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level of collaboration Camas Pedal Bike Shelter Project Manager Community design/build foundation of an m.arch education
Thesis The Production of Buildings: an adaptive reuse project in Portland, Oregon. Major explorations include permanence in architecture, photography and physical modeling.
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Kyoto Downtown Revitalization WPA 2.0 competition Lyceum Competition Museum for The Tiber River Billboards for Urban Agriculture
Models i Thesis ii Still Life Exercise iii Museum for The Tiber River
Hand Media i Sukkah City Competition ii Sketches from NYC
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Camas Pedal Bike Shelter Client: role: Estimated cost: Predesign: Design: Design/build: Materials:
Camas Ridge Community School Project Manager $18,000.00 Fall 2009 2010 Spring 2010 - Summer 2011 Steel, douglas fir, concrete, corrugated metal roofing, native plants
Keywords: Community design/build Multiple disciplines Budget uncertainties Revolving Team Flexible and enthusiastic client Custom Fabrication Description: From pre-design through construction, this project
was the foundation of my architectural education. The design/build organization through which this project was carried out, called designBridge, is student run and operated with a unique organizational model grounded in curricular obligation, made limitless by extracurricular dedication. The Camas Ridge Community School Bike Shelter is estimated at $18,000 in materials, all donated during the design phase thanks to fund raising efforts of the team in collaboration with the school.
EXTREME A revolving team of 30+ student /parent / professional volunteers supported a small core of leaders over a year and a half. Build Lead: Nate Poel Co-Project Managers: Caitlin Gilman (Winter and Spring 2010) Sara Vernia (Fall 2009) Faculty Advisors: Juli Brode and John Rowell Disciplines Involved: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art Education
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This respect, this concern for permanence has, I believe, something to do with the essence of works of art - that they emerge from a specific time and also display the characteristics of that time, in form and style and use of material, but at the same time pass through it or bring that time along with them in still memory into an endless future. - Rudi Fuchs, The Ideal Museum, 1987
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Thesis: The Production of Architecture Date: Location: Type: Size: Materials:
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Portland, Oregon Art Center 30,000 sq. ft. Steel, concrete, glass.
Keywords: Perception and narrative Adaptive Reuse Permanence Exclusion of 3-D computer modeling Physical modeling and photography Description: A building in support of an existing narrative.
HIGH Professor Howard Davis and all of his students. Most notably: Will krzymowski Joe Sadoski Christopher Nielson Peers: Jon Hammett Chesely Kristin Kelsey Will Lopatriello Jesse Crupper Hank Warneck Ashley Gibson Professional outreach: Flint Jamison (YU) Stephen Duff (U of O) Mark Donofio (U of O) Ian Gelbrich (Boora Architects, Inc)
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Yale Union Laundry Building
YU Contemporary Art Center
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Windows and polycarbonate panels of varying opacities bounce sunlight into the courtyard. Angles of the new facade are generated to reflect the old building from various positions inside and outside of the existing building.
witness associate appearance and materials with pre-existing opinions
experience a building in support of an existing space
observe the narrative of an urban environment
The new galleries are objects that physically shape the experience of visitors while offering artists the opportunity to create art based on perception at a variety of scales.
understand a space that changes with our perceptions, specific to our individual dispositions The ascension to the second floor gallery begins at the street and ends with a view down the length of the grand space. By this point the new building’s purpose is clear; to create an experience that supports the existing building.
studio is communicating schematic ideas to a diverse audience.
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HIGH Projects 1+2
5 Studio Projects 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Kyoto Study Abroad, 2009 WPA 2.0 Competition Entry, 2009 Lyceum Competition Entry, 2009 A Billboard for Urban Agriculture, 2010 A Museum for The Tiber River, 2010
Studio is a process dedicated to communication. Learning from my peers was the most valuable part of that process. In our curriculum, studio was not about designing space, rather it was about communicating ideas and opinions of the built environment. The value of this process when translated to real projects is in the cohesion of the design team. More clarity during schematics leads to a more unified design approach throughout development and execution of the project. This is particularly valuable during the detailing and construction documents phase, when hundreds of decisions are made daily by the individuals producing those documents.
Kyoto collaboration: Team Members: Victor Elliott, Peter Hanley, Michael Bowles Professors: Ron Lovinger, Daisuke, Yumiko Nelson, Michael Fifield Artist Satoko Motouji WPA 2.0 collaboration: Jon Hammett Chesley, Will Krzymowski, Nicolaus Wright
MODERATE Projects 3, 4, 5
Lyceum collaboration: Professor Erin Moore Peers: Jon Hammet Chesley Jeff Vincent Andrea Solk Billboard collaboration: Professor David Cook All students in the studio. Most notably: Jon Hammett Chesley Joe Sadoski Hank Warneck Tiber collaboration: Professor James Tice Peers: Kristin Kelsey Minh Ladao Dylan Woock
Kyoto Downtown Revitalization Landscape Architecture Studio in Kyoto, Japan, Summer 2009 Design Team: Victor Elliott, Peter Hanley, Michael Bowles
highway infrastructures.
Mediating Highways and Main Streets
We propose that USDOT investment be designated to improving the infrastructures of the United Sates Numbered Highway system such that this historic and locally specific transportation network be re-imagined/revisioned to act as supportive armatures for the healthy development of town centers in the periphery of major metropolitan areas. 101
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WPA 2.0 competition entry, Fall 2009 An extracurricular submission to the WPA 2.0 competition hosted by CityLab, an open call to solve infrastructural opportunities in America. The project proposes a multi-modal transportation hub designed to fit under viaducts in periphery cities across the country. The main goal was to take advantage of the divergent scales of transportation in order to rejuvenate or create downtown suburban city centers. collaboration with: Jonathan Chesley, Nicolaus Wright, Will Krzymowski
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Problem:
These "periphery cities" are expected to become sites of major population growth as residential options in city centers become increasingly out of reach for middle and lower class America. They are largely defined by strip development along major transportation corridors such PORTLAND AND ITS PERIPHERY CITIES as state highways. These state highways are largely underfunded and have become overwhelmed by increased usage. Commercial development is defined by multinational corporations' capabilities to develop their own infrastructures and plug-in to the vehicular economy of the corridor. Local economies are therefore dependent on the ebbs and flows of the global economic tides and do not contain redundant systems for self support or means of strategically engaging larger scale economies.
Opportunities:
Transit Oriented Development has become an accepted method of defining city growth utilizing public transit as a growth generator. TOD's primary method of action is through zoning and development guidelines. The problem of economic barriers created by previous reactive zoning is resistant to change by the same modes of THE CORRIDORS OF TIGARD production as it's creations. We propose that sites of infrastructural investments such as viaducts, interchanges, and tunnels be unshackled from their definitions as purely engineering tasks and undertake as sites of invention for the design of armatures for social, cultural, economic, and ecologic development of nascent periphery cities.
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Essential to the success of these sites is the mediation of divergent scales. These infrastructural interventions seek to seed and allow for the integration of the global, metropolitan, and private spheres of life. A programmatically contextual structural system is here proposed to support the needs of the highway and the main street while creating an organic armature for new typologies of hybrid culture, economy,and ecology which bridge the gap between the global and the private. The infrastructure becomes building becomes landscape becomes city.
Sustainable Dance Floor by the Sustainable Dance Club
RGB LED Generator
1. Existing behavior used to generate power
2. Lights activate underpass
panels interrupt user 3 paths
3. Projections inform vehicular commuters
place growth boxes in between panel groupings
A Billboard for Urban Agriculture Reconditioning the Urban Fabric, Spring 2010 A studio led by Behnisch Architekten Principal David Cook Activate. Advertise. Educate. This project is about educating the urban population about food - the local availability of it and the process of growing it. An intervention of this nature serves to increase the density of urban agricultural practice by drawing attention its existence, instructing its feasibility and encouraging its growth through experiential participation.
existing esplenade extended
(open commercial space below)
(bookstore and cafe below)
longotevere dei pierleoni
fountain skylight over main gallery down to river
secondary piazza
(existing stairs)
(new stairs replicated from adjacent side)
(existing office space)
(ruins)
(Basilica di San Nicola in Carcere)
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models are the most valuable medium.
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Design and Presentation Models 1. Thesis, 2010 - 2011 2. Still Life Exercise, 2008 3. Museum for The Tiber River, 2010
MODERATE Projects 1+2
Thesis collaboration: Professor Howard Davis and all of his students. Most notably: Will krzymowski Joe Sadoski Christopher Nielson Peers: Jon Hammett Chesely Kristin Kelsey Will Lopatriello Jesse Crupper Hank Warneck Ashley Gibson Professional outreach: Flint Jamison (YU) Stephen Duff (U of O) Mark Donofio (U of O) Ian Gelbrich (Boora Architects, Inc) Still Life Collaboration: Professor Otto Poticha Peer: Will Krzymowski
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Museum for The Tiber: Professor James Tice
Hand media is more important every day.
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A small sampling of hand media 1. Sukkah City Competition, 2010 2. Paintings from New York City, 2011
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LOW Sukkah City collaboration: Professor Jim Givens and his media class.
SLIGHT Paintings from NYC: A series of paintings for an apartment in New York City. Collaboration with residents, Rob and Mike Sanzillo.