SHAKED UZRAD PORTFOLIO OF WORK 2011-2014
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POWERHOUSE WORKSHOPS
ARTIST CENTER AT GOWANUS POWERHOUSE Critic: Adam Elstein
FLEX.IT.CITY
FUTURE PROJECTION FOR L.A. HARBOR COMMUNITIES Critic: Dragana Zoric + Enrique Limon
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE TRACING REPETITIVE LINEARITY Critic: Lawrence Blough
GRAND AVE. DORMITORY
A RURAL TRANSPLANT IN AN URBAN CONTEXT Critic: Giuliano Fiorenzoli
CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY Critic: Marc Schaut
HOUSE FOR TONY SMITH
STUDIO, GALLERY, AND RESIDENCE Critic: Theo David
ESCAPING GROUND
ROOF STRUCTURE ON AGGREGATED TERRAIN Critic: Frank Gesualdi
CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE WOOD WORD JOINT
Critic: Chi-Fan Wong
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POWERHOUSE WORKSHOPS
ARTIST CENTER AT GOWANUS POWERHOUSE Critic: Adam Elstein Collaboration with: Valeria Mazilli
In our proposal for the adaptation of the Powerhouse into a cultural center we aimed to achieve two things simultaneously. First, to address the client’s stated programmatic needs for art foundation space and for the use of the community as a place for making and viewing. Secondly, to address the industrial condition of Gowanus as it currently exists and recognize that this industrial vernacular is gradually being erased by development and the slow, but seemingly inevitable, encroachment of residential programs. The project argues that the Powerhouse new artist space should become a trace and a repository of this vanishing industrial vernacular.
Program: Cultural, Educational, Center for art and craftsmanship Site: 3rd Ave and 2nd st, Gowanus, Brooklyn Gross Area: 80,000 Sq ft.
POWERHOUSE WORKSHOPS ARTIST CENTER AT GOWANUS POWERHOUSE
VISUAL CATALOGUE OF ELEMENTS
We chose to catalogue the existing conditions of industrial vernacular through photography and analytical drawings. Based on our investigation, we derived a catalogue of possible elements and tectonic inspirations. We then began a series of exercises to imagine how these elements could be reinterpreted, recomposed, and perhaps even collaged in the context of the existing Powerhouse structure.
POWERHOUSE WORKSHOPS ARTIST CENTER AT GOWANUS POWERHOUSE
MAKING ON DISPLAY
The building preserves a “factory condition” where making is meant to be on display. We wanted to bring the creative process and the maker environment as close as possible for the local community to view and participate. By doing so, creative work become performative and viewers become participants. Viewers are able to look onto the makers: the show is not the final product, but the act and the process of its realization.
POWERHOUSE WORKSHOPS ARTIST CENTER AT GOWANUS POWERHOUSE
PROGRAM AND CIRCULATION
New addition was designed against the north side of the existing building, capsuling industrial materiality by structure and by the facade. The organisational logic of the building based on two axis; the first, from the north entrance on 3rd Ave to the Canal, is acting as a cross site street. With slight rotation towards north light, the axis also determines the stitch between the new wing and the existing building. Perpendicular to this axis, is the truss bridge. The truss acts as the main circulation element and as the connection between the existing building and the new addition.
2ND FLOOR
4TH FLOOR
1ST FLOOR
3RD FLOOR
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FLEX.IT.CITY
FUTURE PROJECTION FOR L.A. HARBOR COMMUNITIES Critic: Dragana Zoric + Enrique Limon Collaboration with: Hayden Minick
Flex it city establishes a social, economical and physical system that speculates on the future of the Los Angeles port industry. The system-city connects large scale programs to the individual housing unit, fostering an environment of cross pollination and physical exchange. The engine for this exchange manifests in a complete reshuffling of houses around the port area. This creates an organization that avoids mundane suburbia and forces interaction through the kinetics of the trade industry.
Program: Urban Design, Master Plan for L.A Harbor Site: Los Angeles Harbor Gross Area: 7,500 Acres
FLEX.IT.CITY
FUTURE PROJECTION FOR L.A. HARBOR COMMUNITIES
SITE & CONTEXT
The L.A. Harbor has a long history of oil harvesting that at certain points completely dominated the landscape. Today, although all oil pumps are operated off shore, the industrial area alongside the L.A. Port and the Long Beach Port are still a living proof of the significance of oil to the local economy. Nevertheless, the residential neighborhood around the ports are suffering significantly from pollution, traffic, and noise generated by the port industry, and have no access to the waterfront.
THE HOUSE
INDUSTRIAL-RESIDENTIAL HYBRID CONSEPT
FLEX.IT.CITY
FUTURE PROJECTION FOR L.A. HARBOR COMMUNITIES
L.A. HARBOR MASTER PLAN
Spread over 5.5 miles, the suggested master plan offers possibilities for maintaining port and other large scale operations together with a green belt both for agricultural and leisure purposes. Two main networks will serve the harbor area; one for cargo transmission from the Los Angeles Port and from the Long Beach Port to Downtown Los Angeles, and another for the movement of residential units.
COLLECTION CENTER
POTENTIAL HOUSING
COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY GATHERING POTENTIAL HOUSING
POTENTIAL HOUSING
FLEX.IT.CITY
FUTURE PROJECTION FOR LA HARBOR COMMUNITIES
SECTION THROUGH PORT
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE TRACING REPETITIVE LINEARITY
Critic: Lawrence Blough Collaboration with: SeungMin Peter Kim
Beginning with the analysis of the rower’s motion in water followed by the extraction of a formal language, the design for the Columbia university Boathouse aim to express dynamic rhythm through serial sections. Seated on the Harlem River’s public waterfront at the Columbia athletic center, the building offers multiple ways of connections, and travel possibilities through the site. The building’s circulation function as a knot, creating a loop, both vertically and horizontally to allow fluency. An elevated path that cut through the building, lead toward an outdoor amphitheater, made of stepped terraces and overlooking the water. This allows a smooth transition of action, and direct the visitor to interact with the site edge. Similar to the engineering of the rowing shell, the the skin wrap around and conceal the building’s structure, opens up to reveal the activities take place inside.
Program: Sport Facility, Rowing Club Site: W218 St, Inwood, New york Gross Area: 19,000 Sq ft.
ON AND ANALYSIS OF BODY MOVEMENT INSIDE THE SHELL - STROKE SEQUENCE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE TRACING REPETITIVE LINEARITY
STROKE SEQUENCE IN SIDE AND TOP VIEWS
STROKE SEQUENCE IN SIDE AND TOP VIEWS STROKE SEQUENCE IN SIDE AND TOP VIEWS
A1 - Tailored Shed . Student, Shaked Uzrad . Critic, Lawrence Blough . Spring 2013 . Pratt Istitute . School of Architecture A1 - Tailored Shed . Student, Shaked Uzrad . Critic, Lawrence Blough . Spring 2013 . Pratt Istitute . School of Architecture A1 - Tailored Shed . Student, Shaked Uzrad . Critic, Lawrence Blough . Spring 2013 . Pratt Istitute . School of Architecture
FRAGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF BODY MOVEMENT
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE TRACING REPETITIVE LINEARITY
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GRAND AVE. DORMITORY
A RURAL TRANSPLANT IN AN URBAN CONTEXT Critic: Giuliano Fiorenzoli Collaboration with: Mike Tingen
As a typology, the Urban Dormitory is obligated to serve as a space for social development through the interaction of shared, or communal, spaces. By accommodating individual dwelling spaces that fulfil the minimal “existentialism” of personal functions, and increasing the amount of communal living, working, dining, and cooking spaces, we were able to create a platform for social interaction based on the shared necessary functions and events of all the residents. Likewise, the building strives to interrogate the essential conditions of the “infill” project. The massing turns within the zoning limits to both maximize available floor space while also accessing north-south facing light.
Program: Housing, Dormitory Site: Grand Ave, Brooklyn, New york Gross Area: 57,000 Sq ft.
GRAND AVE. DORMITORY
A RURAL TRANSPLANT IN AN URBAN CONTEXT
SOLAR H20 HEATING SYSTEM
AIR HANDLING UNIT FAN COIL UNIT
LIVING MACHINE
GREY H2O COLLECTION
GEOTHERMAL WELL
BUILDING SYSTEMS
Living-Machine grey water management, geo-exchange, passive air ventilation and Photo-vaultaic systems co-operate to provide an MEP strategy that takes advantage of the site’s environmental conditions, maximizing efficiency and decreasing energy consumption.
GRAND AVE. DORMITORY
A RURAL TRANSPLANT IN AN URBAN CONTEXT
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CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY Critic: Marc Schaut
The given site, located in the Bowery, represents a geographic and cultural seam between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, with a memory of an historical importance to the early stages of Manhattan’s urbanization. Drawing connections to these aspects, the project stands as story board to its context. The geometrical language was derived from two Aesop fables, The Boy and the Filberts, and The Young Crab and His Mother. Each of these fables in their own way contain the characters of an educator and an apprentice, while also presenting spatial and directional qualities that become the library’s circulation.
Program: Educational, Cultural, Public Library Site: Corner of Grand and Chrystie St, Brewery, NY Gross Area: 24,000 Sq ft.
CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
BUILDING COMPONENTS
While the end result is a collage of many programs as summoned from the 21st century’s approach to data, in its core, the library remains a source of knowledge that emphasizes the unique qualities of the reading act, along with the opportunity to reach the community by creating an environment for public gathering.
The book stacks are located between the study carrel section from one side and a reading room from the other. In order to move from one to another one must walk through the book shelves in a symbolic act of penetration and rebirth. Each of the spaces is designed as an individual component that intensifies the experience of the action taking place. Above these three components, the study carrels, the book stacks, and the reading rooms, is a broad, open, inviting space to share, learn, create, and discuss. This Glass enclosed area stands in contrast to the dense, more intimate spaces below, and offers an observatory of 360 degrees on the urban setting that the building is located within.
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HOUSE FOR TONY SMITH
STUDIO, GALLERY, AND RESIDENCE Critic: Theo David
The dwelling is designed not only as a living and working environment for the artist, but also as an integrated element within its landscape, a steep hill in the gardens of Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. By echoing Smith’s sculptural geometries the house allows circulation through the site and occupies its surroundings with strong axes and dynamic compositional gestures. My goal was to allow privacy for the residents without taking away the opportunity of walking through the structure and down the hill, as it was still part of the public garden. The continuous path, extended by the triangular shape, is a reminder of nature’s ability to grow and evolve, similar to ones creative process of work.
Program: Residence Site: Wave Hill Garden, Riverdale, Bronx Gross Area: 1,800 Sq ft.
HOUSE FOR TONY SMITH STUDIO, GALLERY, AND RESIDENCE
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HOUSE FOR TONY SMITH STUDIO, GALLERY, AND RESIDENCE
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ESCAPING GROUND
ROOF STRUCTURE ON AGGREGATED TERRAIN Critic: Frank Gesualdi
As a paradox, architecture assembly seeks to possess a ground between the earth and the sky, yet it will always be grounded. Similarly, men chase after time with the knowledge of expected defeat. These concepts are challenged in a performative manner in order to flip roles between ground and the above sky, allowing the ground to escape up from it’s anchored position. The roof structure, and its manipulation of light and vision, play with the ability of tectonics to perform as a landscape and as a site to distort experience. By imposing new rules on the landscape, opportunities for navigation and conception create a crucial moment of inverted relationship.
Program: Meteorological Research Center
ESCAPING GROUND
ROOF STRUCTURE ON AGGREGATED TERRAIN
ESCAPING GROUND
ROOF STRUCTURE ON AGGREGATED TERRAIN
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CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE WOOD WORD JOINT Critic: Chi-Fan Wong
Beginning with the visual investigation of three verbs: continue, fall, and overlap, and three adjectives: floating, defined, and noisy, wood joints were integrated to create a systematic expression. The resulting systems evolve in scale and complexity along with verbal progression. From a single word to a pair, then to a sentence, and lastly to a narrative, the systems grow to a 16� by 16� cube. In its final form, the cube is constructed to inhabit the interweaving and collapsing actions of those words into each other, presenting new opportunities of occupation.
CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE WOOD WORD JOINT
DEFINED FLOAT
CONTENUES FALL
NOISY OVERLAP
Chaos is a continuous fall that defines floating elements into one large noisy overlap.
CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE WOOD WORD JOINT
NARRATIVE
Too fast to capture, too fast to focus on, shifting up against the gaze, straight lines stretching and blurring in aimless acceleration. The wind is fighting, sound is whistling, they are all part of the show. Shadows and shapes are mixing together, creating a perfect synchronized dance. In perfect timing it all froze, yet time will remain the only one to exist. Confused and disturbed, you walk within this cave, wishing it all to return to its place. In the first step you took, you became part of this game: the game of conception, the game of time.
You will slowly extract into space. From serene to aggressive, aiming for one perfect moment of contact, all for the sake of redemption. In the point that one ends, another begins, bursting to strength and completion.
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PHOTOGRAPHY Wandering between the fields of photography and architecture, I’m exploring the visual world we live in. My work attempts to define and unfold the myriad of visual simulation on our daily life. By breaking down concepts such as quiet versus noise, slow versus rapid and blank versus dense, I study the hidden possibilities of views and site in shaping perspectives.
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