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“As an architect, you design for the PRESENT WITH AN AWARENESS OF THE PAST FOR A FUTURE WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY UNKNOWN.” - NORMAN FOSTER
All Projects COMPLETED AT University of Pennsylvania and TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA,PA
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Temporary
power to the PeOPle
PLAY WITH LIGHT. connections. Bridges. Grid.
The Dig
Large Scale
archaelogy. blur. monochrome. grid.
SMALLbuild
Formalized Ecologies
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Microecosystems. layers. chambers.
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LARGE SCALE
Living Aqua
RENEW. BUILT VS. NATURAL. GRID. 27 29
SMALL SCALE
Light - House
PLAY WITH LIGHT. PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE.
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Hatched
PLAY WITH LIGHT. TIMe. MOVEMENT. GRID.
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CONCEPTUAL
ForesTunnel
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PLAY WITH LIGHT. TIMe. MOVEMENT. 43
power to the PeOPle Type Pop up installations Location Manayunk, Pa class DESign studio Ii competition schenk-woodman year spring 2019 team: Katharine vavilov, Nathan Mollway, jingyi zhou Passage is powered by passenger. Passage to proclaim peace. Americas first canal, a symbol of connection and power, now a barrier. A physical boundary between the development of Venice Island and the Citizens of Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Two vessels, bound to opposite sides, propelled to and from each by those with the will to meet. To form a common space as equals; a place of peace.
Radio Pipe
Long Pipe Piezoelectric Diagram
Short Pipe
Passenger gives power to the system through voice and the loss of privacy. Voice powers the vessel through piezoelectric energy and creates a spectacle.
Projector
Long Pipe
Radio Pipe
FLOOR PLANS
Long Pipe Piezoelectric Diagram
Passenger gives power to the system through voice and the loss of privacy. Voice powers the vessel through piezoelectric energy and creates a spectacle.
Short Pipe
Projector
MANAYUNK Long Pipe
Radio Pipe
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Passenger completes the ecology of the system. By giving permission, projections grow from the system outwards.
Short Pipe
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Piezoelectric Diagram
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Long Pipe FLOOR PLANS
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Manayunk contains the 1st canal begun in the U.S. Translation of Manayunk is “where we go to drink.”
Projector
Long Pipe
Opened in 1819, the Canal is a key link in the 100 mile long Schuylkill Navigation System. It was the key to factories.
The newly built Canal wall tethers down the vessels to the canal while allowing them to be in constant motion and unify the town.
The Canal is the dividing factor between the new devolopment of Venice Island and the old development of the town.
Radio Pipe
Long Pipe Piezoelectric Diagram
Short Pipe SECTION PERSPECTIVE
MANAYUNK
3D printed model
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Manayunk contains the 1st canal begun in the U.S. Translation of Manayunk is “where we go to drink.”
Opened in 1819, the Canal is a key link in the 100 mile long Schuylkill Navigation System. It was the key to factories.
The newly built Canal wall tethers down the vessels to the canal while allowing them to be in constant motion and unify the town.
The Canal is the dividing factor between the new devolopment of Venice Island and the old development of the town.
SCHUYLKILL RIVER SITE PLAN
The Dig Type MUSUEM EXPANSION Location PENN MUSUEM, University city, Philadelphia, Pa class DESign studio I Studio critic Brandt K. KnaPP year fall 2018
Dug into the ground as an excavation away from reality, the expansion of the museum transports the public into a surrealist blurry haze. Exposing the nature of how the Penn Museum acquired their artifacts, the new building and its site becomes an archaeological dig. The ground gets carved out as an excavation and produces subtractive and additive qualities for the overall landscape. The building embedded into the ground further effects the ground by creating reveals and new pathways leading from the figures produced by the building. Using an orthogonal organization with the use of voxelization, the building creates a new reality where boundaries are blurred and made indistinct through the use of exact, distinct voxels making up the form. Complexity is created by having these monochromatic simple shapes composed together into a collage about half-tone and figures. The new figures created from the process of collage alter visual perceptions of space. The monochrome voxels compose low resolution curves that juxtapose the high resolution of the museum and the ground, blurring typical boundaries of space. Pushing voids throughout the building at varying levels, clusters of voxels align along series of walls, eroding at the space of the voids.
choisy
3D printed and painted model
3D printed and plastered model
Diagram
Ground floor
Basement 1 floor
Basement 2 floor
Elevation
Section 2
Section 1
Formalized Ecologies Type Pavillion Location UPENN School of design, Philadelphia, Pa class DESign studio I Studio critic Brandt K. KnaPP year fall 2018 team: Katharine vavilov, maria jose fuentes, kevin he, Ruichen xu Space is a perceptive vacancy where things should go. Each vessel was created with the purpose to be filled. From the funeral jars to cooking pots to perfume containers, the vessels’ original functions were lost as its identity transitioned from that of a manufactured tool to an artifact. Comparing the vessel from its conception to present day, the geometric form of the vessel is the only continuity. In line with its original function, the vessel’s form is repurposed for habitation by a new organism. From the vessels, the location and time period provide a setting in which new ecologies can be created. Based on the organism, the geometry and fabrication process for each piece of the cairotile is sculpted by the form or organizational characteristic of the organism. Through various studies into the curvature and surface of each vessel, boolean operations were performed to fuse solids and voids. The curves and surfaces were used to create new habitats for the indigenous organisms. The resulting collaged cairo tile model is a fusion of different ecologies that are cross-pollinated and connected by fabrication and form.
exhibited at Penn musuem october 2018
layer 1
layer 12
layer 13
layer 14
Exploded axonetmic
Oblique Section
Living Aqua Type Public aquarium/ Transportation center Location Oil Refinery, south Philadelphia, Pa class architecture design v studio critic andrew wit year fall 2017 Living Aqua seeks to make a transportation center more of a destination. Transportation centers often are only used for transit and don’t get visited otherwise. Living Aqua combines a cultural experience with the transportation experience, by having an aquariium and research center mixed with a main transportation hub for passenger drones. Living Aqua sits at the waterfront of an old oil refinery. The old oil refinery polluting the city needs to be removed and so a new overall master plan was created to revitalize the area. First many steps of remediation need to happen. 1 Flood Control and Topography Change 2 Replace Oil Energy With Wind and Water 3 Establish Commercial, Technological, Cultural Areas 4 Establish Public Green Space The cultural area is where Living Aqua is located. The aquarium also thinking about the future is a center for revitalizing fish life damaged by climate change and polluted water. It also will clean and filter the water in the nearby river through a recirculating system that goes through the fish tanks. In the main exhibits, visitors can interact with endangered species ranging from local to oceanic. Endangered species are higlighted to make a point about fish extinction.
exhibited at AIA Center for Achitecture March to april 2018
Private Money Power Knowledge Attraction
Attraction Views Play Scenic Activities
River Setback Water
Bridge Waste Green Water FORGOTTEN BOTTOM Attraction
Research
Education
Revitalization Forest
Gather
BIG MASSES
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BRIDGE
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Private Accomadate End of Day People Live
RESIDENTIAL
Low-Income
Urban Rowhomes
SMALL PROGRAMS
Innovation
Fuel
Boardwalk
Relax Flood Relief Luxury Water
Relax
GREEN
Connection
Fresh Air
WATERFRONT
Observe Play Fishing Exercise Views
Public
Bridging
Waterfront
Revitalization
Isolation Commercial Connect
Culture Walking
BOARDWALK
Research
EDUCATION
Young
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Wind Jobs Work
Water
ENERGY Green Electricity
TECHNOLOGY
Power Commerce Runs City Research Generate Control Oil Production Gather Outdoor Replacement Park Education Future Adaptability Vast Research Everchanging People Waterfront Gather Activities
Garden
Open
PUBLIC Green Attraction
Gathering
OPEN
Revitilization
Low Boundary Setback Power Flood Control
HydroElectric
Ecology Control
Fresh Fish Life Habitat
GREEN Wetland
Future Activities Exploration
Shops Center COMMERCIAL Restaurants Gathering
Work
Harvest Save Jobs Robotics Future Power Industry
Hub
Public
Business
TECHNOLOGY
Waterfront
WALKWAYS
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Innovation
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WATER
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ENERGY Berm Hills Park Corridor Water Benefits Capacity Flow FOREST Green Public Jobs High Point
Vast Social Activities
Hidden Kayaking Water Sports Swimming Conversation Low Fishing Walking Play
Oil
Bridge
Isolation Connection
Public
Mass Traffic Relationship
AIRPORT
Transportation
Destination People
Transportation
Green
Open
PUBLIC SITE
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Commerce
DRONE PORT
Waterfront Public Park Steps
Pier
PAST
Shipping
Waterfront
TECHNOLOGY
BEACH
Blooming Serene
Pollution
TOPOGRAPHY
Research Education Knowledge Corridor Skills
Industry Connection
Bridge Commerce
NAVY YARD Headquarters Industry
Residential waterfront green bridge wind forest public park
commercial hub
marshlands forest berm
Water flow energy
Technology Zone Cultural/Transportation hub
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RELAX AND SWIM
TRANSPORT AND PLAY
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STAY
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TRANSPORT AND LEARN
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PERFORM
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Masterplan of cultural/transportation hub
core drone porthole drone charging and landing water research
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aquarium tanks
The cultural hub of the overall masterplan is designed by taking the original historic philadelphia city grid and using it to create a new grid and system of programs. Three weights pull the programs. Play and transport, public, and culture and transport. In the masterplan a main bridge connects the main/large programs above the ground to give visitors an above perspective of the land. The bridge also allows for space to be used under the bridge and for more experiences to happen. Living Aqua sits at the transport and learn weight. Using the grid system from the masterplan, the aquarium’s design exposes the contrast between the gridded rigidity of the city and the natural swimming forms of the ocean and the environment. The building is made up out of organic forms that compose water tanks and charging areas, with a shell encompassing the interiors to protect them from the water and weather elements. On the diagram, the overall spaces are laid out like this: 1 Water Research and Drone Areas 2 Atrium/Porthole 3 Event Space 4 Aquarium Tanks Grey Core: Elevators/Stairs
Gridding Diagram
Programmatic Diagram
3 touch exhibits and research Living Aqua is composed of 4 levels: 2 underground in the water and land, 2 on the main land and above. The bottom 2 levels compose a research floor and the main exhibit space of the aquarium. The main level composes the top of the aquarium tanks that produce touch exhibits where visitors can play and feed the fish and mammals. The top level comprises of the transportation hub where people come from outside the city in drones into a futuristic airport.
1 Research
2 main aq exhibits
4 transportation hub
Drone Port
Touch exhibit
Main exhibit Steps of Water Filtration 1 Water flows into research area and gets nutrients added in.
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2 Water flows into the aquarium exhibits and is used by fish and further filtered. 3 Water from the exhibits then recirculates back out into the river. detail section of Water filtration system
transportation aquarium
research
Overall Section
Light - House Type RESIDENCE/ WORKSHOP Location OLDE KENSINGTON, Philadelphia, Pa class architecture design III studio critic andrew wit year fall 2016
This rowhome serves as a dual programmatic space serving a light sculptor on the bottom half and a film photographer and his travel blogger wife on the top half. Considering that the sculptor and photographer both are inspired by light this home was developed to act as an artpiece affected by light.
4th floor
main
3rd floor
basement
2nd floor
front elevation
A. Public section
Side Elevation
B. Private section
entrance and central stairway
shared outdorr space with neighbor
Main gallery
Digital fabrication lab
bedroom
office
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Hatched Type CONCEPTUAL PAVILLION Location TUTTLEMAN LEARNING CENTER, Philadelphia, Pa class FOUNDATION DESIGN STUDIO II studio critic SONJA BIJELLIC year SPRING 2016
Render of site
Analyzing the movement and contact of feet on a staircase, the importance of pressure and density was found. Using the technique of cross-hatching using measured increments, a style was found that was used in the final model.
After given a staircase, and recording every part of the staircase, movement on staircases was analyzed. Feet move very differently on a staircase then they do on flat surfacaes.
The first step of the final model was done by creating a 1 minute choreography to be performed on the staircase that showcased the experience of the stair. The beginning and end are repeated and show swaying, fluid movements. The middle is chaotic, and rigid on the disruptive landing. The final model implements the use of hatching and changes in density throughout to showcase the choreography and light movement.
ForesTunnel Type CONCEPTUAL PAVILLION Location HIGH SCHOOL PARK, ELKINS PARK, Pa class FOUNDATION DESIGN STUDIO 1 studio critic WENDY SUMIDA year fall 2015
After analyzing quantitative and qualitative aspects of a distinct section in the site, a sense of space was developed. Using one repetitive folding module, different cuts could be made to produce different volumes: flat and compact. These modules attached to each other through insertions, produced a model that created experiences through light and density.
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flat
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