Gregory Goldstone
greggoldstone@gmail.com
+1.518.650.4444
2016
B.A. - English
Wesleyan University
2018-2021
Marketing Coordinator/
Architectural Technician
Kohn Pedersen Fox
2024 (expected)
M.Arch I
Rhode Island School of Design
Recycling Cartographies
Threshold Study
A Place for Refuge
Hovsjö
Mask
Breeze Block
RISD Oblique
Two-Way Chair
Location Studio Instructor
El Paso, TX
The Post-Borderzone
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 Mexico-U.S. 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.
The projects primary architecture, the Re-Cycling Center, is home to an industrial scale material collection, reclamation and redistribution operation as well as the research and education facilities. The entire building is shaded by a tensile canvas canopy, providing passiving cooling and shade to the building itself, shielding the collected materials from sun and the ocassional rain, and accentuating the building’s horizontal gesture of creating a physical stop to the suburban development, promoting densification to its west and rewilding to its east.
SHADE CANOPY
ROOF ENCLOSURE
WOOD TRUSS OFFICE
AUGMENTED VIEW
TERRACE
TRAINING AND DEMONSTRATION FLOOR
CLASSROOMS
MATERIAL DROP-OFF
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. This method of observing land contrasts the capitalist and colonialist projected plan—particularly evident in the Jeffersonian grid surrounding El Paso. Designed to be packaged into a standard USPS shipping tube, the device was delivered, along with an instruction booklet for assembly and deployment, to my colleagues at Texas Tech El Paso. They used the device to record the current collected construction materials at the recycling center site. Taken over time, these measurements would be a facsimile for the speed, type and efficiency of construction in El Paso’s urban/desert interface zone.
Location
Studio Instructor
Providence, RI
Spacial Dynamics
Evan Farley
Location
Studio Instructor
Providence, RI
RISD Core 02
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.
Location Studio Instructor
Stockholm, Sweden
RISD Core 03
Jess Myers
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.
By externalizing the circulation, we had the opportunity to dramatically rationalize the zones across the plan into distinct linear bars that allowed us to increase the size of each individual program space.
Location
Studio Instructor
Cara Liberatore
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.
Existing front facade
Proposed rear additoin
Evan Farley + Nancy Nichols
Studio Instructor
A project married to process, this Breeze Block design is the result of multiple stages of mold and cast creation to procude a standardized, reorientable block.
Silicone
MDF Rockite Cast Dowel Silicone Mold Fabrication
Location
Studio Instructor
Providence, RI
RISD Core 02
Cara Liberatore
The project‑a mixed use expansion of the RISD campus‑embraces its challenging site with a compound skewing of an otherwise simple massing.
