Joel Raymond Burke Selected Studio Work
The Ohio State University - Yale School of Architecture
Fall 2003 - Spring 2010
New Orleans Project Spring 2005 Andrew Kudless
New Orleans Housing looks to provide one solution for the displaced population in and around the coast of Louisiana. Locating a project within the area of New Orleans demands knowledge of local vernacular as well as a building technique that is both aordable and easily adopted within the area. The ideas of mass customization and variability allow this project to fit tightly within the context of an existing urban site. It provides a level of variation that allows the project to be implemented on a variety of sites. Our team designed a residential complex based on a structural system that allowed our individual projects to integrate into a larger whole. Adopting common vernacular systems such as louvering allows the two individual projects to be read as a coherent system. e design of the units relies on a secondary structural grid system that accepts a library of panels based on environmental, aesthetic, budgetary and achitectural limitations. ese superstructures could be quickly shipped to the site via trailer and the various panels quickly assembled.
Night View
Unit Constructuion
Interiors
High Density Urbanism Spring 2007 Gabriel Esquivel
A critique of the strong indexicality present into today’s urban context lead to the negotiation of these ideas into a physical structure. Reproducing the atmosphere of ice architecturally, suspended yet fluid space, necessitated the incorporation of color, density, transaparency and layering as techniques. The spaces within the building begin to allow new types of circulation and experience resembling those interpreted from early frozen analogue studies. Common spaces begin to loose definite boundaries and create hyper-densities within the building that begin to register their color on the exterior. e buildings structure is brought into questions and its apparent mass is manipulated with the design of the ground plane as well as the overall aesthetic layering of the façade. e project is tested against more literal building techniques and wall sections that begin to give ideas at how such spaces could eventually be realized. ese sections act as guides for a final iteration of the overall structure and architecture of the building.
Conceptual Affect/ Effect
Structural Section
Interior Experience
Plan Organization
Building Section
Studio Fall 2007
Sunil Bald
SmartCar Dealership Williamsburg Brooklyn New York The Distribution Center allows visitors to interact with the product of the SMART Car on varying degrees of adjacency while at the same time enticing them to further explore the products and information provided by the dealership. The project fronts on a large street facade that allows glimpses of the products behind and allows entry into the showroom. This large showroom-circulation wall negotiates circulation between the three levels of the project. The main entry level is a public gallery with open circulation and dealership offices. The central level functions as more privatized showrooms and houses specialized programs. The upper most level is outdoor storage that is visible from the rear of the site (the Williamsburg Bridge and off-ramp) The three levels are punctured by more individualized showrooms where visitors can learn about specific features of the SMART Car as well as interact more directly with the products. Since these showroom pods occupy all three levels, as well as penetrate the facade, the visitor is able to experience the product from a variety of orientations as they consider their purchase.
Occupiable Roof Plan
Second Floor Plan
Entry Level Plan
Product Display
Model Studies
Program Organization
Final Model Street Facade
Interior Views
Front Facade : Section
Final Model Rear Facade
Cross Section
Studio Spring 2008
Turner Brooks
Replication : Multi-Family Housing New Haven Connecticut This project attempts to heighten the duality inherent in a two family residence. The two units are constantly in teracting with one another though their materiality and spatial organizations. The horizontal striations allow for an interweaving of structure and a continuity of interior space. Each unit is reliant on the other for circulation and the creation of exterior public space. The multiplicity is easily experienced from the street and the massing of the buildings give an ambiguity to the actual limits of each unit.
Exterior Views
Exterior Views
Foor Plans
Massing Studies
Site Plan
Section Perspective
Building Project Studio Spring 2008
Alan Organschi Joel Burke, AnnMarie Armstrong, Andrew Ashey, Jason Bond, Cory Collman, Stephanie Carlisle, Elijah Porter
Two Family Residence New Haven Connecticut Our proposal is rooted in an exploration in the relationship between a building, its inhabitants, and time. Designed for change, one of the second floor bedrooms can be swapped from the owner’s unit to the tenant’s through the relocation of a door opening. This capacity for reconfiguration allows the house to function as a three bedroom and one bedroom, or as a pair of two bedroom units. Both units have important visual and programmatic links to the outside. The central common space of the owner’s unit is designed to expand. Both the semi-enclosed porch space and the rear patio behave as “outdoor rooms,” providing additional living and dining space in warmer months. The openings to these spaces encourage natural cross ventilation of the interior. During cooler months these connections still provide the interior with a feeling of spaciousness, and a variety of views to the yards and street. The owner’s unit is arranged around a central double-height space that allows for visual and auditory links between the second floor bedrooms and the ground floor.
Site Plan
Final Model
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Front Elevation
Long Section
Rear Elevation
Model Elevations
Cross Sections
Side Elevation
Section Prespective : Owners Unit
Model Details
Tennant Entrance
Model Details
Studio Fall 2008
Mario Gooden
Yale Center for Computing and the Arts New Haven, CT The integration of the Computer Science Department and the Arts School inherently leads to a dissonance between the needs of each program. The project negotiates these by designating specific program areas to the more unique tasks while at the same time creating a coherent whole where the public, students and faculty can interact. The project allows access across the site (front to back) and operates primarily along two grains, that of the continuous circulation that weaves the longitudinal programs together along programmed ramps, as well as along the cross grain that cuts across separate programs giving then a more direct interaction with one another, either visually or physically. The separate programs transition into one another, at moments holding autonomy while at other times combining with adjacent programs to create larger social areas of varying programs. These often address the exterior of the building allowing the school to have a presence within the greater context of the University. The physical spaces within the Center respond directly to the various functions necessitated by the individual programs.
Continuity of Surface
Adaptability of Program Volumes
Massing Studies
SPECIALTY STUDIOS
COMPUTING
STUDIO
SPECIALTY STUDIOS STUDIO
COMPUTING
CLASSROOMS
MEDIA LABS ADMINISTRATION
LIBRARY
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MEDIA LOUNGE
EXHIBIT
BLACK BOX
THEATER
Cross Sections
Dynamic Edge
Formal Screening
Daylighting Studies
Conceptual Site Approach
Scale Model
Programmatic Layering MEDIA LOUNGE
FACULTY
RESTROOMS LOCKERS
EXHIBITION AREA
DEDICATED RESEARCH LAB
TRASH LOADING
LIBRARY
GRAPHICS/VIDEO LAB
STORAGE
SOUND PERFORMANCE LAB
PROGRAM
CCOLD OLD SINK INNK NK
BLACK BOX
THERMAL MASS
THEATER
EXHIBITION HALL
CAFE
RESTROOMS
PROGRAM
COMMONS
EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP FABRICATION LAB
OPERATIONS VISITING FACULTY
VOLUME
FACULTY
CAFE
DEDICATED RESEARCH LAB
SSOLAR HEAT SO HEATT
GRAPHICS/VIDEO LAB SOUND PERFORMANCE LAB
MEDIA LOUNGE
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH LAB
EXHIBITION HALL
COMMONS
EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP FABRICATION LAB
SSOLAROLARGAI SOLARGAI O ARGARR GAIGA N
COMPUTING CLASSROOM
EXHIBITION ON O A AREA
HEAT PRODUCTION
DEDICATED RESEARCH LAB RESTROOMS
TRASH LOADING
LOCKERS BUSINESS OFFICE
GRAPHICS/VIDEO LAB SOUND PERFORMANCE LAB
LIBRARY
RESTROOMS
VISITING FACULTY
FACULTY
THEATER
MEDIA LOUNGE EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP FABRICATION LAB
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH LAB
REGISTRARS OFFICE
STORAGE
COMPUTING CLASSROOM
BLACK BOX
COMMONS
EXHIBITION AREA
CAFE EXHIBITION HALL
ACTIVITY LEVEL
Programmatic Organization
Scale Model
DEDICATED RESEARCH LAB
RESTROOMS
VISITING FACULTY
THEATER
BLACK BOX
THEATER TTER ERR
STORAGE
OPERATIONS
SOUND PERFORMANCE LAB
BUSINESS OFFICE REGISTRARS OFFICE
LOCKERS
GRAPHICS/VIDEO LAB
LIBRARY EXHIBITION AREA
TRASH LOADING RESTROOMS
HEAT DISSIPATION
HHEAT EAATT SOURC EAT EA SSOU OOUURRCE RC
CAFE C F
LIBRARY LIB
LIBRARY
MEDIA LOUNGE
SHADE
EXHIBITION HALL
BLACK BOX CCOLD CO OLD SINK SINK NK
EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP FABRICATION LAB
HHEAT A SOURCE AT SOOOUUR URC RCE VENTILATION NTILAT ON
EXHIBITION HAL HALL
CLIMATE EXCHANGE
COMMONS O S
CCOLD SINK
SHADE
SOLAR GAIN
COMPUTING CLASSROOM
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH LAB COMPUTING CLASSROOM
BUSINESS OFFICE REGISTRARS OFFICE
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH LAB
PROGRAM
DEDICATED RESEARCHLH LAB
GRAPHICS/VIDEO LAB SOUNDND PERFORMANCE LAB
THERMAL MASS
THTHEATER HHE R
MEDIA OUNG LOUNGE
HEAT DISSIPATION
BLACK LA BOBOX
SHADE
EQUIPMENT WORKSHOP FFABRI ABRICATIONNLALAB
COMMONS C OM COMPUTING UNDERGRAD NDEND CLASSROOM RRESEARCH ESEARCHLABLAB CLASSR
EXHIBITION AREA
CLCLIMATEEXCHANGE ATE EXCHANGE
SOLAR OLAR A GAIN
CAFE VENTILATION
MEDIA LOUNGE
BLACK BOX
BACK OF HUOSE
CAFE OPEN EXHIBIT
LOADING
THEATER
Selected Floor Plans
DEDICATED LABS / STUDIOS DISPLAYS SPECIALTY STUDIOS DEDICATED LABS / STUDIOS CLASSROOMS FACULTY OFFICES
ADMINISTRATION
ENTRANCE
MEDIA LOUNGE BLACK BOX
THEATER
Longitudinal Section
CONTROL ROOM REHEARSAL ROOM
ADMINISTRATION
EXHIBIT THEATER
FACULTY LIBRARY
LIBRARY EXHIBIT
PRIVATE OFFICES
MEDIA LABS
FACULTY OFFICES
PUBLIC GATHERING
Interior Renderings
DISPLAYS
FACULTY OFFICES
LIBRARY
ENTRANCE
ENTRANCE
Longitudinal Section
Systems Integration Spring 2009 Advisors : Sarrah Khan, Steven Baumgartner, and Anne Gilbert
YCCA Construction Documentation New Haven , CT Joel Burke , Kate Thatcher and Yu Wang In articulating a previous semester’s studio project with adequate structure, environmental and mechanical systems certain criteria had to be established. Although particular portions of the design had to be jettisoned, the overall design concept had to be somehow latent in each of the decisions made. The use of a scissoring truss structure gave the project the continuity of circulation, visual connectivity and formal articulation that were important in the original design. The project structured itself around this central atrium which was naturally ventilated and acted as occupiable vertical circulation through the building. The louvers echoed the formal maneuvers of the original project in a more environmentally sensitive way.
Facade Adaptation
Facade Articulation
Interior Adaptaion
Structural Truss Section
Conceptual Construction Sequence
Conceptual Structural Diagram
Selected Floor Plans : Structural/ Architectural
Wall Section
Urbanism Studio Spring 2009
Peggy Deamer Joel Burke and Kate Thatcher
Infrastructural Lamination: Multi-Use Edge Boston Massachusetts Responding to such strong formal and functional limitations as a highway interchange the project addresses the initial condition and creates an infrastructural lamination that organizes the various speeds of traffic on the site. Its organization facilitates vehicular, mass-transit and pedestrian circulations along a densified spine that allows safe interaction and unique experiences for each user. The two unique cites within the master plan are treated uniquely while simultaneously using the same architectural language to provide a cohesion within the scheme. A continuous elevated commercial plinth provides for pedestrian access to the architecture as well as addresses both the infrastructural lamination and the public open space which is maximized due to the dense organization and citing of the program. The architecture takes full advantage of the open space created by the lamination and begins to define more localized conditions within the open public park. The addition of a light rail system to and from Harvard and the design of a train station makes the site a new destination for commuters.
Program Massing Studies
Massing Studies
Roof Plan
Conceptual Lamination
Lower Level Plan
Section Infrastructure Organization
Model Studies
Section : Architectural Organization
Site Section : Infrastructural Layering
Section : Train Station
Final Model : Plinth
Section : Public Access
Final Model : Retail Layer
Final Model : Public Open Space
Site Section : River Plinth
Final Model : Site Plan
Advanced Studio Fall 2009
Greg Pasquerelli and Brian Price Joel Burke and Harvey Chung
Urban Periphery Stadium Complex Rio De Janiero Brasil This project challenges the consumptive nature of sports arenas, and hypothesizes a solution that could alleviate, or rather rethink, the waste produced in these venues. By utilizing technology of waste collection and reuse that facilitates the production of energy the Futbol Stadium could begin to generate power and become self sufficient in terms of its energy use. Remaining power could be utilized in the creation of public amenities, pools, beaches, etc that entices more sustained visitors that could further enhance the productive qualities of the complex. A secondary program, an Urban Wall, organizes a series of public and private programs that support the stadium complex as well as provide nautical access from a variety of shuttle services that alleviate traffic congestion with the city of RIo de Janeiro. The two constituent program elements create a 24 hour cycle of use that continuously generates energy from its occupants while simultaneously creating a new urban center on the highly utilized coastal region of the city.
Initial Site Organization
String Model : Connectivity
Collage : Staium/City/Coast
Longitudinal Section
Experiencial Sequence
Waste Reuse Concept
Experiencial Sequence
Conceptual Diagrams
Visitor Map
Waste Reuse
Advanced Studio Spring 2009
Patrick Bellew, Andy Bow and Timothy Newton
(Socially) Sustainable Eco-Resort Marrakech, Morocco Eco-tourism is the newest solution to the long acknowledged problems of consumptive tourism. It is not enough however to expect that newer more sustainable technologies can begin to offset tourisms grasp on developing countries like Morocco. Social sustainability is perhaps more important, citing that the effects of tourism do not simply deplete the environment but cultures and populations as well. This project takes on that debate as an architectural challenge. Tourism can bring vital resources to developing communities and this type of tourism can only be enhanced by a responsible architectural solution. Through local interaction with the community, careful phasing, and the creation of a financial alliance the project can act as a prototype to future developments of its kind. Architectural set pieces bring financial stability to the project while local technologies and typologies allow for an infill within the existing urban fabric. Finally unification is accomplished through sustainable technologies that enhance he lives of both the local community and the visitor.
Financial Development Diagram
Street Restoration Sequence
Intervention Diagram
Conceptual Approach
Site Phasing
Night Rendering
Water Infrastructure Street
Spa Section
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Cultural Amenity Street
Craft Center Section
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Community Center
Riad and Spa Plaza
Water Infrastructure Street
Villa Units Plan
Villa Interiors
Villa Cross Section
Villa Rendering
Villa Cross Section
Riad
Riad Cross Section
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Community Center
Community Center Cross Section
Joel Raymond Burke Drawings, Built Work, Fabrications
Fall 2003 - Spring 2010
Dimensional Variability: Casting Fall 2005 Beth Blostein
This fabrictrion began as an investigation of interstitial space, in this case between human figures, and began to develop techniques to model figural voids. A jig was created that allowed the manipulation of figural voids. Finally various materials were used to create physical artifacts of the interstitial space. A reinvestigation of the aggregated materials gave a better understanding of the connection of units within the framework of the jig.
Transparent Aggregation Fall 2005 Andrew Kudless
Preliminary investigations allowed for an understanding of a given material, in this case acrylic sheets, and its material limitations. The design of an accurate jig became a necessity for the later assembly of the independent elements. The transformed material was designed into a system, both for structural stability as well as aesthetic manipulaitons. Aggregation was used as a building technique in the creation of a screening device. A fixed dimension was set and a grid established to allow for changeability and variability. A library of three units was created and a jig designed that allowed for the creation of each piece individually. Once a complete series was fabricated a structure was built that began to challenge depth and transparency.
REVIT Rethought Spring 2007 Beth Blostein
This investigation began to use REVIT to investigate parametric design outside the boundaries of the given software. A preliminary study of the cameleon lizard gave parameters to explore the possibilites of scripting a manipulative surface that mimiced animalistic behavior. The program produced a mechanical surface that altered its thickness based its deviation from the normal. The challenge was to create an analogue model that represented the results of the program.
Geometry Drawing and Visual Inquiry Fall 2007
Kent Bloomer and John Blood
The class is an opportunity to push the limits of physical representation, hand drawing, while simultaneously exploring its limitations by working with physical models as well as the computer. These techniques are combined in order to expand the understanding of the objects being investigated. The drawings and models allow for a more complete understanding of physical space, both visual and interpreted. Drawings became investigations between adjacencies of objects, as organized into super structural grids that provided for particular organizations. The space unseen within objects became important and its representation became paramount as simple formal organizations and representations of surface qualities fell short of accurately describing the objects. These explorations expanded on the conceptionof physical space, both actual and virtual. This virtual space was explored through the materiality of physical models as well as unique drawing techniques.
3D Formal Investigations through Drawing
Adjacency of Objects in Space
Figure Studies
Extended Aggregation of Unit
Fabrication Jig
Physical Model
Transparency and Connectivity
Survey of Digital Media Summer 2008
John Eberhardt
Digital Design and Fabrication This project begins with a case study of an architectural work, Office dA’s Toledo Residence, exploring the interrelation of form, surface and technologies through various representational techniques. The computer is utilized to turn Office dA’s original hand renderings into digitally representations that can be manipulated on a series of variables. These variables are then transformed into the creation of an object that applies the understandings derived from the previous studies. The computer plays an important role allowing the application of variation before the physical model is created. A Final component to the project is a collaborative project challenging the rigidity of mass produces furniture. Digital technology is utilized to create an insert that increases the depth of the surface, allowing an otherwise flat table to function as a display piece. The lamination of materiality allows the undulations of the form to remain legible as well as provide a level of translucency to the entire piece.
Office dA Toledo Residence
Scripted Surface
Scripted Studies
Conceptual Approach : Manual to Digital
Final Renderings
Formal Surface Study
Formal Surface Study
Formal Surface Fabrication
Fabrication Process
Final Rendering
Surface Materiality
Final Object
Final Rendering
Joel Burke and Jerome Haferd
Material Techniques and Fabrication Spring 2009
Kevin Rotheroe
Grain: Structure : Aesthetic : Application This project is an intense exploration of the graining structure of wood, invest ting its aesthetic, structural, and functional uses both inherent and interpreted. My purposely misinterpreting the qualities of a selected grain and completely divorcing it from its source material, wood, it can be reconceptualized along a variety of fronts. Identity and legibility play key roles in the derivation a new fabrication technique to represent the qualities form the study. The final object then takes into account the earlier exploration and investigates in what ways the natural tendencies within wood can be manifest though digital fabrication; redeploying the aesthetic and structural tendencies of grain to a new material, one that is cast.
Identitiy as Screen
Grain Exploration
Fabrication Studies
Final Model
Final Model
Fabrication Process
Studies in Light and Materials Fall 2009
Michelle Addignton Joel Burke and Jang Hyung Lee
Mirroring : Duplication : Completion This collaborative project stemmed from an interest in the physical qualities of light (reflection, transmission, etc) and the studio art work of Sydney Cash, a sculptor whose particular focus is on the reflective qualities of light. After an initial study of Cash’s techniques and replication of many of his early projects the focus of the work became scaling up the physical processes witnessed in the smaller studies. Materials were kept simple, employing only ‘low tech’ techniques using mirrors, glass, screen and colored films. There was a reliance on the additive and subtractive qualities of colored light as well as its unique ability to retain particular qualities after numerous reflections. Through reflection and transmission a four room gallery setting could be lit from a single light source providing a varying experience depending on the particular room. Four translucent/transparent/reflective walls would organize the light around the spaces providing an increased depth onto the gallery surfaces as well as changeability depending on the organization of the colored films.
Catalogue of Techniques
Completing the Figure
Addition and Subtraction
Translucent Colored Film Studies
Inversion through Reflection
Color Studies : Gallery
Gallery Space : Lighting Techniques
Light Studies : Gallery
Groundless Architecture Summer 2009 Independent Design Build
Groundless Architecture was a chance to work one on one with a client in the design and construction of a multi-use tree structure. Its function was to accommodate the client’s three children as well as provide a home oďŹƒce for the client who did a majority of her work within the home. Various levels provided climbing areas and sleeping nooks for the children and likewise functioned as desks and storage for the small oďŹƒce. is project provided an opportunity to test all facets of the design-build process from preliminary design through construction and included bidding, scheduling, revisions and numerous client meetings. Formal decisions were based on the initial structure and size of the tree as well as client stipulations. Aesthetic decisions were a collaboration between the client, her children and myself. The end goal was a structure that would be entirely built without any outside assistance. A platform structure was designed and revised on site to fit within the distinctive natural structure of the tree. Joists were cantilevered from the structure and decked to provide a stable platform from which to build the enclosure. Walls were framed and the roof structure was designed and installed around the trunk and vertical branches of the tree. A system of gutters and flashing prevent any water from infiltrating the interior.
Yale Building Project Summer 2008 Yale Class of 2010
Yale Building Project Summer 2010 Yale Class of 2012
Exterior Structrure