Work Samples

DA N I E L T. P E N I C KWORK SAMPLESBachelor Of Architecture California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

portfolio link: http://issuu.com/dtpenick/docs/penick_portfolio/1 530.306.9128 [email protected]

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DESIGN TEAM Dan Penick

DURATION 10 Weeks

SITE LOCATION Korea Town, Los Angeles

PROGRAM TYPE Elementary School

DESCRIPTIONSurrounded by heavy Street traffic on three sides Cahuenga Elementry deals with issues of community and porosity at varying scales. Fundamental design questions included, how can one building gesture allow for the privacy and security, while at the same time embrace the community? This project explores the possibility combining a large scale building gesture with human scale relationships between parts. The design solution involves an architectural treatment of an urban scale concrete superstructure, paired with modular classroom unit insertions.

To simplify the building gesture I chose an L-Shape scheme which turns it back to the high traffic street, and opens up towards the adjacent residential community. Because of the simplified building envelope, I could then focus my efforts on a more detailed classroom learning experience. The principle design was guided by sustainable principles involving exposure to light and air as well as experiential concerns involved with the act of learning. The resulting design manifested in a pair of mirrored classrooms which share a computer wall that opens to the adjacent room to create opportunities for a sense of community.

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[PROJECT 01]CAHUENGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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1 . K indergar ten Area2. Mu l t i -Use Room3. Ca fe te r ia4 . Gymnas ium5. Admin is t ra t ion6 . P lay Area7. Spor ts F ie ld8 . P ick -Up/Drop-Off

ACADEMIC PROJECT

TEAM Dan Penick

DURATION 10 Weeks

SITE LOCATION Altadena, CA

PROGRAM TYPE Context Museum

DESCRIPTIONMt. Lowe is a part of Southern California’s rich history that has been all but forgotten by today’s population. In 1893, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe envisioned a tourist attraction not unlike a modern day Disneyland atop of Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe just north of Pasadena, California. This destination was the culmination of the Pacific Electric Railway which included a 70-room Victorian hotel, a 40-room Echo Chalet, astronomical observatory, along with many other tourist amenities. Despite its significance as a true tourist attraction, the most noteworthy accomplishment that Thaddeus Lowe devised was a 3 car funicular which transported passengers 1900 feet in elevation from the base of valley to the top of Echo Mountain. After its official abandonment in 1938 after a series of natural disasters the site returned to nature in ruins as part of the Los Angeles National Forest.

Presently, the ruins serve as a destination for hikers on a path that begins at the base of the hill at the end of Lake Ave. When tasked with creating an Interpretation Center I was attracted to the imbedded conflict between nature and the built environment. This project employs two separate formal languages that capture the essence of the site by contrasting its history of technology innovation and that of the serene Southern California landscape. The orthogonal language is used to house all the main parts of the built program, whereas the organic, triangulated language is used to fill in the in-between spaces, terminating as the new start point of the hiking trail.

[PROJECT 02]MT. LOWE INTERPRETATION CENTER

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DESIGN TEAM Dan Penick

DURATION 10 Weeks

SITE LOCATION Unspecific

PROGRAM TYPE Parametric Apartment

DESCRIPTIONStudio 4 is an exploration of parametric architecture as a means to create a flexible living space. Within a given spatial volume of 15’x20’x15,’ this project conforms to meet the needs of four individual dwellers as well as the collective. Secondarily this project explores digital animation as a tool to explore and describe flexible building environment, in the form of multiple living scenarios.

Faced with the confined volume, I clearly defined the irreducible elements of the apartment as “machine space” and the elastic spaces as “flex space.” I have chosen two major moves to express this idea; on the ground floor I have allocated a machine wall; out of which couch/table furniture elements deploy into the space creating a variety of living situations. On the second story I questioned the idea of personal space by creating bed modules which rotate about a turn table. Without a definitive space of their own the inhabitants could take turns occupying each quadrant of the loft, alternating access to light, privacy and entertainment. Ultimately this project became about maximizing efficiency by overlapping living functions when possible.

[PROJECT 03]STUDIO 4 - FLEXIBLE APARTMENT L IV ING

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1. Pub l i c Lobby2. Aud i to r ium3. C lassrooms 4 . Open Read ing Room5. L ib ra ry Book S tacks6 . Research Labs7. V ivar ium

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DESIGN TEAM Dan Penick, Martin Cerna

DURATION 8 Weeks

SITE LOCATION Chicago, Illinios

PROJECT TYPE Adaptive Re-Use

DESCRIPTIONThe decision to destroy an architecturally significant work is one that should not be made without considering all potential alternatives. This project is a competition entry which looks a way of preserving the Prentice Women’s Hospital designed by Betrand Goldberg while accomating the needs of site use that cannot fit within its current architectural massing.

The current owner of the site, Northwestern University wishes to demolish Goldberg’s work and errect a state of the art science research facility in its place. In our academic investigation we take on the challege of the leaving the landmark work of architecture intact while utilizing the site as the owner intends. Our main objectives are to preserve the existing tower as an architectural monument, utilize the land as a premier research laboratory and introduce a new program which re-frames the site as a centralized scientific hub.

Acknowledging that the existing tower does not allow for an ideal research facility, we propose to elevate the research laboratories above the existing tower thereby freeing the plan for a more appropriate use. As a central hub we introduced a large scale science library that works together with both the research laboratories and the adjacent scientific community.

With these programmatic moves we arrived to an architectural language which treats the elevations as a device to frame the existing tower as a three dimensional sculpture.

[PROJECT 04]PRENTICE ReFRAMED

1. Existing Structure as Research Facility - Not Efficient

Repurpose Prentice Women’s Hospital as a Research Laboratory

2. Free Research Program from Tower - Separate Program

3. Surround Tower with Research Program - Lift Research Lab

4. Connect project with site context - Insert Science Library

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

DESIGN TEAM 5+Design, inc. Dan Penick

DURATION 14 months (time on project)

SITE LOCATION Zibo, China

PROJECT TYPE Retail, Mixed-Use

DESCRIPTIONOne of the projects that I was fortunate to work on at the office of 5+Design was “Living Mall” in Zibo, China. It is a protype third tier city for China Resource Land Development constiting of 2.5 million square foot of mixed use program that includes a 6 story mall, a hotel / office tower, and a service apartment tower. I worked on the project from the Conceptual Design phase through Design Development as part of a core design team of 7 people for just over a year. It is currently under construction and set to open in 2014.

While on the project I to worked on various aspects of the design including the exterior facade massing, service apartment tower design, hotel canopy design, and structrual and traffic coordination. My work consisted mainly in the Revit environment acting as the team leader in charge of the BIM model. Often the team tasked me with the responsibilty of complex 3d modeling tasks within including the stuctural beam model for the entire podium based on 2d drawings provided by the consultant.

[PROJECT 05]LIVING MALL

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