Scott Simpson Selected Works 2011-2017
Academic Design Work Cliffside Dwelling Ecological Education Center A Home for Music Haven House for One & Two Urban Superblock Intimate Immensity Delaminating a Diebenkorn Delaminated Section Re-imagining a Section Analyzing Van Eyck Drawing and Hand-Drafting
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Professional Architecture & Interiors Graphic Design
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Cliffside Dwelling ARCH 450A - Senior Design Studio Professors Turner Brooks and Tom Zook Fall 2012 The diverse landscape of the Stony Creek Quarry in North Haven, CT served as inspiration for this assignment - a dwelling scaled for a single occupant, to be inhabited over a brief or extended period of time. Siting my project on the face of a cliff engages a visitor with two edges - that of the cliff itself and the water below. The tensile system, binding the modular structure to the rock face and creating a set of rope ladders, generates a new surface in which a user can experience a range of emotions; from the fear of the cliff’s high edge to the tranquility of the interaction with the water’s surface.
left and overleaf Rendered photograph of a quarter-inch model with scale figure, expressing the varying occupiable zones and viewing areas out to the surrounding environment
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Cliffside Dwelling
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Cliffside Dwelling
composite orthogonal drawing Section drawing through the project’s enclosing space and a series of three plans, drawn in a descending sequence that tracks a user’s experience of the Cliffside Dwelling
above right Perspective drawing with a view down into the project’s first dwelling space below right Rendered photograph of a quarter-inch scale model
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Ecological Education Center ARCH 494B - Senior Project Design Studio Professors Ariane Lourie-Harrison and Kyle Dugdale Spring 2013 As the culmination of my undergraduate studios, I designed an Ecological Education Center at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT. While the site hosts an existing facility, the project brief sought to improve the space and expand the resources for more visitors. My scheme taps into existing circulation routes and extends them through a sequence of interior spaces that facilitate new relationships with, and understanding of, the park’s marshy landscape and diverse avian population. The formal scheme was inspired by flight patterns and translates that motion into human circulation. The interior programs are supported by an innovative exterior ‘Touch Tank’ - a trench cut through the ground that houses a rocky jungle gym and tidal pool where visitors can engage directly with flora and fauna of the site.
left 1/8” scale presentation model
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left Aerial photograph of a site model right Ground, second and third floor plans
below Presentation model of the Center highlighting the ‘Touch Tank’ - a rocky jungle gym and tidal pool built into the marshy terrain
Ecological Education Center
circulation core exhibition stair roof deck exhibition stair circulation core exterior stair to TouchTank laboratory exhibition stair
auditorium circulation core atrium/cafe entry TouchTank
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below Rendered sectional perspective of the Ecological Education Center
Ecological Education Center
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below Schematic rendering of the Center’s central, sun lit atrium and exhibitions spaces
Ecological Education Center
overleaf Interior rendering of the Center’s circulation path and second floor laboratory, overlooking the atrium and cafe below
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Ecological Education Center
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A Home for Music Haven ARCH 450A - Senior Design Studio Professors Turner Brooks and Tom Zook Fall 2012 This project prompted the design of a new space for Music Haven, a non-profit string quartet advocating music education through strong community outreach programs in Downtown New Haven. The group works in their own studio and local schools to teach and perform classical music for public school students. My project focuses on two nested performance spaces and their sectional relationship. Traditional theater seating, oriented towards a multi-purpose indoor stage, doubles as the glazed backdrop for an exterior amphitheater meant to attract a public audience off a busy urban thoroughfare. Perpendicular to the Northern site edge, a sunken path draws entrants into a low mass of supporting program - classrooms, storage, and utilities.
left Photograph of a 1� = 16’ massing and site model showing the urban neighborhood condition, contextual massing and adjacent pedestrian routes. View from the Southeast.
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A Home for Music Haven
D I XW E LL AV ENUE
open seating shared performance area private practice rooms entry raised auditorium seating terraced outdoor theater
group practice rooms entry mechanical
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instrument storage
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Satellite imagery of the site in New Haven, CT, overlayed with schematic diagrams describing axial site conditions and plan geometries
Digitally rendered, hand-drafted floorplan of proposed Center for Music Haven
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right 1/16� presentation model
A Home for Music Haven
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left and below Diagrammatic renderings of an interior corridor highlighting the axial shift in plan between the two bordering street edges
above right Hand sketch of interior performance space below right Interior model detail describing the cantilevered seating and glazed facade
A Home for Music Haven
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right Hand-drafted section through the Center’s nested performance spaces, crossing Goffe Street and Dixwell Avenue
below Rendered nighttime view looking North from Goffe Street; the glazed facade above the exterior performance space offers clear views into the building and helps light the public street
A Home for Music Haven
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House for One & Two ARCH 251B - Methods and Form in Architecture II Professors Keith Krumwiede and Joyce Hsiang Spring 2012 This project seeks to directly relate diagrammatic relationships into spatial construction. A written interview with an ambiguous pair of co-habitants named One and Two informed the design of a suburban house along the 35th parallel of the United States. I highlight specific programs that require spatial separation - a sleeping space and a combined guest room/office - by elevating them above an open floorplan for living, dining and entertaining. The suspended elements activate the area below in a sectional relationship that provides visual and acoustic access when appropriate, but articulates their adjacency at other moments.
left Detail of one portion of the private program set above an open, variable-level floor plan below
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opposite page Roof plan of the final presentation model First floor (below) and second floor (above) plan drawings of the House for One and Two
right Axonometric diagrams of massing related to successive sections through the house below 1/4� presentation model
House for One and Two
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below Programmatic sections describing the vertical relationships between public and private spaces within the house
House for One and Two
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Urban Superblock ARCH 251B - Methods and Form in Architecture II Professors Keith Krumwiede and Joyce Hsiang Spring 2012 As the final project in a sequential housing studio, the Urban Superblock is the translation and dense multiplication of a single family home in an ambiguous, urban setting. Formally, my project arranges 36 units in a loose grid, nested with overlaps and cantilevers to charge the ‘public’ voids between each home. This produces a porous complex with a central courtyard, underground parking, and small public spaces throughout, with the goal to foster small, unexpected interactions between the occupants.
left Interior courtyard of a 1/16” presentation model
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left Conceptual photo-collages describing massing techniques and urban ideologies
Urban Superblock
above Diagrams describing massing logic and private/public exterior greenspace below Jogged section through the urban block
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left and below Schematic renderings highlighting porous massing and occupiable spaces throughout the housing complex
above right 1/16” presentation model of the Urban Superblock, measuring 36” long by 30” wide
Urban Superblock
overleaf Rendered roofplan with diagrammatic sun shading
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Urban Superblock
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Intimate Immensity ARCH 450A - Senior Design Studio Professors Turner Brooks and Tom Zook Fall 2012 Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s writing, I was tasked to create a small object with both “intimate” and “immense” readings of space. I voided a cube with an ambiguous shape, then gave it form through many thin sheets. From various perspectives, the void hides and reveals itself, misguiding the viewer about its exact placement, shape and depth within the cube. This project was nominated and published in Retrospecta 36, the Yale School of Architecture’s annual publication of student work.
left Successive plan diagrams of the voided volume right Detail photograph of presentation model
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Intimate Immensity
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Abstract rendering of the object’s interior void
12” X 12” presentation model; photo series showing varying views and perspective transparency of the object
Intimate Immensity
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Delaminating a Diebenkorn ARCH 250A - Methods and Form in Architecture I Professors Bimal Mendis and Peggy Deamer Fall 2011 Provided a piece of visual media - in my case, Richard Diebenkorn’s “Freeway and Aqueduct” - I was challenged to re-imagine the scene in a threedimensional maquette that composed the source imagery when viewed from one angle. I chose to interpret horizontal infrastructure as vertical constructions, and rendered foreground/background elements as the result of specific lighting conditions. The resulting landscape shifts spatial relations and implies various scales of occupation.
left Source material; Richard Diebenkorn’s “Freeway and Aqueduct” (1957)
above Perspective section of imagined landscape right Rendered ‘maquette’ of the re-imagined source material
left Perspective rendering of an imagined landscape
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Delaminated Section ARCH 250A - Methods and Form in Architecture I Professors Bimal Mendis and Peggy Deamer Fall 2011 This project challenged me to re-interpret the section of an appliance drawn by a classmate. After recieving a layered section through an umbrella, I chose to concieve of “void space” as mass, and vice versa. The resulting model expresses this inverted relationship through an umbrella’s various stages of opening and closing.
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Original section drawing by Griffin Collier, YC ’13
Front elevation of three-dimensional model
Detail of basswood presentation model
Perspective photograph of basswood model
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Re-imagining a Section ARCH 250A - Methods and Form in Architecture I Professors Bimal Mendis and Peggy Deamer Fall 2011 Following several weeks of paired projects, this assignment was the culmination of a delaminated painting and a new section drawing. After recieving the section drawing of a three-dimensional maquette, I focused on designing structure for an object that, in section, has little visible support. The drawing also hinted toward specific conditions of interiority and exteriority, which I explored in color, form and materiality.
right Exploded axonometric referencing the source section cut drawing below Source section drawing by Bahij Chancey, YC 2013
this page Perspective views of presentation model, made in museum board and wood.
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Analyzing Van Eyck ARCH 249B - The Analytic Model Professor Emmanuel Petit Spring 2011 This project series centered around the analysis of an unrealized Center for the Arts by Aldo van Eyck. Through drawing and three-dimensional construction, I designed a body of work that reflects the project’s massing and tectonics.
below Analytic massing model, made in bass wood, museum board and plexiglass Tectonic model, made in museum board and plexiglass
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Analyzing Van Eyck
left Hand-drawn analytic diagrams in ink on vellum
below left Side elevation and plan image of massing model below right Side elevation and plan image of tectonic model
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Drafting and Hand Drawing ARCH 154B - Drawing Architecture Professor Victor Agran Spring 2011 ARCH 250A - Methods and Form in Architecture I Professors Bimal Mendis and Peggy Deamer Fall 2011
left Worms-eye axonometric drawing of the original concrete entry stair to Rudolph Hall at Yale
right Hybrid drawing of Harkness Tower (on Yale’s Campus) in pencil and charcoal. Drawn with David Langdon, Austin Martin, and Andrew Bezek (YC 2013)
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below Pencil drawing of a crumpled paper bag
below Exploded section drawing of a handheld hairdryer
Drafting and Hand Drawing
below Travel sketches from a summer abroad in Scandinavia
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Academic Design Work Professional Architecture & Interiors Landmarked Duplex Gramercy Loft Westside Pre-War Harlem Brownstone
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Landmarked Duplex Interior Architecture (3400 SF; March 2016 - Present) Lead Designer, Project Manager with Jeffery Povero (Principal) Residents of a cast-iron Landmarked building purchased a second unit with a combination in mind. Trained in paleontology and geo-physics, the pair offered a world-class collection of global artifacts and antiques as the inspiration for a historically-sensitive renovation. Period trimwork is designed from site research and imply hierarchy from public to private and service spaces. A sculptural stair with asymmetrical balusters twists through a double height stair hall, connecting the two units.
left Schematic rendering of a proposed colonnade separating Living and Dining areas
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this page Renovated floorplans right Progress images; view from Living area into Dining area and site of future colonnade (rendered on previous page)
Landmarked Duplex
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below Unrolled sectional elevations showing the entry circulation and the sequential development of period trim details through the residence
Landmarked Duplex
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Sequential site images illustrating the construction of a short corridor, where structural and utility services led to a double tray ceiling and tightly detailed casings
Worm’s eye diagrammatic rendering; In response to the existing structural grid, partitions were carefully placed to mitigate the visual presence of beams. In some areas, unavoidable conditions inspired ceiling details that heighten axial relationships and views
Landmarked Duplex
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the stair’s custom steel tread plates
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Gramercy Loft Interior Architecture and Decor (2500 SF; November 2015 - May 2017) Lead Designer, Project Manager with Jeffery Povero (Principal) and Elisa Russo (Decor) Professional Photography by Noe Dewitt A loft, near Gramercy Park in Manhattan, provided the opportunity to explore an industrial aesthetic and visible structure - details often sought but rarely an existing condition. The repartitioning strategy, intended to maximize daylight, reveals the existing wood post-and-beam structural grid, implying discrete spatial zones across larger open spaces. A corridor at the North edge of the apartment sets an enfilade of rooms to improve circulation. A palette of luxurious stones - polished onyx, wire-brushed limestone, vein-cut marble, terrazzo and engineered Corian - layers richness over bleached oak floors beneath an existing red oak ceiling.
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below Existing floorplan and sequential space planning diagrams highlighting post-and-beam structure
Gramercy Loft
right Renovated floorplan
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Gramercy Loft
above Schematic rendering of a proposed stone fireplace surround, with views into a Den beyond right Progress photograph; view from Living Room into the Den and Kitchen, highlighting completed fireplace
left View from dining area into the kitchen, along the Northern axis of the renovated floorplan
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left View from dining area into the kitchen, along the Northern axis of the renovated floorplan
Gramercy Loft
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West Side Pre-War Interior Architecture (1200 SF; April 2015 - May 2016) Lead Designer, Project Manager with Jeffery Povero (Principal) and Evelyn Lee Professional Photography by Noe Dewitt A repeat client purchased an estate condition pre-war apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The existing plan composed a warren of small spaces without relation to one another or access to the unit’s abundant Southern light. Our re-design is organized around a strong central axis through the public areas of the apartment, originating at the living room’s South-facing windows and reinforced through period-style openings and trim work. Pristine and white, the public areas give way to a walnut kitchen, a deep blue library and a grasscloth bedroom, using color and textured to layer visual interest and depth into the spatial experience.
left View to Master Bedroom from Living Area
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below Combination Living/Dining room with a view to the North into the Foyer and Kitchen beyond
West Side Pre-War
right Existing (lower left) and renovated (lower right) floorplans; the renovation focused on the axial relationship between the public spaces, originating at the South-facing windows. Mechanical and services spaces buffer the public areas from the private ones
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Plan detail of the Den entry door incorporating a recessed jamb and a framed wall pocket
Schematic renderings illustrating Den entry doors in open and closed positions
Sectional detail of the Den entry details incorporating specialty pivoting hardware
View into the Den through a pair of recessed double doors mounted on specialty Harmon hinges
West Side Pre-War
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Harlem Brownstone Architecture and Selected Decor (6750 SF; July 2013 - May 2015) (Decor in collaboration with Trace Lehnhoff Design) Junior Designer with Jeffery Povero (Principal) and Hugh Wethered Professional Photography by Noe Dewitt Povero&Company was tasked to transform a former bed-and-breakfast into a modern live/work space for a young family relocating from Los Angeles. The programmatic needs range from a communal space - for entertainment industry events - and screening room, to a private study accessed through a wall-hung painting on concealed hinges. A veritable “cabinet of curiosities� filled with art, salvaged furniture and taxidermy, the detailing encouraged investigations into the design of late 19th century row housing and myriad material installations - traditional rift-sawn oak chair rail, cold-rolled steel with infilled glass, lacquered millwork and hammered tin ceilings, among others. This project was featured as the cover story of Architectural Digest in February 2015.
left New octagonal columns and ceiling heights define scale and program in an updated parlor, concealing steel posts and further organizing circulation through the space
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Harlem Brownstone
below A sectional elevation describing the myriad indoor spaces that compose the classic brownstone and their relation to both private outdoor spaces and the public thoroughfare. next page Existing window casings are re-purposed for access to a blue stone Terrace and a Catering Kitchen; a salvaged fireplace surround joins reproduction wainscotting in a formal Sitting Room View from the Master Bedroom, through a Valet Station and Closet, into the Master Bedroom
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Harlem Brownstone
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Academic Design Work Professional Architecture & Interiors Graphic Design Six Determinants Lecture Series A+A / Vitesse
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Six Determinants ART 264 - Typography in Graphic Design I Professor Julian Bittiner Fall 2012 Book design project featuring Paul Rudolph’s 1956 text “Six Determinants of Architectural Form.” Type set in ‘Monotype Rockwell’. Printed on vellum and Strathmore paper with a lasercut cover. Actual size 12” x 5”
opposite Detail of laser cut book cover this page Book interior; book notes and citations printed on mylar to overlay the typical body text
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Lecture Series ART 264 - Typography in Graphic Design I Professor Julian Bittiner Fall 2012 Poster re-design for a past architecture lecture series. Type set in Hoefler&FrereJones’ ‘Sentinel’ and a custom, unicase type design. Actual size 24” x 36”
below and right Custom unicase, modular typeface Perspective images of the final product
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A+A / Vitesse ART 265 - Typography in Graphic Design II Professor Henk van Assen Spring 2013 Type specimen broadside featuring various weights of Hoefler&Frere-Jones’ ‘Vitesse’ and advertising the Art and Architecture Building at Yale. Actual size 18” x 24”
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