RAVEN COFER HARDISON
RAVEN COFER HARDISON
WORK 2010-2013
RAVEN COFER HARDISON
ARCHITECTURE HOUSE #1: House for a Teacher, Advanced Studio with Tom Beeby HOUSE #2: Shift Four, Yale Building Project CITY #1: Supra-Canal, Advanced Studio with Gregg Pasquarelli CITY #2: Datascape, Stamford Urban Studio with Keller Easterling CULTURE #1: East River Performing Arts Center with Michael Young CULTURE #2: Hostel for Itinerant Musicians with Alan Organschi
FABRICATION Columnar Shift Chair-Form-A Material Output Welcome to Rudolph Hall
DRAWING British Center for Art Paul Mellon Grant: Rousham Park Rome, Change and Continuity Traveling Fellowship
HOUSE #1
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO
Advanced Studio Thomas Beeby
small house in a typical 25’ - 0” x 125’ - 0” lot in Chicago.
House for a Teacher, Chicago, Illinois
This design explores the reconsideration of the “glass house” within a traditional Chicago neighborhood.
Spring 2013 For this studio students were tasked with the design of a
The final project is a house that couples efficiency with experience. A standard platform framed house hovers above a swing space that can be used by the teachers for outreach programs, tutoring sessions, or even rented out for additional income.
A simple plan allows flexibility for the family and mesh facade becomes a trellis that pulls the unavailable garden space - given spatial limitations on this narrow urban lot - to the interior.
Program: 1500 sq. ft. House with Master Bed and Bath 2 Bedrooms and Bath Living Dining Powder Room Laundry Storage Library
Half-Inch Scale final model.
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The Icon It Floats! Elevated Massing “Glass House� Facade
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The Habitable Optimized Envelope Compact Core Generous Spaces
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | DESIGN: PLANS
Plans The plans for this Chicago House are organized for maximum utility and flexibility. This small house is divided on each floor into two suites. The first floor of the main house has a generous kitchen/dining area and living
room flanking a tight core that holds vertical circulation, laundry, a discrete powder room and ample storage.
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | DESIGN: PLANS
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | DESIGN: THE LIBRARY
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The library is composed of a millwork wall with two movable partitions. These partitions allow the upstairs to become two suites. As the inhabitants’ needs and preferences change, the two four foot panels can be easily rotated to dynamically alter the space.
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OPEN / SUITE CONFIGURATION
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MASTER SUITE MASTER BATH BATH CHILDREN’S OR OFFICE SUITE
MASTER BEDROOM MASTER BATH BATH BEDROOM BEDROOM LIBRARY
The second level is divided into the master’s suite and children’s room with a linear library at the south side. Each suite has a movable bookcase that can be opened to include the library area as additional living space for each of the suites. The library, shown here in
the open configuration, becomes a second living room for the house.
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | DESIGN: MILLWORK
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CLOSET A CLOSET B VANITY & DRAWER STORAGE CONCEALED MECHANICAL POCKET DOOR STOP
CLOSET C CLOSET D VANITY & DRAWER STORAGE CONCEALED MECHANICAL POCKET DOOR STOP
COAT CLOSET PANTRY FLATWARE, LINENS COOKING UTENSILS, ETC. DISHWARE BROOM/MOP CLOSET COOKWARE STOVE, OVEN AND HOOD
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TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | DESIGN: SECTIONS
Section Though small in area, full use of wall space through millwork and built-in furniture allow full use of the volume. Because the basement level is designed as an additional space for the owners, the attic is reserved for storage.
Teacher’s Outreach or Rental Unit
can be used to host tutoring sessions and other activities.
A driving point for this project, the basement apartment is envisioned as an outreach space for the teacher, facilitating his or her role as community leader. A glass box nestled into the landscape, this apartment
Alternatively, the space can be used, as shown here, as a rental unit. This allows the teacher added financial flexibility and incentive to become a permanent resident in Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods.
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | HOUSE AS ICON
Initial Parti Model
The Floating Box The initial concept was an elevated house over a glass lower level. By developing a monolithic yet dynamic cladding and maintaining attention to structural detail, the parti was realized. In it’s final iteration, the
Early Study
expanded metal mesh facade is used as a support for espaliered trees that merge garden and tapestry for the inhabitant’s interior experience.
Facade Development
Structural Model
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | HOUSE AS ICON
Detail Study Drawings on the opposite page are a study of the effects achieved in two precedents: the Farnsworth House and Johnson’s Glass House, above.
Screen sizes were tested for visual affect to create a sense of glass house in the city.
TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | HOUSE AS ICON
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TOM BEEBY ADVANCED STUDIO | RESIDENTIAL | A TEACHER’S HOUSE FOR CHICAGO | CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
Structure and Details The structure of the main house is standard platform framing. To accommodate large window spans at the first floor east and second floor south walls, floors are strengthened to function doubly as reinforced headers.
The exterior cladding expanded metal mesh panels - are attached to sheathing. Panels are operable at some windows and fixed at others, creating a living tapestry.
HOUSE #2
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011
The Building Project with Alexander Chabla Antonia Devine Christine Hoff Gary Leggett Jack Morley Ollie Nieuwland-Zlotnicki, Chris Parkinson, Benny Sachs & Daria Solomon
Critics: Alan Organschi Adam Hopfner Joeb Moore Tina Manis Peter de Bretteville Spring 2011
Every year the first-year architecture students compete for the chance to design and build the building project. The design for this two-family house takes seriously the notion of affordability to create spaces that are both intimate and luxurious within a small building footprint and tight
envelope. The rotated gable roof produces two third floor bedrooms in the high southeast and northwest corners. The two low corners on the northeast and southwest become luxurious sky-lit spaces with high sloping ceilings on the second floor. The owner’s unit includes the
entire ground floor, front and rear yards and porches, and the quieter rear portion of the second floor. The renter’s unit, entered from a side attic stair, includes the front half of the second floor and the attic story. A single stair connects the three floors, which allows for the
HOUSE #1
potential conversion to single family occupancy through the removal of a three-foot wide partition.
Program:
Initial Analysis
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The project began with an investigation of different house plans.
Owners Unit (1450 ft2) Tenant Unit (950 ft2) Landscape Design Custom Millwork Interior & Exterior Finishes
Inspired by the iconic American four-square, which was utilized for its spatial efficiency, our team decided to design a house that was
classically simple in plan. This simplicity became the baseline that grounded the rest of the architecture’s dynamism and intentional irregularity.
LEFT: Advertisement for a early 20th century Sears and Roebuck house; note the foursquare plan. ABOVE: Simplified analysis of the basic four-square house plan layout and the final plan of the first floor.
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011 | CONCEPT AND RESEARCH
Four-Square Transformations
for the house.
With the underlying plan set, the team moved into volumetric studies. Extrapolating from the foursquare, we realized that one could shift the implied volumes and their dividing lines in space to uncover possible architectural forms
In the selected iteration of these volume explorations, a concept emerged: The main body of the house would be a volumetric foursquare where the walls of the classic arrangement here become thickened to hold
services and storage with a central void through all. Additionally, the top level of the four would be twisted to create the architecture of the house.
Diagram series exploring volumetric translations of the four-square.
Drawing of the selected scheme.
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011 | PLANS AND SECTIONS
First Floor Plan Owner Unit
Second Floor Plan Owner and Tenant Units
Third Floor Plan Tenant Unit
TENANT OWNER UNIT East-West Section
North-South Section
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011 | SITE
Harmonizing the Regular and the Irregular: A Site Study of Looking At and Looking Through Achieving an architecture both of looking at and looking through was essential to the project. We conceived this dually as an architecture of the site.
Realizing that the aperture scheme would dominate the aesthetic of the house, a series of studies helped bring the simple plan and almostsimple form into harmony.
Site Plan
Aperture Studies
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011 | FINAL HOUSE
Completed House
Details
Interior showing Main Living Room, Tenant Bedroom and Tenant Kitchen and Entrance
YALE VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT | 2011 | CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
Drawings created for the construction drawing set.
CITY #1
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL
Tunnel Feeder
Advanced Studio Gregg Pasquarelli with Adrienne Brown Fall 2012 Beginning with the premise: Bob (Moses) and Jane (Jacobs) are dead, this studio took an investigative approach to urban design.
One of the city’s busiest intersections, Canal Street houses a plethora of Manhattan flows. This project considers how a superblock could be inserted along Canal to magnify and facilitate its role as a corridor of goods, services and people.
Program: Research Highway Parks New Development
Manhattan Feeder Intersection
CANAL STREET, EXISTING CONDITIONS HIGH ACCIDENT VOLUME VEGETATION STREET VENDORS PEDESTRIANS CARGO TAXIS PERSONAL VEHICLES
Commercial Intersection
> 900 TRUCK ENDS 650-900 TRUCK ENDS 450-650 TRUCK ENDS ROADS CURRENTLY AT 100% CAPACITY 80% CAPACITY 0 - 75% CAPACITY FREQUENT VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICTS
HOLLAND TUNNEL / MANHATTAN BRIDGE
LINCOLN TUNNEL / QUEENSBORO BRIDGE
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | RESEARCH & CONCEPT
Site Selection The first task for this urban research studio was to select a site in Manhattan. Interested in the urban flows of goods, our process began with an analysis of the traffic patterns and issues challenging New York.
Various levels of data, such as that shown in this composite of DOT maps, revealed that a huge pressure on the city was located at Canal between the Holland Tunnel and the Manhattan Bridge. The Canal Street Corridor became our site: Supra-Canal became our project.
SUPRA-CANAL
Robert Moses: High Volume Traffic Flow
Jane Jacobs: The Hudson Street Ballet
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | THE NEW SUPERBLOCK
Canal Street, Existing Condition
SUPRA-CANAL PHASE 1: Establish Elevated Transportation Master Plan
SUPRA-CANAL PHASE 2: Build Structure for the new superblock.
A. Demolish buildings above 75’ - 0” B. Demolish structures of low historic value as needed for structure
SUPRA-CANAL PHASE 3: Creation of high-rise development zones.
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | RESEARCH & CONCEPT
Ecological Diversity, the key to dense urban habitability?
Ecological Overlay Faced with the prospect of doubling the volume of pedestrians, residences, vehicular traffic and businesses on Canal Street, the final layer of Supra-Canal considers livability. Stemming from the studio
traveling week, we mined Brasilia - and its surprisingly livable superblocks - for strategies. Study proposed that the presence of dense animal and plant life was significant to the human experience of density.
Vegetated Buffer Zones, in Squ. 108, Brasilia
Sectional comparison. Note the effect of the sloped landscape at Conjuncto Residenical do Parque Guinle.
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | PARAMETRIC ECOLOGIES
Patch Theory, Richard T. T. Forman’s “Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions
Required Patch Area Too much demolition required
Patch Center
The Parametric Script is used to draw lines to existing patches - NYC parks. The distance is set by the maximum travel distance for the target species.
Ecological Avenues It became evident that the project was about redeveloping Canal Street as a series of flows. On top of the existing programs of traffic and commerce, we decided to add an ecological layer. Parametric design was used to create a strategy
to create an ecological flow along Canal. The challenge of accomplishing this was spatial. Ecology generally requires too much uninterrupted space to coexist within an urban condition. Accepting this challenge, we devised a way to create new
area using the surfaces of buildings.
The new patch is configured as a corridor between parks.
System Capacity 1x
Entire Park as Patch System
The parametric algorithm tested against increasing density.
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GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | PARAMETRIC ECOLOGIES
Step 3: Selection of Tower Locations
Step 2: Removals for Existing Streets
Step 1: Highway as Superblock
The Superblock The resulting superblock became a linear collection of flows - of commerce, habitation, economics, ecology - in a single structure.
Step 4: Applying the parametrics to the superblock.
GREGG PASQUARELLI ADVANCED STUDIO | BOB AND JANE ARE DEAD: NEW YORK, NY | SUPRA-CANAL | GEOMETRY
Because of its parametric nature, Supra-Canal’s design can be readjusted as required. Though we demonstrated a particular iteration, as seen above, the system is dynamic, unfolding organically as development opportunities are exploited.
Iterations from V2.3 Habitat Surface
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101,000 SQ FT
These gestures show various outputs from the Supra-Canal algorithm. Inputs alter resulting forms according to habitat area, type and shape.
CITY #2
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT
DATASCAPE
with Katharine Storr Keller Easterling, Spring 2012 For the second-year urban studio, we were prompted to create an intervention in Stamford, Connecticut at two sites, one in the city center, the other where Stamford
meets the Sound. My partner and were motivated by overlaps between the opportunistic and altruistic. Capitalizing on Stamford’s culture of interiority and eschewing of public space - the most vibrant center is located in the mall - we created an interior
public square paired with data center. The heat from this capitalistic enterprise is pumped down to heat the new Kosciuszko Pools, an amenity intended to lure highend development and service the existing poor communities in southern Stamford.
Program:
Infrastructure:
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Data Center (500,000 sq ft) Public Square Offices (75,000 sq ft) Public Pools (45,000 sq ft) Boulevard Park
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | CONCEPT AND RESEARCH
New York, NY Central Park, The Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dodger Stadium and Elysian Park
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Stamford, CT Sites 1 and 2
The Regional, The Urban Research attempted to simultaneously understand Stamford’s financial characteristics and its urbanity - it’s capacity to form a public. Fairfield is by far Connecticut’s wealthiest
county. The only areas with significant levels of poverty are in Bridgeport and Stamford. This writes Stamford as an opportunity to create income; the goal became economy stabilization.
Average Download Speeds by Country (Megabits per second) 1
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Urban trends in data demands and management. 1 2 3 4 5
Chattanooga, Tennessee New York as the new Silicon Valley New York-based companies UBS trading floor in Stamford, Connecticut Planned Technology Educational facility on Roosevelt Island
Building for Data Surprisingly, the United States lags behind in international data speeds. However, this is something that cities are working to fix.
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DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | CONCEPT AND RESEARCH
BRYANT PARK NEW YORK, NY
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Spatial Research To move forward with the prompt of a new digital hub-public space hybrid, we conducted comparison studies to get a sense of scale asking: How do the scales of a media center, a data center and public space compare?
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1 Sendai Mediatheque 2 Grand Central Terminal 3 The Broad Museum 4 Seattle Public Library 5 Funfhofe 6 Bryant Park
SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE SENDAI, JAPAN
SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SEATTLE, WA
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL NEW YORK, NY
THE BROAD MUSEUM LOS ANGELES, CA
FUNF HOFE MUNICH, GERMANY
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | PROPOSAL
SITE 1 DATA CENTER AS ECONOMIC ENGINE INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PUBLIC SQUARES
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METRO NORTH & I-91: NYC METROPOLITAN AREA CONNECTION The point of departure for the project is to tap into the existing NYC-Stamford Wall Street Corridor. By connecting the public component with economic growth, the project prepares for a self-sustaining Public Realm.
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EXISTING DATA INFRASTRUCTURE The first step is to support and improve the data infrastruture in Stamford, making the city more appealing and profitable for the Wall Street industry.
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NEW FIBER-OPTIC & WI-FI LOOPS A powerful fiber-optic loop and Wi-Fi towers are added as an ammenity for two groups: high-end developers building apartment buildings at the South End and for the existing low-income neighborhoods south of the city’s downtown. The closed loop creates a wired Stamford.
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HEAT TRANSFER The heat from the data centers are piped through an underground network heating the Public Square in Central Downtown year-round. Also heated is Washington Boulevard, now a main thoroughfare connecting Downtown and the South End, as well as a new pool facility at the old docks.
SITE 2 KOSCIUSZKO POOLS PUBLIC PARKS PITNEY BOWES COMMUNITY CENTER
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DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | SITE 1 PLAN
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Urban Living Room Public Square The new Washington Boulevard Data Center and Offices Beacon
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | SITE 2 SECTION
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | SITE 2 PLAN
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DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | THE NEW URBAN SECTION
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To move forward with the prompt of a new digital hub-public space hybrid, we conducted comparison studies to get a sense of scale.
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Pitney Bowes Park Kosciuszko Square Kosciuszko Pools Lobby Olympic Pool Outdoor Pool
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DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | SITE 1 MODEL
DATASCAPE | URBAN STUDIO | STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT | SITE 2 MODEL
The architecture for Site 2 varies significantly from that of Site 1. Here, the intention is to take advantage of the waterfront. The building therefore sits lightly on the land and fades back into its surroundings.
The front facade is designed to pick up on the existing architecture of Pitney Bowes. The south facade is full glass, uniting both the interior and exterior pools with the Sound.
CULTURE #1
MOVE | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
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Move Michael Young, Fall 2010 For this multi-disciplinary performing arts center, students designed a new facility as an addition to the historic Tobacco Warehouse near Brooklyn Bridge Park.
This design considers theatrical precedents in conjunction with the needs of the city to create a complex of small theaters for New York City’s artist population. A concept of both the mat building and axial arrangement combine to create a complexity of spaces
that overlap use and create uncommon opportunities for both performers and observers. This complex of spaces arranges the entire site -- both interior and exterior -- into a theatrical apparatus.
Program: 1 Theater Performance Space 2 Music Venues 3 Art Exhibition 4 Lobby and Entrance 5 Landscape Connection
Garnier’s Opera House
Implosion, reversal
Unexpected spatial occupations.
Multiple and Smaller.
The stage extends into the street. (The stage is not the stage)
The spreading relationship has reversed, the cultural stage has come close to completely eclipsing the formal stage. Performance as a possibility is challenged by the historical event in which performance is increasingly replaced/challenged by surveillance.
The Stage itself has changed, the site of performance has changed its location in space (performance site as television or mobile phone screen) and culture (performance art), the “stage” therefore, now is characterized by unexpected spatial occupations.
The stage has multiplied and gotten smaller. Post-modernist cultural theory, groups and subgroups, challenging of a hierarchy, etc. So, more performance spaces and smaller.
Plan analysis on trace: Hadrian’s Villa and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital.
Analysis Diagrams The first studies began with a historical look towards theater and thought about the changes affecting performance in our time. These studies allowed the creation of a set of rules, or new characteristics,
that guide contemporary performance.
Precedent Study To continue project development, precedent study was introduced. A combination between axial design and the mat building became underlying drivers for the project. Using precedents, the
disparate spaces became an overlapping array at the site.
MOVE | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK | PLANS
Existing Aerial
Site As an approach, the entire Performing Arts Center was conceived as a performance field between the park. The strategies uncovered during analysis were applied along the axis given by the historical tobacco warehouse.
Move Performing Arts Center: Ground Floor Plan
MOVE | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK | PLANS
Second Floor Plan
Roof Plan
MOVE | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK | SECTIONS
A Performance of Overlap The most important characteristic was the sectional interaction of shifting theaters. While some performance spaces are completely enclosed, others are playfully arranged around the main spine. The overlap produces
unexpected and theatrical results.
Sections through the altered Tobacco Warehouse with expanded performance space.
MOVE | PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK | MODEL
CULTURE #2
HOSTEL FOR ITINERANT MUSICIANS | NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
Hostel for Itinerant Musicians Alan Organschi, Spring 2011 A Hostel for Itinerant Musicians that includes sleeping areas, practice areas and shared spaces.
This project begins with an interest in the wall section-the ability of a wall to be at once space-framing and filtering, tectonic and programmatic. In the narrow, 18 foot site, the wall is conceptualized as the sole building element. It undulates to separate functions and to carve out shared space; it
joins with adjacent layers to become structural and splits apart to allow for circulatory paths. The result is a surprisingly non-rectilinear form wherein the material and opacity of wall panels change as dictated by programmatic requirements. The imagined
itinerant musician is invited to spend his or her time visiting New Haven living, not in a space, but in an architecture that is itself inhabitable.
Program 1 Eight Sleeping Quarters 2 Practice Rooms 3 Common Areas
Site Plan Sited at the rear of a sliver lot at the corner of Chapel and Orange Streets, the building must address two fronts. To take advantage of this, landscaping is used to expand the large bus stop facing Chapel Street.
HOSTEL FOR ITINERANT MUSICIANS | NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT | CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Initial Sketches and Sketch Model The project progressed as a study of the wall section — could a wall section itself be expanded to accommodate spaces? In progressive steps, the living and communal spaces
for the musicians become increasingly defined.
Sketch Models
HOSTEL FOR ITINERANT MUSICIANS | NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT | SECTIONS
Sections The building section expands and diminishes with undulating, curved panels, making the thin building footprint part of the internal architecture.
HOSTEL FOR ITINERANT MUSICIANS | NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT | PLANS
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Plans The interior spaces were first programmed along grid lines for the building. They were then adjusted to conform to the building’s section.
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HOSTEL FOR ITINERANT MUSICIANS | NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT | RENDERING
FABRICATION
STUDIES IN LIGHT AND MATERIALS | FABRICATION | COLUMNAR SHIFT
Columnar Shift Michelle Addington Fall 2013 For the “Light and Materials” seminar, the exploration of light as a collection of phenomena created a way to look at this project.
In attempt to recreate Mischa Kuball’s installation, I built a scale model of the space and experimented with light source geometry to mimic the artists’ effects. A surprising result was the visual appearance of a seemingly three dimensional column.
Fabrication 1 Scale Model 2 Photographic Series
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This a shadow. Gradually, it will become three dimensional.
This is the same shadow. Here, it is at its most form-like appearance. At this point, the transformation reverses.
THE CHAIR | FABRICATION | CHAIR-FORM-A
CHAIR-FORM-A Tim Newton Joshua Rowley Taylor Dansby Spring 2013
This chair is based on the desire to highlight the structural curiosities of carbon fiber, a material capable of creating incredibly rigid yet lightweight components. To visually contrast this fact, the chair’s aesthetic illustrates carbon fiber’s fabric characteristics.
The seat, legs and back are formed in a single sheet. They crease and curve to create lines of enhanced structural strength. In this way, the design both traces and belies the structure of the chair. Weighing less than five pounds and stackable, the chair is an encouraging prototype.
Program: Design a prototype of a chair.
THE CHAIR | FABRICATION | CHAIR-FORM-A
The design and fabrication for Chair-Form-A was an involved process. The final design was honed by using 3D modeling, 3D printing and 5-axis milling. The final prototype was fabricated by forming the carbon fiber cloth over a reverse form.
MATERIAL AND FORM IN DESIGN | FABRICATION | MATERIAL OUTPUT
Material Output Kevin Rotheroe, Fall 2011 Casting fabric in various wet media - plaster, rockite, wax and rockite/polyurethane distressed linen sheets were digitized in a study of the translation from object to digital to object.
Reframing the original objects through the computer’s lens highlights a common shortcoming in digital fabrication and begins to suggest a way around this limitation. By combining straight-forward milling with techniques driven by natural phenomena
- wind and heat during thermoforming - the final digital-based object shares the depth of texture and interest as the originals.
Fabrication 1 Milled Surface 2 Thermaformed Panels 3 Digitally Manipulated Images
Digital Photography
Digital Photography
Thermoform
CNC Milling
Throughout various processes - material manipulation, photography, digitization and fabrication - aesthetic consistency was achieved.
VISUALIZATION 3 | FABRICATION | WELCOME TO RUDOLPH HALL
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A Rudolph Welcome with Antonia Devine Christine Hoff & Benny Sachs John Eberhart Ben Pell Spring 2011
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Although complex in form, the construction is simple; the entire form is composed of plywood ribs with inset, woven poplar strips. Only the tip and the base of the form are visible from the street, intriguing anyone who walks along Chapel. Once viewed in full, the smooth
egg-crate invites the viewer to sit and stay awhile.
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Program: Design and create fabrication drawings for an installation for Rudolph Hall.
Fabrication and Assembly Project completion included moving through sketches and study models into final construction and assembly drawings. Throughout we worked with the assembly team to make adjustments to the design.
LEFT: Sequencing Diagram showing both members and cross-members of the assembly. ABOVE: Construction details.
VISUALIZATION 3 | FABRICATION | WELCOME TO RUDOLPH HALL
The installation is a dual seat and canopy at the base of Rudolph Hall’s front steps. Strips of plywood, which fit between the concrete ridges of the building, curve over the steps and around the walls to form an undulated, covered throne.
DRAWING
PAUL MELLON RESEARCH GRANT | DRAWINGS | ROUSHAM PARK
Paul Mellon Grant Summer 2012
To study the landscape architecture of Rousham Park, I traveled to Oxford to study the estate through drawing. Rousham not only typifies the beauty of the English landscape tradition, but also provides unique insight into the way that changes in production, politics and culture worked in tandem to
create the aesthetic of the English countryside. The study was conducted as a series of pencil drawings.
Drawings 1 Farm House at Rousham Park 2 Bowling Green at Rousham Park
PAUL MELLON RESEARCH GRANT | DRAWINGS | ROUSHAM PARK
1 William Kent Cascade 2 Lake at Blenheim Palace
CHANGE AND CONTINUITY: ROME | DRAWINGS | PENCIL DRAWINGS
Change and Continuity: Rome Summer 2012
These drawings were made during the Summer Change and Continuity Seminar.
Drawings 1 The Rape of Proserpina 2 Macchina e dei ermaphrodita 3 Palazzo Massimo