justin paul ware | portfolio 2007 - 2013

installations. competitions. residential. institutional. urban. humanitarian.

justinpaulware.

installations.

My design used hundreds of identical black plastic forks, each with its handle removed. By removing the handles, a connection between the forks was possible that could create a chain. The most interesting part, though, was that by rotating the connection, the angle of the chain could be altered, and since a level of rigidity was maintained by the connection, this change affected the overall form created. Using this system, a mass could be created of intersecting chains, which when viewed as a whole no longer resembled sharp plastic forks, but rather a softer flowing mass that had been frozen in time. In this sense, the mass took on a liquid form that could fill or flow from the volume defined by the frame that acted as a container.

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Performance + Effect

Temporary Installation

Fall 2007

an individual physical exploration through a single found material to develop an understanding of formal relationships and how materials can be manipulated and used to influence environmental conditions and shape space within a defined 2 x 2 x 8 frame

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For P: 320 Material Dynamics, due to the enormity of the volume to be filled, we chose a material that could utilize the presence of air as a means to fill space. Beyond the idea of a balloon, though, the rubber gloves provided a freedom of connection that allowed for greater diversity and variation across the system. Presented adjacent to a project of orange construction fencing, the color compliment coupled with the conflict between soft and harsh conditions, provided additional inspiration. Air-filled rubber gloves are temporal in nature, changing drastically over short periods of time. Popping and deflation are always anticipated, so this conflict provided opportunity for additional variation along the shared threshold between the two projects.

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P:320 Material Dynamics


Fall 2007

a group physical exploration through a single found material to develop an understanding of formal relationships and how materials can be manipulated and used to influence environmental conditions and shape space within a defined 4 x 8 x 10 frame

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This project, which was featured for three days in the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centers Studio 1 black box studio, was the culmination of months of design iteration and physical production. The design emerged from a number of varied proposals, which were mixed and reworked over time by a team of students in collaboration with sound artist Francisco Lopez with the aim of creating a unique sonic environment to perform within. The result was a 32-channel audio/visual installation composed of a field of 100 individual hanging panels, each suspended at various heights and orientations within a 40 foot high 3,500 square foot space. Each panel was lit by a series of five LED lights, which provided the installations only light. Of the 100 panels, 32 contained small built in speakers at either end of the ten foot panel, creating a field of individual sound points scattered throughout the space. This project included the design, production, and installation of every component.

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Blindfield

Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts CenterTroy, New York

Spring 2010 / Fall 2010

in 2010 I worked as part of a team of students with artist Francisco Lopez on the design, production, and installation of a sound and light installation, which was featured at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center for three days in September 2010

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This project was an exhibition featured at The Hyde Collection from February 11 to April 15 of 2012. The exhibit presents architectural proposals designed by Rensselaers School of Architecture faculty and students as an intellectual investigation into possible future conditions of the museums buildings and campus. The installation is composed of 1,224 folded, developable surfacesthose that can be unrolled without distortion generated digitally and fabricated from over 400 sheets of translucent high-density polyethylene. It was inspired by elements transposed from Italian Renaissance master, Sandro Botticellis The Annunciation. The fabrication challenges the Cartesian geometry and symmetry of the gallery space as it fluctuates between display and partition. It provides an affective environment that influences circulation as well as divides, unites, and exhibits the models which sit on the table-like portions of the installation.

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Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York

Spring 2012

over the Winter of 2012 I acted as the project manager in charge of the fabrication and digital design of this exhibition, which was featured in The Hyde Collections Wood Gallery from February to April of 2012

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For this project, I explored the material properties of both plaster and clay, through a variety of experiments in casting and unconventional forming methods. For these experiments I used balloons, sometimes filled with air, and sometimes with water, to give form to the material being formed. In some cases the balloons were used to create positive forms and in other cases they were used to create negative voids. These experiments resulted in the creation of a tiling three-dimensional wall component which has the potential to protrude into a space or recede from of it. The texture of these components is created by an additional sheet of plastic applied to the balloons. Additionally, another component produced may be tiled to create a screening condition with a variety of apertures which can be predetermined in accordance with the desired effects or defined by a series of parameters.

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Eviscera Brasilia: Carnal Clay


Spring 2011

a collection of experiments with clay and plaster casting using balloons to create positive and negative spaces, resulting in the creation of a tiling three-dimensional wall component

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competitions

This proposal is for a full-service guest room surrounded by a level of mystery and intrigue, allowing it to be a destination for experience, not simply a place to spend a quiet night away. It is a room for the after party; for its guests to explore, expose, and experience their desires. The rooms major design element runs the length of the wall separating the room from the hallway; it is composed of a series of translucent windows, each covered by a wooden panel suspended by an industrial weight and pulley system, allowing the rooms inhabitants to control the aperture. Light from each space shines through these windows, casting shadows in each direction, exposing shadowy renditions of the activities taking place on either side. The overall aesthetic is simple but glamorous, contemporary with hints of industrial, delicate without becoming overtly feminine. It is a space of subtle indulgence, where the guests largely define the aesthetic through inhabitation.

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BD West 2013: Guest Room Competition: Indulge Your Inner Diva


Winter 2012

completed with the GrizForm Design team over the course of a week, this proposal is for a boutique guest room which explores themes of classic cinema, indulgence, and voyeurism with the goal of creating a space for more than just a quiet stay

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This project was completed with Gustavo Crembil of Studio THEM as an entry for the ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition: Sponsored by FLATCUT. It was selected for second place in the Partitions category. The exploration of hyperbolic geometry takes multiple forms and employs a series of principles that push our understanding of spherical and Euclidean logics. The pseudosphere is, in principle, a hyperbolic form generated from the elongation and exponential growth of a concentric geometry that is limited by a base geometric logic. The natural expansion of an exponential growth across a linear progression creates an excess in material that forces a principle pattern of undulation. This issue is explored in a modular expandable ceiling piece that is the result of a hybrid dialog between hand-craft and digital methods and thinking.

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Pseudospheric Surfaces


Spring 2011

an entry completed with Studio THEM for the ACADIA / FLATCUT 2011 Design and Fabrication Competition which explores the geometric possibilities of forming curved surfaces from flat materials

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This project was completed with Gustavo Crembil of Studio THEM as an entry for the Arnet: A Cielo Abierto 2011 competition. The competition charge was to design a permanent installation to be built within Parque Sarmiento, an expanding green space within the city of Cordoba, Argentina. The portion of the park, which was to house the competition winner is currently being constructed on land formerly inhabited by large historical colonial government buildings. The roofs of these buildings were composed of thousands of traditional colonial tiles. Our proposal suggested a creative reuse of a portion of the tiles, incorporating them into the installations surface in a way that seeks to challenge typical use. The design challenges the formal limits of the tiles by applying them to a curved surface, which was defined by the extents to which the existing tile can be stretched. The overall composition is created by three inhabitable spatial forms, with disparate apertures.

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Premio Arnet A Cielo Abierto 2011: Tres Tetas


Summer 2011

an entry completed with Studio THEM for the Premio Arent: A Cieolo Abierto 2011 competition which explores and challenges the formal capabilities of the traditional colonial roofing tile which previously covered the buildings that inhabited the site

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This monument and visitor center, while celebrating the only place in the United States where four states meet at a single point, represents a crossroads in a number of ways. The two lines which form the boundaries of the four states are actually circles. Each of these lines, if continued, would wrap around the globe and reconnect with itself to form a circle. In this sense, it is a geometric and cultural crossroads. Located on the Navajo Reservation, it represents the modern and historical crossing of two cultures: the Native American and the European explorer. Recently, it has become a popular tourist attraction, which has provided a venue for the Navajo to celebrate and share their history and traditions. Taking this into consideration, my design derives from the geometry of intersecting circles and seeks to honor traditional Navajo architectural practices and beliefs. The scheme draws inspiration from the traditional Navajo Hogan, which is always oriented to the East and governed by clock-wise circulation.

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Four Corners Competition

Teec Nos Pos, Arizona

Spring 2009

a competition to redesign the monument and visitor center of the only place in the United States of America where four states (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado) meet at a single point

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1 Approach Road2 Ticket Booth3 Visitor Parking4 Staff Parking5 Monument6 Visitor Center7 Food Court8 Office9 Rest room10 Food Preparation11 Market12 Picnic Area11

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The Achio House, designed by DatumZero, is located in Costa Rica, and is a unique project, due to the minimal participation of the client in the design. In architecture, one of the most difficult challenges is designing something that lives up to the clients expectations. In this case, though, the client gave the architects significant freedom. There would only be a final presentation of the design, at which point the client would decide to build or not. Interested in blending the thresholds between interior and exterior, the design embraces the warm climate by creating a significant amount of inhabitable outdoor space. In this way, much of the appearance and concept are focused around the creation of volumes. From this emerged a notion of the inhabitation of created and existing edges which were defined with varying levels of permeability, generally acting as filters or thresholds more than barriers. A number of conditions are influenced by the site itself and property boundaries, but many are the result of applied geometries.

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Case Study: Achio House

San Jos, Costa Rica

Fall 2008

a case study, including the analysis of DatumZeros Achio House combined with the recreation and reimagining of drawings and models

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original project by DatumZero

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1 Living Space2 Bathroom3 Library4 Dining Space5 Bedroom6 Master Bedroom7 Courtyard8 Garage9 Terrace10 Kitchen11 Bridge/Balcony

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After developing an understanding of the concepts governing the Achio House, I selected a number of them to study through the design of four houses based on these ideas. The Achio House was based on the ideas of a house acting as a filter, creating ambiguity between interior and exterior space, and inhabiting edges by increasing intensity along them. Using these ideas as a base, I developed a new set of governing ideas. The first was to use a house as a visual filter by controlling the flow of views, light, and visual continuity. As edges were an important focus in the Achio House, I maintained an interest in edges, both of the site, as well as of the built edges. In this case, with four houses to consider, the edges which defined each individual house also had a significant impact on the other houses. An additional concept governing the Achio House, though, was an upward spiral of spatial volume, a concept which carried a significant weight on the overall site layout, and relationship of the four houses to one another.

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Generative Analysis: Four Houses

Undefined Location

Fall 2008

the development of four conceptually related small residential units situated on a single block, based on a conceptual platform drawn from a case study analysis of DatumZeros Achio House

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This design draws on an analysis and understanding of a pattern of distorted adjacent sinusoidal curves. We used housing units to further distort these curves by creating a pixilated faade which acts as a curved line. This outward expression is mirrored by the interior where many of the curves maintain their form, which creates hallways that are constantly fluctuating. In this way, no two floorplans across the scheme are identical. The program, faade, and interior are always unique and unpredictable, though they behave consistently across the scheme. On a larger scale, a separate set of conditions govern the scheme. The two larger side bars of the scheme, contain all of the housing units, and are more private, while the center bar, offset in relationship to the others, holds the dining and gymnasium facilities and acts as the shared public building. The orientation of the bars also creates a relationship with the rest of the campus, associated circulation, and the sites topographical conditions.

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Housing Complex(ity)

Albany, New York

Fall 2008

the redesign of the residence halls of the State University of New York at Albany based on the formal and conceptual behavior of a found pattern

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original found pattern

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1 Housing Unit2 Lounge3 Study4 Rest room5 Movie Theater6 Laundry7 Storage8 Dining9 Food Preparation

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Faade Patterns and Unit Types

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As an intern at Urban Nouveau* in Stockholm, Sweden, I spent a period of time working on the design and detailing of the Villa Haffenberg, a proposed guesthouse that required significant development and additional representational material. I produced a detailed digital model, which explored the form in greater depth and allowed a greater understanding of how materials would come together in construction. I produced a series of drawings and digital renderings that were used in discussions with the client and in negotiations with the local officials that were required to approve the design before it could move forward.

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Villa Haffenberg

Vrmd Kommun, Stockholm, Sweden

Summer 2010

during the Summer of 2010, I worked with Urban Nouveau* on the development and detailing of the proposed design for a guesthouse, an exploration in three dimensions through modeling, rendering, and perspective drawings

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This study was completed as an independent research project under the supervision of Mark Mistur and was concerned with the documentation of an existing historic building in Troy, New York. The Tangeman Housing at the Emma Willard School, designed by renowned local architect, Edward Larrabee Barnes, is set to be demolished and replaced by more modern housing in the near future. However, prior to demolition, it was decided that design should be properly documented for the sake of posterity. The scope involved a complete set of drawings, a digital 3D model,and a set of architectural photographs which accurately portray the work. The building was also documented through 3D laser scanning by AutoDesk, which provided a digital point cloud.

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Tangeman Housing at the Emma Willard School

Emma Willard School, Troy, New York

Summer 2011

with the historic Tangeman Housing by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes set to be demolished, this project is concerned with the thorough documentation of the existing building to preserve the design after the building is gone

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A1Documentation : Mark Mistur, AIA; Tyler Doherty; Justin Ware

School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL, TROY, NY

Architect: Edward Larrabee Barnes

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institutional.

This design focuses around the idea of separate spaces, both visually and conceptually, created by a connection made between them; this tension is created with a single ramped surface which is central to both the design and the buildings physical presence. The ramp, which actively divides the center into two separate spaces, also connects the exterior spaces created by the new construction on the corner of the existing Union Square. It connects the upper level of the existing park to the street level, which provides access to the center itself and surrounding spaces. In this way, the new construction will not impede current circulation flow, if anything it will provide easier passage through the site. Within the Center, the ramp divides the space into a public sector and a more private one, which, though functioning as one, relate differently to the outside. The public section is open to the street with higher split roof planes, while the private section opens onto Union Square and tapers into a smaller space.

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Center for Design and Democracy

Union Square Park, Manhattan, New York

Spring 2008

the integration of a conference center and public exhibition space into an extension of Manhattans Union Square Park, which seeks to celebrate the history of the site and create a public space, which promotes the democratic exchange of ideas

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This design is focused around a strong grid system, which dictates the overall placement of park elements and the relationship of the park with the exhibition space, which is integral to the system on a smaller and more local basis. The overall grid was rotated off the North/South axis to make more convenient and applicable paths connecting the existing buildings to each other and the new exhibition space. Due to the rotation of the grid, the almost quilt-like form of the park seems to disintegrate into the surrounding context, providing an open space in the center for recreational purposes. The roof planes of the exhibition space are L-shaped sections, a theme which is represented elsewhere in the park by the shelters, which follow this pattern. As the interior space of the exhibition area seems to almost melt into the abutting hill, and the glass which defines this space seems to protrude from beneath the roof, so the park, which carries this concept, continues on until it melts away into the surroundings.

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Aleatory Field Conditions

86 Field, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Spring 2008

a park and exhibition space to replace the existing football field and promote social interaction at the heart of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes Troy campus

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ACMEs original proposal was designed to compliment and act as the main built component of a new UN Peace Park built in the city to honor the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. The proposal includes a 1,500 seat assembly hall, which was inspired by the UN General Assembly Hall in New York City. In addition, there are conference halls, a theater, various exhibition spaces, offices, restaurants, a caf, and a rooftop garden. The various programmatic elements are connected by an exposed public circulation system which was designed to encourage public use and interaction. A programmatic shift was implemented to create a more applicable negotiation center, with a more exclusive assembly formed by supporting cells. The accretion of these cell-like spaces expresses the unification of the many countries which form the UN while facilitating interstitial spaces for informal negotiation. The memorial aspect of the program is integrated with the park and surrounding landscape.

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(UN)ified Assemblages

Chungju, South Korea

Fall 2010

the redesign and complimentary design development of ACME, Londons proposal for a United Nations Memorial building in Chungju, South Korea, which involved a programmatic shift from a memorial and conference center to a negotiation center

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original proposal by ACME, London

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UN NEGOTIATION CENTER

CHUNGJU, SOUTH KOREA

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urban.

As Mexico City experiences rapid urban growth, the major challenges facing it are focused around water and its informal expansion. With a population of 20 million people, land that was once a series of lakes has been transformed into a sprawling urban mass forced to question the future of its water supply. This, paired with the informal nature of the growth, not only increases the strain on the existing ecology and infrastructure, but threatens to further limit the citys ability to supply its population. With much of the city lacking access to formal infrastructure, many are forced to seek alternative sources, which are often inadequate, unreliable, and more expensive. However, the citys potential to collect rainwater offers a solution. This project seeks to provide a framework for recharging the ground supply and harvesting rainwater by deploying a city-wide network of river corridors and providing domestic solutions which enable the informal population to collect the water they need without relying on the municipality or precarious informal options.

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Urban Metabolism: Aguas Informales

Mexico City, Mexico

Fall 2011 / Spring 2012

a year-long thesis project which researches the major urban challenges surrounding access to water facing Mexico City and proposes a series of architectural interventions for providing for those most affected, the citys informal communities

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Mexico City is both enormous and miniscule, super-fast and maddeningly slow, wealthy and impoverished, lush and barren, dense and sparse, global and local... the city resists reduction to an icon precisely because its single most distinguishing feature is the complex and radically heterogeneous mixture of components that define it.

Ashley Schafer and Amanda ReeserFrom, For, and of the Megacity

1 inadequate / polluted water supply2 wastewater removal and treatment / flooding3 land subsidence4 illegal urbanization of conservation areas5 informal urban growth

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2,131billion litersis the average annual consumption of water by the total population of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

4,377billion litersis the estimated volume of water that could be collected annually in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area based on areas average annual precipitation

610liters / capita / dayis the average available volume of water per person per day in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area if all annual precipitation were collected for human use

297liters / capita / dayis the average daily consumption of water per resident in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, however, the volume received is significantly lower

1collectby creating a new surface condition over portions of the city, large volumes of rainwater can be collected instead of being lost.

2transferwater will be directed to a network of channels and rivers which follow the natural drainage patterns of the geography.

3storea network of channels will direct all water to a new storage area within the city.

4clean / treatthroughout the new network of rivers and channels rainwater and wastewater will be treated through natural processes of filtration.

5clean / treatistributeutilizing the same network, water can be redistributed throughout the city when it is needed after it has been cleaned and prepared for use.

60%is the percentage of the population of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area that currently resides in informal (irregular) settlements

slumorigins1 rural to urban migration2 natural growth3 combination of urban migration and natural growth4 population displacement by armed conflict or internal strife

tenuretypologies1 illegal encroachment of government land2 illegal encroachment of public land3 illegal settlements developed by private developers4 plots legally owned by residents

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informalwater supply1 public supplies diverted illicitly through bribery.2 bought from tankers and other vendors, either public or private. 3 carried from wells or public standpipes by hand or donkey.

factorsaffecting access1 illegal status of settlements2 inadequate local municipal infrastructure3 rapid population growth4 weak city and municipal government5 poverty and social inequality

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watersupply approaches1 domestic rooftop water collection2 ground water recharge3 water conservation and recycling4 expansion of existing municipal infrastructure

God must think were crazy. We let the rain fall off of our roofs onto our soil; it washes the soil away and flows to the bottom of the hill. We then climb down the hill and carry it back up to drink.

Ugandan water management worker

ahmedabad

Since World War II, the developing world has seen rapid urbanizationan overwhelming flow of human population from rural regions to urban ones, putting an immense strain on the developing worlds cities. This transition of the developing world from one of primarily rural villages to one of expansive overcrowded cities has brought with it numerous changes, many of which manifest themselves in the extreme housing shortage that migrants from the village meet upon arrival in the cities. This results in the creation of settlements which attempt to negotiate between the urban and the rural, settlements not formally planned but informally and incrementally constructed by their inhabitants with little support from the cities of which they now populate. This low-cost housing system seeks to provide improved housing, adequate space, and both physical and social infrastructure to the largest slum in Ahmedabad, moving much of the population off of land currently at severe risk for flooding.

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Applying Form to Informality

Ramapir-No-Tekro, Old Vadaj, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Fall 2009

during the Summer of 2010, I worked with Urban Nouveau* on the preparations for Connecting Stockholm, an exhibition which proposes a strategy for connecting and integrating the citys segregated suburban neighborhoods

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if existing homes were to be upgraded, 62% of the population reported already

having sufficient space, of those who preferred additional space, 66% reported

the need for only one additional room

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the 2009 population was estimated at 40,000

27% of households report that they dispose of solid waste in the street

40% of households do not have access to a private water connection

only 53% of the population is employed

over 60% of the population has resided there for more than 25 years

89% of the employed population works within

five kilometers of their home and commutes on

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given the option, 40% of the population would prefer to

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As an intern at Urban Nouveau* in Stockholm Sweden, I worked on a variety of projects, but Connecting Stockholm, consumed the majority of my time. This project was an exhibition presented at the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm in September 2010, concerned with the issues of urban planning facing the city of Stockholm. The exhibition presented Urban Nouveau*s strategy for connecting and integrating Stockholms segregated suburban neighborhoods through a series of urban bridges. Aside from participating in the conceptual development of the proposal, my efforts ranged from various mapping exercises to research and documentation on the ground to helping plan and set up the exhibition itself. A number of my drawings were presented at the exhibition which was viewed by hundreds of visitors to the museum. In addition, one of these drawings has since been featured in Conditions Magazine, an independent Scandinavian architecture and urbanism publication.

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Connecting Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

Summer 2010 / Fall 2010

during the summer of 2010, I worked with Urban Nouveau* on the preparations for Connecting Stockholm, an exhibition which proposes a strategy for connecting and integrating the citys segregated suburban neighborhoods; the exhibition was presented at Stockholms Arkitekturmuseet in September 2010

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Positioned at the heart of Oscar Niemeyers design for Brazils new capital city, this project proposes a new vision for the primary transportation hub within the city. The city exists along two major axes, one residential, the other primarily government and public program, which meet at this location. For this reason, it is a site of significance, which acts not only as a major circulation point but is surrounded by a number of the city and nations major cultural destinations. Our design seeks to negotiate these two major concerns by first developing a new highway system at the crossing of the axes, which allows for smoother circulation. And second, by constructing an expansive architectural landscape which spans portions of the highway system and installing a series of buildings which inhabit the spaces beneath the landscape and between the highways. The overall form connects the important landmarks around of the site while forming inhabitable space.

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Connective Cannibalism

Brasilia, Brazil

Spring 2011

the redesign of the transportation hub located at the center of Oscar Niemeyers Brasilia, which seeks to improve the highway system at the site while connecting the important cultural destinations around the site with an architectural landscape

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humanitarian.

This project was probably my first hands-on experience with architecture and construction, and it certainly left a lasting impression. In February of 2007, I traveled to San Salvador, El Salvador with my High School Interact Club, which is the youth division of the International Rotary organization. In the week that I spent there I had the opportunity to work with other students, some locals, and the families that would be benefiting from our work, on the construction of a home for a family that was living without one. This was a life-changing experience, which truly brought together two of my most important passions: architecture and humanitarian work. It was at this moment that I understood how I would like to implement my formal education in architecture.

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Interact in El Salvador

El Salvador

Spring 2007

in February 2007, I traveled to San Salvador, El Salvador, as a member of Interact, the youth division of the International Rotary organization, to assist in the construction of homes in an impoverished rural community outside of the city

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While studying abroad in India, during the Fall of 2009, I had the incredible opportunity and great pleasure to collaborate with some amazing organizations on the design of a preschool in the citys largest slum, Ramapir-no-Tekro, which is home to an estimated population of 150,000 people. During my stay in Ahmedabad, I volunteered every Wednesday with Manav Sadhna, a non-profit organization which works very closely with the people of this area, and which has recently entered into a relationship with Architects Without Frontiers, an Australian nonprofit organization, to design and construct a number of schools to provide education to the children of Ramapir-no-Tekro. Unfortunately, due to my departure in November, I was unable to see the project through to completion, but this March, I received word that the school that I had helped design had been completed. This is the eighth school opened in the past few years, and already plans for two more were underway.

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Bholu 8

Ramapir-No-Tekro, Old Vadaj, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Fall 2009

during the Fall of 2009 I worked as a volunteer with Manav Sadhna and Architects Without Frontiers in Ahmedabad, India on the design of a school for underprivileged children living in the citys largest slum; the completed building was opened in the Spring of 2010

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The concept is simple, and the design is authentic. This is honest innovation developed to meet a requirement with simple everyday materials and a simple assembly. Borrowing this ingenious design from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Urban Nouveau* produced a proposal for a bottle opener, that could be cheaply mass produced and sold to people across the world. This proposal was submitted to IKEA with the hope that they could produce and market the product, with a portion of the proceeds going to fund the construction of schools in the favelas where the design originated. The name is inspired by the inscription found on the side of one unique example, which served as the prototype for this design. This simple affordable item, if sold on a massive scale, could change the lives of many and allow many to contribute in a small way.

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Summer 2010

during the Summer 2010 I worked with Urban Nouveau* on a proposal, which was submitted to IKEA, for a bottle opener inspired by the ones used in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

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