PROFESSIONAL WORK 4
White Street- Mixed Use in TriBeCa
GRADUATE STUDIO WORK 10
Olive Street- Housing in St. Louis
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Spring Street- Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
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Conceptual Campus-Gallery and Cafe Space in St. Louis
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Chicago River- Food Pantry and Distribution Center in Chicago
FURNITURE 58
Hand-made Chair
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Machine-made Table
Elevation Restoration
WHITE STREET White street is a high energy performance mixed-use renovation and penthouse addtion in TriBeCa. It’s location in a landmarked district requires sensitivity. The facade will be restored adding new energy efficient windows. Many of the design decisions focused on materiality.
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First lobby design
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Powder room
6th floor master bathroom
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2nd-5th floor master bath
5th floor kitchen
Alternate kitchen design
2nd floor kitchen
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Landscape features by Future Green
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REFLECTION: APARTMENTS The concept for this project was developed after a site visit when I asked myself the question: In St. Louis where the urban fabric has deteriorated how do you address context, or the lack of context, when the site has a potential for dramatic, unknown change?
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The reflective panels become a background for changes in the city.
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Large interior courtyard
Sectional perspective of interior courtyards
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Reflectivity, unlike transparency, creates an environment of contemplation. This project focuses inward creating several courtyards which provide outdoor space for the apartments.
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Terraces
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Elevation through courtyard
Small courtyards
Section showing small courtyards
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QUIET SPACE: FINNISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK The Finnish people are widely known for their quiet nature. What they are less known for is their drastic change in character during the summer months; after a long harsh winter, built up energy needs to be released. I became interested in this duality of character not only because of the individuals’ changing character but because of the contrasting nature of New York to Helsinki. How do you create silence in the “city that never sleeps”? Melting box is a study in the changing character of Finnish culture over the seasons.
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Plans
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The structure is expressive and reminiscent of a typical landscape in Finland, the birch forest.
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Elevation A
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Elevation B
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Initial diagrammatic models studying the skin and public space.
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Library perspective
The public gallery removes you from the city for a moment. Designed for traveling artists to display their work, it can also double as an event space. The design is muted to suppress detail and visual noise.
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:Construction Method A:
Klein Aperture - pseudo hood relief
-make cut slightly away from corner, and make one length and then shift remaining cut towards center of sheet. -cut a and b should be roughly the same length, and to connect curve side a in negative z-direction to create depressed hood shape, and seam a to b . - if aperture is not large enough, cut more of a circular hole in the remaining portion of the incision. -if you wish to have a hood that opens in the opposing direction, just push it in the positive z-direction direction.
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Shifted dart aperture - for openings and entries
-make cut in desired location of sheet, and cut out triangular portion - making sure that one side is longer then the other. -seam side a to side b, making opening area agreeable to desired slit size. -position one plane in positive or negative z-direction direction.
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-position arch in direction of desired arch arrangement, and cut saddle shape that produces desired arch height and curvature. -simply fold and seam along edges a and b with arch in positive z-direction.
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Team: Mike Wyrock Bo Sheng Nan Li
SEAMS: SHEET LOGICS Beginning with a flat sheet we manipulated fabric using darts. Darting is a method commonly used in the fashion industry which involves the cutting and removal of material and the joining of the new edges. The darting method was used to design not only the structural and spatial form but also the skin of the design.
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Thermoforming process
During the studio we built a prototype of the skin using HDPE, a smooth white plastic. In both scales of design we used the seams to increase the volume and to create apertures. In the final product we retained a fabric-like form using hand manipulations which would be used as a way of customizing each panel on site.
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Interior perspective
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NUTRI-POD: FOOD PANTRY AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER The objective of this studio was to design a food pantry/distribution center which could be part of a larger system used to grow and distribute food in downtown Chicago.
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CHICAGO RIVER FOOD PRODUCTION URBAN CONDITIONS ALONG THE RIVER
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DOWNTOWN CHICAGO
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URBAN EDGE
URBAN GARDENS
The track footings allow urban gardens to be inserted where building program isn’t needed.
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PERMANENT CONCRETE FRAME The post stress concrete two-way slab contains the mechanical, civic and plumbing spaces and creates an edge to the street.
PREFAB ADDITIVE PODS
The Pods contain private spaces which can grow to adapt to various sites, program additions and urban crop production.
RIVER EDGE
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Section A East-West Between Greenhouses
Section B East-West Through Greenhouses
Section C East-West Through Public Access to Riverwalk
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Section D North-South Through project
View of the project from the Riverwalk
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Main Entrance on Wells Street
Perspective down from Roosevelt Road
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View from field looking at PODS
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HAND-MADE FURNITURE DESIGN: PUU CHAIR -Baltic birch furniture design -Laminated bent wood seat and solid wood legs -Puu is the word for wood in Finnish -Simple cross leg structure -Easy to assemble and light weight
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MACHINE-MADE FURNITURE DESIGN: 72 PLY TABLE -Baltic birch furniture design -72 pieces of plywood flip milled using a CNC machine -Biscuit joints between adjacent pieces -Finger joints along center spine -Assembled and glued by hand
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