JPeterson - Select Design Portfolio 2012 by John Peterson

John Peterson

selected works portfolio

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_01.01_ Transient Shelter_f2005 _01.02_ Design Build Competition_f2006

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_00.00_ Bio/History _00.01_Design Philosophy

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_02.01_Universal Furniture Systems_ Omni_ Philadelphia, PA _02.02_Universal Furniture Systems_ One Fit_ Philadelphia, PA _02.03_Roche Residence_ Addition_ Longport, NJ _02.04_The Well_ Haddonfield, NJ

_03.01_WMA_Sirkin Residence Garage_ Margate, PA

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_03.02_WMA_The Ritz Condominium_ Addition_ Atlantic City, NJ _03.03_WMA_Adler Residence_ Addition_ Ventnor City, NJ _03.04_MCO_University of Pennsylvania_ Rails_ Philadelphia, PA _03.05_MCO_Bucks County Justice Center_ Various_ Doylestown, PA _03.06_HA_Investors Bank_ Addition/ Int. Renovation_ Chatham, NJ _03.07_HA_Investors Bank_ Addition/ Int. Renovation_ Brooklyn, NY

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_04.01_Sketches and extra circular projects_ Philadelphia, PA

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Cover Image: Operable sun Shade facade study

Bio My interest in architecture and design began early in life. As a child I enjoyed building structures with Legos and Lincoln Logs and as I grew older my passion strengthened as I took up drawing and animation. Throughout my adolescence I honed my skills by drawing figures and scenes inspired by my surroundings. I grew up in a family of tradesmen and because of those connections I was able to explore a career in construction while in high school. I gained exposure to not only the building but also the design process. Having a hand in the transformation of a blueprint from paper to structure has greatly impacted my overall design philosophy.

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In 2004 I went on to study at Temple Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tyler School of Art and earned a Professional Bachelors degree in Architecture. During my undergraduate career I learned about the technicalities of architecture and developed a fascination with 3D design. Achieving mastery of advanced architectural software enabled me to push the limits of design for every assignment and project. Each project helped to develop my design stagey. Drawing from experience on job sites and skills learned in studio courses I created compelling projects that were both innovative and feasible. Today I continue my career in architecture and am working as a professional in the field. My thirst for knowledge and passion for excellence serves as motivation to push not only myself, but also my colleagues toward success.

Design Philosophy Practicality Through Inspiration -Architecture as a ResponsibilityMy design is based on ideas. Not styles or trends. My projects have a backbone of being design that the public has not seen before. The general idea behind my design is derived from a simple question: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why must a chair have legs? Can a stair float in mid-air but not move at all?â&#x20AC;? The assumptions of architecture are put aside throughout the design process. Developing new ways of thinking about walls, floors, structure, and space, are all the focal points embedded within my projects. My approach towards architecture is as different as the final design. Each project starts with a dream; with a concept. That dream, regardless of how farfetched in nature, can be developed and created into a real entity that can he physically held in your hand and seen by your eyes. The physical construction of each project plays just as much as a significant role as the initial dream. If it can be dreamt, it can be built. Utilizing all forms of modern construction technology, nothing within my projects is out of reach for the carpenter to create. I believe in understanding how projects are built play a large role in the design phase.

Selected Academic Works The following projects were created during the time spent at Temple University/Tyler School of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Architectural program. The selected projects best represent my early development of architectural design philosophy through various mediums.

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Image from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blurred Verticalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; 2010 thesis.

_01.01 Transient Shelter

Critic: Eric Oskey Brief: First exercise in architectural spatial analysis. As design-

ers, we must be able to understand basic spaital needs of humans to design appropriate structures. This project is to challenge the designer to create a space suitable for the modern Transient. System must be stable, portable, and easily constructed.

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This shelter was designed for the transients in moderate climates. Its lightweight stature enables the user to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pick and goâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as needed pending the current conditions of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment.

Interior/Exterior The exterior design of the shelter was to emulate that of a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;shore home.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Elevated from the ground, it gives the user a chance to escape ground elements. The interior presence was design to create an airy/light sense of stability. With the slotted louvers and roof, the user could be protected from the outdoors, without being shut away from society.

_01.02 Design/Build Comp.

Critic: Erick Oskey/Jules Dingle/ Jeff Goldstein Brief: This inter studio competition was designed to have the

entire year design, and construct four interventions. My concept was one of the four that was chosen. The floating cube was constructed in the heart of Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus.

Purpose The cubeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design purpose was to engage the user into a forced interaction with the intervention, making the user question their own senses to interact with the space.

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The interior joints were engineered to withstand the tensile weight of each connecting panel, as well as keeping it ‘a float.’ To create the sense that each panel was floating, and acting a separate entity from the rest of the intervention, the joints had to be designed to be well concealed.

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The cube was constructed from typical mill work wood panels, fastened together with engineered metal joints. The pure white finish was designed to contrast the existing context of the campus. It was meant to stand out, to be seen, to have personality.

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_01.03 Living Venue.

Critic: Robert Tremp Brief: Design studio centered around passion. This project was

to intrigue the student to design an intervention in a given site, and within in that site design a structure that embodies ones most influential subject. My chosen site was placed in center city Philadelphia, a few blocks from the newly constructed Comcast building.

Purpose This project was designed to create a fully functional living venue. The initial need to create a musical repository gave life to the need for a metal genre headquarters. The initial research of the main musical storage devices (vinyl, stereo-8, compact cassette and compact disc) created the availability of focusing on the metal genre. The metal genre is a vast underground lifestyle that needs a centralized location. Metal music isn’t just about the music, it’s about how the music embraces that person’s life, and then that person becomes a part of the lifestyle. With all this in mind, this project was about being fully embraced by the music . The ‘Living Venue’ is about the user being fully consumed by the environment of the intervention. The ‘Living Venue’ gives the metal world a centralized location by providing it with constant playback of music. The “musical library” or “living jukebox” creates an atmosphere purely about the purpose. By creating display cases and undulating floors that are directly affected by musical research and the creation of actual live performance spaces allows the Metal to take over.

Music as Sculpture The ‘Living Venue’ was geared to be an all inclusive music stop. Everything inside is musically influenced, from the floor plates to the facade to the storage shelves. The interiors of the ‘Living Venue’ were crafted after the sculpturesque nature of sound. The notion of mapping through sound waves gave leeway for each section of the structure to be unique. Each floor plate reflects a different sound and quality of that sound.

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Selected Design Projects The following projects were designed by John R. Peterson during multiple years of free lance design work. Each project that was undertaken was completed at the highest level of design and professionalism, ensuring that each client was satisfied and that each design fully utilized my design theory.

“The Well’ Design/Build Project; 2011

Client: Lakashman Rajeswaren; CEO/Founder of Caseinity Brief: In a world of constant movement and minimization,

our concept of furniture is at the forefront. Creating sculptures for living is what this world is moving to. Furniture that can be molded, transformed and transported is the next push to a more contemporary living style.

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Universale Funriture _Omni_

Purpose: The ‘Omni’ was designed to be an all-inclusive furniture

system. Each section of the system is designed to stand on its own from the center piece, but as a whole can be an entire rooms worth of furniture. Geared for people on the move to university students, the ‘Omni’ is the perfect piece to complete any room.

There are eight separate sections of the ‘Omni’ that when combined create one sculpturesque workable piece of furniture.

Client: Lakashman Rajeswaren, CEO/Founder of Caseinity Brief: In a world so focused on physical health in a fast paced nature, people are turning to quick solutions. Majority of people today don’t have the time to make it to the gym, so this piece of equipment brings the gym to the house. All major exercises can now be done in the comfort of ones own home.

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Purpose: The ‘One/Fit’ was made for the health enthusiast on the go. Utilizing an entire athletic gym’s equipment system into a simple 3 piece

Universale Funriture machine, the user can get a quick, full work out without the hassal of ever leaving one’s house. Using workouts such as push-ups and squats on the _One Fit_ ergonomically designed floor box to a full body work out on the tension bands, the One Fit is everything an athlete could need.

Client: Roche Family Brief: Contracted architectural work to design a second floor

porch addition to a home in Longport, NJ. The scope of the work consisted of expanding the master bedroom porch to wrap around the house along the north end. The homeowner is an artist and wanted to utilize the sun setting over the bay as her creative inspiration.

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Roche Residence _Addition_

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Client: Russel Nardi Brief: “The Well” was a project designed for a client who wanted to extend his

back yard living space into a place of serenity and solitude. The property lies in suburban New Jersey, just over the What Whitman bridge. The client is one who loves to travel as much as possible, especially to the countries of tropical origin. “The Well” was designed to be his oasis while still being within the confines of his property.

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The Well _Home Oasis_

The existing context of the space was that of typical suburban home. White fence, close neighbours, a typical multi story residential home. The homeowner has slowly transitioned the space into a small retreat. By adding a custom pool, custom pave work and an extended porch off the house the back yard took on a brand new character. With the only piece left to adapt, the pool shed was next on the list.

The pool shed, as seen above, is the only piece to yard that is not unique. The commission of the job was convert the shed into a Tahitian Hut that could with stand the harsh climate changes of New Jersey. The renderings below were the initial proposal.

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The challenge of this project was to keep as much original structural integrity as possible, in order to avoid having to have had the property re-zoned. With all the additional work, three of the four walls remained as well one side of the roof.

The Well _Home Oasis_ Key point of interest was to make sure the structure was open aired and light. In Tahaitian architecture, all interior structure is displayed. To keep â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wellâ&#x20AC;? open aired, it had to be designed with an open floor plan to allow constant airflow. Once removing the one side of the roof, the interior ceiling of the shed had to be redesigned for more height clearance. Each rafter had to be engineered to allow the roof to have maximum tensile strength in order to the ensure that the skeleton was to say whole.

Initial massing studies.

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The Well _Home Oasis_

Final Renderings

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The Well _Home Oasis_

Learning the tolerances of the chosen materials played a large contributing factor in the overall design. Multiple construction methods were implemented into the final design of the project.

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Deciding on an adequate footprint for the space, was derived from amount of users and spacing allowable by the townships building code. Although the space doubled in size, it still maintained its initial framed skeleton.

By raising the ceiling within the structure allows the user to enter the space and not feel crammed. The new open ceiling height offers the space a new characteristic of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;tiki hut.â&#x20AC;?

The fanned out roof was to give off the impression that the structure comes to a point at the center. Like that of a typical tiki hut, that has a central focal point, The Well was designed to have that same presence.

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The Well _Home Oasis_

The final product utilizes all of the characteristics of that of actual a Tahitian island hut embodies. From the tradition thatch cladding and dark stained wood, The Well has been transformed from an ordinary suburban back yard tool shed, to a communal space where people gather together. The owner had specified that this structure has brought together the immediate neighbourhood.

Selected Professional Projects Each of the following projects were undertaken while working in a structured office setting. With projects ranging from architecture to mechanical engineering/shop drawings, each project exemplifies the drafting and design abilities I have obtained throughout my professional career.

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Image from ‘The Ritz Condos’; 2008.

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_Sirkin Residence_

Client: Sirkin Family Firm: William Mclees Architecture Brief: The contracted work to be done consisted of a garage addition to

an existing shore home in Margate, NJ. The existing home had a drive way, but the client felt the need to expand the property to include a new garage inclosure. The garage was to match as closely to the character of the home, as to not feel as a separate piece, but as a an extention of the home.

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_Sirkin Residence_

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_Sirkin Residence_

_03.02 _The Ritz_

Client: The Ritz_ Atlantic City Firm: William Mclees Architecture Brief: Competition proposal for the Ritz Condominium in Atlantic City, NJ for a demolition and remodel of the existing pool enclosure. The competition ana RFP announced by the Ritz calling for designers to create a new structure to replace the existing, out of date pool. My design which won the award for constcition and was the one that was chosen by the board of the Ritz, as well as the residence who live there.

The addition had to mimic the existing character of the historic high rise. Creating a modern design that fit the mold of 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic American architecture was a challenge. Choosing to particular materials complemented the existing structure but also pulled the addition to the forefront of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over all attention.

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_Adler Residence_

Client: The Adler Family Firm: William Mclees Architecture Brief: The Client; Jack Adler, wanted to put two additions onto his existing shore home in Ventnor City, NJ. The Addition consisted of an extension to existing porch on the first floor and a second floor addition/remodel to the master bedroom and bathroom.

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_Adler Residence_

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_University of Penn_

Client: University of Pennsylvania Firm: M. Cohen and Sons Brief: Working for the metal fabrication

shop, I was in direct contact with the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Civil engineer and architect to design and fabricate metal low rails along the campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main foot path. My job was design and detail each rail and to work with the metal fabricator to create each rail. 1 Site Survey

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_03.04 _BC Justice_

Client: Bucks County Justice Center Firm: M. Cohen and Sons Brief: The Bucks County department of justice were building a new state of the art

facility in Doylestown, PA. M Cohen and Sons had received the winning bid for all the metal/steel work within the structure. I was personally responsible for designing and fabricating all the steel within the low rails (low walls) within the court rooms. I had to design each individual weld, bolt, and all pieces for each separate wall.

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_Inv. Chatham_

Client: Investors Bank Firm: Haas Associates PC Brief: In the historic district of

Chatham, NJ, Investors Bank owns a property that they wished to renovate, restore and bring current to their new standards. For the project, my title was Project Architect/Designer. I did the initial design work , coordination with civil, structural and MEP engineers to create the final product. The scope of the work consisted of an addition to the backside of the structure and update the current facade and completely re-do the interior space.

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_03.05 _Inv. 4th Ave._

Client: Investors Bank Firm: Haas Associates PC Brief: Our client, Investors Bank, had taken over another bank franchise and my

firm had the commission to redesign the renovations. This particular project, I was the lead designer in developing a working interior scheme while creating a more noticeable exterior. With the instalment of custom sunshades to the front facade, custom suspended floating ceiling panels and a new drive up canopy the building has taken a new life and new presence within its community.

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Red Bull Flugtag Philadelphia 2012 In September 2012, the company Red Bull put on a competition for people to submit entries to make human power, flying crafts. Out of the hundreds of thousands of entries for the Philadelphia, my design was picked to be one of the 34 teams to compete. Each team was to have 5 members and create this glider with anything material they so chose. Only requirements consisted of a weight of 450 lbs, 30’dx30’wx15’h and could not contain any engineered mechanical pieces.

Official Entry Form This was the official entry form for the competition. The design intent was to create and “Adam West” era batman glider. Incorporating element from the show gave the project it’s initial life. All the aesthetics that made batman, BATMAN, were to be integral parts of the glider. Each team member took on a personality from one of the characters from the show.

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These are initial, schematic computer model used to create the glider. The skeleton was designed to be made of schedule 40_1 1/4â&#x20AC;? PVC piping. I designed the model to be able To bend and shape the skeleton to fit the desired characteristics of a bat.

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Initial massing studies.

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The Following are photos from the big event. The final craft was made my the PVC skeleton, skinned with stiched cotton fabric for the body and Tyvek home wrap for the wings.

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.fin John R. Peterson 1911 S. 4th St. Philadelphia PA 19149 609/576/4694 jr.peterson3286@gmail.com