Undergraduate Academic Project II, Katy Viccellio Studio Section, Spring 2022
Architecrtural BIM Designer Published Project I, Fall 2022
Architectural BIM Designer Published Project II, Fall 2022
Undergraduate Academic Project II, Katy Viccellio Studio Section, Spring 2022
Undergraduate Academic Project I, Tim Cousino Studio Section, Spring 2023
This project assigned sprinig 2022 Junior Spring semester, this project is a co-working tower in downtown Columbus. Office buildings encode cultures of work in their exterior forms and interior environments. Situated along the Scioto River, the building will very visible, as well as desgining the building in a predominately steel-framed or concrete-frame manner.
Our project involved two twin buildings facing opposite sides of each other with a “bubble space” dome-like structure connecting the two buildings. The building is meant to continue the organization of the bicentennial Park of creating a pathway or a “cut” between the twin towers especially in the lower floor levels and multiple pathways to create different entryways and pathways into the site and the building. This organization comes from the Bicentennial Park and continues to the site but allows the pedetrian to travel from the park to the parking lot space on the otherside of Cherry Street. The building also includes an undergound parking space, to which both the entryway and exit points comes from the side of the building, going underground.
First Floor plan involves the public spaces with variety of programs such as the open art gallery, shopping, restaurant, open lounge area, as well as an indoor park extension. The “cut” and pathways is to allow pedestrian flow and mobility throughout the site and also the different programming spaces, therefore allowing multiple entrances to the site.
Seventeenth Floor plan addresses the co-working spaces and the different programs in those spaces, such as the conference spaces, closed co-working, and the cafe. The working spaces located near the window systems addresses the typical skyscraper of those programs facing the light/outdoor views, while the central space addresses the free open spaces for relaxation and hangout
Second Floor plan, is a continuation from the indoor park extension, unto the kids area, while the other building involves the gym, spa, daycare, for the children. Due to the safety of the children, the doors are designed in a manner where they face the cores in case of an emergency such as fire, or any hazardous warnings
Twenty-ninth floor level includes similar floor plans and organization to the co-working spaces, with the exception to the open terraces. The open terrace spaces on one building faces the park and the Scioto river, while the other faces W. Main St. The building with the terrace facing the park includes an access to the rooftop acting as open space for relaxation, and also focuses on the views
Diagram II showcasing separation between the spaces in the floors. The 2D diagrams are then transformed into 3D in creating the final design of the model.
Diagram I showcasing the structure to the Tower. The building comprises of exterior vertical bracing in the skin, with two twin cores in each building. The building also consist of an aluminum and curtain wall system, while the twin building contains various vertical columns used as structural support system in floor levels.
As a BIM intern for FITS (Facilities Information and Technology Services) during the summer of 2022, this was one of the buildings that I was tasked with capturing and measuring the dimensions of the facility and document any changes and or revisions of the building. For this particular assigned building, the changes occured in it’s interior spaces, where additional spaces that were not documented prior, in both used and unused spaces were documented. These changes were then implemented on the updated floor plans based on the current conditions of the building in Revit. Prior to completing and making sure that all calculations and dimensions were accurate, a rendered exterior view of the building was completed and captured to signal the completion and the publication of the project to the Ohio State Universi-
Initial Stages prior to taking images and documenting measurements is first calculating the square footages of the facility in AutoCad, and then recording AutoCads dimensions before comparing that to the actual dimensions of the building when visiting the site. Prior to the revisions and calculations, there were only three floor plans, but after vising the building and taking measurements, additional floor plan (the Mezzanine Level) were documented along with the roof floor plan for a total of five floor plans. Majority of the changes of the measurements were from the first floor where some spaces like the library spaces, or additional office spaces were not documented.
While both Buildings are constructed with similar masonry, Shisler, incorporates more concrete in its walls, especially at the south end of the the building, and on top of the building. It also incoporates limestones both above and below the window sills. There are heavy glass construction in the hallway and through the direct entry way into the building.
Shisler Center was another set of buildings that I was tasked with, which was next to the Fisher Auditorium, in Wooster, Ohio. Both buildings are constructed with similar masonry types, but Shisler appears more modern as it was constructed later after Fisher. There is a direct entry to the building but one can enter through shisler from Fisher by exiting out into the hallway. The building is one Floor Level but unlike Fisher, has no assess to the roof.
A grid-plan and a view of the interior is shown here highlights the locations of column and beam types incorporated in the building. The current building utilizes a round yellow column but most importantly, a HSS Hollow structural column joined within the wall both in the exterior and interior.
The Isometric drawing of the built project is inspired by the Architectural Firm NBBJ’s artwork of the Columbus Metropolitan Library at the Dublin Branch. This isometric View aims to showcase some parts of the interior spaces, while also showing the overall site context and its importance to my project. Such context includes the greenery and landscape, parking space and the entry to the playground. The roof garden is another zone that fits into the library as an escape for fresh air, and an outdoor space, but also helps blend the greenery and landscape. The view also showcases the interior space of the quiet zone, and the staffing room.
The Ground Floor Plan focuses on the entrances and land- scape of the spaces and the playground. The overall building has a side entrance, which is the residential entrance to the playground in the central space. The Main entrance however is through the cylindrical space, which also becomes a sitting zone. Entering through that space leads to the main lobby, where cafe/ and coffee shops are located. Since this buildings goal is a sep- aration between teens and kids zone, the children’s zones are on the left side, where their computing and kindergarten areas are located.
The First Floor Plan, deals mostly with quiet and reading areas. The circulation from the Ground Floor Level to the First Floor in the cylindrical space is through spiral ramps. This zone in the First Floor Plan is the quiet zone. This space compared the the second Floor Level is more noisy since its theres more zone and more people leading to more talking. The Cylindrical space is con- nected to an elevated space, which becomes another reading zone leading to the kids zone on the left of the site. The Stacks zone takes place on the other-side of the elevated reading zones.
The final Floor Plan is the Second Floor, and it involves the cylindrical space that acts as the reading/ and quiet zone, with a back entry to the roof garden. Another entry to the roof garden is by the meeting rooms, which is occupied by formal and informal group and one-on-one meeting rooms. Each room is also occupied by their own terraces that faces the ravine towards the Olengtangy River.
The project assigned during the spring semester of 2023, occupy site block 18. The Building blends with its surrounding context with the ground levels being more public, outdoor feel, with programs such as market, restaurant, and cafeteria, while the upper levels begin to feel like a more private spaces for the students/employees of the culinary school.
The site is open on either side, but this perspective view is of North Racine Avenue, showing landscape, outdoor seating, and the pathway.
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