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StudiosShifting Sands National Park. 6Block Party. 18Thinnest. 34Rube Goldberg Bank. 44Settings/ Browser History. 50Camouflage Chaise. 52

TechnologyGrate Culinary School. 56Fitness Facade. 62Wyly Theater Analysis. 64

Visual StudiesRepresentation of Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House. 70Representation of Kenneth Anger’s L’Eaux D’Artifice. 71Animation of Glass Fabric. 74Sketch Models. 76

Installation + Art WorkGSAPP Exhibitions. 80Projects For Christian + Joanna. 82Situ Studio’s ReOrder. 84Space + Image. 85A Sense of Place + Other Art Work. 86

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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STUDIOS 5

Urban Estuary Studio : Jamaica Bay 2050M.Arch / MS.RED Combined StudioReal Estate Partner: Emily LaetzCritics: Kate Orff + Kate Ascher

The Rockaway Peninsula will shift and degrade over time. This large park landscape project is designed to evolve with the forces of wind, water, and climate change. The park becomes a wilderness destination for those from nearby Manhattan, while increasing the resilience to storm surge for the surrounding communities.

SHIFTING SANDS NATIONAL PARK

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Kit of Parts - Shoreline shapers

Breakwater

Sand Fence

Jetty/ Inlet

Re-plantingGeo-tube

Groin

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Phase I. A “light touch” eco resort is established on the west side of Fort Tilden. A boardwalk connecting Breezy Point, the resort, and Roxbury is built. Phase I is low investment with a high return to fund later phases.

Eco-resort + Boardwalk

Protective Fill

Protective Fill

Restore Pine Forest

Breakwaters

Sand fencesBreezyPoint

Roxbury

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Phase II.A glamp ground with yurts opens in Jacob Riis Landing. Dredge operations begin by Robert Moses’ parking lot to provide flushing and sedimentation for Jamaica Bay and protective fill elsewhere on site. Sedimentation will be directed to create a new island for piping plovers, allowing dredge operations to be partially funded by Fish and Wildlife Grants.

Phase III. A small craft channel opens to give visitors a bay-to-beach kayaking experience. The boardwalk grows to encircle the footprint of the old parking lot, and also wraps to create a stadium that can retain flood water when not in use.

Yurt Glampground+ Art Center

Boatel

Dune Restoration

Small Craft Channel

Flood-Retaining StadiumProtective Fill

“Seed” fill for Plover Island

Channel Dredging

Wetland

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Phase IV.With protective beach having built up in front of it, the Jacob Riis Bathhouse is renovated for guest facilities on the flood-able ground floor and an event space on the top floor. Nearby Neponsit nursing home is renovated as a conference space.

Conference Center

Playground

Event SpaceBoardwalk Retail

Plover Island

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“Light-touch” tents

Boardwalk becomes emergency route

Sand-collectingBoardwalk

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Eco-Resort during Flood Event

Eco-Resort

Permanent Structures on Existing Battery

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Parts of Boardwalk retain flood-water

Rooftop Lounge with views of Jamaica Bay

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Boatel during Flood Event

Boatel

Floating rooms rise with floodReception build above

FEMA flood heights

Small Craft Channel for Bay to Beach recreation

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Rooftop Patio becomes Emergency

Landing Pad

Boardwalk Retail

Amphitheater

Boat Storage

Amphitheater + Parts of Boardwalk retain

flood-water

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Renovated Jacob Riis Bathhouse during Flood Event

Renovated Jacob Riis Bathhouse

Second Floor Event Space

Kayak rentalImagination Playground Snack Shack

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Adaptive ReuseColumbia Building Intelligence ProjectCritics: Laura Kurgan and Janette Kim, and Scott MarblePartners: Eileen Chen, Katie Okamoto, and Anastasia Tania.

“Block Party” imagines a future where buildings in FEMA’s Flood Zone A become flooded with increasing frequency. Though it doesn’t make financial sense for a small building to be renovated for flood preparedness, it may make sense on a block-wide scale - especially if city laws change to allow the sharing of incentives and benefits (such as FAR) across the block.

Blocks vote via questionnaire on their attitude towards flood preparation and the changes they are willing to make. Our Catia system calculates what benefits they get from the changes, allowing for an informed re-vote.

BLOCK PARTY

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Cellar Storage

Contamination

Compromised Ground Floor

Structure

Urban Animal Habitats

Electric, Waste water and Plumbing

Infrastructure

Loss of Services

Loss of Habitat

Native Plants

Loss of Native Vegetation

Potential to make greater use of roof

Sidewalks, Bike lanes, and Streets

Sidewalk Waste Collection

Store fronts

LES townhouse Flood Impact on LES townhouse

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Ground Interventions

Slow release of storm-water run off

Redistribute filtered water from roof to block

Create additional stories to replace ground-floor

Create above-flood level boiler and water infrastructure

Collect, store, and filter rain water

Support additional roof weight Create recreational roof-top wetlands and gardens

Slow release of storm-water run off

Create habitat for bats, insects, and birds

raise ground circulationContain waste to prevent water contaminationAllow ground level to be “leaky” to reduce flood damage

Make up difference between building floor levels

BRACING STORAGE

HANGING STORAGE

RUNOFF CISTERN

LEAKY PAVER

SOLAR DUMPSTER

PIPE LINK SCAFFOLD LINK WATER COLLECTOR GARDEN OR WETLAND

STORY-MAKER

WATER FILTER

ETFE WALL PANEL

Courtyard + Linking Interventions Roof Interventions

FLEX PAVER

BARN OWLHABITAT

BATHABITAT

PURPLE MARTINHABITAT

Interventions on Block Level to Cope with Flooding

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Step 1: Join Step 2: Choose a continuous or point access circulation

Step 3: Determine massing based on desired water capacity, available FAR, and bearing capacity of existing buildings

Scenario 1: One quarter of the block joins, desiring to maximize their water storage capabilities with sterile technology.

Scenario 2: The entire block joins, desiring transferable FAR while creating infrastructural resiliency and habitat space for animals.

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Step 4: Choose whether to use man-made “sterile” technologies to filter and store rain water, or to use systems based on those in nature like wetlands which create habitat for urban animals.

Step 5: Evaluate the output and repeat the process as necessary to balance the priorities of block members. 23

0 GARDENS0 WETLANDS MILKWEED, DILL, FENNEL0 MONARCH BUTTERFLIES0 LADY BUGS0 EARTHWORMS0 EGRETS0 PURPLE MARTINS0 BARN OWLS0 MOSQUITOES EATEN BY 0 BROWN BATS0 OYSTERS

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74 GARDENS92 WETLANDS MILKWEED, DILL, FENNEL185 MONARCH BUTTERFLIES3,478 LADY BUGS101,010 EARTHWORMS4 EGRETS64 PURPLE MARTINS6 BARN OWLS18,000,000 MOSQUITOES EATEN BY 18,000 BROWN BATS14,400 OYSTERS

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ElementColumbia Building Intelligence ProjectCritics: Laura Kurgan and Janette Kim, and Scott Marble

“Let’s Cohabitate”is a CBIP element within the larger group strategy of “Block Party.” It uses the “negative spaces” of architecture – to create habitat for urban animals. It takes into account the amount and quality of the space and then packs it with the appropriate kind and amount of habitat.

As with all “elements” in CBIP, the scripts behind this “Let’s Cohabitate” can be repurposed. The volume creation script could be used to calculate how much more insulation is needed to cover heat leakages or to map a texture onto a geometry in Catia. The packing part of the script could be used to randomly pack any three-dimensional space with objects of multiple sizes and shape of object

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Work flow Diagram

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Input:

Output:

Geometric

22 pts x 22 pts; 20’ x 20’ spacing.4 Texture Factor

70 Density Points

5 Random Seed

P1

Housing

Animals per Housing

Max Animals / block

P2 P3

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40

2

40

1

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Priority 1 Priority 150 40



Potential Animals Housed Spatially

Potential Animals Supported by Block

2 Priority 1

3 Priority 2

10 Priority 3

Num Habitats Created

Full Packing ExampleVolume Creation Iterations

Nearest Building Height - 500 inTexture Factor 12Bulge Factor .3Window Distance Factor .5




Pipe Insulation expands to host nesting owls, limited by constraints such as nearest building height and nearest window.

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Nectar Bar Great Pad

5265 sq ft of Wetland

Loam Sweet Loam

1 SQFT Compost

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Habitat Insertions

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Habitat Insertions

1 bat eats 1,000 mosquitoes / night1 SQFT Surface

Draculair

1 SQFT Surfacein Sun

10 Calories, .99 grams Protein / Oyster

Eat me on Pearl Street

1 purple martin eats its own weight (4 oz) in insects / day

Hello Gourdgeous

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217,800 SQFT

1 owl eats 1 rodent / night1 baby owl eats 4 rodents / night

Foam Sweet Foam

1/12 tsp Honey / Lifetime

70,000 - 100,000 bees / hive

Honey, You’re Home

Habitat Insertions

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Section - Habitats within Building

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NYC Housing Complex - SuperlativesPartner: Madeeha MerchantCritic: Scott Duncan

Each student group was given a different superlative (thinnest, thickest, least surface area, most surface area, shortest, tallest) and had to create a housing complex that reflected that superlative while adhering to the NYC zoning and building codes.Thinness is an advantage with incredible city views, daylighting, and natural cross-ventilation. This paper-thin housing complex stands by folding around a courtyard and bracing itself with a “kickstand” of community services. The structure expresses the programmatic need for community even within a tall glass tower. Privacy is created for the glass apartments through the use of a frit of varying density. Inhabitants can control light levels with a series of manually operated fabric awnings.

THINNEST

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Section through courtyard

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Market Rate Housing: 139,000 ft2

Subsidized Housing: 34,750 ft2

Laundry: 300 ft2

Gym: 2,250 ft2

Green Space: 26,000 ft2

Parking: 30,000 ft2

Commercial

BuildingProgram

Gravitational Forces channel into the 5 cores

Wind Force is resisted by the “Kick Stand”

Unfolded ElevationStreet Solar Gain

Unfolded ElevationCourtyard Solar Gain

Building Program supplements East Harlem’s Resources

Force Flow Diagrams

Land Use Near Site

Community Housing Site Challenges

Cafe/Market: 500 ft2

Child’s Play: 8,000 ft2

Aging Community: 10,000 ft2

Medical Clinic: 750 ft2

Business Center: 250 ft2

Solar Gain Mapping

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Model prior to adjustment to minimize solar gain Rendering after adjustments to minimize solar gain

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Ground Floor Plan

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Sectional Rendering of Courtyard

The courtyard, “community kickstands”, and lower two floors include programming that is open to the public.

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Jog Step - 1 Bed

Jog Step - 2 Bed

Duplex - 1 Bed

Duplex - 2 Bed

Duplex - 2 Bed

Linear - 2 Bed

Linear - 1 Bed

Linear - Studio

Linear - Micro

UnitsFormal conditions are tuned to a range of audiences

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Minimum FritLiving Room

Maximum FritBathroom

Medium FritBedroom

Closed Awning

Micro

One Bedroom

Terrace

Studio

Scissor Stair

Elevator Core

Two Bedroom

In-between Twist

Open Awning

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Floor 7 Plan

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1/16” = 1’0” Final Physical Model

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Architecture as Secret Double AgentCritic: Cristina Goberna

The Rube Goldberg Financial Machine translates abstract banking transactions into visual events which can be observed and assessed by clients from a variety of delightful viewing platforms. Information empowers, enabling clients to make healthy financial decisions.But is the exposure of private financial information to the benefit of the individual? And to what degree does its publication activate mob-like regulation?

THE RUBE GOLDBERG BANK

L3 Plan

1/32” Sketch Models

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Photo-montage of Bank from Ramp

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E-W Section

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N-S Section

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Virtual/Physical Studio MumbaiCritics: Frederic Levrat and Phillip Anzalone

From backgrounds to search filters to automated locations, our digital technologies customize to the user. This customization leaves traces of our identity behind, discoverable to the passerby. In comparison, architecture customizes little and provides little history. The bodily heat left on a subway or scratched surfaces hint at human life, but rarely does a project intend for a user to leave a trace.This project creates a secondary, adjustable architecture to allow for any person to “set their preferences.” The program they embed into the space can be read even after they leave by the remaining configuration of the secondary structure - until it is erased by the next user.

Chair to Stand/ Hanger Protoype

SETTINGS/BROWSER HISTORY

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Stand/ HangerLow Bench Fruit Hammock

CounterTutoring DeskIcon Cubby

Family BenchVendor StallDrop Ceiling

ShelfChair

Shoe Shining

Potential Patterns and Configurations

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SOA Chicken / Chair StudioCritic: Jesse Reiser

Students were asked to analyze a grocery store chicken and later to derive a chair design from these studies. My chair takes its form from a recombination of chicken bones, which are then altered to posture a man of Vetruvian proportions. Much as a chicken camouflages into the dust of a coop, the tattooed man blends into the patterning of the chair.

Transverse SectionsChicken Skeleton Combined Plans and Sections

CAMOUFLAGE CHAISE

Final Chair Prototype52

Serial Sections through a grocery-store chicken

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TECHNOLOGY 55

Technology Course - Industrial BuildingPartners: Richard Duff, Miles Fujiki, Marlin TorresCritic: Kevin Lichten

Grate Culinary School is an institution which trains chefs, provides graduates with incubation spaces to start their own businesses, and is a foodie destination with a market, bar, and restaurant. The building is designed around the heavy ventilation needs of the kitchens. The project carefully considers social spaces within the school, including catwalks for the chefs’ smoking breaks, and the interface between the students and the community, such as at the floor seven restaurant.

Plan Level 3

Exterior Render

GRATE CULINARY SCHOOL

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Restaurant Restaurant Kitchen

Library

Auditorium

StudyClassroom Kitchen

Administration

Incubator Kitchen

MarketLoading Dock

Storage Kitchen

Program DiagramDead Load Free Body Diagram Lateral Load Free Body Diagram

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Market

IncubatorIncubator

Incubator

Loading Dock

Classroom

Classroom

Office

KitchenRestaurantRestaurant

Event SpaceTerrace

Incubator RestaurantTake-Away

Study

Auditorium

Exhaust Core AHU 2

O.A. SupplyExhaust

A B C D E F G H

L 7

L 6

L 5

L 4

L 3

L 2

L 10’

18’

32’

46’

74’

88’

60’

Roof116’

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Lobby

Reception

Incubator

Classroom

Classroom

Cafe

Bar

AHU 1O.A. SupplyExhaust

Section through 2 Side Elevation

Exhaust Core

L 7

Roof

L 6

L 5

L 4

L 3

L 2

L 10’

18’

32’

46’

60’

74’

88’

116’

I J K

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TYP Reflected Ceiling Plan TYP Radiant Floor and Ceiling Plan

Supply Air

Return Air

Exhaust Air

HVAC Diagram

Radiant Floor 3/4” PEX Tubing, 9” Spac-ing on Center

Radiant Ceiling Panels

Radiant Heating and Cooling60

Steel column

Raised floor supports

Raised floor

Underfloor air supply

Grout access hole

Threaded rod cast into slab

2” grout

10” cast-in-place slab

Drop panel

Slanted concrete column

Steel Column to Concrete Slab Section, Level 7 - Level 6 TYP. Mat Footing to Ground Floor Connection

TYP. Curtain Wall detail Exploded Curtain Wall Screen Connection details

Concrete Slab

Cantilevered Steel Brace

GlazingAnchor with Thermal BreakMullion

Subway Grating

Steel Angle BoltedConnection

Aluminum ShadingScreen Panel

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Surface, Screen, and StructurePartners: Madeeha Merchant and Tiffany RattrayCritics: Joe Vidich

This screen for the Adidas building at Lafayette and Houston lights up in response to physical activity, documenting how busy the intersection is at any one time. Our stainless steel façade module folds to create a rigid shelf. Lights are hidden within pockets and reflected or filtered by the perforated surfaces of the steel.

Exterior Rendering Assembly Axon

60 degree Panel

80 degree Step Panel

30 degree Grip Panel

2”x6” Aluminum Rectangular Section

Through BoltsX Clips

FITNESS FACADE

Final Module Prototype62

Structural Bay ElevationStructural Bay Section

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Technology Course - Building AnalysisPartners: Richard Duff, Miles Fujiki, Jenny Yuan LinCritic: Chris Andreacola

From a stack of construction drawings, we represented the structure, envelope, and HVAC of Rex/OMA’s Wyly Theater. Wyly supports multiple theater configurations by shifting the back stage above the performance space, using a “Super-Fly” to store seating options, and acrobatically floating the building on a mega-truss, creating a column free space that opens directly onto the surrounding plaza. Its complexity arises from the desire for flexibility.

WYLY THEATER ANALYSIS

HATA horizontal truss that solidifies the rigid box of the belt truss, transfers dead load from the top box into the belt, and brings lateral load into the shear wall.

BELTA box truss that wraps around the building and ties into the shear wall and mega columns. Nearly all loads land or are hung from the belt and then are transfered into the mega columns or shear wall.

HANGING TRUSSHorizontal truss that is hung from belt and provides lateral stiffening for the glass curtain wall at the bottom floors of the building.

MEGA COLUMNS18” x 48” concrete columns that take nearly all gravity forces into the foundation.

SHEAR WALLContinuous concrete wall separating egress stairs and elevators from main building and along with the moment frame structure behind it, taking lateral loads down to the ground.

FOUNDATIONConcrete foundation where all forces, gravity and lateral, ultimately are resisted by the ground.

TOP BOXA conventional column and beam structure that lands on the hat.

Structure Exploded Axon

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Connection Detail at Truss and Concrete Column

Reinforced Concrete TrussSteel Box Truss

Cast In Steel Connection Plate

Stiffiner PlateWelded on Pins

Bolted Connection

Aluminum Extrusion

Waterproofing

Insulation Type 10

Level 8

5’ 0”

Level 7

Glazing bay

Aluminum Extrusion

Horizontal Girtallowing x

movement

Aluminum Connection

allowing z movement

Aluminum Connection

bolted to Horizontal Girt + Steel Angle

Steel Angle

Steel Tube

Aluminum Facade System Attachment Detail

Insulation Type 10

Aluminum ConnectionHorizontal Girt

Window Mullion

Glazing

Aluminum Connectionsto Extrusions

Aluminum Facade Elevation + Glazing Bay

5’0”5’0”5’0” 5’0”5’0”5’0” 5’0”5’0”5’0”

Wall Assembly Axon

Gyp Board

Insulation Type 3Metal Stud

Concrete Slab

Concrete Slab

Metal Deck

Metal Deck

Slotted Steel Clip Angle

Slotted Steel Clip Angle

Wide Flange

Steel Brace

Wide Flange

Gyp Board

Gyp Board

Gyp Board

Gyp Board

Structural Steel Tube

Window MullionGlass

Metal Stud

Metal Stud

5/8” DensGlass

Control Joint

Aluminum ConnectionHorizontal Girt

Aluminum Connectionfrom Girt to Extrusion

Metal Flashing

Metal Flashing

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HVAC system

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Stage Air Supply

Lobby Air Supply + Return

House Air Supply + Return

Outside AIr Intake + Spill

Rehearsal Room Air Supply

Chilled Beam Cooling System

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VISUAL STUDIES 69

Representation of Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House

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Representation of Kenneth Anger’s L’Eaux D’Artifice

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Representation of Kenneth Anger’s L’Eaux D’ArtificePlan

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Representation of Kenneth Anger’s L’Eaux D’ArtificeSection

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Animation of Glass Fabric

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Sketch Models

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INSTALLATION + ART WORK

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Arthur Ross GalleryCrew ‘10-’12, Exhibitions Assistant ‘13-’14Curation + Exhibition Design by Mark Wasiuta and Adam M. BandlerPhotos by James Ewing

As described by director Mark Wasiuta, GSAPP’s Arthur Ross Gallery is “a testing ground for exploring new approaches to architectural exhibitions, and a reflexive space for considering and analyzing architecture as it has been formed through exhibition.” It is intended to test the limits of architectural pedagogy.The crew of 14 architecture students fabricates and installs the exhibitions, using GSAPP’s resources including the laboratory for applied building science. The Exhibition assistants lead the crew and give input on the exhibition design to ensure its feasibility.

GSAPP EXHIBITIONS

The Keeper: Shuruq Harb, Fall 2013

No Longer Art: Salvaged Art Institute, Fall 2012

UFOs and Effigies: Tony Oursler, Spring 2013

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Muriel Cooper Messages and Means, Spring 2014

Adolf Loos’ Copyrights and Ownership Trails: Ines Fall 2013Adolf Loos Our Contemporary, Fall 2013

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PROJECTS FOR CHRISTIAN + JOANNAVisualization and Digital ModelingInstallation + Performance Artists: Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowka

For several years I have worked on digital models and renderings for these artists to help develop their concept, for competition submittal, and for fabrication.The resulting work has been featured in numerous art exhibitions and art shows including From the Canyons to the Stars shown at the Whitney Biennial,Smokey to be exhibited in Columbus Circle, Erasure shown at Frieze Solo in New York, and Mother Earth Sister Moon performed at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

Tomaszewski Erasure, Venice Biennial Proposal, 2012

Tomaszewski + Malinowka Mother Earth Sister Moon, 2013Tomaszewski Frieze Proposal, 2013

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Tomaszewski Erasure, Frieze Solo, 2014

Malinowka From the Canyons to the Stars, 2012 Malinowka Smokey, 2014

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SITU STUDIO’S REORDERAn Architectural EnvironmentBrooklyn Museum Great Hall, 2011Intern ‘10 - ‘11Situ Partners: Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Wes Rozen, Brad Samuels, Basar Girit, Sigfus BriedfjordPhotos by Keith Sirchio

This architectural installation inaugurated the renovation of the 10,000-square-foot Great Hall in the Brooklyn Museum. reOrder swells the forms of the hall’s columns to create more intimate spaces for gathering within the grandiose hall. The forms are created using pleated fabric manipulated using a system of clamps and custom “dress forms” inspired by crinoline gowns of the 19th century. As an intern, I worked to develop this structural system and on the month-long installation.

Great Hall Plan

Completed Installation

Structural System Section

Column during Installation

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Final Studio WorkshopCarter Road, Mumbai, 2014Partners: Dan Luo, Sheila Dianne Aguilu Bonilla, Brett Cracroft, Bian Lin, Zhizhen Wu, and students from Mithabai College in Mumbai

This small pavilion was designed for a small gathering space off a busy waterfront promenade Mumbai, India. The design and fabrication was executed in a week, with CNC fabricators working 24 hours a day to churn out the 430 pieces that were laminated to make up the 26 inner and 26 outer ribs.

The original design called for a pattern to be printed on the ribs, creating visual confusion between the physical space of the ribs and the imaginary space of the pattern. While time and budget constraints eliminated the pattern, the concept was reengaged by visitors who used the three-dimensional structure as a two-dimensional background for portraits.

SPACE + IMAGE

Digital Model

Pavillion Interior Completed Installation

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Visual Arts Thesis - Princeton UniversityCritics: Dawn Clements, Anne Agee

This artwork was created at Princeton’s Lewis Center of the Arts in the Visual Arts Certificate program. The work explored the creation of texture through line and the divide between craft and art.My thesis show, A Sense of Place (2010), played with the detached genre of aerial photography by representing through the tactile medium of the quilt. Quilting and the use of ignoble materials in a gallery show was a challenge to the program which had been pedagogically focused on high-art.

A SENSE OF PLACE +OTHER ART WORK

Virgin Mary Coconut Pound Cake, 2009

After Andrea del Sareto , 2006Self Portrait, 2006Seed, 2006

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McMane Avenue, 2010

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Johnson, 2010

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Okavango Delta, 2010

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