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» The Protean BuildingYear 5 Studio Project
For my fifth year project the studio explored the past and potential relationship between
architecture and erasure.
For my final project I examined the potential of designed erasure. I utilized the theoretical works of Archizoom, the Japanese Metabolists, and Archigram to reevaluate the built environment for a mutable future. The Protean Building reflects these theories by addressing “erasure” as a continuous part of a building’s narrative instead of its end product.
Above: The Venician Pompidou Center Configuration Top ViewBelow: The Venician Pompidou Center Configuration Axon View
Warren Truss
Truss Bracing (2x scale) Tie Bracing Steel Columns
MEP Units
Gergerette (3X scale)
Pipes of 3 sizes
Steel tie rod system
Generic Kit of Parts for the Centre Georges Pompidou
The Protean Building distills the major elements of the Pompidou Center in Paris into its component parts creating a “kit”. The kit is composed of simple pieces that can create many diverse and complex outputs. Structures created with this kit of parts can be taken apart, shipped to a new city and reinterpreted in a new image.
Above: The Pompidou Center, Paris
Above/Below: The Pompidou Center, Paris Deconstructed
Above: Campo San Polo, Venice, Italy (Potential Site)
This presentation focuses on Venice to prove the project’s viability, but the scope should not be constrained to a single site. Cities with strong narratives through their urban fabric such as NYC, Hong Kong, Moscow, etc. are all candidates for a Protean Building. By blending the iconoclastic Parisian Pompidou Center with a foreign urban environment a new building emerges; one that acts as a scale ruler of its host city.
Above: The Pompidou Center, ParisBelow: The Potential NYC Pompidou Center
Above: Potential Toronto Pompidou CenterBelow: Potential London Pompidou Center
Above: Venician Pompidou Center Physical Model FrontBelow: Venician Pompidou Center Physical Model BackBelow: Potential Sydney Pompidou CenterBelow: Potential Melbourne Pompidou Center
Above: The Venician Pompidou Center View From CanalBelow: The Venician Pompidou Center View From Campo San Polo
Right: The Venician Pompidou Center Floor 1 & 3Below: he Venician Pompidou Center Site Plan
Campo San Polo
The Grand Canal
» Flora AuroraYear 3 Studio Collaboration
For this project the studio was contracted by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to
design and build a pavilion for their summer concert series. The Clark had two design requirements: that the rain be kept off the
occupants and that the final pavilion would be easy to assemble and disassemble in a short
period of time.
Through a physical modeling process examining knots for inspiration we arrived at a modular cluster of petals that could be propagated across a field. Each ‘petal‘ was constructed out of silnylon stretched with tent poles threaded through them to create a taut covering.
After the final design was decided on the studio was split into several groups, each working on different aspects of the project. The studio was essentially transformed into a small firm with the professor acting as the principal architect. The final goal was to produce a set of construction documents and a full scale mock-up that would be assembled on the museum’s campus.
Left Top: Potential Occupancy RenderLeft Bottom: Full Scale Mock-up Photography by Liz Sammartino
Silnylon petal
Tent Pole Structure
Led light
MDF Base
U - Clamps
Tension Rings
Threshold Diagrams
» ATMA ExtensionYear 4 India Project
For this project the studio was contacted by the Mill Owner’s Building by Le Corbusier in
Ahmedabad, India to present design proposals for the addition of a research library to the
ATMA property.
My proposal for the extension of the Mill Owner’s Building library was to convert the lot directly behind the building into and extended research campus. The layout of the campus takes suggestions from ATMA, extending it while keeping it in view. The new campus creates a series of movement based around inverting spatial sense. The occupant would move from the striated, mostly open exhibit space into a open series of flat pools. They would then be moved under the library which slices across the campus allowing N/S movement, into a grove or orchard type park.
Top: New Campus PlanRight Bottom: Physical model in front of the ATMA building Left Bottom: Axonometric Section
Threshold Diagrams Threshold Diagrams
Threshold Diagrams
Top: Full ATMA and Campus PlanRight Bottom: North View
Middle Bottom: Rear RenderLeft Bottom: Exhibit space render - Fractured ATMA View
N/S Movement access
Low GroveThe Mill Owner’s Building
Exhibit Space
Flat Pools
» Circulatory BridgeYear 4 Design Development Studio
Floors 7, 8 and 9Floors 7, 8 and 9Floors 7, 8 and 9
This project was a continuation of a proposed extension to the New Stockholm City Library originally designed by
Heike Hanada. We developed the project through the design development phase.
This was a collaboration with Sarah Helfer.
The new Stockholm City Library acts as an updated new media extension to the historic Gunnar Asplund Library. The extension connects the library to the top of the adjacent hill, a previously disconnected college campus and observatory. A series of atriums are suspended through the extension acting as social condensers as well as a circulatory bridge.
Right: Aerial Site RenderBelow: Floor 7, 8, 9
Grate
Gravel Layer
Gravel Layer
Earth
Insulation
Horizontal Cable
Glass
Insulation
Wind Needle
Glass (two asymetrical layers)Vertical Mullion
Horizontal Mullion
Drop Ceiling
Rail
Light
Vent
Steel Panel
Concrete Encased Beam
Vertical Cable
Honeycomb Floor Structure Composed of I-BeamsLightweight Concrete Shear Stud
Horizontal Mullion are O�est to Read as Single Line from Street Level
InsulationSteel Panels
Double Skin Facade Unit Circulation and Movement Diagram
Atrium Evolution DiagramOrigional Asplund Library
Diagrams
Grate
Gravel Layer
Gravel Layer
Earth
Insulation
Horizontal Cable
Glass
Insulation
Wind Needle
Glass (two asymetrical layers)Vertical Mullion
Horizontal Mullion
Drop Ceiling
Rail
Light
Vent
Steel Panel
Concrete Encased Beam
Vertical Cable
Honeycomb Floor Structure Composed of I-BeamsLightweight Concrete Shear Stud
Horizontal Mullion are O�est to Read as Single Line from Street Level
InsulationSteel Panels
Double Skin Facade Unit Circulation and Movement Diagram
Atrium Evolution DiagramOrigional Asplund Library
Diagrams
Above: Physical ModelLeft: Exterior Wall Section
Below: Atrium Evolution Diagram
» Autonomous TectonicsYear 3
This project was an exploration into material guided tensile surfaces, as design technique
in architecture. It was joint research between Cassie Murray and myself.
The focus of the studio was an exploration of autonomous deposition systems through analysis and material study culminating in a tower structure.
We began our material study by examining tensile surfacing in the creation of bubbles. In order to study what would typically be a transient phenomena we developed a gelatinous solution that produced bubbled surfaces that hardened instead of popping. Using coiling wires as a structural guild we began to explore the application of tensile surfaces to create interesting volumetric moments.
We were looking for areas of intense surfacing and enclosure; areas where three or more surfaces connected.
We then deconstructed the system into the affecting forces that drove the creation of the bubble.
Strands CohersionLoop Lines Bubble Lines Repel
Force
Spring
Strand
Cohesion
Lines
Loop
Repel
Bubble
Spring
Bubbles
Cohersion
Using this newfound understanding of the of the forces behind the creation of these tensile surfaces we began to computationally recreate their creation.
Utilizing the programing environment Processing we recreated the system using a custom spring and multi-agent simulation.
We tweaked and adjusted the simulation to create areas that balanced enclosure and structure.
Catalog of Outputs
124ft 65ft
59ft 33ft
65ft
Using the material logics and computational simulation we moved towards creating a structure or tower.
Left; Horizontal SectionsAbove: Successful Characteristics Vignettes
65m
0m
52m
13m
26m
39m
Left; Horizontal SectionsAbove: Successful Characteristics Vignettes
One of the possible programmatic uses of our tower was a lighthouse or pier sculpture.
Left; Vertical SectionAbove: Pier Render
» Student Housing: Institutional TransformationYear 2
This project was a collaboration between Jacob Wigton and myself. We were tasked with designing a Living & Learning environment for
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A Living & Learning Community is a variation or subset of the residential college scheme. Instead of randomly grouping students, like a typical residential college , Living & Learning Communities group people according to commonality or common interest. This brings a variety of student from all majors together, united by a common thread. This cross pollination fosters creativity and new ideas that perhaps wouldn’t have occurred in the random sampling of a Residential College.
The objective of a Living & Learning community is a central focus inward. To facilitate this we settled on a form based on arcs derived from a cycloidal grid.
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Floor 5
Floor 4
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Study Space
Gallery Space
Public Lounge
Kitchen
Bathroom
Computer Lab
Atrium Balcony
Void
Private Rooms
Semi-Private Lounge
Latitudinal Section
The student cluster is an integral part of the dorm design. A cluster is a group of 24 students with common interests or goals. The clusters share common space and are connected vertically. The individual units are typically triples. The rooms are designed in such a way that the wall becomes performative. The wall bends to create beds, desks and storage. Two units fit together with a bed from one unit fitting into the negative space created by the other room’s wall.
Above: Unit InteriorBelow: Unit Exterior
A Cluster of TriplesA Cluster of Doubles
Two Triple Units
Two Double Units
Cluster Section Cut
Cluster Plan
Left; Massing RenderBottom Left: Physical Model - AtriumBottom Right: Physical Model -Front
The curtain wall facade of the building is programmatically driven. Apertures expand or contract depending on the program of the space behind them. Public space has wide open apertures to promote congregation in the common areas while private space has a larger number of smaller apertures.
Left; Nighttime RenderBottom Left: Common AreaBottom Right: Atrium
» Pressure + TensionYear 1
For this project we were tasked with creating a small structure that evolved from the form of the human body.
At the beginning of the semester we were introduced us to the idea of Architecture as a third skin. I immediately thought of protecting the head and the shoulders. To do this I enhanced and exaggerated the natural spheres and ellipses inherent in that area of the body. The question then was where and how to stop expanding the spheres. To solve this I introduced a knot structure. I used a standard overhand knot repeated and woven together to create a containing surface for the expansion of the spheres. I wanted a natural form instead of a rigidly symmetrical one so I began to study the life cycle of a soap bubble.
To find my three forms I went through a series of experiments that eventually evolved into my project. I began to study the evolution of the bubble using a simple soap and water solution. Each section of the final model is taken from a major stage of the life of a soap bubble. The center figure is taken from the moment right before the bubble breaks from the wand. The figure to the right is taken from the moment after the bubble breaks from the wand and the figure on the left is representative of the moment when two bubbles connect, creating a catenary arch.
The Structure would be created out of a form of strong rubber. It would be used as a playground and every child that climbed over and around it would alter the structure just a bit. The rubber would deform in relation to the most used areas of the structure.
» Photography