April 2017: Samples

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Contents Daycare Center

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Library

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Conditioning Center

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Tower

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City

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Daycare Center Library Conditioning Center Tower City

Daycare Center Fall 2016 Nominated for Platform 10 Awarded Distinction The Hutongs - the traditionally low-income yet culturally and architecturally distinct neighborhoods of Beijing - are experiencing rapid and widespread destruction, development and gentrification.

This project proposed an intergenerational daycare center as a preventative architecture against the latent economic incentives of gentrification. Tapping into the unusual ages of the local population - disproportionately extremely young and old - the center has a spatial sequence and rhythm appealing to the energy of youth and fluid wisdom of age, aspiring to create a place that would belong intensely to the local residents. By binding the locals to their neighborhood through a specificity of design, the center could create non-monetary incentives to keep the existing atrisk populations against market displacement.

Formally, the center is a contemporary take on the legible chaos of the Baitasi Hutong of central Beijing, just north of the financial district. An exterior courtyard wrapped in an upper-level community garden creates patios in the shade of the monumental nearby Buddhist Stupa. The interior courtyard provides a shaded reprieve from the publicity of Hutong life. A continuous system of ramp and catwalk traverses peculiar balconies and outcroppings beneath the upward sunlight sweep of the southern-facing roofs.

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Library Spring 2015 This library - a rare books library located across from the MFA in the Fens in Boston - sought the maximum single-linear length on a curved site to generate an ultra-long corridor as a celebration of the stack. Conceding to the Olmsteadean landscape and recognizing its mandatory siting on public park land, landscape elements erode the facade on the street-facing side, producing a broad variety of interior lighting conditions through fluctuating stack depths.

The two-stories of stacks slowly converge into a single cantilevering reading room over the library’s 200m length. The facade detail calls for a hanging translucent fabric across the entire library that moves freely in the wind, enhancing the building’s ephemerality.

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Conditioning Center Spring 2015 Boston briefly flirted with an Olympic bid for 2020. If Boston had hosted the Olympics, what would a conditioning center look like if sited in the historic Bunker Hill neighborhood?

This project’s brief originally called for an Olympic-regulation size handball court.

Recognizing that there is a deep history of Olympic boxing in Boston (the sport began here in the 1850s), this project instead proposed boxing as an alternative program, relocating Handball to a nearby out-of-season hockey rink.

Seeing an opportunity for programmatic synergy, this project “architecturalizes” the symbiosis of swimming and boxing as Olympic sports that utilize each other as training techniques. Placing the diving and lap pools on the roof, the boxing gym inhabits the cavernous underbelly of the complex geometries that separate sport and recreational pools, with archery lanes occupying the space between structural arches in the foundation.

The diving tower plays a small joke on the local landscape by mirroring the church steeple across the street.

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Tower Fall 2015 As a conceptual proposal for the north end of the Las Vegas strip, this tower embraces the lavish absurdity of the famed skyline in the desert. Twin revolved helicoil structural cores drift throughout the plan over the course of is height. Back-braced by sloped elevator cores, the interior morphs in response to the rotation of the cores, forcing the building to split and re-merge at key programmatic moments in the contained spa, hotel and theater-gallery. Public spaces shrink and expand as they are pushed by the cores, while private spaces rotate and re-orient to different ventilation and lighting conditions at the periphery.

Altering the structural and circulatory conditions of the tower generates not only a non-repetitive set of interior experiences, but also a nearly impossible range of exterior variation in the facade; there are (nearly) no repeated dimensions for window mullion lengths, pane areas and glass curvatures. This project did not fetishize the computational, but sought revelry in the graphic quality embedded in the immense irregularity.

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City: Master Plan Spring 2016 Published in Platform 9 Tasked with envisioning a future for a yet undeveloped stretch of South Boston, this project embraces a human urbanism centered around equitable housing, heavy rail public mass transit, and the longstanding Bostonian educational institutions.

At the urban scale, the master plan calls for a sweeping public park that traces the line of the subway below. Hi-, mid- and lo-rise residential development responds to the eccentric and irregular distribution of non-residential programs and public amenities.

Housing units are designed for “life in three dimensions”. Among the site-wide axioms: all units have at least two floors and face all four directions; all units have both private and public terraces; all units exceed the current average one-bedroom apartment area of Boston; all units are within a five-minute walk to a mass transit station.

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Program Density Distribution

FAR Distribution

Program Locations in Triangular Plots

Vernacular Grid Orientation (Back Bay and Chelsea)

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Modular Offset Regulation Hi-rise: No offset Mid-rise: 5’ Lo-rise: 10’

Stair Locations Hi-rise: Flush to wall Mid-rise: Minor spacing Lo-rise: Major spacing

Interior Alleyways Hi-rise: Linear alleyway Mid-rise: Staggered alleyway Lo-rise: Meandering alleyway

Facing to Alleyways Lo-rise: Introverted Mid-rise: Reserved Hi-rise: Extroverted

Unit Access Lo-rise: Single (stair) Mid-rise: Double (stair, elevator) Hi-rise: Triple (stair, elevator, fire escape)

Building Entrance Lo-rise: Hardscape, no overhang Mid-rise: Hardscape, overhang Hi-rise: Hardscape, overhang, landscape

Sunlight Adjustment Hi-rise: 12-24 floors Mid-rise: 4-10 floors Lo-rise: 2-4 floors

Courtyard Topography Lo-rise: < 40’, flat Mid-rise: 40-80’, 3’ shift Hi-rise: > 80’, 10’ shift

Ground Perimeter Use Lo-rise: Streetscape Mid-rise: Circulation Hi-rise: Commercial

Perimeter Adjustment Lo-rise: 15’ offset Mid-rise: 5’ offset Hi-rise: No offset

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Housing Unit Example | Hi-Rise Housing

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