Neha Sahai
Selected Works
Spring 2019
Portfolio
Neha grew up internationally, spending her early years in New Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Bangalore. She is currently finishing the last year of her architecture degree at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is incredibly passionate about human-centric and interdisciplinary design, continually finding ways to integrate that interest beyond her architectural studies and into the communities around her. Neha has previously worked with the offices of the Houston Downtown Management District in Houston, K2LD Architects in Singapore, Rogers Partners in New York, and the Houston Action Research Team in Houston. She has also served as the Marketing Manager for Rice University’s late night cafÊ, The Hoot, and is currently doing research and exhibition design for MG&Co. in Houston.
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Neha Sahai
Stair Game
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A new micro-housing, coliving model for Brooklyn, New York.
Compositional Copies
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A Center for the Arts in Valencia, Spain, that uses recycled architectural elements to generate new spatialities.
Studies in Spatial Appropriation
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Defining the method of architectural copying as a precedent to “Compositional Copies.�
PLAT Journal
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Selected layouts from PLAT 5.5 and PLAT 6.0.
Kraft Hall for Social Sciences
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Work samples from schematic and design development for the Rice University Kraft Hall for Social Sciences.
Fever Pitch
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A concert hall for Bilbao, Spain, exploring iconicity in the post-industrial city.
Architectronica Exploring the transformational properties of projection as a surface and spatial tool.
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
Stair Game A new micro-housing model for Brooklyn, Stair Game employs housing units in a manner that can return collectivity, specificity and domesticity to the space and inhabitants of micro-units. By aggregating clusters of units in a shifted section, a variety of spaces are produced, including a central atrium, occupiable platforms, public stairs, and visible common areas that allow for new and varied types of collectivity across all scales of the project. This project was initiated by reflecting on the limitations of the traditional housing model that produces generic systems through extruding a site footprint, dividing the massing into floors and the floors into units. Micro-housing projects such as Caesura add to this system by trading square footage from housing units to create shared amenity spaces that supposedly generate collectivity among residents through interaction. Micro-units are compressed to the most basic necessities of living while domestic activities such as cooking, laundry, and entertainment are removed from the home and reformed into public acts performed in shared spaces. However, when these previously semi-private functions are pushed into large public areas, their operations are alienated from the space of the home, losing their sense of domesticity and privacy. The collectivity hoped to be generated never realizes as shared spaces become underused in their isolation from units and dispersion across floors. Such qualities of home life and community are sacrificed for economic models of efficiency that limit the functionality of the micro-unit and compartmentalize the theme of “collectivity” into leftover plan space. Combined with the standardization and serial repetition of the unit and floor, there is a subsequent loss of spatial identity, ownership and agency that a user has over their home, habits and community. To create a model that could generate true collectivity, traditional definition of such housing projects were subverted. Instead of massing to floors to units, the project begins at a middle scale of a “cluster” of units, which then aggregate together and inform the envelope. Units are sectionally intersected, creating poche spaces that become performative domestic spaces (furniture and service elements) and allow the unit to be self-sufficient. When clusters are aggregated in a stepped manner, a stairscape is created within the project that subverts the flat corridor and provides each cluster with an intimate entrance and platform. When the aggregations are mirrored to create a looping cluster logic, an open atrium is generated. The atrium enforces a type of public intimacy as it allows for constant and differentiating visual connections across different clusters and levels. The result is a home life that can be as private or as public as the inhabitant chooses. Project completed with M.Arch candidate Leyuan Li.
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
1 — Typical developer-built apartments extrude the site footprint to determine the building massing. 2 — The massing is divided into floors... 3 — ...and the floors are divided into as many units as possible. In co-living projects, units are compressed and leftover space is dedicated to communal activities; however, these spaces are often underused.
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4 — Stair Game subverts the process of “massing to floor to unit,” instead starting at a cluster of five micro-units. These units are aggregated to intersect, producing areas of thicker walls, floors, or ceilings. 5 — In the units, the thickened walls contain domestic and service programs, such as kitchenettes, MEP services, beds, storage, and so on. A living room and kitchen are attached to the cluster of units. 6 — As the clusters are aggregated and mirrored, a central atrium is generated.
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7 — Because of the stepped aggregation of the clusters, the typical flat corridor that connects all the clusters becomes a continuous stair loop. 8 — A central “stairscape” is created that connects all clusters around the public atrium. 9 — Cuts in the massing are created to address the public programs in the building.
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10 — The cuts in the roof allow the atrium to be passively cooled, while the cut on the base generates a public plaza and lifts the Brooklyn Center for Fiction program. 11 — The final massing is generated in a reverse process compared to the typical apartment. 11
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
Pictured on Pg. 2: Cluster kitchen (looking into atrium and beyond) top Top two units (looking into living rooms and atrium beyond) middle Intimate platforms at unit entrances bottom
Pictured on Pg. 4: Units become private as soon as their doors close top Sloped tub that allows for stair clearance below left A facade designed to subvert the reading of the units right
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Pictured: Stairscape top left Site model top right Site elevation bottom left Section model bottom right Atrium and public platforms pg. 5 Detail section through roof pg. 7
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Fall 2018
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
FORMED ALUMINUM COPING AIR/VAPOR BARRIER MINERAL WOOL INSULATION PRESSURE TREATED WOOD BLOCKING
I-BEAM (ROOF SUBSTRUCTURE) RAFTER
SHEATHING
CURTAIN WALL ANCHOR
AIR/VAPOR BARRIER
STEEL STUD
EXTERIOR RIGID INSULATION STEEL PURLIN
COOLING TOWER ON MECHANICAL ROOF
CONCRETE TOPPING SLAB
IMPACT SOUND INSULATION
FIRESAFING
REINFORCED CONCRETE COMPOSITE SLAB
SMOKE SEAL
CORRUGATED STEEL DECKING STEEL STUD GYPSUM WALL BOARD MINERAL WOOL INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER
SUSPENDED GYPSUM CEILING
AIR BARRIER
MURPHY BED
INSULATED GLASS STACK JOINT
SOLID WOOD FLOORING
10”x18” REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN
2.5” CONCRETE TOPPING SLAB
DEAD LOAD ANCHOR IN SLAB EDGE POCKET
1 MM SEPARATING PLASTIC LAYER
2”x6” ALUMINUM MULLION
IMPACT SOUND INSULATION
SHEATHING
REINFORCED CONCRETE COMPOSITE SLAB
COMPOSITE CORE METAL PANEL
CORRUGATED STEEL DECKING GYPSUM CEILING
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
“TOSHIKI STOWS AWAY THE MURPHY BED BEFORE HE GOES TO WORK.
“MICHAEL IS PULLING DOWN THE OVERHEAD TABLE TO HAVE DINNER
AS AN ACHITECT, HE STAYS UP PRETTY LATE.”
WITH FRANCIS.”
MURPHY BED INSET OVERHEAD TABLE VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING FLOOR STORAGE
INSET MICRO KITCHEN INSET STORAGE
SLOPED LOUNGE TUB INSET PLATFORM BED PULL-OUT STORAGE VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING
INSET CABINET AND MIRROR
INSET OVERHEAD TABLE
“KID! GO AWAY! THIS IS MY ROOM!”
SLOPED LOUNGE TUB INSET PLATFORM BED PULL-OUT STORAGE VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING
INSET FOLD-OUT BENCH
INSET BOOKSHELF WITH TRACK LADDER
INSET PULL-UP TABLE
INSET FOLD-OUT SHELF STORAGE BED
INSET PULL-UP TABLE
VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING SOUND INSULATION
INSET CABINET INSET MICRO KITCHEN INSET CABINET
FOLD-OUT TABLE INSET MICRO KITCHEN
PULL-OUT STORAGE PULL-OUT BED
MURPHY BED SOLID WOOD FLOOR STUD STRUCTURE
“LI RENOVATED HIS APARTMENT INTO A STUDIO. HE IS CLIMBING UP
“MITCH PULLED UP THE INSET TABLE FOR ALEX’S VISIT. (HE WAS
“AYLIN PUSHES IN HER DRAWERS. SHE ENJOYS HAVING THE EXTRA
THE STAIR TO GET SOME BOOKS.”
SUPPOSED TO PUT AWAY HIS MURPHY BED BUT HE GOT TOO LAZY).”
STORAGE TO PUT AWAY HER CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.”
A section perspective into each unit displays the life within the units. 8
FOLD-OUT INSET BENCH
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
“TROY IS COOKING INSTANT NOODLES IN THE MICRO KITCHEN. GÖKÇE
“YULONG IS DRINKING HIS FAVORITE BEVERAGE,
“YUQING READS RECENT PROJECT DRAWINGS. HER DRY-CLEANED
JUST GOT HOME. IT’S SO COLD OUTSIDE!”
OOLONG TEA.”
COAT WAITS TO BE WORN TO HER NEXT CLIENT MEETING.”
MURPHY BED INSET STORAGE VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING INSET MICRO KITCHEN INSET CABINET
INSET FOLD-OUT TABLE
INSET MICRO KITCHEN INSET CABINET
INSET PULL-UP TABLE PULL-OUT STORAGE
PULL-OUT BED PULL-OUT STORAGE VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING
VENTILATION IN DROPCEILING PULL-UP INSET TABLE FOLD-OUT INSET BENCH
INSET CABINET MIRROR BED WITH STORAGE
INSET BOOKSHELF WITH TRACK LADDER
INSET CABINET AND MIRROR
INSET PLATFORM BED PULL-OUT STORAGE
SLOPED LOUNGE TUB
INSET PLATFORM BED PULL-OUT STORAGE
INSET PLATFORM BED PULL-OUT STORAGE
INSET OVERHEAD TABLE
INSET MICRO KITCHEN PULL-UP INSET TABLE
FOLD-OUT INSET BENCH
VENTILATION IN DROP CEILING PULL-UP INSET TABLE MURPHY BED
“NICOLE IS PULLING DOWN THE OVERHEAD TABLE SO THAT HER
“NEHA AND TIFFANY DRINK TOGETHER TO COMMISERATE THE FIGHT
“PHIL IS NOT AT HOME.
DAUGHTER CAN COMPLETE HER HOMEWORK.”
NEHA JUST HAD WITH LI.”
I DONT KNOW WHERE HE IS.”
The intersection of the units produces poche spaces that contain all domestic and service functions of the unit. 9
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
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Fall 2018
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Fall 2018
Pictured: Structural model depicting reinforced core, concrete construction, and steel roof structure above Section through atrium left Plan (cut along public stair) pg. 10 top left Plan (cut straight) pg. 10 top right Section through interior stair pg. 10 bottom left Section through units pg. 10 bottom right
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Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
Spring 2017
1 2 3 Compositional Copies In a world oversaturated with media, today’s contemporary network culture privileges seductive objects that are repeated without content and context on digital platforms such as Instagram. As a result, what were once articulate and complex architectural forms are often copied and reduced to empty, commercial surfaces with generic interiors, as architecture’s aestheticization flattens its spatial depth and complexity into the singular image ideal for digital consumption. When forms are emptily appropriated, it becomes reductive to the discourse. To explore the potentials of the architectural copy, a “source code” of existing images, drawings and models was compiled by the studio as a palette for the project. In the Valencia Center for the Arts, the source code was used to appropriate visual and spatial conditions to generate an architecture of complexity and interiority. Rather than copying explicit forms, the project borrows elements from other works — architectural images, sectional conditions, plan drawings, program organizations — and transforms them to produce authentic, original experiences within the framework of an existing warehouse structure along Valencia’s waterfront. Essentially, elements of the plans, sections, and renderings in this project are taken from existing or unbuilt architectural projects, but modified and combined in a manner to produce new architecture without trace of its original context. The de-aestheticization of the project’s appearance, done by preserving the banal facade of the original building, gives little clue to the internal omplexity of the project. Ultimately, the multitude of compositional fragments used to construct a highly specified and variable program results in a project that cannot be captured through a single mode of representation.
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Professor Lluis Juan Liùån
Rice School of Architecture
Spring 2017
In our contemporary network culture, architectural information is easily accessible and infinitely consumable by everyone through the proliferation of images in media.
The oversaturation of images leads to a mindless consumption of images that privileges seductive forms. To produce ideal images, architecture neglects context and content.
Forms, flattened due to the image, become architectural tropes that are emptily reappropriated into commercial wrappers, neglecting spatial depth and complexity.
The uncritical consumption and repetition of forms is critiqued by generating an interiorized, complex architecture that appropriates spatial conditions over explicit forms.
The potentials of appropriation are explored through juxtaposed elements and compositions from the source code, resulting in a project unable to be defined singularly.
Rejecting the trend of aestheticized building exteriors and generic interiors, the project creates an architecture of spatial intensity using these existing works to define a new one.
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Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
Pictured: Section top Ground plan bottom Digitally produced images pg.12 Sectional oblique pg.15
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Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
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Spring 2017
Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
Spring 2017
Studies in Spatial Appropriation The Nomadic Disco (pg. 17), Business Incubator (pg. 18), and Arts Commons (pg. 19) are three exercises in spatial appropriation that served as precedent studies for The Valencia Center of the Arts. To understand how organic spaces and experiences can be created without explicit formal elements, common objects of construction and design — trucks and doorways — were used as primary organizers of space and program. Appropriations, or fragments of drawing and model elements, are taken from existing architectural projects in the source code (above), but repeated or altered in ways that blur their origin and intention. These studies seek ways in which architectural appropriation can create the new rather than recycle the old. 16
Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
The Nomadic Disco 17
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Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
The Business Incubator 18
Spring 2017
Professor Lluis Juan Liñán
Rice School of Architecture
The Arts Common 19
Spring 2017
PLAT Journal
Spring 2016
PLAT Journal Published by students at the Rice School of Architecture, PLAT is an independent architectural journal whose purpose is to stimulate relationships between design, production, and theory. It operates by interweaving professional and academic work into an open and evolving dialogue which progresses from issue to issue. Curating worldwide submissions in two annual issues, PLAT is a projective catalyst for architectural discourse. Pictured are samples of graphic layouts from PLAT 5.5: Re-License and PLAT 6.0: Absence, co-edited with Toshiki Niimi. While designing PLAT 5.5 and 6.0, the multitude of submission formats — ranging from e-mail chains and photo essays to architectural projects and transparent page art — had to be considered and made cohesive. In collaboration with Melis Ugurlu, Rachel Grady, and Toshiki Niimi.
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PLAT Journal
Spring 2016
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Rogers Partners Architects & Urban Planners
2017—2018
The Rice School of Social Sciences The first of many buildings that will be constructed along a corridor of policy and research institutes on campus, the new Rice University School of Social Sciences had to act as a gateway to the future vision of the university’s expansion. Located on a largely empty site with little context, the facility had to reference the architecture of other campus buildings while setting a new architectural direction for future projects along the South Axis. Among its challenges, it had to create social spaces, but separate students from the office-heavy program for faculty; it had to be accessible from multiple points on the site, but maintain private and secure access for important visitors; and, in Houston’s flood-prone climate, it had to appear integrated into the campus despite being elevated five feet above the street-level floodplain. The expedited nature of the project, which started construction one year after the beginning of schematic design in September 2017, pushed the team to consider multiple challenges simultaneously and allowed me to play a larger part in the design and execution of the project. My responsibility in the project increased over time; during schematic design, I initially produced diagrammatic analyses of the site and visualized concepts through renderings and models. During design development, I studied and designed entire segments of the project, including the curtain wall, several classrooms, and office layouts. I was also trained in Revit and spent a majority of my time producing drawing sets, designing and documenting the project’s landscape, and communicating with consultants. (All work was produced by me and is the property of Rogers Partners Architects.) Left: Exterior rendering Right: Examples of landscape design and documentation.
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TP 45.22
BENCH
BN
1%
FG 44.60 TJB 43.60
BN
NS
0.5%
Elevator Consultant Facade Consultant
TP 42.25
2 L108FG 47.43
TP 47.43
TP 48.00
Tillotson Design I.A.Worth Naman + Associates, Inc. 40 Street, Room 703 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 New York, NY 10013 Houston, TX 77046 212.675.7760 713.860.3600 www.tillotsondesign.com www.ianaman.com
Code Consultants, Inc. Tillotson Design Parkway, Suite 300 2043 Woodland 40 Worth Room 703 St. Louis, Street, MO 63146 New York, NY 10013 314.991.2633 212.675.7760 www.codeconsultants.com www.tillotsondesign.com
Specification Consultant Code Consultant
BS 42.80
TS 47.80
TP 47.80 TP 47.32
TG 47.30
TG 47.20
Ulrich Engineers Walter P. Moore and 200 Associates 2901 Wilcrest, Suite 1301 McKinney, Suite 1100 Houston, TX 77042 Houston, TX 77010 713.780.7645 713.630.7300 www.ulrichengineers.com www.walterpmoore.com
Heintges & Associates
Code Consultant Lighting Design
2.5%
TG 46.72
TP 44.59
02
TP 45.01
01
TP 47.96
TP 48.00
03
TP 42.49
TP 46.98
TP 48.00
TP 47.91
I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc. Robert Silman Associates 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 32 Old Slip, Floor Houston, TX10th 77046 New York, NY 10005 713.860.3600 212.620.7970 www.ianaman.com www.silman.com
Ulrich Engineers 440 Park Avenue South 2901York, Wilcrest, Suite 200 New NY 10016 Houston, TX 77042 212.652.2966 713.780.7645 www.heintges.com www.ulrichengineers.com
TS 47.16
TS 46.74 BS 46.24 2%
Walter P. Moore and Associates William Marsh Rice University 1301 McKinney, Suite 1100 6100 MainTX Street Houston, 77010 Houston, TX 77005 713.630.7300 713.348.0000 www.walterpmoore.com www.rice.edu
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TP 45.08
2%
TS 45.24 BS 44.74
1% TS 44.24 BS 43.74 TS 44.74 BS 44.24
01
TS 45.08 BS 44.58
TG 42.52
2%
2.42% 2.42%
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FG 43.89 TJB 42.89
FG 42.88 TJB 41.88
TS 44.42 BS 43.92
2%
FG 43.89 TJB 42.89
L103
TP 42.87
TS 43.76 BS 43.26
TG 42.52
Robert Silman Associates Architects Urban Designers 32 Old Slip,+ 10th Floor 100 Reade Street New York, NY 10005 New York, New York 10013 212.620.7970 212.309.7570 www.silman.com www.rogerspartners.com
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Architects + Urban Designers 100 Reade Street New York, New York 10013 212.309.7570 www.rogerspartners.com
MATERIAL PLAN William Marsh Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005 713.348.0000 www.rice.edu
Robert Silman Associates 32 Old Slip, 10th Floor New York, NY 10005 212.620.7970 www.silman.com
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Building Systems Engineer
Walter P. Moore and Associates 1301 McKinney, Suite 1100 Houston, TX 77010 713.630.7300 www.walterpmoore.com
I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc. 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 Houston, TX 77046 713.860.3600 www.ianaman.com
© ROGERS ARCHITECTS, PLLC 2018
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Geotechnical Engineer
01
Lighting Design
Facade Consultant
Ulrich Engineers 2901 Wilcrest, Suite 200 Houston, TX 77042 713.780.7645 www.ulrichengineers.com
Tillotson Design 40 Worth Street, Room 703 New York, NY 10013 212.675.7760 www.tillotsondesign.com
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Rogers Partners Architects & Urban Planners
2017—2018
RTH ELEVATION ACADE STUDY -SOUTH ELEVATION 22
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FACADE STUDY -EAST ELEVATION
North Elevation
FACADE STUDY -EAST ELEVATION WEST ELEVATION
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North Elevation
South Elevation
South Elevation
East Elevation
East Elevation
West Elevation
West Elevation
Rendered elevations the North,created South, East, and West facades. Renderedof elevations with Jonathan Palazzolo, Aya Matsumoto, Noel Turgeon 24
Rendered elevations created with Jonathan Palazzolo, Aya Matsumoto, Noel Turgeon
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2017—2018
FACADE STUDY -SOUTH COURTYARD ELEVATION YARD ELEVATION
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North Courtyard Elevation
YARD ELEVATION
FACADE STUDY -WEST COURTYARD ELEVATION
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South Courtyard Elevation
North Courtyard Elevation
South Courtyard Elevation
East Courtyard Elevation
West Courtyard Elevation
East Courtyard Elevation
West Courtyard Elevation
Rendered interior elevations of the North, South, East, and West facades. Rendered elevations created with Jonathan Palazzolo, Aya Matsu 25
Rendered elevations created with Jonathan Palazzolo, Aya Matsumoto, Noel Turgeon
Rogers Partners Architects & Urban Planners
2017—2018
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Rogers Partners Architects & Urban Planners
2017—2018
Plan Level 3 above Plan Level 4 below Completed with Aya Matsumoto 27
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Spring 2016
Fever Pitch “The Bilbao Effect” — the renaissance brought to a post-industrial Bilbao through the construction of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim — was transformational. The museum’s critical success led to the idea that a new landmark or icon for the city, often a formally overwhelming structure designed by a “starchitect,” could revitalize its community and economy. Yet, too often, such iconic works were devoid of cultural context, seemingly out of place in the very cities they meant to renew. Questioning the notions of iconicity, the project began with an arbitrary form that would eventually become a music hall for a neglected neighborhood of Bilbao, Spain. The iconicity inherent to the initial form — in essence, a heavy silhouette situated without context — was challenged by systematically multiplying and scaling the form. Instead of a singular, decontextualized object defined by its exterior image, the Bilbao Music Hall becomes defined by the relationships within and between each form. The architecture of aggregation lends a logic and interiority to the project; and, combined with the site’s isolation on a peninsula with limited accessibility, the building becomes both foreign and local to its context.
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
Pictured on Pg. 29:
Spring 2016
Pictured on Pg. 30:
Site elevation top Section through Music Hall 1 + 2 middle Section through Music Hall 2 bottom
Unit and aggregations study models top Courtyard, outdoor stage, entrance middle Model bottom
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Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
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Spring 2016
Professor Troy Schaum
Rice School of Architecture
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Spring 2016
Architecture Society at Rice
Fall 2014
Architectronica Architectronica is an annual public party hosted by students at the Rice School of Architecture. Using Resolume software, the team explored projection mapping technology as a method of activitating the flat walls of the event space. The surface and spatial qualities of projection transformed the private galleries of the architecture building into a public canvas of light that, in real time, would react to the sounds produced by the DJ and the students. The event attracted 1,800 people and was preceded by a workshop on projection mapping, both to raise interest in the event and in the technology. Attendees of the workshop went on to support and re-create the event in following years. ​ Organized with Josh Howard, Will Letchinger, and Kajal Patel.
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Architecture Society at Rice
Fall 2014
Pictured: Mapping over stair landing top, pg. 32 top right Adjusting boundaries of projection to scale model of event space middle Scale model of event space to test projections right Farish gallery (main event space) pg. 32 left Jury room (lounge space) above, pg. 32 bottom right
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