PORTFOLIO Samuel Eric Feldman
“Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the Sacred, man experiences a reality that does not belong to our world yet is encountered in and through objects or events that are part of the world.” - Mircea Eliade
SELECTED WORKS Resume
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Academic 01
House of Light
Research Studio I | The Elemental House 03
Urban Lung
Foundation Studio IV | Los Angeles Catastrope Center 02
Objection
Foundation Studio III | Public Surplus 04
Fluid Permanence
Foundation Stuidio I | Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay
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Fellowship 05
Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage
Sarah McArthur Nix Travel Fellowship | Research and Exhibition
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Competition 06
A New Jorejick Residence
Competition for a Family Residence in Tanzania
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Personal 07
Memory Order Dimension Travel Drawings from Italy
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Samuel Feldman
Architectural Designer | LEED AP BD+C
p: 716.868.0556 e: sef9h@virginia.edu
EDUCATION Jul 2017 - May 2020 Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia | School of Architecture
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016 Buffalo, NY
SUNY University at Buffalo | School of Architecture and Planning
Aug 2015 - May 2016 Buffalo, NY
SUNY Buffalo State College | Art and Design Department
Aug 2006 - May 2010 Pittsburgh, PA
University of Pittsburgh | School of Arts and Sciences
Master of Architecture (M.ARCH), 2020 GPA: 3.65 / 4.00
Post-baccalaureate coursework in preparation for M.ARCH Architectural history, architectural sketching, and physics courses Post-baccalaureate coursework in preparation for M.ARCH Drawing and painting courses Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Economics, cum laude, 2010 Majors in Economics, History; Minor in Philosophy
EXPERIENCE January 2020 New Orleans, LA
Trahan Architects | Extern
January 2018 Seattle, WA
Mithun | Extern
May 2016 - Jul 2017 Buffalo, NY
Habitat for Humanity | AmeriCorps Construction Crew Leader
Worked on facade iterations for an addition to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome; completed a series of exterior elevation proposals and on-site documentation; presented findings to the design team
Participated in internal charette and team meetings within both architecture and landscape architecture projects; visited building sites and completed walk-throughs of ongoing projects at various phases of construction
Lead groups in building affordable homes in Buffalo; supervised and trained teams of volunteers in daily construction activities; lead construction tasks such as framing, siding, carpentry, landscaping, and drywalling; monitored construction for quality, code compliance, and safe practices
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015 Tel Aviv, Israel
Signals Analytics | Research Analyst
Mar 2012 - Feb 2013 Tel Aviv, Israel
ConteXtream (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) | Financial Analyst
Jun 2011 - Feb 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel
NICE Systems | Financial Analyst Intern
Acted as the lead analyst on consulting project for a Fortune 500 company; utilized market research methods to support varied business missions; prepared and presented intelligence reports on new technologies and disruptive competitors; identifed acquisition targets and designed ranking models of competitors by market
Consolidated monthly financial results and built spreadsheets analyzing monthly expenditures; assisted in developing full year budget and formulating a 5-year financial plan; devised a weekly manegerial report detailing monthly and quarterly sales and revenue figures; prepared summary packages to be presented at quarterly board of directors meetings
Created and analyzed financial models for a multinational security solutions provider; prepared presentations showing quarterly growth trends for use at board of directors meetings; authorized IT capital and expense purchase requisitions; mananged financial templates, including p&l, operating costs, and capital expenditures
INTERNATIONAL STUDY Summer 2019 Summer 2018 Summer 2008
UVA Architecture Abroad | China UVA Architecture Abroad | Italy Semester at Sea | Europe and North Africa
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship
2019 Recipient
Project Title: Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage Exhibition, research, and gallery talk
Student work selected for archival
2018-2019
Top three projects awarded by studio instructors each semester Selected Fall 2018 and Fall 2019
ASSISTANTSHIPS Summer 2020
Graduate Research Assistant
Workspace Evolutions project Faculty: Katie Stranix and JT Bachman, University of Virginia Summer 2020
Design Studio Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2021 | Introduction to Architectural Design for transfer students Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2019
Design Studio Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2010 | Foundation Studio II: Responsive Space Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2710 | CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization Instructor Earl Mark, University of Virginia
EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS Summer 2020
African House Design Competition: A New Jorejick Residence
Design proposol through Archstorming with design partner Ted Bazil; semi-finalists Spring 2020
Sarah McArthur Nix Exhibition
Design and installation of personal work in the Bishop Gallery Spring 2019
Kinesthetic Montage: Hong Kong Installation
Construction team, project led by Esther Lorenz for ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Fall 2017
University of Virginia Bicentennial Pavilion
Pavillion design, fabrication, and construction team member
VOLUNTEERING 08/2015 - 07/2017 Buffalo, NY
Darwin D. Martin House
09/2015 - 05/2016 Buffalo, NY
Habitat for Humanity
Landscaping, interior restoration, and office support at historic Frank Lloyd Wright home Assist with construction activities in low-income housing projects throughout Buffalo
SKILLS Software ArcGIS AutoCAD Excel Illustrator InDesign Photoshop
Hardware PowerPoint Rhino 3D Sefeira SketchUp V-Ray Word
3D Printing Bookbinding Casting CNC Routing Drawing Foam Cutting
Language Hand Drafting Laser Cutting Model Making Photography Sketching Woodworking
English (native) Hebrew (intermediate) Spanish (basic)
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HOUSE OF LIGHT The Elemental House
Course | Research Studio I Instructor | W.G. Clark Location | Reproducible Term | Fall 2019
In designing an elemental house, I began to wonder whether it was possible to develop a dwelling in which the rooms do not have names, but in which portions of it are inhabited according to the space itself, and how one might respond to it. I made castings that are spatial, found in these castings one scheme that I was drawn to, and began to wonder how one might occupy it and make it habitable. I realized that it was through fitments and implementations of living that a space truly becomes useful in nameable sense. In my process I understood that so much of architecture is this play between St. Jerome’s overarching space and the implementation of smaller human-scaled fitments. I emphasize a material’s multitude of properties through light and texture, where the primary material is light, and the surface is simply what receives it. The spaces are modulated according to light, and the title of the rooms is made secondary, assigned their functions based on the light, scale, and textural qualities of each space. Normal functions are put at bay to make this read clearly. I have limited the number of materials to three: concrete as the primary structure, wood as the secondary functional element for nested spaces, and glass for apertures, light, and illumination. Fitments of wood are inserted into larger spaces to bring a multitude of experiences in scale and options for retreat into larger or smaller spaces. The model, measuring 10” x 6.5” x 17”, acts as a singular sculptural object from a distance, but becomes habitable when seen up close. The apertures frame a series of moments, sometimes more confined and mysterious, and sometimes more dramatic in scope of purview. Though the piece was completed in one pour, the labor that came to define it was in the construction of the negative space around which the cement cured.
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
BRITISH CASTLE FLOOR PLAN SKETCHES by Louis Kahn Kahn’s interest in castles, namely the use of thick walls and carving to create subtractive nestled spaces, inspired me to adopt a strategy of thickness and carving in my own design. What started as a massing process soon turned into a casting process, where the labor that came to define it was in the construction of the negative space around which the cement cured.
Source: Brownlee, David B. and David G. De Long. Louis I. Kahn: In the Real of Architecture. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizzoli, 1991, 68.
ST. JEROME IN HIS STUDY by Antonello da Messina Within those subtractive spaces, I began to see an inhabitation strategy in the likes of St. Jerome in his study. Fitments of wood with a warmth to contrast the coolness of the concrete superstructure make this object of living functional and habitable.
Source: Battisti, Eugenio. Antonello, il teatro sacro, gli spazi, la donna (Il labirinto). Palermo: Novecento. ISBN 88-3730021-2.
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
FINAL MODEL Elevation Northwest
FINAL MODEL Elevation Southwest
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
SECRET MEETING
THUNDER ROAD
HEART OF GLASS
RAY CHARLES & THE RAELETTES
STEP HOUSE
ZIGZAG BLOCKS
TETRIS STACKS
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
THE INTERBLOCK
ITERATIVE MASSING MODELS
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REACHING OUT
I AM A ROCK
CAUGHT IN A TRAP
EXCLAMATION POINT
I AM AN ISLAND
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
CLIFF EDGE
SUBTERRANEAN MIRROR
INTERIOR TUNNEL
CANOPY DWELLING
GARDEN HOUSE
INTERIOR CISTERN CLIFF SITING
HILL SITING
INTERIOR CAVES
INTERIOR CLIFF
INTERIOR CANYON
ITERATIVE CASTING MODELS
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
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WEST ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
SUBTERRANEAN PLAN & MODEL
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
FIRST FLOOR FIRE
GROUND FLOOR NOOK
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
THIRD FLOOR OVERLOOK
SECOND FLOOR CHAMBER
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
TRANSVERSE SECTION
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible DISSECTION A Multi-Directional Spatial Understanding Though seemingly a static box on the outside, the interior generates a kinetic and constantly shifting section through which the inhabitant experiences a prismatic movement of light throughout the day and year. Like-wise, the ever-changing interior conditions encourage the inhabitant to adjust and inhabit spaces as they see most germane, rather than naming rooms based on function.
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URBAN LUNG
Los Angeles Catastrophe Center Course | Foundation Studio IV Instructor | Katie Stranix Location | Santa Monica, California Term | Spring 2019
The site of intervention is located at the junction of several transportation lines, including the congested terminus of Highway 10. This adjacency means that the site is constantly exposed to harmful atmospheric pollutants, and in this reality is where I seek to consolidate a design approach that mitigates, treats, and abates smog. I am proposing a series of vegetated and mechanical interventions working in tandem that neutralize smog components in distinct ways, while creating thresholds of treatment. The first threshold is a vegetated berm that sits directly on the highway. The second threshold is a mechanical strategy in which the structure removes smog particulates from the atmosphere via structural columns fitted with filters. The third threshold is a field strategy, wherein the remainder of the site becomes landscape, an extension of the park which currently exists to the southwest of this site. My design proposal will create an “urban lung” or a “cocoon” which acts as a protective barrier against smog emanating from Los Angeles and the vast transportation systems. The overarching goals are to activate an underutilized site, to create a structure that actively removes harmful pollutants from the air and creates a healthy zone of public space, and to connect to a larger system of parks that exists adjacent to the site and running along the coast.
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
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ON THE CUSP A Disaster in the Making
NODES OF MOVEMENT Connecting to an Existing Network of Parks
California is at the precarious threshold of multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, and flooding. However, one disaster that constantly envelopes the city is pollution. As smog continues to permeate the air, new ways of building must be implemented to curb such toxins, and in this necessity is where I propose a building that creates an urban lung through several air treatment interventions.
Tongva Park by James Corner Field Operations sits between the waterfront park and the building site. I start by proposing a new park that connects the two into a larger park network, where an infinite permutation of paths affords visitors a larger cocoon of green, breathable space. I use an existing tunnel on the site to bisect my building proposal and create a connecting corridor.
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
SITE MAP
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
SITE PLAN
LINGUA FRANCA Adopting a Common Language The figure-ground reads as an homage to the shoreline of Southern California, with homes splayed along the curving perimeter of the coastline. A mound descending from the plinth on which the six volumes rest becomes both a circulation corridor and a habitable part of the landscape, while melding the architecture and the landscape architecture into a unified whole.
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The ground floor below the plinth houses a subterranean play on the senses. Shafts of light penetrate from voids in the floors above, reminiscent of light prismatically refracting as it enters the deep ocean water. The circulation strategy encourages visitors to meander and weave, both in the vertical and horizontal, so as to experience a diffusion of the senses.
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
SECOND FLOOR 19. Main Exhibition
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12. Cafe 13. Outdoor Patio 14. Site Exhibition 15. History Exhibition 16. Beach Exhibition 17. Surf Exhibition 18. Pollution Exhibition
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GROUND FLOOR 1. Entrance / Reception 2. Shop 3. WC 4. Introduction Room 5. Exhibition 6. Workshop 7. Storage 8. Mechanical 9. Theater WC / Changing 10. Theater 11. Theater Entrance
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KEY: 1. Art & Play Field 2. Palm Grove 3. Lounge Hill 4. Tunnel 5. Auditorium Entrance 6. Exhibition Volumes 7. Plinth 8. Main Entrance 9. Tram Platform 10. Park Extension
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SITE AXONOMETRIC
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
Field Strategy | Oxygen-producing plants
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Facade Strategy | Smog Screen
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
Vegetated Strategy | Carbon-absorbing plants
Mechanical Strategy | Smog-Filtering Columns
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
GALLERY
SUBTERRANEAN
EXTERIOR
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TRANSVERSE SECTIONS
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
Steel Bracing
Double-Glazing with Translucent Insulation
Silicon-Coated Glass Fiber Fabric
Adaptor: Extruded Aluminum Section Rigid Insulation Waffle Slab
Steel Facade Framing Column
STRUCTURAL SYMBIOSIS Facade and Frame in Harmony I developed a system in which steel sections run through the structural steel columns, adding lateral rigidity across the length of the volume. This also allowed me to affix the facade to these bars via steel arms and extruded aluminum sections. The facade screen is wrapped around these sections, allowing for a taut connection and easy replacement over time.
DETAIL SECTION
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OBJECTION Public Surplus
Course | Foundation Studio III Instructor | Matthew Jull Partner | Jonah Pruitt Location | New York, New York Term | Fall 2018
This project seeks to create a space that uses the block scale to tie together the surrounding community and the daily influx of new people. By raising the residences and creating an extension of Chelsea Park, an opportunity to bring people to and through the site emerges. This open land, mixed with programmatic and sensory experiences of the Exploratorium NYC, presents an opportunity to show how public space can be more than a luxurious surplus. Using the structure of a public private partnership as a starting point, our intention was to maximize the public use while also providing an interesting and connected setting for Public School 33 elementary school students. We believe the Public School 33 students, the Exploratorium, the neighborhood residents, the Chelsea Elliott Affordable Housing Complex, Penn South Housing, High Line tourists, and New York at large deserve a place that can be more than a park or another high-end development. They deserve a place to exist as neighbors. Our proposal is to be an architecture that lives in the gray scale of figure-ground of the city plan. It seeks to bring an alternative to gated parks and bland lots. This block has an extreme focus on public space as the fabric of daily life, and everyone can benefit while the neighborhood and New York continue to change and evolve.
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
SITE AXONOMETRIC
AFFORDABLE HOUSING An Array of Living Options and Layouts Through multiple typologies of living space within the block, a unique affordable housing option opens up in an area where such is desperately needed. Units range from 1-story studio apartments to 3-story large family units, inviting any type of living arrangement to grow organically within and become a social condenser through communal space on each floor.
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The proposed building stands in contrast to the exclusivity of London Terrace Towers by extracting the footprint of the enclosed courtyard and instead create an open, inviting block. The towering Hudson Yards, likewise decadent and exclusive, is juxtaposed with the modest height of our building. Instead it connects with the intimate setting of Chelsea Park, the Highline, Chelsea-Elliott and The World School.
OBJECTION | New York, New York
FINAL MODEL | SOUTH ELEVATION
FINAL MODEL | NORTH ELEVATION
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
FAR 12
HYBRID
NEW GRID
FAR 6
PARK COMB
THE SPINE
TERRAIN
MAT
HYBRID
TYPOLOGY + MASSING STUDIES
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
1. BAR AND PLINTH
2. RAISE, ROTATE, BEND
3. SUPPORT
4. CUT AND SHAPE
MASSING OPERATIONS
School Public Residential
CIRCULATION + APARTMENT TYPES
PROGRAM
DIAGRAMS
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
SITE PLAN AT GROUND FLOOR
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
CONTEXT MODEL FACING SOUTH
CONTEXT MODEL FACING SOUTHWEST
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
PLAN | FIRST FLOOR
PLAN | GROUND FLOOR
PLAN | SUBTERRANEAN
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
SCHOOL Creating a New Academic Corridor Through relocating P.S. 33, a new academic corridor is created through the adjacency of Avenues: The World School. The site intervention gives students from these schools the opportunity to interact and learn from each other. The school also acts as stilt on which a portion of the residential units rests.
EXPLORATORIUM Generating a Public Surplus A subterranean exploratorium occupies the space below the park, generating a new destination for tourists, community, and students alike. It negotiates between two disparate blocks on either side, activates them, and unifies them into a greater whole.
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
PLAN | ROOF LEVEL
PLAN | TYPICAL APARTMENT FLOOR
PLAN | TRANSFER FLOOR
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
APARTMENTS Re-Conceptualizing the Social Condenser A new interpretation of Narkomfin and Unite d’Habitation, wherein double-height and interlocking multi-story units are enabled through double-loaded corridors on alternating floors. Cross-ventilation and passive cooling are possible through units that extend across the width of the building.
TRANSFER FLOOR An Extension of the Highline A floor that extends across the length of the building and acts as a structural truss for the load above. It visually connects to the Highline and invites the public to enjoy an array of amenities, including a cafe, library, gym and study space.
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
PUBLIC ENTRANCE TO EXPLORATORIUM
TRANSVERSE SECTION | SCHOOL AND APARTMENTS
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CORE ACCESS TO TRANSFER FLOOR
VIEW TOWARDS APARTMENTS
OBJECTION | New York, New York
PATH BETWEEN BLOCKS
NEW PARK ON PLINTH
WINDOWS TO EXPLORATORIUM
TRANSVERSE SECTION | EXPLORATORIUM, TRANSFER FLOOR, APARTMENTS
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
DETAIL SECTION
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
FINAL MODEL | SECTIONAL SHOWING CORRIDORS AND DOUBLE-HEIGHT UNITS
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
LONGITUDINAL ELEVATION THROUGH HIGHLINE FACING HUDSON YARDS
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
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FLUID PERMANENCE
Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay Course | Research Studio I Instructor | Luis Pancorbo, PhD Location | Mallows Bay, Maryland Term | Fall 2017
Mallows Bay is a site in flux, constantly shifting and changing according to the natural cycles of the Potomac. In 1929, a fleet of wooden steamships, originally built for World War I efforts, was sunk in Mallows Bay, and for the last 90 years these war ships have ironically produced a vibrant and complex marine ecology. The uniqueness of the site owes to the partial visibility of the shipwrecks, and the sensation of being in a ship graveyard with jagged skeletal steel and timber elements protruding from the surface of the water. Most of what happens around these ships occurs below the surface of the water, invisible to the naked eye. There are no clear boundaries within Mallows bay; positions are shifting, structures are decaying, and ecologies are sprouting. My design seeks to reflect the visible and invisible conditions of Mallows Bay. Visible steel bracing for the timber façade reflects the originally hidden framework of the ships now protruding from the water, while the timber frame reflects the construction of the hull of the ships now submerged. The two buildings are aligned adjacent to two visible shipwrecks resting against the shore, so as to create a direct extension of the marine graveyard.
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
MUSEUM OF MEMORY A Technological Graveyard and Mausoleum The vertically staggered floor plan calls to mind a spiritual ascension, rising above the horrors of war and gaining a purview that encapsulates the full scope of this graveyard as one finally reaches the upper deck. On the way, the visitor experiences an education through artifacts and an understanding of the unprecedented rapid development of 20th century naval capacities.
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM POTOMAC
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VIEW FROM DECK OVERLOOKING SHIPWRECKS
FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
INTERIOR VIEW FACING POTOMAC
INTERIOR VIEW OF EXHIBITION SPACE
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
SITE AXONOMETRIC
SITING AND PLACE-MAKING Architecture through Movement and Transposition To create material unity and connection to the site, the building is constructed from mass timber and steel, a reference to the protruding skeletal remains of the fleet. The slats between the CLT members are staggered so as to bring in light and to reference the permeability and decomposition of the sunken ships. To emphasize movement, a path leads to the site from a distant lot.
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Of key importance is the fact that the ships are shifting and decaying over time, water levels are increasing, and deforestation is occurring. Owing to these factors, my strategy moves the building out of the 100-year floodline, makes use of felled trees in mass timber framing, and is conscious of not disrupting the fragile ecosystem within the water.
FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
SITE PLAN
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ADJACENCIES AND ABSTRACTIONS A Fluid Interpretation of Context The building footprint follows the natural topography of the site, and is located some distance from parking so as to create a necessary procession to the site - the impact of walking through the woods heightens the approach once the building is in view, and allows one to continue on the path after visiting. A service road allows for the movement of tools and materials.
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
INTERSTITIAL MOMENTS A Facade through Slats and Punctures The facade is composed of wooden slats affixed between the CLT framing members in a staggered manner - a slat in front and a slat behind and above. In strategic locations I have removed one or more slats so that the visitors can enter the nooks created between the timber frame, while light and views permeate the building in a ghostly and ethereal manner.
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
CONCEPT MODEL
MASSING ITERATION
FRAMING MODEL
FINAL MODEL
FINAL MODEL INTERIOR
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
FRAMING PLAN
JOINT ELEVATION
JOINT AXONOMETRIC
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EXHIBITION | PHOTO CREDIT @ TOM DALY
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE The Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship Course | Independent Work Advisor | Peter Waldman Location | Southern France Term | Summer 2019
At a paradoxical time when hypermobility and sedentary living dominate our modern condition, our experience of the in-between — the actual journey that defines our transposition from one point in space to another — is often wholly omitted. This project seeks to understand the true rate of human movement over time, and to likewise understand the true rate of perception of our surroundings when moving across immeasurably vast distances by foot. One of the most well-known pilgrimage trails on Earth is the Camino de Santiago, a network of trails that leads to Santiago de Compostela. Using one trail in this network, the Via Podiensis in France, as the site of inquiry, the project connects disparate modes of perception into an understanding of human movement as it existed until the nineteenth century. In doing so, it examines the convergence of regional narrative and myth, sensory perception, spatial anchors, and visual purviews at multiple scales. My chosen modes of representation included sketches, comics, photographs, maps, and charts. The project culminated in a presentation and an exhibition at the architecture school gallery.
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
NETWORK OF TRAILS ACROSS FRANCE AND SPAIN
THE VIA PODIENSIS TRAIL ACROSS FRANCE
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL BY RELIGIOUS LANDMARK
Location | Le Puy-en-Velay Department | Haute-Loire Region | Auvergne-Rhone-Alps Day 01 | July 4, 2019
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The Camino is deeply tied to the religious landmarks and relics that populate it. In Le Puy-enVelay, the point of origin for the Via Podiensis, two large mountains made of volcanic rock sit at the center of the village, with a statue and a church atop. For the pilgrim, this is the gravitational point of orientation. For the resident, it is a physical feature around which daily life flows.
PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL BY IN-BETWEENS
Location | Mas de Vers Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 18, 2019
Sometimes I walked without a final destination in mind, arriving when I felt like arriving, finding accommodation at the first available gite. As the Camino in France becomes more popular, some people are buying up property to open inns for accommodating pilgrims outside of the larger villages.
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL THROUGH HISTORIC URBAN FABRIC
Location | Cahors Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 16 | July 21, 2019
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Cahors is one of the largest cities on the Camino in France. A 14th-century fortified bridge is the central feature and a gateway for pilgrims. The gateway frames the pilgrim’s experience as a spatial and metaphorical symbol. It creates an anticipation for the in-between, where arrival at the next village is ascertained only through the labor of the body and mind.
PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL THROUGH IMPOSED MONOLITH
Location | Auvillar Department | Tarn-et-Garonne Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 25, 2019
People generally associate pilgrimage as a spiritual path replete with relics and religious sites, a suspension of profane time and an emergence in sacred journey. The modern pilgrim is faced with a paradox. Where the cathedral once stood as a spiritual monolith in an urban center, the new spatial anchor is the de-contextualized industrial monolith sitting in a vast landscape.
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
EXHIBITION | PHOTO CREDIT @ TOM DALY
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE
African House Design Competition Project Type | Competition Platform | Archstorming Partner | Theodore Bazil Period | Summer 2020
Our proposal for a new Jorejick family home prioritizes the preservation of communal memory while fostering a new sense of collective rootedness. The design is organized into three distinct dwelling spaces, tied together by a series of communal courtyards and framed around the existing site trees. The heart of the scheme is the central kitchen and outdoor gathering area, which features a foot pump-operated sink, communal table, and plein-air stove for the family to cook at mealtimes and gather throughout the day. This spatial arrangement is intended to remain flexible as the family grows and changes. Two showers are incorporated at either end of the scheme, using rainwater holding receptacles that are controlled by an operable lever. Greywater from the shower is then collected into a second cistern below, which can be brought to the surface by hand pump and used for agricultural and other purposes. We propose an inverted roofline to direct water to the central cistern from which potable water can be drawn.
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania
SITING AND MATERIALITY Cost Effective and Locally Sourced Our proposal is sited directly adjacent to the family’s existing huts, allowing for their continued inhabitation during construction, and establishing a new threshold between the existing site path, cattle corral, and agricultural croplands. The North-South orientation of the building masses establishes a familial and spatial connection to Nico’s house, maximizes Easterly cross-ventilation, and allows for deep, comfortably shaded, inhabitable porticoes. The material selection for the project—clay brick, composite structural wood posts, woven branch screens, and a corrugated steel roof—is based around both what can be easily procured from local suppliers, as well as from the oxidic soil of the site itself. We propose utilizing the soil for on-site brick manufacturing, and call for the repurposing of leftover, broken, and discarded bricks. The finer remnants can be recycled as aggregate for mortar and concrete, and the larger pieces appropriated for patio ground pavers.
SITE PLAN
FLOOR PLANS
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania
VIEW FROM THE CATTLE PEN
TRANSVERSE SECTIONS
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VIEW ACROSS FRONT PORTICO TOWARDS KITCHEN
SECTION THROUGH BEDROOMS, STUDY, AND STORAGE ROOM
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VIEW FROM CROP FIELD TO BEDROOMS
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VIEW WEST TOWARDS KITCHEN AND STUDY LOFT
SECTION THROUGH WATER COLLECTION TANKS
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VIEW SOUTH FROM NICO’S HOUSE
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC SHOWING WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
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VIEW FACING KITCHEN AND DINING AREA
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
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Travel Drawings from Italy Course | Study Abroad Instructor | Charlie Menefee, Luis Pancorbo Location | Veneto, Italy Term | Summer 2018
I completed these drawings during a summer course in the Veneto region of Italy. This course largely studied the built legacies of Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Carlo Scarpa through drawing, and sought to make sense of the infrastructural complexities of Venice and the surrounding regions through diagramming and sketching. Through my drawings I sought to understand geometrical patterns, construction strategies, and the layers of buildings that we cannot see, but which we must deduce based on what we can. Further, the scale ranges from individual building components, to buildings as a whole, and finally to complex infrastructural systems in an urban context.
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REFERENCES W.G. CLARK, AIA Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture wgc2w@virginia.edu
LUIS PANCORBO, PhD Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture lgp6t@virginia.edu
PETER WALDMAN, AIA William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture pdw7e@virginia.edu
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Samuel Eric Feldman Architectural Designer, LEED AP BD+C M.Arch 2020 University of Virginia, School of Architecture email | sef9h@virginia.edu