JOSH BRANSKY 820 Ackerman Ave, Syracuse NY, 13210 | www.joshbransky.com | jcbransk@syr.edu
CONTENTS:
ARCHITECTURE
4 Plug-in Waterfront 18 Urban Forest
GRAPHIC
24 You’re Looking at it All Wrong 30 Conflicted Lakes [Timeline] 32 Professional Work
FABRICATION
34 The Mouse House 36 Conflicted Lakes [Model]
EXPLODED CONSTRUCTION PROCESS DIAGRAM
PLUG–IN WATERFRONT
AN AMPHIBIOUS MACHINE FOR THE DAMAGED WATERFRONT OF LONDON’S THAMES
Spring 2014 | SU Abroad | London, UK Design and Production Collaboration with Ben Anderson-Nelson
The goal of this scheme was to highlight London’s infrastructural past, and glorify the potential for its sustainible future. Beginning as a single infrastructural intervention (located above the current Thames Tideway Tunnel sewer expansion), the project slowly devoleped from a single condition to a larger masterplanning scheme and even a formula for waterfront regeneration around the world (proces work pg
6-7). Permanent concrete pilasters and infrastructure connections allow for specific sites to respond to local conditions and changind demand, for a trully adaptable future. The basic elements of the masterplan scheme are detailed above (exploded construction diagram). Three important moments from the
scheme (market, science labs, and control tower) are detailed in plan, section, and rendered sectional model in the pages that follow. The whole scheme can be viewed in its entirety in the masterplan (pg 16).
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PROCESS WORK The evoloution of the scheme from a singular instance of “infrastructural glorification” (A) to an entire masterplanning language (C + D).
RENDERED SECTION [TTT CENTER] Two bays of the final masterplan, cut through the central operating tower as it intersects with the TTT.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Underground Tube Line Sunken Auto Route Horizontal Sewer Infrastructure TTT Drop Shaft
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RENDERED SECTION [MARKET] RENDERED SECTION [FISH HATCHERY + LABS]
SHORT SECTION [FISH HATCHERY + LABS]
SHORT SECTION [TTT CENTER]
SHORT SECTION [MARKET]
AERIAL VIEW [TTT CENTER]
ZOOM IN PLAN
MASTERPLAN
FINAL AXON
URBAN FOREST
PNEUMATIC COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTER (OF THE FUTURE!)
Fall 2013 | ARC 307 | Syracuse, NY
By 2016, NYC will be required to collect, manage, and sort its organic waste–Urban Forest is Roosevelt Island’s localized solution. This composting center combines a typically undesirable and hidden urban process [trash collection and processing] and combines it with environmental research center to create a self sufficient de-
sirible community space, and a model for our environmentally conscious future. Raw organic waste enters via the underground pneumatic collection system already existing on the island, or is depoisted by the users at the “forest” base. It is shot up to the processing facilities above, and sent back down to the
base for collection as useable compost. Aiming to help the collaborative nature of scientist work, and create an inviting environment for passer by-ers to explore, the scients cells are arranged in clusters and groups, forming small networks and neighborhoods. An algae facade manages the building’s own carbon emissions.
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DEVOLEPMENT OF THE ALGAE FACADE The idea of an algae facade that regulates and cleans the interior environment while producing its own energy was tested visually, formally (A + B) and schematically (C) before resullting in the final design above. Intersections between units were tested in a variety of ways (D + E) before resulting in the aggregation stregegy employed above.
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DEVOLEPING THE MODULAR AGGREGATION The goal of a network of office clusters, in attempt to create a more “neighborhood-like” work environment, was tested through many aggregation methods. Beginning with uniformly distributed modules (A, B, C)) and progressing to a complex hierarchy of unit to cluster to circulation relationships (D + E).
PLANS [0-3]
EXPLODED FORM AXON
OBLIQUE VIEW
“YOU’RE LOOKING AT IT ALL WRONG” OR “HOW TO OCCUPY AN AXON”
Fall 2014 | Thomas Kelley: Visiting Critic Syracuse, NY
This project began with the desire to “occupy” an axon.
surablity, objectivity, explodability or ability to be diagrammed)].
We represent our three dimensional space with this two dimensional projection method, however all the characteristics inherent in its unique production method are lost in the final work [Abstraction (flatness, subjectivity, reversibility) or Precision (mea-
By projecting an axon of the space (a restroom cooridor in Slocum hall) onto the space its self, the relationship of the drawing method and the resultant space it produced is called into question. The axonomettric draw-
ing is animorphically projected back onto the space. Thus, from a specific vantage point, one can momentarilly exist (or flutter between opposing existences) in the desired representation method.
PRE-PROJECTED DRAWING
ANIMORPHICALLY CORRECT VIEW
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MEASURABLE
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DIAGRAMMATIC
2, 4, 6, 8 House–Morphosis
Boundaries–Adam Simpson
Villa Savoye Axon–Le Corbusier
SUBJECTIVE
FLAT
REVERSIBLE
Collage Rebus II–Daniel Lebiskind
Issue 05 “Scary Architects”–San Rocco Magazine
Parti Wall Axon–Jonothan Louie
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OPTICAL DIAGRAMS A. Perspective View B. Parallel View C. Perspectivally Projected Parallel View D. Hallway Projection Diagram
TECHNICAL + ABSTRACT CASE STUDY QUALITIES
CONFLICTED LAKES A MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIMELINE
Fall 2012 | ARC 207 | Syracuse, NY
This graphic solves the challenge of visually displaying a complex narritive of events associated across a linear time spectrum in a simple and clear way. Onondaga Lake, at one point in time, was the most polluted lake in America. Beginning in the late 1700’s, various corporations (noted on the left) began polluting the lake and its surrounding eco-
system. The intensity of positive or negative events is associated with a darker or lighter brown (pollution) or green (regeneration). In 1960, the Syracuse community began invensting in the environmental safety of the lake and its ecosystem and stopped the dumping of raw sewage and stormwater runoff. Overlaid on the graphic timeline of posi-
tive/negative events are two metrics of environemtnal evalualtion. In blue is the number of measured fish species, and in grey is the density of phosphorous pollution. Specific events also appear as moments on the timeline too, such as when fishing or swimming were banned, or when various environmental regulations were passed.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
USER INTERFACE AND INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN
2013 | Canal Branding | Seattle, WA Design Collaboration with Canal Branding. All images produced by Josh Bransky.
This one project for SAQ offers two stragetically differnt pieces showing how design logic, at a professional level, can work to both extend and replicate an existing graphic language, and generate/test entirely new ones, both within a single informational framework. The SAQ Reward Zone screens exhibit the first
stratgery: extend and replicate a given language. The client had an existing print brand that was given to us to design an online web store and rewards system. Color, shape, and information hierarchy remained constant, while new elemants and arrangements were intorduced to create a alcohol type menu at the top and a system for clearly displaying
the filtered product results below. The language had to show the product and display a range of information while still remaining in the background and integrating with previous material. The back end reporting page, however, was free to be more diagramattic and was conceptualized as a seprate piece, that the public would not see.
THE MOUSE HOUSE
A TESTAMENT TO CONCRETE’S VARIED ABILITIES
Spring 2013 | ARC 500 | Syracuse, NY Design and Construction Collaboration with Roger Hubeli’s ARC 500 Class
The Mouse House is a built success of a variety of concrete casting techniques, culminating an academic seminar on the viariety of concrete’s abilites. The small play hut, for a local disabled students preschool, was built on a nature trail adjacent to other local architectural interventions. The Mouse House was designed to create a cavernous inviting
interior, while still remaining a formal independant object intergrated into its site. The cavernous interior was cast using an organic inherently undesigned formwork. Bales of hay were smoothed out using the mud from the site.
The exterior formwork was assembled of CNC routed foam attached to a cut plywood shell. This formwork allowed the project to gain its own iconic exterior, while still incorporating a pattern from the installation adjacent. Two unique opposite techniques and resultant textures incorporated into one singular cast.
CONFLICTED LAKES A MODULAR ECO-BOAT DOCK
Fall 2012 | ARC 207 | Syracuse, NY Design and Production Collaboration with Chelsea Wheeler and Jessi Obregon
This project shows precision and method in fabrication of a complex form through the close similarity of render to model photo. The goal of the project was to test the formal characteristics of a varying modular scheme in three dimensions. Many modulating schemes exist as two dimensional facades, or thin three dimensional
landscape tiling, yet designing an inhabitable three dimensional structure was a unique challenge. We devoleped a unique “building block� that began as a solid cube at the base of the structure and disolved into an open lattice towards the top. Spheres of increasing radii were subtracted from the eight verticies of the
cubes to a point of minimal mass and maximum aperature. This was fabricated by layering laser cut chip board coordinating to horizontal slices of the digital model. This allowed us increased precision over manual techniques and satisfied the scale requirement of the model (vs 3D printing).