Adam Molinski's Portfolio

ADAM MOLINSKI CURRICULUM VITAE 85 Eastern Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930 [email protected] 978-317-8552 Education: 2010-Current Rhode Island School of Design: M.Arch Candidate

2007-2010 Boston University: B.S. in Film Cum Laude

2005-2006 Hampshire College

2002-2005 Holderness School

2010 Summer RISD Summer Foundation Studies in the Arts

2010 September The Architectural Association School: Berlin Laboratory in

Experimental Dwelling

2009 Summer Columbia University GSAPP Introduction to Architecture

Work Experience: Fall 2009 Intern at The Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review, London, UK

¥ Produced, shot and edited videos for the AJ and AR websites including building studies, interviews with architects such as Richard Rogers, and Rafael Viñoly, and event coverage including the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona and the Stirling Prize in London.

¥ Letters of Recommendation available from Kieran Long, Editor in Chief, and Simon Hogg, Online Editor.

Summer 2008 Camp Videographer/Editor Baleal Surf Camp Baleal, Peniche, Portugal.

¥ Hired to film and edit camp surf videos every 3 to 4 days as well as a twenty minute long promotional film for the camp website.

2007-2008 Freelance Director/Editor Loon Mountain Lincoln, NH

¥ Hired to direct and edit promotional snowboard film for Loon Mountain. 2002-2007 CEO, Producer, Editor, Director, Principal Filmer, EPI Films

¥ Founded EPI Films, a snowboard film company, in high school. ¥ Acted as Editor, Director, Producer, and Principal Cinematographer. ¥ Coordinated corporate sponsorship of films as well as sales and

distribution of films throughout North American, Europe and Japan(Sold 1,500 copies of Fire Fight and 2,500 copies of It Ain’t Easy).

RISD Spring 2011Architectural Design:

Paper exploration model.

Oak joinery model.

Model for infrastructure that bridges between above and below.

Picnic area/shade structure proposal.

Community garden proposal.

Perspective rendering of proposal.

1/4” = 1’7 Section

Section drawing of gathering space proposal.

After working individually, and we began working in progressively larger groups.Finally, the entire 70 person class came together to make 1 proposal. We then spent6 weeks building and refining this design in Pawtucket, RI. The result was a two different pavilions, one of which centered around a community garden, the other a gathering space that provided shade and views to the Blackstone River.

RISD Spring 2011Digital Represention:

Imagined topography using Rhino.

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Final Presentation Board 1 of 2. Folded plate hut as seen from the view of the human and the bird. The hut is set amidst the imagined topograpy from the previous page.

Final Presentation Board 2 of 2. The folded plate structure was created using the principles of FOA’s Yokohama terminal and paneling tools in Rhino.

Detail Model. This model represents roughly 1/30th of the folded plate hut. It is made up of 40 wedge shaped “bricks” that were unfolded in Rhino, then laser cut and re-assembled.

RISD Spring 2011High Performance Structures:

Stair Tread

Lag Bolts

C-Channel Handrail

Compressive load carries down from stair to stair to the floor below

C-channel handrail acts as a beam resisting the treads in shear which allows the load to go from one stair to another like a stack of boxes

Final independent project, Stacked Box Spiral Staircase.

1” = 1’ Model. Hard Maple and Aluminum.

RISD Wintersession 2011Intro to Wood Furniture Design:

This spoon contains two pools within the bowl of the spoon, one shallow, and one deep. This allows for hot fluids to be passed into the shallower pool for easier cooling and sip-ping. The rest of the form of this spoon mimics this idea of flowing liquids.

Cooler Spoon, Walnut.

This spoon is a simple deep bowl soup spoon. The form is inspired by the mouth of the Pelican. The Cherry bowl is connected to the handle with a simple joint.

Pelican Spoon, Cherry and Walnut.

Chess Bench, Hard Maple and Mahogany.

Models and axonometric drawing interpreted from Diebenkorn Painting.

RISD Fall 2010Manual Represention:

Perspective drawing interpreted from a assigned simple line drawing.

Second measured prespective drawing.

Third measured prespective drawing.

RISD Fall 2010Design Principles:

Charcoal drawing of Tautline Hitch Knot.

Diagram of Tautline Hitch Knot.h

Aggregation of Tautline Hitch Knot in paper.

Aggregation of knot turned into a Mass.

The beginings of transformation from Mass to Enclosure.

Drawing of Enclosure.

From Enclosure to Inhabitation.

Final Site Model.

1/4” Scale Model.

1/4” Scale Model.

Measure perspective drawings of final iteration.

Photography:

Mt. Hood, Oregon. 2005.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2007.

Pavones, Costa Rica. 2005.

Playa Negra, Costa Rica. 2005.

Iowa. 2006.

Mt. Hood, Oregon. 2005.

Agadir, Morocco. 2009

Goodwood Revival, West Sussex, England. 2009.

Agadir, Morocco. 2009.

Paris. 2009.

Paris. 2009.

Architectural Association SchoolBerlin Laboratory in Experimental Dwelling:

TREES CLUTTER BALCONIESTrees intended intended by Hejduk would have blocked direct horizontal views between wing and tower balco-nies. The trees, however, more or less do not exist in reality.

Clutter is moved to the periphery of the buildings. In the case of the tower, this clutter is externalized.

Balconies of the tower offer much more visibility outwards than in-wards. They are deliberatley sized for one person, encouraging only momentary visits.

My partner in the workshop, Anthony Richardson, and I choose John Hejduk’s Kreuzberg towers as our case study. We examined the way in which Hejduk created what felt like isolated artist villas in a tower structure. We hypthosized this was a result of the limited lines of sight into the tower as well as Hejduk’s Stacking of two story flats directly on top of each other.

URBAN LIVING

Creating camoflage on a micro scale as a form of retreat, so as to permit an idea of intimacy in the city.

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Diagram of sightlines from Kreuzberg Towers.

Diagram of programmatic buffer space.

4. Extrusion of the most intimate spaces

3. Self-Organised Dwelling (dwelling components above)

5. Staggered plan for exposure to others

6. Inversion of Hejduk’s spatial arrangement

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Create a Circulation Core or ‘C’ offset 3,3 from vulnerable corner.

Create as many Living Spaces (L) off available O’s, these must be a full connection (i.e. two units). Place away from adjacent buildings.

Place balconies in the remaining possible positions. By default this is in central position of the remaining faces, when in reaction the number and distance of balconies in close proximity determine positioning.

The aim is to create connections between living spaces via the balconies as an appropriate medium. The next move consists of spawning the next unit from an existing living area. Flip a living space away from the core circulation with two units in between. Shift by one unit away from any urban surroundings, or in cases of vast openess towards other living spaces.

Repeat Steps 4. and 5. From the remaining space create the O’s taking into consideration that the next circulation cores will act as defensive mechanisms. The placement of an O should always be towards urban surroundings or away from existing balcony relationships.

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Add work studio spaces either in reaction or genotype (the default Kreuzberg Tower configuration).These should operate as defensive mechanisms against any facing urban context.

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One of the purposes of the workshop was to use the information gleaned from our case studies to create new rule based systems of design for new dwelling prototypes.

Instead of creating computer based algorithms, my partner and I decided to create a Sol Lewitt style of set of instructions that could be carried out by any person on a piece of graph paper.

The rules we created were based on the methods of creating inti-macy we found in Kreuzberg Towers. These rules in a sense cre-ated a viral version of Hejduk’s towers that could be placed in any open area in a city and would spread throughout that open space while retaining a sense of intimacy within the units. They would in a sense protect themselves from the city around them.

For our final presentation we set up a large piece of grid paper with several sets of typical Berlin city block layouts on it. We then used cut outs of the different building components used in our ruled based system and enacted out the rules until their full completion.

Rules 1. Create Circulation Core or C offset 3,3 from vulnerable corner 2. Create as many O’s as possible around C 3. Create as many L’s on available O’s as possiblea 4. Add W’s, determine whether unit is a reaction or genotype

a. Reaction: When adjacent buildings are within direct view i. If it’s a reaction W’s buffer L against adjacent buildings

1. If there are adjacent buildings on multiple sides, W’s split onto the two sides, sitting in the middle

b. Genotype: When a unit is not a reaction i. Genotype follow Hejduk model

ii. Oriental of Genotype is determined as follows 1. If its born off of a staircore it follows in that

direction 2. If it is born off of another L it first orients in the

direction that would point towards the nearest other balconies

a. If there are no balconies in direct view it orients its open side to the area most conducive to a profitable stair core

5. Add B’s on unoccupied sides in relation(diagonally) to other unit’s balconies, if multiple spaces are possible distance to nearest amount of balconies is used as determining factor

6. Add O’s on unoccupied sides, unless units were already steming from a C, in which case L’s are born off of other L’s

a. New L flipped off of old L with 2 square gap and offset 1 square away from adjacent buildings, if it is not in direct view of adjacent buildings it move back towards the colony

b. If L’s are born of other L’s then start again at step 3 7. Add C’s of off O’s, move back to step 2

Death rule: If any unit whether Reaction or Genotype fails in application it is killed Clockwise completion: all steps are completed entirely in a clockwise rotation

RISD Foundation Studies:

Self-Portrait made from chipboard using only three shapes. Wendy Seller’s 3D Studio.

Sculpture. Wendy Seller’s 3D Studio.

Sculpture. Wendy Seller’s 3D Studio.

Painting. Mark Milloff’s 2D Studio.

Making of Large Hurricane Painting. Mark Milloff’s 2D Studio.

Large Hurricane Painting. Mark Milloff’s 2D Studio.

Small Hurricane Paintings. Mark Milloff’s 2D Studio.

Independent Project. WWII Razzle Dazzle Camouflage on Volvo Station Wagon.

Columbia University Introduction to Architecture ProgramSummer 2009:

This studio led by Professor Soo-In Yang was centered around the newly opened Highline Park in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. After diagraming, observing, and measuring the Highline by our own unique systems, we were challenged to create a structure that would challenge the linearity of the Highline.

Top: Concept Models Bottom: Programatic Diagram

My project evolved to become a structure that aimed to connect three different kind of parks: The Riverside Park that runs along the Hudson River, the Highline Park, and the pocket park that sits between them near 14th St.

The new structure also sought to accomodate three programs. First, an exercise space , in the form of a bicycle velodrome. Second, an exhibi-tion space, in the form of a art gallery. Third, a performance space, in the form of an amphitheatre.

1/4” Section Detail Model of Proposed Structure.

Post Final Critique Iteration. Concept Model.