Grad Portfolio b by robert morgan

Robert Morgan Portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 - Below The Surface

Thesis Project

Spring 09

7 - Tribeca Film Festival

Comprehensive

Fall 09

11 - Sala Conerti

Pre-Comprehensive

Spring 08

16 - Brooklyn Housing

Studio III Fall 06

19 - Clover St. School

Studio IV Spring 07

22 - Stoppage Studio II Spring 06 24 - Highline Gallery

Studio I Fall 05

25 - Aarnioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Retreat

Studio I Fall 05

Below the surface

Machines and architecture are concealed inside a packaging that hides the mechanism and tectonics that should fashion th hidden be exposed. An intrusion that calls for the removal of the surface to reveal the complexity of what's behind it.

Space - an electronics peripheral workshop. Dynamic in that it's dismantling reveals the guts and the inter-working misalig

Elevating the program somewhere above the ground plane to carry on the obsession, desolate, taking place above the stra

A desire for control, not pure functionality, implicates the occupant with its use. A mechanism with the occupant being the reassembly of the materials of the world; placing the will of the occupant and his body in direct contact with the operational

The outer structure a descriptive index of alignment and symmetry, rational and hyper-efficient- the engineer's handicap. Th engineer's obsession with efficiency and alignment. The occupant/client is an electrical engineer by trait, focusing on controls systems. One who is obsessed with alignment a

Intent can be coded into the computer but for an obsession with control and alignment the occupant must be a part of the m manipulation is directed through controllers which manipulate the inputs to a system to obtain the desired effect on the outp of controllers that will cause these systems to behave in the desired manner. These devices manipulate, manage, and com

Treating Building as a verb, movement is a means by which the architecture can be manipulated and configured giving the author's creation.

Criteria to be considered: operable, inoperable, manipulation, control, input, output, assemblies, subassemblies, building ( alignment, misalignment, stationary, modular, continuous, edge/corner condition, fragments, realignment, connections, pro permanent, temporary, joints, packaging, unique, repetitive, reusable, rhythm.

Below The Surface

hem. The proposal seeks an architecture that is readily open to interrogation, fiddling, and having the mechanism typically

gned elements of the architecture.

atum where repetitive rituals of daily life take place.

operator. An operable machine that turns the typically stationary into mobile space. Architecture is the rearrangement and l aspects of the architecture.

he inside shell, a dynamically stiff space, highlights the contrast between the architect's intuitive design process and the

and control, a lover of machines.

machine where his input along with the collection of subassemblies in this contrivance dictates the space. The put of the system. Control Engineering focuses on the modeling of a diverse range of dynamitic systems and the design mmand the behavior of other devices and systems.

e inhabitant the ultimate level of control over the space and flexibility so that the inhabitants will be enforced over the

(verb), standardization (of lighting, structure, etc.), texture, color, lighting, exposure, concealing, patter, materiality, ogrammed, automation, direct manipulation, natural, artificial, fixity, mobility, dynamic, static, kinetic, imaginary, artificial,

Below The Surface

Tribeca Film Festival Eisenstein wrote that the thoughts and emotions of spectators can be directly controlled through the rhythmic patterns of film form. The vertical dimension of film is the blending of image and sound. The horizontal dimension of film is the spatial organization of actors, objects, and settings in front of a camera and in-frame. Its formal aspect, the montage, is the linkage of shots and sequences shown in rapid succession. To achieve the strong rhythmic pattern, Eisenstein used clearly defined individual shots. Eisenstein argued that the key to a successful montage is linkage, arguing that separate strips of film were building blocks that, when arranged in a series, could expand upon an idea.

Tribeca Film Festival

Sala Concerti | Venice, Italy | Arch 563\\Pre-Comprehensive Studio | Spring 08 | Prof. Stephen Zdepski

The proposal for the Concert Hall dedicated to Antonio Vivaldi attempts to reinterpret the pathways, narrow streets, and alle to link the program pieces together and mediate between public circulation and private program.

Typical of Venetian architecture, servant spaces are located on the ground level and served spaces are placed above. The to engage the Grand Canal and Fondamenta. The extroverted spaces are placed along the edges of the site to internalize west boarders to separate the public and private worlds, with the concert hall being the core.

Sala Concerti

eys of Venice so as to use circulation to choreograph movement through the site. The pedestrian thoroughfares are used

e programmatic functions are translated to linear members to maximize the surface of contact with the outside in order e the open space and wrap around the main function, the concert hall. The green screen walls delimit the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s east and

Sala Concerti

Brooklyn Housing Project | Brooklyn, NY | Arch 363\\Studio III | Fall 06 | Prof. David Cunningham At the macro scale, densification becomes a way toward a more enlightened use of limited resources. Regarding housing, increased density is achieved through the introduction of new housing into existing infrastructure contexts. Since taxpayers typically pay for the expansion of infrastructure systems, housing built within existing contexts of infrastructure call for less public, or taxpayer, investment, while over the long run consuming fewer natural resources, thus benefiting the longer term prognosis for both national and global health. Porosity was the concept explored for the Brooklyn housing project. A subtractive process was used to carve out communal space for the residents to enjoy the various amenities added to the restrictive program, including a day care center and an inclusive public space. The notion of individuality, one that is rarely undertaken because of the repetition needed for efficiency in housing, was undertaken with the desire to create unique apartments each with a view and layout that does not repeat while retaining the benefits of repetition by using the same elements. The townhouse is located on East 48th Street between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, it is a prime example of the once prevalent low-scale residential fabric indigenous to New York City. A prelude to the housing project, the townhouse explored the individuality of the townhouse while tieing to the fabric of the uniform row housing.

Brooklyn Housing

Clover Street School | Ironbound-Newark, NJ | Arch 364\\Studio IV | Spring 07 | Prof. Darius Sollohub

The proposal for the Clover Street School creates a public facade for the institution along Clover Street. The Clover Street each house to the next. The space is meant to engage the faculty and the students as they approach the school, creating a symbolizing a typical studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s progression. The school is arranged in a way that allows the three houses to become a par level, also allowing for the event to be seen by the public. The design allows for the school to present itself as a public orga making a public exhibition of the ceremony.

Clover Street School

Elevation displays the ascending process a student would make through the grade levels, with stacked seating from a public exhibit space where the students can see the city and be seen from the outside. As a path, it extends upward rt of a single organization, allowing shared use of this space during Move-Up day where the students are elevated up one anization, visually connected to the exterior where the ceremony can be seen from the street, engaging the public and

Clover Street School

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Clover Street School

Stoppage | Jersey City, NJ | Arch 264\\Studio II | Spring 06 | Prof. Ali Soltani

The object, named stoppages by Marcel Duchamp, served as the major inspiration for the project. The object itself consist resulting pattern is thus a random distortion of a straight line. Then they were stuck to the surfaces without any adjustment into Jersey City, as well as to create a gathering place for the residents of Jersey City, utilizing the idea of these stripes as of the project will serve as the public place for assembly, while the program underneath remains more private. The roof ga set performances. The program layout aims to change the streetscape of Jersey City, where the gallery, retail, and cafe w

Stoppage

ts of three pieces of wood cut to the pattern of a length of string which Duchamp claims to have dropped three times. The ts to the curves that chance dictated they fell into. The project aims to establish an oasis for the artistic community coming the ribbons that generate the public surface above and shelter the programmatic elements below. The landscape aspect arden will remain public, creating a place for discourse among the visitors and encourage them to lounge before and after would engage the pedestrians and draw them into the more private portions of the program, including the two theaters.

Stoppage

Highline Gallery | New York, NY | Arch 263\\Studio I | Fall 05 | Prof. Earl Jackson The initial concept for the gallery project was the extension of the highline, the idea of what the highline will become a - a public walkway. That then translated into a public staircase adjacent to the building, providing an additional entrance to the highline from the street level. The frame was done in such a way to provide maximum free space within. The open space this created was then subdivided into single display spaces using moveable partitioning walls, allowing the gallery to adapt to the next designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s display. The partitioning walls were then extended to the outside on ground level to engage the public before they visit the inside of the building and underneath the highline. The stairs and all circulation were kept light and open by using transparent glass. The glass facade facing the highline and the street also eliminated the feel of a physical barrier between the inside and the outside.

Highline Gallery

Eero Aarnio's House | New York, NY | Arch 263\\Studio I | Fall 05 | Prof. Earl Jackson The Globe Chair was based on Aarnio's idea of what he described as a room-within-a-room in that it is its own space, isolated from what is around it while at the same time being a part of that larger room. The overall design used this idea of a room within a room, a space within a larger whole. His globe chair creates this intimate feeling and private space while at the same time being a piece of furniture or a piece of the larger room. The design of the house used this idea where the house would be considered the larger whole and each space within that a room within the larger room, giving the freedom of designing each space individually, just what it needs to be and not a part of a larger floor plan but a part of a larger room. Space is used to describe each functional room according to the program and the designer's needs. The three major components were the working area which includes the mourning office space and studio, the hallway which serves for circulation as well as physically separate the private from public, and the kitchen and bathroom space which is entirely private. The logic behind the layout of the spaces was based on the designer's daily schedule, starting in one space and setting a path from one space to another in a sequential order. The overall layout of the spaces allows the house to server as a means of getting from the very top of the site down the steep slope allowing Aarnio to walk the rest of the site without the need of a set path since the house itself can be used to move down the steepest part of the site. The three walls, or the larger room, frame the view of the landscape. It takes the designer away from the street adjacent and opens the property itself to the view of the river.

Aarnioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Retreat