MAX HOLTEN SANCHEZ
2013
MAX HOLTEN SANCHEZ msanchez@cca.edu
408.772.5210
124 E 27TH ST. NEW YORK, NEW YORK
EDUCATION California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA Anticipated BA in Architecture SPRING 2013 2010—present (all coursework is complete) Cumulative GPA: 3.75 West Valley Community College Saratoga, CA 2007-2010
EXPERIENCE FABRICATION ASSISTANT California College of The Arts September 2013 - present CNC operator/maintenance, Laser-cutting, 3d Printing, Fabrication consulting with students, Producing part files. Working with material and machines in both wood and alt-mat shops. Valet California Parking San Francisco, CA 2010-2013 High-end Professional Valet Service, Management at fine dinning establishment Mel Cottons Sporting Goods San Jose, CA 2007-2010 Sales and Customer Service, Training new employees, Product knowledge & custom boot modifications
RECOGNITION ADVANCED OPTIONS STUDIO JURY PRIZE NOMINATION STRATUM NETWORKS [FALL 2013] EDITORS FEATURED INSTRUCTABLE STRATUM NETWORKS [JANUARY 2014] HOUSING STUDIO JURY PRIZE NOMINATION HAYES VALLEY HOUSING [SPRING 2012] ARCHITECTURE DIVISION END OF YEAR AWARD NOMINATION
[2012]
SITE STUDIO JURY PRIZE NOMINATION SUTRO BATHS VISITOR CENTER [SPRING 2011] CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS MERIT SCHOLARSHIP ANNUALLY
SKILLS OPERATING SYSTEMS Windows 7, OSX Mountain Lion SOFTWARE Rhino 3d, Grasshopper, 3D Studio Max, AutoCad 2013, Revit, Sketchup, Vray Render, Maxwell Render, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Premier), Processing, Arduino, Microsoft Office ANALOG Model Building, Drawing, Lost Wax Casting, Welding, Woodworking, Plaster Casting TOOLS CNC Routing(MULTICAM), Laser Cutting, 3d Printing
CONTENTS 1. PROJECT: BUBAQUE ISLAND SCHOOL DATE: SPRING 2013 LOCATION: GUINEA BISSAU, BUBAQUE ADVISORS: MAURICIO SOTO & PETER ANDERSON
2. PROJECT: STRATUM NETWORKS DATE: FALL 2013 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA ADVISORS: JASON K. JOHNSON & MICHAEL SHILOH
3. PROJECT: DISPLACED GROUND DATE: FALL 2012 LOCATION: HONG KONG, CHINA ADVISOR: BRIAN PRICE
4. PROJECT: NERVOUS ETHER DATE: SUMMER 2013 LOCATION: CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ADVISORS: KATHY VELIKOV AND GEOFFREY THÜN (RVTR)
5. PROJECT:URCHIN DATE: FALL 2013 LOCATION: CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ADVISORS: MAURICIO SOTO
6. PROJECT: CHAIR DATE: SPRING 2012 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
7. PROJECT: HAYES VALLEY HOUSING DATE: SPRING 2012 LOCATION: 400 BLOCK HAYES ST. SF ADVISORS: CRAIG SCOTT & ROD HENMI
BUBAQUE ISLAND SCHOOL
DATE: SPRING 2013 LOCATION: GUINEA BISSAU, BUBAQUE ADVISORS: MAURICIO SOTO & PETER ANDERSON Approximately a 35,000 square foot school and community center complex for the Republic of Guinea Bissau. A large percentage of the population lives with limited access to education and technology. There is a need for community awareness of the rapidly changing environment and climate. For these reasons there is a need for building solutions that are primarily dependent on imported prefabricated systems. Our proposal is intended to be lightweight and rapidly deployable with little means of skill and equipment. The non-linear, snake like, formation intends to divide the flat triangular site into a series of smaller spaces. The slenderness of the interior space allows for programs to connect and overflow with the exterior as well as efficient cross ventilation. The large interior courtyard forms a gathering space for both the school and the larger community of the island. The folded plate structural system allows for the distribution of loads along both the surfaces of the system and its seams or folds. This produces very stable and rigid structures with both surface and linear elements. A three dimensional truss is formed by the depth of the folds and has a high level of resistance. The non-linear formation of the project acts to furthermore stabilize the structure.
STRATUM NETWORKS
DATE: FALL 2013 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA COLLABORATORS: TAYLOR FULTON ADVISORS: JASON K. JOHNSON & MICHAEL SHILOH
Robot’s Starting P Point
Stratum networks is a computer aided kinematically driven robot that can be used for rapid prototyping and fabrication. Its most basic logic and methodology are applicable to scale at an architectural level. It is a tool for digital and physically simulated speculation and has been designed for re-adaptaion and indeterminacy. Stratum Networks delta positioning methodology was developed for high precision deposition of material. In essence stratum networks is a 3d printer. The printer was developed, revised and refined both in its hardware and software design. The main focus of the project was in the development of a creative machine code. The toolpaths and algorithms were developed in both Arduino and Grasshopper, to guide the machine parametrically. The result of the project was creating an artifact with architectural implication. A video and open source instructable of the project can be found online at: http://www.instructables.com/id/Stratum-Networks-Delta-Robot/
Motor 2
Motor 1
Motor 3
Intersection Points
distance from home
PARAMETRIC IMPUT
DIGITAL SIMULATION
CLAY PROPERTIES
EXTRUSION CONSISTANCY
PHYSICAL SIMULATION
FIREFLY ARDUINO MOTOR POSITIONING
EVALUATION CLAY PROPERTIES
EXTRUSION CONSISTANCY
AIR IN
REGULATOR WITH BLOW OFF VALVE
ON/OFF VALVE
BARBED FITTING FOR 3/8” TUBING GALVANIZED REDUCTION
ABS MALE THREADED REDUCTION CONNECTION ABS 3” THREADED FEMALE CONNECTION
COMPRESSOR CLAY IS PACKED WITH CONSISTANCY AND COMPRESSED IN VESSEL
ACRYLIC STABILIZER
3” POLYCARBONATE TUBE
ABS 3” REDUCTION CONNECTION GALVANIZED REDUCTION BARBED FITTING FOR 3/8” TUBING
ACRYLIC PLATE WITH ROD-END CONNECTIONS
ZIP TIE FITTING
CLAY OUT
LUER LOCK COUPLER + PLASTIC EXTRUSION TIP TOOLHOLDER
STRATUM NETWORKS
TEST 1
DATE: FALL 2013 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA COLLABORATORS: TAYLOR FULTON ADVISORS: JASON K. JOHNSON & MICHAEL SHILOH Delta Robots are a type of Parallel robot. Their use has been standardized in both the automotive industry and in packaging lines. Delta robots have a high level of precision a speed that is ideal for a wide range of uses. The triangulation of the three deleta arms produce kinematic chains that supply three degrees of freedom, x,y and z. The delta Robot uses parallelograms that restrict the movement of the toolhead. The positioning of all mechanical acuations (motors) are located at the base of the robot which allows for the robot positioning arms to have a small inertia. Delta robots can be made from a relatively small amount of parts and mechanical connections, which makes them ideal for many applicaations. They are easy to fabricate and have very little weight. With very little math and proportional relationships delta robots can be programed for many purposes.
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EXTENSION
0
ANGLE
3 5 0.13 19 0
RADIUS LOOPS STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
This was the first test with looping the end points so that they would create buttresses, which makes the piece more structural and adds more geometry to it. This particular piece was stable at this height but fell over because of miss use.
TEST 2
0 10 9 5 0.13 33 0
EXTENSION ANGLE RADIUS LOOPS STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
This piece had a similar toolpath to test 1, but changing the parameters to make it taper out as it got taller. Very structurally stable.
TEST 3 TEST 3 0 28 4 5 0.13 20 1.741
EXTENSION ANGLE RADIUS LOOPS STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
By using a curve this time instead of straight lines it created a very nice shape which was also very structural. But the machine couldn’t generate this toolpath that well because of having too many points on the curve.
TEST 4 0.47
CORE WIDTH
0.86
ARM WIDTH
1.2
EXTENSION
18
ANGLE
8
RADIUS
2
LOOPS
0.13 70 2
STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
This toolpath did not work when it got extruded because the angle of rotation was to high. We found out how much of an angle a piece could have from doing this.
TEST 5 0.47
CORE WIDTH
0.86
ARM WIDTH
1.2
EXTENSION
18
ANGLE
8
RADIUS
2
LOOPS STEP SIZE
0.13
HEIGHT
70
ROTATION
0.4
This was the same toolpath as test 5, but put the angle degree at 18 so that it wouldn’t fall down. Also made the loops a little wider for more structural support.
TEST 6 0.28 0.7 1.28 20
CORE WIDTH ARM WIDTH EXTENSION ANGLE
8
RADIUS
5
LOOPS
0.13 70 0.4
STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
Creating the arms longer and skinnier, we found that it still held up at this height, but would fall down from having them be too long without any crossover.
TEST 7 0.41
CORE WIDTH
0.762
ARM WIDTH
1.44
EXTENSION
0
ANGLE
10
RADIUS
10
LOOPS
0.13 90 0
STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
At this point we began scaling them up so that we could see what conflicts we would run into that would prepare us for the final print. In this one the machine wasn’t calibrated correctly so one side was lifting higher than the other. This created the piece to be not stable.
TEST 8 0.253
CORE WIDTH
0.762
ARM WIDTH
2.26
EXTENSION
0
ANGLE
10
RADIUS
10
LOOPS
0.13 70 0
STEP SIZE HEIGHT ROTATION
By figuring out that we need to have enough overlap so that the arms weren’t to long without any overlap, we started to make toolpaths that would gear us towards the final product, and find out how high we could go without it falling over.
DISPLACED GROUND
DATE: FALL 2012 LOCATION: HONG KONG, CHINA COLLABORATORS: BEN LEAVITT ADVISORS: BRIAN PRICE This project emerged from a critique of certain forms of urban high-rise developments in which the agency of architecture has been subverted by the production and replication of efficient typological models. Aggregated to the urban scale, these spatial products form an urbanism distinct from the congestion of the metropolis. Formally and programmatically it is the vertical repetition of sameness. These buildings lose connection with the ground level, the space of public interaction, and isolate their inhabitants into a cellular array of privacy. However the architect can, in turn, take this as a new site condition and treat it as a new form of ground upon which to act. This project seeks to break up this repetitive sameness by offering a form of difference that would connect these isolated figures. Hong Kong is particularly dominated by typological development. We have chosen a grouping of public housing towers to test our hypothesis through inverting the conventional outwardly oriented urban block and instead establishing a limit at the perimeter and creating linkages through a collection of different communal programs and distinct atmospheres on the interior. Rather than producing heterogeneity by relying on urban dispersal at the ground level, difference is produced through an introverted city of collective environments.
metropolis
suburbia
typological urbanism
cells/podium
disperse/ converge
bounding
inward development
NERVOUS ETHER
DATE: SUMMER 2013 LOCATION: CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ADVISORS: KATHY VELIKOV AND GEOFFREY THÜN Nervous Ether is a responsive full scale pneumatic installation designed and built by the Summer 2013, 333 Studio at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The installation acts as an apparatus to communicate remote sensing data being collected from a pier in the San Francisco bay while also interacting with users in an immediate environment. Nervous Ether is made up of four typologies, one major tessellated array of tetrahedral forms and three actuatable responsive components. The installations components (pillows) are made from a polyethylene film that is laser welded and hand assembled. Each cushion is chained together in two layers and pneumatically inflated with a constant air pressure. The other three responsive typologies are assembled similarly but are pneumatically regulated by responsive data. Data that is being fed both remotely and locally through a firefly interface. Special thanks to: Kathy Velikov (RVTR) and Geoffrey Thün (RVTR) with Benjamin Rice (MATTER MGMT) Mary O’Malley (RVTR) and Dan McTavish (RVTR) CCA 333 Students: Irma Acosta, Fernanda Bernardes, Welbert Bonilla, Harrison Chou, Jojit Diaz, Sirada Laomanutsak, Veronica Leung, Max Sanchez, Alexandre Silveira, Aaron Tam, Jia Wu, Mark Zannad
2. Curled wings when actuated were intended to constrict and pull the shape inwards
4. Actuated V shape was intended to spread wings. Air passage in larger chamber prevented movement.
1. X-wing actuation studies
6. Shape was changed to fit when hung in void spaces
7. Final modified xwing shape
3. Bulb was intended to spread wings when actuated (FAILED)
5. Actuated V shape was intended to spread wings. Air passage in larger chamber was prevented by sepreating larger chambers and by creating a spine or hinge weld.
2. Two chamber study. Outer chamber has no actuation while the interior with openings did. The intent was for the study to initiate movement from within itself out towards the larger array.
3. Two chambers studies where elimanated after proven to be inefficient between spacings.
1. PULSATING (One chamber actuation study)
3. Octupus or squid like shape. Head locks with x structure and tenticles actuate.
1. Venus fly trap inspired form. Shape was intended to actuated inwards like a claw.
2. Two sided Venus fly trap form. Makes X form like shape.
4. Two chamber wanted to control the shaped moved in two different way.(FAILED)
4. Final modified model results include one chamber for pulsation and customizable connecting tabs.
5. Three chamber version.(FAILED)
1.1. S shape was intented to grab onto the x grid structure and pull inwards to create a constriction.
2.1. Two hook inflated pillow intended to push the two layers of the x grid apart when layered inbetween the x grid. (FAILED)
1. Fan shaped strink
2.2. Shape was changed because of gravity.
2.Use different amount chamber in two side to control the shaped change, after strinked it more like a rectangle. 3.1. S-STRICTION can be a actuated two point joint which can easily can connect to structure. When it be inflated it will strink between two connection points.
1. XWING (WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING CALLED) 4.1. M-STRICTION
3.2. Testing different size base on the structure.
C3.2 Final version for S-STRICTION
SENSING
ACTUATION
TIDAL GAUGE
TETRAPOD STRUCTURE
COMPRESSOR
MAIN PNEUMATIC REGULATOR
SECONDARY PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS
PULSATING HEART
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) SAN FRANCISCO PEIR 1
WIND SPEED
PIER MOTION SENSOR
ARDUINO
S-STRICTION
XWING ACTUATING PANELS
URCHIN
DATE: FALL 2013 LOCATION: CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS COLLABORATORS: SHAWN KOMLOS ADVISORS: MAURICIO SOTO
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Urchin is a design proposal for the entrance of California College of the Arts. Urchin investigates the potential of lightweight tensile membrane structures and their ability to address contemporary environmental issues. The project was designed to provide both shade and rain protection for CCA events. Both digital and physical form finding were performed. In addition to a thorough investigation and understanding of detailing and manufacturing processes. A
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5 6
4 1
B
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Membrane Edge to Column
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2
1
10
6 12
11
9
11
5
6
2
9 5
Headring Plan
7
3 Way Cable Connection
1
7
1
13
8 5
1
Headring Section
5 7 8
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FURNITURE
DATE: SPRING 2012 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA COLLABORATORS: DEAN SCHNEIDER Maple wood and hand-fabricated steel rod Photos by: Mark Serr
HAYES VALLEY HOUSING
DATE: SPRING 2012 LOCATION: 400 BLOCK HAYES ST. SF ADVISORS: CRAIG SCOTT & ROD HENMI Located in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. The site has 3 shared property lines and 5 street frontages. Hayes is a very active street with commercial as well as residential building types. Ivy is a calm ally with little pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Gough has a rapid pace of traffic at all times of the day, while Grove is a relatively calm residential neighborhood with little traffic. Thus the proposed design is presented with very different conditions and the need for different treatments. The second main issue with the site is the divide between the two halves, and the decision to treat both halves as one, or to treat them as two parts. The obvious first decision would be to connect the two halves of the site with a bridge/ a tunnel or even a path. With a closer look into current conditions, the site call’s for the opposite. It wants to allow for public access and connection between the alley and Hayes, while maintaining a sense of privacy for its residents. This proposal arranges its programs to act like a filter. The Project uses its PLUS program (retail) to draw in the public to the center of the site. The ground is then pulled up to create an amphitheater that contains and restricts flow while providing a very active public space for the residents and the community of Hayes Valley. The containment of flow also allows for street level accessed units on the Alley level of the northern half of the Project.