Portfolio II Abridged

Galo Ca単izares Portfolio II, Graduate School Projects and Other Stories (Abridged)

2011-2013

KYU SUNG WOO ARCHITECTS Amherst Greenway Dormitories Construction Documents Set

At Kyu Sung Woo Architects, I designed and worked on a 100,000 dormitory project from schematic design through construction documents. I was involved primarily with the exterior and material detailing. I worked with the team to design details for material transitions, curtainwall systems, windows, shades, roof assemblies, guardrails, and exterior landscape transitions.

K

K.5

VAPOR IMPERMEABLE MEMBRANE (AVB)

K

4-02 MASONRY VENEER WALL SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

UPTURN BEAM SEE S DRGS.

Greenway Dormi ALIGN

SSTL THROUGH WALL FLASHING W/ END DAMS AT CONTROL JOINT

ALUM. TAPE OR EQUAL SEPARATION LAYER

CONTROL JOINT

Amherst Colleg 6 East Drive / PO Box Amherst, MA 010

7-02

1/4" : 12" SLOPE

SEE A7.00

ARCHITECT: Kyu Sung Woo Architects, Inc. 488 Green Street Cambridge, MA 02139 P 617-547-0128

7-07

1' - 2"

SINGLE-PLY ROOFING MEMBRANE

ALUM. PANEL SEE A7.00

11 1/4"

1/2"

1' - 4"

9' - 6" A.F.F. SINGLE-PLY MEMBRANE STEP FLASHING

8' - 2" A.F.F. 1"

9"

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS.

MILLWORK SSTL EDGE FLASHING

14

MASONRY VENEER WALL

SECTION DETAIL - BUILDING A POP-OUT CW HEAD

NOTES:

1 1/2" = 1'-0"

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INT. ELEV. POP OUT 1/2" = 1'-0"

1/2"

4-02

1/2"

COLUMN LINE REF.

10

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS.

TOS. 5TH FLOOR, BUILDING A

TOS. 6TH FLOOR, BUILDING A

7-07

GWB SOFFIT

ALUM. PANEL SEE A7.00

5 1/4"

3" = 1'-0"

1/2"

1' - 1 1/4"

8"

8"

CUTAWAY VIEW - ROOF TIE IN AT BUILDING A POP-OUT

5 1/4"

8 5/8" 9"

9

ALIGN

8 5/8" 10"

SEE A7.00

1"

4 3/4"

5 3/4"

GWB WALL BEYOND COLUMN LINE

COMPOSITE ALUM. SOFFIT

K

5 1/4" COMPOSITE ALUM. SOFFIT

MILLWORK SILL

2

SECTION DETAIL - HEAD OF BLDG A ELEVATOR LOBBY 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

1

SECTION DETAIL - BLDG A POP-OUT CW SILL 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

K

PLAN DETAIL - NORTH JAMB AT SHEAR WALL

COLUMN LINE

COLUMN LINE REF.

1/2"

CORNER MULLION ENGINEERED BY CW MANF.

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS.

9"

A

8 5/8"

1/2"

B

D

8"

1/2" COMPOSITE ALUM. PANEL

1/2"

1/2"

MILLWORK

1' - 7 1/4"

7-07 SEE A7.00

C

TOS 3RD FLOOR

TOS. 4TH FLOOR, BUILDING A

8"

1/2"

1/2"

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

KEY PLAN:

5 3/4"

10 BRICK ROWS

1 1/2" = 1'-0"

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5 1/4"

6

DRAWING TITLE:

BUILDING A NORTH POP DETAILS

SILICONE TRANSITION STRIP

5 1/4"

9"

6 5/8"

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

8 5/8"

1" 8

PLAN DETAIL - BLDG A POP-OUT

7

1 1/2" = 1'-0"

PLAN DETAIL - CURTAIN WALL CORNER

27

1 1/2" = 1'-0"

3 TO EOS

SECTION DETAIL - SILL/HEAD AT BLDG A ELEVATOR LOBBY 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

13

SECTION DETAIL - HEAD AT BLDG A ELEVATOR LOBBY 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

K

6'-3 1/8"

K

1' - 5 5/8"

SOLID WD TRIM

3/4" VENEER PLY SOLID WD TRIM 1/8" ALUM. PLATE SILL

1/2"

ALUM. FIN BEYOND

ALUM. CURB TRIP W/ TAPING FLANGE TYP.

COLUMN LINE REF.

4"

2 1/3 BRICKS

ELEV. SHAFT

1/2"

TO CONTROL JOINT

2' - 6 1/2"

2' - 6 1/2"

K

16 BRICK ROWS

© COPYRIGHT 2015 KYU SUNG WOO ARCHITECTS, INC.

COLUMN LINE REF.

2' - 5 3/4"

SILICONE TRANSITION STRIP AVB

K

EARLY SITE UTILITY PACKAGE

2014.08.15

50% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

2014.09.30

100% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

40% CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

2014.12.12

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE

2015.02.11

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT

DATE

REVISION

2015.03.02

100% CONSTRUCTION DOCS ADDEND

2015.03.18

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE BULL

SEE LANDSCAPE DRGS FOR EXTERIOR PAVING ASSEMBLY FINISH GRADE

DRAWN BY:

TOS 3RD FLOOR

6 BRICKS

GC

CHECKED BY:

TO CONTROL JOINT

3' - 0"

2014.08.15

AVB

MILLWORK AVB

DEMOLITION OF TEMPORARY DORMIT

SILICONE TRANSITION STRIP

1' - 6"

4-02 SEE A7.00

1/2"

4-02 SEE A7.00

1/2" 1"

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

2' - 6 7/8"

COLUMN LINE REF.

26

SCHEMATIC DESIGN

2014.08.08

ALIGN

ALUM. CURB TRIP W/ TAPING FLANGE TYP.

ISSUE CONCEPT DESIGN SUBMISSION

2014.06.30

2014.11.19

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

COLUMN LINE

7-07 SEE A7.00

COLUMN LINE

3/4" VENEER PLY

1' - 5 5/8"

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCU

DATE 2014.04.30

4 1/4" 5 3/4"

9"

10"

8 5/8"

SH

SCALE:

As indicated

DATE:

03 / 02 / 2015

8 5/8"

DRAWING NUMBER:

5

2

PLAN DETAIL - BLDG A POP-OUT 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

11

PLAN DETAIL - BLDG A POP-OUT 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

4

SECTION DETAIL - SILL AT BLDG A ELEVATOR LOBBY 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

12

SECTION DETAIL - SILL AT BLDG A ELEVATOR LOBBY 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

A8.14

8 5/8" 3"

2"

3 5/8"

6"

270'

TO E.O.S.

4-01

ALUM. SHEAR PLATE ENGINEERING BY MANF.

11 5/8"

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES 6" SPACING, TYP.

9 3/4"

COLUMN LINE

8 5/8"

N

EXTRUDED ALUM. LOUVER VERIFY ANGLE WITH MANF.

TOP OF SLAB

ALIGN

SEE. A7.00

COLUMN LINE

6 5/8"

TYP.

2 3/8"

COLUMN LINE

EOS

9" 7-04 SEE A7.00

Greenway Dormitories

TOP OF SLAB

TOP OF SLAB

Amherst College 6 East Drive / PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002

8"

2 3/8"

3/8" ALUM. BAR STOCK FRAME

4" ALIGN TO B.O. SOLAR SHADE

ALIGN

ARCHITECT: Kyu Sung Woo Architects, Inc. 488 Green Street Cambridge, MA 02139 P 617-547-0128

PROVIDE REINFORCEMENT AS REQ'D ROLLER SHADE (TYPE S4) SEE RCP'S PROVIDE REINFORCEMENT AS REQ'D TO CARRY FIXED LOUVER SYSTEM,

BY CW MANF.

SILICONE TRANSITION SHEET (TIE INTO GLAZING POCKET) FULL HEAD HEIGHT WEEP

1/2"

SEALANT AND BACKER ROD

ALIGN

ALIGN

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS.

THERMAL BREAK ALUM. DOOR

ROLLER SHADE (TYPE S3)

10"

ALUM. FIN BEYOND

ALUM. SHEAR PLATE ENGINEERING BY MANF. FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES 6" SPACING, TYP.

11"

NOTES:

6"

SECTION DETAIL - DOOR HEAD UNDER SLAB

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS.

270'

6"

TYP.

6"

3" = 1'-0"

TYP.

6"

TYP.

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

9' - 4"

2 4"

SECTION DETAIL- CW HEAD AT BLDG A 3" = 1'-0"

N

SECTION DETAIL - TYP. LOUNGE CW HEAD

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES 6" SPACING, TYP.

90 ° AT ° AT BLD BLD GS G A B, C, D

COLUMN LINE

3" = 1'-0"

8' - 2"

7 1/8"

8' - 2"

6 1/2"

4 1/8"

7

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUM. CURTAIN WALL SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

6"

69

KEY PLAN:

TYP.

8

TYP.

10"

EXTRUDED ALUM. LOUVER VERIFY ANGLE WITH MANF.

EXTRUDED ALUM. LOUVER VERIFY ANGLE WITH MANF.

A

G3

B ALUM. SHEAR PLATE ENGINEERING BY MANF.

D

C

SILICONE TRANSITION STRIP

10"

1/2"

N

7-04 SEE A7.00

SSTL FLASHING W/ HEMMED DOWN TURN

CURTAIN WALL DETAILS

1 A8.02

1/4"

4"

1/2"

AVB

4-01 6

SECTION DETAIL - SLIDING DOOR HEAD

5

3" = 1'-0"

P

8"

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

EMBED PLATE SEE S4.03 FOR RELIEVING DETAIL

LEADING EDGE OF LOUVER ALIGNS WITH FACE OF MASONRY AT MASONRY OPENING. COORDINATE WITH DETAILS.

2 3/8"

WP-2 RUBBERIZED ASPHALT SHEET

4-04

SIM

1' - 6"

PLATE ALIGNS AT TERMINATIONS

REVEAL AT JOINTS.

DRAWING TITLE:

ALIGN

ALUMINUM FRAME & SSTL FASTENERS

ALIGN

THERMAL BREAK ALUM. SLIDING DOOR

V.I.F.

4 1/4"

ALUMINUM SHEAR PLATE

SEE A7.00

SEE A.700

CW CORNER W/ FIXED SOLAR LOUVER / PLAN

DATE

ISSUE

2014.04.30

CONCEPT DESIGN SUBMISSION

2014.06.30

SCHEMATIC DESIGN

2014.08.08

DEMOLITION OF TEMPORARY DORMITORIES

2014.08.15

EARLY SITE UTILITY PACKAGE

2014.08.15

50% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

2014.09.30

SSTL ANGLE

100% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

2014.11.19

3" = 1'-0"

40% CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

2014.12.12

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE

2015.02.11

8"

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

FORWARD EDGE OF ROUND COLUMN

4 7/8"

DATE

MULLION BEYOND ALUM. SLIDING DOOR

1"

SILICONE TRANSITION SHEET ASPHALT PAVER

HIGH COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH RIGID INSULATION

REVISION 100% CONSTRUCTION DOCS BULLETIN #5

8

2015.03.18

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE BULLETIN #6

9

270'

EXTRUDED ALUM. BASE. SEE FINISH SCHEDULE

WP-2 RUBBERIZED ASPHALT SHEET

2015.03.18

FILTER FABRIC (DOW CORNING FOAMGLAS OR SIM.) ASPHALT BLOCK PAVER (SEE L DRGS)

2 3/8"

BITUMINOUS CONC SETTING BED (SEE L DRGS)

FINISHED FLOOR - STONE. SEE FINISH SCHEDULE

6" CONC BASE SLAB

1/4"

1/4"

TOP OF SLAB

REBAR (EPOXY COATED)

260' 1" 6"

CW MANF. TO VERIFY SIZING

2"

8 3/8" 1' - 0 5/8"

COLUMN LINE

DRAWN BY:

2"

© COPYRIGHT 2015 KYU SUNG WOO ARCHITECTS, INC.

2"

SIM 1 A8.04

PROVIDE MOVMENT JOINT 3' MIN. FROM FACE OF BLDG. COORDINATE W/ LANDSCAPE

SCALE:

03 / 02 / 2015

DATE:

7-04 SEE A7.00

11 3/8"

DRAWING NUMBER:

1' - 5 5/8"

1' - 7 3/4" 6"

3"

SECTION DETAIL - SLIDING DOOR THRESHOLD 3" = 1'-0"

1/2"

3

MIN

SECTION DETAIL - TYP. LOUNGE CW W/ SHADE

1

3" = 1'-0"

32

N

M

SH 3" = 1'-0"

A8.10

2' - 8 3/8" 4

GC

CHECKED BY:

A2 A7.03

31

SECTION DETAIL - CW SILL AT BLDG A SOUTH 3" = 1'-0"

Greenway Dormitories Amherst College 6 East Drive / PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 01002

A25 A7.03

N

32

M ARCHITECT: Kyu Sung Woo Architects, Inc. 488 Green Street Cambridge, MA 02139 P 617-547-0128

A2 A7.03

A25 A7.03

15' - 0"

SIM 5 A8.50

3 A8.51

3 A8.50

7-01 STANDING SEAM METAL ROOFING SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

1 A8.06

1 A8.06

4 A8.04

NOTES:

4-01 MASONRY VENEER WALL SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

4-01 MASONRY VENEER WALL SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

7 A8.10

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES

9' - 4"

9' - 4"

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES

9' - 4"

6TH FL Building A EL. 308' - 0"

6TH FL Building A EL. 308' - 0"

7 A8.10

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES

FIXED ALUM. LOUVER SOLAR SHADES

10 A8.02

30" CONC. BEAM SEE S DRGS.

6TH FL Building A EL. 308' - 0"

6 R. 11 5/8"

6TH FL Building A EL. 308' - 0"

15' - 3 1/8"

8-01

TYP 3 A8.10

9 A3.10

TRIPLE GLAZED ALUMINUM FRAME CURTAIN WALL. SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

5TH FL Building A EL. 298' - 8"

8 A3.10

5TH FL Building A EL. 298' - 8"

5TH FL Building A EL. 298' - 8"

5TH FL Building A EL. 298' - 8"

KEY PLAN:

9' - 4"

9' - 4"

TYP 3 A8.10

A

9' - 4"

8-01 TRIPLE GLAZED ALUMINUM FRAME CURTAIN WALL. SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

B 10 A8.02

30" CONC. BEAM SEE S DRGS.

D

C

N RELIEVING ANGLE

6 R. 11 5/8"

4TH FL Building A EL. 289' - 4"

4TH FL Building A EL. 289' - 4"

4TH FL Building A EL. 289' - 4"

4TH FL Building A EL. 289' - 4"

DRAWING TITLE:

BUILDING A LOUNGE EAST 4-01

1 A8.06

1 A8.06

9' - 4"

9' - 4"

9' - 4"

MASONRY VENEER WALL SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS 10 A8.02

30" CONC. BEAM SEE S DRGS. 9 A8.04

9 A8.04

10 R. 1' - 7 1/4"

10 R. 1' - 7 1/4"

3RD FL Building A EL. 280' - 0"

3RD FL Building A EL. 280' - 0"

3RD FL Building A EL. 280' - 0"

10' - 0"

10' - 0"

8' - 2 3/4"

7 A3.10

SCHEMATIC DESIGN DEMOLITION OF TEMPORARY DORMITORIES

2014.08.15

EARLY SITE UTILITY PACKAGE

2014.08.15

50% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

2014.09.30

100% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

2014.11.19

40% CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

2014.12.12

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE

2015.02.11

100 % CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

TERRACE PAVING SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

2ND FL EL. 270' - 0"

2ND FL EL. 270' - 0"

2ND FL EL. 270' - 0"

EARLY STRUCTURE BID PACKAGE ADDENDUM #1

10' - 0"

10' - 0"

10' - 0"

2015.01.13

© COPYRIGHT 2015 KYU SUNG WOO ARCHITECTS, INC.

REVISION

7-04

TERRACE PAVING SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

2ND FL EL. 270' - 0"

ISSUE CONCEPT DESIGN SUBMISSION

2014.08.08

DATE

7-04

7-04 TERRACE PAVING SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

10' - 0"

WOOD SOFFIT AT OVERHANG

WOOD SOFFIT AT OVERHANG TRIPLE GLAZED ALUMINUM FRAME CURTAIN WALL. SEE A3.30 FOR TYP. NOTES AND DETAILS

3RD FL Building A EL. 280' - 0"

DATE 2014.04.30 2014.06.30

3-02 SLAB ON GRADE SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

3-02

3-02 SLAB ON GRADE SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

1ST FL EL. 260' - 0"

SLAB ON GRADE SEE A7.00 FOR TYP. ASSEMBLY

DRAWN BY:

GC

CHECKED BY:

1ST FL EL. 260' - 0"

1ST FL EL. 260' - 0"

1ST FL EL. 260' - 0"

SH

SCALE:

As indicated

DATE:

03 / 02 / 2015

DRAWING NUMBER:

A2

WALL SECTION A2 3/8" = 1'-0"

A25

WALL SECTION A25 3/8" = 1'-0"

A1

SOUTH FACADE-EAST, BUILDING A 3/8" = 1'-0"

A3

EAST FACADE, BUILDING A 3/8" = 1'-0"

A7.03 3

1

KENNEDY & VIOLICH ARCHITECTURE North Bennet Street School Construction Documents Set

At Kennedy & Violich Architecture, I worked on the design and construction documents of a rainscreen system as well as a free-standing screen wall to be erected in the courtyard of North Bennet Street School in Boston, MA. In addition to this, I also worked on the interior elevations and wayfinding environmental graphics.

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5

EXQUISITE CORPSES An Architectural Mystery

TOKENS

M.Arch Thesis 2013

a.

2a.

2a.

In 1937, writing about the parallels between mystery fiction and urban dwelling, Walter Benjamin wrote, ““in times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everybody will be in the position of having to play detective.” That is to say that anxieties present within the built environment often lead to a series of actions closely related to those undertaken by detectives. Using this as a departure point, this project seeks to reconstitute a discussion of meaning within architecture through the use of narrative, anachronous formal languages, and literary devices. If we are to take the dismissal of postmodern architectural discussions as a given, we can place meaning as an archaic subject matter limited to autonomous formal readings (i.e. dialogues of surface, geometric complexity, etc) and non-existent in the context of large architectural production (i.e. real estate development, efficiency in construction methods, etc). However, revisiting linguistic analogies and a nostalgia for lost artifacts and pairing them alongside contemporary concerns of urban dwelling and architectural agency, we can re-establish culture-centric modes of architectural production (ones not limited to parametric or positivistic attitudes).

A serial killer’s tokens

By embracing the fictional dimension of an architectural project, and exploring the limits of that fiction, Exquisite Corpses determines a more specific understanding of narrative architecture, one that does not dismiss or marginalize the subject matter but augments it. A fictional narrative suggests that contemporary discussions of meaning in architecture must be taken to certain limits in order to promote agitations, explore morals, and even mediate anxieties—much in the same way detective mysteries operate. While previous attempts at promoting these themes rely largely on architecture ad extremum (read: paper architecture, utopia) this project operates at the scale of the detective mystery or the parable. It sets up an allegorical framework that situates Exquisite Corpses within the lineage of real projects with heavy theoretical underpinnings (Tschumi’s La Villette, Rossi’s urban plazas), but also accepts the dismissive value of fiction. Ultimately, it seeks to revisit a spectral dialogue excluded from most contemporary architectural production, and suggest a probable methodology around which to have discussions of collective memory, meaning, signification, and public identity. a.

4a.

b.

b/2.

c.

d.

4a x f.

b/2.

c - 16d.

e.

~e.

e.

~e.

f.

6

f - (f/10).

(2a-5d)-d.

vlt((2a-5d)-d).

Obeliskora.

4a x f.

(4a x f)-2d.

(4a x f)-2d.

(4a x f)-2d.

vlt((4a x f)-2d).

Obeliska.

(b/2) + 10 - 5e.

3e - (1/3 - z).

11e - 1/4.

3e - (1/3 - z) + vtr.

vtr(f - (f/10))/2.

(vlt((b/2) + 10 - 5e)) - 5d.

(ttr(c - 16d)) - (d x c).

d - (d/2).

(11e - 1/4) - 10d.

vtr(f - (f/10))/2.

vlt((b/2) + 10 - 5e).

ttr(c - 16d).

d - (d/2).

3e.

vtr(f - (f/10)).

(2a-5d)-d.

ttr(c - 16d).

d.

11e.

2a-5d.

(b/2) + 10.

c - 16d.

d.

2a.

(d - (d/2)) - 4e.

3e - (1/3 - z) + vtr.

(11e - 1/4) - 10d.

vtr(f - (f/10))/2.

(ttr(c - 16d)) - (d x c).

vlt((d - (d/2)) - 4e).

vtr(f - (f/10))/2 - 2d.

Theatora.

Tricade.

avg(3e - (1/3 - z) + vtr).

(11e - 1/4) - 10d.

Pentunda.

Archeatre.

vlt(11e - 1/4) - 10d) - 20d.

Archora

vlt(vtr(f - (f/10))/2 - 2d).

Cylindra

99'-7"

1'-1 3/4"

Urban Monuments 14'-11 1/4"

33'-6"

99'-7"

2'-0"

2'-0"

1'-1"

20'-0"

116'-0"

16'-6 3/4" 1'-1 3/4"

29'-10 3/4" 14'-11 1/4"

2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0"

20'-3 1/4"

120'-0"

9'-9"

16'-6 3/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0" 8'-5 1/4" 2'-0"

33'-6" 1'-1"

9'-9"

20'-3 1/4"

116'-0"

135'-7 3/4"

135'-7 3/4"

2'-0"

120'-0"

116'-0" 2'-0"

14'-11 1/4" 29'-10 3/4"

20'-0" 14'-11 1/4"

116'-0"

Ways of reading architecture

A police investigation

Exquisite Corpses: An Architectural Mystery

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FLOATING GIANTS

A Program for Local Warming Option Studio Fall 2012

This project posits itself as an opposition to the boom/ bust scenario. In contrast to the historically significant booms and busts of the herring boom, this project seeks to use the data center as a catalyst for a permanent revitalization of the fishing industry of Raufarhöfn, Iceland. Because the town needs no new building, an intervention in Raufarhofn must react and utilize the residual cultural artifacts and percepts already existing in the town. This, along with the immense affect of the natural phenomena in the landscape ultimately results in a more systemic intervention working in the interstices of culture and industry.

Productivity, here, is directly tied to the identity of the town, thus, any foreign object that is introduced must be mobilized by a larger social or moral order.

Floating Giants, proposes a symbiotic network of data buoys directly connected to a fish hatchery that, using principles of water warming, will revitalize the fishing industry in Raufarhofn.

The resulting intervention is a system of energy flows that encompasses an installation of wave generators, data center buoys, and a fish hatchery.

Using the excess heat of the data servers to heat up the surrounding water, one can create a symbiotic relationship between the server buoys that creates an optimum temperature for farming Atlantic Cod. The cod similar to the herring, thus, becomes the new industry for the town. Furthermore, we can see not only an industrial impact as a result of the data center, but also environmental and cultural consequences. The system of aqua-farming or more accurately aquaforming, creates a new nature distinct from the existing experience of the town. Here, the direct heating of the water, and fish farming become a fantastic landscape of rugged industrial systems, inflatable environments, and new wildlife. Programmatically, the system is made up of Data Center buoys and fishing nets. By shifting the traditional method of fish farming from solid tanks to inflatable boundaries, we can radically increase the amount of cod produced and take full advantage of the local warming impact. It is a highly choreographic system. The fish spawn closest to the server buoys, then as they mature, the nets deflate, releasing the fish to another net, for the next stage of growth. At full maturity, they are transferred to the largest area, where they roam until it’s time for them to be harvested. The harvesting itself then becomes part of the choreogra8

Anatomy of a Floating Giant phy, instigating festivals and spectacles that can be integrated into cultural moments of reflection in Raufarhofn.

The project itself is sited as an offset of the major peninsula. Using this figure as a mediatory buffer between the rough seas and the coast line, the site plan itself is a dynamic organism both iconic, and natural. It expands, contracts, and directly reflects the choreography which mobilizes it. Capturing it at as specific instance in time, we can see the contracting of the inflatable nets, the servicing of the data buoys, the docking of the ships, and the interactions at a human scale. The dynamism, here becomes the spectacle that interpolates between culture and corporate industry. If we are to take the temporality of the data center as a given, we can begin to plan a series of phases for the instantiation of this system. When the data center becomes obsolete, what remains is not a “bust” in the fishing industry, but a series of water-based power stations and cod species adapted to the rising temperature.

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Optimizing the temperature for farming Atlantic Cod

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Local warming fish hatchery Floating Giants

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DIGITAL AGRICULTURE

Urban Planning in Paju Korea, Phase III Option Studio Spring 2013 in Collaboration with Julian Ocampo

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This project is the next in a succession of phases in the development of Paju, Korea. A small urbanization in the outskirts of Seoul, Paju stands as a highly modernized eipcenter of the publishing and media industries. At the outset of this studio we were asked one question: how do you design a city using only a 15% building footprint?

Along with this question, this project also explored the characteristics of a new way of interacting in the digital age. Can we design digital cities? What do advancements in technology have to do with urban planning and the design of public space?

This project proposes an episodic understanding of city planning. The city needs to be a heterogeneous mat of experiences and encounters, therefore the form the city takes needs to be representative of the episodes that lie therein.

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Shifting the traditional mode of eastern urbanism from twodimensional extrusions to three-dimensional continuous fabric.

Dense High Rise Development An aglomeration of dense high rise treedimensional blocks characterizes this par of Paju 3, the composition of these blocks enables large and small companies to occupy Paju 3 in asymetrical ways.

High Rise Billboard The tallest structure on the development stablishes the monumental nature of Paju 3.

Leisure Bridge Leisure activities are incorporated in this mixed use area, with sports, culture and hospitality framing the context of the river.

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Optimization of Agricultural land.

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Lower and easily divided structures make the artisanal agriculture site, where many different small farm operators will have their own storage and living areas while some of the agricultural functions such as silos and greenhouses can be consolidated for greater efficiency.

Four main episodes and circulation in-between.

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DISTORTING CERDA’S GRID

Monumentality, Memory, and Infrastructure Option Studio Spring 2012

The first issue that this project addresses is that of the Icon. Barcelona’s long history with icon stems from Cerda’s grid, and as the city moves toward a post-icon global image, the grid begins to show its inability to act as a cohesive fabric. In the Poblenou area in particular, the low density and scale of the urban environment doesn’t coexist with the grid. It’s stance as an infrastructure that encourages individuality in the single block is outadated in the time of integrated networks and smart grids. Thus, Cerda’s grid has become a product of excess rather than progress and leads us to reinterpret Barcelona’s infrastructrual needs.

The second issue is that of scale. While in Barcelona, we talked to the chief architect, Vicente Guallart, who is advocating a new systematic breaking down of the city by scales. In the studies conducted at the Insitute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunia, we see that one must work simulatenously at the scale of the city, neighbourhood, block, and building to establish a hierarchy of smart systems and networks that relate one to the other. Therefore, Vicente Guallart’s goal is to establish “many slow cities inside a smart city, “ a project for creating neighbourhood scale self-sufficiency initiatives that tie communities together within the larger intelligent system of the city.

And so, what this project seeks to explore is a possible response to the problems of both icon and scale with regards to cultural production and self-sufficiency.

The current site, with its derelict and abandoned status provides an excellent space for a large scale urban intervention that brings together cultural spectacle and infrastructure. The negotiation between icon and scale thus, becomes the way in which a new megastructure is inserted into the urban fabric. Following the Barcelona’s tradition of monumentalizing technology and branding, I propose the construction of a systemic monument that can be realized anywhere and simultaneously provide solar power (as per Barcelona’s Solar Ordinance regulations) and a cultural nucleus for the surrounding neighbourhood. And so this infrastructural nucleus, instead of being an iconic independent sculptural piece, becomes a systemic megastructural languange in itself that can be reproduced as part of future energy initiatives in the city.

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6000 sqm of PV Panels

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LINCOLN LABS

The Laboratory for Collective Memory Core Studio III Fall 2011

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What the new landscape suggests is not a static harmony, but dynamic continuity; it eludes our comprehension except as a chain of organizational levels.

- Gyorgy Kepes There is a particular sublime in the architecture of the military-industrial complex. This architecture, born out of a rich history of arms races, and technopolitical paranoia has become stagnant, and boring.

Standardization of laboratories has made it difficult to envision a future architecture of the laboratory complex. There is, however, a kind of organic system of organization that grew out of a lack of space, new technological requirements, and interdisciplinary research. Ad hoc, temporary, and modular constructions are being added to existing buildings in order to keep up with changing methods. Currently, the need for a tremendous infrastructure is what is over-whelming when attempting to even touch the subject of such a future.

My goals are to begin to establish the architecture of this technological complexity, to celebrate the large infrastructural network within a research institution; and to explore to what extent research culture within an architecture has evolved.

This will be done with several strategies:

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MID LEVEL PLAN +20’

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION HEAVY INFRASTRUCTURE (HVAC, SYSTEMS, AHU’S) VERTICAL CIRCULATION EXTERIOR CIRCULATION BASEMENT PLAN -5’

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3. Create a campus of heterogeneous typologies in order to bring out the COLLECTIVE MEMORY of the site and existing research culture, whether it’s collaborative or independent.

The purpose of this is not to introduce architecture into a project that lacks it, but rather to explore how an abundance of architecture may bring about a new research culture of trans-disciplinary interaction and collaboration.

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Exhibition Models

Lead Intern and Project Coordinator Summer 2012 In the summer of 2012, I led a small team of interns at NADAAA in the construction of three exhibition models for three current projects: Melbourne University Faculty of Architecture Building, Ordos Business Park, and Samsung Model Home Gallery.

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