Ivan O’Garro | Selected Work
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Washington D.C. Fashion Institute Ashby Metro Station and Visitor Center Pinecote Visitor Center Stepping Stone Residence
Washington Alexandria Architecture Consortium ‘11 NOMAS Student Design Competition ‘11 Louisiana State University ‘09 Tulane University ‘08
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US Consular Canopy, Bogotá Clemson University Graduate Education Center L’Enfant Plaza North Building Lobby River Center Library Make It Right Residence Church of the Highlands Academic Work
Professional Work
US Consular Canopy, Bogotá The Bogotá Consular Canopy was commissioned by the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) as a redesign of the existing queuing area shelter at a US embassy. The project was a part of the government’s design excellence program and was required to meet several design and safety benchmarks. Two design strategies based on local cultural precedent were presented to the client. The diffused light scheme is a study of the geometric patterning of the Embera tribe’s body art. Patterns are transposed onto the body using a temporary herbal ink called Jagua. The triangular pattern in the image on the left is a symbolic representation of the boa constrictor, an integral spiritual totem. This symbolism became the base pattern applied as the cellular unit of a precast structural system with thin stone inlay skylights that diffues the sunlight creating a warm glow. In this scheme, the boa symbol is transposed onto the ground below in the temporary patterns of diffused light.
Photograph by Piers Calvert used with permission Collection: The Way We Are Now © 2012
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The Wounaan, another Amazonian tribe, use the mark of the bear - a pattern of dots and stripes - to symbolize courage. The second scheme also transcribes the light of the sun onto the ground plane using dot patterns created by a perforated concrete shell. The curvature in the section of each module is based on the Embera symbol for healing seen in the lower left image. This form also allows collection of rainwater through the columns into a cistern below grade.
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VRay Rendering Showing Aerial View of Dappled Light Canopy
Photographs by Piers Calvert used with permission Collection: The Way We Are Now Š 2012
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Circulation Classrooms Social Space Collaboration Grad Student Space Office Board Interaction Zones Flex Space Shell
Program Stacking Diagrams
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Clemson University Graduate Education Center Winning project proposal for satellite engineering research campus in South Carolina. The project is located on a historic naval ship building site which was active from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. The approach to the design was to arrange programmatic elements along a curved bar that recalls sail ships of the past. The curved façade is protected from the sun by vertical fins also inspired by the site’s nautical history. The southern bar of the building echoes the regional Charleston Houses’ side porch entry. This becomes a common space that stretches along the south edge of the site, allowing views down the Charleston river.
VRay Rendering View from Water
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VRay Rendering Depicting View from Dock
Revit Rendering and Model of Reconceived Lobby Space
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L’Enfant Plaza North Building Lobby The design intent for the proposal was to restore I.M. Pei’s original material palette of travertine panels while introducing spatial layering. The scheme uses climbing vines start to create a heirarchy of space and the pixelated light cube draws the eye in.
Existing North Building Lobby
Concept Sketch for Lobby Redesign
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River Center Library
River Center Library
The design of the River Center Library received one of the most respected awards in architecture, the P/A Award, presented by Architect Magazine to recognize progressive architectural design for unbuilt works. I initiated schematic design and performed a feasibility study on the existing 30,000 s.f. Baton Rouge River Center Library to determine whether a renovation or new facility was required. The study called for the documentation of the existing facility, and three proposals, one for renovation, another for addition, and finally a complete renewal scheme.
Constructed Rhino Model Subsequently Outsourced for Rendering
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River Center Library
Details: Wood, 3D Printed Inlay, Acrylic, Wood Veneer | Dimensions: 36”x 18” | Scale: 1/32”=1’-0”
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Make It Right Residence This house was designed as part of the charity effort in post Katrina New Orleans. The original design was a single storey home. However, the new owners recieving the home needed a larger space than the initial design afforded.
Details: Wood | Dimensions: 10”x 9” | Scale: 1/2”=1’-0”
Make it Right Residence
This section model of the Make it Right house was created as a presentation aid to show the contractors how the house would be framed differently for the two story scheme which was completed in August 2009.
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Church of the Highlands
Church of the Highlands
The design of the church is meant to heighten the worshipper’s sense of spiritual progression, purpose and intensity. The church’s location on the site is chosen so that the worshipper would enter at the highest point of the site and move down and through various architectural elements. The elegant, spatial sequencing allows worshippers to transition from the secular to the sacred.
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Church of the Highlands
Details: Chipboard, Wood | Dimensions: 16”x 30” | Scale: 1/16”=1’-0”
Church of the Highlands
This exhibition model was built for Church of the Highlands’ fundraising activities and for display in Florence, Italy. The base is a composite of aircraft plywood and laminated chipboard. The shell is made of a single folded sheet of basswood laminated onto a chipboard substrate.
Academic Work
Washington D.C. Fashion Institute
Revit Interior Rendering Showing Double Skin and Tension Cables
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Catwalk Digital Sketch
Clothing a body is not unlike designing a building. The expressive way in which articles of clothing illustrate active and reactive forces became the root of this design. The continuity of a corset’s stitching, the way the body conforms to its forces, and its ability to transition between concealing and revealing informed the structure and skin of the building. This design sought to investigate parallels between fashion and architecture. The building expresses tensile and compressive forces, in the tower and subterranean levels, respectively, while its operable facade reduces solar gain and creates a dynamic lace pattern effect.
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Subterrain Level Plan
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Revit Rendering Operable Facade Viewed from the West
Ashby Metro Station and Visitor Center This design draws upon the ideas of multiplicity and aggregation as the inspiration of the social gathering spaces, pedestrian circulation, programmatic arrangement, and architectural form. As the main transportation hub of the area, the proposed project encourages pedestrian traffic on all levels of the site -- underground, plaza, and Visitor Center. In response to the fast-paced lifestyle of Atlanta residents and commuters, the retail spaces pierce through the plaza to the underground level, creating glowing surfaces that serve as commuter information display areas, enlivened billboards, and more ambient light to the rail station. Rather than covering up the transportation hub, the scheme celebrates the underground platform, and the vertical connections guide the user’s attention toward the plaza level. The plaza level hosts a variety of open and intimate public spaces for neighborhood residents and visitors to gather. This serves as a destination for visitors in the greater Atlanta region, while simultaneously providing public areas and green spaces for residents of Vine City. The plaza level also engages the lower subterranean, as well as the upper Visitor Center level through a series of vertically oriented circulatory, spatial, and visual connections. In addition, the gallery floors of the Visitor Center inflect to reveal and visually connect the pedestrians and activities occurring outdoors with the visitors in the galleries. The design proposal draws commuters and visitors up from the MARTA platform to engage with the plaza level and retail spaces. The proposed design seeks to strengthen this connection between spaces on multiple levels by opening the ground level to below, resulting in a design solution that blurs the boundaries between various elevations, promoting and encouraging the use of public transportation. N
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Ashby Metro Station and Visitor Center
VRay Rendering Slab Inflections, Perforated Skin, and Visual Connectivity in Visitor Center
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Ashby Metro Station and Visitor Center
VRay Rendering Depicting Vertical Connectivity, Perforated Skin, and Public Space
Pinecote Visitor Center Located in Picayune, Mississippi, Pinecote is the sixty-four (64) acre jewel of the one thousand (1000) acre Crosby Arboretum. Upon visiting the site, one observes how carefully the journey experience had been planned out. The paths and walkways on the site expand, contract, bend, and turn to guide the visitor through a prescribed circulatory sequence. The impetus of this design was to create a green gateway archetype that invites the visitor to embark upon the entry journey by becoming an integral part of it. The organization of the program pieces along a bending circulatory spine serves as an introduction to the site. The building morphology expresses this strategy through the expansion, compression, and bending of the north faรงade which swoops along the entry path, enhancing its directionality. The circulation responds to the formal gesture on the north side but is anchored by the plugged-in programmatic elements that flank it to the south.
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1. Gift Shop 2. Office 3. Classroom 4. Restrooms 5. Water Collection Tanks 6. Storage 7. Mechanical Room 8. Library 9. Janitor Closet 10.Program Space 11.Kitchen
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VRay Rendering Showing the Entry Sequence along the Circulatory Spine
Stepping Stone Residences The design rubric for this project was the creation of a void that allows light into the core of the mass. By shifting floor plates, changing void locations, and stepping back the facades on each side, accessible roof patios are formed. This creates a variety of experiential spaces within the courtyard, as well as street-side rooftop terraces. This building, which houses several artists’ studio apartments, required that there be northern light. In addressing this issue, specific indices were applied to the building form. The site was extruded and specific units extrapolated, creating light boxes which allow access to indirect northern light from above. The building is clad in multi-chromatic concrete panels. The color change accentuates the stepping formal theme, simultaneously breaks up the mass, and emphasizes the verticality of the building.
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