Object Becomes Experience by Michael Licht

MICHAEL LICHT portfolio 2013

michael licht Is an Architectural Designer with a Masters of Architecture from the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in Brooklyn, NY. Before moving to New York, Michael worked as a Paramedic in Duluth, MN, and studied Fine Art. His experiences in emergencies and knowledge from the medical field are paired with skill in digital form generation and cultural expression. The combination is an mission to compassionately challenge the contemporary ideas about built environments.

Design is a celebration of shared experience, and an opportunity to expand horizons. The designed environment has unlimited potential to effect, and must take into account the dynamic and evolving nature of life. Incorporating research in context, infrastructure, and emerging technologies, Architecture is a network of interconnected conditions. Digital exploration of form and performance is the method by which these aspects can be connected to create responsive, functional worlds assembled with captivating, aesthetic objects.

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Michael Licht

critics: henry smith-miller & scott teti

spring 2013:

Michael Licht

Fissure Park: Infrastructural, environmental, and recreational qualities of coastal regions have placed the highest densities of development on a volatile edge condition. In recent years, flooding and storm surges on the East Coast have prompted reconsideration about investment in many post-industrial waterfronts. Performative landscapes are the foundation to successfully populating New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterfronts with mix-use developments.

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some �me, exemplied by recent contamina�on emergenciesM3-1 and general down-turn of american manufacturing. On another note, the waterfront area has the poten�al to a�ract residen�al development, and the availability of large spaces for reasonable prices has a�racted small businesses to the area. The Navy Yard is experiencM1-2 ing a resurgence light, ar�sinal fabrica�on, and manufacturing research, as well as lm produc�on, Steiner Studios. Many lo�s on DUMBO are being u�lized by start up tech rms that take advantage of a growing collabora�ve eﬀort in the area. Despite issues, the site is ready for more residen�al/mixed use development that responds to current condi�ons and symbio�cally responds.

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current zoning: The dominant feature of this proposed zoning: Many lofts in DUMBO are zoning landscape is the M3-1 heavy industrial area, being utilized by start-up tech and design firms that take advantage of a growing collaborative effort in including the ConEdison sub station and Navy Yard. The dwindling utility of these two operations has C2-8 the area. Despite issues, the site is ripe for more residential/mixed-use development that symbiotibeen highlighted by recent contamination emergencies and the general down-turn of American cally responds to current conditions. The proposed manufacturing. On another note, the waterfront areaTransit rezoning of the site does this by moving heavy is isolated from lots high to the north, deeper into the Navy has the potential to attract residential development, The siteindustrial speed velocity transporta�on by medium industrial zones acting and the availability of large affordable floor areas Yards, with light and narrow streets, many cobble as buffers to higher density R8A/M1-2 lots. The large has brought small businesses to the area. The Navy stone, and high pedestrian traﬃc. subway isbuilding the F, fouron site will be appropriated for Yard is experiencing a resurgence of light, artisanal The nearest ConEdison blocks away. The M68 also has a use, and theand Commandant’s Residence will fabrication and manufacturing research, as well as stop oncultural York Street. Pedestrian bicycle remain traﬃc coming from Manunchanged. film production, with the Steiner Studios.

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ha�an is detoured �een blocks over and back to the site, a result of automo�ve velocity and train grade in bridge design.

Accessing the transit and foot trafc at the bridge, just as it travels over the site, would infuse the site with people and poten�al; rhizomic unfolding of a new method of arrival and departure. Reaching up towards the bridge, and up away from the impending water, this network of connec�ons will branch oﬀ of an elevated shu�le in the form of sky lobbies in the base of towers. A ferry terminal at the foot of the bridge tower will connect the site with other areas of the city, and with the subway terminal above. In green , a shu�le will �e a line of transit on the ground level. Brooklyn Tech Triangle Pedestriam

Aerial Tramline

Aerial Tram/Ferry Station

Metro/Tram/Ferry Station Ferry Line

Mixed Use Live/Work

Category 1-3 Hurricane Flooding

current transit: The site is isolated from high velocity transportation by narrow streets, many cobble stone, and high pedestrian traffic. The nearest subway is the F, four blocks away. The M68 also has a stop of York St. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic coming from Manhattan is detoured fifteen blocks over and back to the site, a result of automotive velocity and train grade in bridge design.

proposed transit: Accessing transit, bicycle, and foot traffic on the bridge, as it travels over the site, would infuse the development with people and potential. Rising up and away from impending flood, a network of connected berms made of the demolitioned ConEdison station will support a series of ferry terminals that integrate with existing roads and infrastructure. In addition, a new metro stop will be positioned on the Manhattan Bridge tower, stopping trains and offering an elevator that reaches up from the development to meet commuters.

Rain Water Analysis of topography reveals that the site receives the precipitation of around 20M sf of the higher inland. During normal rainfall of less than one inch, the volume of water moving through the site would be around 12 M gal: 1200 fuel tankers: 7.5 M toilet ﬂushes: 15” distributed across the site. The record rainfall for NYC is 7.79 in in 24 hours. Water from the collection area redistributed on the site would reach a hight of 12 feet. The current system of storm water discharge ejects over 12 M gal of water out of roughly 10 sewer outfalls over 24 hour periods during light storms.

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Volatile edge: Mapped in blue are categorized hurricane flooding zones that describe a gradient of uncontrollable force in opposition to inevitable development of postindustrial New York waterfronts. Rising water will barrage the periphery of the city with increasing intensity, pushing this wet boundary deeper into established infrastructure as climate change progresses, causing a dilemma to be solved by future generations. It is certain that despite the difficulties of flooding, development will continue.

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spring 2013: critics: henry smith-miller & scott teti

Erosive rupture: The waterfronts of NYC are volatile zones where the dynamic systems of harbor, ocean, and run-off wrestle with the static system of development. As a topographical proposition, built form should interact with the forces of the site, creating fissures for safe passage of destructive flows, investing energy in pockets fortified elevation. Studies of subtractive process explore the generation of pattern through rupturing volumes with flowing lines of erosion. A language of disconnected, irregular volumes emerges, tied into a system by cracks and fissures.

subtractive study in foam

performative landscape: DUMBO presents an opportunity to study how formal operations might address a low lying flood zone with the industrial residue of pollution and poor circulation. The site is currently occupied by a ConEdison power facility that will have to be relocated to higher ground. This affords the opportunity to reconfigure its enormous lot. Low-lying demolished concrete could be scooped and mounded into a permeable, performative landscape that reacts to tide, storm surge, and flooding while maintaining safe plots for building.

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subtractive study in foam

100 year flood

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program:

Live work: 90K sf mixed use: 120k sf

commercial: 25k sf

movement:

light fall circulation:

critics: henry smith-miller & scott teti

exterior circulation: standard Cooridors: elevator core: thermal facade:

Exposure:

light fall: exterior circulation: street: sidewalk:

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section elevation: program: The existing morphology of 19th century industrial giants has become opportunity for 21st century start-ups. Facing an influx of creative energy and investment, the area composes two corners of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, an initiative for City and private investment to stimulate growth in digital and manufacturing sectors. Many buildings suitable for these endeavours, however, are in danger of being compromised by the oncoming flood. This proposal provides new spaces for start-ups, residents, and students to colonize a landscape that interacts with the threat of flooding. Integrated within the site are program spaces for Digital Arts Campus and Tech College with subsidized flex spaces for start-ups in design, fabrication, and tech, with a peripheral circulatory system of stairs and exterior courts to facilitate mixing of apprentice, innovator, and resident.

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ConEdison Substation

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Autos Ferry Terminal Proposed

Metro Station Ferry Line Bus Route

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14th floor plan: residences

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Site Plan: The ConEdison substation remains on site, the building repurposed as a cultural center, and the rubble of the transformer field mounded up to create an intermediary zone between water and land. Ressevoirs drain through fissures containing tidal energy turbines, generating energy where it was once only stored. Transportation infrastructure for the increased occupation of the waterfront could include new metro stops on the Manhattan bridge and the F line under the site, as well as ferry terminals. High and dry on the berms surrounding the tidal pools, road and utility infrastructure spread across the development without fear of flood. The result is an urban landscape that is 70% open and green, using the ruins of out-dated infrastructure as a reminder of the passage of time and progress.

critics: henry smith-miller & scott teti

spring 2013

Michael Licht

spring 2012:

critic: alexandra barker

MARINA BAY STATION

project: With 15M inhabitants, Lagos, Nigeria is the seventh most populous city in the world, and is projected to grow to 30M in the next 15 years. It is the center of Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s booming economy, a thriving port city, and a major producer of film and music. Yet there is no reliable transit infrastructure in place. Therefore an ambitious plan to assemble a metro system from scratch is currently underway. The site, Marina Bay Station, is a major proposed component in this plan. Not yet designed, it is mandated to be an end station for six rail lines and three ferries, as well as a BRT stop on Lagosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busiest highway. The expected foot traffic for Marina Bay Station is projected to be 250K commuters per-day at the time of completion, only to increase.

approach: The intent is iconic, to celebrate the commencement of an exciting era in Lagosian transportation, as well as creating recreation and connection strategies for this massive convergence of population. At the same time, it is important to maintain an appreciation for the Lagosian culture of ingenuity and enterprise. During analysis, two patterns of material articulation presented themselves as solutions.

Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, & Molly Hare

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LAGOS ISLAND Marina bay

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critic: alexandra barker

VICTORIA ISLAND

Informal reclamation: On another area of Lagosian coast, fishermen have ingeniously constructed a city grid out into the harbour using garbage, sawdust, and sand pulled up from the bottom, bucket-bybucket. Outlined, the village creates a sporadic, punctuated pattern, the ebb and flow of which is suitable for the recreation and transaction zones of the project.

Coastal erosion:

Over 500 years, the tumultuous Atlantic Ocean has eroded four square miles away from the southern coast of Lagos. The graph of this erosion represents a sequence; miles of land surface continuously being swept out into the sea, while inland sand awaits its turn, much like people in a que. The scale of time and distance embodied in these lines makes them appropriate for the circulation patterns of the transport hub, and the placement of arrival and departure vectors, along which commuters will be swept into and out of the city.

layering: Discrete scales and time lines are contrasted with the overlay of the informal fishermenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s settlement and the erosion/reclamation graph of Victoria Island. The erosion lines inflate, gaining the volume of a large merchant hall occupied by the fractal, additive elements of enclosure and program.

Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, & Molly Hare

ROOF LEVEL 85' - 0"

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NEWSPAPER STAND BRT BUS PLATFORM 22' - 0"

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Molly Hare Michael Licht Christina Ostermier

critic

structures consultant

mep consultant

Alexandra Barker

Cristobal Correa

Matthew Flannery

course

facade consultant

landscape consultant

ARCH 704: Design Studio VI: CAP

Sameer Kumar

Elliott Maltby

project

site infromation

Lagos Transit and Cultural Hub

Marina BRT Bus and Ferry Terminal Ring Rd, Lagos Island Lagos, Nigeria

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Molly Hare Michael Licht Christina Ostermier

structures consultant

mep consultant

Alexandra Barker

Cristobal Correa

Matthew Flannery

course

facade consultant

landscape consultant

ARCH 704: Design Studio VI: CAP

Sameer Kumar

Elliott Maltby

NEWSPAPER STAND

project

site infromation

Lagos Transit and Cultural Hub

Marina BRT Bus and Ferry Terminal Ring Rd, Lagos Island Lagos, Nigeria

general notes

date

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critic: alexandra barker

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Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, & Molly Hare

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Molly Hare Michael Licht Christina Ostermier

critic

structures consultant

mep consultant

Alexandra Barker

Cristobal Correa

Matthew Flannery

course

facade consultant

landscape consultant

ARCH 704: Design Studio VI: CAP

Sameer Kumar

Elliott Maltby

project

site infromation

Lagos Transit and Cultural Hub

Marina BRT Bus and Ferry Terminal

general notes

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circulation transit green scape

critic: alexandra barker

spring 2012:

Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, & Molly Hare

Hard Scape

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critics: thomas leeser

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experiential machine: The clock generates a reference, a definition of reality that we all acknowledge as time. This is a generated experience that is shared, and while it is usually not fun, fun is about experience. The clock may very well have been the first machine; the sun dial, stone henge. These manifestations were spacial and dealt with nature, unlike the modern clocks which generate a more abstract layer of experience. I would like to create a machine that is an experiential experiment, rather than referential or utilitarian proposition. I think it would be fun.

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fun palace: The Fun Palace set out as a temporal event, rather than a formal object. The Theory of Duration influenced this aspiration: For the individual, time may speed up or slow down without much consequence, while static measurements and arguments are invalidated by the march of time. Price, and his team, designed The Fun Palace to explore the inner life of man, which is a kind of duration.

spring 2013: critics: thomas leeser

: turbulence:

Laminar flow: Sometimes known as streamline flow, occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers. At low velocities the fluid tends to flow without lateral mixing, and adjacent layers slide past one another like playing cards. There are no cross currents perpendicular to the direction of flow, nor eddies or swirls of fluids. In laminar flow the motion of the particles of fluid is very orderly with all particles moving in straight lines parallel to the pipe walls. In fluid dynamics, laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum diffusion and low momentum convection. Turbulence: Laminar flow tends to occur at lower velocities, below the onset of turbulent flow. Turbulent flow is a less orderly flow regime that is characterized by eddies or small packets of fluid particles which result in lateral mixing. [2] In nonscientific terms laminar flow is “smooth”, while turbulent flow is “rough”. Smoke rising from a cigarette is turbulent flow. For the first few centimeters, the flow is laminar. Then smoke becomes turbulent as its Reynolds number increases, as its velocity and characteristic length are both increasing. Deflection: A specific type of turbulence, deflection is caused when a constant force interacts with laminar flow. The result is a shift in trajectory through time with a distinct spiraling pattern. Smaller pockets of greater turbulence make up the larger form.

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coriolis effect: As the Earth turns around its axis, everything attached to it turns with it (imperceptibly to our senses). An object that is moving without being dragged along with this rotation travels in a straight motion over the turning Earth. From our rotating perspective on the planet, its direction of motion changes as it moves, bending in the opposite direction to our actual motion. When viewed from a stationary point in space above, any land feature in the Northern Hemisphere turns counter-clockwise, and, fixing our gaze on that location, any other location in that hemisphere will rotate around it the same way. Experiment: The deflection caused in the Coriolis effect is used as inspiration for a particle dynamic test. Particles on linear trajectories are shifted by an invisible rotating mover, creating deflection and turbulence. Their paths are converted into line work.

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spring 2013: critics: thomas leeser

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Deflected surface: Curves gernerated with the deflection machine are used to construct surfaces. The catalog of results display how particles have were perturbed along their routes and released to continue along their way. Provoking further exploration, the fluid twists and turns of the surfaces ask to be walked upon, slid through, and climbed up. The curling form of some take on the appearance of smoke.

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Michael Licht

: turbulence:

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: turbulence:

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Michael Licht

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project: Mixed-Use residential development incorporating light-industrial program on the first story. This new urban zoning condition presents challenges relevant to this age of rapid population growth for urban centers, particularly in the emerging economies of Asia and Africa. site: Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gowanus Canal area is one of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most notoriously polluted former industrial zones. Recently designated a Super Fund Site for the hazardous waste content of soil there, the area currently remains underpopulated and under developed. Despite dwindling industry, the area maintains an artist community with galleries, shops, and light manufacturing operations.

critic: James garrison

program: Presently developed at an FAR of 0.5 or less, the site can easily support population increase accompanied by utilities and services. The proposed FAR of this project is 2 for residential, with one whole level (FAR 1) of the site added to the ground level for nonresidential, industrial and commercial. Two-Hundred apartment units: 20% studios 30% one-bedrooms 30% two-bedrooms 20% three-bedrooms

360 sf each 680 sf each 880 sf each 1200 sf each

Industrial loft space occupying the first story of developed area with residential and green court above. Commercial district lining major circulation paths to support residential development. approach: Design a complex centred around the availability of light and air, utilizing passive strategies and prefabricated construction.

Michael Licht

fall 2012:

critic: James garrison

provide a convenient alternative to Surrounded by pedestrian volumes. wa-placed with consideration wells are the narrow side streets, freeing these terfront, this shopping district will for manufacturing flow and residential side streets up for residential use. present an attraction for neighboring egress. Varying slightly to accomodate communities, as well as provide for the relationships of the site, a nuthe needs of the residents anced above.plan interconnects with the site commercial: The commercial, in red, andDIAGRAMMING: program. pedestrian: FORM GENERATION is also fed by these material flows, goods docked inside main Traffic lanesbeing are shortened near the light & air: The solar chimney/licht volumes. Surrounded by pedestrian wawells are placed with consideration the canal, opening upshopping for sidewalk terfront, this district will for manufacturing flow and residential present an attraction for neighboring culture. A semi-private courtyard egress. Varying slightly to accomodate communities, as well as provide for the relationships of the site, a nuthe needs above. occupies the topofofthe the residents industrial anced plan interconnects with the site and program. volumes, penetrating areas left void

Consumer and service populations experience first-hand spacial interaction. Day-to-day transactions mandate the solidity of this connection, which is more informed and personal than consumer-tomanufacturer relationships.

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solar chimney/licht wells are placed with consideration for manufacturing flow and residential egress. Varying slightly to accomodate the relationships of the site, a numanufacturing: anced plan interconnects with the site and program. The flow of material is of particular

interest, and should be eased by a main circulation route through the center of the blocks. They provide a convenient alternative to the narrow side streets, freeing these for residential use.

commercial: The commercia is also fed by these material flows, goods being docked inside the main volumes. Surrounded by pedestrian waterfront, this shopping district will present an attraction for neighbouring communities, as well as provide for the needs of the residents above.

air & light: Such dense and varied program requires a strategy to grant light and air to the different users on sight. To solve the issue, passive design is integrated with the egress of the residential units to create light wells down to the manufacturing zones. These light wells also function as solar chimneys, the air heated by the sun on the top of the atrium will expel, creating a negative pressure that the manufacturing and residential spaces can use for exhaust ventilation.

residential: Blocks of housing units are then wrapped around these light wells in two directions, overlaid, and snapped open on the south ends to maximize solar gain. The apartments are made up of prefabricated modules joined at mating lines, with only three modules able to make up a variety of units. These prefab blocks could potentially be made on site, in the manufacturing zones beneath the residences, forming a building building building.

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CONSUMER-SERVICE INTERACTION: Cunsumer and service populations experience first-hand spacial interaction. Day-to-day transactions mandate the solidity of this connection, which is more informed and personal than consumer-to-manufacturer relationships. consumer-manufacturer interaction housing for m There is typically spacial segregation between material producers and consumers. The service industry acts as an intermediary because of specialized knowledge and isolation of harmful production techniques.

Most examples o residential use social modernis tere in Guise. uct of a benevo turer to improv ees, but create society.

CONSUMER-MANUFACTURER INTERACTION: There is typically spacial segregation between material producers and consumers. The service industry acts as an intermediary because of specialized knowledge and isolation for harmful production techniques.

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There is typically spacial segregation between material producers and consumers. The service industry acts as an intermediary because of specialized knowledge and isolation of harmful production techniques.

Most examples of industry combined with residential use come from the era of social modernism, such as Le Familiestere in Guise. This was often the product of a benevolent notion in a manufacturer to improve housing for his employees, but created an isolated microsociety.

The residen by prefabri story, prod cony, and i teraction b interaction more simila action.

HOUSING FOR MANUFACTURING: Most examples of industry combined with residential use come from the era of social moderism, such as Le Familiestere in Guise. This was often the product of a benevolent notion in a manufacturer to improve housing for his manufacturing housing employees, createdcomplex an isolated micro-society. with The but residential is built on site

consumer-service interaction

consumer-manufacturer interaction

housing for manufacturing

Most examples of industry combined residential use come from the era of social modernism, such as Le Familiestere in Guise. This was often the product of a benevolent notion in a manufacturer to improve housing for his employees, but created an isolated microsociety.

consumer-service interaction

consumer-manufacturer interaction

housing for manufacturing

by prefabrication facility on the first story, producing customized facade, bal-

cony, and interior options. Material inMANUFACTURING HOUSING: The residential teraction becomes simultaneously spacial complex creating a relationship is built oninteraction, sitesimilar by prefabrication manufacturers on more to consumer-service interaction. the first floor, producing customized facade, balcony, and interior options. Consumers see the material assembled on the way through their egress, and manufacturing housing have the option to make it part of their residence, The residential complex is built on site by prefabrication facility on the first bringing residents and workers into a spacial-social story, producing customized facade, balcony, and interior options. Material inrelationship. teraction becomes simultaneously spacial interaction, creating a relationship more similar to consumer-service interaction.

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EXHAUST FANS MAINTAIN NEGATIVE PRESSURE

GLASS CURTAIN WALL SEPARATES GALLERY AND CHIMNEY

MASS DAMPERS EXHAUST RESIDENTIAL AIR THROUGH GALLERY FLOOR

RESIDENTIAL UNITS

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critic: James garrison

STUDIO

ONE BED

1 bedroom

TWO BED

2 bedroom

THREE BED

3 bedroom

CUSOMIZATION: EACH UNIT IS COMPRISED OF AT LEAST TWO MODULES AND FINISHED WITH A BALCONY PIECE. OPTIONS FOR BALCONIES ARE OFF OF EITHER DINING ROOM, LIVING ROOM, OR A DOUBLE LENGTH IN FRONT OF BOTH. THE MODULES CAN BE ATTACHED IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS TO SATISFY THE RESIDENT’S PREFERENCE, OPENNING UP THE POSSIBILITY FOR MORE LIVING ROOM SPACE, TWO BATHS, OR POSSIBLY TWO

KITCHENS.

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four-story atrium above industrial floor

four-story atrium above retail lobby

elevated courtyard

gowanus canal

Fourth-Story residential plan

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FOURTH FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

STRUCTURAL BRIDGE THROUGH INSULATION AND VAPOR BARRIER 4” STEEL TUBE ‘C’ SUPPORT FOR BALCONY ASSEMBLY

SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

1/2” STEEL GRATE SUPPORT FOR DECKING 1/2” RED CEDAR DECKING

THIS PROPOSAL FOR HOUSING IN A MIXED USE INDUSTRIAL ZONE UTILIZES A SPECIALIZED CLOSED MODULAR SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTION ON TOP OF AN DOUBLE HEIGHT INDUSTRIAL LOFT. THE MODULAR RESIDENCES WRAP AROUND SOLAR CHIMNEY/LIGHT WELLS TO PROVIDE AIR AND LIGHT TO THE INDUSTRIAL VOLUMES. SUNLIGHT HITS THE SOUTH FACES OF THE LIGHT WELLS AND BOUNCES DOWN TO THE INDUSTRY WHILE AIR IS VENTED UP AND OUT BY HEAT AND FANS ON TOP OF THE CHIMNEY THAT MAINTAINS NEGATIVE PRESSURE.

GALLERY FLOOR: DECKING & 4” STEEL STRUCTURE

FRAMELESS GLASS BALUSTRADE 4 BALCONY/FACADE DETAIL: INJECTION MOLDED BALCONY SHELL (W/RECYCLED POLYMERS)

SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

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HEAT SINK EXHAUST FANS IN MAIN CHIMNEY INDUSTRIAL AREA

SECOND FLOOR

SHAPED GYPSUM BOARD CEILING

FIRST FLOOR

RESIDENTIAL MODULES

THIRD FLOOR

DOOR TO GALLERY & DOOR JAM

RAIN GUTTER

GREEN SURFACE

DOOR TO

4 BALCONY/FACADE DETAIL:

SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

COURT MEZZANINE

GALLERY FLOOR: DECKING & 4” STEEL STRUCTURE

VENTILATION DETAIL: 1 5 MASS DAMPER DETAIL: EXAUST AIR FROM RESIDENCES

INJECTION MOLDED DUCT WITH POINTS FOR MASS DAMPER

SECOND FLOOR

MASS DAMPER: FIRE/LIFE SAFETY MEASURE SCALE : 3/4” = STEEL 1’ 0”

RESIDENTIAL MODULES

PLANTING MEDIUM

INDUSTRIAL AREA FIRST FLOOR

COURT MEZZANINE

GREEN SURFACE

DOOR TO GALLERY & DOOR JAM

5 MASS DAMPER DETAIL: SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

NONWOVEN SEPARATION FABRIC

SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

PLANTING MEDIUM

GROUND FLOOR

NONWOVEN SEPARATION FABRIC

GROUND FLOOR

2 1/2” PEA GRAVEL

DRAINAGE MAT

NONWOVE

ROOT BARRIER

2 1/2” PEA

DRAINAGE MAT

EPDM WATERPROOF MEMBRANE

ROOT BARRIER

1 OVERALL SECTION:

EPDM WATERPROOF MEMBRANE

REFERENCE SECTION: 1 OVERALL SECTION: SCALE : 1/8” = 1’ 0”

4” CONCRETE SLAB

4” CONCRETE SLAB STEEL COLUMN

SCALE : 1/8” = 1’ 0”

PLANTING

2 1/2” PEA GRAVEL

5 MASS DAMPER DETAIL:

STEEL COLUMN 6 GREEN SURFACE DETAIL

DRAINAGE

ROOT BAR

EPDM WA

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STEEL CO

SCALE : 1 1/2” = 1’ 0”

GREEN SURFACE DETAIL: 36 GREEN SURFACE DETAIL

EXHAUST FANS MAINTAIN NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN MAIN CHIMNEY

SCALE : 1 1/2” = 1’ 0”

LOUVRES EXHAUST GALLERY AIR ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF ASSEMBLY

6 GREEN SURFACE DETAIL

GLASS CURTAIN WALL SEPARATES GALLERY AND MAIN CHIMNEY AIR VENTS BETWEEN GALLERY FLOORS ON SOUTH FACE

SCALE : 1 1/2” = 1’ 0”

MASS DAMPERS EXHAUST AIR FROM RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO PRESSURIZED MAIN CHIMNEY RESIDENTIAL UNITS FRESH AIR ENTERING THROUGH RESIDENTIAL UNITS

EXHAUST FANS MAINTAIN NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN MAIN CHIMNEY INDUSTRIAL PLYNTH

COOL AIR ENTERS THROUGH LOUVRES IN INDUSTRIAL SPACE AND STAIR WELLS

EXHAUST FANS MAINTAIN NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN MAIN CHIMNEY

LOUVRES EXHAUST GALLERY AIR ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF ASSEMBLY LOUVRES EXHAUST GALLERY AIR ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF ASSEMBLY

GLASS CURTAIN WALL SEPARATES GALLERY AND MAIN CHIMNEY AIR GLASS CURTAIN WALL SEPARATES GALLERY AND MAIN CHIMNEY AIR 2 EGRESS/CHIMNEY DIAGRAM VENTS BETWEEN GALLERY FLOORS ON SOUTH FACE SECTIONAL RENDERING

VENTS BETWEEN GALLERY FLOORS ON SOUTH FACE

MASS DAMPERS EXHAUST AIR FROM RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO MASS DAMPERS EXHAUST AIR FROM RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO PRESSURIZED MAIN CHIMNEY PRESSURIZED MAIN CHIMNEY

RESIDENTIAL UNITS

RESIDENTIAL UNITS FRESH AIR ENTERING THROUGH RESIDENTIAL UNITS

INDUSTRIAL PLYNTH

FRESH AIR ENTERING THROUGH RESIDENTIAL UNITS

COOL AIR ENTERS THROUGH LOUVRES IN INDUSTRIAL SPACE COOL AIR ENTERS THROUGH LOUVRES IN INDUSTRIAL SPACE AND STAIR WELLS AND STAIR WELLS

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INDUSTRIAL AREA

FOURTH FLOOR

INJECTION

2” x 4” STUD FOR CEILING GYPSUM BOARD

AIR VOLUME TO INDUSTRIAL AREA EXHAUST FROM RESIDENTIAL UNITS THROUGH GALLERY FLOOR GREEN SURFACE

INJECTION MOLDED DUCT WITH POINTS FOR MASS DAMPE STEEL MASS DAMPER: FIRE/LIFE SAFETY MEASUREGALLERY

RESIDENTIAL MODULES

critic: James garrison

EXAUST AIR FROM RESIDENCES

1/2” FLOORING CONCRETE IN CORROGATED METAL 4” STEEL STRUCTURAL TUBE

Michael Licht

SLIDING GLASS DOOR

6” STEEL STRUCTURAL TUBE 1/2” THERMAL BREAK ANGLE IRON SUPPORTING DOOR

3” INSULATION

VAPOR BARRIER

EXTERIOR METAL PANEL

STRUCTURAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MODULES

1/2” STEEL GRATE SUPPORT FOR DECKING 1/2” RED CEDAR DECKING

FRAMELESS GLASS BALUSTRADE INJECTION MOLDED BALCONY SHELL (W/RECYCLED POLYMERS)

2” x 4” STUD FOR CEILING GYPSUM BOARD SHAPED GYPSUM BOARD CEILING

RAIN GUTTER

24 BALCONY/FACADE DETAIL: BALCONY/FACADE DETAIL: SCALE : 3/4” = 1’ 0”

4” STEEL TUBE ‘C’ SUPPORT FOR BALCONY ASSEMBLY

STRUCTURAL BRIDGE THROUGH INSULATION AND VAPOR BARRIER

summer 2012: critic: Christopher whitelaw

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fabrication of digitally produced forms often employ parametric tiling systems, comprising of one shape whose repetition and proportional variation completely covers a complex surface with a grid. After operations of local differentiation, the grid develops a responsive geometry that stretches and compresses with parameters of pitch, twist, and bulge. Despite the gymnastics of most parametric designs, the grid remains difficult to dissolve and often dominates the perception of the surface with a logic of unification and continuity, rather than complexity in pattern. As a departure from the typical grid, I am experimenting with the Dodecagonal Socolar Aperiodic Tile, which is made up of hexagons, diamonds, and squares. This pattern dissolves the grid with alternating placement of the three shapes that implies the irregularity of natural forms. In order to fabricate with planar surfaces, the ‘wrapped’ tile was triangulated. The hexagons were given a secondary surface of structural ribs connect to both adjacent panels, and to the panels across the hexagon. This provides fairly rigid support for the amount of material used.

Connections utilize a twist-and-lock assembly, except for the hexagon’s hub, which sandwiches the spokes using bolts. First the arm is inserted into the shoulder socket and locked into place. Next, the shoulder pieces are twisted and locked into two feet, which are bolted, straddling the gap between two panels. All six arms reach from their respective perimeter connections to the middle of the hexagon. The central hub comprises of two mirrored receivers The scale 3D print displays the overall gesture of a small pavilion, and the full scale assembly demonstrates the structural integrity of the design.

Fabrication of panel-to-panel joints derived from modifications on Chris Whitelaw’s panelizing definition.

Michael Licht

summer 2012: critic: christopher whitelaw

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Project: Examining the relationship between form, structure, and pressure, a dynamic model of the Left Coronary Artery is modelled and populated with dynamic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;blood cellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The Maya nCloth pulsates with surges of pressure similar to the beat of the heart, pinned at a few crucial points. Next, differentiation in surface rigidity (mapped in color gradient) over the system is tested for form and orientation possibilities without capillary attachments. The tissue deforms into newly generated configurations of stretch and compression as the interior vessel pressure pulsates.

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spring 2013:

INTERACTIVE LIVING STREET

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Cedar

Onondaga Lake

Interstate

Salt Springs

Erie Canal

Rail Washington Station

Swamp Onondaga Creek

Oak

Railroad embankment

Oak

Ash

Maple

Cedar

OUTCROPPINGS BIO FILTER CURB EXTENSION HEATED TRAIL SIGNAGE BOLLARDS

URBAN FOREST STRATEGIC PLANTING NURSERY FOREST PORCH RESIDENTIAL FOREST WETLAND TRAIL

CONNECTIVE COORIDOR HUB

Ash

Salt Springs

Ash

Future Wyoming Street

Cedar

To Syracuse University Founded 1870

“Berlin Wall”

Jefferson Park (Future Armory Square) Freight Transfer Station

West Street Housing superblocks

Beech Oak

Oak

Cedar

Salt Springs

Limestone

Oak Maple

1793 - The Onondoga Nation is known as “People of the Hills” - Onondoga Reservation is plaited on 250 acres - Forest cutting begins to fuel evaporation of salt brine

1825 - 1853

1854 - 1911

1912 - 1953

1954 - 1970

- Onondoga Creek is dammed to power saw and grist mills - Erie Canal is built - Onondoga Lake level lowers by 2 feet - Expansion of fields of solar vats

- Walton’s Mill Pond filled in to combat malaria epidemic - North-South Railroad to Binghamton - Expanded industries - Near West Side is an established working class neighborhood - Onondoga Creek is polluted by sewage discharge - Population booms from 50,000 in 1880 to 200,000 in 1930

- Salt marshes are buried under Solvay’s industrial waste - Erie Canal is filled in - Companies and industries leave or close the area, and salt production ends - Unemployment and poverty concentration is high due to closed factories - Embankment elevates Delware and Lackawanna Railroad - Onondoga creek is reshaped in concrete channel

- Construction of interstate infrastructure - West street becomes a multi-lane arterial - Urban renewals create housing superblocks

Industrial Development

Expanded Industries and Mixed Use

Industrial Abandon

SITE with overlay of 1830s Saltworks

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ADVANCING HEALTH THROUGH MOVEMENT ON MAIN

The unique opportunities and challenges posed by this project may underscore the role of public health in recasting cities as sustainable environments. Our approach, representing a fine-grained collaboration between design and public health professionals, focuses on design strategies for optimizing health through leveraging the understanding of communities, to shape that environment. HOW a community such as the SALT District makes space and place through design decisions represents a critical opportunity for responding to its specific health needs. Key considerations for a health outcomes-based design approach: • What are health & related characteristics, including health needs, of the community? • How can design leverage opportunities to promote health/advance health outcomes? Because of its embedded outcomes-based framework, this project can inform and advance Overarching Goals of Healthy People 2020, and can monitor its contributions through triangulating with existing national and local data sets.

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” M. Jacobs, NWSI

Project PROCESSES

The proposal communicates a vision and framework for human health and environmental stewardship to a broad community through productive strategies, in an interactive design and implementation process. This framework will enable crosspollination among constituencies invested in the site: will value these diverse investments and integrally engage frameworks already in place, to leverage their capacity to contribute to shared project goals, by pursuing co-benefits and building synergies, in order to maximize the role design can play. An operative platform for working across scales leverages the varying reach of Wyoming Street organizations, to contribute to the project goals: e.g. recognizing that WCNY operates at scale of 19 counties, while co-programming with the Red House—can better enable the Wyoming Street project to contribute to strengthen Central New York’s urban hub. Building the Project_Building Community Processes of design and implementation provide opportunities for community building, integrating artists and local fabricators. We will collaborate with NWSI and partner organizations to formulate means of involving youth and community in project implementation as well as design phases, to create amazing spaces, contribute to social enterprise and neighborhood economy, strengthen ties, and build stewardship. We hope to be able, through SALT Quarters, to collaborate with artists to enable community/youth involvement in development and implementation of targeted project elements.

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SOCIAL CAPITAL

competition consultant for marpillaro pollak architects

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TRAILS

The proposal envisions Wyoming Street as an interwoven field of activity: cultural destination, neighborhood center, and ecological landscape: a low-speed shared street, along which flexible project elements and spaces activate existing conditions to foster interrelationship from one end of street to other; from one end of neighborhood to other; between neighborhood and context. Project elements, including multifunctional outdoor program spaces and a path infused with opportunities for experience and activity weave together neighborhood, city, landscape, and art, for this historical neighborhood with a future-focused point of view -- a playful environment where you can get online.

Maple Swamp

KIOSKS BIKE RACK DECKING FLEXIBLE BOUNDARY LENDING LIBRARY KIOSK PLAY POD RAIN GARDEN SHELTER SEATING RUNNEL

Activating Concept: IT’S IN THE MIX

moving on main Ash

PORCHES

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To build Bicycle Culture, we look to the 1890s, when Syracuse was known as the “bicycle hub of the world.”

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PHYSICAL INTERVENTIONS

LIMESTONE, SALT, & the “YELLOW FELLOW” About 399 million years ago, the land now occupied by Syracuse was covered by a salty sea. The sea evaporated, leaving behind salt and limestone-- which emerged as major resources in the 19th century. The project reengages histories that contributed to form the site, as a means of building a robust place-related identity going forward. A StoryCorps Porch will enable residents to contribute to further these histories. Traces of the Saltworks -- the first industry to occupy the site- provide a larger grain within which to inscribe and integrate new elements and spaces, informing their design language, allowing modulation in relation to diverse site conditions. Salt sheds are reinterpreted as programmatic mobile devices. (See also “Building Bicycle Culture” at left.)

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Other historical events contributed to the formation of site and neighborhood in the 20th century, producing its disconnection from Onondaga Creek and downtown (identified by residents as the ‘Berlin Wall’), its many vacant lots, and abundance of impermeable surface. To achieve continuity in support of physical activity, our proposal exceeds the target area to reach Onondaga Creek. The Vacant Lots-Urban Forestry component of the project recalls the once forested condition of land now occupied by city.

TRANSIT KNUCKLE

TRANSIT MODES

THIS COLUMN SHOWS JUST SOME OF THE MANY ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES ALREADY PRESENT’ ON WYOMING STREET, WHO WILL BE INTEGRAL TO THE PROCESSES OF REALIZATION AND FUTURE OF MOVEMENT OF MAIN

ROOMS ART GARDEN BIKE COOP COMMUNITY GARDEN FARMER’S MARKET SALT ROOF STORAGE SKATE PARK SNOW FORT FITNESS LIGHTING

history display PEACE

Peace garden

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

SPORTS FIELDS/PARKING

SALTplace

CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY

sports/performance/greenmarket mound with sitting steps

PLAYGROUND

Infiltration and Permeability Infiltration of stormwater runoff provides a means of thinking about porosity of this historically isolated neighborhood. Trail and porch elements establish different means of permeability, connecting to community spaces and street through overlaps of activity, views, and flows.

‘wave’ screen

play loop fitness circuits skate park

bike loft

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Hillside Children’s Center

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BIOFILTERS RUNNELS DEMONSTRATION GARDENS

SALT HQ

community porch

mini art park

Lincoln Building La Casita LA CASITA Say Yes

demonstration

OUTDOOR garden GALLERY

BIKE PATH

RAINWATER COLLECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

bbq/ picnic

Gallery

bike path

SALT HEADQUARTERS

RENEWABLE ENERGY

BARBECUE

WALKING TRAIL BIKE LANE

rain curtain OUTCROP GARDEN patchup studio tully outcrop

BIKE SHARE COURT GAMES PLYGROUND ICE SKATING

community porch

RECREATION MOVEMENT

PORCH garden space

COMMUNITY SPACES OUTDOOR ROOM ART MAKING PERFORMING BARBECUING CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR HUB

community porch

SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY

CURB CUTTING LIGHTING HEALING GARDEN

HIGH TREE CANOPY RADIANT TRAIL

SALTTRAIL DISCOVERY GUIDE Plan Your Visit » Exploring urban nature

Connective Corridor bus stop

LENDING LIBRARY WAYFINDING

RADIANTTRAIL

Healing Garden

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

SAFETY COMFORT ENGAGEMENT

Trailhead and Urban Nature Activity Center • Shuffleboard and Bocce Courts • Healing Garden • Restrooms (if feasible) • Trail Map • Trail, Creek, and Near Westside tourist information • Interactive history of Onondaga county land, nature, people • Bike, cross-country ski, snowshoe rentals • New Connective Corridor bus stop

The Trailhead/Urban OUTCROP GARDENNature Center Radiant Trail

THIS COLUMN SHOWS JUST SOME OF THE MANY ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES ALREADY PRESENT’ ON WYOMING STREET, WHO WILL BE INTEGRAL TO THE PROCESSES OF REALIZATION AND FUTURE OF MOVEMENT OF MAIN

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FARMERS’ MARKET

Seymour School Playground

LENDING LIBRARY KIOSK

St Joseph’s Wellness Center porch

NOJAIMS GROCERY Nojaim’s Market

URBAN FORESTORY CREEK ECOLOGY

RADIANTTRAIL

ONONDAGA TRAIL SUPERBLOCK OPENING

FLOWS

Seymour School Playground

Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, ben Martinson, Chris kroner, matt saake, sam leblanc, karla lockhart & daphne lasky

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Design Goals

The physical environment encompasses factors such as open space and access to nature, access to recreational facilities, the aesthetic or perceived qualities of these facilities, and community design issues related to density, land use, and connectivity. Strategies at this level target specific design elements that can support the goals and outcomes of interest.

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The Ecological Model is a comprehensive health promotion model concerned with ways in which environment, behavior, and policy help individuals make healthy choices in their daily lives. The core belief of the model is that human behavior does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, human behavior is a complex interaction between individuals, their families, their communities, their spaces, and the society in which they live.

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summer 2012:

Michael Licht, Christina Ostermier, Molly Hare, adrien aldred & marcus ziemke

ROAD TO AIRPORT

ROAD TO DURRES

PARKU PASKUQAN

DAJTI MOUNTAIN

PARKU TIRANA

DESIGN TEAM

fall 2012:

JONATHAN BLISTAN / KORY

MICHAEL LICHT / HEENA PA DISSAN SECONDARY MICHAEL TINGENSCHOO

Bougouni Region, Dissan Mali, Africa CONSULTANTS

NATHANIEL STANTON / SCO

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DESIGN TEAM

JONATHAN BLISTAN / KORY FORDE MICHAEL LICHT / HEENA PATEL / MICHAEL TINGEN 4.15 m

4.15 m

CONSULTANTS

4.15 m

NATHANIEL STANTON / SCOTT HUG

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11 m

DATE

SCALE

N.A. TITLE

BUILDING RENDERING SHEET

A 10

PLAN 1 GROUND SCALE 1:400

consultant: nathaniel stanton of craft engineering

12.29.2012

N 4.15 m

4.15 m

Unreinforced Structural Vaulting ceiling ceb vault design: Exceptional

4.1

9. Construction

Exceptional ceiling heights andachieved long spans heights and long spans can be withcan be achieved using pure compressive structural pure compressive structural systems. The systems. Using catenary helpaofgrade two Structural emphasis of thisanalysis, designwith is tothe cover Engineers, PrattSIDE has thisroof scheme of school in Bougouhni, Mali,developed with a brick conical vaults solar supported byprovide structural arches of that will absorb gain to a cool, comfortable learning In environment, outarches, additional thickness. between the made structural oflighter the soil on constructed site. Using of caternary analysis, vaults, a double layer of thin bricks with the of two SEwedge professionals, Prattmake uphelp the roof. Each shaped vault opens and SIDE has developed this scheme of conical lifts at the short edge, raised up by a portal arch, to allow vaults supported by structural arches of adlight and air to flow into the classrooms. The thrust is ditional thickness. In between structural transfered to the ground at the the periphery of the plan, arches, lighter constructed of athis double maximizing safevaults, load bearing. Executing design will layer of thin bricks make the roof. require an additional CEBuppress that Each makes tile-like wedge vault opens onmortor, the portal bricks, shaped 1.5â&#x20AC;? thick, quick drying and side training for tolocal allow light and to article flow into masons. Seeairthe on the the classMapungubwe rooms. The thrust is transfered to the ground Interpretive center for more details. We have a contact at the periphery of the plan, maximizing safe that knows the Structural Designer for this project, as load bearing. The Compressed Earth Bricks well as two additional engineers volunteering to work on for the design can be made of soil on site, the project. using just two different molds. Quick drying

mortor will be necessary for the vaults, as well as steel mesh inbetween the layers of tile brick. Keeping materials sourced locally makes this a very practical and affordable proposal, as well as skill building for the community, which will participate in the construction.

Long Span Arch Portal Arch

4.1

DATE

12.29.2012

1 STRUCTURAL PLAN

SCALE

N.A. TITLE

BUILDING RENDERING SHEET

S 100

Bougouni Region, Dissan Mali, Africa

ROOF LEVEL 3.75m

DESIGN TEAM

GROUND LEVEL 0.6m

JONATHAN BLISTAN / KORY FORDE / MICHAEL LICHT / HEENA PATEL / MICHAEL TINGEN CONSULTANTS NATHANIEL STANTON / SCOTT HUGHES

EAST ELEVATION SCALE 1:100

NOTES

Caternary Vault definition

ROOF PITCH 4.875m ROOF LEVEL 3.75m

GROUND LEVEL 0.6m

ELEVATION 1 SOUTH SCALE 1:100

ROOF PITCH 4.875m ROOF LEVEL 3.75m

DATE

12.29.2012 SCALE

N.A. GROUND LEVEL 0.6m

TITLE

BUILDING RENDERING

ELEVATION 1 NORTH SCALE 1:100

SHEET

A 102

Michael Licht with prattside

DISSAN SECONDARY SCHOOL

Summer 2011:

design & management with Studios GO:

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project: To activate unprogrammed area in-between two escalators at the bottom of a four-story atrium in the Queens Center Mall by protecting patrons and creating an identity for a new business, Kido Sushi. Considerations: While seated, diners need to be protected from the possibility from falling debris. Dimensions of the narrow space (15’x 60’), require innovative design that allows for as few support points as possible in order to maintain enough floor space for the program of the restaurant. Stability of the structure is then dependent on low weight, proportion, balance, and sound connections. Finally, the design of the canopy should take into consideration attractive aesthetic considerations and provide sinage, in order to attract business to the rental space and contribute to the success of the overall endeavour.

11’

Extension connector: fastened with four bolts

9.5’

6.7’ beginning of stem curvature

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budget: $15,000 Solution: Sprouting up from the programmatic structure in place, eight pedals array the sushi conveyor belt, clustering at the T junction. The canopies are constructed out of CNC bent 2” strong pipe, formed from only two radii. Stretched across the pipe frame is a strong, yet seethrough woven mesh, that filters light from the glass ceiling four-stories above, creating an airy condition of sanctum in the heart of a crowded mall.

Pedal Pipe. 12.479’

Straps

Stem Pipe. 12.765’ Porous mesh fabric

Coupling connector: fastened with four bolts 143 degrees

37 degrees

Coupling base connector: four bolts, assembled with base plate by welding

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fall 2011:

Considerations: The desired material, HDPE, is difficult to cut with laser, so FlatCut’s CNC Routers were used to produce the loops. Nylon rivets and coated steel cable were employed to secure the wilful plastic into the Limacon’s global geometry. Finally, the assembled product was crated and shipped to Calgary, where the team installed it at the ACADIA Conference.

Michael Licht

project: Manage the fabrication and installation of ACADIA Conference Design Competition winner, Luminescent Limacon, by Andrew Saunders. His design flows from his interests in Seventeenth Century ornamentation and Étienne Pascal’s geometry. The global form of this chandelier is produced by a dynamic script which writes a Limacon spiral into three-dimensions. The curves populating the global form are inspired by the Dutch ruffled collar. The end geometry is many looped developable surfaces.

fall 2010:

OBJECT BECOMES experience, dissolving a line. Deleuze assigns a structure to the divisions in human perception of the world, designating lines as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;segmentersâ&#x20AC;? between, in the most basic form, man/woman, black/white, state/people. He then attempts to encompass all of these segmenters within a more abstract category. Containing all lines, all segmentality, and the human desire to stratify or over-code, this is the category of experience. People live their lives intuitively using and understanding these divisions, with or without explicit awareness of them. The experience of riding a bicycle is not a bicycle, yet they are so intertwined the two can easily be combined into one; an abstraction. Abstraction as a modernist notion has to do with communicating essence in form, while contemporary abstraction can be thought of as based on process and movement, change, a realization of continuity between forms, utilizations, experience. Quantitative analysis of phenomenon records change only in measured units, never in quality, resulting in smooth, continuous graphs. These quantitative transitions contrast the deep qualitative ones that explain the genesis of form. The later, topological transitions, map singularities: From a line of pressure and temperature, steam arises out of water, and from steam arise oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis. Every differentiable form of matter undergoes at least one singularity to create its unique identity.his process of diffiomorphism is perhaps activated by pedalling the crank of a bicycle, creating speed.

Need architecture express this sort of abstraction, or simply be aware of its possibility? Imagine an environment of absolute continuity with no separation from form and utilization...

LINE AS SEGMENTER:

Michael Licht

:OF lines:

oil on canvas: 60” x 44”

fall 2009:

Michael Licht

Sheet metal & grounding rod:

fall 2009:

plaster, waste motor oil, rust, ford 450 fuel lines, wood

fall 2009:

OF lines:

sleep, veg-out, interact, live in a nyc studio apartment

summer 2008:

Michael Licht

OF lines:

oil on canvas: 145” x 45”

fall 2008:

Michael Licht

04.03.2013

education:

Master of Architecture Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architectural and Urban Design / May 2013

Associates Degree in Emergency Medical Technology Bismark State College / June 2005

B.A. Liberal Arts, Honor Studies, Minor Pre-Medicine University of North Dakota / December 2002

EXPERIENCE:

Competition Consultant / March 2013 Marpillaro Pollak Architects, 132 Duane St, New York, NY 10013 Reference: Sandro Marpillaro / 212.619.5560

Graduate Teaching Assistant / August 2012 to May 2013 Pratt GAUD, 61 St James Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11218 CAP Studio Reference: Alexandra Barker / 646.246.6449 Digital Media Reference: Christopher Whitelaw / cwhitelaw@gmail.com

Competition Consultant / May 2012 to July 2012 Barker Freeman Design Office, 104 Vanderbilt St, Brooklyn, NY 11218 Reference: Alexandra Barker / 646.246.6449

Project Manager / July 2011 to October 2011 FlatCut, 68 Jay Street, Studio 901, Brooklyn, New York 11201 Reference: Daniel Ramirez / 212.542.5732

Designer/Project Manager / February 2011 to August 2011 Studios GO, 28 West 27th St, Suite 12B, New York, NY 10001 Reference: Angelika Sikora / 212.967.1448

EMT-Paramedic / August 2005 to August 2010 Gold Cross Ambulance, 4505 W Michigan St, Duluth, MN 55807 Reference: David Johnson / 218.628.932 REFERENCES:

Henry Smith-Miller, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects / 212.925.7206 hsm@smharch.com / 305 Canal St, New York, NY 10013

Alexandra Barker, Barker Freeman Design Office / 646.246.6449 alexandra@barkerfreeman.com / 104 Vanderbilt St, Brooklyn, NY 11218

Ryuta Nakajima, Associate Professor , UMD / 218.726.6521 rnakajim@d.umn.edu

Michael Adam Licht cargocollective.com/physioplexus michael.adam.licht@gmail.com 213 Taaffe Place #113 Brooklyn, NY 11205