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Creative Practice Continual Collective Construction Big Space, Little Space Dry Stacked Corbelled Structures Generative Spatial Processes: An Architectural Design Workbook He, She & It A Park Tipico Coffee (Cafe Fargo) Continual Construction (Leroy Ave) Selective Insulation, Big House, Little House Family of Forms MirrorMirror Winnipeg Sun Stack! II Curtain Spolia Selective Insulation, Auchinvole Continual House Free Zoning Modifications Stack! Four Seasons Thermometric House Thumbprint Pooldeck Trigger Points Found Space Tiles Selective Insulation Public Heat II Public Heat

Professional Practice prior to Working Independently Notting Hill Gate Tate Modern Extension SĂźdwestmetall Reutlingen

Teaching Generous Architecture, Glass Generous Architecture, 2nd Year Design Studio Serverfarming Stack! Generative Spatial Processes Generous Architecture, Continual House Generous Architecture, The Exquisite Corpse Generous Architecture

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Continual Collective Construction Stop Motion Film, Contribution to the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale Category: Unstable architecture Date: October 2016 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal Status: Ongoing

2016 „Continual Collective Construction,“ Fourth Lisbon Architecture Triennale, www.trienaldelisboa.com/theformofform/en/ projectos_associados/continual-collective-construction-2/

2016 Gagnon, Lisa „Davidson and Rafailidis Stop-Motion Project See also: Free Zoning, Continual House, Continual Selected for Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016,“ School of Construction Leroy Ave, 11.1 Teaching Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Architecture and Planning, http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/2016/ Continual Construction, Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite lisbon_triennale.html Corpse ________________________________________________ 7 Grants, funding 7.2 Internal 2016 UUP Individual Development Awards Program University at Buffalo Role: Grant Awardee Grant Amount: $900 8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions 2016 André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes (curators), „The Form of Form: Fourth Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016“ Campo de Santa Clara, Lisboa, Portugal. October 6 - December 11. 14 participants selected from 73 entries from 10 countries. Jury: André Tavares (jornalarquitectos), Ivo Martins, Diogo Seixas Lopes (Barbas Lopes Arquitectos), José Mateus (ARX Portugal) 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.2 Online 2016 Santos, Sabrina, “Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016 Announces 14 Associated Projects,“ Archdaily, 2016. www.archdaily.com/781851/lisbon-architecture-triennialannounces-14-form-of-form-projects 2016 Santos, Sabrina (translated by Isadora Stockins), “Triennale de arquitectura de Lisboa 2016 anuncia 14 proyectos asociados,“ Archdaily (Brazil), www.archdaily.co/co/782668/ triennale-de-arquitectura-de-lisboa-2016-anuncia-14proyectos-asociados 2016 „Participants,“ Fourth Lisbon Architecture Triennale, www. trienaldelisboa.com/theformofform/en/4th-edition/participants/

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This project views architectural form as constantly evolving, never The stop motion animation takes place on an actual vacant lot finished, intricately tied to the spatial needs, desires and whims of that we purchased in 2014. To build something atypically small on this specific lot, we had to present our case to the Zoning Board its users and financial backers. of Appeals at the time that we purchased the land (we were The project, a 3-minute stop-motion animation constructed with approved). As foreigners to the United States, we’ve also had over 1000 original drawings and collages, is strung together with no access to credit until very recently. The project is therefore a hand-written narrative describing how the form of the building a mixture of fact and fiction. The animation projects into the – the subject of the animation – is defined, and evolves over the future, showing how architecture can emerge from a strict set of parameters – very little money, a little plot in a crappy neighboryears. hood, and a few people with different skills who are determined The premise of the project is an offshoot of two previous projects, to make something happen. It’s a modest vision for architecture, in which form reflects a very specific strategy, to build, over time, one called “Continual Construction,” which presented a way of with minimal means. building incrementally over several decades to avoid the need for a mortgage and hefty sums of money paid into interest. The other project, “Free Zoning” imagined a scenario, in a city, where Although the specific story is located in Buffalo, New York, the premise could be imagined in many locations over the world. a derelict strip mall was carefully demolished and the building components were reassembled into a heterogeneous assortment of smaller buildings for a myriad of purposes. In this project narra- The animation will be featured at the Cinema Ideal in Lisbon tive, zoning restrictions are also lifted, giving rise to a wide array Portugal as part of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale. of forms, scales and uses.

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Selection of some early frames showing the first built interventions on the site: a dug-out area for gravel and a small concrete slab, a palette of structural clay tiles and the build-up of a firebox (which begins as a fire pit) for a masonry heater.

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Big Space, Little Space Adaptive Re-use Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2016Location: N/A Budget: $ 80,000 Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Ongoing See also: Thermometric House, Stack! and Teaching Spring 2011/2012 ARC590 Stack! ________________________________________________ ...

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Big Space, Little Space

This project involves the adaptive re-use of a masonry garage built in the 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, tucked away in the middle of a residential block in Buffalo, into a small apartment dwelling and workshop for a couple.

Because of this restriction, one main strategy used in the design is to treat the roof (concealed 12â&#x20AC;? beneath a parapet) as a 5th facade, and insert several skylights and a roof hatch for natural light, ventilation, and access.

The project is related to the Selective Insulation series of work, and uses tactics for handling old buildings employed in the Tipico Coffee project as well.

The project, like the Tipico Coffee space, makes spaces that are seasonally responsive, where inhabitation can retreat into a warm and cozy insulated core in the cold and harsh winters, and can also spread into the generous garden, workshop, and roof deck in the warm seasons. There is no fixed or stationary plan.

The space-within-a-space used for the new dwelling unit is an existing, partitioned area formerly used by a general contractor as his office. The insulated 431 sq ft space sits at the front facade On a tight budget, the main objective of the project is to offer a of the building, with its own dedicated entry door. The rest of the dwelling space within the building that is not sealed-off from the other spaces, but rather, has the opportunity to swell and shrink 1700-sq ft building is used as a workshop and garage. with the seasons or the needs of the occupants. New spatial and Because the building exists in a neighborhood that is strictly regu- infrastructural elements are minimal and inserted with restraint lated and resistant to change, a conditional variance was given to and subtlety, so that the dwelling retains material and spatial continunity with the workshop. use the space as a dwelling, provided that no changes are made to the exterior shell.

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Space areas and proportions (431 sq ft total) (top). Basic space with core (right): -4 skylights -11’ long kitchen counter with undercounter amenities -low (80”) partition wall -full-height space; steel and wood construction visible -single-light wood entry door -steel double-doors to workshop

Inhabitation possibility 2: -bed rotated to take more space and make connection with windows to garden -storage unit on casters acts as room partition, with optional sliding panels to close-off bed area -living room furniture spread from center space into bed space -eating table positioned under skylight, near garden entry door and kitchen -9” deep pantry cupboards flank door (see section a-a), and 9” deep shelving sits between pilasters -this sketch shows an inhabitation option w/o fireplace

Inhabitation possibility 3 (cold weather): -bed positioned in center of space, wood-burning fireplace at foot of bed -storage unit on casters positioned against long wall -living room furniture clustered under skylights -eating table positioned under skylight, near garden entry door and kitchen

Inhabitation possibility 4 (warm weather): -bed oriented with view out to garden -storage unit on casters positioned at head of bed, with access from the back -living room furniture clustered under skylights -eating table positioned under skylight, near garden entry door and kitchen OR outside in garden (see “Summer” drawing with garden)

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Long-lived Structures and Materials: Dry-stacked Corbelled Structures Research Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2016Location: N/A Budget: $ 80,000 Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Ongoing See also: Thermometric House, Stack! and Teaching Spring 2011/2012 ARC590 Stack! ________________________________________________ 7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2016-2017 Sponsor: CEMEX Research Group AG Role: Primary Coordinator Sponsored amount in-kind: $71,800 7.2 Internal 2016-2017 SMART exploratory grant University at Buffalo Role: Primary Investigator Grant Amount: $7,910 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.4 Proceedings 2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “Overhang: Corbelled Structural Systems,“ in Shaping New Knowledges, Proceedings of the 104th ACSA Annual Meeting 2016, 514-521. 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.6 Website “Long-lived Structures and Materials: Investigating Material and Construction Methods for Dry-stacked Corbelled Structural Systems,“ University at Buffalo, March 17, 2016. www.buffalo.edu/sustainablemanufacturingandadvancedro botictechnologies/2016-smart-exploratory.host.html/content/ shared/www/sustainablemanufacturingandadvancedrobotictechnologies/exploratory-projects-2016/2016-SMART-exploratory-dry-stacked.detail.html 10 Public presentation 10.1 Peer reviewed conference presentation 2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “Overhang: Corbelled Structural Systems,“ (104th ACSA Annual Meeting 2016 Shaping New Knowledges, University of Washington, March 17-19).

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Processes of Creating Space: An Architectural Design Workbook Book Category: Generous architecture Date: 2016 Location: N/A Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: Routledge Status: Complete See also: He, She & It and 11.1 Teaching ARC 102 ________________________________________________

Processes of Creating Space: An Architectural Design Workbook

Published by Routledge, 2017 Taken from the publisher‘s website: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138903685 Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind. It explains how to keenly perceive your world and seamlessly integrate architectural representation into your design process. The book uses two main strategies, blending the design process with material processes and media techniques and ‘experiential typologies’ - emphasising first-hand experience of space. Five highly experimental assignments explore the interwoven relationship between design process and design tools, to help you learn when to incorporate writing, architectural photography, macro photography, orthographic projection, perspective projection, handdrawing, CAD, mass modelling, hot wire foam cutting, 3d modelling, multi-part plaster mold making, slip casting, plaster casting, paper casting, monocoque shell structures, working with latex, concrete, twine pulp, full-scale prototyping and more. Illustrated with more than 350 color images, the book

“Processes of Creating Space provides an intelligent and thoughtful manual for students and practitioners alike, combining both the practical and intellectual studies in an exciting and challenging way.” - Rachel Whiteread, Artist, UK “Not to dismiss the quantity and qualities of all the current means to explore and express architecture, Processes of Creating Space privileges re-enacting site specific discoveries and material media experiences to unfold one’s own personal elements of language as a proper foundation to the complexities of today’s architectures and cultures.” - Jacques Rousseau, Architect, Prix de Rome, Montréal, Canada

An eResource containing downloadable essays, stop-motion videos, sample schedules, and supplementary information can be found here: www.routledge.com/9781138903685 Georg Rafailidis and Stephanie Davidson are faculty at the School of Architecture and Planning, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. They taught previously at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Both practice architecture as Davidson Rafailidis.

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Table of Contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Introduction 1.1 Generating/Forming/Rethinking Space 2. Methodology 2.1 Perception 2.2 Control and Chance 2.3 Material Processes 3. Manual of Spatial Processes 3.1 Experiential Assessment of Space 3.2 Survey of Space 3.3 Solid-void Inversion of Space 3.4 Inhabitation and Space 3.5 Structure and Space 4. Manual of Techniques 4.1 Taking Photos of Spaces 4.2 Hot Wire Foam Cutting 4.3 Orthographic Projection and Multi-View Drawings 4.4 Multi-Part Rigid Mold Making 4.5 Slip Casting 4.6 Perspectival Projection - One-Point Perspective Drawing 4.7 Paper Casting to make a Monocoque 4.8 Taking Photos of Scale Models 4.9 Working with Concrete 4.10 Working with Latex 4.11 Planar Structures Glossary of Technical Terms and Materials. Bibliography. Index

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Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind. It explains how to keenly perceive your world and seamlessly integrate architectural representation into your design process. The book uses two main strategies, blending the design process with material processes and media techniques and “experiential typologies” - emphasising first-hand experience of space. Five highly experimental assignments explore the interwoven relationship between design process and design tools, to help you learn when to incorporate writing, architectural photography, macro photography, orthographic projection, perspective projection, hand-drawing, CAD, mass modelling, hot wire foam cutting, 3D modelling, multi-part plaster mold making, slip casting, plaster casting, paper casting, monocoque shell structures, working with latex, concrete, twine pulp, full-scale prototyping and more. Illustrated with more than 350 color images, the book also includes a section on material fabrication techniques and a glossary of technical terms.

Processes of creating sPace

“Designing in the first place is thinking and a matter of organizing your creative powers. This book by all means will be helpful in this respect.” - Herman Hertzberger, Architect and Professor Emeritus, the Netherlands

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Introduction to the fourth of five main design exercises in Manual of Spatial Processes in Processes of Creating Space (p.51, digital proof). Other exercises include: 3.1 Experiential Assessment of Space, 3.2 Survey of Space, 3.3 Solid-Void Inversion of Space and 3.5 Structure and Space

He, She & It New Construction Category: Generous architecture Date: 2016 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $ 150,000 Area: 1,400 sqft Client: Private Status: Built See also: Thermometric House, Selective Insulation, Big house Little house, Winnipeg Sun and 11.1 Teaching Fall 2010 ARC605/7 Generous Architecture

forthcoming Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Generous Architecture,“ in Práctica Arquitectónica III, Architectural Practice III ed. Miguel Guitart and Daniel Gimeno (Buenos Aires: Editorial Nobuko, 2016) 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.1 Book chapter

Kloppenburg, Joanna, “He, She & It,“ in A+ Awards 2016, ________________________________________________ (London: Phaidon, 2016), 192-193. 6 Awards and honors

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2016 Winner 4th Architizer A+ Award Open international architecture award Organizer: Architizer

Reich, Katja, „Künstleratelier in Buffalo, USA.“ in DETAIL Magazine, July/August 2016, 474-476.

2016 Award of Merit, AZ Awards Open international architecture and design award Organizer: Azure Magazine 2016 Honorable mention International Design Awards IDA 15 Open international architecture and design award Organizer: Farmani Group 2016 Nominated DETAIL Prize 2016 Open international architecture award Organizer: DETAIL Magazine 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.6 Online 2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “He, She & It,“ divisare. http://divisare.com/ projects/319329-davidson-rafailidis-florian-holzherr-he-she-it 2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “He, She & It by Davidson Rafailidis,“ gooood, accessed July 12, 2016.

9.3.5 Online journal and newspaper 2016 „Objekt + Produkt: Künstleratelier in Buffalo,“ DETAIL, accessed July 19, 2016. 2016 „davidson rafailidis,“ Afasia archzine, accessed July 12, 2016. 2016 „Davidson Rafailidis,“ Architags, accessed July 12, 2016.

2016 Anna, Izabela, „Davidson Rafailidis makes space for affectionate functionality,“ MARK magazine, accessed May 20, 2016. 2016 Jung, Sophie, „Aktiv unterm Pultdach / Künstleratelier in Buffalo,“ Baunetz, accessed May 20, 2016. 9.3.7 Blog Carbone, Davide, “He, She & It in Buffalo, NY,“ Gessato Blog, comment posted April 29, 2016, accessed July 12, 2016. „Davidson Rafailidis,“ Subtilitas, May 11, 2016, accessed May 20, 2016. 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.1 Print

2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “He, She & It,“ domus, accessed March 30, “Awards of Merit,“ in Azure Magazine, July/August 2016, 97. 2016. 9.4.2 Online 9.2 Authored, invited 9.2.1 Book chapter 2016

„Divisare Journal 92,“ divisare, http://divisare.com/journals/92 2016 „Isometric. Oblique Drawing,“ divisare, http://divisare.com/ isometric-desire-of-abstraction 2016 „Art studios and workshops,“ divisare, http://divisare.com/ art-studios-and-workshops 2016 „Window Frames,“ divisare, https://divisare.com/windowframes 2016 „American Houses,“ divisare, http://divisare.com/americanhouses

He, She & It He, She and It is a collection of three different buildings for three different spatial needs, collaged into one structure. The 1400 sq ft building houses a work space for a painter, a ceramist/silversmith, and a greenhouse. Each space offers an atmosphere which differs radically from the others. The distinct atmospheres of the spaces reflect not only their respective uses, but also, the predilections of the clients. He is a painter. His studio is a white box. There are no window in his work space; it is exclusively top-lit, offering even and indirect, natural light, and maximizing the wall surface area for painting. She is a ceramist and a silversmith. Her work space has a dedicated area for the messy, wet ceramic work and the delicate jewelry-making. Her space offers large windows with generous views and dramatic lighting, ranging from dimly-lit areas to very bright desk areas. Her studio is lined entirely with soft, soaped, maple, preserving its intense, raw wood smell.

It (they) consists of seedlings in spring and plants in winter – clients with a very simple wish for maximum light and year-round above-freezing temperatures. The polycarbonate shell is translucent, offering a zone of almost-outdoor space to the two other work spaces, without any direct views. The spaces are grouped to form a cluster of three monopitched sheds. At the wall surfaces where these distinct sheds connect, the walls are completely removed up to a height of 6’8”. The remaining ridge wall segments above act as structural trusses to span the openings freely, making the structure seem to hover over the open ground floor. Whereas He, She and It appear as independent, materially distinct volumes, structurally and climatically they depend on one another. Folding-sliding doors enable the users to either divide the space into three rooms, or open the plan entirely.

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Pathway along side of the painter‘s studio („He“), plywood treated with pigmented pine tar, exaggerated overhang with gutter directing water into one of two rain gardens.

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Image showing loft for jewelry making. Operable window shown offers filtered views through greenhouse, and can be used for venting year-round.

View from polycarbonate shed (“It”) into painting and ceramic studios; the roof structure appears to float because of the long, column-free spans (left). Evening view from polycarbonate shed into ceramics (“She”) studio and loft window (right).

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A Park Invited Architectural Competition Category: Generous Architecture Date: 2015 Location: Peterborough, NH Budget: N/A Area: 31,000 sqft Client:MacDowel Colony Status: Complete See also: Tipico Coffee, Public Heat, Trigger Points, Thermometric House and 11.1 Teaching Generous Architecture ________________________________________________

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The parking lot is part of the park. There is no visual differentiation between parking and park. Porous paver mats cover an area of the site that accommodates sixty cars. Parking spaces angled at 45-degrees and a one-way loop compress the lot slightly compared to the existing lot form, and pull it away from the riverside edge. Trees and water bio-retention cells are planted in pockets down the center of the lot, and around the edges to assist in managing the rainwater, which is already decreased by the use of paver mats. Precedents for green parking exist in regions with a similar climate in the United States. Like its precedents, this lot might be eligible for EPA sponsorship. Snowplows can clear the lot normally after raising their blades 1 in.

This design competition, in our view, points to a conflict on the site behind GAR Hall. In the current proposal, the parking lot and the park space are in conflict. Both are prominent figures capable of defining the character of the site. If the development moves forward as drawn, the parking lot will be the strongest character on the site. Despite the stunning riverside setting, the large bituminous area will characterize the site and the periphery of green, the left-overs, will be used as a park. While the competition brief has asked us to “create a sense of separation between the parking lot and green space on the waterfront,” we’ve developed a proposal that gets rid of the conflict between the parking lot and the park. Our proposal defines the entire site as a park. The parking lot plays by the park’s rules. And the character of the site isn’t split. A park

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The entire site is a park. It is public, open, green space. All elements in the park are designed to enhance the enjoyment of the public, open, green space. There are no hard surfaces, no curbs, no edges. The ecosystem of the riverside remains untouched and undeveloped. The park growth is native and low-maintenance, consisting of existing and new trees, meadow and clover grasses, and wildflowers. The park, like other parks, accommodates countless types of activities throughout the seasons. It is a large park, a companion to the Depot Square green space just across the Nubanusuit Brook.

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parking integrated on site Empty parking lots are depressing. Parking spots that are not used in our parking lot simply turn into the park. There is no fixed separation between parking lot but rather a constantly changing border between parking and park depending on the amount of cars and the activities planned. The parking lot can be staked smaller so that large events can take place like markets, concerts, sports, sunbathing or picnics.

A timber box truss bridge connects pedestrians to Depot park from the new GAR public park space. Trails are defined using porous paver mats, avoiding the delineation of any strict trail or route with hardscaping. Like parking lots, trails, while addressing a need, can very easily cut-up green spaces into small and seemingly superfluous patches. Using porous paver mats both defines the pathways and creates a continuity of green growth over the site. 5-ft wide pathways expand into public patio spaces of 20 x 20 ft and 10 x 10 ft at different points along the trail. Sawtooth-canopy pavilions connect to the riverside trail at two points, and low-pressure sodium lighting - engineered to have minimal environmental impact - is dotted along the pathway.

A public heat source is offered to visitors to GAR park. Building on our knowledge about, and experience with, masonry heaters, we’ve designed a series of rocks cast with refractory concrete, which contain a flue channel for exhaust smoke. With just one wood-fueled fire, the refractory rocks could absorb enough heat from the exhaust to radiate for 12-24 hours. This ancient form of heating, known as a kang in China, a kachelofen in Germany and Austria, and an ondol in Korea, is low-tech and efficient, though uncommon in the United States. The formation of the heating/seating is done intentionally to speak to the un-designed, natural context. Image: large scale masonry heater in Buffalo, NY.

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Cafe Fargo (Tipico Coffee) Adaptive Reuse Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2014 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $ 140,000 Area: 1,530 sqft Client: Jergo LLC Status: Built

2015 Rafailidis, Georg, “Cafe Fargo / Davidson Rafailidis Architecture,“ Archisearch. www.archisearch.gr/article/1682/ cafe-fargo---davidson-rafailidis-architecture.htm 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.2 Journal

See also: Thermometric House, Selective Insulation, Trigger Points, Public Heat, A Park and 11.1 Teaching Generous Bresan, Uwe, „Cafe Fargo in Buffalo.“ in AIT (Architecture, Architecture Interior, Technology) Magazine, June 2016, 474-475. ________________________________________________ Magarrey, Paige, “Room Temperature, Innovative systems 6 Awards and honors and HVAC alternatives for energy-efficient climate control.“ in Azure magazine, September 2015, 105. 2015 Winner Hildner, Claudia, “Klimawandel.“ in db Deutsche Bauzeitung, 18th Best of Canada Design Award July-August 2015, 127. Canadian design award Organizer: Canadian Interiors Kühnlein, Andreas, “Sitzheizung im Vorgarten.“ in AD Architectural Digest Germany, June 2015, 109. 2015 Honorable mention 9.3.5 Online journal and newspaper (selection) International Design Awards IDA 14 Open international architecture and design award 2016 Organizer: Farmani Group Alexus, Paige, „A Historic Masonry Stove Becomes the Hidden Gem of a New Cafe,“ dwell. https://hello.dwell.com/ 7 Grants, funding article/a-historic-masonry-stove-becomes-the-hidden-gem-of7.1 Grants, funding, external a-new-cafe-7e399799 2012 Sponsor: Jergo LLC Buffalo, NY Role: Primary Coordinator Sponsored Amount: $3,400

2015 Schiller, Ben, “This Amazing Stove Heats A Whole Cafe With Just 6 Logs A Day,“ Fastcompany. www.fastcoexist. com/3043593/this-amazing-stove-heats-a-whole-cafe-withjust-6-logs-a-day

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2015 Bentley, Chris, “Just six Logs Keep this Cafe warm and cozy in Buffalo, NY,“ Architect‘s Newspaper. blog.archpaper. com/2015/03/just-six-logs-keep-cafe-warm-buffalo-new-york/

2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “Cafe Fargo,“ in Between the Autonomous and Contingent Object, 2015 ACSA Fall Conference Paper Proceedings. 9.1.6 Online platform (selection) 2015 Rafailidis, Georg, “Cafe Fargo,“ Archdaily selected works. www.archdaily.com/601899/cafe-fargo-davidson-rafailidis/

2015 Tielman, Maxwell, “Buffalo‘s Cafe Fargo,“ Design Sponge. www.designsponge.com/2015/03/buffalos-cafe-fargo.html 2015 Prieto, Nuria, “Cafe Fargo,“ Tectonica. www.tectonicablog. com/?p=89880 2015 Robarts, Stu, “Horizontal chimney flue heats café and customers‘ backsides,“ Gizmag. www.gizmag.com/buffalocafe-masonry-heater-horizontal-flue/36564/

2015 Rafailidis, Georg, “davidson rafailidis architects convert corner store into café fargo,“ designboom. www.designboom. 2015 com/architecture/davidson-rafailidis-architects-cafeHughes, Dana Tomić, “Cafe Fargo by Davidson Rafailidis // fargo-02-19-2015/ Buffalo, NY.“ Yellowtrace. www.yellowtrace.com.au/cafe-fargo-bydavidson-rafailidis

9.3.7 Blog Nussbaumer, Newell, “Tipico recognized by Dwell,“ Buffalo Rising, comment posted July 11, 2016. www.buffalorising. com/2016/07/tipico-recognized-by-dwell/ 9.3.8 Other media Baglini, Andrew, “New design keeps cafe warm in the Winter, with minimal energy.“ WIVB News, March 27, 2015, TV. 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.1 Print Totzke, Michael, “Cafe Fargo.“ in Canadian Interiors, September/October 2015, 41. 9.4.2 Online 2016 „Coffee shops,“ divisare. https://divisare.com/publications/ coffee-shops?page=2 2016 Siegel, Ben, “New Crop of Buffalo Coffee Shops Ups the Bar for Quality,“ The Buffalo News. http://buffalo.com/2016/02/18/ featured/new-crop-of-buffalo-coffee-shops-ups-the-bar-forquality/ 10 Public presentation 10.1 Peer reviewed conference presentation Rafailidis, Georg, “Cafe Fargo,“ (2015 ACSA Fall Conference Between the Autonomous and Contingent Object, Syracuse University, October 8-10, 2015).

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The masonry heater for this project is made with an unprecedented, experimental material assembly, and has the longest horizontal flue known in North America. Research and preliminary design for the heater was done over two years in collaboration with a local mason.

Existing condition after some preliminary clean-up.

After the fieldstone and medina stone foundation wall was cleaned and pointed, and the brick wall was clean and sanded, rigid panels of calcium silicate insulation was installed under the bed of the flue.

Refractory masonry was cast on site within the exterior shell constructed with precast The flue loop is seen here exposed; hot exhaust exits the firebox, billows around the refractory masonry slabs. corner and is drawn out at the back of the tower, up through the chimney.

Fresh air intake, necessary to fuel the wood fire, is drawn in through a ss pipe, from the roof.

The firebox is constructed with two layers of refractory masonry slabs because of the high temperatures reached by the fire. The damper, pre-installation, is visible on the right.

The base assembly complete, before cladding.

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The adjustable-height tables in the cafe space were de able to negotiate the three different heights of seating space offers in a consistent and comfortable way. Seat provided on the 15’-long bench of the masonry heate than standard chair height), on standard chairs, and o window sill benches along the perimeter of the space standard chair height). The tables function like a pian top can be spun to either raise or lower the height. Th can be tightened downwards, against a metal collar ar threaded rod, to fix the table at a specific height. The unlike a table with four legs, is a stable structrural fram sit on an uneven surface.

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Continual Construction (Leroy Ave) Stop Motion Film, Contribution to the 24th Biennial of Design Ljubljana Category: Unstable Architecture Date: 2014 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $ 150,000 over 25 years Area: 70 - 2,000 sqft Client: Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana Status: Complete See also: Free Zoning, Continual House, Continous Collective Construction, 11.1 Teaching Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Continual Construction ________________________________________________ 8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions 2014 BIO50: 24th Biennial of Design Curated by Jan Boelen Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana, Slovenia September 18 - December 7 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.5 Catalogue Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Continual Construction,“ in Designing Everyday Life: BIO 50, exhibition catalogue, September 18 - December 28 2014, Ljubljana, 102-103. 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.6 Website 2015 “Continual Construction,“ Museum of Architecture and Design MAO. www.bio.si/en/themes/affordable-living/post/476/ continual-construction/ 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.2 Online 2014 Schouwenberg, Louise “Design fairs fail to represent what is going on in the rest of the world,“ Dezeen. www.dezeen. com/2014/10/09/louise-schouwenberg-opinion-bio-50-socialfuture-design-fairs/

Continual House II BIO 50, Slovenian Design Biennale 2014 Juried Exhibition Continual House II was commissioned for the Slovenian Design Biennale, 2014. Under the theme of „Affordable Living,“ I propsed a subgroup exploring „Affordable Owning.“ The stopmotion animation, made-up of over 700 stills, tells the story of a fictional „owner“ who constructs an additive-style house over three decades without the use of a mortgage.

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Image: Photo of stop-motion animation projection at BIO 50 Design Biennale in Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2014.

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Image: Two sample stills taken from (top) the preamble, describing the financial impetus for building in Buffalo, and (bottom) a still taken at the very beginning of the construction process. The actual lot was purchased by me for $4500 in August 2015.

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Image: Contact sheet showing just under 20 seconds of the 7-minute stop-motion.

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Selective Insulation, Big House, Little House Adaptive Reuse Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2014Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $ 73,000 over 25 years Area: 2,130 sqft Client: Private Status: Ongoing See also: He, She & It, Selective Insulation, Thermometric House, Selective Insulation Auchinvole and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 Exquisite Corpse and Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Continual Construction ________________________________________________

Selective Insulation, Big House, Little House

This design proposal involves housing a small, existing plank-framed cottage, built in the late 1800â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, within a much larger, translucent, weatherproof shell. This house-in-house scenario would provide two contrasting spatial conditions: a small, private, insulated and conditioned space in the existing cottage and a large perimeter space between the existing cottage and the new shell characterized by abundant natural light and extreme openness. In the small core space, the existing plank-frame construction is exposed. The century-old interior space is materially rich and structurally fascinating. On the exterior, we would propose to strip the cottage back to its original construction and clad it lightly with insulated panelling. The perimeter space, in technical terms, acts as habitable insulation, protecting the cottage from harsh exterior temperatures and weathering. The perimeter space - or winter garden - is large, bright and passively climatized by the use of large openings (summer) and the greenhouse effect (cold weather). Spatially, because the two zones are so distinct, the house-in-house situation is able to accommodate a wide

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array of potential functions. The core space lends itself to more sedentary activities, whereas the perimeter space is better for functions and activities where the abundant space and light can be exploited and enjoyed. The simple slabon-grade foundation and winter garden construction offers large square footage for an incredibly low construction cost. Whereas a typical construction cost is about $130/sq ft, our proposal could be built for around $35/sq ft. The proposal is a atypical handling of an historic building, and explores how insulating the old structure could be done in a way that explores the experiential, spatial aspect of insulation, while preserving the old cottage, exposing its unique structure, and making it meet our current expectations for thermal performance. The project focuses on creating distinct and rich spaces that are not bound to a specific program.

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Proposal: Big House, Little House Our design proposal involves housing the existing plank-framed cottage within a much larger, translucent, weatherproof shell. This house-in-house scenario would provide two contrasting spatial conditions: a small, rather dark, private, insulated and conditioned space in the existing cottage and a large perimeter space between the existing cottage and the new shell characterized by abundant

weathering. The perimeter space - or winter garden - is large, bright and passively climatized by the use of large openings (summer) and the greenhouse effect (cold weather). Spatially, because the two zones are so distinct, the house-in-house situation is able to accommodate a wide array of potential functions. The core space lends itself to more sedentary activities, whereas the

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Skin: The winter garden polycarbonate shell encloses a large amount of space in a cost efficient way. 50% of the exterior walls can open up with sliding doors. A continuous ridge vent acts as a solar chimney in summer. This shell offers a large, generous, and light space for various activities. It performs in a seasonally-specific way: in summer, openings encourage a natural draft from the sliding doors up to the solar chimney. In summer ,the space feels like an outdoor area, with a fresh breeze, while providing protection during rainy weather. Horizontal sun screens offer shade. In the transitional seasons, the closed winter garden catches the heat of the sun and performs a greenhouse effect, providing a comfortable, warm space without heating. In winter the greenhouse effect, or passive heating, continues, and the radiant heating system kicks-in additionally to warm the space.

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New foundation: The new slab-on-grade is insulated against the ground and contains PEX heating loops for radiant heat. Radiant heat is one of the most affordable and efficient heating systems to integrate into a newly cast concrete floor.

Existing site: 480 sq ft â&#x20AC;&#x153;plank houseâ&#x20AC;? on 2,853 sq ft lot. The size and construction of the one-room building are atypical for the area. Unlike all other buildings in the neighborhood this building is set to the back of the lot. It is also one of the oldest structures. Plank framing is a construction method where sawn lumber of uniform thickness and substantial width stand vertically, side-by-side, without the need for any studs and sheeting. Planks provide a substantial amount of insulation and the substrate to mount exterior cladding and interior finish. The interior is currently stripped and the planks are bare, providing an intriguing spatial experience with the same old, wood material at all walls, joists, ceiling rafters and decking visible. We propose to strip the exterior cladding which was added in subsequent years and insulate the structure with insulated panels. 346 Rhode Island Street Design Proposal 1/28/2014 Davidson Rafailidis

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Image: An annotated axonometric drawing describing the elements involved in making-up the project.

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Images: Plans illustrated to indicate possible different uses for the „little“ and „big“ house spaces: an artist studio (top), a daycare (center), and a beer garden (bottom).

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Family of Forms Design Study Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2014 Location: N/A Budget: $?? Area: N/A Client: National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Status: Complete See also: 11.1 Teaching ARC102, Spring 2015 ARC 605/7 Glass and Spring 2016 ARC 605/7 Glass II ________________________________________________

8 Exhibitions 8.3 Invited international exhibitions 2014 f(c) Invited by curator Ariel Brice Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI March 19 - April 12 9 Publications 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.3 Catalogue Brice, Ariel, „f(c).“ Exhibition catalogue, March 19 - April 12 2014, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 12-17, 30-31, 34.

Family of Forms Research/Independent Study Project UB This research extends working with moldsas a form-generating tool, which was established in the Generative Spatial Practices first year design course. The research was carriedout as an independent study involving five students, held in the Spring semester 2014. The work was crated and shipped to Milwaukee, where it was shown as part of the f(c) exhibition at the Portrait Society Gallery, curated by Ariel Brice.

and inverting (mold making and slip casting) forms and their derivative forms, the objective was to accumulate a series of forms - both mass (mold pieces) and shells (slip cast ceramic forms) - that relate to one another. Although they are derived form a single source (in this case, a scale model of a building in Buffalo, NY) and all taken through the same steps of spatial inversion, their formal links may or may not be immediately visible. As a group or a collection, the models represent a The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a particular kind of reform-generating approach which is tautological - a process cursive picture where a smaller version of the image is shown with its own formal rules and internal logic. Beyond form within itself. The picture-in-picture effect appears to continue generation, we created offshoots of forms in which design infinitely. decisions come more heavily into play. Some clay shells were manipulated in their leather-hard state, cut-into and conIn this particular research project, we engaged in an intensive necting to create spatial models that, although still abstract, form-finding ad infinitum process. The process is similar suggest inhabitation. to the Droste effect, but is three dimensional, so it could, hypothetically, continue forever. The objective of the process is to generate a â&#x20AC;&#x17E;familyâ&#x20AC;&#x153; of forms. By continually investing

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Image: Process image, original model and three mold parts from which functional, multi-piece molds were made.

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MirrorMirror New Construction Category: Unstable architecture Date: 2013 Location: New Museum, New York, NY among others Budget: $27,500 Area: 1,045 sqft Client: New Museum, New York, NY Status: Built See also: Curtain Spolia, Free Zoning and 11.1 Teaching Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Continual Construction ________________________________________________ 6 Awards and honors .2014 People’s Choice Award and Award of Merit AZ Awards Open international architecture and design award Organizer: Azure magazine 2014 Honorable mention International Design Awards IDA 13 Open international architecture and design award Organizer: Farmani Group 2013 Winner StreetFest 2013 Biannual international architectural competition Organizer: Storefront for Art and Architecture and the New Museum, New York, NY 7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2013 Sponsor: New Museum New York, NY Role: Primary Coordinator Sponsored amount: $27,500

8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions 2015 Ideas City Curated by Joseph Grima New Museum, New York, NY May 30 2013 Ideas City Curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Lisa Phillips and Karen Wong New Museum, New York, NY

May 4 8.4 Invited regional exhibitions 2014 MirrorMirror Invited by Ryan Coates (General Manager Global Spectrum) Canalside, Buffalo, NY June 1 - August 15 2014 MirrorMirror Invited by Caterine Gatewood (Albright Knox Art Gallery) Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY June 20-22 2013 Echo Art Fair Invited by Frits Abell (curator) Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY September 7-8 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.3 Journal Rafailidis, Georg, “MirrorMirror,“ in Forward 213, (2013): 15-34. 9.1.6 Online platform 2013 Rafailidis, Georg, “mirrormirror tents by davidson rafailidis,“ designboom. www.designboom.com/architecture/mirrormirrortents-by-davidson-rafailidis/ 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.4 Newspaper Gardner; Ralph Jr, “Big Ideas, Big Appetite,“ Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2013. A17-18. 9.3.5 Online journal and newspaper 2013 Collyer, Stanley, “Curbside Action at the New Museum,“ Competitions. www.competitions.org/index.php?option=com_ content&id=1278:curbside-action-at-the-new-museum-theideas-city-streetfest-tenting-competition 2013 “Street life,“ Architecture Today, accessed January 4, 2014. www.architecturetoday.co.uk/?p=29463 2013 Johnson, Sara, “Street Reflections,“ ARCHITECT the magazine of the American Institute of Architects. www.

architectmagazine.com/installation/mirrored-tent-displayedthis-weekend-in-buffalo.aspx 2013 Boccia, Nina, “A Dazzling Tent that Enhances Street Fests,“ AZURE. www.azuremagazine.com/article/a-dazzling-tentthat-enhances-street-fests/ 9.3.6 Website 2013 “StreetFest Winner: Davidson Rafailidis,“ Storefront for Art and Architecture. http://storefrontnews.org/programming/ streetfest-competition/ 2013 Walter, Alexander, “Davidson Rafailidis Wins 2013 IDEAS CITY StreetFest Competition,“ Archinect. http://archinect.com/ news/article/71959284/davidson-rafailidis-wins-2013-ideascity-streetfest-competition 9.3.7 Blog “Award Winning MirrorMirror Structure to be featured at Echo Art Fair,“ Buffalo Rising, September 6, 2013. Miller, Nick, “Ideas City Winning Pavilion MirrorMirror to reflect the bowery on Saturday,“ Architect‘s Newspaper, comment posted April 30, 2013. Hill, John, “Ideas City“, A Daily Dose of Architecture, comment posted April 26, 2013. “MirrorMirror New York,“ e-architect, comment posted June 6, 2013. Bartolacci, James, “Mirrored tents to Debut at IDEAS CITY StreetFest May 4,“ Architizer, comment posted April 29, 2013. Zimmer, Lori, “Ideas City Festival and StreetFest Returns to the Bowery This Weekend,“ inhabitat New York City, comment posted May 4, 2013. 9.3.8 Other media Delaney, Patrick, “Featured structure at Echo Art Fair mirrors reality.“ YNN, Time Warner Cable News, September 7, 2013, TV. 9.4.2 Online 9.4 Project mention by others 2013 Bernstein, Fred A.,“New York City Kicks Off a Month of Design Events,“ Architectural Record. http://archrecord. construction.com/news/2013/05/130501-new-york-kicks-off-

its-monthlong-design-festival.asp 2013 Hanley, William, “Recap: The New Museum‘s Ideas City Festival,“ Architectural Record. http://archrecord. construction.com/news/2013/05/130506-recap-the-newmuseum8217s-ideas-city-festival.asp 2013 Zara, Janelle, “Adventures in Urbanism: 5 Ideas City Highlights That You Need to See in New York This Weekend,“ Artinfo, comments posted May 3, 2013. http://blogs.artinfo. com/objectlessons/2013/05/03/adventures-in-urbanism-5ideas-city-highlights-that-you-need-to-see-in-new-york-thisweekend/

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MirrorMirror tents are extremely lightweight, portable street fest / event structures with a double-sided mirrored canopy. The simple, gabled roof, angled at 45 degrees, reflects urban activity on the ground in multiple ways and offers a radically new and intensified view of street life. The exterior of the mirrored roof reflects higher parts of the city skyline and the sky. These patches of sky offer glimpses of lightness and airiness into the dense urban ground plane.

The on-site assembly of the tents is extremely fast. First, all steel frames unfold to form tripods. Then, all mirrored panels unhinge and slide onto the steel frames to form a rigid structural system. Standard concrete blocks provide the necessary weight to resist uplift by winds. The only tool needed is a 1/2 inch wrench to secure the roof panel onto the steel frame.

MirrorMirror allows for radically different configurations in scale, use and spatial experience. It can be used as a single The roof is made using reinforced aluminum framed panels unit but also combined to larger structures to form linear or with stretched, reflective mylar foil. The structural system con- field like typologies. sists of 2 angles: the mirrored gabled roof and a steel frame tripod. Both structures are hinged to be able to be completely The project was the winning submission of the 2013 Streetflat packed for transport and storage. The entire assembly of fest competition organized by the Storefront for Art and tents installed for the recent IDEAS CITY street fest covered Architecture, the New Museum and Architizer. The competiti1000sqft. Packed-up, it barely fills half a U-Haul truck. on asked designers to reinvent the streetfest tent.; more than eighty submissions to the competition were received from across the globe.

Image: Photo showing early morning tent installation in the Bowery, Manhattan, with NYC street sanitation workers investigating the tent.

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Image: Axonometric illustration of single tent unit components (top), elevation and plan of single tent unit (bottom).

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Image: Photos showing test installation at fabrication site, Essex Art Center, Buffalo, NY (left), and diagram showing installation method and timeline (right).

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Image: Tents borrowed by, and installed at, the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, June 2014 (photos: Florian Holzherr).

Winnipeg Sun Open international competition Category: Generous architecture Date: 2013 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Budget: $16,500 Area: 200 sqft Client: The Forks Foundation and the Manitoba Association of Architects Status: Complete See also: He, She & It, Big House Little House, Selective Insulation and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2015 ARC 605/7 Glass and Spring 2016 ARC 605/7 Glass II ________________________________________________

Winnipeg Sun International Competition „Warming Huts“ Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Minitoba Sun proposes to take advantage of the clear skies and sunshine* that characterize the weather in Winnipeg by creating a kind of heat-trap, a small enclosure that warms air passively, even in the depths of the winter, by attracting and capturing thermal energy from the sun. The hut consists of two elements: 1) a transparent polycarbonate shell that allows the warming sun rays to enter, but blocks radiant heat and warm air from leaving the enclosed space, and 2) a black base that transforms the sun’s rays into tangible warmth that builds up quickly in the enclosed space.

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Assembly: The enclosure is designed to minimize assembly time.

*Winnipeg is one of Canada‘s sunniest cities, and the weather in all seasons is characterized by an abundance of sunshine. Winnipeg is ranked second for Canada‘s clearest skies year-round, sixth sunniest city year-round, and second for sunniest city in Canada in spring and winter. Winnipeg is sunnier in the summer, spring, and winter than any Canadian city east of it. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winnipeg

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Components: The performance of the tent, which behaves like a radiant heat trap, depends on three interdependent layers: the black-painted wood base, the structural frame and the insulating, polycarbonate skin.

Thermal Performance: The space is warmed passively using the greenhouse effect principle. Despite cold outdoor temperatures, Winnipeg’s consistent winter sun will provide enough radiant energy to warm the small (volumetric dims) enclosure.

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Transportation on Skid: The size of the components that make-up the enclosure are optimized to fit on the (dims) skid. The panels and frame pack-flat for ease of transport.

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How it works: 1. Short waves from the sun heat the ground. 2. Infrared rays radiated from the ground cannot pass through the polycarbonate skin. 3. Enclosure becomes warm.

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*Winnipeg is one of Canada's sunniest cities, and the weather in all seasons is characterized by an abundance of sunshine. Winnipeg is ranked second for Canada's clearest skies year-round, sixth sunniest city year-round, and second for sunniest city in Canada in spring and winter. Winnipeg is sunnier in the summer, spring, and winter than any Canadian city east of it. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winnipeg

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Orthographic Views: The plan of the enclosure consists of a (dims) space with a bench-box integrated into the base for back-to-back seating. Visitors can sit and enjoy the radiant warmth captured in the space and still have views out, through the transparent polycarbonate skin.

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Stack! II Design Research Category: Generous architecture Date: 2013 Location: N/A Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Complete See also: Thermometric House, Stack!, Dry-stacked Corbelled Structural Systems ________________________________________________ 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.4 Proceedings 2016 Rafailidis, Georg, “Overhang: Corbelled Structural Systems,“ in Shaping New Knowledges, Proceedings of the 104th ACSA Annual Meeting 2016, 514-521.

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Stack! is an investigation which evolved as a spin off from the glass block assembly studies of the Thermometric House. Stack! investigates corbelled arch constructions to develop new spatial and constructional typologies. It builds upon a paper from the mathematicians Patersons and Zwick who propose radically new forms of stacks. Opposite to contemporary construction practices which rely heavily on differentiated building elements for each performative need like enclosure, vapor barrier, insulation, wind barrier, structure, ventilation, weather protection, paint etc. the objective of this research project is to explore ways of assembling a single building component into a spaceenclosing structure without the aid of mortar, adhesive, or other binding elements.

This research deals with fundamental architectural questions about assembly, form-finding, and spatial typology of monolithic corbelled constructions which are not yet informed by architectural program and inhabitation, but which offer a highly specific spaces for human inhabitation and unexpected relationships between use and found space.

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Curtain Spolia Open international competition Category: Unstable architecture Date: 2013 Location: New York, NY Budget: $ 5,000 Area: 150 sqft Client: The Architectural League of New York Status: Complete See also: Free Zoning. 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite Corpse ________________________________________________ 6 Awards and honors 2013 Finalist Folly 2013 International annual architectural competition Organizer: The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.5 Catalogue Rafailidis, Georg “Curtain Spolia,“ in Folly 2013, ed. Gabriel Silberblatt (New York: Socrates Publishing, 2013), 74-77. 9.3.6 Website 2013 “The Finalists,“ Architectural League of New York, accessed January 2, 2014.

Curtain Spolia International Competition „Folly“ Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, NY Using the existing 2012 folly, Curtain, as a material quarry, my design offers a radical, new interpretation of its building materials: Curtain Spolia. Chains have a tradition of being the form finding tool on the making of catenary structures. I propose to reuse the wood members of the existing folly as a framework from which a catenary vault made of the plastic chain link could be hung. Coating the resulting hanging structure with two layers of structural epoxy resin would make it rigid and

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allow the structure to be flipped upside-down. The resulting vaulted form reinforces the theme of transformation that happens throughout the construction process. Not only is Curtain translated into a surprising new form, the transformation from hanging structure to compressive vault that suddenly is able to support itself emphasizes the surreal change from tension to compression.

Image: Exerpt from competition panels, showing the total length of chain used to create the former folly, „Curtain.“

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Selective Insulation, Auchinvole Adaptive Reuse Category: Generous Architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2013 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $ 80,000 Area: 1,200 sqft Client: Jergo LLC Status: Complete See also: Selective Insulation, Big House Little House, Thermometric House. 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite Corpse ________________________________________________

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Selective insulation II applies the Selective Insulation strategy of insulating smaller spaces in a larger uninsulated existing space to the scale of a whole house. The project is an energy upgrade and reuse of a vacant house into a work/ live environment. The house is currently in considerable disrepair which makes a standard renovation unfeasible in Buffalo‘s blighted West side. I propose to remove all damaged brick and replace it with fixed glazing to save cost and to make the interior space much brighter. The interior gets completely gutted exceptfor the floor joists in the central area. These joists also tie the exterior walls together and form

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a “tube” in the second floor. This tube is the only insulated area for sedentary work, the washroom and the sleeping area. This approach reduces construction cost significantly. It also allows for a large, generous studio space around for more active work / painting / sculpture work. This space is also rougher in finish and can take the wear of daily art work. This space also acts as a climate buffer for the tube. In winter, heating cost will be minimal because the tube has only minimal surface area to the exterior. The tube and the space around it form an exciting interior space in this house, which at the moment only offers too many and too small spaces.

Image: Photo of the site, masonry building in Buffalo, NY, in considerable disrepair. The design proposal avoids extensive masonry repair.

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Image: Plans, sections and elevations showing the design proposal.

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Continual House Open international call Category: Unstable architecture Date: 2012 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: $37,238 to $200,000 over 35 years or $411 per month Area: 1,560 sqft to 2,300 sqft over 35 years Client: N/A Status: Complete See also: Free Zoning, Continual Collective Construction, Continual Construction Leroy Ave. 11.1 Teaching Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Continual Construction ________________________________________________ 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.2 Book chapter Rafailidis, Georg, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Continual Houseâ&#x20AC;? in What is the future of architecture? ed. Pieterjan Grandry (Berlin: Crap is Good Publishers, 2012), 194-201.

Continual House

The interest behind this project has to do with the continual construction or adaptations that happen to Generous Architectures as they are appropriated by different users, for different uses, over time. Currently, I am pursuing the idea of continual construction as a model of home building that avoids the necessity for burdonsome mortgages. This specific design involves fitting-out a rough prefab shed, making it more spatially

defined and specific as years pass. The cost breakdown for this new-build are similar to that of a conventional house, but without interest, and spread over many years. Spatially, the project investigates how living in a large, unfinished interior would tie into a gradual design process, spread over many years. The project is more about setting up design parameters than designing one thing/result in particular.

Month 15: The raised platform might prove successful. Let’s build a second one. The cost for this additional living space equals just another 7 months of saved rent/mortgage, $5,000.

Month 1: The first investment equals the typical down payment of a mortgage. There is no design yet. The shell is an off-the-shelf, standardized envelope.

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Month 49 (4yrs): After 34 months, the saved rent/ mortgage covers the cost of the second heating system. Costs: drywall ($1,500), 2 large “sky-frame” aluminum sliding doors ($10,000), 1door ($250), boiler and radiators ($ 15,000). Total: $26,750.

The resulting space is not a conventional house with a certain number of bed and bathrooms, but rather, it is a generous, open, undivided plan. Space is structured by furniture.

$26 +24 ,750 m² Month 72 (6yrs): The tube space works. A second private tube space would be great. Costs: drywall ($1,500), 2 large horizontal pivot windows ($15,000), 1 door ($250), additional radiator ($800). Total: $17,550.

Month 8: a raised platform can provide visual privacy without the need for dividing walls. The trusses for the platform act simultaneously as balustrades. Cost of 2 steel trusses and solid wood floor planks and stair case: $5,000. This equals just 7 months of saved rent/mortgage.

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$17 +15 ,550 m² Image: Drawings illustrating the investment and building phases over a six-year time period.

Free Zoning Open international competition Category: Unstable architecture Date: 2011 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: N/A Area: 40,000 sqft Client: University of Alberta Status: Complete

8.2 Juried national exhibition

See also: MirrorMirror, Continual House, Continual Construction (Leroy Ave), Continual Collective Construction, Curtain Spolia and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite Corpse, Fall 2012 ARC605/7 Continual Construction ________________________________________________

8.3 Invited international exhibitions

6 Awards and honors 2012 Winner Strip Appeal, Reinventing The Strip Mall International architectural ideas competition Organizer: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions

2013 ACSA 101: New ecologies, new constellations California College of the Arts CCA, San Francisco, CA March 21-24

2014 Strip Mall, Architecture in New Suburbia Invited by curator Patrick Macaulay (Head of Visual Arts for Harbourfront Centre) Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 27 - December 28 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.2 Book chapter Rafailidis, Georg, and Stephanie Davidson, “Free Zoning” in Reinventing the Strip Mall: a Collection of Anticipatory Architectures ed. Rob Shields and Merle Patchet (Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2012), 17-25 and 98. 9.1.3 Journal

2013 Eme3 Bottom Up Curated by Javier Planas Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil Departamento de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil June 14-21

Rafailidis, Georg and Davidson, Stephanie, “Free Zoning,“ in Bracket 3 (2016), Journal for architecture, environment and digital culture, 165-169. 9.1.4 Proceedings

2013 Strip Appeal. Reinventing the Strip Mall Curated by Merle Patchet Kasian Gallery, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada March 28 - April 26

2016 forthcoming Patchet, Merle, Rob Shields, Georg Rafailidis and Stephanie Davidson, “Experiments in Strip Appeal,“ in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Competitions 27-28 October 2016.

2012 Eme3 7th International Architecture Festival Curated by Javier Planas COAC Col-legi d‘Architectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain June 28 - July 1

2013 Rafailidis, Georg, “Free Zoning,“ in ACSA 101 Project Catalogue of the ACSA Annual Meeting 2013, ed. Ila Berman and Edward Mitchell, 16-17. 9.1.5 Catalogue

2012 - 2013 Strip Appeal. Reinventing the Strip Mall Curated by Merle Patchet Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY November 17 - March 17 2011 - 2012 Strip Appeal Shortlist Exhibit Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada December 12 - January 18

Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Free Zoning,“ in Strip Mall: Architecture in New Suburbia, exhibition leaflet, September 27 - December 28 2014, Toronto, 6-9. Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Free Zoning,“ in eme_2012 7th International Architecture Festival, exhibition catalogue, June 28 - July 1 2012, Barcelona, 110-115. 9.1.6 Online platform 2012

Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Free Zoning,“ bracket, accessed September 21, 2012. 9.2 Authored, invited 9.2.2 Journal Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Free Zoning,“ in CURB 3.2 (2012), 2-4. 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.4 Newspaper

UB Reporter, March 1, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.1 Print Clifford, Stephanie, “At the Mall, Parks and Sermons Replace Stores,“ New York Times, February 6, 2012, A3, National edition. 9.4.2 Online

2014 Foran, Jack, „Strip Appeal,“ Artvoice, Vol.12 No.2, January 10 Leblanc, Dave “The strip mall celebrated - and other bright - January 16, 2013, 12. ideas to save a sprawling city,“ The Globe and Mail, accessed October 23, 2104 9.3.5 Online journal and newspaper 2012 2012 Metcalfe, John,“Strip Malls Like You‘ve Never Seen Before,“ Stolte, Elise, “German architects win Edmonton strip-mall The Atlantic Cities, accessed September 21, 2012. design contest,“ Edmonton Journal, January 18 2012, accessed September 21 2012. 2012 Comte, Michael, “Canada rethinks suburban strip mall 2012 strategy proposals,“ The China Post, January 30, 2012, Queenseyes, “Strip Appeal: Reinventing The Strip Mall,“ accessed September 21, 2012. Buffalo Rising, February 24, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 2012 Turner, Chris, “5 innovative ways to reinvent the strip 9.3.6 Website mall,“ mnn Blog, comment posted July 31, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 2014 “Free Zoning: Radical Deregulation & Material Reuse,“ 10 Public presentation Harbourfront Centre Visual Arts, accessed May 3, 2015. 10.1 Peer reviewed conference presentation 2012 Bentley, Adam, “Strip Appeal Jury Winner is a Timely Lesson from Debt-Ridden America,“ Display Magazine, accessed September 21, 2012.

Rafailidis, Georg, “Designing a Framework for Typological Evolution and Continual Building Acts,“ (Atmosphere 2014 Symposium ACTION, Manitoba, February 6-8, 2014).

Rafailidis, Georg, “Free Zoning: Central Park Plaza, Buffalo, 2012 NY,“ (Remake + Reclaim symposium, Washington, DC, April Velasquez, S.J., “Buffalo architects win contest with strip mall 11-13, 2013). revamp plan,“ Buffalo.com, February 24, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 2012 Donovan, Patricia, “UB Architects Win International Competition With Plan to Give Old Strip Malls Back To the People,“ Archinect, February 23, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 2012 Kemp, Alix, “What Do You Do with a Problem like a Strip Mall,“ Unlimited Magazine, March 1, 2012, accessed September 21, 2012. 2012 Donovan, Patricia, “Giving old strip mall back to the people,“

Free Zoning

Now more than ever, buildings are outliving their intended use. A conventional, typological approach to architectural design results in buildings designed to accommodate certain, often very specific uses. The problem is that these uses are, in some cases, changing very quickly, acquiring very different spatial demands. Retail typologies, for example, change on average every ten to fifteen years. Ar¬chitects, planners and administrators are struggling to acknowledge and theorize the rift between the lifespan of buildings and their original use. This means that when buildings are no longer meeting the spatial demands of their use, they are often abandoned, given as leftovers for an “adaptive reuse” project of some kind, demolished or simply left vacant.

In our competition entry to Strip Appeal: Reinventing the Strip Mall, we asked: How can the intrinsic tension between the physical longevity of architecture and the fast paced rhythm of business models be channeled into productive development? What is the best way to really re-use or re-interpret buildings, such as the strip mall, which have become obsolete? In our design scheme, Free Zoning, we proposed the following measures:

1) All building materials used in constructing the strip mall get demounted and sorted. They can be used for free for any new Central Park Plaza is a consequence of this increasingly combuilding activity on site. mon rift between the lifespan of a building and it’s use. Central 2) The foundation is the most expensive building element to Park Plaza is a derelict strip mall in Buffalo, New York. Having build as well as to demolish. We propose to use the existing been vacant for years, the vandalized shell is now an infamous foundation as a seedbed for new construction. site of crime and illicit activity. Built in 1957 on the site of a former 3) All uses are allowed. No zoning variances are required. rock quarry, the strip mall thrived for the typical time span of around fifteen years before it predictably lost its retail capability.

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Image: Photos, Central Park Plaza Strip Mall, Buffalo NY, 2011.

1. Central Park Plaza Strip Mall as-is

View as-is Central Park Plaza is a derelict strip mall in Buffalo, New York. Having been vacant for years, it is now infamous as a site of crime. Built in 1957 on the site of a former rock quarry, the strip mall thrived for the typical time span of around 15 years before it predictably lost its retail capability. The strip mall is located on the East Side of Buffalo near Main Street in a primarily residential area with pockets of failed commercial properties.

Corrugated steel decking, two panel sizes: 110 x 150 cm and 320 x 480 cm

Open-web steel joists, 640 cm, 750 cm, 1000 cm, 1400 cm

Steel I-beams, 550 cm and 800 cm

Concrete block Steel columns, 460 cm Concrete block with brick cladding

Concrete block with brick cladding Aluminum frame doors and windows, various sizes Concrete slab foundation with footing

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2. Building Component Inventory & Storage *23 steel columns, 10cm diam, 420cm height *18 steel columns, 20cm diam, 420cm height

*5150 concrete blocks *330 small acoustical ceiling tiles 110cm x 150cm *54 steel I-beams, 2x15x480 cm *9 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550cm x 180cm

*80 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550cm x 180cm

*3090 concrete blocks *4 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550 x 180 cm *220 acoustical ceiling tiles, 110 x 150 cm *15 steel beams, 800 cm long *6 steel beams, 550 cm long

*4714 bricks *400 steel decking, 270cm x 180cm *84 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550cm x 180cm

*640 concrete blocks *21 large acoustical ceiling tiles, 320 x 480 cm *32 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550 cm x 180 cm *19 steel I-beams, 4 x 15 x 320 cm *5 steel I-beams, 4 x 15 x 320 cm *127 wood panels, 380 x 20 x 2.5 cm *193 open-web steel trusses *15 aluminum frame windows *8 aluminum frame doors *2 sheets corrugated steel decking, 550 x 180cm *515 concrete blocks

Central Park Plaza has no spatial value in its current form. Its value lies rather in its building components, its capable foundation and its infrastructural connections to city services (water, sewer, gas, telecommunications and electricity). We declare the whole site a building quarry of its existing building materials. Considering the site as a zone of radical deregulation or Free Zoning, will trigger a radical reconfiguration of these building components within the geometric pattern of the existing foundation.

*3090 concrete blocks *440 small acoustical ceiling tiles, 110 x 150 cm *18 steel I-beams, 2 x 15 x 320 cm *8 steel I-beams, 2 x 15 x 320 cm *4 sheets steel decking, 550 x 180 cm

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3. Sample Transformation: Small House Built Using Strip Mall Building Components Lifting all zoning restrictions on the Central Park Plaza property and giving it over to City dwellers to create their own houses and/or places of work would, without a doubt, result in a profusion of building types. Using materials at hand, salvaged and sorted after a careful and deliberate demolition of the strip mall, people settling the plot would be free to define how they wanted to live. The build-up of the urban fabric would be a collective effort not unlike the settling of the American frontier.

This small house is a little case study looking at what kind of dwelling could be constructed using a strict material palette of strip mall salvage.

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Corrugated steel decking *5 long sheets, 320 x 480 cm Acoustical ceiling panels *30 large, 60 x 150 cm

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Image: Detail showing further developed collage, printed large-format for exhibition, and used as a basis for a stop-motion animation (for exhibition) with over 1000 stills.

Modifications Design study Category: Generous architecture Date: 2011Location: N/A Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Ongoing See also: Trigger Points, Cafe Fargo/Tipico Coffee and 10.1 Lecture Faults ________________________________________________

Other Outcomes This is an on-going series of studies relating to my research interest in physical relationships to architecture. It is a collaborative effort with Stephanie Davidson.

Modifications

Modifications is a series of small-scale projects exploring the spatial and experiential potential of conventional building elements like doors and doorknobs, baseboards, floor tiles, window muntins and heating grilles. Most commonly, these modest building elements sit quietly in their place, not calling attention to themselves. But with very subtle modifications, their roles can become augmented; they can become strange, cartoon-like, attract attention to themselves and question their very nature. They can take-on new functions or offer a moment of surprise. This series is on-going, and involves making and installing prototypes of modified building elements for use. Although installed in a specific building, the modifications are more typological in nature than site-specific. The modifications shown here are a starting point for an expanding body of work, and are in various stages of completion.

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Interior doors, in domestic environments, and particularly in historic houses, are fairly strict in their conventions. Most commonly they are solid wood, raised panel doors constructed with stiles, rails and four to six panels. Heights and widths vary, within reason, and are often associated with the size or use of the room into which they provide entry. This door was modified to create a door-within-a-door. Although doors-within-doors can be found already (pet traps, human scale doors within carriage/vehicle scale doors), we wanted to introduce this particular smaller scale door into a standard-sized interior door for the child inhabiting the room to have her own, scale-specific threshold experience.

Image: Modified door, toddler door.

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Image: Modified door, toddler door.

The variety of molding and trim profiles are seemingly infinite. Designs of actual profiles is arbitrary, purely decorative, a result of the likes and whims of the craftspeople who fabricate them and the building owners or contractors who install them. In this modification, we wanted to extract a use and a more spatial presence from an existing baseboard profile. Working with Black Millwork in New Jersey, we designed a profile that maximized the potential depth that their profile knives could cut. The result is a fattened version of the original baseboard, extruded outward at every level in the profile change. The bottom step in the profile is extended out into a small ledge or bench. The use of the profile is more suggestive than explicit.

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Image: Modified baseboard.

Doorknobs are some of the very few architectural elements that we come in direct physical contact with consistently and necessarily. At a micro-scale, the scale of the hand, or even more specifically, the fingers, this modification plays with our relationship to that often unnoticed, functional object. Slip-casting is a materially luxurious process. It involves working with liquid clay slip and helping it transform into its opposite - a rigid, hard shell. Between the states of liquid and fired, the clay reaches a state referred to as leather hard. In this state, the form has been defined through the plaster mold, and the clay has lost enough moisture to retain its shape, but just barely. The fabrication of this doorknob is based on the formal vulnerability of a shape in its leather hard state. In this state, a hand applies pressure to the knob, in the position and motion of turning it. The result are very specific indents from the thumb and fingers permanently deforming the otherwise archetypical doorknob shape.

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Image: Modified doorknob, unglazed prototype.

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Stack Design study Category: Generous architecture Date: 2011 Location: N/A Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Ongoing See also: Thermometric House, Stack! II, Corbelled Structural Systems and Teaching Spring 2011/2012 ARC590 Stack! ________________________________________________ 7 Grants, funding 7.2 Internal 2011 UUP Individual Development Awards Program University at Buffalo Role: Grant Awardee Grant Amount: $500 9.1.4 Proceedings 2014 Rafailidis, Georg, “Stack: Using Dry-Stacked Compressive Structural Systems to Extend Building Longevity,“ in Proceedings of the Sustainable Structures Symposium 2014, 219-246. 10 Public presentation 10.1 Peer reviewed conference presentation Rafailidis, Georg, “Stack: Using Dry-Stacked Compressive Structural Systems to Extend Building Longevity,“ (Sustainable Structures Symposium, Portland, April 17-18, 2014).

Stack

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Four Seasons Open international competition Category: Generous architecture Date: 2011 Location: Buffalo, NY Budget: N/A Area: 1,400 sqft Client: Chicago Architectural Club Status: Complete See also: Selective Insulation, Selective Insulation Auchinvole, Big House Little House, He, She & It, Cafe Fargo (Tipico Coffee) and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite Corpse ________________________________________________

Four Seasons Uncompetition, International Competition This competition brief was based upon the premis that most competition entries that architects do don‘t necessarily relate to their design or research interests, and therefore, don‘t contribute alot to their bodies of work. So rather than offering a conventional competition brief, the Uncompetition challenged architects to develop their own brief based on a project that they‘d like to do.

it is rotting and rat-infested. Through the format of a drawn animation, the required submission format, we explored the potential of the cottage as a gutted shell.

Consistent with much of our work, the design focused on temperature, and more specifically, how this uninsulated shell could be inhabited comfortably through the extremes in temperature that Buffalo residents experience. For the Our entry was based on our neighbor house, a neglected summer, the climate conditioning or cooling potential of the West Side Buffalo cottage. Every day, we stare at this house masonry foundation was exploited, whereas in winter, the and play through scenarios of what we could do with it if it attic space was designed as a smaller insulated spacecame into our possession. At the moment, like many centu- within-a-space. ry-old Buffalo houses that haven‘t been properly maintained,

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Image: Single selected still (from 500+ stills in total) from the competition submission, a drawing + found image collage.

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Image: Selected stills (from 500+ stills in total) from the competition submission, drawing + found image collages.

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Image: Selected stills (from 500+ stills in total) from the competition submission, drawing + found image collages.

Thumbprint Pooldeck Open international project call Category: Generous architecture Date: 2010 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Budget: $30,500 Area: 2,000 sqft Client: Edmonton Arts Council Status: Built See also: Trigger Points, Cafe Fargo (Tipico Coffee) ________________________________________________ 6 Awards and honors 2009 Winner Fred Broadstock Sport and Leisure Center International project call Organizer: Edmonton Public Art, Canada

article: http://www.edmonton.ca/city_ government/news/fred-broadstockpool-reopens-with-a-splash.aspx

Thumbprint Pooldeck Edmonton Canada The idea for this project comes out of the desire to give an added experiential dimension to the pool deck of the Fred Broadstock Leisure Centre, a public sports facility in Edmonton Canada. Thinking of the most pleasurable experience for feet – the foot massage – we looked for a way to translate this experience into a form that would be fixed, as a ground texture. The textural relief pattern that we’ve proposed for the pool deck comes directly from the act of massaging, wherein the thumb is the primary force in finding and stimulating pressure points in the foot. Instead of directly massaging a foot, we’ve taken the impression of a thumb applying pressure, and used it as a formwork to cast a sample ground texture. The result is an abstract relief texture of thumb-scale bumps, in varying densities and depths. As a ground texture, the thumbprint relief is both abstract and uncanny – it offers an immediate and receptive relationship to the body, the feet in particular. As a pool deck sur-

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face, we can not imagine a more pleasurable or appropriate surface. The textural relief responds directly to the context of the poolside, and the fact that most people will have bare feet or very thin sock-like soles. We’ve taken advantage of this fact and used the deck surface to provide people with an additional source of physical surprise, stimulation and pleasure. Using thumbprints, the textural relief of the ground would be felt as a foot massage, while providing a non-slip surface. Conceived of as pre-cast elements, the density of the thumbprint relief pattern decreases toward the drain while increasing in relief-depth. These changes in density and relief-depth of the pattern assist in the drainage of the water and provide variations in the ways in which the pattern stimulates the foot.

Image: Photo from series of full-scale relief studies.

Variation 1, Section of Single Tile Variation 2, Section of Single Tile

Variation 1, Plan of Single Tile

Variation 2, Plan of Single Tile

Variation 3, Plan of Single Tile

Variation 4, Plan of Single Tile

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Variation 5, Plan of Single Tile

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Image: Photo from series of full-scale relief studies (right) and pattern studies (left).

http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/news/fred-broadstock-pool-reopens-with-a-splash.aspx

Thermometric Facade Open international competition Category: Generous architecture Date: 2011 Location: N/A Budget: N/A Area: N/A Client: N/A Status: Ongoing

Rafailidis, Georg and Sabine Kraft, “1.Preis Thermometrische Fassade,“ in ARCH+ 196 (January 2010), 4. 9.3 Project feature / review by others

9.3.1 Book chapter See also: Selective Insulation, Big House Little House and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2015 ARC 605/7 Glass and Spring Davidson, Tonya, “Hot Architecture,“ in Transfer.Beiträge 2016 ARC 605/7 Glass II, Spring 2008 PCM zur Kunstvermittlung #7 (Schöppingen: Stiftung Künstlerdorf ________________________________________________ Schöppingen Publisher, 2010), 114-119. 6 Awards and honors

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2012 Honorable mention R+D Awards Architect Magazine Research and Development Awards Organizer: Architect Magazine is the journal of the American Institute of Architects

Lau, Wanda and Katie Gerfen, “Thermometric Facade,“ in ARCHITECT the Magazine of the American Institute of Architects, July 2012, 111.

2009 Winner Simple Systems, Complex Capacities International architectural ideas competition Organizer: Arch+ is the leading journal for architectural discourse in German language, Aachen/Berlin, Germany

Rafailidis, Georg, “Phase Change Materials: Collaborations with BASF and CMoG,“ (104th ACSA Annual Meeting 2016 Shaping New Knowledges, University of Washington, March 17-19, 2016).

7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2008 Sponsor: BASF Group, The Chemical Company Ludwigshafen, Germany Role: Primary Coordinator Sponsored Amount: $4,030 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.4 Proceedings 2012 Rafailidis, Georg, “Thermometric House,“ in Proceedings of Engineered Transparencies International Conference on Glass and Glass Construction, Facade systems and Solar Energy, 483-495. 9.2 Authored, invited 9.2.1 Book chapter Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Thermometric house,“ in Performance driven Envelopes, ed. Ulrich Knaack, Tillman Klein and Marcel Bilow (Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 2011), 86-87. 9.2.2 Journal

10 Public presentation 10.1 Peer reviewed conference presentation

Rafailidis, Georg. “Thermometric House.“ (International conference engineered transparencies, Düsseldorf, Germany, October 25-26, 2012).

Thermometric House

This glass block-like building component was developed as an entry to the competition “Simple Systems, Complex Capacities,” organized by the German architecture journal Arch+. The project was a competition winner and is published in issue 196/197 of the journal.

Secondly, the system makes use of the increase in volume of wax as it changes from solid to liquid. This change of volume, which is nomally regarded as highly problematic with the architectural applications of PCM, is used here as a benefit. The volume and form of the glass vessel have been designed to maximize the effects of the volume expansion of the wax. The system is made up of two basic elements: a glass vessel The interior of the glass vessel effectively forces the expanand wax, otherwise known as Phase Change Material (PCM). ding wax to shoot up and spread over a large surface area, In combining these two basic elements, we harness two inter- creating an translucent or „closed“ surface, a sun shade, in connected physical effects or material behaviours: response to heat. Firstly, the system makes use of the well-known capacity of materials to both store and release energy at their change of phase (solid to liquid and vice-versa). Materials with this behaviour are known as Phase Change Materials. The melting point of the wax, which can be engineered, can be matched with particular functions in particular spaces. Used as a facade component, the wax-filled glass blocks help buffer the temperatures of interior spaces completely passively, through the energy released in the form of a particular temperature during phase change of wax.

Close-up view of wax as it appears during phase change, with some liquid and some crystallized wax.

Wax on its own is an entirely formless material that is characterized by its ability to melt and solidify again and again without changing its chemical composition. Our objective in this project was to exploit the behaviour of this existing, nonprecious, low-tech material and make it “work” to its fullest capacity. The result is a thermally responsive and passive building component which performs as both sun/view protection and as a temperature conditioner.

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1. Exterior Form: The exterior form of the component is designed to allow an interlocking assembly or build-up wherein no structural reinforcement would be necessary. The modification in form from the traditional glass block diverts vertical loads into interlocking, horizontal forces. The kinked shape allows the individual elements to be combined or assembled into one structural entity. The exterior form and the interior geometry of the component are independent. The exterior form is conceived of being made of moulded and plate glass layers, fused together. 2. Interior Form for Wax PCM: The geometry of the vessel interior is designed to exaggerate the volume expansion of the wax as it changes phase from solid to liquid and vise-versa. This interior geometry was developed out of a series of empirical tests. The interior geometry is critical to the facade system and serves to amplify the dynamic behaviours of paraffin wax PCM. 3. Interior Form for Air: Air pockets within the component are used to control temperature conduction in specific ways. The section on the right shows two air pockets being used to insulate the volume of wax against the exterior. The cavity of wax is „exposed“ thermally to the interior, responding to and modulating the temperature of the interior space.

Basic idea built as 3-dimensional model. 3% expansion volume is shown as an extrusion of the base (100%) wax volume.

3% volume rotated 90-degrees becomes a thin panel extending upwards from the base wax volume.

Illustrations explaining the principles of the facade element.

Width of 3% volume decreased from 3mm to 1mm, increasing it‘s surface area by 3 times. Below 1mm, capillary action takes place within the panel, obstructing the visibility of the volume change of the wax.

4. Wax PCM: Phase Change Materials (PCM) are a „new generation“ of ecological heat storage materials utilising the processes of phase change between solid and liquid (melting and congealing) to store and release large quantities of thermal energy at a nearly constant temperature. Paraffin wax is one form of PCM. „Heat“ storage material is perhaps a misnomer since the melting point of PCM can be engineered and is available in temperatures from -4°C to 100°C. During their phase change, PCM such as wax expands and contracts in volume. This application of PCM exploits this volume expansion, exaggerating it rather than trying to minimize it. 5. Temperature: Temperature activates the Thermometric Facade components. The phase change of wax PCM is triggered in response to temperatures. Depending on the variation, the component could be responsive to the temperature of an interior, exterior, or both. The components could either use or block solar heat. The interior air pockets (3) help direct from where the components are thermally responsive.

A constantly changing volume of air, trapped as bubbles in the wax*, cause inconsistency in the 3% expansion. A volume in addition to the 3% expansion panel is provided for potential overflow due to air bubbles.

The overflow cap and the base volume sit perpendicular to the expansion panel. The connection points between volume and panel need to be angled in order to allow air bubbles to move into the panel*. This is the final, functional section.

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Image: One of many process models used to illustrate how the geometry of the vessel exaggerates the volume expansion of wax during phase change.

Image: Process models made to empirically test/observe PCM behaviour within various vessel volumes.

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1mm thick cavity, shown here with liquid wax PCM in its expanded form

base repository of vessel containing wax PCM; when cool, the wax retreats and solidifies within this base container

RUCTURE & ASSEMBLY Glass Block Component, Structure & Assembly

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5. PARAMETER: STRUCTURE & ASSEMBLY 1.

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Above: Axonometric illustration showing single glass block component, designed with a faceted top and bottom to facilitate both interlocking stacking and a 90-degree corner build-up. Below: Axonometric illustration showing how the faceted top and bottom of the component allows a corner build-up.

CORNER BUILD-UP Vertical and lateral (front) forces applied to a 1:5 plexiglass model to observe structural behaviour.

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Vertical and lateral (side) forces applied to a 1:5 plexiglass model to observe structural behaviour.

Vertical forces forces applied to a 1:5 plexiglass model to observe structural behaviour.

Image: Structure and assembly of glass block elements.

Plan of Prototypical House with Thermometric Facade

Winter, 57 sqm Climatized Core

Spring/Fall, +112 sqm Buffer Zone

Summer, 169+ sqm Pour-out Plan

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Image: Spatial consequence of the Thermometric Facade: Temperature Plans.

Thermometric Facade glass block exterior creates a passively buffered interior temperature.

Winter, 57 sqm Climatized Core. Habitation pattern remain densely clustered in the core.

Mechanically controllable climatized core reduced to a minimal size. The core can be dissolved in plan through opening the insulated glass sliding doors.

Spring/Fall, +112 sqm Buffer Zone. Habitation pattern spill-out into the perimeter zone, passively conditioned by the Thermometric Facade.

Roof structure provides top light to each space and helps define individual rooms or areas.

Summer, 169+ sqm Pour-out Plan. Habitation pattern freely takes-over the core, perimeter zone and exterior areas.

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Image: Temperature Plans shown as axonometric illustrations.

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Image: Summer, 169+ sqm Pour-out Plan. Habitation pattern freely takes-over the core, perimeter zone and exterior areas.

Trigger Points Installation, Product Category: Generous architecture Date: 2009 Location: Installed in Schöppingen (Germany), Vienna

(Austria) and Lausanne (Switzerland) Budget: $125,- each Area: 6 x 6 inches each Client: N/A Status: Complete

See also: Thumbprint Pooldeck, Cafe Fargo (Tipico Coffee), A Park ________________________________________________

6 Awards and honors 2009 Winner Fred Broadstock Sport and Leisure Center International project call Organizer: Edmonton Public Art, Canada 7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2008 - 2009 KWW (Art/Science/Economy) Stipend Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Role: Stipend Awardee (with S. Davidson) Grant Amount: $7,000 8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions 2009 Labor Schöppingen - Das Universum nebenan Curated by Dr. Josef Spiegel Stiftung Künstlerdorf, Schöppingen, Germany May 15 - June 12 8.3 Invited international exhibitions 2012 Touch. The World at your Fingertips Invited by curators Clair Maxwell, Roxane Fuschetto and Chantal Prod‘Hom MUDAC Musée de design et d‘Arts Appliqués Contemporains (Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts), Lausanne, Switzerland July 4 - October 28 2009 Love Design KlausEngelhorn Gallery, Vienna, Austria October 1 - 23 9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 2009

Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Trigger Point Moulds by Touchy-Feely,“ Dezeen, May 27, 2009, accessed September 21, 2012. 2009 Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson. “Trigger Point Mouldings.“ Architonic, 2009, accessed September 23, 2012. 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.1 Book chapter Gagg, Russel, “Touchy feely tiles,“ in Basics Interior Architecture: Texture + Materials, (Lausanne: AVA Academia, 2011), 161. Brownell, Blaine, “Trigger Points,“ in Transmaterial 3, ed. Blaine Brownell (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), 42. Davidson, Tonya, “Hot Architecture,“ in Transfer. Beiträge zur Kunstvermittlung #7 (Schöppingen: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Publisher, 2010), 114-119. 9.3.2 Journal Inglis, Gloria, “Trigger Point Mouldings,“ in Experimenta 64 (December 2009), 137. 9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.1 Print Maxwell, Clair, Roxane Fuschetto and Chantal Prod‘Hom, “Touchbook!.“ Exhibition catalogue, July 4 October 28, 2012, Lausanne, 50. Bergeron, Christian, “Touch me,“ in INTÉRIEURS 57, June 2012, 60-62.

Trigger Points

Trigger Points are rounded fibrous plaster forms that can be integrated into a wall surface. As suggestive protrusions, the mouldings encourage heightened, physical interactions between bodies and architectural surfaces, and suggest that buildings can perform, or intimate towards the necessary work of massage therapists. Heating elements inserted into the backs of the plaster protrusions warm the forms to body temperature and assist in muscle tension relief. As warmed wall areas, the protrusions create a gentle threshold between body and building. The mouldings can be installed easily into any new or existing drywall or plastered wall surface at any desired height or in any density/pattern. Massage therapists commonly work to access and manipulate multiple trigger points in the body found in the shoulders, neck, knees, etc as a means of aiding such diverse ailments as nausea, quitting smoking, colds, fatigue, sexual problems, etc. Touchy-Feely worked in consultation

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with massage therapists to develop forms of an appropriate depth and shape to facilitate self-trigger point massage. The mouldings are one outcome of an on-going process of design investigation looking at how to make architecture relate more directly to bodies. In the case of the Trigger Points, a wall is not a standoffish or neutral surface - it is inviting, generous and ergonomic. The seemingly-sculpted forms of the Trigger Points were derived from a process of casting plaster using fabric formwork. The bulges are not â&#x20AC;&#x153;designed,â&#x20AC;? but rather, capture directly the material behaviour of the plaster poured into sewn, fabric forms. The mouldings are individually cast using fibre-reinforced plaster.

Image: Trigger Points installed, Schoeppingen, Germany.

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Images: Form-finding process.

5cm Protrusion Depth

7.5cm Protrusion Depth

10cm Protrusion Depth

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Images: Installation method and various depths cast.

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Selective Insulation Energy Upgrade Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2009 Location: Location: Hexham, United Kingdom Budget: $400,Area: 700 sqft Client: Allenheads Contemporary Arts Status: Built

See also: Selective Insulation Auchinvole, Thermometric House, Four Seasons, House in House and 11.1 Teaching Spring 2011 ARC608 The Exquisite Corpse ________________________________________________

6 Awards and honors 2009 Shortlisted in “Work Spaces“ category ContractWorld International architecture award Organizer: Gesellschaft für Knowhow-Transfer in Architektur und Bauwesen mbH, Hannover, Germany 7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2008 - 2009 Base Elements Stipend Hexham, United Kingdom Role: Stipend Awardee (with S. Davidson) Grant Amount: $10,000 8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions

9 Publications 9.1 Authored, peer reviewed 9.1.5 Catalogue Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Selective Insulation,“ in eme_2011 6th International Architecture Festival, exhibition catalogue, June 30 - July 3 2011, Barcelona, 140-144. 9.1.6 Online platform 2009 Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Selective Insulation by Davidson Rafailidis,“ Dezeen, May 28, 2009, accessed September 21, 2012. 9.2 Authored, invited 9.2.2 Journal Rafailidis, Georg and Stephanie Davidson, “Selective Insulation,“ in C3 312 (August 2010), 25. 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.1 Book chapter van Uffelen, Chris, “Selective Insulation,“ in Working in Style, ed. Office van Uffelen (Berlin: Braun Publishing, 2016), 146-149. Rocca, Alessandro, “Capte-Lumière,“ in Architecture Low Cost Low Tech, (Paris: Actes Sud, 2010), 66-71. Serrats, Marta, “Innovative Ideas,“ in 150 best Eco House Ideas, ed. Marta Serrats (New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010), 526-531.

2011 Eme3 6th International Architecture Festival Curated by Javier Planas 9.3.2 Journal COAC Col-legi d‘Architectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain June 30 - July 3 Brecht, Małgorzata, “Twój dom, twoje biuro!“ in Office Magazyn, August 2012, 50-51. 2010 ContractWorld.Award category: New Generation Feil, Tanja, “Warme Zelle,“ in Metamorphose 05/11 Deutsche Messe, Hannover, Germany (2011), cover page + 40-41. January 16-19 8.3 Invited international exhibitions 2009 North East Festival of Architecture NEFA 2009 Boho One, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom June 13-28 2009 Base Elements Invited by Allenheads Contemporary Arts ACA Dovetail Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom. April 4 - May 8

Rocca, Alessandro, “Achiappaluce,“ in Interni N.57 (January 2010), 53-54. Griffioen, Roel, “Plaatselijke warmte,“ in AWM de architectuur voorbij 28, (September/October 2009), 17. Choppin, Elizabeth, “Room inside a room,“ in Onoffice 33, August 2009, 61. Henket, Maartje, “Warme broekzak,“ in de Architect 09/09-40 (2009), 82-83. 9.3.5 Online journal and newspaper 2009

Mauer, Rolf, “Bauen mit eingepackter Luft.“ AZ Architekturzeitung, September 29, 2009, accessed September 24, 2012.

9.4 Project mention by others 9.4.1 Print Davidson, Stephanie, “Architect as Initiator,“ in Beyond Patronage, ed. Joyce Hwang and Martha Bohm (Barcelona: Actar, 2015), 15, 17. Pirola, Matteo, “Finestre/Windows,“ in Inventario 02 (2010), 121. “studio,“ in ART – Das Kunstmagazin 8/09 (2009), 17.

Selective Insulation Hexham England Selective Insulation is an artist‘s studio in Hexham England. The enclosure is a response to the chilly working conditions in the Old School House, an artists facility. In the Fall, Winter and early Spring, the uninsulated building, a masonry construction built in 1849, requires intensive heating in order to keep it thermally comfortable. Although a central heating system was installed in the building in the 1970‘s, the heating costs are prohibitively high and the system is rarely used. A conventional approach to improving the buildings thermal efficiency would be to line the inside of the stone walls with a new layer of insulation. This approach would lose all potential thermal mass in the stone and create an equally distributed warm zone in the interior. In this project, we asked the question, “Can insulating a building be more strategic? Can it have formal consequences? Can it organize space?” Selective Insulation defines small areas in a building that need to be warm during the cold months of the year. The result are warm “pockets” within existing uninsulated spaces of a building.

Interior view, insulated space

The form of the installation, which acts as a small warm room for sedentary or desk-related work, comes out of a set of parameters related to how the room is used, or the “program.” Required in the program of desk-related work are: 1. a desk, 2. a way to enter/exit, and 3. access to a window. These three elements are positioned as structural anchors, and a connect-the-dots approach is used to create a framework for the volume. The 4m2 interior is the minimum required desk-related working space for two people. Around the framework, an insulating layer of double-ply bubblewrap, commonly used to insulate greenhouses, is wrapped, sealing the space thermally. The installation is positioned within a 66m2 working space as a room-in-a-room, providing temperature-specific spaces for different activities.

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View from the Old School House, overlooking the village of Allenheads and the rural landscape of the North Pennines (top) and exterior of the building (bottom).

Primary Structure

Secondary Structure

Skin

Diagrams showing construction assembly and installation elements (left) and exterior views (right).

11 Warm zone; Insulated space for desk-related work; 3.5m2 22 Cool zone; Uninsulated space for active work; 59.5m2 33 Fireplace; Infrequently used, small warming radius 44 Radiators; Infrequently used, heating costs prohibitively high B

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Temperature Plan Plan showing insulated space (43 sf) within the larger, uninsulated room (710 sf) (top), and temperature distribution plan (bottom).

Public Heat Energy Upgrade Category: Generous architecture and Unstable architecture Date: 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA Budget: $ 1,000 Area: N/A Client: IN:SITE Status: Built

See also: Cafe Fargo (Tipico Coffee), Trigger Points, Public Heat II, A Park ________________________________________________

7 Grants, funding 7.1 External 2008 IN:SITE Milwaukee Arts Grant Milwaukee, WI, USA Role: Stipend Awardee (with S. Davidson) Grant Amount: $1,000 8 Exhibitions 8.1 Juried international exhibitions 2011 Eme3 6th International Architecture Festival Curated by Javier Planas COAC Col-legi d‘Architectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain June 30 - July 3 9 Publications 9.3 Project feature / review by others 9.3.1 Book chapter Davidson, Tonya, “Hot Architecture,“ in Transfer. Beiträge zur Kunstvermittlung #7 (Schöppingen: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Publisher, 2010), 114-119. 9.3.8 Other media Hughes, Tami, “Art You Can Feel.“ New at 5. Milwaukee Fox 6 News, September 25, 2008, TV.

Public Heat

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Apartment Erhard

Date: 2007 Client: Annegret Erhard Budget: $30,000 Area: 950 sqft ________________________________________________

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Apartment Erhard

The original layout of this 85m2 apartment in a turn-of-the century block had three rooms with one-sided light access and a dark, unlit corridor. The client wanted a more open, flexible plan on a tight, shoestring budget. The design strategy developed in respone to these two main criteria was a take-away approach. Existing partition walls were removed and no new walls were introduced. Walls were removed to the point where the plan could be used and read in multiple ways; it was no longer a clearly defined two-bedroom apartment.

Everyday elements were then introduced to allow the inhabitant to change the layout quickly and easily from, for example, a loft into a room-within-a-room or into a two-bedroom apartment. These everyday elements consisted of curtains, doors and cupboards. The photographs here show the the apartment in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loft typology, currently inhabited by a journalist.

Image: View upon entry, seating/eating area.

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Images: Views of eating area, sleeping niche, lounge area, each spatially separated with minimal means.

Drawings showing the variability of the plan in Apartment Erhard

Plan Pre-renovation

Added Walls

Perimeter space open around closed core space

Snail Spaces

A loft with one closeable room

Corridor Typology

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Notting Hill Gate London England Date: 2003-4 Client: Private Budget: $1,800,000 Area: 3875 sqft For Herzog & de Meuron ________________________________________________

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Notting Hill Gate

Notting Hill is a refurbishment and extension of a typical Victorian terraced house. It is divided vertically into three main areas: a continuous split level space over 3 storeys forms the public part, above a compact floor with room cells comprises kids / guest / baths, the master area at the top level is formed sculpturally throughout. We were interested in the tension between the existing structural exterior London stock bricks and the new interior drylining. The gypsum plasterboards nestle like an inflated balloon against the hard exterior brick shell.

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Image: Detail, finished interior.

EXISTING FIBROUS PLASTER

HERZOG & DE MEURON

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Image: Construction process.

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Tate Modern Extension London England Date: 2004-12 Client: Tate Gallery of Modern Art Budget: $160,000,000 Area: 260,000 sqft For Herzog & de Meuron ________________________________________________

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Tate Modern Extension London England Tate Modern 2 is the extension of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art Although the completion of the extension is slated for 2010, my in London England. The extension was initiated in response to participation in the design phase of the project lasted one year. the need for Exhibition spaces with a more diverse character as the evolving nature of art practice demands a mixture of more intimate and larger spaces, refined and raw spaces, existing found spaces and new spaces. Tate Modern 2 will also house the necessary areas for new public programs like the expanding educational program and enhanced visitor facilities and social spaces. The extension brings an additional 23.000mÂ˛ to the Tate, which makes up approx. 50% of the existing gallery. The tapered shape of the tower is visible from the north side of the river, the current main access point for the gallery. The extension will offer a third entrance from the south, creating open north-south circulation axis through the building.

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Image: Schematic design model.

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Image: Schematic design drawings.

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Südwestmetall Reutlingen Reutlingen Germany Date: 2002 Client: Südwestmetall e.V. Budget: 12,000,000 Euro Area: 4000 sqm For Allman Sattler Wappner Architekten ________________________________________________ Publications BDA Buch, Auszeichnung Guter Bauten (Baden-Württemberg, 2006)

a+u, 10/2002

Arquitectura, Nr. 87/2002 Architektur Neues Baden-Württemberg (Salenstein: Verlagshaus Braun, 2006) Baumeister, 08/2002 Ruby, Ilka, Groundscapes (Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2006) Exhibitions Ferguson, Francesca, Epicentres at the Periphery. Venice Biennale 2004 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004) „Best of europe Office.“ in AIT, 2004 DAM Architecture Annual 2003 – Architecture in Germany (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2003) Transsolar Klima-Engineering (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2003) Bell, Victoria and Patrick Rand, Materiality for Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003) Metal Architecture, design & construction (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2003) The architectural review, 10/2005 Archithese, 07/2004 Havard Design Magazine, 04/2004 Archithese, 02/2004 AMC Le moniteur architecture, 12/2003 Archicrée, 11/2003 Detail, 08/2003 Techniques & Architecture, Nr. 464/2003 Il Giornale dell‘ Architettura, 01/2003 db Deutsche Bauzeitung, 01/2003 DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, 12/2002

„ Deutschlandscape : epicentres at the periphery.” Venice Biennale 2004 : 9th International Architecture Exhibition, German Pavilion, September 12 – Novermber 11, 2004.

Südwestmetall Reutlingen

Simple in shape, the design of this company headquarters reconciles the local building regulations with Südwestmetall’s desire to express it’s identity as a metal processing organisation. The individual buildings with their tilted roofs are a reference to the contextual building forms and the standards in this area of Reutlingen. The surfaces consist of two differently worked metals; stainless steel with laser cutout pattern is used for the ground-floor exterior and facades. It quotes the wrought-iron trelliswork of the adjacent buildings. A smooth, jointless stainless steel is used for the facade on the upper-floors of the buildings.

In this self-organizing pattern, each of the stainless steel tiles is different and owns one specific location on site. The logistics of production, storage and assemby became the main challenge of the project. From the onset assembly areas were defined and each tile was put in an assembly sequence. Each tile was then laser cut, received a unique naming code, and stored in portable shelving boxes in the exact sequence of assembly.

The ornamental pattern was developed like a growing plant. It results in a single 2400m2 image rather than repeating patterns. The first step was to develop a diagram of density, defining the necessary percentage of opening cut into the steel to meet light, ventilation, walkability and plantability requirements. Then the leaves of the plant pattern “grew” according to the density diagram.

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Image: Photo, finished exterior.

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SORTIERTE GRUPPEN

Professional Practice prior to Working Independently

Image: Drawings showing the tile elevation (top); tile organization in plan and photos showing the tile shipment and installation (bottom).

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