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LANGHAM HOTEL CHICAGO May 2012 - September 2013 Site: Ground Floor, IBM Building, 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago Area: 4,080sf Cost: $1,500,000
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This new five-star hotel occupies the first thirteen floors of the historic 330 North Wabash (formerly the IBM Building). Designed by modernist icon Mies van der Rohe, the structure, in particular the lobby, epitomizes mid-century Chicago Modernism. The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010; this designation, along with being a Chicago Historic Landmark, protect the structure from undergoing major changes to the original design intent. Understanding the sensitivity of the landmark building and the challenge of marrying a corporate environment with a luxury hotel, the client hired Dirk Lohan, grandson of Mies van der Rohe, to oversee and design the interior furnishings for the Ground Floor Lobby. The lobby is furnished with custom pieces— reception cabinet, credenza, lounge desk, lounge chairs
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and settees, and floor lamps—specifically designed for the project. The project also entails a new bronze entry canopy, a beaded drapery curtain, and artwork selection. My role on the project has included material selection and sample requests, production of drawings and 3D models of custom furniture pieces and canopy, renderings, preparing submittals for construction and landmark review, and reviewing shop drawings and submittals from sub-contractors.
A Langham Hotel lobby looking north. B Axonometric diagram illustrating guest movement
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IIT E-1 Engineering Building Renovation August 2013-current
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Lohan Anderson is responsible for the phased renovation of IIT’s College of Engineering’s main building. One of the main features of the renovation is the inclusion of a large, collaboratively functioning atrium space with flexible furniture and projection screens (see renderings). The scope also includes updating classrooms, a research lab, professor offices, and an entry lobby. I was involved in helping to specify furniture and finishes, create visuals, produce construction documents, and prepare presentations.
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Chicago Maritime Museum October 2013-January 2014 Dirk Lohan, a principal at Lohan Anderson, is closely involved with the Chicago Maritime Society. This non for profit organization collects and houses artifacts pertaining to Chicago’s relationship and history with the water. The Society has temporarily relocated to a space in the Bridgeport Art Center, a former warehouse turned workspace in an old manufacturing district. The new 4,000sf space offers a small display hall, ample storage space, a conference room, and private office. I was involved by producing all of the necessary drawings as well as acting as the project manager coordinating the buildout of the space.
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Argonne National Laboratory, Theory and Computing Science Building (TCSB) Expansion November 2012-August 2013
This schematic design proposal for a 100,000sf expansion at Argonne National Laboratory was designed as a new interface between research scientists and the public. The spacious lobby includes a seminar room and cafe seating juxtaposed against a large expanse of green wall. The expansion also features a high throughput laboratory, data center, and collaborative work spaces. I was involved by producing schematic design drawings, iterative massing and layout studies, and visual materials for ongoing presentations.
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Langham Plaza Sculpture Placement, Ju Ming’s Living World Series October 2013-current After completion of the Ground Floor Lobby, the Langham Hotel Group asked the firm to examine and execute the installation of a sculpture in the plaza next to the IBM Building. The sculpture, Ju Ming’s Living World Series, is a grouping of eleven larger-than-life cast bronze figures. To satisfy the requirements of the building and plaza’s landmark status, the firm had to present the proposal to the Chicago Landmarks Commission in December 2013. I was involved in the detailing, rendering, and presentation in preparation for this submittal. The sculpture will be installed this summer.
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RE-FRAME TOLEDO Spring 2014 Site: Maumee River Corridor, Toleod OH Program: Urban renewal, landscape design
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Re-Frame Toledo is a proposal to reimagine how a deindustrialized cityscape can become a highly active and engaging series of public spaces, mixed-use neighborhoods, and Nature Reserves that help benefit the local ecology. Harnessing the large scale of local dredging, Re-Frame Toledo proposes to incorporate phytoremediation with the dredge cycle as an active means of cleaning sediment. Countering industrial pollution and phosphorus contamination from fertilizers, a series of cleaning sites including the Great Lakes Center for Dredge Research are established. The Center additionally functions as a public forum and gathering space, a multimedia exhibition center, and a research facility. Once dominated by infrastructural and industrial landscapes, the vacated riverfront has the
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Lafayette, like many mid-sized American cities, is losing a young and highly-educated creative class of millennials. These children of baby boomers raised most often in a suburban condition are seeking out stimulation brought about by more walkable cities defined by their streetlife. According to market research, sixty-four percent of college-educated millennials choose the city they wish to reside first and then seek jobs; seventy-seven percent of these individuals choose to live in the urban core. New Acadia is a response to a growing demand for pedestrian-friendly and self-sufficient neighborhoods within Lafayette’s urban core. By creating a layering of diverse programs over the site, the neighborhood is used more evenly and efficiently. Local residents can benefit from reduced travel times by commuting closer and spending less money on transportation. SCALE 1:500
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Convent Street is closed to car traffic between Johnston Street and Lee Avenue; it becomes a promenade for pedestrians and bikers to permeate across the site. The blocks between Main Street and Jefferson Street are divided between north and south to create an open axis that becomes the heart of the new neighborhood. Street lanes are narrowed to twelve feet to slow drivers down and a dedicated two-way bike lane is introduced on Johnston Street linking the site with ULL’s campus. The neighborhood is designed around selfsufficiency and multiplicity of program. Retail and restaurants occupy the ground floor while housing, offices, and institutions constitute the upper floors; three to five story buildings replace current single story structures to increase density in a site appropriate manner. A variation in housing types,
from micro-unit studio apartments aimed at collegeaged students to three-story town homes geared toward families, ensures the neighborhood’s diversity of user groups. The network of interstitial space created leaves an exceptional situation for urbanism to materialize. The streetscape is arranged around a series of public spaces, or nodes, that act as hubs of interconnected informal social spaces that mediate between home and work. The landscape and site elements are arranged in rows; this module of continuous variation provides a cohesive language for site organization. Finally, the site accommodates all modes of transportation to act seamlessly together in hopes that residents will opt to walk and bike more safely and efficiently.
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Site Nodes: A way of prioritizing space by creating a network of interconnected hubs of streetlife and informal gathering. Site Rows: A way of organizing the streetscape in modules of continuously diverse landscapes, infrastructure, and architecture.
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Mixed-use programs create site specific density. Convent Street is closed to car-traffic.
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Place d’Acadie, formed between two blocks, functions as the new social and cultural hub for downtown Lafayette. The interstitial space between two apartment buildings becomes a lively passageway with seating and lighting displays.
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Site: Lakeshore Park, Chicago IL
Program: Aquatic Center/Public Park
Awards: Schiff Fellowship nominated; featured project at IIT College of Architecture Open House and Graduation 2012; featured on IIT’s website under Student Work.
The aquatic center—pools, saunas, steam rooms, and park—is based on a bottom-up approach where materiality dictates design. The project explores the use of acrylic chambers to dematerialize form and allow atmospheric conditions to provide visual legibility. As the visual boundaries disappear and reappear, it is the flux of conditions that governs the perception of the aquatic center. The site is split between public park and private aquatic center. The streetwall is bound by an acrylic wall; punctures around the site lead to compartmentalized public spaces—including a water playground,dog park, and outdoor cinema. The views between the public and private site components are left unobstructed to reiterate the ability of atmospheric conditions to provide visual disruption of differently climatized aquatic spaces.
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The meandering form of the aquatic center links individual components—whirlpool, steam rooms, and sauna—through a series of thresholds and vestibules that separate the specific atmospheric conditions. The order the bather circulates recalls the Roman Bath’s orderly sequence from cold to hot. The poolscape also exploits the annual climatic shift. Certain tree species were selected to usher in the year at different moments. The outdoor lap and wading pools become heated in winter, emitting steam that condensates on the adjacent acrylic surfaces. Indoor components of the aquatic center, like the steam room, are able to accommodate the winter swimmer surplus by expanding to the chamber volume’s outer limits. The poolscape is able to adjust its spatial boundaries by dematerializing and allowing the atmospheric conditions to dictate form.
A The winter renders the water playground unusable. The jetted fountains and misters omit heated water vapor that steams in the frigid air like a series of small geysers. At night a spectacle of colored lights is cast on the jets of steam illuminating the acrylic courtyard. B
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D The precursor to contemporary aquatic centers is the Roman bath; the bath’s experience was organized around an orderly sequence of chambers from cold to hot. Likewhile, the aquatic center is organized as a series of acrylic compartments that are visually continuous but physically separated. E
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The aquatic center’s programmatic components rely on specific environmental conditions. Relative humidity, air temperature, and water temperature are controlled within each chamber. Mechanical rooms and transitional corridors (yellow) help to keep the chamber’s conditions standardized. The project began with a series of material studies. The implicit definition of the transparent volume became more clearly defined with the introduction of a new atmospheric condition.
G These views portray a time elapse of the steam room expanding its volume in the aquatic center. The transparent chambers give the atmospheric conditions the ability to constantly readjust spatial limits. As the number of occupants increasees, the steam room grows to accommodate.
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SCIENCE OF SLEEP Spring 2012 Site: 880 N. Clark St., Chicago Program: Sleep Research Center
Featured project at IIT College of Architecture’s Open House Exhibition 2012.
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The Washington Square Sleep Center is a space for rehabilitation by fusing a clinical component with a private art collection. The integration of these two complex and opposing programs in such a dense site provides a dynamic interplay between private-public and night-day. The private art collection wraps around the sleep center, nesting the sleep rooms and technologist spaces in the center of the site. Two large courtyards separate public from private while instigating views between programs. The courtyards also introduce conditions of mutability between times of the day. The sleep rooms have a motorized shading device that opens during the day allowing uninterrupted views to the art collection. The street wall, composed of a profiled glass curtain wall, conceals the sleep center during
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the day but exposes the control rooms as they become illuminated at night. The main entrance into the building is the same for all visitors; a series of thresholds open and close according to time allowing the appropriate barrier between the two users while blurring the boundaries.
F A Incorporating the time specificity of the dual programmatic arrangement, this series of isometrics illustrates the activation and deactivation of the spatial relationships. B The plan and sections demonstrate the varied layering of the program separated by two courtyards. C
Sleep room section and plan.
D The street facade, composed of profiled glass, masks the sleep center during the day but exposes its arrangement by becoming illuminated at night as the research labs are activated. E
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G This exploded axon demonstrates the sequence of thesholds that users of both the sleep research center and art collection must pass depending on the time of day. Visitors to the art collection circulate in one direction slipping past the entry to the sleep center.