Download - Jimmy Bevilacqua Work Samples

J a m e s B e v i l a c q u aUniversity of MichiganMaster of architectUre (with Distinction)2012

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2013Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Lars Grbner (Project Leader), Kelly Raczkowski

Breaking The Edge (Detroit, MI) / VolumeOne Design Studio**

The goal of our design is to reenergize the social fabric of the downtown waterfront through a network of connected multifaceted spaces from Campus Martius to the Riverwalk; as well as, enhance existing urban assets to create an accessible destination as part of a new vibrant downtown Detroit. We do not view this as an abandonment of Hart Plaza, but rather as reclamation of the Detroit Riverfront by the city.

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Spring 2013Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Lars Grbner, Christina Hansen, Kelly Raczkowski, Xu Yukun

Inside-Out Hybrid (Detroit, MI) / VolumeOne Design Studio**


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The conceptual project functions as a catalyst for inter-activity between residents, office workers, young entrepreneurs, and the public by providing a public courtyard, transparencies, and shared amenities.

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Spring 2013Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Lars Grbner, Christina Hansen, Kelly Raczkowski, Jinwei Shi, Xu Yukun

Chaohu Lake Research Campus (Chaohu Lake, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**


The Chaohu Lake Research Campus is comprised of technical research and office buildings, villas, townhouses, and commercial areas for the residents of the campus. The core concept of the urban design strategy is the connection of green-spaces containing the necessary infrastructure to support the separate development areas. Bicycle paths, walkway connections, hiking and leisure opportunities, sports and recreation, and storm-water management systems characterize the central connecting landscape.


Fengyang County Sports Center (Fengyang, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**

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The design objective is to provide a Sports Park, which is flexible and will allow the organization of many larger and smaller events, while emphasizing the integration of the landscape features of the adjacent greenbelt to create an attractive destination for leisure and public fitness use in the future.


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Fengyang County Sports Center (Fengyang, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**



Recycled Corktown (Detroit, MI) / VolumeOne Design Studio

This project is a redevelopment of a vacant block in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit. During the first phase, the client asked for a barn structure that will serve as a community center and single family housing.


Community Center (Bengbu, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio

This project consists of four separate buildings in the city of Bengbu, China. The buildings include two community centers, an elderly home with emergency clinic, and a local police station.


HFUT Hotel Competition (Hefei, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**

The core idea of our design was to connect the HFUT campus to the city and to provide a public zone within the hotel that would encourage students, local residents, and hotel visitors to interact. Our design was awarded second place.


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The project serves as the iconic gateway to the city of Bengbu, Anhui Province, China. It includes a hotel, offices, and a retail component in its four story podium.

Gateway Tower (Bengbu, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**


James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2012Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Lars Grbner (Project Leader), Kelly Raczkowski

Bengbu Station East Plaza (Bengbu, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**

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The plaza will function as the new gateway, welcoming passengers and directing them to their long and short distance destinations. The raised plaza emerges from the landscape, echoing the language of the flanking commercial buildings. Raising the plaza allows for the bus terminal to be as close as possible to the train and subway entrances.


James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2012Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Lars Grbner (Project Leader), Kelly Raczkowski

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Bengbu Station East Plaza (Bengbu, China) / VolumeOne Design Studio**

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2014Independent Design Work

Great Lakes Cycling (Ann Arbor, MI) / Independent Design Work

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2014Independent Design Work

Conceptual Rendering of New Store Layout

New Logo Design Variations and Merchandise

Custom Clothing/Merchandise Display Converts to Bike/Accessory Display

Great Lakes Cycling (Ann Arbor, MI) / Independent Design Work

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Summer 2012Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Daniella Bevilacqua

STITCH Shelter Island (Shelter Island, NY) / Independent Design Work

STITCH was an exercise in design, fabrication, branding, and entrepreneurship. The design intent was to create an everyday summer bag suitable for young modern women. Ten separate fabric pattern combinations were paired and each was identified by a unique tag name describing the personality of the fabric pattern. The bags were sold at multiple boutique shops on the East End of Long Island.

Conceptual Rendering of Pop-Up Store Setup with two different display options.

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Summer 2012Design Team: James Bevilacqua, Daniella Bevilacqua

STITCH Shelter Island (Shelter Island, NY) / Independent Design Work

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2012Thesis (with Nate Anderson and Cam Stewart)

ReJOIN / RECURSIVE SYSTEMS AND COMPOUND WOOD JOINERY

It is without question that technology is having a profound impact on the field of Architecture, whether it is through design research, digital fabrication, parametric design, or environmental simulation, the long-term effects of these shifts are only beginning to become apparent. An area where the status quo of architectural production is being challenged by the advancements of technology is the transformation, or in some cases abandonment, of centuries old techniques of design and representation.

Our research for ReJOIN takes on the design challenges of the digital age and questions the traditional formation of tectonic systems. ReJoin investigates the possibility of design and production of interlinked wooden structures based on the constraints of structure, joinery, site, and production through recursive relationships. The research is structured around a continuous dialogue between traditional wood craft, algorithmic design technique, and digital fabrication processes, all of which inform the resultant built installation.

By implementing dynamic processes with recursive logic, material and production constraints, and physical prototyping of complex wooden joints, ReJoin explores how to design and construct such a system. The combination of computational capabilities with digital fabrication allows the introduction of craft related knowledge into contemporary practice that was previously bound to the skill and tacit knowledge of the trained craftsman. The use of the 5-axis CNC Router allows the cutting of complex multi-member compound angled joints in high speed and variable geometry which allows for mass customization of parts and easier assembly. Thus the implemented system mediates between site conditions, formal design intentions, tectonic needs, and production processes while creating a responsive connection between the conceptual and its physical manifestation.

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2011Travel Design Studio / Guangzhou, China (with Tarlton Long and Kurt Schleicher)

ACTIVE ALLEYS / NANSHA COASTAL GARDEN HOTEL & URBAN HOUSING STRATEGY

TRAVEL TO GUANGZHOU, CHINAThe studio travelled to Guangzhou, China to meet with the developer and the local architecture agency. The initial phase (one week) was to develop an overall site strategy, with housing and a hotel, presented to the client in China. The second phase (five weeks) was to design a five-star hotel for the site.

THIRD PRIZE DISTINCTION2012 STUDENT EXHIBITION

Position Housing to the East and South for Access to Preferred Light Conditions and Proximity to Water

Hotel Placement to the Northwest for Preferred Views of the River and for Visual Prominence from Metro, Government Building, and RiverWalk

Raise the Neighborhoods Above the Commercial Alleys to Separate Public from Private Residents and Provide for Parking

Divide the Neighborhoods into Courtyards and Gardensfor use by Individual Residential Buildings

Breakdown the Superblock to Smaller Neighborhoods Responding to Irregular Site Condition and Dominant Wind Patterns

Articulate the Landscape for Visual Porosity of the Neighborhoods Towards the Public Commercial Alleys and RiverWalk

Inject Commercial Density to the Neighborhood StreetsSuperblock with Commercial Perimeter




















































INITIAL URBAN HOUSING PLANNING PROPOSALThe primary strategic objective is to break up the large superblock and to create more pedestrian street level activity, thus increasing the real estate value of the commercial program. Inserting retail oriented walkable streets and injecting public activity into the site by slicing the property into smaller neighborhoods adds a vitality to the area that is missing in the current model.

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Clear separation of users andconventional notion of public and private space

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Distribute programs throughout the hotel creating nodes of activity

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Network of voids connect the programs and provide varying performative qualities such as natural light

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Take advantage of natural and constructed landscape to connect a business hotel with a luxury resort

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Puncture the massing of the resort similar to the business tower to create areas of interaction

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Manipulate perspective and skew building geometry towards views to create a unique local landmark

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Take advantage of vertical construction logic to bring convention center up through the hotel

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HOTEL DESIGN CONCEPTThe design proposal rejects combining hotel and conference program in a typical arrangement; instead, the program is flipped vertically, restructuring the tower to contain both accommodations specific to business visitors as well as open levels of conference and banquet program. The tower and resort programs are linked by a network of non-continuous voids, pulled apart according to different opportunities and programmatic constraints. The voids provide natural lighting, ventilation, and circulation at different moments.



Fall 2011Travel Design Studio / Guangzhou, China (with Tarlton Long and Kurt Schleicher) James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108


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Fall 2011Travel Design Studio / Guangzhou, China (with Dora Chan and Douglas Sharpe) James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108

NANSHA GROVE / RECONSIDERING NANSHA URBAN HOUSING PROPOSALReformating the Social Spine

Overlapping Public-Private

Establishing Figure-Ground Porosity

Integrating Water Features

Circulation and Entrances

Commercial Perimeter Walk

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REVISED MASTER PLAN OF ALTERNATIVE HOTEL SUBMISSIONAsked to adapt the master plan for an alternative design, the guiding design objective is to extend the concept of the social spine, which was presented by the corresponding hotel submission, throughout the site. The primary area of concern with the initial strategy is that it lacked the intermediate connections between the major programmatic catalysts, and the hotel, and created a visual barrier, hiding the hotel from the South.


Fall 2011Travel Design Studio / Guangzhou, China (with Dora Chain and Douglas Sharpe) James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108

NANSHA GROVE / RECONSIDERING NANSHA URBAN HOUSING PROPOSAL THIRD PRIZE DISTINCTION2012 STUDENT EXHIBITION

RIVERFRONT ARTISTS / ARTISTS vs. BLIGHT A DETROIT MODEL

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2011Design Studio

An adaptive-reuse project sited in downtown Detroit at the Globe Trade Building. The proposal calls for interlocking L structures that house both a live-work artist community and an art gallery featuring the work of local artists.


RIVERFRONT ARTISTS / ARTISTS vs. BLIGHT A DETROIT MODEL

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James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2010Design Studio

Visibility is vital to the success of the Megachurch. The chosen site places the church at the intersection of two major highways and at the threshold of two demographically different urban communities. The building, the programmatic interactions, and the people inside all get to be part of the billboard the spectacle seen from the road.

MEGACHURCH / A BILLBOARD IN THE EXURBAN LANDSCAPE



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SECTION B -- 1 = 20 - 0 James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Winter 2010Design Studio

CHICAGO DISTRICT LIBRARY / INTERSECTIONINTERACTIONINTERCONNECTION

The library and connected day school respond to the site conditions and the challenges that technology presents to the future of public spaces. Embracing the oddity of the site, the elevated train splits the library and the school, connecting those inside with a recognizable symbol of the city.

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DETROIT CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE / RETHINKING URBAN GROWTH

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2009 Design Studio

The design for the Detroit Center for Urban Agriculture and Seedbank engages with the unique site conditions presented by the adjacent elevated train line and the triangular site of the library directly across the street.

DETROIT CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE / RETHINKING URBAN GROWTH

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2009 Design Studio


SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ART PAVILION / PAINTINGS IN LIGHT AND WIND

The open-air pavilion, sited in Southeast Michigan, is a structure designed exclusively for the exhibition of paintings. The design uses natural light and ventilation strategies. Air flow patterns were tested using a flow table and light studies were conducted on digital and physical models.

SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ART PAVILION / PAINTINGS IN LIGHT AND WIND


James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Summer 2009Design Studio

ANN ARBOR BATH HOUSE / A RETURN TO THE URBAN NUCLEUS

BUILDING CONSTRAINT3.5 FLOOR AREA

STANDARD

- Street Frontage- Limited Outdoor Space

PRIVATE TOWER

- Recessed/Private- Limited Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light

PUBLIC TOWER

- Street Frontage- Limited Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light- Passage to Alley

DISPLACEDPUBLIC TOWER

- Street Frontage- Additional Outdoor Space- Access to Natural Light- Passage to Alley

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- Recessed Entry- Facade Holds Street Edge- Multiple Outdoor Spaces- Varying Light Conditions

The Ann Arbor Bath House and Theater returns the bath house to the center of the urban core. It becomes part of the entertainment nucleus of the university and urban landscape.

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Summer 2009Design Studio

ANN ARBOR BATH HOUSE / A RETURN TO THE URBAN NUCLEUS

The site is the primary visual focus on the central axis between Main Street and State Street

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Spring 2010Fabrication Studio (with Sean Baxter, Allison Grimm, Denise Huang, and Justin Mast)

UNTITLED CHAIR No. 1 / BENT WOOD CHAIR

Using a technique pioneered by Michael Thonet in the 1840s, the white oak blanks were soaked, steamed, and bent by hand. The design uses the bends for structure, material efficiency, and formal qualities.

James Bevilacqua [email protected] (917) 822-0108Fall 2010Representation Studio

UNTITLED CHAIR No. 2 / IN-CHAIR-OGATION

An investigation of the wirechair through hand drawing, physical modelling, and ultimately digital representation. The interrogation of precedent studies, medium, and material were instrumental in the design of Untitled Chair No. 2, In-chair-ogation.

J a m e s B e v i l a c q u aUniversity of MichiganMaster of architectUre (with Distinction)2012-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1311 west hUron street | ann arbor, Mi 48103(917) 822-0108 | [email protected]

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