Mark Zlotsky
Mark.Zlotsky@gmail.com
number 973 533 4441 address 59 West Cedar Street Livingston, NJ 07039
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urban palazzo
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artifact mĂŠlangorium
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hierarchy of needs
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scholastic gateway
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laurentian library
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concrete shell study
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personal endeavors
1 urban palazzo
an interior from the exterior King & King Comprehensive Design Competition: Third Place Design and production in collaboration with Kanyalak Kupadakvinij
project: After programming the New York Public Library offices, renovate the historic library on the south east corner of Bryant Park to accommodate the new programs as well as flexible office spaces. Incorporate structure, HVAC systems, egress, and other performative features.
response: A vertical climax in the Manhattan grid, midtown’s towers invoke a sense of hostility. Urban Palazzo takes spatial inspiration from Palazzo Strozzi to shelter visitors from the overwhelming context with an intimate ground floor public space. The base houses the library offices, convention center, and a restaurant. The tower stacks the flexible offices with a mechanical room in the center and an employee cafeteria on top. The core is a concrete blade protecting the tower from southern sunlight. Each work space is within 25 feet of an operable window and the roofs and courtyard collect rainwater for recycling.
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AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Concrete Conc. Slab onmetal deck
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Thermal protecion
Thermal protecion Sprayed-on fireproofing @ beams (1 1/2 hr rating)
Sprayed-on fireproofing @ beams (1 1/2 hr rating)
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Glazed curtain wall 1” i.G.U. Vision lite w/ low e extruded alum. Vertical mullion
Specialties
Specialties Access flooring Ventilation gap Raised flooring Drop ceiling
Access flooring Ventilation gap Raised flooring Drop ceiling
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Illustration board, wire mesh, and acrylic
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Windows Operable windows Glazed curtain wall 1” i.G.U. Vision lite w/ low e extruded alum. Horizontal mullion Mesh curtain wall Extruded steel vertical mullion joint Steel bracket Steel mesh panels Catwalk
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Autocad and Illustrator
Lasercut illustration board, wire mesh, and acrylic
2 artifact mélangorium a curation through a piranesian lens Palladio Award
project: Study the works of Piranesi and choose an aspect that interests you to design a Piranesium. The site replaces an archeological museum on Piazza Santissima Annuziata, Firenze.
response: Artifact Melangorium is a redesign of the archeological museum’s garden with the addition of a contemporary art pavilion. Studying in Rome, Piranesi etched artifacts of antiquity as they were on site, solated on blank canvases, and deconstructed into elements. He discovered Rome’s unique consistency of ancient and modern fabric. The project displays Roman, Greek, and Egyptian artifact overflow. Relics are curated through a Piranesian lens in an outdoor sequence extending the museum’s interior. The project climaxes in a contemporary gallery, programmatically lacking in Florence.
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Study model and itterative sketches
Graphite perspectives
3 hierarchy of needs
a mutualistic relation with gentrification
project: Renovate the old coal power plant, ‘The Bat Cave’, along the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, into artist studios. Including studio spaces, livework apartments, galleries, and event spaces, introduce an “x-factor” program.
response: Taking advantage of the new attention from gentrification, Hierarchy of Needs introduces a financial office, laundromat, and showers to educate artists financially to manage and market their work, while providing basic hygienic resources. According to Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs, by covering basic living requirements, artists are encouraged to experiment. The goal is to slowly filter through the artists of Gowanus by means of assimilation, education, and dissemination. The site is treated as a monastery: a place of secluded work, and a destination for tourism. The two aspects are separated into a pinwheel of private program pierced by a public circulation, galleries, and event spaces.
Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Rhinoceros and Illustrator
AutoCAD and Illustrator
AutoCAD and Illustrator
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
4 scholastic gateway bridging yale and new haven
project: Design faculty housing for short and long term stay on the eastern edge of Yale, next to Robert Stern’s new student housing. Along with classrooms, an auditorium, restaurant, and library, include a unique programmatic element.
response: Due to socio-economic differences, Yale is a self-contained island within New Haven. Scholastic Gateway uses Yale’s tower and axial typologies, as well as its architectural diversity, to place a new axial entrance into the campus along the Erie Canal Heritage Trail. The project takes advantage of the transient faculty by allocating an outdoor space for public lecture to be shared by both Yale and New Haven. This program is an attempt to make the existing yearly public lecture event more accessible for New Haven by sharing the space.
Rockite, wire mesh, and piano wire
Graphite, Watercolor, AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
living living
storage storage
wall storage cubby wall storage cubby variations variations wall storage cubby variations
Ink and Watercolor 1’=1/4” 1’=1/4”
Ink, Watercolor, and Photoshop
Ink, Watercolor, and Photoshop
5 laurentian library
a study of form and multiplicity of reading
project: Study Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library vestibule and build a plansection-elevation bas-relief exploring the formal relationships. This study should reflect readings and ideas imbedded in the designs.
response: The Laurentian Library is a play on the split surface. A single plane is sheared in plan to achieve unique corner conditions and ambiguity of structure. The first model combines plan, section, and elevation into a proportionally interlocking composition. A single sheet of museum board was cut and pushed and pulled apart similarly to the room itself. The ambiguity of plan and section allows for a multiplicity of readings, revealing complex planar and sectional relationships. Fun Fact: the model is held together with 497 individually cut wires. The second model expands on the idea of the push and pull, but in plan. Different gauged wires are used to identify exponentially shrinking datum. The model sits in a container with a proportional diagram overlaying the model inside.
Lasercut illustration board, piano wire, and acrylic
6 concrete shell study another formal study
project: Study the concrete shell structural system and design a sequence of four spaces, each volumetrically five times larger than the last. Explore light and scale through model making. Take interior perspective photos of the final models to represent the spaces.
response: The study models were developed with the notion that if the structure is in pure tension upside down, then the structure is in pure compression right side up. The models are an exploration of the non-symmetrical aspects of concrete shell structures. The final iteration is a translation of the compressive nature of concrete into a spatial quality. The sequence spirals into itself, each space more compressive than the last, with a release of tension in the final, open-air, space.
Nylon, piano wire, and gesso
6 personal endeavors
Acrylic paint, 6" x 6"
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