ARCHITECTURE E L L I OT M I S T U R P O R T F O L I O
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housing precendent ANALYSIS RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS case BUILT ECOLOGIES
four SQUARE HOUSE
pedestrian CONTINUITY
stitching THE RIFT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN vertical GREENHOUSE
smithsonian zoo KIOSK
cultural center FALKEN
re-MATERIALIZE DESIGN AND BUILD soundscape BLINDFIELD
WO RK EXPERIENCE
dig-fab 3XN NOMA FOODLAB
Section 1/4”=1’-0”
R E S E A R C H A N D A N A LY S I S - c a s e s t u d y s a n n a s i n g l e f a m i l y h o m e Section 1/4”=1’-0”
SMALL HOUSE KAZUYO SEJIMA JAPAN ELLIOT MISTUR SAUNDERS
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housingprecedentANALYSIS The case study is an analysis of the Small House by Kazuyo Sejima. The house is a single family residence in Japan, built on a small lot. There is a small parking space and yard incorporated into the site. On the back side there is a factory, which the owner works at, so the interior is coordinated to mask any views in that direction to maintain seperation between work and home for the owners. Each floor is a single room, with access solely by the central stair. The bottom level is the
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ELLIOT MISTUR ANDREW SAUNDERS SMALL HOUSE TOKYO KAZUYA SEJIMA
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bedroom and bath, the first (entry level) is the living room, the second is the kitchen, and the top level is an open air patio and full bathroom, each of which is sectionally offset from the floor below creating expanded cantilevered floor space. Making a highly detailed model of bass wood and acrylic was an informative and revealing process, as there is correlation between forming the model in a structural manner and construction strategies for the structure and language of the final building.
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ELLIOT MISTUR ANDREW SAUNDERS SMALL HOUSE TOKYO KAZUYA SEJIMA
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The building is structured by the central stair core, by which the floor plates are cantilevered off, functioning as a spine. There are multiple thin columns around the perimeter of the floor slabs to support facade enclosure and glazing. The offset and differing sizes and proportions of the floor slabs dictate the geometry of the facade skin and also the interior spaces. In this way the structural system and language of light and invisible structure manifests as the spaces for living. The layers of faceted geometry that form the structural system can be unfolded like origami to reveal the program of the vertically organized living spaces, which are programmatically separated and organized by the floor plates, while simultaneously unified and connected the through the structural facade and structured connective center staircase.
R E S E A R C H A N D A N A LY S I S - s o l a r t h e r m a l e n e r g y h o u s i n g
NEW YORK EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC SECTION Pressed Metal Panels solar collection and transport integrated into mullion system
Enclosure glazing pressed metal panels
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Enclosure glazing pressed metal panels
Pressed Metal Panels mullion system
case BUILT ECOLOGIES CASE is a graduate and PHD school and reserach program of built ecologies between RPI school of architecture and SOM, embedded within the wall street office of the premier firm. As an undergraduate we served as research assistants and simultaneously developed this project, working with a trained engineer, as a facade strategy for a housing unit in New York City with integrated solar EAST thermal energy collection, storage, ELLIOT MISTUR and transport. Solar thermal energy is
South Facade B E N J A M I N TAY L O R
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collected through a water mixture with correlated surface area which heats in sunlight. A major problem with such a system is the storage of energy, for when there is little sunwhich usually manifests as massive tanks, while this facade strategy serves to distribute the collection and feed into integrated storage within the architecture, North while simultaneously faceting inFacade order to tune to sun anlges for collection, while also shading the aperatures in the facade, S T E P H E N A N D E N M AT T E N tuned to energy demand.
Collaboration with Stephen Andenmatten, Chris Nobes and Ben Taylor
SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR EFFICIENCIES New York, Staten Island
SOLAR RESOURCE and DEMAND NY
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NEW YORK EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC SECTION Pressed Metal Panels solar collection and transport integrated into mullion system
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PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL SIMULATIONS Simulation #1
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Number of Tubes 36 Volume per Tube .565487 Volume of Tubes 20.357520 Surface Area per Tube 22.635175 1, 4 2, 3 1, 4 2, 3 1, 4 2, 3 1, 4 2, 3
Number of Tubes 36 Volume per Tube .565487 Volume of Tubes 20.357520 Surface Area per Tube 22.635175
Myristic - Stearic Acid - Density - 1710 kg/m^3 | Specific Heat - 1830 J/kgK Sodium Thiosulfate
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Number of Tubes 9 Volume per Tube 2.261947 Volume of Tubes 20.357520 Surface Area per Tube 45.301766
South Facing Facade Integrated Solar Thermal Collection and Distributed PCM storage
Latitude: 30.30°
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATED SOLAR THERMAL
SURFACE AREA [ For Collection ]
NEW YORK INTEGRATED SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEM
South Facade BUNDLING [ For Structure ]
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SOLAR THERMAL ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRATION
Integrated Collection
Multi-Functional Transport
Distributed Storage
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The facade patterning serves systematically to tune according to program and demand for the energy load and demand of the correlated programmatic spaces within the units. The patterning is manifest of the lines of water that are a closed loop for the STH system for energy capture. The lines spread out for collection, condense
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for storage, and for transportation act as a minimal continuation, allowing for the greatest sized aperatures in the enclosure. In order to be activated according to sun angles and effective as an STH system the patterning is not only a 2 dimensional image, but in section protudes and facets, again in correlation with the system and patteren. In this
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way the facade and architecture can be tuned and manifested according to program and the correlated energy demand calculated for the end-user. Rather than transporting energy to massive storage tanks and over calculating the peak demand, thus creating wasted energy and unspecific systems, the end-users needs are front
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loaded in the design considerations. In order for the storage sections of the facade system to efficiently work, phase change materials can be utilized as insulation in the tightly packed areas. Similarly an analysis matrix of incident sun energy on surfaces according to particular proportion, angle, and direction reveals maximum potential.
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Max Wattage - U.S. Deptartment of Energy
Max Wattages of Household Demands DEMAND and COLLECTION
Furnace - Electric
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Air Conditioner - Central
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Television - LCD 36”
MATCHING DEMAND725AND COLLECTION | COLLECTOR EFFICIENCIES 100 133 2,500 5,000 10,000
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATED SOLAR THERMAL
Flat Plate - Sun Earth EC-32
Efficiency Equations from Solar Ratings and Certification Corp. (SRCC)
Max Wattage - U.S. Deptartment of Energy
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Number of Tubes 9.000000 Volume per Tube 2.261947 Volume of Tubes 20.357520 Surface Area per Tube 45.301766 Myristic - Stearic Acid Density - 1710 kg/m^3 | Specific Heat - 1830 J/kgK
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A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - fo u r s q u a re h o u s e
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four SQUARE HOUSE This project is a response to the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2008, endorsed by Rafael Moneo, titled: “Four Square House Design Problem�. It uses structural ribs to define the geometry lengthwise as it rises from street level and cantilevers over shared outdoor greenspace area. At street level the space is utilized as car parking and storage. Moving into each house the spaces become progressively more private, from the
living to the bedroom spaces. The final private spaces are located at the highest area over the green outdoor area, which is shared between the houses, while separated from outsiders. The living, dining, and kitchen area, located below the street level garage, open into the green area. The staggered plan of the four houses allows for light to reach below the cantilevers into the outdoor area, but provides a semi-enclosed functionality.
A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - p e d e s t r i a n co nt i n u i t y
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Key Existing Buildings/sites Key Exisitng Sites Hospital Hospital SportsSports Club
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pedestrian CONTINUITY Pedestrian Urban Continuity is the goal and thesis of developing the new train station for Cordoba Argentina. Cordoba is a central hub to Argentina and very important for the economy, government, and in general an access point of transportation for the rest of the country. The site is located in the city center to control main transportation arteries of the city and is highly accessible by pedestrians. It is also a point of linkage over the river between the center district (downtown area) in the west and the residential area in the east. The station design is predominately formed by pedestrian linkages manifested into bridges and paths providing access for
an otherwise divided city. A hotel located above the concourse, is used to bridge and connect the station. The existing bus station is incorporated with elevated pedestrian linkages re-activating it as part of the station complex. The platforms are located on two different levels at 10 meters below grade and 5 meters above grade with the concourse of the main station is on grade. The platforms form a spine to maintain narrow cross-section for pedestrian access and ventilation. The concourse separates the two sets of stacked platforms. The scheme deploys a fabric roof above the majority of the station to diffuse light, for Cordoba’s hot climate.
A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - s t i tc h i n g t h e r i f t
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stitching THE RIFT This response to Marcati Generali and its corresponding site in its state of disrepair and desertion. It is located at a junction between two separate neighborhoods, both are important to Torino. The river side facilitates many links to key transportation routes into the main and important parts of the city, while the other side consists of a large residential area with ground level commercial areas and a soccer stadium. The two neighborhoods are physically and mentally separate by an extensive dead area of 10 rail tracks between. This rift spans north-south for over a mile, connected only by a road on each end and a pedestrian bridge in the middle. The idea was to connect
the two sides laterally with a network of pedestrian pathways across the site informed by identifying key destination points on the site and connecting them. The plan was then developed by using this web of lines and points and mapping areas for connection, decided through the analysis. A mediatech center program developed through similar analysis and formed in order to bridge between the street level and elevated park pedestrian walkways. This serves as a new destination point for events and ceremonies requiring a cultural center, as a the major place of integration between the new pedestrian park and the existing neighborhoods. Collaboration with Kyle Baumgardner
A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - ve r t i ca l g re e n h o u s e
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transaction modelBased “Add cs01, pointseries_boatparabola” { feature point01 Bentley.GC.Point { CoordinateSystem = cs01; XTranslation = (Pow(Series(0,(Sqrt((Distance(cs01,cs02))*6)), ((Sqrt((Distance(cs01,cs02))*6))/GVHeight)), 2))/6; YTranslation = 0; ZTranslation = Series(0,GVHeight,1); } } Gradient Response to Sun
Aperature Component at 30%
Gradient Response to Water
The component is inspired by shark skin, which reduces friction for speed. The application allows the facade to be hydrodynamic and stable in flooding. The ridges provide structure, the fins shading and protection, and the open areas (glazing) sunlight. This aperture system is controlled by the gradient and GLOBAL logic.
Aperature Component at 55%
Aperature Component at 85%
vertical GREENHOUSE This multi-level greenhouse along the banks of the Tiber River in the Historical center of Rome sits along 30 foot walls and walkway along the river (built to stop flooding), which are typically vacant and lifeless. A Greenhouse Learning Center program was proposed to revitalize the river banks, intervening in the only free space in Rome’s dense urban fabric. The program promotes a hands-on education about agriculture and sustainability while providing plants and vegetables for the markets of Rome. The logic and geometry of the facade system are informed by a logic developed from shark skin and boat hulls at both the local and global scales. They are controlled and strategically manipulated according to theriver’s direction and flow to withstand its force
while optimizing space and the locations of plant rows according to program and sunlight. The interior of the greenhouse consists of tiers stepping down from the city level to the water level. These consist of long rows of plants with integrated ramping circulation to access every area and mediate the vertical space. Behind the plants and circulation tiers are meeting rooms and classroom spaces, with clerestory glazing opening outwards underneath the plant rows. At times the water rises up the height of the river walls, so the design’s response to the water current is important as people occupying the interior will see the water level above the bottom level of the facade. Collaboration with Stephen Andenmatten
vertical GREENHOUSE This Greenhouse learning center is an intelligent parametric response to sustainability education and growth of local produce for the city of Rome. The site is located at an important bridge with major pedestrian routes passing through, although the banks of the river are occupied by vehicle highway passes so the pedestrian route and riverbanks are cut off by the high speed traffic.
Additionally as the river is so separated from the city street life, because of the 30 foot walls, there is very little activity along the banks. The greenhouse serves as a connection and facilitation to mediate the height difference and encourage access to the river, especially through the learning center so that students can become aware of the river and learn about the ecosystems and produce.
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A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - s m i t h s o n i a n zo o l o g i ca l k i o s k
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smithsonian zoo KIOSK
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This collaboration between E/YE Design and Windsor Fiberglass that is aimed at produceing a prototype for an information kiosk at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. The zoo’s existing information kiosks consist of temporary tents, speaking to the need for a parkwide design and implementation of functional, and in some way educationally stimulating kiosks. The strategy employed is to identify and extract information and ideas from systems of organisms that are part of the zoo, in order to inform the design. In short, a Bio-analytic strategy is the thesis. This is to be differentiated from metaphoric Bio-mimicry. We do not want to replicate the appearance of a particular biology, but rather understandand extract
conceptual systems and functions. The main strategy called for the emergence of the components, similar to the shell of a turtle serving a multitude of purposes, for example. The structure of the kiosk forms the shell of the envelope while providing a functional counter and shelves, similar to the integration of a turtle shell and its backbone. From the outset Windsor Fiberglass has been involved in the design process infusing an understanding of the material possibilities of fiberglass and how fabrication processes can further inform the design. To date we have completed one schematic design and I have milled a variety of prototypical molds to test fiberglass layup over specific geometries.
Collaboration with Windsor Fiberglass, E/YE Design, and Smithsonian
A N A LYS I S A N D D E S I G N - cu l t u ra l ce nte r fa l ke n
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cultural center FALKEN This “cultural building for art and movement” is located at a highly trafficked site in the Revykvarter neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark, a theater and entertainment district. The KU.BE competition for this site called for entrees “to not only be architectural designs, but inventions of what defines the future of cultural activity and what motion is in the context of activating a dynamic city life”. The spaces consist of performance and dance studios, and supporting offices and gym facilities, making it a daily destination as well as place for special events. The program emerges as a fluid transition and integrated extension of the landscape evolving into program spaces that absorb the local activity, thus performing and the functioning as an urbanscape. The
directionality of the urbanscape used to develop the global resolution of the building and draw the local urban activity in is physically manifested in the texture of the concrete (applied through its casting framework). The overall building and site reads as one continuous landscape, which also informs the flow of site water and planted landscape that merges into the texture of the urbanscape, which serves to dissolve the boundaries and thresholds of a normative building. The project’s concepts are carried from the drawings sets to the forms, spaces, and to the physical material studies. The building is landscape and the landscape is building, with fluid encapturing of courtyard within the form. In collaboration with Marissa Fabrizio
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cultural center FALKEN The program emerges as a fluid transition and integrated extension of the landscape evolving into the program spaces by absorbing the local activity, thus performing and functioning as an urbanscape. The materials change to wood in the programmatic spaces, while the circulation remains concrete similar
to the exterior in order to continue the urbanscape, so that the overall building and site reads as one continuous landscape while the performance of specific program spaces creates a materiality and directionality shift. The various sectional conditions of the urbanscape dissolves the boundaries
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re-MATERIALIZE This collaborative group study was to explore and learn the inherent material behaviors of plastic water bottles and reutilize them by employing their inherent performance properties to form an inhabitable full scale piece. The finished work was one of the selected “GARBAGE PROJECTS” featured in the exhibition “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Architecture So Different, So Appealing? Recent Work by Faculty and Students, School of Architecture, Rensselaer”. Comprised solely of 3,000 plastic bottles, no introduced material was used, meaning no agents such as
glue or strategies such as melting were applied, but a system of connections was employed using the bottlesthemselves, with only a cubic frame to support the weight of the whole design. The field of spiral chains consisted of the top third of Aquafina water bottles, which stacked and connected to each other through a slot and anchor system. As all were connected they inherently spiraled as a system, and were arranged so that people could walk between them, but would have to brush against them.order to fit, which caused them all to slightly shake and shimmer. Collaboration with a group of five more RPI students
D E S I G N A N D B U I L D - s o u n d s ca p e b l i n d f i e l d
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soundscape BLINDFIELD A [Fully Drilled Holes] B [Fully Drilled Holes]
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This 32-channel architectural audio environment was a collaboration between Amsterdam based sound artist Francisco Lopez, Michael Oatman, 10 architecture students, and 6 arts students. PIP (Production Installation Performance), is supported by the Chris and Marcia Jaffe Foundation. Collaborating with professionals, fabricating, and building the performance exhibition in EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) were extraordinary experiences. Designing for the black box venue of EMPAC and having a budget to work with allowed for extensive sound and physical testing, and the ability to adapt to requirements from the curators. Access to the digital fabrication shop enabled us
to make all of the pieces necessary for the designed performance. The semester also focused on understanding what could be built within our budget and schedule, and for the piece to not only work with our concept, but enforce and strengthen it. The scheme explores and attempts to employ the ephemerality of light and sound to inspire the sound performance of Francisco Lopez, seeking to broaden the experience spatially and visually. He typically sets up the audience blindfolded in concentric circles so that they focus on sound alone and experience it spatially. Our challenge was to take his ideas to another level and in a sense, work with them in an architectural manner, through space and time.
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Audio Panels [32]
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soundscape BLINDFIELD The suspended scrim panels consist of two wooden boxes (top and bottom) with 3 foot wide by 10 foot tall fabric strips. Thirty-two of the boxes are embedded with sound transducers rendering the box itself as a sound emitter, and each is integrated with led lights. The boxes were fabricated with a CNC mill to
create 100 identical panels that precisely hold the LED’s, batteries, wires, and transducers. The field of repeated units masked the configuration of the space, as the individual panels disappeared yet correographed the experience of the soundscape, which was “disorienting, captivating, and powerful”.
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Bottom Panel Axonometric Explosion
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WO R K E X PE R I E N C E - n o m a fo o d l a b
S U M M E R 2 011 - E L L I OT M I S T U R
noma FOODLAB NOMA is the running two time “best resturant in the world� and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark where 3xn was commissioned for a new expanded foodlab and back of house publicity space. As part of Gxn (3xn’s research and development department) we developed this design build project in three months. The process for the new Foodlab was developed similar to the way Noma serves as a stage for experimental cuisine, the parametric approach to designing and building the new Foodlab was an architectural experiment in digital-fabrication techniques. In both cases the experiment serves as functional practice and exercise for growth in technique and knowledge. Budget, a workable construction schedule, and
completion date provided important logistical constraints that informed the design-build project. They gave limits to the algorithmic variables of the parametric system that informed the development in the system relative to the specific constraints of the project and controlled the production of drawings and manufacture of components. By these means the variably controlled system of design, development, and construction was not only tied to traditional and necessary architectural detailing and development, but also to the specific requirements of each of the five programmatic locations and functions, and their shared logistical constraints as a total construction system. Work for 3xn and NOMA
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Projekt40008 nr. | Projekt Nordic navn |Food Lab 3.0
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noma FOODLAB Every detail was modeled parametrically according to the design, but also 2d drawings of each piece with correlating cut-lines ready for CNC milling were fluidly output by the parametric definition. In the same way that the parametric definition modeled the geometries we defined through control of variables and three surfaces, it simultaneously calculated the geometry of the pieces and set them for sequential cutting with unique labels. The finished product resulted in 1700 unique pieces (with over 2500 total). In order to minimize manual labor and construction mistakes the pieces were cut to fit together
with joints that did not require glue and relied on hidden screws only as a back-up. Extensive effort and time was spent mocking up test joint details and assemblies in order to tune the digital model, incorporating all of the detailing and joints developed that performed structurally, visually, and in the construction process. This meant that unlike conventional construction processes the physical assembly of the digitally pre-fabricated and tagged components relied not on drawings, but the components themselves acting as the construction blueprints for ease of construction.