Portfolio - Columbia GSAPP + RISD by ececetin-

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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Columbia University GSAPP MSAAD 2022 Rhode Island School of Design BArch + BFA 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS Academic Work 01

THE LUNG Advanced Studio Critic: Bernard Tschumi

CIRCU-CATION Advanced Studio Critics: Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge

EXPANSION AS A MEDIATOR Advanced Studio Critic: Emanuel Admassu

BUILDING ECOLOGIES Advanced Studio Critic: Jonathan Knowles

THE SEAM Advanced Studio Critic: Carl Lostritto

THE WEB Winning Proposal Built Pavilion Critics: Galia Solomonoff and Laurie Hawkinson

CRITICAL REMAGINATION OF THE OVERT Design Research Advisor: Daniel Ibanez

DATA + ETHICS Advanced Studio Critic: Galia Solomonoff

RETHINKING BIM Tech Elective Critic: Joseph Brennan

GENERATIVE DESIGN Tech Elective Critic: Danil Nagy

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REALITY Architectural Analysis Critic: Chelsea Limbird

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL Visual Elective Critics: Joseph Brennan, Phillip Crupi

ARTISTIC WORK

Professional Work - Internships 14

Tabanlioglu Architects Summer Internship Istanbul New Airport Arrivals Duty-free, Istanbul, Turkey

Dattner Architects Summer Internship 110 East 149th Street, New York, NY West Farms Redevelopment Plan, New York, NY

SOM Skidmore Owings & Merrill Summer Internship 1500 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

ec3580@columbia.edu ecetin@alumni.risd.edu www.ececetin.com

F O R E W O R D Envisioning alternative imaginaries that mediate between the architecture and its context is a guiding motivation in the projects I was involved in past five years. Projects represented in this portfolio are providing me with conceptual, spatial and social frameworks to rethink the potential and agency of architecture. ‘The Lung’ blends infrastructure to the everyday through spatializing natural and technological processes of ‘air’. Circu-cation’ reimagines the future of education, through seamlessly integrated learning spaces in everyday circulation. Expansion as a Mediator’ focuses on the spaces for collaboration and interaction that interrupts the strict boundaries of privately owned commercial spaces. ‘Building Ecologies’ is formed around the idea of exhibition space as circulation, echoed in the integrated learning spaces where biomimetric inspiration informs the project spatially and structurally. ‘The Seam’ examines the spatial, structural, material and representational possibilities of articulating the threshold, stitch and transition. ‘Data + Ethics’ imagines a think tank inspired by the digital cultural production and data center typology.

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

THE LUNG Fall 2021 Critic Type Contributors Site

Island Studio, Columbia GSAPP Bernard Tschumi Academic Project Han Kuo, Zhanhao Fan Pier i, New York, NY

The Lung is a factory, museum, and purifier of air. Facing various underlying urban disasters, The Lung prepares the city for potential air catastrophes while healing the damage. Spatializing natural and technological processes, the museum demonstrates the cleaning and making of ‘air.’ The visitor is invited to obtain sensitivity to the so-called ‘void’ or ‘invisible’ through the air. The island prioritizes the invisible as the most crucial and blends the infrastructure abstraction to everyday experience.

ISLAND STUDIO

Aeriel Rendering The Lung

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

warm end container Inhaling

coldbox Absorbing

oxygen storage Exhaling

distillation

vaporizer

reservoir collector compression

boiler

heat exchanger purifying + precooling

Program Diagram

Site Plan The Lung adjacent to the Pier i, supplies oxygen to the rest of the city

ISLAND STUDIO

Mechanism Diagram

Floor Plan Inhaling outer ring, absorbing towers, exhaling at the core

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

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ISLAND STUDIO

air collector + compressor

purification system

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

Abso

ISLAND STUDIO

orbing

distillation

boiler

heat exchanger (ice ring)

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

Exha

ISLAND STUDIO

aling

vaporizer + pneumatic structure

oxygen reservoir

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

column

pontoon

anchor

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ISLAND STUDIO

Foundation

semi-submersable platform

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

Semi-submersible platform which is commonly used in the offshore oil industry is used as the primary structure, enhancing the impression and relation between intangible air and solid structure. Annual windrose diagram of New York is used in the structural ring for the manipulating the density of the trusses.

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New York annual windrose diagram

Vierendeel truss

O1 |THE LUNG

The Lung acts as a factory for oxygen pre-catastrophe and as an oxygen distribution center during catastrophe time. The air is first compressed and purified during inhaling; then is liquefied to distill oxygen out during absorbing. Finally, the liquid oxygen goes into the reservoir and is ready to be vaporized for later use during exhaling. Three different mechanisms is organized in a circular layout to collect air coming from all directions. Based on all the features of programs, spaces are arranged from outer layer toward the central part.

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

ISLAND STUDIO

Axonometric Drawing

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

Elevation o

ISLAND STUDIO

of The Lung

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

visualize the invisible process with 5 various compression episodes

air compression

lifting compressor inflatable room

ISLAND STUDIO

Compression Ring various air absorbtion mechanisms and experiences

bubble compressor rotary compressor

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

ISLAND STUDIO

Compression Ring Renderings

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

PART III. EXHALING

Section Perspective Cutting Through Liquid Oxygen Reservoir, and Pneumatic Oxygen Structure

Exhaling Portion oxygen gallery, algae bioreactors, liquid oxygen reservoir

ISLAND STUDIO

Section The Lung during Pre-catastrophe and during catastrophe.

Oxygen across scales

O1 |THE LUNG

Exploded Axonometric Drawing of the Oxygen Reservoir

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

ISLAND STUDIO

Collapsable Liquid Oxygen Reservoir Structure

O1 |THE LUNG

FALL 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

Reaching to the central reservoir the visitor sees the expandable semi-immersed liquid oxygen tank. Above the floor inflatable pneumatic gallery rooms react to the production of gas oxygen, using it as a material for its form. Here the visitor is able to experience sounds and volumetric differences associated with the change in form from liquid to gas.

ISLAND STUDIO

Oxygen Gallery Walk Pneumatic Space, ‘Air’ Gallery, and Oxygen Pool

O2 |CIRCU-CATION

SUMMER 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

C I R C U - C AT I O N Summer 2021 Critics Contributor Site

Remix Studio, Columbia GSAPP Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge Jason Young Kim Jackson Heights, New York, NY

Circu-cation reimagines a collective learning space that seemlessly integrates itself to the everyday transportation. Inspired by the productive exchange between rich cultures that expand beyond the boundaries of Jackson Heights we are proposing Language, Arts and Technical Academy in Jackson Heights that celebrate and enrich these interactions. Acknowledging the primary work sectors such as service and construction and various languages spoken in the site project proposes interconnected vocational hubs for skills sharing, training and knowledge exchange. This public academy not only hosts platforms for learning but also creates opportunities for socializing, sharing and empowering one another.

REMIX STUDIO

Site Plan Circulation as Opportunity for Informal Learning

O2 |CIRCU-CATION

The smaller ‘pocketed’ spaces, allow for the passer by to quickly join to a ongoing class remotely, or simply revise the course topics. The ‘poche’ is activated with varying spaces to accommodate informal learning. Larger spaces that are formed by work zones along the envelope, allow for bigger gatherings and more formal learning and discussion spaces such as a lecture halls or gallery spaces. The bridging over the subway comes down to ground at three blocks to host programs for urban connection, such as the cultural center at the ground level of language hub at the Diversity Plaza.

SUMMER 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

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REMIX STUDIO

Section Perspective Circu-cation

ed, inaccessible education and instead proposing ocial, economic and cultural growth and peerts. Flexible yet organized workshop, classes and h individual to plan and craft their own curriculum. ain line as an anchor to our project. Bridging over aim to immerse the passer-by to the Jackson Heights essive classrooms are visible from within the subway architecture of hubs interconnected and connected uture of continuing education and practical training.

Floor Plans Above Platform Level (top) Platform Level (middle) Ground Level (bottom)

O2 |CIRCU-CATION

SUMMER 2021 | ADVANCED STUDIO

REMIX STUDIO

Isometric View

Aerial Perspective (above) Interior Rendering (below)

O3 |EXPANSION AS A MEDIATOR

FALL 2018| ADVANCED STUDIO

EXPANSI ON AS A MEDI ATOR Fall 2018 Critic Type Contributors Site

Advanced Studio, RISD Emanuel Admassu Academic Project Emmie Ji Crown Heights, New York, NY

Expansion as a Mediator is a response to increasing homogeneity resulting from the use of the “industrial aesthetic” through which private spaces expand to the public ground. The intervention to existing homogeneous space actcs a mediator between the “abondoned” and “commodified”. Vertical and horizontal linkages are formed spatially and programmatically as a resistance to the homogeneous expansion.

CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER

Plan Oblique Drawing The circular atrium, programmed bridges and new cowork space

O3 |EXPANSION AS A MEDIATOR

FALL 2018| ADVANCED STUDIO

Site analysis investigates spatial and material expansion to the public ground in which “industrial aesthetic” is utilized as a tool for commodification in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Utilizing an existing office space and restaurant, the project responds to the increasing homogeneity resulting from the use of this aesthetic tool with an expansion that is a mediator between the “abandoned” and “commodified”. Here, the site is read as a series of unfolds, looking at the expansion in elevation and plan. This site in Crown Heights with its existing diversity of program types, is a great potential to mediate between the “abandoned” and “commodified”. An intertwined use between the commodified –the commercial- and the community co-work space informs the initial spatial studies.

Site Analysis Site read as series of unfolds that analyze spatial and material expansion to the street

CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER

EXISTING MASSING

Massing Studies of Expansion

OFFICES

FITNESS CENTER

RESTAURANT

Programmatic Integration Strategy

Final Expansion Strategy

PLAYGROUND CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION

NEW CIRCULATION

EXISTING CIRCULATION

BRIDGE GREEN ROOF PARK EXHIBITION AND SHOWCASE COWORK SPACES

Proposed Program

Circulation

O3 |EXPANSION AS A MEDIATOR

FALL 2018| ADVANCED STUDIO

Axonometric Section Drawing

CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER

Section Oblique Drawing Unfolded Section On The Bottom

O3 |EXPANSION AS A MEDIATOR

FALL 2018| ADVANCED STUDIO

Sketch Model Studies

Site Model With Proposal 1/32”=1’

CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER

Perspective View View from the street

Ground Floor Plan Existing Restaurant Space, Spatial Expansion to Sidewalk, Office Space, Co-work Space

Section Model 1/8”=1’

O4 |BUILDING ECOLOGIES

SPRING 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

B U IL DI NG ECO LOGI ES Spring 2019 Critic Type Site

Nature Lab Expansion, RISD Jonathan Knowles Academic Project, Individual RISD Campus, Providence, RI

The design concept of nature lab expansion project is initially informed by biomimetric inspiration taken from tension and compression networks found in dragonfly wing that both provide strength and flexibility. The idea of responsive skin is carried out through the project as double skin space at the façade creating an in-between spatial condition between inside and outside, inhabiting both plants and people through programmatic expansion.

NATURE LAB EXPANSION

Physical Model 1/2”=1’ Plywood, Paper

O4 |BUILDING ECOLOGIES

SPRING 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

Organizational concept is driven by exhibition space as the circulation space, realizing exhibition not as a passive, isolated entity but an active program of constant observation and interaction; therefore traveling sectionally as well through the lab and work spaces.

Floor Plans

Double-Skin Facade Study Model

NATURE LAB EXPANSION

O4 |BUILDING ECOLOGIES

Physical Model 1/2”=1’

SPRING 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

NATURE LAB EXPANSION

Systems Diagram Double -Skin Facade, Rooftop Greenhouse, In-between Green Buffer Sloped Roof Rainwater Catchment Eco-Mesh, Green Facade Shading System

Structure

O5 |THE SEAM

FALL 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

THE SEAM Fall 2019 Critic Type

Advanced Studio, RISD Carl Lostritto Academic Project, Individual

Initial exploration on phyton coding and pen plotter production, as the result of change between x and y, visually articulated a seam, where the intersection of variables occur. Unable to perfectly click at the spinal spot, yet inescapably being ‘one’ these drawings explored notions on figure and field tension where the seam becomes visible as the field is formed. Seam becomes essential in project organizationally, densely programmed as it expands and contracts according to uses such as circulation, utility, and storage. Therefore the seam in the project becomes a programmatic and structural stitch and is essential for the whole. Drawings explore both the notion of the seam through the cutline, as seam is defined as the essential threshold that holds the parts together.

SOLID INTO AIR STUDIO

Plan Oblique Drawing

Pen plotter drawings Produced through phyton script

O5 |THE SEAM

FALL 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

Long Section Perspective Hybrid Drawing

SOLID INTO AIR STUDIO

Short Section Perspective Hybrid Drawing

O5 |THE SEAM

FALL 2019| ADVANCED STUDIO

Interior Rendering Still from animation Bedroom Space

SOLID INTO AIR STUDIO

Final set of renderings consider material, spatial and atmospheric transitions that form ‘the seam’. Such as light and shadow as the seam between inside and outside forms a connection. Spatial transitions on the other hand, explores the notions of material density around the seam. Animations can be viewed at: https://ececetin.com/The-Seam

Seam, Hybrid Drawing

O6 | OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

T H E W EB Winning Proposal, Built Pavilion Galia Solomonoff and Laurie Hawkinson Ahahana Banker, Abriannah Aiken, Andrew Manion, Anoushae Eirabie, Ata Gun Aksu, Bisheng Hong, Eugene Massey, Gustavo Lopez Mendoza, Hannah Rose Stollery, Hazel Villena, Hyosil Yang, Jordan Trager, Keneilwe Ramaphosa, Kurt Cheang, Lucas Pereira, Maria Lina Ramirez, Omar Badriek, Priscilla Auyeung, Risa Mimura, Rourke Brakeville, Ryan Hansen, Sunghyun Kim, Vassco Li, Yining Lai, Yusuf Urlu Zakios Meghrouni-Brown, Zina Berrada Site Columbia University, Morningside Campus, New York, NY Spring 2022 Critics Contributors

Designed and constructed by students in the Spring 2022 seminar “The Outside Project” ,WEB is a temporary project consisting of an inflatable pavilion and a collection of custom furniture installed at Columbia University’s Avery Plaza. Massive yet buoyant, WEB touches ground at just seven points and frames entrances into the courtyard evoking a feeling of organic intrigue and uneasy uncertainty, questioning the solidity of architecture. Walking through it, WEB feels more like an organism than a building as 1010 patches of white and blue hues undulate to invite visitors to experience a myriad of different perspectives and interpretations. Anchored using a network of ropes and carabiners attached to steel beams in Avery and Fayerweather Halls and weighted ballasts in each of its seven feet, WEB sustains its voluptuous form with the help of four blowers, located in its two rear feet, constantly blowing air throughout the structure. The formal configuration elucidates a strong contrast between the campus’s existing fabric and its new inflatable counterpart, a contrast best witnessed through an unassuming view from the library inside Avery Hall to the structure beyond.

SPRING 2022 | SEMINAR

THE WEB

O7 |OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

TECH ELECTIVE

Plan Drawing

Isometric view

SPRING 2022

Partial Section

Connection Details

O6 | OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

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Layout Scenario A

Furniture Layout Plan A

THE WEB

Layout Scenario B

Layout Scenario C

Furniture Layout Plan B

Furniture Layout Plan C

O6 | OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

SPRING 2022 | SEMINAR

THE WEB

O6 |OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

SPRING 2022 | SEMINAR

Elevation

Nighttime Rendering

THE WEB

Section

Plan

O7 |CRITICAL RE-IMAGINATION OF THE OVERT

FALL-SPRING 2020

CRITICAL RE-IMAGINATION OF OVERT Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 Advisor Sites

Thesis Project Daniel Ibanez New York, San Francisco, Istanbul

A culture of amne disengagement in the ideas on “illusions o

Design Research explores how mediating spatial, material, and programmatic relationships creates cohesion between the interior and exterior of large-scale development towers. Farshid Moussavi argues for the multiplicity of architecture as an expression of diversity, showcasing through her material and formal operations a building’s plurality and mutability.1 Where Moussavi confronts the physical form of architecture, sociologist Richard Sennett connects the form to its social and economic implications. Recalling what critic Ada Louise Huxtable called “skin architecture”— slick urban façades covering neutral, standardized, and banal innards—Sennett sees a manifestation of “flexible capitalism” that is superficial, short-term, and disengaged from the city and the workplace.2 My project engages Moussavi’s material complexities while countering the sterility Sennett made a note of, merging the interior experience with the exterior presence.

Probe Wood and Plexiglass 2’ x 5’ Installation utilizes the material merely as surfaces of projections, exploring the juxtaposition of space and surface.

DESIGN RESEARCH

It is not as if the false facades are “hiding” anything or acting as a screen to prevent us from seeing that there is nothing behind them. We know inside is different from outside; it announes that in a very straightforward manner.

Architecture can no longer afford to structure itself as an instrument that either reaffirms or resists a single, static idea of culture.

(...)And the larger the envelope becomes, the more sophisticated the interface has to be to guarantee an appropriate level of mix in the population of the envelope.

In western architecture there has been a humanistic assumption that it is desirable to establish a moral relationship between interior and exterior(..) The honest facade speaks about the activities it conceals. The humanist expectation of honesty is doomed and the interior and exterior architectures become separate projects.

This is why the style elements of new-economy buildings become what US architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable calls "skin architecture": the surface of the building dolled-up with design, its innards ever more neutral, standard, and capable of instant refiguration. (...)standardisation breeds indifference.

There is always a struggle to be overcome or smoothed over in the implementation of neoliberalism, an antagonism to be supressed or turned into fuel for systemic optimization. The architecture of neoliberalism cannot openly acknowledge (...) Its rhetoric denounces the very thought of them and its appearance is bent on their dissolution within its smooth surfaces and fluid forms.

Vinegar, Aaron. Ducks, Decorated Sheds and Other Minds 85

Moussavi Farshid. Function of Form

Polo, Alejandro Zaera. Politics of the Envelope pg 76-105

Koolhaas, Rem. S,M,L,XL 1995, 501.

Sennett, Richard. Skin Architecture

Spencer, Douglas. the Architecture of Neoliberalism 162.

Aron Vinegar

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New York, One Times Square Axonometric street view explores ideas on continuous strand of commodification that wrap around and in front

Farhid Moussavi

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Rem Koolhaas

Richard Sennett

Douglas Spencer

Disciplinary positioning through Aron Vinegar, Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaero Polo, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Sennett, and Douglas Spencer

San Francisco, Federal Building Morphosis The project materializes its concept on transparency and security through the translucent layers of mesh skins.

O7 |CRITICAL RE-IMAGINATION OF THE OVERT

FALL-SPRING 2020

SAN FRANCISCO Salesforce Tower, Pelli Clarke Pelli Response to Staged Openness

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DESIGN RESEARCH

Glazing With Metal Accents

Response to Daylight

Original Massing

Circulation Cores

Level Shift Along Axis

Private Office Spaces

Envelope

Design Operations San Francisco, Response to Staged Openness Animation can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/419679167

Design Layers San Francisco, Response to Staged Openness Above are the design layers of the original project and below are the correlating responses to each layer.

Salesforce Tower, designed by Pelli Clark Pelli Architects in San Francisco, argues for openness and transparency. Yet its curtain wall simply wraps the office buildings with a homogenous layer, becoming generic and standardized on the interior. My response implements a perpendicular axis, cutting through the singular volume to provide programmatic overlap and views while enhancing daylight and more idiosyncratic spatial conditions.

Interior rendering San Francisco Response to Staged Openness Workspaces in relation to the spatial axis.

O7 |CRITICAL RE-IMAGINATION OF THE OVERT

FALL-SPRING 2020

NEW YORK American Copper Buildings, SHoP Architects Response to Capital Homogeneity

New York, Response to Capital Homogeneity Plan oblique

Floor Plans

Exterior

DESIGN RESEARCH

Copper Cladding

Interior Courtyard

Double Stacked Corridors

Urban Streetscape

Design Operations New York, Response to Capital Homogeneity Animation can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/419679051

Design Layers New York, Response to Capital Homogeneity Above are the design layers of the original project and below are the correlating responses to each layer. The American Copper Building, designed by SHoP in New York City, reflects the capitalist homogeneity of materiality in the overdeveloped metropolis. It overwhelms a waterfront that is home to both the subsidized housing of Peter Cooper Village and the United Nations Headquarters. Rather than compete with the urban fabric of the city, I reengage the public in a privately owned tower, creating an elevated pedestrian street that interweaves the two buildings.

Interior rendering The American Copper Building, Response to Capital Homogeneity Elevated Pedestrian Street, Urban Lounge and Library

O7 |CRITICAL RE-IMAGINATION OF THE OVERT

FALL-SPRING 2020

ISTANBUL Maslak No.1, EAA Architects Response to Green Commodification

Istanbul Maslak No.1, EAA Architects, Response to Green Commodification

Groud Level

First Level

Initial Plan Diagrams Response to Green Commodification Second Level

Istanbul’s Maslak No. 1 Office Tower by Emre Arolat Architects explicates the inverted ethos of designers: much of the budget was allocated to its iconic façade while minimized assets were spent on the interior. Its exaggerated exteriority expresses notions of greenness, without actualized sustainability, whereas the office interiors are standardized and routine, lacking any greenery. In my design response, I added a new focal garden, accentuated by a shear wall, as a performative green space, and realigned the project by interweaving greenspace between exterior and interior, composing the entirety of the site as a greenhouse.

DESIGN RESEARCH

Structure

Double Glazed Curtain Wall

Steel Frame

Double Facade Trusses

Concrete Floor Slabs

Circulation Cores

Interior and Exterior Gardens

Shear Walls

Cores

Soil

Enclosure

Design Operations Istanbul, Response to Green Commodification Animation can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/419678944

Design Layers Istanbul, Response to Green Commodification Above are the design layers of the original project and below are the correlating responses to each layer.

Interior rendering Istanbul Response to Green Commodification Workspaces overlooking the focal garden

The commodification of greenspace in Istanbul, staged openness in San Francisco, and capital homogeneity in New York City sew a common thread through how architects prioritize exteriority. My thesis interrupts the cliché of image-making to reengage interiority as a platform for a design ethos. I expand the visual expression for each case study to integrate exterior arguments into interior spaces, inverting the contemporary culture in which image consumption has made the superficial “skin” of architecture all the more apparent.

O8 |DATA + ETHICS

SPRING 2022| ADVANCED STUDIO

DATA + ETHI C S Spring 2022 Critic Type Contributors Site

Think Tank Studio, Columbia GSAPP Galia Solomonoff Academic Project Sujin Shim, Irmak Turanli Berggruen Property, Los Angeles, CA

DATA + ETHICS is a Think Tank proposal located at eastern portion of the Santa Monica Mountains with the mission is a center for effective use, outreach and development of scientific and digital technologies for ethical, transparent and sustainable data and information processes. At a moment in which our cultural production and collective history is digital, data center has become one of the most important typologies. The Data + Ethics Think Tank consists of meeting spaces and work spaces for 35 Scholars-in-Residence and 15 Visiting Scholars, a 200 seat lecture theater, 100,000-square-feet Scholar Village of residential spaces featuring outdoor areas, a 3,000-squarefoot library, conference room, dining and catering areas. The heavily landscaped area around all buildings acts as a contemplation walk for scholars and visitors. The data center, water component, landscape and circulation path continuously weaves through the master plan. The water treatment plant and solar panels allow for reuse natural resources toward carbonneutrality and allow a degree of autonomy from the energy grid.

THINK TANK STUDIO

Master Plan, Data + Ethics Think Tank

O8 |DATA + ETHICS

SPRING 2022| ADVANCED STUDIO

Massing+Circulation

Water

Landscape

Masterplan

Master Plan Layers, Data + Ethics Think Tank

Chairman Residences

Scholars’ Village

Research Center

Main Institute

Aerial Perspective

THINK TANK STUDIO

Site Section and Water Use Diagram

G DIAGRAM OF A DATA CENTER

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DATA + ETHICS Think Tank Focuses

O8 |DATA + ETHICS

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Bike Path Along water feature, Research Center on the right

Main Institute Interior View

THINK TANK STUDIO

Dining Space Connection to the Data Center Below

Main Institute Data Workshop

O8 |DATA + ETHICS

SPRING 2022| ADVANCED STUDIO

Main Institute, Ground Floor Plan

Scholars Village, Residential Plan

THINK TANK STUDIO

Main Institute, Second Floor Plan

Main Institute, Section Perspective

O8 |DATA + ETHICS

SPRING 2022| ADVANCED STUDIO

THINK TANK STUDIO

Main Institute Entrance

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SPRING 2022| ADVANCED STUDIO

THINK TANK STUDIO

Main Institute

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THINK TANK STUDIO

Main Institute Section Perspective

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THINK TANK STUDIO

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THINK TANK STUDIO

09|RE-THINKING BIM

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09 RE T H I NKING BIM Spring 2022 Critic Contributors Site

Tech Elective Joseph Brennan Yunlong Fan, Yukun Tian, Yingjie Liu Mercedes House, New York, NY

The Mercedes House is located at the Western Edge of Midtown Manhattan and it’s a mixed- use development that take sup half of a city block. It consists of 1.3 million square feet of commercial and residential programs, commercial uses are on the base and 27 floors above are housing. The residential portion has a total of 865 units with 695 rental units and 170 condo units with 20 percent affordable housing. The massing of the project slopes up and away from the De Witt Clinton Park. Along the 11th Avenue it rises up to 86 feet and goes up to 328 feet at the middle of the block. Here this sloping massing strategy forms a mediation between the flat horizontal park located at the West of 11th Avenue and the vertical windowless telephone tower on the east of the site. The sloping massing allows for a greater access to air and light for a majority of the units. The stepped massing allows for unobstructed views to the park and the Hudson River and allows for private terraces on each floor.

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Inspired by this original intent of the project, new proposal pushes this ambition further. We wanted to maximize the number of units that have continuous sunlight access throughout the day. The project also analyzes the correlation between the optimized access to daylight that massing provides and increased value of the units through an improved user experience. In this sense the project rethinks the definition of ‘value’ beyond simply the financial aspect, to include metrics of experience, access and better distribution of units with optimized conditions.

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Analytical Diagram Looking at context and existing conditions

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A Sample from series of option generations through Design Explorer

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Workflow Diagram

Optimized Result

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TECH ELECTIVE

Through our analysis and intervention we are aiming to maximize the number of units with improved daylight access. Given the direct correlation between demand and cost, we argue that this will allow a better distribution of rent, a higher availability of units with better daylight conditions and therefore an improved mediation between the architecture and the market. To achieve our goal to optimize the massing for maximum amount of units with more than 5 hours access to daylight, we formed this workflow that uses the original Revit model, rhino inside, sunlight analysis and thermal comfort analysis with ladybug and honeybee using grasshopper. Lastly we used design explorer to document all the options for the massing strategy that accounts for maximized number of units with improved access to daylight. This optimized selection inspired us with the open space it creates above the commercial volume, and therefore connecting the existing two courtyards into one larger one.

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As designers we were interested in adding an architectural layer to this optimization process. Since the optimized option suggests a larger, more open plaza space; we continued the stepping massing language to reduce the number of columns in the optimized option. This design move allowed us to have some additional units, less columns and more open plaza that forms connections to the city. With this additional layer the communal space of the project becomes more inviting. We think this negotiation we formed between the result we got from optimization processes and our design sensibility resulted in a stronger hybrid response to the issue we responded to. This new design also allows light to pass through the building to the rest of the city from the void above the plaza, which is an important aspect given that the Mercedes house covers half a city block.

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A Generative Design Approach to Outdoor Gathering Space Fall 2021 Critic Contributors Site

Tech Elective Danil Nagy Ata Gun Aksu, Ece Cetin, Max Cai, Zhanhao Fan, Alonso L Ortega Columbia University Morningside Campus, New York

Project uses a parameter in grasshopper and a generative design method deployed to create the shortest paths to multiple main entrances of the plaza while optimizing the usable space with the four programs and having a one-meter buffer that will serve as a walking path. Discover, a grasshopper plugin is used to maximize the number of these spaces distributed within the plaza, while ensuring the shortest walkways. After the layout optimization, the modular canopies are distributed in the plaza in response to our goals of lowering solar radiation in the program spaces and maximizing them at the walkways. To achieve this goal, the column heights under the canopies will use an optimization that will be adjusted at varying heights and angles.

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Overlay of all options generated optimized one on the right When performing the shortest distance optimization, we were expecting something similar. However, we were intrigued by the outcome chosen with how the four zones were allocated. We noticed that Discover seemed to have an easier time implementing these sequences while the larger areas were closer together. This mitigating of space helps us at a schematic step of design, which the designer could then implement the floor plans for these circle areas. We performed the grasshopper/python optimization with the following settings in discover: Number of designs per generation: 20 Number of generations: 20 Mutation rate: .01 For the canopy design, we first began with a direct sun hours analysis of the site which helped us run an optimization of the least amount of direct sun hours for the opening location of the design. With the most optimal output of least solar radiation to the interior layout, it resulted in our final adjustment of the deflection and we were able to combine this with the interior layout. Optimal canopy design

11|RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE REALITY

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RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REALIT Y Spring 2017 Critic Type Site

Architectural Analysis, RISD Chelsea Limbird Academic Project La Tourette, Le Corbusier

The project explores multiple means and mediums of analysis, one that allows for new discoveries to be made that gives birth to new possibilities. The analysis in this case has been done both by understanding the La Tourette by Le Corbusier through taking it apart but the analysis also as a creative process in which new and unforeseen is constructed by discoveries made through the understanding of the spatial experience.

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12|DREAMSCAPES

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12 TE CHNI Q UE S OF THE ULTR A R E A L Dreamscapes Fall 2021 Critics Contributors

Visual Elective Joseph Brennan, Phillip Crupi Radha Devang Kamdar , Malvina Mathioudaki, Aikaterini Papoutsa

Dreamscapes imagine a space that oscillates between reality and imagination. With material and formal compositions the project aims to create a dreamlike moments frozen in time. The frames are particularly constructed for each of these moments in time, where the compositions represent an idealized instance. The texture of the landscape forms a contrast with the reflective surfaces of the dreamscape composition. The ambiguity of the particular weight and movement of the elements in the composition further emphasizes the dreamlike qualities of the project, that oscillates between reality and surrealism.

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14 |Professional Work | Tabanlioglu Architects

TA Tab a nlio g l u Arc h it e ct s Summer 2017 Architectural Intern Supervisor Oznur Pinar Cer Project Istanbul New Airport, Arrivals, Duty-free Site Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Airport, located in the heart of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, is shaping up to be the world’s highest capacity airport. Overall, it has the potential of welcoming up to 200 million passengers yearly by 2023, traveling to 300 different destinations. During my internship I was responsible for designing and representing interior wall and ceiling concepts for Istanbul New Airport’s Arrivals Duty Free zone. The concept of the design is informed by Istanbul’s unique cultural and architectural heritage and Bosporus flows that inform the ceiling and wall elements both three and two dimensionally.

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Istanbul New Airport, Arrivals Duty Free Area Interior Wall Design Motion, Bosporus and vibrations that mimic the behavior of the waves has informed my design above that is continuously applied on the wall surfaces for the final proposal

15 |Professional Work Dattner Architects

15 DAT TN E R A R C H IT EC T S Architectural Intern Ruth Ro 110 East 149th Street (Office Building, Completed 2021) West Farms Development Plan (In construction, Phase 1 Completed)

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Produced contextual axonometric drawing that demonstrates Dattner Architects’ projects locations in relation to West Farms Redevelopment Plan and major civic, institutional and commercial locations in proximity to the site. “When complete the mixed-use development will provide 11 blocks of affordable and workforce housing with retail and community facilities to serve the existing and growing community. The plan provides buildings of varying heights stepping up to the urban edge along the Bronx River, organized around courtyards which will provide recreational areas for residents with parking areas below. Mid-block passages humanize the streetscape and provide views to the new Starlight Park. The plan emphasizes principles of sustainable development with the creation of a compact, pedestrian friendly, vibrant, mixed-use community with good connections to nearby neighborhoods.” (Dattner Architects, NY) Updated renderings for by incorporating signage to 110 East 149th Street Office Building. 110 East 149th Street Office Building is a modern, mid-rise office building with five floors of office space and ground floor retail. The asymmetrical floorplate design places the circulation and mechanical core along the rear wall, allowing future tenants planning flexibility with ample access to windows and daylight. (Dattner Architects, New York) Strategic portions of the facade have been peeled away and articulated with an accent color and expanses of glass, framing views of the Bronx skyline and the Harlem River. The playful shifting window pattern—a simple composition of only two window sizes—echoes the pulsating motion of cars, subways, and people coursing through this teeming crossroads of the city.

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SOM Sk id m o re Ow ing s & M er r i l l Summer 2018 Supervisors Project Site

Interiors Intern Susan Orlandi, Matthew Wasylciw 1500 Mission Street (Office Building) San Francisco, CA

“A building to reflect the City’s aspirations : the relationship of the public and the government,embodied through principles of transparency, expression of use, simplicity, and performance.” Skidmore Owings & Merrill The project, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, includes two buildings. A 550-unit mixed-income, mixed-use residence will include a 31K SF Equinox Fitness facility, and a 460K SF office building owned by the City and County of San Francisco. During my internship I was responsible for material finishes and documentation of the office building.

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