T a b l e o f c o n t e n t s

Knowledge City

Representation

Landscape

The Library

Revit

Boathouse Language/Memory/Space

Graduate Dormitory

Competition Submission

Knowledge City It is projected for the beginning of the XXI century that over 50% of the world population will be living in urban centers. But what is the actual purpose of a high density City at the beginning of the XXI Century?

With the advent of new technologies the storage, transmission and management of information has become quasi space-less. With a brutal contraction of time and space, not to say a complete disappearance of the notion of distance for data transmission in the Information Age we have arrived again to the notion of De-localization. So why are we paying so much rent to live in the center of cities like Paris, New York, Tokyo, Mum-bai or Kyoto?

Space is created and explored in the rearrangement and evolution of reconfigured memory.

The occupant begins to question the integrity of the space by inhabiting the unfamiliar and comparing it to the familiar. Relying on physical matter as oppose to memory the program begins to transform as one embodies the arrayed arrangement.

Recently Pratt has purchased a large empty lot on the North Side of the campus, on the Emerson Street, next to Myrtle Avenue.

The site is slightly to the back of the campus, but the new development on Myrtle Avenue as well as the city life around this urban corridor makes the new plot an interesting hinge between the cam pus and the rest of the city.

REARRANGED / EVOLUTION

Pratt Institute – Emerson & Myrtle

LibraryWe live in a world of information technology, whereby the collection and distribution of knowledge is itself a dominant component of economic and cultural discourse From the collections of clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia, to the printed page, to today’s proliferation of digital media, libraries have always contained the records and information that reflect the societies that create them and represent the openness ofThose societies. The historical conventions of the library still exist today but its role as a resource has evolved over the last century.

Ease of access to information through digitized media as well as series of other contemporary factors have changed the traditional functions of a library.

The larger research library for example has begun to shed a number of the physical artifacts that once established its credibility as an unquestioned and finite resource of information. Databases, essentially without the need of a physical presence now hold that credibility

A system is a network of independent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system.

SPATIAL HIERARCHY

The fundamental nature of any studio is the assumption of an initial focus of study into a discovered cultural or conceptual model. All project bring with them assumptions of a set of parameters. Within these parameters of investigation project slowly emerges as a by-product process, research, and consideration of the information at hand. Fundamentally, process is the goal of research and investigation of this process and the most rigorous sense yields the most interesting results. The act of architectural design is not predicated on a priori concepts of creation through Platonic means of ideation; it is active gradually building coherent answer to a serious conversations with many people.

Joint of Language / memory of joint / joint of space

LandscapeLandscape of flexible white birch table siding veneer. Through the order within the chaos of a kung-fu fight scene, still frames where used to collage a topographic landscape. By combining various fight scenes, I was able to manifest a trajectory of movement that would later shape the ideologies of physical topography.

Representation posits that rigorous investigation of the simplest forms can ultimately achieve the greatest complexity and richness. Through manual drafting, cubes are explored initially within a lan-guage of orthographic projection: plan, section and elevation. Mov-ing beyond these fundamentals, three-dimensional representation is explored through axonometric construction and successive auxiliary drawings. Various serial strategies are then em-ployed where external elements such as time and chance are introduced into the drawing process. Within these drawings, the cube moves beyond simple representation and enters into a narra-tive structure where in the drawings are asked to communicate more than just geometry, suggesting instead dynamic and transformation operations.

RepresentationGraphic communication & modeling

Columbia University BoathouseSituated at the northern tip of Manhattan, the Columbia University rowing team boathouse was the object of renovation. In this comprehensive design studio, an open floor space with a lightweight truss system roof was the main focal point. Careful attention was given to the actual construction of the design, factoring in typical services, materials, as well as local ordinances.

Using industry leading Autodesk Revit, a proposal for a hypothetical suburban development in Kolding Denmark is proposed using Building Information Modeling. A total of fourteen two family detached houses are linked to the overall site, exemplifying the convenience of Revit’s family sharing. The project entails detailed construction documents composed of plans, elevations, sections, construction details, as well as window and door schedules.

revit design kolding housing estate

The housing studio for semester of the third-year initiates a comprehensive studio year. As such it demands a schematic interpretation of the multiple parts that go together to make an actual building at scale integrated with a specific site. Formal invention, a priority in the first two years, must be harnessed more directly to the yoke of program and practi-cality. Precedent can, and should, have a more direct influence as housing typologies have remained consistent throughout history. This particular studio was framed even more restrictively in an effort to promote a more serious engagement with issues of structure, passive and active green technologies, integration of plumbing, heating and ventilation, and understanding of circulatory systems, and even parking. The site was unassuming, an infill lot in the immediate Pratt neighborhood, and the program intentionally overburdened by a required unit count barely able to be sustained by the zoning envelope. Invention came most successfully not by the excessive gesture or impossible material maneuver, but by the reasoned and clear disturbance of the assigned balance between site and program. The inherent need for, and integration of, a public program typically set off a series of repercus-sions that would inevitably call for a comprehensive on the number of units to allow space for the principle idea.

The results bear this out. There is great in tensity in the consideration of the exterior; whether it be of a more uniformed variety or conceptually deeper and habitable, in issues of assemblage; so as to affect a more porous container and integrate outdoor space, and to the interior; as an efficiently complex but workable two bedroom apartment.

Low-rise graduate dormitory

“The basis of architectural design is to project the image of the body and its physical movement and function into concrete form to transcribe ourselves into terms of architecture “

-The Architecture of Humanism, 1914

Competition submission campus cabral, ufps - Curitiba, Brazil / Design proposal for the department of the arts