Ryan B. Lewandowski rblewandowski@gmail.com 434.610.8508
Project Index
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Independent Thesis
building behavior
ARCH 8010
future fit : data furnace
ARCH 7020
context : distributed networking
ARCH 7010
new orleans : roots of music
ARCH 7230
design development
ARCH 402
peruvian transportation hub
Last Supper
aural garden installation
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TEX-FAB : SKIN evaporative folding
Dripps+Phinney urban sensor kit
Casting Module concrete screen wall
Ennead Architects nyu langone medical center
Ennead Architects nyu langone medical center
THESIS : ARCH 8020
BUILDING BEHAVIOR Advisors Jeana Ripple and Lucia Phinney
Spring 2013
My thesis work originates from a greater interest in the implications of the virtual on our physical lives. Relationships, from the very personal to the larger social and cultural, have been vastly reshaped by constantly emerging means of communication and interaction. It is a trend that has occurred in generations past, but this time these aspects of our lives are becoming digital. A technological network that is entirely reliant on the modern advances of human civilization and largely irrespective of the physical spatial bounds that we live within. How have our physical lives and activities been translated into the digital realm, and vice versa? This emerging dialogue was explored through a series of responsive architectural installations in Campbell Hall, home to the architecture school, to create a renewed intrigue of our habituated surroundings.
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‘Hello World!’ was the first of a series of installations throughout the school building as a way to gain familiarity and physical characteristics of various digital technologies. Refining the reactivity to the sensor input and the type of graphic output were the foci of this installation. Utilizing a sonar sensor and IR motion sensor, a projected visualization greeted students as they entered the stairwell. The program was written with Processing, allowing the sensor inputs to be easily translated into text-based messages, graphic lines and shapes, and even sounds.
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A. Projection of current distance reading from the sonar sensor. Formatted to show unit of measurement. B. Each measurement (multiple a second) is registered by an added line along the width of the screen. Its position is the inch value remapped as a percentage across the width of the projection. 3_
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‘Communicating Across Ends’ introduced the utilization of the school’s existing network infrastructure to connect two distant spaces. A two part system, the occupation of one space triggers the sensors, which is then communicated on the internet. This message is read by the second part located in a remote stairwell, which triggers a sound recording of footsteps as a way of communicating the presence in one space to another.
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This resulted in the design and fabrication of Sound Cloud, an active acoustic installation made of 3D printed joints and conduit, in one of the school’s stairwells to experiment with sound and its different forms to heighten and/or modulate the experience of the space.
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2013
PIR Sensor U
PIR Sensor D A0 A1
Arduino Uno 8 7
Speaker Channel U
Speaker Channel D
this loops again and again and again....
play (music file) while... if (Sensor D is triggered)
takes the length of file
then {turn on channel D} if (Sensor U is triggered) then {turn on channel U} else {keep them turned off}
takes a couple of ms.
rewind (music file) variation 1 play (music file) while... if (Sensor D is triggered & U is not) then {turn volume +10} if (Sensor U is triggered & D is not) then {turn volume -10} if (Sensor U & D are triggered) then {turn volume +20} else {keep them turned off} rewind (music file)
variation 2 play (music file) while... if (Sensor D is triggered) then {turn on channel D} then if (Sensor U is triggered) then {modulate sound frequency +2} if (Sensor U is triggered) then {turn on channel U} then if (Sensor D is triggered) then {modulate sound frequency -4} else {keep them turned off} rewind (music file)
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A series of full scale physical mock-ups were created to test the joints that were to be 3D printed and various materials as the structural members In the end, typical conduit proved to be the strongest and most cost effective structure and the joints went through a series of optimizations for strength and total time to print. Once decided, a digital structural analysis was conducted using Karamba3D in Rhino to determine the final design and a scaled physical model to test the final before the installation was put in place.
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2013
double catenary curve
cantilever reflex
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After relocating a Makerbot to my studio desk to improve efficiency of production, each step of physically fabricating Sound Cloud became very public and at times in the way, generating a lot of interest and puzzled questions from fellow students and professors. A spreading of knowledge that I wanted my thesis project to impart. A project whose results and success are difficult to measure, a story of the Fabrications Manager and former Dean dancing together throughout the space to enjoy the music that played as a result is enough to know that there is much potential impact of these technologies in the realm of architecture.
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2013
singing
conversation listening
intrigue
human behavior walking
enjoying
dancing
reacting customized activating
construction light-weight
reaching
programming modulating playing potential
spatial / material performance disperse
towering
recording
acoustics
this loops again and again and again....
SOLAR PANEL
PIR Sensor U
PIR SENSOR
0.5w
0.5w 0.5w
7w
PIR Sensor D A0 A1
Arduino Uno 8 7
0.5w 0.5w 0.5w PIR SENSOR
ARDUINO
sensing
listening
Speaker Channel U
play (music file) while... if (Sensor D is triggered)
takes the length of file
then {turn on channel D} if (Sensor U is triggered)
Speaker Channel D
then {turn on channel U} else {keep them turned off}
takes a couple of ms.
rewind (music file)
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ARCH 8010
FUTURE FIT: Professor Robin Dripps Washington D.C.
DATA FURNACE Fall 2012
The internet is digital and not a physical thing. I believe this is a common misconception held by most of the population today. Unbeknownst to them, massive nondescript warehouses filled with hundreds of thousands of computers populate our industrial parks acting as the ‘magic box’ that makes your Google search work. They use huge loads of energy and these structures are largely designed to keep the computers cool. Instead of dissipating this heat, why not collect and re-use it? This project is a proposal for future urban development along South Capitol Blvd. in Washington DC to be designed around an on-site data center system acting as its heating source.
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Data centers world-wide consume energy equal to the output of thirty nuclear power plants. Most don’t realize it, but each of those Google searches, or watching clips on Youtube are using more energy than just from your laptop. One things that computer do produce is heat. This heat output, at the scale of a data center, is plentiful enough to heat neighboring spaces. This strategy has been used in limited cases, but my suggestion is to rethink the data center as a multi-purpose infrastructural core for future urban development, instead of its traditional placement in suburban office parks.
source: google.com/about/datacenters
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data center
residential
existing suburban model
data center / commercial
data center / residential
data center / industrial
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South Capitol Blvd. extends from the Capitol on the National Mall south to the Nationals Ballpark along the Anacostia River. Between the large government buildings to the north and an increasingly gentrified residential neighborhood lies a power/communications core cutoff by elevated highways and rail lines. Boundaries that create an opportunity for meaningful connections with the existing urban fabric.
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SERVICE
FEDERAL ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2012
rail
site connectivity
metro
bus lines & stops
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sectional gateways
Due to the sectional limitations created by the elevated highways and rail lines, a series of ‘gateways’ were drawn at important points along the site to expand and constrain the flow across the site according to these constraints. A linear infrastructural system laid out along the site mixes with this flow and is extruded according to the flow intensity. With “Data Furnaces” serving as the infrastructural cores, the result is an expansive mixed-use development with an intimate relationship with it’s working parts.
guided flow lines
trace ground lines
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2012
underground infrastructure
convert tele-switch building
networked data centers
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Each ‘Data Furnace’ is a fully functional data center, whose air cooling system is closely tied into the heating of the neighboring spaces. They also serve as a connector, with the ground floor serving as a pedestrian and bicycle corridor and various cross bridges at multiple floors. The proximity introduces an awareness and thoughtfulness towards the physical infrastructure necessary for our digital lives.
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IBM
Apple
~ 2 million sqft
~ 2.8 million sqft
(750,000 existing) (1.25 million new)
(future Cupertino headquarters)
ARCH 7020
CONTEXT
DISTRIBUTED NETWORKING Visiting Professor Michael Beaman Ossining, NY
Spring 2012
How might our human scale spatial networks be informed by technological networks of a vastly different scale? This semester long project was an investigation of network topologies, from ARPANET, the very first internet, to the 6D torus architecture of the supercomputer processor chip, and how this logic of connectivity and layered communication might be translated into an expansion of the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in upstate New York. Utilizing Grasshopper, the result is a parametrically generated design that strives to embody these concepts.
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Designed by Eero Saarinen, the original campus is a formal arc three stories tall. A model that can and has been expanded on its ends. This gesture for a research building stifles the often interwoven and informal nature of the creative process. I conducted an investigation to create a new model of expansion that more appropriately fits this. Looking at early networking models for what would become the internet, a robust and distributed hexagonal model was designed to guide the proposed future expansion.
precedent networks - Paul Baran
distributed
hierarchy
regularity interconnected expansion - exploring a new topology
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network explorations
ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2012
existing building
expanding linear typology
completed ring network
site generative
interco
site generative site generative
interconnected expansion - exploring a new topology
pr er
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pr er
op ty lin e
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reality
inscribe
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saarinen model
adapt
overlay new model
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site model implementation generate
shuffle
boolean
program
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program
corridors
vertical cores
sub surface program \ parking garage
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A series of Grasshopper definitions simulated a more organic growth along this new framework. This result is an image of what the center may look like in twenty years after a series of expansions tailored to a multitude of research needs while creating a distributed network model of circulation for a richer creative environment.
ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2012
saarinen model
reality
generate
shuffle
inscribe
adapt
boolean
overlay new model
program
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ARCH 7010
ROOTS OF MUSIC Professor Karen Van Lengen New Orleans, LA
Fall 2011
Located within Armstrong Park, the new home for the Roots of Music marching band program serves as a new cultural focal point that aims to dissolve the physical and cultural boundaries present in this crucial section of New Orleans. Lying between the French Quarter and the historically African American neighborhood of Treme, the design reinterprets the billboard to engage its surrounding context through an interactive visualization of the cultural activities that occur within and around the building itself.
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In the 1960’s, Armstrong Park was created as a new cultural mecca for the city and nation. The proposed complex of theaters and building were modeled after the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts and aimed to be ‘greater’ than its predecessor. Unfortunately, due to financial feasibility, only the Municiple Auditorium was initially constructed and then in the 90’s, the Mahalia Jackson Theater was completed. The incorporation of the youth music program rejuvenates the spirit of the park, with the physical construction reinforcing the urban nature of Congo Square.
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Practicing every week night, the Roots of Music center would create a unique sonic experience in Congo Square for locals and tourists to enjoy. Even within their practice rooms, the sounds of the music will still reverberate and be heard. To accompany this, the building’s facade comes to life as a visual representation of the sounds and lessons happening within its walls.
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ARCH 7230
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Professor Charles Menefee Charlottesville, VA
Spring 2012
Assigned a small lot along the edge of an abandoned big box store in Charlottesville, this course tests the effect of material choices on design and the design connection between building and site - experiential and environmental. This ‘classroom’ and surrounding spaces were designed to create two very distinct experiences. The first, a narrow canyon with all direct natural light obscured, leaving only a strong glow from above. The second, a strong vertical line marked by the sun casting its rays into the space every day of the year. In choosing concrete and steel construction, an aged steel box is perched within a massive concrete vault contrasting a lightness with the very massive of the ground it sits off of.
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The final product for this semester long project is a series of 3/4�=1’ scaled detailed sections of the design.
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Building Section Axon 1. roof construction: steel sheeting waterproof membrane 3/4” playwood sheathing 6” rigid insulation corrugated metal sheating 2. double glazed aluminum skylight 3. metal coping 4. roof drain 5. 20” insulated concrete form (ICF) 6. 8” reinforced concrete veneer wall 7. concrete lateral reinforcing 8. 1/4” pre-weathered corten steel panels w/ sealant 9. light gauge steel framing 10. cast-in place concrete column 11. floor construction: 1/2” pre-weathered corten steel panels w/ sealant concrete topping slab corrugated metal sheeting S10 steel beam 12. courtyard construction: 2” concrete pavers adjustable height pedestal filter fabric rigid insulation waterproof membrane 13. 8” concrete reinforced slab tempered glass w/ extruded steel railing cap 14. basement floor construction: 6” concrete slab waterproof membrane 4” rigid insulation 4” gravel bed 15. structural steel column 16. concrete footing
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In addition, for our Environmental Systems and Analysis course, we were tasked to conduct a light study using Ecotect. The primary concern for this design was achieving appropriate levels of day lighting at the perimeter ground floor walkways. While the measured levels at various time of the day/year were below suggested levels, alternative strategies like a lighter wall tone could increase the apparent brightness and visibility.
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June 21st - 10:00 am
June 21st - 3:00 PM
December 21st - 10:00 am
December 21st - 3:00 PM _40
Finally, a heat loss/gain study was conducted using TAS. The R-value for the construction assemblies were determined and a simulation was run to determine the expected heating and cooling loads for the spaces. Natural ventilation strategies were then implemented to test if the building design benefited and in this case it did, putting the expected energy loads well within recommended benchmarks.
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ARCH 402
MASTER PLAN TRAIN + BUS STATION Associate Professor Dean Abernathy w/ Scott Mitchell & Sebastijan Jemec Ollantaytambo, Peru
Spring 2008
Working in collaboration with COPESCO, the World Bank, and the city of Ollantaytambo, our semester studio was the beginning of a multi-year effort towards studying the threats from increased tourism in the Sacred Valley. The ancient town of Ollantaytambo sits at a critical juncture between the bus and rail system for tourists en route to Machu Picchu and faces growing international economic pressures. Our work intended to propose a schematic master plan and new train station that accommodates international interests and local needs while preserving the town’s physical history and cultural ideals.
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enlarged
sacred valley diagram
tourist route
The devised master plan proposed relocating the rail line to the opposite side of the river, allowing a new road for the heavy traffic to take its place. With the new rail station located down river near the more modern town of Rumira, the traffic can be rerouted around Ollantaytambo instead of through it and encourages future growth to occur away from the historical town center. During our time in Ollantaytambo, we were encouraged to explore new methods of recording our experience. Focusing on the sounds of traffic, water, and music, I recorded numerous video clips throughout the town. This audio experience was then translated into a diagrammatic time line of my trip, inspired by the quipu, a traditional Incan method of record keeping with knots.
quipu street sound diagram
personal experience
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2008
rumira
proposed station
ancient city center
existing rail line proposed train route existing bus route
existing station
proposed bus route proposed pedestrian
ollantaytambo master plan
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game 01
game 02
game 03
game 04
game 05
‘block game’ siting studies
Designed in collaboration with Scott Mitchell and Sebasitjan Jemec, we sited the train station down river from the town to establish a new node for commercial activity, alleviating traffic through the sensitive Incan sites. Reminiscent of Incan terracing and the local market vernacular, the station is spatially organized by a series of rammed earth walls and glu-lam structures to create a low impact design that integrates itself into the surrounding landscape. The addition of a wide cathedral like stair running the length of the station becomes a place of interaction and provides an open connection to the neighboring marketplace.
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ryan b. lewandowski / academic / 2008
broken roof
+ structure
+ public amenities
+ walls
+ terrace
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bus terminal
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train station
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Last Supper
Aural Garden Installation w/ Daria Supp & Lili Trenkova New York, New York
Fall 2010
Home to the outdoor music area and animated by visualizations from animators and filmmakers, the Aural Garden featured an architectural installation designed and built by Ryan Lewandowski, Daria Supp, and Lili Trenkova. One of the new programs at the 5th annual Last Supper Festival, the canopy installation defines a new and more intimate, yet open space within the canyon-like alley of the outdoor area at the 3rd Ward. The black-lit 3000ft of cotton string weaves a net-like surface that shifts in form and definition as the perspective changes. While basing itself off the hyperbolic surface that is created with the spandex shapes suspended above, this fluctuation creates an energy in the space that plays with the music and dance atmosphere, creating a synthesis of the mediums and demonstrating the transformative effects of architecture.
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install day 1
install day 2
install day 3
I was the co-creator, lead designer, and coordinator for this project. The on-site fabrication of the installation occurred the few days leading up to the Last Supper event, with many co-workers and friends coming out after work to volunteer each night. As expected, the effort of weaving string ten to fifteen feet above the ground proved to be an interesting challenge.
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After the desired black light effect was conceived, a series of material tests were required to find a string that reacted to black light. A surprisingly difficult effort, we tested poly-twine, clothesline, nylon rope, and others, until we discovered a locally made cotton mason line that reacted with the perfect glow. The installation has since become a permanent fixture at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn and was featured in the December 2010 issue of Specialty Fabrics Review.
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TEX-FAB : SKIN
Evaporative Folding with Jeana Ripple
Summer 2013
Based on observations of manufacturing capabilities of medium-scale local metal shops, evaporative folding is an evaporative cooling facade panel developed to maximize performance and variability while preserving fabrication efficiency. Evaporative folding exploits the unique advantages of aluminum as an evaporative cooling facade system. Unlike absorptive materials or plastics typically used for this purpose, aluminum is durable, moldresistant, and gains solar-heat, increasing the rate of evaporation on its surface. The design was awarded Honorable Mention by the jury.
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Traditional Media Fills are made of cellulose or plastic material design for maximum dispersion and surface coverage of the water for the best cooling performance. A series of initial design studies were conducted to determine the practicality of such a system, the scale of the overall assembly, and the pattern / construction.
window unit
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double facade
double facade / occupiable
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ribbon unit system
‘truss’ system _60
Building off of the logic of the ribbon pattern and through discussion with local engineers and fabricators, the design was adjusted to a folded pattern that varied in density across its width. This provided a custom looking pattern with visual variance across its width. It also allowed for a more regularized pattern, resulting in only two unique folded strips that are repeated and rotated to create the overall assembly.
plasma cut
rivet assembly
texturize
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squish
taper
tweak
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water flow diagram
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Dripps + Phinney Studio
SHERLOC SENSOR KIT Batesville, VA
test walk mapped in Google Earth
Summer 2012
Fastened to a bike via a custom shock mount, Sherloc is a battery operated urban sensor device that records the temperature, humidity, light, and airborne particulate matter that is then geolocated with the onboard GPS device. The device will take readings once every 2-4 seconds. Once your trip has been completed, just press the power switch to end the recording. To retrieve the recording, unscrew the top of the box and remove the MicroSD card from the shield on the Arduino. Plug it into your computer and you have a formatted CSV file that can be opened in Excel or read directly through Grasshopper!
Arduino Uno _1 LB MicroSD module _2 Power Switch _3 9V Battery _4 LB GPS module and antenna _5 Grove Dust Sensor _6 DHT22 Temp. and Humidity Sensor _7 20x4 LCD Display w/ Backpack _8 Photoresistor Light Sensor _9 63_
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Casting Visualization Module
Concrete Screen Wall Charlottesville, VA
Fall 2012
A seminar to learn the fundamentals of concrete casting, for our final project of the semester we were challenged to design a 3’ x 6’ screen wall out of concrete. A series of scaled casts were made out of plaster and then ductal concrete to test the design. The final cast is only as good as the craft and design of the mold and so a lot of effort was spent going back and forth between the design and fabrication of the wall and the individual molds. A balance was struck between the number of custom bricks and the amount of fabrication needed to create the molds. Two sets of six custom molds were routed out of MDF and edged with tongue and groove sides. With each brick interlocking with those around it, but wall was able to be assembled without the use of mortar.
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ver
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House of Cards fold
fold
over
top row
New York, New York
Summer 2010
In an office wide challenge to re-use/re-purpose/ recycle the now obsolete Polshek Partnership business cards in a creative way, this lamp is made of 75 business cards with a small plexi bracket. The folded design utilizes the single orange side of the cards to produce a warm glow over the white exterior. A modular system of folding was used and by modifying the angle or direction of the folds, each of the three rows became unique.
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The design was awarded First Place by the partners.
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2x3.5 Lamp Shade
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Ennead Architects
NYU Langone Medical Center New York, New York
Fall 2008 - present
The NYU Langone Medical Center exists on a superblock located between First Ave and the East River in Manhattan. Originally planned and designed by SOM in the 40’s and 50’s, it has been continually added upon throughout its existence. For the past three years, Ennead Architects has been working to map out a thirty year development plan to add a fully integrated center for acute clinical care and the design of the Kimmel Pavilion hospital, which will act as its centerpiece. My role in this project for the past two years has been very multi-faceted, although mostly focusing on design. My duties have ranged from completing the master plan study, concept design for an elevator tower, and currently schematic design of the Kimmel Pavilion.
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NYU Langone Medical Center concept riverfront
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revit file structure
the ‘kit’ of parts
Tasked with mapping the 30 year development plan, we worked in conjunction with CASE Design to utilize Revit’s BIM capabilities to construct a 3D spatial/programming model that in real time could accurately calculate the program of the current conditions, as well as play through the various building options for each of the seven proposed phases. Existing buildings and conceptual growth make up a kit of parts that can be plugged into the potential sites of development, creating a flexible tool to be used by the architect and the client to fully understand the medical center’s growth potential. I was one of two employees working full time on this master plan and among many other aspects was in charge of working with CASE Design to create and manage the Revit Model.
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solar shadow study completed by Atelier 10
facade concept sketch by thomas wong
NYULMC ELEVATOR TOWER
design option study completed by myself
This project will add four new elevators to the outdated Tisch Hospital to improve the flow and quality of experience for patients and visitors. Sited in the central courtyard of the complex, the elevator cabs will include windows that provide a view of the city and river during the ride. My role involved doing a series of facade studies during the concept design phase. Working one on one with a design associate, we discussed the idea of a pixilated pattern of glass that responded to a need for increased shading at the top. From here I investigated panel sizes/ratios and surface patterns through creating elevation drawings, 3D renderings, and elevator cab animations so that each aspect of overall identity and user experience was fully considered. frit glass _ 1
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frit glass _ 3
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final facade pixelation design
exterior view from above courtyard _74
With an expected completion of 2018, the Kimmel Pavilion is an 800,000 sqft acute care hospital that will be in addition to an already 2 million square foot medical campus.
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