PORTFOLIO SUSANNAH STOPFORD
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SUSANNAH STOPFORD 4 9 1 Co l u m b u s Av e n u e , 3 D N ew Yo r k , N ew Yo r k 10024 ss to pfo r @ a l u m n i . r i s d . e d u (917) . 232 . 5934
EDUCATION Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, Rhode Island September 2010 - June 2013: Graduate receiving first professional degree in Architecture, M.Arch 2013
University of California Berkeley
Advanced Studio, Guardamar des Segura, Summer Studio 2012
Architectural Association, London, UK Spring Semester Program, 2012
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK Master of Arts - Architectural History 2008 - 2009
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Bachelor of Arts, History and Politics 2004 - 2008
EXPERIENCE PSA Studios
January 2014 - present | Architectural Designer. Position responsibilties range from concept and schematic design to contract document output, client interfacing and investor development. Lead schematic design for 505 Carroll Street - 35,000 SF light manufacturing facility, Brooklyn, NY Lead design for M_Haus, sculptor’s studio/residence, Rhinecliff, NY.
Archifarm
January 2015 - present | Chief Executive Officer Responsibilities include general oversight, project development and co-ordination. Archifarm is an architectural design firm working to connect NGOs, instiutions and communities to deliver and build simple, innovative and sustainable projects in underserved areas.
RMJM Dubai, United Arab Emirates
June - September 2011: Architectural Design Intern. Design and co-ordination reponsibities for two zones during the10 week master planning of Al Raha Beach urban development. Architectural visualisation and presentation document development for schematic design competition for Masdar Madinat beach club and race course complex.
Assistantship with Jonathan Knowles RA
September 2010 - July 2011 Construction of off-grid Stirling engine powered heat-exchange pavilion - research development for Solar Decathelon 2014 while at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Stephen Bardbury Architects, Sevenoaks, UK
June - Septmener 2010: Three month work placement - development of skill and knowledge necessary for planning application process, including drafting of construction documents.
Gensler, London, UK
July 2007: Work experience placement participating in the design of UK government MI6 facility at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
SKILLS
Autodesk (AutoCad), Vecctorworks, Rhinoceros 4, VRay, 3DSMax, Grasshopper, Sketch Up, Adobe CS6 (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Microsoft (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Model & Full-Scale Fabrication, Laser Cutting, Building Information Modeling, Drawing and Model Documentation, Stone Carving, Clay, Metal and Found Object Assembly, Intermediate French.
AWARDS
RISD Fellowship 2010 - 2013 RISD Academic Assistantship 2010 - 2013 Dual national_UK and USA citizenship
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505 CARROLL STREET | BROOKLYN | NEW YORK HOUSE FOR A SCULPTOR | RHINECLIFF | NEW YORK CATSKILL MILL | CATSKILL | NEW YORK MI6 HEADQUARTERS | CHELTENHAM | ENGLAND AL-RAHA BEACH DEVELOPMENT | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Projects studios
BAG - BILBAO ARTS GENERATOR_URBAN RENERATION STRATEGIES REMAKING RUINS - URBAN WATERFRONT PROJECT TO RE-ENGAGE ECOLOGICAL URBAN LANDSCAPES LIGHTBOX - SUSTAINABILE SYSTEMS RETROFIT CHAPEL_ARCHIVE - INVERTED DENSITIES: A NEW TYPE OF PUBLIC SPACE FOR BROWN UNIVERSITY TRACT _LANDSCAPE CUP_BOWL ACTIVE MATTER
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505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY BROOKLYN LIGHT MANUFACTURING FACILITY
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House for a sculptor STUDIO HOUSE FOR A SCULPTOR_RHINEBECK, NY
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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Catskill Mill FACTORY FOR ARTISANS - CATSKILL, NEW YORK
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This 1,500,000 sf building was complete in collaboration with the British Government. Design to consolidate and condense the existing regional offices of the British Secret Services MI6 programatic complexity as well as issues regarding privacy and security lay at the core of the design scheme. Joining the team during the design development phase of this project meant that I was able to learn how these governing issues were then designed for in terms of occupation, circulation and systems.
MI6, Cheltenham, England
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Al Raha Beach Development
The Al Raha Beach Development is a waterfront development along the coastline of Abu Dhabi. Currently under construction the development will come to be home to a wide range of programs to include: hotels, beaches, marinas, and hi-end retail and commercial complexes, as well as education and health care services. Measuring 5.8 million square metres, along 11 kms of coastline, AI Raha Beach intends to become the gateway to the new Abu Dhabi with an anticipated 120,000 residents and around 250,000 daily visitors. Working on-site and alongside both the client and the engineers I was able to develop skills of speed and diligence and the ability to work collaboratively and productively with other disciplines. The result was the successful ten week redesign of the master plan in its totality.
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STUDIOS
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Bilbao city center
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B.A.G. - Bilbao Arts Generator URBAN RENERATION STRATEGIES
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A8 motorway pedestrian zone [full]
A8 Skygarden - a multi-use urban design studio that sought to build on the existing economy of culture and design within Bilbao. The planned pedestrianisation of the A8 motorway lent itself as a potential site for the re-appropriateion of public space that could act as an institutional generator of local tallent, another node within the existing fabric of tourist destinations as well as a mechanism through which to re-integrate a periferal neighbourhoods along Bilboa’s city edges.
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SUB-MOTORWAY LEVEL -
Free-moving circulation paths combined with specifically located. program-sensitive access points creates an environment that is both cnvenient and safe for permanent occupants of artists’ studios/workshop space, as well as easy to navigate and playful for short-term or occassional users and visitors.
THE “CUT” acts as access path to the linear
park and art school held suspended from the existing stucture of the A8 Motorway, as well as a constantly changing gallery facade. Public-facing facades of each workshop are treated as each artist occupant desires, potentially functioning as a series of constantly changing surfaces of display.
INDIVIDUAL DIRECT STREET LEVEL WORKSHOP ACCESS
AXONOMETRIC OF CIRCULATION AND SITE STRATEGY
FORMAL INVESTIGATION OF SUB-MOTORWAY WORKSHOPS AS A SERIES OF OFFSET VOLUMES THAT GIVE RISE TO A AN IRREGULAR AND VARRIED EXTERIOR FACADE CONDITION RESULTING IN A LARGER SURFACE AREA OF DISPLAY AND GREATER VISUAL VARIETY FOR VISITORS.
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GALLERY PARK GALLERY PARK - where the folded wings of the building meet the sky at the upper most level of the buiding, at the southern end and adjacent to the new metro stop the area become a hybrid of art and parc. The formal exhibition space of the structure is a series of galleries and sculpture gardens that are in immediate proximity to the length of the linear park. From this higher eleveation visitors are able to experience views of the city to the north as well as views of the mountains to the south. This area also acts as one of the thresholds to the B.A.G. If visitors choose to they are able to move through the galleries in order to gain access to the lower levels of the complex, exiting via “The Cut”. Section B - B illustrates the relationship between the blind facade of the workshop (left) at a point of general public access and the shallow volume of the B.A.G (right), at the middle of the complex. The distinction and space between the volumes allows for pedestrian access, “The Cut” to occupy the space between the two areas of program. It also illustrates the consistent relationship between interior and exterior space along the length of the project. B-B
Section A - A illustrates the relationship between the green space of the Linear Park, where the A8 has diverged and allowed for multiple areas of supra-motorway occupation, and the most volumetric portion of the B.A.G. This increased capacity allow for the convergence of the different programs of metro station, art school, linear park and gallery space, as well as their associated circulation requirements. A-A
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AXONOMETRIC OF PARTS
vertical circulation
FLUID CONNECTORS AND SPACE-MAKERS The elements of DESIGN SCHOOL, STUDIO-WORKSHOP and CIRCULATION NODES provide the means of
site occupation as well as point of vertical circulation to allow the visitor, artist or student to move both horizontally and vetically across and through the site.
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Remaking Ruins - Guardemar del Segura URBAN WATERFRONT PROJECT TO RE-ENGAGE ECOLOGICAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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Process: Intuitive Mapping The site - the river Segura - was discovered, transcribed and interpretted through a series of psychoanalytic mappings. Akin to the processes developed by the Situationalists this studio proposed a knowing of place through experience. The content generated over the six week period was devloped in tandem, as a series of documents that each informed the other. Large mylar maps, sketch book studies, digital and physical models each informed the other converging in a final proposal composing of map, model, render and finally locating program and pacle.
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DIAGRAM OF A RIVER TRANSLATED DEVLOPING A SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTION AND OCCUPATION
Diagramatic models of the site, the river Segura, were made, responding to and illustrating a series of factors that have affected the ecosystem and productivity of the river delta. The diagrams were then translated into a language for construction and occupation.
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Site and occupation: to the site of the river Segura and its immediate vecinity was applied a collection of programatic uses that included Eco-Hotel, Hydroponic Farming, Water Purification and Treatment System, Recreational Facility, and Eco-Reserve Visitors Centre. The propsal sought to integrate the systems at work in order to allow the user to experience all elements of the sytems, making aparent the symbiotic relationship between site and intervention.
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punctured building envelope full storey fenestration
vaulted FeatherChips - acousting da
LightCage space deliniation , acoustic c ening, direct/specific lighting
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Environmental Control Systems PRINCE LAB 2.0_DESIGN PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE ACOUSTIC AND LIGHTING QUALITY
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Silent, Transluscent Study Area / Classrooms
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Punctured building envelope full storey fenestration
CONCEPT At Prince Laboratory a two-pronged approach was undertaken to address the issues of poor light and acoutic quality. Perferation of buildings skin allowd for an improved quality of natural lighting which was spplimented by a articifical lighting system that would increase the quality of both the ambient and directional lighting within the lab. A dialogue between three elements - a light box, dark box and light cage became the conceptual grounding through which to approach the acousitc quality within the lab. The physical and visual quality of the‘boxes’ reflects the acousitcal anbience within them - the ‘dark box’ became the mechanism through which to isolate the noise producing machinery within the lab; the sense of density associated with darkness is reflective of the insulated noise-isolating quality of the box’s skin. The ‘light box’ became the quiet pod within which class and study rooms would be located - a transparent dual-skin helping to further isolate the ambient noise. Finally, the ‘light cage’ the mechanism through which to reconsider the circulation and occupation of the space. The result was the development of an integrated lighting and furniture system that provided a series of flexible work stations for the students at the lab, allowing for greater organisation, ease of circulation as well as flexible directional lighting to assist the undertaking of intricate and detailed work.
Acoustically Controlled Rooms LIGHT BOX 1
LIGHT BOX 2
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Classrooms
LightCage open modular system
Machine shop
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Solar Panels Roof Light Difusing Panels
Light Difusing Panels Existing Fluorescent Lights
Solar Panels2.0 Roof SYSTEMS_PRINCE LAB Light Difusing Panels
Light Difusing Panels Existing Fluorescent Lights
AXONOMETRIC OF PARTS PV cells on roof
PV cells on roof
“Loud Box” : Heavy Machinery
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Proposal at Prince Lab : Ambient Lighting Scheme
Strip lighting along “Light Cage”
“Silent Box” : Classrooms
Additional lighting incorporated into cabinetery
Larger apertures along north facade of building.
ACOUSTICS
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Materials & Sound Absorption Coefficient
Classroom A
Transmission Loss for Common Building Elements
Glass Pane (.15) 5 in.
Three Classrooms or One Big Room
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Double Glass: 1/4-in laminated + 3/16 in monolithic glass with 4 in airspace: 48 dB
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Double Glass: 1/4-in laminated + 3/16 in monolithic glass with 2 in airspace: 44 dB
Fluorescent Light Tube
Wood Panels Coated Black (.10) 8 in.
Machine Room
Fiber Glass Insulation (.55) Thick Heavy Carpet or Fabric Wrapped Acoustic Wall Panels (.70)
Fluorescent Light Tube
SYSTEMS_PRINCE LAB 2.0
THE DARK BOX_LOUD BUT NOT SO LOUD ANYMORE Existing Condition: 80 dB Desired Condition: 60 dB Achieved Condition: 51 dB
Noise Source #1 Machines Lab
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Noise Source #2 HVAC Unit
Exising condition means that machinery noise dissipates across the entire laboratory floor. Through the addition of the dark box we will be able to isolate and dampen the acousitc affect of working machinery within the lab. Furthermore, acoustically aware design considerations have enabled the introduction of furniture and work spaces pieces to act in order to absord some of the risidual ambient noise.
80dB Existing Condition
Sound Absorbant Box: 5,151 Sabins
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Transmission Loss Glass Wall: 48 dB
Design Proposal for Source #1 Outer Glass Box
Inner Machine Box
Surface Area of Glass Box: 1,445 sq ft Surface Area of Glass Walls: 5,440 sq ft Volume of Glass Box: 130,050 ft3 Transmission Loss: Ceiling: 4,335 x (0.75) = 3,251.25 [ºGlass Fiber Roof Fabric Coefficient of Absorption: 0.75] Walls: 5,440 x (0.10) = 544 [ºGlass Panes Coefficient of Absorption: 0.10]
Surface Area of Black Box: 2,890 sq ft Surface Area of Acoustic Walls: 2,210 sq ft Volume of Machine Box: 28,900 ft3 Transmission Loss: Ceiling: 2,890 x (0.75) = 2,167.5 [ºGlass Fiber Roof Fabric Coefficient of Absorption: 0.75] Walls: 2,210 x (1.35) = 2,983.5 [ºWood Panels Coefficient of Absorption: 0.10 ] [ºInsulating Fiber Glass: 0.55] [ºAcoustic Panels: 0.70] TOTAL: 1.35 TOTAL=5,151 Sabins T= 0.05 x (28,900 ft3/5,151)= 0.2805
TOTAL=3,795.25 Sabins T= 0.05 x (130,050 ft3/3,795.25)= 1.71
NR = TL + 10 log a2/S NR= 48 dB + 10 log (5,151 Sabins/2,210 sq.ft) NR= 48 dB + 10 log 2.3 NR= 48 dB + 10 (0.3) = 51 dB NR= 51 dB Li= 51 dB NR= Li - Lii = 80-51 = 29 dB NR%= 36.25%
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Silent Classroom Box:
Outer Glass Box:
Current Condition: 80 dB Desired Condition: 40 dB Achieved Condition for Glass Box: 48 dB Achieved Condition for Classrooms within Glass Box: 34 dB
Surface Area of Glass Box: 1,445 sq ft Surface Area of Glass Walls: 5,440 sq ft Volume of Glass Box: 130,050 ft3 Transmission Loss: Ceiling: 4,335 x (0.75) = 3,251.25 [ºGlass Fiber Roof Fabric Coefficient of Absorption: 0.75] Walls: 5,440 x (0.10) = 544 [ºGlass Panes Coefficient of Absorption: 0.10]
The Classroom Box - quiet box - serves as the means through which to provide a quite work space for the faulty and students in immediate adjacenies to their reasearch and laboratory workspace.
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Partition Wall Transmission Loss Glass Wall Double Glass: 1 /4-in laminated + 3/16 in monolithic glass with 4 in airspace: 48 dB Surface Area of Petition Wall: 2550 sqft
T= 0.05 x (130,050 ft3/3,795.25)= 1.71 NR = TL + 10 log a2/S NR= 48 dB + 10 log (3,795.25 Sabins/2,550 sq.ft) NR= 48 dB + 10 log 1.4 (aprox.1) NR= 48 dB + 10 (0) = 48 dB NR= 48 dB Li= 48 dB 51 ft
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Li 80dB
Noise Source #2 HVAC Unit
Design Proposal for Source #1 85 ft
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Dark Box noise isolating devise that uses density to dampen sound affect of working laboratory machinery
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Light Box dual skin used to provide noise isolation form overhead HVAC unit as well as from ambient workshop sound
Light Cage modular furniture unit absorbant surface texture further dampens ambient noise while providing individual directional lighting
SYSTEMS_PRINCE LAB 2.0
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Chapel_Archive INVERTED DENSITIES - A NEW TYPE OF PUBLIC SPACE FOR BROWN UNIVERSITY
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STRATEGY
GREEN SPACE CONNECTOR
re-establishing the typology of the “quad”
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SITE ACTIVATION AND CIRCULATION
building as objects used to propose new paths of circulation, activating the breadth of the site
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EXPLORATION form, connection, occupation diagramatic studies of how two forms might come to interact when placed on the site - the first as a penetrative element of vertical desity, the second belonging to the earth, while still inhabiting the air lightly. The drawings sought to address how converging or penetrating forms might be placed in order to influence and augment the natural circulation across the site; activating the breadth of the territory while encouraging a new type of public program and public space.
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THE WALK
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tract_landscape | graduate thesis URBAN WATERFRONT PROJECT TO RE-ENGAGE ECOLOGICAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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Morganza Spillway was opened on the seventeenth of April 2011.
What followed was the controlled strategic flooding of 25,000 delta community inhabitants Pace of events Date Discharnge (CFS) Gates opened/total gates Day 1
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The Agency of Mapping
POPUL ATION DENSIT Y
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CONSERVATION
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A G R I C U LT U R E OFFSHORE OIL PL ATFORMS
mapping discovery
Mapping as the means of knowing a place. What is the agency of mapping when approaching both an analytically and intuitively known territory. These explore the nature of place as understood sensorially as well as analytically.
MORGANZA
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LINES OF OPPORTUNITY - CONNECTIVE POTENTIALS ACROSS A TERRITORY 60 kilometers
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IV` III’ - IV’ - 43.5 miles 58 minutes
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MORGANZA IV’ - V’ - 55.7 miles 1 hour 10 minutes
I’ - III’ - 81.8 miles 1 hour 35minutes
VI` V’ - VI’ - 40.8 miles 52 minutes
EXON CHEMICAL
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BATON ROUGE VI’ - VII’ - 17.7 miles 24 minutes VII’ - I’ - 141 miles 2 hours 18 minutes
GULFPORT BILOXI
BAYOU CHOCTAW STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
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SHELL GEISMAR PLANT HENDERSON I’ - II’ - 76.1 miles 1 hour 33 minutes
NORCO II`
KAISER ALUMINA PLANT
CONVENT REFINERY
DELCAMBRE
UNION CARBIDE TAFT / STAR PETROCHEMICAL PLANT NEW ORLEANS
CHALMETTE REFINERY
MAP OF POTENTIALS - LOCATIONS OF TERRITORIAL ROUTE-MAKING R E F I N E R I E S A N D T E R M I N A L S - OCCUPY ONSHORE SITES
WEEKS ISLAND WEEKS ISLAND STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
MORGAN CITY GARYVILLE TERMINAL HOUMA WELLTEC INC
OFFSHORE TERMINALS COLLECT AND REDISTRIBUTE LIQUID COMMODITIES
ALLIANCE REFINERY GALLIANO
OIL WELLS CREATE UN-NOTICED OFFSHORE SUBTERRANEAN DENSIT Y OFFSHORE PL ATFORMS AND WELLS FEED INTO THE GREATER GLOB AL AND TERRITORIAL INFRA STRUCTURE
TRAVERSED BY INDUSTRY - SUPER AND SUB-TERRANEAN MODES OF OCCUPATION
VENICE
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Bone
fragments collected and collided, a found-unfound logic
The bones, located by the experience of the landscape, find an intuitively located logic - subjectvely sensical in their manifestation they are found in the fragments and forms of the place from which they came and to which they return. These skeletons hold within them the logic of a constructed narrative. They are the new memory-located., the tools for interventions and the fathoming force of utility.
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Machine characters with intent
001 The Updowner: its a two-speed The Updowner is the node connector. Its arms mediated, extend to connect territories, densities and industries. The machine becomes the collector and distributor - a method of moving through landscape a connection at other similar nodes. The paths that extend beyond the edge (down) lead from places of current in habitation - climb the neck to reach the source or mouth of communication. The structure on the left and the path that extends in that direction is a new mode of inhabitation - planes, modules that inhabit the supra-terranean of the landscape. They occasionally touch down. SELF-GENERATING SITE PLAN - AS THE MACHINE ARE DISCOVERED AND GIVEN FORM THEY COME TO EMBODY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SPECIFIC PLACE, MADE FROM FRAGMENTS OF A LANDSCAPE. THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SITING THEM THEIR FUCTION AND CONTEXT BEGIN TO BUILD THE FABRIC OF THIS GENERIC PLACE OF NECESSARY FUNTIONS AND TYPOLOGIES. EACH MACHINE REFERS TO AND GIVES RISE TO THE CONDITIONS OF THIS ‘EVERY-PLACE’ OF FLOODED SHIFTING LANDSCAPES.
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MACHINE POD 1 - DEPENDING ON NECESSITY, DENSITY OF INHABITATION AND OCCUPATION PODS CAN ACT AS SINGLE UNITS WITHIN THE EXISTING FABRIC, BE IT RURAL, URBAN OR SUBURBAN. ALL MACH_POD 1s ARE CONSTRUCTED SO THAT MECHANICAL AND SYSTEMS CONTROLS ARE HELD OUTISDE OF THE POD ENVELOPE ALLOWING FOR FLEXILITY OF MOVEMENT AND MAINTAINANCE. [SEE OPPOSITE, ABOVE] MACH_POD 1 MACHINE POD 2PLUS - LIKE THE MACH_POD 1, MACH_POD 2PL RESPOND TO THE NECESSITIES OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT. BECUASE ALL MECHANICAL AND SYSTEMS UTILITIES ARE HELD OUTSIDE OF THE STRUCTURAL SKIN OF THE PODS AGGREGATION, WHETHER REQUIRED BECAUSE OF SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS OR POPULATION SURPLUS, IN CASES OF MASS RELOCATION, IS EASILY ACHIEVED. [SEE OPPOSITE, BELOW]
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MACH_POD 2PL
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002 003 OCCU-Elevator OCCU-Elevator serves as the device of mediation - a raised occupier, it utilises vertical motion to remove the inhabitant or occupant from the hyper-horizontality of the terrain. Through vertical action it seeks to return the inhabitant to their surroundings and provide a mode of inhabitation that is super-terranean in manifestation. Its lift action, as couple to its Rampman cohort, reacts to the landscape and engages the territories shifting forces. Retreating and relocating to safer groud under hosile conditions.
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004 005 OCCU-Rampman OCCU-Rampman like OCCU-Elevator serves as the device of mediation - a raised occupier it utilises vertical motion to remove the inhabitant or occupant from the hyper-horizontality of the terrain. Where OCCU-Elevator acts through hyper-vertical action, OCCU-Rampman’s action mimics the slowness of the landscape’s shirfting terrain. OCCU-Rampman’s work is done at an incline, reaching greater heights than its occu-Elevator couterpart.
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Cup_Bowl CERAMNICS STUDIO
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Active Matter MAKING OF MATERIALS AND VESSELS USING AN ACTIVE MAGNETIC FIRELD
Active Matter- sought to examine and develope material studies in order to create a new substance and/or method of construction. Through the process of testing material strenth, transparecy and curing time it was possible to create a material that would then act to self-generate products of utility - cups, bowls and other primitive vessels. The process used the material strength of self-hardening liquid plastic-glass in conjuction with heat, metalic substances and a magnetic field in order to form a series of different forms. The forms were influenced both by material conditions of heat, density and mass but ultimately were formed in reaction to proximity and stregth of the present magenetic fiend.
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