MTAB Selected Works Portfilo - Volume 1 (21-22)

About: 00 - About

Architecture: 01 - Waverly Waterfront (Work - Fall 22) 02 - ACTS OF CLIMATE II CLIMATIC ACTS : Water and Topography (School/Studio - Fall 21) 03 - Cultures of Construction: Perspectives of Circulation (School/Studio - Spring 22) 04 - A House for Chairs (Deconstructed Panopticon: Orbs of Observation) (School/Studio - Fall 22)

Design: 1.1 - Chair (Architecture for Cats, “furniture” for humans) (School/Studio - Fall 22) 1.2 - Signature (Fabrics, Paths, and spaces of idenity) (School/Studio - Fall 22) 1.3 - Mapping of Speculative Urban Landscapes ( School/Studio - Spring 22) 1.4 - Prespectives of Forgotten Americans - Tales of Black Populations (School/Rep - Spring 22) 1.5 - Ordinary Object (School/Rep - Spring 22) 1.6 - Lights of Forgotten Cultures, Shadows of Modren Spaces (School/Rep - Spring 22) 1.7 - Mechnical Installation (School/Rep - Spring 22)

Research + Analysis: 2.1 - Cultures of Construction: Inca and Ningbo Design Documention and Representation (School/Studio - Spring 22) 2.2 - Cornell University Sustainable Education - Bus Transit and Modility (Work - Spring 22) 2.3 - Design Connect - Waverly Waterfront Regional Context (Work - Fall 22) 2.4 - Water and Topography: Site, Flood, and Structure (School/Studio - Fall 21) 2.5 - From Sounds to Space (School/Theory - Fall 22)

Hello all. My name is Mark Timothée Aladar Bell (2003), however I go by Aladar. I am a Second year bachelor of architecture student (B.Arch ‘26) at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning within Cornell University.

Interested in ecological design and Architecture, as well as sustainability within the Architecture and urbanism field, I am set on furthering my knowledge of the intersections between ecology, architecture, and sustainability in order to help lead a design translation of sustainable thoughts, practices, and creations within architecture and urbanism. Some of my other academic and professional interests include Art deco revivalism, applications of vernacular architecture/design within modern spaces and sustainable material and building sciences as way as the intersections between design and technology with relations to the hyperurban environments.

Contact Information: Email - mtb244@cornell.edu or bellm0634@gmail.com Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/in/mark-timothée-bell-41b1511b5

Phone - +1(716)717-7300

Related Experience:

- Design Connect: Waverly Waterfront Team Architect/Designer and Planner (August 2022 - Present)

*Contribution to design and construction documents under light supervision of senior sta and Partners

* Assembly of presentation materials for in-house and client design review meetings, proposals, and public presentations

* Drafting and graphic software work on architectural, landscape, interior and product design projects

* Participation as an Advanced member of a project team

- Cornell University Sustainable Education: Shelter Design Team Architect/Designer (January 2022 - Present)

* Participation as an intermediate member of a project team

* Contribution to design and construction documents under light supervision of senior staff and Partners

* Assembly of presentation materials for in-house and client design review meetings, proposals, and public presentations

* Drafting and graphic software work on architectural, landscape, interior and product design projects

- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House: Architectural Assistant and Material Guide Specialist (July 2020 - July 2021)

* A research-driven position that focused on historical and architectural material exploration and experimentation. Lead presentations on historical and sustainable material applications in Buffalo architecture for future domestic and public practices.

- Burchfeild Penny Center and Art Galler: Student Art and Design Curator (November 2019 - July 2021)

* Help and plan large public events, co manage office and gift shop and tour guide for guest. I also help the art and design education department plan school field trips and programs for local schools as well help current Fine and studio Art major college student get internships at art firms and museums

Education:

- Cornell University - College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (2021 - 2026)

Year of Study: Second Year

Major: Architecture/B.Arch

Minor: Pending

GPA: 3.75/4.0

Current course load (Spring 23)

* Arch 2102 (Design 4 - Intergrated Studio)

* Arch 2615 (Building Technology 2)

* Arch 2616 ( Environmental Systems 2)

* ILRST 2100 (Intro Stats)

* FSAD 1350 ( Fibers, Fabrics, and Finishes)

Skills:

- Rhino 7 3D

- Adobe Indesign - Adobe Photoshop - Grasshopper - Google Software - Model and Drawing - Mapping

Hello :)

Architecture

Waverly Waterfront

Intended to connect the community to natural resources, the goal of the Waverly Waterfront Access and Trail Plan is to link a proposed waterfront access point with existing landside recreational assets in the Village of Waverly, New York. Bordered by the Chemung River, the proposed site along the existing Old River Road Hiking/Biking Trail is in close proximity to New York State Route 17 Exit 60, Two Rivers State Park, Waverly Glen Park, and the Waverly business district. This project will encourage paddling, boating, fishing, hiking, and passive recreation in Waverly. Additionally, the project presents the opportunity to connect canoe and kayak users to the New York State Southern Tier Paddle Trail, a larger, extensive paddle network currently being supported by the National Park Service.

In addition to preserving natural, historic, and cultural resources along the Chemung River, the proposed project will attract additional tourists, resulting in increased economic development in Waverly. Increased river traffic is expected to spur entrepreneurial growth, including businesses such as outdoor outfitters, restaurants, and even related light industry. Expanding educational opportunities, promoting stewardship, and connecting our communities to Tioga County’s natural resources will build upon the mission of the Carantouan Greenway to the benefit of all. The Carantouan Greenway and stakeholder group have charged the Design Connect team with the task of developing a site plan that reflects the site’s opportunities to connect the community with natural assets, draw tourists from the adjacent highway, and create new outdoor recreation opportunities that meet the needs of residents and visitors. The site plan will be used to secure funding for the development of the site.

My role during this project was that of the designer of the Waterfront’s Pavilion, Mainlawn, small picnic and Bathroom spaces.

Pavilion Design

The pavilion design blends into nature, which is an integral part of the site. The design incorporates existing site trees by perforating the wooden structure and merges with the architecture. The project utilizes a shallow foundation without disturbing the ecosystem, while the streamlined-shaped pavilion harmonizes seamlessly with the extended scenery. Two of the site trees growing in this area penetrate the roof and become part of its planning. LED Headlights could be introduced to improve illumination for evening scenarios in this part of the park. As designers, we are seeking to create a tranquil space for relaxation with yoga and similar activities that are integrated into the surrounding natural landscape.

Exterior Prespective Render

Interior Prespective Render

Pavilion Rhino model

Main Lawn

Located further within the site, the main lawn is a major recreational feature within the site. To the east is the playground and to the west is the stone terrace with a view of and access to the Chemung River waterfront. We chose this location based on the relatively flat and wide topography, its accessibility to other key programs, and the spatial buffer from the interstate highway and its noise level. The overall plan of the main lawn follows a similar concept to the phase one small picnic area. Trying to keep a low environmental and ecological impact, we designed a space that asks for a cut lawn while respecting the trees within the reserved space. Populating the main lawn will be a series of wooden picnic tables and wooden branches centered around the main trees within the space. This decision was made for visitors to the park to start to utilize the natural environment as a source of relaxation, this would be accomplished by the centering of the trees and the view of the waterfront.

Small Picnic Area

For our small picnic area design and planning, we focused on creating a space that was very practical. Located toward the southern end of our site, the phase one small picnic area is located near the other phase one interventions (dog park, bathrooms, and welcome area). This creates easily accessible recreation space for park visitors looking for green space and recreation. Populated with standard wooden picnic tables, the area will be able to host small events and community gatherings. The space will also be able to allow visitors a chance to view the nature around it as the picnic area will have minimal brush clearing. Instead, we will opt for a simple cut lawn, focusing on clearing out invasive species. A rock or gravel border around the space may be used to help stop the regrowth of unwanted plant species.

Prespective Render

ACTS OF CLIMATE II CLIMATIC ACTS : Water and Topography

Located in the rainforest of central vietNam, the visitor arrives towards a collection of dolo-like structures inhabiting the river’s coast. Walking through the visitor is presented with a series of different unique configurations of the dolo-like structures. Some are meant for occupancy while others serve as field conditions of the landscape. Within the structures for occupancy there is also unorthodox space for non humans. My project becomes a space for both human and non, space that becomes connected with the ecological environment. This process was first introduced with understanding what material would work with my project.

I choose rockite for the qualities and abilities to withstand flooding the forces of water. This finally lead me to seeing how the experimentation of rockite can be used to construct a narrative of how the artificial and ecological topographies have influence on the path and movement of water.

Model photos of Modular pieces

- Capturing different configurations of the my modular design.

Concept Section Drawing

- Illustrating how water interacts with my design structure

Cultures of Construction: Perspectives of Circulation

The conclusion of my investigations and design analysis from assignment one form the base for assignment two and the conclusion of my design synthesis for this project. In Assignment 2A, I started with the exploration of the utilization and materiality of circulation in my final design. This resulted in creating the circulation of the project to being the man element in the construction and regulation of spaces of the gallery. The circulation is an independent force that comes to dominate the form and functions of the gallery spaces as a whole. As a result, the spatial understandings of the space place the occupants in the perspectives of the circulation, instead of the traditional enclosed spaces. This idea is only furthered with the incorporation of the site of the gallery. Similar to the role of circulation within the design the site comes to the main role of the creation of spaces. Together with the circulation, both the site and circulation act as regulation lines that controls the dimensions of the traditional enclosed space. This is also seen, as the enclosed areas are all separated from each other, a result of the circulation dominating the dimensions and spread of the space. In conclusion, my project wants to focus on the non-enclosed spaces as a means to create the enclosed environment while simultaneously acting in their traditional roles of supporting and transporting.

Intitial Galley Design Plans

Level Two

Level One

Level One Plan Level Two Plan

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A House for Chairs (Decon

structed Panopticon: Orbs of Observation)

The Panopticon is the materialized form of looking both ways: the inside surface of the circle looks inward at the interior or the self, and the outside surface looks outward at the city’s exterior. The ring then makes the looking 360 degrees: there’s simply no escape from observation and surveillance.

In this house design, the deconstructed panopticon, visitors become part of the eyes of the local semi-urban ecology. They can experience looking outward at the outside surface [to see] and looking inward at the inside surface and spaces of the house [to be seen]. The series of exterior windows and interior chambers provide opportunities for both visitors and chairs to interact with each other physically.

The program of the house is broken up into 4 major program types, open, semi-open, semi-closed and closed. The open program is the exterrior of the house and includes the massive window openings. The semi-closed serves as the transition space between the exterior and interior areas of the house. The semi-closed spaces serves as space for observation from the former 2 and the closed space is most private and has no exterior observation.

Outside/Open/Public/city

Inside/Inclosed/Private/Self

We are always looking both ways. To look outward at the surroundings, and to look inward at the self. So do the eyes of the greater society. Our reality is one that looks at society and the individual, the public and the private, simultaneously.

To see and to be seen

People often enjoy looking into others’ private and enclosed lives. However, as we look at other people, we are exposing ourselves to the eyes of others, resulting in being seen while seeing others with the design.

The Panopticon Deconstructed Panopticon

The Panopticon is the materialized form of looking both ways: the inside surface of the circle looks inward at the interior or the self, and the outside surface looks outward at the city’s exterior. The ring then makes the looking 360 degrees: there’s simply no escape from observation and surveillance.

In this house design, the deconstructed panopticon, visitors become part of the eyes of the local semi-urban ecology. They can experience looking outward at the outside surface [to see] and looking inward at the inside surface and spaces of the house [to be seen]. The series of exterior windows and interior chambers provide opportunities for both visitors and chairs to interact with each other physically.

Architecture: 04

Model Photos: Chuck Model (Top) + Masking/Site model (Bottom)

Design

Chair (Architecture for Cats, “furniture” for humans)

The main focus of my chair is the topic of multi-species habitation and sharing of space and objects. This resulted in the creation of ‘Architecture for Cats, Furniture for Humans’, an exercise that challenged me to create a space for cats and an object for humans. In Diagram 1 (Cat), I illustrated a fairly common scene, A cat comes to observe, play, and soon live in an old cardboard box. Playing with this idea I introduced both a conceptual and structural element within my Chair, lightning holes. The holes act as a tunnel system that fluctuates over the width of the chair and play on the idea that cats’ bodies are “liquid” and can adapt to the space around them. In contrast, Diagram 2 (Human), displays the nature of humans and our relations to the vast majority of seating objects. Usually, upright, rigid, and uncomfortable the standard chair places little focus on the human’s comfort. I wanted to further this with my chair design, making the general seating position awkward, thus forcing the human to get up and watch the cats live within the chair.

Axon Chair

Diagram 1: Cat

Diagram 2: Human

Model Photos

Abstructed Signature Concept

Signature

Elevation + “Roof” Design

Axon Concept Diagram

Elevation + Block Design

Mapping of Speculative Urban Landscapes

Building on my speculative drawings, diagrammatic drawings, and model from ealier assignments and research, I started to construct a physical model that embodies the architectural and spatial essence found in your precedent analysis and speculative drawing. For the model and york drawing I picked the filters of formal solid v. voids dynamics, illustrated within my precedents and the ideals of spatial layering. I also started to visualize the materiality of my project. Speaking to both my regional and modern precedents, choose rockite as the base of my further architectural representations. For both my drawings and Model I choose to explore how filters of spatial layering and formal solid v. Voids dynamic can work together in order to inform the creation spaces. As illustrated in the drawing the model space is created through the layering of the destruction of my precedents while utilizing other elements in my precedents to further ideals of complexity.

Model Photos

Design: 1.3

initial Urban Landscape Design

Final Urban Landscape Design section

Design: 1.3

Final Urban Landscape Design Plan

The Eye of the Ship - A visual representation depicting a deconstructed space of a slave ship, a once space of death, oppression into one liberation and freedom as time goes on.

Population Movement and Growth Map - Depicting the Movement of enslaved African people from the old world to the new. The darkern hatched shapes are wider on the right (Africa) and slowing gets smaller towards the Left (new world) which symbolizes the death and hardship during the middle passage.

Ordinary Object

Rhino excerise turing a simple object into one of dynamic design

Lights of Forgotten Cultures, Shadows of Modren Spaces

Creation of a Model that displays the history and power that American universities have over Native American lands through an exercise of using ligth and shadows to physical depict each other.

Skeleton: Mechnical Installation

A Section drawing depicting a 5 min rhino exercise, where I displayed the similar elements between the body and that a mechnical object.

Research + Analysis

Cultures of Construction: Inca and Ningbo Design Documention and Representation

Closely investigating my regional architectural precedent, of the Inca complexes from Macchu Picchu, my investigation focused on documenting and exploring the spatial characteristics and construction logic of the analyzed project, while also considering the building’s cultural, environmental, material, and architectural contexts. The conclusion of my explorations and investigations resulted in a series of diagrammatic drawings that illustrated the complex elements and logic behind the Inca complexes. My work was only furthered with a more significant analysis of the regional precedent, which incorporated forms of architectural research that led to a deeper and more thorough understanding of specific cultural, social, ecological, material, and even, formal design evolutions. My precedent research and documentation goals are to be specific, selective, and provide a uniquely detailed record of the Inca Complexes for productive use in further investigations and future adaptations.

Axon Construction Detail - Depicting Stone Work

Plan

Progressing onto the next stage in the studio, I began to do further analysis of architecture in relation to culture. However, This time I was given a modern counterpart, the Ningbo Historic Museum, to my regional precedent to help serve similar logics and histories. This led to those precedents form the basis of a speculative and generative design analysis within the next two weeks of the studio. Compared to assignment 1A, this series of diagrams become less descriptive (or archeological) but more interpretative and generative. This resulted in a series of analytical diagrammatic drawings through a series of different architectural and design filters. For my project, I started to focus on the formal solid v. voids dynamics of the program and circulation of my precedents, and the spatial layering created through further analysis of the spaces.

Cornell University Sustainable Education -

Bus Transit and Modility

The biomimetic concept of this shelter comes from its position within multiple contexts of material re-use and environmental factors. The shelters design stems from the wide variety of locations in which it will exist, as well as the green materials it is composed of.

Concept Diagram

Plan

Waverly Transportation Map

The Village of Waverly has an array of different transportation systems. Its local roads, Expressway 86, and Norfolk Southern train line serve as the primary systems of transportation of goods, services, and people within and around the region. Represented in this diagram we are illustrating these 3 primary systems and how they relate to one another, our site, and the overall region.

Norfolk Southern Train Line

The railroad system within Waverly has been the backbone of the community. Through the railroad, Waverly was able to participate in the Eire Railroad opening and the industrial expansion of America during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the present day, the railroad is owned by Norfolk Southern, a Class 1 freight railroad company.

It runs 3 times a day through Waverly.

Local Roads

The network of streets and roads makes up the vast majority of transportation services within Waverly. Chemung St and Cayuta Ave are the major roads of the Village. Chemung St along with Expressway 86 enclose our site.

Chemung St

Cayuta Ave

Waverly Business District

East of our site, the Waverly Business District is relatively close. People can easily commute from it to our site, both by car or walking. It also seats parallel to Expressway 86.

Expressway 86

Located south of Waverly, Expressway 86 acts as an entrance into Waverly (New York State as well)from Pennsylvania. Due to this nature, Waverly is highly susceptible to interstate commerce.

Water and Topography: Site, Flood, and Structure

Designing through thought of natural phenomena. For the first assignment of the semester I began to critically analyze the fundamental and more complex characteristics of my natural phenomena, flooding. From these initial observations I came to focus on the two elements of the flood; the pathways in which water takes during such an event and how the topography, ecological and artificial, plays a role in the path of the flood water. From this I constructed a kinetic model that embodied the movement of water and how such movement has influence over the natural landscape. Leading up to the final model I experimented with the materiality of paper, seeing how a simple paper ribbon can be transformed into visual representations of natural phenomena also challenged me to see and understand how the materiality of use relates to the narrative of my projects. The fluidity of water was useful as I can stimulate how water would and could react to other mediums.

Model Photo - Depicting the flow of river systems and their relations with soil erosion - Hightlighting new spaces created through model represention

Research + Analysis: 2.4

Model Photos - Depicting Design Installation of an Rural field condition. The Wooden cells are able to flex and contract in order to controll the follow of water within the local ecology. Creating a Superstructure that comes to work with the environment in combating serious flooding

Research + Analysis: 2.4

Site Map - Depicting Topography, the evolation of the river and water flow

From Sounds to Spaces

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Aladar