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{practice}

Method Design was retained as the building science and architectural consultants for this AIA Citation winning project. Designed around sustainable stategies that arose from programmatic and zoning restraints, the entire house operates passively through appropriate massing, orientation, and exposure to both sun and prevailing winds..

woodruff residence

{ design strategies }

{ first floor plan }

{ building section }

woodruff residence method design {rye, ny}

{ west elevation photo }{ northeast elevation photo }{ view from bedroom }

As a competition proposal, this entry addresses vertical density in rapidly growing cities. Challenging the inherent imagery of what a scraper is, this structure grows from its surrounding environment while respecting the existing context. The city’s fabric of certainties and tendencies generate the way the structure is inhabited. Although a skeletal structure consisting of only minor program at first, the structure will host growth that will take on an identity similar to its surrounding context.

competition

{ tendencies & certanties }

{ verticalized growth }

{ mosque program }

{ mosque volume }

{ vertical program }

{ site rendering }

{ extrapolated block at year 50 }

method design {cairo, egypt}

competition

Street fairs offer up an astonishing diversity of wares, food and entertainment. Less engaging are the ubiquitous tents that spring up like mushrooms. They discreetly (and economically) get the job done, but offer little in the way of spaces that captivate the imagination. The souk, the bazaar, the seaside New England tourist booth, the Coney Island stand – all herald the inexpensive thrill. In the distance, Heightened Reflection emerges from a sea of white and anonymous tents, in which visitors engage in typical street fair browsing. The project builds on the squat geometries of the tents, but pulls them skyward, creating sweeping interior volumes and

{ connecting programs }

{ material reuse }

{ tent appropriation }

{ structural system }

{ system components }

{ shaping strategy }

{ in tent experience rendering }{ in tent experience rendering }

{ tent street cross section }

{ ^ street view rendering }{ ˇ under tent persepective rendering }

method design {the bowery, nyc}

dramatic exterior facades that mirror the urban scene around it. Merchants conduct their business adjacent to unique, colorful and soaring cloth ceilings. Customers, who are still able to browse and buy, can also engage with a variety of interior installations: in one, saturated red walls lead to a clerestory; in another, a periscope yields views far down the street. In one scenario a disco ball lazily spins, casting a thousand reflections, and in another Chinese lanterns swarm toward the sky. The profound interior environments allow the participants a moment of intimacy and a place of personal reflection within the vibrant collective experience that is amplified by the exterior mylar skin.

Method Design was commissioned to situate and design a new prayer chapel for the expanding garden and field areas of the Rain Forest International School near Yaounde, Cameroon. In addition to fulfilling the program of a gathering and worship space for the community, the School’s leadership required full maintaining of views from school buildings into the chapel, as well as additional exterior amphitheater-style seating and gathering space. The design team’s response was to utilize a single, shifting wall system of CMU fins

{ influence of views }

{ structural components }

{ aperture strategy }

{ aperture consequences }

{ aperture consequnces }

chapel

{ exterior photo }{ interior photo }{ exterior photo }

oriented towards a central, internal point to negotiate a landscape that provided private, intimate worship space to the interior, and an exterior gathering and amphitheater space. The mahogany and corrugated steel roof system–designed with David Kufferman, PE and the RFIS Team, provides for areas of shading and entry to the chapel.

method design {yaounde, cameroon}

This histology and cytology lab for the University of Pennsylvania was a renovation of a twenty five year old lab with inadequate ventilation. Located on the fifth floor of the building, it receives little natural daylight and therefore this design tries to create a better working environment for the employees.

3020

{ renovation scope rendering }{ equipment details }

{ old lab during demo } { entry to lab } { lab interior }

ballinger {philadelphia, pa}

{university}

0 1mile 0 .5 mile Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus New York

Lake Cayuga

section

above

coldest

middle

warmest

water

other

wetlands

forest

agriculture

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capture capture induce induce induce amplify amplify amplify exhibit exhibit exhibitarchitectural

functionassociatedwith water

phase & state

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design strategy passivepassivestill cold

passivestill cold

passivestill cold

passivestill cold

passivestill cold

passivepassivepassivepassivepassive passive

percent sunshine

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solid

liquid

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precipitation

exhibit: frames or displays the phenomena in the surrounding environment. induce: incites phase change to occur.capture: becomes a surface that collects wateramplify: the water phase already takes place within the vineyard environment. this effect distorts the way the phenomenom is generally perceived.

springwinter fallsummer

phase induced architecture

Using empirical knowledge of material systems, an ephemeral architecture can be created as a result of induced phase changes of water that develop a way to inhabit site by bridging naturally occurring and artificial realms. Great lengths are taken to allow humans to maintain physical comfort levels through use of enclosure and mechanical systems, but the separation of temperature, moisture, and daylight between interior and exterior conditions creates a boundary between interior and exterior spaces. Using passive strategies

{ phase change of water experiement photos }

{ regional influences }{ seasonal influences }

Baltimore

Philadelphia

Montreal

Buffalo

Cleveland

Detroit

New York

Norfolk

RochesterToronto

AlbanyBoston

Charleston

Columbus

Hartford

Richmond

Washington D.C.

Pittsburgh

Lake Erie

Lake Ontario

Finger Lakes

Expected Travel RadiusThese cities were listed on Uncork New York’s website as prime locations that people will travel from

in order to come to the Finger Lakes region. The radius covers about 360 miles (around a 6 hour drive).

Also includes Universities with viticulture/enology degrees.

Cornell

Penn State

University ofMaryland

Niagra College

Brock University

University of Guelph

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{ regional map }

{existing site plan }

phase induced architecture

and understanding of materials at a micro scale, it is possible to develop an architecture that uses climatic qualities of site to induce phase change of water. The resulting ephemeral qualities of water will alter one’s perception of inhabited space. A climate moderated by lakes, with significant seasonal variations and microclimates provides a venue for exhibiting the resulting phenomena.

{ proposed site section }

thesis {fingerlakes, ny}

{ proposed experential moments throughout the site }

This project altered and developed TIAR Studio’s original competition proposal for a museum for Nam June Paik, a visual media artist. My partner and I collaborated with students majoring in civil engineer to help realize the integration of the structure and the design. Spanning a valley, the museum functions as a bridge with programmed galleries inserted into it. The looped circulation creates views of the valley that contrast with the black box spaces that it flanks.

nam june paik museum

04.30.2009FINAL

SITE PLAN

G000.0

PLANSCALE 1:400

1:400Main Exhibition Spaces

Main Circulation

Storage + Mechanical Rooms

Cafe Kitchen

Museum Giftshop

Secondary Egress/ Firepath

Program + Ciculation Diagram

{ site plan }

{ concept sketch }

{ physical section models }

{ program & circulation diagram }

{ physical sketch model }

{ physical section model } { physical section model }

{ transverse section }

{ longitudinal section }

dd studio {seoul, korea}

EXISTING BUS STOPS

PROPOSED BUS STOPS

LINE 9 | METRO | PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED

LINE 12 | METRO | PROPOSED EXTENSION OF SCOPE

NAVIGATING THE SITE | TRANSPORTATION DIAGRAM

LINE 12 | METRO | CURRENTLY BEING SURVEYED

{ existing site condition }

{ module }

{ probable future development }

{ proposed intervention }

horizonatal and vertical elements combined

vertical and horizontal cores

bridging as structural connection between towers

vertical structural skin as support

{ connection levels }

{ structural bridges }

{ primary structure }

{ compilation of systems } { program diagram }

As part of studying abroad, RPI students collaborated with the architecture students at Tongji University’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning. This project responds to the growing demand for housing in the overpopulated city of Shanghai while experimenting and integrating local techniques of fabrication. By proposing a building of this magnitude, areas for green space are created and certain areas targeted for demolition can be preserved.

vertical community

{ module system }

floor slabsinterior glazingexterior structureexterior module system

{ facade layering }

vertical community

{ facade rendering }{ site rendering }

china studio {shanghai}

botique hotel

From conception to physical manifestation, this studio reinforced how to utilize a concept in answering questions of how architecture performs. This project is a result of trying to understand how social spaces can layer around an aqueous core, while creating privileged views of New York City.

{ inspiration }{ polemical rendering }

{ physical model }

urban studio {chinatown, nyc}

As part of a community where the living situations were that of integrated lifestyle, this design consists of more than just living areas. Along the main pedestrian path leading from the exterior of this new community to the interior along the bordering neighbor’s plot are retail areas and rentable offices. Apartments ranging from small lofts to spacious four bedrooms branch off of a meandering circulation.

integrated housing internal residential and exterior envelope

non-residential

residential

residential vs non-residential

S i t e P l a n 1” = 16’

L o c a t i o n P l a n 1/128” = 1’

{ initial massing model }

{enclosure diagram }

{ meandering circulation diagram }

{ residential vs retail diagram }

{ site plan }

{ site plan }

integrated housing

{ section perspective rendering }

2nd yr studio {boston,ma}

The original condition of this site in New York City was a highly regularized park. The new proposal creates an altered topography that promotes places for aleatory hang out. An effort to combine the business concentrated area of lower Manhattan with the exploratory program of electronic arts was integrated through the park on the surface with the electronic arts facility inhabiting the space below it.

emac nyu

{ hand drafted site section }

{ hand drafted site plan } { physical site model }

1st yr studio {manhattan, ny}

Using only one material, this design is created through a standardized system of threading longer skinnier pieces of foam through slots made in smaller rectangular pieces. The final form evolved through responses to various performance criteria, such as when a golf ball is dropped on it, an unexpected path is created, as well as maintaining a continuity of interior and exterior spaces. Realistic drawings, photographs, vector and topographic drawings were utilized to convey the design response.

trash?

{ hand drafted charcoal rendering }{pocket depth chart }{ hand drafted topo }

{ physical model photo }{ physical model photo }

material studio

{design}

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pasquale new style

After completing a typography course, I became intrigued with the idea of developing new font designs. From those preliminary idea of preserving the circle, Pasquale New Style was born. It is simple geometrical font that reads well at small sizes, but reads better at larger sizes. Contrasting thicknesses of these letters allows for easier legibility. A moderate x–height, long stems, and a high crossbar are all characteristics of this font.

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sweet as... veges

This book is a compilation of recipes that I developed while WWOOFing in Auckland, New Zealand for six months. Upon arriving back in the States, I photographed the dishes and laid out this book. As the chef de cuisine in Auckland, I was responsible for coordinating the vegetarian kitchen, and cooking for the other 20 or so people I was living with. In an attempt to maintain a low budget, locally sourced diet, these dishes were created.

sweet as... veges cook book

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{Contacts}

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Albany, NY

Tongji University Study AbroadSecond Year Faculty Award Academic Proficiency & Promise of Excellence in ArchitectureDean’s List entry- graduation Emily Roebling ScholarshipRensselaer Leadership Scholarship

2D Design3D Modeling

Post ProcessingFabrication

Communication

AutoCAD, MicrostationRhino, Microstation, Triforma, Revit, EcotectAdobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesignMasterCAM, CNC Mill, Laser Cutter, Porcelain MoldsMandarin, French

Method Designdac@methoddesign.com Method Designrjc@methoddesign.com Rensselaer Fabrication Shopbergmw@rpi.edu Perkins + Willrk.stewart@perkinswill.com

Demetrios Comodromos

Reese Campbell

William Bergman

R.K. Stewart

Partner 212.203.9924

Partner 917.843.5182

Shop Manager518.276.3034

Associate Principal415.856.3074

{Approaches}

{Education}

{Publications} Campbell, Reese, and Demetrios Comodromos. “Urban Morphology + The Social Vernacular.” Journal of Architectural Education 63.1 (2009): 6-13. Print.

{Professional Affiliations} LEED Green Associate 2009-2011NCARB IDP- 100 units accumulated

Bachelor of Architecture 2010 Magna Cum Laude

Method Design2008-2011

Perkins + Will2009

Ballinger 2007-2008

Rensselaer2007- 2010

Tongji University2008

New York City Competition {Cairo, Egypt}As a member of the design team with the partners, included in initial design strategies as well as prepared diagrams and generated digital site model. Private residence {Ryeas, NY}Prepared delivery of DD set for $600/ square foot house: AIA Citation winning project San FranciscoAllergan Tower III {Irvine, CA}Contributed to finalizing CD drawings in Revit.Oyster Point Business Park and Marina {San Francisco, CA}In the masterplanning phase, prepared client meeting materials and EIR book.Princess Nora University {Riyadh, Saudi Arabia} Assisted with final CD set in Revit.Byron Rogers U.S. Courthouse {Denver, CO} Prospective GSA project, generated initial environmental analysis.

Philadelphia Boeing Helicopter Manufacturing & Office Facility {Philadelphia, PA}Assisted in diagrams and projected site development to win bid.Rochester University Hospital {Rochester, NY}Contributed in preparing SD & DD sets using RevitHistology & Cytology Lab for the University of Pennsylvania {Philadelphia, PA}Prepared renderings and other visuals for user group meetings as well as DD - CD sets Albany Teaching assistantFor series of three construction system classes, available for desk critiques with students, as well as reviewer in pin-ups and organization of class data.Supervisor of digital fabrication shopOversaw use of laser cutters and cnc mill. Assisted in approving and helping students with files for use of the equipment.

Shanghai Awarded acceptance to study at Tongji University’s College of Architecture & Urban Planning. In addition to classroom and studio experience, engaged in study of regional fabrication in Jingdezhen, China’s porcelain capital.

{Experience}