Nick Auger Architecture Portfolio 2015

NICHOLAS AUGER M.ARCH CANDIDATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA nauger@design.upenn.edu www.nauger.com

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X-POINT CITY

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POST-SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY

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XTAL-92

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MED + EDU + REC

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CIDORI

Critic: Neil Denari | Fall 2014

Critic: Ferda Kolatan | Spring 2014

Critic: Matias del Campo | Fall 2013

Critic: Keith Vandersys | Spring 2013

Instructor: Lindsay Falck | Fall 2013

X-POINT CITY

arch 701 | fall 2014 critic: Neil Denari and Jonathan Scelsa

/// X-Point City quite literally slices through Los Angeles—a city defined both by movement and imagery. The program includes residential, office, secondary school, museum, and retail; on a site that sits directly adjacent to the Culver City station on LA’s increasingly-relevant Metro system.

By adding and subtracting from a simple stacked and rotated geometry, we have created a system of large glazed and perforated panels that are bold and graphic, yet ambiguous in their meaning. We hope that this system will catch the 3

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attention of Los Angeles’ image-saturated culture, while avoiding the negative associations that much of the public has with ubiquitous advertising and branding. We also hope that, in slicing through the tired rotating tower typology, we can provide users with orientation on what is otherwise a large site with diverse and numerous programs.

[Done in collaboration with Jonathan Gorder]

Stacked and rotated volumes are used to create solid and void. Resulting forms are trimmed, adding orientation and directionality in relation to the site and surrounding area.

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PHYSICAL MODEL

OFFICE LOBBY FLOOR PLAN

PROGRAM SITE AXONOMETRIC

RESIDENTIAL

HOTEL

SCHOOL

OFFICE

MUSEUM

RETAIL

Diagrammatic Realism The project uses CMYK colors exclusively to generate hyper graphic representations, while striving to reach a high level of detail and resolution.

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PHYSICAL MODEL

RESIDENTIAL SECTION DETAIL

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RESIDENTIAL SECTION

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EXTERIOR VIEW

POST-SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY /// The post-scientific museum of geology is a break from traditional modes of understanding and experiencing material. The building aims to confuse the natural and artificial, just as the site of Central Park already does (in which all is not as it appears, transplanted boulders and heavily altered terrain). Sited just next to the Museum of Natural History in New York, this project is for the display of geological artifacts.

The experience is in the absence of knowledge. Once a thing, an experience, an environment can be placed it ends. The basic program for the museum is one of difference. The way that exhibitions and spaces have been arranged traditionally has been to try and classify

arch 602 | spring 2014 critic: Ferda Kolatan

each artifact into a particular group and understand it in relation to other artifacts. This new approach aims to confuse a totalizing knowledge by the accumulation of differences.

The building implies mass, and uses it to negotiate between differentiated experiences.

The material choice for the building’s exterior was slate. Its natural characteristics, then made artificial and abstracted by cutting into tile, offered the building a unique way to not pose as any one monolithic material even as it was built out of stone. The slight rotation of the shingle system makes the building appear singular during the day, but at night the interior lighting reveals the porosity of the building and program.

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INITIAL STUDY MODELS

GEOLOGICAL STUDY

STUDY MODEL

SLATE SHINGLE SYSTEM

UPPER GALLERY

LOBBY

PROJECTION BOOTH VERTICAL DOUBLED SUPPORTS

AUDITORIUM

+60’

LOADING / SERVICE

PRE-CAST CONCRETE FLOOR PANELS (4x8)

PERSPECTIVAL SECTION

SITE

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FACADE STUDY MODELS

Contour Ribbed Interior

Steel Structure

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

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Slate Shingle Rainscreen

Glazing

WALL ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM

PHYSICAL MODELS

EXTERIOR VIEW

XTAL-92

arch 601 | fall 2013 critic: Matias del Campo

/// XTAL-92 is a housing project that critically explores the relationship between specific geometric conditions and techniques to envelope aggregated bodies. To this extent, the dividing line between body and envelope is questioned, creating a blurred configuration of the building.

The building’s outer envelope acts as an elastic wrapping of the interior structural system, that allows for only a partial reading of its interior workings. The plasticity of the façade blurs the underlying condition, intentionally obscuring the deeper layers of the quasicrystalline structural system, and thus subverting the concept of façade readability.

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The XTAL-92 design draws inspiration from natural systems of colonization and non-periodic quasicrystalline patterns to investigate new ways of generating density in urban environments. The interior framework of the building is generated from a configuration of 92 densely-packed quasicrystalline units.

One of the main goals of the XTAL-92 design was to create a system that could densely occupy the space without producing a symmetrical and uniform agglomeration of apartment units.

INTERIOR VIEW

N scale 1:1,000

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UNIT AGGREGATION AND FORM DEVELOPMENT

TOP-DOWN EXTERIOR VIEW

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1. Kaffeehaus 2. Kaffeehaus patio 3. Kaffeehaus kitchen 4. Residential entrance 5. Management Office 6. Garbage room 7. Bike storage 8. Mail room 9. Integrated market 10. Lounge

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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UPPER FLOOR PLAN

Apartment Entrance Bedroom Storage room Garbage room Outdoor patio Apartment Entrance Bedroom

EXTERIOR VIEW

DIAGRAMMATIC SECTION

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INTERIOR VIEW

MED + EDU +REC /// MED + EDU + REC is a design for cardiovascular health center located in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia. The project began by exploring the different ways in which people access and pass through the neighborhood, and resolved into a system focused on attracting and retaining people within the site.

Informed by research into the problem of heart disease in Philadelphia—the city has the highest rate among the largest US cities—the health center aims to provide basic treatment and preventative cardiovascular care to the surrounding community. The center weaves together three different programmatic circuits, focused on healthcare, health education, and recreational activity, to deliver a multi-faceted approach to tackling heart disease.

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arch 502 | spring 2013 critic: Keith Vandersys The three circuits represent distinct strategies of addressing the problem of heart disease, through treatment, educating the community on cardiovascular health, and increasing level of exercise, the center integrates the different methods and delivers a unified approach.

The design of the MED + EDU + REC center emerged from a study of potential usage patterns of the different programmatic circuits in the community and in combination with other healthcare related considerations. The overall distribution of elements and circulation flow of the center helps to better engage the surrounding neighborhood and promote cardiovascular health citywide.

PHYSICAL MODELS

Health Circuit The healthcare circuit provides a range of basic healthcare services as well as specialized cardiovascular care to the community.

- primary care services - cardiovascular center - intervention center Philadelphia

Education Circuit The educational circuit provides a learning space for the community where people can take classes and engange in workshops on public health.

- nutrition center - healthy living workshops - children’s center - lectures

Recreational Circuit The recreational circuit puts a focus on exercise and physical activity within a wider approach to heart disease prevention.

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- parkspace - specialty exercise classes - physical/occupational therapy

potential pedestrian and bicycle flows and networks through the site

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

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INTERIOR/EXTERIOR VIEWS

N 1

10

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50

100 ft

LEVEL 0 FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN

LEVEL 3 FLOOR PLAN

CIDORI

arch 631 | fall 2013 critic: Lindsay Falck

[Done in collaboration with Josh Berliner + Jonathan Gorder]

/// The Cidori grid was modeled on the building system used in the GC Prostho Museum and Research Center in Kasugaishi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The building was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates.

Originally based on a Japanese children’s toy and converted to architectural scale, the interlocking wood members conceal the joint in the grid, creating a solid structural system. A report on the building’s structural systems, skin, environmental systems, and lighting was also prepared as a part of the project.

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The GC Prostho Museum and Research Center, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates (2010), employed the Cidori system on a large scale—6,000 wooden members were used in the building.

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