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A Collection of Work

By: Joseph Tripp Silveira

THE SHANT

Detroit, Michigan

639 Ft² • 2025 • Residential

The Shant is a renovation & restoration of a blighted century home. While in its infancy, this project needed an in-depth inventory of existing structures and MEP systems. The client’s wish is to develop the homestead over time through their own efforts. This project, due to the client’s evolving needs, will develop slowly over time.

Drawings generated in ArchiCAD and Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator. Photographs courtesy of Joseph Silveira

Lots are 30’ x 100’, the lot next door was acquired from the Detroit Land Bank.

These Images reflect the state of the property when it was purchased, but the site has changed as the client has been remediating it.

THE PATIO

Shell Beach, California

156 Ft² • 2020 • Residential

The Patio is an outdoor living-space addition to an existing cliffside cottage. The addition includes an intervention to the pre-existing enclosed porch facing native grasses, transforming it into a porch with stairs accessing a patio with patchwork encaustic cement tile. This project consisted of many programs that were desired by the stakeholders, a place to hose off sand from the beach, a grilling spot, a gardening hub, and a quiet spot to relax outside, all protected from the harsh ocean winds.

Site plan made in AutoCAD and Adobe Illustrator. Photographs courtesy of the site foreman. Tile submittals made in Adobe Illustrator.

BEFORE AFTER

STAIRS

For scale all tiles are 8” x 8”

STAIRS

The quantity of each tile design is organized by pattern.

STAIRS

Inventory of tiles based on the number of colors within a given pattern.

STAIRS

Inventory of tiles based on the orientation of the pattern.

ARTIST RESIDENCE

Monhegan, Maine

1,822 Ft² • 2011 • Residential

Monhegan Island, located 12 nautical miles off the coast of Maine, has been a choice summer residence for painters dating back to the 1890s. Artists like Robert Henri, Fredrick Judd Waugh, George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, and Jamie Wyeth are just a few of the famous artists who painted portraits of this black igneous rock island. Designed to comfortably board two artists, this estate was inspired by the untreated shingle style buildings in the community, Swiss chalet construction methodologies, and McKim, Mead & White’s Low House.

Photo above courtesy of Creative Commons, bottom painting Blackhead by Rockwell Kent

Main floor and porch plan executed in AutoCAD. Model photos courtesy of Joseph Silveira. Model materials: bass wood, cork board, foam core board, and paper.

West Section

South Section

East Elevation

West Elevation

STUDY: DELTA SHELTER

Mazama, Washingtin

1,000 Ft² • 2021 • Residential | 2005 • Tom Kundig

Delta Shelter is one of the most architecturally canonic residential buildings of the 21st century. Designed by Tom Kundig. This project seeks to disseminate the design while training in Revit modeling. All graphics generated by Revit, photo of Mazama courtesy of creative commons.

20’

N.T.C. BUILDING

Oslo, Norway

237,258 Ft2 • 2020 • Commercial

This academic project’s site is nestled into the end of Oslo’s iconic barcode. This project is a 17-story mass timber building for the fictitious Norwegian Timber Company. This design has a truss penthouse that (using tension cables tethered through channeled glulam) supports two cutaways that integrate into the preexisting pedestrian walkway between the other barcode towers. The Façade’s daylighting feature was based on the end and face grain structures you see on milled timber. The roof has an aspen winter garden granting the penthouse a spectacular rooftop experience of Oslo, bringing wood in all its lives into the corporate experience.

From top down right to left, perspective of the barcode integrating the NTC design.

Axonometric diagrams of the major design decisions made in SketchUp. NTC rendering made in Lumion.

Design Development Diagrams

Cutaways Wood Daylighting Features Rooftop Arboretum

All plans are made in SketchUp and Adobe suite. From right to left and top to bottom on these pages:

Ground floor plan commercial space (7642 ft2), one single ADA stall restroom, multiuser inclusive restroom IPC 2021 compliant. Ground floor plan also shows pedestrian paths through and around the barcode promenade.

Second and fourteenth floor plan, office space (190330 ft2 over 17 floors), break room, and multiuser gender inclusive bathroom using IPC 2021.

Penthouse has 2 flex spaces (3202 ft2), a winter garden (4854 ft2) 1 ADA stall, and multiuser gender inclusive restrooms using IPC2021.

All elevations and sections, on the following page, were made in SkechUp and Adobe suite. From right to left and top to bottom on the following pages:

North/South Section, West Elevation, East Elevation, East/West Section, North Elevation, & South Elevation.

Detail drawing of the 17th floor and winter garden. 50

40” Soil

8” Concrete Bed

4” Rigid Foam

2” Thick LVL

.5” Thick Bolts

8” Structure Mullion

4” Capless Mullion

Plate that Conects LVL to Capless Mullion

18th Floor

24”

3”

Raised Floor

Concrete Slab 12” CLT (9 ply)

27” GLULAM Girder

52” Raised Floor

48” Thick Truss

FOOD CO-OP & LAB

Detroit, Michigan

5,558 Ft2 • 2019 • Commercial

An academic public interest design studio with the McDougall-Hunt Neighborhood Association. The studio project was to adaptively reuse a property in the neighborhood – the 3003 Elmwood St. site. The design preserved the two street facing facades repurposing brick from the other two damaged facades as pavers. The program and site were unique for each student. In my case I noticed a food desert, and lack of vehicles owned by the stakeholders. I opted for a food co-op to be a portion of the program with a computer lab to support learning and access to computers and a business incubator.

Photo courtesy of Joseph Silveira. Site plan below of Detroit, McDougall-Hunt neighborhood blocks in brown, site in red.

Exploded Axonometric made in Sketchup. Illustrations on the polycarbonate and galvanized steel-clad promenade signal the programing of the spaces adjacent to the promenade. My hand drawings were scanned brought to illustrator to be image traced, then brought into AutoCAD for laser printing for proof of concept for actualized product, and for importing .dwg to SketchUp for the model. The idea is that stakeholder’s drawings could be used for waymarking for an actualized project.