PORTFOLIO Ian Bankhead
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Academic
Ian Bankhead M.Arch1 Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design (805)-708-5533 ianbankhead@gsd.harvard.edu
Professional
Gentle Giants
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70 Washington Square
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House for Three Generations
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Double Talk
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Blackbird Internship
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4335 Huddart Ave.
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Gentle Giants Core 1V Studio, Professor Grace La In Collaboration with Danmo Fu This project proposes a housing development above a subterranean bathhouse in Jamaica Plain, MA. The proposal forges a new relationship between infrastructure and public space by injecting an existing water management sequence with a hedonistic spirit. The apartment units collect rainwater and deliver it to an open ground plane. Here it is collected in an urban river. From here, it is filtered and brought to a subterranean bath house. This idea developed in response to the history of our site, where a stream that was once a vital part of public life in industrial Jamaica Plain is now enclosed in a culvert. Though the stream had been the most salient public space in the town in a time when goods were transported by water, it also threatened the town with frequent flooding and was eventually converted into a banal and hardly noticeable piece of infrastructure, no longer celebrated as a space in the city. We questioned the notion that managing a natural resource in the city means de-spatializing it. Instead, we suggest that an engineered sequence of water management might not only be experienced spatially, but even engender a new form of public space that is both infrastructure and celebration.
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70 Washington Square Core III Studio, Professor John May, 2019
This project proposes a design school above Philip Johnson’s Bobst Library at New York University. Mindful of the fraught reputations of Johnson, Bobst, and the library itself, this design adopts an urban posture that balances precariously upon the library to address the adjacent Washington Square Park. The library becomes a pedestel for an object carved in reference to its urban context. The structural strategy of hanging the school from a massive outrigger truss enables and reinforces this formal ambition. The project looks to the rigorously implemented social diagrams of Bertrand Goldberg and Louis Kahn to formulate a critique of contemporary work culture’s gravitation towards universal space. Unwilling to make prescriptions, corporate and coworking spaces alike often forgoe spatial richness for the supposedly unlimited potential of the generic. This addition operates according to a diagram that has social and thermodynamic implications. At the periphery, a thickened envelope contains cellular spaces of individual study; a sectionally dynamic knot at the center of the plan promotes visual connection between a series of presentation, pin-up, and lecture spaces.
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House for Three Generations 7-Week Option Studio, Professor Toshiko Mori
This project draws on the striking relationship of private space and collective circulation found in American shotgun houses to propose a multigenerational household. Studying the typology, I noted the efficiency with which it occupies the entire site, and the privacy of the enclosed bedrooms, enforced by their relationship with the hallway, all of which give life in this house a distinct grain. And where you can situate yourself along this grain has to do with your position within the family. With this in mind, I developed a home for three generations that layers spaces of privacy with shared spaces of flexibility. There is one bar of enclosed private space for each of three generations. Circulation runs parallel to each bar to produce privacy and a cross of flexible shared living space binds these spaces together.
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Double Talk 7-Week Option Studio, Professor Sharon Johnston
Double Talk begins with a provocation from artist Theaster Gates. Theaster’s work revitalizes communities by reinterpreting worn-out buildings; about this work he says: “The creating that we do is creating a platform.” This project wonders how an archive might adopt that attitude to shift its presence in the city. Rather than a monumental container that reinforces an institutional narrative about what is important, this archive is reconsidered as a frame that supports the autobiographical effort of its community. To that end the project uses porosity as an urban strategy and an atmospheric sensibility to temper the monumentality of an institutional building. This scheme reconciles an urban condition calling for a promendade building with a programmatic argument calling for a building of rooms. The site rests between two contrasting urban conditions in Philadelphia’s University City; to the South is an impressive row of tall buildings and to the North is an older and more modest residential neighborhood. This project extends and interiorizes the sidewalk that cuts across these two conditions. An interior urbanism develops in the public part of the building, intensifying in proximity to the street. Blocks of program are embedded in a flexible grid of circulation. However, this organization is invested with a certain ambiguity by a series of rooms that span otherwise clear spaces of circulation and program. This project proposes a type of room that prompts continual reinterpretation by overlapping spaces. Rooms are composed of spaces that resonate with implications of use through proportion, size, and figure. Several figures of related proportions make each room, offering multiple readings of orientation, movement, threshold, and stasis. A language of hallways, crescents, and quadrilaterals produces a spatial doublespeak that suggests meaning but resists singular interpretation. This language 21
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Blackbird Internship Summer 2019 235 Palm Ave. Santa Barbara CA 93101 USA t 805.957.1315 f 805.957.1317 www.bbird.com
With Blackbird, my responsibilities included drafting, physical modelling, digita modelling, client presentations. I also worked on schematic design for residential, office, academic, and religious projects. 1
The office was interested in developing techniques to present work to clients in virtual reality. We experimented with VR photographs, renderings, walkthroughs, and scale models. I researched and tested available software and hardware, codifying a series of workflows that I presented to the office in a workshop at the end of the summer. I also produced VR visualizations and presented them in client meetings. The following spread contains an existing/proposed sequence that I produced for a library renovation project. In VR, the client is immersed in a 360 degree stereoscopic photograph which is followed by a matching rendering. We found this to be an effective way to convey the spatial qualities of atmosphere and scale.
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4335 Huddart Ave. 2021, in collaboration with Long Ho
DRAFTED BY:
68'-8" PROPERTY LINE 55'-6" 25'
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PROPOSED ADU 999 SQ.FT
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ELECTRICAL PANEL
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4335 HUDDART AVE EL MONTE, CA 97131 ADU
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84'-4"
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PROPOSED J.ADU 497 SQ.FT
APN 8569-016-037
CLIENT NAME:
ELECTRICAL PANEL
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The project is under FEMA Flood Zone X (Area of minimal flood hazard) The scope of work is to design and obtain City building permits for the above mentioned project.
192' PROPERTY LINE V.I.F
41'-2"
It is assumed that there is no easement on the side yard and back yard that has impacts to the location of the ADU and the J.ADU.
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HIDDEN LINES INDICATE LOCATION OF EXISTING STORAGE TO BE REMOVED
This drawing set proposes an ADU just under 1000 SQ.FT, an J.ADU below 500 SQ.FT, and 3 more parking space on the front yard. The one-story detached ADU consists of 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms with kitchen, living/dining area. The J.ADU attached to the rear MDU, consists of 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom with kitchen and living area.
5'SIDE YARD SETBACK
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This 0.29 ac lot size is located on Medium Low Density Residential (6.1-8.0 du/ac). The Client would like to build a detached with max 1000-sf ADU and a 500- sf J.ADU
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5' REAR YARD SETBACK
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
68'-8" PROPERTY LINE 5'SIDE YARD SETBACK
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This project proposes two new accessory dwellings on a multifamily residential lot in El Monte, CA. We developed site plans and floor plans for our client, and worked with city officials to attain building permits.
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SITE ANALYSIS APN ZONING:
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LOT AREA: 0.29 AC EXISTING FLOOR AREA
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717 SQ. FT
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400 SQ.FT 2,642 SQ.FT
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