Architecture PortfolioKeith Appleby

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// I achieve this goal with skill and intuition fueled by inspiration and creative energy. I design emotionally enriched spaces for people of all cultural and economic backgrounds, bettering the human condition in frontiers known and unknown.

// Trans-disciplinary relationships are essential to the realization of these goals. I collaborate, integrate, serve, and lead with professionals and non-professionals alike to design sensitive architecture for a rapidly globalizing world.

// Growing numbers of unprecedented urban challenges define the present and future forms of architecture. My workflow maneuvers through conventional methods and beyond to best adapt solutions to a changing future.

// Responsible design must champion and be rooted in scientific fact - it is imperative that I design to reduce carbon emissions and the need for climate engineering and simultaneously engender greater stewardship of built and natural environments.

DIGNIFY THE HUMAN SPIRIT

TRAVERSE DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

INNOVATE, INNOVATE, INNOVATE

OPERATE SCIENTIFICALLY AND SUSTAINABLY

WHAT DRIVES MYARCHITECTUREDESIGN ART

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS (Rankin, Pittsburgh Area, PA)· Proposal for planned redevelopment of the Carrie Furnace, a degrading National Historic Landmark· Design incorporates preservation on a material scale through use of waste iron slag and moss growth· Research included topics of globalization, individual and collective memory, and intelligent material design

MANCHESTER CRAFTMEN’S GUILD (1800 Preble Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA)· Collaboration with peer for mixed-use masterplan development to catalyze campus life and introduce riverfront accessibility · Proposes the adaptive reuse of existing industrial facility to accommodate trans-disciplinary education

SIGNATURE THEATER CO. (42nd Street 10th Avenue, New York, NY)· Planning for audience member, performer, and administrator occupancy· 70,000sf program amidst columns and core from existing tower· 3 theater types, 700+ total seats

MATTRESS FACTORY ADD. (500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA)· Museum addition to incorporate gallery and administrative functions · Facade detail material sourced from surrounding neighborhood· “Best in Year” selected from among 60+ student works

LACHAT LOGO DESIGN (Godfrey Road West, Weston, CT)· Logo // brand design for community-led organization, towards the preservation of historic farm house · Tight schedule necessitated an efficient design process that incorporated opinions of several different stakeholders· www.friendsoflachat.org

GARFIELD STRONG (Garfield Neighborhood, Pittsburgh, PA)· One of 13 incentive proposals for community development via cityLAB, a Pittsburgh-based think-tank · Group of five students charged with creating an attractive, accessible, and transparent document· http://issuu.com/ksappleby/docs/garfield_strong

HEADS UP! GALLERY INSTALLATION (5200 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA)· Collaboration with two student peers· One week // $300 // 2,350lbs of material· CNC milling and woodshop machining

MT THEATER (6019 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA)· Collaboration with five students to design and construct a temporary mechanism for community development· Ornamented CNC milled movie poster frames // wood frame marquee construction

SKETCHING PROFICIENCY (Summer travels in Scandinavia)· Freehand analyses of Scandinavian architectures, urban landscapes, and historic ornamentation· Additional sketchbooks available upon request

MODELING PROFICIENCY (Pittsburgh, PA)· Utilizing 3D plaster printing, ZCorp 3D plastic printing, and 2.5 axis CNC router· Plaster and cement casting performed within CNC milled insulation molds

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// Cultural relationships to historicism are chang-ing. The values that motivate collective memories to conserve the physical environment are less concerned with original intent. Powerful, sacred, emotional, and sensual environments are filling this void. These phenomenologically saturated places are valued for their immediacy and for the intuitive nature of the reactions they inspire. This experiment creates a perceived mass that exhibits sensual qualities through a composition of par-ticularly phenomenological materials. Such de-scriptive materials are the future physical medium for memory in architecture. Due to an increasingly globalized culture, our valuing of the historical past is shifting focus from authenticity of intent to im-mediacy of sensation - therefore future conserva-tion efforts of the physical environment will explore phenomenologically saturated architecture.

UNDERGRADUATE THESISA SHIFT FROM AUTHENTICITY TO IMMEDIACY: ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY, AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL* TREND

*For this purpose, phenomenology describes a design practice that uses the sensory quali-ties of materials to exhibit the temporal qualities of places.

// The chosen environment is a degrading ware-house structure in Rankin, Pennsylvania. The struc-ture once housed the A/C power supply for the Car-rie Steel furnaces of the Carnegie Homestead Steel Works. Now empty and in ruin, the space has be-come soulful and emotional. Planned development of the site calls for the rehabilitation of the building - this vision does not acknowledge the future course of preserved memory in architecture.

// Reclaimed slag [waste product of the iron- and steel-making processes] exhibits a surface material capable of harboring moss growth. This product is collected in nets of corten steel and hung from an existing warehouse crane within the structure. The crane is operable and will be affected by occupants applying force to the object. The space will effec-tively change, and so too will the memories - spatial and other - that occupants have of the degrading building.

// Major degradation has occurred in the existing steel-sheet and wood-plank roof. The roof has since been replaced with corrugated metal sheeting. The proposed plan of this thesis is to instead install per-forated corten panels and once again expose the interior to the elements. Due to such exposure, slag-moss growth will change per seasonal weather pat-terns and lighting conditions.

// Complete exploration available upon request.

Existing conditions before roof replacement, PhotographPhotographed by Daniel Snider

Slag exhibits extraordinary surface quality capable of harboring growth, Photograph Photographed by Daniel Snider

Installation in place, debris-free // Roof undergoing replacement, Rendering + photograph

Installation in place // Fog, Rendering + photograph

Installation in place // Light contrast, Rendering + photograph

Installation in place // Snow, Rendering + photograph

Exploded Axonometric DiagramCorten crane, slag, and gabion

THE URBAN LABORATORYMCG MASTER PLAN:ANCHOR FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

GreenhouseMCG enterpise

MCG HeadquartersStudios and jazz hall

Riverfront AccessPlazas, paths, and docks

Office spaceMCG-owned, for profit

Campus AnchorMixed-use amenities

Chateau industrial district // Morning, Photograph

Chateau industrial district // Evening, PhotographPhotographed by Daniel Snider

// Manchester Bidwell Corporation is a multi-facet-ed institution comprised of several non-profit and for-profit organizations, including the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. The success of MBC is derived from the creative energy that inspires a dynamic curriculum. The master plan seeks to expand the capable boundaries of this curriculum to incorpo-rate new artistic and scientific disciplines and ben-efit the Manchester and Chateau communities in the process.

// The plan proposes the adaptive reuse of an existing industrial storage facility and its adjacent parking lot. The renovation includes a library facil-ity, flexible studio laboratories, apartments for rent, and studio apartments for visiting artists and fac-ulty, a restaurant to accommodate the existing cu-linary education program, an outdoor open space with dense vegetation and a water feature, and a state-of the-art theater.

// This new urban influence will provide direct pe-destrian and vehicular access from Manchester to the riverfront. The proposed development will en-able MBC to provide a wide variety of amenities, thus catering to multiple disciplines, markets, and regions.

View North with water feature and open space, Rendering

Detail of the library and apartment facades, Rendering

Central plaza and theater facade, Rendering

View of theater from western plaza

View west within theater lobby, Rendering

Aerial view of modelled MCG masterplanPhotographed by Daniel Snider

Floor plans with interior programming and open space

View of modelled theater from western plazaPhotographed by Daniel Snider

Above: East elevation with library and open space in foregroundRight: North elevation approaching the theater

Peter Norton space/end stage theater, patrons’ lounge, and bar, Rendering

OCCUPANCY STUDIOSIGNATURE CENTER:ICON ON 42ND ST

// The mission of the Signature Center is rooted in dedication to performance art - it survives on the commitment of its subscribing public, its ad-ministrative/support team, and its performers. This mutual dynamic demands a space that respects the human scale and a commitment to theater.

// The Center features a playwright-residency for-mat which has throughout its history formed strong long-lasting relationships with many talented play-wrights. This unique characteristic must be pow-erfully conveyed in its new home as part of the Signature brand, paying homage to such talents as Edward Albee and Horton Foote in the Signature Center’s traditional blue and yellow.

// A world-class, off-Broadway theater complex to house the Signature Theater Company and its ex-panding programs, featuring a 300 seat end stage theater, a 200 jewel box theater, and a 200 seat black box/modular theater. An integrated office and backstage complex will provide two rehearsal halls, ample storage, and naturally illuminated ad-ministrative work space.

// The building is designed as a diagram for oc-cupancy “boundary and overlap.” Occupant flow wraps the inner volume, ensuring that the theaters within remain independent of the open lobby. All backstage and administrative programs are con-tained within the glowing blue enclosure, provid-ing a clear, stylized understanding of boundary for the public approaching and circulating within the complex.

42nd Street second floor lobby // Afternoon, Rendering

42nd Street main entrance and subway access, accomodating potential subway extension

Edward Albee jewel box theater and main lobby, Rendering Horton Foote black box/moduclar theater and basement lobby, Rendering

SIGNATURE CENTER ENTRANCE & SUBWAY ACCESS, CORNER OF 42ND & DYER STREETS

Sectional axonometric drawing showing the efficiently stacked theaters and rehearsal hall, as well as the dual enclosure of the lobby and theater programs

Above: Plan of second floor lobby, jewel box and end stage theaters Below: Diagram describing street presence and increasing levels of private enclosure

Existing Structure

COMPOSITION STUDIOMATTRESS FACTORY:MIXED-USE ADDITION

// The Mattress Factory maintains its core philoso-phy of providing raw spaces for their artists. The annex creates a diverse architectural language around this pure, untouched philosophy. Screens that shelter the northern and southern faces of the annex galleries allow the raw and untouched spac-es behind to appear touched and eloquent despite their simplicity. // A raw, programmatic box was translated from the from the original MF philosophy. This box be-came a tube, introducing natural light and visual connections to site and neighborhood while still maintaining the strong untouched nature of a MF gallery space. Tubes were stacked and extruded to accommodate program, an entrance lobby (ground floor), a double-story atrium (3rd floor), and a circulatory connection to the existing mu-seum (4th floor).

// The annex galleries’ northern faces are screened by channel glass, filtering a cool glow several feet from the galleries’ wall surfaces. Vertical circula-tion slips into the space between. The southern face supports a system of horizontal wooden slats that extrude to describe the depth of space be-hind. Windows interrupt the purity of both screen and tube in a vertical channel through the south-ern face. While certain sections of the screen do shelter solid, impermeable gallery faces, they do so to provide the overall system with rich visual description.

Aerial perspective of addition’s South facade, Rendering

Morning and evening renderings of Northern elevation

Two-story exterior atrium, Rendering

Enclosed gallery window, overlooking atrium, Rendering

Circulation against Northern facade, Rendering

Clockwise from above left: In context, Southern facade, and detail

Conceptual development, E/W section through addition and existing structure, floor plans, and organizational diagram

LOGO DESIGN FRIENDS OF LACHAT:BRANDING PRESERVATIONhttp://www.friendsoflachat.org/

ISSUES OF PRACTICE GARFIELD STRONG: INSPIRING HEALTH, SAFETY, & SUSTAINABILITYhttp://www.citylabpgh.org/experiments/garfield-strong/http://issuu.com/ksappleby/docs/garfield_strong

GALLERY INSTALLATIONHEADS UP! EXPLORING EMBODIED MINDS & MINDLESS BODIES

OSB materials en masse // CNC preparation // Assemblage of volumes

STOREFRONT COLLABORATIONMT THEATER: CONVERSATION FOR EAST LIBERTY RENEWAL

CNC milled lettering // Exterior facade supports // Group members affixing marquee panels

SKETCHING SCANDINAVIA EN ROUTE

Detailing of Stave church structure and ornament // Norway

// Regular sketching has engendered a constant desire to analyze through observation and analog recording. This process connects my hand, eye, and mind, as I procedurally understand the physi-cal environment. The practice of pulling systems apart in my mind and translating such understand-ings into clear, communicable drawings has devel-oped a dependable method by which I can design.

Frue Plads urban structure // Copenhagen, DenmarkTransparency of Stave church systems // Norway

Kungliga biblioteket main hall, addition, and detail // Stockholm, Sweden

MODELING3D PRINTING, DETAIL LANDSCAPE CNC, FULL UNIT CASTING

Printing of structure and form // Modified unit casting

BArch Carnegie Mellon University

STUDY ABROAD Scandinavia· Visited, sketched, and analyzed seminal architectural works and landscapes· Traveled with 18 students, first climbing Icelandic glaciers and finally studying Nordic stave construction· 8-week tour spanned Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, & Norway

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY· Rhinoceros 4.0 (PC); V-ray Rendering Engine, familiar with Grasshopper· Adobe CS5.5; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, familiar with Dreamweaver and AfterEffects· AutoCad Architecture 2011, Sketch-Up 8, Rhinoceros Wentachee (Mac), familiar with Autodesk Revit, 3DS Max, and Ecotect

MACHINING PROFICIENCY· CNC mill; 4ft x 8ft bed 2.5 axis (VisualCam)· Laser cutter; Flatbed 24 x 36· Plaster printer; Z-Corp 3D (color)

INTERN Max Parangi Architects (full-time, paid)· Detailed conceptual makeup of rain screen by integrating LED lighting into stucco-coated, carved styrofoam panels· Completed construction documents for several single-family, detached homes· Surveyed building elevations and roof structures, and compiled notes and sketches into digital drawings· Developed interior renovations from early communication with clients to complete resolution of construction documents· Designed framework for proposed company website and facilitated communication between employees and programmer

INTERN Becker + Becker (full-time, paid)· Served as assistant to employees during the construction of 360 State tower (LEED Platinum mixed-use development, tallest in New Haven, CT) by completing computer tasks, preparing presentations, and selecting sustainable products on a budget· Recorded daily meetings between Bruce Becker (architect & developer) and construction professionals· Visited and documented the construction site

DRAFTSMAN Theater District Realty Corp. (part-time, stipend)· Drew schematic plans for the future development of several New York apartments· Experienced how a budget and the status quo for design aesthetics can influence development

INTERN JWC Architect, PLLC (part-time, stipend)· Built models, performed drawing tasks, and catalogued the firm’s project documentation

COUNCIL MEMBER Student Advisory Council · Engaged student body, council members, and administration to enhance computing, curricular operations, and facility management within the School of Architecture· Supported the application process to the School of Architecture by reviewing student portfolios, interviewing prospective students, and answering students’ and parents’ questions

CAPTAIN Carnegie Mellon Water Polo Team (Division III)· Motivated and trained 20+ team members by planning rigorous practices and organizing multi-university tournaments· Lead the team to compete and succeed in local and national circuits· Recuited players from the university community to sustain future teams

OVERALL TEAM LEADER & ARCHITECTURE TEAM LEADER Solar Decathlon 2011: Proposal

· Created a multidisciplinary 50+ person team structure to design an efficient, solar-powered house· Delegated administrative and design tasks· Prioritized, planned, and conducted weekly meetings· Initiated participation with professors and administrators to obtain funding

“BEST IN YEAR” Studio Project Award· Design for museum addition selected from among 60+ student works

CO-DIRECTOR & ARTIST “Heads Up” Gallery Exhibition· Collaborated with 2 student peers to create an interactive sculpture· An immediate deadline of one week necessitated efficiency when surveying the gallery space, budgeting funds to purchase, machine, and process the materials, and assembling and disassembling the sculpture

2012 RECIPIENT Student Leadership Recognition Award· Acknowledged as among “the top ten percent of graduating seniors whose unique contributions in academics and research, the arts, athletics, community service, and community engagement have made unparalleled impact on our community.”

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SUMMER 2011White Plains, NY

SUMMER 2009Fairfield, CT

SUMMER 2009New York, NY

SUMMER 2005New York, NY

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Keith Appleby