Kendall Baldwin's Portfolio

Vol. 03 Princeton University // 2016 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // 2011

www.kendall-baldwin.com

Architectural Designer

COMPETITION RESEARCH

A CATALOGUE OF WORKS 2016

kendall baldwin

Vol. 03 Princeton University // 2016 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute // 2011

www.kendall-baldwin.com

Architectural Designer

A CATALOGUE OF WORKS 2016

kendall baldwin

2016 design workbook

content

Unbuilding Brutalism 02-07 Seoul Culture Spine 08-13 OHNY Infographic Table 14-17 Fulton Ferry Pavilion 18-21 Glacial Formwork 22-27 Lingotto BridgeStation 28-31 Taipei Performing Arts Center 32-35

academic

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NDIA Airport Visitor Information Center 38-43 Duke University West Campus Union 44-45 Sustainable Themepark 46-47 Hunter’s Point South 48-49 Shafallah Genetics Research Center 50-51

Ramses Square 54-57 Brooklyn Bridge Bastions 58-59 Gowanus Lowline 60-61

Wood Board Sandblasting 64-67 Erosive Form-Finding 68-71

professional

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competition

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research

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princeton university, rensselaer polytechnic institute

academic

1 01

This exploration seeks to speculate on the generative potential of historic preservation practices within the architectural discipline. Operating under the conceit that a built work is chiefly defined by the assemblage of its physical matter, one can view a structure as “preserved” so long as its original materials are retained and utilized – even if those materials are aged, displaced and reprocessed. As such, this project posits that methods of engaged demolition and pathologic construction can be deployed as generative acts of design that destabilize the normative rhetoric of preservation techniques. Through the manipulation and reconfiguration of a project’s built material – what I refer to “unbuilding” – a new composite typology that carries the work’s original principles of scale, geometry, composition and texture is formulated; one that possesses the genetic material of an architectural past synthesized with a tectonic sensibility that operates productively in the contemporary milieu. With this disciplinary recalibration, preservation in the 21st century can be defined not as the static conservation of an historical condition, but rather, as the dynamic production of a germane – unbuilt – work.

graduate thesis princeton university | spring 2016

Unbuilding Brutalism

DEMOLITION // DECONSTRUCTION ORDER OF OPERATIONS

critic: liz diller advisor: guy nordenson

demolition sequence diagram

FLOOR SLABS

HORIZONTAL ELEMENTS PRIMARY BEAMS

SECONDARY BEAMS

INTERIOR NON-STRUCTURAL WALLS

VERTICAL ELEMENTS EXTERIOR NON-STRUCTURAL WALLS

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

STRUCTURAL WALLS AND COLUMNS

DIAGONAL ELEMENTS

STAIRS

axonometric view of boston city hall

02

project UNBUILDING BRUTALISM

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus MATERIAL DECONSTRUCTION

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

government center site plan, downtown boston

RESEARCH

boston city hall unbuilding intervention zones

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1 01 Unbuilding Brutalism

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

unrolled elevation: existing condition

unrolled elevation: material degradation

unrolled elevation: unbuilt volumes

04

project UNBUILDING BRUTALISM

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus MATERIAL DECONSTRUCTION

ACADEMIC

unrolled elevation: existing condition

PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

unrolled elevation: material degradation

unrolled elevation: unbuilt volumes

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SEQUENCE 01 // COLLECTION ELEMENTS REMOVED FROM STRUCTURE

1 01 Unbuilding Brutalism

SEQUENCE 02 // SORTING ELEMENTS CATALOGUED BY TYPE

01 01

02

03

04

05

level 09 intervention zone

SEQUENCE 03 // UNBUILDING ELEMENTS DISSECTED INTO COMPONENTS

02 01

02

03

04

05

SEQUENCE 04 // STAGING

COMPONENTS POSITIONED INTO NEW ELEMENTS

03

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

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02

03

04

SEQUENCE 05 // ASSEMBLY

ELEMENTS COMPOSED INTO PROGRAMMATIC SPACE

04 01

02

03

04

05

05

unbuilding stages and sequence

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05

01

02

03

04

05

UNBUILDING // BRUTALIST FOLLIES EVENT PERFORMANCE

project UNBUILDING BRUTALISM

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus MATERIAL DECONSTRUCTION

02 // PLAN

02 // ELEVATION

LOBBY EXTENSION

brutalist follies 01 - event performance

ACADEMIC

UNBUILDING // BRUTALIST FOLLIES

PROFESSIONAL

04 // PLAN

COMPETITION

04 // ELEVATION

UNBUILDING // BRUTALIST FOLLIES

brutalist follies 02 - extended lobby

RESEARCH

ARCHIVAL EXHIBITION

03 // PLAN

03 // ELEVATION

brutalist follies 03 - living archive

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1 02

The Culture Spine represents a new typology of urban space that satisfies the needs of a 21st century world citizen. It presents itself not as a cultural institution but, rather, as a cultural infrastructure. The Culture Spine relies on a cooperative network of local agencies, both private and governmental, that seek to charge the public realm with influential tokens of the rich heritage native to the Republic of Korea. This task is executed through the provision of a self-sustaining and climatically regulated venue which serves to stage performances, exhibitions and experiences that celebrate the national identity of Korea. These events, stimulated by neighboring organizations, are curated by the citizens of Seoul and enjoyed by residents and tourists alike.

graduate design studio princeton university | spring 2015

Seoul Culture Spine instructor: alejandro zaera-polo

context diagrams Line No. 1

PEDESTRIANS 400,000 per day

Line No. 4

BUS ROUTES #3 - Airport #4 - Downtown Seoul #5 - Gyeonggi-do South #6 - Gyeonggi-do North #7 - Uptown Seoul

Seoul Station Airport Line

SUBWAY LINES Line No. 1 Line No. 4 Airport Line

TRAIN ROUTES KTX - Gyeongbu Line KTX - Gyeongjeon Line Gyeongui Line Train Railroad Facilities 500m

infrastructure systems diagram

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

Daily Transit & Commuters

500m

Regional Map

NEIGHBORHOOD ZONE

REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY OF SEOUL STATION

PARKING ZONE

RAILROAD ZONE

PLAZA ZONE

ROADWAY ZONE

BUSINESS ZONE

Commuters and Transit Lines Engaging Daily with Seoul Station

78.00

78.00

686.00

12.50

A2 P28

75.00

P27

NEIGHBORHOOD ZONE

P26

52.00

P25

P24

23.00

P23

PARKING ZONE

P22

120.00

P21

P20

20.00

P19

P18

23.50

P17

RAILROAD ZONE

46.00

25.00

P16

90.00

P15

P14

175.00

P13

P12

PLAZA ZONE

P11

P10

P9

40.00

P8

P7

P6

ROADWAY ZONE

P5

P4

P3 P2 P1 A1

BUSINESS ZONE

site analysis CONTEXTUAL SITE ANALYSIS

Technical Studies of the Seoul Station Overpass Context

08

30.00

46.00

project SEOUL CULTURE SPINE

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION

aerial rendering

ACADEMIC

exploded axonometric

PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

cu ture sp ne project branding & identity

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1 02 Seoul Culture Spine

detail plan: cafe

Cafe Plan Plan Layout Layout Cafe

Korean Cafe Cafe House House Korean

detail plan: food vendors

Food Stall Stall Plan Plan Layout Layout Food

detail plan: market stalls

Dongdaemun Market Market Food Food Stall Stall Dongdaemun

PROGRAM PROGRAM LAYOUT: LAYOUT: FOOD FOOD STALLS STALLS & & CAFE CAFE Organization Organization and and Layout Layout of of Program Program

Market Vendor Plan Layout Market Vendor Plan Layout

Namdaemun Market Namdaemun Market

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

detail plan: recreation zone

Recreation & Activities Plan Layout Recreation & Activities Plan Layout

detail plan: exhibition space

Outdoor Activities at Namsan Mountain Outdoor Activities at Namsan Mountain

PROGRAM LAYOUT: LAYOUT: MARKET MARKET & & RECREATION RECREATION PROGRAM Organization and Layout of Program Organization and Layout of Program

Exhibition Plan Layout Exhibition Plan Layout

Traditional Korean Painting Traditional Korean Painting

detail plan: performance venue

Performance Plan Layout Performance Plan Layout

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Dance Performance at the National Theater of Korea Dance Performance at the National Theater of Korea

PROGRAM LAYOUT: PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION PROGRAMOrganization LAYOUT: PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION and Layout of Program Organization and Layout of Program

project SEOUL CULTURE SPINE

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

BOTANIC PARK

park level floor plan

GARDEN

FOOD STALLS

ACCESS

CAFE

ACCESS

PERFORMANCE

ACCESS

EXHIBITION

ACCESS

RECREATION

ACCESS

MARKET

FEATURED LOCAL PROGRAMMING

Organization of The Culture Spine’s Resident Programs

Local Markets

Korean Dining

Recreation

Art Exhibitions

Traditional Dance

Native Flora

Sun|Mon|Wed|Fri|Sat

Sun|Mon|Thurs|Fri|Sat

Sun|Mon|Tues

Tues|Wed|Thurs

Fri|Sat|Sun

Mon|Tues|Wed

A variety of local vendors sell their goods to visitors and allow them to directly engage with and experience traditional Korean markets.

An array of culinary events are organized which allow visitors to directly engage with and experience local Korean cuisine.

A number of recreational programs are organized that allow visitors to directly engage with and experience local Korean activities and sports.

A variety of exhibitions are organized by local artists which allow visitors to directly engage with and experience both traditional contemporary Korean artworks.

RESEARCH

weekly program schedule

COMPETITION

Site Plan @ 1:300 Scale NAMDAEMUN MARKET

MYONG-DONG

A variety of cultural events are A wide display of native flora that held that allow visitors to directly allow visitors to directly engage engage with and experience with and experience local Korean traditional Korean performances. vegetation and agriculture.

Weekly Schedule of Events on the Culture Spine

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1 02 Seoul Culture Spine

aerial rendering

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

systems diagram

SUMMER SUN STACK EFFECT

WINTER SUN

65 O

NATURAL VENTILATION

environmental section

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25 O

NATURAL VENTILATION

project SEOUL CULTURE SPINE

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION

programmatic vignette & section 01

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

Vignette of Spatial Character

RESEARCH

RENDERED VIGNETTE: PROGRAM CONCOURSE

COMPETITION

programmatic vignette & section 02

Representation of Programmatic Experiences and their Spatial Organization

programmatic vignette & section 03

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1 03

graduate design seminar princeton university | spring 2015

OHNY Infographic Table instructor: peter pelsinski

This urban canopy, designed and constructed by the School of Architecture at Princeton University, has been donated to Open House New York (OHNY) for use in their annual OHNY Weekend event. The canopy will be on display at 11 Times Square and in the Union Square Market in New York City from October 16th-18th, 2015.

installation at ohny launch party

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

OHNY Weekend unlocks the doors to New York’s most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York. From historic to contemporary, residential to industrial, hundreds of sites across the five boroughs are open to visit, with tours, talks, performances and other special events taking place over the course of the Weekend.

Through the unparalleled access that it enables, OHNY Weekend deepens our understanding of the importance of architecture and urban design to foster a more vibrant civic life and helps catalyze a citywide conversation about how to build a better New York.

The aluminum canopy acts as an information kiosk that provides informational brochures about the OHNY Weekend to casual passersby.

It is meant to be visually impactful, inventive, and communicate the scope of OHNY’s annual endeavor.

themed logo for ohny launch party

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project OHNY INFOGRAPHIC TABLE

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus FULL-SCALE FABRICATION

detail of installation at ohny launch party

ACADEMIC

installation at ohny launch party

PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH 15

1 03

exploded axonometric assembly diagram

OHNY Infographic Table

Fabric

Nut Mending Plate Screw Top Washer (w/ gasket) Washer Bolt Aluminum Plate Bolt Stand-Off Aluminum Plate Bolt Washer

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

Upper Leg

Lower Leg

Leg Base

primary aluminum sheet components

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project OHNY INFOGRAPHIC TABLE

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus FULL-SCALE FABRICATION

detail photograph of milled aluminum 01

detail photograph of milled aluminum 02

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

detail photograph of milled aluminum 03

RESEARCH

detail photograph of milled aluminum 04

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organizational sketch

1 04

graduate facade seminar princeton university | fall 2014

Fulton Ferry Pavilion instructor: bruce nichol

aerial render from jay street

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

axonometric render

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Born from an interest in practicality and perception, this temporary summer pavilion in Brooklyn Bridge Park seeks to act as a flexible urban space and exhibition beacon for the neighborhood’s summer guests. As a fundamentally modular system, the deployment process of the pavilion is designed to be highly streamlined. With no member exceeding 15 feet in length, the transportation, assembly and disassembly of the pavilion does not require any special treatment.

While rationalized modular systems do not often invite high levels of spectacle and intrigue,this architectural creation strives to defy those odds.

Based on the idea of recalibrating traditional systems, this project looks to the industrial context for inspiration. Surrounded by industrial buildings and ample nautical activity on the East River, the notions of masonry construction and shipping systems became influential design drivers.

project FULTON FERRY PAVILION

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus FACADE ASSEMBLY

120'-0"

15'-0"

45'-0"

15'-0"

15'-0"

PROJECT WORK POINT

30'-0"

TYPICAL BAY SIZE (15’ x 15’ GRID LAYOUT)

30'-0"

15'-0"

15'-0"

INTERLOCKING SLATTED WOOD FLOORING

PIVOTING EXHIBITION WALLS

MODULAR EXHIBITION POD (4 PODS IN PAVILION)

15'-0"

MISCELLANEOUS FITOUT

ENTRY RAMP

MOVABLE PARTITIONS

PROFESSIONAL

105'-0"

PIVOTING DOOR

ACADEMIC

15'-0"

IRIDESCENT STRUCTURAL GLASS BRICK WALL

FLEXIBLE EXTERIOR SPACE

RESEARCH

15'-0"

T-SECTION STRUCTURAL CLADDING FOR EXHIBITION POD

COMPETITION

30'-0"

CHANNEL GLAZING

rendered floor plan

rendered elevation

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exploded axonometric

Fulton Ferry Pavilion

Shipping containers are items often seen in or around Brooklyn Bridge Park. These modular and highly flexible units, while unsuspecting in terms of design technique, employ a robust structural system that allows for high rigidity without the need for intermediate members within its central space. Looking to this system for inspiration, the pavilion containers four ‘exhibit pod,’ units that are inspired by the design of a container but elevate their system into a style much more suitable for project’s exhibition based program.

exhibit pod section

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15'-0"

9 1/4"

12'-0"

11"

14'-0"

17'-7 3/4"

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

15'-0"

exhibit pod concept sketches

project FULTON FERRY PAVILION

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus FACADE ASSEMBLY

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

exploded exhibit pod assembly detail

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1 05

One of the most aggressive results of global climate change has been the rapidly increasing rate of glacial melt. Not only does this pressure universal fresh water supply, but the excessive water presence threatens destruction to many native villages residing in higher lands.

The onslaught of glacial lake outburst floods is increasing rashly in the Himalayas, menacing downstream communities and urban civilizations that lie in their path, up to 100 kilometers beyond the origin of the burst.

undergraduate thesis rensselaer | fall 2010 - spring 2011

Glacial Formwork advisor: julia watson

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

global biodiversity map

1:8,000,000 0

0

40 km

Europe

724,602 1,647,443 Europe

Americas

Middle East + North Africa

2,099,697

724,602 1,647,443

Middle East + North Africa 2,005,920

2,099,697 2,005,920

465,275 812,332

465,275 812,332

202,550 Unknown Others

202,550 Unknown

Terrain at high altitudes Terrain at high altitudes

Biodiversity hotspots Biodiversity hotspots

Areas of glacial thinning Areas of glacial thinning

Asia + Pacific

4,276,792

Americas

Others

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1:8,000,000 40 km

Rest of Africa

2,627,624

2,074,854 Rest of Africa

Asia + Pacific 3,855,991

4,276,792 3,855,991

2,627,624 2,074,854

Origin + host countries of refugees Origin + host countries of refugees

Land surface temperature increase Land surface temperature increase

80 km

80 km

project GLACIAL FORMWORK

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus DISASTER RESILIENCE

Tsho Rolpa, an isolated valley in Northeastern Nepal, is the country’s most dangerous glacial lake. Situated in the heart of a sacred landscape, it is a religious beacon and looming threat. As such, it is necessary to mitigate the imminent risk of a GLOF while preserving and enhancing the relationship of man with nature. Through a projective approach to disaster-based design, it is the goal of this project to generate an accretive topography of glacial formwork through the manipulation of hydrological systems that will stabilize the glacial lake by reducing its water volume and structuring its dam wall. This new landscape will offer unique spatial conditions created within the topography that will transform this future disaster zone into a sacred destination place.

ACADEMIC

nepalese biodiversity map

PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

1:1,000,000 1:1,000,000 0

0

50 km50 km

100 km 100 km

protectednational nationalparks parks protected

populartrekking trekkingregions regions popular

sacredhimalaya himalayalandscape landscape sacred

potentiallydangerous dangerous glacial glacial lakes lakes potentially

population density

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3,252 GLACIERS

=

5,324 km2

=

76 km

HUMANS

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Glacial Formwork

2,323

GLACIAL LAKES

CRITICALLY DANGEROUS

2

SPECIES

VILLAGES

1960

1965

1970

0.61 km2

0.62 km2

1975

1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

0.78 km2

0.80 km2

1.02 km2

1.16 km2

1.27 km2

1.39 km2

1.65 km2

INDUSTRY 0.23 km2

1x

2x

3x

4x

5x AGRICULTURE

KATHMANDU

2,000

FLORA + FAUNA

8 hr 100 km 10,000

HUMAN LIVES

TOURISM

TSHO ROLPA

$30,000,000

TREKKING

INDUSTRIES

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVE

OUTCOME TRANSPORTATION

How can a future disaster zone be transformed into a destination place?

How can a design function for disaster prevention and re-invigorate community life?

How can a project of management + development sustain its resources?

INFRASTRUCTURE

DRINKING WATER

Transform Tsho Rolpa glacial lake into a popular cultural destination.

statistical risks of the environment

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OPERATION

Create a generative ecology formed by the release, channelization + filtration of water.

Reinvent technologies using local materials to generate new, sustainable systems + practices.

ENERGY

FLOODING

AGRICULTURE 72% of Nepal’s electricity is

project GLACIAL FORMWORK

72% of Nepal’s electricity is fueled by felled timber

95% role AGRICULTURE 72% of Nepal’s electricity is LEAD DESIGNER 41% fueled increase Nepal’s tourism by in felled timber 72% over the past decade. fueled by felled timber

72% of Nepal’s electricity is 41% increase in Nepal’s fueled by felled timbertourism over the past decade.

72% of Nepal’s electricity is fueled by felled timber

72% 41%

72%

72% of Nepal’s electricity is fueled by felled timber

72%

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

ENERGY

99%

99%

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed harness natural water surges structured farming practices harness natural water surges

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations sustainable rural livlihoods store and release in appropriate amounts and locations sustainable rural livlihoods

fueled by felled timber

structured farming practices

sustainable rural livlihoods

AGRICULTURE 72% of Nepal’s electricity is 41% increase in Nepal’s tourism

structured farming practices

sustainable rural livlihoods

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

AGRICULTURE 72% of Nepal’s electricity is 95%

72%

fueled by felled timber over the past decade.

72% of Nepal’s electricity is by felled timber 41%fueled increase in Nepal’s tourism over the past decade.

72% 41%

72% 41%

72%

S

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

S

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

reduce dependency on timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

99%

99%

harness natural water surges

harness natural water surges

harness natural water surges

harness natural water surges

WATER

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

nepal’s drivers of change

WATER

S

PROFESSIONAL

72% of Nepal’s electricity is fueled by felled timber

adopt alternative methods of energy production

S

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

TOURISM

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

99%

tsho rolpa site analysis

TOURISM

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

99%

harness natural water surges

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

99%

harness natural water surges

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

harness natural water surges

store and release in appropriate amounts and locations

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

COMPETITION

harness natural water surges

99%

WATER

RESEARCH

WATER

VILLAGE

WATERCOURSE

MORAINE DAM WALL

ACADEMIC

structured farming practices

95%

reduce dependency on timber

TOURISM

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

95% of the population are involved in agriculture

95% of the population are involved in agriculture

sustainable rural livlihoods

99%

ENERGY

95%

focus DISASTER RESILIENCE

structured farming practices

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

TOURISM

95% of the population are involved in agriculture 99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

95% 99%

72%

sustainable rural livlihoods

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

99% of Nepal’s potential hydroelectric energy is not harnessed

95% of the population are involved in agriculture

72% 41%

structured farming practices

RIDGE

OUTLET

1:500 0

25 m

50 m

25

1 05 Glacial Formwork

sedimentation wall render

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

sedimentation wall render

WALKWAY EXTRACTED SEDIMENT TIMBER POSTS

BAMBOO WEAVE BRACING WATER CHANNEL GABION WALL

GEOTEXTILE BACKFILL EXTRACTED SEDIMENT CONCRETE FOOTING EARTH BERM

TIMBER POSTS

GABION ABUTMENT WALL

BACKFILL

moraine dam sluice gate

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project GLACIAL FORMWORK

role LEAD DESIGNER

focus DISASTER RESILIENCE

INITIAL PHASE

YEAR 1

YEAR 2

RESEARCH

INTERMEDIATE PHASE

YEAR 6

COMPETITION

YEAR 5

PROFESSIONAL

YEAR 4

ACADEMIC

YEAR 3

YEAR 7 sedimentation wall render & diagram

WALKWAY EXTRACTED SEDIMENT

BAMBOO WEAVE

WATER CHANNEL GABION WALL

FINAL PHASE

TIMBER POSTS

BRACING

YEAR 8 GEOTEXTILE

BACKFILL

EXTRACTED SEDIME CONCRETE FOOTING EARTH BERM

TIMBER POSTS

GABION ABUTMENT

YEAR 9 BACKFILL

sediment wall system

yearly sediment accretion

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undergraduate design studio rensselaer | fall 2008

Lingotto BridgeStation instructor: david riebe collaborators: jeffrey christianson

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kendall baldwin // architectural designer

Lingotto is an area that suffers from various complications with its functionality and dynamism as a city and space. The most prominent issue present is the dividing demarcation of the tracks of the railway. These train tracks perfectly split the city into two separate halves that lack any visual or physical connections. Because of this austere partitioning, Lingotto has lost a primary sense of cohesion and the vitality of the area has steadily decreased over the past several years.

In an effort to bridge this bounding gap, modernize the existing infrastructure, and regenerate the city, this proposal has been designed and put forth.

TENNIS MATERNA I SCUOLA STATALE G. FANCIULL

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PALESTR

SUCC. SCUOLA ARE ELEMENT

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TENNIS TENNIS

project LINGOTTO BRIDGESTATION

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus GENERATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

platform render

RESEARCH

generative parametric construct

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1 06 Lingotto BridgeStation

market level plan

long section

roof render

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

3d printed model

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As opposed to neglecting the dysfunctionality of the site and installing only a structure that merely facilitates the most elementary and fundamental needs present, this proposal for the Lingotto BridgeStation implements beneficial disruptions calculated parametrically and applied on a global scale that results in a complete transformation of the site environment and its context in both a visual and visceral manner. The modern resolve of its architectural tectonic permeates all aspects of the urban fabric and provides for the opportunity of community life within the bounds of its enclosure, solidifying that the objective of this project was not just to create a bridging structure, but rather, to utterly reestablish and re-define the utility and meaning of the entire city of Lingotto.

project LINGOTTO BRIDGESTATION

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus GENERATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

parametric definition

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

bridge render

exploded component diagram

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1 07

structure diagram

integrated building studio rensselaer | fall 2009

Taipei Performing Arts Center

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

instructor: demetrios comodromos collaborators: heath horn

1:50 scale detail physical model

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project TAIPEI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

The Taipei City urban center, comprised of a banal context of high-rise residential towers, calls for an iconic arts complex that possesses a display of extreme verticality, challenging its surroundings. The proposed performing arts center responds to the density and urbanity of the area by utilizing a system of verticality as an organizational device. Through this emphasis of height, a new typology of performance space is generated, where program is layered vertically. The double-skin faรงade that encloses this structure is used to conduct the movement of its participants throughout the space. It does this by channeling circulation upwards along the periphery.

transverse section

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

concept sketches

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1 07 Taipei Performing Arts Center

long section Maximum Height + 57.0 m

Level 7 + 48.0 m

Level 6

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

+ 40.0 m

Concession Level +38.0 m

Level 5 +35.0 m

Balcony 2 +34.0 m

Level 4

+31.0 m

Balcony 1 +28.0 m

Level 3

+20.0 m

Entry Mezzanine +16.0 m

Level 2

+10.0 m

Level 1 +5.0 m

Level -2 - 5.0 m

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detail wall section

project TAIPEI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

detail facade model photo

RESEARCH

The containment of circulation within this setting of perforated double surfaces creates a visceral sense of spatiality that provokes a defamiliarization with the city and introduces an infusion of visceral spectacle that is typically isolated to and contained within the individual performance spaces. It is both the intent and desire that these combined effects and their resultant experiences reinvigorate the once idealized notion that atmosphere and environment are fundamental and essential attributes to the performing arts.

physical model photos

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grimshaw architects

professional

2 01

construction documentation january 2012 - august 2014

Airport Visitor Information Center office: grimshaw architects partner: william horgan, mark husser

roof terrace offices & workstations press room gallery reception prefunction & cafe multifunction auditorium back of house

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

mechanical

exploded axonometric

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project AIRPORT VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER

role LEAD FACADE DESIGNER

focus FACADE DEVELOPMENT

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

interior render (grimshaw visualization)

COMPETITION

exterior renders

RESEARCH

The Airport Visitor and Information Center is a truly civic building, creating an inspiring, welcoming, and expressive environment to host important meetings and events. The AVIC building is designed to support exhibitions related to Doha, Qatar’s new Airport City (NDIA), and in part as a venue for ceremonial events such as meetings with visiting dignitaries, conferences, and large gatherings of staff. Modestly scaled, the AVIC is quite prominent when approaching by vehicle, dynamically rising three floors above the podium level. The shape of the building is composed of non-concentric circles in plan which develops into a conical shape in section that resolves into a rounded disc-like roof.

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2 01 Airport Visitor Information Center

material samples box

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rainscreen geometry setout

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full-scale mockup

project AIRPORT VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER

role LEAD FACADE DESIGNER

focus FACADE DEVELOPMENT

facade vignettes

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The overall building faรงade reads as generally opaque with a honeycombing of fenestration to allow mediated natural daylight, except where it meets the podium when a portion of the shell is lifted revealing an inviting delicately detailed glass faรงade that promotes views outwards. Internally the building is also bathed in soft daylight from a circular skylight above that washes down through all the levels. The building is conceived as an innovative and visually-engaging shell that encapsulates an intimate interior sky lit space that descends completely within the podium.

Airport Visitor Information Center rainscreen setout

building elevations

CL COLUMN A CL COLUMN B 1127

564 T.O. CONE AVIC TOFF +29.70 m

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669

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

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03 LEVEL AVIC TOFF +13.20 m

project AIRPORT VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER

role LEAD FACADE DESIGNER

focus FACADE DEVELOPMENT

detailed wall section

GFRG-1 INTERIOR CLADDING

GL-A-21.1

AIR BARRIER (DELTA-S-FASSADE)

COMPRESSIBLE INSULATION ACCOUSTIC SEALANT BETWEEN STEEL MEGAPANELS (TYP) INSULATION AIR AND VAPOR BARRIER EXTERIOR LIGHTING (REFER TO DETAIL 2/A50008 AND LIGHTING DRAWINGS)

TOFF 22.20 m

STEEL MEGAPANEL (REFER TO A50003 FOR SETOUT INFORMATION)

A50008 FIRESAFING COMPOUND FIRESAFING INSULATION SUPPORTED BY 'Z' CLIPS

GFRC-4 EXTERIOR CLADDING PRECAST STRUCTURAL COLUMN BEYOND

GL-A-21.2

RESEARCH

TOS 21.60 m

COMPETITION

1

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CUSTOM ALUMINIUM EXTRUSION

ACADEMIC

2 A50020

PANEL CONNECTION BRACKET

STEEL CONNECTION TO PRECAST STRUCTURAL COLUMN

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bridge and balcony section detail

brief translation & concept design january 2012 - april 2014

Duke University West Campus Union office: grimshaw architects partner: mark husser

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

Built in 1931, Duke University’s West Campus Union was once the social center of campus. Now severely in need of renovation, this new scheme seeks to modernize the otherwise prominent historic building and reestablish it as the epicenter of student life. Through the reorganization of existing layouts and addition of features that promote healthy and dynamic campus culture, the project will provide space for impromptu interactions amongst faculty, staff and students. Innovative energy and engineering solutions will work in concert with programming development to deliver a solution that sustains the natural, social and built environment.

interior render (grimshaw visualization)

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project DUKE UNIVERSITY WEST CAMPUS UNION

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus EDGE DETAILING

balcony support (revit model detail)

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

balcony support enlarged detail

COMPETITION RESEARCH

interior render (grimshaw visualization)

bridge and balcony panel setout

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GRIMSHAW

2 03

KNIPPERS HELBIG

wall type diagram

feasibility & schematic design october 2011 - january 2012

Disney TomorrowLand office: grimshaw architects partner: vincent chang

12 PM

3 PM SUMMER SOLSTICE PEAK ANGLE TIMES

WINTER SOLSTICE SUN PENETRATION

12 PM 3 PM

The ‘Superblock’ is a winding external glass and terracotta canopy that resides in Disney’s future Tomorrowland theme park in Shanghai, China. The Superblock canopy will provide the park’s visitors with a covered walkway into the area’s dining concourse in addition to several entrances for rides, shops and attractions. The project is currently under construction.

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WINTER SOLSTICE PEAK ANGLE TIMES

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kendall baldwin // architectural designer

CON

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FACADE STUDIES SUPERBLOCK

facade elevation

lighting study

project DISNEY TOMORROWLAND

role FACADE DESIGNER

focus FACADE RATIONALIZATION

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH

Assuming the form of a sinuously extruded C-shape, the Superblock contains many unique conditions of geometrically complex facade panels. Wanting to avoid the economic pitfalls that stem from differing double-curved units, an intensive process of panelization and rationalization studies were needed to ensure that the formal gesture of the Superblock could exist without devastating impacts on the project’s budget. The included imagery showcases the diagrams and studies that were produced throughout the aforementioned process of geometric definition.

COMPETITION

concourse render

3.2 RESTAURANT BALCONY STUDIES

facade panelization studies

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concept design august 2010

Hunter’s Point South

This residential project, located in the neighborhood of Hunter’s Point South in Long Island City, New York, consists of two residential and mixed-use buildings, a tower and mid-rise structure, which seek to offer 500 housing units and over 20,000 square feet of new commercial space. Of the 500 residential apartments with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline, the building will allocate 75% of the units to be targeted toward low and middle-income households. In addition to providing high quality housing for tenants in sharp financial need, the residential complex also seeks to provide easily accessible and cost effective options for community events, physical activities and healthy food options. These amenities will come in the form of several sustainable design features such as programmed sky boxes, lush parks and gardens and productive urban farms, among other facilities.

office: grimshaw architects partner: vincent chang

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

massing diagrams

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project HUNTER’S POINT SOUTH

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus PROGRAM & FACADE CONCEPTS

building elevation

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

exterior render (grimshaw visualization)

RESEARCH

plaza level plan & elevation CORRUGATED METAL RAIN SCREEN CLADDING, TYPICAL WOOD COMPOSITE RAIN SCREEN CLADDING, TYPICAL MAX. STREET WALL 70’-0”

FIBER CEMENT RAIN SCREEN CLADDING, TYPICAL

MIN. STREET WALL 50’-0”

51’-10”

5’-0” TYP

3’-0”

8’-5”

4’-5”

LEVEL 01 (CENTER BLVD)

3’-5”

- 0’-3” (QUEENS DATUM 6.92’)

RECESSED “STOOP” W/ PLANTER @ LIVE/WORK ENTRY (WOOD COMPOSITE CLADDING)

PERFORATED & CORRUGATED METAL SCREEN OVER TRANSOM LITE, TYP

GLASS STOREFRONT AT RETAIL, TYPICAL

5’CANOPY @ LOBBY ENTRY

GLASS “STORERONT” @ GROUND FLR WORK SPACE OF DUPLEX UNIT

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* EL. 8.25’

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LIVE / WORK DUPLEX UNIT

LIVE / WORK DUPLEX UNIT

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8’-0”

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14’-0”

8’-0”

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8’-0”

14’-0”

8’-0”

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11’-9”

27’-8” 6’-6”

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* EL. 8.25’

* EL. 8.25’

* EL. 8.25’

* EL. 8.25’

EL. 9.1’ *

4’-0”

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PROPERTY LINE

5’-0”

1’-1” (QUEENS DATUM 8.25’)

8’-5”

LEVEL 01

50th AVENUE AVERAGE CURB

WOOD COMPOSITE RAIN SCREEN SOFFIT AT 1’ OVERHANG

8’-5”

16’-10”

4’-0”

PERFORATED METAL A/C SCREEN, TYPICAL

51st STREET

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concept design july 2011

Genetics Research Center office: grimshaw architects partner: william horgan

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

exterior render (grimshaw vizualization)

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building elevations

project GENETICS RESEARCH CENTER

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus PROGRAM & FACADE CONCEPTS

lighting diagrams

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

program diagrams

interior render (grimshaw vizualization)

Service

Public 3 1

2

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3

method design, case, studio rede

competition

3 01

concept design summer 2009

Ramses Square office: method design collaborators: case, ted ngai

purification plant

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

phytoremediation chimneys

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modular phytoremediation system (case)

project RAMSES SQUARE

role ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER

focus PHYTOREMEDIATION SYSTEM

The modern practice of infrastructure planning in hyper-dense Cairo has been one of spectacular devastation to the urban environment. Multi-story highways needle through complex historic fabrics whose foundations were set a thousand years before the invention of the automobile, injecting the city with a congestion of vehicles impossible to navigate in its current street system. Ramses Square, the epicenter of transportation interchange in Cairo, was the focus of an international design competition hosted by the Egyptian government to seek new solutions and opportunities for the overwhelming problems.

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION

birds eye render (method design)

RESEARCH

geometric typologies

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3 01 Ramses Square

The proposal attempts to project heavy traffic infrastructure into the future by submerging it underground, affording Cairo the ability to continue and extend the social logics of the highly pedestrian city which already exists. Submerged highways and trains begin to create and fulfill underground networks by connecting to the existing tunnels in place. With high velocity traffic and mass transportation below ground, the surfaces along those routes become fully pedestrian paths, plazas, parks, markets and open public spaces, all of which are needed to transform the choked megalopolis of Cairo into a projective world city.

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

chimney section at parking structure

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typical phytoremediation chimney

project RAMSES SQUARE

role ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER

focus PHYTOREMEDIATION SYSTEM

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION RESEARCH

urban chimney downtown site plan

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concept design summer 2011

Brooklyn Bridge Bastions office: method design, studio rede collaborators: jessica bristow

habitation modules

Can urban spaces help resolve concern over health, biodiversity and public education? The Brooklyn Bridge Bastions (B3) proposal looks to re-appropriate the underside infrastructural space of the Brooklyn Bridge – transforming it from a vacant to a civic venue where previously unmatched urban activities can create a new infrastructural hybridization. Urban ecological habitation and outdoor rock climbing will be synthesized with rappelling, belaying, bouldering and traversing, while situated amongst green walls and ecological nesting sites for migratory bird, bat, and butterfly species.

rendered site plan

PEA TE R

DOVER STREET

SUN SU M

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rendered long section

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NO

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kendall baldwin // architectural designer

ET

TRE

RL S

EXIT RAMPS & ACCESS ROAD

EAST RIVER

project BROOKLYN BRIDGE BASTIONS

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus URBAN BIODIVERSITY

50 ft.

ACADEMIC

30 ft.

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH

rendered section (method design)

COMPETITION

10 ft.

exterior renders (studio rede)

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3 03

The Gowanus Lowline activates ecology by proposing sustainable systems to clean the Gowanus Canal. The technical operations begin in the soil bio-reactor building, a micro-municipal waste water treatment facility inserted to purify contaminated soils and reduce the instance of CSO pollution. Inside an adjacent soil composting facility, earthworms produce high quality soil that will eventually be transferred and used for the process of water purification in the soil bio-reactor. Other embedded systems include the Dig-In Flow of the storm water filter park, the LiveIn Reef interactive oyster purification habitat and the Live-In Skin avian habitat inserted into the facade of the soil bio-reactor building.

concept design summer 2011

Gowanus Lowline

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

office: studio rede partner: julia watson

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water collecting slabs

gowanus canal timeline (rede studio)

composting soil trays

bird nesting pods

project GOWANUS LOWLINE

role DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

focus REMEDIATION STRATEGIES

urban remediation strategies

DIG-IN WELL

BULK-UP COFFER

BULK-UP FLOW LIVE-IN SKIN

ULK-UP FLOW

birds eye render

DIG-IN SWIM

LIVE-IN REEF

DIG-IN BASIN

PROFESSIONAL

LIVE-IN SOIL LIVE-IN SKIN

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ACADEMIC

2 3

COMPETITION RESEARCH 61

4

building pathologies, material degradation

research

4 01

fabrication & analysis fall 2015 - spring 2016

Wood Board Sandblasting

Every material decays. More precisely, the physical properties of materials change over time as the materials are exposed to various chemical reactions, external sources and mechanical action. The changes vary from minor mechanical breakdown to chemical alterations of the physical properties of the material. When the material reaches a critical level of deficiency due to such forces of natural aging or accelerated decay, it is then subjected to undertakings of repair, replacement or demolition.

institution: princeton university collaborators: axel kilian, forrest meggers

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

range of wood grain

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sandblasting patterns

project WOOD BOARD SANDBLASTING

role RESEARCHER

focus MATERIAL EROSION

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kendall baldwin // architectural designer

Wood Board Sandblasting

Pathology is defined as the scientific study of disease, which can be described as any abnormality that induces change in an entity’s structure or function.

Common in branches of medicine, the practice of pathology deals with the laboratory examination of body parts for diagnostic purposes, investigating the causes and effects of aberrant behaviors. When applied to the architectural discipline, pathologic operations attempt to explore such abnormalities as the sites of creative potential. Through the embrace and amplification of a material’s stochastically aged condition, design interventions are able to invent a heretofore unimagined building typology; maintaining a selective sensitivity to the “old” – original structures – and a manipulative capacity for the “new” – altered composition – with allegiance to neither.

scaffold board sandblasting experiments

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project WOOD BOARD SANDBLASTING

role RESEARCHER

focus MATERIAL EROSION

facade pattern option 01

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

facade pattern option 02

COMPETITION RESEARCH

facade pattern option 03

facade pattern option 04

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4 02

prototyping & analysis spring 2016

Erosive Form-Finding institution: princeton university advisors: liz diller, guy nordenson

drilled brick

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

hammer-drilled cinder brick

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masonry debris

jackhammered cinder block

project EROSIVE FORM-FINDING

role RESEARCHER

focus MATERIAL DEGRADATION

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

drilled cinder brick

jackhammered concrete

acid-washed concrete

drilled cinder brick

acid-washed cinder brick

COMPETITION

concrete debris

RESEARCH 69

4 02 Erosive Form-Finding

sandblasted rigid insulation

kendall baldwin // architectural designer

sandblasted styrofoam

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sandblasted styrofoam and rigid insulation

sandblasted styrofoam

project EROSIVE FORM-FINDING

role RESEARCHER

focus MATERIAL DEGRADATION

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL

salt crystallization on wood

salt crystallization on concrete

salt crystallization on concrete

salt crystallization on wood

salt crystallization on concrete

COMPETITION

salt crystallization on wood

RESEARCH 71