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George faber UNDERGRADUATE portfolio B.S. Architecture 2012 3
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SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SUMMER STUDIO 2011
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
lightbox, 2009
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
SEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE Y AUGUST 26TH MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
STAIR PROJECT, 2009 musical instrument, 2009
DAAP AND ALLEGORI PRESENT...
A MUSEUM FOR OVER-THE-RHINE
WHO: ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR DESIGN WHAT: 3RD+4TH YEAR PROJECTS WHEN: FRIDAY AUGUST 26TH WHERE: 1421 MAIN STREET, 6PM-9PM
poster design, 2011
Table of contents
projects : NORTHSIDE LIVING LOCAL FESTIVAL page 7
EMERGENCY RELIEF HOUSING page 17
POP UP PAVILION page 27
CENTER FOR LITERARY STUDIES page 35
TECTONIC STUDY MODEL page 45
resume page 51
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CAN A HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD BREATHE NEW LIFE?
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Living Local Festival
NORTHSIDE LIVING LOCAL FESTIVAL Winter Studio 2010 | 10 weeks Team credit: Michael Rogovin, Anastasia Carrier, Lauren Whitehurst
Project: In a team of four students* we were assigned to design and program a festival to be placed in Northside, a community of Cincinnati. We were challenged to design a space that could be used both during the festival weekend as well as have a viable program for the rest of the year. Our solution became a festival that celebrated the tight-nit community that is Northside, named the LIVINGLOCAL festival. The LIVINGLOCAL festival will create a platform for artists, entrepreneurs, businesses, and organizations to spread the existing concept of living locally within Northside through promoting a community wide initiative to think, eat, buy, and live locally.
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LOGO AND BRANDING Part of the festival plan was to design a system of branding that could be easily recognizable, visually appealing, and informative. Six icons were created that stemmed from the various events that were planned to take place during the festival. Each event falls into one of these categorizes and is represented through this graphic icon in both the brochure as well as on buildings/stands/booths that are hosting the events. The result is a colorful display of icons that become scattered across the town during the festival weekend.
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Living Local Festival
Local Food
Discover and support local growers, vendors, food stores, and restaurants.
Local Effort
Come together with your Northside neighbors to green up and beautify Northside.
Local Retail
Support and become familiar with local businesses of Northside.
Local Art
Celebrate Northside’s tradition of the visual arts while creating your own.
Local Music
Enjoy the sounds as musicians, choirs, and bands display their local musical talents.
Local Brews
Drink locally brewed beers and experience Northside’s booming nightlife.
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SITE PLAN By combining the standard American storefront with the European square the main hub of the festival becomes a space for both community engagement and commerce. Previously, the farmers market had been held in the school gymnasium and this plan provides them with a permanent structure. There is also a lack of room for expansion for the local businesses of Northside. The Hamilton St. street fronts provide retail space that is 30% larger than the average existing s.f in Northside. 1. Site Plan During the festival this space is used as the “headquahrters� for all events. Visitors start by collecting maps and schedules at this location before exploring the local culture of Northside. At night the farmers market is converted into a stage area while the center space provides visitors a place to sit and enjoy music. 2. Site Movement Sidewalks around the square allow for circular movement while the green space in the center provides an area for rest. 3. Site Entry The four corners of the site act as access points to the square. The primary entry (south west corner) is situated to allow passing traffic to view inside. 4. Zoning Diagram Programmatically, the site contains a farmers market (select days), grocery store (all days), restaurant, bar, laundromat, and offices for the LivingLocal festival.
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Hamilton Storefronts The Hamilton Street store fronts are a result of talking with citizens of Northside on their biggest needs. The community of Northside is primarily made up of older homes that lack some amenities, for example a washer and dryer. Programmatic elements such as a laundromat, bar, cafe and restaurant were added as a result.
Grocery Store The design for the grocery store came from the need of the community. While one may find putting a grocery store next to a farmers market contradictory, the reality is there is a lack of food stores in Northside. There are no big name grocery stores (Kroger, IGA, etc), but there are small corner stores that are in need of more space.
Farmers Market The current farmers market in Northside takes place in a school gymnasium. Our design provides a permanent farmers market that can be used year round. The market also contains a public seating area on the terraced roof for people to sit and enjoy their food.
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Hamilton storefronts from urban square
East towards farmer’s market
Interior view of farmer’s market 13
Living Local Festival
EAST/WEST SECTION
NORTH/SOUTH SECTION
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HAITI GREEN HOME
EMERGENCY RELIEF HOUSING Fall Co-op 2010 | 4 weeks Team credit: Frederic Schwartz, Saranga Nakhooda, Elias Kastle, Alec Gardner
Project: Competition completed with a team during my time at Frederic Schwartz Architects in New York City. Haiti Green Home was a three phase solution to emergency housing. The homes were to be low budget, and easily produced.
exports (3,231,343 containers)
Imports (7,141,987 containers) US imports/exports across the Pacific Ocean, 2007
Concept America is importing so much merchandise from other countries (such as China) and exporting so little that, based on several studies, shipping containers have become an environmental hazard. Why is this? Well, it’s cheaper to manufacture new shipping containers on the opposite side of the planet than it is to transport them (empty) back to where they originated.
why use shipping containers?
Modern shipping containers are manufactured of heavy-gauge Corten steel and are water-proof, fire resistant, impervious to bugs and built to hold cargo securely on the pitching deck of a ship. They’re designed to be rugged, resilient, and durable to most damage. They provide a shelter that can withstand hurricane force winds and provides the citizens a core that can never be destroyed in the event of another disaster.
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HAITI GREEN HOME
PHASE ONE: SHIPPING CONTAINER The shipping container becomes a solid earthquake proof core to the home. It provides an immediate shelter against the weather as well as give the family a ‘safe house’ to store food and feel protected from crime and theft. Even if another disaster destroys everything, the family is still left with the original shipping container.
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HAITI GREEN HOME
Shipping Container
Local Made Shutters
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HAITI GREEN HOME
PHASE TWO: COMPRESSED EARTH BLOCKS Included inside each shipping container is a “make your own home� kit. Instructions to make compressed earth blocks and bamboo trusses stimulate the community by creating jobs for local Haitians. Water cisterns and a gutter system allow for the reuse and recycling of water for washing and watering local gardens.
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HAITI GREEN HOME
Shipping Container
Local Made Shutters
Bamboo Framing
Grass Thatch Roof
Metal Gutters
Local Made CEB’s
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PHASE THREE: CUSTOMIZATION The idea of using shipping containers for emergency housing is not a new idea. In fact it has been used in many relief housing efforts. The problem in the past was that there was no opportunity to expand. Our solution employs the CEB’s to encourage residents to make their home the way they want and need it. When a family grows and needs another room, an addition can be added fairly simply. Locally made CEB’s provide jobs and ease of new construction.
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HAITI GREEN HOME
Shipping Container
Local Made Shutters
Bamboo Framing
Grass Thatch Roof
Metal Gutters
Local Made CEB’s
hand woven sun shades
solar panels
corrugated metal roof
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Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
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POP UP PAVILION
POP UP PAVILION Summer Elective 2011 | 4 weeks
Project: In 1900, the population of Over-The-Rhine, a nieghborhood of Cincinnati, was close to 44,000, today the population is less than 5,000. The decline of OTR began during the First World War when Anti-German sentiment across the city was at its peak. However, today OTR is a community that is currently undergoing urban rebirth. While efforts are being made, revitalization is a slow process. This project is a temporary solution to the neighborhood by creating a pavilion that can be used for various functions. Programmatically, this pavilion becomes very flexible and adaptable.
LOOK! A GRASSHOPPER SCRIPT.
GRASSHOPPER SCRIPT The form of this pavilion is generated entirely from a single grasshopper script. It is parametrically controlled by a series of sliders that can be adjusted to fit a variety of sites as well as control the form of the roof structure. 27
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X,Y, and Z Sliders The X,Y and Z sliders control the overall dimensions of the pavilion. If you imagine a bound box the sliders correspond to the width, length, and height of the box. These parameters can be determined by the location of the pavilion.
Frequency and Amplitude Sliders The frequency and amplitude sliders control the front and back curves of the lofted roof. Based off of a sin curve, these parameters influence the overall form and complexity of the shape. Where as the previous sliders are predetermined, these sliders are more of an aesthetic option.
X and Y Division Sliders The X and Y divisions sliders control the number of subdivisions that happen on the lofted surface. These directly relate to the number of resulting columns that reach the ground plane. An even numbers of sliders are used to eliminate the possibility of loose ends and a break in the structure.
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THIS IS A 3D PRINT.
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lITERARY CENTER
CENTER FOR LITERARY STUDIES Fall Studio 2009 | 10 weeks
Project: The Center for Literary Studies is a place for advanced studies of reading, writing, and performances. The Center is also a place for a visiting author to work and interact with the public enabling visitors to meet and discuss ideas grounded by a temporary genre in reading and writing. The building challenged visitors to think: In this digital age, what is the importance of a physical space?
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CONCEPT Located a few miles north of downtown Cincinnati, the Ludlow/Gaslight district is home to popular restaurants and an active nightlife. The site, a current parking lot, sits directly between Dewy’s Pizza and Serrvatii’s Bakery. Within walking distance is the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati State. The Literary Center hopes to jump start a new interest in the literary studies and attract a new audience. Through multiple iterations and sketches the project evolved into one that played with themes such as solid versus void and mass versus lightness. An early concept sketch (seen above right) was based on an idea that the building could appear heavy on its upper floors, representing a state of institution, while still providing an inviting, transparent entrance on the ground floor that draws the public in.
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CONCEPT PERSPECTIVE
SKETCHES, SKETCHES, SKETCHES
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South Elevation
North Elevation
Street Elevation As a conscious effort, the space provides a visiting author the accommodations to live for a set amount of time. This live/work environment will be an ongoing experiment where the resident author would give writing workshops and lectures. He/She would become the catalyst to a new movement or particular style. Programmatically the building also contains a central gallery space, individual study “pods�, and a lecture area for 50 people.
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Facade responding to people
Facade Treatment The second level facade is comprised of a louvered system that responds to a series of inputs. During most of the year the louvers are synchronized to respond to the sun angles, allowing more light in during the winter months while shading during the summer months. On certain occasions the facade would respond to the movement of people with in. This engages the exterior with the playful notion of hidden and open views into the building. The activity within the building becomes expressed on the exterior skin.
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Top right: exterior perspective Bottom right: Writer’s quarters Below: Main stair
1/8” Scale Model
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Exterior view
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tECTONIC sTUDY
TECTONIC STUDY MODEL Winter Studio 2010 | 10 weeks
Project: Responding to site and previously existing conditions, we were instructed to create a spacial model that has large, medium, and small zones. Originally without a program, the assignment evolved to become an elementary school where we had to solve problems concerning the scale of people, space for children and spaces for adults.
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3D PRINT + BASSWOOD + ACRYLIC
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resume EMAIL: faberge@mail.uc.edu
GEORGE FABER EDUCATION
PHONE: 847-946-3552
CURRENT: 129 Nixon Street Cincinnati, OH 45220 permanent: 437 N. Comfort Lane Palatine, IL 60067
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
September 2008-Present. School of Architecture and Interior Design, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Class of 2012. Alternating quarters of classroom study with work in the architecture field. GPA: 3.45
Palatine High School Palatine, IL Class of 2008 - GPA:3.8, Top 10% of class EXPERIENCE
Earl Swensson Architects Nashville, TN
March 2011-June 2011. During my time at ESa I completed a variety of projects including master planning, schematic design, design development and construction documents. Primary tasks were in the schematic design/front end design phases and these included helping preparing presentations, and early design work.
Frederic Schwartz Architects New York City, NY
Sept 2010-Dec 2010. Completed various competitions ranging from low income housing for Haiti, a design for a police memorial in Virginia, as well as working with a team on large competition projects with multi-million dollar budgets. Primary jobs included building 3D computer models, final renderings, and working on preliminary design work
Lightroom Studios Decatur, GA
March 2010-June 2010. Completed construction documents and shadowed principle during meetings with clients and contractors. Managed development of two websites and a self published book. Designed logo/print package for a landscaping company.
Habitat For Humanity Lanett, AL
Dec 2009 - 15 days. Built three homes for the community. Worked on siding and soffit work, constructed wooden porch and other general construction. HONORS&ACTIVITIES
SKILLS
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnatus Founders Scholarship. Deans List Fall 2008-Present. Member of dForm (Digital design club), AIAS member (In Process).
Computer:
Revit, Maya, Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Able to work in both Mac and PC. Experienced with 3D printing and laser cutting in the rapid prototyping lab.
Language:
French - 4 years in High School. Spent a month in France during the Summer of 2008.
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