JO SE PH WO O D
P O R T F O LIO C O NT E N T
T H E S I S _ CO NS T RUC T E D G E O LOGY
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R E I M A G I NING T H E WAT E RFRONT
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VA LLE S CALD E RA V IS IT O R C ENTER
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B RYA N T PARK FAÇ AD E D E S IG N
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C A M P U S LIBRARY /AUD IT O RIUM
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S E C T I O N RE C O N S T RUC T IO N
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C O N S T RUC T IO N T E C H NO LO GY
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T H E R E C OMBIN E D G ARD E N
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H Y D RO PAT HY
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M .A RC H _S Y RAC US E UN IV E RSITY
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BS.ARCH_U NIVERSITY AT BU FFALO
THES I S : CITATION F OR E XC E LLE NC E PROCES S AND MAK ING O F L ANDS CAPE : CO NS T RUCT E D GE O LO GY Fall 2013 S I TE: Abandoned ro ck q uarr y “ B ritton Q u arr y ” in Jam es vil l e, NY PROGRAM: Trap p is t m on as ter y with h op f arm , irrig ation, and b re w e r y
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Through the studying of natural processes which force the shape of our environment, lies a potential to utilize techniques for making and experiencing architecture. These processes can lead to discoveries of materiality and connection of landscape back into building on both a physical level and personally emotional level. This thesis seeks to focus its study on geological processes in nature as a tool to both make and read the landscape. Much of the work experiments with modes of making, using one’s own intuition in the process, and allowing for the freedom of discover y to yield a design method that has the potential to deepen our connection to the environment. This led to studying conditions in the environment, specifically geological conditions, that have been formed by natural process, such as Chittenango Falls and Ithaca Gorges in contrast to sites over taken by man made process, such as rock quarries. From here experiments of making explored processes such as stratification, erosion, glaciation, car ving, and excavating, lead ing to discoveries of formal and spatial relationships. Contrasting this were digital experimentations of making landscape, playing with the idea of the haptic vs. the controlled. Program was something that came af ter really understanding the tangible and intangibles of the site. Program needed to be something that could ser ve as a continuing process and one which dealt with the rebir th of the site, so introduced was a Trappist monaster y along with the growing of hops and making of beer.
The Making
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Haptic landscape experimentation
Site documentation and geological conditions
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Un d erg r o u n d B r e w P la n
Top: Site Plan Collage
C on stru cti o n Ax on
Pro g ra m D ia gr a m
Process Di a gram
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ADDITIVE L AYERING GROWTH ABOVE/ MAKING BELOW
PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
TOPOGRAPHY SECTIONING THROUGH ORGANIZATION GRID
SITE/ PROGRAMATIC TOPOGRAPHY
Top: Public Entrance to Brewer y Bottom: Underground tasting bar
Middle: Section through brewer y and hop field
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FLOWER GARDEN
GROUP DINING
1) EXISTING GROUND CONDITION
4) POURED LAYERED CONCRETE/ EARTH MIXTURE USING ON SITE AGGREGATE
FLOW
Chapel
2) FORMWORK RETAINING WALL
5) EXCAVATION OF LOOSE ROCK INSIDE
3) USE OF LOOSE STONE ON SITE FOR INTERIOR FORMWORK
6) CHAPEL
NORTHERN CLIFF WALL _ MONK SOLITARY DWELLING AND GROUP LIVING QUARTERS FLOWER GARDEN
FLOWER GARDE
SOLITARY MONK DWELLING
SOLITARY MONK DWELLING
SOLITARY MONK
CHAPEL
DWELLING
SINGLE-GANTRY ON RAIL MOUNTING
L A D D E R -T YP E TRENCHER
C H A I N -T YP E STRIPPER
R E V O LV I N G C H A I N TYPE
PLOW UNIT
BACKHOE
DRAGLINE
CLAMSHELL
F O WA R D D I P P E R
GROUP DINING The most common type of single-bucket excavator is the forward d i p p e r, i t m a y h a ve a ny p o we r r a t i n g and a bucket capacity up to 153 cum.
4) POURED LAYERED CONCRETE/ EARTH MIXTURE USING ON SITE AGGREGATE
1) EXISTING GROUND CONDITION Ladder that they can dig t h i s i s a b e n e fi c i a l
Most models of
t r e n c h e r s d i ff e r i n
multi-bucket
deeper trenches. While
excavators can provide
feature, it usually means it
a n a c c u r a t e fi n a l
has more moving parts and can be considerably more costly t h a n t h e w h e e l t re n c h e r. T h e l a d d e r t re n c h e r wo r k s i n t h e s a m e
c o nve yo r b e l t , m u c h l i k e t h e w h e e l t re n c h e r. Multi-bucket excavators are used for land reclamation and spoil dumping. In land reclamation, chain machines are usually used to e x c a v a t e t r a n s v e r s e l y ; t h e y a r e n o t a b l e f o r t h e l o w s p e c i fi c p r e s s u r e exerted on the ground
of the chain type, with a bucket frame
operations, removing pavements, and the
mounted on a rotating platform that turns
like.
c r a w l e r r u n n i n g g e a r. Pro v i s i o n fo r 3 6 0 °
excavations and are therefore
a t t a c h e d t o a c h a i n re fe r re d t o a s a l a d d e r. T h e l a d d e r d e s c e n d s and collects dirt into buckets and the dirt is dispatched onto a
Plow units are suitable for grading
on a supporting circle; they usually have
c o n fi g u r a t i o n f o r t h e b a n k s o f
w a y, u s i n g w h e e l s a n d b u c k e t s. T h e b u c k e t s, h o we ve r, a re
Revolving multi-bucket excavators are
rotation increases the weight of an excavator by
u s e d i n p r o fi l i n g o p e r a t i o n s . Stripping shovels with wheel or chain operating equipment and a cantilever dumping conveyor are used to handle large-volume spoil-dumping operations when the overburden in open-pit mines is excavated with multi-bucket excavators. They pile the loose earth of the overburden onto upper spoil banks to a height of 25 m or onto lower spoil banks to a height of 50 m.
30–40 percent. The bucket capacity may reach 3,600 l. Such excavators are used to work dummy roads and to excavate
The backhoe (Figure
The operating equipment of a
l,b) is used to dig
dragline comprises a boom and a bucket,
narrow trenches 0.7–1.5
which is suspended from the boom by means of hoisting and hauling (dragline) cables.
The unit
usually removes earth from a level below that on which it rests. Buckets of various capacities are used—more than 10 cu m for rocks that have been broken up beforehand. The duration of a cycle i s u s u a l l y 1 0 t o 2 0 p e rc e n t l o n g e r t h a n t h a t o f a fo r w a rd d i p p e r.
two buckets alternately from one horizon by an upper and a
Approximately 40 percent of all excavators are operated with
lower face. Multi-bucket excavators are most productive for
dragline equipment. Those that move in steps are called walking
concentrated open-pit operations and earthwork in soft,
m wide and up to 8 m deep, especially trenches with vertical walls (for laying sewer systems, oil pipelines, and
Clamshell equipment is used for loading
For ward dippers designed to load the excavated material into hauling units or deposit it in spoil dumps are best suited to working mineral deposits and digging foundation pits, mainly in hard rock and rocky earth as well as in solid soils of average hardness.
operations, digging foundation pits with vertical walls, and
FLOWER GARDEN
wo r k i n g u n d e r w a t e r.
foundation structures in hard and rocky earth) and small foundation pits.
draglines.
medium, and uniformly hard earth, especially when the
and are designed to dig banked trenches and small
transverse contours of the faces are constant or vary little and
channels. They can excavate to a depth of 2.5 m and dig channels up to 12
s l o p e s o f t h e e xc a v a t i o n a re re g u l a r.
m wide. The bucket capacity ranges from 25 to 75 l, and the excavators weigh from 12 to 20 tons.
Monk living quar ters
2) FORMWORK RETAINING WALL
5) EXCAVATION OF LOOSE ROCK INSIDE
3) USE OF LOOSE STONE ON SITE FOR INTERIOR FORMWORK
6) CHAPEL
HOP FIELD
REI MAGI NI NG THE WAT E RF RO NT I NTERNATI ONAL DE S IGN CO M PE T IT IO N: F IR S T P L A C E 3X: 300% MO RE E S PL ANADE Fall 2011 S I TE: Nor th e rn s ec tion of th e E as t River E s p l anad e f ol l owin g th e e d ge of Manh attan’s den s el y in h ab ited res id en tial n eig h b orh ood s f rom 6 0 t h S tre et in Midtown to 1 2 5 th S treet in Harl em PROGRAM: Path , ca nal ways , and ecol og ical s treets cap es ; p ul l in g t h e wate r front into th e city
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The current situation along the East River ’s Esplanade is one of constraint relative to the water and highway. What this project proposes is the extension of the esplanade into the city, bringing with it the resourceful characteristics of the water front. Understanding that the repetitive nature of the East - West streets of Manhattan have become obsolete, we have an oppor tunity to redefine their significance by providing them with the infrastructure to introduce a lost ecology back into Manhattan. By analyzing the existing conditions of the site, key programs such as universities, parks, fields, public housing, and subway stations have an oppor tunity to be connected to each other and to the city ’s edge thr ough the implied natural conditions. Introducing a new street ecology, water from the river is pulled in through mechanical and natural filtration, and introduces a more complex water front within the city while reacting to issues such as storm water collection, cleanliness, flood control, urban irrigation, and providing the foundation for a new vegetative and zoological ecology to grow and thrive. Like a sponge, soil and permeable materials allow storm water to disperse itself naturally, relieving the existing over worked infrastructure. With this strategy the esplanade is increased in length by 300% and reverses the disconnection between itself and its urban environment, providing an oppor tunity for economic, social, and environmental growth, and enclave and neighborhood development along Manhattan’s East Side.
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W HY LIM I T T H E EAS T R I V ER E S PL A N A D E T O T H E C I T Y’ S ED GE? INFILTRATION OF WATERFRONT INTO CITY
EXISTING CONDITION
PULL IN WATER
PULL DOWN WATER ACCESS
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
PULL UP LAND/ ENVIRONMENT
NEW ESPLANADE PATH AND ECOSYSTEM
EXISTING CONDITION
PULL IN WATER
PULL DOWN WATER ACCESS
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
PULL UP LAND/ ENVIRONMENT
INSERT ESPLANADE PATH
BREAK AND PULL INTO CITY
PULL IN WATER
PULL DOWN WATER ACCESS
PULL DOWN WATER ACCESS
PULL UP LAND/ ENVIRONMENT
PULL UP LAND/ ENVIRONMENT
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
EXISTING PATH OF THE ESPLANADE
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
INSERT ALONG THE RIVER’S ESPLANADE PATH
EDGE
INSERT ESPLANADE PATH
CONDITIONS TO INFLUENCE THE REDESIGN OF THE ESPLANADE GREEN SPACE/ PARK BALL FIELD/ RECREATION COLLEGE/ UNIVERSITY
PULL UP LAND/ ENVIRONMENT
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
INSERT ESPLANADE PATH
PUBLIC HOUSING FUTURE EAST RIVER SUBWAY LINE (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) POINTS OF EXISTING RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT EAST/ WEST STREETS WITH MAJOR TRAFFIC FLOW (AVOID DISRUPTION) LOW TIDE CURRENT HIGH TIDE CURRENT
PULL OUT NEW ECOSYSTEM
INSERT ESPLANADE PATH
New Waterfront Disctricts
Introduction of Water & Ecosystem
Major Vehicular Streets Maintained
Continuous Path for Runners & Cyclists
Increased Property Value
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Access to Rear Entrances
S T REET S CAP ES WI LL CATALYZ E D EV ELOP ME NT OF P RIVAT IZ ED AND P U B L IC N EIGH B ORH OODS, EN CL AV ES , AN D PA R KS ALON G S T RIP S OF THE ES P L AN ADE .
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S O IL, V EG E TAT I ON , P ER MEAB L E PAV EMEN T, AN D CAN ALWAYS W I L L R I D T H E C I T Y OF WAS T ED S T ORMWAT ER AN D OV E RWORKED S EW ERS . W THROUGH FLO CIT
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New Urban Landscape Defined by Water Less Stress on Existing Sewers Support for New Ecology to Exist Rain Water Collection and Flood Control Extension of Waterfront into the City
LY FILTERS RIV ER RAL AN TU NA
D
MWATER OR ST
EAST RIVER
R E -INT EG R AT E A M I S S I N G ECOLOGY B ACK IN T O MAN H AT TAN. allegheny blackberry
virginia creeper
white wood aster
white mummichog pumpkin sucker seed fish
prairie intermediate starved american fleabane woodfern panicgrass hornbeam
atlantic american silverside eel
yellow perch
red maple
red-tailed virginia hawk threeseed mercury
atlantic ninespine snapping turtle needlefish stickleback
eastern painted turtle
american black duck
wood duck
northern redback black salamander racer
spotted sandpiper
sharp - semipalmated shinned plover hawk
bull frog
spring marbled peeper salamander
VI S I TI NG CRI TI C S T UDIO : S TE P HA N JAK L ITS C H I NFRAS TRU CTU RE M INIM UM Fall 2012 S I TE: Valle s Caldera Nation al Pres er ve, New M exico PROGRAM: Vis itor Cen ter with p ark in g , b ath room s / l ock ers , b i k e rental, and exp e rie ntial s ite f ol l ies
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Going against the conventions of the singular National Park visitor center, this project sought to brake apar t programmatic elements along a series of paths following the natural conditions and topography of the site . The idea of the visitor center became a sequence of events and experiential moments so one could begin get a sense of place through the enhancement of par ticular moments in nature. Beginning the sequence, one parks along a series of spaces situated against the hill and out of view from the rest of the program. As you follow the main path your are introduced to a series of small programmatic moments such as bike rental, bathrooms, showers, and lockers, picnic areas and an amphitheater. Off this path are a series of folly like experiential moments where one has the ability to interpret the site natural conditions such as the geology through the submergence of going underground, scale through a series of tight propor tioned viewing por tals, trees and plantings through an elevated bridging structure, and water within a smooth, thick, echoing sanctuar y.
Site Plan _ Program distributed along path
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Top: Path construction
Middle: Bike Rental
Bottom: Map/ Park Information Center
Bathrooms/ Showers/ Lockers
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Viewing Stage
Submergence into the Geologic
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Water Shelter
Tree Bridge
NEW YO RK CI TY U RB AN S T UDIO ADAPTI VE ENVELOPE S S ummer 2012 S I TE: 1095 Av e nue of th e Am ericas , M anh attan PROGRAM: 40 s tor y of f ice b u il d ing with a s u s tainab l e and red evelo p e d ene rgy gene rating facad e s ys tem
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Utilizing the current existing structural system for the 1095 Ave. of Americas Building in New York City as a sustaining structure for a new façade, an envelope system that responded physically to the existing environmental conditions was developed. Taking information from environmental analysis done through Vasari and Eco -Tech, the envelope design engaged the cond itions of wind as an energy generator for the building’s interior programs. Taking advantage of the high and var ying wind strengths that hit the building, a new mullion system was designed as a secondar y skin to the facade of the building. Between these mullions would be a vast number of belts that would vibrate in the wind and har vest energy through the motion of two magnets on either side of the belt. During the day the energy collected would be fed into building to reduce electrical operating costs, and at night through an LED system designed within the mullion layout, the wind pressure would create an per formative facade display in front of lively Br yant Park.
Building energy analysis/ breakdown
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Mullion design reacting to wind condition
Top: Facade components detail
Bottom: View from Br yant Park
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COMPREHENS I VE S T UDIO : K ING AND K ING AWAR D F INA L IS T COLL ABORATION WITH PATRICK NELSON
S TACKED S U B TRACT IO N S p ring 2012 S I TE: Walnut Park and B ird L ib rar y on S yracus e Un ivers ity Camp u s PROGRAM: B ook s torag e, au d itorium , s tu d y/ read in g areas , p a r k s p ace , and connect ion to exis tin g cam p us l ib rar y
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Dealing with a large over flow of books, Syracuse University was introduced with the idea of mir roring the existing librar y with a book storage facility across the street, while incorporating an auditorium and added study spaces. The chosen sight is a valuable piece of green space in front of the campus, so solving the storage with a land form building strategy was a strong driver. Star ting with ground, the idea would be to pull the ground plane up to inser t program while pinching the middle to allow access through the site and onto the roof sur face. Inver ting the space underneath introduced a continuation of the landscape into the buildings section and allowed for a connection underground to the existing librar y. The entire building is thought of as a solid, filled entirely by book cases that act structure, wall, and roof. Space within the building is derived through the car ving of the bookshelves so that space is always defined by the underlying grid. Circulation, elevators, and building ser vice elements are inser ted as pieces within the grid of books.
Process Diagrams
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Top: Underground Plan
Bottom: Ground Level Plan
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Top: Section through book storage, study space, and auditorium Bottom: Ground level exterior view
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Top: Bookshelf, truss, and grate floor detail
Bottom: Physical section model
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Top: Physical model of exterior
Bottom: Physical roof model
Top: Roof plan/ Green roof system
Bottom: Physical model of book shelf and truss system
SECTIO NS S ECTI ON RECO NS T RUCT IO N HYB RI DI ZED I NS TIT UT IO NAL AND CO M M E RCIAL LO GIC S p ring 2013
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Thinking about design and space entirely through section, this project evolved from the hybridization of a purely institutional building (Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA) and a and purely commercial one (Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona, Spain). Collaging and reconfiguring elements of each, a single building section aspired to maintain the formal qualities of each typology. The institutional dealt wi th ver tical movement, height, and monumentality while the commercial dealt with free/ open space, horizaontality, and gestural form making. The final section’s form was embedded within the logic of a grid and worked with both a diagonal and horizontal symmetr y. Outlined by a square, neither the horizontal or ver tical took hierarchy.
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Axonometri c Reconstruction of the Reid House (cmu block and timber construction)
Axonometri c Reconstruction of the Pierce County Environmental Ser vice Building (cast in place concrete and raised floor system)
MEDI A S TU DI ES THE RECOMB I NED GARDE N S p ring 2012
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Star ting with the plan of the Het Loo Palace Gardens in the Netherlands, the geometr y and symmetr y of the long and complex garden grid was folded over and repeated to create layers into a recombined object. By exploring moments between the layers, the process yielded oppor tunities of f ormal and spatial inhabitance. Taking advantage of the complexity and porosity of the organic garden patterns, the way light filtered through the layers played an impor tant role in capturing the atmosphere between the reconstructed spaces. Following this digital experimentation, a single moment of one of the garden patterns was repeated in a series of layers that rotated and shif ted in scale to again explore the spatial possibilities inherent in the gardens form. For representational purposes, these layers were then laser cut and modeled into a rib structured space.
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GO WANU S BY DESIGN CO M PE T IT IO N: WATE R WOR K S HYDRO PATHY Winte r 2012 S I TE: Nor th ern p or tion of th e Gowan u s Canal an d Dou g l as s a n d De graw S tre et p ubl ic p ool an d p ark PROGRAM: Water reten tion f acil ties f or s ewag e over f l ow into t h e canal, incororate d with a com m unity p ark , p ool , and recreation ce n t e r
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The Gowanus district in Brooklyn is hindered by the over flow of water coming from the rest of the city, relieving itself in the canal to the Nor th and mixing with the Hudson River coming from the South. The use of a Combined Sewer Over flow (CSO) retention facility is incorporated with a community park and creates a place for this water to be utilized in such a way that when an overabundance of water is collected, it is naturally filtered and exploited in the park’s programs. This park is but one node along the canal that will naturally filter the water, providing the city with clean water, green parks and community programs. The nodes will be connected by a path that follows the canal and interjects deeper into the city, drawing people from the surrounding communities. Programs are located along this path and are situated above the canal, which could be playgrounds, ice skating rinks or picnic areas. These flooded nodal sites will revitalize Brooklyn’s Gowanus district by creating water front proper ties and spur the economy with new commercial, residential and park spaces.
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JOSEPH WOOD
jwood03@syr.edu | 609.240.7082 150 Crusher Rd. Hopewell, NJ www.joewoodarch.com
Education Syracuse University School of Architecture | Master of Architecture | May 2014 3.60 GPA Overall | 3.80 GPA Design Studio Teaching Assistant - First Year Design Studio | 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant - Digital Media (Graduate level class) | 2012-2013 Accepted with one year advanced standing and scholarship for Academic Merit Urban Studio: NYC 2012 University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning | Bachelor of Science in Architecture | 2011 Geography-International Business Minor Graduated Cum Laude - Honors within the Department + 2010 Dean’s List Study Abroad: Barcelona 2010
Professional Experience EWINGCOLE | Philadelphia, PA | Intern Architect | Summer 2013 Assisted with the finalization of the design for St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Selection and specification for interior finishes, materials and color palette for the hospital Façade design and frit glazing pattern studies for hospital exterior Produced all interior and exterior renders (3DS Max) and 3D material model Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design | Princeton, NJ | Intern Architect | Summer 2011 Assisted project managers in conceptual / schematic phases of commercial and residential projects Produced renderings, drawings and diagrams for the 2011 Cleveland Design Competition Designed pamphlets, booklets, firm portfolios and website content for marketing purposes Designed layout for 2011 NJ AIA design competition entry’s for two built projects Outerbridge/Morgan Architecture| Rocky Hill, NJ | Intern Architect | Summer 2009 Worked with a team in the design development of a proposed residential modular unit Produced construction documents in AutoCAD and Revit R.J. Wood Architects Design and Construction | Westfield, NJ | Intern Architect | Summer 2007 + 2008 Assisted in the design and development of residential and commercial projects On-site construction administration and site work
Awards + Honors Reimagining the Waterfront International Design Competition | First Place International Design Competition hosted by CIVITAS for the redesign of NYC’s East River Esplanade Exhibited: Museum of the City of New York, Syracuse University Lubin House (NYC), Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Published: ArchDaily, Architect’s Newspaper, New York Daily News, Curbed NY, Inhabitat, DNA Info, Capital New York 2013 AIA Emerging Professionals Award Project Exhibited at AIA National’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Thesis Citation for Excellence | Process and Making of Landscape: Constructed Geology Thesis selected for 2014 SuperJury competition King + King Design Award | Finalist Acknowledging comprehensive design and sustainable treatment: collaboration with Patrick Nelson
Skills AutoCAD 2D drafting + 3D modeling | Rhino 3D Modeling + paneling tools, section tools, some scripting| 3dsMax | SketchUp | V-Ray | Vasari + EcoTech | PhotoShop | Illustrator | InDesign | Flash | Basic Revit
TH AN K YOU
J OSEPH W O O D www.joewoodarc h.co m 609.240.7082