KOLA OFOMAN SELECTED WORK | 2016 - 2017
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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BRONX MARKET Bronx, NY
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BUSHWICK LIBRARY Brooklyn, NY
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COHABITATION Siteless
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NEW HAVEN HOUSE New Haven, CT
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THE HILL HOUSE New Haven, CT
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THE BUILDING PROJECT New Haven, CT
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SEED VAULT AND RESEARCH CENTER New Haven, CT
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ELECTIVES Custom Crafted Components Formal Analysis Visualisation
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BRONX MARKET FERRY TERMINAL | MARKET | INCUBATOR KITCHENS
The goal for this project was to create a space that allows for an overlap of different activities and motion, a space that in its austerity and flexibility allows businesses to take root, change and flourish while providing basic infrastructural support–so that the activities and use of the building are just as important in the making of this space as is the physical architecture. The building is made up of spaces that produce varying and overlapping patterns of motion and use–linear and constant relative to the terminal, which is located on the ground level, but circuitous and discontinuous in the market. The kitchen incubators, which occupy both levels of the central bar [DO], then, become a tool to mediate that traffic – capturing flows when needed to showcase the activities of these new startups, and stimulate exchange in the market.
Critic: Aniket Shahane
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Ferry Terminal and Market Bronx, NY
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D0. Central bar with two levels of incubator kitchens and ground level terminal/ticketing area.
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Ferry Terminal and Market Bronx, NY
D0
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L: FIRST FLOOR PLAN showing central bar with upper level kitchen incubators with warehouse above. R: GROUND FLOOR PLAN showing central bar with ground level restaurant kitchens and ticketing area, with loading dock above.
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Ferry Terminal and Market Bronx, NY
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SECTION A From left: Market, first floor incubator kitchens, ground level terminal, first floor warehouse and ground level loading dock.
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Ferry Terminal and Market Bronx, NY
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View of outdoor sitting area on first floor with incubator kitchens in the background.
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Ferry Terminal and Market Bronx, NY
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Fall 2016
BUSHWICK LIBRARY PUBLIC LIBRARY | MAKERSPACE | COMMUNITY CENTER
This project explores an expanded program for the library in light of its waning relevance in our increasingly digital society. As a result of the gradient from residential to manufacturing zones in the Bushwick area, between which are small businesses, the site has a rich culture of creativity, artistry and production. The program of the library incorporates spaces for creation and innovation, alongside spaces for gathering and sharing information. The Bushwick library would provide materials and infrastructure for learning and creating, and avenues for meeting people with similar interests, so that innovation can truly happen. The form of the building is derived from cutting through a brick, factory-like shell with narrow bars that hold the stacks. The result of this boolean operation are spaces housing makerspaces, meeting rooms, presentation halls and social gathering spaces. This building also opens itself to the neighborhood by putting the work being done inside on display by way of large windows on the building’s facade.
Critic: Brennan Buck
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Bushwick Library Brooklyn, NY
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SHIFTING
SHIFTING
CONTEXT
SHIFTING
SOCIAL SPACE + CLEAR ENTRY + CENTRAL CIRCULATION
SHIFTING
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CONTEXT + LIGHTING + SOCIAL SPACE
SOCIAL SPACE + CLEAR ENTRY
Precedent Analysis New Haven , CT
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L: SECOND FLOOR PLAN showing narrow intersecting bars for the stacks and remnant spaces that become makerspaces. R: SECTION A showing intersections in the z-axis, long bar holding stacks and the public breezeway.
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Bushwick Library Brooklyn, NY
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L: THIRD FLOOR PLAN showing cutouts with intersecting bar that allow for double height spaces and even distribution of natural light. R: SECTION B showing grand staircase leading from the lobby to the first level.
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Bushwick Library Brooklyn, NY
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Site model showing triangular plot.
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Bushwick Library Brooklyn, NY
D1. View of library interior showing atrium-like spaces and intersecting bars.
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COHABITATION TWO SINGLE-OCCUPANT HOUSING UNITS
The cohabitation project prompted a combination of two apartment units in a limited volume, with restrictions on how the units are accessed, and how light and air are channeled into the interior spaces. Both units are constrained to a 14ft cube and an elevation of 10 feet off of the ground, creating a space for a single stair that provides access to both units. The concept was to provide equality of space without submitting to symmetry. Light is let into the building by way of a delaminated wall that has openings to the ceiling, allowing for passage of air as well. Structure is achieved by running members through the gap in the walls–in some cases, they become part of the interior furnishings of the house, morphing from structural members to table tops, seating and hand rails.
Critic: Alan Organschi
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Cohabitation Siteless
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L: FIRST FLOOR PLAN showing winding nature of the unit on the left, terminating in a bedroom on the right side. R: GROUND FLOOR PLAN showing asymmetric split of the units.
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Cohabitation Siteless
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L: Section of double-height unit with bedroom of second unit in top left. R: Section of second unit showing its winding nature. 28
Cohabitation Siteless
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NEW HAVEN HOUSE MULTI-OCCUPANT UNIT | SINGLE-OCCUPANT UNIT
The prompt for the first iteration of the Jim Vlock Building Project, called for two units under a single envelope of 1200 sq.ft–one for a small family and the other for a single occupant, all of whom have been previously homeless. In an exchange between potential occupants of the house, there were resounding calls for privacy and control of private spaces. The concept for the house became about defining the thresholds between the interior and exterior of the home, and the experience of walking or looking in and out of the house, making sure the occupants remained in control. The procession of entering both units begins from a shared outdoor space, and then an enclosed outdoor space defined by an entrance courtyard. One then approaches the more public areas of the home like the living room and kitchen, and further exploration takes one to private areas like the bedrooms. The facades of the house also mimic this idea of control. They feature louvre blades that allow for either strengthening or weakening the barrier between inside and outside.
Critic: Alan Organschi
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New Haven House New Haven , CT
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D2
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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New Haven House New Haven , CT
D2. Multi-occupant living area.
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D3
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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New Haven House New Haven , CT
D3. Single-occupant living area.
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THE HILL HOUSE MULTI-OCCUPANT UNIT | SINGLE-OCCUPANT UNIT
The second iteration of the Building Project, completed with ten of my coursemates, is based on a similar concept of defining thresholds of access using the courtyard as a device, in a single level scheme. The courtyards are an avenue for presenting a different experience of the outdoors to the occupants who have previously been homeless and have experienced the outdoors as a space within which they are policed. We were interested in having the courtyards present a center within the units that reclaimed for the occupants a sense of ownership, and blurred the lines between indoors and outdoors, creating a realm within which the occupants had complete control.
Team members: Gwyneth Bacon-Shone, David Bruce, Davis Butner, Pik-tone Fung, Jeffery Liu, Martin Man, Samantha MongeKaser, Gus Steyer R: Three-quater scale model, built by Gwyneth Bacon Shone, Kola Ofoman, Martin Man, Jeffery Liu and Davis Butner.
Critics: Andrew Benner and Peter de Bretteville
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The Hill House New Haven , CT
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FLOOR PLAN Showing multi-occupant unit on the left of the shared entrance, and the single occupant unit on the right.
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The Hill House New Haven , CT
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SECTION A Showing the sloping site, and speculation for the house to be constructed as six prefabricated volumes-indicated by the dotted lines.
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The Hill House New Haven , CT
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THE BUILDING PROJECT MULTI-OCCUPANT UNIT | SINGLE-OCCUPANT UNIT
Since 1967, first-year students at the Yale School of Architecture have worked collaboratively to design and build a structure as part of their graduate education. Unique among architecture schools, the Jim Vlock Building Project is a required component of Yale’s curriculum. For the first time, the Yale School of Architecture partnered with Columbus House, a non-profit organization that has been providing solutions to homelessness in the New Haven area since 1982. This year’s brief targets a 1,000 square foot house of two separate dwellings, to be located on a lot in New Haven’s Upper Hill neighborhood. Students are challenged to develop a cost-efficient, flexible design that tackles replicability in material, means, and method of construction. During the first half of the spring semester, students work individually, each developing a prototype for the dwelling. Some of these initial schemes are selected for further development, and the class is divided into teams, each team tasked with creating a final design proposal. At the end of the semester, one project is chosen and the entire class works together to build the selected design.
Design and built in collaboration with the Yale School of Architecture March I Class of 2017 Supervisors: Adam Hopfner and Alan Organschi
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The Building Project New Haven , CT
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The Building Project New Haven , CT
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The Building Project New Haven , CT
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SEED VAULT AND RESEARCH CENTER SEED STORAGE | RESEARCH LABORATORY | BOTANICAL GARDEN
The seed vault project began with a siteless proposal that allowed an exploration of pure form and the and its symbolic implications. The program called for a combination of a study space and and a vault for the seeds. Formally, the seed vault as a whole was expressed as pure geometry-that of a cylinder, and within that, the study space occupied the center. The stepped periphery of the vault, where the seeds are stored imply that the space is not to be occupied long term, and is processional, while the center of the cylinder, with its skylight above, where the steps begin and terminate, houses the study space. With this study in mind, the second iteration, more robust programmatically, feature public botanical gardens winding around the more conditioned spaces of a laboratory and seed vault. As this project is located on Yale University’s Science Hill, there are also classrooms and lecture halls. And so, in addition to formal explorations, this project involved designing circulation and understanding what areas are public, semi-public or private.
Critics: Brennan Buck
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Seed Vault and Research Center New Haven , CT
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L: Siteless seed vault showing expression of seed compartments. R: Exploded axonometric showing arched hallway, and skylit study space.
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Seed Vault Siteless
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MAIN PUBLIC PATH MAIN EMPLOYEE PATH MAIN STUDENT PATH a. ORTHODOX SEED VAULT b. VISITOR CENTER c. LABORATORY AND WORKSPACES d. BOTANIC GARDEN B e. ROOF TERRACE f. YALE STUDENT CENTER g. BOTANIC GARDEN A B h. EMPLOYEE AND YALE STUDENT ENTRANCE
L: Multiple sections showing main circulatory paths for the public (red), lab employees (yellow) and students (purple). R: Site model showing the building lodged into the sloping site.
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Seed Vault and Research Center New Haven , CT
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L - R: Seed vault enclosed by doubleheight lab spaces, loading area below the botanical garden.
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Seed Vault and Research Center New Haven , CT
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View of botanical garden with windows opening to the brick wall of the seed vault and down into the lab spaces.
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Seed Vault and Research Center New Haven , CT
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ELECTIVES Custom Crafted Components Formal Analysis Visualisation
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L: 3D - printed mold derived from a 3D - scanned water-warped piece of paper. R: Concrete cast with record of digital processing.
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Undulating Wall Tile
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Fall 2016
This drawing shows the different relationships between the vertical elements, (i.e columns and pilasters) and the horizontal elements (i.e. cornices) on the interior and exterior facades of Tempio Malatestiano, that speak to different perceptions of scale. On the exterior of the church, the cornices look as though they were broken to make way for the elongation of the large columns of the exterior. This emphasizes the verticality and monumentality of the exterior columns. On the interior however, a different relationship exists. The pilasters here, are conforming to the cornices in the way that they fold over them. Here the verticality of the pilasters is repeatedly broken giving the horizontal elements of the interior greater influence.
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Formal Analysis Siteless
This drawing highlights the spatial characteristics of Santa Maria dei Monte Santo and Santa Maria dei Miracoli and the formal elements that influence certain perceptions of each space. In the case of Monte Santo, the elliptical plan causes a decentralized focus as a result of its bi-focal nature. On the other hand, Miracoli, which has a circular plan, implies a central focus. There are also interesting spatial tensions that exist in both churches. In Monte Santo we are presented with a tension caused by the elliptical push towards the interior surfaces but the fact that the cornice line runs past the side chapels but into the alter, reinforces the axis running through the altar towards the entrance. In Miracoli, the central focus of the circular plan is counteracted by the pilasters of the altar that break the cornice line, emphasizing that axis, but the two larger side chapels are topped with pediments that also interrupt the cornice line, emphasizing that axis as well.
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L: Hand-drawn isometric projection of the staircase in Rudolph Hall. R: Digital painting of a ruinous Johnson Wax Building.
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Visualisation
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L: Constructed drawing producing a three-dimensional spatial composition based on the lattice on the facade of the Beinecke Rare Book Library. R: Charcoal drawing exploring the intersection of two infinite periodic minimal surfaces. 66
Visualisation
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EDUCATION MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE I
2016 - 2019
at Yale School of Architecture
B.A URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE STUDIES
2012 - 2016
at New York University
SUMMER INTENSIVE: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE
Summer 2014
at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
EXPERIENCE DESIGN TEAM
Spring 2017
at Yale School of Architecture
• Designed a two-family housing scheme for the first stage of the 2017 Jim Vlock Building project along with ten team members. • Produced presentation drawings and models. • Built prefabricated panels during construction of the final scheme of the project.
WEB & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Spring 2017
at Yale School of Architecture
• Designed and maintained a website to document the 2017 Jim Vlock Building Project.
GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN
Summer 2015
at Jeewon Kim Architect
• Produced presentation quality renderings for an infrastructure project. • Measured and built a 3D model of the site of a gallery renovation project. • Produced design sketches for intitial stage of design.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
at Thomas Phifer and Partners
• Created cataloguing system for the architectural library and managed the materials library. • Performed administrative tasks.
SKILLS Adobe Suite, Autocad, HTML + CSS, Rhinoceros, Revit, Vray 70
Summer 2014