #1
Nested World #1
Electromagnetic
Nested World #1
Electromagnetic Zones
Nested World #1
Nested World #2
Nested World #2
Gas Zones
Nested World #2
Gas Zones
Nested World #2
Nested World #3
Nested World #3
Chemical Zone
Nested World #3
Chemical Zones
Nested World #3
Gravity Zones
Gravity Zones
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Critic: Sean Lally
Fall 2013
Single Energy Single Energy Single Energy Single Energy Single Energy Single Energy Energy Single Energy Single Energy Single Energy Electromagnetic Zones Electromagnetic Electromagnetic Electromagnetic Electromagnetic Zones Electromagnetic Electromagnetic Zones Electromagnetic ZonesZones Electromagnetic ZonesZones Electromagnetic Zones ZonesSingle Zones
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Material Energy Legend
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Microwave Range
Ultraviolet Range
Gamma Range
Wavelength: 3 x 10^9 - 3 x 10^12 cm
Wavelength: 4 x 10^-5 - 10^-7 cm
Wavelength: < 10^-9 cm
Frequency: 10 - 0.01 Hz
Frequency: 7.5 x 10^14 - 3 x 10^17 Hz
Frequency: > 3 x 10^19 Hz
Strength 1 (Weak)
Strength 2 (Mid)
Strength 2 (Strong)
Range: .5 - 4 m/s^2
Range: 4 - 15 m/s^2
Range: 25 - 150 m/s^2
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ELECTROMAGNETIC
Radiation 1 (Cold)
Radiation 2 (Mid)
Radiation 3 (Hot)
Range: -100 - 0 Deg F
Range: 0 - 100 Deg F
Range: 100 - 250 Deg F
Vitamins
Enzymes
Amino Acids
B, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, C, D, E, K
Lipase, Amylase, Maltase, Pepsine, Protease, Catalase
Alanine, Arginine, Cysteine, Glycine, Isoleucine, Lycine
CHEMICAL
Microwave Range
Ultraviolet Range
Gamma Range
Wavelength: 3 x 10^9 - 3 x 10^12 cm
Wavelength: 4 x 10^-5 - 10^-7 cm
Wavelength: < 10^-9 cm
Frequency: 10 - 0.01 Hz
Frequency: 7.5 x 10^14 - 3 x 10^17 Hz
Frequency: > 3 x 10^19 Hz
Strength 1 (Weak)
Strength 2 (Mid)
Strength 2 (Strong)
Range: .5 - 4 m/s^2
Range: 4 - 15 m/s^2
Range: 25 - 150 m/s^2
Radiant Emitter
Radiant Emitter
Directional Emitter
Directional Emitter
Radiant Emitter
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Radiation 2 (Mid)
Radiation 3 (Hot)
Range: -100 - 0 Deg F
Range: 0 - 100 Deg F
Range: 100 - 250 Deg F
Composition 1
Composition 2
Composition 3
Range: 60% - 85% Hydrogen, 15% - 40% Helium
Range: 50% - 80% Nitrogen, 20% - 50% Oxygen
Range: 80% - 96% Carbon Dioxide, 2% - 10% Argon, 2% - 10% Nitrogen
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Fabrication
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ARCH 522 Digital Fabrication
Barcelona Program UIC SOA
Advisor: Marta MalĂŠ-Alemany Faculty: Jordi Portell Torres & Miquell Lloveras
Spring 2013
(Group project with Catherine Liyan Wan) This elective course focused around exploring the potentials of extrudedplastic 3D-printing (and deriving ways to exploit its inherent limitations), researching current usages and speculating on future developments, and designing and producing a family of objects that had performative and aesthetic qualities. As students, we observed and assisted in the construction of a Maker-Bot 3D-printing machine in conjunction with our instructors, and learned how to learned how to use the accompanying object slicing and production softwares. The primary issue at stake was the non-intersecting nature of the single-path extrusion machine, for which we were challenged to design geometries that could produce the desired closed-surface, intersecting properties in the finished objects.
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Fabrication
The objective is to create an columnar object in which its primary performance properties consist of:
Structural Strength
Mixing
Transportation
Distribution
To achieve this, a cylindrical structure generated from tubular forms transition from individual closed tubes a larger ring section, where all the tubes have gradually come together into one large unit. Individualized tubes are then reformed with intermittent apertures at the Gold Angle of 137.5 degrees apart for maximum range of spray distribution. The object then transitions back to closed tubes, which are now individual standalone tubes used to transport and direct the remaining undistributed fluid. The structure is twisted for added structural strength as well as to serve as a static mixer for various fluids introduced through initial closed tubes.
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Spring 2013 Tubular Strength
Load Distribution
Medical stents have resiliant and structural properties in their tubular formation.
Ideal Geometry Distribution of Resources
Tubular columns use ribbing to create strength and create even load distribution.
Static Mixing
Nautilus shells are divided into internal chambers (camerae) by septa walls. The torqued walls increase the strength of support of the outer shell.
Static Mixers
Static mixing systems use geometry to to mix fluids without agitation.
Centrifugal Forces
Industrial Welded Mixers require an intensive fabrication process of bending and welding of many small metal plates.
Fluid Distribution Sprinkler systems use a radial array of small nozzles concentrated in one source of origin
Twist/Spin Effect on fluid pushes it to the container wall.
One-to-Many Squid tube body splits into multiple tubular tentacles
Ideal Geometric Distribution of Resources
Plant leaf growth display Fibonacci Phyllotaxis with a Golden Angle of 137.5 degrees for maximum sun exposure.
Fluid Transport
Fractal Fluid Injector
Leaf Veins
A fluid transport system for automotive air conditioning.
Marc-Olivier Coppens of TUDelftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nature Inspired Chemical Engineering program devised a fractal distributor for fluid introduction/collection.
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Fabrication
Construction techniques were explored to make use of the RapManâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closed loop printing efficiency. Circular tubes constructed from discrete arcs were translated into a single surface irregularshaped tubes to create a circular tube at the intersecting junctures.
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Fabrication
The early models began to explore the notion of a series of radially-arrayed tubes. However, in these initial instances, the tubes were implied through the undulation of a single surface. Two base geometric profiles were introduced, and were extruded in different ways to create a matrix of possibilities.
This speculative model explored the possibility of the complex profile defining the top and the bottom of the column, and morphing to become a normative circle geometry at the middle ‘waist.’ The buttressing effect created by the tubelike elements adds to the lateral, structural strength of the object.
Twist
Narrow
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Column 1 Strength: Achieved by torquing tubes to form structural ribs.
Column 2 Geometric Test: Testing printerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limits with more extreme twist geometry and curvature.
Column 3 Closed Tubes: Transition from open tubes to closed tubes Column 4 Mixing by Geometry: Individual tubes are merged to create a single mixing ring chamber.
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ARCH 522 Digital Fabrication The sectional geometry was conceptualized and derived as two pipes with connective tissue, which were than arrayed radially.
Multiple variations in the concave degree of the tube-connecting surfaces were tested.
Multiple variations in the concave degree of the tube-connecting surfaces were tested.
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Column 5
Column 6
Tubular Transport: Straight section to test for new printing method of using half crescent tubes to create an enclosed circular tube.
Spray Distribution: Directional control of fluid flows from apertures created by changing the distance between the point of contact between tubes. Based on the speed of flow rate, distribution angle can be measured and controlled. Angle between consecutive apertures are at the Fibonacci series golden angle of 137.5 degrees for maximum evenness of distribution.
Column 7 Point Distribution: Closed tubular structure for precise fluid delivery. Tubes can also serve as a return system to complete a feedback loop into itself.
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Fabrication
Final Column
The final column integrates all the sectional profiles and modeling concepts into a singular, continuous extrusion. The top half of the shape utilizes a modular technique, wherein a unit consisting of a closed tube and half crescent transforms into two full tubes, arrayed radially. At the middle juncture, an inner-wall and outer-wall system is deployed, allowing all the tubes to merge into a continuous, â&#x20AC;&#x153;mixingâ&#x20AC;? ring. Past this point, the upper technique is mirrored, culminating in a method where the edge profiles connecting the tubes dissolve, revealing the distinct array of individual tubes.
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Roofscapes
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ARCH 410 Option Studio Critic: David Karle
University of Nebraska - Lincoln Fall 2010
The prototypical suburban strip-mall roofscape exists largely as unexploited territory, and this studio aimed to uncover its latent potentials. It is generally not much more than a large heat-island, with mechanical units dotting its barren landscape. My proposal imagines a novel roofscape, one that is mixed-use and facilitates nightlife and living/recreation for a younger demographic, one that is currently underserved in this location. The buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure properties allow not only for necessary stability, but also begin to effect light and aperature quality in the interior, adjusting parametrically to become best suited to various programmatic demands.
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Roofscapes Roof Typology Study Light
1 : 3 ratio
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The two-way frame may be manipulated in the x, y, and z directions, modifying the ratio and proportion of the spaces between the frame. A dome has the variables of height and diameter.
Height
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Roof reacts to program
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Fall 2010 Roof Typology Study Water
Axonometric
Section
Plan A funnel-like inverted dome water collector could serves as structure and drainage. Morphed domes that flow into each other allow for water to find a path of exit.
Y-axis spacing between members of the frame may be expanded or contracted based off program
Light variation based on roof structure
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Roofscapes
Hours of Operation
The programs of choice were to fulfill the categories of exchange, distribution, consumption, and production. The chosen programs for the strip mall roof intervention were a fashion-oriented second-hand clothing store, a lounge, a bowling alley and arcade, a mid-size music venue, a 24hour diner-type eatery, and a small number of apartments. Circulation became one of the primary driving forces behind the design; the programs were layed out in an “ideal” procession for a typical night out, with secondary means of circulation for those that wish to break from this “ideal.”
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Critic: David Karle
An analysis of the existing strip mall programs was done. From this, it became clear that the strip mall was underutilized in the late evening hours. As well, the population of shoppers of different age groups (young adults, middle-aged, and senior citizens) was studied, and it was determined that the young adult demographic was primarily the one that operated during the later hours. Accordingly, the selected programs for the proposal were those that catered to this group.
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Roofscapes Program Layout
Primary Circulation
diagrams
Secondary Circulation
The programs were layed out in a “u” PRIMARY formation, allowing for the primary CIRCULATION PROGRAM LAYOUT SECONDARY CIRCULATION circulation to loop around through them. Secondary circulation paths allow direct access to non-adjacent programs. The void space created between the program and circulation becomes occupiable courtyards, green space, and a light couryard to the existing building below. As well, through this The design programs were layed outspace in a “u” formation, allowing for the primary approach program may be pushed and pulled outward to circulation to loop around through them. Secondary non-adjacent programs. Thespaces void space created between the program and circulation becomes occupiable courtyards, gre accommodate the various needed.
existing building below. As well, through this design approach program space may be pushed and pulled outward to accom
PRIMARY CIRCULATION
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space out in a “u”were formation, for the primary circulation totoloop around through them.[program] Seco The programs layed out inallowing a “u” formation, allowing for the primary circulation loop around through them. Secondary circulat non-adjacent programs. The void space created the program and circulation becomes becomes occupiable courtyards, green spac he void space created between thebetween program and circulation occupiable courtyard existing building below. As well, through this design approach program space may be pushed and pulled[program] outward to accommodate Program outward to a well, through this design approach program space may be pushed and[program] pulled green space
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primary circulation to loop around through them. Secondary circulation paths allow direct ac rogram and circulation becomes occupiable courtyards, green space, and a light couryard t ogram space may be pushed and pulled outward to[views] accommodate the various spaces nee 75’
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for the primary circulation to loop around through them. Secondary circulation paths allow direct access to n the program and circulation becomes occupiable courtyards, green space, and a light couryard to the 8,40 sq f Basic program layout and square footage was determined. Cuts in the volumes were made to allow for views to the creek, b oach program space may be pushed and pulled outward to accommodate the various spaces needed. 6,750
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Critic: David Karle
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Roofscapes
Zinc-panel cladding
Glu-lam two-way frame
Steel deck + concrete Long-span, openweb steel joists & girders
New columns
Steel deck + concrete Existing structural grid Egress
Atrium / Lobby Large openings, thin frame Diffuse, illuminating light
Light & Spatial Quality Skylight Analysis
Clothing Sales Floor Large, openings, thin frame Diffuse, illuminating light
Apartments Small openings, thick frame Focused, intimate light
Light Courtyard to Below Large, openings, thin frame Diffuse, illuminating light Restaurant Tables Large, openings, thin frame Diffuse, illuminating light Restaurant Booths Small openings, thick frame Focused, intimate light Outdoor Courtyard Patio Large openings, thin frame Diffuse, illuminanting light
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Roofscapes
third floor plan
concert venue
second floor plan Structural section model transverse section longitudinal section
clothing store lounge bowling alley / arcade
apartments
24-hour diner
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third floor plan Critic: David Karle
Fall 2010
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concert venue
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concert venue
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skylight daylighting
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clothing store lounge bowling alley / arcade apartments
apartments
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clothing store
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bowling alley / arcade
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lounge
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24-hour diner
[existing strip mall retail]
24-hour diner
bowling alley / arcade
[existing strip mall retail]
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apartments
first floor plan
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skylight daylighting
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[lounge]
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[existing strip mall retail]
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Roofscapes
Glu-lam member
Doublepane glass with airspace
Mullion
Paver Paver-stand system
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Critic: David Karle
Zinc cladding Panel attachment detail El: varies T.O. metal Batt insul Wood conn. bracket Glu-lam member Steel I-beam Concrete deck
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Skyscraper + Park
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ARCH 411 Urbanism Studio
Critic: Steven Ginn
University of Nebraska - Lincoln Spring 2011
My proposal for DuSable Park seeks to utilize the ideas of the urban stoop as a means for social gathering. DuSable Park is geographically in a position to become a gateway to the city. As such, conceptualizing the park site as a “stoop” on a large scale is fitting. I evaluate the urban stoop as having multiple functions - it is a means for moving from one location to another, changing elevation, and becoming a place for gathering on its multiple levels. I bring these ideals to my site in a conceptual manner, creating a way of moving through the park that has stopping points and program in the in-between spaces. It moves from a low lying area on the water’s edge on the south to a higher space on the north end, facilitating views out over the lake as one moves along and upward. In regard to the building design, it once again becomes a stepping transformation, in this instance manifested as an urban typology morph from low-rise, high-density housing and boutique shops to a high-rise apartment and condo tower. The low-rise portion seeks to become a microneighborhood, encouraging social interaction and a people-centric community. Ramps and bridges allow pedestrians to make visual contact with other pedestrians. This community reaches out and spans Lakeshore Drive in a skybridge, and moves upward in a twisting motion bringing together the two “legs” of the low-rise portion. This completes a pathway and procession from the micro-community to the high rise tower.
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ARCH 554 Housing Studio
Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
Barcelona Program UIC SOA Spring 2013
This studio focused intensely around the context of the city of Barcelona and, more specifically, its unique Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Eixample chamfered block typology. We were given the problem of reinvigorating four of these blocks, based off urban deficiencies we uncovered through a study of the site conditions, program, and social activites. Once the four blocks were selected, we devised a set of strategies to add housing square footage while simultaneously improving quality of life for all existing and future dwellers. My proposal makes the block more accessible for users by coupling existing automobile entrances with pedestrian ways, and creates housing with a light footprint that occupies the existing block courtyard. Thus, each household is allotted private patio space, as well as larger, collective mixing outdoor space. Housing units themselves are based on a configurable grid system that is optimized for views and unit-tounit relationships.
Extroverted Introversion
Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Eixample Block Intervention
Block Facade Panorama Photographs 152
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Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
Spring 2013
Barcelona Site Plan
Strategies Out-of-Range Reappropriation
Out-of-Range South Facade Max Solar Gain
Couple Parking & Pedestrian Entrances
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1. Transparency and Lightness
2. Collective and Individual Patios
Collective
3. Low-rise and Compact footprint
4. Resident privacy
Individual
An aim of the project is to implement both larger, collective spaces for all the residents of the courtyard (also accessible to existing residents of the block), but also individual patio spaces for each house, to maintain a sense of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own space in this intimate site.
The project seeks to create an architecture which is lower in height and touches the ground minimally. This maintains unobstructed views out of and around the courtyard for the existing residents. As well, the minimal building footprint maximizes the possibility for outdoor and interstitial collective spaces in the small courtyard site.
Privacy and exclusivity for the residents of the courtyard and the block is of primary concern. The intimate space of the project site calls for close interactions between residents. These relationships are encouraged and develop the most when the space remains exclusive. The users of the block currently lack a larger collective space for full-grown residents, and making this space private improves the quality for residents.
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1. Only one tower; should be positioned on North-west edge for optimal views and unobstruction of existing buildings
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4. Maintain line-of-site views for second building stories
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Spring 2013
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Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
Spring 2013
Housing Block Typologies
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Extroverted Introversion Solar Strategies
Perforated Panels
Glazed Facade Add Solar Shade
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3D-Perspective Floor Plan 168
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Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
Spring 2013
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Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
Spring 2013 Exploded Unit Axonometric
Connection Detail B
Connection Detail B
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Critics: Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat
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Competitions
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Paul Preissner Architects Design Competitions
National Museum of Afghanistan & SEEH Sustainable School in Greece
Chicago, IL 2012
The proposal for the National Museum of Afghanistan reconsiders the method of the museum, which is dedicated to collections of historic artifacts and archeological evidence of past cultural moments. By allowing for the collection to be endlessly linear, and removing the separations between items in an era, eras in a past, and pasts within a culture, the museum incorporates a significant number of breakthroughs. The architects do so in terms of the architectural design, the notion of a cultural campus and the design thinking on curatorial endeavors, to revolutionize the way a museum works today. The design for a school in Greece imagines the architectureas a campus rather than a singular building. Each of the four volumes (a Primary School, Secondary School, Kindergarten, and Administration Building) feature gently sloping roofs that create a distinct identity for the complex, and curved corners that face towards a central square, creating a core gathering space for the buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; users. My contrib tion focused primarily on the Kindergarten building, which featured moveable partitions and circular rooms, conducive to the playful and imaginative nature of early education.
Paul Preissner Architects
National Museum of Afghanistan
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Facade Study
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10 ARCH 562 Envelopes + Environments Critic: Julie Flohr
University of Illinois at Chicago Spring 2012
(Group project with Elizabeth Kivel)
The Cooper Union building’s architectural stature not only represents the school in icon, but fits in with a “kind of toughness that is New York.” The screen lifts at ground level, offering a transparency and porousness so crucial to the mission of the school, welcoming the city and the students. A transparency also pierces through the façade highlighting the central atrium, or the “vertical piazza”, stressing the importance of the gathering of the building’s inhabitants around this central space. Not only does the façade create this iconic building, cloaking a standard poured-in-place concrete structure, it also performs as a sustainable feature. The perforated screen exists just outside a standard window-wall system, mitigating heat gain in summer and retaining heat in the winter, by creating a layer of air that insulates the building. It additionally acts as sun screen, diffusing direct light for its inhabitants who heavily rely on natural daylight as well as lessening the impact of the sun causing additional heat gains. The perforated screen slows high winds from cooling the building, and lessens the amount of rain coming into contact with the main curtain wall system, lessening the chance for moisture infiltration. Thom Mayne’s ability to utilize a regular structure to create an iconic building is made possible by the dramatic perforated metal screen, which not only undulates and manipulates the perception of the structure beneath it, but highlights the important social atrium and porous bottom skirt.
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Facade Study
Axonometric
West facade 182
North facade
East facade
Critic: Julie Flohr
Spring 2012
South facade
Section detail 183
Graphic Design
Athletic Department Facilities Design Of�ice Volleyball Trophy Case Graphic Installation
University of NebraskaLincoln
2010
This permanent, large-scale 100’+ graphic installation was designed for a customfabricated, $100,000+ trophy case celebrating the achievments of the University of Nebraska’s championship Women’s Volleyball team. The graphic integrates a large quantity of information about the team’s achievements, including national and conference championships, star players, individual awards, coaching history, and narratives about team members, while maintaing a consistent graphic approach and aesthetic. As well,there were a multitude of design considerations in regard to production and installation, including creating an image that could effectively split into modular sections, and could also seamlessly allow for future updates without sacrificing its visual integrity.
Volleyball Trophy Case Graphic
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Facilities Design OfďŹ ce
Athletic Department
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Volleyball Trophy Case Graphic
Installation
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Facilities Design OfďŹ ce
Athletic Department
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Completed
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