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L AU R A D I L L O N / P O R T F O L I O 2007-2015

design the part: (en)fold contemporary encounters: wandering the connected city the infusion cathedral: chelsea national geographic hub: chelsea kindertank: chicago

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representation whitney museum technical drawings light sketches luminaire detail sketches colonial house watercolor

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observation light of place: battery park northern glow: an exploration of darkness and nuance istanbul: a spatial encyclopedia pinhole camera + prints lefferts historic house cortelyou road subway station

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HIGH ANGLE

LOW ANGLE

diagram / light

OBSERVE

conceptual collage/ body + light

RECLINE

diagram / body

PROJECT ONE / the part: (en)fold studio 3 /glenn shrum + lauren crahan / fall 2014

diagrammatic plans + sections

model photographs / high-angle sun

model photographs / low-angle sun

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The city is an accumulated multiplicity of experiences, a continually evolving collage of our individual encounters, interruptions, and diversions. New York City is aggregated from the particular urban conditions that comprise it: the island of Manhattan, the grid of streets, the rows of tall buildings lining the avenues, and the network of underground subway tunnels afford us a unique and spectacular physicality that cannot be substituted or reduced.

Today, we encounter the city’s ineffable rhythms simultaneously through digital and physical means. Our digital devices enable a prolific capturing and disseminating of views, their steady glow reveals the energy that sustains them, and their darkened screens reflect the surrounding environment. The rhythm and choreography of our experience are enmeshed in the convergence of our digital and physical urban behaviors.

This thesis addresses our changing relationship with the space of the city as we grow increasingly more captivated by the digital world. The four sites I have chosen collectively embody an experience of New York City. I propose a network of moments interspersed throughout the city––incidents of orchestrated view, light, and reflection that might preserve the irreducible nuances that enrich our urban experience, while engaging the duality with which we encounter the city today.

avenue

286 Madison Avenue 40.751773, -73.980143

grid

867 Broadway 40.737666, -73.990107

island

20 Battery Place 40.704661, -74.017978

tunnel

Manhattan Bridge Plaza 40.699735, -73.986667

CONTEMPORARY ENCOUNTERS / concept thesis studio / advisor: peter wheelwright / spring 2015

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parks

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island verticality

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parks verticality

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tunnel

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site photographs

from left: digital myopia, device as a light source and reflector

conceptual image: orchestrated urban incidents

CONTEMPORARY ENCOUNTERS / screen reflections + thesis studio / advisor: peter wheelwright / spring 2015

claude mirror analogue

claude mirror reflection attributes

urban reflections: smartphones + photovoltaic panels

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* the grid skews, the city twists, geometries take on oblique angles * shadow and land create an enclosure and frame the horizon beyond * people wander casually within an imposed framework, shaping the city through their movement

* sunlight sparkles off the waves, telling of the water’s calm or turbulence

CONTEMPORARY ENCOUNTERS / experiential thesis studio / advisor: peter wheelwright / spring 2015

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* a rapid, fleeting sequence of views and flashes of light mark the descent into darkness * a strip of sky tapers down to a point on the horizon

* the streets below are encased in shadow, set apart from the narrow sky above

* a wall of slatted steel defines the moment of transition, filtering light and views * the train’s approach is felt viscerally, in a loud roar and vibrations throughout the ground

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island The intervention here is a curved structure composed of photovoltaic panels that collect solar energy during the day to power smartphone and tablet charging stations, as well as LED surface lighting on the reverse side of the structure. The charging stations are perforations in the structure’s walls, and are positioned to frame views of the horizon for observers within the structure. The outer walls are curved photovoltaic panels that reflect and shrink the horizon view in their convex surfaces.

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grid The intervention here is an orchestrated placement of photovoltaic panels on the building facades. From a single viewpoint on the pedestrian plaza/sidewalk, the panels reflect adjacent buildings and sky, further twisting and disrupting the grid’s logical organization. One of the panels is an LCD screen with smartphone and tablet charging stations that provides access to an enlarged, interactive map of the city.

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avenue The intervention here consists of photovoltaic panels that line the north facade of one skyscraper and extend down to the street, reflecting the diminishing sky for an observer on the adjacent sidewalk. The base of the photovoltaic strip is a smartphone and tablet charging station, where devices are placed at angles that allow their darkened screens to reflect the sky. Carved out of the space between the buildings is an alcove with a back-lit LED surface, whose intensity at night varies depending on the volume of use of the charging station.

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tunnel The intervention here is inserted in the space between the metal screen and the subway tracks. The metal slats are replaced with photovoltaic panels of the same shape and size on the upper portion of the screen, and dark transparent glass along the lower portion. A smartphone charging station lines the back of a bench just inside the structure. Placement of a device in the station activates its screen glow, aimed out of the transparent slats and spilling onto the sidewalk. A sequence of windows within the structure opposite the bench allows for views of the passing subway cars.

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center, chelsea

lighting distribution intent diagrams (clockwise from top left: plan, reflected ceiling plan, section)

contrast nuance, concept images

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integrated lighting details

painted plexiglass alabaster mockup 18

alabaster wall + curtain rod light mockup

curtain light moderation diagram and AGi32 testing

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ref lective material

conceptual diagram, dome light scatter

T H E I N F U S I O N C AT H E D R A L / i n f u s i o n studio 3 /glenn shrum + lauren crahan / fall 2014 collaborator: paloma sherman

center, chelsea

alabaster glow, daylight/electric

agi32 raw images / elevation and plan

agi32 raw images from top: entry corridor, lounge, treatment room with dome view 21

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above: glare analysis, south windows opposite: materials + reflectances 25

above: experiential sketches below: renderings

N AT I O N A L G E O G R A P H I C O F F I C E B U I L D I N G / studio 1 /craig bernecker / fall 2013 collaborators: manal kahale, veronica aspillaga

chelsea

exterior renderings

above: site neighborhood and abstraction of map below: lighting layout, reflected ceiling plan

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conceptual drawing, section

conceptual drawing

K I N D E R TA N K : C H I C A G O / s c h o o l + r e s e a r c h c e n t e r , undergraduate architecture /university of michigan / fall 2009

chicago, illinois

building section

SECTION A-A 1/8”=1’

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clockwise from top left: robert irwin’s scrim veil, lobby lighting, staircase, sculpture garden

W H I T N E Y M U S E U M / p h oto g r a p h s representation & analysis / megan casey / fall 2013

from left: stair enclosure, aperture, entrance below: enclosure, revised

WHITNEY MUSEUM / collages representation & analysis / megan casey / fall 2013

left: exploded axonometric opposite: exquisite corpse

W H I T N E Y M U S E U M / d r aw i n g s representation & analysis / megan casey / fall 2013

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W H I T N E Y M U S E U M / s e c t i o n m o d e l + d r aw i n g representation & analysis / megan casey / fall 2013

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Marcel Breuer designed the Whitney with an inviting, recessed entrance to contrast with the flat commercial faรงades lining Madison Avenue. The mass of the building seems to fold in upon visitors as they approach the main entrance. As they enter, they are drawn into the museum, enfolded within the space. This intention is translated throughout the museum, coming to rest in the staircase between floors, sanctuaries of light, space, and mass.

museum plan and section cuts / walkthrough

WHITNEY MUSEUM / unfolded section representation & analysis / megan casey / fall 2013

section drawings

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construcing the section, sketches + photographs

unfolded section, drawing series

T U G E N D H AT H O U S E / c o n s t r u c t e d undergraduate architecture / winter 2007

perspective

SCISSORS / orthographic projection undergraduate architecture /university of michigan / winter 2007

L I G H T O B S E R VAT I O N / s k e t c h e s principles of lighting 1 / craig bernecker / fall 2013

I N T E R A C T I V E L I G H T WA L L / c o n c e p t u a l s k e t c h light, perception + culture / winter 2014

ADKINS RESIDENCE / flux studio / february 2015

l u m i n a i r e d e ta i l s k e t c h e s

C O L O N I A L H O U S E / wat e r c o l o r independent obser vation / january 2014

light and water

DARK SLATE BLUE

STEEL BLUE

LIGHT STEEL BLUE

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R 81 / G 111 / B 142

R 147 / G 172 / B 189

The morning is glazed and icy, stinging hands and faces. Everything is cast in a vibrant blue emanating from the sea and the sky. The sun has already risen but it is hidden by a cliff of buildings perched at the edge of the island. We slide between them and the sea on the Esplanade, watching from the edge as the sun sends its signals through the water. On this morning they are soft and slow and fading, but in the afternoon last week they were harsh and glittering, urged on by the wind. The water is a messenger delivering the sun to us in tiny shards, or slivers, or swept along, advancing and retreating; it never seems to reach us, just stays floating in limbo over the water.

The Battery Park Esplanade is located on the southwestern tip of Manhattan, so when the sunrise first begins to reach it the light is all diffuse skylight, and washes everything in a vibrant blue. Colormeter readings confirm this (steel blue, light steel blue, dark slate blue) and differ from the tones of grey we found at the site on earlier visits during midday and late afternoon. watercolor, smoothing waves light effect

L I G H T O F P L A C E - B AT T E R Y P A R K / wat e r daylight methodologies / davidson norris / spring 2014

and light

above: battery park postcards, rosy western sky left: observed morning pink horizon effect 47

electricity

copenhagen skies

N O R T H E R N G L OW / a n e x p l o r at i o n o f d a r k n e s s independent investigation (ongoing) /denmark / january 2015

and nuance

evening clouds, copenhagen

overcast sky/dawn to dusk, esbjerg 49

clockwise from left: snow, aarhus; evening sky, aarhus; before sunrise, aarhus opposite: slow sunrise, jutland countryside

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from left: ferry passenger, spice bazaar, galata stairs

from left: simits on the water, suleymaniye mosque at dusk

I S TA N B U L : A S P AT I A L E N C Y C L O P E D I A / q u a l i tat i v e independent research project /istanbul, turkey / fall 2011

i n v e s t i g at i o n o f p l a c e

istanbul bosphorus bridge

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istanbul istiklal caddesi

istanbul galata bridge fishing

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postcard designs

waterfront at galata

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P I N H O L E / p i n h o l e c a m e r a a n d p r i n t e d p h oto g r a p h s architectural photography / michael moran / winter 2015

opposite: pinhole camera construction right: developed negative + positive prints 55

L E F F E R T S H I S TO R I C H O U S E / 3 5 m m p e n ta x , architectural photography / michael moran / february 2015

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C O R T E LYO U R O A D S U B WAY S TAT I O N / 3 5 m m architectural photography / michael moran / february 2015

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