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Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
suckerPUNCH
Hotel
suckerPUNCH design competition. MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) required a larger museum space to house exhibits in the Lower East side of New York. The site aquired was an abandoned parking lot situated on a major roadway into the city. The concept for the building came from the urban fabric of the city itself. Isopotential maps are a measure of electrostatic potential in space, showing where charged particles might interact using equioptential lines. By creating a grasshopper definition to take advantage of this concept, a series of contour maps were created based on different parameters. The maps display a series of patterns and networks in the Lower East Side not otherwise seen. These contour maps were then used to generate the building form, thus creating a micro-macro relationship between the building and the Lower East Side. The building is recording the pattern of the city at a smaller, scaled down experience. The patterns and networks generated by the maps dictate how one moves through the building.
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elevation
plans
plans
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Next Stop
The site for the hotel was situated adjacent to Love Park in Philadelphia, PA. The hotel as an instution and how architecture can define and reinforce this idea was the driving concept behind the hotel. Program requirements included 80 hotel rooms and 50 timeshare units.
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site plan
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retail space
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view from love park
sections
plans
Houston Baths
Facade Restoration
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Next Stop Design competition to design a bus stop for the University of Utah. The two separate curved precast concrete forms create a shelter for the interactive display and pedestriansbelow. The shape helps remove water runoff during the summer and snow during the winter. Designed to be two separate entities, the forms can be separated so that only one may be used where space constraints or low traffic density exist. An integrated bicycle rack brings together two different types of transportation. The rack doubles as a vegetative screen which filters sunlight and displays the changing of the seasons. Amorphous silicon photovoltaic panels feed the grid during the day to offset the cost of powering the lighting system at night. To further save, the bus shelter uses a motion sensor system to power down the displays and lights if no movement is detected for 5 minutes. A built-in recycling center beneath the panels encourages riders, as well as passers-by, to recycle.
Photovoltaic Panels
Vegetative Screen Interactive Display Recycling Center Bicycle Rack
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site plan
perspectives
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Next Stop
tex-fab Repeat digital fabrication competition. Requirements were to design a connection that can be replicated and manipulated through parametric modeling. Using a friction joint connection, each panel slips into the adjacent panel, forming rows. Each rom slips into the row below, locking them into place while alo creating openings within the surface. Through the use of parametric modeling, these vents allow the system to control and buffer light, wind, and water and can can be customized for any context. The installation is laser cut from .050 aluminum sheets.
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light redirect The system creates a relationship between the building skin and the buildings programmatic usage. The parameterization of the panels creates a skin that directly responds to the illumination requirements of the different programs.
wind redirect The system acts as a wind screen for large urban areas. The wall acts as a buffer to calm and redirect the wind thus creating a microclimate.
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component variation
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Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Facade Restoration
Huston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
22,000 sqft medical lease office building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana located adjacent to I-12.
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roof detail
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entry level
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Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Visitor center for Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Mexico. The site was situated in the Zocalo, adjacent to the temple ruins. The building is juxtaposed against the ancient buildings of the Zocalo in order to draw visitors in and orient them to the area.
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Mexico transverse section
interior perspectives
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
Mexico City Zocalo
suckerPUNCH
Louisiana has a unique tectonic culture that has developed over the years in response to the subtropical climate. How can an indigenous plant and a machine be murged together to create something new to solve a local problem? The YellowJacket is an autonomous robot equipped with a rotating nanosponge film used to capture containments humans have left in the Gulf and marshes. The vehicle hastwo main functions; it is able to skim and collect containments on the ocean surface, and to collect containments settling on the ocean floor. Active buoyancy control is used to allow the vehicle to move vertically in the water. While laying horizontally on the surface, the rotating fins drive the vehicle. While under the surface, the fins create a vortex effect, pulling contaminated water to the vehicle and running it over the nanospong to be filtered. This technique would allow one vehicle to filter a larger area over time.The nanowires are made of potassium manganese oxide and clump together naturally. Because the membrane it mostly, air, it functions like a sponge by drawing in liquid through capillary action. The nanofabric selectively absorbs large amounts of hydrophobic liquids without collecting any water. The oil can be removed by heating the material, which can then be used again and again.
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Crataegus Opacaa / Riverflat Mayhaw
3/4” Mayfly - Found on the mayhaw plant in April/May months. Attracts many fish to create a rich fishing hole.
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The symmetrical structure of the Riverflat Mayhaw fruit combined with the hopper dredger’s ability to store and remove unwanted material resulted in the creation of the YellowJacket.
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underwater cleanup
3D print
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
Hotel
suckerPUNCH
Steel I-Beams 4’ Deep Steel Truss
Steel Frame
Retaining Walls
Vertical Circulation Horizontal Circulation Baths Natatorium Support
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Emission Mode
Absorption Mode
Heat does not rise. It travels from an object of higher heat energy to one of lower heat energy, seeking equilibrium.
If the body is warmer than the wall, the wall is in an absorption mode. Thus, the radiant heat transfer is from the body to the wall.
The wall is warmer than the body. The radiant heat transfer is from the wall to the body.
Tepidarium Detail Scale: 1/4”=1’-0”
Natatorium Level
Bath Level
Facade Restoration
Houston Baths
YellowJacket
Mexico City Zocalo
Medical Office
texFAB
Next Stop
suckerPUNCH
Hotel
Facade restoration to the Latils building in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The owner requested the help of the Foundation for Historical Louisiana to restore the building facade to its original design in order to qualify for federal tax credits.
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Randy Crowe 225.978.6993 rcrowe1@tigers.lsu.edu