Steven Max SilversteinCornell UniversityBachelor of Architecture 2016

ResumeSchoolFull ServicePorch HousePanoptic Architecture SchoolBoston Living CenterUrban CrossingLaxe LighthouseShell HouseSheared MuseumPaper ManipulationTool RepresentationScholar’s RetreatChokkura Plaza Structural ModelCurricular Nuclear MarkerSummerDPR ResidenceDICE ChairParty WallWest Side LoftGuastavino VaultSoloLathe DesignDineSuspended TableBrace Coffee Table

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STEVEN MAX SILVERSTEINARCHITECT

69 Havemeyer Road Irvington, NY 10533

P: 914-490-7757 E: smaxsilverstein@gmail.com

SkillsRhinocerosV-rayAutocadPhotoshopIllustratorInDesignWordExcelPowerpointiMovieOSXWindowsWoodworkingMetalworkingCastingModelingCNC Milling3D PrintingLaser CuttingPhotography

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EducationCornell University2011 - 2016

Bachelor of ArchitectureCompleted a series of design studios that challenged me to approach architectural design from a new perspective and built on my prior skills and knowledge (see portfolio pages 3-50)

ExperienceUhuru DesignSummer 2015

Woodworking/Design InternCollaborated with employees and other interns to design and build a stool from recycled fire truck springs and hand-stitched leather (see portfolio page 53)Constructed a variety of pieces of furniture - dining tables, chairs, bed frames, dressers, etc.

Method DesignSummer 2014

Architecture InternDrafted plans, elevations, and detail drawings in Autocad for more than six apartment renovations in NYCSurveyed spaces to initiate new projectsCrafted a meticulously detailed model of a renovation completed by the firm in 2012 (see portfolio page 51)

CODASummer 2013

Production Team MemberPre-fabricated and assembled the installation for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program - Party Wall (see portfolio page 54)

Gallin Beeler Design StudioSummer 2011, 2013

Architecture InternWorked through design development on several home renovations Created two sets of photorealistic renderings (see portfolio page 55)

Cornell UniversitySpring 2013 - 2016

AAP Shop SupervisorSupervise and assist students using the Cornell AAP material practice facilitiesResponsible for the training of new studentsTrained intensively in woodworking, metalworking, casting, and shop safety

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Full Service

This project investigated how architecture can redefine dining into an active theatrical experience. The design inspires an architectonic performance that curates an inhabitant’s experience of the local produce in a specific cooking ritual and delivered via mechanisms integrated into an artifice. The typical ritual of dining is inverted by forcing people to move around the structure and consume food via tools of varying scales that engage the diner ergonomically on both ends. The artifice serves a single dish in a variety of ways in order to reinterpret the experience of the dish each time. This allows the artifice, and not the food, to become the spectacle of the meal.

Full ServiceSpring 2016

Professors Vince Mulcahy & Michael Jefferson

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It is a purposefully slow machine designed to make users consider the way that they eat. The two sides of the artifice are divided by the service wall and joined through movement as bodies engage the interface on opposite sides. The construction maintains the typical relationship between the served and the servant, but it frames a different view of the scene through its use. The act of eating sets up choreographed views beyond the mechanism to the process of preparation and service. The setting allows views to extend further to significant buildings and the blooming nature around it. The site plan references all of the views that look outside the box.

Full Service

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This single family home is located in the dense Shinjuku region of Tokyo. The design blurs the boundary between interior and exterior through the use of porches, operable partitions, and the exclusion of interior doors and walls. Spaces are distinguished via materiality and level shifts. These photographs of the model demonstrate the key element of this design: porosity. From any given place in the design an occupant has views into multiple different spaces, often between floors. This creates a particularly social environment for the residents and their neighbors.

Porch HouseFall 2015

Professors Jr-Gang Chi & Shingo Masuda

Porch House

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EXTERIOR PORCH

INTERIOR CORE

EXTERIOR CORE

INTERIOR PORCHES

Porch House

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EntrywayTypology [QUANTITY]

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Average:30.7 sqft

NYC Average:34 sqft

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Entryways and Unused Space

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Porch House

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This architecture school and residence hall, located amongst abandoned hospitals in Lisbon, was particularly challenging to design due to the preexisting 6m wall elevating it from the street and the historic panopticon that it is situated around. The school is a continuity of the wall, hovering above it then turning the corner and widening to provide ample space for programs. At the rear the two sides are reconnected by a covered walkway that creates a sense of enclosure for the courtyards. The design creates a series of courtyards in conversation with one another where these spaces are linked through pinch points before opening up into the vast green spaces.

Panoptic Architecture School

Panoptic Architecture SchoolSpring 2015

Professor João Luís Carrilho da Graça

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Panoptic Architecture School

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This is a mixed use residential building on the edge of downtown Boston. The form was created to ensure nice views throughout the building while angling across the site to maximize available space. The site is up against the waterfront on the west side and the green way on the east side; at the ground level these are complimented by lawns and raised reflecting pools respectively. The facade of the building changes based on the program; curtain walls at ground level for the public spaces; wider mullions surround the child care and fitness center; and the residential facade is solid so that openings read as punctures through the wall. The slot running through the building is a private green space for residents whereas the terraced roof is a public green space.

Boston Living Center

Boston Living CenterFall 2013

Professor Julian Palacio

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Food Court/Library

Child Care

Residential

Green Space

Fitness Center

Residential

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Boston Living Center

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Urban Crossing

While Rome’s landscape was formed by the undulating ground this project, located in the historic district of Trastevere, is formed by duplicating and folding the ground plane to create a new landscape where volumes of space can slide underneath. The organization of the volumes and openings in the raised plane creates various paths for newcomers to explore and different occupants to travel to their destination. The raised planters create a linear field fractured by skylights and miniscule walkways for transverse movement. The vast open spaces and stairs provide space for performances while there is an influx of people at the neighboring flea market.

Urban CrossingSpring 2014

Professor Lily Chi

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The rough Galician coast is spotted with a series of lighthouses to protect oceangoers from the rocky shores. This lighthouse is a destination and continuation of the hikers trail that connects all of the lighthouses. The flat side of the building faces towards the town center while the other three sides of each floor articulate to allow one ‘focused’ view on each floor. The focused view always has an all glass facade as well as rafters on the ceiling that run perpendicular to the facade. As a hikers rest stop, the program includes a café, lounge space, and night club for young backpackers following the trail.

Laxe Lighthouse

Laxe LighthouseSpring 2013

Professor Maria Hurtado de Mendoza

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This project began by studying a fishing rod and that led to the concept of thin, flexible element to mimic the rod’s curvaceous design. This image is a preliminary study, which has a shadow that resembles the form of an exaggerated fishing rod. On the following page you can see the final design is a house where the wire area is a shaded outdoor garden, entryway, and lounge. The interior is almost entirely enclosed and the house is 3 feet underground, so that occupants experience a different relationship with their surroundings. The shadow studies created perfect ‘drawings’ of the silhouette.

Shell House

Shell HouseFall 2012

Professor Iñaqui Carnicero

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Sheared Museum

This project is a museum designed for a 5500 sq ft plot on a street corner in Binghamton, NY. The underside of the building was opened on the corresponding corner to draw in visitors. Visitors enter the lobby on the 3rd floor where they circulate upwards through a series of interlocking, separate, open, enclosed, vast, and small galleries. Soft light was introduced using skylights on the face and top of the

building. The roof is occupiable between skylights.

Sheared MuseumFall 2012

Professor Iñaqui Carnicero

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Paper model created through scoring, cutting, twisting, tucking, and sewing a single sheet of bristol board. The drawing is a representation of how the model was created, revealing how spines were folded, tunnels were wrapped, and how it looks in transverse and longitudinal section. It could be unfolded back to the original sheet.

Paper Manipulation

Paper ManipulationFall 2011Professor James Williamson & Val Warke

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Tool Representation

The left drawing shows a painstakingly precise documentation of a well-worn pair of pliers. It includes top, bottom, side, front, and back views, transverse sequential sections on axis and longitudinal sections. The top drawing involved scaling and manipulating the first drawing to create unique collage.

Tool RepresentationSummer 2010

Professor Vince Mulcahy

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Scholar’s Retreat

Scholar’s RetreatSpring 2012

Professor James Williamson & Val Warke

This design was my preliminary iteration using Mario Botta’s single family home as a precedent and following the rules that Botta set for himself. The left hand page details the final design from this project. The four spaces of the house deal with four different types of experiences within the house. These spaces consist of a transparent study, a private quarter, a semi-transparent cooking and dining space, and a semi-private meeting space. These four quarters slot into the corners of the nine square grid while circulation crosses between and connects them. The central transparent rectangle hovers over a waterfall that used to power a mill on the site.

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The objective of this project was to accurately model the structural system of an existing building at scale. The building is Kengo Kuma’s Chokkura Plaza. The ooya stone and its texture were modeled with a mix of rockite and play sand cast in silicon molds. The molds were produced by pouring rubber around 3D printed blocks (there were 6 types). Brass was used in place of steel because of its ease of use. The beam grid that sits atop the stone walls was made by cutting brass strips and sheets to the correct dimension and soldering them. The walls were also soldered together.

Chokkura Plaza Structural Model

Chokkura Plaza Structural ModelFall 2012

Professor Mark Cruvellier

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The studio prompt: manufacture a marker for nuclear waste that must communicate a message for at least 10,000 years:

DANGER INSIDE: KEEP OUT

I created a dangerous jungle in a closet as part of my studio’s exhibition in an apartment we rented. The jungle planted atop a decomposing landfill is the physical barrier to the waste depository. The supplement to the hazardous jungle was a three part curriculum that I invented to create a lasting knowledge of the dangers that lurked in the wild. Woven into the curriculum was a new style of teaching that came in the form of masks that distorted students’ vision so that they were constantly hyper-aware of their environment and prepared for anything.

Nuclear Marker

Curricular Nuclear MarkerFall 2014

Professor Eric Ellingson

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DPR Residence

This is a model of a renovation and addition performed on a 1960s home in Pound Ridge, New York. The model precisely demonstrates the design, which was executed in 2012, in color and texture. The base is made of hand cut basswood contours, while the house materials consist of four types of chipboard, paper, birch plywood, metal, and piano wire. (3/32”=1’)

DPR ResidenceSummer 2014

Method Design

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The interns (3 others) collaborated to design and build a stool from recycled NYC fire truck springs and hand-stitched leather under the tutelage of both design and manufacturing employees. The design allows the springs to flex as you lower yourself into the seat. Over time the stretched leather molds to the user’s body to become even more ergonomic. The leather has a natural waxed finish and the steel has a hand blackened patina.

DICE Chair

DICE ChairSummer 2015UHURU Design

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Party Wall

Party Wall is a vertical shade that creates space by the shadow that it casts; that acts as a stage set for a series of micro-performances, and that sheds its skin in order to accommodate those events. I assisted in the pre-fabrication and assembly of the façade panels, construction of the pool decks, seating, and various other tasks required for the completion of this vast structure.

Party WallSummer 2013

CODA

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Renderings of a conceptual renovation for a loft in Manhattan. The translucent layers of glass and long hallway created an effect that dimmed and blurred light to slowly separate the open public space from the more private areas of the loft.

West Side Loft

West Side LoftSummer 2011Gallin Beeler Design Studio

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This model Guastavino tile vault is a half-scale reproduction of the ceiling in the Boston Public Library (1889). Layers of thin ceramic tile were bonded with Portland cement mortar to create a thin, strong masonry shell. The shallow dome is supported by four arches at its edges. A herringbone pattern of glazed tile on the interior creates a decorative finish for the vault. The vault is left incomplete in the center to reveal the layers of construction. I assisted MIT students, Professor Ochsendorf, and professional masons on this project for two weeks. This piece was exhibited in the Boston Public Library, National Building Museum in Washington D.C., and the Museum of the City of New York.

Guastavino VaultSummer 2012

Professor John Ochsendorf

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This page represents my most successful productions from the lathe. The upper left image is an ash rolling pin with walnut inlays. The upper right image is a walnut bracelet with cherry inlays. The lower right image is a beer stein that was made by CNC milling the exterior and handle and then putting it on the lathe to remove the interior. The glossy finishes on the stein and bracelet were achieved using a film of epoxy.

Lathe Design

Lathe DesignDecember 2013Personal Projects

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Dine

I began with a spoon, because I eat soup everyday and then became inspired to complete the set with the fork, knife (yes, it cuts), spork, and cup. The utensils were carved from bloodwood and the spoon and spork have brass inlays. The cup was turned from padouk and has four oak inlays corresponding to fingers. The sketch shows my initial concept for the spork, but each one changed a great deal as I made it and learned from the prior one.

DineNovember 2014Personal Project

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This dining table consists of a red oak top that hangs from two steel supports. The wood was stained using Iron Acetate to discolor the tannins in the wood and finished using Wipe-on Polyurethane. The outside of the steel has a brushed finish while the inner faces retain their original patina. The top hangs from three bolts welded to each leg and can be disassembled for transportation.

Suspended Table

Suspended TableOctober 2014Personal Project

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Brace Coffee Table

This coffee table was constructed using steel rod and African mahogany. The top was finished using Danish oil and paste wax while the frame was powder coated a smoked chrome. The angles of all the bracing are the same, because the long side is exactly twice the length of the short side. It is designed in such a way that the top can be replaced with glass.

Brace Coffee TableMay 2013

Personal Project

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