ALEXANDER LIEVENS | Design Portfolio

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FREE RANGE CONSULS IN THE COMMONS MARRIED STUDENT HOUSING DIAGRAMMAR TM BIG LITTLE BOXES COMPETITIONS

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FREE RANGE A Case for the Musical Tectonic | Graduating Thesis Advisor: Mark Linder This thesis observes and investigates the relationship between musical instruments and architectural construction. It argues that musical instruments can provide key insights into how architecture might possess the same qualities of interactivity, action, and identity that musical instruments inherently own.

Tectonics is employed as a method that is specifically interested the “components” of architecture, how those components are detailed and assembled, and how the thoughtful consideration of construction can be expressive. The goal is for musical instruments to be dissected, categorized and potentially reassembled into new typologies of “instrument.”

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Every instrument needs Components (must be a “thing” made of “things”);

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Every instrument needs a Console (must be able to be played)

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Every instrument needs a Case (must be protective and projective);

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KENNETH FRAMPTON (1990) ONTOLOGICAL (structural-technical) Allowing for a constructional element to emphasize an object’s static role and cultural status.

REPRESENTATIONAL (structural-symbolic) Allowing for a constructional element to be hidden, but present.

Responding to the state of commodity culture of post-modernism, arguing that it was fueled by Romanticism and enacted through scenographic architecture. “...building is ontological rather than representational in character, and that built form is a presence rather than something standing for an absence.”

FRAME

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“...in which members of varying lengths are conjoined to encompass a spatial field.”

STEREOTOMY

“...compressive mass that, while it may embody space, is constructed through the piling up of identical units.”

“[We] tend to be unaware of the ontological consequences of these differences”:

SKY immateriality of frame

materiality of mass

EARTH

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TWELFTH

major 7th

ELEVENTH

minor 7th

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M7

m7

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TENTH

major 6th

NINTH

minor 6th

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M6

m6

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EIGHTH

perfect 5th

SEVENTH

tritone

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SIXTH

perfect 4th

FIFTH

major 3rd

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P4

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minor 3rd

THIRD

major 2nd

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ON COMPONENTS

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ON CONSOLE

CHIMES

GUITAR GUY

PIANO

“VOLUME”

POLE DANCE

LOS TROMPOS

SO-IL

HECTOR ASWARE

WEXNER CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS

FENESTRATION AT LA TOURETTE

“PLAYING THE BUILDING”

HELSINKI CATHEDRAL PIPE ORGAN

DAVID BYRNE

E. F. WINCKEL

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ON CASE

ALBI CATHEDRAL, ALBI, FRANCE Section through nave showing existing organ case elevation and new side chapel pipe additions

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CONSULS IN THE COMMONS Rediscovering Italian Transparency on the Boston Commons Studio: Site: Program:

Randall Korman Boylston St., Boston, MA Italian Consulate

In an impacted site, the urban character of the consulate is carried through the façade, which follows the lines of facades adjacent to each side, while simultaneously providing a field of scattered semi-opaque glazed panels, obscuring the figure beyond.

The plan is organized through a logic of procession around a central figure, recalling Italian precedent of the courtyard typology. On the ground floor, the central figure is the auditorium, which opens up to the public lobby. Above, the figure becomes a private garden. Through each plan, private program components locate themselves within the poche, providing the figure of the garden to be the primary point of gathering. A grand stair leads private occupants of the consulate to the piano nobile, where offices spaces are located

Work and images produced in collaboration with Annagrace Walton.

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BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON, MA

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 18

SECOND FLOOR PLAN 19

THIRD FLOOR PLAN 20

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN 21

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SOUTH ELEVATION

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Passport/Visa

Entry + Public Use

Exhibition Gallery Small Reception

Visa Processing Area

Lobby

Entry

1000 sf

800 sf

200 sf

600 sf

Waiting Room Coat Room 150 sf

Security Screening Area

150 sf

Security Guard Room

250 sf

500 sf

Passport port Applications ons

200 sf

100 sf

Service

Private Shared

Courtyard

Auditorium Large Reception Loading and Service Area

Library/Media Room

300 sf

Communications Mail Room

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150 sf

Food Preparation eparation

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Librarian 1500 sf

2000 sf

2000 sf

Dining Room

Kitchen

300 sf

250 sf

Staff Lounge

200 sf

Exercise Room

200 sf

1000 sf

150 sf

Bathrooms

Fire Stairs

Elevators vators

Copying Room

150 sf

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Consul General Spaces Large Conference

Cultural 6MÄJL

Political 6MÄJL

300 sf

300 sf

Media 6MÄJL

Commercial 6MÄJL

300 sf

300 sf

Consul General’s 6MÄJL

Small Conference

250 sf 600 sf

800 sf (KTPUPZ[YH[P]L 6MÄJLZ Security Manager 6MÄJL 200 sf

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Systems Manager 6MÄJL 200 sf

C. G.’s Assistant

150 sf each

*VUZ\S»Z 6MÄJL

200 sf

C.G.’s Secretary

200 sf

Consul’s Secretary

200 sf

500 sf

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Entry

Visa Processing

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Large Reception

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Security Screening Area

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Passport Applications

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Balcony

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Waiting Area

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Library

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Small Reception

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Communications

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Reading Room

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Auditorium

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MARRIED STUDENT HOUSING Creating and Sustaining Connections Studio: Site: Program:

Bruce Coleman The Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY Housing, Dining Hall, Daycare

A successful relationship will create a valuable exchange of life, inside and out. In both musical (and marital) performance, the value of the performance lies in what is shared.

Musicians must share time and space with other musucians, just as married couples must share time and space with each other.

By creating binary relationships between public and private programs, this proposal aims to reconcile the relationship between the more private (student-residential) functions of the Eastman School of Music with the more public potential of Main Street in Rochester, NY. Shared space is valuable space.

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local connections | presence of sky-bridges in Rochester, NY

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STUDENT | SCHOOL with recreational a more privateMUSICIAN | MUSIC connection, meant specifically for classrooms and practice rooms for the the

program relationships | ESOM married student housing 0BR:

20 units 11280ft2

1BR:

50 units 48350ft2

2BR:

40 units 30280ft2

living|dining kitchen bathroom closet (2) storage

0BR living|dining kitchen bathroom bedroom closet (2) storage

1BR

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living|dining kitchen bathroom bedroom (2) closet (2) storage

residential gsf:

89910ft2

2BR

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lab classroom (2) restroom (2) faculty office (2) consult office (2)

academic

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residential staff residential director apt. residential director office assistant resident director office

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mechanical room electrical room storage elevator loading dock maintenance storage trash|recycling

maintenance

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cafeteria service area storage dishwashing room mop/chemical storage restroom kitchen offices (4) locker rooms

dining

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mixed use convenience store atm vending recreation daycare laundry communal gathering space multi-purpose space computer cluster

public use

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residence hall lobby main desk mail room conference room resource|supply room security

administrative

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PUBLIC LEVEL

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 38

PRIVATE LEVEL

FIFTH FLOOR PLAN 39

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call for design proposals REVIVING ROCHESTER:

Toward a New Convention Center Design participants are asked to reenvision the decaying convention center as a new necessarypower center for the city, while revitalizing and reforming the public life of necessarry the river and Rochester as a whole.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN: 00:12:00 AM

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE: 00:05:00 PM

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DIA-GRAMMAR TM Defaulting Architecture in the Near-Future

Studio: Site:

Michael Young Rochester, NY

The year is 2064. The Eastman School of Music holds a competition to renovate their newly acquired property which locates the Rochester Convention Center. Two architects resolve to enter, but forget about the competition until the day of the deadline. To meet their deadline, they rely on the performance of a new architecture app - meant to replicate an automated design process, from conceptual to construction documentation - given drop-down menu constraints and parameters via the app. All design decisions for the project are left up to the interface of the application - in this case, default settings. What results is a facade system.

The facade system provides two functions: one to provide a physical impression from the inside face of the wall to transfer a temporary bas-relief-image, and another to serve as an empty wall by which users may project their own augmented reality. Users are open to the possibility of using blank walls, walls being injected with their own temporary image, or any alterations and combinations of their own.

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DIAGRAM ONLY. PLAN CANNOT BE DRAWN UNTIL SITE SELECTED

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have you started any Rochester schemes yet? the logo reps are on my back. expecting drawings by 3 and i’m preoccupied.

ahh i forgot. no time. i’m just gonna run the basics through diagrammar

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ok. send me images when you’re done

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H um. hm. ok. we could just turn it into a facades project. can you set the program to ‘facade dispenser’? and just gut the whole building?

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composition

circulation

orientation

proportion

fenestration

approach

language

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Select facade design mode(s).

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Use a stylus to draw in the bounding box(es) below to produce your image(s).

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BIG LITTLE BOXES Facilitating Social Collisions Studio: Site: Program:

Terrance Goode N. Salina St., Syracuse, NY Community Center

The site occupies a point of intersection between the residential Lodi Street and commercial N. Salina Street. Crime rates were studied as a tangible problem of the street, and a factor to consider in attempting to rejuvenate and revise the life of N. Salina. The grids of Lodi and N. Salina are extended into each other. The cafĂŠ and library exist as a bar, acting in resemblance to the commercial lots down the length of N. Salina. A gymnasium and cantilevered gallery space follow the grid of Lodi Street, with a triangular centralized stair occupying the intersection of these grids and providing a common space for all the occupants of the building.

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ASH ST

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CATAWBA ST

ISABELLA ST

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N. SALINA ST

balcony

170 0 ft² ft

gallery | meditative space

1830 ft²

catwalk

2748 8 ft² ft

library mezzanine

1725 5 ft²

entrance lobby

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gymnasium

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courtyard

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adaptable grid space

4736 ft² t²

cafe + library

3560 0 ft²

reading cubbies

980 ft²

locker + restrooms

1844 844 ft²

indoor workout facilities

2445 ft²

adaptable grid space

11595 ft²

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COMPETITIONS A

PRESENT TENTS HUBWeek - WHAT’S IN 2017 - The Quad Collaborators: Ismael Segarra & Gabriel Boyajian

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28 BENDS eVolo 2016 Furniture Design Competition Entry Collaborators: Gabriel Boyajian & Ryan Williams

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The typical quad is flat, open, and faced from the interior by campus buildings. The tent has historically been a type associated with various forms of distinctly social functions: in festivals, nomadic dwellings, camp sites or even longer term protest sites. The tent has served as an all-inclusive and expressive device for harboring, sheltering, and community building. The implementation of tents seeks to provide the opportunity for distinct gathering spaces - both “inside” and “outside” - to occur within the new quad.

FESTIVAL PROTEST

Present Tents proposes a cluster of tents, which range in size to accomodate intimately small groups of people to larger, more communal groups of people. Walls of colorful string line the perimeter of each tent’s oculus, which provides a dynamic central piece to attract users into their own tent. At the same time, the “outside space” between tent clusters act as more open, fluid and circulatory space for people to move between and around, or form their own more organic clusters within.

The use of translucent mesh allows obscures direct view of the interior spaces but allows the user to see the exterior clearly. This achieves a degree of privacy while maintaining a view and larger sense of belonging to the rest of the quad space.

The material of these volumes are easy to repurpose and recycle! With a simple assembly/disassembly method our three primary materials can be divided and recycled.

However our goal is to find a permanent home for our new friends. Looking at underprivileged schools we see Present Tents as an excellent addition to any playground and acting as an experimental play space.

NOMADIC CAMPY

PRESENT TENTS

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