SAINT CLARE | SELECTED WORKS FROM THE YSOA by Nathan Saint Clare

NATHAN SAINT CLARE SELECTED WORKS YA L E S C H O O L O F A R C H I T E C T U R E

NATHAN SAINT CLARE

New Have

nsaintclare@gmail.com email

EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

YALE UNIVERSITY

PELLI CLARKE PELLI ARCHITECT New Haven, CT

New Haven, CT Master of Architecture - 2012 APPOINTMENTS: Teaching Fellow: Spring 2012 - Senior Design Studio Steven Harris Teaching Fellow: Fall 2011 - Architectural History I Daniel Sherer, PhD Teaching Fellow: Fall 2010 - Architectural History I Daniel Sherer, PhD YSOA Graduate Admissions Committee - 2012 Open House Speaker - Spring 2012 Project in Retrospecta - 2012 Student Election Chairman - 2011 Advanced Design Studio Critics: David Chipperfield, Thomas Beeby, Demetri Porphyrios and Fred Koetter.

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, KS Bachelor of Architecture - 2004 Magna Cum Laude Henry Adams Award

APPOINTMENTS: Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Council - 2009 - Present Guest Studio Instructor - 2008 with Larry Bowne Guest Critic - 2004 - Present College Graphic Designer - 2002-2004 COMPETITIONS: 1ST Prize: Bayer Student Design Comeptition - 2004 1ST Prize: KSU Delineation Competition - 2003 1ST Prize: KSU Delineation Competition - 2002 2ND Prize: Bowman Design Forum - 2001

17 Howe Street, Unit - A2 address

Design Development on Torre Macro Buenos Aires, Argentina

// Emphasis on rapid prototyping an for curtain-wall panel optimization. // Produced an internal white-paper o rationalization of compound curved

WATG ARCHITECTS | 2004-2010 Los Angeles, Singapore and Dubai

Project Designer // Led design teams on large and sma instrumental in transitioning the offi // Extensive international and hospit experience including consultant and // Involved in numerous project type planning to a boutique spa in Somon

Selected Projects Panama City Center | Panama City Capital Square | Ho Chi Minh City Four Seasons Doha | Qatar (Revit) Saggio Hills Resort and Spa | Sono DESIGN INSTRUMENTS:

Revit 2012 Rhinoceros (VRay, Brazil) AutoCAD Adobe Creative Suite Ink, Graphite and Watercolor Renderin Plaster and Plastic 3d Printing

REGISTRATION: Successfully passed all the Architec Exams. saint clare design portfolio link

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17 Howe Street, Unit - A2 address

New Haven, CT 06511

nsaintclare@gmail.com email

EXPERIENCE: PELLI CLARKE PELLI ARCHITECTS | 2011 New Haven, CT Design Development on Torre Macro Tower (Rhino) Buenos Aires, Argentina // Emphasis on rapid prototyping and curvature analysis for curtain-wall panel optimization. // Produced an internal white-paper on the rationalization of compound curved surfaces.

WATG ARCHITECTS | 2004-2010 Los Angeles, Singapore and Dubai Project Designer // Led design teams on large and small projects and was instrumental in transitioning the office to Revit. // Extensive international and hospitality design experience including consultant and client presentations. // Involved in numerous project types from urban planning to a boutique spa in Somona. Selected Projects Panama City Center | Panama City (Revit) Capital Square | Ho Chi Minh City (Rhino) Four Seasons Doha | Qatar (Revit) Saggio Hills Resort and Spa | Sonoma, CA (CDs) DESIGN INSTRUMENTS: Revit 2012 Rhinoceros (VRay, Brazil) AutoCAD Adobe Creative Suite Ink, Graphite and Watercolor Rendering Plaster and Plastic 3d Printing

REGISTRATION: Successfully passed all the Architectural Registration Exams. saint clare design portfolio link

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S.MA.R.T CITY Southern Massachusetts Rapid Transity City Raynham, MA

FALL 2010 | ACADEMIC Post-Professional Design Studio Ed Mitchell + Fred Koetter Yale School of Architecture

PROJECT BRIEF Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metropolitan area is one of the United States oldest urban fabrics and is charaterized by the patchwork development of its old pre-colonial core. Today, the periphery of that core extends in concentric rings around Boston defined by the I195 and I495 beltways. These highways connect old port cities and mill towns that used to be to rely on the rail line for transportation. Over the past decade there has been a considerable market for repopulating these outlying areas. As Boston has become increasing croweded and expensive, much of the working class has been forced outwards from the city boundaries. The older towns can now serve as bedroom communities for a work force willing to commute along a new system of rail lines. Additionally, extensions in high-tech, healthcare and educational services see these peripheral communites with reasonable priced land as ideal locations to locate future projects,

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Population by Community, 1990-2006 Taunton & Raynham, Massachusetts

Percent Change in Population by Community, 1990-2006

Source: Census 1990/Claritas, 2006

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POPULATION DENSITY MAPS 1950 / 1970 / 1990 Figure 4-3: Percent Change in Population by Community, 1990-2006 Figure 4-3: Percent Change in Population by Community, 1990-2006 Figure 4-3: Percent Change in Population by Community, 1990-2006

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LOCAL STATE HIGHWAY

TRANSIT LINE AND NEW STATION

10 MINUTE WALK RADIUS = 1800’

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S.MA.R.T. CITY / Conceived as a protoype for a concetrated zone or urban activity along a renewed railroad line, the S.Ma.R.T City brings a piece of Boston to the south shore. These urban collectors would be located at each new railway stop and facilitate a new form of urbanizartion around this communter core. Conceptually influenced by the urban writings of Pier Vitorrio Aureli and Rem Koolhaas this project is situated as a polemical. If urbanization and the expansion of infrasturcture have led to the diffusion and weakening of our city stricture how does reinforcing that condition actually affect change. Is the answer to address previous forms of infrastructure, in this case the railline? Perhaps we simply ride the contemporary capitalistic wave and live with the system of commodity distribution already in place? In reality we should understand that our reading of the scale of the city is drastically distorted. The Northeast itself, from Washington DC to Boston is actually one city, this allows us to strategically infill the weak areas to create a more unified whole, one greater than the sum of its constituent parts.

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THE CHICAGO HOUSE Chicago, IL

SPRING 2011 | ACADEMIC Advanced Design Studio Thomas Beeby Yale School of Architecture

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The city of Chicago has demolished vast tracts of high-rise public housing projects. These areas have been redeveloped as low-rise market housing but much of the areas around the projects remain untouched with vacant lots surrounding existing building stock creating problematic urban voids.

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PROJECT BRIEF / This studio was tasked to investigate the individual house as a vehicle to resettle the neighborhoods of the city that remain dispirited with the introduction of gentrification as a means to provide stability to low and middle income areas of the city. A single family residence has always been the most desired housing in Chicago and remains the dream of most of its citizens. To provide affordable housing in scattered sites would stabilize the neighborhoods in a manner that does not displace existing residents while simultaneously correcting the problems related to vacant lots in an urban environment.

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Translucent Corrugated Polymer Panels

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My intervention involves displaying the changing household structure by expressing the techtonic forms. The simple steel frame envelop is elegant and quick to contstruct. The wood-framed residential box can be pre-fabricated off-site and easily conforms to standard components.

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AEDES ARTS COMPLEX Berlin, Germany

FALL 2011 | ACADEMIC Advanced Design Studio David Chipperfield Yale School of Architecture

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PROJECT BRIEF / The Berlin art scene is rapidly exapnding and increasingly cosmopolitan. With affordable rent and ample space Berlin is a very attractive magnet for the emerging artist. The Aedes Arts Complex is an integral part of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic renaissance. My task was to take an existing artistic community, one that already houses the likes of Olafur Elliason, and to provide additional studio space able to accommodate a variety of artistic endeavors. The site is part of an old industrial super-block that was bombed during the war and once housed a brewery.

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PROCESS/ The studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambition was to use the same process David employs in his offices. We worked primarily in large model form (1:20m) which allows for greater flexibility when studying the spatial implications of new design options. We used primarily foam-core board and would then apply different printed material textures. It is an analog system of representation - compared to more digital rendering techncologies. The tactile quality of the material and the scale of model emphasize understanding techtonic issues and spatial realities. There was also a requiremnt to photograph these large models and then manipulating the images to emphasize lighting and material.

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EXTERIOR / With the majority of the studio space having a western exposure, a sophisticated exterior skin was required to regulate daylight and heat gain. This envelope is a combination of perforated metal screens and translucent ploymer panels. The colorful facade is a direct reference to this complexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s siganture artist, Olafur Elliason. The color pallette was selected to mediate the industrial brick image that dominates the block and to connote the greenspaces that have filled in the post-war damaged zones.

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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Swansea, Wales, UK

Spring 2012 | ACADEMIC Advanced Design Studio Demetri Porphyrious Yale School of Architecture

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PROJECT BRIEF / I was responsible for designing the library for a new university campus in Swansea, Wales dedicated to science and technology. The campus will be along the coast of the Bristol Channel on a parcel of land gifted to the university from British Petroleum. The first half of the semester was focused on researching and analyizing the library typology and then to chose four precedent buildings to draw (inlcuding a detailed 3d printed model) in more detail. I chose draw the Library at Ephesus, San Vitale at Ravenna, Wren Library at Trinity College and Philips Exeter Academy Library. The goal was use the the knowledge gained by these exercises to inform the actual library design that would take place in the second half of the semester.

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PRECEDENT STUDY 1: PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY LIBRARY EXETER NEW HAMPSHIRE LOUIS KAHN | 1971

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WREN LIBRARY TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE CHRISTOPHER WREN | 1695

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ABOVE: DIGITAL MODEL OF WREN LIBRARY WITH 3D PLATIC PRINT PRINT

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LIBRARY + CAMPUS The Library complex separates the two major programmtic components (library and lecture theaters) with a large courtyard garden and colonnade between, honoring the organization of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge while also providing a public garden to the campus. This siting of Library centrally within the campus masterplan emphasizes the need for the Library to operate similar to a tranist hub, acting as both a collector and distributor. Students must be able to permeate through the ground level, which I have designed as a public loggia, but also isolate themselves in the upper levels of the Library to read, research and write. The Library also acknowledgs and accepts certain site lines while also providing a pyramidical momunent memorializing the new campus as well as anchoring the cental plaza. Opposite the complex there is a cubic market pavilion within the large orchard grove, these platonic geometeries are meant to reinforce basic mathematical principles and along with the use of square and golden ration proportions which proliferate the project in both plan and section.

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PAVILION ON THE GREEN New Haven, CT

Fall 2010 | ACADEMIC 1062 Computation + Fabrication John Ebergart Yale School of Architecture Project Team: Nathan Saint Clare Zachary Heaps Daniel Dickens

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Project: Modeled on the program of the Serpentine Pavilion program in London, we were to design a 1000 sqaure foot pavilion to be located on the New Haven Green

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PROCESS / Grasshopper was used to design, visualize, and rapid prototype the pavilion whille contemporary fabrication technologies were utilized to fabricate three full scale frames of the pavilion.

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EIGHT DAYS IN THE BRITISH COUNTRTSIDE Bath, Oxford, York and London, UK

Spring 2012 | ACADEMIC 4223 History of British Lansdscape Architecture Bryan Fuermann Yale School of Architecture

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The Drawing Project: Because of the numerous house and garden examples our seminar features, I found it increasingly important over the past two semesters to sketch during the lectures. The act of drawing, of vigorously putting pencil (or pen) to paper for each new slide, reinforces the subtle formal and atmospheric difference between each new project presented. These differences, easily viewed on screen, are just as easily forgotten once the lecture has concluded. However, by virtue of the act of drawing, my recollections become clearer and my analysis becomes more acute. Drawing became a method of learning. Our trip to England in March offered a chance to challenge the almost complete control that the digital camera has over student travelers. The infinite storage offered by digital photography, means that much of the students experience abroad is framed behind a camera’s lens and thus further removed from reality. Numerous pictures are takenn, some are sorted and posted, bit rarely are they ever analyzed or thoughtfully considered after the intial aperature closes. The hand, along with its critical capability, has too long been rendered dormant. It is for these reasons that for my seminar project I created a book of drawings. Inspired by Laurie Olin’s great publication “Across the Open Field: Essay’s Drawn from English Landscapes,” I have have produced a visual record of my eight days in the British countryside and sadly was only able to capture a fraction of what I saw - volume two will be coming soon.

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MARCH 8 STONEHENGE

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MARCH 8 STOURHEAD ESTATE

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MARCH 8 STOURHEAD ESTATE

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MARCH 9 CITY OF BATH

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MARCH 9-11 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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MARCH 9-11 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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MARCH 10 ROUSHAM HOUSE

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MARCH 10 BLENHEIM PALACE

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MARCH 11 STOWE HOUSE

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MARCH 11 STOWE HOUSE

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MARCH 11 STOWE HOUSE

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MARCH 12 STUDLEY ROYAL | FOUNTAINS ABBEY

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MARCH 13 CASTLE HOWARD

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MARCH 13 CASTLE HOWARD

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MARCH 13 CASTLE HOWARD

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MARCH 14 CHISWICK HOUSE

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MARCH 15 HAMPTON COURT PALACE

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THE GEOMETRY OF LOUIS I. KAHN WITH ERIC ZAHN

Spring 2012 | ACADEMIC 3214 - Construction of Exactitude Karla Britton Yale School of Architecture / 108

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PROJECT / Most of the scholarship on Kahn focuses on the metaphyical and not the analytical. This avoids the more formal connections Kahn has with the classical tradition vis-a-vis his Beaux-Arts training. We endeavored to organize and analyze Kahnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built work in order to more accurately place in within the classical tradition and identify a previously underexamined area of his work.

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PHILLIPS EXETER LIBRARY

VILLA ROTUNDA - NINE SQUARE

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

ROMAN VILLA TYPE

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FINAL / The major component of the final project was to chronologically document and analyze Kahn’s built work. We used a base floor plan (sometimes he preferred to use the reflected ceiling plan) and then proceeded to identify the underlying proportional structures at work. The final board size was 42” x 120” with all the projects at the same scale.

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BRYN MAWR DORMITORIES

GOLDENBERG HOUSE (UNBUILT)

INDIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING

1960

1962

DOMIN

SEMBLY NG

YALE ART GALLERY

TRENTON BATH HOUSE

1951

1954

DOMINCAN MOTHERHOUSE (UNBUILT)

1962

FISHER HOUSE

1964

RICHARDS MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES

TRIBUNE REVIEW PUBLISHING C OMPANY

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH

SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

BRYN MAWR DORMITORIES

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PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY LIBRARY AND DINING HALL

1965

ARTS UNITED CENTER

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

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YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

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TORRE MACRO BANK TOWER Buenos Aires, Argentina

Summer 2011 | PROFESSIONAL Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects New Haven, CT

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RAISED FLOOR FOR DATACOMM

MECHANICALLy VENTILATED UNITIZED CURTAIN WALL SySTEM

SUPPORT BRACKET

MECHANICALLy VENTILATION

Curtain Wall Section Perspective (Rhino)

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TORRE MACRO TOWER Process to analyze curtain wall panel planarity in a complex free form surface. (8 august 2011)

Software: Rhino 4 (evolute tools plugin – base demo module – http://www.evolute.at ) Rhino 5 (paneling tools plugin – on network) PROCESS: Stage 1: creating a base grid 1. (rhino 5) Take half the footprint curve (torre macro is bilaterally symmetrical) and leave the curve at the base of surface). 2. Use ‘measure’ command. Set interval to the desired panel interval (1m) and create points. 3. Draw lines on the exterior from those points normal to the base surface, Use ‘line:surface normal’ com mand from ‘lines’ toolbar. These will be the vertical mullions after they are projected onto the surface, 4. Offset base curve to the interior (far enough to overlap the base surface in plan. 5. Extend radiating lines to the offset interior base curve (far enough to overlap the surface in plan view. 6. Project lines onto surface from plan view. 7. Contour the surface with the desired floor to floor heights (3.9m). Stage 2: creating a panel system 1. (rhino 5 – paneling tools) Use the ‘create paneling grid / intersect grid of curves) follow command prompts. This generates a three-dimensional point grid. There will probably be some holes around the boundaries. 2. Manually add remaining points at grid intersection. 3. (This point grid can be used to generate a quick paneling system with the paneling tools. However, the panels can be offset from each point. *I didn’t cross reference these surfaces from the final to verify any discrepancies) 4. Use this point grid to manually draw four-point surfaces in areas of concern. 5. *Grasshopper should be able to generate surfaces from this point grid, if points are sorted properly. Under study now. 6. Save as Rhino 4 file. Stage 3: analyzing surface planarity 1. Create mesh from surfaces. Mesh / From NURBS Control Polygon 2. Join mesh. Mesh / Mesh Boolean / Union 3. Evolute Tools. etAnalyzePlanarity. This shows range of surface deformation. 4. The default setting shows the ‘max range’ of surface deformation in the units of the project. This is mea sured from the surface/panel’s centroid so the total deformation across the whole panel is 2x this number. 5. Manually override the range with the specific tolerance for a given project. Torre Macro is using a 4cm ac ceptable bending tolerance of a double-glazed glass panel so input a 2cm range. 6. Manually adjust each mesh pane point to respond accordingly until each panel falls within a given toler ance. 7. Check the final mesh against the max range. The max should be under the desired tolerance.

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FACADE STUDY

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计设案方念概场广达万州通京北

INTERIOR ATRIUM

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