Victor Barbalato Academic Portfolio Issue 1

PORTFOLIO ISSUE 1: 2005 TO 2010 COLLECTION

PLIGHT OF THE CARTONEROS

ARGENTINA

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT STUDIO SOLDIERS FIELD HOUSING

UNPLANNEDPERIPHERY NANHUI DISTRICT, SHANGHAI, CHINA

Coping with the rapid expansion of Shanghai’s outer districts

VICTOR M BARBALATO III SAMPLE WORKS

TABLE OF CONTENTS SENIOR THESIS

SECTION 1

Mixed Hotel, Office, Residential Tower

SECTION 2

Detailed Senior Thesis Book Available Advisors: Gustavo Crembil, David Riebe, Kenneth Warriner

REPUBLIC SQUARE

Almaty, Kazakhstan Fall 2006; Advisor: Jefferson Ellinger

PLIGHT OF THE CARTONEROS Alternative Paper Use Studio Cordoba, Argentina - STUDY ABROAD Spring 2006; Advisor: Gustavo Crembil

SECTION 3

MIXED MEDIA PUBLIC LIBRARY Repository and Display Space for Works by Local Community Organizations

SECTION 3.1

Cordoba, Argentina Spring 2006; Advisor: Gustavo Crembil

ARTISTS UNITE!

Community Arts Center

SECTION 4

Washington Heights, NYC NY Fall 2004; Advisor: David Riebe

SOLDIERS FIELD GRADUATE AND ADJUNCT FACULTY HOUSING Design Development Studio

SECTION 5

Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2007; Advisors: Mark Cabrinah, Mark Mistur

UNPLANNED PERIPHERY

The Time During Redevelopment Shanghai, China - STUDY ABROAD Spring 2008; Advisor: Gustavo Crembil

JINGDEZHEN CERAMICS STUDIO Experimental Pottery Workshop Residency Jingdezhen, China - STUDY ABROAD Spring 2008; Advisor: Gustavo Crembil

reTHINKING THE ARCH

Material Exploration

SECTION 6.0

SECTION 6.1

SECTION 7

Rensselaer: Troy, NY Fall 2005, Materials Course; Advisor: Farah Garba

“VINTAGE” WINE RACK

Furniture Design

SECTION 8

Rensselaer: Troy, NY Spring 2009, Furniture Design; Advisors: David Riebe, William Bergman

Pleasure Garden, YAP COMPETITION

Professional Work Example, Competition Studio SECTION 9 Studio THEM November through January, 2008

NL HOUSE, Dutch Design Week 2009 Professional Work Example, Exhibition Studio THEM June through October, 2009

SECTION 10

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SENIOR THESIS: REASSESSING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING; AN INTERVENTION IN URBAN INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS Kinzie Industrial Corridor: Chicago, Illinois

ABSTRACT: Contemporary manufacturing methods no longer rely on the masses of unskilled labor or monopolized material chains that supported America’s industrial past. Hallmarking today’s most successful outfits is the participation within complex meshworks of information generated from infrastructure manufacturers utilize and suppliers with which they communicate. This thesis foresees American manufacturing regaining its importance in domestic and foreign product markets by focusing revitalization efforts in Urban Industrial Corridors located throughout the country. These corridors have the potential to supply constant, efficient material flows, provide direct access to main transportation arteries and foster the diffusion of ideas between diverse groups of professionals. A new genre of infrastructure must be envisioned that creates a synergy between designer, manufacturer, and finished product. This synergy will allow Urban Industrial Corridors to be understood as conglomerations of interdependent specialists, not as a series of independent manufacturers. Intra-corridor collaboration and direct access to trade avenues will transform these industrial locations into cohesive factories. The products that evolve within these zones through social interaction and newly established material flows will blur the boundary between factory and community at a face to face scale. Dissolved boundaries will generate ever changing urban fabric, allowing ideas to become permeable, transparent and applicable to parallel learning and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Highways have little relationship to the formation or location of existing Urban Industrial Corridors.

The distance between highway on ramps and industrial corridors creates many problems for freight trucks transporting items originating from these locations. Often, freight vehicles must transverse through dense residential neighborhoods to get to said transportation arteries, generating many complaints to the city, and causing multiple accidents with commuter vehicles.

TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN RELATION TO DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS EXISTING URBAN RAIL LINES

HIGHWAY WATER EXISTING INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS

ENTIRE SYSTEM

HIGHWAYS

RAIL AND WATER

Biographical research and design-based experiments focusing on processes, contexts and transportation methods associated with manufacturing revealed two flaws plaguing American manufacturers. First, from designer to machine operator, a lack of creativity and communication exists between the various fields required to manufacture products. Secondly, higher product costs for end consumers result from difficulties associated with highway freight transportation of goods. Solutions lie in generating efficiently manufactured, easily transported products; design and production need to become one process, new intermodal forms of transportation need to be generated. Creating physical proximity between the technical knowledge of manufacturers and the creative capabilities of a new generation of designers (“Creatives”) addresses the first flaw. Citing large urban populations of “Creatives,” collaborative efforts would be facilitated by the reintroduction of manufacturing to urban areas zoned for industry. Once produced, it is imperative to make products easily transportable. New transportation modes would be generated by connecting manufacturers within revitalized urban industrial zones to existing urban rail lines.

GRAY CIRCLES REPRESENT CRANE PICK-UP RADIUS SHIPPING CONTAINER CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR DIRECT EXPORT/IMPORT TO URBAN RAIL LINE FORKLIFT LEVEL FOR SMALL INTERCORRIDOR TRANSFERS BETWEEN MANUFACTURERS

A NEW OVERHEAD INFRASTRUCTURE WAS CREATED WITHIN EXISTING URBAN INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS THAT CONNECTS MANUFACTURERS TO ONE ANOTHER BY WAY OF FORKLIFT, AND TO EXISTING URBAN RAIL LINES

BY UTILIZING NEW INTERMODAL METHODS OF SHIPPING CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION.

1 FORKLIFT LEVEL

2 TRADE-SCHOOL HALLWAY SHIPPING CONTAINER CONVEYOR SYSTEM

FREIGHT ELEVATOR INTO EXISTING MANUFACTURER

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TRADE SCHOOL/ DESIGN STUDIO SPACE

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NEW OUTSIDE SPACE

EXISTING MANUFACTURER SPACE

3 ADAPTED EXISTING MANUF. SECTION

4 STREET LEVEL VIEW

EXISTING RAIL LINE

TRAIN LOADING STATION/ SORTING AND STACKING AREA

“DEAD-END” LOCATIONS AS LOADING POINTS FOR LOCAL GROUND VEHICLE DELIVERIES

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REPUBLIC SQUARE MIXED HOTEL, OFFICE, RESIDENTIAL TOWER Almaty, Kazakhstan

PROGRAM: 200,000 Sq Meter- Combined Hotel, Office, Residential Tower

OBJECTIVE: Kazakhstan is an economically booming country due to its large, recently discovered deposits of natural resources.

Almaty is one the of the largest cities within the country and is growing quickly. Economic growth means new business, growing populations, and new tourism. Republic Square is one of the most important sites in the city, and across from the Square is where a new 27 story hotel, residential tower and office complex will be built. Each program requires different access to transportation, types of amenities, and views as the tower grows upward. To suit these varied needs, levels of program wrap around each other as the building rises from the ground. A main driver for the wrapping is affording different views of Almaty and the beautiful mountain ranges that define its’ boundaries. The city center is best viewed from the front of the site, and from the rear the mountains can be seen. A series of diagrams were derived from responding to the different needs of each program at different elevations. The diagrams were used to create the form of the project, at first being lofted and used as a device for massing. Secondly, they were used to cut and deform the mass, creating the spaces where different programs would interact.

FORMAL HOTEL ENTRANCE / RESIDENTIAL ZONE ATRIUM AND LIGHT WELL CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM RESIDENTIAL

INITIAL CONDITION

COURTYARD

N T A I N M O U S

HOTEL

RESIDENCE LOBBY COMMERCIAL AREA

OFFICE

N T A I N M O U S

FURMANOV STREET

OFFICE OUTSIDE SPACE

OFFICE LOBBY

RESTAURANT

OFFICE CAFE

FORMAL HOTEL ENTRANCE

SATPAYEV STREET SITE INFLUENCED MANIPULATION

SITE PLAN

3RD FLOOR

REAR VIEW

MAPPING STUDIES (CITY OF ALMATY)

CIRCULATION

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

HORIZONTAL

SIDE VIEW

CIRCULATION CORES WERE ESTABLISHED AND DEFORMED TO CREATE LIGHT WELLS THAT CUT THROUGH THE FLOOR PLATES

MASSING FLOOR PLATES WERE CUT WITH LOFTS

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PROCESS

CIRCLES REPRESENTING THE FLOOR PLATES WERE PLACED ON THE MAPPING DIAGRAMS. THEY WERE THEN DEFORMED TO ENCOMPASS THE QUALITIES NEEDED FOR EACH PROGRAM AT DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS

N T A I N M O U S

THE MAJOR AXIS THAT PRODUCED THE MAPPING DIAGRAMS WERE LOFTED TO INFORM WHERE GREEN SPACES, PUBLIC SPACES, AND VIEWS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED

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C O N N E C T I O N

G R O U N D

T R A N S P O R T

MIDDLE FLOORS

N T A I N M O U S .25 .25

OFFICE CAFE

12TH FLOOR

V I S T A S

TOP FLOORS

.25 .25

N A T U R A L

19TH FLOOR

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GROUND FLOOR DIAGRAMS DEVELOPED BY MAPPING AND BLENDING NEEDS OF PROGRAMS AT DIFFERENT ELEVATION

Option Explicit ‘ Script for Rhino Version 4 ‘ created 21.09.2006 by Jess Maertterer ‘ Modifies by Alison Cisek 9_23_2006 ‘ Modifies by Victor Barbalato 2_27_07 Transformations_H() Sub Transformations_H() ‘Declare all stuff we may need to deal with blocks: Dim strName ‘Required. String. The name of the block definition to insert.

Dim arrPoint ‘Required. Array. The 3D insertion point of the block.

Dim arrScale ‘Optional. Array. An array of three numbers that identify the x,y,z Dim dblAngle ‘Number. The rotation angle in degrees.

‘If omitted, the block is not rotated.

Dim arrAxis ‘Axis of rotation ‘Define the name of the Block strName = “standard3” Dim x,y,z ‘Position Variables Dim strBlock Dim PI : PI = 4*Atn(1) Rhino.EnableRedraw False Dim theta Dim newx,newz Dim lastx,lastz Dim period,length,startpos,height,amplitude,startang ‘random variables Dim xmod For y = 0 To 24 ‘last number here is the total length ‘Random number formula: (max-min+1)*Rnd+min period=(36-12+1)*Rnd+12 length=(48-36+1)*Rnd+36 startpos=(5-1+1)*Rnd+1 height=(1-0+1)*Rnd+0 amplitude=(9-6+1)*Rnd+6 startang=((.5+0-1)*Rnd+0)*15 For x = 0 To length If x=0 Then newx=startang newz=height theta=45 Else lastx=newx lastz=newz newx=amplitude*Cos(theta*PI/180)+lastx newz=amplitude*Sin(theta*PI/180)+lastz End If xmod=x Mod 24 If (xmod>=24/4 And xmod<3*24/4) Then theta =theta - 7.5 Else theta =theta + 7.5 End If arrPoint=Array(newx,y*5.97,newz) strBlock = Rhino.InsertBlock (strName, arrPoint) ‘this is to rotate everything 45 degrees (line them up correctly) dblAngle = 45 arrAxis = Array(0,0,1) If Not IsNull(strBlock) Then Rhino.RotateObject strBlock, arrPoint,dblAngle,arrAxis End If dblAngle = -theta If Not IsNull(strBlock) Then Rhino.RotateObject strBlock, arrPoint,dblAngle,arrAxis Rhino.EnableRedraw True End Sub

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PLIGHT OF THE CARTONEROS ALTERNATIVE PAPER USE STUDIO: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Cordoba, Argentina: Application

Research

DESCRIPTION: Scripting techniques and physical prototyping were employed to create pressed-paper acoustical panels for architectural applications 2 Week Joint Studio between RPI and the National University of Cordoba

OBJECTIVE: Necessity is the mother of invention, such is the case for the Cartoneros in Argentina. The economic collapse between 1999 and 2003 left many low-wage laborers and farmers out of work. In desperate need of income, they invented what is now a well known economy, that of the paper scavengers. Every night they collect disposed soda bottles, cardboard boxes, and paper products to sell to recycling plants, generating a very sparse income. In an attempt to help them transform the recyclables they collect into higher value products, the studio sought to find architectural applications for the tons of paper gathered.

A method of pressing a paper-mash into dense, hard tiles was used. The solution I proposed utilized a series of interchangeable, laser-cut dies that generated multiple iterations of four-sided tiles. The tiles had different angled corner-flaps to allow for vertical and horizontal movement once assembled, generating variable acoustic deadening surfaces. The studio concluded with myself and 3 other students travelling to Argentina. Meeting with the Cartoneros, we experienced their community, viewed the machinery to be used for production, collaborated future proposals, and discussed plans to bring this product to market.

Interchangeable, varnished MDF mold dies

CARTONERO RECYCLING CENTER: CORDOBA, ARGENTINA

DISCUSSING TILE APPLICATIONS AND ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS

Different paper tiles created from changing dies

Tile Variations

MDF dies fit into hinged box, and then pressed to produce paper tile. Car jack used to apply pressure in lieu of Cartoneroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trash compactor

3.1

MIX’D MEDIA PUBLIC LIBRARY Repository and Display Space for Works of Local Community Organizations Cordoba, Argentina

PROGRAM: Multi-Medium Library with Gallery Space for community organizations (i.e. Cartoneros), Outdoor Reading Spaces, Occupiable Roof/ New Sidewalk, Community Soccer Field, Farmers Market

OBJECTIVE: This library aims to convey the struggles and hardships endured by the local community groups of Cordoba. Lessons about the innovative tactics these groups have developed to survive the recent VICTOR BARBALATO economic collapse cannot be taught through literature, only through a direct connection to material, object, and community can they be understood. Believing that libraries are no longer spaces that simply house books, this library seeks to become a source of information itself. Its physical manifestation connects the diverse community in which it is located and serves as a medium by which knowledge is transferred. The design process that gave shape to this project was dependant upon the diversity of potential users, required programs, and existing context. Mediating the relationships between these three factors provides for a sectionally rich project that combines multiple forms of occupation, both interior and exterior with unique contextual connectivity. A series of ramps connecting existing sidewalks at different elevations come to fruition as a building composed of pedestrian-ways lined with gallery spaces for public viewing. A small book collection concerning the current exhibitions is kept within the gallery, it is located at the end of the viewing ramps. The materiality of the project, concrete, and the way the roof folds into walls lends itself to becoming a canvas for the politically-driven graffiti tagging community prevalent in Cordoba. This public form of information is just one more medium for the library to “house and display.”

PARTNERS: Sara Patterson, Michael Prince, Niraj Prajapati

Individual responsibilities included: Conceptual Sketches / Diagrams, 3D Computer Modeling (Rhino), Physical Modelling, Diagramming, All Rendering and Post Processing

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REMOVE EXISTING HILL, CREATE RETAINING WALL

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PUBLIC LIBRARY

COMPLETE EXISTING CITY GRID

CORDOBA ARGENTINA

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3 PUSH TO AVOID EXISTING ROAD

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5 FARMERS MARKET

PUSH DOWN TO BEGIN RAMPING

PULL DOWN RAMP AND FOLD ROOF FOR CLEARANCES SOCCER SEATING

OUTDOOR READING AREA

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‘GRAFFITI’ PARK

WNED STO

SOCCER

FIELD

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LIBRARY

PARKING

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ARTISTS UNITE!

COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER Washington Heights New York, New York

PROGRAM: Studio Space, Galleries, Public Stairway connecting 155th Street to Fairview Street

OBJECTIVE: Creating a home for Artists Unite, a group of artists in Washington Heights and integrating them into the surrounding community was the aspiration of this project. The exterior facade of the new Arts Center was used as a public stairway to connect two streets that “intersect” at different elevations.

Locating the entrances of the Art Center along the this public stairway/facade allowed for chance encounters to occur between artists inhabiting the project and the local residents transversing it. Those using the stairway would have the opportunity to observe gallery and studio spaces.

Extending displaced “Programmatic Bars” into the community persuades further integration between the artists and the surrounding residents by creating spaces for public theater and community gardens. Situating gallery and studio spaces underground allowed various levels of light exposure and different enclosure material qualities to dictate the location of programs and types of art that would be practiced within individual studios.

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INITIAL LAYOUT

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REQUIRED PROGRAMMATIC SQUARE FOOTAGE- DIVIDE INTO EQUAL WIDTHS 12’ 12’ 12’

MATERIAL STRATEGY

12’ 12’ 12’

GLASS OPACITY CLEAR TRANSPARENT: -FULL EXPOSURE TO LIGHT -ALLOWS ART THAT REQUIRES LIGHT -MAXIMUM PUBLIC EXPOSURE

GALLERY STUDIO

STUDIO

TRANSLUCENT: -CONTROLLED LIGHT EXPOSURE -SEMI-PRIVATE -SILHOUETTE EFFECT

GALLERY

OFFICE

PRIVACY LIGHT

OPAQUE

STUDIO/ GALLERY

SERVICE/STOR. /BATH OPAQUE: -HANGING ART -MAXIMUM PRIVACY

SERVE/STORE

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REDISTRIBUTE PROGRAM BASED UPON MATERIAL/ LIGHT STRATEGY

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PUSH BACK FACADE. OUTSIDE AREAS BECOME PROGRAMMED

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ANGLE FACADE TO REINTRODUCE CIRCULATION ROUTE- EXTERIOR PUBLIC CIRCULATION AREAS BECOME ACTIVATED

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SOLDIERS FIELD GRADUATE AND ADJUNCT FACULTY HOUSING Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM: Adjunct Faculty Housing and Graduate Dormitory for Harvard University

OBJECTIVE: This was a project for RPIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Design Development Studio. Students in this studio choose a project, other then their own, completed in a previous design studio to bring through the design development phase.

This project intends to provide a radical solution to the otherwise drab construction of dormitory life. Posing a living condition in which students and faculty live together within a communal atmosphere allows for the diffusion of information that is critical to the success of higher education facilities. The project places students and adjunct faculty within a matrix of two axis, one stressing individually and privacy and the other exploring the potential of the collective whole. Both of the extremes presented within the project are required in a collegiate environment. The two axis materialize within a social atrium lined with delicately perched private apartments and exposed porches. To mitigate the juxtaposition of public and private, landscape is scooped up from the outside and pulled up into the atrium, climbing its way up the walkways and walls. Together with the landscape, the walkways create a middle ground for the privateness of the apartments to meld with the inherent social environment of the atrium. Through the use of public planters and enlarged semi-enclosed areas, precious chance encounters and important planned events can take place, both creating a sense of community.

INITIAL SCHEMATIC DESIGN: Aaron Smith, Brian Spangler PARTNER: Alex Clement

Individual responsibilities included: 3D Computer Modelling (MicroStation), 2D Documentation including Wall Section, Details, Environmental Strategies Section Perspective, and Single Unit Isometric, Diagramming, Rendering, All Physical Modelling

LARGE AMOUNT OF LIGHT LET IN

BY SKYLIGHTS TO CREATE STACK EFFECT SOLAR HOT WATER FOR HOT WATER SUPPLY TO APARTMENTS

OPERABLE SIDE WINDOWS FOR VENTILATION

GREEN WALLS TO HAVE PERMANENT VEGETATION AS WELL AS SEASONAL PLANTS GROWN BY OCCUPANTS

GEOTHERMAL FOR ATRIUM TEMPERATURE REGULATION

ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES OPERABLE VENTS TO AID IN STACK EFFECT

WALKWAYS AS PIPE CHASE: 1. WATER FROM GEOTHERMAL HEAT EXCHANGE TO REGULATE ATRIUM TEMPERATURE (BETWEEN 50 AND 80 DEGREES) 2. HOT AND COLD WATER SUPPLY FOR APARTMENTS 3. GREY WATER SYSTEM FOR GREEN WALLS AND UNDERSIDE GROWTH 4. ELECTRICITY FOR APARTMENTS AND WALKWAY PLUGS

UNDERSIDE OF WALKWAYS TO ALLOW HORIZONTAL PLANT GROWTH- MORE PERMANENT PLANTS (MULTI-SEASONAL) DUE TO LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY

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SOLAR HOT WATER PANELS WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE (EPDM) RADIUS GLASS FOR WATER RUNOFF

8TH F.F. EL: +104’-0” EXTERIOR WOOD SLATS ANGLED TO ALLOW FOR PRIVACY FROM LANDSCAPE AND ALLOW VIEWS TO RIVER 7NTH F.F. EL: +91’-0” OFF-SITE INTUMESCENT COATED EXPOSED STEEL STRUCTURE

DOUBLE PANE INSULATED GLASS PANELS ON “PROFILE-LESS” MULLIONS WITH STRUCTURAL SILICONE

PUSH GUARDRAIL AND WOOD DECKING BACK TO HIDE FROM SIGHT OF LANDSCAPE

4TH F.F. EL: +39’-0”

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N LA 3RD F.F. EL: +26’-0” PULL ENCLOSURE TO 2’0” FROM UNDERSIDE OF APT. ABOVE TO ALLOW FOR “SKYLIGHT” 2ND F.F. EL: +13’-0”

WALL SECTION

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GRAY SHADE INDICATES OPEN TO BELOW

TYP. FLOORPLAN

DETAIL ‘A’

DETAIL ‘B’ SLIDING CHANNEL-GLASS WALL TO ATRIUM HOT AND COLD WATER SUPPLY FROM INSIDEATRIUM WALKWAYS

TOP CHORD OF TRUSS COLD WATER COOLING SYSTEM WITH DRIP TRAY

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PERFORATED METAL PANEL CROSS VENTILATION FROM OPERABLE WINDOWS ON EXTERIOR FACADE TO CHANNELGLASS WALL FACING ATRIUM

DOUBLE PANE GLASS PERFORATED METAL PANEL 6” PRECAST CONCRETE

BOTTOM CHORD OF TRUSS

WOOD FLOORING

HOT WATER RADIATOR

METAL CASING WITH LIGHT GAUGE FRAMING AND INSULATION (2) LAYERS 5/8” GYP. BD. E.S. ON LIGHT GAUGE FRAMING

SINGLE UNIT ISOMETRIC

UNIT SECTION MODEL

ATRIUM MODEL WITH UNITS AND STRUCTURE

INTERIOR ATRIUM, COMMUNITY GARDENS AT FACADE

6.0

UNPLANNED PERIPHERY

THE TIME DURING REDEVELOPMENT Harvard University: Nanhui District Shanghai, China

PROGRAM/DESCRIPTION:

4 Month Study Abroad Program Easily assembled, transportable, reconfigurable, modular, “Pedestrian Circulation Generators”

OBJECTIVE: Redevelopment of suburban and rural locations into density populated areas is occurring at an unprecedented speed in Shanghai. The haste of redevelopment allows only the final condition of a location to be conceived. No time is spent considering the living conditions of inhabitants while an area is being reconstructed, they are forced to live in an UNPLANNED PERIPHERY. The UNPLANNED PERIPHERY is not a specific site or space, but a TIME PERIOD during a locations’ REDEVELOPMENT PHASE. The lack of infrastructure during this period makes pedestrian activity impossible. It is understood that the UNPLANNED PERIPHERY is not a constant. As one locations’ final vision is realized, the UNPLANNED PERIPHERY will slowly disappear and move to the next area being redeveloped.

During this time, shops cannot be frequented, sidewalks aren’t used, and no social interactions occur outside of ones home. Observations of spaces that successfully create pedestrian activity have born a system of modular, transportable, reconfigurable, programmatic Pedestrian Circulation Generators (PCG’s). They will address the social and commercial issues that are consequence of the lack of infrastructure within a location while being redeveloped. Space afforded by expanses of empty streets will be infilled with PCG’s that connect defined destinations, establishing pedestrian activity not only to the sidewalk, but also to the adjacent customer-deprived shops.

Assembled from a series of interchangeable modules, they are easily reconfigured and moved to the next site scheduled for redevelopment once one location’s design has been fully realized.

PARTNERS: Erica Anderson, Yang Shu

Individual responsibilities included: Schematic Diagramming, All Renderings and Post Processing Shown, 3D Computer Modelling, 2D Documentation, Diagramming

STREET VENDOR MARKET TYPOLOGY

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PEDESTRIAN

BIKE/MOPED

METRO

TRADITIONAL LILONG HOUSING- STREET AS EXTENSION OF HOUSE

NEW TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT- ABANDONED STREETS

THE UNPLANNED PERIPHERY

COMMERCIAL CIRCULATION PATTERNS

TRANSPORTATION METHOD USED TO ACCESS DESTINATION

1:2 PROGRAM TO CIRCULATION

CAR DEPARTURE

-PROGRAM MUST BE ABLE TO HANDLE HIGH CUSTOMER VOLUME

-MANY ACCESS POINTS BETWEEN DEPARTURE AND FINAL DESTINATION TO MEET NEEDS -DISTANCE NOT A FACTOR -SITE TO BE RECREATIONAL

-PROGRAM MUST DRAW LARGE AMOUNTS OF CUSTOMERS

(MARKET, SHOPPING, ENTERTAINMENT)

DESTINATION

-HIGH END/ ESTABLISHED BRAND STORES

BIKE/MOPED DEPARTURE

1:1 PROGRAM TO CIRCULATION

-MANY ACCESS POINTS BETWEEN DEPARTURE AND FINAL DESTINATION TO MEET NEEDS -PATH SOMEWHAT DETERMINED BY NEEDS

-PROGRAM MUST HAVE VARIED MERCHANDISE TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE MIXED TYPE OF CUSTOMER, SERIOUS SHOPPER AND WINDOW SHOPPER

-SITE TO BE RECREATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL DESTINATION

(WORK, MARKET, SHOPPING, ENTERTAINMENT, REST POINT)

-ALLOWS VIEWS TO ONE SIDE FOR PEDESTRIAN

PEDESTRIAN

-BRICK AND MORTAR SHOPS, LOTS OF STORAGE

DEPARTURE

2:1 PROGRAM TO CIRCULATION

-FEW ACCESS POINTS BETWEEN DEPARTURE AND FINAL DESTINATION TO MEET NEEDS -PATH DETERMINED BY NEEDS -SITE TO BE MAINLY FUNCTIONAL (WORK,

DESTINATION

-FOR PROGRAM THAT CANNOT HANDLE HIGH VOLUME OF CUSTOMERS

SUBWAY

-SHOPPERS COME ACROSS PRODUCTS BY CHANCE -TEMPORARY VENDOR, FARMER, FOOD VENDOR, ETC.

MARKET, REST POINT)

-NO ACCESS POINTS BETWEEN DEPARTURE AND FINAL DESTINATION TO MEET NEEDS. DEPARTURE

-DEPARTURE AND DESTINATION MUST PROVIDE ALL NEEDS -SITE TO BE MAINLY FUNCTIONAL

DESTINATION

HIGH VELOCITY

MEDIUM VELOCITY

LOW VELOCITY

-SPACE IS A CORRIDOR FOR MOVING THROUGH

-THE MOVEMENT THROUGH A SPACE IS PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT

-SHOPPER

-NOT INTERESTED IN SHOPPING

(WORK, MARKET, SHOPPING,ENTERTAINMENT)

Commercial circulation patterns that could occur at different locations on the proposed site were analyzed and cross referenced with the type of transportation method a visitor would use to get to said locations. Multiple configurations of PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION GENERATORS were created based upon these cross references. Each configuration was created to “house” particular programs or generate specific pedestrian movements.

-PERSON IS ACTIVELY SHOPPING WITHIN PROGRAM

-WINDOW SHOPPER

MACRO SCALE

MICRO SCALE

Transportation Used Based On Distances Traveled

Social Interactions Based On Distances Between Individuals

100 Mile Apart Cities

Between Gated Communities

Town to Town

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Tall Apartment Buildings

Villas

MODEL SITUATION Traditional Village

DENSITY OF PEDESTRIANS ON STREET

Traditional Villages

X+1/2 X X+1/2 X

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X EXPLORATION OF MODULAR, RECONFIGURABLE, TRANSPORTABLE, PROGRAMMATIC, PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION GENERATORS

X+1/2 X X+1/2 X X X

X+1/2 X X X X

1/2 AXIS ROTATION

1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X

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X 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X

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1/2 AXIS ROTATION, 90 DEG ROTATION

1/2 X 1/2 X

X X X 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/21/2 X X1/21/2 X X

1/2 AND 1/4 AXIS ROTATION MIRRORED X X

1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 X

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1/2 X 1/2 X

1/2 AND 1/4 AXIS ROTATION MIRRORED, ROTATED 180 DEG

STRUCTURAL SYSTEM

TRADITIONAL ARCH CONSTRUCTION

SIMPLE EXTRUSION

GRAVITY DEPENDANT FOR COMPRESSIVE FORCES

EXTRUSION AXIS

PROPOSED ARCH CONSTRUCTION POST-TENSION SYSTEM

REVOLUTION AROUND CENTRAL AXIS

ROTATION AXIS

INTERNAL, SELF-SUPPORTING COMPRESSION SYSTEM

SITE PLAN- Placement of Pedestrian Circulation Generators

FARMER MARKET BIKE/MOPED PARKING

SCHEMATIC LAYOUT

SUNNY GREEN/PARK SPACE

BRAND TYPE COMMERCIAL

PARK/VENDOR COMMERCIAL SHADED GREEN/PARK SPACE

VENDOR COMMERCIAL EXISTING COMMERCIAL

VEGETABLE / FRUIT MARKET TYPOLOGY METRO

PEDESTRIAN

BIKE/MOPED

CAR

6.1 DESCRIPTION: 10 Day Residency at Experimental Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen http://potteryworkshop.org/Jingdezhen

Attempt to fabricate ceramic module prototype of “Unplanned Periphery” Project

OBJECTIVE: Jingdezhen, the “Ceramics Capital of the World,” has a history dating back one-thousand seven hundred years to the Song Dynasty. Making two trips to this city, the second with my entire studio, I attempted to produce the modules that assemble into the Pedestrian Circulation Generators previously shown.

Working within The Experimental Pottery Workshop, my peers and I were given the opportunity to collaborate with local ceramicists to gain insight on the limitations and opportunities of ceramics, both in its material and production processes. We were taught to make molds and to slip-cast for production. While in the studio, an interesting phenomenon was witnessed. Even though different languages were spoken between the craftsmen and me, a dialogue was able to be established through the manipulation of a material. Once this communication was established my designs were modified based upon newly acquired production skills, and similarly, the production methods changed to fit the design.

JINGDEZHEN CERAMICS STUDIO: Experimental Pottery Workshop Residency: Jingdezhen, China

CERAMIC MODULE

SLIP CAST MOLD

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reTHINKING THE ARCH MATERIAL EXPLORATION

DESCRIPTION: Material Exploration 8” x 8” CMU Block Nylon Truck Straps

OBJECTIVE: This material study of 8” CMU block sought to find a way to combine traditional Centering techniques of building an arch with new ways in which we understand curvature through computation.

The weight of the brick was utilized as a post-tensioning force and nylon strapping was woven within the block to control the curvature and gain structure. Loosening or tightening the nylon weave produced different degrees of curvature once the blocks were erected. The structure is first laid out flat on the ground, and once the straps are woven, it is “rolled” vertically to create the shape seen. Once erected, the product is structurally self supporting.

PARTNERS: Alex Clement, Sara Patterson, Michael Prince

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“VINTAGE WINE RACK” FURNITURE DESIGN

DESCRIPTION: Wine Rack: MDF Jig Vinyl Records CNC Machining Metal Srewposts

OBJECTIVE: The four years of working as a Fabrication Lab Supervisor and Teaching Assistant at RPI has provided many valuable skills and design techniques that take advantage of traditional and contemporary fabrication processes. Using vinyl records as a material for furniture provided an interesting challenge. Vinyl records hold a sense of nostalgia, bookmarking memories for many people. Generating a Wine Rack from these vinyls creates a piece of furniture that can be targeted at different generations of customers based upon the records used. Making sure to preserve the label, multiple studies were conducted to give the ordinarily brittle vinyl material enough flexure to expand and contract as wine bottles are slid between the modules. A jig was created to hold the records in place as a module was cut out of them with a CNC Router. The modules’ shape, and the amount of material removed through additional cuts provided the required flexure. The final height and shape of the wine rack is dependent upon the wine collection it holds. Starting out flat packed, the furniture piece grows as one adds more bottles of wine.

Vinyl is also completely recyclable, all scrap is able to be re-melted and made into new records for use by a new generation of music makers.

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“PLEASURE GARDEN”: Studio THEM PS1 / Museum of Modern Art Young Architects Prog. Competition

DESIGN TEAM: Gustavo Crembil (THEM, Principal) Peter Lynch (THEM, Principal) Mikolaj Skoska (Artist) Victor Barbalato (Design Assistant) DESCRIPTION: “The Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center jointly sponsor the annual Young Architects Program. Every year five young architecture firms are invited to propose a temporary installation to provide shade, water features, and resting areas for summer visitors to PS1: the winning proposal is built. Now in its ninth year, the program has become an important venue for emerging architectural studios. In 2008 THEM proposed a “Pleasure Garden,” a place where sweaty urbanites, eager for Nature, could find shelter under a grove of hand-woven flowershaped canopies, sunbathe in a romantic meadow, or meet in a misty grotto.”

(Excerpt with permission from: StudioTHEM Portfolio, http://www.studiothem.com) Individual responsibilities included:

Module Design, Mold Fabrication and Prototyping of Soil-Cement Seating Module; 3D Computer Modeling, 2D Documentation,

Physical Modeling

Ink Block Rendering, Peter Lynch

Lynch & Crembil [THEM], No Resistance

“This proposal explores “craft in the age of globalization.” A low-income community in rural Argentina agreed to hand-weave curving palm bands for flower-shaped canopies in the main courtyard. A non-profit community group offered to work with at-risk high school students to manufacture a soil-cement block for landscaping, benches, and counters. An independent ceramics manufacturer in Jingdezhen China was contacted to produce glazed, slip-cast blocks for the water grotto. Ideas and benefits would flow in both directions. Foreign producers would be paid fairly, and the project would offer participants a chance to expand beyond their traditional venues.”

(Excerpt with permission from: StudioTHEM Portfolio, http://www.studiothem.com)

THE GROTTO

Lynch & Crembil [THEM], No Resistance

SOIL-CEMENT BLOCKS

ARGENTINE WEAVERS

Lynch & Crembil [THEM], No Resistance (Photo by Alejandro Romanutti)

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“NL HOUSE”

Dutch Design Week 2009: Ceramics & Architecture Exhibition Studio THEM Combined Residence Program: Crembil and Noten

DESIGN TEAM: Gustavo Crembil (THEM, Principal) Ted Noten (Ted Noten, Principal) Victor Barbalato (Design Assistant) DESCRIPTION: DDW Program 2009: “Ceramics & Architecture.” European Ceramic Work Centre October 17-25; http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/ddw//event2.php?lang=en&id=1036 “The exhibition ’Ceramics & Architecture’ shows how exciting ceramics in architecture can be. The international exhibition is the conclusion of a five-year project of the Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum (.ekwc/European Ceramic Work Centre). A knowledge and international work place in the field of ceramics, .ekwc offers artists and designers an inspiring environment. With the exhibition, .ekwc aims to connect design, architecture, and visual art and raise these disciplines to a higher international level. In work periods of three months, architects, artists and designers from home and abroad have been able to experiment with all kinds of ceramics. This has led to surprising and interesting projects and collaborations ranging from artists who delivered an architectural project to architects who engaged in visual arts. A must for any lover of architecture, art, and design!

Brick & Combined Residencies: The project ‘Ceramics & Architecture’ consists of two parts; Brick & Combined Residencies. Brick is mainly focused on tangible results. The ceramic skin of the building is of central importance; participants have drawn inspiration from the most natural building material our country knows: brick. Combined Residencies is more focused on establishing a cross-fertilisation between the various disciplines. It shows that cooperation between architects, designers, and artists from the initial stages has a positive effect on the interaction within the creative process. The works that the more than 60 architects, artists and designers have developed in recent years, are exhibited in two locations: the Klokgebouw and the Faculty of Architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The grand finale of the five-year project is the publication of a book about all the projects, supplemented by extensive background information and essays that illuminate the subject from different angles.”

Individual responsibilities included:

Schematic Design, 3D modeling, Context Renderings, Plans, Sections, Exploded Axonometric

Conceptual Model: Crembil and Noten European Ceramic Work Centre

OBSERVATION DECK 2

OBSERVATION DECK 1

FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

CONTEXT 1 RENDERING

CONTEXT 2 RENDERING

MAIN STRUCTURE

FACADE

SKIN

MAIN STRUCTURE (DOUBLE SKIN)

INTERIOR SPACES

Victor Barbalato III v.barbalato@gmail.com Current Address: Slovenska Cesta 9a Ljubljana, SI-1000 Slovenia Alternate Address: 701 Williamsburg Dr Mahopac, NY 10541 United States of America