STUDIO WORKS VERTICAL FARM
Sulan Kolatan Pratt Institute/ Spring 2014
MIXED USE TOWER
Hina Jamelle Pratt Institute/ Fall 2013
HOUSING PROJECT
Carlos Anaiz Pratt Institute/ Fall 2012
CAR SHOWROOM
Stephanie Bayard Pratt Institute/ Spring 2013
ELEMENTRY SCHOOL
Craig Konyk Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012
ASTRONOMY MUSEUM
VIda Borazjani Azad University of Tehran/ Fall 2010
GAUD EXHIBITION
DIGITAL MODELLING ADVANCED DIGITAL MODELING JASON VIGENRI-BEANE Pratt Institute/ Spring 2014 Mechanical wind turbin
COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA II CHRISTOPHER KRONER, BEN MARTINSON Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012 Animation Drawing of the Bridge
COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA II CHRISTOPHER KRONER, CHRISTOPHER WHITELAW, PHILIP PARKER Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012 Erwin Hauer modeling Modeling with x-ray Light bulb study
STUDIO PROJECTS
VERTICAL FARM NEWTOWN CREEK, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY Sulan Kolatan/Pratt Institute/ Spring 2014
LIVE SECURE OPAQUE ELEGANT
LEARN SEMI PERMEABLE OPAQUE
MARKET MOVEMENT ADJUSTABLE OPEN
GROW MINIMAL SURFACE UNITS
Formally the building is designed as an aggregated cell which is topologically continuous. Its apertures are manipulated according to program and site, with open framework cells used for farming and closed volumetric cells used for processing and retail.In this process we employed minimal surfaces which are generated by parametric system, to create unique spaces that optimize the co-habitation of the human and plant. Between the variations of the module, I selected two variations that imply the most changes.
TRANSPARENT ADAPTABILITY MECHANIZED HYDRATED
PROPOSAL This proposal for a vertical farm in Chelsea, New York City integrates food growing, processing, and sales. It expands the scope of the vertical farm concept beyond traditional hydroponic crops to include legumes and grains, demonstrating the potential breadth of vertical farming.
ONE DIRECTIONAL BLENDING BETWEEN CELLS
TWO DIRECTIONAL BLENDING BETWEEN CELLS
PLANS VARIATION IN DIFFERENT LEVELS
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A section of a farm level which implies how the hydroponic system works in this level
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EXTERIOR VIEW FROM OYSTER FARM INTERIOR VIEW OF FARM
INTERIOR VIEW OF FARM
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM OYSTER FARM
CATALYST MIXED-USE TOWER IN WEST SOHO, NEW YORK CITY Hina Jamelle/Pratt Institute/ Fall 2013 Ardavan Arfaei/ Maryam Delshad
The investigation began with the study of a physical transformative precedent. This transformative system was documented in a two-dimensional fashion, and later developed into a series of three-dimensional spatial units. The multidimensional blending of these units was used to create a unique type of building enclosure. The transformation and relative opacity of this skin is rooted in the logic of the system precedent. The skin also responds to existing site conditions as they relate to the parameters of the system. The formal qualities of the skin were used to inform interior spatial conditions which, in turn, helped to develop a range of programmatic spaces throughout the tower. Because the rate of skin transformation varies throughout the tower, no two floors are exactly alike in terms of their spatial qualities or programmatic functions.
FORMATION PROCESS
The project suggests a more nuanced approach to skyscraper design through the use of emergent formal transformations, scalar shifts and material manipulations. The project serves to examine the relationship between enclosure, interior spaces and programmatic functions as a means of rethinking the traditional skyscraper building typology.
Being adjacent to a mixed use district with a combination of residential, office and leisure makes the Soho area a good candidate for change. The area is primarily industrial and lacks key elements needed for a well_balanced neighborhood. Our goal is to create a Catalyst that fills this gap.
The vertical element both brings together the residents of the building and also acts as a vertical neighborhood serving the people in the surrounding areas. By introducing this new typology we will catalyse this rapid change and make it more desirable for the new residents. This flexible space changes as it moves throughout the building. The shape changes so it can function more efficiently.
7th Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
GOWANUS HOUSING MIX-USE COMPLEX IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY Carlos Arnaiz/Pratt Institute/ Fall 2012
In this design studio we focused on the contemporary urban condition. Specifically we introduced to the interrelationships between urban form land and building use transportation and environment. The design proposal calls for a large mixed-use housing project to be located on the Gowanus Canal. Located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the canal was once a busy industrial cargo transportation hub, however, because of the decline of the city’s shipping industry via water, the area is now classified as a brown field. The canal is surrounded by historic neighborhoods lined with traditional brownstones, eclectic restaurants and maintains the old industrial vibe. This housing proposal will provide residences for single and multi-family households as well as space for commercial establishments. The project is designed to respond to the specific site conditions that transform from hard urban edge to a waterfront habitat.
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HOUSE A single unit charactristics
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NEIGHBORS Neighbors with sharing open private space
CLUSTER A group of units produce small community with sharing open space
UNIT STUDY The starting point for me in this project was to design a unit. A unit, that can both have its own private open space and also a sharing open .space with other units In this process I examined different units in order to find the one that has better connection with other units, The unit that can have connection by different sides with specific angle. So I started to explore some patterns to both explain units(with open and close space) and the sharing spaces between the units. The first step was to show the idea in 2D dimensional diagram both for plan and elevation and the next step was to explore the idea in 3D dimensional diagram, which starts with a simple axonometric.
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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
PRIVATE CLUSTER
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MULTIPLYING PROCESS The units are divided in two kind of clusters based on the idea of private and public, one of them are group of units that just share an open space with another, in order to ensure more privacy , and in the other cluster the idea of privacy expand in a bigger scale. This cluster contains a group of units that have a central open space sharing with other units, for the families who are mostly like to communicate with other families and share some outer activities. I’ve been trying to explore this through the project. So during the semester I was exploring different way to multiplying the clusters.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
WALL SECTION Wall section for this housing project designed with Swiss Pearl cement panels as the main material for facade, which is a rainscreen cladding and steel structure. The panels are connected to the wall with panel clips and the insulation prevents rain water leaking into the building.
PROGRAM Looking at the site and considering the presence of the Gowanus canal, I started by thinking about having a small water treatment facility which has accompanied an oyster farm and small green house and planted filtration swales, in order to threat the water.
TESLA CAR SHOWROOM IN HONG KONG, CHINA Stephanie Bayard/Pratt Institute/ Spring Facade consultant SAMEER KUMAR Site and Sustainability consultant ELLIOTT MALTBY Structural consultant JEFF THOMPSON Mechanical Consultant MARK MALEKSHAHI A Collaborative effort with Ardavan Arfaei, Camilo valencia , Arielle Lapp
TWIST The building consists of a twisting main core that at some levels stretches. The twist gives the visitors a feeling of movement both on the inside and out of the building creating the illusion of it being in motion. The stretched part lays foundation for the track to shoot out of the building giving the driver more space to push the pedal and at the same time taps into the monorail bringing more visitors to the showroom. Since the most problematic part based on our idea was structure, we started from designing the structure.
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ENVELOPE STRUCTURE Steel pipe on te outside , braced back to the inside concrete tube shear wall
ENVELOPE Rotation : counter- clockwise
CORE Concrete tube shear wall
CORE Rotation : clockwise
LOCATION Located on Hong Kong’s old airport runway and at the end of the new proposed ferry terminal the site had great potential for the new Tesla electric car showroom. Looking at the Hong Kong bay and sitting right next to the ferry terminal it will both serve Hong Kong residents and tourists arriving at the ferry terminal. The monorail line also creates the connection to the rest of public transpprt system. By tapping directly to the monorail we can bring lots of both clients and casual visitors to the building.
SHEATHING
GFRC CUSTOM PANEL
RIGID INSULATION GFRC STRUCTURAL FRAME
MEGASTRUCTURE LIGHT GAUGE METAL FRAME
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FIRST LEVEL
PECK SLIP SCHOOL ELEMENTRAY SCHOOL IN PECK SLIP, NEW YORK CITY Craig Konyk/Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012
Research has shown that children between the ages of 5 and 10 years respond positively to multiple iterations and a variety of input of information. Learning is enhanced by physical as well as intellectual stimulation. Experiential learning allows for associative meanings to be built around the gaining of knowledge and allow a stronger recording in a child’s memory than that of a simple phrasing or a static image in a book. The Peck Slip School will incorporate environments that engage and encourage this interactivity of the learning environment. Spaces for focused individual effort as well as dynamic group activity will allow student and teachers to experiment with new strategies for learning.
GRID We began with a series of warm up exercises that move from 2d neutrality to 3D complexity. The design of the school willl be from the inside out, where the functions and activities that occur on the interior are revealed as exhibition to the surrounding context and neighborhood.
FORMATION STUDY Back to the history of Peckslip it used to be a market in the area that attracted a lot of people to visit the water front. So I use the notion of market as a link between community, family and education. Therefore this elementary school brings students, teachers and community together.
In order to help students learn through more than one of the senses, Multisensory method is one of the most effective teaching methods. Using kinaesthetic teaching method is one of the powerful methods to help students learn. The idea of classrooms was to have interactive walls that allow students to move along them and experience different spaces and have some alone time.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
MARAGHEH MUSEUM ASTRONOMY MUSEUM IN MARAGHEH,TABRIZ, IRAN Vda Borazjani/Azad University of Tehran/ Fall 2010
CONCEPT The astronomy museum is an earthy space by considering the modern architecture methods, in order to understand sky. My first objective was to consider the pre memory of the site and inspire the respectful feelings to visitors by designing the installation in lower height and in some sections in the ground.
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LOCATION The site of this project is near the remains of the Maragheh observatory, located in the heights west of Maragheh, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, which was once considered as one of the most prestigious observatories in the world. I choose this subject in order to resurrect the memory of this observatory.
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The site location enables to main entrance, one mostly is public entrace for visitors and the other one is private for the employees. The car access is also from the north of the site.
Lobby Exhibition Amphitheatre Restaurant Ramp to parking
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DESIGN STRATEGY My second important objective was to consider the site topography and main lines and the extent of the most noticeable angles in astronomy science, in order to reach to a proper form for the museum and research center main form.
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Office Planetarium Experiment office Museum
GAUD EXHIBITION Pratt Institute
Mike Szivos/ Spring 2013 DESIGN AND FABRICATION TEAM
Maurizio Hauylia Sira Kiatnum Taesoo Kim Trey Lindsay Katia Loizou Dong Gyum Park Ally Spier Jenna Steinnbeck Darion Washington Nick Wright Matiss Zemitis Photos by Alan Tansey
In this course, the graduate architecture & urban design exhibition of student work has been curated, designed, and fabricated by the class. THis large scale installation is conceived in the hazel and robert h. siegel gallery, in Architecture department. Each year the course attempts to produce an installation that explores digital fabrication methods as while showcasing the previous year’s work. This exhibition groups the work into clusters based on the type of project, where it was located, how it was conceived, and by semester. the projects from spring 2012 to fall 2012 are arranged in a three dimensional grid – dynamically adjusted into clusters around four qualities the exhibited pieces. each submission provides a cloud like cell structure that looks like it is grown rather than organized. the underside of the suspended volume is clad with color coded images of the student work, creating a solid landscape of images at various angles that visitors explored much like a cave. the bottom appears continuous and solid, where the upper section implements a porous surface to allow ceiling light to penetrate into the gallery. constructed utilizing over 250 unique ‘cells’, the form relies on redundancy, many connections, complexity, and irregularity to produce an overall structure that is light, nimble, unique, but still open in its ability to grow.
DENSE
SPACIAL CONFIGURATION: PLAN
SPACIAL CONFIGURATION: ORGANIZATION
LESS DENSE
DIGITAL MODELLING ADVANCED DIGITAL MODELING JASON VIGENRI-BEANE Pratt Institute/ Spring 2014 Mechanical wind turbin COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA II CHRISTOPHER KRONER, BEN MARTINSON Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012 Animation Drawing of the Bridge COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA II CHRISTOPHER KRONER, CHRISTOPHER WHITELAW, PHILIP PARKER Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012 Erwin Hauer modelling Modeling with x-ray Light bulb study
MECHANICAL WIND TURBINE ADVANCED DIGITAL MODELING JASON VIGENRI-BEANE/Pratt Institute/ Spring 2014 In this project we formulate a relationship between a digitally-modelled systems and digitally-modelled objects. The goal of this exercise is to design a mechanically functional architectural object that have an ability to move in specified directions. So I designed a Wind Turbine. which has different parts .with rotating ability
BRIDGE ADVANCED DIGITAL MODELING CHRISTOPHER KRONER/Pratt Institute/ Spring 2012 As the culmination of a series of weekly tutorials and investigations, we designed layered, dynamic surface engines. Originating from specific research about connective infrastructural systems I dissected these bridges into sequential systems of morphological behaviour. Models derive structural of performative systems through inputs such as kinematics, environmental activators or stimuli, then were systematically evaluated on spatial, structural and environmental criteria. Our presentations were made on a large-scale digital canvas cataloguing multiple events in simultaneous perspectival and orthographic cuts as a real-time analysis technique.
MORPHOLOGICAL DRAWING
BRIDGE ADVANCED DIGITAL MODELING BEN MARTINSON/Pratt Institute Spring 2012 We developed a proposal for a pedestrian bridge connecting the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to the new Brooklyn Bridge Park, Spanning the BQE and service road below the promenade. In the first place, We learned basic skills to navigate and begin creating parametric definitions in Grasshopper and then we use some commands in Rhino such as Make2D, Silhouette and wireframe in order to get some nice lineworks in Illustrator. This exercise emphasizes the integrated use of the computer and computer software for representation, design development and presentation.
ERWIN HAUER MODELLING I select one of the Ervin Hauer tutorial modules for additional modeling research. This module had two modified facsimiles. It undergoes a blended transformation to create a field of variation. I invented three graphic systems to communicate the module and the field.
These are images exploring the technique of X-ray rendering in Maya
The fundamental module of computer I focused on learning maya modeling techniques through the analysis and modeling of a light bulb. The result is section lines exported from maya to illustrator, detailing the components of light bulb.
LIGHT BULB STUDY