Architectural Studies (Undergraduate Portfolio Joseph Kenny)

ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES SELECTED WORKS 2017-2019

JOSEPH C. KENNY

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CONTENT Maison Bordeaux Precedent Study

JOSEPH KENNY

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THE PARTI STUDY

Masking Time in Thirds

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Vaulting Space Fabrication

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THE HISTORIC STUDY

High Line Specimen Study

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THE URBAN STUDY

Dieste Labor Reconstruction

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THE IMAGE STUDY

The Cube Spatial Sequence

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THE SPATIAL STUDY

The Ripple Effect Facade Design

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THE FABRICATION STUDY

A Pseudo Image

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THE METHOD STUDY

The Modular Performance

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MAISON BORDEAUX PRECEDENT STUDY

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A02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This

project worked as an analysis of Rem Koolhaas’s Maison Bordeaux, and as a precedent study for the following project. The study broke down the house based on elements and additive and subtractive operations. This was done through a series of models, drawings, and animations in order to understand a single house parti.

This parti captures the essence of Maison Bordeaux. The parti is that everything within the house can be broken down into sets of three.

This is created through the light wells that signify entry, and signify a mass void mass relationship.

These voids also divide both plan and section. In plan it is used to divide orthographic and curvilinear volumes, and in section it is used to divide the housing masses.

A01: Assembled physical model depicting division of building masses built at 1/8”=1’ scale.

A02: Partially assembled physical model depicting separated masses and vertical circulation elements built at 1/8”=1’ scale.

A03: Assembled physical model with interchangeable building masses to show interactions of vertical circulation with building spatial elements and the cantilevered third floor mass built at 1/8”=1’ scale.

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ROBERT ARLT

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Site Carving

Masses+Vertical Circulation

A05 A04: Synthesis drawing depicting servant spaces and primary planes.

A05: Synthesis drawing depicting thin elements and vertical circulation.

A06: Building components animation key frames depicting physical construction elements that make up Maison Bordeaux.

Level One Thin Elements

Spatial Volumes Divided

Level Two Thin Elements

Spatial Volumes+Transitions

Maison Bordeaux

Maison Bordeaux

A07: Building elements transformative animation key frames depicting key massing elements and operations used to design Maison Bordeaux.

A08: Exploded axon model image, depicting individual model elements.

This model was hand built in fifteen individual pieces and pressure fit so elements can be removed and examined individually. Elements are coded by material: site- white washed cedar wood, planer and structural elements- basswood strips and dowels, interior spatial volumescarved cedar, transition spaces- brass dowels, vertical circulation- stained cedar (coded based on privacy) and frosted acrylic used to represent internal elevator. It also has an acrylic building mass interchangeable to observe interactions with the third floor building mass and vertical circulation. This model observed both building component and transformative operational methods of building Maison Bordeaux, and was built at 1/8�=1’ scale.

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Exterior Shell & Structure

Interior Spatial Volumes

Vertical Circulation & Structure

Exterior Shell

Interior Spatial Volumes

Site

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MASKING TIME IN THIRDS

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B02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

developed from the implementation of the previous thirds parti mentioned in the Maision Bordeaux project. The project was to develop a gallery and archive space for the work of John Hejduk. With a site that is a void between two buildings, and acts as memorial space known a the Judengang. It marks the funeral procession for the Jewish citizens buried in the Judischer Friedhof Schonhauser Cemetery. This space is currently gated and only opens once a year in order to allow for memorial passage. Inspired

by John Hejduk’s Wall House projects, and their connection to movement through time we designed a memorial that examined the connection to time with the archive space being the past, the present being the circulation and the gallery spaces being the future that reflected on the past by over looking the cemetery. All work done in partnership with Nathan Krueger.

B01: Site model and site extents, built with entire class at 1/16”=1’ scale.

B02: Site model and miniature model built at 1/16”=1’ B03: Final model showing removable structure and gallery spaces, built at 1/8”=1’

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Recipient of the South Dakota State University Department of Architecture Excellence Award for Outstanding Studio Project: Spring 2019

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ROBERT ARLT

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Longitudinal Section A

Transverse Section 1

Longitudinal Section B

Transverse Section 2

Longitudinal Section C

Transverse Section 3 B06

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B05 B04: Hejduk Bordeaux collage, a hodge podge of ideas and inspiration including elements from Maison Bordeaux, the Wall house projects, and historical elements from the Judengang memorial.

B05: Figure ground drawing with a 2 marking the north gate of the Judengang, the site highlighted in black, the Judengang highlighted in white, and cemetery with 22,500 tally marks overlaid (one mark for every person buried in the cemetery.

B06: Longitudinal and transverse sections showing mass void mass thirds parti, as well as, their relationships to time. The first being the past, and showing the internal gallery spaces. The second being the present, and showing the circulation void spaces as well as the central elevator. The third being the future gallery spaces with central displays meant to be circulatory and reflective.

4. Lapidorium: 1. Kathe Kollwitz Statue Displaced Graves 2. North Gate of Judengang 5. South Gate of Judengang 3. Jewish Cemetery

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B07 B07: Floor plan diagrams illustrating all four floors of gallery and archive space as well as site plan showing progression of daily movement.

B08: Project elevations showing street elevation with rotating shutters, and Judengang elevation illustrating viewing spaces that overlook the cemetery.

Front Elevation ROBERT ARLT

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Rear Elevation B08

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B10 B09: Model image depicting cantilevered gallery spaces that overlook the cemetery.

B10: Model Image depicting interior of a gallery space over looking the cemetery.

B11: Axonometric drawing depicting how the building overhangs and interacts with both the sidewalk and the Judengang.

B12: Exploded Axonometric drawing depicting the components that make up the building, as well as, the interior spaces.

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VAULTING SPACE FABRICATION

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C03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

worked though the observation constructing a historical building element using the fabrication methods of today. This was done through the digital and physical fabrication of a tas de charge. This tas de charge was modeled after the sexpartite vaults in Notre Dame Cathedral, and is the piece of the vault that takes all of the weight from the arches. This was done through rhino three dimensional modeling, and fabricated out of baltic birch plywood using the CNC machine. All work done in collaboration with fall 18 461 class.

C01: Model photo depicting the tas de charge built at 6�=1’ scale.

C02: Model photo depicting the layered construction method.

C03: Model Image showing a single drum of the tas de charge.

C04: Digital modeling process method C05: Fully constructed Tas de Charge.

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JESSICA GARCIA-FRITZ

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HIGH LINE SPECIMEN STUDY

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D02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

developed as a method of studying the urban landscape and urban condition surrounding an assigned site. The examination was further narrowed to a 480’ by 480’ square of a given site. My given site was the High Line in New York City, and the site was further narrowed down to the observation deck within the High Line. The objective was to observe all aspects of the urban condition. These urban conditions were further subdivided into a catalog of urban elements: masses, horizontal surfaces, vertical surfaces, vertical elements, path elements, and massless conditions.

This encompassed everything from buildings to residential and commercial districts. These elements were given as a method of observing the topo’s and logo’s of the given site. The High Line opperates as a method of separating methods of movement within the city, and separates programs within the city.

D01: Model photo depicting the space created underneath the High Line.

D02: Model photo of the High Line interacting with the built environment D03: Model photo depicting the observation deck, and the city that built up around the High Line.

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BRIAN REX

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Prev-1899

1900-1924

1925-1949

1950-1974

D05 D04: String model depicting traffic color coded based on direction, knotted based on turning options, and braided for multi-directional High Line pedestrian traffic.

D05: Rope model depicting vehicular and pedestrian traffic coded based on size of rope, and braided for High Line traffic built at 1”=10’ scale.

D06: Figure ground study broken down and cataloged every 25 years, and only including buildings and elements still erected today.

D07: Model Photo depicting the 480’ by 480’ square of the High Line study.

Model constructed from pained blue foam, mdf, chipboard, and steel piano wire, model built at 1”=10’ scale.

D08: Model Photo depicting the High Line within the urban landscape and its interactions with the built environment surrounding it.

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2000-2024 D06

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BRIAN REX

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DIESTE LABOR RECONSTRUCTION

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E03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This

project progressed as a method of observing constructional labor through methods of digital modeling and image production. It examined the historic methods used by Eladio Deieste and his team during the construction of gaussian vaulted structures. The progression of this project worked through the composition of two image types.

The first being stationary images isolating both the construction, and the workers. The second dynamic images depicting the movement of workers and construction equipment, the enconfrado (movable scaffold system).

E01: TEM Factory construction image 1 E02: TEM Factory construction image 2 E03: TEM Factory constrution image 3 E04: Image type one, images isolating both the construction and laborers involved. Work done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle.

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E05: Image type two, a dynamic image used as a narrative method to depict the movement method of the enconfrado by folding in on itself, and rolling forward in order to construct each bay with a fully extended and folded enconfrado for each bay of the TEM Factory. The econfrado modeled using both rhino and revit, and digital modeling done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle.

E05: Image type two, a dynamic image used as a narrative representational method to depict the movement method by folding in on itself, but more focused on dispersing workers across the top of the system.

Enconfrado modeled using both rhino and revit, and digital modeling done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle.

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Works Published in Federico Garcia Lammers’ “Labor Atlas: Imaging Constructional Labor in the Work of Eladio Dieste”

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THE CUBE SPATIAL SEQUENCE

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F02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

developed through the examination of mass void relationships and spatial sequences, as well as, the material relationships between solid and planer elements. The cube project developed through diverse methods of modeling, drawing, and digital modeling. The project progresses through plan and section in order to observe one objects relationship to another in material, thickness, and proximity.

This project uses spatial sequences as a method of implementing architectural program.

F01: Model photo front elevation.

F02: Model photo rear elevation.

F03: Model photo depicting an enclosed interior void space.

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FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS

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F04 F04: Hand drafted transverse section and plan drawing illustrating change in spaces and material connections.

Longitudinal Section A

Transverse Section 1

Longitudinal Section B

Transverse Section 2

Longitudinal Section C

Transverse Section 3

F05: Digital massing model isometrics done in order to give masses massless qualities, and observe the overlaid layers and wrapping quality of construction.

F06: Digital model transverse and longitudinal sections done as a method of observing the sequencing of spaces.

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F07 F07: Hand drafted longitudinal section and plan done to observe the main open central space, and the external end goal of the spatial sequence.

F08: A model axonometric photo depicting the starting point to an open sequence juxtaposed next to the massive base, and opposing an enclosed sequence start point. This model is scale-less, and observes the relationship of material differences and the spaces created by them.

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F09: A model axonometric photo depicting the material relationships between the heavy mdf constructed solid mass, and the planer light constructed museum board. The mdf is used as both mass and method of movement for stair sequences, and the museum board acting as a continuous wrapping structure enclosing spatial volumes and acting as a method of movement for stair sequences. The project was designed to fit within and resemble a 6” by 6” by 6” cube of mass and void. The enclosed sequence uses museum board as a means of tying key points to the geometries of the cube, and the open sequence was carved away and uses planer elements as a method of skewing the geometries of the cube.

FEDERICO GARCIA-LAMMERS

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THE RIPPLE EFFECT FACADE DESIGN

Step 1: Cut Placement

Step 2: Cut Steel

Step 3: Tab bending

Step 4: Press One

Step 5: Press Two

Step 6: Press Three

Step 7: Press Four

Step 8: Press Five

Step 9: Press Six

Step 10: Repeat 1-9 on Second Piece

Step 11: Interlock Tabs

Step 12: Completed Connection

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G03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This

project progressed as a method of observing the possibilities and limitations of working with steel, as well as, the fabrication methods used to manipulate steel. It was designed to make a connection between two pieces of steel limited to a one foot by one foot square using all of the material within that square. The goal of the project was to create a connection between two pieces that creates a continuous undulation of opposing strips that has no flat connections and never interrupts the undulation.

G01: Process photo depicting steel cutting method.

G02: Process photo depicting manipulation method.

G03: Process Image depicting manipulated and cut piece.

G04: Digital representation of manipulation methods.

G05: Connection and undulation image photo by Brian Rex. G06: Fully constructed connection.

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Finished Product

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BRIAN LEE

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A PSEUDO IMAGE

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H03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project developed with the examination of Revit as a tool by misusing the tool in four ways: establishing a vertical plane and working in section, using model and detail lines to draw sections that imitate orthographic drawing, layering drawn sections with sections cut by using Revit’s section box tool, and combining dynamic projection and orthographic media to think through scalessness and notational deletion. Our project worked through the examination of mediums used to design and the implications imposed by these mediums. It also worked as a constructional study of the Agricultural Heritage Museum on SDSU’s campus, in order to design a 6,000 sq. ft. addition All work done in partnership with Nathan Kruger.

H01: Observed building module of the brick used to design the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

H02: Observed hidden structure found in the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

H03: Observed Kit of parts truss structure found in the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

H04: Apparatus and projection performance image.

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THE FOUR MISUSES

Misuse One

Misuse Two

Misuse Three

Misuse Four

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ORTHOGRAPHY H06

H07 H05: Observed building module of the brick falsified as a brick veneer in the new addition.

H06: Observed hidden structure found in the Agricultural Heritage Museum translated into hidden steel structure in concrete column wrapped in steel.

PSEUDO ORTHOGRAPHY

H07: Observed Kit of parts truss translated into a kit of parts wall system.

H08: Observational mediums used to study constructional narratives within the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

Orthography, the act of physical hand drafting. Pseudo Orthography, the imitation of orthography done using model and detail lines within Revit.

Post Orthography, simultaneously an image an a model created by using families within Revit. Finally Pseudo Construction, a method of observing constructional narratives from the agricultural Heritage Museum.

H09: Exploded Axon of 6,000 sq. ft. addition to the Agricultural Heritage Museum. This addition misuses revit and modern construction techniques as methods of translating key constructional observations from the existing museum that appears to be constructed using the same methods.

This gives the addition a pseudo image.

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POST ORTHOGRAPHY

PSEUDO CONSTRUCTION

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Addition Roof

Addition Truss System

Addition Removable Walls

Existing Ag Museum

Addition Floors

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THE MODULAR PERFORMANCE

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I02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project developed through as a translation of key constructional observations from the Agricultural Heritage Museum to the historical First Avenue night Club in Minneapolis. It worked through the examination of Revit by misusing the tool in the previously mentioned four methods. It began with the interrogation and implementation of an external construction detail. This project explored the precisions of modern SOM’s Amiee 1.0 3D printed construction in order to formulated a 6,000 sq. ft. addition that is constructed using methods that are as precise as digital modeling allowing it to perform with the same level of precision.

I01: 3D printed physical building module designs at 1/32”=1’ I02: Arched door way depicting a method of travel between modules.

I03: Model Image depicting modules stacked in unison.

Recipient of the South Dakota State University Department of Architecture Excellence Award for Outstanding Studio Project: Fall 2019

I04: Apparatus and projection performance image.

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Existing Connection Detail

Addition Connection Detail

Section One: The Connection

Module Connection Detail

Floor Module Connection Detail

Section Two: The Stage

Vacuum Lifting Detail

Gantry Rail System Detail

Section Three: The Performance

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I06 I05: Build-able site for 6,000 sq. ft. addition to First Avenue I06: Elevation drawing depicting pedestrians inhabiting building modules.

I07: Section one: The Connection: Section and details to the existing building and addition.

I08: Section two: The Stage: Section and details to show building module connections to each other and floor.

I09: Section Three: The Performance: Section and details taken through Gantry travel lift to show movement methods details.

I10: Animation Key frames: The first being the connection to the existing building using 3D printed sections that layer together and push the addition away from the existing. The second being the layered construction detail of the building module that developed into a hexagonal shape in order to be a building space that is fluid and can be re stacked to in endless arrangements. Finally the gantry travel lift animation, a computer operated gantry travel lift placed on site. The travel lift is programed to use vacuum lifting technology that re stacks and re orders the built space into different arrangements based on the desired program per desired performance.

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Kit of Parts Construction

Hidden Structure

Layered Kit of Parts Construction

Hidden Structure

Separation Connection

Fully Constructed Module

Gantry Travel Lift Operation and Movement

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I13 I11: Module arrangement section image depicting an option for modular stacking to create an inner courtyard with a fully enclosed circulation path.

I12: Module arrangement section image depicting an option for modular stacking to create a large open concert space with many viewing spaces.

I13: Modular arrangement section image depicting an option for modular stacking to create multiple smaller concert spaces with multi-story viewing and space to gather around.

I14: Three model photos depicting the kit of parts expressed in three different methods of operation. The first kit being the parts that make up the module, the second kit being the single module, and the third being modules tiled together that allow for horizontal travel.

I15: Image depicting a concert happening within the public space addition. This image demonstrates the project’s attention to the precisions of digital modeling, and construction fabrication to give the project a precise structure and order, but misuses that precision by allowing the building to be fluid and restructured based on program giving it a lack of rigid order. This allows for a 6,000 sq. ft. public space that is operationally fluid in downtown Minneapolis.

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