M. SHOLANDER ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2014 B. ARCH CANDIDATE (MAY 2014) SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WORKS
This portfolio contains the design work of
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01/ A DOMESTIC SHELL FOR LARS MÜLLUR 02/ EUROPAN 12: THE ADAPTABLE CITY 03/ LABRATORY FOR GENZYME 04/ DORMITORY FOR HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES 06/ NEW YORK CITY: GUIDEBOOK 07/ TRAVEL SKETCHES 08/ COMPETITION: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EMBASSY
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A DOMESTIC SHELL FOR LARS MÜLLER
BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, NEW YORK / FALL 2012 / 10 WEEKS / PROFESSOR J. LIU The home – as an assembly of domestic space is one of the oldest and the most persistent typologies in architecture. From its nomadic variations such as Tipi or Yurt to the religious convent; from the frontiersmen’s log cabin to the McMansion in the American suburban landscapes, the form of each is intricately related to the social-economical context from which it springs and shapes the most profound cultural psyche of its time. Analogically, in the Freudian sense, home is a metaphorical extension of the “self”. Its walls are conceptual and spatial membranes that construct a reflective interiority against the exterior beyond. This constitutes the most elemental yet significant spatial and relational experience that distinguishes subject from object, and ensures the autonomous operation of one’s self. The goal of this studio, was to examine the current state of the house/home in our society, both its social-economic nature and its cultural implication by understanding various typological examples in such terms. The project will be to design a “common house” on a site in New York where four owners varying in age and gender will live together, and simultaneously work together. The hom is meant to reflect the possibility of domestic space as polis, the space where multiple individuals coexist. The project is set to ensure each tenant the autonomy of their most intimate space while imagining an elastic membrane in between to sew together a new form of household productive both social-economically and culturally. Therefore, the challenge is to reimagine domestic space in the now; to strive for an architectural solution where latent politics of contemporary life can engender its own form without being absorbed by the economic and technological instruments we invented to organize but not to dictate our lives.
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· LOCAL COMPETITION · CONCEPT | EUROPAN 12 | ASSEN , NETHERLANDS
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” A New Urban Condition: We propose a new, smarter way to foster growth, and transform Havenkwartier, into an urban community in Assen. Through an in depth analysis of the commodities, industries, and people within the site and the region. This strategy is designed to identify the existing resources and inherent knowledge embedded within the site, to create a community ecosystem that naturally encourages development in the district.
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Philosophy Vs. Form: This is a philosophy that is geared to activate a period of transformation in relationship to the neighborhood's place in Assen, and more broadly the Netherlands and all of Europe. The area is experiencing a crisis of urban identity and this strategy, using the site’s latent resources, will be able to smoothly transition the industrial park into a thriving community. This process rests on the ability to strategically break down the monolithic buildings of the existing industrial zone to a human scaled community-centric growth. This project acknowledges the shift in modes of industrial production in the 21st century, and offers a way for industry to adapt and evolve with the passage of time. The Role of the Architect: This new process is not dependant on the architect as a rigid planner but reimagines the role of the architect, allowing the ideas and tools of the system to promote growth in a way that smoothly and intelligently tackles transitional moments in a neighborhood. The idea has applications that reach beyond Assen and can be used as a model worldwide. By laying the framework, but not over-designating it, the strategy empowers those within the community to shift the role of the citizen in the city from a passive inhabitant to an active member, and the role of an architect from a designer of solely form, to a catalyst that orchestrates and facilitates the evolution of the city.
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The implementation of these ideas in Assen began with a close analysis of the existing buildings and industries on the site. As Assen looks to the transition the Havenkwartier into the 21st century, a realistic look at the efficiencies of the existing buildings and industries need to be considered. Through careful investigation, we began to form a catalogue of the Havenkwartier’s own ‘kit of parts’. Our look into the industry existing on the site has synched with larger global trends of industrial relocation. As industries move they leave behind their considerable excess that is required of large scale production. Industry still drives Havenkwartier, but it is slowly declining. Those left have revealed that these industries operate with excess space, and that the vacant spaces left behind have yet to be appropriated. The strategies are designed to engage the existing users and inhabitants to reclaim for the city those spaces which are sitting unused, while still allowing for the industry to operate at its fullest capacity as a driver during the neighborhoods transition.
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What is left behind is not only the space and buildings of the manufacturing era, but a variety of materials, resources, and equipment that can be added to the tools of the initiatives looking to reuse those spaces. This large-scope catalogue allows for a more comprehensive look at the idea of context and sets the neighborhood up for a larger list of options to transition to the 21st century.
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The flexibility and scale needed for such a transformation needs a new set of tools. While todays western architecture is built in large manufactured units, the new strategy requires a look at using tools that exist on the site to assemble a kit of parts. Our strategy focus spans from a much smaller scale of context than is usually considered to a larger assemblage of what can be utilized. These elements, all combined into a tool box allow, with community initiated moves, a process that begins to alter and transform the way the neighborhood as a whole functions. By cutting into existing forms, augmenting them with new program and structure and redistributing the functions of the existing, the citizens and community are able to push and pull the existing fabric in a series of micro-initiatives that can be used to reinforce urban conditions on the human scale.
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With the research of the trends and conditions of the region combined with an extensive catalogue of the contents of the site, the inhabitants of Assen begin to have the tools and means necessary to implement micro-stages of the strategy with increased ease. The combination of these resources can be combined and tinkered with to create a variety of small scale interventions, that can begin to scale up to the macro or down micro.
The illustration of this entry is about outlining the function of the system, displaying the system at work in various stages, giving examples of and proposing events. The diagrams below describe a series of operations in which elements can be assembled to allow community members to modify their neighborhood.
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EUROPAN 12 : THE ADAPTABLE CITY ASSEN, THE NETHERLANDS / SUMMER 2013 / 8 WEEKS / MTRES ARQUITECTURA ENTRY: WASTE?LAND; AWARD: SPECIAL MENTION; TEAM REPRESENTATIVE: Vicente MOLINA DOMINGUEZ (ES); COLLABORATORS: César MOLINA DOMÍNGUEZ (ES), Óscar LLORENTE MARTÍNEZ (ES), Ariel MINELLI (US), Matthew WESLEY SHOLANDER (US), Paula Adriana VIDAL GARCÍA (ES) Description: Waste?land presents an alternative to standard area development. It is argued that the whole of Havenkwartier can be viewed as a catalogue of building materials which should be used to transform the area. Future occupants can dismantle the existing industrial buildings and use the material to create a newly-built environment. In this way, the existing character of Havenkwartier is preserved in a natural way. Building with non-standard elements such as oil drums, old tyres and storage racks inspires people to devise inventive and creative solutions. Linking this process with education and sharing the knowledge gained, creates a close-knit society in Havenkwartier. Jury Report: The jury awards a special mention to an entry that focuses on sustainability. Assuming that over the years, more and more businesses will leave Havenkwartier, the designers have developed a concept for entering the materials in the disused industrial buildings in a catalogue. A community could develop in the area that reuses these materials to build housing. In addition to a clear presentation of the process on which this is based, the entry addresses a subject of topical interest by pointing out the changing role of the architect. His or her task in this case is not so much concerned with devising a form, but chiefly with guiding the community that will develop here and that considers self-activation of paramount importance. For the rest, there is no escaping the laying down of a spatial structure, including the proposed “organic” development process.
RESEARCH LABORATORY FOR GENZYME
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS / SPRING 2012 / 12 WEEKS / PROFESSOR B. COLEMAN COLLABORATORS: Noy RAMON (ISL)
Our intention is to challenge the preconceived notion surrounding the amount of “privacy” that is reflected in the stereotypical research facility. The strategy that we have implemented allows for the public to be displaced throughout the laboratory building, which then begins to serve as an educational filtration device for the public to mediate between the ideas of the city, campus, and private residence. This design strategy will allow the building to act as an embassy not only the city of Cambridge, but also the idea of campus as city reflected by the presence of MIT. The pedagogy of the laboratory building focuses on the idea of research through display and exhibition. The idea of program deployment allows for the public to interrupt the private realm creating a relationship of alternate simultaneity, in which the idea of private cannot exist without the public and vice versa. The idea to challenge the lab typology will allow it to not hinder, but activate the public realm. The design intention reflects these ideals through the idea of the ground plane that is manipulated into the form of a public amphitheater that bleeds into the lecture hall and café introducing public access and ownership. This language is then continued upward though the double height of the mezzanine, which begins to blur the distinction between public and private. The promenade of building then continues upward through the private labs that become interrupted by the public reading room on the seventh floor, sandwiched in between the two major private lab zones of the building.
DORMITORY FOR HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES GENEVA, NEW YORK / FALL 2011 / 8 WEEKS / PROFESSOR E. KAMELL The home – as an assembly of domestic space is one of the oldest and the most persistent typologies in architecture. From its nomadic variations such as Tipi or Yurt to the religious convent; from the frontiersmen’s log cabin to the McMansion in the American suburban landscapes, the form of each is intricately related to the social-economical context from which it springs and shapes the most profound cultural psyche of its time. Analogically, in the Freudian sense, home is a metaphorical extension of the “self”. Its walls are conceptual and spatial membranes that construct a reflective interiority against the exterior beyond. This constitutes the most elemental yet significant spatial and relational experience that distinguishes subject from object, and ensures the autonomous operation of one’s self. The design intention reflects these ideals through the idea of the ground plane that is manipulated into the form of a public amphitheater that bleeds into the lecture hall and café introducing public access and ownership. This language is then continued upward though the double height of the mezzanine, which begins to blur the distinction between public and private. The promenade of building then continues upward through the private labs that become interrupted by the public reading room on the seventh floor, sandwiched in between the two major private lab zones of the building. This creates a condition of interior and exterior intervention in and around the building, the site and the city that not only occupies conventional spaces, but also allows the public to act as an essential part of the life of the research institution.
N EW YORK CITY GUIDEBOOK
NEW YORK, NEW YORK / FALL 2012 / 12 WEEKS / PROFESSOR D. RICH COLLABORATORS: Lin CHEN (USA), Carla CORTES (USA), Pedro DORTA (PUR), Katalyna LEE (HKG), Conrad HU (TPE), Carolina JIMENEZ (USA), Juan LLOBERA (ESP), Michael MA (CAN), Scott MALLOY (USA), Cesar MOLINA (ESP), Adrienne MERHEB (LIB), Zachary RANERI (USA), Kelly WANG (TPE)
This is not your typical guidebook of New York City - it does not lead you to exquiste, high profile restaruants or the typical tourist destinations such as the Statue of Liberty, the lighting of the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center. Instead, this guidebook examines various sites throughout New York City where design has been contested within a historical or contemporary context. These sites embody places of public interest and disagreement in relationship to their larger influence on the island of Manhattan. Through site visits and surveys, interviews, photography, writing and drawing, this book explores how architecture and design overlap with the political, social and economic elements that become a part of one’s daily life in New York City. The historical context that each site exists within became a platform for debate. Each site was strategically analyzed with the intention of formulating an argument that would lead to a disscusion for the speculation of each sites individual and collective future. Students created four page montages in teams of three in order to imagine potential future outcomes would be in their specific areas of study. A guidebook was produced as a result of the field surveys conducted by the students in the course. The book reflects a compilation of differents sites throughout all five boroughs of New York City including Red Hook, Willet’s Point, Kingsbridge Armory, South Street Seaport and the NYU Expansion. All sites were researched, dissussed and analyzed in order to be proposed for publication by the Center for Urban Pedigogy (CUP).
SITE: NYU, MANHATTAN TEAM: Carla CORTES (USA), Katalyna LEE (HKG), Carolina JIMENEZ (USA)
SITE: South Street Seaport, MANHATTAN TEAM: Pedro DORTA (PUR), Juan LLOBERA (ESP), Cesar MOLINA (ESP)
SITE: Kingsbridge Armory, THE BRONX TEAM: Conrad HU (TPE), Michael MA (CAN), Scott MALLOY (USA)
SITE: Willets Point, THE BRONX TEAM: Lin CHEN (USA), Kelly WANG (TPE)
SITE: Red Hook, BROOKLYN TEAM: Adrienne MERHEB (LIB), Zachary RANERI (USA), Matthew SHOLANDER (USA)