JOSH BRANSKY
613 Clarendon St, Syracuse NY www.josh-bransky.com jbransky4@gmail.com (805) 807-4737
CONTENTS:
PORTFOLIO ADDENDUM 4 Thesis Prep 8 Thesis
CONTEXT OF FIELD
THESIS PREP
GENERATING DIFFERENCE WITHIN SERIAL MODELS OF MASS PRODUCTION
Fall 2015 | ARC 505 | Syracuse, NY
This research collection began with an interest in pumping life and individuality back into the homogenized collection of manufactured urban housing. Under the working thesis: “Seriality can generate differentiation”, a series of existing housing projects were remodeled, or re-mixed, to produce specimens that reflected an increased level
METRICS OF EVALUATION
PRODUCTION
IDENTITY
DENSITY
of user generation and individual articulation. Bottom up design effects were integrated into top down design methods to achieve a realizable middle ground. Techniques deployed ranged from an interchangeable facade system, to a series of methods of stacking existing low rise structures, to a novel system of merging panel
and modular prefabrication, to a disruptive strategy of formal articulation of the individual unit.
Tennant: MUSICIAN
facade
Celing two layers gypsum wall board = 5/8” clips = 3/8“ metal stud flooring = 6” batt insulation = 6” air gap = 1/4”
Tenant: ARTIST
Structure box truss horizontal member = 6”x 6”
Strategy: CUSTOMIZABLE FACADE Flooring hard wood inlay concrete on decking = 2” batt insulation = 6” air gap = 1/4”
Structure box truss vertical member = 8”x 2”
Structure box truss facade member = 6”x 6”
Tenant: FINANCE INTERN
Facade Panel user painted stucco = 1.5”
Facade Panel vinyl siding on plywood = 1.5” Structure box truss vertical member = 3”x 2”
Interior Wall two layers gypsum wall board = 5/8” batt insulation = 2“ metal stud wall = 2” gypsum wall board = 1” air gap = 1/4”
Interior Wall
Facade Panel green wall 1.5”
Tennant: FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER
Facade Panel CNC milled hardwood= 1.5”
Exterior Wall two layers gypsum wall board = 5/8” batt insulation = 6“ metal stud wall = 6” gypsum wall board = 1” ethylene propylene diene terpolymer facade panel = 1.5”
Facade Panel unfinished concrere 1.5”
Facade Panel precast brick panel = 1.5”
Railing extruded steel tube (bent)= 3” extruded steel column = 1.5” steel cable = .75” removable joints for facade replacement
MY MICRO NY REMODEL
Strategy: FORMAL ARTICULATION
Scale: 1/2” = 1’
Strategy: AIR
Strategy: LIGHT
Strategy: VARIED COLUMN COMPONENTS H
H
G Column Type H square precast concrete column = 8”
G
F
F Strategy: PRIVACY
E
E
D
D
C
C
Strategy: GARDENS
B
B
A
A
Column Type A square precast concrete column = 24”
DENSITY
CENTRAAL BEHEER REMODEL
Through stacking of the prefabricated forms on top of each other, this adaptable and formally articulated whole begins to satisfy the requrements of density.
CONTEXT OF FIELD
THESIS
RE-EVALUATING PART TO WHOLE TO CREATE A VERNACULAR HIGH RISE
Spring 2015 | ARC 508 | Seattle, WA
After revising and clarifying the research from thesis-prep, this thesis project began to focus solely on the societal implications of form. Specifically, it aimed to bring the balanced relationship of individual and community, from single family homes, to the housing tower typology. Past formal part-to-whole relationships were analyzed with the intention of modifying them
VARIABLES
to create a new “difficult whole�. A series of critiques of past part-to-whole buildings was generated, including these four variables: formal relationship between part, scale of part, relationship between part, and material and color of part. A matrix of possible permutations was devised to test the possible ratios of each variable.
These efforts hope to generate a new form of high rise housing tower, one that balances the individual and the collective, breaking the seriality of existing towers, and bringing a distinctive architectural identity to each.
Testing: Relationship to core FORMING PERIMETER
Testing: Relationship to core HUGGING/CLUSTERING
Testing: P HIGH PO
Porosity OROSITY
BUILDING SCALE FORM STUDIES
Testing: Unit Stacking GROUPED BY TYPE
Testing: Unit Stacking LOCAL ASYMMETRIES
Testing: Symmetry YES
Testing: Symmetry MOSTLY
Testing: Unit Relation DEFINED / HELD CONSTANT
Testing: Unit Relation DEFINED / HELD CONSTANT
Strategy: TRUNCATING
Strategy: TRAPEZOIDAL PROTRUSION
Strategy: EXTRUDING
UNIT SCALE FORM STUDIES
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