HARRISON R AT C L I F F WORKS
2013-2016
H ARR ISON RATCLIFF- B U S H HARRISONRATCLIFF.COM HARRISON.RATCLIFFBUSH@GMAIL.COM
8 0 1 .5 7 3 .0 4 9 4
418 W 130 ST, #60 NY, NY 10027 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EDUCATION GSAPP COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2013 - MAY 2016
Masters of Architecture High Standing in Design Studios Lowenfish Memorial Prize & Kinne Fellowship for Buddy New Dandy
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 2010 - MAY 2013 Bachelor of Science in Architecture / emphasis in History Magna Cum Laude Architecture Department Scholarship, NewCentury scholarship, and Top Ten scholarship— Full Tuition
WORK EXPERIENCE MARY McLEOD AUG 2015 - JUN 2016
Research Assistant for Architectural Historian Mary McLeod This included translating documents from French to English
A(N) OFFICE - WITH MARCELO DINARDI
DEC 2015 - FEB 2016
Assisted with the design for Promised Land Air for the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale Work included concept design, design development, and representation strategies
ASSEFA GEBREKIDAN MAY 2015 - AUG 2015
Assistant and consultant for the artist and designer in Ethiopia Work included furniture design, exhibition design, curation, graphic design, and writing Curated furniture exhibition at the Embassy of Egypt in Addis Ababa. (Jul 2015)
GSAPP ASSISTANTSHIP AUG 2014 - MAY 2016
Position for the core Architectural Drawing & Representation classes Headed by Laura Kurgan (C4SR), Josh Uhl (Toshiko Mori), and Luc Wilson (KPF)
DACRUZ SEGAL ARCHITECTURE
JUL 2014 - SEP 2014
Part-time summer position in an architecture firm Consisted of designing and drafting: concept design, design-development, construction drawings
RAFI SEGAL APR 2014 - SEP 2014
Summer position for architecture and a publication for the Obama Library foundation including research, graphics, concept design, rendering, and assembling the book Worked on a large residential addition from concept to construction and documentation
SPARANO + MOONEY ARCHITECTURE
JUN 2013 - SEP 2013
Design position/freelance and consultation SUMMIT Group competition - invited architectural design competition for SummitGroup (award delay) Houses, facade studies, and furniture design and construction
SKILLS Program: Visualization: Writing: Languages:
Adobe cs6 Suite, Rhino 5, 3dsMax, Vray, Grasshopper, Autocad, Revit, ArchiCAD, and Vectorworks Rendering, drawing, animation, model-making, and urban research Critical thought, grant proposals, and creative short stories and essays French (intermediate), Spanish (beginner), and Amharic (intermediate)
VOLUNTEER / SERVICE FARM DEC 2014 - MAY 2016
Collaborative studio group with Lindsey Lee and Galen Pardee EOYS GSAPP exhibition for our year in 2015 & 2016 Bi-monthly events for sharing personal works to foster a stronger studio community Coordinator for Works-In-Progress, a series of discussions between MFA, Art History, and M. Arch students (Spring, 2016)
COLUMBIA GSAPP PUBLICATION (: OR COLON ) 2014
A coordinator, an editor, and an interviewer for the student-run publication additionally, assisted with publication graphics and sponsored events
ARCHiCHICKS GIRL SCOUTS
Aided in the planning and execution of an event the University of Utah’s SoA conducted to introduce young girls to the architectural profession Received two ACSA awards for Collaborative Practice and Diversity Achievement
INTERNATIONAL MENTOR / UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
DEC 2012 - APR 2013
MAY 2012 - MAY 2013
Voluntary position assisting and guiding foreign exchange students with adjusting to a new culture and place Leader of 7 other mentors and mentor to four great students
Research + Publication BUDDY NEW DANDY MAY 2016 - JUNE 2016
research fellowship analyzing and comparing the scenographic techniques of Thomas Jefferson’s architecture and Cy Twombly’s photographs to develop an aesthetic theory.
BRICK VAULT WORKSHOP APR 2016
a week spent researching exploring catenary vault forms for BrickStudio with Jing Lui (So-Il) concluded with a group construction of a catenary vault
AUTONOMY & ANONYMITY* AUG 2015 - DEC 2015
research fellowship done with Lauren Johnson on LGBTQ refugees during the Syrian Crisis field analysis conducted in Greece and Jordan *presented at Columbia University titled: “The Spatial Impact of Forced Migration: Implications for Urban Scholarship and Practice”
WORKSHOP MERKATO JUN 2015
fellowship researching the architectural scale of the Merkato in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with regards to shifting methods of control and adaptation exhibition at Zoma Gallery in Addis Ababa analytical drawing, photography, and written documentation
SAH ARCHIPEDIA (UTAH)* 2013 - 2016 *3 essays on important buildings in Utah and their historical and present importance published with 50 essays May 2016
DIALECTIC (UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PUBLICATION) Aesthetic F**king with Harrison Nesbitt (2014 - 2015) unfinished
2011 - 2016
honors + awards Assisted design on Promised Land Air with A(n) Office - Exhibited in US Pavilion for 2016 Venice Biennale. Project titled SCHOOL exhibited at the 2016 Rotterdam Biennale with Nahyun Hwang. Exhibited at GSAPP: GSAPP Housing Studio by Mark Wasiuta (fall 2015) and Administration Exhibition (fall 2015) Published in Abstract: Interior (fall 2014, critic: Mario Gooden) and Untitled (fall 2013, critic: Pep Aviles) Highest Student Award - University of Utah College of Architecture & Planning Utah Public Interest Design Award with Project: Architecture - group received honorable mention
1.1 Section Detail & AirBrick Unit, TECTONIC This is the new brick. It consists of 3 nesting ETFE balloons, each with metal flakes inside, roughly the size of a boulder. The valve joins all 3 nesting balloons together to the exterior drape layer, allowing for the pneumatic tubes to swag. The nesting provides redundancy to a delicate static system. But it also produces an effect of 3 reflective surfaces distorting and blurring the interior and surroundings. Condensation accumulating on the inside of each surface adds a colorful, ghostly transparency.
GSAPP_ Jing Lui_ SP16_ Studio VI
1.2 Plan & Zoom Drawings, TECTONIC The building proposed along with the architectural system was a lazy river pool. The pool worked as another fluid weight to counterbalance the vault structure. The pool wrapped the site, pressing up against the buildings.
+.5’
+- 0
-.5’
-1’
+1’
-1.5’
-2’ -2.5’
+1.5’ -3’
-3’
-2.5’
2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2.1 Lower Plan, SCHOOL This ideal campus has two main struggles. Firstly, as a sacristied, bounded object, linked by a water taxi network to New York City, it floats in the sound off La Guardia. Secondly, circulation is dense within the city, and ideally, within a global exchange of people, goods, and services. The island is designed to be a series of self-sustaining structural units built off-site and floated into place and assembled. 1. Tidal Fins, 2. Generators, 3. Restroom, 4. Egress Nodes, 5. Mechanical + Pumps, 6. Water Storage, 7. Passenger Elevators, 8. Freight Elevators
GSAPP_Nahyun Hwang_SP15_Studio IV
+50'
-1.0
+40'
-2.0
-3.0
+30'
-4.0
-15.0
+40' +50'
-5.0
Âą0' -14.0
+30'
-13.0
-12.0
-11.0
+30'
+30'
-10.0
+30' -9.0
-8.0
-7.0 +60'
-6.0 +70'
-11.0 -10.0 -9.0 -8.0 -7.0 -6.0 +50' -5.0
-4.0 Âą0'
-3.0
+30' +70' +50'
-2.0
+50'
+50'
2.3 Plan Detail 3 (above), SCHOOL This university unravels classical academic hierarchy. The upper level is a continuous surface disk, approximately 2000’ in diameter, contoured like a soft landscape. The university departments are fractured into thousands of pieces of roving, inanimate, and transgressive furnitures (independent and mobile).
2.4 Plan Detail 3 (below), SCHOOL The outside of the circle is lined with docks for commuters and for service deliveries. Trash and waste is able to be collected on the periphery into massive flexible sacks that float on the surface, and can be periodically carried away up river to the landfill and water treatment facility.
2.5 Model Photos, SCHOOL
3.1 Roadmap Detail 1, CURTAINWALL The faรงade looks like melting glass sweeping and spilling inside. A narrow 5 story building will be clad with a double skin, 20 unit system curtainwall panels, tipped forward 10 degrees. Cast and/or slumped glass with imperfect thicknesses produces optical distortions. The city is weirdly reflected through the curved glass and IGU. The cavity is ventilated by air entering through the floor, and returned behind the fabric cover above, making it billow slightly.
GSAPP_Robert Heintges_SP16_Adv Curtain Wall
4.1 Section & Superimposed Plans, HOUSE The project is composed of a housing tower and monument, located along the Harlem river in New York. The floor slabs corkscrew to make a continuous surface. We broke down and rearrange program into a complex hierarchy, removing square footage from the apartments and adding it to shared space, which was more luxurious the more it was shared.
GSAPP_Mario Gooden_FA14_Studio III
DW UP
4.2 Axonometric 2 and Interior Model Study, HOUSE Our initial studies of designing new units looked at flexibilities, and semi-transparent walls that could open up when the comfort level of the individuals in the units became more open to the idea. Multi-family units repeat every 1 and 1/4 revolution of the corkscrew. The shape units inside the multi-family unit is distorted to fit structure as well as to imitate the perspectives of previous floors so that each unit LOOKS the same.
5.1 Axonometric 5 & Animation Still, BANK It is a bank and therapeutic center for those with amnesia. The formal language is object and planar, proportioned and made into a familiar sign, and harshly fused. Circulation for the combined the RaumPlan and Domino system to make continuous circulation. Animation at harrisonratcliff.com/bank
GSAPP_Christoph Kumpusch_SP14_Studio II
L O C K E R S
Locker Room is a serpentine hallway. Clothes are deposited into the lockers. You may rest on the benches in front of the mirrors at the end of each space. Vanity though usually serves as a stronger magnet. Leaving the Locker Room, you are confronted with 2 automated doors, one an elevator. The other is entered first which behind holds two small amphitheaters placed behind the mirrors of the Locker Room. The glass is one directional.
up
up
6.1 Locker Plan & Axo, BATH From the outside it appears like a black monolith, but is in fact a concrete screen covering the building. The Bath is a path, first and for most, where the spaces in preparation are treasured just as highly. The Bath is sited on the corner of 100th st and Manhattan Ave, on the NYCHA development, as a defense against the rapid gentrification occurring across the street.
GSAPP_Pep Aviles_FA13_Studio I
12
11
10
9
8
6
5
4
3
2
1
RN
5’
TU
7.1 Plan & Section, TOILET A mirrored, triangulated surface wraps the plumbing, connecting the ceiling to the floor, and containing access to all services within this surface. It is contained again within a rectilinear volume of 1-way glass.
GSAPP_Pep Aviles_FA13_Studio I
WEST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/8” = 1’
EVEN FLOOR PLAN 1/8” = 1’
ODD FLOOR PLAN 1/8” = 1’
7TH FLOOR PLAN 1/8” = 1’
8.1 Elevations & Plans, TECH V The project was for a a fixed sized building that would incorporate art studios, gallery spaces, and offices. The building is arranged to have single and double height spaces. The beams are increased, and the second tier of every floor is hung from the ceiling to minimize columns by using tension members, as well as avoiding the need for columns all together on the first tier. Group Project with Jesse Catalano, Lindsey Lee, Abe Bendheim, and Melody Ho.
GSAPP_Anton Martinez_SP14_Tech V