Kennedy Portfolio

Joseph Henry Kennedy Jr.

Selected Work - 2017 kennedyarchive.org jhk247@cornell.edu

Contents

OUTPOST MANIFESTO SIDEWALK AURELIA MOTEL TOWNHALL PRINTSCREEN PLAYCARPET ONESCREEN WATERTOWER ISLAND YTIC TETRAPOD ACOUSTIC STUDIO COLLAR PARTYWALL LOADING MIRROR FURNITURE KEYTAR

Research

Architecture

Competition

Professional

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Exterior Rendering: View from landscape into capsule.

Interior Rendering: View from capsule into landscape.

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OUTPOST August 2016 - June 2017

Individual Project Fulbright Foundation Research Grant

A collective nostalgia has made the isolated cabin in the wilderness an appealing escape from the stressful routine of city life as urban populations continue to increase globally. While some approach these wilderness retreats as recreational excursions, many have left their city apartments to live in custom made tiny homes and travel trailers.

The nomadic capsule is a transient architecture capable of reorienting itself to allow access different zones contained within the curves of its continuous padded interior reminiscent of the womb. The entire structure is balanced so that the strategic distribution of the inhabitant’s body weight is enough to shift the center of gravity and cause the capsule to revolve. A series of eight mechanically actuated outriggers allow a user to lock the structure in one of a dozen positions that correspond to different domestic programmatic functions. By wrapping multiple programs into a single surface, the design utilizes fewer materials while maximizing the potential uses of the space. A single small opening acts as both entry door and window capable of following the path of the sun.

The tiling pattern of the exterior shell acts both as a protective roof cladding and traction on the ground that may be customized to perform in different terrain conditions or easily replaced when broken. As the structure shifts according to its user’s movements, the imprint left in the dirt or snow becomes a graphic documentation of the day’s routine.

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Context Rendering: View of capsule parked on frozen lake for ice fishing.

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Section/Plan Drawing: Cut showing interior surface conforming to body contours in different orientations.

Section/Plan Drawing: Cut showing interior surface conforming to body contours in different orientations.

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Elevation Drawing: Capsule tilt based off of weight distribution of the inhabitant.

Interior Model: 1-10 scale model of cushioned interactive surface.

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VIII - Tire Tread Drawing: Possible daily movement of capsule based on programmatic activation.

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Isometric Drawing: Unrolled pattern of exterior shingle cladding made from standard modules.

Isometric Drawing: Unrolled structural framing supporting shell and interior surface.

Isometric Drawing: Unrolled interior surface topography.

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XIII - Study Model: 1-50 scale model of average trailer home programatic distibution as graph and pie chart.

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XIV - Interior Model: 1-10 scale model 3D print made up of 72 uniquely curved pieces.

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Structure Model: 1-10 scale model lasercut and assembled with interior webbing and moving parts.

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XVI - Exhibition: Capsule design exhibited with 50 paper models of traditional Norwegian architectural types and animations of the interior organization of 40 American trailer home types.

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Interior Model: 1- 48 scale paper models of reading rooms.

Interior Model: 1- 48 scale paper models of reading rooms.

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MANIFESTO January 2015 - May 2015

Individual Project - Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal Professor Tao DuFour and Alexander Mergold: 5th Year Thesis

A library for the internet age that investigates the role of the book within the proliferation of digital media. A series of 81 custom made books explore different spatial formats for presenting information.

The books become the generators for a series of 64 reading rooms based on the spatial adjacencies present in each book. The project is hosted as a series of interactive entries through wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:UnderscoreK/sandbox

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Plan Perspective Drawing: 81 variations of reading room layouts.

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Interior Model Rig: 4 floors plates containing reading room models raised and lowered with spool system.

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Bookshelf: Vertical shelf rotates 90 degrees to become a horizontal table to allow access to additional books.

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Exhibition: Series of 18’ long drawings printed on flooring paper and angled in space of a future library.

Exhibition: Series of book experiments hung from ceiling and displayed on pedestals.

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VIII - Digital Interface: Interactive narrative appears as a summary of a nonexistant book on Wikipedia.

IX - Digital Interface: Interactive google maps allows deep level zoom into the storyline.

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Masterplan Rig: Steel frame with pulleys splits masterplan in half to reveal an isometric drawing of the site.

Masterplan Rig: Tyvek plots stretched across wooden frames.

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SIDEWALK September 2014 - December 2014

Individual Project Professor Lily Chi and Jeremy Foster: 5th Year Studio

The proposed masterplan for the city of Ca Mau in southern Vietnam subdivides the area with an extension of the Mekong river to alleviate the flooding caused by sea level rise and a canal as part of a new transportation artery. A giant ring road surrounds a protected wildlife habitat in the middle of a mangrove forest that filters salt water into fresh water.

The typical 30 x 30 cm sidewalk tile is redesigned to be more easily used by individuals in building walls and structures for their residences while at the same time graphically referring back to the overall form of the city as a type of proliferated infrastructural propaganda. The tile is scaled optimally so as to be small enough to be easily moved and transported yet not large enough so that they do not require too much maintenance or labor to set in place.

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Site Model: Clay model of tile prototype superimposed with infrasturcutral map of rice paddies.

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Farmhouse Plan Drawing: Duplex inhabiting berm of neighboring rice paddies with consolidated utilities.

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Farmhouse Isometric Drawing: Informal structural framing of shared farmer duplex.

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Village Plan Drawing: Grid of telephone poles and tiles aggregated and populated with self built structures.

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Village Isometric Drawing: Informal structural framing.

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Plan Diagram: Categorization of rice paddy areas and proportions on the site.

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Axonometric Drawing: Existing sidewalk tile conditions defining public and private spaces.

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Elevation Drawing: Views of tile wall with variable porosity.

Model: 1-16 scale model of tile aggregation patterns.

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Isometric Drawing: Pathways and buildings dividing residential zone and public park adjacent to aqueduct.

Section Drawing: Different paths scaled to the constraints of the pedestrian, bicyclist and automobile.

AURELIA September 2013 - December 2013

Individual Project Professor Werner Goehner

One of the eight consular roads of Rome, the Via Aurelia leaves the city from the Janiculum hill, bordering the Villa Pamphili - a popular park for runners, walkers and bikers. The road weaves under, over and between fragments of the Aqua Paola aqueduct. A contemporary equivalent of the aqueduct is proposed for the modern city. A 1 kilometer long swimming pool reconstructs the fragments of the aqueduct, acting as a new landmark and reference point from the park and road below.The pool allows the visitor to begin at one point, swim several hundred meters and exit the water someplace completely different. The infrastructure of the pool hosts several types of paths of different speeds. The visitor is able to move interchangeably between these paths and transition from running to swimming to walking to biking to driving. At various points, the paths converge at locker rooms and gymnasiums that redirect visitors into other portions of the system.

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Building Plan Drawing: Locker rooms and various athletic facilities bisected by running path.

Context Map: Relationship of proposed infrastructure to the aqueduct and consular road.

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Perspective Drawing: View of running track, athletic facilities and swimming pool.

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Isometric Drawing: Exploded view of athletic facility furniture and amenities.

Axonometric Drawing: Cuts at different sections showing changing paths and topography.

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Infrastructure Model: The length of the Acqua Paola and the Via Aurelia adjacent to the swimming pool.

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MOTEL December 2012

Independent Project Professor Arthur Ovaska: 3rd Year Studio

A series of motels for various sites across Ithaca, New York each catering to a different type of clientele, from visiting parents of university students to bird watchers.

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Model: 1-16 scale model stepping back into a hillside on a triangular site.

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Model: 1-16 scale models overview.

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Model: 1-16 scale models detail.

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Model: 1-16 scale models detail.

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Perspective Rendering and Drawing: Organization of spaces between fin walls.

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TOWNHALL January 2012 - May 2012

Collaboration with Sean Kim and Relique Lott.

Professor Mark Morris: 2nd Year Studio

The individual rowhouse is a module. The collective rowhouse is a series: A series that defines both a start and a finish. As a series, the rowhouse exhibits a linearity by the sequence in which its constituent parts are experienced. Walking down the street, one will observe the rowhouse progressively façade change and modulate one into the other. The community center artificially accelerates the speed of transition within the series, resulting in a condensed period of transformation from one row house to the other. The town hall exaggerates the narrow boundaries preexisting on the site, further dividing the space into five 10’ wide fragments of space through the structuring of six monumental walls. The fin walls span parallel across the entire longitudinal axis of the site, over the river-walk, and into the river.

Each wall is selectively permeable: large apertures inserted throughout the walls create varying degrees of porosity within an offset matrix, controlling circulation and determining views across the building.

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Axonometric Drawing: Programmatic distribution and circulation within the building.

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Building Model: 1-48 scale detailed model of interior.

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Axonometric Drawing: Diagrams and narrative integrated into representation of space.

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PRINTSCREEN May 2014

Collaboration Caio Barboza and Natalie Kwee Space Forward Ideas Competition - 1st Prize

A new method of spatial organization and information presentation for the workplace of the (near) future, (Print Screen) is a commercial product that can be purchased, shipped and installed in the structural grid of any open floor plan. The package includes a kit of large format industrial printers attached vertically to columns that uses a high-strength, lightweight and soundproof paper that users can print on and arrange to partition and create spaces that accommodate a variety of uses.

(Print Screen) aims to bring the built environment up to speed with current technologies and create a full integration between architecture and information. (Print Screen) confronts the indeterminacy of the growing business with an adaptable nature that is able to accommodate short term growth and the specific needs of the work environment without sacrificing the ability to personalize one’s own space.

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Axonometric Drawing: Detail of competition board.

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Perspective/Axonometric/Plan/Section Drawing: Carpet sponsoring public events in Zagreb.

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PLAYCARPET June 2015

Collaboration Vinnie Parlatore and Hana Svatos-Raznjevic Think Space: Public Space Competition

The sidewalk is the site of a perpetual territorial dispute between building and street, both seeking to extend their domain into the thin space that separates them. This ambiguous territory plays host to numerous informal events that are manifestations of commercial interests and the personal needs of residents. As socioeconomic forces threaten to shrink the sidewalk into nonexistence, these narrow public realms are at risk of extinction. Portions of the public sidewalk are actively being quartered off and occupied by parking, cafes, and food carts that produce an awkward tension in spaces supposedly dictated by the pedestrian right of way.

But the sidewalk makes a comeback - the street is a potentially neutral platform reprogrammed by weekly fairs, parades and farmers markets that close off roads to make way for scheduled public events. Like a doormat that welcomes guests into a home, the carpet removes the threshold separating pedestrian and motorist, defining a space which resolves their mutual occupation. By temporarily erasing the boundaries of the curb, we extend the sidewalk into the street to reclaim the public space of the city. The carpet is a plan blueprint on which all possible uses may occur. Deployed in several different European capitals, it suggests various configurations of public events and urban furniture

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Plan Drawing: Carpet layout in Berlin.

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Diagram: Spatial arrangement of furniture for different uses.

Model: 1-50 scale model of rolled carpet.

Axonometric Drawing: Informal occupation of carpet.

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Plan Drawing: Carpet layout in Barcelona.

Plan Drawing: Carpet layout in Athens.

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Perspective/Elevation Drawing: Views into offices and classrooms.

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ONESCREEN June 2014

Independent Project One Prize: Smart Dock Competition

The internet and social media provide individuals digital platforms for connecting and sharing information with people beyond their immediate vicinity. However our computers and cell phones enhance long distance communication at the expense of our immediate peers. In contemporary offices, classrooms, libraries we direct our attentions exclusively to our computer screens and shut out the rest of the world. OneScreen is a proposal to eliminate the distractions of multiple screens by consolidating everyone’s attention into one screen. Occupying a wall in the Hudson Yard warehouse, OneScreen is a digital interface that allows direct collaboration between students, faculty, and public within a physical environment. Classrooms, faculty offices, and study spaces are stacked atop one another and oriented towards a single giant screen that displays the work of all users simultaneously. The interface allows instant visual commuication and sharing of files and information between individuals.

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Diagram: Concept for computer interface.

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Perspective Drawing: Views into workstation.

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Isometric Drawing: Individual user interface distributed on shared screen.

Section Drawing: Stacking of collaborative spaces.

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Contect Map: Locations of proposed and existing desalination plants next to the Red Sea.

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WATERTOWER July 2014

Independent Project Matter Better: Typhoon Class Submarine Competition - Honorable Mention

The exterior hull of the typhoon class submarine is split into 5 parts that correspond to the divisions of the interior compartments. The separate segments of the submarine are spread along the Saudi Arabian coast of the Red Sea to become water towers with desalination treatment systems in the former territories of the Bedouin tribes. The water towers invert the submarine’s former relationship to water by containing and purifying incoming seawater into portable drinking water.

The water towers rise out of the homogenous desert landscape. Their monolithic size allows them to be seen from far away and used as landmarks for the Bedouin Tribes navigating the Arabian Desert.

They are decommissioned and dismantled artifacts of war that provide necessary shade and water to a culture on the brink of extinction in a war torn region of the world.

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Diagram Drawing: Concept for water tanks.

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Axonometric Drawing: Relationship between tents of nomadic tribes and landscape of oasis.

Diagram Drawing: Process of seawater purification through solar pond and submarine hulls.

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Perspective Rendering: Approaching oasis within from the desert.

Isometric Drawing: Partitioned tanks within the split portions of the submarine.

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Context Map: Site plan of environmental conditions in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Diagram Drawings: Catalog of existing shield volcanoes near the site.

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ISLAND May 2017

Independent Project LA +: Island Competition - Honorable Mention

Of the over 8,000 square kilometers of land that form the Galapagos Archipelago, less than 3 percent is zoned for human use. The remaining 97 percent is a designated national park protected under strict access and conservation regulations. A growing population of over 25,000 legal residents presents challenges and conflicts with tourism, agricuture and ecological preservation.

This proposal repurposes abandoned oil rigs in order to drill into the earth’s crust above the geothermal hot spot and create volcanic disturbances that result in the formation of new islands.

These anthropogenic interventions are intended as catalysts for the existing tectonic process which can be isolated and controlled to produce additional islands with arable land that support the expanding appetites of Galapagos residents and tourists without imposing a threat on the region’s endemic wildlife.

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Plan Drawing: Layout of city infrastructure and port on proposed island.

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Mobile App: Interface for public exchange ad participation in the traveling exhibition.

Web App: Digital interactive map tracking the progress of the traveling exhibition.

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YTIC November 2015

Collaboration with Caio Barboza, Sophia Blancos Santos, and Kai Lan World Design Capital: Taipei - Finalist

Taipei City sets an international standard with a recycling rate of over 60%. A daily cycle of garbage trucks accompanied by music, alerts residents to hand-deliver their trash and to recycle at specified times. The unintentional result of the coordinated trash pickup is an informal community gathering during which neighbors can see one another and socialize.

YTIC proposes to appropriate from the latent potential offered by Taipei’s garbage truck in delivering community-events to the doorsteps of the city’s residents in order to connect international practitioners to local neighborhoods and practices. We propose to repurpose and retrofit an existing garbage truck into a mobile platform for discussion for the local people of Taipei and, ultimately, transport it to other cities as well.

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Isometric Drawing: Mobile exhibition deployed in Dihua Street in Taipei.

Isometric Drawing: Mobile exhibition deployed in Xinyi Road in Taipei.

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Photograph: Bologna store entrance.

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TETRAPOD September 2015 - April 2016

Completed during employment at Miniwiz Marlboro: IQOS Italy Retail

A modular system for store display made from recycled trash. The structure is based on the tetrahedral geometry of a carbon atom that allows for the strong bonds between molecules. The geometry allows for several different structural configurations to adjust for various spatial types and loading conditions.

The system is designed for rapid assembly using friction joints without screws or glue. Each location was installed by a handful of workers within a week. Electircal wiring is included within the body of the modules that plug into cusom lights, speakers and air purifiers.

Responsible for design, prototyping, interior layout and on site consturction administration for retail spaces in Bologna, Rome, Turin, Milan and Moderna.

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Photograph: Bologna store lounge.

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Mock Up: Organic structural configuration.

Mock Up: Linear structural configuration.

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Mock Up: Spherical structural configuration.

Diagram Drawing: Atomic geometry.

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VII - Elevation Drawing: Exerpt from assembly manual for store in Rome.

VIII - Elevation Drawing: Exerpt from assembly manual for store in Turin.

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Plan Drawing: Exerpt from assembly manual for store in Bologna.

Plan Drawing: Exerpt from assembly manual for store in Turin.

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Model: Suitcase made from recycled felt panel containing model for client with peephole.

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XIII - Perspective Rendering: Modules deployed in interior space..

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Diagram Drawing: Module porosity and texture at varying angles of folding.

Model: 1-10 scale model of module folding pattern.

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ACOUSTIC March 2016

Completed during employment at Miniwiz Nike: New York City Office

Proposal for a dynamic acoustic wall composed of interlocking modules made from recycled materials.

The surface topography and porosity can be varied according to the orientation and angle of the connections between modules.

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Perspective Rendering: Acoustic wall covering central volume of building.

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Elevation Drawing: Shifting patterns of modules on vertical surfaces.

Perspective/Elevation Drawing: Relationship of modules to interior spaces.

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Plan Drawings: Repartitioning of existing building for hotel rooms and office space.

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CTS STUDIO April 2016

Completed during employment at Miniwiz

Proposed renovation of a former television studio with no outward facing windows. The triple height spaces containing the filming areas are hollowed out to create interior courtyards that bring in light while maintiaing privacy from the surrounding buildings. The building is split in half with one side as a coworking space and the other a hotel. The traditional circulation of the hotel is inverted as visitors enter through the lobby located on the roof terrace and proceed downwards to their rooms.

Responsible for schematic design and site analysis.

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Isometric Drawing: Relationship to neighboring buildings.

Isometric Drawing: Floorplate layout.

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Perspective/Section Drawings: Cut through the length of the building.

Perspective/Section Drawings: Cut through the hotel courtyard.

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Perspective/Section Drawings: Cut through the office courtyard.

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Photograph: Chair profile.

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COLLAR November 2015

Completed during employment at Miniwiz

A flat packable chair made from a single 120 cm x 180 cm sheet of recycled felt panel that can be assembled in 5 minutes without tools or any additional fasteners and glue. Inspired by the popped collar of a button up shirt.

Responsible for design and prototyping.

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Photograph: Chair seat.

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Pavilion Model: 1-64 scale pavilion in courtyard.

Site Model: Urban context of Queens NY.

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PARTYWALL December 2012 - January 2013

Completed during employment at CODA MOMA PS1 YAP - Winner

Rather than erecting a horizontal canopy to provide shade, an extension of the vertical surface of the building’s wall imposes the presence of its shadow onto the space below. It is both a billboard that announces the pavilion to cars on the LIE and the Subway line, and an architecture that can be read by the public as its generic equivalent in the form of its shadow. It is at once obvious and mysterious, providing shade and water from a detached position.

Responsible for concept design and physical models.

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Concept Model: Shadow studies.

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Photograph: Uhaul in parking lot.

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LOADING June 2013

Collaboration with Karl Pops

A mobile exhibition about the meaning of home within the context of contemporary American rootlessness. A u-haul encloses a kit of parts that is transported to various sites to create a semblance of home. While the furniture has specificity to certain sites, engaging the existing context in different ways in each case to provide occupation for different events or situations. A movie screening. A picnic.

A solitary contemplative space. A loading dock. A parking lot. A grass field.

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Photograph: Furniture inside truck.

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Axonometric Drawing: Furniture storage system.

Plan Drawing: Furniture storage system.

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Photograph: Movable stencil alignment.

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MIRROR September 2011

Independent Project Professor John Zissovic: 2nd Year Studio

The machine recalls my childhood memories of home. Specifically, it recreates the experience of passing through the threshold between the upper and lower limits of my house. The fear of the unknown present in the ritual of unlocking and opening the door to the basement level of my home is replayed through use of the machine.

The process recreates a duality between two individuals that operate the machine from either side, constricting their movements to synchronized mirror images of one another as they spray paint through identically arranged sets of inverted stencils onto the same large piece of paper that divides them from one another. The painted compositions that result from the process act as Rorschach test onto which I could project.

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Photograph: Spraypaint can with stencils.

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Photograph: Sliding stencils.

Photograph: Elevations of mirror mechanism.

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Axonometric Drawing: Exploded view of moving parts with counterweights.

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Photograph: Lounge chair of white oak pegged with steel rod.

Photograph: Stool of split oak with steel butterfly joint and base.

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FURNITURE October 2011 - June 2015

Independent Project

In an effort to seek a calm working environment away from my studio desk, I designed and built one item of furniture each day for an entire week with the goal of creating my own personal space. The components used were all scrap materials found that day either in the fabrication shop which were then pieced together into different items of furniture.

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Photograph: Desk set from found materials.

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Photograph: Keytar.

Photograph: Interior electrical wiring.

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KEYTAR March 2013

Independent Project

20 synthesizer settings. 8 rhythm selections. 2 speed and volume adjusters. 1 light-up keyboard. The fufillment of a longtime fantasy. Designed, wired and fabricated over 1 week.

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Photograph: Keytar performance.

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