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This book documents a series of projects completed as part of my continuing interest in the built environment. Each project , whether they are exploring perceived societal issues , reenforcing communities, or crafting new experiences for the individual, attempts to reinvigorate the relationship between the user and the environment around them. ph. 716.908.3966 email. eldopmat@gmail.com web. eldomathew.com
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CONTENTS
01-08
09-12
13-18
THE URBAN FRAME
SOCIAL BRIDGE
VAULT B
Ann Arbor, MI
Buffalo, NY
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Ann Arbor, MI
19-24
25-32
33-34
BRONX CO.LAB
CLANDESTINE CANYON
MISCELLANEOUS
The Bronx, NY
Cleveland, OH
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THE URBAN FRAME Location: Ann Arbor, MI Professors: Douglas Kelbaugh & Lars Graebner Team: Esther Chao, Sam Kim
As part of a studio wide strategy to densify Ann Arbor, The Urban Frame is envisioned as a 180 ft. residential tower, marking ones entry into the downtown core. Situated at the summit of an incline at the corner of Huron and Ashley Streets, the building negotiates a delicate balance between the developing downtown to the south and the low lying residential neighborhoods to the north. The resulting mass turns away from the residential neighborhoods, instead delivering panoramic views of downtown Ann Arbor. The project provides a new centrally located residential community for multi generational living, whilst anchoring the emerging retail corridor on Ashley St. with a multi level retail space at ground level.
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The massing strategy is sensitive to the urban context of the building while maximizing the allowable FAR. Setbacks are governed by a negotiation between neighboring lots to the north and west, both of which were also under development. Whereas, coordinating the height of podium retail with adjacent buildings creates visual continuity at street level.
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Section A
Section B
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The massing creates three programmatic zones within the building buffered vertically by communal amenities. The retail podium and the residential tower are separated by a community space, whereas the residential tower is separated from the high end apartments of the box via a double height gym. The two residential zones are further differentiated in plan. The compact bay layout and serrated edge of the tower units contrasts with the more open and rectilinear design of the high end units.
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SOCIAL BRIDGE Location: Buffalo, NY Professor: Michael Williams This project was developed as part of a construction studio focussed on researching materials and producing accurate specifications. In order to do so, a section from a previously designed studio project was studied in detail. The concept of the original project was to incorporate rent controlled units and luxury units into a new residential community. The site, located on the corner of Chippewa St. and Delaware Ave., was rapidley gentrifying at the expense of local residents. In order to address these issues, the two unit types were linked to each other through a combination of centralized circulation systems and communal amenities. This spine, allowed the two distinct groups to intermingle, thereby bridging gaps and creating a more inclusive community. For the project, research was focussed on a cladding system which could visually unify the two distinct components of the project.
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A wooden rain screen system was chosen as the facade system for the project. The flexibility of the wood slat cladding system allowed the facade to perform differently according to orientation of the building and function of the space inside. Thus creating a uniform identity for the building while responding to the needs of the user.
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VAULT B Location: Ann Arbor Professor: Wes Mcgee Team Members: John Larmor, Tyler Smith, Erik Harmon, Gaurav Sardana
Vault B was the result of a robotic fabrication course intended to familiarize students with operating 7-axis robots. The versatility of the robots allowed the team to experiment with three dimensional steel rod bending which would usually require specialized equipment. Rod bending geometries and welding techniques were tested with a 4’ column to determine tolerance issues and calculate springback. Meanwhile connections between multiple columns were designed through a vault construction determined through a combination of generative design, 3d analysis, and manual techniques. The final geometry explored a possible vault connection while working with the 20’ rod length constraint through selective pairing of column members to minimize material waste.
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Vault Precedents
Rod Bending And Assembly
Fabrication And Load Testing
Cell Modification To Increase Weld Points
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Steel rod pairing for efficient rod bending
Vault composition through column coupling
Initial load tests were performed using the 4’ column prototype. While the column proved to be structurally sound, concerns were raised about its structural integrity in a full scale mock-up. In order to make the column sturdier, the geometry was adapted from a diamond cell to a hex cell, increasing the number of weld points between rods. As a result the final geometry achieves the spans of a vault , while featuring a unique honeycomb aesthetic.
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MAKING MOTT HAVEN BRONX CO.LAB Location: The Bronx, NY Professor: Roy Strikland
Bronx Co.Lab is situated in the neighborhood of Mott Haven in the Bronx,New York. The project aims to re-enforce ties between Mott Haven and Lincoln Hospital, which flanks the neighborhood on the west, by creating a new health corridor along 148th St. starting at Lincoln Hospital and terminating at St. Mary’s Park. Beginning with the introduction of bike lanes that connect the corridor with a new culinary school and a medical office building implemented as part of a neihborhood improvement strategy, conversations about health and healthy living come the the forefront in an area that faces its share of health issues. Situated next to the 149th St. transit hub, Co.Lab leverages the pedestrian activity generated by the commercially oriented 149th street and the new health corridor to envision a mixed use biotech incubatior and jobs campus.
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Exploded Axon
Health Club Facilities
Biotech Canopy Structure
Vertical Circulation
Biotech Facilities
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At street level, Co.Lab is composed of shared biotech clean rooms and supplemented by occupational training facilities and event spaces. These spaces allow the building and its occupants to interact with the neighborhood, creating a sense of community and opening up new work opportunities for residents. As the building transitions from base to tower, the program shifts from work spaces to market rate apartments. This transition is eased through the strategic introduction of double height health club facilities throughout the tower, creating a continuous theme of health through the project. PAGE 22
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CLANDESTINE CANYON Location: Cleveland, OH Professors: Mclain Clutter, Maria Arquero
Clandestine Canyon examines the combination of federal and city economic policies that have incentivized private investment within Cleveland, Ohio. The project proposes an infrastructural extension to the Foreign Trade Zone Program to produce a linear territory of offices along the city’s rail network, combining the neoliberal intentions of the Foreign Trade Zone Program with the postindustrial territories produced by similar city policies, and critiquing these policies through an amplification of their logics. The project generates a dialogue about the erosion of the city by private interests under the pretext of public-private partnerships.
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The scheme begins by identifying existing Foreign Trade Zones within Cleveland. When connected by the city’s existing freight lines, these deregulated islands of trade comprise an extra-legal territory that exists in a state of exception from the rest of Cleveland. This extended zone provides the best opportunities to address and accelerate the neoliberal project. The easements of the freight lines are parceled and redeployed as a new infrastructure governed by profit per floor area. Each one hundred foot parcel is allowed to drastically exceed the allowed floor area ratios of adjacent neighborhoods, while egress and services are organized along a linear wall to separate the newly deregulated area from its context.
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Meanwhile, prefabricated floor systems allow tenants to customize each tower to accommodate their varied clandestine ambitions. Thus the project incentivizes the production of an aggregation of towers with a highly activated interior while severing ties to the city around it. As the infrastructure grows, the towers run into Cleveland’s street grid, producing moments of tension as public and private interests vie for control over these liminal turfs. The infrastructure of towers becomes an icon of Cleveland’s post-industrial folly, thriving at the expense of the city. PAGE 29
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DRAWINGS
MIXED MEDIA The Urban Frame
PIERCE COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES MILL|HULL ARCHITECTS Construction Technology
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MODELS
KNOT - 3D PRINT Knots Of The Middle West
ART GALLERY - INT MODEL Sustainable Systems
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