Schragger Portfolio 7/11

David A. Schragger

Resume p1

References p2

Mission Statement p3

WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline _ Fall 2009 p4Thesis on Disappearing Urban Environments & Remediation Ecologies

Creating Environmental Responsive Structures _ Spring 2011 p18Shape Memory Polymer Research & Production, Digital Anylisis

E_FLUX Tower _ Fall 2008 p28Integrated Wind Turbine Research, Modeling and Fabrication

W 56 Street Proposal _ Summer 2008 p32Zoning analysis, FAR analysis, Massing Study

W 24 Street Facade Detailing _ Summer 2008 p36Fabrication Feasibility Study, Detailing Study

PORTS 1961 Shanghai _ Summer 2010 p38Detailing Form for Fabrication

SOHO Grand Salon Instillation _ Summer 2010 p42Proposal for installation

CBST Urban Synagogue _ Fall 2008 p44Solar Site Research, Programmatic Study

Wingspan _ Spring 2008 p54Formal Study, Modular System Study

Thumos _ Spring 2007 p60Digital Modeling, Algorithmic Extrapolation, Rendering and Fabrication

Wallice _ Summer 2009 p64Digital Design and Fabrication, Installation

Emergent Canopies _ Fall 2008 p68Reactive Canopy System, Installation

FOODstand, Fast Slow Food Studio _ Spring 2009 p72Brand Instance, Agriculture Study, Operable Structure

Gestural Solar Topography _ Spring 2008 p78Modular Medical Facility

Hualos _ Fall 2007 p84Systematic Research, Site Development, Dynamic Nested Structures Miscellaneous Debris p96

1 David A. Schragger 24 Hilvista Boulevard _ Trenton, NJ 08618 tel. 609.731.6236 _ email. [email protected]

education Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY. May 2011 M.Arch 2 | Research | Articulated Environments Created Through Entropy

Fueled Kinetic Material

Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY. December 2009 M.Arch 1 | Thesis | WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline, a remediation ecology Connecticut College, New London, CT. May 1999 Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Minor in Studio Art, Minor in Classics

The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ. June 1995

experience Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY. 2006 - 2010 _ Teaching Assistant: - Co-taught Architectural Design Studio - Representation - Introduction to Computer Applications in Architecture _ Research Assistant: - Integrated Wind Technologies in the Built Environment - Assisted P. Michael Pelken in his research, design

development, and production - 3D modeling, consultation, and analysis with the

Computational Fluid Dynamics lab - Prototype fabrication for wind tunnel analysis - Production for competition & publication submissions

Intern, Archi-Techtonics, New York, NY. sum 2008, sum 2010 _ Detailing for a parametrically generated faade & interior armature _ Zoning and Code analysis _ Site survey and documentation _ Assisted with concept proposals for a residential building, lounge instillation

and town square _ Production for competition & publication submissions

2 Freelance Designer 2002 - > _ Continuing design work for local, national, and international clients _ Worked both independently with clients and in cooperation with in-house

marketing teams _ Responsible for developing projects from conception through production _ Projects include branding, logos, advertisements, publications, catalogues,

packaging, direct mail, signage, and event collateral

Art Director/Designer, VCG2, Princeton, NJ. 2000 - 2004 _ Employed as an Art Director and Designer for an international advertising,

marketing, and design firm _ Responsible for the oversight of project development and production, as well

as the creative direction of projects encompassing print, internet and radio _ Work included the design of branding, logos, catalogues, product packag-

ing, newspaper and magazine advertisements, posters, phone cards, direct mail, user manuals, and apparel

awards & _ Work published in Interior Design (April 2011). xia Intelligente Architekturpub. (March 2011).The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD

271-855 by Hendrik W. Dey (May 2011) _ Thesis received the Deans Thesis Citation _ 4 projects were chosen for the 2009 Graduate Architecture Students Recent

Works exhibit

skills _ Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Digital Project (CATIA), Revit, Autocad, Cinema 4D, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Processing, Geographic Information Systems, Adobe CS4, MS Office

_ stereo lithography printer, CNC mill, laser cutter

references Mark D. Linder Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of Architecture Principal, CLEAR [email protected] / 315.443.2256

Aaron Sprecher Assistant professor, McGill School of Architecture Partner, Open Source Architecture [email protected] / 514.398.5242

Thomas Barry Principal, OPerA Studio [email protected] / 917.523.1964

3mission statement:

Throw it against the wall, see what sticks.

4WORLD TAKES, Design for Decline _ Fall 2009

Critics: Mark Linder Clare Olsen

Research on Disappearing Urban Environments and Remediation Ecologies Geographic Information Systems, Rhiho, Grasshopper, Cinema 4d, Xfrog, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator

World Takes is a study of the decline of the small American city of Trenton, New Jersey. Urban formations that were generated by industry and the infrastructural necessities of density are currently being redefined by the dissipation of these forces. The new forces that are shaping the environment are enabled by absence and dereliction. A transgressive ecology is seeking a natural equilibrium within the augmented environment. World Takes is an architectural intervention that attempts to mediate and promote this ecologi-cal equilibrium within the post-industrial urban environment.

If capital is no longer the main generator for urban organization, what alterna-tive force will organize urban formations? The current dominant force that is exerted on the urban environment is transgressive nature. This seeks to envelop and dismantle the derelict structures. The intervention is a structural membrane that facilitates the dissolution of the feral structures while promot-ing these emergent formations within the urban habitat. The establishment of this new urban ecology relieves stresses on the environment and the inhabit-ants that were created by industrial development.

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water

industrial zones

augmented landscape / fill zones

industrial / fill overlap

topo

augmentation of the natural landscape by industrial evolution

brownfields of contaminated soil

and water

new frequent f lood zones cre-

ated by developmenttoxic areas of the city

flooded downtown

augmented landscape

heat islands vegetation index Augmented Landscape

Natural features changed for industrial purposes augmented the landscape for industry and increased population den-sity strains and stains the inhabitants.

WORLD TAKES

7Decay of city transformed by transgressent growth

abandoned properties / typical city block

Lenox Ceramic factory, Oak St. transgressent remediation of landscape

Emergence of a dormant Ecology

In the current ecosystem, urban development has given way to natural encroachment through the derelict and abandoned areas of the city

Absence of energy will allow a dominate force to emerge through fractures taking advantages of weak points of a system exploiting them to seek an equilibrium

C.S. Holl ings diagram of the 4 ecosystems

cycle choreographs and the energy transit ion of

the rise and fal l of ecological dominance.

8Network : d.1

Network : d.2

Network : d.3

Network : d.4

building footprints derelictbuilding footprints

Networking algorithm studies

Networking Urban Parks, Forests & Derelict Sites to project transgressent growth throughout the city

Appropriating derelict infrastructural conduits to facilitate the new ecology

water works

cole f ire power plant

urban parks, forests & derelict sites

WORLD TAKES

9Emergent Urban Ecology

The old city becomes re-defined by this new force leaving pockets of activity. The new city emerges with territories transformed by the co-opting ecosystem.

Visualizations of the new territories and augmented infrastructure.

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modern mind has become more and more calculating. The calculative exactness of prac-tical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas.

_ Georg Simmel

decayed structure nesting

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controlled cultivation level

Remediation cultivation level

emergent growth level

Morphology of pockets to attract ecological diversity

lead from water main

nested habitats colony of habitats

appropriatedrunoff

lead from gas mainto deliver CO2

H2OCO2

nutrient pouches

Radiolaria

Synthetic organism construct

The armatures structures the emergent ecology to focus its proliferation. This is achieved by creating an articulating growing surface that can be imple-mented into the derelict urban environment.

Ecology Armature Organism & Colony

WORLD TAKES

studies of structural generation based on amoeboid protozoa's mineral skeletons

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H2O

vertical tension cable

CO2

The organism is constructed through the system-atic relationship of the space frame, articulating surface pockets and circulation conduits. The Surface formations are manifolds that deliver H2O and CO2 and control drainage. The variations in pocket formations allow for a diversity of plant growth and animal nesting.

drainage conduit structural frame

nutrient pouch combined H20 & CO2 manifold

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Armature becomes a colony of interacting habitats

More technically, the idea is that despite the fact that at any one time an evolved form is realized in individual organisms, the population not the individual is the matrix for the production of form.

_ Manuel De Landa

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3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

-7'-0"Basement

Lead From Gas Main

Lead From Water Main

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

1/4" = 1'-0"Floor Plan @ Third Floor

A A

1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A

1/4" = 1'-0"Front Elevation

Structure p.1

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

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p.1

3'-0"Ground Floor

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-7'-0"Basement

Lead From Gas Main

Lead From Water Main

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor


A A

1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A


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3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

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1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



-7'-0"Basement

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33'-0"Attic Space

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33'-0"Attic Space

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1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



-7'-0"Basement

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23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

Structure n.1 Structure n.2 Structure n.3

n.1WORLD TAKES

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1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



A A

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

-7'-0"Basement

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space


1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



-7'-0"Basement

A A


3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A


A A

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space


-7'-0"Basement


1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A


A A

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space


-7'-0"Basement


n.2

n.3

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space


1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



-7'-0"Basement

A A


3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space


1/4" = 1'-0"Section A-A



A A

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

33'-0"Attic Space

3'-0"Ground Floor

13'-0"Second Floor

23'-0"Third Floor

33'-0"Attic Space

-7'-0"Basement

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"Architects must embrace the decay of their buildings, at least mentally. They should forget about perfec-tion, the complete realization of their design, and understand that the only truly finished building is a heap of rubble." _ Lebbeus Woods

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To linger! If we could but linger again in those places whose beauties never wane; surely we would then be able to endure many difficult hours with a lighter heart, and carry on, thus strengthened, in the eternal struggle of this existence.

_ Camillo Sitte

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Creating Environmental Responsive Structures by Implementing Shape Memory Polymers _ Spring 2011

Critics: Brian Lonsway Patrick Mather Sinead Mac Namara

Shape Memory Polymer Research & Production, Digital Anylisis & extrapolation | CATIA, ANSYS, Rhino, Grashopper, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Actuating Physical Model

By basing an architectural assembly on a material that responds to heat, a structure can be created that responds to heat. This is done through control of the materials stress/strain properties in relation to temperature. By using a shape memory polymer, a temperature related elastomeric deformation under a load can be engineered as a material muscle. The reaction is con-trolled within a region to produce a component that is arrayed to extrapolate, orient, and amplify the range of movement. By varying the components patterning, the resulting form of the structural array can articulate to have an environmentally performative effect. The movement of a heat responsive structure can change spatial relations to create dynamic shading or ven-tilation. Moreover, the implementation of a stimuli responsive martial gives the opportunity to create a self-powered and self-regulating structure. This research was done through the production of the shape memory polymer in the biomaterials laboratory. Heat actuated physical models were built to vali-date a proof of concept which was then extrapolated to the scale of habita-tion through digital simulation.

material component array

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Two Way Shape Memory

load

load

load

load

50C 25C25C 50C

permanent shape

deformation under heat

heat muscle movement range

two-way shape memory effect

elongation due to cooling

heating cooling heating

60.00

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1

20.0

0

66.00

34.64

18.1

1

@ 25C @ 50C

permanent shape fixed deformation

tri-axial material stretcher

Material

applied load

Temperature relates Stress / Strain C. Liu et al Macromolecules, 35(27), 9868 -9874, 2002.

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66.00

60.00

60.00

28.0

3

SMP

SMP

plexihub

#6washer

#6washer

#6-32bolt

.81mmspringsteel

#6-32nut

#6washer

#6washer

#6-32nut

#6-32nut

34.64

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0

60.00 60.00

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smpperminantshape smpdeformationatheat smpelonghationdutingcooling

smpmusclerange

@ 25C @ 50C

Component

Component Assembly

Bi-layer component design for movement

Mechanics of a pinecone articulationActuation systems in plants as prototypes for bio-inspired devices by Ingo Burgert and Peter FratzlPhil. Trans. R. Roc. A 2009 367, 1541-1557

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Array

@ 25C @ 50C

Model Assembly

equilateral two polygon aperiodic patterning

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90.00

60.00

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520.0086.00

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@ 25C @ 50C

Digital Extrapolation

hue change by adding a thermal reactive die

multi directional articulating model

CATIA Models

digital component

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Digital Extrapolation - Umbrella

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Digital Extrapolation - Dome

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Digital Extrapolation - Umbrella

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Digital Extrapolation - Dome

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E_FLUX Tower _ Fall 2008

Research Internship under P. Michael Pelken

Integrated Wind Turbine Research, Modeling and FabricationRhino, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Computer Fluid Dynamic Analysis, Wind Tunnel Prototype

These images for the E_FLUX Tower were created while assisting P. Michael Pelken with his research in integrated wind turbine technologies. Working together with Professor Dr. Thong Dang and Andrew Wells in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the project focused on developing architectural and sustainable potentials of forms optimized by the principles of fluid dynamics. This was done through digital modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis along with the fabrication of a physical model and pending wind tunnel testing.

The scale of P. Michael Pelken's work applies from a street lamp to a high-rise building. The airfoil increases pressure exerting more force on the tur-bine. The turbine in return consumes the force, dissipating the power of the wind. Refining a form that optimizes these principles creates an opportunity to yield performance and a new building typology.

United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling by Andrew Wells

omnidirectional turbineprototype fabrication

E_FLUX Tower

29United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231

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form variations

module

optimized form

E_FLUX Tower

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module section

vertical compression

horizontal compression

United States Trademark and Paten Office Patent Appl. No. 12/059231

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W 56 Street Proposal _ Summer 2008

Archi-tectonics: InternshipPrincipal : Winka Dubbledam

Zoning analysis, FAR analysis, Massing StudyRhino, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator

This work was done as an intern under Winka Dubbeldam and Thomas Bar-ry for a concept proposal for a luxury apartment building on West 56th Street in New York City. The extent of this work transferred zoning analysis into its architectural potential. The design began with the constraints of street wall, front and rear setbacks, and sky exposure plane. Another main constraint was the percentage of balconies on the facade. The focus of the design was to morph the maximized volume defined by the zoning boundaries to elevate FAR by perforating the building envelope and floor plates.

This allowed the elevation of the living spaces and desirable apartments. The main concern with this approach was the core positioning and usable floor space constrained by the sky exposure plane. The redistribution of FAR resulted in a five story lobby that could be programmed with building ameni-ties and retail.

NALP ROOLF CILBUP/YBBOL & NOITCES

A A

B B

SECTION AND TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN ENLARGED FLOOR PLANS

A A

B B

W 56 Street Proposal

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final massing

site model and zoning envelope

TYPICALLY what if... FAR vertical redistribution to optimize unit value(images done by colleague)

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material studies

lobby

W 56 Street Proposal

street view

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rear facade front facade

street entrance

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W 24 Street Facade Detailing _ Summer 2008


Fabrication Feasibility Study, Detailing StudyRhino, Maya, CATIA, Illustrator

The renovation of a brownstone on West 24th Street in New York City result-ed in a parametric design of the faade. Because of the complexity, the office was working with an automotive fabricator to build a milled wood faade. Trying to keep faithful to the existing shape, we had to figure out how to insert operable windows and doors into the form. Projecting the details of the shape in order to find out how the detailing would impact the assemblage.

pre-existing image & form by Archi-techtonics

W 24 Street Facade Detail ing

mull ion insets

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pre-existing image & form by Archi-techtonicsdetail ing

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PORTS 1961 Shanghai _ Summer 2010


Detailing Form for Fabrication Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator

My contribution in the design for the Shanghai location of the PORTS 1961 store focused on the fabrication and the design development drawings of the circumscribing armature. The morphology of this armature mediates existing spatial characteristics with the programmatic necessities of seating and product display. The armature was digitally fabricated, emulating a local ship-building tradition that involved structural rib frames and horizontal plank patterning.

pre-existing image & form by Archi-techtonics

init ial study for fabrication

PORTS 1961

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structural r ib frame

horizontal wood planks

interior view(rendering and the modell ing other than the wood wall was done by colleague)

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floor plan

sections

PORTS 1961

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store entrance elevation

building entrance elevation

Photograph of space from Interior Design Magazine Apri l, 2011

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SOHO Grand Salon Instillation _ Summer 2010


Proposal for installation Rhino, Grasshopper, 3D Studio Max, PhotoShop

This is work produced for an initial proposal request for an installation in the cages at the SOHO Grand Hotels lounge. The cages were transformed into lanterns by creating floating entities that embody and redistribute light emit-ting from the cages base. This effect can be achieved by the suspension and orientation of holographic film, treated glass, or treated acrylic.

SOHO Grand Salon Insti l lation

image and drawling submitted by client

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iterations

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This studio focused on creating a permanent place of worship for the gay and lesbian Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. The congregation needs a site that can house both the religious and social necessities of the commu-nity. The challenge of this project was to insert all of the programmatic and cultural necessities into an infill slot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Because of the compression of the infill sight, a way to liberate the exterior force is to open the building through vertical integration achieved by a light shaft that runs along the northern perimeter of the building. The program is composed and filtered by two interlocking screens that separate and inte-grate the sacred and community spaces.

The patterning of the screens is achieved through varying apertures that are organized through a random generator subjugated through attractors of pro-grammatic necessities. Walls, windows, and door location influence the size of apertures within the randomized field. Moreover, the mediation of light and shadow alter the interior space throughout the course of the day and the year.

The patterning changes as the light changes throughout the course of the day; at dusk the only direct natural light perforating the building is in the sanctuary where the light progresses across the sanctuary towards the arch and exits through the skylight towards Jerusalem.

CBST Urban Synagogue _ Fall 2008

Visiting Critics: Stephen Casel Adam Yarinski

Solar Site Research, Programmatic StudyRhino, Grasshopper, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Light Study Models, CardBoard Model

CBST Urban Synagogue

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apertures

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Ark

external layer

augmented internal layer

physical l ight model digital l ight model

sanctuary l ight composition

CBST Urban Synagogue

aperture scale redistributed to accommodate program

formal composition of interlocking screens

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210 Bowery StNew York, NY

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sectional solar migration from dawn to dusk

sanctuary solar migration from dawn to dusk

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north / south section

east / west section

library

sanctuary

music/cultural

admin

community

lobby

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spiritual

cultural

public

sanctuary

chapel/library

cultural activity

administration

community

public

graduated program dispersal light gradation

spiritual

cultural

public

program gradation

circulation

program integration

formal composition

formal composition

formal composition

l ibrary

sanctuary

music/cultural

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This project experiments with the idea of modularity and design. This system is developed through an accumulation of modular units derived from the average arm span from the human physique. This dimension was rotated and arrayed on a field where it was broken apart through its overlapping segments. The pattern was reduced to three distinct forms, which were reflected and rotated into a base configuration that could be arrayed into a structure system through the act of transposition. The possibilities of this modular unit are flexible and can be adapted to address any programmatic or environmental needs by interchanging the fill within the structural frame.

This modular concept was applied to the programmatic needs of an exami-nation room. This was done through addressing the needs of natural lighting, public/private vision, stack ventilation and the technological needs of the space. These elements, combined with the narrative path for the doctor, nurse, and a patient, were accommodated by this space. This project is a formal experiment, applying 2-D graphic geometries that were used to struc-ture an ergonomic framework for a spatial distribution of a 3-D environment. The goal is to organize the space to be in and out of reach.

Wingspan _ Spring 2008

Critics: Terrance Goode Kevin Lair

Formal Study, Modular System StudyRhino, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator

Wingspan

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exploded axon

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pattern evolution to form

Wingspan

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table

changing area

examinationarea

sink

examination table

table

private table

storage

storage

patient

doctor

plan

section

circulation program day l ighting floor venti lation

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view from changing area

view from exam table

view from desk

Wingspan

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frame fi l l frame & fi l l frame & fi l l & interior

exterior vent detail

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Thumos _ Spring 2007

Critic: Aaron Sprecher

Partner: J.J. Jordano

Digital Modeling, Algorithmic Extrapolation, Rendering and FabricationRhino, 3D Studio Max V-Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad

Thumos is an Ancient Greek word expressing the concept of spiritedness, indicating a physical association with breath or blood. The word is also used to express the human desire for recognition.

Architecture through the ages has strived to express and wanted to embody the spiritedness of humankind, yet has been limited by requirements of both function and buildability. With breakthroughs of technology, we are finally beginning to liberate our structures, free our imaginations. At the heart of this project is something of the human emotion, boxed in to the point of eruption. Thumos.

The thumos is that part of the soul in between the logos and the epithumiai, in between the call toward the invisible, the divine, and the needs of the body and its passions and desires, that has to make choices in favor of one or the other, and thus lead the soul as a whole to war or peace.

Bulgarian artist Valkova Stoicheva began her piece titled Eruption with four porcelain cubes that she distorted to simulate an eruption. We considered this notion of the formalized box that could no longer maintain its shape because of the forces acting in it. Our attempt to translate this reaction into structural form is at the same time an attempt to capture thumos in physical form.

In studying the forces acting upon the object, we utilized Rhino software to recreate the explosion in digital form. Analyzing the movement of the explo-sion across a series of 192 points along the explosion edge from time = 0 to time = 4, we were able to extract equations indicating the spatial forces act-ing upon the object. We then projected the data set to time = 8, and used the resulting equations in the process of creating the new form. We applied a portion of these equations to a line and gave it a time progression similar to the original object.

The resulting forces of an eruption are varying and random, acting in many directions. In the same way our created object as built structure can be considered in multiple positions. We have chosen to investigate its use as a canopy.

Thumos

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inside canopy

62 Thumos

T1 T2

T4T3 T5

T7T6 T8

T0-T8

surface edge deformation and projection

artifact analysis

design

projection on new object

initial shape creation

objectives and constraints

morphed design lofting between states

point analysis

line analysis

variation analysis

length and direction partitioning

Points create new form of thumos curvature for t = 0 to t = 100

Lines joined between t = 0 and t=100 to form new structure

Point 5

Point 1

Point 1

X=-((segments-3)*3.42)/10

Y=-((segments-3)*2.00)/10

Z=-((segments-3) *4.09)/10

X=-((segments-3)*16.94)/10

Point 2

Point 2

Y=((segments-3)*7.88)/10

Z=((segments-3)*14.58)/10 Point 3

Point 3

X=-((segments-3)*47.46)/10

Y=((segments-3)*120.35)/10

Z=-((segments-3)*1.695)/10 Point 4

Point 4

X=-((segments-3)*78.60)/10

Y=((segments-3)*219.43)/10

Z=-((segments-3)*26.20)/10 Point 5

X=((segments-3)*27.96)/10

Y=((segments-3)*219.67)/10

Z=-((segments-3)*155.77)/10

extrapolation of forces

Valkova Stoicheva's Eruption

orthographic projections of emergent form

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Wallice _ Summer 2009

Critic: Clare Olsen

Partners: L. Brody Nevel Brendan G. Rose

Digital Design and Fabrication, InstallationRhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Wood, Metal, and Mylar Model

This installation is an exercise in the tension between digital modeling and fabrication. It generates a design through computational processes and the impact fabrication methods have on that design. The resultant structure is a product of this tension.

The structure is an wooden diagrid with a six degree camber that created the barrel vaulted skeletal geometry. Some of the frames are backed with metal pots that can hold plantings. Attached to this grid are scales of mylar. The morphology of the scales is determined by their position on the grid. The po-sition of the grid alters the width of the base and the length of the stem and wisp. The detentions of these features were then translated to a two-dimen-sional template and labeled for fabrication on the laser cutter. The scales were than fixed to a diagrid cell that was bolted together to form an arch.

The wall has an imbedded structural system of a wall and the properties of a lattice. It is a finite structure that can order a secondary of infinite possibilities. The potential of this Wallice is the variations that the skins can achieve to ac-commodate different performative orientations.

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form translation for fabrication

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Emergent Canopies _ Fall 2008

Critic: Brian Lonsway

Partners: Peter S. Wintermantle L. Brody Nevel

Reactive Canopy System, InstallationCinema 4D, Xpresso, Mograph, Projected Media on Mesh and PlexiGlass

This installation was done as a final image for the Coding : Drawing course. It was the creation of an image through computational processes that cumulated in a projected installation that filtered the image into inhabitable layers. The coded image was generated by a system composed of a field of articulated canopies erected by their proximity to particles within that field. Two sets of particles were set into motion with gravity to one another and areas within the field, and each canopy blossoms to enclose the activity within the field. The form is determined by the position of these particles at any given time.

The viewer is drawn into the image through the constructed layering of in-formation. Dueling projectors combine two images onto a piece of Plexiglas. This intertwined image is detangled by mesh screening to create an environ-ment where the viewer can analyze each system and interact with it.

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FOODstand, Fast Slow Food Studio _ Spring 2009

Critics: Brian Lonsway Kathleen Brandt

Brand Instance, Agriculture Study, Operable Structure Geographic Information Systems, Rhiho, Gtasshopper, Cinema 4d, Xpresso, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Actuating Physical Model

This a prototype to establish a presence for a slow food network. The mor-phology of the menu and restaurant space is defined by a seasonal menu determined by ingredients procured from an existing transportation system from local organic farms.

This instance offers an opportunity to define space through the movement of opening. It not only utilizes the binary state of open and closed as a signifier but also becomes a malleable space that can generate a multitude of forms and spaces determined by the repetition of a constrained articulation.

Composed of two layers, the interior is actuated by a cable system driving it to displace the exterior offset to accommodate a vertical progression from each lateral direction. The articulation of the movement is regulated as an av-erage between the two end points to allow a variation in aperture in response to environmental conditions.

The building is a terminal to the slow food network and placing it adjacent to the Centro bus terminal merges the flow of both. The structure can expand and contract to create shelter and to augment circulation. The reactive articulation of the form is determined to mediate the interaction of these two networks.

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farmers market @ Washington St parking lot

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driver frameinterior membrane

slave frame

interior panels

jointing

construct of operable panels

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Gestural Solar Topography _ Spring 2008

Critics: Terrance Goode Kevin Lair

Modular Medical Facility Rhino, Explicit History, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, Cinema 4D, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCad

The program of this structure is a clinic that will give a certain level of care and rehabilitation to its visitors. It is a self sustaining low-tech facility for remote insertions, designed to capture natural ventilation and solar exposure. The form of the building is a modular response to parametric environmental factors. The roof system is designed to optimize the placement of Photo Vol-taic panels and to collect water into a cistern through the structural columns. The offset from the topography creates raised platforms that offer shade to travelers and the ability for construction on unsettled terrain and flood plains.

The topography data gave values for the 8x8 floor plate and column sys-tem. The solar data generated two parabolic forms: a convex and concave roof surface from a composite of an annual trajectory of the sun through its azimuth and altitude. The site specific forms can be customly mass fab-ricated from plywood with computer regulated mitered joints. Moreover, these surfaces act as airfoils and allow them to be refitted and used as wind scoops for the walls and roofs to direct air in and out of the building.

The initial design is a derivative of the topography and solar orientation. The second derivative is the influence of programmatic necessity. This prototype exhibits the tension between the initial optimization and the programmatic distortion.

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composite of solar arcs to create a vaulted surface

panelization of surface to achieve a buildable surface

module to that is responsive to the topography to create interior and exterior shelters

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convex and concave forms maximise surface area for solar exposure while al lowing interior exposure

Solar Response Modules Catacamas, Honduras

Solar Response ModulesTrenton, New Jersey

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enclosure long care rooms

section

SARS

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BACK PACK

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TRAILOR

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HELICOPTER

PREVENTION

LONGTREATMENT

DOCTORON STAFF

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LIGHTINGNEEDS

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VIRALBACTERIAL

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INGESTION

ANIMALS

AIR BORNE

BODILYFLUIDS

VECTOR

TYPOLOGY

SIMPLECOMPONENT

COMPLETECOMPONENT

SOCIAL

HEALTH

GOVERNMENT

ECONOMY

SETTLEMENT

RELIGIONGENDER RACE

STRUCTURE

CORRUPTION

WAR & CONFLICT

EDUCATION

ENERGY

AGRICULTURE

INDUSTRY

TRANSPORTATIONCOMMUNICATION

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ACCESSABILITY

WATER

DISABILITY

SANITATION

ARCHITECTURE

URBANISM

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SKILLED LABOR

BOAT

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SYPHILIS

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MALNUTRITION

BIRD FLU

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Latitude: +15.61 (15o3636N)Longitude: -87.96 (87o5736W)

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Hualos _ Fall 2007

Critics: Aaron Sprecher John Bohn

Systematic Research, Site Development, Dynamic Nested Structures Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Mental Ray, PhotoShop, Illustrator, AutoCadPlexiglas Sectional Model, Stereolithic Print, Museum Board Model

Hualos

Hualos is any stone transparent like glass. The name invokes materials produced by the site.

The parameters of this project were defined by the G2 competition for the Venice Lagoon Park. The site, Sacca San Mattia, is an island created by canal system dredging. The field is a composite of polluted silt and waste materials from the Murano glass factories. The process of fusing contami-nated silt and glass waste produces an inert substance with a range of ceramic to glass-like qualities. The sites tainted elemental properties provide the opportunity to transform Sacca San Mattia into a recreational park made of ceramic and glass that serves as a gateway to the Venice Lagoon territory.

The organizational patterning of the park was derived algorithmically through spatial relationships between sampled topographic values. Volumes scaled through a proportionate derivative of the algorithm resulted in varying field densities that created a structural framework for developing the site. Layer-ing the site patterning created a dynamic scalable fracturing that accommo-dates function.

Each nested derivative's new scale accommodates a new mode and func-tion. Fields evolve into buildings. Buildings evolve into rooms. Rooms evolve into apertures. Apertures evolve into building details. The iterative process thus creates an inhabitable form derived by a fractal system with an infinitely dynamic framework.

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Venice Lagoon pollution map and glass factory locations

init ial site patterning

glass factories as lagoon remediation opportunity

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Visitor Path Material Circulation

Store Gallery Welcome CenterArrival Dock Departure Dock

FurnaceStorage

CafePost_Alchemy ProcessingPre_Alchemy Processing

Factory ObservatoryOffices Bathroom

plan cut of 3 integrated systems

circulation diagram

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sectional model, acryl ic and cardboard

site model, stereolithic print and museum board

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sectional model composite of interior space

stereolithic print detail

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Miscellaneous Debris

An assemblage of drawings, images, models, and advert materials.

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Barcelona Pavil ion, one point perspective, graphite on paper, fal l 2006

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sectional model, paint on acryl ic, spring 2007


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waffle model, chipboard, spring 2007

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massing study, summer 2010

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parametric model, paper, plexiglas & wood , summer 2009

digital study model, fal l 2008

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renderings done for Francisco Sanin's submission to Korea biennale, spring 2011

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renderings done for Francisco Sanin's submission to Korea biennale, spring 2011

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American Loft Building, Philadelphia PA, PhotoShop work done for Archi-tectonics


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rendering done for Brendan Rose's "Venice the Menace," Fall 2007

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Los Vegas landscape, fal l 2007


sectional collage, spring 2007

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d_rive, Static Geographic Mapping, spring 2008

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Rochester, NY model and l ight study, fal l 2008


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modular huts, spring 2008

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advert created for Elsevier's ScienceDirect database product, 2003


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packaging designed for Jack Daniel's Wood Smoking Chunks, 2002

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Innovative Strategies ....Delivering Positive Results

logos created for local and international cl ients

Paradise Found, apparel, Princeton NJ, 2003Monkey Internal Publications, New Hope PA, 2001Bayview, media production company, Hamilton BDA, 2002


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