Selected Works 2010 by Sloan Springer

SELECTED WORKS SLOAN SPRINGER

Syracuse University | Master of Architecture Texas A&M University | Bachelor of Environmental Design

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RESUME

SLOAN SPRINGER

ACADEMIC Summer 2010 NYC Summer Studio | COAHSI Nine week intensive studio in Manhattan producing design studies for the Council of Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI). Professor: Jonathan Lott (OMA/REX/Para) Critics: Marc Tsurumaki (Louis.Tsurumaki.Louis), Kevin Rice (Diller+Scofidio Renfro), Craig Dykers (Snøhetta)

CONTACT c 903.918.5858 e sloan.springer@gmail.com w www.sloanspringer.com EDUCATION Syracuse University | Master of Architecture Texas A&M University | Bachelor of Environmental Design

Expected Dec 2011 May 2009

EMPLOYMENT Aug 2009 - May 2010 Graduate Assistant | Richard Rosa, Syracuse, NY Assisted in the design of Richard Rosa’s website, infraredeleven.com June 2006 - July 2006 Draftsman | Johnson & Pace, Longview, TX Produced working drawings for light commercial, educational, and facilities projects Draftsman | Jim FIsher Builder, Longview, TX May 2003 - May 2005 Aided in design and documentation of residential projects, collaborated with clients, and worked on-site

COMPETITIONS Dallas Arts District Boutique Hotel Design | Dallas Arts Hotel Spring 2009 1st Place HKS Hospitality studio competition for a boutique hotel and condominiums in the Dallas Arts District Sponsors: Nunzio DeSantis and Eddie Abeyata (HKS) AISC Living Steel | Urban Housing Spring 2009 Student competition for innovative steel design in mixed-use housing Sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction EUROPAN 9: Urbanity in Housing | Ecopolis Fall 2007 Urban strategy competition for a port site in Barcelona. Tasked to design 10,000 housing units, as well as cultural, business, and recreation centers. 01 | 02

Spring 2010 Design & Technology Workshop | Stripped Bare Two day team design charrette, hosted by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample (MOS Office), taking a single-family suburban home in foreclosure and redeveloping it to house three separate families Fall 2009 Design & Technology Workshop | Plastic Infrastructure Two day team design charrette, hosted by Sean Lally (Weathers Architects), designing micro-climate conditions that accommodate and sponsor activities and programs usually thought to need building interiority Spring 2009 RebarGroup Artist In Residence | Mobile Art Gallery Built a mobile art gallery as a one week interactive public intervention with Rebargroup members: John Bela and Blaine Merker Fall 2007 Barcelona Study Abroad | EUROPAN 9 Entered in the EUROPAN 9: Urbanity in Housing competition Professor: Juan Carlos Sanchez-Tappan (Studio of Architecture and Research) Critic: Miguel Roldán (Roldán + Berengué) SOFTWARE Drafting AutoCAD, ArchiCAD Modeling Rhinoceros, Revit, ArchiCAD, SketchUp Rendering V-Ray, Artlantis Graphics Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver

COAHSI

NYC SUMMER STUDIO

Team | Matt Farrell Professor | Jonathan Lott (OMA/REX/Para) Critics | Marc Tsurumaki (Louis.Tsurumaki.Louis) Kevin Rice (Diller+Scofidio Renfro) Craig Dykers (Snøhetta) Summer 2010 | Syracuse University The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, or COAHSI, operates uniquely as a facilitator, providing a space for other individuals, groups, and organizations, as well as initiating dialogue between said groups. Their initiative is not to promote themselves, as a new MoMA or New Museum, but rather to promote its individual users. The design strategy provides a flexible and adaptable space that allows COAHSI to provide its services to artists, performers, and viewers in a way that allows any number of possibilities for display and dialogue. Such a space should operate as both an overall collective as well hold potential for individual moments an varying scales. By reorganizing the given program into two zones: static and flexible, we were able to begin to maximize the potential for spatial and programmatic flexibility. 03 | 04

After analyzing the site conditions, a clear location for COAHSI’s intervention became clear. The existing street going through the site holds great potential for future development of the site, but it sits disconnected from the existing Bay Street urban front. By locating COAHSI in between these, in alignment with the existing storage vaults, both a connection to from the waterfront to Bay Street and a new urban street is made. With this location, COAHSI becomes the catalyst for future urban development of the site, as well as a key bridge to the larger area. In order to maximize flexibility on the site, all static program is aligned on a bar to the rear of the building, allowing all flexible program to fill the new streetfront facade. In between flexible and static, a zone of interchange is created via a “wall” that functions as the power strip for the flexible space. This wall condition hosts the shop equipment, media, and office workstations, all of which “plug in” to the wall for storage, and can be pulled out as needed to create new zones within the flexible or static space. COAHSI’s new facility serves as a catalyst for the urban regeneration of the overall site and area, while also maximizing the potential for COAHSI as a host to any number of possible activities. Ultimately, it provides both a flexible facility for its users, and a key element to the cultural fabric of Staten Island.

GIVEN

PROPOSED

Plan Diagram

Program Analysis Ground Plan

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Process

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SYRACUSE LIBRARY CATALYZING THE URBAN EDGE

Team | Individual Professor | Fransisco Sanin Critics | Mark Robbins (Dean) Mark Linder (Graduate Director) Johnathan Massey (Undergraduate Director) Fall 2009 | Syracuse University

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The project exists, essentially, as two ramps: the library and the public space, created by extruding the parking lot retaining wall cut and folding up or down. For the library ramp, the circulation takes you up through reading terraces, around the special collections room, through the art gallery, and finally into the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library before you descend back to the lobby. Outside, the public space ramp begins under the library, taking you down to the community functions, such as a cafe, classrooms, community room, and coffee bar, then on down to an amphitheater and playground, and ultimately ending at the lower parking lot cut where new commercial space has been generated. The ramps up and down help create space that is multi-functional and multioperational in order to serve the needs of a library as an institution of knowledge, a place of community, and a catalyst for urban development.

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Program Analysis Exploded Axonometric PROGRAM LOBBY

TRADITIONAL

150

LOBBY 150

1400

HYBRIDS FRONT OF HOUSE

SEATING/CIRCULATION

200

SHELVING

400

RECEPTION DESK

READING ROOM 2000 READING ROOM

2000

AUDITORIUM / COMMUNITY ROOM

1000

READING ROOM 2000

AUDITORIUM / COMMUNITY ROOM 1000

CHILDRENS LIBRARY

900

3000 SHELVING = AUDITORIUM SEATING

AUDITORIUM / COMMUNITY ROOM 1000

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SEATING/CIRCULATION SHELVING

CHILDRENS LIBRARY 900 CHILDRENS LIBRARY 900

EXHIBITION SPACE / GALLERY

1000

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EXHIBITION SPACE / GALLERY 1000 EXHIBITION SPACE / GALLERY 1000

AUDIO ROOM

400

1900 CHILDRENS ART GALLERY

erie

AUDIO ROOM 400

AUDIO ROOM 400 600

SEATING/CIRCULATION

600

KITCHEN

CAFETERIA SEATING 600 COMPUTER ROOM 400

800 MEDIA EXPERIENCE ROOMS

COMPUTER ROOM 400 CAFETERIA

1200

CLASSROOMS 300

RESTROOMS 500

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EXHIBITION SPACE / GALLERY 1000 400 200

RESTROOMS

500

250

WOMENS

250

MENS

CAFETERIA SEATING 600

1600 ART AS SEATING

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OFFICES STORAGE

COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAM 1500

BACK OF HOUSE

CAFETERIA KITCHEN

COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAM

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1500

600

OFFICES

400

STORAGE

200

AUDITORIUM / COMMUNITY ROOM 1000

CAFETERIA SEATING 600

1600 WATCH & EAT

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300

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CLASSROOMS

75 75 75 75

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400

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COMPUTER ROOM

Site Plan

Site Section Building Section

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MEDIA II

EXPLORATIONS IN DIGITAL MEDIA

Team | Individual Professor | Clare Olsen Spring 2010 | Syracuse University 15 | 16

A01 | Differentiated Illuminosity

A02 | Affective Atmospheres

A03 | Sensorial Shade Structure 17 | 18

DALLAS ARTS HOTEL

BOUTIQUE HOTEL DESIGN COMPETITION

Team | Dakota Dunai Professor | Craig Babe Critics | Nunzio DeSantis (HKS) Eddie Abayetta (HKS) Spring 2009 | Texas A&M University 1ST PLACE WINNER With a site surrounded by an all-star cast of architects including Rem Koolhaas/ REX, Norman Foster, I.M. Pei, and SOM, expectations were not to be taken lightly, and therefore context was a crucial point of departure for the design. In order to generate the form of the building, views from and through the site were heavily analyzed and preserved, as well as main pedestrian and vehicular traffic through and around the site. The driving force behind the development of the programmatical planning and detailing of the form was the idea of the site being the hub for the Arts District and a source of energy and liveliness that contributes to the surrounding theatres and symphony halls. The ground level is primarily reserved for public use, and therefore allows the building to become more of a public destination in itself that simply a hotel and residence. Restaurants line the main pedestrian routes and help to energize the urban-like streetscape through the site, drawing people from downtown Dallas into the Arts District. The facade of the building is intended to provide a dynamic and artistic element to the composition, allowing for the guests and residents to inhabit a more expressive space that strongly signifies the Arts District. The overall project allows for a more user-oriented program that directly adds to the public appeal of the Arts District, and completes a host of exceptional architecture that embodies a love of the arts and establishes a prominent focal point in the Dallas area. 19 | 20

Program Exploded Axonometric Site Analysis

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Plans Ground Level

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Room Plan 27 | 28

URBAN HOUSING

AISC LIVING STEEL COMPETITION

Team | Individual Professor | Carlos Reimers Critics | Pliny Fisk (Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems) Phillip Tabb Spring 2008 | Texas A&M University

The initial concept of this mixed-use project, located in downtown Montreal, was to accentuate the merger of Avenue du President Kennedy with Boulevard de Maisonneuve, the two streets that form the long facades of the site. This directionality provided a strong footing to work in the context of the site, while also informing the development of the building. To achieve this, the directionalities of the roads acted as the primary axes of the building, alluding to the intersection at the northeastern end of the site. The second conceptual formulation, which was particularly for deriving the massing, came as a solution to the height of the building, generated by the large program and small site. By â&#x20AC;&#x153;pullingâ&#x20AC;? the building apart at its intersection, a sense of permeability is created, and therefore breaking up the mass. In doing so, it was further possible to generate a vertical link to the metro station connection below the site. 29 | 30

In order to provide more space for living and to provide views, the design for the housing units is multi-leveled with the lowest floor acting as either work space (for the live-work units), solely living space, or a mixture of living and sleeping. The intermediary floor, halfway between each main level, is the entry area, where the use is varied. Finally, the top-most floor is primarily for sleeping, with some units containing living space as well. This stacking of spaces generates both a dynamic circulation inside a unit as well as an entire hallway level for mechanical equipment and service, located every other floor in between unit entry floors.

Skin

Structure

Metro

Large Retail

Small Retail

Office

Restaurant

Recreation

Housing

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Program

Ground Level Housing Units

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ECOPOLIS

EUROPAN 9 | BARCELONA STUDY ABROAD

Team | Anthony Legamaro Ivan Treviso Professor | Juan Carlos Sanchez-Tappan (Studio of Architecture and Research) Critic | Miguel Roldán (Roldán + Berengué) Fall 2007 | Texas A&M University

Spanning a 20 hectare port site in Barcelona, Spain, this ecological urban development is a tribute to its sites past as a quarry at the foot of Montjuic, a significant landmark of Catalunya. The design, formulated from the tectonics of glacial forms with a quarry-like linear directionality, aids to the eco-friendliness of such a massive project with its expansive green roofs and sustainable techniques and technologies. The program encompasses a wide range of uses, from 10,000 protected housing units to multiple business offices, all of which are carefully located to maximize their interaction and interoperability with the site as a whole. With the site’s location at one of the two main entranceways into Barcelona, it was essential for the project to be an iconic image and gateway for the city. The first step in achieving this was to create interaction with the site, allowing the highway to engage through the connection with Montjuic. 35 | 36

Due to such a massive and varied program, much of the design was focused on the “negative” space, creating significant interactive exterior green spaces, blurring the distinction between programmatic elements, as well as generating multiple areas for recreation. The housing spaces were based on the historical eixiample blocks in Barcelona, where each unit has views to both the outside areas and to the buildings private courtyard. This connection allows for further play between interior and exterior space, with each unit having at least one private green space permeating into the interior.

Program Site Analysis

Site Plan 37 | 38

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