A. Joseph Killoh Architecture + Design Portfolio
“Design has always been problem
solving, a soulful dance between form and function should not only be considered a beautiful
design, but a beautiful
machine.�
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Contents STUDIO DESIGN. City Gates. Living Large. Black Box Theatre. Dynamism: Rebuilding Babel. Life Cycle/Sustainable Circulation. Voids/Exercises in Modularity.
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INDEPENDENT WORK / OTHER. Muddy River. (2012) Parametric Prototyping: Lamp Design. Mother Church. (2012) Pangaro Residence.
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City Gates. It starts with a unit designed to be produced cheaply and efficiently by utilizing panelized construction methods. Each unit of space can be used to satisfy programmatic changes and adaptions according to code, construction tolerances and it’s manipulation. This theoretical research building and adjacent residential building are organized with a massing that complements the surround historic blocks and frames the urban downtown skyline on the ride into the city.
(Right: Perspective Rendering of Rear Facade
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Boston developers would likely look to a scheme like this in an air rights development. The single structure shares varying programmatic spaces such as Admin., Incubator Office space, and a Cafe. The top floors of the structure would encompass high end real estate space.
A second scheme seperates the project programmatically into separate structures and links them with adjacent green space for occupant and public use. It neglects, however, attention to detail in the projects circulation.
The buildings ends are then pulled to the ground, allowing for views to Boston’s downtown skyline as you enter beneath the development and into the city.
The allotted green space given to the city would then be divided into programs. The residential and building occupant green space is raised to the roof while pedestrian stays at street level. A circulation route into the building is created around and through the pedestrian green space.
(Left: Massing Diagrams, Right: Model)
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Section of Module. The residential structures tectonic adaptability allowed for a continued system in the design for the programmatically complex adjacent Wentworth Research Facility. The ability to construct walls quickly and efficiently while maintaining the panelized nature of the build can provide for a wide variety of programs.
(Left: Unit Section, Right: Facade Perspective)
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Living Large As family sizes diminish, larger spatial designs are coordinated to facilitate them. What is this visceral reaction? Are we honestly happier or more comfortable? Utilizing optimal geometries to maximize minimal square footages, micro pods are designed structurally to allow for easy transport and assembly of individual units making each pod as inherently different as the site.
(Right: perspective)
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Muddy River Reservoir, Fenway, Boston, MA. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the chain of green and public spaces known as the Emerald Knecklace are as necessary to understand Boston’s rich character as Central Park is to understand New York (another contribution by Olmsted). In graphite this perspective attempts to breakdown the picturesque narrative being told.
(Right: perspective)
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Blackbox Theatre Experimental theatre has the powerful ability of being unapologetically undefined by architectural means of creating space. The performances vary widely in contemporary performance art and therefore require different special conditions and uncompromising adaptability. A blackbox, defined as “a simple, unadorned performance space�, is a relatively new typology of theatre that can accommodate numerous styles of performance. In this design, a public park space is inserted in the form of an extensive green roof atop the slabs of the performance space below. This offers a public view of the practice and performance, natural blackout during show times, and the washy glow of filtered daylight through the vegetation above.
(Right: Interior perspective of circulation)
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(Left: Sections, Right: Facade Perspective)
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4: 42'6" Custom Steel Louver Support Beam E.T.F.E. Inflated Membrane G.F.R.C. Louver System.
3: 31'6"
Single Steel Beam. G.F.R.C. Bolted to Beam.
2: 21'0"
E.T.F.E. Inflated Membrane G.F.R.C. Louver System. Custom Steel Louver Support Beam
1: 10'6"
0: 0'0"
Vertical Rebar in Filled Cell Full Height of the Wall.
Concrete Retaining Wall. -1: 10'6"
.006 Polyethylene Vapor Barrier. Concrete footer. Gravel sub-layer Packed earth
ADA Theatre Access
Prop
Costume + Prop
Bathroom
Loading Dock
Storage
Stora
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Dressing Room
Scene Shop Lighting Shop
Secondary Egress
Emergency Egress
Moveable Access Partition
Green Room
Mezzanine Viewing
Black Box Theatre
Public Space / Theatre Entry
Black Box Theatre
Green Space
Emergency Egress
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Parametric Prototyping: Lamp Design Our task was to prototype a lamp using parametric design elements that included repetition, curves, and the tectonic connections between pieces. The lamp is made of Atlantic White Birch and painted to abstract the form of an undulating sphere.
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Mother Church, Christian Science Center, Boston, MA. In one of my earliest explorations of private meshed between public spaces, I.M. Pei’s Christian Science Colonnade played host to our entry level studio’s first intervention. Proportion studies were necessary to understand the complex play of geometries between Pei’s colonnade and the presented Mother Church.
(Right: perspective)
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Dynamism: Rebuilding Babel. Translation is key to understanding the inherently complex nature of one language contrasted with another. In the design for the Boston Center for Human Kinetics, these shifts are translated into a transformative rotation understood in built form. Physical activity is as synonymous a universal language as the one set fourth in the mythical story of the Tower of Babel. Man’s universal language allowed him to shed his obstacles and erect the tower to reach the heavens. Programmatic space for physical activity, mixed with business space and residential, constitute the premise of escaping obstacles and confines in a ‘Unity of Individuals’.
(Right: rear facade, Boston Center for Human Kinetics)
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(Left: process models 1-4, right: transformative rotation iteration)
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(Left: section and plan, Right: interior perspective)
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F.1: Pool Area /Locker Rooms
F.6: Office Space
F.2: Mezzanine
F.7: Office Space
F.3: Cardio + Personal Training
F.8: Residential Condo
F.4: Weight + Strength Training
F.9: Residential Condo
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Pangaro Residence, Litchfield, CT. One of the principle developers behind the millennium tower contracted me to aid in a design for an addition to his summer home in Litchfield Connecticut. The addition created a new circulation ramp entrance, and expansion of the foundation wall to create basement storage space. He asked for a shed on the property as well, for which the design is included.
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24'-8" 11'-11"
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11'-11"
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING
2x12 SPANDREL BEAM (2)
2x10 JOIST (TYP)
TYPICAL 6x6 POST
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING
2'
2'
10" CONTINUOUS CONCRETE FOOTING AT ELEVATION -4'2", 1'0" HIGH
2x8 TIE BEAM
11'-8"
METAL BRIDGING (TYP)
2'
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING
2'
2'
2x10 JOIST
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING
2x12 BEAM 2x12 SPANDREL BEAM (2)
2'-1"
2x12 SPANDREL BEAM
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FOUNDATION AND ROOF FRAMING PLAN
12'
2'-6"
SOLAR PANELS INSULATION 1 x 12 CEDER TRIM BOARD 2X12 BEAM
1'
2x10 JOISTS
2'-6"
WINDOW 2X12 SPANDREL BEAM 5/8" SIDING 2"X4", STUDS 2' ON CENTER
1'
2x8 TIE BEAM 2X12 SPANDREL BEAM
(BEYOND) 13'-6"
6"x6" POST
10'-6" 9'
9'
DOOR 3'0" SLIDING DOOR 2X12 SPANDREL BEAM 10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING (WEST END ONLY)
GRADE
11'-11"
10" DIAMETER CONCRETE FOOTING 10" CONTINUOUS CONCRETE FOOTING (WEST END ONLY). 10"
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SECTION B
4'-2"
Cycle Sustainability The built environment within Somerville, MA, is the most densely populated town in New England, home to roughly 76,000 people in a mere 4.1 square miles. Circulation in response to rapid growth has manifested in multiple forms integrated alongside motor vehicle traffic: rail lines, bicycle lanes, and vibrant foot-traffic. This project explores the potential for a mixed use developement for the tenant, combining on site second and third floor bicycle circulation and individual resident parking.
(Right: oblique section of Individual unit)
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Exercises in Modularity Spaces created volumetrically and devoid of any scale can be initially a wonderful design tool to arrange complex hierarchies and explore the piece in section. The initial composition of the piece was to be arranged sculpturally and adapted into a private residence where a parti was subject to interpretation. The overall product draws inspiration from the juxtaposition of voids created from the masses on opposing floors.
(Right: perspective)
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(Left: sections, Right: perspective)
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