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Sam A. Green Architecture Portfolio
Wellness Center
3rd year Studio | New York City, NY | 2017
Island Retreat
3rd Year Studio | Stuart Island, WA | 2016
Art Gallery
2nd year Studio | Kansas City, MO | 2016
Fire Station
3rd Year Studio | Wamego, KS | 2016
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Hand Rendering of Peter Zumthor’s St. Benedict’s Chapel
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Wellness Center
Hell’s Kitchen--New York City, NY 439 W 54th St 3rd Year Studio Project 2017
A place for modern preventative care and training, the Wellness Center in Hell’s Kitchen is nestled in the middle of a dense and vibrant residential district. The project brief called for many large progammatic spaces like a leasable space, library, public meeting room, and classrooms among others. The design goal for this project was to provide the staff and visitors an environment that promotes relaxation and focus by providing a visual and mental separation from the city. The functions lower within the urban fabric --the leasable space, lobby, library, offices, and event space-are shielded by the solid grey terracotta rainscreen. The learning spaces --hydroponic gardens, classrooms, and teaching kitchen--are raised higher than the neighboring buildings to enhance their exposure to daylight and isolate them from the busy street level. The interior atrium extending through the whole building allows daylight to fully reach the interior.
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Third Floor Plan Site Plan
Second Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
Seventh Floor Plan
Ninth Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
Eighth Floor Plan
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Island Retreat
Coast--Stuart Island, MI Located on the sourthern edge 3rd Year Studio Project of Stuart Island, this retreat is 2016 designed to allow the residents to simultaneously experience privacy along with the beauty of the nature around them. On one side is a large forest, on the other is the Pacific ocean. The roof is sloped down toward the ocean to allow a view up toward the forest in the back while also allowing efficent solar heat gain during the cold northern winter months through the souther glass facade. Even the bedroom has a low wall providing unobstructed views out across the ocean from the comfort of the bed. The twosided fire place allows the residents to go outside and still enjoy the warmth it provides. Operable windows along the lower southern glazing and the back clerestory windows allow the users to passively ventilate the house using cross ventilation. Whether inside or outside, one gets to experience the best qaulities of both.
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Floor Plan
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Art Gallery
UMKC--Kansas City, MO 100 E 51st St 2nd Year Studio Project 2016
The site for this Art Gallery was located alongside a busy quad on the UMKC campus. The program called for either one large gallery space or multiple smaller gallery spaces with a couple offices for the staff. Since students on college campuses often don’t detour into a building unless it’s their intended destination, this Art Gallery was conceptualized as being a building that would interact with the main circulation of the quad and draw students inside to explore and witness the art being displayed. Angled toward Rockhill Rd, the building greets students as they enter campus. By doing so it also passes over the path leading into the quad; this allows it to intercept students who might normally never think to wander onto the premises of the gallery. Students who enter immediately come to the lobby where stairs lead them to the second floor gallery. At the end of the gallery is a room with a large view out across campus where they can descend and return to the path where they started.
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Second Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Fire Station Downtown--Wamego, KS 415 Ash St 3rd Year Studio Project 2016
Intended to be the home for the voluntary fire fighters of Wamego, this firestation was required to provide residences, offices, an apparatus for three firetrucks, and a public community room. The design goal for this fire station is for it to serve as a permanent reminder for the residents of the town that whether day or night, fire fighters are ready to protect them at a moment’s notice. The building’s form is divided according to the program: apparatus bays, fire fighter residences and functions, and the public community room. With a metal panel envoleope, slits in the building’s skin remain narrow and conservative around the private residences. The skin desentegrates where the slits widen to become the openings for the apparatus bay doors. The public meeting room is raised over the offices to invite the public deeper into the protective arms of the fire station, and it is enclosed in a Kalwall facade which is lit up at night as a signal that the fire station is always alert and ready.
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Second Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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