VAMOS Architects is a sociologically-driven
architecture firm led by Evan Bennett and Silvia Fuster.
VAMOS is about positivity and creative engagement. VAMOS Architects is recognized for its inventive approach to designing vibrant and innovative retail, civic, and cultural spaces in New York City and internationally. Our design strategies meld strong conceptual thinking with a fundamental practicality to develop designs that foster creative exchange through social interaction. In all projects, VAMOS provides an open, engaging, and collaborative design process. During initial planning and design meetings, the VAMOS team acts as “thinking partners” and listens closely to guide the process and respond to the multifaceted needs of our clients. The firm brings value to our clients with a strategic approach to design that is key to the success of VAMOS’ work. Every VAMOS project has the direct attention of its principals and the firm prides itself on its ability to listen before designing and for knowing when to take control and lead the complex process of design. VAMOS’ reputation for a high level of service and execution of work has led to an ongoing pattern of repeat business from the firm’s larger institutional, educational, and developer clients. VAMOS takes an imaginative approach to projects with limited budgets and is adept at identifying opportunities to offset costs while creating beautiful and functional spaces. Our team has a strong record of completing design and construction projects on time and on budget. VAMOS works with commercial, cultural, civic, institutional, and not-for-profit organizations in the US and abroad. VAMOS’ clients and collaborators include Rooftop Films, DesigNYC, The NY Photo Festival, the MTA, Macro Sea, Chris Blackwell / Island Outpost, the Municipality of Cardona (Spain), Han Kjobenhavn, Artists Wanted, and Diane von Furstenberg Studio.
Evan Bennett, AIA, LEED AP Principal
EDUCATION 1999
Princeton University Masters in Architecture
1998
Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen, Denmark
1996
Oberlin College Bachelors of Arts in Art History
1995
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, + Preservation The Shape of Two Cities Program in Architectural Design: New York/Paris
TEACHING 2005
Parsons The New School for Design Department of Architecture
20022004
Cornell University Department of Architecture
20022003
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Department of Art
EMPLOYMENT 20042007
The Rockwell Group, New York, NY Project Architect Pacific City W Hotel, Huntington Beach, CA Four Seasons Hotel, Washington DC MGM City Center Competition, Las Vegas, NV Syracuse Connective Corridor Competition Westport Public Library, Westport, CT Jet Blue Terminal Marketplace, JFK Airport, NY Steel Stax Cultural Center, Bethlehem, PA Forth & Towne Retail Prototype Federated “Department Store of the Future” Project Manager Robin Hood Library Initiative, New York, NY Stuart Weitzman Retail Prototype BLT Burger Restaurant, MGM-Mirage, Las Vegas, NV Times Square Billboard Apartment, New York, NY
20002002
Office for Metropolitan Architecture Rotterdam, The Netherlands Architect OMA-AMO Projects for Prada Prada Epicenter, New York, NY Prada-LA, Beverly Hills, CA Prada-SF, San Francisco, CA UN-CITY Con-ed Competition, New York, NY
2000
Ralph Lerner Architect, PC; Princeton, NJ Junior Architect IFCCA Competition for the Design of Cities Exhibition Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, Delhi, India
EVAN BENNETT received his Masters in Architecture from Princeton University and his Bachelors in Art History from Oberlin College. Prior to forming VAMOS, Evan worked with Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and David Rockwell and the Rockwell Group in New York. At VAMOS, Evan leads the design, development, and execution of a broad range of projects, including urban designs, cultural buildings, retail prototypes, and various interdisciplinary projects. Evan has also been actively involved in teaching at Cornell University, Parsons The New School for Design, and has participated in design reviews at Pratt, U. Penn, Syracuse, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Evan’s current projects at VAMOS include the design of a health-driven masterplan and sports complex in Spain, a series of community-based pop-up parks in Ohio, a children’s gymnastics facility in Brooklyn, a design reinvention of a 160-unit housing block in Astoria Queens, and the adaptive reuse and renovation of seven industrial buildings in Long Island City. Evan is registered architect licensed in New York State, a member of the AIA and a LEED-Accredited Professional since 2006.
Silvia G. Fuster Principal
EDUCATION 2001
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Masters in Architecture
1996
Brown University Bachelors of Arts in Urban Studies Bachelors of Arts in Architectural Studies
1995
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, + Preservation The Shape of Two Cities Program in Urban Planning: New York/Paris
TEACHING 2003
Cornell University Department of Architecture, The Three Dimensional City Program
2001
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program
EMPLOYMENT 20052007
WORK Architecture Company, New York, NY Project Architect Diane von Furstenberg Headquarters, New York, NY Project Planner Greenbelt City Proposal for Ian Schrager, Las Vegas, NV
20042005
Robinson+Grisaru Architecture, Brooklyn, NY Project Architect Bastoni Residence, New York, NY Snow Residence, New York, NY
20022004
Venturi Scott Brown + Associates, Philadelphia,PA Project Manager Brown University Campus Life Plan, Providence, RI Bouregreg Valley Regional Plan, Rabat, Morocco
2000
Carlos Ferrater Arquitecte, Barcelona, Spain Junior Architect, Royal Golf Club Project
1999
Alexander Gorlin Architect, New York, NY Junior Architect, Artist’s Studio, Memphis, TN
SILVIA G. FUSTER received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University and her Bachelors in Urban Planning and Architecture from Brown University. Prior to founding VAMOS, Silvia was the Project Architect for the Diane von Furstenberg Headquarters, a 35,000 square foot mixed-use building for the fashion design company in the Meatpacking District in New York. The building houses the company’s New York store, a 5,000 SF showroom, design and administrative offices, and an executive suite. Silvia’s role encompassed design development, client relations, and daily on-site construction administration. She has also worked on multiple residential projects in New York and in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to her training as an architect, Silvia has extensive experience as an urban planner. She led a variety of university campus master plans and regional planning projects with world reknowned urban planners and architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. As Project Manager for the Campus Life Planning Project at Brown University, a 120-acre campus in Providence, RI, Silvia led an extensive analysis of the campus and helped to define its plans for future growth. Throughout this process she engaged in debates with Brown’s many complex communities -- students, Board Members, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding urban community. In 2002, Silvia also acted as Project Manager for the Regional Plan for the Bouregreg Valley, an ecologically-fragile 12,500- acre site located in the estuary of Morocco’s capital city, Rabat. The master plan for the site included a new university campus, a convention center and business district, housing developments, and entertainment and tourist facilities. All of the elements were carefully designed to respond to existing land use, transportaion patterns, and needs for future growth. Silvia grew up in New York and in her parents’ native Barcelona.
ADVISORY BOARDS 1995Present
Fundacio Vila Medieval de Cardona, Cardona, Spain
VAMOS
Creative Programming + Urban Design VAMOS Street Lab Feasibility + Planning Retail + Commercial
Table of Contents
Fleet Site
Long Island City, NY
Health + Urbanism Master Plan Cardona (Barcelona),Spain
Art Hotel + Cutural Center Brooklyn, NY
Rethinking the Stripmall Anywhere, USA
Brooklyn Hotel + Bar Brooklyn, NY
Creative Programming + Urban Design
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The showpiece and first of the buildings to be completed is for the arts group, Artists Wanted. Their ‘See Creative UST 20, 2012 Network’ is built by a team of artists and FT for review only creators in New York City. Instead of being based in a typical office, the group works in an exhibition space which allows them to constantly show work and host events emblematic of the community they love.
FLEET SITE Jackson Avenue
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Bakery
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Rooftop Films
Beer Garden
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MORNING TO EVENING INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Bookshop
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Organic / Slow Food Restaurant
Surf / Skate shop
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SPECIALTY FITNESS DESTINATION
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Health + Urbanism Master Plan:
Creating a Culture of Health
Cardona, Spain 2011 - Ongoing
The project presents an integrated model of health education that seeks to create synergies between the sports, health, and education initiatives in order to create a culture of health in this small spanish village near Barcelona. The project began as a comprehensive Health Master Plan, a framework into which a series of infrustructure projects and programming initiatives were then developed. Several of the projects are currently under construction. The Project is located in Cardona, Spain, a former salt-mining town of 5,000 inhabitants one hour Northwest of Barcelona. VAMOS has been part of the development team since the project’s inception, helping to conceive of, frame, clarify and visualize the goals of the project and team. VAMOS is working with the mayor and different sectors of the municipal government and a private science foundation, and corporate partners include Nike, Danone, the Coca Cola Foundation. We developed 4 lines of action for this project, each headed by different specialists of the multidisciplinary team: • • • •
The creation of Fitness Loops Health-related Events Science pilot projects A new health/sports/education center
URBAN STRATEGY: EXISTING DYNAMIC: Town center is not part of the tourist path flowing thtough the town’s castle and salt mountain though they are very close. Historic Town Center
Salt Mountain
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PROPOSED SYNERGY: Integrate the 3 main assets so that the castle and mountain are perceived as parts of the Town Center.
It has been well-established in the scientific community that the most effective strategy to tackle the global epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease is at the local scale and using an approach that addresses medical, policy, physical, social, and behavioral issues that are at Salt the core of combating the Disease . In this way, Mountain this project is a small scale model with global relevance. At the same time, the concept is at once an economic development project with health at its core.
Historic Town Center
Castle
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Salt Works
La Coromina
Health, and Education activities into a “program cloud.” This diagram illustrates the possible synergies and adjacencies of the various related activities. By synthesizing the broad range of possible functions generated by this exercise, the team was able to define a categorical breakdown of the activities and functions to be housed within the new center.
PROGRAMMING STRATEGY: ENTRANCE 140 m2
CORPORATE RETREATS
PROGRAM SYNERGY CONCEPT:
EDUCATION
WORKSHOPS CONFERENCES
HEALTH
NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING
HEALTH CAMPS
SPORTS
COOKING CLASSES
EDUCATION
CLASSES
PERSONAL TRAINERS
PHYSICAL THERAPY
HEALTH
OPTIONAL (NOT INCLUDED IN PROGRAM)
ELDERHOSTEL
TRIATHALON
KETTLEBELLS
FUTBOL
ORIENTEERING PREVENTATIVE THERAPY
STRETCHING
PARKOUR
MARATHON
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HALOTHERAPY
CHIROPRACTICS
SPELEOTHERAPY
SPA SAUNA TRACK + FIELD
KICKBALL
MARTIAL ARTS DIRT BIKING
WALKING VOLLEYBALL
CARDIO MACHINES SWIMMING
WEIGHT ROOMS
CIRCULATION 1570 m2 20%
DOWNHILL BIKING
MOUNTAIN BIKING
WATER POLO
HEALTH CLINIC 370 m2 6%
CYCLOCROSS
SPELUNKING
SKATEBOARDING BASKETBALL
GYMNASTICS
AEROBICS
PROGRAM CLOUD
HORSEBACK RIDING ULTIMATE FRISBEE
SPORTS
BATHS
ACUPUNCTURE
ROCK CLIMBING
ROLLER DANCING
MUD BATH
HEALTH
DETOXIFICATION
CAPOEIRA
MASSAGE
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HIKING TAICHI
EDUCATION/ CONFERENCE 1570 m2 20%
CYCLING STEEPLECHASE
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SPORT 4245 m2 54%
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SPA 1230 m2
COACHING EDUCATION
TOTAL: 7895 m2
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PARKING GARAGE FOR 200 CARS WITH SOCCER FIELD ON ROOF: 7100 m2
PROGRAM BREAKDOWN
DRAFT: FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
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EXISTING CONDITIONS CONNECTIVITY: EXISTING CONDITIONS Today, the existing sports facilities have few access points and limited access to the valley. The Today, the existing sports facilities have few access points and limited access to the valley. The Pavello, located along the busy Carretera del Miracle, blocks the town’s views and creates a Pavello, located along the busy Carretera del Miracle, blocks the town’s views and creates a dangerous traffic crossing for pedestrians. dangerous traffic crossing for pedestrians.
SITE STRATEGY SITE STRATEGY The site strategy conserves the existing outdoor pool and the basic location of the soccer field. The The site strategy conserves the existing outdoor pool and the basic location of the soccer field. The existing Pavello programs are pushed down into the landscape to restore views to and from the town’s existing Pavello programs are pushed down into the landscape to restore views to and from the town’s south façade. The site is divided along the existing topography into three public terrace levels which south façade. The site is divided along the existing topography into three public terrace levels which support various sports programs. These levels are kept as low as possible, allowing clear views between support various sports programs. These levels are kept as low as possible, allowing clear views between the town and the new public spaces, the upgraded sports facilities, and the Vall Salina beyond. the town and the new public spaces, the upgraded sports facilities, and the Vall Salina beyond.
THE ACTIVE CONNECTOR THE ACTIVE CONNECTOR
THE PUBLIC PATHWAY THE PUBLIC PATHWAY
To connect and unify the various programs and levels of the project, the proposal adds a compact health To connect and unify the various programs and levels of the project, the proposal adds a compact health and education building at the midpoint of the site. This center serves as a bridge from the Mirador to the and education building at the midpoint of the site. This center serves as a bridge from the Mirador to the new sports facilities and public programs and provides a public pathway through all aspects of the project. new sports facilities and public programs and provides a public pathway through all aspects of the project. This public pathway moves through the center of the new building bringing both locals and visitors into This public pathway moves through the center of the new building bringing both locals and visitors into direct contact with the new synergy of sports, health, and education programs. direct contact with the new synergy of sports, health, and education programs.
This pathway connects the existing elevator at the Mirador to each level of the site. This pathway This pathway connects the existing elevator at the Mirador to each level of the site. This pathway provides the much-needed connection to the fitness resources of the site while also engaging provides the much-needed connection to the fitness resources of the site while also engaging the public in the new and innovative programming of the health and education center. This public the public in the new and innovative programming of the health and education center. This public path that moves through the building is the key that connects the site to the Fira and the Rutas path that moves through the building is the key that connects the site to the Fira and the Rutas Saludables, making fitness visible and accessible for all. Saludables, making fitness visible and accessible for all.
Health-Education “Box” becomes the symbol for the town’s health initiative and a phycial and conceptual bridge between the civic center and the recreational facilities in the plinth below.
A public pathway through the building bridges between the civic center, the building, and the pathways toDRAFT: theFORCastle, the Salt DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY Mountain, and DRAFT: FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY nature beyond. July 21, 2012
July 21, 2012
VIEW FROM CIVIC CENTER TO THE BUILDING, CASTLE, AND SALT VALLEY BEYOND
VIEW FROM NEW SOCCER FIELD
SOUTH VIEW OF THE CENTER AND TOWN BEYOND
VIEW OF PUBLIC PATHWAY THROUGH BUILDING
Art Hotel and Cultural Center Brooklyn, NY 2012
VAMOS was hired by development company Macro-Sea for the design of a 160,000 square foot boutique art hotel and cultural eventspace located at the center of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), a local development corporation that serves as the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination. The project seeks to enhance the cultural context and streetscape at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place. The large public stair that rises from the corner of the site acts as a social gathering space and activator for this important urban corner across from the BAM Opera house. The open ground floor houses highly visible rehearsal and performance spaces, an art gallery, retail space, a bike shop, and a restaurant/café that opens to the adjacent Arts Plaza. March 21, 2012 ROOFTOP VIEWS
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ARTIST HOTEL / DORMITORY / / ARTIST HOTEL DORMITORY / SHARED SPACES SHARED SPACES
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Rethinking the Stripmall Anywhere, USA 2009-2010
VAMOS collaborated with the team at Macro-Sea to envision potential reuses for and repositioning of the prototypical American stripmall. The design proposes a low-budget, high impact solution that can prove both transformative and reproduceable. Part social experiment and part pop-up retail strategy, the project was conceived as an extension of the popular lowfi urban country club deployed by MacroSea in Brooklyn in 2009. The design features a complete repurposing of the parking lot for organic “strip� farming, an amphitheater, several restaurants, a playground, a beerhall, and a flexible retail marketplace that mixes emerging and established brands in an unexpected bazaar-like environment.
Brooklyn Hotel Bar Brooklyn, NY 2009-2010
VAMOS worked with the client to design this “speakeasy” bar, yard, and roof garden on a hidden industrial lot in Brooklyn, NY. The design celebrates a combination of found objects from the site and informal contemporary design interventions. The intent was to create a series of spaces that could be “discovered” and, through discovery and use, acquire a fun informality. The design and layout is intended to change seasonally to accommodate various types of recreational activities and events such as swimming, ice skating, outdoor music performances. The small bar kitchen is intended to be augmented by one or several food truck vendors parked in the open lot in the summer months.
INSTALLATIONS: Ping Pod
Brooklyn, NY
Dumpster Pools New York, NY
I Know You Brooklyn, NY
Glassphemy! Brooklyn, NY
Letter Box
Madrid, Spain
Urban Infill
Anywhere, USA
Writing on it All
with Alex Chasin Governor’s Island, NY
The Treehouse
with Robert Holden, Flavor Paper, + The New York Photo Festival DUMBO, NY
Rootball Park
Governor’s Island, New York, NY
Destination Nostrand
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
Re-Booth
Subway New York, NY
VAMOS Street Lab
Ping Pod Brooklyn, NY
Completed 2009
VAMOS Architects designed and built the Ping Pod, a self-generated installation in their street-level storefront office space. Made from donated construction materials, the project housed a ping- pong table where strangers were welcome and encouraged to play. The first in a series of VAMOS storefront installations, the Ping Pod opening was in conjunction with ICFF festivities at VOOS furniture gallery across the street.
Dumpster Pools
With Macro-Sea, New York, NY Completed 2010
VAMOS Architects collaborated with Macro Sea to design and visualize the popular dumpster pools that were located on Park Avenue in front of Grand Central Terminal as a feature of the New York City Department of Transportation’s Summer Streets Festival in August 2010. These mobile pools are built on a customized dumpster platform and feature flip-up side decks, a complete selfcontained pump and filtration system and are fully NYC health-code compliant.
I Know You Brooklyn, NY
Completed 2010
In the spirit of engagement, VAMOS Architects conceived and created I Know You, a physical diagram of a social network. With help from residents, businesses, and visitors on the block, the project emerged throughout the course of the day. Participants were asked to “connect” windows with neighbors they know across the street. By the end of the day a full-scale diagram of the block’s social network was created. The event coincided with the first annual North Third Block Association’s block party, which celebrated the block’s unique mix of businesses -- bookstores, design shops, boutiques, chocolatiers, restaurants and bars. The project used over four miles of hot pink engineering tape and cost less than $120 to produce.
Glassphemy!
With Macro-Sea, Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA Completed 2010
VAMOS worked with Macro Sea to visualize, design, and build the “psychological recycling center� named Glassphemy! The 20 foot long, 8 foot wide steel and glass box was conceived as a way to release aggression while recycling. Participants throw bottles from a raised lift at other people, smashing glass against the cage of bullet-proof lexan. The broken glass is then recycled and turned into various design objects, including lamps, terrazzo, and raw material for onsite glassblowing. Glassphemy is a mobile installation and has been installed in Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA.
LetterBox Madrid, Spain Completed 2007
VAMOS’ competition entry for a temporary pavilion for the Feria del Libro Book Fair in Madrid proposes using letters as the building blocks for the structure. Just as letters are constructive by nature, they form the shell of the book pavilion. The letters are drawn from Federico Garcia Lorca’s quotation, “La poesia es algo que anda por las calles.” The letters are rearranged to perform structurally and scaled to provide appropriate openings for people to comfortably enter the pavilion as necessary. The lecture hall, bookstore and other necessary program functions are housed within the shell. The letters are designed to be constructed from a special biodegradable foam typically used for book packaging and shipping. These foam panels are meant to last only for the short life of the pavilion (2 weeks). When they have served their purpose the pavilion itself is to cut up and its foam used to ship the books back to their destinations. Any leftover foam can then be wet down and washed away as harmless starch.
Urban Infill
With Macro-Sea, Anywhere, USA 2009-ongoing
VAMOS worked with Macro Sea to envision a series of temporary event designs intended to highlight opportunities in otherwise overlooked urban spaces. These “interim projects” form the basis for VAMOS’ ongoing research into the possibility for serious architectural experimentation in underutilized places. The goal of this work is to control site, circulation, materials, and budget to make inaccessible places useful and enriching. Urban sites tested include Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles,
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Writing On It All - Governor’s Island Writer’s Workshop Installation Summer 2013
VAMOS worked with writer and film maker Alex Chasin to conceive, visualize, and design the scenarios and environments for a series of writer’s workshops to take place in July 2013. The project challenges writer/participants to react to a series of architectural and scenographic “prompts” in the evocative spaces of an empty house on Colonel’s Row.
The Treehouse Photography Installation April 2011
In March 2011, VAMOS Architects was invited to design and curate a site specific installation of the photographer Robert Holden’s alternate utopian lifestyle photographic series, The Treehouse. The installation was launched in conjunction with the New York Photography Festival on May 12, 2011. The installation sought to highlight the extreme juxtaposition of the mysterious images of humans in nature against the highly contrasting post-industrial urban context of Dumbo. VAMOS envisioned images discovered in dark alleyways, spotted high on the sides of buildings, and hidden low in areaways. To build support for the project and obtain the extensive permissions required for the 20-plus sites, the team worked with a number of DUMBO landlords and public entities including Brooklyn Bridge Park, Two Trees Management, St Ann’s Warehouse, the New York Photography Festival, as well as individual building owners and boards. VAMOS created the concept, curated and sited the imagery, held insurance for all installation locations, and performed the majority of the installation work. Printing and technical support were provided by Jon Sherman and his team at Flavor Paper with sponsorship from Arlon and Roland DGA.
Rootball Park:
A POP-UP PARK PROTOTYPE
Selected Finalist Governor’s Island Figment Competition / Anywhere 2011
This project is about the city, its people, and its trees. This prototype concept proposes using NYC street trees to create a series of city-wide pop-up parks. Street trees are typically stored at nurseries until they are ready for planting, but we propose turning their storage into new kind of civic infrastructure for the city of New York. From Robert Smithson’s 1970/2005 Floating Island to Agnes Denes 1982 Wheatfield, to the sidewalk pop-ups of the flower district and seasonal christmas tree stands, New York has a long history of displaced, transplanted, and surreal urban nature. Originally proposed for Governors Island but imagined as a city-wide initiative, the project offers a special point of contact between the city, its people and the public landscape of New York. Rootball Park offers many opportunities for people of all ages to connect with the trees in meaningful ways. The park can sponsor an Adopt-a-Tree program or function as a Street Arboretum where people can learn to identify trees around the city. We believe the project will give people an opportunity to appreciate trees as a living part of their city and learn about how parks can support a healthy urban lifestyle. Trees are immigrants to the city, and it is their long life here that makes them such valuable citizens. They often live longer than buildings and form an indelible part of the urban streetscape. We believe this project can highlight both the transient and permanent nature of these “naturalized citizens”. This project is part of VAMOS’ series of site-specific public interventions that explore the potential for temporary event-based architecture. We believe these projects are simple and immediate acts of public architecture - designed through orchestration - that open opportunities for public discovery and dialogue.
DesigNYC: ACTIVATING VACANT STOREFRONTS Crown Heights, Brooklyn / Anywhere 2011
VAMOS was selected for 2010 DesigNYC and paired with non-profit Nostrand Park, a community development organization based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The design team proposed a campaign of transformations to the vacant and shuttered storefronts on ten blocks of Nostrand Avenue. The concept was to create short term rental opportunities to trigger both landlords and locals to imagine what the street could become. A key aspect of the idea is the transformation of temporary activities into permanent change. This low-budget high-impact project is intended to be a temporary and mobile prototype applicable to any street facing the similar challenges. From an economic point of view, the project is premised on the idea that community groups, local entrepreneurs, and landlords will come together to support the idea of a super low-cost, low-commitment opportunity to take the avenue for a test drive. In the end, our role on this project was less about building a specific design intervention than it was to design a prototype strategy and create the necessary images to implement it.
Re-Booth NYC:
A SUBWAY ACTIVATOR
New York City 2011
As of May 2011, more than 98 staffed token booths are scheduled for removal or have already been removed. These booths are located throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. These locations serve a range of riders from tourists to regular commuters. Research shows that most people are concerned about safety in the stations where the booths are to be removed. Without eyes in the station, people believe that riders will not enjoy the same level of safety while using the system. With the booths and agents gone, how will there be a sense of safety in the station? How can the MTA turn this from a PR problem into something positive?
Culture MONDAY
OUR PROPOSAL: • • •
Create excitement and curiosity with cultural events Generate revenue through advertising Share useful information though the live feed of MTA information
Belly Dancing: Newkirk Ave. 2 Barnes & Noble: Bergen St. Ear Wax Records: Court St. Metropolitan Opera: Times Sq. Alvin Ailey: Fulton St. MoMa: Steinway St. TUESDAY Shakespeare 46th St. Taschen Books 169th St. Improv Everywhere Borough Hall Steps on Broadway Myrtle-Wyckoff Aves. BAM Franklin Ave. Sony Presents Bowling Green
Food MONDAY Citi Bakery 14th St. Whole Foods 3rd Ave. Fat Witch Church Ave. Schnitzel & Things Rockefeller Center Oh Nuts Wall Street People’s Pops Spring St. TUESDAY
Education MONDAY Pearl Art: Water color Longwood Ave. Barnes & Noble: Bklyn Bridge/City Hall Scholastic Books Houston St. Dummie’s Guide to... Delancey St. Resume Writing Newkirk Ave. Mac: How to’s Queens Plaza TUESDAY
Mast Bros. Chocolates SVA: The Portfolio Newkirk Ave. 14th St. Smoke Joint BBQ The Cover Letter Bergen St. 3rd Ave. Connecticut Muffin Sublime Stitching Court St. Church Ave. Marie BelleChocolates Home Ec: How To’s Times Sq. Rockefeller Center Rice Home Gardening Fulton St. Wall St. Citi Bakery Kaplan: SAT Words Steinway St. Spring St.
Retail MONDAY Ikea 49th St. Sunglasses Hut Jamaica / 179th Anthropologie Christopher St. Sur la Table Lower E. Side/2nd Av. Stem Flowers Lorimer St. Target 42nd St. / Bryant Park TUESDAY JCrew Longwood Ave. Nike Bklyn Bridge/City Hall Bed Bath & Beyond Houston St. Coach Delancey St. Sephora Newkirk Ave. Sabon Queens Plaza
Small Business MONDAY Angie’s Quilts Rector St. Paper + Cup Design Prospect Park Global Home Flushing Ave. Hello Beauty Makeup 5th Ave / 53rd St. Knitted Home Chambers St. Etsy Labs 14th St. / Union Sq. TUESDAY Brooklyn Art Library 49th St. Paper Dozen Jamaica/179th The Brooklyn Kitchen Christopher St. Built By Wendy Lower E. Side/2nd Ave. Catbird Lorimer St. Pop 42nd St. / Bryant Park
Health MONDAY Crunch Gym 34th Penn Station Weight Watchers Canal Street NYC Dept. of Health Sheepshead Bay Lululemon Athletica East Broadway Gaim Yoga 18th St. Crest Kew Gardens TUESDAY Jack Rabbit Rector St. Trek Bicycle Prospect Park Vitamin Water Flushing Ave. Chelsea Piers 5th Ave / 53rd St. CK Chu Tai Chi Chambers St. Paragon Sports 14th St. / Union Sq.
Community MONDAY NY Public Library 46th St. Blood Pressure Checks 169th St. D.A.R.E. Borough Hall NYC Parks & Recreation Myrtle-Wyckoff Aves. FDNY: Fire Safety Franklin Ave. Housing Works: Book Cafe Bowling Green TUESDAY NY Cares 34th Penn Station Street Safety Canal Street Sanitation: Recycle Now! Sheepshead Bay ASPCA: Puppy Love East Broadway Red Cross 18th St. Dress for Success Kew Gardens
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St. John’s University Queens Campus: Office Space Standards
St. John’s University Oakdale Campus: Master Planning
Strawberry Hill Master Plan Kingston, Jamaica
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Sunnyside Community Center Queens, NY Ongoing
24 PRIVATE OFFICES: 50% 56 DESKS IN OPEN AREAS: 27%
VAMOS was hired by Sunnyside Community Services (SCS), a growing not-for-profit agency in New York City, to undertake an evaluation of their 14 existing programs and future needs in conjunction with the Robin Hood Foundation and a development team. The preliminary aim was to determine whether their existing 40,000 sf facility could be optimized to accommodate their needs for future growth or if they should search for a larger facility.
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VAMOS led strategic programming meetings with key stakeholders, decision makers, and end-users and defined space needs as represented by square feet and type/configuration. The team helped to define priorities, program adjacencies, functional relationships, and key space requirements. VAMOS created a programming and space utilization report to help communicate with SCS leadership, management, and staff as part of a strategic real estate plan prepared with the development team. The project resulted in a capital campaign to raise money for a phased renovation of their existing space. The project is currently in schematic design.
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Calvin Klein Headquarters New York, NY 2008 - Ongoing
VAMOS is currently working with the Philips-Van Heusen Corporation on a programming study, space planning, and layout design for the Calvin Klein Headquarters in Manhattan.
Offices, sewing, and design areas are provided with natural light at the perimeter, while storage, mechanical, and other “dark” spaces are migrated to the center of each floor plate. The specific needs of each department are balanced against the complex adjacency and use requirements of the floor.
Working directly with the company’s operations managers, VAMOS designed the new layouts to seek a comprehensive organizational strategy.
NEW 2ND FLOOR PLAN SHOWING RECONFIGURED DEPARTMENTS Storage
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6 desks
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KEY: cK Design Shoes and Accessories Men’s Sportswear Design
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KEY: cK Design Shoes and Accessories Men’s Sportswear Design
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St. John’s University - Manhattan Campus New York, NY 2009 - 2012
In 2009, VAMOS was hired by St. John’s University to work on a range of planning projects for three of their New York City campuses.
sf of new income-generating space and presented the University scenarios for impact and implementation including departmental relocations, costs, and phasing to facilitate decision-making.
St. John’s Manhattan Campus is a 150,000 square foot building in Lower Manhattan, two blocks north of the World Trade Center.
The project continued with a facade study for renovations to the street level storefront to attract retail tenants while maintaining a strong visual presence for the University.
VAMOS worked with the University’s facilities team to determine the feasibility of consolidating their current academic, dormitory, and administrative functions to the upper floors of the building in order to convert the street-level spaces to incomegenerating tenant space. VAMOS undertook an in-depth utilization analyis of the 150,000 sf facility to find inefficiencies both in the spatial organization and in the scheduling of the academic spaces through a classroom utilization study. The study yielded 25,000
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4,247 SF
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FLOOR 4 11,376 SF
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FLOOR 1 10,920 SF
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EXISTING 101 MURRAY FACADE
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July May19, 16,2011 2011
DRAFT - FOR REVIEW ONLY
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DRAFT - FOR REVIEW ONLY
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CLASSROOM USAGE ANALYSIS - SPRING 2011
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10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
14/25 32/47
17/30
32/40
19/19 19/30 ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
ISEG2
16/25 7/20
ISEG1/2
ISEG1
ISEG2
ISEG2
19/30 16/20
5/20
9/20
20/20
13/25
12/38
14/30 5/20
ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
5/20
13/12 10/25
20/30
15/20 ISEG1/2
19/30
13/35
ISEG1/2
33/35
14/30
10/15 ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
14/15
20/
ISEG1/2
6/35
ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
12/25 ISEG1/2
ISEG1
ISEG1/2
ISEG2
19/30 14/25
4/16
ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
ISEG2
ISEG1/2
ISG2
ISG1/2
ISEG1
ISEG1
15/20
ISEG1/2
ISEG1/2
ISG2 & ISEG1/2
ISG1
ISEG1
ISEG1
10/40 ISG1
ISEG1
ISEG1
12/30
21/25
ISG1
25/25
16/24 18/30
33/36
34/34
41/41
37/37
20/20 8/20 20/20
6/20
13/30
28/30
13/30
ISEG1/2 18/18
6/20
16/30
ISG1/2
ISG1/2
ISEG1
ISEG1
23/22
22/22 8/20 19/
ISG2
9/12
14/20
35/35
25/35
17/20
5/15
10/20
20/20
8/15
12/18
15/15 20/30
ISEG1/2
22/26
34/25
24/26
26/29
20/21
18/30
20/30
13/30
34/34
28/30
41/41
37/37
13/30
6/25
# Item 1 No. of Classes 2 Hrs of Class Use 3 Avail. Hours 4 % Use # 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Department TCB LAW SRM SOE SJC CPS CPE Total % of Total Hrs/Wk
Monday 26 76.5 442 17.3%
16 5 18.5 0 4 0 33 76.5 22.5%
CLASSROOM USAGE SUMMARY Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 33 32 30 78.5 84.5 83.5 442 442 442 17.8% 19.1% 18.9% USAGE BY DEPARTMENT Number of Classes Per Day 18 28.5 25 0 0 0 20.5 8 10.5 4 8 8 0 4 4 0 3 3 36 33 33 78.5 84.5 83.5 23.1% 24.9% 24.6%
Friday 10 16.5 442 3.7%
Total 131 339.5 2210 15.4%
3 0 10.5 0 0 0 3 16.5 4.9%
Total 90.5 5 68 20 12 6 138 339.5 100.0%
Color
KEY University Department Tobin College of Business School of Law School of Risk Management School of Education St. John's College College of Professional Studies Center for Professional Education Total % Usage
NOTES % 26.7 1.5 20.0 5.9 3.5 1.8 40.6 100
1) Schedule reflects Center for Professional Education courses in Sessions 1 & 2 for ISG & ISEG (Timeframe 1/10/11-6/3/11). CPE classes are labeled by their session. 2) Center for Professional Education courses do not list the maximum allowed students. 3) For the purposes of this exercise, class durations are rounded on the half hour. 4) Classroom availability is defined as 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM Monday thru Friday. Schedule based on16 Weeks per semester with the exception of CPE sessions. 5) All data based on Spring 2011 STJ schedule. 6) xx/yy = enrolled/maximum occupancy
SPACE STANDARD APPLIED TO EXISTING OCCUPANCY KEY FINDINGS: ARCHITECTS
June 24, 2011
June 17, 2011
4
1
1ST FLOOR OFFICES ARE 27% UNDERUTILIZED
2
4TH FLOOR OFFICES ARE 33% UNDERUTILIZED
3
5TH FLOOR OFFICES ARE 14% UNDERUTILIZED
DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION ONLY
ADDITIONAL NOTES 1. ALL AREAS ARE NET SQUARE FEET 2. OFFICE COUNT DOES NOT INCLUDE OFFICES PERTAINING TO LIBRARY (SEE LIBRARY SHEET), MAIL ROOM, FOOD SERVICES, AND STUDENT GOVERNMENT (SEE STUDENT LIFE + OTHER SHEET)
KEY: OFFICE SWING OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM STORAGE / SUPPORT SURPLUS AS PER SPACE STANDARDS: POTENTIALLY OVER-SATURATED OFFICE OR SWING OFFICE
ARCHITECTS
May 16, 2011
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SUMMARY OF IMPACT: IMPACT ANALYSIS:
NOTE: Relocation Plans are for schematic reconfiguration only and are subject to evaluation of details and development of construction plans.
MAXIMUM OPTIMIZATION - STRATEGY 5
ACADEMIC: 11
THE LANGUAGE CONNECTION: Pamela Fairman, Director
TOBIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: Victoria Shoaf, Dean
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-- Suggested relocation of TLC from 1st to 4th Floor -- Area reduced from 1,400 sf to 1,000 sf based on space standards Impacted staff and room types: -- 1PT Senior Staff, 1 FT Senior Staff, 2 FT Staff, 1 PT Faculty -- 3 rooms (2 offices and 1 storage room)
21
41
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: Jerrold Ross, Dean
-- Reassign classes to different classrooms -- Distribute classes evenly throughout the five weekdays -- 20% classes per day so that fewer classrooms are necessary Impacted staff and room types: -- 34 classrooms
61
SCHOOL OF RISK MANAGMENT: Maureen Furlong Weber, Director
LIBRARY: Ismael Rivera-Sierra, Director
-- Suggested relocation of SRM offices from SE to NW corner of 4th floor -- Area reduced from 1,720 sf to 1,470 sf Impacted staff and room types: -- 2 FT Senior Staff and 2 FT Staff -- 2 offices, 1 open office area, 2 closets, 1 bathroom
NON-ACADEMIC:
-- Compact library (consolidate STJ and SRM book storage using compact shelving) -- Area reduced from 13,200 sf to 7,100 sf
1 STUDENT LIFE: David Gachigo, Associate Director of Student 29 Life, Manhattan Campus -- Suggested relocation of Student Life offices from 4th to 5th Floors -- Area reduced from 875 sf to 725 sf -- Suggested relocation of Gym from 1st to 6th Floor lounge area -- Area reduced from 620 sf to 400 sf -- Suggested relocation of Pantry, Study Room, Game Room, and Lounge to 6th-10th Floors. Impacted staff and room types (offices): -- 1 FT Staff, 5 PT Admin. Staff -- 1 open office and 2 closed offices
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: April Merenda, Asst. to the Dean -- Suggested relocation of External Affairs on 4th Floor -- Area reduced from 270 sf to 75 sf based on space standards Impacted staff and room types: -- 1 PT Staff -- 1 office
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REGISTRAR: Joanne A. Llerandi, University Registrar
-- 1 office
-- Suggested relocation of School of Ed. offices on 4th Floor -- Area reduced from 900 sf to 685 sf based on space standards Impacted staff and room types: -- 1 FT Staff, 3 PT Faculty -- 3 offices, 1 open office area
1 27
51
-- Suggested relocation of one office on 4th floor -- Area reduced from 240 sf to 115 sf based on space standards Impacted staff and room types: -- 1 PT Senior Staff (Peter Tobin)
CONFERENCE SERVICES: Bernadette Lavin, Director -- Suggested relocation of 2 offices from 1st to 4th Floors; 3 swing offices, 3 conference rooms, and 2 closets from 4th to 5th Floors -- Area reduced from 1,715 sf to 1,604 sf
21 MAILROOM: Peter Taras, Director of Printing & Distribution 11 -- Suggested relocation of Mailroom and mailboxes from 1st to 4th Floor -- Area reduced from 1,020 sf to 660 sf based on current usage Impacted staff and room types: -- 2 PT Staff, 1 FT Staff -- 1 Room and mailboxes
1 CHAPEL: Pamela Shea-Byrnes, Vice President for University Ministry 12 and University Events
-- Suggested relocation of Chapel from 1st to 4th Floor
1 CHARTWELLS: James Charlemagne, Chief Manager 10
-- Replace with revenue-generating food service KEY:
8 GYM RELOCATED TO 6TH FLOOR
5
5
5
5
12
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
61
5
5
10
8
5
5
5
5
8
9
1
7
4 11 8
2 8
TLC RELOCATED TO 4TH FLOOR
OFFICE
3
2 7
LIBRARY
8
STUDENT LIFE MAILROOM
5
PANTRY AND STUDY ROOMS RELOCATED TO FLOORS 6-10
4
RESCHEDULED CLASSROOMS ON 3RD FLOOR CHAPEL RELOCATED TO 2ND FLOOR
8,784 SF
8
8
8
3
5
18,930 SF
REASSIGNED SCHOOL OF ED., TCB, AND EXT. AFFAIRS OFFICES
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5
5 5
10
5
5
5
9
5
12
1 11
5
6
5
5
REASSIGNED SRM OFFICES
CHAPEL
8
8
9
9
STORAGE / SUPPORT
8 9
2,013 SF
MECHANICAL
4TH FLOOR OFFICES RELOCATED TO 5TH FLOOR
STUDENT LIFE OFFICES RELOCATED TO 5TH FLOOR
KEY FINDINGS + CONCLUSIONS:
KEY:
REVENUE SPACE
MAILROOM
CLASSROOM
STORAGE / SUPPORT
OFFICE
MECHANICAL
LIBRARY
RESIDENTIAL
KEY FINDINGS: Roof 10 9
1.
8
Academic space is underutilized
7
-Effective academic usage is 44% when schedule restrictions are incorporated -Baseline total available classroom hours changes from 2210 hours to 755.5 hours when restrictions are incorporated
6 5 4 3 2 1
2.
There are opportunities to optimize the amount of space used for offices -Office space is 28% underutilized -There is limited use of hotel style workstations for part time faculty/administration
3.
Existing academic schedule and class distribution is unbalanced
EXISTING
-Evening academic use is 3 times higher than daytime use -Peak academic use occurs on Wednesday evenings: 94.2% -Lowest academic use occurs on Friday evenings: 1.2% 4.
Existing schedule restrictions limit classroom usage, schedule and flexibility -Conference Services reserves 10 classrooms -CPE reserves 6 classrooms -4 classrooms are considered unusable for logistical reasons
Roof 10 9 8 7
CONCLUSION
6
By optimizing the space, including more effective use of offices, classrooms and student life spaces, a revenue generating component can be created in the base two floors of the building.
4
5 3 2 1
OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY 5
ARCHITECTS
June 24, 2011
11 EXISTING LOCATION 11 PROPOSED OR REASSIGNED LOCATION
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May 16, 2011
ARCHITECTS
REVENUE SPACE REASSIGNED AND OPTIMIZED OFFICE CLASSROOM
1ST FLOOR OFFICES RELOCATED TO 4TH FLOOR
MAILROOM RELOCATED TO 4TH FLOOR
NEW CLASSROOMS ON 3RD FLOOR (REQUIRED ONLY IF ONLY MINIMAL RESCHEDULING IS DONE)
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St. John’s University - Queens Campus Space Standards Queens, NY 2010 - 2011
VAMOS was retained by St. John’s University to undertake a benchmarking study of university office space standards VAMOS was retained by St. John’s University to undertake a benchmarking study of university office space standards VAMOS was retained by St. John’s University to undertake a benchmarking study of university office space standards VAMOS was retained by St. John’s University to undertake a benchmarking study of university office space standards
Level 1
Level 2
36-40 SF - OPEN WORKSTATION w/ 42”-HIGH PANELS
For use by administration and general staff without need for visual or sound privacy.
Level 3
36-40 SF - OPEN WORKSTATION w/ 49”-HIGH PANELS (64” optional)
FURNITURE: F-1 F-6 F-9 F-10 F-13
30” Deep Work Surface Desk Chair 2-Drawer File Box/Box File 42” High Furniture System Panel
For use by administration and general staff with a need for visual and/ or sound privacy. Examples are Coordinator, Analyst, and Technology Support Specialist.
Level 4
48-60 SF - OPEN WORKSTATION w/ 64”-HIGH PANELS
F-1 F-2 F-3 F-5
F-6 F-9 F-10 F-14
80 - 120 SF - OPEN WORKSTATION (96” H PANEL) / ENCLOSED OFFICE OPTIONAL
For use by staff who meet often with guests and have a need for visual and/or sound privacy. Examples are Advisors and Counselors.
FURNITURE: 30” Deep Work Surface 24” Deep Work Surface 18” Deep Work Surface Overhead Storage Bin with Task Lighting (with optional 64” panel) Desk Chair 2-Drawer File Box/Box File 49” High Furniture System Panel (64” optional)
For use by Directors or Full-time Faculty. FURNITURE: F-1 F-2 F-5 F-6 F-7 F-9 F-10 F-11 F-13
FURNITURE:
30” Deep Work Surface 24” Deep Work Surface Overhead Storage Bin with Task Lighting Desk Chair Guest Chair 2-Drawer File Box File 30” Wide 2-Drawer Lateral File 64” High Furniture System Panel
F-1 F-2 F-4
F-4
F-1
F-5
F-2
F-9
F-6
F-16
F-6 F-7 F-9 F-10 F-11 F-12 F-16
F-17
30” Deep Work Surface 24” Deep Work Surface 12” Deep Work Surface Overhead Storage Bin with Task Lighting Desk Chair Guest Chair 2-Drawer File Box/Box File 36” Wide 5-Drawer Lateral File 36”x72” Bookcase 96” High Fabric and Glass Furniture System Panel (or sheetrock option) Sliding Glass System Door
F-7
F-10 F-2
F-10
F-10
F-2
F-17
80 sf
F-10 F-13
F-1 F-6
F-5
F-14 (F-15 optional)
F-1
F-5
F-1
F-6
F-15 F-4
F-6
F-9
F-7 F-9
F-9
F-11
F-2 F-6
F-12
F-1
F-7
F-7
120 sf
DRAFT - FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
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250 sf
400 sf
400 sf
200 sf
350 sf
350 sf
150 sf
KEY: 300 sf
300 sf
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STANFORD UNIVERSITY
100 sf
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 250 sf
250 sf
SUNY STANDARDS SUNY ALBANY
50 sf
SUNY BINGHAMTON AUBURN UNIVERSITY LEVEL LEVEL 11
200 sf
ST JOHN’S PROPOSED
LEVEL 2
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 5200 sf
LEVEL
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SPACE STANDARDS BENCHMARKING BY SCHOOL, RANK, AND AREA 150 sf
150 sf
VAMOS Architects
July 12, 2011
100 sf
100 sf
50 sf
50 sf
LEVEL LEVEL 11
LEVEL 2
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 5
LEVEL 6
LEVEL 7 0 sf
0 sf
Level 5
Level 6
120 - 150 SF - ENCLOSED OFFICE
Alternate Spaces:
200 - 225 SF - ENCLOSED OFFICE
Alternate Spaces:
Hotelling Offices
For use by Deans and Vice Presidents.
For use by Executive Directors.
Single Desk
For use by Adjunct Professors or Part-Time Staff.
For use by Student Workers and Graduate Assistants.
FURNITURE: F-1 F-1 F-2 F-5 F-6 F-7 F-9 F-10 F-11 F-12
F-5
F-11
36” Deep Work Surface 30” Deep Work Surface 24” Deep Work Surface Overhead Storage Bin with Task Lighting Desk Chair Guest Chair 2-Drawer File Box/Box File 36” Wide 2-Drawer Lateral File 36” x 72” High Bookcase
FURNITURE: F-1 F-2 F-5
F-5 F-11
F-2
F-6 F-7 F-8 F-9 F-10
F-2
F-1 F-6 F-7 F-8 F-12
F-1
F-1
FURNITURE:
30” Deep Work Surface Desk Chair Guest Chair 42” Round MeetingTable 36”x72” Bookcase
F-1 F-6 F-10 F-13
30” Deep Work Surface Desk Chair Box/Box File 42” High Furniture System Panel
F-6
F-6
F-1
F-1
F-6
F-2
F-10
F-10
FURNITURE:
30” Deep Work Surface 24” Deep Work Surface Overhead Storage Bin with Task Lighting Desk Chair Guest Chair 42” Round MeetingTable 2-Drawer File Box File
F-1
F-1
F-1
F-13
F-6
F-6
F-2
F-1
F-6 F-7
F-7
F-1
F-6
F-1
F-10 F-12
F-1
F-6 F-6
F-7 F-8
F-8
F-7
F-12
F-6 F-6 F-12
F-7
F-7
200 sf
F-1 F-1
120 sf
DRAFT - FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
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DRAFT - FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
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August 17, 2011 ARCHITECTS
St. John’s University - Oakdale Campus Master Planning Oakdale, NY 2010 - 2011
VAMOS was retained to work with a developer on the Master Plan for St. John’s University’s 175 acre water front campus in Oakdale, Long Island. The magnificent waterfront property located on the South Bay of Long Island was the former estate of Mr. Frederick Bourne, the former President of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The centerpiece of the property is the Bourne Mansion, built in 1900 (pictured below). The campus is currently used as one of the St John’s centers for graduate program study.
VAMOS worked with the client and the development team to create ideas for the future of the property. Conceptual plans included rehabilitation of the campus’ significant heritage buildings including the boathouse and mansion, a rezoning to allow for future housing development parcels and a solar farm, and a consolidation space plan for the University to create additional revenuegenerating opportunities among the various underutilized structures on the property.
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DISTANCE FROM SITE TO MAJOR NODES:
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY OAKDALE
ST. JOHN’S QUEENS CAMPUS = 44.9 Miles, 51 Minutes ST. JOHN’S STATEN ISLAND CAMPUS = 62.8 Miles, 69 Minutes ST. JOHN’S MANHATTAN CAMPUS = 66.4 Miles, 69 Minutes
MACARTHUR AIRPORT GREEN PUBLIC SPACE
LONG ISLAND MACARTHUR AIRPORT = 5.6 Miles, 12 Minutes JFK INT’L AIRPORT = 42.3 Miles, 49 Minutes OAKDALE LIRR STATION = 1.5 Miles, 5 Minutes SAYVILLE LIRR STATION = 2.2 Miles, 4 Minutes
FERRY PATH RAILROAD HIGHWAYS
CENTRAL PARK = 57 Miles, 65 Minutes EAST HAMPTON = 54.2 Miles, 73 Minutes MONTAUK = 77.1 Miles, 95 Minutes FIRE ISLAND (DRIVING THROUGH MASTIC BEACH) = 20 Miles, 30 Minutes FIRE ISLAND FERRIES AT BAY SHORE = 8.7 Miles, 21 Minutes CONNETQUOT RIVER STATE PARK = 5.2 Miles, 15 Minutes
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384,017
8.81
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192,236
4.4
2.5%
BUILDING FOOTPRINTS
BEACH ATHLETIC FIELDS
PERCENT OF SITE
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2,608,782
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DIAGRAM 1: Transportation REGIONALandMAP TRANSPORTATIONS AND PUBLIC GREEN SPACE Regional Map with PublicWITH Green Space VAMOS Architects
ACRES
2,442,513
LAWN
ATHLETIC FIELDS
LAWN
SQUARE FEET
WOODED AREA
PAVED AREAS/PARKING
9 Kilometers 5.5 Miles
30%
North
392,407
9
5%
1,711,693
39
22%
BUILDING FOOTPRINTS
PAVED AREAS/PARKING WETLANDS
MAIN ENTRY ROAD
WATER
BRIDGE
WETLANDS* WATER WITHIN WETLANDS
TOTAL
717,526
16
7,667,041
176
FRONTAGE TYPES
INDIAN CREEK WATERFRONT
22%
30%
35%
100%
LINEAR FEET
BEACH FRONTAGE
2,075
WATER FRONTAGE
17,512
HIGHWAY FRONTAGE
3,560
SITE PERIMETER
13,095
1
0.5% 5% 2.5% 5%
MANSION MAIN ENTRY
41% of “Wetlands” 9% of “Total”
*ESTIMATED CALCULATION; EXACT CALCULATION TO BE VERIFIED
HISTORIC CARRIAGE HOUSE
2 3 THE GREAT LAWN
NICOLL BAY
4
ST. JOSEPH’S HALL AND WALK
NICOLL BAY
200
500 Feet
5
DIAGRAM 3: LAND USE
DIAGRAM 6: ICONIC VIEWS 0 50
0 50
North
200
500 Feet
North
WATERFRONT BEACH
BANDS:
VAMOSSite Architects April 21, 2010 divided into horizontal bands
VAMOS Architects
Parallel to the highway and beach
CORE / PERIPHERY: Site core defined by existing buildings, with zones around
1 1 2 2 3
3
4
4 5 5 BANDS: Site divided into horizontal bands Parallel to the highway and beach
CORE / PERIPHERY: Site core defined by existing buildings, with zones around
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PERCEPTUAL ZONES: Site divisions based on roads and water
DIAGRAM 7: SITE DIVISION STRATEGIES 0 50
1
200
500 Feet
VAMOS Architects
North
AXES / FOCAL POINTS: Site divisions based on sightline views and focal points
Strawberry Hill Resort Irishtown (Kingston) Jamaica Completed 2009
This new community of thirty-five sustainable homes is to be located in the Blue Mountains overlooking Kingston, Jamaica. Designed for Jamaican entrepreneur Chris Blackwell and his company, Island Outpost, this project is an expansion of his exclusive mountain retreat Strawberry Hill. The project is designed as a contemporary hill town and is intended to be a model of ecological and economic sustainability. The 3.5-acre buildable area of the site will be home to a cluster of small, carefully-sited apartments, each responding to the special conditions of light, air, topography and vegetation found on the hilltop site. Visitors will leave their cars and approach the hill long a lush landscaped drive and enter the tightly-packed enclave of houses. A generous central courtyard welcomes visitors and opens to unparalleled views of Kingston, the Blue Mountains and Caribbean beyond. This new community offers residents the unique opportunity to live a low-impact, sustainable urban lifestyle tucked into the jungle, high above the city.
Diane von Furstenberg New York, NY
Han Kjobenhavn New York, NY
TechnoGym Showroom New York, NY
Puro Chile New York, NY
Grast T-Shirt Shop New York, NY
Furla
New York, NY
Rossano Ferretti Salon New York, NY
Retail + Commercial
DvF Headquarters + Flagship Store Meatpacking District, New York
Completed 2008, Renovation in Process
VAMOS currently undertaking full renovation of the DvF Headquarters, as well as the design the new Flagship DvF store and cultural eventspace at street level. VAMOS Principal Silvia Fuster was Project Architect for the original project in 2008, a 35,000 square foot mixed-use building for the fashion design company in the Meatpacking District. The project converted three adjacent warehouse buildings into the company’s Flagship store, a 5,000 SF showroom, design and administrative offices, and an executive suite.
Han Kjobenhavn - Soho New York, NY
Completed 2013
VAMOS worked with Tim Faith Hancock and Jannik Wikkelso Davidsen of Copenhagen men’s apparel brand Han Kjobenhavn as Architect of Record for their 850-square-foot flagship boutique in SoHo. The store’s clean white interior features oak accents highlights the apparel and merchandise. Lighting and classic design pieces by Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner give the space depth and texture and speak to the brand’s Danish heritage. The store design has been widely acclaimed and featured in The New York Times, Highsnobiety, and other fasion and design blogs.
TechnoGym Showroom New York, NY
Completed 2010
VAMOS collaborated with Italian designer Studio Sgroi on the execution of the first United States showroom for this high-end Italian fitness equipment brand. The 3,000 square foot two-story showroom in the heart of Soho showcases the beauty and design of the products, educates the consumer on using the machines, and communicates the brand’s core philosophy of the Wellness Lifestyle. The space features a 30-foot high living vertical garden comprised of over 900 plants, a large skylight over an open stair, and custom leather tile walls.
GALLERY
LIVING ROOM
GALLERY
LIVING ROOM
EXPERIENCE ROOM
EXPERIENCE ROOM
WC CHANGING ROOMS WC CHANGING ROOMS
Puro Chile
TERRACE
New York, NY
ADMN.
Completed 2009
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
VP VP GLOBAL COMMUN’S OPERATIONS
CEO ADMN. ADMN.
CIO
ASSIST. TO CEO STORAGE
FINANCE/ ACCOUNTING
MAIL AREA
OPEN CREATIVE
VP/ BUDGETING + PLANNING VP/ CONTROLLER
PRINTERS
IT WORKSTATIONS
IT STORAGE
IT ROOM TRANSFORMER ROOM
GLASS CONFERENCE AREA
PANTRY
CFO
RECEPTION
VAMOS collaborated with Chilean architect Felipe Assadi to build Puro Chile, a countrybranding project funded by the Chilean government and private investors. This 3,000 square foot multi-level commercial/cultural eventspace and boutique occupies a prominent ground floor corner site in Soho. The glass and steel storefront space showcases all-thingsChilean -- wine, gourmet foods, music, furniture, travel, and design. The design highlights Chilean materials and craft: most of the furniture and interior elements were shipped directly from Santiago. The space features floor-toceiling pivoting wine displays and can be fully transformed to host everything from a fashion show to a travel agency. Puro Chile also serves as a social hub; it has hosted earthquake relief benefits, concerts, art performances, and lectures by Chileans from NYC and abroad.
VP SALES + DEVELOPMENT
VP HR
EXECUTIVE LEVEL OFFICER
NEW WC+ SHOWER
KITCHEN AREA
ADMIN.
OPERATIONS / PRODUCT DEVEL. OPERATIONS STORAGE
COPY ROOM
ADMIN.
ADMIN. MARKETING/PR/HR
ADMIN. OPEN VP
CMO
Grast T-Shirt Shop
42nd St. Subway Station, New York, NY Completed 2010
GRAST is a boutique T-shirt and accessories shop on the “paid side” of the mezzanine level of the A,C,E, line of the New York City Subway, under the 42nd Street Port Authority bus station. For this unique retailer, VAMOS designed a brand image that GRAST could use as a template for future stores. The space features a hybrid storage and display system faced in a bright green eco-friendly goat hair carpet that wraps a bright band around the shop’s perimeter. This racing stripe houses shelves and hangbars for featuring merchandise at eye level. Bent steel shelves finished with auto body paint are hung with tensioned cables in the center of the space. The low-budget high-impact design creates an unexpected visual “pop” to catch the eye of commuters traveling through the drab space of the subway concourse. Approximately 400 square feet in all, the store is roughly the same size as a subway car. The long narrow storefront is conceived as a “shoppable” shop window. The store is the development of retail entrepreneur Merwin Andrade of Zero Traders. Inspired by the successful retail in the subways in Japan, GRAST sells an exclusive line of merchandise, all priced between $20-$100.
Furla Boutique New York, NY
Completed 2009
For this Madison Avenue storefront renovation, VAMOS worked with the Furla team to redesign the entry, shop windows, and fixturing of their 57th Street boutique. The project features suspended acrylic shelving, backlit image panels, new brand signage, new interior and exterior lighting, and new fixtures designed to highlight Furla’s new line of luxury leather handbags and accessories.
Rossano Ferretti Salon New York, NY
Completed 2010
COLOR MIXING ROOM
57th Street
VAMOS worked closely with Rossano Ferretti and his team to layout and build his first salon in the United States. Organized around the journey of the client, the 2,500 square foot salon is a combination of salon and spa. The Rossano Ferretti customer experience is of utmost importance to the success of the salon so the movement from the reception to consultation, wash, and coloring areas was designed to create a series of seamless flows. This project is located on the 6th floor of the landmark Fuller Building on the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street.
STUDIO
COLOR ROOM
Madison Avenue