LUKAS CAMERON
KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
In lfe, it should be the end goal of every person to leave the world in better shape than when they came. I believe one way to do this is through carefully considered, innovative Architecture. It is a medium off which many other ideas can spring and it is vitally important to our everyday lives. It gives us the opportunity to respond to the great problems and challenges of our era by coming up with logical, progressive solutions that will forever improve the world. “Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat, not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. “ -Alvar Aalto-
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YEAR 3 | JUSTIN DILES | SPRING 2014 STUDIO
YEAR 3 | CURTIS ROTH | FALL 2013 STUDIO
YEAR 4 | ANN PENDLETON-JULIAN | FALL 2014 STUDIO
YEAR 4 | JUSTIN DILES | FALL 2014 INDEPENDENT STUDY
PYRAMIDAL STACKING BOSTON CITY HALL | BOSTON, MA
YEAR 3 | SPRING STUDIO 2014 | JUSTIN DILES | 11 WEEKS
Key components of my redesign of Boston City Hall included contemporary surfaces, nonmodular stacking, laminar poche, and thoughtful programming of space. The overall massing was created by stacking modified pyramid shapes using physics-based simulations. This excersize was used as an experiment to gain experience in non-traditional methods of forming a massing. With a finalized form, specials spaces were carved out by using a set of further modified and smoothed pyramids.
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The special spaces include program such as the city council chamber and large atriums with much more daylighting than the standard ofďŹ ce oors. Moments were also created where the building enclosure did not extend all the way to the exterior weather skin. This allowed for balconies to exist in the laminar poche between the two layers. Similarly shaped volumes were also sunk into the site to create green spaces, a public fountain, and a means of entering the subway.
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Program was more or less broken into chunks that were determined by the different pyramidal volumes. The smaller volumes contained areas like the library, sky cafe, and marriage chapel wereas the largest volumes contained the general offices as well as the city council offices. There are two main elevator cores that handle the vertical circulation. One is more public and goes through the open offices, library, and the observation deck, and the other is more private and used by the council members and the IT staff.
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COLUMN TOWER
SIERRA CLUB HEADQUARTERS | CINCINNATI, OH YEAR 3 | FALL STUDIO 2013 | CURTIS ROTH | 9 WEEKS
The form for the Sierra Club Headquarters in downtown Cincinnati was derived by studying the building code requirements in this particular area. An initial review of the ordinances gave a bounding in which the building could sit as well as ground floor transparency requirements. A single structural figure, the column, was taken and the idea was formed to create an entire building based on this unit. Several iterations were performed that resulted in both large inhabitable columns, as well as long, thin, densely arranged cloumns that were used to separate spaces. The large columns fatten at a certain point to transform from structure and vertical circulation to inhabitable floor plates.
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The lower floating floor plates hold much more public program such as classrooms, a library, and exhibition spaces. At these levels, the large columns act as structural support as well as vertical circulation, and the long thin columns provide support as well as separation of space. Above the public levels, the large columns widen to create space for the more private office floors, which contain the Sierra Club employees and administration.
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SCALULAR CONNECTIONS
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RESIDENCE HALL | CHICAGO, IL YEAR 4 | FALL STUDIO 2014 | ANN PENDLETON-JULIAN | 11 WEEKS
The higher education system is being greatly affected by these complex networks of social media and digital learning. Students are able to obtain the most up-to-date information and knowledge faster and easier than ever. My design for the University of Chicago dormitory seeks to celebrate and foster these new styles of learning by focusing on the group of five students. This number has proven to be extremely efficient and synergistic in terms of learning and executing difficult tasks.
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The residence hall is comprised of an aggregation of units of five where each is treated as a family. These units stack to create groups of 25 to 40 and sit next to each other to create groups of 15. Three towers are arranged to create a ‘house’ of 100 and then eight houses are aggregated together to form the whole dorm of 800 students. The houses, elevated ground plan, and ramp system are all organized using an offset grid of circles. Public spaces such as the house commons and campus commons are created by combining sets of these circles.
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The public levels are wrapped entirely in glazing and contain floating rectilinear shapes that hold the program like the lecture hall, classrooms, and residential life offices. The main public level also holds the dining hall and a variety of lounges. The house commons contain slightly more private program like the library, recreation rooms, and student lounges. The 15-student floors contain the living quarters and the most private program such as music practice rooms and digital learning labs.
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RELAXATION POD
PASSIVELY ACTIVATED SELF-THERMOREGULATING POD | COLUMBUS, OH YEAR 4 | FALL INDEPENDENT STUDY 2014 | JUSTIN DILES, PETER ANDERSON | 11 WEEKS TEAM MEMBERS: COREY PHELPS, SARAH MONTAGUE, CLAYTON CROSS, MARK MALTESE, JAMES SNYDER
The relaxation pod is an independent study in cooperation with the Materials Science department to explore, design, and fabricate a single person structure that passively controls its own thermoregulation through the use of shape memory alloys, or SMA’s. These alloys are designed to revert to a predetermined shape when heated to a specific temperature. Through the use of SMA springs, we are proposing a design for a relaxation pod that will passively monitor and control its own temperature by means of ventilation and a variable trombe wall system.
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