PETER WILLIAMSON CORNELL UNVERSITY M.ARCH II
PETER WILLIAMSON 217 Willard Way Ithaca, NY 14850 401.835.3511 pw372@cornell.edu peterwilliamson.info
EDUCATION
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
TEACHING ASSISTANT _ THESIS SEMINAR
Ithaca, NY Master of Architecture II 2014 Architecture and Ecology
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Providence, RI Bachelor of Architecture 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts 2011
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Admissions Officer
Ithaca, NY Spring 2014 Evaluate, advise and critique Master of Architecture thesis proposals and research in preparation for faculty selection and thesis semester.
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Continuing Education Instructor
Providence, RI Winter 2014 Developed and taught a course using digital fabrication techniques and related software, culminating in digitally fabricated furniture.
BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE Studio Leader
Providence, RI Fall 2012 Served as liaison to magnet design schools across America. Duties included undergraduate portfolio design review in preparation for and part of RISD undergraduate admissions.
Boston, MA Summer 2012 Lead a studio group of nine high school students through conceptual and schematic designs of furniture, representation, dwellings and urban interventions during a four week architectural design program.
IMPACT DESIGN
TEACHING ASSISTANT _ ARCH-DESIGN
Lead Designer
Shanghai, China Fall 2011 Provided schematic design for a store front renovation on Qibao High School campus, creating a new campus landmark.
AEDAS
Architectural Intern
Shanghai, China Summer 2011 Collaborated on competition winning high-rise Block E-15 in Chongqing, China creating conceptual models, schematic drawings, digital modelling and diagrams. Project involvement spanned the competition process, including the AIA award submission package.
COUTURE DESIGN ASSOCIATES Architectural Intern
Providence, RI Winter 2011, 2012 Revised construction documents, sourced products and materials and created models and renderings for historic residential properties.
RHODE ISLAND FELLOW
Providence, RI 2011 Awarded travel scholarship to research sustainable building practices in Guatemala.
SKILLS AutoCad, Revit, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Vray, Adobe Creative Suite, CNC, 3-D printing
Providence, RI Spring 2011-2012 Engaged students in the critical thought process and conceptual design of first year architectural projects.
TEACHING ASSISTANT _ CONCRETE
Providence, RI Spring 2012 Assisted students in understanding computations and construction as it relates to concrete building practices.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE DEAN’S STUDENT COUNCIL M. Arch II Student Representative
Ithaca, NY 2013 - 2014 Addressed issues and concerns of post-professional degree students through current program revisions and planning for subsequent years
OFFICE OF RESIDENCE LIFE Resident Advisor
Providence, RI 2008 - 2012 Coordinated activities for dormitory floor of 50 students and provided guidance to adjusting students.
AWARDS IconEye Product of the Year Featured Designer 2013 Residence Life Pillar Award 2012 Michael P. Metcalf Memorial Scholarship 2011 Rhode Island Fellow 2011
CONTENTS
FREELANCE WORK 4
Qibao Storefront
ACADEMIC WORK 8
Interpreting Context
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Agristructure
16 Court Square Platform
PROFESSIONAL WORK 28
Towers of the Mountain City
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Dissolving Towers
QIBAO STORE FRONT Client Qibao High School of Shanghai offered Impact Design an out-dated building to sell new collegiate goods. Desiring a fresh look that captured the energy of their products and the school’s lively vibe, a sculptural roof that utilized the existing structure was implemented. The interior renovation maximizes the use of the generous glazing, while wood provides a warm interior that extends to the outdoor platform. Aluminum was used to reduce the previously clashing material palette and help register the store as a campus landmark. The large cantilevering roof extends over the sidewalk, providing students a gathering space, as well as significant shade from the summer heat and heavy rains.
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Building prior to renovation.
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Surface panel diagram developed for contractor.
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Construction image.
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Interior renovation utilizes a modular shelving system for flexible display and storage space. Interior was designed in conjunction with Jay Chen.
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Cantilevering roof interrupts sidewalk and encourages visitors to enter, or escape the heat under its shade.
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INTERPRETING CONTEXT Sited in the town of Tiverton, where history and the presence of nature are still prevalent, there is a small cluster of historic buildings, which serve as a record of early New England life. The site represents a lifestyle that engaged the out of doors by establishing a life between buildings, constructed with simple means and techniques perfected through time. This thesis investigates the potential for all of these factors to be the conceptual driver of a new architectural proposal in a historic site. The new proposal studies aspects of movement and local building construction by means of an investigation on cladding as an activator of new architectural propositions. The investigation also explores the possibilities of generating spatial responses that address the museum program from the point of departure of a building detail. The result of this thesis aims to celebrate aspects of local history through contemporary yet sensitive construction.
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5 Study model celebrates a non hermetic program, encouraging movement between buildings. 6 Tectonic model demonstrates structural system that embraces and challenges existing buildings’ cladding.
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4 Soldered tin model demonstrates an interpretation of conventional building systems while embracing the course of time and weather.
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3 The oldest building on the site dates back to the early 1700’s demonstrating colonial building methods.
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2 Proposed plan celebrates the out of doors experience adding to the existing collection of buildings, while responding to historic conditions.
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1 Existing site located in Tiverton, Rhode Island demonstrates a historic and out of doors life style.
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LIATED LLAW DEDOLPXE
STRUCTURAL CORTEN
LIATED FOOR DEDOLPXE
LAMINATED GLASS FAC
FRAMING FROM STRUC
GRANITE RETAINING W
EXPLODED WALL DETAIL
CORTEN BIFOLD DOOR
EXPLODED ROOF DETAIL
CTURAL TEES AND HEAVY GAUGE STEEL
WALL
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CADE
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N CLADDING
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COURT SQUARE PLATFORM Situated on a small corner lot near Court Square Station in Queens, NY, the traditional elevated platform is re-imagined as an urban oasis. Fueling this proposal is the opportunity to provide unique conditions of temporality for a commuter population. Utilizing a parameterized structural system, a dense forest of columns establishes a secluded park at ground level. The convergence of the columns begin to shape the cafe restaurant spaces by providing the armature for tables and counters on the second level. The splaying of the columns around the roof terraces provide another dimension of seclusion for those awaiting the train or seeking a moment of urban solitude before departing to work. Team members include Bo Liu and Xuhui Zhang
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2 Structural elements are arrayed to support circulation and adjacent program while simultaneously providing seclusion from the street front.
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3 The density of structural elements at street level provides a sheltered park and urban oasis for commuters awaiting their train.
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1 Cafe space is defined by the intersection of structural elements.
AGRISTRUCTURE The growing global carbon footprint, a result of long distance farm to table food culture, is not only a signifier of high environmental cost but equally the loss of nutrition. ‘Agristructure’ seeks to neutralize these issues in post peak-car UK via the expanding and comprehensive rail networks. Utilizing intra and inter urban rail, an exaptive approach is conceived converting rail transit to a new agricultural infrastructure. Crop growth, harvesting, transportation and distribution are now integrated into an already exisiting system, yielding a carbon neutral, closed cycle food network. This transformation of rail stations and networks harkens back to Mancunian rail history, times when stations were used for markets and resource distribution, while providing a sustainable food production network for the future.
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THE MANCHESTER FOOD MOVEMENT Pushing towards a sustainable future, Manchester is utilizing the existing rail infrastructure to create economic, environmental and nutritional betterment. Regional, commuter and tram lines interact with different scales of food production to produce a carbon zero agro-future. The goal of this system is to provide a closed loop network that is self sustaining and minimally taxing upon environmental and energy resources. Portions of England’s Green Belt, adjacent to regional train tracks are utilized for seasonal crops.
Overlapping rails and waterbodies offer opportunities to implement railway greenhouses as seen to the right.
Existing Farmland
Seasonal Harvests
Regional Trains
Existing Wetlands
Greenhouse Infrastructure
Commuter Trains
Stations
Produce
Metrolink
Stations with proximity to water display opportunities to sustainably grow produce on site.
FIVE FROM FRESH Manchester City Center’s transit system offers an optimized resource flow, connecting people, fresh food and compost. Access to fresh, local produce is within a 10 minute walk anywhere in the city center or a 5 minute ride via bus or tram making fresh local produce available daily. Tracks from the North East ship local produce and seasonal vegetables. Northwest Farmers
Cultivation
Produce
South West Dairy Farmers
Pasteurizers
Dairy
North East Pastures
Butchers
Meat
Table Scraps
Composting
Grey Water Remediation
Local bus routes give citizens access to produce within 5 minutes.
Tracks from the South West are utilized to ship fresh dairy products.
Tracks running from the South East are utilized to ship freshly butchered meat.
Overlapping rail and water bodies offer remediation through composting.
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NEW GROUND A new reliance upon rail infrastructure will allow current station parking, to become an agriculturally productive urban landscape. Using vetch, golden rod, mulberry and sunflowers, phyto remediation can occur making the landscape safer for harvesting. Phyto remediating crops can be used as biomass to heat the train station and for composting purposes elsewhere.
Passenger Tram
Produce Tram
Dining Tram
Existing Parking
Street Runoff
Goldenrod
Hothouse Agriculture
Rail Runoff
Vetch
Orchards
RETHINK METROLINK The passing of peak car will create a greater dependency upon existing infrastructure systems. Agristructure capitalizes upon this circumstance by expanding the allotted program of the Metrolink system. As an integral part of the food distribution network, Metrolink now provides a Produce Tram at the back of each Passenger Tram. The Produce Tram picks up and delivers fresh produce received from a station, to local stops. At each stop the tram may also collect compost. The passenger Tram also sells produce from the latter half of the car. The Dining Tram incorporates yet another social element into the infrastructure as it provides a mobile dining tour, utilizing agristructure produce. Remediating Landscape
Productive Landscape
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TOWERS OF THE MOUNTAIN CITY Based upon the dramatic mountains and the intersection of the three winding rivers of Chongqing, the Block E-15 Twin Tower proposal aspires to capture the essence of the spectacular and flowing landscape. A terraced massing of rounded towers meets the ground via a curving podium which addresses the pedestrian circulation between the Jie Fang Bei District and the residential waterfront. The rising towers house offices and have the potential to provide a full service hotel. The podium consists of commercial and cultural programs. Involvement on the project spanned the duration of the competition, allowing me to work on preliminary design, schematic design, modeling, diagrams, and an intensive study to create an efficient core within the complex building geometry. Rendering courtesy of Aedas Shanghai. Team members include Design Director Jian Ping and Architectural Designer Anqi Wang.
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1 Initial storyboard, representing the response to local geographic conditions. 2 Study models exploring linkage at the podium levels between the two towers. 3 Diagrams explain the relationship of the towers to existing site circulation, green space, waterfront and park views, and programmatic potential.
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FLUID PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION DRIVEN BY PODIUM GEOMETRY
TOWERS CREATE CONTINOUS GREENSPACE WTIH ADJACENT PARK
FLUID PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION DRIVEN BY PODIUM GEOMETRY
TOWERS CREATE CONTINOUS GREENSPACE WTIH ADJACENT PARK
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TOWERS CREATE CONTINOUS GREENSPACE WTIH ADJACENT PARK
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FLUID PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION DRIVEN BY PODIUM GEOMETRY
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TWO TOWERS HARMONIOUSLY CONNECTED BY PODIUM TO CREATE ONE ICONIC LANDMARK
TOWERS ORIENTED FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TO RIVER VIEWS
TWO TOWERS HARMONIOUSLY CONNECTED BY PODIUM TO CREATE ONE ICONIC LANDMARK
TOWERS ORIENTED FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TO RIVER VIEWS
TWO TOWERS HARMONIOUSLY CONNECTED BY PODIUM TO CREATE ONE ICONIC LANDMARK
TOWERS ORIENTED FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TO RIVER VIEWS
TOWERS CAN BE DIVIDED TO PROVIDE FOR MULTI TENANT LEASING
TOWERS ORIENTED FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TO PARK VIEWS
TOWERS CAN BE DIVIDED TO PROVIDE FOR MULTI
TOWERS ORIENTED FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TO PARK
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FLOOR AREA: 1944.11sqm CORE AREA: 359.75sqm EFFICIENCY: 82%
FLOOR AREA: 1870.37sqm CORE AREA: 417.73sqm EFFICIENCY: 78%
FLOOR AREA: 2414.10sqm CORE AREA: 410.02sqm EFFICIENCY: 83%
FLOOR AREA: 2017.32sqm CORE AREA: 457.87sqm EFFICIENCY: 77%
FLOOR AREA: 2907.45sqm CORE AREA: 460.02sqm EFFICIENCY: 84%
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FLOOR AREA: 1198.89sqm CORE AREA: 265.47sqm EFFICIENCY: 78%
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1 The podium becomes a lively and active commercial and communal space, encouraging pedestrian usage and movement. 2 Study Model demonstrates southern perspective with its dramatic and sweeping podium that addresses the busy streets. 3 Northern perspective demonstrates a subdued podium entrance for parking and drop offs. 4 Floor plans show office configurations as well as the geometric sensitivity and
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DISSOLVING TOWERS The Dissolving Towers are a competition winning entry for Block E-15 in Yili Financial District, Chongqing, China. Creating a new paradigm in the mixed use tower typology this proposal creates a tower/podium hybrid as the towers dissolve while approaching the street. Echoing the chaotic vernacular housing of Chongqing, the podium creates micro urbanism as it address the city, street, pedestrian and mixed use program. The rising towers will house offices and have the potential to provide a full service hotel. Involvement on the project spanned the entirety of the competition, allowing me to work on conceptual design, preliminary design, schematic design, modeling, diagrams, infrastructural solutions and final presentation boards. Renderings courtesy of Aedas Shanghai. Team members include Design Director Jian Ping and Architectural Designers Li Wei and Shinnie Kang.
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1 Storyboard shows the building relationship to existing vernacular construction.
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2 Foam massing studies.
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3 Shifting volumes within the podium create a variable internal section.
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4 Renderings created to explore the building from several different vantage points throughout the city; ranging from the pedestrian, to mid-rise, to hi-rise levels.
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CORE AREA: 360sqm EFFICIENCY: 81%
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FLOOR AREA: 2160sqm CORE AREA: 395sqm EFFICIENCY: 82%
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3 Diagrammatic sections show programmatic possibilities and core optimization for the Dissolving Towers.
FLOOR AREA: 1944sqm CORE AREA: 360sqm EFFICIENCY: 81%
FLOOR AREA: 2160sqm CORE AREA: 395sqm EFFICIENCY: 82%
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2 Upper level floor plans suggest floor layouts for offices and parking efficiencies.
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LEVEL LEVEL1010 FLOOR FLOORAREA: AREA:3,121sqm 3,121sqm RAMP RAMPAREA: AREA:553sqm 553sqm(18%) (18%) LEVEL 10 FLOOR AREA: 3,121sqm LEVEL 10 RAMP AREA: 553sqm (18%) FLOOR AREA: 3,121sqm RAMP AREA: 553sqm (18%)
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1 Internal view of the shifting volumes that create the dynamic transition between podium and tower. Rendering courtesy of Aedas Shanghai.
LEVEL LEVEL1010 FLOOR FLOORAREA: AREA:4,616sqm 4,616sqm RAMP RAMPAREA: AREA:553sqm 553sqm(12%) (12%) LEVEL 10 FLOOR AREA: 4,616sqm LEVEL 10 RAMP AREA: 553sqm (12%) FLOOR AREA: 4,616sqm RAMP AREA: 553sqm (12%)
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TRADING
TRADING
EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE OFFICE
OFFICE
COMMERCIAL/CULTURAL COMMERCIAL/CULTURAL MECH/REFUGE MECH/REFUGE
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