T O M O N O R I T S U J I T A . 2001-2009
Š 2009 Tomonori Tsujita
CONTENTS.
中身
GRADUATE
大学院
Korea-Urbia SLUM Lab: Caracas, Venezuela Monograph Studio Advanced Techniques in Digital Design Digital Detailing
FREELANCE/COMPETITIONS
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Nordhavnen Competition Caesarstone Competition Benetton Teheran Competition
ROBERT SIEGEL ARCHITECTS SUNY Purchase: School of Visual Arts Renovation US Land Port of Entry: Calais, Maine
PLATT BYARD DOVELL WHITE ARCHITECTS LLP Poly Prep Lower School Jacob Burns Media Center
UNDERGRADUATE
大学
Fire Station New National Gallery Renovation San Jose State, School of Art & Design Pittsburgh Filmmakers
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Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation New York, NY SLUM Lab: Caracas, Venezuela Monograph Studio Advanced Techniques in Digital Design Digital Detailing
大学院
SLUM LAB: CARACAS, VENEZUELA.
FALL 2007 Urban Think Tank [Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner] The Barrios district of Caracas, Venezuela is one that is currently treated as an isolated island by it surrounding districts of a formalized city. The individuals living in the Barrios district serve the city’s commerce, and are integral to the sustainabillity of Caracas, much like any other individual living and working in this city.
Cultural Complex Formal City
Green Space Barrios District City University
However, the region in which they subside has been largely ignored by politics, and has become a region of insufficient fiscal support by the city. In order to gain notice as a district worth greater support by the city, the Barrios must progress into a region that is more greatly supported by itself, rather than the reliance on charitable funds. For this to be achieved, a pavilion is proposed in the lower area of the Barrios facing the formalized city. This pavilion is an extension of the existing infrastructure, and creates a layer that does not currently exist. A clear horizontal plane. This open area is utilized as an urban plaza, allowing multiple uses as a location of public assembly, seasonal markets and festivals. The lower level will also integrate into this pavilion, with multiple markets and businesses. This pavilion will be integrated with a cable car system running along the perimeter of the Barrios proposed by Urban Think Tank through an additional linethat projects from the top of the hill to the pavilion below. The introduction of a space as a commercial open market hosted by the Barrios brings the potential of increased trade and commerece not only within the district, but for businesses that surround the Barrios as well. It is through this exchange of goods and services between the people of the Barrios and the city which can begin to become more integral with the progression of Caracas.
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MONOGRAPH STUDIO. The purpose of the Monograph Studio is as follows (Written by Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano) This is your last studio, the one that will complete and prefect you as an architect. No architect is complete without a Monograph. No architect exists without a Monograph. A monograph is your personal visual manifesto. A monograph is not a portfolio. A portfolio is comprehensive; a monograph is deliberately incomplete. A portfolio is objective; a monograve is subjective. A portfolio is universal; a monograph is personal. A portfolio explains; a monograph mystifies. A portfolio speeds through; a monograph hesitates. A portfolio is stable; a monograph is unstable. A portfolio is honest; a monograph is deceptive. A portfolio is graphic; a monograph is theraputic. This is going to be the studio where you finally make your monograph. It’s going to be a studio about books, about printed images and about paper. It is going to be a dirty, papery studio. Everything you produce will become a document within your book. You will design this book as your conclusive and prospective project, and make intelligent and complex decisions about how to organize it. There will be no pin-ups, no PowerPoint, no projections. Everything you do: drawings, renderings, models, research, will be presented as part of your in-progress monograph. Every model will become a photo of a model. Every object will become an image. Every review will be a book review. If it’s not part of the book, it doesn’t exist. There will be two parts to your book and to your experience this Spring, developed in parallel to make your a better narcassist and a better altruist, to continuously interfere with and affect each other:
SPRING 2008 LOT-EK [Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano]
Part One: Your Self Every hero must have a story. Every story must have a book. You will invent this hero. You will become this character. Through a process of highly experimental and intuitive steps, you will synthesize self, story and book. You will have 50 pages, many images and a deceptively neutral format. You will be the Subject and the Author, the Analyst and Analysand (Shrink and Patient) You will document your own vision. The vision will be the catalog and ultimate memoir of all of your life’s work to date, as well as its opposite, a mystery novel and disaster movie that unsettles and remakes what you think you know how to do and what you think you have produced. The vision will be original, yet dictated by difficult assignments along the way, unpredictably effecting and affecting your architecture. Part Two: Your Home Every building must have a book. Every book must have a building. You will invent this building. You will develop this architecture. Through a process of highly conceptual and intuitive steps, you will synthesize home, building and book. You will have 50 pages, 2,000 square feet and a seemingly generic site. You will be the Architect and the Client, the Subject and the Object. You will design your house. The house will be the fulfillment and ultimate expression of all of your architectural thinking, as well as its opposite, something entirely new, unprecedented, a three-dimensional manifesto for the rest of your career.
And as a pause, a suspension and a deeper reflection: the trip. You will travel somewhere far and close, an outer and inner journey. Strange and familiar, terrible and tranquil (the definition of sublime). Not a trip to look at architecture, a trip to imagine architecture. Pure inspiration. A siteless visit. A fabrication and an installation. A spiritual journey to a physical place: the desert. This studio is not for everyone. This is an unusual and uneasy studio. If you want to take this studio, you must be ready to honestly dig and discover, imagine and invent. We are looking for confused and courageous students. We require risks. We suggest sincerity. We define success by asking you to try hard and fail hard, then try hader and fail harder. There is nowhere to hide. There are no compromises and there are severe limits. Everything you make will be severely constrained by a printer’s Crown Quarto format: 7.44” x 9.68”. You will get surprisingly used to this. Your monograph will be an inner journey. Your monograph will be your personal visual manifesto. Your monograph will be You. You will be well on your way to finally existing as an architect.
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Perhaps the most ironic thing about fear is that fear in itself is a safety mechanism. It’s a condition created within our own mind that is used to protect ourselves from emotional or physical injury. Intriguing however, is the phenomenon where fears change over time. What was once something fearful may ultimately be something that you embrace willingly once you realize that your perception of what you fear was a misconstruction of an illogical subconscious. A pain that I face in dealing with a fear may be a type of weakness leaving my body. Nothing epitomizes this concept better in my life than the fear of abandonment and singularity. To be left alone, to be apart from known company brought on anxiety and loss of reference. Without their presence I felt lost even in the most familiar places. I may never be able to explain the fulcrum which flipped this perception of abandonment. But the more I became in tune with being left with only my own thoughts, the harder it became to be placed in a lost condition. Now I look for those moments where I feel at a loss, in order to create my own references. Though at one point in my life the fear was used to tether myself to only what I know, it has now become a moment of opportunity for me to discover new places and decisions. Singularity 2008.02.01
Tokyo, Japan 2006.01.12
Swakopmund, Namibia 2008.03.11
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Timed Allowance A study on plastic bags and light. 2008.02.01
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Soussevlei, Namibia / New York, NY 2008.03.13 / 2006.11.21
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Compression A fabrication of a 1’x1’x1’ cube using paper, clay and string. 2008.02.29
Buried Scale A study of the desert and 30-gallon blue recycling bags. Soussevlei, Namibia 2008.03.13
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN DIGITAL DESIGN.
with Seth Adams Katherine Heck Michael Ka’ainoni SUMMER 2007 Towards a Pathalogical Creation of Form: Paralyzed Force
Hernan Diaz Alonso
The investigation into the creation of form further codifies the initial intent of the project which is inspired by psycho-spatial pathlogies that have precedent or analogue in the historical spectacle, focuses on the development of a series of cells through experimentation that is at once a representation of itself as a fetishization of neo-traditional media and a variation of a generative rule system. Based on the idea of rupture and the radical transformation of a historical spectacle at many scales and densities, the formal manifestation of the system would seem as inevitable as a force of nature, the vectors sinuously and elegantly grow and decay to create networks. Rupture and transformation are metaphrically physical events but synthesized from analysis of the second segment of the study that collision occurs at many scales and densities. Among others occuring: Delicately and elegantly. Poetically and transparently. With the same magnitude as violence. With quiet authority that has greater force.
DIGITAL
DETAILING.
with Terry Chen Shin Kang
FALL 2007
Proxy [Mark Collins & Toru Hasegawa] The continued advancement of BIM, scripted process, and computational design has opened new territories of work for architects. The class operated within a series of digital and physical migrations: between different software and geometric platforms, between design and documentation and between extensive porperties (weight, size, form) and intensive performances. Focusing on a digital workflow that can deliver true innovation in building systems, the work of the class was supplemented throguh the facilities of the Avery FabCon + Carlton Laboratories to develop proof-of-concept prototypes. The assignment was to create a overhanging structure between Avery and Fayerweather Halls at Columbia University’s main campus. The project focused on the process of tesselation through fabrication of the tesselated form. Though a warped NURB can be converted relatively easily computationaly, can lead to issues of tangible fabrications based on size and angle of the calculated form. In an attempt to mediate this issue, the application of SolidWorks and ModeFrontier allowed the relocation of control points of the tesselated object. However the focus was not necessarily to change each individual triangulation, but to better understand and modify the control point of a group of every six triangles at the converging apex. This allowed to change the relationship of an unbuildable triangulation to a buildable one, by using the tolerance of an adjacent triangle. By this approach, it is possible to create a tangible final assembly that very close to the orignal conceptual form. From that point, ECOTECT was also utilized for solar path analysis to determine the best configuration and alignment of the system. Finally, to reveal the method of design towards fabrication, the surface is suspended, held at the control points that were modified.
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Nordhavnen Competition Caesarstone Competition Benetton Teheran Competition
FREELANCE/COMPETITIONS
NORDHAVNEN COMPETITION. with Michael Ka’ainoni
2008
A prefix is the internal portion of an object (a word or term [typically in text or speech]) with a distinct and reused meaning that modifies the meaning of the whole object. This idea in the utilization of a modifier to alter the function of a predicated condtion has been applied to the Nordhavnen district of Copenhagen. But simple intervention alone, however benevolent, cannot bring about an alteration of preception and function. The variations and typologies of actions and interventions must also be determined. (pre)FIX is an exploration in the modifiers that could be applied to the Nordhavnen district in its process of redeveloping the future growth and use of the neighborhood. This process in determining the variables for development was derived through a series of exercises that focused on the future expansion of Nordhavnen at its core. This outward direction then led to the introduction of a main arterial path that acts as a spine in both the existing landmass and proposed expansion. This main path is further broken down programmatically by use. Automobiles, light rail, pedestrian/bicycle, et al, each exist on their own path which converse sectionally to meet the functions of the surrounding environment. As the light rail and public transport proceed through the site, private automobiles are diverted to multi-tier parking zones to minimize traffic. Pedestrian and bicycle paths are non-adjacent to larger modes of traffic so these methods of transport can be designed at a different scale and intention that focuses on visual experience as opposed to time/speed in the case of motorized vehicles. As the path progresses further into the site, the various typologies of interventions are encountered. 1) A bridge condition, which occurs in moments where the site below must be preserved or there is an existing body of water. 2) Locations where the path inserts through an existing building. 3) Zones in which there are predominantly new construction. 4) Hybrid conditions, in which additions are incorporated into existing buildings to promote new functions and programming. 5) And the expansion of the Nordhavnen district, in which the paths are fully integrated into the platforms which progress further out into the bay. With the main path set as the spine for the site, these modifiers are formalized and iterated as a series of progressions throughout the site at specific nodal points resulting from the convergence of multiple axis introduced in the redevelopment of Nordhavnen.
1. [pre] CONDITION
Existing condition without any intervention or alteration.
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2. [re] CONDITION
Site mass extruded resulting in maximum building area.
3. [sub] DIVIDE
Zones are subdivided in the perpendicular axist to establish major connections to the main entry
4. [re] VAMP
Existing structures respected and built upon.
5. [re] NEW
Existing structures are accompanied with new structures for density and introduction of program.
6. [re] COMBINE
Existing program with new program reconfigured into a 24-hour promenade.
7. [de] STABLIZE
Future expansion of the project is achieved through the arrangment of fragmented planes stacked vertically.
SECTIONAL PATH.
The introduced path bisects the Nordhavnen district, creating a new axis to traverse into the redeveloped areas. The preposition of multiple paths which are divided by typologies intertwine sectionally, dividing, conjoining and altering. By doing so, there is an introduction of new varibles in which the redevelopment and expansion of Nordhavnen can incorporate within its master planning.
BRIDGE.
With the introduced path taking shape of a linear structure creating a new division of Nordhavnen, one of the new conditions encountered is the scenario of the path passing over an existing body of water or historically preserved structure.
EXISTING. The path will pass through existing buildings and structures that are deemed for preservation, whether for historical significance or programmatic alteration that is beneficial to the dynamics of Copenhagen.
INTRODUCTION. The newly introduced elements are placed on a series of perpendicular axis to the main path. Following this organizational spine, multiple nodal points are created in which multiple variables of interventions can occur.
ADDITION.
Several portions of the path will traverse through a ‘hybrid’ condition of the site, in which existing buildings and structures are modified by additions allowing the reuse of already existing structure, volume and infrastructure.
EXPANSION.
Further expansion of the Nordhavnen area is focused on the idea of minimal impact into the waters. This is achieved through a series of platforms that are conjoined programmatically, and integrated through the extension of the path.
CAESARSTONE COMPETITION. 2008 A competition for a manufacturer of synthetic countertop surfaces asked to design a table for use in their showrooms that revealed the possibilities in the materials that they produced. The submitted entry proposes the application of multiple material types and colors rotated 90 degrees and stacked in a horizontal direction. The table is constructed by using the standard Caesarstone slab thicknesses of 0.5”, 0.75” and 1.25” and aligned vertically. Stainless steel panels of 0.125” thick are layered in incremets of similar profile and all layers are connected through a series of threaded rods and bolted in place. There are five typical profiles that are used in a series for the construction of the table. These profiles are applied for both the Caesarstone materials and the stainless steel structural reinforcements. When implemented in succession, two opposing L-shaped shelves are created. Because the table is created through multiple layers of these profiles, one dimension of the table is a dynamic variable. Therefore the length, color, and materials for the each table created can be determined by the quantity and type of panels used.
BENETTON TEHERAN COMPETITION. with Rita Afonso Eva Hermoso Barriuso
2009 The unification of mixed use programmatic spaces within a single entity can present itself to be a intriguing proposal for an architectural proposition. For Benetton, here is an opportunity to express the brand with not just one building, but through three distinct programs, work, live and consume. Though it is a simpler proposal to create three distinct tiers of the building, such a conglomerated and short-sighted approach would not justify the foundation of what United Colors of Benetton has already created in the fashion industry. It is therefore most paramount to create an architecture that encompasses Benetton’s presence not by a visual reference of programmatic distinctions, but through means of unification of these human experiences and behaviors. In such proposal, Benetton is the common denominator, and not a veneer. At the particular context at the site in Teheran, it was deemed necessary to create a dialog that amalgamates both a singular (conceptually) but distinct (contextually) archicitecture. To achieve this, a fragmented facade surrounds the vertical circulation, encapsulating the program in a porous facade, that reveals the continuous vertical circulation that visibily runs through the entire building. The volumes of vertical circulation and spaces that need to be enclosed are encapsulated in this single composition running through as a monolithic structure through the building, with an open program spread on each floor for retail, office, and residential use. The Benetton offices and retail stores spaces, along with apartments on the top floor were arranged with the concept that relied on the unique way that the brand has remarkable stand on the fashion industry. The different components of each floor are intended to connect with the way Benetton has constructed its own image. United Colors of Benetton are interpreted at this site as United Volumes of Benetton.
Private Residential
Benetton Office
Benetton Retail
A monolithic structure encloses the private spaces and vertical circulation of Building B The vertical form runs through the entire building, beginning in the vertical circulation space at the below grade parking spaces, through the private offices and conference rooms in the offices, and up to the rest rooms and bedrooms at the apartments on the top floor.
Exterior Green Space Work Space
Vertical Circulation & Private Spaces
Faรงade Structure
Sep 2008 -Nov2009
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Design Architect New York, NY SUNY Purchase: School of Visual Arts Renovation US Land Port of Entry: Calais, Maine
ROBERT SIEGEL ARCHITECTS
SUNY PURCHASE: VISUAL ARTS BUILDING. 2008-2009
Schematic Design Design Development Construction Documents The project called for a critical maintenance and repair of the existing visual arts building, originally designed by The Architects Collaborative, at the State University of New York, Purchase College campus. Originally completed in 1975, the building has numerous flaws in construction that has lead to multiple maintenance procedures over the lifespan of the building regarding its enclosure and waterproofing systems. These errors in execution included the lack of a vapor barrier in the masonry assemblies, inadequate sloping of the rigid insulation at the roof towards the drains and a general deficiency in construction of the curtain wall system. These have lead to issues which have caused damaged to both the exterior and interior of the building’s performance and habitable qualities. After an initial diagnostic investigation was performed, it was determined that a new roofing enclosure and curtain wall system would be required to resolve the pre-existing issues with water infiltration. The final scope of the project included a replacement of the existing roofing system (including a green roof), installation of a new curtain wall system and a renovation of the gallery space in the northern portion of the building.
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US LAND PORT OF ENTRY:
CALAIS, MAINE. 2008
Construction Administration As a project for the Design Excellence Program of the General Services Administration (GSA), The US Land Port of Entry in Calais, Maine was commissioned to support the eigth busiest land port of entry in the United States. The design for this project was begun by Robert Siegel Architects in 2003, with the construction of the enclosure completed in late 2008. A multitude RFIs were to be resolved during construction administration, including a task to design the millwork for the officers for Customs & Border Patrol in the non-commercial lobby. The contractor had already purchased the materials approved by the GSA, which mainly included a veneer bamboo finish surface and ballistic grade kevlar board. The final construction would have to include these as both a safety requirement and design requirement agreed upon by the GSA. The Land Port of Entry in Calais, Maine was completed and officially opened for use on November 23, 2009.
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Intern Architect New York, NY Poly Prep Lower School Jacob Burns Media Center
PLATT BYARD DOVELL WHITE ARCHITECTS LLP
BROOKLYN POLY PREP LOWER SCHOOL. 2005-2007
Design Development Construction Documents Construction Administration LEED Certification The Brooklyn Poly Prep Lower School is a private institution located in Park Slope in the Brooklyn borough of New York City for students aged four to nine. The project invovled a major contemporary addition to a historically perserved building to create additional classrooms, a dance studio, gymnasium and multipurpose room. The project also invovled the renovation of existing interior spaces, mechanical system upgrades, finalized with a USGBC LEED Silver certification.
JACOB BURNS MEDIA CENTER. 2005
Design Development Located in Pleasantville, New York, the Jacob Burns Media Center was designed as an educational institution for students to learn the various aspects of film, television and audible recordings as an extracurricular activity outside of the normal academic curriculum.
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Bachelor of Architecture Carnegie Mellon University. School of Architecture Pittsburgh, PA Fire Station New National Gallery Renovation San Jose State, School of Art & Design Pittsburgh Filmmakers
UNDERGRADUATE
FIRE STATION. SPRING 2001
Dutch Macdonald & Ann Chen A design to replace an existing fire station in the city of Pittsburgh. One of the more intruiging aspects which contributed to the overall design of the building was the network of information that is exchanged between the other fire stations within the district of the city. In order to overcome the possibility of power outages, an analog system is implemented through the use of tables, charts, HAM radio and telephone converstations. Each fire station has the capacity to frequently update the status of the others. This simple organic network was in turn taken into the physical design of the fire station. From an organic perspective, the building is part of an extensive network of nerves and neurons where a single fire station was only one part of a larger whole of a complex system.
NEW NATIONAL GALLERY RENOVATION.
with Eugene Kwak
SPRING 2002
Jeffery Davis & Kevin Gannon Beginning with a precedent study of the New National Gallery in Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the studio curriculum focused solely on the strutural performance efficiencies of the roof structure and its supporting structure rather than the building’s conceptual concerns. Once the inefficiencies were deteremined, a method to redesign the building to take full advantage of the site location were established. However, there were several restrictions regarding the redevelopment of the site. 1. No new foundations can be added. 2. The overall square footage and floor to ceiling height of the building structure must be consistent with the existing building. The resulting solution proposed used only half of the existing ground connections, and through the application of a suspended roof with the proper form and orientation, both the vertical and lateral forces has been accounted for in a lighter structure.
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN.
with Eugene Kwak
SPRING 2003
Gary Carlough The program for the addition of San Jose State University’s Art & Design Building called for several required spaces that were non-existent in the current structure. These included a lecture hall, offices, film developing rooms, cafÊ, living quarters for visiting professors and a student gallery. The need for an addition was seen as a symbiotic relationship between the existing and new structures, where neither entity alone can be percieved as a complete building programmatically to function properly. This approach to the design process lead to create a clear distinction in form that emphasized this relationship, rather than an attempt to create a continuous blend of the addition to an existing structure. The clear contrast between the rectilinear and monolithic existing building versus the more skewed and conglomerate addition. The semester studio project focused on the overall development of the design, including initial concept, composition, structural systems, enclosure systems, mechanical systems and sustainable design where applicable.
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Section BB
Section CC
PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. FALL 2003 SPRING 2004
Jonathan Kline [Advisor] Pittsburgh Filmmakers is an existing organization that deals primarily with the supplemental education and development of film and photography for college students attending the universities in the Pittsburgh area. It offers a unique experience for both students and professors, providing an institution where individuals from multiple universities and disciplines can experience the applied arts through classes and workshops that are not offered in any other form in the city of Pittsburgh. However, due largely to its location and inadequate size spacially, the Filmmakers program is fairly unnoticed to those who are not already invovled in the arts. As a remedy to this issue, a relocation and renovation of several exisiting buildings is proposed, intended to also revitalize a portion of Pittsburgh that is currently a status of gradual decay. This studio project focusing on architecture and the urban fabric as part of the thesis capstone. The proposed Pittsburgh Filmmakers would take over two existing adjacent but unrelated warehouses in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh. These two buildings will be joined together to create an institution which is in a high traffic area, and will be capable of facilitating the needs of more students, facilities and public viewings both both photography and film works. Although much of the buildings, aside from the load bearing walls and structural grid, will be altered or demolished, one of the important aspects of this renovation was to leave specific areas of the existing buildings as a form of preservation in the history that a warehouse has gone through numerous prior programs and usages. These include the exposed steel columns, fenestrations and a terracotta tiled facade. The remainder of the buildings will be recreated with new spaces and joined together with a exterior walkway/bridge.
CafĂŠ
Film Studio Film Studio
filmmakers
Administration
Floating Theater
Gallery Space
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