A.Mittman Designs_

NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF CULINARY ARTS MAY, 2012

A strong notion of economic growth and community rebirth in New Orleans is underway. Around the site, the area is populated with many local businesses and churches lining the street, community gardens, a boxing gym and after-school activity centers.

New Orleans’ College of Culinary Arts pushes the use of steel through a figural, structural steel-skinned tower, which plays an active role on the stage of the site and rebirth of the area. It houses meditative space such as lounges, classrooms and a two-story wine room. Its structure penetrates though the single-story restaurant and serves the public at the street edge, while the Culinary Arts School occupies the main six-story tower.

HOLY CROSS REDEVELOPMENT, NEW ORLEANS AUG, 2012

419,204 SF

DESLONDE ST

ROYAL ST

CHARTRES

DAUPHINE ST

BURGUNDY ST

N. RAMPART ST

GRAPHIC SCALE60 0 30 60 120 240

1" = 60'

MISS

ISSI

PPI R

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ROYAL ST

REYNES ST

PRIVATE DRIVE

84’36’24’

PARKING/SITE AMENITIES

PARKING/SITE AMENITIES

3-STORY RESIDENTIAL

PLAZA

1-STORY COMM; 2-STORY RESIDENTIAL ABOVE

6-STORY RESIDENTIALABOVE PARKING

6-STORY RESIDENTIALABOVE PARKINGON-GRADE

COMM

6-STORY RESIDENTIALABOVE 1-STORY OFFICE

PARKING BELOWPLAZA

PARKING ONGRADE

OFFICE RE-HAB OFEXISTING HIST. BLDG.

2-STORY COMMBLDG.

2-STORY 8-UNITRESIDENTIAL (TYP.)

CLOCK TOWER @ 85’

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T1

T2

T3

T4

PARKING BENEATH ROOF PLAZA

PARCEL A-1

PARCEL A-2PARCEL BPARCEL C

PARCEL D PARCEL E

PARCEL F

Rendering By William Nemitoff

Rendering By Devin Reynolds

REVIT, PARAMETRIC BUS STOP MAY, 2012 TEAM MEMBERS:

Aaron MittmanHex-panel design

William NemitoffBus stop; rigging

Devin ReynoldsSteel; signage

Double Hex-Grid Glazing Concept, Fabrication and Lighting Components by Aaron Mittman

Bus stop designed to seat 3 + 1 ADA. Contact with the ground is made at only two points. A mobius strip was used for inspiration whereby the double-hexogonal grid provides the seating, structure and environmental protection.

Glue-laminated wood encase the structure, provide additional support and beauty/clarity. Contained inside the grid are the LED lighting components.

WINDOWINSTANCE PARAMETER

FRAMETYPE PARAMETERS

PARAMETERS FLEXCustom parameters - in the form of mathematical formulas - are used to generate form. In turn, the frames and windows flex as parameters change by the user; this is a snapshot of one design.

NESTED FAMILIESWINDOW HOSTED IN FRAME

TYPE PARAMETERSFrame - Flat, Triangle-based Rig

Frame Width = 6”Frame Depth 1 = 3’-0”Frame Depth 2 = Frame Depth 1 * 1/3Frame Depth 3 = Frame Depth 1 * 2/3

TECHNICAL_REVIT, RULE-BASED PARAMETRIC SKY BRIDGE MARCH, 2012LOCATION: 860 LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO

URBANbuild PROTOTYPE HOME DEC, 2011

- Open up the typical dark shotgun corridor- Culminate corridor with covered light/open spaces- Maximize daylighting of corridor- Outdoor covered entrance and rear deck frames views of the neighborhood

Green Machine. Glass Sculpture. Found Engine, Glass and Steel, 2001.

GLASSWORK, ART & DESIGN. 1998-PRESENT

Untitled Still-Life. 2’X3’Pencil On Cold Pressed Illustration Board, 1998.

GRAPHIC & MENU DESIGN_ROOSTERFISH ‘POPUP’ RESTAURANT 2013

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ishOctopus Confit Terrine 7

celery, potato, smoked aioli

Seared Scallop 9sweet corn butter,cranberry relish, pickled mustard

Escargot 8garlic cream, sweet herbs pain perdu, fennel salad

Gulf Fish 8potato blue cheese croquette, melted onion, tarragon emulsion

Smoked Redfish 7crispy cauliflower, Cucumber cream, mint, golden raisin

Crab-Gnocchi 8caramelized pumpkin, brown butter sage, candied pumpkin seeds

U-10 Shrimp 8butternut squash purée , corn salad, cilantro pudding

Fried Oysters & Pork Belly 8frisée, pickled celery, radish, sherry gastrique

Ciabatta 6buratta, choupique, truffle, fleur de sel

Roasted Vegetable Salad 7marinated mushrooms, roasted cauliflower, hearts of palm,

puquillo pepper, olives, roasted tomato, manchego emulsion

October 30th, 2012

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IMAGES FROM CUBA. DIGITAL IMAGES. 2002

Terracotta Roof Vista Cuban Woman On BalconyImport. Home

Wealthy Interior Preserved Cuban Icon Wooden Truss Support System

“Architecture has a long history independent from computer science; however, digital technology has become imbedded into our contemporary society at a global scale. As a global society, our values are also changing as the degree of separation between computer aided thinking and human thought comes closer together. Digital technology has the capacity to render what were otherwise unattainable ideas into fully realized solutions. Hand-drawing and fast thinking allow for a less fragmented creative process compared to the slow thought necessary to process computer generated ideas quickly. Our schools are teaching students to rely upon slow thought technology early during the design process. Computers can process information quickly but they cannot think intuitively and I don’t believe there is a substitution for a human’s ability to create. New generations of architects are being introduced to complex thought-process thinking via digital technology at an increasingly early age. I wonder if this introduction to computers will enable students and practitioners of architecture to design more intuitively in the future. My hope is that students of architecture, and the profession, do not reduce their ability and responsibility to generate ideas using their natural intuition. They are the sources responsible for the generation of ideas. Human intuition continues to guide digital technology and not vice versa.“

CONCLUSION FROM RESEARCH ENTITLED: Digital Regression: Intuitive Practice and the Future of Architecture (2011).

Taking Nature By Force. 10”X4’Cast Glass, Salvaged Live Oak, and Steel.