Design Portfolio /// Kayleen M. Kulesza by Kayleen Kulesza

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Kayleen M. Kulesza

M. Arch., 2015, University of Pennsylvania

Kayleen M. Kulesza 3426 Sansom Street, 3rd Floor Apartment, Philadelphia, PA 215-859-8463| kayleen.kulesza@gmail.com

Education University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign, Philadelphia, PA Master of Architecture

May 2015

University of Maryland, University Honors College, College Park, MD Bachelor in Science of Architecture; Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language, Literature, & Culture Summa Cum Laude

May 2012

Honors and Awards - Selected Works published in Pressing Matters 3 (2014-2015) - Warren Powers Laird Award for Academic Excellence (2013) - University of Pennsylvania Merit Award (2012) - University of Maryland Faculty Award for Excellence in Design (2012) - Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society for Architecture (2012) - Davis Foundation Honors Summer Scholar Award (2011) - Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar (2011) - University of Maryland Work Scholar Award (2009-2012)

- E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship Portfolio Competition Award (2014) - “Green, Urban, Glocal” Exhibition Selection (2013) - University of Maryland Faculty Award for Academic Excellence (2012) - 3rd Place Washington D.C. Interschool Design Competition (2011) - Maryland Summer Scholar Award (2011) - Bernard Frishman AIA Memorial Scholarship (2011) -12th and 13th Annual Ronald Hubbard Scholarship Award (2010-2011) - Presidential Scholarship (2008-2012)

Work Experience -Architectural Design Intern (2013-Present) CANNOdesign, Philadelphia, PA Collaborating with a team of eight architectural designers on preliminary design development and research and producing construction drawings and renderings for residential and commericial projects. -Design Studio Teaching Assistant (2015) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Providing critical and technical support in modeling and rendering softwares for second year Master of Architecture students in the 602 design studio. -Exhibition Coordinator (2014-2015) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Leading a team of graduate students in designing, coordinating, and installing the Year End Show and other temporary exhibitions at Penn Design. -Penn Design Lecture Series Graduate Assistant Coordinator (2013-2015) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Coordinating, organizing, and recording school-sponsored events at PennDesign, including the lecture series, visiting and in-house exhibitions, and book launches. -Research Assistant (2010-2011) University of Maryland, College Park, MD Leading a team of undergraduate students in the surveying and digital documentation of an ancient Roman villa in Castellamare di Stabia, Italy, editing and drafting plans of Pompeii for publication, and traveling across Italian cities to investigate trends in urban development from ancient Rome to the Renaissance. -Work Scholar (2009-2012) University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, College Park, MD

Leadership Experience -Faculty Search Committee Student Representative: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2014) -Founder/President of Architecture Ambassadors: University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2011-Present) -Vice President of United States Green Building Council Students: University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2011-Present) -Teaching Assistant/Mentor in UNIV100 Introduction to Architecture Mentor and ARCH101 Foundations in Architecture: University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, College Park, MD (2009)

Skills Drawing: Drafting; Advanced Drawing Computer: Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCad, Revit, Rhino, Maya, Maxwell Render, VRay, SketchUp, Grasshopper, After Effects, ZBrush, MakerWare Language: Fluent Spanish; Conversational Italian

Service Experience -Hyattsville Design Charrette, Neighborhood Design Center, Hyattsville, MD (2012) Volunteer design team member to propose façade renovations in the Hyattsville Arts District. -“Rail-Volution” Conference, Washington, D.C. (2011) Design charrette to brainstorm planning strategies for transit-oriented communities around the metro station in Suitland, MD.

Table of Contents

. 01

X-POINT City 1.0

. 02

X-POINT City 2.0

. 03

urban component

building component

Formalizing Graphics

pattern component manipulation

. 04

Theater of Changing Boundaries

. 05

Space-Making Transformative Bench

. 06

House of Competing Spaces

the in, the out, and in between

furniture analysis and design

interior of oppositions

. 07

ecology laboratory and learning center

. 08

air purifying research facility

. 09

urban multi-family housing

. 10

ideas festival installation

Geometry of the Green

Urban Air Sponge

The Grotto

Double Screen

. 11

PennDesign Year End Show

. 12

Transcripting Delirium

student installation and exhibition

graphic novel

Design Portfolio

Kayleen M. Kulesza

. 01

X-POINT City 1.0 urban component

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Critic: Neil Denari /// Jonathan Scelsa At the intersection of the diagrammatic world of the drawing and the reality of the built project, X-POINT City explores urban design in the world of CMYK. The project asked the student to propose an urban strategy of imposed density in Culver City, Los Angeles, as a prototypical response to the expansion of the Expo rail line as a means of mass transit. X-POINT City explores a graphic play on the flattening of threedimensional geometry in the two-dimensional drawing and in the three-dimensional reality of the urban scheme through a repetitious articulation of surface and variable family of forms. In the world of CMYK, the graphic becomes reality and reality becomes the graphic. *Project completed in collaboration with Nicole Cabezas

. 01 residential

commercial

education

hotel_suite hotel_efficiency office

retail apartment_3 BR hotel_suite hotel_efficiency office

retail

public spa

public sp retail

retail exhibit_p

apartmen exhibit_t

hotel_sui

hotel_effi office

museum

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

hotel

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

retail public space retail apartment_3 BR hotel_suite

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

hotel

apartment_3 BR

public space

education

hotel

retail

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

commercial

public space

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

residential

retail

hotel

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

commercial

retail

residential

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

commercial

public space retail

hotel_efficiency officepublic space

apartment_3 BR hotel_suite

hotel_efficiency office

retail

public space retail apartment_3 BR hotel_suite

public space

exhibit_temporary

apartment_2 BR

apartment_3 B

apartment_2 B

apartment_1 BR

apartment_1 B public spa apartment_studio public space apartment_stu retail hotel_suite retail hotel_suite apartment_3 BR apartmen hotel_efficiency apartment_3 BR hotel_efficienc apartment_2 BR apartmen apartment_2 BR office officeapartmen apartment_1 BR apartment_1 BR apartment_studio apartmen apartment_studio hotel_suite hotel_suite hotel_efficiency hotel_efficiency

public space retail

retail exhibit_permanent exhibit_permanent exhibit_temporary

public space retail

apartment_3 BR

exhibit_temporary

public space

office retail

hotel_suite

retail

retail exhibit_permanent exhibit_permanent

hotel_efficiency public space

apartment_3 BR

public space

retail

exhibit_temporary

hotel_efficiency office

office

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

museum

SECTION DEVELOPMENT _ PIXELS // commercial

z TRANSLATION

x_yTRANSLATION

program

SECTION DEVELOPMENT _ PIXELS // commercial

MASSING DEVELOPMENT /// pixel, accordion, pixel-accordion MASSING COMPOSITION /// MASSING DEVELOPMENT /// pixel, accordion, pixel-accordion MASSING COMPOSITION /// program

z TRANSLATION

x_yTRANSLATION

pixel aggregation 2x

pixel aggregation 3x

PROGRAM // typology breakdown

museum

public retail

apart

hotel_

public space

hotel_

retail

office

apartment_3 BR hotel_suite hotel_efficiency office

. 01

SITE PLAN /// ground level plan

1: 500

office residential

office

SITE SECTION /// longitudinal, looking south

retail

1: 500

. 01 office

hotel

residential

SITE PLAN /// upper level plan

1: 500

residential

hotel

museum

SITE SECTION /// longitudinal, looking north

education

1: 500

. 01

PIXEL GRADIENT /// view of north corner

. 01

PIXEL GRADIENT /// view of expo, SE corner

. 01

. 01 . 02

X-POINT City 2.0 building component

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Critic: Neil Denari /// Jonathan Scelsa As a continuation of the X-POINT City urban design problem, the project asked the student to explore the urban design logic at the scale of the individual building . The project explores the building scale through programmatic and structural typologies. The typologies in their detailing reflect the spatial capabilities of the massing and resulting structural organizations played out in the urban scheme, seeking a high economy of programmatic, structural, and spatial variability and versatility through the aggregation of pixel components. *Project completed in collaboration with Nicole Cabezas

. 02

INTERIOR to EXTERIOR /// hotel

INTERIOR to INTERIOR /// museum

1 BR duplex

. 02

3 BR duplex

1 BR duplex

3 BR duplex

100m

Duplex_Residential 96m

92m

2 BR_Residential

89m

. 02

85m

81m

77m

1BR_Residential

Hotel_Efficiency

73m

1 BR_Penthouse 70m

66m

62m

58m

3 BR_Duplex 54m

51m

47m

43m

2 BR_Flat

39m

Piano Lounge

Restaurant

35m

Studio_Flat 32m

Hotel_Efficiency

29m

26m

23m

Residential

20m

Conference Center

17m

14m

Hotel Suites

11m

1: 75

VIGNETTES /// hotel type

PIXEL UNIT TYPE /// residential duplex

public space residential_apartment hotel_suite hotel_efficiency

1 BR duplex

SECTION /// hotel type, branching structure SECTION /// hotel type, branching structure

1: 75

. 02

//typical floor_duplex a

//typical floor_duplex b

//typical floor_duplex c

//typical floor_3 units

//lobby

SECTION//////residential residential type, type, slab SECTION slabstructure structure

1: 200 100

. 02 //transfer_700m 2

//office a_560 m 2

//office b_600 m 2

//retail_1200 m 2

//lobby_250 m 2

SECTION /// commercial type, branching structure SECTION /// commercial type, branching structure

1: 200

. 02 //exhibition floor_permanent

//exhibition floor_temporary

//ground floor_entry lobby

SECTION/// ///cultural culturaltype, type, branching structure SECTION branching structure

1: 200

. 02

MODEL /// commercial type, nesting volumes

. 01 . 02 . 03

Formalizing Graphics

pattern component manipulation

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Critic: David Salomon The project asked the student to explore the role of patterns in architecture through the development of a graphic element in the form of both surface and mass. The graphic developed results from a symmetrical pattern of nested polygons, . As a surface exploration, the graphic utilizes solid and void to emphasize component parts in symmetrical compositions, while in the exploration of mass, the graphic allows for an asymmetrical outcome of mass manipulation and solid versus void surface to create varying spatial conditions informed by the graphic composition.

Instructor: David Salomon Penn, Fall2014

. 03

COMPOSITION: component parts [Component Parts]

COMPOSITION: establishing the graphic

[Composition]

. 03

MASS MANIPULATION: formalizing the graphic

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Theater of Changing Boundaries the in, the out, and in between

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Critic: Sofia Krimizi The project asked the student to imagine a theater in the urban context of the typological, repetitive grid This project researches the notion of interstitial spaces and variable boundaries of defined space. A public street and throughway serves as a means for investigating this notion by utilizing circulation to challenge interior and exterior, public and private. Vectors of movement and sight carve a series of performance spaces from the grid block that reflects these changing boundaries from the entirely interiorized sub-level theater to the entirely exteriorized roof level theater.

REHEARSAL, R

. 04 RESTAURANT/BAR, R/B

MOVEMENT VECTORS_carving

PUBLIC STREET, Ci

MOVEMENT VECTORS_carving

MOVEMENT CARVING: circulation void SIGHT VECTORS_carving

SIGHT VECTORS_carving

SITE VECTORS_carving PUBLIC THROUGHWAY, Pt

CARVING: utilizing site analysis vectors SIGHT VECTORS_carving

SITE VECTORS_carving

SITE ANALYSIS: vector systems

performance space

. 04

restaurant/bar

public throughway

PLAN VIEW: roof level public street

D P4

C P3 20˚ 40˚

P2 St Ci Ci

Ce 20˚

PERFORMANCE SPACES_longitudinal section AA rehearsal space SECTION: overlapping performance space

1”= 8’

performance space

restaurant/bar

. 04 public throughway

public street

R/B

P1 P2

PLAN CUT: ground level

GROUND LEVEL_plan BB

1”=32’

R1 Th

PLAN CUT: sub-level

rehearsal space

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Space-Making Transformative Bench furniture analysis and design

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Critic: Sofia Krimizi The project asked the student to analyze an existing furniture as inspiration for a new object responsive to and accommodating towards the proportions and movement of the human body. Our interest in the curvature characteristic of Aaltoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arm Chair No. 31 and Le Corbuseirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chaise Longue lead us to map each chair based on a system of curve abstraction. A comparative study allowed us to construct a new family of curves that dictated the transformation of the Aalto chair section to that of the Chaise Longue, upon which, through section manipulation, we based the design of a new, transformative bench. *Project completed in collaboration with Nicole Cabezas

5.1A

5.2B

4.4A

5.1B 4.3A

4.4B 4.2A

4.3B

4.1A

4.2B 3.4A

4.1B

3.3A

x x

3.4B 3.2A

x 3.3B 2

4 5 3

3.1A

x x

3.2B 2.4A

. 05 x

3.1B

x 2.3A

2.4B

2.2A 1.2A

1.1A

1.3A

1.4A

1.5A

A 2.1A

2.3A

2.2A

3.1A

3.2A

4.1A

3.3A

4.2A

2.3B

2.4A

3.4A

4.3A

4.4A

2.1A 5.1A

5.3A

5.2A

5.4A

2.2B 1.4B

1.3B

2.4B

1.2B

2.3B

1.5A

1.1B

2.2B

2.1B

3.4B

3.3B

3.2B

1.4A

3.1B

1.4B

4.4B

5.5B

4.3B

5.4B

4.2B

4.1B

5.3B

5.2B

5.1B

CATALOGUE OF CURVES: chair profile transformation I1A

II2A

III3A

IV4A

V5A

VI6A

1.3A

VII7A

I1A

II2A

III3A

IV4A

V5A

VI6A

VII7A

VI6A

V5A

IV4A

III3A

VII7A

I1A

1.3B 1.2A

1.2B

5.4A

5.5B

5.3A

5.4B 5.2A

5.3B 5.1A

5.2B

1.3A

1.4A

1.5A

1.2A

1.1A 4.4A

5.1B 4.3A

2.1B

PLAN VIEW: chair profile indexing

1.4B

1.3B

1.2B

1.1B

4.4B 4.2A

4.3B

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House of Competing Spaces interior of oppositions

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Critic: Sofia Krimizi The project asked the student to design an exterior-less, domestic interior. This project investigates the notion of opposites in conflict and resolution. The domestic interior accommodates the diverging needs and discovers converging needs of a writer and a dancer. The proposed interior merges the intimate, calm space of the writer with the expansive, active space of the dancer by navigating among three systems of movement and occupation, that of the writer, that of the dancer, and that which is shared, through expansion, compression, and varying degrees of lightness.

2f 2i 2d

IIa

IIb

TOGETHER

IIc

IIIa

SEPARATE

SECTION FORMATION: response to daylight

. 06 1b

IIIb

IIIc

TOGETHER 1i

1d 1f

PLAN

2f 2i

2c 2h 2b

1d 1f

1c 1a 2d

PLAN, surface 1

2i 2a

1d 1f

1c 1a

PLAN, surface 2

SPATIAL GENERATION: section sequencing

7D 8 13 16W

15W

11 14W 12

SEPARATE_write

SPATIAL ORDERING: diverging and converging space

SERIAL SECTIONS, axon

SEPARATE_dance

. 06 15b

15c

15a

8a 15h

SECTION: dancer’s space

LIVING, transverse section BB

SEPARATED SPACE

15i

SECTION: writer’s space

1’ = 3/16”WRITER’S DEN, transverse section DD__

1’ = 3/16”

11c 11b

11f

11g

11a

11d

SHARED SPACE

11e

TRANSVERSE SECTION: shared space SLEEPING, transverse section CC

1’ = 3/16”

1_Entry

2_Dance

3_Dance

4_Dance

5_Dance

6_Dance

7_Dance

. 06

DAIGRAMMATIC PLAN CUT: movement and sequence

8_Living

9b 9c

9_Living, Sleeping

10c

10b

10g

10f 10a

10d

10e

10_Sleeping

11c 11b

11f

11g

11a 11d

11e

11_Sleeping

12b

12c

12g

12f

16 15

12a

14 12_Sleeping

13 12

13b

8 7D

4 3

13a

PLAN VIEW: lightwell 13_Living

14b

14c

1’ = 1/8”

PLAN VIEW, lightwell

14a

14h

14_Write

14i

15b

15c

15a

16W 15W

15h

14W

15_Write

13W 12W

11W

10W

15i

16b

8 7

16c

4D 3D

16a

PLAN CUT: compression and expansion

16h

16_Write

16i

13c

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Geometry of the Green

ecology laboratory and learning center

. 08 . 09 . 10 . 11 . 12

Critic: Sulan Kolatan This investigation studies the mutual and simultaneous relationships between architecture, computation, and ecology through the lens of the dual existence of invasive and native typologies, behaviors, and species. The project addresses the issue of a co-existence between invasive and native flora and fauna as a prevalant concern in Istnabul through an architectural proposal for an â&#x20AC;&#x153;infrastructuralâ&#x20AC;? building typology to facilitate a controlled and studied co-inhabitance of such opposing forces. The proposal relies on the interrelationship between a voluminous cell typology that becomes the occupiable zone for programmatic needs and an instrastructural, surficial cell typology that becomes the instigator for growth and inhabitance. These two typologies, as a designed assembly, live within each other and grow outside of each other to suggest a certain autonomy and simultaneous co-inhabitance of invasive and native. *Project completed in collaboration with Nicole Cabezas

. 07

iii.

i. urban development,_unplanned plots ii. proposed urban intervention iii. Zincidikuyu cemetery

SITE PLAN: urban_green infiltration

INVASIVE vs. NATIVE BEHAVIORS /// program _dry labs_research

_living labs_exterior garden

. 07

_interiorized social space

_living labs_research

MASSING RELATIONSHIPS: native vs. invasive behaviors

_native + invasive

. 07 _native

_invasive

native

invasive

GEOMETRY OF THE GREEN /// Nicole Cabezas + Kayleen Kulesza

_exterior controlled habitat

_exterior garden_wild habitat _auditorium_public _learning_public

TRANSVERSE SECTION: urban_green transition through public learning 0’

0’

8’

32’

_native

24’

96’

160’

_invasive

0’

. 07

16’

32’

GEOMETRY OF THE GREEN /// Nicole Cabeza

_LIVING LABS_RESEARCH /// typical floor

0’

_DRY LABS_RESEARCH /// typical floor

8’ _native

24’

56’

_invasive

_EXTERIOR GARDEN_INTERIOR LEARNING /// typical floor

_LIVING LABS_RESEARCH /// typical floor

0’

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: dry labs_public learning_living labs

8’

64’

_native

24’

192’

_invasive

native

320’ invasive

. 07

OR_LIVING LABS /// interior_exterior relationships

. 07

. 01 . 02 . 03 . 04 . 05 . 06 . 07 . 08

Urban Air Sponge

air purifying research facility

. 09 . 10 . 11 . 12

Critic: Shawn Rickenbacker Situated at the entry point to New York City from the Holland Tunnel, a site littered with air pollution, this project asked the student to propose a combined facility for air remediation and research. The project investigates the notion of carving and eroding volumes to produce both increased surface areas and occupiable mass. The project plays on the notion of pochĂŠ through the exporation of two distinct mass systems, one the inverse of the other such that while air remediation infrastructure occupies the figural mass, its inverse, the carved space, is occupied by people. *Project completed in collaboration with Siwei Yu

.01

.02

.03

.04

.05

.06

.08

.09

. 08 .07

RESIDUAL STUDIES /// form + response RESIDUAL STUDIES /// form + response RESIDUAL STUDIES /// form + response

.10 MASS EROSION: figures and residuals

/ form + response

.11

.12

DISINTEGRATION GRATION VING /// BOUNDING /// bounding DISINTEGRATION /// BOX ///DISINTEGRATION box-A, /// A-bounding ///DISINTEGRATION ///SUPPORT CARVING CARVING /// SUPPORT ////// ///bounding SUPPORT /// box-A, SUPPORT /// DISINTEGRATION SUPPORT /// SUPPORT /// CARVING /// SUPPORT /// /// SUPPORT ///DISINTEGRATION DISINTEGRATION ///DISINTEGRATION DISINTEGRATION ///DISINTEGRATION /// ///DISINTEGRATION /// SUPPORT /// SUPPORT SUPPORT /// /// DISINTEGRATION A+B /// SUPPORT /// A+B SUPPORT /// /// A+B DISINTEGRATION ///SUPPORT A+B DISINTEGRATION /// SUPPORT ///DISINTEGR //////D -A,bounding B-BA-B, B-A box, boxB-bounding A-B,B B-A A-B, box B-A A-B,bounding B-A A+A, B+B bounding boxA+A, (A+B) B+B boxA+A, B B+BA+A,A+A B+BA-A, and bounding B+B B-B A+A and B+B boxA+A and (A+B)B+B A+A A+A and and B+B B+B, A-B, A+AB-A A-A, andA-A, B-B B+B, A+AB-B A-A, and B+B, B-B A+A and A-A, B+B, B-B A-A, A+A,B-B B+B A-B, B-A A+A A+B,and A-B B+B A+B, A+A,A-B B+B A+B, a_series

dA= 20’, dB+ 10’

a.01

a.02

a.03

a.04

a.05

a.06

b.02

b.03

b.04

b.05

b.06

c.02

c.03

c.04

c.05

c.06

d.02

d.03

d.04

d.05

d.06

b_series

dA= 30’, dB= 10’

b.01

c_series

. 08 dA= 30’, dA= 20’, dB= 10’

c.01

d_series

d.01

A-->B<--dA= A 30’, dA= 20’, dB=10’ /// A-->B<-- A

BEHAVIORAL INDEX: figures and residuals

RESIDUAL SECTION: looking east

. 08 AIR SPACE: figure

PEOPLE SPACE: residual

GRAND STR

EET

7 UP

VARICK STREET

10 6

9 3

4 12

RICAS

E AME

AVEN UE

OF TH

. 08

CA N

GROUND FLOOR PLAN: public entry

1. Entry/Lobby 2. Exhibition Space 3. Administrative Offices 4. Elevator Lobby 5. Secondary Exhibition Hall 6. Lounge 7. Auditorium 8. Auditorium Lobby 9. Air Processing/ Mechanical 10. Rear Entry 11. Parking Descent 12. Air Intake

1. Exhibition Space 2. Elevator Lobby 3. Air Processing/Mechanical 4. Labs (Intake) 5. Labs (Processing) 6. Informal Classroom 7. Library 8. Roof Cafe 9. Clean Air Expulsion

LONGITUDINAL SECTION: air space and people space

. 08

tempered Low-E glass with fritted pattern Vertical Louvre System

air purification within mass /// compressed mineral fibre

metal Louver System aluminum sill aluminum cladding /// metal point glazing support hardware

cast stone panel aluminum mesh for air intake

water shed gutter

mineral fibre insulation batt insulation

Finished Floor galvanized steel clip

Metal Decking

silicone weather seal

Primary Structual Steel air seal

internal reinforcement

Cables

detail ii _ water drainage + stone panel cladding fire safing scale: 1” = 1’

Cast Stone Panels

interior stone cladding panel with fireproof coating

detail i _ double skin facade scale: 1” = 1’

Exterior Glazing

INTERIOR WALL DETAIL

FACADE DETAIL

Metal Cladding Support System

ENVELOPE CONSTRUCTION

MASSING MODEL: carved erosion

. 08

VIEW OF CAFĂ&#x2030;: porosity and light infiltration

MASSING MODEL: contained erosion

. 08

VIEW OF ATRIUM: occupying carved space

VIEW OF ATRIUM: porosity and light infiltration

MASSING MODEL: carved erosion

. 01 . 02 . 03 . 04 . 05 . 06 . 07 . 08 . 09

The Grotto

urban multi-family housing

. 10 . 11 . 12

Critic: Matias del Campo The project asked the student to design an apartment building in combination with a Kaffeehaus and nightclub for a plaza site in Vienna . This investigation studies the colonizing behaviors of barnacles with specific regard to how their aggregation generates mass and void and considers the Mannerist tradition of an interplay of parts to generate interiors defined by mass as precedent for multi-family housing. The project studies the part to whole relationship with specific regard to the aggregation of components to form spatial enclosures that are expressions of the manner in which they are assembled.

STUDY MODEL: aggregating components

. 09

INTERIOR VIEW: apartment living space with view to plaza

component evolution apartment A

51 L

3 6/7

apartment F 5 1

apartment E2

2 1

6/7

6/7 5 F

1: Entrance 2: Vestibule 3: Living 4: Cooking 5: Sleeping 6: Bathroom 7: WC

4 E

apartment B2

6/7

apartment C/D A

typica 1

K 4

apartment A J

3 6/7

I 5

6/7 1

apartment F

apartment E1

apartment D

2 1

6/7

6/7 F

6/7 5

6/7

apartment B1 apartment C

1: Entrance 2: Vestibule 3: Living 4: Cooking 5: Sleeping 6: Bathroom 7: WC

typical fl

. 09

K 4 J

3 6/7

I 5 H

3 5

program kaffeehaus

6/7 5

6/7

Program Kaffeehaus 1: Entrance 2: Vestibule 3: Living 4: Cooking 5: Sleeping 6: Bathroom 7: WC

1 4

3 D

A 1

FLOOR PLANS: ground, typical floor a, typical floor b

Ground Flo

roof

level 0 kaffeehaus -1 night club -2

courtyard B

courtyard A

LONGITUDINAL SECTION: through double courtyard and nightclub below

. 09

UNIT MODEL: duplex unit of aggregated components

. 01 . 02 . 03 . 04 . 05 . 06 . 07 . 08 . 09 . 10

Double Screen

ideas festival installation

. 11 . 12

In Collaboration with ksestudio A temporary installation at Meyerson Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, this double screen serves as a curtain mediating the space between the front patio and the main entrance to the building. Made of 26 sheets of perforated Tyvek, the screens host projections coming from the front yard and the building behind. The controlled perforations allow for light from each projection to penetrate through to the screen behind, creating a collision of light on the interior through which visitors can pass.

PANEL PERFORATIONS: degrees of porosity

. 10

PANEL ELEVATIONS: screen composition of perforations

SCREEN STILL: double projection

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INTERIOR SPACE: double projection

SCREEN STILL: without projection

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PROJECTION SERIES: animated imaging

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PennDesign Year End Show

student installation and exhibition

In Collaboration with Sofia Krimizi and the PennDesign team Designed as a culminating exhibition of student work throughout the 2013-2014 school year, the PennDesign Year End Show instalation plays with light and fragmentation to transform the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior into a dynamic atmosphere to both unify a vast array of work and to reflect the culture of the school. The exhibition relies on a cloud of fragmented squares that surround the atirum space and allow proections coming from the gorund and opposing walls to pass through the cloud and onto the wall behind. A second interior is defined by the cloud and the wall and provides the opportunity for guests to experience the figure ground relationship between the silhouette of the panels and the light in between.

58 UPPER GALLERY

37-4"

WEST

16"

CLOUD PLAN and SCHEMATIC VIEWS: fragmentation strategy

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CLOUD INSTALLATION: light and fragmentation

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16"

CEILING PLAN

28'-8 1/8"

ENTRANCE 10

EAST

SECONDARY INSTALLATION: projection light box

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CLOUD INSTALLATION: light and fragmentation

28 27

CEILING PLAN

25 24 23 22 21

20 19 18 17 16

37-4"

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WEST

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CLOUD WALL: view from behind

16"

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Transcripting Delirium graphic novel

acceleration

Critic: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss The project asked the student to compose a graphic novel commenting on the theme of urban ideologies in the architectural context. The graphic novel, “The Making of: Transcripting Delirium” juxtaposes Bernard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts and Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York as the context for a fictional film. The project seeks to argue that the two works reflect each author’s distinct approach to achieving an otherwise similar goal of reacting to the architectural discourse of the time as it plays out in the imagery of combining protagonists and settings from each work to create an entirely new world at the intersection of both. *Project completed in collaboration with Walaid Sehwail

architecture can not be reduced... "The movements of the different protagonists intruding into the architectural 'stage

...it's a culture of con-gestshinnn!!

...to either pure experience or use...

...it always engages both.

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all typologies can be diverted from their original purpose.

...to the ...utopian fragments...

From the park... ...or it's a tower floor slab!!!

the vertical tower?!

...and irrational phenomena. ...to the

...Elevator, tower, the fall.

a floor dedicated to

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Been the implosion of these universes...

Interested in...

...is like that of the original 100story building...

Urbanism, as a profession, has disappeared at the moment.

...after decades of constant acceleration...

...and perhaps merely the beginning of a new alphabet!

acceleration

what a superimposed Grid...

...social condenser, the size of a park!!!

. 06 never neutral, never pure;

space

event

movement!!!

...always perceived in relation to where it is

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...urbanization everywhere...

or what happens in it.

...is on its way to establishing a definitive, global "triumph" of the urban condition?

i began to realize...

the metropolis is an

addictive machine

CONTExt(!!) had played a role...

from which there is no escape...

...to what was already there... by adding something...

...either by being intentionally conflictual...

...i would decontextualize and redefine it!!

the street has become residue,

...or by being sympathetic.

The metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where...

...the world is completely fabricated by man...

organizational device,

a mere segment of the continuous metropolitan plane

city is no longer

one single coherent whole...

but instead...

. 06 where the remnants of the past face the equipment of the new in an uneasy standoff.

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...so that it absolutely coincides with his desires...

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