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NICK TRAVERSE

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2014



CONTENT ALLEN COLLABorative Cultural Beacon Delaware|Chippewa Skin Build Field Conditions Malcontenta addition Structural Transformations The Market Patterns of Use Tokyo Diaect Tri-Par Pavillion Catanary Arch


ALLEN COLLABrative CULTURAL BEACON

Fall 2014 Civitas Professor: Erkin Ozay Partner: James Kubiniec

The intersection at Allen and Main has the potential to elevate the culture of Buffalo. Taking advantage of this location, it will contain apartments for thriving artist throughout buffalo, where events such as First Friday can be absorbed into the gallery. Allen Collab contains many areas for work and display, as well as flexible apartment units that can be expressed as open galleries. The form is derived from the context and future potentials of the city. The volume drapes from these key nodes creating unique spaces within and above the units to accommodate different artist needs. The back becomes marketable towards painters and film photographers, while the units on the street become marketable towards sculptors and the like. On the site the form creates two seperate courtyard dynamics, while the skin provides for a range of preferences, light and privacy, creating an overall exciting place to live.


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[A] RESIDENCIAL UNITS - two to three bedrooms -moveable partition in studio/living space. open floor exhibiion events -rooftop spaces consisting of greenspace, high atrium, and penthouse space [B] DORM/STUDIO UNIT -single bed w/ bathroom and kitchen

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-hot water distributed to fixtures as well as to radiant heating loop

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[D] SOLOAR WATER COLLECTION D1 -panels distributed on roof in areas of least permiability (< 30%) D2 - hot water heater w/ integrated solar exchange D3- backup tank

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[C] PERFORATED BRONZE PANELS -perforations based on spatial program/needs. largest diameter of 6”

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[E] RADIANT FLOOR COILS [F] AIR HANDLER UNIT -intake and exhaust -primarily cooling/ secondary heating- distributed to all spaces F1- suppy F2- return

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[G] COOLING TOWER

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[H] GALLERY/ EVENT SPACE [I] COURTYARD

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[F1]

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[J] SCHOOL/WORKSHOP SPACE [A]

[K] RESIDENCIAL COURTYARD -open to public only during specified events

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[L] PARKING [M] ROOFTOP GREENSPACE

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[N] SPRINKLER SYSTEM [E]

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AHU [F]

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Delaware|Chippewa Skin Build Spring 2014 Professor: Brad Wales Office Allowing for a direct relationship between lines and new forms of fabrication sparks a catalytic way of thinking about architecture and the way we build. The design build aspect creates a dialogue between the office and the shop, the hypothesis and the experiment. The office has a focus on pushing the boundaries and redefining the term “skin� in architecture. The building mass lifts up on the street to reveal the shop; and a system of large scale CNC fabrication. This system climbs up the office tower and becomes skin; creating an interstitial occupiable sun space that becomes a breathing vessel for the office space, pumping and articulating airflow and sunlight.



Seventh Floor Plan Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”

First Floor Plan

Seventh Floor Plan

Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”

Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”

6th Floor Plan Scale: 3/32"=1'-0"

Second Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”

Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”

Roof Plan

2015

2017

Scale: 3/32” = 1’-0”


A. Steel Truss Structuring floor plates as well as creates sun atrium and occupiable work-installation space for varying skin systems 6x6x½ square HSS @ 26’-0” O.C.

B. Fire Rated Glass Providing fire seperation between atrium and office levels Smoke Evacuation unit Cooling Tower

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Pressurization unit Chimney

C. Floor Plate-Truss connection

90°

Single pin connection bolted to truss and 3/8”x6”x4” steel angle cast into precast floor plates

Winter Solar Gain

72°

D. Perforated stainless steel panels Provides shading while still permiting visibility transparency E. The Shop Designated area of design-build and analysis of prefabricated building elements, predominantly skin

70° Direct Gain

VAV Box

6000 sq. ft. floor space with mezzanine for storage and other program Includes Restrooms, showers and locker spaces

15°

A

Concrete and fire rated glass structure independant of rest of office building

F. Mechanical space for Shop & Office VAV systems G. Smoke Evacuation Unit I. Mechanical Systems

72°

Hydronic in floor heat

B

Modified size VAV- Redistributing hot air from solar gain in double wall back into the office levels

70°

Stack effect & cross Ventilation emphasis

C

Cool air from basement.

D 70°

E

75°

F Fan Boiler Chiller

70°

Winter Performance [Heating]


Field Conditions La Malcontenta

Spring 2013 Professor: Gregory Delaney Villa As part of an effort to realize a conceptual addition to the Villa Malcontenta, the villas objectivity was dissolved into a field study. Particular interest was given to the Palladian parterre. The Parterre breaks down in its emphasis on the right angle and dissolves into plans that begin to order themselves, deriving at a new condition.



Malcontenta addition library and residence

Spring 2013 Professor: Gregory Delaney

Resulting from the field condition is a structure that harmonizes with the villa. Planes create a bermed structure and create a procession towards the Villa, wraping around the Villa through the parterre.



Structural Transformations

Fall 2013 Professor: Nicholas Brucia

A series of transformations are performed on an existing post, beam and column structure. Transformations are influenced by single operations. The transformations imply that there is a relationship to the structures individual parts. The goal was not to try to optimize these structures in any way, but merely to understand the advantages and weaknesses inherent in each one.



The Marketmations

Fall 2013 Professor: Nicholas Brucia

This market pushes the boundaries of a traditional market by introducing an extension of the products lifetime. The form, influenced by the Yokohama terminal for its openness, and weaving of spaces, is inherited and utilized for market functions, such as growing, making, stocking, browsing, selling and consuming. An extension of traditional market functions. Consumers circulating through the market weave through spaces where products are grown, made, and sold. A study was done to understand crop growth in buffalo. In cold months, visitors are able to witness the dormant nature of particular crops, a process and spectacle critical for the vitality of the crop in the spring. Care was taken in a study to optimize the folded plate structure in terms of growth sq. footage. The structure also accommodates water, and the folded plate is braced naturally by vegetation.

Agriculture Canopy 2700 sq ft.

Workshop 1000 sq ft.

Admin. 500 sq ft.

Loading 2500 sq ft.

Agriculture Canopy 2700 sq ft.

Back House 5400 sq ft.

Market 2500 sq ft.

Agriculture Canopy 2700 sq ft.

Workshop 1000 sq ft.

Market 2500 sq ft.

Workshop 1000 sq ft.

Market 2500 sq ft.

Agriculture Canopy 2700 sq ft.

Workshop 1000 sq ft.

Market 2500 sq ft.

Agriculture Canopy 2700 sq ft.

Workshop 1000 sq ft.

Market 2500 sq ft.

Entrance 500 sq ft.

Market Total 12500 sq ft

Agriculture Plane Total sq ft. 24000 Agriculture plane 4000 sq ft.

Agriculture plane 4000 sq ft.

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OCT.

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Agriculture plane 5000 sq ft.

Agriculture plane 5000 sq ft.

Agriculture plane 5000 sq ft.

ARTICHOCKE BASIL GRAPE VINE STRAWBERRY POTATOES WHEAT, winter BLUEBERRIES ASPARAGUS

GOALS: COMBINATIONS THAT HARVEST YEAR ROUND

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15’-0” from datum

30’-0” from datum

45’-0” from datum

60’-0” from datum

75’-0” from datum

100’-0” from datum

120-0” from datum

145-0” from datum

12’-0”

12’-0”

12’-0”

16’-4”

19’-9”

20’-6”

23’-6”

26’-0”

29’-0”

30’-0”

190-0” from datum

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190-0” from datum

220-0” from datum

245-0” from datum

290-0” from datum


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Patterns of Use Products through time

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Fall 2013 Professor: Nicholas Brucia

Markets rely on three behaviors inorder to function. These are Browsing, Purchasing, and restocking. These are the catalyst that allow the market to adapt to the variability of the market typology. The Bidwell Farmers market, and the Lexington Co-op, located in buffalo, are the locations of this study. Market functions where mapped out based on the behavioral relationships between consumers and products. The study is callabrated to 1 second exposures every other second to map out movements of particular activities in the market.

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7th sec.


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5th sec.

7th sec.


Tokyo Dialect Summer 2014 Professor: Nicholas Brucia

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The dialogue of Japanese present in Tokyo has often been criticized as not being “Japanese” enough, unlike its Kyoto counterpart. Just as in spoken language the cities themselves have a characteristic dialogue to themselves, a byproduct of its way of function. Though this mapping exercise, what is recorded in sound and image is a recording of Tokyo’s native dialect, in the form of what the sound is and its individual frequency. Therefore a bike or car horn becomes a different organism in every occurrence. However just as every phrase is different, dialect can still be examined and identified. Through identifying a collection of sounds, and examining their relationships to each other, a deeper understanding of the city and its dialogue is gained simultaneously as the system of measurement is able to refine and adapt itself through continuous study.

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BICYCLE

TRAFFIC FLOW

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TRI-PAR PAVILLION location_Fukushima Summer 2014 Partners: University at Buffalo Tokyo Study Abroad 2014 group, in collaberation with Studio X, Shioya. Professor: Nicholas Brucia The Tri-Par Pavillion utilizes multiple dry fit connections modeled through rhino, and cut using a four axis plasma cutter. Care had to be taken with the structural integity of each joint as well as cordination with the sequence of fitted parts. In the process, multiple joints were designed, few were used.


Hypar (Standard)

Tripar

Low

High

High

Low

Low

High




Catenary Arch Spring 2012 Partner freshman project - Group of seven Professors: Mathew Hue & Robert Garlow

Investigating pouring hydrocal into rigid forms to obtain predetermined forms for much of the semester, the task here was to develop a thin shell span using hydrocal, while working with a team of seven other students. This use and application is diffrent in that an imbedded formwork, burlap, which took the squae footage and layout of the place, was dipped and painted with hydocal in thin layers. A suspension system created the structure through gravitationally induced pleates, which would behave similar to a column and provide rigitity. In addition the suspension system would then be used to rotate the thin shell form and create space. Asymetry was used to develop a dual program within the space. One side would provide seating, while the other a space for circulation.

GRAVITY INDUCED STRUCTURE

MATERIALS

GRAVITY INDUCED STRUCTURE

MATERIALS

GRAVITY INDUCED STRUCTURE

MATERIALS

BURLAP

BURLAP

BURLAP

ONE DIP

ONE DIP

ONE DIP

FINAL CONSTRUCT

FINAL CONSTRUCT

FINAL CONSTRUCT

RE-ORIENTING AND SUSPENSIOIN



BURLAP SLIP-KNOT

NYLON ROPE

GROMMET

HYDROCAL COATING

A

B STEEL I-BEAM

BURLAP SLIP-KNOT GROMMET

BURLAP SLIP-KNOT

STEEL C-CLAMP NYLON ROPE 2X6 SUPPORT

HYDROCAL COATING

STEEL I-HOOK

STEEL CARABINER

NYLON ROPE

GROMMET

HYDROCAL COATING

STEEL CARABINER

NYLON ROPE

4” PULLEY

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B

B NYLON ROPE

STEEL I-BEAM

C BURLAP SLIP-KNOT GROMMET

2X6 SUPPORT

2X6 SUPPORT

STEEL C-CLAMP

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STEEL I-HOOK NYLON ROPE

STEEL I-HOOK

HYDROCAL COATING

STEEL CARABINER

NYLON ROPE STEEL CARABINER STEEL I-HOOK

STEEL CARABINER

NYLON ROPE 4” PULLEY

LEAD EXPANSION MOLLY

4” PULLEY

NYLON ROPE

NYLON ROPE

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STEEL I-HOOK

STEEL CARABINER

NYLON ROPE

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DETAIL DRAWING


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BEAMS AND CABLES

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