This portfolio delves into the concept of materiality and its role in the built environment. Material exploration allows designers to challenge convention, and find emergent qualities that lead to a new architectural paradigm. This portfolio examines how materials can transition from speculative building elements to socially and politically charged wall systems through thoughtful application.
Materials possess the unique ability to evoke a sense of familiarity and place. Buildings age as non-human elements act upon them. Some materials simply weather and stain, while others decay over time, reminding us that architecture is not pristine. By planning for weathering, designers can challenge the notion that decay is impermissible, and instead recognize the intrinsic beauty of material transformation.
In an era increasingly defined by climate change, material selection carries significant importance. Architecture must not only be sustainable, but also resonate with our urban environments to ensure preservation. This portfolio seeks to demonstrate that thoughtful materiality can create architecture that is both enduring, meaningful, and speculative.
| Dillon Thomas Day Architectural Statement
Master’s
of Architecture | University of Pennsylvania
Arch 602 | Distillery
Against the Grain Matter Value
Arch 701 | Adaptive Reuse
Monument et. al
Arch 502 | Civic Center
Arch 501 | Museum
Vibrant Artifacts
Arch 722 |
LoLux Care
Arch
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Trendscape
Five Chimney House
Arch
Conic Bodies || Sectioned Wedges
Arch 732 | Module I
Finer Tectonic Systems
Arch 502 | Module I + II
Bittersweet Commons Thesis
Rittenhouse Office Building Arch 532 | Technology
Against the Grain
New York, NY
Weitzman School of Design
Arch 602 | Frames and Grains
Completed with Benjamin Oliver
Against the Grain explores spatialized methods of combating food waste through the adaptation of domestic, and industrial forms and materials to create an urban gesticulation that challenges the license of typical urban forms. The process of food production and consumption is one of our most physically instinctual acts as people and the formation of new connections can help bring awareness to other modes of food waste up-cycling. Similarly, the use of familiar spatial and material conditions arranged in new combinations and assemblages can bring new dynamic spaces and formal conditions to the urban landscape.
The acquisition of air rights provides opportunity for volumetric expressions that break the vertical rigidity of cities. Our project aims to appropriate recognizable simple industrial figures and subvert their taxonomy in a way that creates a spatial experience that is almost familiar. The site allowed for emphasis of the oblique angle that extended past our buildings footprint and explored the air space of surrounding buildings.
To bring attention to innovative ways of addressing food waste, our program features a whiskey distillery which processes grains and converts them to alcoholic spirits. The spent grains from distilleries and other forms of alcohol production are still nutrient rich and are typically only composted when the nutrient rich grain possesses potential to be up-cycled into other grain based products as well as a different type of public space associated with it, the bar. The efficient operability of a distillery requires open industrial floors for ease of access to large equipment as well as efficient circulation and distribution of space. A bakery will also anchor this project programmaticly by utilizing the spent grains and using them to bake bread and create other grain based products. Both of these programs provide opportunities for the implementation of various forms of public space and their product is something that can be retrieved multiple times a week, creating a returning public base that weaves the space into their lives and routine.
Enclosure is critical in defining spaces and accompanying the mass timber frame. In her essay Modest Ambitions, Monica Ponce de Leon writes that, “At a basic level, equity in access is what distinguishes the public realm from private space”. Equity in access is both physical and psychological to create the feeling of access to our enveloping strategy juxtaposes The lack of the legibility of interior creates dissolves points of entry encouraging public interaction. Assuming the symbol of entry of a typical New York businesses, a habitable awning extends over the public walkway inviting the visitors through and in the building.
Mass Timber | Distillery | Public Commons Instructed by Nate Hume
Interior Photography (Detail)
Elevation (Render)
Organization || Air Rights
The project features a CLT structure that cantilevers over two neighboring buildings, taking advantage of their air rights to maximize space and functionality. With the neighboring buildings at different heights, a rotational moment at the base was created, which we addressed by carefully rotating the structural members. The angle of the members and the cantilever distance helped reduce the rotational moment and transferred load more efficiently in compression. By optimizing these factors, we minimized the number of structural elements needed in the hat truss, streamlining the design.
Detail Section
Detail Section Ground Floor Plan (Awning Scheme) (Awning Scheme) (Detail)
Thatch Parapet
Cladding
Glazing
Wall Section
Physical Model
Physical Model (Detail) (Photography) (Photography)
Exterior
Assembly Diagram (Model Photography) (Detail)
Section (Thatch Detail) Plan Plan (Thatch Detail) (Detail)
Conic Bodies || Sectioned Wedge
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
This project explores the intersection of digital fabrication techniques, specifically blending forming and sectioning methods, to create a unique dueling architectural structure. The design hinges on two mutually dependent systems, each requiring the other to stand, creating a dynamic relationship between the materials and fabrication processes. By combining high-resolution formed concrete with CNC-machined wood, the project highlights the aesthetic and functional benefits of working with diverse materials and fabrication techniques. The formed concrete, shaped with precision, displays a high level of resolution that accentuates its smooth, sculptural qualities. In contrast, the CNC-milled wood exposes and manipulates the natural grains, creating a tactile texture that contrasts with the concrete’s smoothness.
This project challenges the traditional boundaries between materials, asking how their respective qualities—whether in texture, grain, or form—can be brought out through different fabrication processes. By incorporating digital and procedural modeling techniques, the tectonic components influence each other’s creation, resulting in a system where one part informs the other. The interplay between the two materials is not just a physical interaction but a conceptual one, as the structure’s integrity is reliant on both the precise, industrial quality of the concrete and the organic, handcrafted nature of the wood.
Mike Avery
Completed with Benjamin Oliver
(Hybrid Render and Drawing)
Unrolled Elevation
Matter Value
Seoul, South Korea Weitzman School of Design
Arch 701 | Research Studio
Completed with Nathan Huynh
Steward Brand’s notion that “Age + Adaptability is what makes a building come to be loved. The building learns from its inhabitants, and they learn from it” serves as the foundation for this project. The investigation centers on how spatial memory can be recorded on a site through architectural “ghosts” embedded within permanent wall structures. These walls facilitate the deployment of adaptable and temporary forms, addressing the spatial needs of present and future inhabitants.
Architectural ghosts, created through the removal of adjoining structures, capture a site’s history by preserving the traces of past arrangements. These remnants act as markers of spatial memory, recording and communicating the evolution of the built environment. By documenting these imprints, the project fosters an awareness of history and promotes learning from the patterns of use and adaptation over time.
The design advances an ecological awareness and dialogue about weathering through a collaborative effort involving both human construction and ecological agents. The permanent walls, marked and altered by natural processes and human interventions, establish a relationship of enmeshment between humans and their environment, challenging the conventional notion of separation. These structures exemplify how architecture can serve as both a canvas and a participant in environmental processes.
The site, characterized by a lack of clear circulation and public space, is reimagined with walls functioning as organizing elements. These permanent structures guide movement and define public spaces, ensuring adaptability across future iterations. Circulation intersects these walls perpendicularly, emphasizing gates as recurring spatial thresholds. These gates create ecological zones that divide the site into plazas and establish a procession-oriented network, culminating in a revitalized connection to the palace.
The use of materials reflects an interest in weathering and memory. Fired and unfired bricks record the spatial memories of CLT structures, with unfired bricks eroding faster and requiring replacement, creating a dynamic surface that simultaneously preserves and transforms architectural ghosts. North-facing walls are designed to highlight weathering effects such as moss growth and water staining, further enhancing the narrative potential of age and ecological interaction.
The project’s ultimate goal is to redefine age value by generating ecological awareness and fostering a deeper connection between people and place. The evolving stains and weathering patterns inscribe spatial memories onto the site, creating a living archive of human and environmental interaction.
Model Photography (Material)
Model Photography (Weathering Detail)
Model Photography (Axonometric)
Matter Value || Age Value
In the context of Alios Regiel’s work, advocating for a new value system rooted in matter calls attention to the embedded qualities within existing, placed objects and structures. Rather than prioritizing historical age or traditional notions of preservation, Regiel shifts focus to the material itself—emphasizing its physical presence, transformation, and the stories it carries. The wear and aging of materials become a form of value, as they hold within them the traces of time and human interaction. This approach challenges the conventional hierarchy of value, proposing that the true significance of a space or object lies not only in its historical context but in the ongoing life and transformation of its materials. Through this lens, Regiel reframes preservation, urging a recognition of the lived, embedded qualities of matter as a crucial element of cultural memory.
Unrolled Elevation (Weathering Detail)
Site Plan (Detail)
Temporary Structures || Memory
Spatial memory is embedded in the architecture itself, where the “ghosts” of past structures—visible stains and traces left on walls from disassembly—serve as a testament to history. By advocating for a system where fragments of previous structures are interwoven with adaptable, future-facing elements, these architectural remnants create a dynamic dialogue between past, present, and future. The stains and reformations act as physical records of memory, capturing the ongoing transformation of space. In this system, the evolving nature of the built environment is celebrated, with each layer contributing to a continuous, living history. Ultimately, these architectural “ghosts” create a unique, timeless narrative that preserves memory while embracing future reuses and transformations.
Finer Tectonic Systems
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
Arch 501 | Module I + II
Fabrication | Design-Build | Visual Studies
Tectonic Connections are a series of custom joints and assemblages that blend structures that are designed to change over time. The non-determinative joints explore how tectonics and detailing can inspire the larger form of a construct. The first series of joints were created for a large installation for a public artwork “Dissenting Structure” which was exhibited in stages. In the first stage three tapered cubes made of 1” x 1” sticks where arranged, and connected seamlessly with the kit of joints. The second stage of the installation involved plastering fabrics between the original members of the structure to form a new shell form. On the third stage, the original form work was deconstructed where it was structurally possible, leaving a series of joints that expressed the memory of the original structure. The removed joints and wooden members could be assembled to expand the pilaster assemble to create a structure that continued to grow and attempt with the new geometry being determined by the original detail.
The second series of connections explores building a puzzle with a nondeterminative kit of part. Organic matter such as dough will be fitted onto the joints and wrapped with paper-mache, which will expand and creating new formal interactions between parts. The joints had exact fittings for other hard joints, and curved forms ready to accept bread dough which would expand and displace the paper-mache. The project investigated the tension of creating hyper specific forms designed to controlled highly organic and unpredictable results.
Instructed by Edguardo Rega Teaching Assistant Jun Lee
Joint Study
Joint Study (Model)
(Model)
Monument et. al
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
Arch 502 | Module III
Set against the backdrop of the disused Viaduct in Callowhill, the design transforms this space into a celebration of horticulture in the digital era, with a particular focus on emergent technologies in agriculture, known as Agritech. This undertaking seeks to breathe new life into the Viaduct by scattering pavilions along its length, each dedicated to exploring specific themes of contemporary farming and food culture.
The regional specificity of the proposal becomes evident as the Distillery District of Philadelphia, with its rich history in American whiskey production, bookends the Viaduct. By incorporating this historical context into the design, the proposal not only pays homage to the region’s past but also creates a unique opportunity to showcase the technological processes that are shaping modern food culture. The Viaduct, once a disused structure, becomes a dynamic canvas for the intersection of history, agriculture, and technology. The pavilions, inspired by the steps of a distillery, serve as expressive nodes, each unveiling a facet of contemporary agriculture techniques. This intentional design mirrors the Viaduct’s historical importance and resonates with the local context. As visitors traverse the Viaduct, they embark on a journey through the intertwined history of agriculture, craft, and technology, emphasizing the evolution of traditional practices in the face of emerging innovations.
Emphasizing regional materiality, the proposal envisions the beginning of the Viaduct hosting vertical farming and hydroponics to cultivate the rye essential for the malting process. This not only showcases the impact of biology and food sciences on production but also grounds the proposal in the specific agricultural landscape of the region. In essence, the Philadelphia World’s Fair proposal becomes a manifestation of the region’s unique historical relationships, infrastructural connections, and materiality, offering a compelling narrative that bridges the past, present, and future of agriculture and technology in the local context.
World’ Fair | Distillery | Public Infrastructure
Instructed by Anthony Gagliardi Teaching Assistant Clay Monarch
Site Relief (Rendered)
Ciruclation Path
Distillery (Detail Drawing) (Detail Drawing)
Tectonic Grounds || Exploration
Tectonic grounds define a varied landscape that facilitates exploration within the World’s Fair site, creating distinct zones for smaller, programmatic spaces. The manipulation of topography establishes a continuous flow, guiding movement through these areas while promoting discovery. This landscape design also strategically integrates access points from both the elevated viaduct and the existing urban grid, enhancing connectivity. By bridging the site with the surrounding city, the project fosters a seamless relationship between the new development and its context.
Exterior
Exterior
Exterior (Rendered) (Rendered) (Rendered)
Screens || Monuments
The landscape is arranged in a pattern derived from an Eduardo Palazzi Painting creating a dialogue between the built and natural environments. It involves introducing elements that interrupt the flow of surface and creates moments of rupture, while also maintaining a sense of continuity and coherence in the overall design. This disruptive continuity approach seeks to create gestalt relationships between architectural objects and allows a multiplicity of readings within the project. Objects express simultaneity, appearing to have multiple contingent relationships across the site estranging their origin to create a gap between our experience and our understanding.
Confluence
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
Arch 501 | Module III
Traditional museums are impersonal, as art is often presented as an object separate from the artist by curators. Even when curators address specific topics, they fall flat in their attempt to generate conversations between artists and viewers. The project described envisions a radical transformation of the traditional museum paradigm, aiming to address the perceived impersonality of the conventional approach to art curation. The central premise is to bridge the gap between artists and viewers by directly involving artists in the museum space.
In contrast to the common practice where art is presented as a detached object, curated by professionals, this project proposes to place artists within the museum premises. The inclusion of workshop spaces for extended artist residencies is a key feature, fostering direct interactions between artists and the public. This departure from the traditional separation of artists and viewers is intended to create a dynamic environment where the public’s reactions to art become an integral part of the artistic process. By combining gallery and maker space elements, the project seeks to establish an active workshop within the museum. This collaborative space is designed to encourage continuous engagement with the exhibited art, allowing for additions, replacements, or reworkings. The collision of the gallery and maker space not only blurs the boundaries between the displayed art and the creative process but also transforms the museum into a living, evolving entity.
Formally and conceptually, the building is envisioned as a fluid space, characterized by a roundabout circulation, interconnecting levels, and inwardfacing view ports. This architectural design is intended to showcase the process of creation itself, turning the act of making art into a visible spectacle. The emphasis on transparency and visibility aims to create a connection between the artist and the museum audience, redefining the museum as a personal rather than impersonal space. The proposed model suggests a departure from the traditional role of curators as intermediaries and positions artists as active participants in the presentation and evolution of their work. This newfound connection between artists and the museum environment is anticipated to stimulate the generation of new ideas and foster connections, ultimately reinterpreting the museum as a more intimate and personalized space.
Interior Perspective
Exterior Perspective (Rendered) (Rendered)
Exchange || Interplay
Confluence addresses the historic Philadelphia waterfront by embedding itself into the landscape, and creating winding walkways that bring visitors through a public gallery down to the bank of the river, where a boat house is placed. The museum is created through a series of folding plates that form half levels and terraces, cut in locations to create double height galleries near the studios that sculptures inhabit. Interior windows and view sheds puncture the structural studio spaces to frame pieces of art, and create a connection between where a person is, and someone that the path will soon guide them. These views give hints at upcoming work, and allow for visitors to look back into previous work in order to contextual the gallery’s dialogue.
Perspective Section (Detail)
Bittersweet Commons
London, England
Weitzman School of Design
The bittersweetness of ecological awareness lies in the tension between loss and emergence—where mourning the world’s degradation coexists with a strange beauty in the forms that rise from decay. This project explores the delicate balance between destruction and rebirth, using tectonics and surface resolution to create conditions that weather naturally over time. By manipulating material textures and forms, the structure responds to the passage of time, embracing the inevitable process of aging and decay. Vegetation is strategically incorporated to foster moments of compression, encouraging ecological intimacy and the growth of plant life that intertwines with the architecture. These areas of ecological closeness create spaces where nature and structure coexist, slowly transforming the environment as it ages. The project highlights the evolving relationship between human-made forms and the natural world, celebrating both the decay and the resurgence of life through an intimate dialogue of materiality and ecology.
Elevation (Rendered)
Vibrant Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
Arch 722
Completed With Regina Gonano
Informed by the philosophical perspectives articulated in Jane Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter” and Timothy Morton’s “Dark Ecology,” the architectural project undertakes a deliberate exploration of materiality and the intricate interplay between human and non-human elements. At its core, the project challenges established notions of permanence within architecture by intentionally embracing decay and wear.
The conceptual framework of vibrant matter, as proposed by Bennett, underscores the notion that materials possess inherent vitality and agency. Drawing inspiration from a local Philadelphia fountain, renowned for its dynamic weathering process driven by algae growth and oxidation on iron-heavy marble, the project incorporates iron-rich stones to emulate and accentuate similar effects. This approach aims to infuse the architectural facade with an organic, living quality, aligning with the philosophy of vibrant matter. Morton’s exploration of dark ecology serves as a guiding principle, discouraging the outright rejection of the darker facets of ecological processes. Embracing the decay and transformation of materials over time becomes an integral aspect of the ecological narrative within the project. The intentional allowance for the facade to weather fosters the emergence of figures and patterns over time, highlighting an ongoing dialogue between human intervention and natural processes.
The project’s intentional forms play a dual role, orchestrating the flow of water to create purposeful splashes and drips. Beyond aesthetic considerations, these controlled water movements serve a functional purpose by encouraging algae growth in smaller grooves. Through the integration of deliberate forms and dynamic water interactions, the architectural proposal transforms into a living canvas. This living canvas captures the collaborative dance between materiality, water, and time, presenting an ever-changing facade that challenges conventional notions of architectural permanence.
Instructed by Barry Wark
Elevation (Rendered)
Site Analysis (Detail)
Elevation (Rendered)
LoLux Care
New York, NY
Weitzman School of Design
LOLUX, at its core, ventures into the nuanced realm of generational care and community cohesion, redefining conventional approaches to elder care and child care facilities. The project intentionally blurs the boundaries between these two essential services, embracing the interconnected nature of care giving across generations. Beyond mere functionality, LOLUX is a design philosophy that celebrates programmatic and social overlapping, fostering a holistic environment that transcends traditional divisions.
Materiality takes center stage in LOLUX’s innovative approach, with a composite of plastic and concrete forming the very fabric of its design. This intentional choice mirrors the project’s ethos of interlocking fuzzy barriers, mirroring the dynamic programming that seeks to unite rather than segregate. The material exploration extends to casts of the facility at various scales, influencing speculative building systems, structures, cladding, openings, circulation, and social interactions. LOLUX becomes a testament to the transformative power of material exploration, where every element contributes to the creation of a space that is not only functional but also enriching in its spatial, social, and cultural dimensions.
The massing of LOLUX is an architectural fusion, combining two iconic New York housing models—the bar building and tower typology. This hybridization results in a unique urban form that defines the three-block area of the project. Large public centers, expressed formally by elevating the bars off the ground, create distinctive pedestrian pathways, fostering community engagement and interaction. This urban massing not only serves the functional needs of the facility but also contributes to the project’s aesthetic and social vision.
Beyond its innovative materiality and unique massing, LOLUX is deeply influenced by a commitment to densify the existing modernist building on the site. This desire to preserve and redefine the architectural heritage of the location is reflected in the project’s thoughtful integration of past and present. LOLUX emerges not only as a facility for generational care but also as a spatial and cultural landmark, where material choices, massing strategies, and historical sensitivity converge to create a vibrant, inclusive, and forward-thinking environment.
Axonometric (Choisy)
Casts || Urbanism
In the pursuit of innovative material expressions for the LOLUX project, a distinctive material study unfolded. Casting sugar into concrete marked the initial phase, where the cured concrete underwent washing under water to introduce voids within the casts. Subsequently, a second casting ensued, employing liquid plastic in the original molds. The residue moisture within the concrete influenced the chemical reaction of the liquid plastic, resulting in a fascinating interplay of textures and appearances. The outcome manifested as a highly dynamic and process-driven composite material, characterized by expressive cloudiness and intricate textures. This unconventional approach to material not only added a unique aesthetic dimension to LOLUX but also exemplified a commitment to pushing the boundaries of conventional material use in architectural design.
Material Study
Material Study
Material Study
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Mega Structure Scheme Section Plan (Detail) (Detail) (Detail)
Physical Model (Detail)
Physical Model (Kit of Parts)
Physical Model (Detail) (Detail)
Physical Model
Model Photo (Continuous Material Scheme)
Cluster Plan (Detail)
Cluster Section (Detail)
Trendscape
Philadelphia, PA
Weitzman School of Design
HOK Competition 2025
Completed with Benjamin Oliver
“Trendscape” is an architectural exploration into the evolving concept of a contemporary monument, questioning its role in shaping the urban identity of Philadelphia in the 21st century. As we move further into the digital age, the notion of a monument has transformed. No longer simply an enduring, static symbol of a city’s heritage, a modern monument must also serve as a living space that engages both residents and visitors, becoming a canvas on which personal and collective experiences are projected. We believe a contemporary monument should embody a dual purpose: creating an interactive, usable space for city residents while also establishing a visually recognizable icon for those from outside the city.
In response to the rise of social media and the visual culture of the internet, where many famous monuments are reduced to “flat” images or used as backdrops, “Trendscape” embraces this phenomenon. The design intentionally adopts a “super-flat” aesthetic—an architecture that appears as an abstraction, one designed to stand out in digital feeds and online platforms. The project explores the idea that monuments, like icons, have become symbols that exist as much in digital representation as in physical space.
The design itself comprises a series of flat, bold facades that use material estrangement and a strategic application of color to create a striking, recognizable figure. These facades are framed by carefully composed views of Philadelphia’s key landmarks, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and City Hall. The composition gives the project a dynamic presence in the cityscape, making it instantly identifiable whether experienced in person or through a digital lens.
Functionally, “Trendscape” operates as an open-air market and urban park, providing space for a variety of community activities and cultural events. The inclusion of water features ensures the site becomes a vital urban oasis, offering relief during the hot summer months. This multifunctional space aims to cater to the diverse needs of both locals and visitors, becoming a vital part of the Museum District.
The project is formally divided into two sections that frame the existing promenade linking the PMA and City Hall. Along the promenade, key architectural features are strategically placed to maintain a visual continuity between these two iconic landmarks. Much like the layout of French gardens, this arrangement invites visitors to explore the site while creating a seamless connection between major cultural destinations.
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Section (Detail) (Detail)
Five Chimney House
Hazard, KY
University of Kentucky
Arch 301 | Module II
The Five Chimney House in Appalachia serves as a solution for affordable and sustainable housing in Hazard, KY, a community often overlooked due to its ties to the coal industry. Recognizing the economic challenges faced by coal mining towns and the need for holistic support, the Five Chimney House, in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, endeavors to create resilient homes using concrete construction methods. The design centers around five chimneys, not only providing structural support but also serving as communal hubs within the home. These oversized chimneys accommodate mechanical components, allowing for expansive exterior walls that connect residents with the surrounding landscape.
Additionally, the house features a versatile space accessible via the super roof, offering miners and their families a customizable area for work or leisure activities. This flexible space, detached from the main house, can function as a home office, spare bedroom, or studio, providing residents with a private retreat just steps away from home. Recognizing the importance of delineating between work and personal life, this design element fosters a healthy balance and allows individuals the time and space needed for reflection and reorganization. In communities grappling with economic decline, the provision of adaptable spaces is essential, empowering families to supplement their income and navigate the challenges of transitioning industries.
The design process for the Five Chimney House in Appalachia was guided by computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a powerful tool that informed key decisions regarding the layout of the floor plan, arrangement of the five chimneys, and design of the chimneys themselves. By simulating airflow and thermal performance within the home, CFD analysis enabled the team to optimize the placement of windows, doors, and interior partitions to maximize natural ventilation and passive heating. The arrangement of the five chimneys was strategically determined to promote airflow throughout the house, ensuring comfortable living conditions year-round. Additionally, the chimneys were designed with features such as thermal mass and vented openings to passively heat the home during the winter months, reducing reliance on conventional heating systems and lowering utility costs for residents.
Exterior Perspective
Interior Perspective (Render) (Render)
Section Perspective (Detail)
Five Chimney House
Plan Drawing (Detail)
Rittenhouse Office Building
1901 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Weitzman School of Design
In the development of the Rittenhouse Office Building, Building Information Modeling (BIM) was instrumental. BIM facilitated seamless collaboration among architects, engineers, and stakeholders, enabling real-time visualization and optimization of design elements, including the innovative double skin glass facade. Through BIM, the intricate details of this facade were simulated and refined to enhance thermal performance, ensuring energy efficiency and occupant comfort. Additionally, BIM’s data-centric approach streamlined project management, communication, and cost estimation, making it an indispensable tool in realizing the Rittenhouse Office Building’s vision of sustainability and architectural excellence.
