ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO DAVID KNAIDE • B.ARCH 2018

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EDUCATION

DAVID KNAIDE EMAIL: djknaide@syr.edu PHONE: +1 410 652 1356

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Architecture

Dean’s List Academic Scholarship Major-Specific Courses: studio, seminar, building systems, structures, history and theory Elective Courses: urban planning, real estate, geography and environment, Spanish and Arabic language

EXPERIENCE

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Fabrication Shop Monitor

Responsibilities: Oversaw the use of woodshop equipment, assisted students in operating machinery and offered relevant fabrication advice

CEMEX RESEARCH GROUP AG

Summer ‘17 Biel, Switzerland

GANT BRUNNETT ARCHITECTS Architecture Intern

Summer ‘16 Baltimore, MD

URS CORPORATION / AECOM

Summer ‘14 Baltimore, MD

Projects: Historical restoration and contemporary renovation, as well as new planning and construction projects in the Baltimore area, including academic building and library additions, a new police training academy campus and the renovation of a non-profit rehabilitation and support center Responsibilities: Documented site conditions both manually and digitally, designed schematic layouts, developed joint and connection details, produced drawings for construction documents using AutoCAD

Architecture Intern

Projects: Architectural and civil projects with a focus on transportation and infrastructure, including a terminal addition at JFK Airport in New York City and the new Purple Line train route in southern Maryland Responsibilities: Documented sites, proposed structural and material strategies and diagrammed schematic designs using AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

LANGUAGE

Fall ‘17 - Spring ‘18 Syracuse, NY

Intern, Research and Development in Materials Design

Project: Proposal for Malaysia Biennial 100YC, “Concrete Wetlands” as an infrastructure network and public amenity in Medini Iskandar, a city of the future (Project begun in concrete seminar course “Scaling Up” and selected for continued advancement at Cemex) Responsibilities: Designed architectural and urban scale applications of new concrete materials using Rhino, developed casting methods and built large-scale prototypes of Concrete Wetlands modular system using textiles, wood, Pervia and Resilia

SKILLS

Fall ‘13 - Spring ‘18 Syracuse, NY

DIGITAL AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Revit, SketchUp, V-Ray, Ladybug for Grasshopper Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Office Laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC Milling MANUAL Hand drafting, sketching, model making, building formwork, casting concrete ENGLISH

Native proficiency

SPANISH Professional working proficiency

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SELECTED WORKS 1

SUSTAINABLE LIVING

SOLAR GARDENS

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Program: Incubator for Urban Agriculture and Horticulture, Affordable Housing

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PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

CONCRETE WETLANDS

Location: Medini, Malaysia Program: Water Infrastructure Network, Reconstructed Urban ‘Wetland’ and Public Amenity Space

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EDUCATIONAL CENTER

MUSEUM OF THE EARTH

Location: Syracuse, New York Program: Science and Technology Museum

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SOCIAL NETWORK

DATA ENCRYPTION

Location: Syracuse, New York Program: Salvation Army Donation Center, Thrift Store and Soup Kitchen Data Center

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CULTURAL PRODUCTION

HIP-HOPERA HOUSE

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Program: Theater and Music Venue, Pawn Shop

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EXTRACURRICULAR

PERSONAL WORK

Photos, Drawings and Sketches of things that intrigue or inspire me

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SUSTAINABLE LIVING Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Program: Incubator for Urban Agriculture and Horticulture, Affordable Housing

Project Description:

The Solar Gardens of Kendall Square is a mixed-use facility conceived as a model

of sustainable urban living, from program to form and building systems. As the

transport of agricultural products from rural parts of the country to its urban centers is ultimately a contributor to carbon emissions, the Solar Gardens’ Incubator for Urban Agriculture provides a space for food to be locally grown and sold, research to be

conducted and businesses to grow. The other programs include a public botanical garden simulating different climates to promote urban horticulture, and affordable

S O L A R

housing units for the neighborhood’s population of students and graduates.

The building’s form and systems are inspired by its environmental context, i.e. the

daily sun path, positioned angles and cast shadows. The programs are split into four

volumes and arranged on the site according to their access to direct sunlight. Because of its urban context, the surrounding buildings cast shadows onto each of the volumes at different hours of the day, and the volumes are sculpted in response. For example,

the agriculture greenhouse is under shadow during afternoon hours, so the orthogonal volume is angled towards the sun’s morning position in order to receive optimal

sunlight during the hours it is not under shadow. The housing tower experiences the most shadow in the morning, so the form is sliced in order to receive afternoon sunlight.

Because Boston has a predominantly cold climate, a passive heating system is

crucial to sustainability and affordability. An eleven-story atrium acts as a sunspace for daytime heat gain, and an interior facade of cement panels is the thermal mass that

retains and emits the heat during the night. The same cladding system wraps the rest of the housing tower as well as the offices and market space on its north side, while a steel-framed glazing system encloses the south-facing volumes optimized for their solar form.

G A R D E N S

PROGRAM & MASSING

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SOLAR ANALYSIS & FORM

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NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

ENCLOSURE

STRUCTURE

PARTITIONS & FLOOR PLATES

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

TOWER FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

N O R T H E A S T E X T E R I O R

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PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE Location: Medini, Malaysia Program: Water Infrastructure Network,

Reconstructed Urban ‘Wetland’ and Public Amenity Space

Project Description:

Concrete Wetlands is a proposal for the future of urban development, based on

the concept of building cities that can perform like the natural landscapes they are

replacing. The up-and-coming city of Medini, located in a tropical climate with heavy

rainfall and frequent flooding, sits on what used to be natural wetlands and mangrove forests. As part of the natural water cycle, wetlands work to detain and depollute rain water on its way back to a principal water source, as well as house an abundance of

ecosystems. This modular infrastructure system uses two innovative types of concrete to create a vertical urban ‘wetland’ that retains and depollutes flood waters, sustains plants and animals, works to cool the city and acts as amenity space for inhabitants.

Inspiration for the project is very much tied to the materials – Pervia is a porous

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concrete that is permeable by water, though not structural on its own; Resilia is a

fibrous concrete with inherent structural ability; and geotextile is an industrial fabric

that can be used as concrete formwork, whose pliability enables the resulting forms to be expressive of the concrete’s initial liquid state. The stackable modules are

dual-layered and can be articulated in different ways based on performance. An inside

layer of rigid Pervia ‘bowls’ is wrapped with a layer of structural Resilia, cast in a twisted textile form which and punctured to expose the Pervia within. The punctures could be customized for each module to control water retention and flow.

As a modular system, the cisterns are configured in a variety of different ways

depending on the urban context and location in the city. A standalone water tower, an open-air canopy and a slot infill are three examples. Collaboration: Gabriel Maese *This project was sponsored by Cemex Research Group AG, concrete and materials developed and provided by Cemex.

W E T L A N D S

MEDINI MASTERPLAN

CENTRAL CIRCULATION SPINE

EXISTING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

PROPOSED CONCRETE WETLAND NETWORK

STORM AND FLOOD WATER RETENTION

WATER DETENTION AND DEPOLLUTION

PASSIVE URBAN COOLING SYSTEM

MODULAR CISTERN PERFORMANCE

URBAN ECOSYSTEM MIMICKING NATURAL WETLANDS

MODULE AGGREGATION

URBAN PRESENCE / PUBLIC AMENITY SPACE

TOWER SITE

PERSPECTIVE

SECTION

INFILL SITE

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P R O T O T Y P E

TEXTURES AND DETAILS

CONSTRUCTION METHOD

PROCESS PHOTOS

STUDY MODEL:

TWISTED FORM IN PERVIA AND RESILIA

STUDY MODEL:

CASTING WITH GEOTEXTILE

T E S T I N G

PERFORMANCE:

PROTOTYPE MEETS WATER

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EDUCATIONAL CENTER Location: Syracuse, New York Program: Science and Technology Museum Project Description: The Museum of the Earth is a satellite of Syracuse’s MOST (Museum of Science and Technology), as a nature museum catering to the education of children. The form of the building is integrated into the undulating topography of its waterfront site, conceptually rising from the landscape instead of being placed on top of an excavated site. Its structure is nestled into the side of a ‘hill,’ so that its south side is insulated by a mound of soil and vegetation, while the north facade is a curtain wall that slices the form to reveal the program behind it.

M U S E U M O F

As the structure rises from an organic triangulated form on one corner of the site to a rigid orthogonal frame on the opposite corner, the programs are organized along a gradient that goes from ‘landscape’ to ‘building,’ or most flexible to most rigid. In this way, the experience of the gallery space makes one feel like they are part of the landscape, while the office space feels like an urban building. The entrance is a mezzanine level suspended above the galleries, which are sunken below grade. From

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this level, one can either descend towards the ‘landscape-oriented’ galleries or ascend toward the ‘building-oriented’ classrooms and offices. The exterior topography of the museum is inhabitable and accessible from two sides, while formal punctures on the south side create playful tunnels in the topography and allow light to enter the galleries.

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BUILDING DIAGRAMS

LANDSCAPE

PUNCTURES

FORM / ENCLOSURE

BUILDING

LOBBY TICKETS ENTRANCE

STRUCTURE

CAFE

THEATER

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GALLERY 1 GALLERY 2 GALLERY 3 Building Oriented

LANDSCAPE

CLASS ROOM CLASS ROOM

Zone 3 Zone 2 Zone 1

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SITE PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

TRANSVERSE SECTION

NORTHWEST EXTERIOR

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SOCIAL NETWORK Location: Syracuse, New York Program: Salvation Army Donation Center, Thrift Store and Soup Kitchen Data Center Project Description: Data Encryption is data center surrounded by an active community center that

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acts as a barrier to the exterior, conceptually and thermally. As a data center is typically a windowless box that strives for anonymity, the idea of layers of transparency is crucial in giving this data center an urban presence. The data center itself is enclosed by two layers of translucent glazing, while the Salvation Army program features a perforated brick ‘screen’ that wraps its solid enclosure. Each of these layers hints falsely at a transparency that is never delivered, making clear the data is to be protected. There are several programs within the community center, and they are each placed along a different facade based on user groups and access to the site. Exchange between programs and user groups is then facilitated within the building. Donation drop-off and utility access is placed on the west facade next to the parking lot. Administration and offices are placed along the east facade which faces the main street. The soup kitchen and thrift shop occupy the south facade, which is most prominent and overlooks the major site excavation. Each of the facades is excavated by angular forms to reveal the glowing data center at its core, and also provide distinct entrances to each of its programs. The entrances open to a double-height circulation space that wraps tightly around the data center, between a double offset column grid that allows for the gap between floor plates. Collaboration: Valentina Parada

E N C R Y P T I O N

SOUTHWEST EXTERIOR

WEST EXTERIOR

PROGRAM MASSING

PERFORATED BRICK SCREEN

INTERIOR / STRUCTURE

EXCAVTED ENCLOSURE

TRANSLUCENT CENTER

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION

SOUTHEAST EXTERIOR

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CULTURAL PRODUCTION Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Program: Theater and Music Venue, Pawn Shop Project Description: The Hip-Hopera House locates itself at the border of gentrification and urban decay, between the Bywater art district and the neighborhood of St. Claude. The gentrified zone is characterized by abundant cultural and commercial program, while the zone of urban decay is characterized by vacant homes, boarded windows and disrepair. The city of New Orleans has a history of cultural diversity, and the fusion of cultures that its buildings and streets have cultivated paved the way for new forms of musical production. Historically, the spaces of collaboration which resulted in musical production were sites of ‘Patchwork Urbanism,’ meaning they enabled a blending of cultures through the juxtaposition of programs, both musical and non-musical. Today, the process of gentrification places people of different cultural backgrounds into the same urban spaces. Along the border of gentrification and urban decay, architecture can serve as the mediating stitch between local communities and incoming populations that facilitates collaboration and acts as a catalyst for cultural production. The site of development is adjacent to an abandoned shotgun house, whose facade is left in its current state of disrepair, and interior converted to a pawn shop. The performance space is formally distinct, with one reconfigurable stage linking two programs: a theater/concert hall and a hip-hop venue. The two structures, the old and the new, are linked by a sunlit corridor that mimics the urban stitch of the master plan at the building scale. This corridor also connects the open-ended public roofscape back to the street level and urban performance space on the groundscape, which is excavated underneath the cantilevered auditorium form. The cantilever is supported by a massive structural truss, creating a dramatic urban gesture toward the intersection. The music venue’s facade includes an operable louver system of wood and metal, creating a material gradient between the two distinct performance spaces and allowing the form to open and close to outside viewers.

H I P H O P E R A H O U S E

E X T E R I O R

ROOF PLAN

URBAN URBAN PLAN PLAN 0’

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

EAST ELEVATION

TRANSVERSE SECTION

PUBLIC ROOFSCAPE

OPERABLE LOUVER SYSTEM

STRUCTURAL TRUSS

INTERIOR PERFORMANCE

CIRCULATION CORRIDOR

VACANT HOUSE (EXISTING)

PUBLIC GROUNDSCAPE

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

R O O F S C A P E

G R O U N D S C A P E

I N T E R I O R

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P E R S O N A L

EXTRACURRICULAR

SKETCHES IN INK

W O R K

Description: Photos, drawings and sketches of things that intrigue or inspire me

GRAPHITE & CHARCOAL DRAWINGS

PHOTO SERIES

‘DICHOTOMY BETWEEN NATURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT’

PHOTO SERIES

‘INDUSTRIAL PLAYGROUND’

CHARCOAL DRAWING (TOP LEFT) SKETCHES IN INK

Thank you for your time. Please contact: DAVID KNAIDE EMAIL: djknaide@syr.edu PHONE: +1 410 652 1356