Roberto Jenkins Tanzi
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Commercial
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Pavilions
Piaggio Center
Pinch
9000 Wilshire
Aqueous Mass
Mixed Use
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Cultural + Educational
Bishopsgate Goodsyard
NCCA
Island Incubator
Wildwood School
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Boston City Hall New Keelung Harbor Diamond City
Residential
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One Empire Pass
jenkins.roberto@gmail.com
Roberto Jenkins Tanzi
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Yale School of Architecture / Critics: Greg Lynn + Nate Hume
Piaggio Center
Piaggio Center
RECONFIGURABLE PODS
Somewhere in Italy Spring 2015 Lynn+Hume Advanced Studio
RECONFIGURABLE PODS
TRADITIONAL LINE
RECONFIGURABLE PODS
Piaggio Center is a hybrid factory+showroom that highlights the reconfigurability aspect of the contemporary fabrication process. The typical process is broken down into reconfigurable components that are housed in a series of pods, each with its own function. The pods aggregate around three central nodes of production, which are constantly being reconfigured into new production lines. The project explores the concept of moving architecture versus fixed people, highlighting the movement of these inter-changeable pods throughout a cavernous interior space. This inner “machine-world” is hidden and mysterious from the exterior, and revealed to visitors through an overall vista in the main lobby. The perimeter of this dynamic inner world acts as a coastline condition between visitors and factory workers, converging at each assembly node. The larger pods can be reconfigured with different fabrication methods, ranging from painting booths to 3D-printers and additive manufacturing. The smaller pods transport raw material and pre-assembled components to each of the fabrication pods, as well as workers and visitors to each of the assembly nodes.
TRADITIONAL LINE
TRADITIONAL LINE
CLUSTER OF PODS
MEZZANINE VISTA CLUSTER OF PODS
MEZZANINE VISTA
CLUSTER OF PODS
MEZZANINE VISTA
RECONFIGURABILITY OF FABRICATION COMPONENTS
RECONFIGURABILITY OF FABRICATION COMPONENTS
RECONFIGURABILITY OF FABRICATION COMPONENTS
3D PRINTING
PAINTING
ADDITIVE MANUF.
RAW MATERIAL TRANSPORT
WORKER TRANSPORT
3D PRINTING
PAINTING
ADDITIVE MANUF.
RAW MATERIAL TRANSPORT
WORKER TRANSPORT
3D PRINTING
PAINTING
ADDITIVE MANUF.
RAW MATERIAL TRANSPORT
WORKER TRANSPORT
(Left) Physical model used for stop-frame animation, showing the inner cavernous space from the main lobby vista. (Right) Diagram of frontal view of one of the production nodes, with different pods being reconfigured and switched out.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Neil M. Denari Architects
9000 Wilshire
9000 Wilshire Beverly Hills, CA 2014 Proposal
9000 Wilshire is located on historic Wilshire Boulevard in the heart of Beverly Hills. This project is designed for the highest market level tenant in a city known for luxury space. The sensibility of the design emerges from many lessons learned from NMDA’s HL23 project in New York including the use of clear, low iron glass, bead blasted stainless steel and a geometric language that is clean yet optically and phenomenally ambiguous. The conical corners with triangulated rustication along with the material finish, dramatize the play of light on the surfaces. Meanwhile, the basic rectangular shape of the floor plates allow for the greatest amount of flexibility for the tenant. My involvement was focused on developing a new proposal due to the clients’ discrepancy with the amount of leasable space lost with the previous scheme. Working as the sole 3D designer under the guidance of Neil and a project manager, I developed a new façade and massing system that would adhere to city codes yet produce a highly-detailed formal language.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Yale School of Architecture / Critics: Zaha Hadid + Patrik Schumacher
Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Bishopsgate Goodsyard London, UK Spring 2016 Hadid + Schumacher Advanced Studio TA’s: Simon Kim + Lasha Brown
London’s skyline can be thought of as a collage city – a situation where the agglomeration of differences between towers diminishes their engagement on an urban scale. This divergence is happening in urban centers all over the world, and requires a rethinking in order to take full advantage of the information-rich networks emerging in cities. Bishopsgate Goodsyard seeks to address this collage condition by creating a neighborhood that is at once individual and collective. In creating a field of blended towers, the project inserts a new urban order of differentiated armatures as an archetype for London’s continued growth. The project is organized into four main components: a high-density tower, a midrise typology, a train station that bridges between the two, and a park landscape that mediates between the existing viaduct and the various access points throughout the site. Each of the four components are given their own unique character, and by blending them into a continuous field they produce a differentiated system that accommodates diverse and overlapping programs at a hyper dense urban scale.
Group Credit: Lisa Albaugh, Benjamin Bourgoin, Jamie Edindjiklian, Justin Oh
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Ground Level Plan (+6m)
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Upper Level Plan (+18m) High-Density Tower : 1 Mid-Rise Typology : 2 Bridged Train Station : 3 Park Landscape + Existing Viaduct : 4
Early material studies focused on bifurcation and bundling techniques to visualize complex mathematical formulas. Intent was to explore potential moments of density and thickness versus open and thinner strands.
(Right) Midterm physical model showing bifurcation techniques applied as a main structural frame. Different levels of hierarchies throughout this frame sculpt the high-density massing as it moves upwards.
(Left) The existing viaduct is repurposed into a retail corridor, with the park landscape blending over it at moments. (Right) The train station blends the high-rise tower with the mid-rise typology, while creating a new entrance from the north.
The towers converge and diverge – floor plates connect and split apart – addressing the diversity of uses occurring within the field.
The sectional bifurcation of towers creates deep inner voids that run along the entire height of the towers, reinforcing the concept of overlapping programs in a blended field.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Yale School of Architecture / Critics: Marion Weiss + Michael Manfredi
Island Incubator
Island Incubator Roosevelt Island, NYC Fall 2015 Weiss/Manfredi Advanced Studio
Island Incubator rethinks the existing master plan for the Cornell-Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, proposing a heavily landscaped plinth with a figural network of bars floating above. The project is broken down into three discrete objects: an infrastructure axis, a ground object, and a floating network. The infrastructure axis arises as a critique of the current scheme, where a boundary road disconnects users from the river coastline. The proposed solution is to create an underground axis that runs down the middle of the island, freeing up the ground level for pedestrians.
Current Scheme
Proposed Scheme
Each of the four hubs is centered on a main lobby that spills out onto the landscape. Together they frame a series of intimate spaces that connect the neighborhood along its main axis. From north to south, there is an arrival court, a ferry station, a main quad, a courtyard, and finally an overlook plaza that adds a subway station and frames Manhattan views of the UN. In the upper floating network, each of the hubs creates a pause in the continuity of the bars, allowing for different types of program to meet and share a series of communal spaces and vertical circulation.
Moscow SOM Precedent Study
Infrastructure Axis + Ground Object + Floating Network
(Left) Physical models highlighting the floating network hovering over ground and infrastructure axis. (Right) Interior rendering of main hub space, showing sectional connection between spaces.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Yale School of Architecture / Critics: Ed Mitchell + Aniket Shahane
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall Boston, MA Fall 2014 Post-Pro Intro Studio
The vision for Boston City Hall is greater than that of an individual government building. The proposal is a mixing chamber that encourages interaction through shared public programs. In other words, the project becomes a gathering hub for urban life; a microcosm of the city that brings in a multitude of public amenities. The project engages with the existing site by creating a “ground� figure that organizes access into our site. It links the three nearby existing subway stations into a dynamic urban plaza with a centralized location in the city and a connection to existing infrastructure (leading to the airport and other major landmarks.) It follows the pedestrian flow from the neighboring Faneuil Marketplace and creates a central courtyard adjacent to each of the 4 lobbies created for the additional programs. The aggregation of program stems from a couple of issues identified in the existing scheme. Mostly, the existing building and plaza don’t engage enough to encourage movement throughout the site, and having a singular governmental program leads to a singular mass with a centralized entry point and a limited number of visitors. By adding a hotel, commercial offices, a subway hub, and a series of urban amenities, the aim is to create more interaction between urban life and the traditional functions of City Hall. Partner Credit: Eunil Cho
(Left) Moment where continuous surface dips down to create an embedded library space overlooking Faneuil Hall. (Right) Interior of governmental office overlooking the inner courtyard, where all programs come together.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Neil M. Denari Architects
New Keelung Harbor
New Keelung Harbor Keelung, Taiwan 2014 DD Phase 2
The international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Service Project, won by NMDA in September 2012, presented an opportunity to expand on issues such as mass, shaped windows, and clean yet complex developable surface geometry. My involvement with the project was mostly for the design development stage of Phase 2, which houses the Harbor authority, police station, a large post office, transfer facilities, a weather station, and a vast array of harbor support offices, in a 53,000 square meter, 70 meter tall structure. Based on a courtyard type, the building is a distorted and punctured form with specific cantilevers and surface orientations. The punched windows move across two floors and in various directions; two attributes that change the perception of the size of the building. Most of my logged hours consisted on modeling and rendering different massing schemes, as well as working on the production of the DD set. I helped draw a new plan set in accordance to the latest 3d model, as well as 2 detailed plans of the entry lobbies.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Diamond City
Diamond City Adelaide, Australia Summer 2013 Open Competition
Proposal was based on the concept of a giant interior city carved out of a mysterious diamond-like object. This approach stands in opposition to conventional master planning, where a set of reductive instructions such as building use, open space, and setbacks inherently undermine any tendency towards massively dense or monolithic forms. Rather than infilling the site following the European model, or sprawling across the land following the Jeffersonian model, this project is about singularity. The design is based on nesting a complex crystalline object inside of simpler exterior object. The inner one is too big to fit fully inside, and therefore it sometimes cuts through the outer object. The resultant figural cuts open up the outer object to the city, revealing the increased complexity on the interior. Personal emphasis was placed on developing the final massing in order to accommodate a series of proposed cultural programs while maintaining the original concept of a carved interior space. I also produced a series of diagrams and plans that represented the different environmental, programmatic and schematic concepts proposed for the competition.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
IBI Group
One Empire Pass
One Empire Pass Park City, UT Summer 2015 Pre-Design - Schematic Design
Guardsman Lodge is a proposal for a 26unit ski-in condominium building in Park City, Utah. Working directly with the Office Director and the Project Manager, I was the lead designer carrying out the project from Pre-Design through Schematic Design. Developed over the course of 11 weeks, the process consisted on weekly client meetings and site visits to discuss the project’s intention, followed by a series of studies relating to unit layouts and core+fire stair distributions. As the sole designer, I was responsible for creating the entire plan set, as well as the 3D model, renderings, elevations, and sections. Although the project was being worked on mainly in the SLC office of IBI Group (one of the 5 largest architecture firms in the world), the interesting part about the design process was that there was constant feedback from project specialists in other worldwide offices. Through online meetings, they would provide suggestions and bring up any significant issues. The project has recently been issued a building permit (May ‘16), and is being carried out following my design. More information on the project can be found at www.oneempirepass.com.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Pratt Institute / Critic: Gil Akos
Pinch
Pinch Brooklyn, NY Fall 2012 Seminar: Form, Force, Matter
Using the physics-based engine Kangaroo for Grasshopper, the seminar explored the parametric possibilities of grid shell simulations. Inspired by initial explorations on analog machines and parametric structures done by Antonio Gaudi and Frei Otto, the seminar moved seamlessly between analog and virtual paradigms. The goal was to produce prototypical architectures both effective in nature and efficient in its distribution of forces. Thus simulation becomes tangible, to-scale, and non-representational. These simulation techniques concluded in a pavilion structure organized along a distorted row of hexagons, producing a primary interior circulation as well as three separate entry circulations. Details explored in the earlier stages of simulation led to the creation of a series of design process that influenced the overall shape and curvature of the grid shell structure.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Mark Foster Gage Architects
Aqueous Mass
Aqueous Mass Multiple Locations Summer 2012 Built Installation
Design was a collaboration between Intel, VICE Magazine and W Hotels, thought of as a series of installations designed to showcase Intel Ultrabooks in six W Hotels around the globe. It’s made from folded aluminum that doesn’t need any welding, and folded together efficiently as possible in order to facilitate shipping and construction. It’s about mobility, plugging into different kinds of atmospheres, and taking you to another place.
I helped design and optimize the final scheme developed according to the clients’ feedback. Personal emphasis was placed on designing and prototyping different structural methods for the overall installation, optimizing the geometry in order to maximize material efficiency and human interaction, and producing a series of material options while coordinating with the fabricator for production.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Tom Wiscombe Architecture
National Center for Contemporary Arts
NCCA Moscow, Russia Summer 2013 Open Competition
This proposal is a continuation of Tom’s body of work named ‘objects wrapped in objects’, which deals with discrete, chunky objects gathered and squished together in a sack. This strategy creates complex interstitial spaces and layered interiority, making the contemporary museum a space of surprises and discrete experiences rather than one of an endless continuum of paths. The interstitial spaces between objects and sack are technically exterior space, but they are enclosed with infill glazing deep inside reveals. These spaces are inhabitable and contain the primary circulation of the building. The sack is articulated with architectural tattoos that subvert subdivision logics in favor of the free-form figuration allowed by composite construction. Tattoos are executed in such a way as to blur the edge between discrete objects and visually re-establish the larger object, as if qualities from the black objects begin to loosen and drift onto the sack. I developed various design proposals throughout the rapid competition schedule, and produced all diagrams and sections of the final scheme that was submitted.
Commercial / Mixed Use / Residential / Pavilions / Cultural + Educational Academic / Professional
Neil M. Denari Architects
Wildwood School
Wildwood School Los Angeles, CA 2014 Invited Competition Winner
I was part of the team that worked on the winning competition entry for a new high school campus called Wildwood School. We developed a proposal tailored to the specific needs of a high-end private school by focusing on elements such as agility, connection, and community. My involvement was mostly in the production of a series of conceptual diagrams that highlighted the different aspects of a flexible program being proposed, as well as the visualization of interior and exterior spaces, and assisting in writing the RFP that detailed construction costs, budgets, and coordination with various consultants. One of the biggest achievements about winning this competition was not only the short amount of time available to produce a convincing proposal (about 3 weeks), but the fact that we where facing other high-profile firms such as BIG, Gensler, and KoningEizenberg. The project is scheduled to start construction in 2017.