CONTENTS 00 CHELSEA HIGHLINE RAW
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Chelsea Highline Raw
The Chelsea Highline Raw
The Chelsea Highline Raw is located in the Chelsea district of New York City. This mix use structure is a combination of an art gallery, sushi restaurant, and residential space. The adjacency to the highline allows an invitation to the elevated park goers to investigate some fine art or enjoy the wonders of Japanese cuisine.
510 W19th Street Chelsea District New York
Spring 2009 Professor: Christian Pongratz
Studio IV
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Site
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Concept
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The concept of this building was to create a form through a predetermined system of qualitative geometry called Pentominoes. Pentominoes are composed of five different congruent squares connecting edge to edge and are a rich subject for recreational mathematics. By implementing these shapes into system of packing within the limits of the site a unique topology is created through the likeness of each pentomino within the massing as a whole.
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Ground Floor Plan In Site
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Second Floor Plan Bar Level
Third Floor Plan Sushi Restaurant
Fourth Floor Plan Duplex First Level
Fifth Floor Plan Duplex Second Level
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Sections
Section A
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Total: 75’-0”
Roof Terrace: 75’-0”
Sixth Floor: 65’-0” Penthouse
Fifth Floor: 54’-0” Duplex
Fourth Floor: 43’-0” Duplex
Third Floor: 32’-0” Sushi Restaurant Highline Entrence
Second Floor: 19’-0” Bar Level
Section B
Ground Floor Art Gallery 19th Street Entrence
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[FSDLC]
The Facilitated Scuba Diving Learning Center FSDLC is a proposed design for one of the many sport pools at Texas Tech University’s National Aquatic Training Academy. The FSDLC’s pool is an acrylic cylinder enabling a face to face view of what is happening in and out side the water not only turning diving into a spectators sport for the general public but also giving the student divers the ability to learn without having to get wet. The scuba diving narrative is enhanced by both locating the school underground to create the familiarity of descending into water and having the ornamentation of the brain coral pattern which sanctifies the experience of learning a trade associated with the sea.
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18th Street Urbanowski Park Lubbock
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Fall 2008 Professor: Zach Pauls
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Subfloor 1
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Sections
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Structural Model
The structural system of the FSDLC is made of precast concrete walls, columns and slabs. This sectional model made out of plaster gives a better understanding to how the building will hold together.
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Exploded Axonometric
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Millenium Dome
Millenium Dome (Tensile Study)
The Millenium dome is the worlds largest dome with the diameter of 000 and hight of 00 which is made possible by the use of light wieght tensile construction. In order to gain a better knowledge of how this structure works me and a fellow classmate Jasmine Strictland sought out to reproduce a 2/12” sectional model at a 1”=12’ out of piano wire fishing string and bass wood.
Millennium Way Greenwich Peninsula London, SE10 0BB England
Fall 2008 Professor: Zach Pauls
Studio III
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Plan of Cables
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Living Structure
This Project was developed through the investigation of Light performances and Pattern transformations as fields of operability in architecture. The research, through the light and patterns, reveals a relationship between material expression and affect. Then applying this knowledge to a “living” structure that adapts, relocates and reorients itself to changing environments, and program. Appling the Light and Pattern studies to the structure created an investigation on skin performance: relationship with the body/structure, with material organization, surface modulation and treatment; geometry, pattern, texture, light, sensation, experience.
Living Structure
Living Structure
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Fall 2008 Professor: Maria Perbellini
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Living Structure
Stage 1: Light Box
Light is one of architecture’s most important elements. Whether natural or artificial, light might emphasize or mask spatial properties. The Light Box develops a knowledge of given “enclosures” by blurring their spatial boundaries, through the exploration of their sensorial potentialities, leading to new redefined spatialities. A box, a solid, a room, a sequence of adjacent surfaces, or an oriented object will be affected and dissolved by the movement of light/shadow across the interior space.
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Stage 2: Reconstructing a 2D Pattern
Art Nouveau pattern deconstructed into its basic elements.
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Repetition
Rotation
Overlapping
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Stage 3: 3D Pattern
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Stage 4: Living Structure
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First Floor Plan
1/2 Bathrm
Living
K/Dining
Second Floor Plan
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Bedroom
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Living Structure
Circulation Systems
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Programmatic Orginization Stairs
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Stairs Service
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Bedroom
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Monstreal
Monstreal (Study Abroad)
Big Cities are constantly under threat of a monster attack, in 1933 King Kong ravaged though New York, and in 1954 Godzilla destroyed most of Tokyo. In order to contain monsters such as Mothra, The Blob, and Mecha Godzilla from destroying Montreal one must know their weaknesses. Monstreal not only has a tower that will clearly identify an Urban Monster broadcasting to the world the whereabouts of the beast but it also provides a mass fitted to allow an easy gettaway through the site that connects the east and west streets. Like a classic Godzilla movie, studio classes create a fictional and sometimes absured scenario and apply it to reality so this project is not only a satire but a celebration in the comprehention of studio.
375 D’ Youville Montreal, QC Canada
Summer 2009 Professor: Brian Rex
Study Abroad
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Models
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