Jacob Schaffert Selected works
Jacob Schaffert - MArch I student YSoA 2019 Rudolph Hall, 180 York Street New Haven, CT 06511 Contact: Email: jacob.schaffert@gmail.com jacob.schaffert@yale.edu Phone: 480-399-8620 Instgram: @jacobschaffert LinkedIn: Jacob Schaffert
Table of Contents Selected works
Urban
01 Thames Council Estates Spring 2019 Public housing design
02 Rothko Chapel Campus Autumn 2018 Suburban campus design
03 Brooklyn Rail Master Plan Spring 2018 Urban development master plan
Institutional
Sound View Ferry Terminal 04 Autumn 2018 Civic institutional design
05 Bushwick Public Library Autumn 2016 Civic institutional design
Small Housing
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Prefabricated Housing Spring 2017 Residential construction design
07 ELM Micro House Summer 2018 Interdisciplinary residential sustainability design
08 Solar Decathlon 2011-2013 Interdisciplinary residential sustainability design
Elective Exploration
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Visualization II, III, IV 2016-2017 Digital and analog experimentation in representation
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Thames Council Estates London, England Critics: Paul Florian, George Knight Spring 2019 Rapidly inflating rents in London have caused an acute housing crisis in the city center. Exacerbated by rising income inequality, neighborhoods of row houses are being demolished to make way for new luxury high-rise apartment towers. These apartments are marketed to international investors as commodified real estate assets rather than places to live, which has caused a plague of ghost tenants to descend on London. These unoccupied flats typify the irony of housing in contemporary London; a city populated by empty apartments instead of people. The Thames Council Estates Bridge proposal explores an alternative model to high-rise apartments skyscrapers. This proposal reinterprets the historic English housing typology of terrace housing to create a low-rise, high-density residential bridge across the Thames river in the city center.
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Site Plan of bridge across the Thames Thames Council Estates
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Thames riverside elevation
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View of bridge walkway
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Section at North embankment
Typical section through span
The outward urban expression of the bridge addresses the city at the scale of a mega-structure, relating to the existing mass housing in London like the Alexandra & Ainsworth Estates and the Barbican Centre. This exterior urban presence is contrasted with an interior residential street that runs through the center of the structure, breaking down the imposing massing into a recognizably British expression of terrace housing. Thames Council Estates
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plan 1:1000 plan 1:500 sections 1:200
precedents section 1:500
View of bridge walkway
Section along bridge walkway
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South embankment market plaza
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Crossing the North embankment road
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Rothko Chapel Campus Houston, Texas Critics: Adam Yarinsky, Lexi Tsien-Shiang Autumn 2018 The Rothko Chapel is a not-for-profit, religiously unaffiliated spiritual organization centered in Houston Texas on the campus of the Menil Foundation. Founded by the de Menil family in the 1970s, the Chapel houses 14 monolithic paintings by Mark Rothko in its octagonal temple space. The organization’s twin missions are personal spiritual contemplation and collective social action. To better serve the desired balance of community programs and private meditative spaces, this campus plan creates various buildings and pockets of landscape around a central plaza and the existing reflecting pool. The goal of the campus proposal is to bridge the scale of the surrounding neighborhood with the historic chapel building while maintaining the integrity and austerity of the existing chapel experience.
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Rothko Chapel Campus plan Rothko Chapel Campus
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Rendered light study
The play of light and shadow in the existing chapel is integral to the rich experience of the Rothko’s work. To relate the new public gathering hall to the adjacent chapel, I made numerous digital and physical light studies to understand the interaction of light, material, and time. It was crucial in calibrating the final proposal’s dynamic play of light, shadow, and texture. The placement of apertures in relation to the sky, trees, and texture of the wall upon which shadows are cast was explored to examine the sublime intersection of architecture, art, and spirituality.
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Physical light study model Rothko Chapel Campus
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View across plaza
Site section
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Gathering space model
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Day and night VR rendered 360 degree panoramas of the plaza
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Brooklyn Rail Master Plan Brooklyn, New York Partner: Sunny Cui Critic: Bimal Mendis Spring 2018 In 2012, New York City was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, shutting down subways, knocking out power, and flooding low-lying buildings. The storm revealed the precarious nature of the city’s transportation network that relies on century old infrastructure to service a modern city. One often neglected aspect of the city’s aging infrastructure is the city’s only heavy freight line, which runs from Brooklyn, through Queens, and into the Bronx, connecting Southern New England to the rest of the country. The projected investment in the rail line is an opportunity to lift up the communities the line cuts across. This master plan reimagines the use of abandoned legacy industrial buildings along the rail corridor, allowing the communities it cuts through to leverage the commerce of freight traffic and pair it with educational and cultural developments around a new digital fabrication economy.
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Brownsville neighborhood rail corridor & industrial zoning Brooklyn Rail Master Plan
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Targeted sites in Brooklyn along rail line
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New pedestrian & vehicle bridge
Brownsville neighborhood interventions oblique
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Sound attenuation wall and planting
New pedestrian bridge
We examined the Brownsville rail corridor as a case study for our development approach. The rail easement wall is reformed as a terraced green space for noise attenuation. New pedestrian linkages are created between blocks to reduce the rail trench’s impact on street traffic while the underside of the elevated L line is re-imagined as a pedestrian causeway. Using the rail easement as a connecting artery to link intervention sites, we developed a necklace and bead strategy. Sites along the rail line were chosen to reawaken prior uses, spur economic development, and re-establish lost public cultural institutions. This plan allows the community to prosper in tandem with the rail line.
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Rail-side entrance to the museum
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New LIRR museum of neighborhood rail history
The Long Island Rail Road Substation 2 lies beneath the Atlantic Avenue rail overpass and L station. Built in 1905, it is one of the oldest buildings Brownsville. We renovated the building, turning it into a Brooklyn history museum focusing on Brownsville and the history of rail traffic in New York. As the interior has long since rotted away, it has been replaced with a modern glass enclosed space and scaffolding. An elevator and staircases have been added and the central hall has been turned into a gateway to the public path beneath the trestles of the L-Line. Brooklyn Rail Master Plan
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New Brownsville Center for the Performing Arts
At the turn of the 20th century, Brownsville had two famous theaters that have since closed, leaving the neighborhood without dedicated space for the performing arts. We renovated a condemned warehouse with 3 different street frontages off of Junius and Pitkin as a flexible theater space. Beyond providing facilities for industrial training and economic activity, fostering a rebirth of community art space is vital for fostering local culture. Theaters historically have been one of the pillars of community and culture in New York City. We believe that funding for local arts and culture is an integral part of a city development strategy. 32
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Lobby of the Brownsville Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn Rail Master Plan
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Inter-modal rail link and warehouse
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Brownsville technical institute and rail hub
The largest intervention is a shuttered factory complex between a drug rehab clinic and the former Linden Rail Yards. We propose renovating the factory complex into a technical school that can provide skills and job training to patients at the clinic as well as the community at large. New expertise in digital fabrication and light industry would provide new economic opportunities in the neighborhood. We have renovated the adjacent warehouse into an inter-modal freight hub, providing jobs and access to rail commerce. A pedestrian walkway along the edge of the gantry connects the Brownsville neighborhood, over the rail yards, to the East New York side of the tracks. Brooklyn Rail Master Plan
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Public gantry walkway along new rail yard
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Sound View Ferry Terminal Bronx, New York Critic: Mark Foster Gage Autumn 2017 Despite its proximity to Manhattan, it an almost 2 hour journey on public transportation from the Sound View peninsula to Midtown. To address the current inadequacy of public transportation in the South Bronx, a ferry terminal on Clason Point was planned to hasten commutes along the East River. The Clason Point Ferry Terminal is designed as an inter-modal transit hub between commuter ferries and buses, with a market, kitchen business incubator, and community center in the terminal building. The market and incubator are connected through a set of five monumental, craggy, pillars that serve as structure, vertical circulation, mechanical chases, and way-finding nodes around which the program is organized. The new ferry terminal is a landmark on the South Bronx coast, visible from Queens and Manhattan, serving as an architectural counterpoint to the iconic skyline of the lower bay.
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Exploded sectional axon of ferry terminal Sound View Ferry Terminal
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Waterside view - physical model
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Site plan and bus turn around
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Entrance from Clason Point Park - physical model
Approach from Sound View Avenue - physical model Sound View Ferry Terminal
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Light study model of market interior
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Section showing grand staircase
The market is ringed by a bus turn-around on the second floor and capped by the community center. Light wells punctuate the roof to bring natural light into the marketplace, creating a new destination for both commuters and tourists alike outside the bounds of Manhattan. The functions of the building are separated by level, with the warehouse and storage in the basement supplying the market level at grade, the bus stop and turn around above, and the community center and business incubator on top. Sound View Ferry Terminal
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Bushwick Public Library Bronx, New York Critic: Trattie Davies Autumn 2016 Bushwick has historically been a working-class immigrant neighborhood and counter-cultural artistic center, however, in recent years, the neighborhood has become a trendy place to move for young, affluent hipsters interested in Bushwick’s “street chic” aesthetic. Gentrification is a challenge to public space and amenities, asking the question to whom the public realm belongs. Public libraries are spaces of both exclusion and inclusion and are a microcosm of the issues of neighborhood change. The goal of my library is not only to create a public institution, but also be an open, democratic space that facilitates communication and interaction between an existing community and the continually evolving residents of Bushwick.
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Street view Bushwick Public Library
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Street view of through library avenue
Library sections
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Axon showing dividing walls
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GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER
CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUGH
GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER
CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUGH
HOMELESS MAN RESTING ON A COUCH
POET WRITING A MANUSCRIPT
HOMELESS MAN RESTING ON A COUCH
FOOD SERVICE WORKER ON BREAK BETWEEN JOBS
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AFTER SCHOOL
INTERSECTION AND MIXING OF USERS
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CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUG
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AFTER SCHOOL
Non-linear paths of different visitors
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GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COM
POET WRITING A MANUSCRIPT
GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER
CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUGH
HOMELESS MAN RESTING ON A COUCH
POET WRITING A MANUSCRIPT
GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER
CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUGH
HOMELESS MAN RESTING ON A COUCH
POET WRITING A MANUSCRIPT
GRAPHIC ARTIST LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER
Interior perspective of reading space
The interior space has no clear procession of space. Instead it provides a series of interconnected HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AFTER SCHOOL
platforms that are differentiated by size and level. This
CASUAL PEDESTRIAN WANDERING THROUGH
simultaneously allows meaning and function to be fluidly ascribed by library patrons as well as preventing spaces from creating privileged or cloistered spaces within a public institution. Without any fixed furniture or program, the usage of the space is meant to evolve and
FOOD SERVICE WORKER ON BREAK BETWEEN JOBS
accommodate the changing needs of the community.
HOMELESS MAN RESTING ON A COUCH
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Site model
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Site model
The building is bisected on the ground floor by an existing road, allowing pedestrians and motorists to catch glimpses of the internal activity of the building as well as offer opportunities to open the building to the street and utilize the outdoor space for special events. The porous edges of the library allow pedestrians to freely flow in and out of the library. Bushwick Public Library
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Prefabricated Housing New Haven, Connecticut Critic: Amy Lelyveld Spring 2017 The idea of prefabricated housing conjures notions of cookie-cutter developments, tract homes, and death of architectural expression in favor of pure economy of scale. In this project I wanted to explore the ways in which prefabrication could be used to develop unique and varying layouts from a set of predetermined components. By combining modern prefabrication techniques, such as flat-packed panelized systems and utility modules with more traditional construction techniques like barn razing and Ikea assembly I explored the possibilities a kit of parts can deliver without a preordained outcome. The promise of a reconfigurable or inter-configurable system that can have multiple outcomes and flexibility allows an architect to develop a formal vocabulary of elements and then compose them into different related expressions of domesticity.
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Exploded axon of house Prefabricated Housing
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In order to explore the notion of flexible prefabrication, I created a series of distinct repetitive elements; red framing, blue utilities, and yellow floors, and employed them to create a series of unique housing modules from the same parts. Each model within the series represents different types of possible living configurations for single or multi-family homes. The flexibility of the system could allow for different site conditions, orientations, adjacencies, views, occupant desires, and climatic variables to achieve individualized results.
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Iterative study models Prefabricated Housing
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Construction delivery and sequencing
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Footing details
Part of this system was also imagining a fabrication, delivery, and construction sequence that allowed for a rapid deployment and construction by minimizing foundation work, strategic use of furnished modules, and combing a panelized system that snaps together with tilt-up framing.
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The final iteration of the system was for a specific chosen site in New Haven. The panelized envelope system and simple sonotube footings allows for an easily renovated home that can be quickly constructed. The efficient utilities core plugs into the home’s envelope, allowing it to be interchangeable. This house iteration splits the ground level between a single occupant apartment and a family unit that spills onto the second floor.
Physical model
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Interior lighting of model Prefabricated Housing
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ELM Micro Housing Brooklyn, New York Partner: Brian Cash Critic: Anna Dyson Summer 2018 The Ecological Living Module (ELM) project seeks to provide safe, environmentally responsible, and rapidly deployable short term housing for homeless populations displaced by environmental disaster or long-term unemployment. My project focused the New York City housing market and how the high costs of sheltering populations can be leveraged to provide free, grid independent housing as an alternative to the current system of moving citizens between shelters, hospitals, and prisons. The flows of energy, temperature, water, wind, and finance are all thought of as environmental resources that the ELM harnesses to provide safe and efficient micro house living.
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Roof Recycled Aluminum Roof PV Panels : Sun Solar X Series Recycled Wood Plastic Laminate Recycled Clothing Insulation
Interior Structure + Finishes Engineered Lumber Product Recycled Wood Laminate Finishes
Wall Construction Recycled Clothing Insulation Recycled Wood Plastic Laminate
Trombe Window Transluscent Panel System Panelite, Water tank
21 December 10:00 - 14:00 20ยบ - 26ยบ 24 PV Panels 1.63 m2 / 39.1 m2 21% Efficacy Total Estimate: 4827 kWh/yr
21 June 9:00 - 15:00 41ยบ - 72ยบ
Projected Consumption: 3906 kWh/yr
Heat Sink - Water Passive Direct Gain + Active Raidant Heating Closed Loop System: 900 gal. H20
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Average Rainfall per year: 13914 gallons 44�
Daily Harvest: 38 gallons 144.3 liters
Available H20: 900 gal.
Potable Storage Tank: 1600 gallons Gray Water System: 1000 gallons Black Water Tanks: 1000 gallons Days of Storage: 15
North-Westerly Winter Winds Velocity Range: 5.8 - 6.7 m/s
Passive Cooling via Cross Ventilation
Southerly Summer Winds Velocity Range: 3.9 - 5.6 m/s
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Energy Estimates Avg. NYC Apartment
Avg. American Family Micro House
3,906 kWh
Water Avg. Brooklynite Avg. American Micro House
Cost Estimates Avg. Cost of Home in Brooklyn Homeless Family Annual Cost (4 person) Micro House Construction & Land
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8 gal. / day
6,350 kWh 18,417 kWh
105 gal. / day 101 gal. / day
�788,529 �99,712 / yr
(Brooklyn)
�90,000 + �280,000
Payback Period by (years) Borough Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Bronx Staten Island
ELM Micro Housing
3.53 9.13 2.12 1.07 0.99
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Solar Decathlon Palo Alto, California Team: Stanford Architecture Lead: Jacob Schaffert Project Manager: Derek Ouyang Construction Manager: Rob Best The Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a competition held every 2 years where 20 university teams transport and build a solar-powered, net-zero, home in 7 days. I worked as the architectural team lead, construction document drafter and compiler, and architectural detail designer. I was also responsible for procuring finishes and products, the massing and appearance of the home, and I was ultimately part of the construction and competition team for the 2011-2013 Solar Decathlon. The home had to be completely prefabricated for the competition, so we designed the home to have the fewest modules possible. After the competition, the home was transported back to Palo Alto and installed at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve as a ranger residence.
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G decking
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Interior Finish 135 SF Floor
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Interior Finish Floor
BATHROOM 61 SF
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CLOSET 15 SF
CLOSET 18 SF
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Interior Finish Floor
STUDIO 131 SF
GREAT ROOM 479 SF
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Bdecking
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House and deck plan Solar Decathlon
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Solar house section perspective
Solar house competition form axon
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Solar house interior - photograph courtesy of D.O.E. Solar Decathlon
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Solar house final installation at Jasper Ridge Preserve
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Solar house construction at Jasper Ridge Preserve
For the final installation at Jasper Ridge, an additional bedroom module was added to the house, serving as proof of concept for the easily expandable modular system we developed.
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Solar house interior - photograph courtesy of D.O.E. Solar Decathlon
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Visualization II Elective Coursework Instructor: Kent Bloomer & Sunil Bald Autumn 2016 Part of the experience of the Yale School of architecture is the free-form exploration of drawing conventions, material experimentation, and visual representation in the visualization series. Visualization II uses drawing as a means of architectural communication and as a generative instrument of formal, spatial, and tectonic discovery. Principles of two- and three-dimensional geometry are extensively studied through a series of exercises that employ freehand and constructive techniques. The exercises are designed to examine and visualize architectural form and volume three-dimensionally.
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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library facade study Visualization II
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Infinite Periodic Minimal Surface study - mixed media
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Color, shade, & depth study - spray paint
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Visualization III Elective Coursework Instructor: John Eberhart & Brennan Buck Spring 2017 Partners: Sunny Cui Vivian Tsai Mengi Li This course explored key relationships that exist among methods of drawing, physical materials, technologies of construction, and three-dimensional form making. The generation of form through both manual and digital methods and material exploration was encouraged as an iterative process and dialogue between physical and digital spaces. The notion of iterative assembly and combination or accumulation of elements was explored. Iterative representation and fabrication lead ultimately to a final assemblage consisting of a fabricated metal lathe construct.
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Metal lathe study model Visualization III
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Metal lathe study model
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Final assembly - metal lathe “wall” Visualization III
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Visualization IV Elective Coursework Instructor: John Blood & John Eberhart Summer 2017 Partner: Erin Kim This course examined the construction techniques, materiality, and design intent of existing buildings through digital and manual drawing techniques. In groups, we dissecting, analyzed, and re-imagined these buildings in new and fantastical ways, enhancing and exaggerating the original intent or critiquing it through representation. My partner and I examined Zumthor’s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland and used drawings, digital modeling, and videos to examine the relationship of stone, water, and light that Zumthor intended as well as the massive infrastructure that makes it possible.
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Therme Vals spa staircase perspective Visualization IV
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Therme Vals spa composite drawing Visualization IV
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Therme Vals re-imagined final triptych Visualization IV
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