VARIEGATED ACADEMIC Student Housing Proposal Spring 2015 Partner: Krystal Tyrrel
EVERSION ACADEMIC Wearable Prototype Spring 2016 Partner: Cody Seipp
THESE VIRTUAL STRINGS ACADEMIC Virtual Reality Installation Fall 2016
CHALE WOTE PAVILION ACADEMIC Design-Build Installation Summer 2016 Group Project
OPERATION RAILBRIDGE VOLUNTEER Urban Installation Proposal Fall 2016 - Current Post-Design
100 BARCLAY TABLE PROFESSIONAL TABLE DESIGN & FABRICATION Summer 2016 Method Design
VARIEGATED Marked by variety. This proposal for a new dorm is sited on a prominent hill at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; it seeks to celebrate and display the individual and the community. Each student would receive a customizable cube (8’x10’x8’) that encourages personal artistic expression on the exterior and promotes room’ aggregations. Enabled by operable sides that function like garage doors and a set of casters, rooms can hook up to one another, the bathroom, or congregate to create a common space. Conscious of a more sustainable living condition, these minimal spaces suggest the potential for a student to keep the unit past their time in one specific dorm. The whimsical dream suggests that one could move their room not only horizontally across a floor, but vertically in the elevator, and even beyond the envelope of the building to inhabit one of the many abandoned factories in Troy, NY. Scattered across floor plates, campus, and Troy these mobile rooms will liven, personalize, and engage.
EVERSION The structure of the circulatory system enables transportation, regulation, and control of blood, temperature, nutrients, and antibodies. This project adopted its structural logic in hopes of creating a bodyenhancing wearable that allows for a similar diversity of abilities. Through continuous research and formal explorations several questions came to surface: How can this form be deployed about the human figure? How does this form utilize its inherent formal and structural properties as a framework into which other elements can be deployed? The arm prototype created displays three distinct spatial elements, each promoting the acceptance of a body-enhancing system. This logic is a transformation on that of the circulatory system that fulfils a number of functions simultaneously with surface, void, and throughput. The maximized surface area allows for optimum green growth for air quality amelioration through phytoremediation as seen to the right.
STRINGS
THESE VIRTUAL
These Virtual Strings proposes an installation for the Brooklyn Academy of Music that dances between the realm of the virtual and the real. As patrons enter the lobby at the historic Harvey Theater they would see a white and semi-transparent shell,lights and shadows moving across the exterior. As one slips into the space they would discover the sporadic source of the display; five performers wearing geometric headdresses dance around as if they are looking without seeing. The headpieces are directed around by the wearer and lights on the ends cross over other performers and onlookers. Two performers suddenly remove their masks to reveal they are ordinary patrons, and two more theater-going individuals slip on the adornments and take their place. The role of patron and performer is blurred. Inside the mask one enters the virtual, now surrounded by BAM memorabilia the patron orients them self, noting text also floating in the space. Attempts to unravel the information around them are translated to body movements and a light performance out in the real world. A modern take on the shadow puppet shows of old.
CHALE WOTE PAVILION Chale Wote is a street art, dance, and music festival in the British colonial district known as Jamestown in Accra, Ghana. It aims to foster a community of do-it-yourselfers, artists, and citizens that are actively working to make their future visions of Ghana a reality. It is an exploration of past, present, and future that allows participants to ”build bridges of understanding and possibility... connecting our visions of reality with one another for affirmation, encouragement, support, questions, and the challenge to dig deeper.” This installation was a collaborative effort within the CASE studio of Spring ‘16 undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. students and faculty. Based on a semester of personal and group material and design explorations it showcased the structural, aesthetic, and evocative potential of coconut agro-waste panels. Sustainable, local, and modular this design-build installation presented to the Jamestown community a unique building option that they can take ownership of. This project was made possible through collaboration with next generation companies and groups such as Ecovative, e2e, AMBIS, and the full CASE team of professors and students.
OPERATION RAILBRIDGE
Post-Design Principal: Kristin Diotte, Kate Sweater Operation Railbridge is a project focused on activating the railway underpasses throughout downtown Schenectady, NY. The nine railbridge locations currently exist at divides between neighbourhoods but hold the potential to become a connecting ribbon that stitches the disparate areas together. Urban design installations that respond to the historic, current, and desired future cultural conditions will activate the public and create catalysing points in the growing city of Schenectady. These sensual attractors will enhance the public experience and mobility through the city, engaging citizens, designers, and artists. Expressing a narrative that celebrates Schenectady, its people, and the railroad are vital to the intention of each installation.
LIGHTING
NARRATIVE
GREEN WALL
RAILROAD
WAY-FINDING
WALKABILITY
100 BARCLAY TABLE Method Design Principals: Demetrios Comodromos, Reese Campbell Work included: 2D drafting, digital modeling, conceptual and schematic design work, visualization, model construction, and millwork construction documents Method is a nimble firm that is able to take on projects of many scales and scopes through concept driven work, quick iteration, and constant client contact. In my summer there I was able to work on an apartment remodel, a hotel schematic design, construction sets for an office remodel, conceptual design for a grand staircase, and a furniture design project. The furniture design project as shown on this spread was for an apartment sales office. The client desired table that would serve three functions; a place to look at apartment floor plans, a place to store those plans, and a seated area for closing deals. I assisted in the schematic design all the way through the millwork construction drawings to deliver this 27’ split-level table. That commanded the room and created three productive zones; pitching, storage, and closing through a conceptual and functional kink in the table.