Light Burrow Spring 2018
3 Shift
Spring 2017
11 Infill House Fall 2016
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Light Burrow The Island of Manhattan in New York City is being saturated with buildings. The challenge here is to build a parasitic house in the urban fabric of Manhattan on a rather small site. Set in an Alleyway on 50 Vandam Street, this house is lifted off the ground and perched in between two buildings. The alleyway remains intact and public. This allows for people to walk between the street and parking lot on either end of the alleyway. The concept involves allowing maximum amount of natural light within the spaces. The client for the house is a Landscape Architect who requires ample plant growing space.
Indoor, Fully Enclosed
Indoor, Partially Open
Outdoor, Partially Open
Indoor, Fully Open
Outdoor, Fully Open
Light And Spatial Sequences
Axonometric Section View
Shift Shift
A Design-Build Project completed by a Studio A Design build project completed by a studio of 86 of 86 students. Constructed with two by four students. Lumber in a stacking fashion, Shift thrives on a 40’x10’ Truck Scale on Reliable Street in Ames, Iowa. Designed as a total of three modules, the Project includes spaces to sit on, climb on, and crawl under. In addition, LED Lighting was installed as an underglow. The entire process of Designing, Documentation, and Construction was emulated by students. My part in this project involved creating sample 1:1 scale sheets of the Joints from a section of the build. These sheets were then used in the construction of the mock-up model. Other tasked responsibilities included assisting with off-site and on-site assembly and wiring for lighting.
South Elevation
Sample Construction Document. Extracted from Rhinoceros Model and formatted on AutoCAD. Each document depicts an even and an odd layer Below are some examples of Joint sheets that were printed to scale and used as guides
Infill House A single residence project where the main constraint is that there are only two facades on the building. These would be on the North and South side. The assigned site is on Mainstreet in Downtown Ames. This is a historic part of the City, hence the first floor is assigned as a store. Namely an art supply store run by the Artist who lives there. The two floors upon the store would be a private dwelling for the Artist and his Wife. The form of the building is based on concentric curves that form a long hallway within the house to display artwork. These also divide the spaces into private and public. This also makes the entrance from street level very private and personal.
Merwick D’Souza merwick@iastate.edu 515 708 3793