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A portfolio of architecture, design, and fine art, by Brendan Sullivan
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Brendan Sullivan
A Po r t f o l i o
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Edmonton International Airport: Combined Office/Control Tower
Architect: Dialog
Clients: Thermal Systems & Ellisdon Construction (joint venture)
GC: Ellisdon Construction
Location: Edmonton Alberta, Canada
Duration: July 2011 January 2013
GT joined the Edmonton International Airport project as a rescue mission. At the time when GT stepped in, our main client (Thermal Systems) had twice attempted to produce a mock-up of a system for building the decorative ribbon ellements. We collaborated with Thermal and with the project engineer, Walters Chamber & Associates, and the fabricators, to redesign the building system for the ribbons. This included the design or the trusses and their bespoke connection details, doubly curved hat-channel supports spanning between the trusses, and corrugated decking laid over the hat-channel to in turn support the zinc shingles. Before creating truss templates and fabrication data GT first tuned the ribbon to meet the needs of the glazers, engineering,and of course, the design intent.
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CooRDINATIoN AND SYSTEM DESIGN
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ANALYSIS
TEMPLATE CREATIoN WITH EMBEDDED SHoP AND FAB DATA
PRoPoGATIoN oF TEMPLATES USING TUNED RIBBoN GEoMETRY AND SURVEY DATA AS INPUTS
PRoPoGATIoN oF HAT CHANELS WITH EMBEDDED FAB DATA (TUNED GEoMETRY AS INPUTS)
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TRUSS TEMPLATES (53)
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As-built Survey Data
Doc Temp Creation
Ribbon Tuning
Surface offsets
Engineer Review
Hat Channel Process
Fab Data Extraction
Truss Instantiation
Hat Channel Instantiation
Generate Truss Setout
Points Surveyed on-site
PRoCESS
Fab Data Extraction z
Fab Data Processing
Fab Data Processing
Hat Channel Fabrication
Truss Fabrication
Hat Channel Package & Delivery
Truss Package & Delivery
Install Data Extraction
Load onto FRACo lift
Install Parts
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Front Inc
Barclays Arena Curtain-wall brackets and mock-up latticework
Architect: SHoP
Clients: ASI Limited
Location: Brooklyn NY, USA
Duration: Summer, 2010
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BARCLAYS ARENA: BRACKETS, SHoP AND FAB DRAWINGS
My roll at Front was to draft Shop and Fabrication drawing for the bra kets that would ultimately hold the curtain wall panels. In addition I contributed modeling and drafting for the Visual-Mock-Up and Performance-Mock-Up on the following pages. Throughout the process I collaborated heavily with the project engineer, Phil Kaleel, as well as the other architects on the team.
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BARCLAYS ARENA: VISUAL MoCK-UP-1
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professional WorK
Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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DFS GALLERIA: CATIA CoNCEPT MoDEL
Working under Marc Simmons I was part of a four person team that set out to redesign three new facades for the flagship locations of DFS. The Scottswalk store in Hong Kong was the facade that I ultimately modeled in Catia. The structure of the digital model can be broken down by looking at the very basic surface below. The control curves (center of the image) drive the curvature of the surface. Sections of the surface then provided rails along which to sweep the profiles of the stone facade elements
Front Inc
DFS Re-branding through architecture
Architect: Front Inc
Location: Hong Kong, China
Duration: Summer, 2010
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IN SITU
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
rendering by designstor
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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C-BIP [Columbia Building Intelligence Project]
Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David Benjamin
GSAPP, Spring 2010
Tensile Shader
Location: Glass Sky-Scrapers Everywhere
Brendan Sullivan
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oFF THE SHELF ELEMENTS combined with
CoMPoNENTS + STRATEGY + PARAMETERS
GoAL:
Use off the shelf components (aluminum tubing, cable, cable-ends, and xorel fabric) and combine them using a single customized piece to create an object with potential for infinite variability.
STRATEGY:
Cut fabric to specified dimensions and number of sides (depending on pattern see subsequent pages). Manufacture strut ends to specified rotation depts of each individual shader.
CUSToMIzED ELEMENT creates VARIABILITY
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PARAMETRIC VARIATIoN
a. Diameter b. Strut length
c. Polygon sides
d. Rotation ratio
e. Top polygon scaling ratio
a. a. & b.
b. c. d.c. & d. e.
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DEPLoYMENT
In essence the shader provides a badly needed bandage for sky-scraping, overglazed towers. Thanks to the shaders built in parameters and versatility, a nearly infinite variety of patterns are possible, just three of which are illustrated here.
SUMMER
WINTER
adjacent buildings
shadow
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professional WorK
Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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STUFF*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscape
Professors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean Gallagher
GSAPP, Spring 2011
just bottles
Location: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)
Brendan Sullivan
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plastic bottles dry ice fluff nylon rope
soil grassplastic wrap
recycled plastic rods
MATERIALS
BUoYANCY CALCULATIoNS
Buoyancy = volume submerged + Yw (unit weight of water)
w = weight of structure + weight of people
L = 100
w = 150 lb/bt2 * 100 = 15,000lbs
B = volume * Y
V = 1w * D * 100
D = depth
w/Y * 100 = D
1,500/62.4 *100 = D
D = 2.4But since bottle structure is porous this number is doubled to 5The depth used for the most heavily occupied zones was 7
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MoDULE INTERLoCKING
Through the adaptation of a tetris-like system of shapes the sandwich modules are able to interlock planometrically without creating long continuous seams in the floating structure. In order to provide a similar interlocking sectionally, a kind of tongue-in-groove overlapping is adopted (below).
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STAGES oF GRoWTH (PARALLEL To NYC PLASTICS CoNSUMPTIoN)
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SITE MoDEL
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professional WorK
Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Education and Industry: Cross Programming as a Means to Promote Sustainable Development
Professor: Marcus Dochanschi
GSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing
Location: Accra, Ghana
Brendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
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NoRTH PERSPECTIVE
View into school from northern edge of site, showing storage facilities and small scale retail spaces.
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consUmers
1. Germany 11.12 kgs2. Belgium 11.03 kgs 3. Switzerland 10.74 kgs4. UK 10.22 kgs5. Austria 9.43 kgs6. Norway 8.53 kgs7. Denmark 7.74 kgs8. France 6.78 kgs9. Finland 6.77kgs 10. Sweden 6.76 kgs11. United States 5.58 kgs12. Australia 5.31 kgs13. Italy 4.26 kgs14. Canada 3.90 kgs
proDUcers
1. Cte dIvoire 37.4% 2. Ghana 20.7%3. Indonesia 12.7%4. Cameroon 5.0%5. Nigeria 4.6%6. Brazil 3.4%7. Equador 3.4%8. Dominican rep. 1.4%
GLoBAL CoCoA PRoDUCTIoN/CoNSUMPTIoN
GHANAS CoCoA RELATIoNSHIP
Each year Ghana exports 700,000 tons of cocoa beans valued up to $32 billion (high-end retail). Consider that Ghanas GDP IS $16.65 billion. Meanwhile there exists a severe production gap between Ghana, which produces an average of 400 kg/acre, and newer cocoa industries like that of Vietnam which averages 1000kg/acre.
THE 4B PRoPoSAL
TEMA FACToRY: The factory will be located in the Free Trade zone of Tema, less than five miles from the Tema port.
ACCRA SCHooL: our education campus will be located in the South Industrial Area of Accra. Splitting the factory and school into two dedicated campuses allows us to develop manufacturing at two different scales.
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CULINARY SCHooL SECTIoN
CANoPY SYSTEM (HYPAR FIELD)
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SECTIoN MoDEL
Model scale: 1/8 = 1
Image scale: NTS
Sugar and Wrapper Storage
Culinary School
Cocoa Bean Storage
Agriculture School
Administration
outdoor Growing Space
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CULINARY SCHooL
View of culinary school and conching facility.
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professional WorK
Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]
front inc [Barclays arena]
front inc [Dfs Galleria]
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Hunters Point South Housing Development
Professor: Robert Marino
GSAPP, Fall 2009
Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every Unit
Location: Hunters Point South, Queens, NY
Brendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
WATERDAYLIGHT AIR
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toweRS with ButtinG Low-RiSe unitS
The layout of the tower units is configured in such a way as to allow the low-rise units to plug directly into the sides of the tower with no loss of space.
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Through an analysis of the existing and planned transportation infrastructure in the Hunters Point area, it is quite clear that there are numerous convenient options for transportation to and from Manhattan. In considering transportation our design therefore focused on creating easy access to existing transportation as opposed to creating new transportation infrastructure.
puBLiC fACiLitieS MAp
As this map demonstrates, there is an intense scarcity of public facilities in the immediate vicinity of Hunters Point South. Furthermore, what facilities exist, are extremely limited. My partner Kooho and I therefore included in our design a great deal of public facilities/infrastructure such as two schools, a supermarket, a public library, a farmers market, a health-care clinic and several acres of public park space.
community school district 30, zone 3
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our strategy for supplying cross-ventilation to each and every tower apartment unit was to perforate the tower with vertical chimneys [2]. The chimneys are broken every five floors by a double-height open-air floor plate that we call the wind floor [3]. The structural walls of the tower [4 & 5] are designed to funnel air through these wind-floors, creating a fast laminar flow of air over the tops of the chimneys and causing air to be drawn in through exterior windows of the apartments, through the apartments and then up and out of the chimneys.
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The resolution of this plan shows the semi-submerged retail-loop that threads through/beneath the residential landscape above. Also visible is the lobby of a tower with low rise apartment units plugging in.
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SECTIoNS A, B, C, D
The sections illustrate the transition from original ground plane (at rivers edge) to elevated plateau, to apartment units. The new ground plane makes a slow, feathered rise from the water front to four stories high where it meets the city at the edge of the site. The Master Plan illustrates the strategy of ushering the public up onto the plateau from the streets of Queens via wide, grand staircases at the juncture of each street with the sites edge.
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The varied heights of the towers are orchestrated in such a way that the towers nearest the center of the site are tallest. Those on the edges are shorter, allowing the inner towers more open views and greater wind exposure.
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Museum of Delineation
Professor: Karla Rothstein
GSAPP, Spring 2009
MOD: Show-Casing the Roughdraft
Location: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NY
Brendan Sullivan
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NEW MUSEUM
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A connection to the street through a new public park provides entry to a museum whose elevated structure allows for day-lit galleries and workspaces and 1.2 acres of new city park. Flows of movement between this entry point and rooftop park spaces provide access to galleries, a library/research space, and a theater. While exhibits reveal the process material behind works of art, architecture and design, the building makes vertical the processes and exchanges of a public park.
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QUALITATIVE STUDIES
A series of material studies and two dimensional collages allowed for the development of goals and intentions for the interior qualities of light and human experience within the museum. These studies also provided a sort of indirect, non-quantitative notion of what the buildings skin needed to do; how that skin would need to perform.
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MASSING/PRoGRAM STUDIES
To begin to explore the programing of the museum I began with the over-all buildable space for the building [A] and filled it with neutral space [B]. Then I began to stretch, pull, compress, and delete this neutrality and replace it with spaces of specificity; voids, galleries, parks, classrooms [C, D, E, F, G, H].
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Early material studies aided both in an understanding of the physical character of the spaces (there luminosity, porosity, etc) as well as and early understanding of their volume. By incorporating large terraced outdoor spaces the museum provides over half an acre of additional park space to the pubic of New York.
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Directly reflecting the design intention of providing out-door public space, the building literally serves to extend the public sphere of the streets below. Large escalators usher visitors up onto higher and higher platforms of park space, with options for entering the museum at street level or at the top-most park. To the rear of the street level park visitors are met by a small outdoor restaurant.
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NoRTH-SoUTH SECTIoN [center]EAST-WEST SECTIoN [right]
As the sections demonstrate, the butted triangles of the membrane are scaled in both aperture and depth to admit more or less light according to program needs. The same triangular system applies itself to the entirety of the building, forming the waffle-slabs of the floors, the truss work of the buildings massive cantilevers and the membrane. The plans reveal the scale and quantity of stacked green, outdoor space.
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Architectural Daylighting
Professor: Davidson Norris
GSAPP, Spring 2011
Embedded Color of Ambient Light
Brendan Sullivan
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CoLoR BAND
Interior of wall:
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Environmental Research Pod
Professor: Yoshiko Sato
GSAPP, Fall 2008
Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain as a Means to Generate Electricity
Location: Global
Brendan Sullivan
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SECTIoN LAYERS
In section the dynamic, fluid quality of the stretched-fabric structure is illustrated.
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ExPLoDED AxoNoMETRIC
The research pod/energy harvester is constructed simply of aluminum tubing, elastic cord, and a sheer, nylon-based fabric and an internal rubber bladder for water collection.
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PERSPECTIVES
As water accumulates in an elevated central bladder, the tent slowly descends and flattens under the weight. At the moment of total collapse, just before the tent would flatten causing its interior contents to be pushed up and outward, allowing the tent to spring back to its full height. The slow descents and abrupt rises of the structure provide a gage for rain-fall and water accumulation.
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CoMPRESSIoN HARVESTING
The Research Pods innate capacity to collapse and immediately/effortlessly spring back into shape opens it to the possibility of passive energy harvest. For example, placed beneath a natural occurring water-fall, the pod would collapse and spring back into shape indefinitely as long as the water supply remained.
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RESEARCH-PoD MoDEL
In addition to generating energy, the research pod also generates beauty by its formal and material qualities. A translucent skin serves both as shelter and water-capturing device.
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Adaptive Formulations: Viewing Tower
Professor: Adam Modesitt
GSAPP Spring 2010
Double Helix
Location: Nature
Brendan Sullivan
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componenTs + sTraTeGy + parameTers
CoMPoNENTS:
The basic goal of the tower was to use off the shelf components (2x4 lumber and steel rods) to create a custom tower by using custom lengths of very basic materials.
STRATEGY:
Base wire-frame/surfaces provide the backbone for Knowledge-Pattern inputs. Knowledge patterns distribute the actual tower geometry (rods and 2x4s), updating every time the main parameters are changed.
MAIN PARAMETERS:
a. Core offset b. Helix pitch
c. Core deviation
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Birds-eye-view of the Double-Helix Viewing Tower.
Upon entering the tower on the ground one is presented with a dynamic semi-enclosed space with a curving stairwell to usher the viewer upward and skyward [top right]. on the way up the stairs the landscape is bifurcated by the structural slats of the tower [center right] Finally, at the towers peak, there is a wide open platform of steps from which the landscape may be openly enjoyed [bottom right].
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Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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Architectural Drawing and Representation
Professor: Tatiana Van Preussen
GSAPP, Spring 2009
PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and Text
Location: The World
Brendan Sullivan
With this project I explored the communicative and narrative capacity of drawing through an architectural understanding of the PBY Catalina, combined with a visceral and experiential understanding of my fathers work and travels as a pilot of a PBY Catalina with the Cousteau Society in the 1970s. Eventually I used his narrative (literally) as line; allowing the words and letters to aggregate into lines whose weights vary depending on the frequency of the narratives telling. The result is a dynamic drawing as expressive of myself and up-bringing as of my father and his story-telling.
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SECTIoNS
The premise of this phase in the project was to take a plastic model and distort/affect it in some way. I melted my model with a heat-gun. These sections depict the resultant bending and distortion of the aircraft.
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A N D T H E N T O S C H E F F E R V I L L E (WHERE THE CO-PILOT DECIDES HES HAD ENOUGH...AND FELIPE REJOINED THE ADVENTURE
SO TH
E TWO
YOUN
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, AIME
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. ALLAS, THEY RAN INTO WEATHER AND TURNED BACK
AND THEN HEADED FOR THE AZORES...WHERE THEY W
ERE PROMPTLY ARRESTED FOR PHOTOGRAPHING PORTUGUESE TERRITORY WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION
AND TH
EN TO ST. JO
HNS...
AND THEN ON TO SANTIAGO
AT GATW
ICK TH
ERE IS AN
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OIN
G O
N SO
ALL THE AIR
LINE PILO
TS ARE BEIN
G FO
RC
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ITE THEIR
OW
N FLIG
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S (SOM
ETHIN
G TH
EY ARE VER
Y OU
T OF PR
ACTIC
E WITH
. MIKE AN
D FELIPE LEN
D A H
AND
TO A R
ESPECTABLE O
LD BR
ITTISH-AIR
WAYS PILO
T STRU
GG
LING
TO FILL H
IS FLIGH
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DU
BAI. LATER, IN
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AYHEM
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PILOT H
ILLARIO
USLY ALLO
WS O
UR
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HER
OS TO
CU
T IN FR
ON
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IS 7-47 (OH
, IS THAT TH
E TWO
YOU
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APS IN TH
E PBY?), MU
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HE STAYS WITH THE PLANE. WHEN THE DIVE
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LY S
UR
FA
CE
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TO TAKE OFF...THEY SPEND H
OURS TA
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IN FLORIDA M
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UTH
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LAKE VICTO
RIA LO
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LIKE WATER
-SPOU
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THE LO
CALS W
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EM LIKE H
AMBU
RG
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...AN
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TH
IDI A
MIN
WANTED A RIDE IN THE P
BY...S
O WE GAVE HIME A RID
E...
NO
RTH
TO
FIL
M T
HE
VIC
TOR
IAN
NIL
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WH
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HE
PLA
NE
GE
TS B
LOW
N F
RO
M IT
S M
OO
RIN
G A
ND
MIK
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IT A
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SPE
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A ST
ORM
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WIT
H TH
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ES ID
LING
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N TH
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VER.
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UTH
TO N
AIR
OB
E, W
HE
RE
MIK
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ES
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S A
S P
ILOT O
F THE
PB
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ING
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VE
NT
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ES
; HE
RE
, ON
A L
ON
G D
EE
P D
IVE
, MIK
ES
OXY
GEN
TANK
RUNS OU
T BECUAS
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-DIVER MISTAKENLY MIXED UP THE TANKS. THE DIVERS HE IS DOWN W
ITH TAKE TUR
NS
GIV
ING
HIM
THE
IR M
OU
TH
-PIE
CE
UN
TIL THE
Y H
AVE REACHED THE SURFACE. IT TAKES A LONG TIME, WITH THEM ALL MOVING
UP VERY SLOWLY
TO ACCLIM
ATIZE AN
D AVO
ID
IN A WAY THIS STORY IS ALSO ABOUT MY PARENTS MEETING AND GETTING TO KNOW EACHOTHER. MY MOM FLEW OUT TO HAWAII ONCE MIKE AND DICK MADE IT OUT THERE, AS DID DICKS WIFE, NANCY...MY MOMS DAD WAS
FURIOUS. HE CALLED MY MOM A CAMP-FOLLOWER. SO, THE GOES, MY DAD SENT A POSTCARD TO MY MOMS DAD DEPICTING TO NUDE HAWAIIAN BEAUTIES AND WROTE; DEAR DAD, HAVING A GREAT TIME AT CAMP!...
AT THE POINT WHEN THE LADS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT END UP RUNNING OUT OF GAS THEY WERE UNABLE TO GET HAWAII ON THE RADIO. FOR WHATEVER REASON, SAN FRANSCISCO WAS COMING IN LOUTD AND CLEAR...SO THEY
CONTACTED SAN FRANSCHISCO...AND ENDED UP TALKING TO THE SAME CONTROLLER THAT THEY HAD SPOKEN WITH THE DAY BEFORE ON THEIR WAY OUT- WHO WAS FLABERGASTED THAT THEY WERE STILL IN THE AIR 12 HOURS LATER
WH
EN
TH
EY
FIR
ST
AR
RIV
ED
IN K
AR
TO
UM
, TH
ER
E W
AS
A W
AT
ER
SP
OU
T S
PIN
NIN
G O
UT
OV
ER
LAK
E V
IKT
OR
IA...T
HE
FIR
ST M
IKE
HA
D S
EE
N
TH
E S
TOR
M W
AS
SO
BA
D A
ND
TH
E W
AVE
S S
O HIG
H, THAT THE BLADES OF THE PROPS W
ERE C
UTTIN
G T
HR
OU
GH
SA
LT-WA
TE
R, CHEWING THEM TO A DULL, TOOTHY EDGE
AT ONE P
OINT THE EN
GINE NE
EDED
A PAR
T REP
LACE
D AN
D TH
EY F
LEW
BA
CK
TO
NIC
E F
OR
TH
E RE
PAIR
, TRA
VELIN
G THR
OUGH TH
E WORST STORM THE MEDITERANEAN HAD SEEN
SIN
CE
WO
RLD
WA
R II.........
IT WAS RISKS LIKE THAT FL
IGHT
T
HRO
UG
H T
HE
ME
DIT
ER
AN
EA
N S
TOR
M T
HAT
EVE
NTUA
LLY LED MIKE TO DECIDE TO RESIGN
MAPPING
My fathers travels in the PBY mapped according to the length and repetition of the storys telling. The text of the stories themselves is the mark-making tool.
PTHEY FL E
W N
O
RTH MAKI N
G V
- SHAPED F
L IG H
T
S TO CO
U NT
THE DOLPHIN P
OP
ULATION
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SI S
IN
SP
AC
E P
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CT
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IT M
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S P
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M T
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IN L
ON
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TH
EN
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TH
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TH
ER
TO
TH
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T W
AS
NA
ST
Y S
O T
HE
Y H
EA
DE
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OR
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ND
TEETERBORO NJ,JUNE 1976
STERLING ILAUG. 1976
DULUTH MNJUL. 1976
THUNDER BAY, CAN
CHICAGO ILNOV. 1977
FT. LAUDERDALEAUG. 1976
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADORSEPT. 1976
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICAOCT. 19 76
ACAPULCO, MEXICOAPRIL 1977
SAN DIEGO CAMAY 1977
LONG BEACH CAMAY 1977
OAKLAND CAMAY 1977
HONOLULU JUN 1977
HILOJUN1977
MIDWAY ISLANDAUG 1977
ADAK NAVAL AIR STATION,ALEUTIAN ISLANDSSEPT 1977
ANCHORAGE AKSEPT 1977
WATSON LAKE, CANSEPT 1977
YELLOW KNIFE, CANSEPT 1977
GREAT SLAVE LAKE, CANSEPT 1977
CHURCHILL, CANOCT1977
SCHEFFERVILLE, QBCNOV1977
ST. JOHNS, NEW FOUNDLANDNOV1977
AZORESNOV 1977
SANTIAGO, SPAINNOV 1977
LONDON, UKNOV 1977
PARIS, FRANCENOV 1977
NICE, FRANCEDEC 1977
TUNIS, TUNISIADEC 1977
CAP BON, TUNISIADEC 1977
KHARTOUM, SUDANMAY1978
VICTORIAN NILE, SUDAN AND EGYPTAUG 1978
KAMPALA, UGANDAMAY-AUG, 1978
NAIROBE, KENYAAUG 1978
OBERAMERGAU, GERMANY AUG 1978
THE FLIGHT WAS 19 HOURS. HALFWAY ACROSS THEY WERE NOT SURE THEY WOULD HAVE ENOUGH FUEL. WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER TO TURN AROUND OR KEEP AIMING FOR HAWAII, DICK TURNED TO MIKE AND SAID; WELL, THE WATER IS WARMER IN HAWAII...
FRO
M M
IDW
AY T
HEY
HEA
DED
FO
R T
HE
ALEU
TIAN
S
FROM TH
E ALEUT
IANS TO A
NCHORA
GEIN ANCHORAGE DICK (THE CAPTAIN) LEFT AND MIKE TOOK OVER AS CAPTAIN WITH A NEW CO-PILOT
S E V E R A L AT T E M P T S T
O LEAVE W
ATSO
N LA
KE
AN
OT
HE
R A
TT
EM
PT
T
O L
EA
VE
WA
TS
ON
LA
KE
YELLOW KNIFE TO WATSON LAKE
T HW
A RT E D
B Y B A D
W
EATHE
R..
.AG
AIN
...
TH
E L
AD
S F
I NA
LL
Y M
AD
E i
t O
UT
OF
WA
TS
ON
LA
KE
TO
TH
E N
OR
TH
O N T O C H U R C H I L L
A N D T H E N T O S C H E F F E R V I L L E (WHERE THE CO-PILOT DECIDES HES HAD ENOUGH...AND FELIPE REJOINED THE ADVENTURE
SO TH
E TWO
YOUN
G LAD
S, RE-U
NITED
, AIME
D FOR I
CELAND
. ALLAS, THEY RAN INTO WEATHER AND TURNED BACK
AND THEN HEADED FOR THE AZORES...WHERE THEY W
ERE PROMPTLY ARRESTED FOR PHOTOGRAPHING PORTUGUESE TERRITORY WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION
AND TH
EN TO ST. JO
HNS...
AND THEN ON TO SANTIAGO
AT GATW
ICK TH
ERE IS AN
FAA STRIKE G
OIN
G O
N SO
ALL THE AIR
LINE PILO
TS ARE BEIN
G FO
RC
ED TO
WR
ITE THEIR
OW
N FLIG
HT-PLAN
S (SOM
ETHIN
G TH
EY ARE VER
Y OU
T OF PR
ACTIC
E WITH
. MIKE AN
D FELIPE LEN
D A H
AND
TO A R
ESPECTABLE O
LD BR
ITTISH-AIR
WAYS PILO
T STRU
GG
LING
TO FILL H
IS FLIGH
T PLAN TO
DU
BAI. LATER, IN
THE M
AYHEM
OF TR
AFFIC O
N TH
E TAXI-WAY, TH
E BRITTISH
PILOT H
ILLARIO
USLY ALLO
WS O
UR
TWO
HER
OS TO
CU
T IN FR
ON
T OF H
IS 7-47 (OH
, IS THAT TH
E TWO
YOU
NG
CH
APS IN TH
E PBY?), MU
CH
TO TH
E FUR
Y OF TH
E TOW
ER C
ON
TRO
LLERS
TH
EY
CR
UI S
ED
SO
UT
H T
O P
RA
CT
I CE
WA
TE
R L
AN
DI N
GS
. . . BU
T I T
WA
S I L
LE
GA
L
TH
EN
ON
WA
RD
TO
NI C
E
TH
E S
EA
IS
TO
O R
OU
GH
FO
R M
IKE
T
O DI
VE AND
HE STAYS WITH THE PLANE. WHEN THE DIVE
RS
FIN
AL
LY S
UR
FA
CE
IT IS TO
O R
OU
GH
TO TAKE OFF...THEY SPEND H
OURS TA
XI-ING
IN FLORIDA M
IKE HAS HIS FIRST DIVE BEFORE THEY FLY SO
UTH
DO
WN
TO KAR
TOU
M, W
HER
E THE FLIES SW
ARM
ING
OVER
LAKE VICTO
RIA LO
OKED
LIKE WATER
-SPOU
TS...AND
THE LO
CALS W
OU
LD EAT TH
EM LIKE H
AMBU
RG
ER PATTIES!
...AN
D S
OU
TH
IDI A
MIN
WANTED A RIDE IN THE P
BY...S
O WE GAVE HIME A RID
E...
NO
RTH
TO
FIL
M T
HE
VIC
TOR
IAN
NIL
E...
WH
ER
E T
HE
PLA
NE
GE
TS B
LOW
N F
RO
M IT
S M
OO
RIN
G A
ND
MIK
E R
ESC
UES
IT A
ND
SPE
NDS
A ST
ORM
Y NI
GHT
WIT
H TH
E EN
GIN
ES ID
LING
OUT I
N TH
E RI
VER.
.. SO
UTH
TO N
AIR
OB
E, W
HE
RE
MIK
E R
ES
IGN
S A
S P
ILOT O
F THE
PB
Y
DIV
ING
AD
VE
NT
UR
ES
; HE
RE
, ON
A L
ON
G D
EE
P D
IVE
, MIK
ES
OXY
GEN
TANK
RUNS OU
T BECUAS
E THE HEAD
-DIVER MISTAKENLY MIXED UP THE TANKS. THE DIVERS HE IS DOWN W
ITH TAKE TUR
NS
GIV
ING
HIM
THE
IR M
OU
TH
-PIE
CE
UN
TIL THE
Y H
AVE REACHED THE SURFACE. IT TAKES A LONG TIME, WITH THEM ALL MOVING
UP VERY SLOWLY
TO ACCLIM
ATIZE AN
D AVO
ID
IN A WAY THIS STORY IS ALSO ABOUT MY PARENTS MEETING AND GETTING TO KNOW EACHOTHER. MY MOM FLEW OUT TO HAWAII ONCE MIKE AND DICK MADE IT OUT THERE, AS DID DICKS WIFE, NANCY...MY MOMS DAD WAS
FURIOUS. HE CALLED MY MOM A CAMP-FOLLOWER. SO, THE GOES, MY DAD SENT A POSTCARD TO MY MOMS DAD DEPICTING TO NUDE HAWAIIAN BEAUTIES AND WROTE; DEAR DAD, HAVING A GREAT TIME AT CAMP!...
AT THE POINT WHEN THE LADS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT END UP RUNNING OUT OF GAS THEY WERE UNABLE TO GET HAWAII ON THE RADIO. FOR WHATEVER REASON, SAN FRANSCISCO WAS COMING IN LOUTD AND CLEAR...SO THEY
CONTACTED SAN FRANSCHISCO...AND ENDED UP TALKING TO THE SAME CONTROLLER THAT THEY HAD SPOKEN WITH THE DAY BEFORE ON THEIR WAY OUT- WHO WAS FLABERGASTED THAT THEY WERE STILL IN THE AIR 12 HOURS LATER
WH
EN
TH
EY
FIR
ST
AR
RIV
ED
IN K
AR
TO
UM
, TH
ER
E W
AS
A W
AT
ER
SP
OU
T S
PIN
NIN
G O
UT
OV
ER
LAK
E V
IKT
OR
IA...T
HE
FIR
ST M
IKE
HA
D S
EE
N
TH
E S
TOR
M W
AS
SO
BA
D A
ND
TH
E W
AVE
S S
O HIG
H, THAT THE BLADES OF THE PROPS W
ERE C
UTTIN
G T
HR
OU
GH
SA
LT-WA
TE
R, CHEWING THEM TO A DULL, TOOTHY EDGE
AT ONE P
OINT THE EN
GINE NE
EDED
A PAR
T REP
LACE
D AN
D TH
EY F
LEW
BA
CK
TO
NIC
E F
OR
TH
E RE
PAIR
, TRA
VELIN
G THR
OUGH TH
E WORST STORM THE MEDITERANEAN HAD SEEN
SIN
CE
WO
RLD
WA
R II.........
IT WAS RISKS LIKE THAT FL
IGHT
T
HRO
UG
H T
HE
ME
DIT
ER
AN
EA
N S
TOR
M T
HAT
EVE
NTUA
LLY LED MIKE TO DECIDE TO RESIGN
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PRoJECTIoN
This drawing is literally the projection from plan to section over a series of distortions to the model.
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professional WorK
Gehry Technologies [edmonton international airport]Architect: DialogClient: Thermal Systems & Ellis Don Construction (joint venture)GC: Ellis Don ConstructionLocation: Edmonton Alberta, CanadaDuration: July 2011 January 2013
front inc [Barclays arena]Architect: SHoPClient: ASI LimitedLocation: Brooklyn NY, USADuration: Summer, 2010
front inc [Dfs Galleria]Architect: Front IncLocation: Hong Kong, ChinaDuration: Summer, 2010
acaDemic WorK
c-Bip [columbia Building intelligence project]Professors: Scott Marble, Laura Kurgan, David BenjaminGSAPP, Spring 2010Tensile ShaderLocation: Glass Sky-Scrapers (Global)Brendan Sullivan
sTUff*re-imagining an alternative industrial landscapeProfessors: Laurie Hawkinso, Sean GallagherGSAPP, Spring 2011just bottlesLocation: An urban water-front near you (in this case the Hudson River on Manhattans West side)Brendan Sullivan
education and industry: cross programming as a means to promote sustainable DevelopmentProfessor: Marcus DochanschiGSAPP Fall 2010
4B Chocolate: Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and education through chocolate processing Location: Accra, GhanaBrendan Sullivan with Brian Smith
Hunters point south Housing DevelopmentProfessor: Robert MarinoGSAPP, Fall 2009Ventilating Density: Providing Cross-Ventilation and Natural Light to Every UnitLocation: Hunters Point South, Queens, NYBrendan Sullivan with Kooho Jung
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acaDemic WorK (continued)
museum of DelineationProfessor: Karla RothsteinGSAPP, Spring 2009MOD: Show-Casing the RoughdraftLocation: Bowery @ Prince Street Manhattan, NYBrendan Sullivan
architectural DaylightingProfessor: Davidson NorrisGSAPP, Spring 2011The Art of Color in Ambient LightLocation: GalleryBrendan Sullivan
environmental research podProfessor: Yoshiko SatoGSAPP, Fall 2008Energy Harvest: Exploiting the Energy of Falling Rain to Generate ElectricityLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
adaptive formulations: Viewing TowerProfessor: Adam ModesittGSAPP Spring 2010
Double HelixLocation: NatureBrendan Sullivan
architectural Drawing and representationProfessor: Tatiana Van PreussenGSAPP, Spring 2009PBY Journeys: Mapping Space and Time Through Line, Narrative and TextLocation: GlobalBrendan Sullivan
fine arT
esploring the contemplative Through line, photography and sculptureNew York, Rome, ProvidenceBrendan Sullivan
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I (Filter Series)
Medium Format Color Print
24x 23
New York, NY 2007
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IV (Filter Series)
Medium Format Color Print
24x 26
New York, NY 2007
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Untitled (Wax) details
Untitled (Wax)
Parafin and Modeling Wax, Wood, Light
24x 26
New York, NY 2007
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Untitled (Light Fixture)
Wire, Rice-paper, Polymer Medium
24x 36 x 24
New York, NY 2007
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II (Open-Closed Series)
Digital Ink-jet Print
36 x 30
Rome, Italy 2006
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IV (Open-Closed Series)
Digital Ink-jet Print
32 x 30
Rome, Italy 2006
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VI (Open-Closed Series)
Digital Ink-jet Print
33 x 30
Rome, Italy 2006
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Intimate Conversation
Graphite, Charcoal on Paper
17 x 22
Rome, Italy 2006
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Meditation Drawing
Graphite on Paper
16 x 24
Providence, RI 2005
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Meditation Drawing IV
Graphite on Abaca
18 x 22
Providence, RI 2005
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Installation Painting I
Charcoal, Incaustic, oil on Canvas
48 x 40
Providence, RI 2005
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Installation Drawing I
Ink, Chalk, Gesso, Collage on Paper
36 x 32
Providence, RI 2005
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Installation Drawing III
Ink, Chalk, Gesso, Collage on Paper
28 x 30
Providence, RI 2005
_187
Installation Drawing II
Ink, Chalk, Gesso, Collage on Paper
28 x 30
Providence, RI 2005
_189
Snow III
Monotype and Intaglio Print
9 x 12
Providence, RI 2004
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Snow IV
Graphite, oil, Skin-glue on Canvas
80 x 68
Providence, RI 2004
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Touch Portrait
Charcoal on Paper
46 x 76
Providence, RI 2004
_195
Birds
Charcoal on Paper
18 x 24
Providence, RI 2004
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Undercurrent
Monotype and Intaglio Print
10 x 14
Providence, RI 2004
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