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Selected Works
4 Urban Dormitory 22 Wave Hill Residence 32 Rowing Boathouse 48 Cinematic Arts Library 60 SkyShore 74 Drawings
All work available on julian-a-anderson.prosite.com
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Urban Dormitory
An Individually Interactive Community
Site: Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY Professor: Lawrence Blough Partner: Tom Quang In contrast to most undergraduate dormitories where both sleeping and living quarters are shared, this design emphasizes the importance of privacy to a student’s wellbeing and educational success, while also offering opportunities for interaction through shared communal facilities. The building’s 110 bedrooms are organized into two-floor neighborhoods. Each individual bedroom is just large enough for sleeping and quiet studying, encouraging students to explore the rest of their two-level neighborhood for access to a kitchen, lounge, or balcony. The facade of the building is an undulating rain screen that blurs the boundaries between public and private spaces, creating an image of integration and oneness, in opposition to the visibly cellular nature of most dormitory typologies. The dormitory was designed in partnership with another student. All renderings and diagrams shown were done by myself unless otherwise noted; all models and drawings were a team effort.
Right: Both the front and rear facades of the building are covered in a glass rain screen system. In front of each bedroom the pixelated facade becomes a punched opening letting light into the rooms. For each balcony, the rain screen bends inward above the floor and outward below creating pockets of occupiable space.
6 Below: The initial facade studies were calibrated to the area’s solar conditions, bulging out over glazed openings to prevent direct sunlight during the summer, while allowing it in the winter. Top Right: A rendered preview of a facade test section. Bottom Right: A similar facade section CNCed out of rigid foam.
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Above: The site is located on an urban block between two existing buildings. After analyzing the code and zoning requirements, the buildable envelope 70’ of the site was further reduced to ensure a maximum amount of sunlight 30’reach the rear garden, necessitating a tall and narrow building. Right: would A rendered view of the rear garden landscaping, borrowing its tectonic language from the building’s facade.
10 Below: An exploded axonometric visualization of the glass facade panels, steel tube support structure, and backup wall with punched window openings.
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Above: An example of the two-level neighborhoods that organize the dormitory. One neighborhood houses 28 students, each with their own bedrooms. Bathrooms are shared between two students while everyone shares the two lounges with balconies, three kitchens, and three dining areas. Four internal staircases allow easy connection from one floor to the other. Top Right: A typical bedroom with built in closet and desk. Bottom Right: A typical lounge space with an opening to the kitchen one floor below.
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Top Left: The building is stepped back from the sidewalk, widening the pedestrian path. Bottom Left: An accessible roof terrace is open to all students with amphitheather-like seating for exceptional views. Below: A section through the dormitory’s lounges, showing an extension of the facade structure below each platform.
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Wave Hill
Home for an Artist-in-Residence
Site: Wave Hill Botanical Garden, The Bronx, NY Professor: Gregory Merryweather This small-scale domestic project was designed as a dwelling for an artist-in-residence at Wave Hill, a public botanical garden and museum. The home was focused on providing a concentrated live/work environment where the artist could interact with the public park around them while still retaining a sense of creative privacy. Fallen leaves taken from the site in early Autumn inspired the initial formal studies. Exploring the natural process of plant decay and disintegration, and the patterns that it creates, directly informed the spatial connections between programs and the skin system employed throughout the home.
Right: Decaying oak leaves found at the site served as a formal precedent for the home, influencing the porosity and materiality of both the interior spaces and facade.
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Top: An aerial view of the hill sloping into the forest to the South. Bottom: The final site plan and landscaping. The home slopes with the hill, dipping below the surface and re-emerging at the bottom. Retaining walls offer places to sit along the slope and help funnel pedestrians around the home. Right: The leaf-inspired striations that cover the facade serve as windows into the interior, dissolving the separation between private and public; artist and audience.
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Above: A section view of the home, showing the contrast between the heavy, submerged concrete base and the light, aerated wood used for the roof/ facade.
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Above: The final plans of the house in descending order, beginning at the top of the hill and ending at the bottom. Right: The final site and building model, with landscaping in the form of retaining walls that radiate off the edge of the home into the garden.
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Rowing Boathouse
Community Center for Rowing Athletics
Site: Inwood Hills, New York, NY Professor: Ezra Ardolino The Columbia Rowing Team Boathouse functions as both an academic facility and a community amenity. The building serves as a storage shed for the team’s boats on the lower floor while athletic programs and administrative offices occupy the upper levels. The facade of the building was inspired by row boats in motion in a river, sliding past one another during a race. The resulting pattern of windows and solar panels is wrapped around a series of nested shells that contain the interior programs and provide shelter for the boats below. The facade’s fenestration faces away from direct sunlight and roof-mounted solar panels help to reduce energy demands.
Above: A solar heat-gain analysis of the building volume. The reflective white facade is stretched across the surfaces that receive the most sunlight, while the large glazing areas occur on the sides of each shell reducing unnecessary cooling loads. Right: The facade pattern, inspired by boat races, is randomly generated based on an initial grid. Highlighted panels become windows when they cover walls and solar panels when they occupy the roof.
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Above: The boathouse sits adjacent to the water in place of Columbia’s existing rowing facility. Right: The building plan was heavily influenced by the arcing spine of the site, resulting in a radially organized structural and spatial grid.
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Above: A massing diagram of the boathouse programs. Right: An exploded diagram showing the grid applied to the site that generated the first floor bearing walls and steel structure above.
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Left: The underside of the facade can be seen in the central shell where a balcony space is created. In the rear, team members practice in the rowing tank. Top: The building appears to hover over the ground as each shell wraps back under the second floor toward the rear of the site. Bottom: The aluminum mullions that support the facade are coated in bioluminescent paint to provide a soft, energy-free glow to the landscape at night.
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Top: A perspective view from the river bank. The sliding gates that enclose the boat bay are open, allowing easy access to remove and return the rowing shells. Bottom: A cutaway section through the building. Right: A detail section through the end of a typical shell showing the layers of structure behind the facade.
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Top: A view from the hill behind the building showing the carport and entryway. Bottom: A cross section through the building looking toward the water. Right: A section through the middle shell.
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Top: An interior view of the second floor weight room. Bottom: A view of the boat storage area with the gates closed, looking towards the waterfront. Right: A diagram of the steel structure forming a secondary structural grid above the radial grid applied to the site.
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Above: The first floor boat storage bay, along with the entry and locker rooms. Top Right: The second floor plan, containing free spaces for exercise as well as administrative offices and mechanical rooms. Bottom Right: The third floor covered balcony with a view into the rowing pool below.
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Cinematic Arts Library A Public Archive of Film & Photography
Site: Chinatown, New York, NY Professor: Aqtash The Cinematic Arts library serves as a public cultural institution for Manhattan, borrowing and lending to galleries, museums, filmmakers, and photographers in the Chinatown area. The building serves as an archive of both physical and digital media and makes the collection open to the public in an innovative and immersive way. The design revolves around the idea of projection inherent in film and photography. The library is composed of autonomous floor and wall slabs that begin to flow and join together into one interwoven structure, much like a film strip merging into fluid motion. A secondary skin of stretched fabric is looped through the structure forming surfaces for projection, study areas, and group work stations. From the park adjacent to the site, the public can view film and photography projections across the entire facade of the building, creating a new cultural gathering point for the area.
Right: The site’s allowable building volume was used as a starting mass that could be hollowed out to create specific program areas. The color diagrams depict different organizations and divisions of these program elements forming voids within the mass.
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Top: The corner site at the intersection of Chrystie and Grand streets provided the building with high visibility. Bottom: Sun studies used to gauge the interference of adjacent buildings with direct sunlight to the site. Right: The circulation system of the library consists of a central stair core that spirals up the height of the building, supplemented by a private employee staircase in the rear that connects the administrative functions.
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Left: A rendering of the interstitial space between the large exterior projection screen and the wall behind, creating an intimate reading or viewing area. Above: An unfolded view of the building’s exterior walls and facade showing the level by level circulation path of visitors, via the spiral stair, and books, via the central column.
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Above: The first floor of the library is set back from the corner of the sidewalk, allowing pedestrians more room to pass through. Both the first and second floors house administrative areas in the NW corner of the building. Right: The third and fourth floors each feature stadium-seating auditoriums as well as private study booths and group meeting tables. The central column is structural, while also containing a book delivery system that fetches material from a basement storeroom. Patrons can select books by interacting with the stretched fabric screen surrounding the column.
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Top: The fourth floor, where the book selection interface can be seen as well as one of the auditoriums in the rear. Bottom: The fifth floor, where a custom waffle slab is used to extend the spanning capabilities of the roof. Right: The fifth floor plan and a section of the library showing the central column and fabric surface.
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Above: During the day, the library’s screens provide shading for the building and moderate the amount of direct sunlight reaching the reading and auditorium spaces. Right: At night, the stretched fabric screens are activated by projectors installed in the park across the street, creating a drive-in theater experience for pedestrians and residents of the area.
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SkyShore
An Infinity Beach for Lower Manhattan
Site: Pier 17, New York, NY Professor: Dragana Zoric Partner: Robinson Strong Sited along Manhattan’s East River, the program and aesthetic of SkyShore is heavily influenced by its riverside environment. Every day, many tons of sand and silt are removed from the bed of the East River to make way for ever larger commercial freight ships. SkyShore makes use of this excess material in a public landscape where dredged sand is cleaned and reused for recreational purposes. The limitations of the site led to many explorations of looping, folding, and stacking to condense miles of beach front into a confined site. Coney Island became a historical stimulus, raising questions about the limits of what is considered a beach, the role of public recreation in an urban center, and how a new beach typology could serve all of New York. SkyShore was designed in partnership with another student. All renderings and diagrams shown were done by myself unless otherwise noted; plan and section drawings and the physical model were a team effort.
Right: An advertisement graphic for SkyShore, styled after 1950’s beach movie posters.
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Left: SkyShore replaces Lower Manhattan’s Pier 17. The Brooklyn Bridge looms over the site, which is highly visible on the Brooklyn side of the East River. Above: A series of formal studies packing a linear beach into much smaller footprints.
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Top: The approach from the edge of Lower Manhattan. SkyShore is primarily concrete, with an internal structure similar to that of an elevated freeway. Bottom: A perspective from the Brooklyn Bridge. Right: An exploded view showing the additional programs that supplement the beach. Each sandcovered loop contains commercial or recreational space within. The ground level contains enough activities for a full day at the beach, but it can just as easily be an hour long lunch spot for workers in the area.
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Above: While primarily active during the day, SkyShore also offers an illuminated nighttime landscape for patrons who like to stay after dark. In the winter, the beaches can be converted into ski and snowboard runs, while the internal rivers can become ice skating rinks, making SkyShore beneficial throughout the year.
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Above: When one beach loop intersects another, interior circulation space is created allowing patrons to jump from level to level while searching for the perfect spot to sunbathe. Right: Three central towers connect the ground level of SkyShore to the beach loops, each containing commercial spaces and changing rooms.
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Above: The cellular pattern applied to the structure of SkyShore is designed to be viewed from the Brooklyn Promenade across the East River, dissolving the overall form and at the same time differentiating it from its backdrop. The aerated concrete structure rises out of the water like a coral reef, supporting the beach.
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Above: The final plans show the exterior areas of sand and water (Top), the interior commercial and recreational spaces (Middle), and the ground level programs with shore access (Bottom). Right: A final model was 3D printed and placed in a site model.
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Drawing
Professors: Eunjeong Seong, Carlyle Frasier, Gia Wolff A selection of hand drafted drawings from both representation and design courses. All drawings were completed with ink or graphite on Bristol.
Right: Using the same wood block as the basis of multiple drawings, a series of shadows were projected at various angles to form the composition.
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Above: A shadow projection drawing of the final wood model from a first-year design studio. Right: An axonometric drawing of an artificial landscape used in a second semester design studio. Above the landscape is a shading structure and the shadow pattern that it casts.