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The presence of multiple phenotypes for the same gene in a single organism allows for the selection and activation of particular sets of genes in an individual which creates variation and allows for adaptation. Likewise, architectural forms exist in a multiplicitous world of phenotypes: cross-breeding typologies, fluid formal languages, and interchangable tectonic systems. On the surface of the architectural body, these phenotypes are activated and deactivated. Through polymorphism, the phlogenic nature of architecture can be unravelled and recombined in an infinite play of variation and adaptation.
the genetic (re)combination of Bernini’s San Andrea al Quirinale and Boromini’s San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane
ACADEMIC WORK 2006-2009
Continuous & Discreet Bernini’s Third Arm Greg Lynn Studio
This project realizes the relationship between the facade and its apertures is the challenge of creating discreet apertures in a continuous facade. But the design of a facade requires a notion of phenomenal transparency: the expression of a space behind an opaque facade. If apertures, rather than acting as independently discreet elements, were made continuous with each other, the resulting figure of multiple apertures would challenge the figure/ground nature of the facade and break the facade along seams of apertures. These aperture seams extrude to the interior to create vertical pockets of bookshelves, with niches between for private reading. Hence the discreet elements of the facade become continuous elements on the interior.
The relationship between the discreet and the continuous may be answered with self-intersecting blebs, where a continuous line forms intersecting discreet singularities
An analysis of the Palazzo Carignano in Turin provided a basis for understanding phenominal transparency. Firstly, an operation of splitting the facade to reveal the ovoid shape behind it allows for the discontinuation of the facade. Secondly, the relationship between apertures on the facade are relative not to an orthographic projection of the facade, rather they are aligned equidistant in plan along the surface of the facade.
The continuous facade and discreet aperture may form a bivalent relationship where the apertures can become continous with each other and the facade can become discreet with itself.
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The contemporary and the baroque align through the application of mass and through the study of facade and aperture as discreet and continuous systems
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5’x9’ scale model of the vatican at 1:150
Completing Bernini’s arms of st Peters Piazza. Beginning with an arc following the existing arms, the intersections with axis on the site inflect the facade, creating seams and generating the positions of the apertures.
Phenominal transparency plays a large role in the facade, seams and apertures align with interior in elevation as well as creating bookshelves and rooms in plan
Taking phenominal transparency to its contemporary limit, the seams on the facade are literal manifestions of the vacuum of mass left from pulling facade elements into the interior. Blebs become interior blobs.
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+4 reading room
open to below
rare books
open to below
Velocity Barriers
Velocitometer
Velocity
The question posed by this project was two-fold. First, how can one analyze a site using fields? And second, how does one design with this field in mind? The former is an exercise in critical analysis: more precisely, the ability to focus on a systemic framework to infer the inner workings of a system. The conditions of the field were recognized as a matrix of velocity vectors. By representing the velocity as a field, space was parameterized in a consistent single variable condition from which interactions and site conditions can be extracted. The site analysis was used as an empirical analysis model to determine relationships between various modes of transportation: pedestrian, bicycle, car, bus, and train. Focusing on the field interference points, it became apparent that the level or fluidity of the interaction was directly related to velocity. Field interference was generally categorized as homog-
enous, heterogeneous, and field transfers. The first two are descriptive of interactivity conditions, the last addresses people transferring from one mode of transportation to another. The threshold levels of fluid interaction in heterogeneous systems were catalogued and mapped back to velocity and acceleration to show dependencies. From these systems, methods were created to measure/manipulate velocity in order to promote or hinder fluidity in field interference. Designing within the framework of the field allowed one to design another field on the extant field, or relegate field to analysis only. The analysis, through its empirical rule extractions no longer had a direct spatial relationship to the site, but rather created a kit of tools to implement any design strategy dealing with velocity. Returning to the spatial attributes of the site, the site interference zones offer an opportunity to use the velocity manipulation tools in order to influence or disrupt extant field conditions.
Interference Zones
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Fluid Interference
Acelratation
Velocity Priority
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In order to mediate velocity, adjustments to extant velocity conditions require that all objects operate on the lowest common denominator. This means that cars must operate at the same velocity as that of pedestrians and so would cars and buses. This would severely cripple the performance of the transportation system. So instead of velocity mediation, a a system of velocity segregation is proposed instead. By understanding the tools for adjusting and measuring velocity, those same tools are now used to isolate velocities and provide a phenomenological or experiential perception of velocity for the objects which operate and activate the architectural mechanisms within the field.
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Pinched Park
Corrugated Virtual Park/Real Park
Affine Transformation Primary Facade/ Secondary Facade
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Cafe Table Cafe Seat Wall Room Pool
Small Dog Sleep Area Big Dog Sleep Area Reception Office
A taxonomy of extrusion enhancements were developed and operated in the conceptual park/facade interplay.
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Hotel
Dog Spa
Dog Pool
Dog Kennel
Office
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Vegas Analysis David Schwarz Studio buildings and towers buildings
Studio Project
Our studio put together an analysis of the Las Vegas strip. The strip is essentially a linear development along Las Vegas Boulevard and is characterized by large resorts with thousands of hotel rooms each, built on top of multi-acre blocks. Before we went to Las Vegas, we spent a number of weeks looking at shopping and entertainment streets in Europe and the United States – for example Las Ramblas in Spain, Lincoln Road in Miami and Victory Park in Dallas to name a few. We looked at mixeddevelopments as well, such as Seaside in Florida and West Village in Dallas. These precedents are important to our analysis because the behavior of the visitor to the strip has changed. The principle main revenue generators on strip are now retail, lodging, entertainment and dining. Gaming is still substantial, but is slowly declining in favor of those other activities. Additionally, visitors are likely to move from property to property during their stay, either to change their luck, take in a show, grab a bite to eat, or just to take in the wide variety of spectacle that the strip has to offer. The traditional strategy of the mega-resorts is capture and sequester guests and to stand in isolation of each other is does not mesh with how visitors behave. We believe that Harrah’s is in a unique position to benefit from these behaviors because of the location and extent of their land holdings. A pedestrian-friendly environment would acknowledge and harness the existing heavy pedestrian traffic and a
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mixed-use development would quench visitors’ thirst for variety. Before we get to that though, we have to understand the strip as it exists currently. We want to understand how the different resorts organize themselves and examine the connective systems between them: both vehicular and pedestrian. In the analysis we are about to present you will see how we did this. We look at the sidewalk at various points along the strip to understand what the pedestrian experience is like and to exposit different strategies that resorts employ to encourage visitors to enter their properties from the street. We looked at vehicular circulation patterns to understand how cars move along the strip and into the resorts. We looked at how the interior environments of the resorts are connected to the exterior by examining their entry points. We looked at how different resorts use their street frontage. We performed a mini-analysis on downtown Las Vegas and the Freemont Street Experience so that we could have a base for comparison between the newer strip development and an older, urban grid based morphology. To repeat: our observation in Las Vegas was that there is a heavy pedestrian load on the Harrah’s campus – but pedestrians circulate in an environment that isn’t favorable to pedestrian traffic. We believe this is the primary issue that needs to be addressed in a master plan.
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mirage venetian
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harrah’s
harrah’s
imperial palace
imperial palace
o’sheas
o’sheas
flamingo
caesars
flamingo
caesars
bill’s
bill’s
flamingo rd. bally’s
bally’s
bellagio
bellagio paris
paris
planet hollywood
planet hollywood
harmon ave. city center
city center
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excalibur
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Enclave
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David Schwarz Studio
RIDGE TO BRIDGE ONORAIL AT +20 + MONORAIL
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Flamingo Casino & Hotel
A: 25,725 sq ft
Las Vegas Blvd.
Flamingo Tower
2 person group project
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ENTRY TO FLAMINGO HOTEL 0
Flamingo Port Cochere
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A: 11,968 sq ft
BRIDGE TO CAESARS PALACE AT +20
RDE A: 7,699 sq ft
SEC SECTION D
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GRILLE
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RDE A: 4,243 sq ft
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A: 2,481 sq ft A: 5,004 sq ft
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SECTION C
A: 2,454 sq ft
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THEATER LOBBY
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Hall of Fame
A: 4,176 sq ft
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A: 2,104 sq ft
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A: 1,829 sq ft A: 1,881 sq ft
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A: 2,161 sq ft
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A: 5,688 sq ft A: 87 sq ft
SECTION A
A: 12,247 sq ft
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A: 2,805 sq ft
A: 5,167 sq ft A: 4,583 sq ft
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A: 3,571 sq ft
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A: 1,485 sq ft
ESCALATOR DOWN TO HOTEL COORIDOR ESCALATOR UP TO THEATER
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GYM
A: 10,490 sq ft
A: 1,606 sq ft
CAFE
A: 2,511 sq ft
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HOTEL LOBBY
SPORT BAR BOH
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SECTION B
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Flamingo Blvd.
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PRO SHOP
A: 662 sq ft
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SECTION D
A: 87 sq ft A: 330 sq ft
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A: 1,398 sq ft
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A: 6,771 sq ft
A: 1,881 sq ft
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SECTION C
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A: 23,815 sq ft
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Rock Climbing +0
A: 10,497 sq ft
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A: 2,819 sq ft A: 604 sq ft
HallBOH of Fame
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LUXURY CAR SHOWROOM
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MULTILEVEL RDE A: 20,869 sq ft
BOH
A: 16,891 sq ft
A: 10,483 sq ft
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A: 8,822 sq ft
A: 10,313 sq ft
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A: 2,966 sq ft
A: 5,999 sq ft
A: 3,167 sq ft
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A: 3,056 sq ft
BOH
A: 1,990 sq ft
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BOHKITCHEN
KITCHEN
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Flamingo Casino & Hotel
Taxi Queue Ground Floor and Basement
Las Vegas Blvd.
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ENTRANCE TO FLAMINGO CASINO
Flamingo Port Cochere
Existing Garage
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An enclave is a territory entirely enclosed within another territory. The enclave retains identity, but draws its resources entirely from the territory around it. Likewise, our 50 story hotel must negotiate pedestrian flow from its adjacent resorts, but also retain its own brand. Furthermore, to capture the charged corner between Las Vegas Blvd. and Flamingo Blvd, our tower contains in its base an ultra-sports bar with stadium seating and a performance theater, both capturing the activity of the strip in its view and contributing to its intensity.
RDE
A: 10,432 sq ft
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SECTION A
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On the corner of Flamingo Boulevard and Las Vegas Boulevard, our site is centrally located along the vegas strip. With its proximity to Caesars Palace, The Flagmingo, Paris, Bally’s, and the Belagio, this site is arguably the most valuable property along the Las Vegas Strip. Our approach to the site stems from recognizing its pivotal role in joining together the 3 adjacent Harrah’s properties. To negotiate the complex requirements of the site to connect its neighbors but retain its own identity, we developed the project with the concept of an enclave.
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RDE A: 5,327 sq ft
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A: 2,887 sq ft
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A: 10,313 sq ft
SECTION C
MULTILEVEL RDE
RDE
A: 9,772 sq ft
A: 13,899 sq ft
A: 20,869 sq ft
BOH
PRO SHOP
A: 662 sq ft
A: 16,891 sq ft
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ULTRA SPORTS BAR A: 7,812 sq ft
LUXURY CAR SHOWROOM BOH
Rock Climbing +0
A: 17,495 sq ft
A: 18,033 sq ft
A: 87 sq ft
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A: 450 sq ft
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SKY DECK RESTAURANT
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panelite glass
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green room
HOTEL BOH A: 898 sq ft
CALDERIUM
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SPA LOBBY
THEATER BOH A: 10,307 sq ft
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TO STAGE ESCALATOR TO STAGE A: 500 sq ft
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A: 450 sq ft
A: 14,750 sq ft
THEATER FLYSPACE
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technical rm
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Tension Space Kunsthalle Peter Debretteville Studio
The relationship between art, society and the subject is one of tension. An art work is the product of a subject and is also received by the subject in a duality of effect and affect. The subject is contained within society, which is also defined and limited by the subject. In a paradoxical strange loop of infinitely regressive body and organ relationships, tension as a concept of dualities applies here as well. If we begin to think of art as belonging to a smooth space:the space of the nomad, then the curators are part of a striated space:belonging to the state apparatus. Deleuze proposes that between two striated spaces, there is a smooth space. Can a striated space occupy the surface between two smooth spaces? The state apparatus, the striated space operates on absolutes. Rules and regulations permeate this space. The smooth space on the other hand, operates on difference. It has no goal, only instantaneous velocity. Defined by a point and a vector, the smooth space is a space of vertical flows, constantly territorializing through its movement.
Absence of the other
Surface Tension
Torsional Tension
Admin Offices
Open Offices Curator Offices
Multipurpose Theater
Cafe
MediaLab Lobby
1/4” = 1’ Model Final Presentation
1/8” = 1’ Scale Model Midterm Presentation
The Baroque Ellipse Rome Studio Prof. Alexander Purves & Stephen Harby
Bernini and Borromini were well-known rivals during Baroque Rome. Through analyzing the neighboring elliptical churchs of Bernini’s San Andrea al Quiranale and Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, this project postulates a grotesque merging of the two. The worm’s eye drawing convention provides a sound basis for 3-dimensional analysis with measurable distances in all three dimensions. However, the Bernini-Borromini monster exploits this drawing convention to hide the inconsistencies behind columns and piers and obstructs the most confusing aspect of this fored encounter: the resolution of the apse.
San Andrea Facade
san carlo
san andrea
This project is a reminder that the elliptical shape of the Baroque is inherently a hybridization of irreconcilable forms, suspended in an eternal state of fluid transition.
San Andrea + San Carlo Hybrid
Sant ivo Cupula
PROFESSIONAL WORK 2009-2010
Crystal Design Center- Lead Architect & Project Manager
Pulse Tower
Situated less than a block from the West gate of the historic Xi’an city center, Pulse Tower rejects the stale notion of homogenous independent rooms and instead creates communities in a tower through shared skygardens. During Xi’an’s 3,000 year history, it has served as the capital of China for the most important dynasties. Called ‘Western Peace’ by the Chinese, it is located in a basin, protected by mountains on two sides yet connected to the fertile plains of central China. With more Terra Cotta Warriors being unearthed in the tomb of the first Emperor everyday, history runs deep in this ancient city.
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39,800m2 of residential 4,000m2 of retail
XI’an Historic West Gate
Rather than towers in a park, we propose parks in the tower. 63#"/*4.
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Vertical communities share atriums which have exterior connections.
Parametrically controlled balconies direct and control views while creating a unique undulating facade.
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Coolsingel On-going Project: for more information relating to my role in this project, please refer to my cover letter.
Two contextual observations triggered the design process. The position of the site in the urban context of the city Rotterdam can truly be regarded as the center of Rotterdam. This is the moment where Rotterdam’s most important streets: Coolsingel, Lijnbaan, Binnenweg and Beurstraverse merge together. The second observation is Rotterdam’s current construction development that almost entirely consists of tower projects. The high-rise creates an impressive skyline, but due to mono-functionality and its lack of engagement with the surrounding public domain it does not succeed to enhance the attractiveness and liveliness of the centre. Instead of yet another tower project competing for height, the project aims to reconfigure the image of the centre by inserting the pure form of the cube on the site. The cube spatially reorganizes its context and generates floor surfaces that can facilitate for a wide range of (public) programs. A system of void spaces introduces a spatial configuration that brings daylight into the cube and views to the surroundings from within the cube. source:oma.com
OMA
Stadskantoor On-going Project: for more information relating to my role in this project, please refer to my cover letter.
For Rotterdam’s Stadskantoor, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. The building’s composition of smaller cells creates an impressive, complex form when viewed from Coolsingel, one of Rotterdam’s main arteries, and allows for subtlety and adaptability as the new building meets the Stadstimmerhuis (a municipal building, from 1953), which surrounds it on two sides.
The Stadskantoor’s innovative structural system generates maximum efficiency and versatility both in construction and in program: units can be added or even dismounted from the structure as demands on the building change over time, and can adapt to either office space or residential parameters as desired. Green terraces on higher levels provide the possibility of an apartment with a garden in the heart of urban Rotterdam. On the street level, the structure allows for generous open space, with modules overhanging rather than encroaching into an interstitial area, encouraging an active and open engagement between the Stadskantoor and the city. source:oma.com
OMA
NAI-Taking A Stance Shanghai Expo Exhibition Designer
O.M.A. was invited to participate in an exhibition by the Netherlands Architecture Institute to showcase a project along with three other Dutch designers and four Chinese designers. To represent the Taipei Performing Arts Center, we concieved of an image cloud. Conceptual developments on form and theater are on the left and urbanism and context on the right. The visitor can enter on either side and the 1:100 model sits in the middle, split in two, inviting the visitor to peek inside.
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