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06MIAMIa baseball stadium

18RUST BELTa postcard gallery & a housing development

28PARIStwo physical models

38MILANa competition proposal

44CHINA & CALIFORNIAan art mural & an architects office

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MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS Los AngelesJan 2009 - Present (3.5 yrs) // Designer

000 Los AngelesAug 2011 - Present (1 yr)// Designer; part of start-up company. A team that collaborates with LA artists, professional athletes, and charity organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club with an emphasis on establishing artistic programs for young kids.

LABORATORY SUSTAINING DESIGN Tamarindo, Costa RicaJuly 2008 - jan 2009 (6 mos) // Intern

ADRIAN SMITH GORDON GILL ChicagoMay 2008 - July 2008 (3 mos) // Intern

U OF MICHIGAN HEALTH FACILITIES Ann Arbor, MIMay 2006 - Sept 2006 (5 mos) // Drafter

WALLENBERG COMPETITION FIRST PRIZE$ 9k travel scholarship, awarded by jury (explored Europe)

BURTON L. KAMPNER AWARDBest project in class, awarded by faculty

DIMENSIONS 21Published with special acknowledgement

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTUREUniversity of Michigan, Ann ArborApril 2007

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WALLENBERG COMPETITION FIRST PRIZE$ 9k travel scholarship, awarded by jury (explored Europe)

BURTON L. KAMPNER AWARDBest project in class, awarded by faculty

DIMENSIONS 21Published with special acknowledgement

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTUREUniversity of Michigan, Ann ArborApril 2007

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MODEL: WOOD BASEBALL BAT, BASSWOOD & ALUMINUM

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A STADIUM IS DECEPTIVE. A privately funded stadium claims to define an entire city. A publicly funded venue is entirely devoid of public space.

There are numerous problems with large scale sporting venues. Once theyve been painted in thick layers of dazzling spectacle, advertisement, and mythology, its difficult to determine their cultural significance. The personalities of athletes, fans, and cities end up rarely evident in the facilities that contain their events.

BUT IF A VENUE IS PRECISELY ATTUNED TO ITS SITUATION, it could impart more than wins and losses. A professional sporting venue has immense potential to reflect and absorb its immediate context - to consider prospects beyond beer, hot dogs, politicians, and global economies (a baseball park in San Francisco sits directly on the bay, an isolated football stadium that basks in the hills of Pasadena, or a stadium in Chicago that is so uniquely integrated, that its games and its neighborhood fuse into singular narratives (see right : Participation, Memory & Baseball at Wrigley Field) ).

In the modern era, stadiums were designed for flexibility: to play multiple sports and advertise multiple products. How do we get beyond economic efficiency and engage the city? Can a venue cope with uncertainty while retaining adequate shelf life? Shouldnt a stadium be flexible enough to adapt to rapid changes in population, infrastructure, or even climate? Might its specificity also affect the team rosters? Or even invent unique rules for the game?

WHAT OTHER STORIES WOULD IT TELL? This proposal imagines an outdoor baseball park formed by the specific features of Miamis latitude and longitude, operating within the varied conditions of weather patterns and foreseeable crises. The venue could both measure and broadcast local climate, floods, hurricanes, and temperature.

Simultaneously, it must be a relevant urban object for a city that has the 3rd highest rate of household poverty in the US but hosts the worlds highest number of luxury cruise ships. To be truly accessible it must accept fans (be they passionate or penniless) and bystanders (tourists or nomads). To be truly sustainable it needs to be flexible enough to be used by future Miamians (who may very well be climate refugees).

Undergraduate Studio 4 Architecture & Deception -- Spectacular Camouflage

DATE April 2007PROGRAM Major League Baseball StadiumSITE 1/2 mi off coast of Miami BeachNOTES The project won the Wallenberg Studio Top Prize and the Burton L. Kampen Award

SUSTAINABILITY, OR SURVIVAL

ENGAGING A WEALTHY AUDIENCE

INVITING A TRANSIENT PUBLIC

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In honor of our Sports & Global Warming special issue, we commissioned the design of a professional sports venue for the city of Miami. The resulting proposal for the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball is sited half a mile o the coast of Miami Beach. It recycles - converting damaged oil rigs into the venues structure. It also takes advantage of abundant renewable energy sources. But most importantly for us, it does not lose Miamis taste for fashion, motion and fantasy.

The stadium provides a unique experience for fans, and in many cases its free. Successful venues allow the non-paying fan a glimpse of the game and this venue would allowmany such experiences should the fan wish to boat, jetski, or swim to a position behind the outeld. But paying customers will not be disappointed. Tickets are re-imagined. No longer a piece of paper, but a re-usable wearable seat that doubles as a oatation device and will attach to platforms that cantilever over the Atlantic. Or for the luxury accommodations, view the game from the stadiums inclusion of Miamis image of permanence by booking a ticket on our synergized cruise lines!

Ideally, the stadium would be fueled entirely using solar, wind, tidal, and surface wave power. But even though it uses entirely renewable energy sources, it doesnt ignore that it is unique in this aspect, meaning it understands catastrophe might still be around the corner.

In honor of our Sports & Global Warming special issue, we commissioned the design of a professional sports venue for the city of Miami. The resulting proposal for the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball is sited half a mile o the coast of Miami Beach. It recycles - converting damaged oil rigs into the venues structure. It also takes advantage of abundant renewable energy sources. But most importantly for us, it does not lose Miamis taste for fashion, motion and fantasy.

The stadium provides a unique experience for fans, and in many cases its free. Successful venues allow the non-paying fan a glimpse of the game and this venue would allowmany such experiences should the fan wish to boat, jetski, or swim to a position behind the outeld. But paying customers will not be disappointed. Tickets are re-imagined. No longer a piece of paper, but a re-usable wearable seat that doubles as a oatation device and will attach to platforms that cantilever over the Atlantic. Or for the luxury accommodations, view the game from the stadiums inclusion of Miamis image of permanence by booking a ticket on our synergized cruise lines!

Ideally, the stadium would be fueled entirely using solar, wind, tidal, and surface wave power. But even though it uses entirely renewable energy sources, it doesnt ignore that it is unique in this aspect, meaning it understands catastrophe might still be around the corner.

In honor of our Sports & Global Warming special issue, we commissioned the design of a professional sports venue for the city of Miami. The resulting proposal for the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball is sited half a mile o the coast of Miami Beach. It recycles - converting damaged oil rigs into the venues structure. It also takes advantage of abundant renewable energy sources. But most importantly for us, it does not lose Miamis taste for fashion, motion and fantasy.

The stadium provides a unique experience for fans, and in many cases its free. Successful venues allow the non-paying fan a glimpse of the game and this venue would allowmany such experiences should the fan wish to boat, jetski, or swim to a position behind the outeld. But paying customers will not be disappointed. Tickets are re-imagined. No longer a piece of paper, but a re-usable wearable seat that doubles as a oatation device and will attach to platforms that cantilever over the Atlantic. Or for the luxury accommodations, view the game from the stadiums inclusion of Miamis image of permanence by booking a ticket on our synergized cruise lines!

Ideally, the stadium would be fueled entirely using solar, wind, tidal, and surface wave power. But even though it uses entirely renewable energy sources, it doesnt ignore that it is unique in this aspect, meaning it understands catastrophe might still be around the corner.

FADE INSPORTS MAG BOARDROOMWriters and editors confer over the cover choice for an issue on sports and global warming. An edited photograph of Florida Marlins pitcher Dontrelle Willis up to his knees in water, posing in a flooded Miami Stadium is up for debate.EDITORThis photoshopped cover is supposed to be unapologetically obvious! Pro sports is spectacle...Its an escape...Entertainment. An environmental catastrophe invading our climate-controlled fantasy world is absolutely surreal...ZOOM INTO OPEN PAGE

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THE GAMES WE PLAY // Prologue, Setting

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In honor of our Sports & Global Warming special issue, we commissioned the design of a professional sports venue for the city of Miami. The resulting proposal for the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball is sited half a mile o the coast of Miami Beach. It recycles - converting damaged oil rigs into the venues structure. It also takes advantage of abundant renewable energy sources. But most importantly for us, it does not lose Miamis taste for fashion, motion and fantasy.

The stadium provides a unique experience for fans, and in many cases its free. Successful venues allow the non-paying fan a glimpse of the game and this venue would allowmany such experiences should the fan wish to boat, jetski, or swim to a position behind the outeld. But paying customers will not be disappointed. Tickets are re-imagined. No longer a piece of paper, but a re-usable wearable seat that doubles as a oatation device and will attach to platforms that cantilever over the Atlantic. Or for the luxury accommodations, view the game from the stadiums inclusion of Miamis image of permanence by booking a ticket on our synergized cruise lines!

Ideally, the stadium would be fueled entirely using solar, wind, tidal, and surface wave power. But even though it uses entirely renewable energy sources, it doesnt ignore that it is unique in this aspect, meaning it understands catastrophe might still be around the corner.

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[LEFT] VIEW FROM CRUISE SHIP[RIGHT] CRUISE BROCHURE PLANS

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NARRATORTo the south of the stadium, an enormous hi-definition score-board attracts a party. Big enough to be seen by sunbathers of South Beach, the scoreboard attaches to a small-boat dock and caters to the type of fan interested in sports as a social event.

To the north, the stadium opens to the water, where fans on rafts or small boats can freely congregate and get an authentic view of the game.

A more conventional fan may ride the tram to the main con-course and take a seat. Because of the site, the seat becomes a designed object - a ticket, a souvenir, and a life preserver - that can attach and detach from the grandstands.

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NMARLINS PRESS ROOMIdeally, the stadium takes advantage of its siting, and fuels it-self entirely using solar, wind, tidal, and surface wave power. But, even though it harnesses renewable energy sources, we dont ignore that this is a rare distinction. There are variables outside of our territory that we may have to adjust to and a crisis could be a season away, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria explained.

Weve sloped the playing surface into the ocean at right-field, Loria continued. Theres no outfield wall, so a ball that lands in the water is a home run. Whats cool is this line will move over the years and youll see water levels rise or recede. If it rises significantly, I guess were in trouble, but the shorter field of play means more spectacular plays.

Maybe well eventually be signing Olympic swimmers to play right-field, joked Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez. But maybe people watch the water levels rising and get their shit together? Maybe not? What happens if the ascent continues? All I know is when the game becomes un-playable here, Miami is going to be under water.

[LEFT] DEPARTURES DIAGRAM + RENDER[RIGHT] SECTION THROUGH FIELD AND GRANDSTANDS

AFTERWORD, YEAR = 2030ATLANTIC OCEAN 25 47 N 80 17 WThe floating playing surface, tied down to a water temperature monitor, has been tripped and released; allowing the field to relocate. Field motors away.

FADE OUTGAME OVER MEASURE OF PROGRESS

(OR DENIAL)WATER POSITION IN2008

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THE POSTCARD IS OBSOLETE, BUT ITS PREMISE IS NOT. A choreographed image disseminates a tourists gaze, while a personal correspondence attempts to bridge wide spatial and cultural differences. Cities are increasingly being marketed for the visual desires of the tourist, and these iconic architectural images crystallize a region as definable, consumable, and static.

While the allure of the postcard begins with the image on the front, the stories written on the back are much more important. Infusing the gallery with the activity of its urban surroundings allows users to write their own stories and participate in a variety of social experiences.

[A]+[B]THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY Taking a cue from the Nickels Arcade - the 90 year old open air shopping gallery nearby - the gallery facilitates casual pedestrian travel by creating a new connection from Washington St. to Liberty St.

Peculiar views are established using change in grade, unconventional openings, and misaligning surfaces, exposing both important Ann Arbor landmarks and everyday pedestrians.

[C] A conditioned, indoor postcard display for historical pieces.

[D]PLACE STAMP HERE Scanned postcard images are projected on a neutral fabric wall at such an angle tha the image will be interfered with as one moves across the roof surface, casting shadows and placing visitors into the image.

[E]THIS SIDE MAY BE USED FOR CORRESPONDENCE Playing on the flatness of the postcard, a path takes the visitor in a loop around a tall digital display wall. One side presents the correspondence - the personal message from one traveler to an acquaintance. A walk to the other side reveals the front of the postcard, the image of place.

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DATE Dec 2005PROGRAM Postcard GallerySITE An alley in downtown Ann Arbor, MINOTES Project was nominated for merit award.

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THE CITY IS PLIABLE. Toledo is full of ruins. Century-old warehouses essential in the towns formation lay idle. This deserted, post-industrial center is now the periphery.

This project recognizes the compelling qualities of destruction and ruin and the preserved marks of a different moment. It tests the flexibility of this condition, and attempts to condense a complex overlap of building ruins, new residential program, space for public events, and constructed landscapes.

The two abandoned warehouses serve as the loci for activity and movement.

The south warehouse is to be emptied at grade for parking facilities. A new second floor receives the parkscape across the alley with a wide stair and grand porch open to the sky with a full basketball court. Housing units form a bridge from the south warehouse to the north warehouse, leaving the ground to wide community gardens. The complex culminates with a community pool shaped into of the roofscape of the north warehouse.

THE AMERICAN HOUSING STOCK IS OBSTINATE. The promotion of home ownership - large, static, suburban residences - has created immobile workers, inefficient economies, and empty city centers. With an interest towards investing in flexibility, this project proposes that what Toledo severely lacks is rentable residential units of the most simple and efficient typology. These apartments are loosely bounded interior territories - unprescribed for use but sized for multiple purposes. Inspired by studies of young adults using living space, the layout of these units pivot on a large, multi-use sink and television unit.

Undergraduate Studio 3Comprehensive Housing Studio

DATE Dec 2006PROGRAM HousingSITE Abandoned lot in Toledo, OH

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DATE Aug 2011LOCATION Morphosis Studio Culver CitySCALE 1-100 [ 5 x 5 x 13 ]MATERIALS Foam, Aluminum, MDF, Acrylic, ResinROLE Model design & fabrication team leader

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A SERIES OF QUESTIONS We began this model with some challenging curiosities. How tall? Can we go taller? How do we get it into the new studio building? How do we move it down the street? How do we construct it structurally? Can we keep it abstract and achieve the surface affects that will emphasize the concepts of the design? Can we keep the costs low, and still make a move-in deadline of 3 months?

A BUILDING IN A BUILDING Plans were forged beginning with the dimensions and limitations of the models final location - the studio space in construction next door. Important were the heights of door headers, the maximum weight for the finish floor, and the maximum weight allowed to hang from the roof trusses (as well as the construction/moving schedule). We separated the model into two light-weight pieces. The model base and tower up to floor 43 (8-6) were built on a aluminum frame with casters and pushed down the street once the studio building was completed. The top 29 floors and the roof were built separately, hoisted from the roof trusses, and bolted into the aluminum core.

DOUBLE SKIN The layers of the exterior facade were installed with precise handiwork. Laser cut and heat-formed acrylic comprises the glazing layer. Over 4000 laser cut panels provide the affect of transparency and reflectivity desired of the buildings proposed perforated metal skin.

SHOP CREDITS Jason Minor and Gavin Gaudette with Michelle Young, Borja Muguiro, Jeremy Magner, Alex Deutschman, Benjamin Abrecht, Mahan Javadi, Mckenzie Locke & Chris Bennett.

Photography by Michael Powers or shop team.

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DATE Aug 2010LOCATION Morphosis Studio, Culver CitySCALE 1-75 [ 3 x 3 x 7 ]MATERIALS Foam, Aluminum, Acrylic, ResinROLE Model design & fabrication team leader

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PRECISION This sectional model for the Phare Tower Grand Atrium challenged our ability to represent intricate details. The model required weeks of planning, structural design, and digital development of facade and interior details.

MOBILITY In anticipation for journeys across the globe, we invented attachments that would facilitate easy assembly and disassembly. A strategic material palette kept the overall weight and costs of the model low. These unique complexities required conversations with multiple fabricators in Los Angeles in order to produce pieces that were both mindful of budget and structurally sufficient.

FINISH High-gloss auto body paint and acrylic panels supply spectacular reflective qualities, and emulate the desired effect of the Lighthouse. Photographs of the model are often used as iconographic imagery for the Phare Tower project.

SHOP CREDITS Jason Minor and Ed Kwong with Gavin Gaudette, Eleni Koryzi, and Amaranta Campos. Photography by Michael Powers, Jason Minor, or Ann Lui

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TYPE / Competition Proposal, with Morphosis ArchitectsDATE / May 2012

LOCATION / Milan, ItalySIZE / 74,000 sqm - 796,500 sqftPROGRAM / School of Management, Dorms, Recreation Center, Cafeteria, Retail, ParkingROLE /Project Designer

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A TYPOLOGY ROOTED IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN. The Universit Bocconi campus is symbolically open to the city. Circulation flows and visual transparencies connect the new campus to the physical, social and cultural fabric of the existing campus and its urban context. Located south of Universit Bocconis historic campus core, the new campus extends the primary north-south axis from the existing campus, through the central courtyard, culminating in the expressive monument of the Recreation Center -- stitching the two campuses. An east-west axis establishes an active artery linking the Parco Ravizza to the east, through the athletic fields and central courtyard, to the Auditorium di Milano to the west. The building height datum of 30 meters aligns with the scale of the historic city of Milan and the surrounding urban environment.

THE TRADITION OF THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS COURTYARD. Organized around a central courtyard, this model evokes the memory of the origin of the European university: from the earliest monastic schools inward-looking cloisters, to 11th century University of Bolognas loggia surrounding the urban square, to the central court of the Sorbonne, and the quads of Oxford and Cambridge, and later Harvard Yard in the United States. Grounded in this historical lineage, the new Bocconi courtyard becomes the symbolic and functional heart of the university.

A MORPHOLOGICAL EXPRESSION OF BOCCONIS DEVELOPMENT. The traditional campus typology provokes a dialogue with the contemporary morphology of the fluid, expressive forms that shape the courtyard. Five spectacular atria serve as the building entries from the courtyard, and afford continuous views of the active lawn. This interweaving of tradition with innovation forms the framework for the future development of the project.

PROJECT CREDITSDesign Director / Thom MayneProject Manager / Brandon WellingProject Designer / Jason MinorProject Team / Hunter Knight, Marco BeccuciProject Assistants / Atsushi Sugiuchi, Alex Fritz, Chris Bennett, Chris Eskew, Jon McAllister, Nicolas Fayad, Zifan Liu Art Direction / Nathan Skrepinscki & Josh SprinklingStructural, MEP & Sustainability / ARUP

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A SUSPENDED 200M RUNNING TRACK FLOATS ABOVE THE GYMNASIUM AND THE CAFE, AND PROJ-ECTS OUT OF THE BUILDING IN A GLASS ENCLOSURE THAT AFFORDS VIEWS OF THE LAWN BELOW AND CITY BEYOND.

THE SWIMMING FACILITIES VISUALLY CONNECTS MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. THE GYM-NASIUM & CAFE LOOK OUT ACROSS THE POOLS TO THE CAFETERIA & SHOPS; AND THE STREET VISUALLY CONNECTS WITH THE LAWN, ACROSS THE GLASS-ENCLOSED POOL.

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LOCATION / Shanghai, ChinaSIZE / 100 ft x 10 ft MATERIALS / Foam (CNC Milled), Resin, Orange High Gloss PaintROLE / Designer

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PHOTO CREDIT IWAAN BAANSYSTEMS 1. CONES 2. STRANDS 3. ORTHOGONALS 4. PERFERATIONS 5. FOLDED SURFACE

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TYPE / Architects Studio, with and for Morphosis ArchitectsDATE / Aug 2011 (built)

LOCATION / Culver City, CASIZE / 8,400 sqft - 780 sqmPROGRAM / Architecture Studio & Model ShopROLE /Project Team - Schematic Design (Specifically 3D Model Design, & Coordination with Buro Happold & Tom Farrage)

LAS LARGEST NET-ZERO BULDING // -

PROJECT CREDITSDesign Director / Thom MayneProject Principal / Kim GrovesProject Manager / Brandon WellingProject Team / Chandler Ahrens, Jared Brunk, Phillip Brunk, Amaranta Campos, Alex Deutshman, Graham Ferrier, Sal Hidalgo, Jason Minor, Aaron Ragan, Natalia Traverso-Caruana, Shanna Yates Project Assistants / Chris Bennett, Sabrina Chou, Jon Cummings, Ed Kwong, Jeremy Magner, Nick Paradowski, Legier Stahl, Michelle YoungStructural, MEP & Sustainability / Buro HappoldArtwork // Tom FarrageLandscape // Katie Spitz

47[LEFT] A KIT OF PARTS DIAGRAM PRODUCED DURING BUILDING DESIGN [RIGHT] CONSTRUCTION SITE, MAY 2011

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[LEFT] BOOK PRODUCED FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA COMPETITION WITH MORPHOSIS.1 - 2011

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