MONTAGE SETTING THE STAGE IN TORONTO, ON ADVISORS Suzanne Charles
THESIS STATEMENT Montage is a transformational mixed-use development at the junction of Toronto’s Downtown and East End neighborhoods. The project is an environmentally sustainable cultural hub that integrates cinema, creative industries, and Toronto’s park system to provide a unique outlet for expression and lifestyle. Montage embraces the future of urban transportation by providing both public transit and a thoughtful street grid that accommodates private vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. It enhances the urban fabric with distinctive plazas, tree-lined streets, and industrial facades, reminiscent of the late 19th century. Akin to a montage clipping together scenes of a film, this development augments the surrounding communities and creative thinkers of Toronto. Montage welcomes all ages, creeds, and ethnicities, and it is a place for collaboration, communication, and innovation. Montage will be developed through a joint venture with ToDon Properties. ToDon will contribute Parcel A and the partnership will acquire Parcels B, C and D through a separate land holding entity. The development entity will acquire the land in three separate closings under one land acquisition agreement, with options for Phase II and III land executed immediately pr ceding their respective groundbreakings
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Montage
CORKTOWN CONNECTION BRIDGE DRONE FLYING OLD EASTERN AVE BRIDGE
FISHING
PADDLE BOARDING
KAYAKING
JOGGING PATH BIKING TRAIL
ICE CREAM STAND
YOGA CLASS
ART WALK
FIRST NATION POW WOW FRISBEE GOLF
SPLASH PAD FAMILY PICNIC
DOG PARK
MOVIES IN THE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN
SUN BATHING
DINING HALL
SPIRIT GARDEN ROCK CLIMBING SOCCER GAME
Phasing Plan (top) First Nations Park (bottom)
DANCE CLASS
Spring 2018
OLD EASTERN AVENUE 9’
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RELIEF LINE SUBWAY
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HOCKEY LEAGUE ICE FISHING SLED FEST
BREAKING OF THE ICE
KID’S SKATE AREA
SKATE-A-THON
SNOWMAN CONTEST
SKATE RENTAL
VIEWING DECK
Neighborhood Streets (top) Seasonal Public Amenities (bottom)
ULI Hines Student Competition
SUNLIGHT PARK ROAD 8’
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STORM WATER
CISTERN
RECYCLE FILTRATION
SUNLIGHT PARK
EAST HARBOR
TORONTO TRIATHALON
OLD EASTERN AVE BRIDGE
BROADVIEW STREET
TRANSIT CONNECTION
GOTRANSIT TORONTO
PADDLE THE DON
GOTRANSIT TORONTO LOCAL ARTIST MURALS FIRST BLOOM FESTIVAL TECH JOB FAIR
CORKTOWN COMMONS RELIEF-LINE SUBWAY STREET CAR STOP
Neighborhood Streets (top) Seasonal Public Amenities (bottom)
Spring 2018
Montage
21st CENTURY CATHEDRAL COMMERCE, CULTURE, CATHOLICISM ADVISORS Henry Richardson John Zissovici
THESIS STATEMENT In the present day United States, the church is going out of business. This thesis questions the Church’s position of selling its air-rights, proposing instead to consolidate its space above St. Patrick’s Cathedral to create a vertical cathedral. Through investigat-ing the church and skyscraper typologies questions of lighting, spirituality, and iconography begin to be explored. The thesis creates a hybrid pilgrimage religious and corporate site within the Mid-town East rezoning district position. The architecture aims to challenge the formal, economic, and spiri-tual qualities of the Catholic Church, commenting on the Church’s spiritual and corporate dynam-ics in regards to its relationship to New York City.
Fall 2018
Manhattan, New York
21st Century Cathedral
1.21 M ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL 650k ST. BARTHOLEMEW
976k WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL
204k RAQUET & TENNIS CLUB
360k LEVER HOUSE 1.3 M GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
432 PARK
LEVER HOUSE
ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL CITI-CORP ST. BARTHOLEMEW SEAGRAMS WADORF ASTORIA
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
CHRYSLER BUILDING
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Midtown East Rezoning
Fall 2018
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BASILICA OF ST. PAULS (4th C.)
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BASILICA CONSTENTINA (312)
ST. PETERS BASILICA (360) BASILICA URSIANA, RAVENNA (410)
6th C
PANTHEON (609)
9th C
ABBEY CHURCH OF SAINTE FOY (866)
BASILICA SAN MARCO (1063)
12th C
BASILICA OF SAINT DENIS (1144)
DUOMO DI FIRENZE (1144)
CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (1211)
15th C
Cologne Cathedral (1248)
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (1345) ST. PETERS BASILICA (1626)
18th C
DUOMO MILANO (1805)
ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL (1879)
21st C
NOTRE DAME DU HAUT RONCHAMP (1955) BAGSVAERD CHURCH (1976)
Catholic Evolution
Thesis
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Fall 2018
Decompose + Recompose
21st Century Cathedral
1.21 M ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL 650k ST. BARTHOLEMEW
976k WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL
204k RAQUET & TENNIS CLUB
360k LEVER HOUSE
1.3 M GRAND CENTRAL STATION
432 PARK
CITI-CORP
SEAGRAMS
WADORF ASTORIA
LEVER HOUSE
CHRYSLER BUILDING ST. BARTHOLEMEW
ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
Midtown Air Rights
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Ground Floor Plan
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Pilgrimmage Route
ARMETURE OF CATASTROPHE BRIDGE OF FANGUITO
ADVISORS Tao Dufour Lior Galili
THESIS STATEMENT Sea level rise due to climate change and natural disasters threaten all along the coast, displacing coastal inhabitation. The island of Cuba has fought against the sea since its colonization, walling its coast to block the erosion and encroachment of water. The water does not care about the wall, it finds its way through during storm surges and hurricanes flooding all in its path. The barrio Fanguito sits in a flood plain on the bank of the Almendares River. The site was quarried during the area’s industrial past, leaving a wall of earth behind that physically separates the low elevation of Fanguito from the rest of Havana. Fanguito periodically floods as the river rises displacing the community. As sea levels continue to rise, Fanguito’s community is poised to be left underwater. In response to this impending displacement, the proposal raises the community on a new armature above the future flood. A bridge network is created connecting Fanguito with its adjacent neighborhoods and housing displaced inhabitants along its path. A new infrastructure replaces Fanguito’s failing system providing a framework for domesticity and future expansion. The project foresees the future catastrophe of rising sea levels and envisions an architecture that does not fight against the water but rather accepts its inevitability and rises above it.
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Fall 2017
Incramental Growth (top) Housing Section (bottom)
Formal / Informal Housing
Plans for Incramental Housing
Fall 2017
Portfolio Information Project information
Havana, Cuba
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RE-CYCLING SPACE RETHINKING THE PARKING GARAGE
ADVISORS Dr. Daniel Lopez-Perez Whitney Moon
THESIS STATEMENT As the demand for dense urban living increases the demand for personal automobile ownership declines, thus rendering the multi-story urban parking garage obsolete. The parking garage’s fate is one of demolition or transformation. This thesis aims to find new uses for existing parking structures within urban centers through adaptive reuse. The programmatic transformation is informed by urban analysis of the surrounding neighborhood and typological analysis of the existing structure. This project investigates a parkade in Downtown San Diego as a site for intervention. The transformed structure aims to act as a catalyst to revitalize an underutilized section of San Diego’s Civic Core. The adaptation of the parking garage serves as an ecological initiative to use sustainable and eco-friendly practices by avoiding complete demolition and rebuild on the existing site.
Sping 2014
EAST VILLAGE
15% ( 8 35’) Columbia Garage
501 W. C Street Linear Straight 1-2
Autopark Public Parking
Core ‘L’
East Village 1105 Imperial Ave.
Circular 12.5% ( 7 10’)
Procopio Tower Parking
Columbia
525 B. Street
Disjunct Core ‘S’ Split Level
Padres Parkade
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440 11th Ave.
Conjunct 8.5% ( 4 50’)
Park It on Market Radial Spoke Marina
614 Market St.
Internal 7-9
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Gaslamp
Perimeter Horton Plaza
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External 6.3% ( 3 35’) Convention Center
Evan V. Jones Parkade 1265 1st Ave. Disjunct
Offset Spiral
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2.5% ( 1 25’) Conjuct Grid Little Italy
Aladdin Airport Parking
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TRANSPORTATION
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CIVIC CENTER
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RESTURANT
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STREET PARKADE
HEALTH SERVICE WORK
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PARKADE CATCHMENT
Downtown San Diego
Sping 2014
First National Bank Center OFFICE 401 West A St San Diego, CA AT&T Building OFFICE 101 West Broadway San Diego, CA Imperial Bank Tower OFFICE 701 B Street San Diego, CA Sempra Energy OFFICE 101 Ash St San Diego, CA Coronado First Bank OFFICE 1370 India St. San Diego, CA Torbati Building OFFICE 625 Broadway San Diego, CA The Westin San Diego HOTEL 400 West Broadway San Diego, CA Manchester Grand Hyatt HOTEL 1 Market Place San Diego, CA The US Grant HOTEL 326 Broadway San Diego, CA El Cortez HOTEL 702 Ash St. San Diego, CA Four Points by Sheraton Hotel 1617 1st Ave San Diego, CA Meridian Condominuims RESIDENTIAL 700 Front Street San Diego, CA Electra RESIDENTIAL 700 West E St San Diego, CA The Grand at Santa Fe RESIDENTIAL 1281 9th Avenue San Diego, CA The Lofts RESIDENTIAL 777 6th Ave. San Diego, CA Camden Lofts RESIDENTIAL 1670 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, CA MTS AutoPark PARKING 1255 Imperial Ave San Diego, CA Padres Parkade PARKING 501 West C St. San Diego, CA Park It on Market PARKING 655 6th Ave. San Diego, CA Columbia Garage PARKING 501 West C St. San Diego, CA State of California OFFICE 1350 Front St. San Diego, CA Envelope Analysis Case Studies
Fenestration Analysis
Programmatic Gradient
Re-Thinking Parking
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
Elevation Studies
Sping 2014
Re-Thinking Parking
Bass Wood 1:100
ROBOTICS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION LAB 3D CONCRETE PRINTING GRADUATE RESEARCH
ADVISORS Sasa Zivkovic Leslie Lok
RESEARCH: R_BC LAB investigates prototypical methods for 3d printing at the building component scale in groundup layered assemblies. The research aims to develop architectural strategies for use in current industrial scale 3d printing processes - the assumption being that the technology will eventually evolve to include multi-material printing, non-layered printing, or printing on site among others. However, rather than further focusing on the technical development of 3d printing technology, this project operates consciously within the status-quo, researching a paradigm-shift that has already occurred but never fully and consequentially been explored architecturally: the 3d printing of buildings with concrete.
8’ Concrete Column
3D Printed Column Gravel interior for structural support
Fall 2016
6’ Column
3D Printed Elements
Bench (top) Study Models (bottom)
RED HOOK LIBRARY URBAN REFUGE CORNELL AAP NYC ADVISOR Marc Tsurmaki
THESIS STATEMENT In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, coastal cities have began to rethink their relationship with water. Red Hook, Brooklyn was severly ooded during Sandy in 2012 along with much of Manhattan. During the ood tall buildings and areas above the raising water levels became safe havens for those trapped by the storm. As sea levels rise and hurricane activity increases due to climate change, architecture must accomodate the changing landscape. The design for the new Red Hook Public Library examines the roll of the library as refuge for the public. The library becomes the connecting feature of the region, being a place for people to gather and learn as well as seek safety in times of disaster.
Spring 2017
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Red Hook Library
Flood waterr levels
Water lines used to create new raised landscape
Physical and visual connections made to NYC, Red Hook Housing, & Local Community Garden
Wrapped exterior to create an interstitial space for gathering and informal meeting.
Design Process
Spring 2017
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Red Hook Library
Located on a ood plain, the Red Hook Library must serve multiple functions. An intellectual space for students and those in the area looking for book and computer resources. A gathering space for the neighborhood bringing together the population in the Red Hook Houses and the new young residents. A refuge for displaced residents, homeless, and those seeking shelter during rising currents. The space includes large public seating on the exterior, an interstitial space as a repreive from natural elements, and an interior space for books, electrionics, and more individual study spaces.
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CORTEN STEEL [FACADE] PERFORATION IN RELATION TO SUN EXPOSURE AND WATER REFLECTION OPTIMIZATION
G.F.R.C. [TUBE FACADE] GLASS FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE EXTERIOR FINISH IN RELATION TO THE CONCRETE LANDSCAPE
IRON [FACADE ARMATURE] IRON ARMATURE STRUCTURE ANCHORED TO PRIMARY STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT CORTEN FACADE
CIRCULATION STAIR + GLASS ELEVATOR
STEEL [PRIMARY STRUCTURE] STEEL I-BEAMS (PRIMARY) WITH STEEL TUBE (SECONDARY) STRUCTURE -PORTAL FRAMES WITH TRUSS FOR CANTILEVER
CONCRETE + PLANTING [LANDSCAPE] EXTRUDED STRATIFIED LANDSCAPE WITH PLANTING TO COINCIDE WITH NATURAL MARSH LANDSCAPE
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AARAU BUS TERMINAL STRUCTURAL MODEL
PARTNER Jamie Mitchell ADVISOR Mark Cruvellier
BRIEF: The Aarau Bus Terminal canopy is the world’s largest air-supported membrane cushion acting as the main entrance for the central public transport hub. Structurally comprised of steel columns connected to steel beams that support the overall form of the canopy and tensions members supporting an inflated cushion membrane. The contrast between the semitransparent surface and the open air intensifies the impression of lightness and the feeling of being out in the open, yet essentially protected from the elements. The built structure now stands as a landmark for Aarau, Switzerland; representing a unique mixture of functional, advanced technology and a play on sensory perception through the use of light and structure. The intent of this project was to investigate structual systems while also honing various methods of model making. By using various materials, true to structure and performace, this model allowed for various discoveries as well as insightful techniques in order to create a compeling and accurate physical model.
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Fall 2016
Methods: Welding, Soldering, Casting, Water Jet Cutting, Metal Work
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