Architectural Design Studio 4 Spring 2018 Partner: Frank Kraemer Instructor: Annette Lecuyer
The design focuses on the mediation between two conflicting conditions; allowing communal use for a building that is inherently private within a site that calls for public program. With the provision of a new cultural hub, we believed that the site of Allen and Delaware could benefit from an open, covered public space. The initial architectural gesture was intended to give a large portion of the building footprint back to the public. In order to cohesively weave our project into the existing context, we first asked the question of what the site is currently used for. Although the sites current use as a gas station lends itself to solely vehicular circulation, during cultural events that take place on both Allen st. and Delaware ave., the site is predominantly used as an informal gathering space. We wanted our design to embrace the pedestrian circulation and implement this instinctive traversing of the site as part of the building. In response, allocated the heart of the building as a main public gathering, forum, or performance space. We split the site diagonally to create this space in the center. As a result of the partition, we created two separate buildings at the ground level that serve as anchors.
Domestic + Civil
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New Typology
Lighting
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1. Basement Lobby 2. Cloak Room 3. Mechanical Room 4. Parking 5. Vehicle Escalator 6. Reception Desk 7. Grand Escalator 8. Exterior Public Forum 9. Theater 10. Cafe 11. Bar 12. Kitchen 13. M. Bathroom 14. F. Bathroom 15. Service Elevator 16. Loading Dock 17. Education Center 18. Gift Shop 19. Office Floor Terrace 20. Offices / Administration 21. U. Bathroom 22. Dark Gallery Floor 23. Main Gallery Floor
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HYBRID | Architectural Design Studio 4 | Spring 2018
Elevation
Section Perspective
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MATERIALITY The concept of hybrid also influenced the material expression of the building envelope. The lower portion of the building is clad with a perforated brick skin that allows for an external relationship with the urban fabric and the existing mixed use buildings on Allen street. The top gallery space is clad with a perforated copper rain screen relating to the predominately civic character of the historic buildings on Delaware avenue. A series of elevation studies illustrate the ability for this new building to blend into the historically civic character of the site through the natureal oxidation of the copper rainscreen.
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HYBRID | Architectural Design Studio 4 | Spring 2018
Envelope Axonometric
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Situated Technologies Research Group Design Studio Spring 2019 Partner: Frank Kraemer Instructor: Omar Khan
Cedric Price’s The Fun Palace changed the concept of Architectural flexibility for decades. Designed as a facilitator for human inhabitation, the unbuilt design reimagined the relationship between program and inhabitation. Using fundamental principles of Cybernetics, Price thought of this relationship as essentially an ecosystem of change and variability. The design of a Cybernetic Factory is predicated on the conceptual system coined by Stafford Beer; The Viable Systems Model (VSM). In the VSM, change in an ecosystem is seen as essentially a series of homeostatic relationships from the operators, internal management and either external of internal environments. Using the VSM as the conceptual foundations for a factory, this proposal uses architectonic elements to both attenuate and amplify the system’s capacity to handle variety. The program of the Factory is an Automated Extrusion Facility for Boston Valley Terracotta, located in Boston, NY. Using the modularity of its structural modules, the factory work-flow determines both the size of the system, as well as the additional technologies needed for potential future growth in production. The design of the factory is meant to essentially bridge the gap between customization and automation, two of the principal aspects of producing Architectural Terracotta.
Site Intervention
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Existing Program
Applied Modularity
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Wet Storage
Automation
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Batch Material
Extruder
Finishing
Dryer
Glazing Process
CYBERNETIC FACTORY | Situated Technologies Research Group Design Studio | Spring 2019
Kilns / Firing
Quality Control Check Area
Presentation Area
Outward Storage Shipping Section Oblique
Customization
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Extruders
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Dryers
Glazing
CYBERNETIC FACTORY | Situated Technologies Research Group Design Studio | Spring 2019
Firing
Presentation Space
Outward Storage
Plan Perspective
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CYBERNETIC FACTORY | Situated Technologies Research Group Design Studio | Spring 2019
Model Photo
Section Perspective
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2017 Future Micro House Competition Entry 5th Place | Honorable Mention | Publication (future-house.org) Summer 2017 Partner: Frank Kraemer
The BLOOM Home re-imagines Laugier’s archetypal primitive hut, by designing moments where multiple opportunities for interaction between the three fundamental elements in Architecture can occur. The BLOOM Home focuses on these moments to cultivate a symbiotic relationship between: the Home, the Environment, and the Inhabitant. By introducing dimensions within the architecture to ignite a dialogue between the site and its condition, the home and its user, we enable each variable to react to another’s change over time, while avoiding a parasitic interaction. The Home’s potential to exceed its rudimentary functions allows for a reinterpretation of static variables for which to abide by. Rather than simply housing these functions, The Home can be designed to influence ones behavior, comfort and happiness through the use of perpetually changing variables such as bioclimatic conditions and seasonal shifts. In the BLOOM Home, we wanted to rethink the efficiency of a home by reinterpreting the relationship between time and space, by focusing on the aspect of time as a commodity to the home, inhabitant and the environment. The desire was to consider the allocation of square footage in terms of the value of that space with regard to time that is well-spent in those particular areas. We found no better muse to look to for this efficiency than the cyclical nature of the environment.
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Square Footage
Roof Pitch
Sunshade Tilt
Two-Tiers
Trellis + Ventilation
Operable Facade
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BLOOM | Future Micro House Competition | Summer 2017
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COURTYARDS
PUBLIC STREETS
OFFSET
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Architectural Design Studio 3 Published in Intersight 20 Fall 2018 Instructor: Brian Carter
The proposal of a new school of music is predicated on the reconceptualization of the technical definition of Aperture. Defined as; ‘a space through which light passes’. Aperture is an investigation of the juncture between Architecture and Music. The inherent connection between these disciplines seem to be intuitive yet inexplicable. The development of Aperture explores this connection through the realization that each discipline has the inherent ability to evoke emotion and essentially engulf even those who have no knowledge of the technical logistics involved cultivates a certain responsibility. That tenant is at the heart of this design. As the new gateway into the University at Buffalo Campus, the form essentially slices open institutional barriers that hinder the integration of the student body, and the surrounding community, through an architecture of performance. Ultimately the simple geometric composition of two monolithic masses which concentrate both entities inward and through the central performance space personifies the reformative ambition of Aperture. The architecture works as the instrument for new bonds to be formed. The main architectural gesture enhances the procession through the central performance space. The vertical stack bond brick cladding the walls produces both a textured acoustically reflective space, as well as a rhythm which leads visitors through the space into the compressive triple height performance space.
Bi-sect Mass
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Form Manipulation
Roof Drape
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APERTURE: MUSIC SCHOOL | Architectural Design Studio 3 | Fall 2017
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Madrid Study Abroad Program | Summer 2018 Published in Intersight 21 Partner: Frank Kraemer Instructor: Dr. Miguel Vilches Guitart
In thinking about the creation of a UB Cultural Center in Madrid, we were very interested in the concept of blurring the boundaries of where the Architecture ends, the city begins and vice versa. In this we began exploring the ability for the layering of transparent planes to create a dual condition of both concealed and revealed spaces. Moving forward, we wanted to explore ways that we can create not only space, but circulation, visual permeability and enclosure through the use of this single language. Depending on the program of each space we varied floor to ceiling heights to enhance the meandering circulation through a sequence of compressive spaces and expansive courtyards. Ultimately the form of the building is articulated purely by the method of construction, and introduction of natural light into courtyard spaces while circulating through layers of public and private spaces. One of the most prominent aspects of the urban fabric in Madrid, is the number of barriers that demarcated the public and the private domain. This compelling condition influenced the trajectory of the design, focused on exploring the dichotomy between the inherent public obligation of a cultural center, and the cultural concept of boundary. The design investigates ways in which a level of transparency into the cultural center can be made , while simultaneously providing the physical privacy and security required by the nature of the program.
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Public Setback
Retaining Walls
Vegetation
Courtyard
Entrance Pavilions
Height Variation
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CONCEPT Issues of privacy, and openness of a new cultural center interested us in thinking about ways to create a dual condition. Through the layering of transparent layers, the intent was to try to create moments of opaque surfaces to enable a layering of program. Using the extreme topographical slope of the site, the front elevation from the street, approximately 30 feet above grade, was meant to not impose on the public street. The back elevation reveals the complexity of the entire building, illustrating the layers of transparency through the courtyard spaces and the blurring of private space in the Culture Center.
Initial Concept Model
Front Elevation
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MADRID | Madrid, Spain Study Abroad | Summer 2018
Exploded Axonometric
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Model Photo
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MADRID | Madrid, Spain Study Abroad | Summer 2018
Interior Render
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Architectural Design Studio 2 Spring 2017 Instructor: Georg Rafailidis
This project explores the classic architectural question regarding the relationship between function and form. Concepts like, Mies van der Rohe’s “universal space”; characterized by the utmost neutrality in formal expression in order to accommodate any program, have been central to architectural discourse throughout the twentieth century. Although conceptually similar, the relationship between architectural form and program is radically different. Project briefs are often outdated at completion date of a project. Unforeseen programs continuously clash with architectural form. Form and use become mostly chance encounters over time as buildings are used for unintended purposes. This problem is typically addressed by the search for the most neutral architecture as in Mies van der Rohe’s proposition. However, this approach to architecture yields spaces that are devoid of any ephemerality or specific identity. Perhaps the inverse is true, that the most reused buildings are characterized by the most specific, idiosyncratic and generous spaces developing over time. The premise of this project was to design an architecture that would stand the test of time through the structural capability of its monolithic construction, and consider the multiple interventions in which swathes of mass are excavated from the building’s core as moments in which Architecture transcends the current form follows function paradigm.
Monolithic Block
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Carve
Public Inclusion
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SITE PLAN
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GENEROUS ARCHITECTURE | Architectural Design Studio 2 | Spring 2017
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1ST Intervention: Construction & ADA compliant spaces
2ND Intervention: Carving process begins
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GENEROUS ARCHITECTURE | Architectural Design Studio 2 | Spring 2017
Longitudinal Section
Section Perspective
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Situated Technologies Graduate Research Group Fall 2018 Instructor: Mark Shepard
This project investigates the implications of perception and experience of the ephemeral quality of the wind and sound. The first exploration was through the collection and visualization of sound frequency and wind speed. Through the use of only a digital output from simple sensing mechanisms, raw data was used to express possible correlative qualities to essentially banal data sets. The data was collected using a microphone and a custom designed anemomenter attached to a DC motor. The data from an unexpected storm was visualized in Brackets, and coded in p5Js. Each of the arcs on either end of the datum represents the value of both the sound frequency (green) and the Wind Speed (blue), at a particular data point. The value of each parameter is made the radii of a single arc, producing a series of sweeping and overlapping seemingly turbulent lines. This turbulence was then abstracted into an responsive artifact which responded in real-time to wind. An array of (9) servo motors respond to the input from the windspeed, and are triggered to cascade through the field lifting each platform and resulting in a subtle clanking of the wood. The artifact was intended to be reminiscent of leafs blowing in the wind. Data Visualization Video Link: https://vimeo.com/326914664
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DATA VISUALIZATION | Situated Technologies Research Group | Fall 2018
Visualization Snap-shot
Anemometer Design
Servo powered mechanism
Responsive Artifact
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Situated Technologies Research Group Fall 2018 Team: Shayan Amirirad, Aubrey Fan, Zach Fields, Heidi Flores, Ramola Khamitkar, Frank Kraemer, Rania Moussa, Nishika Niraj Dhariwal, and Devanshi Shastri Faculty: Mark Shepard and Jason Geistweidt
Pluvious (adj): of or relating to rain Pluvious is a responsive environment that evokes the childhood sensation of playing in the rain. The installation integrates sound, light, and motion with sensing technology to investigate questions of spatial contingency and the limits of predictability through an interactive, multi-sensory experience..
Rainstick
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PLUVIOUS | Situated Technologies Research Group | Fall 2018
Using the knowledge cultivated from the earlier sensor studies of the Studio space, we created a predominately sonic installation. The installation consisted of 56 servo motors, that were individually adderssed from the input to a Grideye sensor , which thermal mapping to spatially sense clusters of heat. While walking through the installation, the servo motors are actuated, corresponding to the position of the heat signature of visitors producing a lingering sound from the movement of the rainsticks that are attached to each servo and suspended from the ceiling.
Roof Structure Sensors (GridEye) Ceiling Panels & Fiber Optic Lighting Servo & Rainstick
Fleece Inner Layer
Wall Structure
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1. UPPER FLOORS - 8” Hollow core precast concrete planks with #5 reinforcement in keys grouted solid - 2.5” Concrete topping slab with welded wire reinforcement - Raised floor system for 1’ -4” deep service distribution zone - Continuous perimeter metal Grille and Fin Tube Radiator - 2” Rigid insulation 2. EXTERIOR WALL - Aluminum framed double glazed storefront windows 3. CEILING - Suspended Acoustic tile ceiling 4. PLANTER - 2’ Wide x 1’ thick site cast concrete strip footing with #5 rebar (long) and (3) #5 rebar at 2’ O.C. - 1’ Thick site cast concrete wall with #2 horizontal rebar at 1’ O.C. and #5 vertical rebar at 2’ O.C. - 4” Thick Cast in Place concrete slab on grade with mesh wire reinforcement - Hot rubberized waterproof membrane on interior face - Crushed gravel fill - Earth fill - 3 inches of Mulch 5. PLANTING GRILLE - WT 4x5 Galvanized steel bolted to concrete - Galvanized Steel Mesh panels - C4x5 Galvanized Steel cover to posts
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DRAFTING | Construction Technology | Spring 2018
1. PARAPET - 8”x16“x8” CMU inned wythe with #5 vertical reinforcement at corners and 48” O.C. grouted solid with horizontal reinforcement at 16“ O.C.; top(3) courses grouted solid - 2” Thick rigid insulation - 2“ Air cavity - 8”x8“x4” CMU outer wythe - Flashing - Metal Snap-on Coping 2. ROOF ABOVE STAIR - 3” x 6“ wood ledger bolted to walls - 4”x4“ wood joists at 24” O.C. - 2“x10” wood joists at 24“ O.C.; top edge cut to slope - 2”x6“ tongue and groove decking - Built-up roof membrane 3. SECOND FLOOR BATHROOM FLOOR - 2”x10“ wood joists at 16” O.C. with 1“x3” bridging at midspan - 3/4“ Plywood sub floor - Ceramic tile on mortar bed 4. GLASS BLOCK WINDOW - Site-cast concrete sill - 16” CMU bond beam lintel with (2) #5 reinforcement bars grouted solid - 8”x8”x4” glass block with horizontal join reinforcement at alternating courses and panel anchors at head
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