Gregory Goldstone_Portfolio_2024

Gregory Goldstone Portfolio

Gregory Goldstone

greggoldstone.com

greggoldstone@gmail.com

+1.518.650.4444

2016

B.A. - English

Wesleyan University

2018 - 2021

Marketing Coordinator/ Architectural Technician

Kohn Pedersen Fox

Summer 2022 & 2023

Architecture Intern

From [in] Form

2024 (expected)

M.Arch I

Rhode Island School of Design

Recycling Cartographies

Studio: The Post-Borderzone | Instructor: German Pallares

The project sits on the site of a present day construction material waste collection and recycling center. It services an industry of suburban expansion into the desert, consuming resources like water, energy and lumber, and laying claim to land. This suburban model of semi-dense but descritized living creates a hostility to the political and racial outsider, a particularly potent and harmful issue in El Paso where the MexicoUnited States border is a major social, political and economic reality.

The proposed building creates a new paradigm both as a new architecture within the context of El Paso sprawl as well as by introducing reclaimed construction materials and a training and research center for densification within the existing urban limits of El Paso, reducing the sprawl that is steadily spreading into the dessert and creating a more hospitable, navigable, and welcoming habitat.

SUBJECTIVE CARTOGRAPHIES

ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS AND USER GUIDE

GREGORY GOLDSTONE A POST-BORDERZONE STUDIO PROJECT

The Re-Cycling Center project came out of the earlier development of a device for subjective cartographic measurement. Inspired by use of the Rio Grande as a political divider—a river that left alone naturally moves and oxbows, but is artificially contained by heavy construction between El Paso and Cuidad Juarez—I wanted to create a methodology for recording shifts in topography from the inevitably flawed but historically precedented human perspective.

Thresholds

Studio: Spatial Dynamics | Instructor: Evan Farley

This quick spatial study explored the positive and negative volumes in a tight, winding stair to a residential attic. The cast portion of the model represents the occupiable spaces, while the air space between the two volumes is holds the structure of the stair and ceiling.

A Place for Refuge

Studio: Core 02 | Instructor: Cara Liberatore

This proposed renovation and expansion of the Dorcas International building in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence takes cues from the organizations mission of supporting, educating, and housing refugees in Providence and the surrounding areas.

The design of the building came out of an initial focus on three central ideas: CLT/glulam construction, aperatures in the roof scape, and dynamic, distributed vertical connections between the existing first level and the new second level. These concepts were explored in structural and gestural models throughout the design process.

Shear Madness

Studio: Core 01

The project‑a mixed use expansion of the RISD campus‑embraces its challenging site with a compound shearing and stepping of a long, narrow, building that both climbs and embeds itself in the hillside.

Hovsjö Housing

Studio: Core 03 | Instructor: Lafayette Cruise

Responding to an RFP developed by our colleagues, we designed a network of housing and community focused interventions to strategically maximize impact on the quality of life in this unique Stockholm exurb.

The existing floor plan was developed based on an idea of the nuclear Swedish family from the Million Program era. The layout was based on decentralized circulation, with five cores each serving two apartments per level. Small living and kitchen spaces are typically spread front to back across each unit and bedrooms fill in the remaining open area.

Each housing cluster in Hovsjo had a pair of split level parking structures which were being only minimally used. We reclaimed the upper two levels of the structures to introduce community spaces that are distributed around the entire perimeter of the neighborhood. Here, we’ve designed a greenhouse, community kitchen, and a flexible dining hall on one side, and a workshop, daycare, and artisan market space on the other, serving the large community of jewelers and weavers.

Breeze Blocks

Studio: What a Relief! |

Instructors: Nancy Nichols & Evan Farley

The project‑a mixed use expansion of the RISD campus‑embraces its challenging site with a compound skewing of an otherwise simple massing.

Studio: Core 02 |

Instructors: Cara Liberatore

Mask

A narrow addition to an existing narrow building comprises three parallel screens. Each 1’ x 1’ pixel of each screen is binary–the screen either is present or absent. When read in elevation, the combination of these pixels creates a range of nine densities. The result is a pixelated image that is both occupiable and an abstraction of an image of the existing building’s front facade.

Proposed rear facade

Existing front facade

After two years in the marketing department, I moved into the studio. I worked on several projects at various phases, but spent the majority of my time on Burrard Exchange (top right), which was just entering SD at the time, and then HKUST (bottom left and bottom right) a multimillion square foot university campus, which is now complete.

During two years in the KPF marketing department, my primary focus was on new business pursuits, for which I completed dozens of proposals, qualifications packages and presentations, many of which led to major work for the firm.