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775 Tremont Street, Apt 3, Boston, MA 02118 978-270-6129 | jonsmithmiller@gmail.com Northeastern University Master of Architecture B.S. in Architecture
jonathan // miller 775 Tremont Street, Apt 3, Boston, MA 02118 978-270-6129 | jonsmithmiller@gmail.com MASTER THESIS WORK New Life for Urban Manufacturing Districts
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO WORK Comprehensive Design Studio Housing and Aggregation Studio Rome Studio
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PROFESSIONAL WORK Physical Modeling Digital Modeling Construction Details
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MASTER THESIS WORK New Life for Urban Manufacturing Districts Thesis Project: Industrial Smart Code
INDUSTRIAL SMART CODE NEW LIFE FOR URBAN MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS
Jonathan Miller // Thesis
The final degree project in the design studio offers an opportunity to leverage research conducted in the first semester with real innovation in new hybrid types, strategic alterations of existing ones, and to take on the challenge of finding prototypical solutions for systematic problems. This studio will begin by understanding why certain businesses still thrive in 1960s era industrial districts to understand models for densification. We will also look at rapidly gentrifying districts like Red Hook in Brooklyn, NULU in Louisville, and the LA Garment District to learn about new kinds of businesses like micro-breweries, artisanal food producers, and precision fabrication shops that are flourishing in industrial districts located near potential customers. Our goal will be to leverage these lessons to develop a tool-kit for urban design and architectural interventions that can maximize the density of these districts while attracting and maintaining as many manufacturing jobs as possible. The hope is to achieve levels
density that inspire pedestrian activity, resulting in the chance encounters that can create synergies between businesses based on shared technological know-how, transportation needs, and talent. The Industrial Smart Code explores the area between industrial districts and urban centers. Looking at this issue through a zoning framework, this set of prototypes and regulatory strategies attempts to create a framework for creating thriving mixed-use industrial neighborhoods. The Industrial Smart Code uses the ideology of the Smart Code to understand how industrial districts can fit into larger contexts.
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Industrial Smart Code Transect
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New Urbanist Smart Code Transect
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Industrial Transect Truck Routes The use of the transect as an organizational tool helps to differentiate different sections of the urban fabric, ranging from lowdensity industrial park settings to dense urban center zones. The transect works
IDX Zone - Mixed Use Industrial w/o Residential
using building prototypes that form street grides to help organize traffic, creating truck routes and main thoroughfares. There are two prototypes, for a residential district and non-residential district.
Industrial Transect Axo
IDX-1 Zone - Mixed Use Industrial w/ Residential
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Radial Relationships with the Transect
The relationships formed in a linear scale in the transect are designed to be easily extrapolated into radial relationships, in order to mimick real life situations. The relationships form zones of less dense, more industrial and more dense, less industrial fabrics. The more mixed use these zones, the higher density, until they become typical urban
Radial Relationships with Street Hierarchies
core zones. When combined into a city scale, this forms a city with a dense center that emantes outward to industrial parks. This form is reminiscent of utopian cities designed with town centers surrouned by suburbia. In this organization, the street hierachy is evident. Using this framework, the ideas can be applied to real neighborhoods.
Above, Aerial View First Pass; Below, Aerial View Second Pass
Newmarket Case Study: Street Hierarchies and Zones, Existing
The Newmarket neighborhood is an industrial area on the southern side of Boston, with need of improvement. Using exsiting street layouts and an understanding of the fabric in terms of density and use, street hierarchies matching our transect as well as zones corresponding to the prototype zones IDX and IDX-1 can be outlined. Once this process is done, a basic form can be dropped onto the neighborhood, and then adjusted based on context. Using this framework for design and thinking, new neighborhoods can be created and old ones enlivened, that promote thriving mixed-use scenes and a healthy manufacturing base for cities.
Newmarket Case Study: Street Hierarchies and Zones, Proposed
UNDERGRADUATE WORK Comprehensive Design Studio Timber in the City Housing and Aggregation Studio Urban Residential Development Rome Studio Kindergarten in the Park
TIMBER IN THE CITY COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STUDIO
Jonathan Miller // Undergraduate
Comprehensive Design Studio focuses on the materials and making of architecture. Considers architectural connections at all scales, from the nut and bolt to the scale of a door or window to the scale of the whole building and the city. Grounds design proposals upon a tectonic strategy, unlike traditional design studios that produce a schematic design before considering constructional ideas. The Timber in the City competition focused on using wood materials. This project uses a CLT structural system with a wodden screen that interacts with pedestrians at the ground level.
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Typical Upper Floor Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
Site Plan with Context Diagram
NEW YORK CITY FLOOD EVENTS in the PAST 20 YEARS
One NYC Flood Event Denotes if Brooklyn was Effected
EXTREME FLOODING CONDITIONS 100 Year Flood Plain Boundary Extent of Flooding from Hurricane Sandy Beyond Predicted Flooding Levels
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Hurricanes have affected New York since 1635
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Massing Progression Diagram
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4’-5’ Underwater
9’-10’ Underwater
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8’-9’ Underwater
2’-3’ Underwater
7’-8’ Underwater
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6’-7’ Underwater
0’-1’ Underwater
5’-6’ Underwater
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Systems Integration Diagram
3 Bedroom Unit
2 Bedroom Unit
1 Bedroom Unit
Studio Unit
Sectional Conditions
URBAN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT HOUSING AND AGGREGATION STUDIO
Jonathan Miller // Undergraduate
This housing studio provides an understanding of multi-unit housing in the United States. Students work in teams to develop new patterns of housing for Boston-area sites, and develop those sites with their own individual interventions. The site plan is based on the repetition of the prototype, creating a dense urban fabric that could be replicated in any urban setting. The prototype attempts to create the most comfortable single, couple, and family living situations possible, bringing the warmth and familiarity of the suburban setting to an urban development. A focus on open space, green space, entry sequence, and spatial efficiency create a development that is comfortable to live in but practical to be developed in an urban setting.
Typical Elevation Exploded Facade Diagram
North Building Cross Section
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2nd Floor 1 Bed Unit
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3rd Floor 3 Bed Unit First Level
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4th Floor 3 Bed Unit Second Level
KINDERGARTEN IN THE PARK ROME STUDIO
Jonathan Miller // Undergraduate
This studio project offered an opportunity to understand the challenges of designing contemporary building types in parallel situations—the dense historic fabric of a city with ancient origins that has been manipulated over centuries and the more diffused, diverse, and irregular landscape typically found on the edge of the modern city. This small montessori school additionally had the challenge of being located on a triangular sloping site that needed to remain a public park as well as a kindergarten.
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Ground Floor Plan
View Looking Down into Park
PROFESSIONAL WORK Physical Modeling Chappaquiddick House Finish Model Digital Modeling Library Publication Drawing Sectional Systems Diagram Newton House Renovation Renderings Construction Details Chappaquiddick House Details
Chappaquiddick House Finish Model Detailed display model constructed of wood with cork base.
International School of Boston Library Rendering Library renovation rendering, made using Sketchup and Photoshop, for school promotion purposes.
Drumlin Farm Farm Life Building Sectional rendering created for firm exhibition in Boston Greenfest 2011, describing the building systems and envelope that achieved net-zero status.
Newton House Renovation Renderings Models created to show options for renovations to exhisting home.
Chappaquiddick House Details Window and door construction details. MARYANN THOMPSON ARCHITECTS
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