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Selected Works
2016-17
Selected Works
2016-17
CONTENTS Stroke Series Winter 2016 Independent Skin Summer 2016 Jasper Brown Bar Goto Spring 2015 Andrew Wilkinson Architects Playscape Winter 2015 Jasper Brown Geodorm Fall 2013 Sal Tranchina Culture Collector Spring 2016 Chris Knapp, Jasper Brown Strange Silos Fall 2014 Adam Elstein Ambiguity Fall 2014 Ajmal Aqtash
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STROKE SERIES: an exploration between the hand and the machine. My current experimentation with graphic representation involves using sketching as an input for a three dimensional model. The goal was to keep the fluidity and authenticity of a handmade sketch while introducing the computational process of parametric design and rendering. The outcome is a reinterpretation of the sketch.
New York, NY
Stroke Series
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Critic - Jasper Brown
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SKIN: a proposal for a synthetic future. Cellulose is the most abundant material in the world and it can offer unexplored opportunities for the built environment. This thesis endeavors to explore new spatial paradigms and situations whereby a bacterial culture is a catalyst for the development of a culture in a community. Acetobacter Xylinium, the material that my investigation is focused on, can be grafted, dyed, stitched and cut to create an array of enclosures whose light transmittance can be calibrated by means of varying its growth.
New York, NY
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Skin
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Roosevelt Island in New York City provides a socially charged backdrop for my design research. My aim is to shelter selected communities who are searching for their place in this city by providing them with a kit of parts. Skin explores a new world, where cellulose takes over and becomes the building material of the future.
a. Global diagram of potential sugar and tea exporters juxtaposed to potential import disaster sites b. Potential import areas in New York, New York c. Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park landing site plan
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Skin
b. a. On-site large-scale growing process for cellulose b. Individual small-scale construction for cellulose c. artistic representation of constructed individual cellulose kit
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Critic - Jasper Brown
New York, NY
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Week one
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Skin
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a. Cellulose growth experiment b. Stitched cellulose experiment c. Semi Dry Cellulose d. Burned Cellulose
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Critic - Jasper Brown
ADAPTORS These adaptors extend from the node to allow further connections to other modules creating larger clusters.
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PERFORATIONS Since the bacteria is alive, it is in constant need of nutrients. This is achieved by perforations in the rods emitting steam to keep the cellulose wet. This keeps the skin mallable and stronger.
RODS Basic structural rods can be 3D-printed from various materials and are used to create a skeletal structure.
New York, NY
ACETOBACTER XYLINUM The bacterial cellulose can be draped over and grafted to the skeletal structure. Its thickness is varied by the amount of nutrients flowing through the rods. It can be grafted again, cut, stitched and dyed.
RADIATE Heat flows through the tubing keeping the cellulose alive and thicker.
NODES Connectors for rods make is feasible when building begins. These nodes can be 3D printed then snapped to the corresponding rods.
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a. Detailed axonometric diagram of individual pod b. Potential cluster formation c. Artistic representation of wet cellulose wrapping around structure
CLUSTERS Once a module is built, it can connect with other modules. These connections lead to clusters and may use existing structures to continue a collection of spaces.
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Skin
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Critic - Jasper Brown
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a. Section of a mid-phase cluster on the Renwick Ruin, Roosevelt Island, NY
New York, NY
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Skin
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The juxtaposition between these different communities demands the design of hybrid occupations that are ephemeral and grow on already existing structures.
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Andrew Wilkinson Architects
BAR GOTO: a cozy glowing japanese-style cocktail bar. featured on: Architectural Digest Bon Appetit New York Magazine NY Eater Timeout New York Times
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Lower East Side, NY
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Bar Goto
a. Elevation of location of Bar Goto b. Photo by Garrett Rowland
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Andrew Wilkinson Architects
Lower East Side, NY
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Bar Goto
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a. Technical drawings of storefront design b. Interior drawings of bar construction c. Exterior photo by Garrett Rowland d. Interior photo by Garrett Rowland
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Critic - Jasper Brown
PLAYSCAPE: a playful urban sandbox. The sandbox is a distinguished area where imagination runs wild. Scattered inside the sandbox are usually toys. In most cases, all the toys are different but co-exist together. It is this collective narrative I use to investigate potential body language for a civic center. The Playscape civic center is playful. It is not brutal and it does not intimidate. Instead, like toys in a sandbox, it is playful and inviting.
Gold Coast, QLD (AUS)
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Playscape
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a. Exterior rendering of play area
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Critic - Jasper Brown
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Gold Coast, QLD (AUS)
a. Experimental neoprene study model b. Site plan in Southport, Queenland c. Section of civic center. d. Overall roof plan e. Mid-level plan f. Entry-level plan g. 3-D printed model on cnc milled
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Critic - Sal Tranchina
GEODORM: a dorm for the social butterfly. Student housing brings together a diverse range of characters and promotes unexpected interactions. The dorms themselves are a collection of private spaces attached to a "thick" skin that is comprised of a network of public spaces.
New York, NY
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Geodorm
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a. Exterior rendering of the dormitories
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Critic - Sal Tranchina
New York, NY
From the outside, the units are private, with their own balconies that extend the whole dormitory space. From the inside, they connect through a joint bathroom space.
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a. Exploded axonometric of each dorm unit b. Structural diagram c. Unit diagram d. Beam construction e. Facade diagram f. MEP diagram g. Egress Diagram h. Rendering of interior garden of dorms i. Interior rendering of entrance
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Critic - Sal Tranchina
New York, NY
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a. Plans b. Section of entry c. Interior shot d. Section of units e. Exterior shot
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Winter 14'
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Critic - Jasper Brown + Chris Knapp
CULTURE COLLECTOR: an inflated urban shed. When looking at city maps, urban areas are often easily distinguishable. Streets act as hardline boundaries, separating and segregating areas. More so in suburban areas, there is a lack of cultural "mixing" among large amounts of people. Culture collector acts as a node, where individuals are "mixed" and can enjoy an urban space with a destination.
Gold Coast, QLD (AUS)
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Culture Collector
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a. Experimental collage b. Exterior rendering of public pathways
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Critic - Jasper Brown + Chris Knapp
Gold Coast, QLD (AUS)
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Flow Network
Inflate Space
Tighten Space
Urban Pathways
Offset Core
Offset Core
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a. Process diagrams b. Site plan of Currumbin Creek, Gold Coast c. Top-level plan d. Entry-level plan e. Rendering of entry f. Rendering of exhibit space
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Culture Collector
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Critic - Adam Elstein
STRANGE SILOS: a strange sculpture park for nomads. Strange Silos morphes the deserted grain elevators of Buffalo, New York. These modern artifacts of the industrial revolution are repurposed as spaces for cultural events and music festivals.
Buffalo, NY
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Strange Silos
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a. Exterior rendering of the American Grain Elevator
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Critic - Adam Elstein
Buffalo, NY
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ANAMORPHIC FORMFINDING ANAMORPHOSIS: is a distorted projection of perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a
Selected Works Strange Silos specific vantage point to rerconstitute the image. The word ‘anamorphosis’ is derived from the Greek prefix ANA-, meaning back or again, and MORPHE, meaning shape or form.
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Anamorphosis is the operation of distorting projections or perspectives requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. Using the cylindrical geometry of the grain silos, they are morphed into new forms that require the viewer to see what may look like a normal silo from a specific point. a. Photo of empty silo b. Photo of residue spaces between silos c. Photo of bottom of silo. d. Site plan e. Sound diagram of Buffalo, NY f. Theatre spaces of Buffalo, NY g. Axonometric of Silo bins h. Anamorphic operations
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AGE GROUPS
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Critic - Adam Elstein
Buffalo, NY
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These vantage points are defined from particular threshold points on the site. Once the viewer passes the threshold, the silos begin to morph.
These silo manipulations allow for the elevators to open up and allow open spaces for events.
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Strange Silos
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a. Overall site plan of Silo City b. Perot Grain Elevator plan c. American Grain Elevator plan
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Critic - Adam Elstein
Buffalo, NY
a. Top of workhouse 204 ft.
Bin house roof 124 ft. Bin Floor 109 ft.
Mid bin 61 ft.
Visitors center 15 ft. Ground Level 0 ft.
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Top of workhouse 204 ft.
Bin house roof 124 ft. Bin Floor 109 ft.
Mid Bin 61 ft.
Visitor Center Floor 15 ft. Ground Level 0 ft.
a. Perot Grain Elevator west section b. Perot Grain Elevator south section c. Exterior night rendering of Perot Grain Elevator
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Strange Silos
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Critic - Ajmal Aqtash
AMBIGUITY: a speculation on a classless architecture. Ambiguity researches the possibilities of an architecture without social division. The following research projects an extreme divide in Kolkata, India resulting in two cities - the slums and newly-developed areas. With population increasing and extreme weather conditions, this tower typology is the result of this predicted divide. The tower is comprised of two parts. Office spaces for an ever-growing technical support sector and DIY farms.
Kolkata, India
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Ambiguity
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Critic - Ajmal Aqtash
Kolkata, India
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Ambiguity
Inkblot are ambiguous due to different interpretations of the same image. This process of ink blotting involved the smudging and blurring of two colors black and white.
a. Inkblot research studies b. Inkblot abstraction
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Kolkata, India
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a. Temperature Diagram b. Annual Rainfall Diagram c. Monsoon Diagram d. Projected division of classes e. Proposed Program Diagram f. Train Migration patterns g. Formal Operations Diagram h. Seasonal transitions i. Solar Analysis
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Critic - Ajmal Aqtash
Kolkata, India
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b. a. Typical plans b. Detail setions c. Typical sections
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