ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Professor: Angus Eade Type: Design Build Location: Newark, NJ, USA Programs Used: Rhino, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop
Lumiocity
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"LUMIOCITY" seeks to extend traditional masonry practices, scope, and markets through its emphasis on “light” (both in light construction and illumination). In service of the project’s occupants and the profession of masonry, the objectives include a meditation on light as well as developing applications for solving contemporary design problems beyond NJIT. This prototype for a rainscreen system redefines mortar as a “network by which things are held together” and different ways masonry units can be aggregated. Steel reinforcement serves as a stand-in for the mortar to produce a lightweight, floating effect; the steel makes for precise, accurate, and fast construction. In investigating the concepts of economies of means and economies of scale, the pre-fabrication process for this project allows for efficient onsite construction and the ability to apply this system multiple times in any location around the world. The goal is to develop and prototype new applications in the practices of masonry applications that promote and update masonry as a craft that can respond to markets in a rapidly changing world. The experiential study of light in this project is an off-the-grid lighting application which can be plugged into each aggregated unit to capture sunlight during the day and radiate ambient light at night.