Justin Nemshick Architecture Portfolio
Spring 2012 Studio Competition Professor Jayashree Shamanna
RUNNER'S REST STOP
Spring 2010 Studio Professor Stephen Garrison
CASE STUDY ADDITION
Spring 2010 Studio Professor Stephen Garrison
SHAPE TRANSFORMATION
Fall 2012 Studio Professor Brian Szymanik
GREEN JOBS TRAINING CENTER
Fall 2011 Studio Design Build Professor Carl Handman, AIA
EXPLODING BOX
Spring 2013 Small Studio Firm Professor Russell Roberts, AIA
CHAPIN RARE BOOK LIBRARY
SHAPE TRANSFORMATION This study began as an exploration in creating space by changing a basic form in scale and direction. The personal goal of the final design was to create an object in which the form would be different based on the elevation it was being viewed. The final design accomplishes this by creating views that resembled a curved spine, a wave, or wings. In addition each form defined space in an unique way. The final design was a form that can give a single viewer different experiences based on the orientation of it.
CASE STUDY ADDITION
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Tom Kundig’s Delta Shelter is a unique weekend getaway cabin that can protect itself. In order to save the structure from flood waters and the harsh winters of Washington, it has steel panels that slide over the giant glass windows that supply occupants with a view of the beautiful site. The panels slide by use of a system of gears. In order to follow along with this idea presented by Kundig in this design, the addition would include this same idea and process on the second floor where the artist has an office. The first floor of the addition would include a larger air plane hanger door in order frthe artist to get his supplies in and out of the workspace. The door itself would be operated in the same way as the large curtain wall found in another one of Kundig’s desings, the Chicken Point Cabin. The Chicken Point Cabin has a large curtain wall that opens like an air plane hanger door with a system of gears connected to a wheel that the occupant turns.
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RUNNER'S REST STOP When running through the woods a runner experiences a multitude of exposures. One intriguing experience is the sensation of changing shadows and rays of sunlight through the trees. This restroom and changing room for runners at Lake Scranton, PA gives the occupants this experience through a rain screen . The horizontal slats in the rain screen allows sunlight through a frosted glass. The shadows the rain screen casts on the interior are inspired by the experience a runner has while running in the forest. The choice of materials was also inspired by the environment. The stone is a locally harvested material that represents the ground. The pine rain screen and interior walls are made of the white pine trees that were removed from the site to allow for the construction of this rest area. The roof of the structure is all glass to allow more light into the space as well as represent the open sky.
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CHAPIN RARE BOOK LIBRARY The redesigned Chapin Rare Book and Manuscript Library was designed to put a twist on the history of the Chelsea area where it is being relocated. The massing for the design started out as a box resembling the Georgian style estate that was once located on the site, Clemete Clarke Moore Park in the Chelsea District of New York City. to further the mass, area was subtracted in order to meet the city codes. Third, the mass split into three sections to break the program up in the design based on the public, private, and controlled space. The fourth step twisted the mass located on the corner of 10th Street and West 22nd Ave. to represent the turning pages of a book and create a bold entry point for the building. The last two massing models connected the three masses with bridges constructed of rail road type trusses, another feature looking into the history of the Chelsea area, and a large indoor green space with multiple green roofs that is designed to act also as the building’s vestibule. The skin of this building is composed of horizontal metal slats that control the amount of light aloud into the building. These slats are utilized on the west tower, where the galleries are located. The exception to the metal skin is the entry tower, located on the coner of 10th and 22nd. This wall assembly is a structural glass that curves and is capable of spannnig up to 80 feet.
Justin NEMSHICK Nick TOMASETTI Bart BAJDA
Site Plan
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The new Chapin Library is designed to achieve LEED Gold Certification. Some of the features that help to accomplish this are the solar panels located on the horizontal metal slats that face the southern sun, an ice battery cooling system, a power generating play ground for children to learn about sustainability, pavegen power generating panels that power the lighting in the bridges, and extensive rainwater management techniques. Since neighboring properties had 6 feet of water in their basements after Superstorm Sandy a primary goal of this design was to address the issue of storm water management. Located along the street are multiple planters that have gutters in them to harvest rain water from the street in order to lower the impact on the city’s collection system. The site also collects 100% of the rainwater that falls on it. Rainwater that lands on the roof of the building is filtered through green roofs and eventually heads to a collection cistern in the building’s basement where it is stored to flush toilets and water the landscaping not only outside, but also inside the building vestibule.
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EXPLODING BOX This design build project, as a partnership with the Handman F’11 stuio, had to use all donated, recycled, and environmentally friendly materials. The design served as a display area for art, a gathering area, and a lecture space for the people of First Friday in Downtown Scranton, PA. For HF’11’s design we chose to create a structure made of a locally harvested poplar frame, and a skin made of left over bathroom partician boards and plywood. Our design was a box that can close up at night in order to protect the artwork being displayed, but during the day it can “explode” open to create a space following the program requirements that were set. Benches were than added, as well as a podium for lectures. Both of these additions can be stored within the structure when the box is closed at night. In order to light the space at night, recycled plotter tubes were placed within the roof structure. The plotter tubes had led lights placed into them in order to make them glow. The glowing plotter tubes were able to light the entire space the box occupied.
GREEN JOBS TRAINING CENTER The beginning stages of the Philadelphia Center for Green Jobs Training Center included an extensive study of the site, the corner of South and Broad Streets in Philadelphia, PA, and research into the city’s Greenworks Program. Since the site is located along the boarder of Center City and South Philly, there is a heavy amount of traffic through this area. Roughly 250,000 people travel into Center City each day to go to work. This is shown in the diagram to the left. Each type of transportation is represented by a different color string on the board. Based upon this study, the “make, do, circulate” programming diagram was created. The make section of programming was located along the Broad Street side of the building in order to attract the most amount of people and hopefully get them interested into the Greenworks
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The Center takes into consideration the Greenworks Program Target 12 (reduce vehicular traffic by 10%.) The building not only serves as a work place and educational center for green practices, but it also acts as a place for local citizens to wait for public transportation. The skin of the building is composed of two types of rain screens, the make rain screen, and the do rain screen. The make rain screen is a perforated metal skin. This material was chosen to be used on Broad Street in order to add another modern facade to the “Avenue of Arts.� The do rain screen is made of precast concrete panels with brick on the exterior. This material was chosen to relate back to the history of the area. In South Philly, there are many row homes, and this brick material ties into the historical row homes. The relation of the two rain screens represent the transition of old to new in which the Greenworks Program is trying to accomplish.
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Justin Nemshick Architecture Portfolio