emily mcguire architecture portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIOEMILY MCGUIRE

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FLUID DEVIATION Design Development

KOHN PEDERSEN FOX Mixed-Use Tower Design

CHICAGO FUTURE HOUSE-ATTACHED CASE-Residential/Urban Studio

CHICAGO FUTURE HOUSE-DETACHED CASE-Residential/Urban Studio

CHICAGO ‘GALERIE’ HOTEL an Urban Studio

TIMBER IN THE CITY ACSA Competition

MANUAL DRAWING Sketches + More

51FLUID DEVIATION

DESIGN DEVELOPMENTSTUDIO WITH MICHAEL EVERETT

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REVISED PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAM

INHERITED PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAM

1 Typical Stacked Library Volume 2 Create Vertical Connection (Void) 3 Expand Public Space Around Void

1 Typical Stacked Library Volume 2 Fluid Deviation from Traditional Methods to New Technologies

3 Slice Ends to Reveal Library to Community

This library is a fluid deviation from traditional library ways to the newly redefined, technological age of the library. This form houses the typical library’s book stacks in one wing of the splitting volume and computer centers and data in the other wing. At the intersection of the deviating wings is a continuous void, connecting each floor and both wings and facilitating the spread of knowledge.

Previous Page / Sectional Model Photograph

Top / Inherited Programmatic Diagram

Bottom / Revised Programmatic Diagram

7EMILY MCGUIREARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

2 Create Vertical Connection (Void) 3 Expand Public Space Around Void 4 Condense and Reveal Physical Knowledge

4 Create Vertical Connection (Void) 5 Expand Public Space Around Void3 Slice Ends to Reveal Library to Community

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Fluid DeviationLibrary Typology

Daegu, South KoreaOriginal Architects-1/9

6,000 sq m

Basement-Level 5 Floor Plans


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In accordance with the fluid concept, the circulation (both horizontal and vertical) via the core and void space are instilled with a sense of continuity and flow. As the operational diagrams show on the previous page, the new methods of library-keeping (through new technologies) have started to remove themselves from the typical stacks of the library. In order to showcase this new ideology and organization of a library while still giving reference to the historically

understood library through book stacks, the two methodologies are fluidly deviated from each other. The stacks, though, are ripped from the new technologically programmed spaces and are cantilevered, pushing the idea that traditional methods are no longer the foundation or grounding of a library space. Mediating between the two library functioning spaces (new and old book organization) is a void that connects all floors and functions.

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North-South Light Rendered Section


With a rigid north-south building orientation, the form needed to account for plenty of daylighting without glare. Utilizing the void, most of the daylighting effects occur in the grand circulation path weaving up and down the void. Secondarily, but also very important, is the canted South facade (this was also mirrored on the North facade, just not for the same performance sake). Allowing the form to

self-shade by overhanging itself, users of the library at computers will not be blinded by glaring light entering the spaces.

Above shows the longitudinal, north-south section and the light emittance designed for. Of note is the expansive skylight on the roof and the sliced and angled ends.

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CUTAWAY SECTION PERSPECTIVES

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1 / Typical Metal Panel Wall Section

2 / Typical Perforated Metal Panel and Curtain Wall Section

3 / Typical “End Cut” Curtain Wall Section


Shown above are the three main types of curtain wall panel employed in the Daegu Library. Top left is the most typical, wrapped facade of cold formed aluminum panels (some operable) as a structural, insulated panel system. Bottom left is the perforated aluminum panel with glazing behind that occurs on the core-side of the building where light transmission is necessary for circulation around the core. Finally, the above image represents the “cut faces” of the building

where clear glazing and glass mullions allow for the most light exposure. In addition, where the glass panels meet with the aluminum panel system, back painted glass is exercised to hide the build-up behind.

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WRAPPED PANEL APPLICATION

Elevations of the building show the use of the aluminum panel and the wrapping it must do to accommodate and reinforce the fluid form and “cut” glass faces. Juxtaposition of the fluid, solid form (created by the aluminum panels) and the transparent glass faces is best seen in the given elevational views.

Above / East ElevationAdjacent Page-Top / West ElevationAdjacent Page-Bottom (left to right) / South Elevation, North Elevation


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FLUID INTERIOR SPACE

Above / Interior Circulation Path at Desks and Book Stacks

Adjacent Page (left to right) / Interior Void Render, Lower Level Gallery + Auditorium Entrance


Interior spaces rendered above show the material of concrete as the chosen fluid interior material. In addition to material choices, lighting and furniture are also deployed in the Daegu library design to reinforce the fluid concept of the space. As depicted in many images thus far, the structural system takes heed of the changes in the library’s typology and grounds the application of this form by

referring back to typical massive structure, giving stability to the project in the context. Without such visible stability, the library could be too far removed from its preceding ideals.

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Top Left / Exterior Elevation Model Photograph

Top Adjacent Page / Interior Section Cut Model Photograph

Bottom / Programmatic Diagram Process Models

2CHICAGO FUTURE HOUSE

ATTACHED CONDITION-COMMUTER

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IMPLICATIONS OF THE CHICAGO COMMUTER IN 205020

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data aquired from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Census

projections influenced by papers published by Harvard and MIT and Census data trends

home homework

USA commuting + obesity percentages

This studio held two main constraints:- randomly selected ‘client’ profiles (which became the basis for comprehensive research to outline current demographics, patterns of consumption, and behavioral and relational dynamics).- lot size (either attached or detached, both case studies are presented here)

Previous Page / Interior Living Room Perspective with view to Greenhouse

Above / Diagram of distance between Work and Home and Obesity % within the USA

Adjacent Page / Diagram of distance between Farm and Table in relation to above diagram


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USA commuting + obesity percentages

If commuting discourages activities such as fitness and eating healthy foods, especially in the Midwest,

and if Chicago commuting averages increase from twenty-five minutes today to two hours by 2050,

then how will the Chicago house of 2050 counteract this dire commuting epidemic already present today?

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CHICAGO URBAN FARM

in the house of the future, you can grown your own magic beans from your own nursery1

house of 2050 living space = + +mode of exercise fresh food facilitator

IN 2050, COMMUTER RESIDENCES WILL HOUSE THE CHICAGO URBAN FARM

Top / House of 2050 Diagram

Bottom / Dreams of the House of 2050


in the house of the future, you need to burn it to earn it

in the house of the future,you can count your sheep under an apple tree2 3

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PROGRAMS OF THE HOUSE

Future Home (2050)Professional Programs Studio

Young Professionals : Friends / strangers in a household as rentals. Occupancy can multiply according to ephemeral presence of significant others.Young Executive : Single Person, executive professional, travels. Quintessential 1%’erPost-War Nuclear Family : 2 parent household - working, 2 childrenTravel / Work : Commuter member of family. Frequently travels far from home.Empty Nester (working) : Parent(s) working, at least 2 children in college.Father / Daughter : Single parent w/ Child. Elderly live-in Parent in household.Empty Nester (retired) : Married Couple. Love to host Grandchildren & love to travelLive / Work : Single head of household, works from homeLarge Family : Parents working with 3+ children, nanny

Design Constraint #2: 3.5 Week Project


Relevant Research: Chicago Vernacular

Active Parameters: Finding Chicago

Relevant Research: History of House of the Future

Design Constraint #1:Foundation Research. Duration of Semester

In the first design exercise for the Future Home, students were given a theoretical ‘Lot’ with dimensions, setbacks, ‘North’, buildable areas, and FAR ratios to constrain the massing, area and heights of the projects. To determine the neighborhood and locations within Chicago, the students applied their Client profile and climactic analyses.

The first Lot the students studied was the traditional ‘Detached’ lot typology typical of the majority of Chicago’s neighborhoods, seen particularly in Prairie, 4-Square, and Bungalow Style houses.

The second design exercise switched lot types, and required the students to design within the constraints of an urban ‘Attached’ condition typical of Townhouse, Italianate, and Romanesque Revival Style residences.

In addition to the constrained planning dimensions of the attached typology, the students were faced with a reduced amount of area for thermal and water collection and gain to only two short facades and the roof condition. Furthermore, the ratio of height to width and the attached nature of the neighbors created significantly constrained conditions for direct daylighting.

As with the prior exercise, students used their client profile to situate and locate the contexts of their project in Chicago.

Students also studied (9) existing and historical housing typologies that form the basis of Chicago’s Housing ‘stock’ and neighborhood fabrics. The students were asked to investigate in a measured manner the bulk characteristics of these various typologies. In addition they studied and diagrammed the architectural and performative characteristics, and building and construction systems, as a set of inter-operable and dependant flows, that give identity to the type.

The (9) Types:

-Front Gable/Worker’s Cottage

-Romanesque Revival

-Italianate

-Queen Anne

-Prairie

-Bungalow

-American 4-Square

-Urban Townhouse (2-side attached)

-2/3 Flat . Mother-Daughter

Students began the semester’s work by undertaking intense analysis and identification of the climactic and energetic flows and environmental factors that define and characterize Chicago and its immediate region. This work immediately translated into foundational research into how Chicago and its metropolitan infrastructure currently process these flows, and what the sustainability of these systems will be in 2050. In addition to the climactic analyses and typical contextual research (topography, infrastructure, etc), the students specifically investigated and questioned:

Water Scarcity - Can Lake Michigan support the city’s potable and other water uses at an urban scale in 2050, despite unregulated consumption and lack of treated recharge?

Food Consumption - Will Chicago’s position as a transit hub instigate the increasing distance between point of growth and point of consumption? Can this be mitigated with viable local solutions?

Quality of Life (Work + Travel) - How will projected expansion of transport networks also expand the acceptable daily ‘commute’?

Human Health (Daylight + Artificial Light) - How does the proliferation of display technology and its infiltration throughout daily routines affect human health?

Energy Generation - What forces and flows can consistently provide alternative local means to generate power?

Human Health (Air Quality) - How can our homes create probiotic environments that promote our health?

Air Flow - How can urban air flow be used to help calibrate micro-climates that contribute to the internal organization of the Future Home?

Sustainable Devices- Can the devices and appliances we currently own and direct precious resources to become sources of energy capture and storage?

Future Economies- Can the house of the future and its modes of operation create new economies and social contracts?

Subsequent to the student’s climactic + environmental research, the approach to the brief began with understanding the charged and rich history of architects being commissioned to design and build ‘Houses of the Future.’ This research culminated in a series of investigative drawings identifying how the operative conceptual polemic is manifested in the architecture of the house, and then how that house is ‘posed’ for its audience.

This research led to a series of diagrammatic and representational techniques utilized for subsequent analysis.

The studio randomly selected a ‘client’ profile - which became the basis for comprehensive research to outline current demographics, patterns of consumption, and behavioral and relational dynamics.

These characteristics were diagrammed and projected to create a ‘2050 Client Profile.’ Design criteria and conceptual insights were developed from this data set.

Our studio project program came from the Chicago Museum of Science + Industry’s brief for the speculative design of the ‘FUTURE HOME. (2050).’ The brief demands that we speculate what terms will define ‘home’ in the year 2050? What will be the global+local concerns that demand response? What will be the defining problems that setup both the opportunities and constraints for human habitation? What programmatic elements, construction assemblies, and environmental systems will the Future Home consist of? How does this Future Home situate itself in the history of previously postulated Future Homes? And of course, most importantly, what will this home be and how will it work? The students were asked to respond to this myriad of questions and imposed constraints with an approach informed by Ecological Thinking - that is to construct a design ecology of questions, constraints, parameters and considerations to open up the process of design and be the departure point for the production of a piece of architecture.

Plot Plan for the Detached Housing Typology. FAR stands for Floor Area Ratio, which is de-termined by multiplying the lot size by the FAR Factor to determine the allowable square footage of residence.

Plot Plan for the Attached Housing Typology. The Bulk Mass of the attached typology is inextricably linked to the neighboring condition through the structural party wall. Students were either asked to respect this condition, or devise the a new notion of the shared ‘Party Wall’

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Right / Levels 1-5 Plans

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Adjacent Page-Bottom / Exterior Street View


billowed for sw exposurethe new urban farm intersection as circulation billowed for se exposure

What does life look like when four hours of each day is spent commuting?

How does that affect the home?

Each Chicago commuter home of 2050 is part of a community of mega-commuters, close to the high-speed train rail yards where the new urban farmer also lives and harvests daily (from each commuter’s house). This community has diversity in not only the type of commuter, but also the food grown in each home which can be customizable for the inhabitants. Although this is a community integral to the new urban farmer’s way of life, each house has the ability plant to fit their own living styles and taste.

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IRRIGATION SYSTEM

Right / Diagrammatic Section of Grey and Filtered Water Flows within the House

Adjacent Page / Detailed Delivery, Wall + Floor Section of Water througout the harvested half of the house.


The greenhouse half of the row house is irrigated through pipes integrated into the structural system, as shown in the image above. Water is collected at the roof level (collection amassing to an average of 126 usg/day) and is directed through a series of waterways and drip beds, through the faceted floor slabs to irrigate the plants, and once at ground level, either recycled back up for greenhouse re-use when roof-top collection is not sufficient or ultimately filtered for

domestic use and pumped up to the attached family dwelling for use in “water closets” and those of the like. Finally, once used as irrigation for plants and possibly grey water in domestic facilities, the water is discharged at ground level in order to recharge the ground.

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IRRIGATION-FLOW DIAGRAMS

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capacity: 1,310 usg

domestic waterline

controller

rainwater storage “tank” (pipe structure)capacity: 20 usg/floor

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level sensor

3-way solenoid valve

emergency shut-off3-way solenoid valve

5x 1/2 gphPC Emitters

10x 1/2 gphPC Emitters

reduced pressure backflow preventer

greenhouse return pump

domestic water add-in pump

(shown on the domestic water flow diagram)

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(left to right) / Rainwater Flow Plumbing Diagram, Rainwater Control Logic Diagram, Domestic Water Flow Plumbing Diagram


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are L1-L4 storage pipes at capacity?

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switch emergency shut-off/ 3-way solenoid valve

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to fill storage pipes with domestic water

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filter excess greenhousewater for domestic use and

pump into domestic water system

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of 1/4 gph for 1/2 gph-able PC Emitters

temporarily override the1/4 gph schedule andincrease emitters to

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rainwater collection roof “tank” full?

is the soil moisture content in either L1, L2, L3, or L4 lower than the optimal 10%?

rainwater control diagram

In order to understand the irrigation system through pipes, above proves the possibility and applicability of the entire water collection and distribution design. These flow diagrams hold technical merit when they refer to the individual irrigation and plumbing fixtures to allow this design to operate. Diagrams of the actual parts and logic are essential to working successfully with contractors on projects that might reach outside the typical architectural design scope. An

understanding of these principles are vital for successful coordination and ultimately successful design no matter what discipline they fall under.

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DETACHED CONDITION-COMMUTER

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ENGULFED IN FOOD

Future Home (2050)Professional Programs Studio

Young Professionals : Friends / strangers in a household as rentals. Occupancy can multiply according to ephemeral presence of significant others.Young Executive : Single Person, executive professional, travels. Quintessential 1%’erPost-War Nuclear Family : 2 parent household - working, 2 childrenTravel / Work : Commuter member of family. Frequently travels far from home.Empty Nester (working) : Parent(s) working, at least 2 children in college.Father / Daughter : Single parent w/ Child. Elderly live-in Parent in household.Empty Nester (retired) : Married Couple. Love to host Grandchildren & love to travelLive / Work : Single head of household, works from homeLarge Family : Parents working with 3+ children, nanny



Relevant Research: Chicago Vernacular

Active Parameters: Finding Chicago

Relevant Research: History of House of the Future

Design Constraint #1:Foundation Research. Duration of Semester

In the first design exercise for the Future Home, students were given a theoretical ‘Lot’ with dimensions, setbacks, ‘North’, buildable areas, and FAR ratios to constrain the massing, area and heights of the projects. To determine the neighborhood and locations within Chicago, the students applied their Client profile and climactic analyses.

The first Lot the students studied was the traditional ‘Detached’ lot typology typical of the majority of Chicago’s neighborhoods, seen particularly in Prairie, 4-Square, and Bungalow Style houses.

The second design exercise switched lot types, and required the students to design within the constraints of an urban ‘Attached’ condition typical of Townhouse, Italianate, and Romanesque Revival Style residences.

In addition to the constrained planning dimensions of the attached typology, the students were faced with a reduced amount of area for thermal and water collection and gain to only two short facades and the roof condition. Furthermore, the ratio of height to width and the attached nature of the neighbors created significantly constrained conditions for direct daylighting.

As with the prior exercise, students used their client profile to situate and locate the contexts of their project in Chicago.

Students also studied (9) existing and historical housing typologies that form the basis of Chicago’s Housing ‘stock’ and neighborhood fabrics. The students were asked to investigate in a measured manner the bulk characteristics of these various typologies. In addition they studied and diagrammed the architectural and performative characteristics, and building and construction systems, as a set of inter-operable and dependant flows, that give identity to the type.

The (9) Types:

-Front Gable/Worker’s Cottage

-Romanesque Revival

-Italianate

-Queen Anne

-Prairie

-Bungalow

-American 4-Square

-Urban Townhouse (2-side attached)

-2/3 Flat . Mother-Daughter

Students began the semester’s work by undertaking intense analysis and identification of the climactic and energetic flows and environmental factors that define and characterize Chicago and its immediate region. This work immediately translated into foundational research into how Chicago and its metropolitan infrastructure currently process these flows, and what the sustainability of these systems will be in 2050. In addition to the climactic analyses and typical contextual research (topography, infrastructure, etc), the students specifically investigated and questioned:

Water Scarcity - Can Lake Michigan support the city’s potable and other water uses at an urban scale in 2050, despite unregulated consumption and lack of treated recharge?

Food Consumption - Will Chicago’s position as a transit hub instigate the increasing distance between point of growth and point of consumption? Can this be mitigated with viable local solutions?

Quality of Life (Work + Travel) - How will projected expansion of transport networks also expand the acceptable daily ‘commute’?

Human Health (Daylight + Artificial Light) - How does the proliferation of display technology and its infiltration throughout daily routines affect human health?

Energy Generation - What forces and flows can consistently provide alternative local means to generate power?

Human Health (Air Quality) - How can our homes create probiotic environments that promote our health?

Air Flow - How can urban air flow be used to help calibrate micro-climates that contribute to the internal organization of the Future Home?

Sustainable Devices- Can the devices and appliances we currently own and direct precious resources to become sources of energy capture and storage?

Future Economies- Can the house of the future and its modes of operation create new economies and social contracts?

Subsequent to the student’s climactic + environmental research, the approach to the brief began with understanding the charged and rich history of architects being commissioned to design and build ‘Houses of the Future.’ This research culminated in a series of investigative drawings identifying how the operative conceptual polemic is manifested in the architecture of the house, and then how that house is ‘posed’ for its audience.

This research led to a series of diagrammatic and representational techniques utilized for subsequent analysis.

The studio randomly selected a ‘client’ profile - which became the basis for comprehensive research to outline current demographics, patterns of consumption, and behavioral and relational dynamics.

These characteristics were diagrammed and projected to create a ‘2050 Client Profile.’ Design criteria and conceptual insights were developed from this data set.

Our studio project program came from the Chicago Museum of Science + Industry’s brief for the speculative design of the ‘FUTURE HOME. (2050).’ The brief demands that we speculate what terms will define ‘home’ in the year 2050? What will be the global+local concerns that demand response? What will be the defining problems that setup both the opportunities and constraints for human habitation? What programmatic elements, construction assemblies, and environmental systems will the Future Home consist of? How does this Future Home situate itself in the history of previously postulated Future Homes? And of course, most importantly, what will this home be and how will it work? The students were asked to respond to this myriad of questions and imposed constraints with an approach informed by Ecological Thinking - that is to construct a design ecology of questions, constraints, parameters and considerations to open up the process of design and be the departure point for the production of a piece of architecture.

Plot Plan for the Detached Housing Typology. FAR stands for Floor Area Ratio, which is de-termined by multiplying the lot size by the FAR Factor to determine the allowable square footage of residence.

Plot Plan for the Attached Housing Typology. The Bulk Mass of the attached typology is inextricably linked to the neighboring condition through the structural party wall. Students were either asked to respect this condition, or devise the a new notion of the shared ‘Party Wall’

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Tired of spending time grocery shopping?

The urban farmer will have your crop harvested each day so that fresh food is ready for you upon your return from work and the hassle of grocery shopping is diminished.

Previous Page / Interior Living Room Perspective

Above / Chicago Detached Lot Size Plan

Right / Basement-Level 2 Plans

Adjacent Page / Level 3 Plan


Under the same implications as the attached condition future house shown previously and the same fairytale farm home polemic, this detached suburban house employs a deep wall cavity enclosing each room so that the commuter is surrounded by healthy, accesible food for harvest when he or she returns home after such a long and exhausting day of work and travel. The same three programmatic aspects are used within the detached house: living, exercise, and

food facilitator as the plans above and adjacent show. As a detached condition refers to, the amount of exterior surfaces is increased and, therefore leads to increasing the importance of planting based on “north” or “south” exposure. Thus, each room can be linked to its harvestability per plant and season.

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CORE STAIR (WORKOUT)

Above / Massing Axonometric

Right / Longitudinal Diagrammatic and Programmatic Section through Workout Stair

Adjacent Page / Transverse Diagrammatic and Programmatic Section


Never enough time for the gym?

After work, there is no need for a gym when you live in the commuter neighborhood of Chicago; the “gym” is built into the core of the house and just navigating between rooms maximizes health by taking the continuous staircase from ground to top bedroom level.

Aligned with the midnight snack tale, favorite snacks are only ever a couple of staircases away. The staircase mass interacts with both the living and greenhouse sides of the house. With an open structural system, each space seems connected to the next and encourages movement up and down the vertical circulation between rooms and growing media.

4TIMBER IN THE CITY

COMPETITION WITH MICHAEL EVERETT

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Previous Page / Street View Render of Peeling Landscape, Tower and Fabrication Facade

Above / Complex Owner’s Company Logo

Right / Organizational Polemic Diagram Adjacent Page / Fabrication Shop Rendered Section Perspective


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extrude residential towers

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Above / Aerial View of Site in Red Hook

Adjacent Page (top to bottom) / Level Two Complex Plan, Level One Complex Plan

LiveFAB is centered around creating a community greenspace that contrasts with the industrial past of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Located adjacent to a community garden and across from a waterside park, the project ties the green together conceptually, further integrating greenspace throughout the community. Just as Central Park is an immense green acreage in Manhattan, this will be the mini, yet still urban, expanse in Brooklyn. Looking from a bird’s eye view, the entire project site is covered with inhabitable greenspace.

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A large planar park is created, serving as both a roof for the program of the lower levels as well as a passive flood resistance device, providing more pervious land for water to be absorbed into alluding to and accommodating for circumstances as awful as Hurricane Sandy. In order to account for possible and inevitable floods, the storage and living programs have been removed from the ground level. A heavy timber waffle slab created by interlocking glulam

beams will support the planar green surface. The waffle slab maximizes plan efficiency allowing for large spans for the wood production and digital fabrication spaces that it houses.

Residential modules can be produced onsite in the wood production facilities, or in other similar facilities. Modules are structured by high performance cross-laminated timber shear walls and floor plates.

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Low-income housing has been, historically, negatively identified as confining, dark, and brutalist. A number of systems will oppose these stereotypes in the LiveFab community 1 / all residential program is laid out in a modular system along view axes giving each room a view of either Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, or the Atlantic Ocean.

Right (top to bottom) / Typical Studio Floor Plan, Typical 1 Bedroom Floor Plan

Adjacent Page (top to bottom) / Typical 2 Bedroom Floor Plan, Typical 3 Bedroom Floor Plan

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2 / Corridors are single loaded, with glass on the non-residential side to allow daylight and view corridors to be maintained. 3 / Corridors will be usable public space. Corridors will provide a number of different seating, studying and socializing spaces that will allow residents to occupy additional space to their individually leased apartments.

4 / All floors will have a south-facing lounge located in the circulation core tower with growing walls acting as screens. 5 / Each residential tower will have a fully functioning, accessible greenhouse on its top floor. 6 / All 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments will have an outdoor porch that also consists of living green side walls, integrating the green space with the residents of the immediate community.

5CHICAGO ‘GALERIE’ HOTEL

AN URBAN STUDIO

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Right (top to bottom) / Level 5 Plan (Typical Hotel Plan), Level 2 Plan, Level 1 Plan

Right / Galerie Storefront Render

Following Page / Exterior Elevation with Tribune Tower as scale

RETAIL GALERIE


In order to respect and highlight the gothic verticality of the Tribune Tower, a low-profile massing and radial organization is employed throughout this mixed-use project. Not only does such a form allow for a gracious space buffer between itself and the Tribune Tower, but it also allows for the integration of the three dinstinct but interwoven programs: retail, cafe and hotel. By creating retail with entry from Michigan Avenue and on axis with Wacker Drive, shopping

will extend into the site of the Tribune Tower, alluding to the magical “Galerie” passageways of Paris where interior storefronts provide shelter to shoppers. In addition, the cafe will occupy the ground floor and sidewalk directly off of Michigan Avenue during the summer and ultimately in and above the retail spaces all year round. As cafes in Paris are, this Michigan Avenue cafe will be situated for seeing and being seen. Finally, the Hotel mass sweeps around the Tribune on floors three through five.

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concrete rainscreen panel

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Right:Michigan Avenue Full Street Elevation

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Previous Page / Section and Elevations Details

Above / Model Views in Site

Adjacent Page / Hotel Lobby Render

The neo-gothic manifestation of the Tribune Tower in Chicago portrays some of the most recognizable features of the gothic era such as the pointed arch. In order to tie the new piece of architecture in with its surroundings, literally, the pointed arch is turned on its side and employed as the main galerie entrance. As shown on the following page, the remnants of the pointed arch are apparent in the hotel lobby, but carry no weight or significance like they did in the Gothic era.

6MANUAL DRAWING

SKETCHES + MORE

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Right (top to bottom) / Docks en Seine Rooftop, Info Center across from St. Paul’s Cathedral, Interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral

Adjacent Page (top to bottom) / Linear Perspective of DAAP, Atmospheric Perspective of DAAP, Plaka Perspective of DAAP

all renderings courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox

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Alongside the rest of the design team, I developed optional facade treatments (via mullion extrusions, material changes, curtain wall placement on the overall mass, and angle of curtain wall panels) and readied them for presentation to clients. Images of the top of the hotel tower were also studied to better understand how the tower could be “capped” off and how the cap related to the whole form of the curtain wall treatment (Rhino4 and 3DS Max). Both the hotel and office masses were investigated in these design options and also shown as pairs in presentation, as the bottom images show.

Top / Zoomed in hotel tower curtain wall caps

Middle / Zoomed in office tower curtain wall caps

Bottom / Overall curatin wall options of both towers

OFFICE + HOTEL TOWER CURTAIN WALLS

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dropped ceiling to hold services

Both Images / Detail Cutaway Perspectives of angled curtain wall roof application

OFFICE TOWER ROOF CONDITION


As the cover rendering shows, the office tower roofs were designed to be angled curtain wall panels that turned the corner at the roof and continued across the edges of many floor slabs. This case study that I produced was to question and better understand better the condition of the roof at each office floor slab and the relation of the connection between each and the inhabitants inside. Visibility was an aspect that was to be preserved, yet the head-height of the space limited the end condition and suggested the placement of something like a bench, as shown in these renderings. An upturned slab condition seemed a best-fit scenario allowing for the delivery of systems to the exterior facade in a clean detail.

HOTEL SPACE PLANNING

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Above / Hotel Tower Full Section

Adjacent Page Top (left to right) / Typical 16-Key Hotel Room Plan, Typical Split Serviced Apartment Plan

Adjacent Page Bottom / Entry Level Plan


Done in AutoCAD, these plans show the scope of work in relation to each program aspect of the hotel tower. In addition, the core configuration is of importance as the design is very tight to accommodate the many functions at each level, both front-of-house and back-of-house spaces. The section shows the vertical planning of the hotel, conference center, mechanical, and serviced apartment levels. This section is also

coordinated with the MEP consultants in regards to structure and floor sandwich depths. Finally, the integration of each programmatic feature is highlighted for ease of viewing but also to show the attention to detail in the space planning of the boundary conditions of each space.

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