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berkeley street theater
berkeley street theater
berkeley street theater fall semester 2016 site: toronto, ontario critics: Marianne McKenna +Kyle Dugdale In order to excite a new generation of theater goers and participants, this scheme for a new complex for Canadian Stage exposes and layers unexpected and active views between both production and performance spaces. This spatial layering allows the public to glimpse the inner workings of the theater and the inner realm of the historic masonry buildings of the old Toronto Gas Works. A public path weaves through a constellation of old and new construction that houses a variety of programs from rehearsal space, to costume shop, woodshop, and technical spaces. This path, reminiscent of the interior courtyard space of the historic gas works complex, connects the eastern and western boundaries of the site back into the spatial experience of Toronto at large, allowing the public visual access to the life of the theater.
The most important moments of pause and performance are housed on the 2nd floor, the theatrical mezzanine. Here, floating floor plates hover inside the old masonry structures, using both structural effect and material to highlight the joint between old and new. Both the large theater and small warehouse are accessed via a highceilinged historic building in order to celebrate the threshold between old and new. Ultimately, it is this layering of exposed interior views that reaffirms Canadian Stage’s grounded, yet daring approach to the theater.
berkeley street theater
berkeley street theater
berkeley street theater
bridgeport by the sea
bridgeport by the sea
bridgeport by the sea spring semester 2016 site: bridgeport, ct critics: Andrei Harwell This project revives Bridgeport’s waterfront identity by establishing a web of interconnected, pedestrian-friendly public realms. By providing a new storm water management system, the strain on the underground sewer is reduced and prevents downstream flooding. Storm-water management is revealed above ground as a beautiful and performative system taking advantage of local conditions. Beginning from towers located at high points, a pedestrian path and water channel system guides residents through a series of new public squares that occupy formerly vacant lots. The path culminates in waterfront development sites with retrofitted industrial buildings and new mixed-use typologies that always include an elevated public realm and access to the river. The project begins with a “light” phase, illuminating the shores of the river and the subsequent water paths slated for development, redefining Bridgeport’s relationship with water as the physical paths and performative public squares gradually take shape.
LIGHT
bridgeport by the sea
BUILD
bridgeport by the sea
final scheme: design school for keane university
final scheme: design school for keane university fall semester 2015 site: union, nj critic: Tessa Kelly
Tri-partite bars provide the ideal studio layout where students have easy contact with one another, the public, and the outdoors. Each long studio bar is flanked by a dedicated outdoor couryard on one side and a long ribbon of pin-up space on the other. This arrangement means that the informal pin-up space, which also provides circulation, becomes a place of interaction and idea exchange with views to the studios on either side. One studio in each bar is raised and one is at grade providing sectional variation and views down into the lower tray. The fully glazed sides of the studios allow the public traveling via the street or the central walkway to the public program (auditorium, gallery, and library) at the back of the site to catch long glimpses into the design process without distrupting students. All the large scale public program is located at the back of the site to pull the public in. This area is also raised to look back on the studio spaces, i.e. the heart of the design school.
intial scheme: design school for keane university
intial scheme: design school for keane university fall semester 2015 site: union, nj critic: Tessa Kelly
A campus oriented around a raised breezeway seeks to draw both architects and non-architects across the busy street flanking the site, while also serving as a place of social interaction and idea exchange. The gallery and cafe are the welcoming face to the street and form an entry into the design campus, where studio space is given priority. The studio bars are oriented east-west to maximize the amount of north light recieved by each studio bar over the course of the day. The studio bars are tri-partite in nature with every studio flanked by both an outdoor terrace and a pin up space. These bars are made up of three terraced levels allowing for varying amounts of privacy in each studio with the lowest opening onto a dedicated sunken court yard.
jim vlock building project
jim vlock building project summer 2015 site: new haven, ct critics: Alan Organschi, et al. The first year class at the Yale School of Architecture works together to see a schematic design become a reality. After each of us created a proposal, we split into teams of six to further develop eight chosen designs. Out of these eight, one was selected for construction. Using the winning proposal for a 1000 sq. ft., affordable house in downtown New Haven, we produced a complete set of construction drawings. Then, for two months, we worked in teams on site to build the house. We learned the construction sequence from excavation, foundation pour, framing, exterior envelope, and beyond, via hands on experience. The project was finished in August of 2015 and a local family in need moved in shortly thereafter.
team phase: jim vlock building project
team phase: jim vlock building project spring semester 2015 site: new haven, ct critic: Joeb Moore, Peter deBretteville Starting with the bi-nuclear scheme that we inherited from the individual phase of the project, we devised a series of manipulations to the basic diagram allowing our house to maximize the irregular site while being contextually relevant. Axes serve to open all interior spaces to the outdoors providing light and crossventilation. By popping up the living room ceiling, light floods into the main communal space. While imbuing the interior of the house with a sense of grandeur, this gesture also gives back to the neighborhood at night by creating a glowing beacon on the corner. The living space can open up completely to the backyard becoming a continuation and expansion of the social space. By carving into the house at the end of its main axes, we introduce moments where the garden encroaches into the home. This allows for a seamless relationship to the outdoors.Though the footprint is small, the house feels gracious,
group work with Ava Amirahmadi, Dan Glick-Unterman, Aary Lee, Christopher Leung + James Schwartz
original diagram
wrap with porous interior wall
turn to adress corner
wrap with exterior wall to re elate to neighborhood
establish main public space and lantern
establish view and circulation axes
team phase: jim vlock building project
team phase: jim vlock building project
TEAM G
ENTRY / DOUBLE HEIGHT DETAIL 3” = 1’ - 0”
INSULATION
JOIST
TOP STUDS WOOD TRIM METAL FRAME
GLASS
WOOD SIDING PARTICLE BOARD INSULATION WATER PROOFING MEMBRANE STUD WALL GYPSUM BOARD
2x10 STUD
BATT INSULATION
2x6 STUD
+6” INTERIOR GRADE REINFORCED CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB WOOD DECK
+0” OUTSIDE GRADE TOPSOIL
REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING DRAINAGE BOARD
GRAVEL
4” DIAMETER DRAIN PIPE
-42” FROSTLINE
individual phase: jim vlock building project
individual phase: jim vlock building project residence 198 winthrop ave. spring semester 2015 site: new haven, ct critic: Trattie Davies
As part of the designbuild studio during Yale’s 1st year program, the prompt called for a simple and clear structure. With the New Haven triple decker as a typological framework, I worked to distill and recombine the elements into a smaller footprint. This 1000 square foot residence pays homage to the architecture of neighborhood while updating it to make way for a closer relationship between interior and exterior spaces. These connections along with varying levels of transparencies establish a hierarchy of most public to most private space.
trajan’s forum s p r i ng s e m es t e r 20 16 r ome: c o n ti n ui ty a nd cha ng e Jo yce H s i a n g, B i m al M e nd i s , G eorg e Kn igh t e t . a l . p enci l o n pa pe r
assorted in situ sketchbook drawings s umme r 2016 r ome: c o n ti n ui ty a nd cha ng e Jo yce H s i a n g, B i m al M e nd i s , G eorg e Kn igh t e t . a l . col ored pen cil + pe n on p a p e r
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v illa b org he se g ar d e ns
p i az z a d ell a ro t unda
representational studies, glen murcutt’s simpson-lee house s umme r 2015 cri ti cs : Jo hn B l o o d + Jo hn E b erha rt g roup d r a w i n gs w i th cl assm a tes G arret t Ha r dee + Rob er t Co r n e ile s s e n
representational studies, glen murcutt’s simpson-lee house s umme r 2015 cri ti cs : Jo hn B l o o d + Jo hn E b erha rt i nd i vi d u al s t udie s
IPMS transformations fall 2014 instructors: Kent Bloomer, Sunil Bald pencil on paper
frag m e n t a t io n a n d r e c om b i n a t i on fall 2014 instructors: Kent Bloomer, Sunil Bald pencil on paper