mickey chapa 2015
Parsons Brinckerhoff (Intern Architect) Midtown Tunnel Support Buildings CTDOT Maintenance of Way Bldg Azores Warehouse Study NSA Mechanicsburg Net-Zero Prototype Study Hampton Roads Transit Center NSA Bahrain NWS Yorktown HQ + BEQ Heery Design (Intern Architect) University of Iowa Childrens Hospital Duda Paine (Summer Intern) NC State Talley Student Center Duke School of Medicine Personal Studies Undergraduate Thesis Card Span Chromotecture Water Towers
Works / 2015
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Elizabeth River Tunnels Project Midtown Tunnel Support Buildings Norfolk VA Construction Cost: Schedule: Role:
Midtown Tunnel Support Buildings Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA Resting atop each entrance to the Midtown Tunnel, each Support Structure contains a menagerie of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. These structures keep the underwater highway from Norfolk to Portsmouth VA in operation. The above rendering is a re-design and a proposition for how our nation’s infrastructure can better integrate with its natural environment. Images below left show the design which is currently under construction.
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Connecticut Department of Transportation Maintenance of Way Facility New Haven, CT In an island of asphalt, the “MOW� houses storage, workshops, and offices for the maintenance staff for the Metro-North Railway.
interior rendering
This redesign, at left and above, is a challenge to redefine the industrial landscape to incorporate the environment and to harvest more energy from every inch of the site. A complete, extensive green roof funnels water to an underground cistern, which collects rainwater for the building and is configured to act as a heat exchanger. The main atrium also acts as a trombe wall to temper winter air intake. The building skin is treated with a single-red line to match the branding of a typical Metro-North railcar. (Design Under Construction- Below Right)
T-611 Renovation and Feasibility Study Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal For one week in July 2013, I traveled with a team of 5 to Terceira Island in the North Atlantic to evaluate the condition of maintenance buildings on the 75 year old Air Force base. I worked closely with civil and structural engineers to measure, photo document, and evaluate whether relocating several garages on base was attainable. Following our investigations, I helped the team prepare the presentation graphics, final plans, and architetcural portion of our final study.
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NSA Mechanicsburg Net-Zero Energy Warehouse Prototype Study As an extension of the base masterplan, officials at NSA Mechanicsburg sought a state-of-the-art warehouse to update their existing building stock on base. Our team was tasked with a programming and feasibility study to compare the merits of Net-Zero energy, LEED Silver, or a standard code compliant warhouse. Over 9 months (2013-2014), our team visisted the installation and met with users and planners to evaluate the base’s needs. Offsite, our design team ran energy and cost studies for a proposed structure on 3 different sites. This Site - Energy Use - Cost Matrix formed the heart of our report. The images at left are screenshots of a daylighting study I conducted in 3DSMax. My suggested layout was later verified by our skylight manufacturer. During the course of this project I also worked with management at Sefaira to evaluate their concept-design energy modeling software for use in my company.
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Hampton Roads Transit Center Norfolk VA
site plan
Constructed in 4 phases from 2009-2013, the HRT Center is a garage and adminsitration headquarters for southeastern Virginia’s public bus system. The complex is comprised of one bus maintenance garage, two parking structures, and a multi-story administration building with an intensive green roof. The green roof has a patio which overlooks Monticelle Avenue. The attached images are various photographs that I shot and editted for use as marketing material.
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P-935 TRANSIENT QUARTERS - EXTERIOR RENDERING
NSA Manama Dining Facility + Housing Manama, Bahrain In January 2013, our office engaged in a proposal for a 60,000 GSF warehouse and 20,000 GSF Dining Facility. With multiple proposals underway in our office, I had the opportunity to work with another intern architect on the design of this $55 million project. With strict limitations on color, architectural character, and site design, we attempted to match the architectural character of the Manama Art Museum across town. Metal screens are used as the main organizational element throughout.
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P984 HQ + P985 Bachelors Enlisted Quarters Proposal and Site Design Yorktown VA The first project that I’ve worked through start to finish, this project for Marines on NSA Yorktown is the foundation of a new training campus. I worked on the renderings (opposite) in the proposal phase and continue to work through construction administration. The two structures were built to comply with the government’s AntiTerrorism / Force Protection requirements as indicated on the site plan above. [Continued >>]
P984 HQ + P985 Bachelors Enlisted Quarters Yorktown VA Throughout the design of both structures I was able to work closely with our in-house Interior Designers. As one of the more proficient Revit modelers with my firm, I was tasked with designing and modeling custom casework for the lobbies of both structures. For this deisgn, I incorporated the Marine’s Dress Blues into the wood panel design and layout. To work through the design, I produced 6 sketches for the HQ lobby and 3 for the BEQ that were discussed within our office with the client. Below are the final renderings
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P984 HQ + P985 Bachelors Enlisted Quarters Yorktown VA Due to the very tight space requirements, it was essential that our team used full 3D BIM modeling and held routine clash detection meetings with our Design-Build contractor. I was involved in every aspect of BIM development for this project, inlcuding 3D content creation, interdisciplinary coordination, drawing development, and detailing. Below is an image of the BEQ under construction in February 2015.
Heery Design
University of Iowa Children’s Hospital Iowa City IA In October 2014 I was subcontracted to Heery Design for 3 months to move to Iowa City to lend a hand with construction admin on this project designed by Foster and Partners. My involvement with Heery, the architects of record, included reworked ceiling and lighting designs, value engineering adjustments, radiology room changes, and research for tornado-resistant doors that were added late in the project. As the staff designers were tied up, I also had the opportunity to run a quick programming and design study for the coffee shop at the hospital’s main entrance. Slightly off radius from the lobby’s feature wall, the counter steps back to allow for queue space and access to storage.
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Duda Paine Architects ^School of Medicine Duke University, Durham NC (Image Above - Original Photo from Duke.edu) For the majority of my internship, I worked in the model shop preparing a 1/8” scale model of the structure, pictured above. I aided with the 50% Design Drawings, Presentation Drawings, models, preliminary renderings, and had the opportunity to help prep for a presentation to Duke University’s Board of Directors.
< Talley Student Center NC State, Raleigh NC With less than 3 weeks left of my summer internship and having just reached a project milestone, the office was in a work lull and tasked me with redesigning a concept model for the renovation of NC States student center. The project concept is a Swiss Army knife, as all of the functions fold out of the existing structure. The images at left are from a stop-motion video I created from the laser-cut, acrylic concept model. An updated version of this video is still in use on the company’s website. (Bottom - Image from Rogers Builders)
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Personal Studies
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Undergraduate Thesis Virginia Tech A community in northeastern North Carolina is struggling with a bypass economy, and its once prosperous downtown is now vacant and disjointed. The oldest building on the waterfront lies symbolically vacant, gutted by a fire half a century ago. Through site visits and mapping studies, I noted that the city is currently broken into four fragments. (residential, historic, commercial, and river). My study began by creating a movie where each fragment becomes a character. At the climax of the movie [Opposite], each of the characters are headed straight at each other, but barely miss. [Continued >>]
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Undergraduate Thesis (Continued) Virginia Tech As a development of “The Near Miss” movie, each character was studied, diagrammed, and then carefully folded into the void of the exisiting structure. Each layer was laid so that there are no intersections and in this way each layer maintains its original identity and new spaces and relationships are crafted in between.
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Above are vignettes from this study, and also this page are various details with an element of “void” or “near miss” that is used to hold each of the fragments to one another.
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^Chromotecture Homemadedessert.com hosted an online photography competiton in May 2013 on the subject of color in architecture. My submission above won Honorable Mention with the following narrative:
<Card Span This analog card study is a revisit of an undergraduate design excercies. The challenge is to create a 40 inch clear span using a single deck of cards that lands within a 2 inch deep “endzone.” The card beam was formed by nesting one card within another, and then creating a redundant joint with two cards as pins. The rotation of the pins is programmed by the hole punching pattern, identical for every card used. The span took 52 cards (and one Joker) to span 41 inches. This project was a key development in my digital thought process and structural studies leading up to the Water Tower projects.
“A metal screen and its reflection camouflage the private life of residents at 40 Bond. Unable to even make out your own reflection, all that remains is the spectacle and the curiosity of the warmth inside.”
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Water Tower Collages As a starting point for the Towers study, I created two collages to explore water and scale. The image at left is quick study of water flows against a landscape, with the rise and fall of water clearly exagerated. The image above is of water at an industrial scale, at one side of the image omnipresent with the impending storm, but then also clearly displaced from the city at left. <<Towers for Virginia Beach The city is currently organized by an east west corridor with nearly perpendicular, secondary roads. The proposal is for a radical transit oriented development which consolidates the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic suburban sprawl into a series of towers at each major intersection in the city. The towers have a voided core, allowing daylight and air to penetrate the lower levels. Its tapered, exposed structure is wrapped with evacuated solar tubes that providing hot water for the structure, and in the summer excess steam is jettisoned to promote updraft through the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core for improved ventilation.