Fall 2020 | Almog Nahum | SACD Advanced Design Portfolio

ALMOG NAHUM UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ADVANCED DESIGN PORTFOLIO ALMOGNAHUM@USF.EDU

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MORGAN LIBRARY ANNEX ENCORE URBAN INSTALLATION BOSTON SEAPORT FABRICATION LAB NEWTOWN MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING HMS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ADDITION

MORGAN LIBRARY ANNEX

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An extension for the Morgan Library museum is the last assignment of Core 3. After a trip to New York, the location for the site was chosen to be right along the Highline. The part of the Highline in front of the intervention must seamlessly integrate with the building itself. Using different programs to test skin systems was encouraged.

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The model was created on 3ds max after a series of draft models. The skin created digitally proved to be difficult without the assistance of a 3d printer or a laser cutter. In order to preserve the model’s exact form, sections were taken every two feet and individually cut onto slides of plexiglass. When arranged in order, the result is a three dimensional model embedded within a block of glass.

Multiple skin tests were cut into plexiglass blocks before being finalized in the digital model. The lattice work was something that was not guaranteed to be represented accurately in model form.

One of the main objectives of this design was to create a connection between the Highline and the Morgan Library. In order to do that, an open public space that extends outwards from underneath the building’s skin invites visitors to step off of the Highline. By having this space unenclosed, it remains public and actually gives more space to the Highline.

ENCORE URBAN I STALLAT

PROFESSORS ROBLES & SWANSON / SPRING 2

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Encore developments in downtown Tampa requested an interactive installation shading structure in their technology park. Groups of four tackled the issues brought forth by the Tampa Housing Authority. My group, consisting of Reid Fisher, Tyler Szymkowiak, and Leena Erchid decided to create benches that allowed visitors to place themselves as if they were musical notes on different level seating.

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The group’s focus was on the connections; how the steel hovered in the gap, how the panel dug its way into the concrete, and how the spacers were precisely created using steel tubing. The simplicity of our proposal allowed for the concentration to be emphasized on the way each material interacted with the other. Much testing was done in order to reach this finalized stage.

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This fully exploded axonometric illustrates the intended full scale of the installation. The one built by the group was just a portion, restricted by the allotted budget. The vertical panels were CNC milled in the studio while the files for the metal seating were sent to Tampa Steel Supply in order to be laser cut and broken professionally.

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5.75” x 14“ x 10” CONCRETE BLOCK WITH INSETS 16“ x 14” x 10” CONCRETE FORM 5.75“ x 14” x 10” CONCRETE BLOCK 1/2” JOINT CONNECTOR 1/2” NUT 1/2” STEEL THREADED ROD 1/2” SCHEDULE 40 STEEL TUBING PERFORATED BROKEN 1/4” STEEL PERFORATED 1/4” STEEL PANEL

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The next stage in the class is to redesign another group’s project using whatever was successful in previous designs. Again, I was chosen to create the rendering and work on the 3d modeling portion of the updated design agreed upon by the group. This was the rendering that I created based on my team’s input.

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The final stage in the class was to create a finalized three dimensional model. The grasshopper cutouts were agreed upon by the class, and once again we were split into groups based on ability.

My group’s job was to create the graphics and renderings. We divided the task up so that each person would create two renderings.

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The installation in these final renderings is the one that is to be built in the summer of 2019 in the Encore Technology Park. All of the schematic designs will be used to create the shop drawings during the same summer course.

BOSTON PORT FA CATION

N SEAABRILAB PROFESSORS GUNDERSEN & MACLEOD / FALL 2019

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This fabrication lab located in the boston seaport area is a project mainly focused on the roofing conditions and the responding ground conditions. Light filtration and programming within the 30,000 square foot facility are necessary in order to fit in the required studio space to fabricate steel and have a gallery space. A building was modelled on rhino in order to 3d print the roof structure system to hold the folding light filtering skin system.

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WORKSHOP

RIBBED ROOFING STRUCTURE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

FABRICATION AREA

MUSEUM/GALLERY

OUTDOOR WORKSPACE

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Design of the fabrication lab is pinpointed through using multiple sections and plans, rather than primarily a 3d model. Carving out the program necessitates this method, so that the spaces read cohesively throughout the whole of the building.

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The gallery space is specifically highlighted through the moment wherein the roof twists to become a wall that touches the floor towards the end of the twist. The pod, which is removable in the model, showcases the promenade of stairs that oversee the roofing condition.

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CROSSWISE SECTION

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LENGTHWISE SECTION

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CROSSWISE SECTION

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ESSOR HALFLANTS / SPRING 2020

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Starting with an exercise in urban planning, my partner Mark Ramon and I worked in tandem with Ardit Samarxhiu and Nini Nguyen in order to produce two different site plan developments for a plot of land in Newtown, Sarasota.

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Each site plan had to specifically lay out a museum, supermarket, and housing units within close range in order for the next step of the project to be executed. The area I decided to focus on in my 32nd scale model is highlighted in yellow

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The design for my housing units would be ones that step up at each repeating pair in order to fit parking and a shopping center underneath, with a museum positioned at the end.

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By modelling the units, museum, and shopping center digitally, I was able to create circulation that was more organic and took advantage of the way the building stepped up as it progressed overtop the museum, where visitors would be able to look up and see residents occupying their units

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The museum utilizes thicker roofing and floors in order to differentiate itself from the rest of the development. A ribbed skin system was created for the facade as well. Cuts into the roof reveal the resident circulation from above in order to showcase the community’s present, as well as its past within the museum.

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In the 16th model, red was used in order to highlight the meandering circulation that took residents throughout the building to their unit. Part of the concept was allowing for all circulation to be external rather than conditioned, and incidental meetings to occur while going to a unit.

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Many units also utilized multiple levels, with the private stairs above the main circulation. This creates a carved out profile for the facade and indicates that the building is full of life and every part of it has a use. By not completely enclosing the apartments in a conditioned box, each unit is easily identifiable as well as vastly different from the next one. In total, each block has 10 units. The photograph above shows 20 units.

HMS SCH OF ARCH TURE AD TION

HOOL HITECDDIPROFESSOR HALFLANTS / SPRING 2020

LOCATION 123416 MAPLE DRIVE, TAMPA, FL 33620 (HMS PARKING LOT)

LATTITUDE 28.067310

LONGITUDE -82.407890

SITE AREA 44,640 SQFT.

ZONING PLANNED DEVELOPMENT

OCCUPANCY EDUCATIONAL (E) ASSEMBLY (A-1) ASSEMBLY (A-2) ASSEMBLY (A-3)

PROPERTY SETBACKS NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST

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An extension to the existing USF architecture building located in the parking lot adjoining was assigned. The program was loose and the intervention could either be a seperate building or incorporate some type of connection between the old building. Required were a number of extra studio spaces for core and thesis students, 10 faculty offices, jury spaces, a gallery for model presentation, and an assembly space large enough for 100 people.

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The studios take up a majority of the program with faculty offices located in easy to access areas. Every part of the program has a relationship with the exterior and interior; the walkways provide opportunity for sunlight. A tower, topped with a conference room, on the western side of the intervention serves as a circulation core.

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STUDIO SPACES

FACULTY OFFICES GALLERY/JURY SPACE CONFERENCE ROOM

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FULL BUILDING MASSING

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ELEVATOR

EXTERIOR CIRCULATION MAIN STAIR

STAIR CIRCULATION EXTERIOR HALLWAYS

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Enclosed studio space with external circulation wrapping around studio “pods” placed throughout the building. This is done in order to create an abundance of spaces where incidental meetings occur, as well as opportunities to experience fresh air and sunlight.

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A similar language is used in the addition in order to complement the existing building. External circulation, characterized in the plans with grid hatching shows where the buildings connect using bridges that span across a courtyard.The ribbed roofing system is shown on the ground floor with dashed lines.

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Wide hallways provide impromptu presentation spaces near studios in order to foster interest in other students’ work. The ribbed overhead roofing system creates shading in exterior areas that would receive too much direct sunlight.

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A courtyard space in between existing architecture building on the USF campus and extension proposal was an important part of this concept. Main stairs that extend inwards to become the auditorium connect to the external circulation system that bridges between the HMS building and extension.

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The circulation tower with the conference room at the topmost level is seen on the left in this rendering.

The ribbed system turns downward to line the exterior walkways surrounding the studios and leading to the gallery and jury space on the right. An overlooking balcony for the gallery sits right beside the ribs.

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Students within studios have access to natural sunlight, as well as a line of sight into other studios. Concrete benches line the fourth floor in order to encourage a less formal way of working, as well as for a place for students and faculty to interact within the building. This area overlooks the third floor studio and ribs.

This cross-section is taken, East-West, across the bridge between the two buildings. Also shown are the different sized studio “pods� that sit across and unconditioned space underneath the ribbing structure.

A similar language is used in the addition, but lighter materials are used in order to show the contrast between the new and the old.

North-South lengthwise section showing only the addition. Cutting right through the auditorium stair seating, ribbing system and studio spaces. Also depicted is the viewing balcony for the gallery right beside the ribs.

West-East cross section taken through the gallery space. The relationship between the original building and the addition is evident in this rendered section; a line of vision from the outdoor circulation of the addition goes to the small extension of the existing HMS building.