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Portfolio of Selected works between 2007 and 2013. Works from Temple University Tyler School of Art Architecture Department, WRT Design, and my own person work

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Timothy NawrockiSelected Works 2007-2013

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Selected Works

Personal: Exploitation | Collage 3

Fa-Sp 2012: Forecasting Chance 4-8

Fa 2008: Archive House 9-11

Personal: RER Philadelphia 12

Fa 2010: TypeWriter’s Lounge 13-15

Professional: 8th and Filbert Streets Garage 16-17

Professional: Eager Square 18

Professional: St. Luke’s Manor 19

Personal: Various Sketches 20

Competition: Stewardson Fellowship in Architecture 21

Sp 2010: Naval Antagonism 27-30

Thesis Studio | Spring 2012

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Exploitation | Photograph Collage

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DOWNTOWN SCRANTON

UNIVERSITY

SOUTH SIDE

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RAIL YARDS SITEROARING BROOK

LACKAWANNA RIVER

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IRON FURNACES

NUMBER SEVEN RESERVOIR

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PASSENGER RAIL LINE

Forecasting ChanceArchitecture + Landscape + Weather

B. Arch Thesis 2012Jason Austin and John James Pron, Thesis AdvisorsSneha Patel | CoordinatorFall 2011 and Spring 2012 | Semester IX and X | 30 weeks

The making of architecture is tied to human experience and site. Weather events are also linked to site locality while providing intense human experience. Although architecture has the ability to wait for all sorts of weather events to occur, architects tend to resist processes of weathering.

This thesis seeks to manipulate weather conditions with built form to ecologically and culturally remediate the land-scape of the former Scranton Iron Furnaces. These conditions are created within a proposed train station due to a station’s semi-enclosed spaces that must allow weather in. This scenario examines how natural weathering process-es can develop an architecture and landscape that both reacts to the latent history of a post-industrial site and the future needs of the city.

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Atmosphere:Cool, Damp, Bright Low activity, Slow movmentCollection at enclosures and sun, building as shelterSnow |Ice studies: Collection, Drifting, Dripping, Staining

Atmosphere:Warm, Humid, Light High activity, Slow movment (meander)Collection at open spaces, building as shadeDrought studies: Cracking, Peeling, Melting

Atmosphere:Cool, Damp, Dark, FogSlow movment due to FogThickened Light Quality, Dew CollectionSurface |Saturation studies: Collection, Dripping, Staining

Seasonal ProgramsSeasonal shifts are tied to a cyclical process. The station is designed to respond to these shifts as a way heighten user’s perception of weather as they way for the train. The specific atmosphere or mood of a space is tied to this relationship of time, season, and weather. These processes work in a looping pattern where certain uses change hourly, daily, seasonally, and annually as shown in this drawing.

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Manipulating Site Conditions

The above drawing locates the key experiences from studying weathering on site. This was performed not scientifically, but through observations to find the points of interest between the weather, the city, and its historical artifacts

These conditions were manipulated to retain more water on site and process it on its way to the river. The path of the water, from the top of the train shed to Roaring Brook overlaps several times with a meandering path between the upper and lower station. The architecture funnels weather occurrences to the landscape where they are then filtered or retained. Markers throughout the site gauge these changes over time.

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Sectional Site drawing

An iterative process of manipulating water patters across the site to locate the stations and path connecting them

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Top Left: Aerial View of Station from Downtown Scranton

Street View of Station and model images

Top Right: View of Station from Pedestrian Bridge

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Juiliet Whelan, Critic Fall 2008 - Semester III - 7 weeks“Place of Display”

She wants to throw them away, but she can’t bring herself to do it. She continually tells herself “what if I need that paper? What if I need that refer-ence? What if I can’t find it…ever…ever again… and I need it?”

She rarely finds time to do much else. Work, study, organize, reorganize.

A woman obsessed with keeping her work, keeping her notes, keeping everything. She needs a place for all of her books, notes, everything. A rowhouse is built as an archive.

Archive House

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Shaping the Exterior SkinWith a North facing facade, a series of bands were developed to cut lateral openings into the front face of the building. The width and number of bands are further articulated to pro-vide natural light at certain times of the day within the building. The cladding also projects out to become the front steps.

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Transitions Inside and OutThe project takes shape both in section and through the exterior skin system. As the exterior bands contort to create window open-ings, they also move from the exterior to the interior to become the storage points for the archive.

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Market EastStation

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30th StreetStation

City Hall-15th Street

Lombard-South

Ellsworth-Federal

Tasker-MorrisSnyder

Oregon

Walnut-Locust

13th

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SpringGarden

Spring Garden

Haverford

Powelton

Ogden

ChinatownFairmountFairmount

Race-Vine

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BerksYork

Huntingdon

SomersetAllegheny

TiogaErie-Torresdale

Church

Cornwells HeightsEddignton

Croydon

Bristol

Levittown

Bridesburg

Tacony

Holmesburg Jct.Torresdale

Margaret-Orthodox

Girard

Cecil B. Moore

AlleghenyErieHunting ParkWayne Junction

WisterGermantown

Washington LaneStenton

SedgewickMt. Airy

WyndmoorGravers

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Moylan-Rose Valley

Media

Fernwood-Yeadon

Magnolia Ave.North St.

Bartram Ave.Andrews Ave.

MacDade Blvd.

Sharon HillFolcroft

Churchmans Crossing

WilmingtonClaymont

Marcus HookHighland Ave.

Chester T.C.Eddystone

Crum LynneRidley Park

Prospect ParkNorwood

Curtis ParkDarby

Springfield Rd

Baltimore Ave.Penn St.

Creek Rd.Marshall Rd.

Drexel Manor

Garrettford

Fairfield Ave.Walnut St.

Avon Rd.Hilltop Rd.

Beverly Blvd.Congress Ave.

Lansdowne Ave.Drexel Park

Irvington Rd.Drexel Hill Jct.Huey Ave.

School LaneAronimink

Anderson Ave.Drexelbrook

DrexelineScenic Rd.

Springfield Rd.Saxer Ave.

Leamy Ave.

Veterans Sq.Olive St.

Jackson St.Monroe St.

Edgemont St.Manchester Ave.

Providence Rd.Beatty Rd.Pine Ridge

Paper Mill Rd.Springfield MallThomson Ave.

Woodland Ave.

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Millbourne

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Bryn Mawr

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Garrett HillStadium

VillanovaRadnor

County LineMatsonford

Gulph MillsHughes Park

DeKalb StreetBridgeport

Main Street

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WynnefieldAve.

Terminal A (East & West)Terminal B

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Doylestown

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West Trenton

Chestnut Hill West

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Woodland Ave. Trolley

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RER PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia’s multimodal transit system, with rapid rail and regional rail is quite similar to Paris’s Metro and RER system. The Paris RER is their regional rail system, but once it enters Zone 1 it operates under the same pay scheme as all other Zone 1 vehicles. This allows for a seamless and free transfers between all types of transit within center city. Philadelphia could operate in a similar fashion allowing for all types of vehicles to become a singular system. With Philadel-phia implementing a new payment method that uses electronic cards instead of tokens, seamless transfers between different transit types will become pos-sible.This creates a more comprehensive system that includes all types of rapid transit. Rethnking Philadelphia’s transit map allows for the visualization of a new system that is multimodal. In this map all of Philadelphia’s rapid transit types, Regional Rail, Subway, and Surface Trolley are overlain on the same map. This allows for a better visualization of where these systems overlaps. The way they are notated also establishes Philadelphia’s previous map colored the subway system while leaving the regional rail as an underlay of grey lines. By establishing the two as equals, the system feels more comprehensive and usable. By adding in the exact locations of the trolley lines, which were previously on separate maps, the system locates additional transfer points that would have gone unnoticed by most transit users.

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Typewriter’s LoungeRashida Ng, Critic Fall 2010 - Semester VII - 15 weeks“Repository”

The typewriter as an instrument for creation (writings) and a machine for immediate production (print) becomes the departure point for a space that incubates the tendencies of writers and their work.

The spaces take hints from the aesthetic nature of the typewriter itself. Its rhythm, kinetics, light qualities, and the ability for immediate print all take specific roles in the building’s development and program.

Unlike the computer, which separates word processing from printing, the typewriter collapses them into one device. This facility attempts to accomplish the same task, becoming a self-pub-lishing center and writers collective.

The TYPE-Writer’s Lounge becomes an arena for writers to create in solitude or converse with like minded individuals. Public and private workspaces allow writers to share their work with more people. At the same the ability to self-publish on site allows for the work to be freely distributed.

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Composing light and material qualities of the typewriter

Translating the TypewriterSpaces for writing are dependent upon proper lighting both natural and artificial. Due to the monolithic neighboring walls on both sides of the site, there are not many opportunities for standard apertures.

To combat this portions of the building’s façade are extruded out to allow indirect light into the building. This also allows for oblique views from the interior to the ex-terior as a method to screen the neighboring buildings. This method of cutting into the building’s volume to allow opportunities for daylighting to enter is used both horizontally and vertically.

A series of models and photographing them under strong light starts to conceive spaces and light qualities that are in the spirit of the typewriter itself

A series of models used to recreate the light qualities embeded in the typewriter

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Building as TypewriterIn the spirit of the typewriter the building’s program contains spaces for writing and spaces for prinitng under one roof. Workstation pods, the places where writers can most efficiently work operate with the flexible lighting for reading and writing. The building is also equipped with spaces for both mass printing and publishing work. So the ideas and writings produced here can become widespread more easily.

With an office floating above the reading room, this Writer-in-Residence becomes the face of the facility. Over the course of the year public critiques are held of the work they are being developed on-site. Several workshops are also held and led by the Writer-in-Residence.

Plan Diagram showing the configuration of writing pods.

Side elevation revealing banding to allow verigated light into building. This was developed from the findings of photograph-ing the actual typewriter

View of interior where writing pods hover above the main reading room

PRINTER EMBEDDED INTO WRITING SURFACE

SMARTBOARD SYNCED TO LAPTOP

POWER, USB, ETHERNET, PRINTER, SMARTBOARD CONNECTIONS

TASK LIGHTINGINDIRECT LIGHTING TO REDUCE GLARE

AMBIENT LIGHTING

SLIDING POCKET DOOR HIDDEN

RESTING SURFACE

ACOUSTIC PANELS ENCASE WALLS

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Walnut Street

Sansom Street

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WRT Wallace Roberts and ToddProfessional Work

Architectural DesignerBIM Manager

WRT is a collection of city planners, landscape architects and architects. Projects usually involve the collabora-tive efforts of all three design practices to create solutions to complex urban spaces. The work typically falls in between fields, projects that are a mix of landscape and architecture, a mix of landscape and planning, or a planning project that leads to architectural work. These experiences have cemented my interest in becoming both an architect and landscape architect. Although the three projects shown represent the more graphic as-pects of this work, we do work on projects in their entirety. I am currently doing construction projects for the first two projects.

ARCH STREET

1/2” LAMINATED GLASS SCREEN

LARGER BAND OVER 8TH STREET SIGNIFIES GATEWAY

BANDS THAT MOVE BELOW MEZZANINESIGNIFY GARAGE ACCESS POINTS

NEW FOLDING GARAGE DOORS WITH PANELS TO MATCH SCREEN ABOVE

NEW STREETSCAPE AT ARCH STREET AND IN UNDERPASS

EXISTING GARAGE STRUCTURE HIGHLIGHTED

STAINLESS STEELPERFORATED METAL

PANEL SCREEN

ECO MESH SCREENSYSTEM

HORIZONTAL BLADESCREEN

RAINWATER CYSTERN LOCATION AT EACH FLOOR

GRANITE FACADE RECYCLED; BECOMES STOREFRONT BASE

WATER COLLECTION SCUPPER

NATURAL GLOW: GLASS BLADES DIFFUSE NORTHERN LIGHT DURING THE DAY AND PROJECT GARAGE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT OUT AT NIGHT

VENTILATION BY DESIGN: FOLDS WITHIN THE ARCH STREET FACADE MAXIMIZES OPEN AREA OF GARAGE AND CATCHES NORTHWEST WIND AND PUSHES IT INTO THE GARAGE

GATEWAY

Building Renovation and Streetscape strategy for 8th and Filbert Street Garage

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8th and Filbert Streetscape and Garage RenovationWRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd

This project is envisioned as a signature work that will serve as the model for the Authority’s other ga-rage improvements in Center City. Through aesthetic improvements, lighting, storm water collection, and recycling of existing materials for reuse this project seeks to become a model for sustainable garage renovations. The garage underpass is also reimagined as an outdoor room and a new civic space for the neighborhood.

Project team: Joe Healy (Principle) Modesto Bigas-Valedon (Architect) Keiko Cramer (Landscape Architect) Timothy Nawrocki (Designer)

Role: In charge of modeling the entire project along with all drawings, renderings, diagrams, and graph-ics under the guidance of Joe, Keiko and Modesto. The three also sketched and helped me understand the detailing of the project both in terms of architecture and landscape. I am currently performing some construction administration of phase 1 of the project with Modesto.

Located along 8th street, this garage sits at one of the four major access points to the city from the interstate.

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Eager SquareWRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd

Eager Square is a multi-building apartment project in Baltimore designed to bridge the gap between a small residential neighbor-hood and a large college campus. The project is composed of two buildings, on both sides of Eager Street. The project also seeks to define the street between through a new streetscape strategy.

Project team: Joe Healy (Principle) Modesto Bigas-Valedon (Architect) David Gamba (Architect) Timothy Nawrocki (Designer)

Role: In charge of modeling and drawing the project. I also created all renderings, diagrams, and graphics. I am currently working on construction documents with David Gamba.

View of Building B from the corner of Wolfe and Eager streets

Interior diagram

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St. Luke’s ManorWRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd

A larger adaptive reuse project that WRT has won several awards for its successful reimagination of an old hospital into a school and residence. The project was lacking a larger graphic to showcase the scope of the entire project. I created this by modeling the exterior shell of the building and the entire second floor. I then overlaid the two to create this revealed view.

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Rome Studio | Various Sketches | Spring 2011

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Sloped ApproachStewardson Fellowship in Architecture2012 Recipient

These are some images from the boards I submitted for the 2012 Stewardson Fellowship, a 10 day individual competition between Pennsylvania’s six architecture schools. The project sought to make several sloped connections between the street and the viaduct park above. The series of slopes were embedded into both the architecture and the landscape to create multiple connections. A large sloped park was conceived as the main entrance to the viaduct. This created an elongated transition between the busy street and the more desolate park above.

The winner receives a $10,000 travel prize. I chose to visit the works of several architects that I believe successfully merge landscape and architecture. I spent 3 months travelling across central Europe studying works by Peter Zumthor, Carlos Scarpa, Peter Latz, and West 8. My lecture upon return was entitled “Architecture influenced by Landscape, Landscape influ-enced by Architecture.”

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WARNING“CHINA WOULD NEVER SEEK HEGEMONY, NOR TURN TO

MILITARY EXPANSIONS OR ARMS RACES WITH OTHER NATIONS”

-Chinese President Hu Jintao [2007]

CAUTION“INDIA, WHICH HAS THE SIZE, MIGHT,

AND NUMBERS AS CHINA WILL MANOEUVRE ITSELF INTO A DOMINANT POSITION IN ORDER TO BE SEEN AS A COUNTERWEIGHT TO THE CHINESE

POWERS IN ASIA”-JASJIT SIGNH STRATEGIC ANALYSIS [2001]

WARNING“ECONOMIC COMPETITION MIGHT

REPLACE THE OLD POLITICO-MILITARY CONTESTS FOR

SUPREMACY”-ABID HUSSAIN [2002]

WARNINGBOARDER DISPUTES

BETWEEN INDIA, PAKISTAN, AND CHINA MAKE FOR

HAZARDOUS AIR SPACE

INDIAN LISTENING STATION

INDIAN NAVAL PORT

INDIAN NAVY PATROL

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CHINESE NAVAL PORT

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Naval AntagonismImperial Rivalries

Lindsay Bremner, Critic Spring 2010 - Semester VI - 15 weeks“Institute for Extra-Continental Antagonism”

Diego Garcia 2025:

Due to the rising interest in the protection of each nation’s oil supply, much activity is occuring in the Indian Ocean; a major oil route. Naval Imperialism is re-emerg-ing. Instances of Antagonism between nation states is common and with the im-pending expiration of the US Navy lease on Diego Garcia, a space will be needed to conduct the negotiation of the island’s future use, a political arena emerges. The building, made of recylced oil tankers, becomes the prize.

An interest in mapping the ocean grows. The site; a largely deserted island with a US naval base at the north end acts as the geographic location for several stud-ies of mapping. The ocean, antagonsim, the tectonics surrounding ship breaking become characters in this exploration.

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Ship Breaking and Site AnalysisDrawings for the initial site location and material make up of the arena. A series of abandoned oil tankers exist on the island, these become the building material for the project. A study into Indian Ocean Shipbreaking helps to see tectonically how the exterior skin develops as a collage of found objects. Through drawing the project finds a site on the island that allows for easy access by naval cruiser, and provides an easy escape by a smaller shallow water boat if necessary

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Assembling the ArenaThe building forms from the parts of the oil tankers found on the island. These parts are welded together as a collage. A distance between the sleeping/dining quarters from the arena allows for the landscape be-tween to become an additional space for politicking. The arena is also equipted with digresssion chambers that allow for less public negotia-tions between parties. These chambers exist both inside and in outside courtyards contained by the arena.

Perspective Collage of Interior of Arena

Plans and elevations were developed through both drawings and modelling

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Thank You

http://nawrockitimothy.wix.com/main

[email protected]

Study Models for assembling with oil tanker parts