Shaked Uzrad Architecture Work Sample 2016 by Shaked Uzrad

SHAKED UZRAD WORK SAMPLE 2011-2016

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CONTACT

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EDUCATION Brooklyn, NY 2016 Tel Aviv, Israel 2010

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture, with honors

Master Class, Eyal Landesman & Eldad Rafaeli Documentary & studio photography studies

EXPERIENCE Brooklyn, NY Aug 2016 - Present

Brooklyn, NY May 2015 - Sept 2015

Creating Things &c

Architectural Designer. Worked as an independent contractor on a small residential project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Going through all five phases of the design and construction process.

Future Expansion Architects

Design Intern. Worked on schematic design for commercial projects. Duties include presentation boards, 3D modeling, CAD Drafting, renders and site survey.

Pratt Institute Aug 2013 - May 2016

Pratt SOA Archives Office

Pratt Institute Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Teaching Assistant Professor Adam Elstein, Advanced Studio 400

Israel Nov 2006 - Nov 2009

Israel Defense Forces Field Intelligence Corps

PROFICIENCIES

Archivist + Design Coordinator. Management of Pratt SOA archive including the design, coordination, and production of Pratt Institutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual publication - InProcess, featuring exemplary studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, and the preparation for the 2016 NCARB accreditation visit.

Duties include weekly discussions with students, provide feedback for design issues, and logistical coordination for studio meetings.

Staff Sergeant. Served as a team commander at the Northern Israeli border, responsible for collecting combat intelligence.

Management: Fast learner | Self motivated | Ability to lead and work within teams HONORS and AWARDS

Online Portfolio

Lyman Piersma Award For Outstanding Student Service - 2016 Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement - 2016 Herman Krinsky Scholarship Award - 2015 Center for Architecture Scholarship Nomination - 2015 Pratt Institute Departmental Merit Based Scholarship Award - 2012

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ESCAPING GROUND

FLEX.IT.CITY

BROOKLYN POWERHOUSE

CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE

STATE OF WALLS

SUNSET PARK GARDEN RENOVATION GRAND AVE DORMITORY BOSTON APARTMENT RENOVATION THE LOOP AT ONE PARK AVE

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THE PARADOX OF ARCHITECTURE. 01 ESCAPING GROUND SKY STRUCTURE ON AGGREGATED TERRAIN 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.

ACADEMIC WORK

| SPRING 2012

Critic: Frank Gesualdi Program: Conceptual, Meteorological Research Center

NAVIGATION AND DISCOVERY The ability of tectonics to interrupt the landscape while forcing manipulation of light, arrangement, proportion, and of the relationships between the given and the imposed, can evoke a need for evaluation, navigation, and discovery. Within those, one can start establishing a unique path where each point signifies a new perspective, tailored to an experience.

YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MOTION, NOW YOUR HOUSE IS TOO. 02 FLEX.IT.CITY FUTURE PROJECTION FOR L.A. HARBOR COMMUNITIES 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. Spread over 5.5 miles, the suggested master plan offers possibilities for maintaining port and other large scale operations together with a green band both for agricultural and leisure purposes. Two main networks will operate within the harbor area; one for cargo transportation serving both the Los Angeles Port and Long Beach Port, and another for the kinetic circulation of residential units.

ACADEMIC WORK

| SUMMER 2014

Critics: Dragana Zoric + Enrique Limon Collaboration with: Hayden Minick Program: Urban Design, Master Plan for L.A Harbor Site: Los Angeles Harbor Gross Area: 7,500 Acres

LIKING SEGREGATED COMMUNITIES WITH A GREEN BAND The L.A. Harbor has a long history of oil harvesting that at certain points completely dominated the landscape. Even today, oil refineries is one of the major industries of the harbor area, which occupies most of the threshold between the port to the neighborhoods. Based on the projection that oil is a dying industry, new opportunities can be created to tie the residential areas to the waterfront, and to the port facilities, while harvesting new potential energy resources. The plan links the communities of San Pedro, Wilmington, and Long Beach together formally and programmatically with an open landscape band. The band offers a primary static circulation between the variety of hybrid programs that supporting the community. Along the band, an organic grid transfers housing units in a continuous motion, offer a new approach to real estate needs. In our utopian community, the place of program loses significance, therefore the ability for program and housing to relocate is central to the static primary circulation route. In contrast to the existing condition; the grid is static and the circulation is kinetic, we offer an inverse relationship, where the grid becomes kinetic and the primary circulation, the band, can be tailored elastically to both site and program captured in a temporary stasis.

HOW TO WAKE UP A SLEEPING GIANT? 03 BROOKLYN POWERHOUSE ARTIST CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL GOWANUS The proposed design for the adaptation of the historic Powerhouse into a cultural center aims to achieve two things simultaneously. First, to address the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 recognizes 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.

ACADEMIC WORK

FALL 2014

Critic: Adam Elstein Collaboration with: Valeria Mazilli Program: Cultural, Center for art and craftsmanship Site: 3rd Ave and 2nd st, Gowanus, Brooklyn Gross Area: 80,000 Sq ft.

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PAST IS ONLY HISTORY WHEN IT BECOMES INACTIVE The historical Brooklyn Powerhouse is a former MTA power station rooted in the industrial era of the Gowanus Canal. Built in the late 19th century the structure held two section, the boiler room at the north and the generator hall at the south. The powerhouse generated electricity for the Brooklyn rapid transportations system until it was taken by U.S. Military during the second world war. It was around that time that the North section was demolished. During the 90s, the powerhouse gained popularity as a place for an alternative scene in Brooklyn art and nightlife and was given the name The Bat Cave, in which it is known by today. The Bat Cave was evacuated and closed off in the early 2000 and stands empty since then. In 2012 the building was bought by the philanthropist Joshua Rechnitz. Joshua then and start working toward the adoption of the building into a cultural center for craftsmanship serving the Gowanus community. The new addition was designed against the north side of the existing building, capsule industrial materiality by the structure and by the facade. The organizational logic of the building based on two axis that determines the stitch between the new wing and the existing building.

HOW TO USE A STORY TO TELL A BUILDING? 04 CHRISTIE ST. LIBRARY NYC HISTORY IN A BOX The given site, located in the Bowery, represents a geographic and cultural seam between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, with a memory of a historical importance to the early stages of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urbanization. Drawing connections to these aspects, the project stands as a storyboard to its context. The organizational logic aims to portray the nature of the city, from rough terrain to main traffic lines, orthogonal grid, and lastly, free architectural forms and ethnic diversity that yield possibilities for the future. The Library takes the role of an educator, broadcasting the layers and complexity of the city and unfold it as it was chapters in a story.

ACADEMIC WORK

| SPRING 2013

Critic: Marc Schaut Program: Educational, Cultural, Public Library Site: Corner of Grand and Chrystie St, Brewery, NY Gross Area: 24,000 Sq ft.

CAFE CONFRENCE

READING

STACKS

LIBRARY ADMIN

MEDIA

GATHERING

ASSEMBLE

GALLERY ENTRANCE GRAND STREET

ARCHIVES / RESEARCH

MAKING ROOM FOR SHARING KNOWLEDGE By creating gathering spaces below and above the core of the library; the book stacks and the reading rooms, opportunities for mutual experiences are set. The geometrical language was derived from two Aesop fables which were diagrammed and analyzed. The two fables, The Boy and the Filberts, and The Young Crab and his Mother, each in its own way contained a character of an educator and an apprentice and presented spatial and directional qualities that helped carry the ideas for circulation. The result was kind of an architectural mutation, a collage

of many programs as summoned from the 21st centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to knowledge. Nevertheless, at its core, the library remains a source of knowledge that emphasized the unique qualities of the books with the promise of incomparable experience along with the opportunity for an nourish environment for public gathering.

LIKE A ROWER IN THE WATER. 05 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE TRACING REPETITIVE LINEARITY Beginning with the analysis of the rowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. By diagramming the mechanism of the moving body both with models and with drawings, the design animates the operative transition as sections that later on became the basic outline of the structural building system.

ACADEMIC WORK

| SPRING 2014

Critic: Lawrence Blough Collaboration with: SeungMin Peter Kim Program: Sport Facility, Rowing Club Site: W218 St, Inwood, New york Gross Area: 19,000 Sq ft.

CONNECTING THE BUILDING WITH THE HARLEM RIVER 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 skin wrap around and conceal the building’s structure, opens up to reveal the activities take place inside.

HOW TO BRING DOWN POLITICAL WALLS? 06 STATE OF WALLS THE POROUS MYTHOLOGY OF CONFLICT Following a contextual materiality, the project stands as an acknowledgment and a critic on the role of archaeological excavation in the politics of conflict. Looking at the wall element as a crucial ingredient in the establishment of human civilization, the wall represents the symbolic heritage of social possession, national identity, and the way these operate in modern culture. In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the wall is strongly charged both in the religious and political territory. It is a protector and reminder of sacred places while being a physical barrier for separation.

ACADEMIC WORK

| SPRING 2016

Critics: Fred Biehle + Duks Koschitz Program: Educational, Library and Research institute Site: Temple Mount Archaeological Park Gross Area: 210,ooo Sq ft

LOOKING UNDER THE ROCKS Using the materiality of the rock for guidance, the forms were shaped to receive an primal objectivity that reach down to the ground for support, laving the majority of the object elevated above. Designed to hold five major types of programs; Public library, research center, International affairs, Assemblage, and youth educational institute, the forms were distributed across the site in order to accommodate the activities taking place while creating a link between the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borders.

Total length of borderline: 1,954 mi (3,145 km) Total length of built fence: 344 mi (554.1 km)

Border between East and West Berlin: 27 mi ( 43.1 km)

Total length with all branches: 13,171 mi (21,196 km)

Temple Mount - Old City, Jerusalem

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The Separation Wall - East Jerusalem

Temple Mount - Old City, Jerusalem

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Upon completion, its total length will be about 700 kilometres long (430 mi) network

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The length of the walls is 4,018 meters (2.4966 mi), their average height is 12 meters (39.37 feet) and the average thickness is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). The walls contain 34 watchtowers and seven main gates open for traffic, with two minor gates reopened by archaeologists.

of high walls, Total length of built fence: 430 electronic mi (700 km)fences, gates and trenches. It max height is 8 meters (25

feet) and the avarage width of the barrier is 60 meters (197 feet). Separate about 9.4% of the West Bank and 23,000 Palestinians from the bulk of that territory.

Total length of borderline: 1,954 mi (3,145 km) Total length of built fence: 344 mi (554.1 km)

Border between East and West Berlin: 27 mi ( 43.1 km)

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The Separation Wall - East Jerusalem

BUILDING A WALL AS TERRITORY IN BETWEEN Located at the temple mountâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s archaeological site in Jerusalem, the The Separation Wall - Eastand Jerusalem proposed research education center is addressing the on-going regional conflict between Israel and Palestine in the middle east. The project establishes an alternative crossing point between one of the most politicly sensitive and religiously important complexes in the world for both Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the Haram al-Sharif and the Western Wall Plaza. A wall-territory that can form connections between its two sides, while protecting the archaeology from political use. Understanding the religious, political, and cultural charge as an opportunity to investigate the notion of porosity and to establish a new educational institution. Conflict Matters | Shaked Uzrad

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07 SUNSET PARK GARDEN RENOVATION CREATING THINGS &c

An outdoor extension for a two-story house in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the owner envisioned a retreat destination capable of hosting an array of events from short rentals to large gatherings. The brief specified a hidden garden where guests will be able to experience all the luxurious elements of a world class spa. The garden is designated to be activated year round and including facilities as outdoor shower, sauna, heated pool, air-conditioned pergola, lounge area and kitchenette. For this project, my work includes all the design specifications, visualization, management and construction GARDEN PROJECT 4510project 3RD AVE, BROOKLYN, NY ELEVATIONS administration. SHOWER DOOR

3/8” WOOD ANGLE FRAME

WALL MIRROWS

METAL STAIRS WITH 1.5” WOOD STEPS

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CLOSED PERGOLA WITH GLASS DOORS

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A RURAL TRANSPLANT IN AN URBAN CONTEXT Serves as an extension to the Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus, the building draws connectivities to the campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characterized green landscape. A series of stepping terraces offer opportunities for leisure and gathering while allowing the two building sections to receive maximum daylight. Inside, the housing units organized around open spaces for amenities and working studios, aimed to invite students to collaborate and create outside the class as well. With the notion that the dwelling students are in a critical point of their life where new ideas and social interactions are a key element in their education, the building encourages the tenants to experience the building as a micro cosmos, where the housing units are only a small fraction in the equation.

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This proposal for a bathroom and walk-in closet addition for master bedroom included the construction of new partition walls, raised floor, and drop ceiling. For cost evaluation purposes, I was requested to draw the details of the design and construction including the locations for new water lines, exploratory demolition, mill work, and installation of air exhaustion and sprinkler systems.

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010 THE LOOP AT ONE PARK AVE

FUTURE EXPANSION ARCHITECTS The loop is a roof garden on the 16th-floor terrace of One Park Avenue building. It connects three large terraces and a smaller overlook with a continuous path that kinks toward views of Major Manhattan landmarks. Along the path, the landscaping rise and fall naturally mimicking a series of connected hills, which one walk through. For this project, my work includes participation in the schematic design, site survey, material research, model making and CAD drawings.

DRAWINGS

INPROCESS PUBLICATION As the Undergraduate Archives and InProcess editor, my responsibilities included collecting and curating student work along with the publication production. The Pratt Archives Office is a team of 7 students both from the undergraduate and graduate departments. I met weekly with the department administration for spread layout reviews and image curation. I developed a critical eye for architectural imagery and learned a tremendous about book making and graphic design. In addition to InProcess responsibilities, I was responsible for the management and organization of the school archives and for all Pratt School of Architecture representation needs. Including the preparation and curation for the NCARB 2016 Accreditation Show together with a small team of students and faculty, resulting in the re-accreditation of both the graduate and undergraduate programs for the full eight years.

BOOK STRUCTURE OPTION 1 In this restructuring of the book’s content, the content is divided by year rather than semester so that work from both semesters of a professor can be shown based on merit of the work. In the current structuring, a professor’s spread is limited to one semester, chosen based on which professors taught both or one of the semesters. This often leads to quality work being left out of the book for political reasons. The media and structures courses are also included at the end of every year to better show the curriculum of the year.

Bachelor of Architecture | Degree Project | Michael Chen + Jason Lee, critics

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Urban Gamescape Manhattan, NY

DEGREE PROJECT

The Urban Gamescape is an Nth Dimension urban protocol for the future of New York City. It challenges the limitations of the existing two dimensional urban planning. It encourages the growth of the city towards a collaborative and adaptive environment. This protocol allows modification on existing building, customized according to owner’s necessity. The project analyzes the Midtown East rezoning as a starting point for it addresses that Midtown needs a different type of architecture in order to be successful. Older building stock, extruded from the Commissioner’s grid, was not built with the needs of a contemporary workspace in mind. Parallel to that is the trend of a series of architectural mutation, which are about a horizontal outburst. These abnormalities comes from a set of virtual building volume that are being exchanged and transacted, which differs from what the Midtown Rezoning proposes, leaving the owners to their own devices. It suggests a new emergence of urban planning, where the two dimensional layout of the city no longer exclusively regulates what happens in the lot sectionally. But it’s exchanged in the Nth dimensional space, which is the 3 dimensional + virtual space. Urban Gamescape enlists owners as players and the virtual space from the given FAR in Midtown as value to make the transactions more adaptable. Through a series of protocol that allows the types of ownership to diversify and transact, the project opens the opportunities for architects to conceive the possibilities of space, the identity of space while maintaining a level of sensitivity to the iconic New York while providing the possibility to adapt to the contemporary mode of living and working. Manhattan Midtown does not stay the forever iconic extrusion but flexible and adaptable.

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Min Liang + Shirley Li

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TRAVEL STUDIOS

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Bachelor of Architecture

The Pratt Undergraduate Architecture International Design Studios are important opportunities in our students’ education. Our global initiative is intended to provide a confrontation with culture and history. Underlying this is the idea that architecture has the capacity to provide a kind of wisdom that all students can profit from by the direct experience of that history, whether ancient or recent.

Los Angeles Program: Summer Excursion The Los Angeles Program exposes our students to an alternative set of urban issues framed by a possible future where public transit becomes the dominant driver in re-organizing the automobile-centric Southern California landscape. The students are asked to assess Reyner Banham’s original analysis of the Los Angeles landscape and its Four Ecologies to frame a context where the students can speculate future potentials of how architecture will play a role in re-shape the city and its culture.

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China Program: Summer Excursion The China Program provides a unique opportunity for students to engage the dynamic and complex changes currently taking place in an era of mass globalization. The design studio is intended to expand the awareness of students in balancing an historic environment with new emerging technologies and the seminar is to support the research. International Travel Studio Fall: Istanbul, Turkey Urban Centers from around the world are coping with the demands on the city’s infrastructure, Istanbul is unique because of its long history and its location. The studio focused on two scales: one on the urban scale investigating Istanbul’s transportation network, by rail and by water. Secondly, the studio proposed a carbon neutral transportation terminal.

R&D

Erika Hinrichs, Undergraduate Chair

FACULTY Jeffrey Brock Giuliano Fiorenzoli Zehra Kuz Enrique Limon Richard Sarrach Chi-Fan Wong Lawrence Zeroth

COM.

Dragana Zoric

Hayden Minick + Shaked Uzrad

Enrique Limon + Dragana Zoric, critics

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Rome Program Rome is perhaps the most remarkable “library” of spatial experiences in the world. The encounter with the city will question any student’s design priorities. The Rome program is a full semester abroad and Rome becomes the students’ textbook. The program is open to students in their fourth year to study architecture and Italian culture in Rome. Now in its 37th year the design studio has made a consistent effort to learn from the perceptual discoveries of the pedestrian urban condition and to engage the figural essence of its residual spaces. It is a labyrinth into which each student enters in order to, at first, lose their way. It requires a different understanding as to place and orientation, in order to find ones way back to what the student already knows. The architecture studios’ current focus is on how a new major urban intervention in the historic center might extend and restore existing spatial episodes, addressing erasures introduced during the fascist era. In this case, a new form of contextual integration is disguised by its confrontational stance, generating an encounter that recalls the narrative of the Trojan horse.

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