JUSTIN W BRAMMER P: 937 430 5926 E: justinbrammer@gmail.com www.justinbrammer.com
JUSTIN W BRAMMER 327 Graham Ave. 3R P: 937 430 5926 Brooklyn, NY 11211 E: justinbrammer@gmail.com www.justinbrammer.com
Justin has 10+ years of experience working as a designer and team leader for renowned international design firms in New York, including Grimshaw Architects, Rockwell Group and Leeser Architecture. He most recently joined Grimshaw in 2016 to lead the base building design and coordination for the Sustainability Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai. education
2007 - 2011 2003-2007 2006
Rice University - School of Architecture - Master of Architecture University of Dayton - School of Engineering - Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering Columbia University - School of Architecture - Architectural Design Studio
select professional experience
2016 - current
Grimshaw Architects - New York, NY and Dubai, UAE - Architectural Designer
2012 - 2016
Rockwell Group - New York, NY - Designer, Project Manager
2011-2012 2005
Leeser Architecture - New York, NY - Architectural Designer GE Aviation - Vandalia, OH - Aerospace Design Engineer
EXPO 2020 - SUSTAINABILITY PAVILION - PAGE 4 15 HUDSON YARDS - PAGE 14 TRI-CLIMATIC BIOSPHERE - PAGE 22 NEWARK AIRPORT TERMINAL 1 - PAGE 30 DOUBLE AGENCY - PAGE 36 MICRO-HOUSING RENOVATION - PAGE 44 SCHOOL IN FIVE BLADDERS - PAGE 50 15 WATER STREET FACADE DESIGN - PAGE 56 D-33 - PAGE 64
EXPO 2020 - SUSTAINABILITY PAVILION A main thematic pavilion for Expo 2020 in Dubai, UAE, Construction Completion Q4 2019 w/ Grimshaw Architects The pavilion aims to illuminate the ingenuity and possibility of architecture as society looks to intelligent strategies for sustainable future living. The pavilion is one of three at the expo, presenting the opportunity to deliver an aspirational message about the natural world, ecology and technology to a global audience. Drawing inspiration from complex natural processes like photosynthesis, the dynamic form of the pavilion is in service to its function, capturing energy from sunlight and fresh water from humid air.
Involvement as senior team leader from Concept design through Construction Administration My responsibilities as a senior team leader have included mentoring a design team and overseeing technical coordination of all building works including structural, MEP, fire safety and more. I joined this project for the concept design phase and have seen it through to construction administration, where I spent 2018 in Dubai overseeing the construction on site.
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Expo 2 now 020 wil Octo open in l ber 2021
A Net Zero Future Energy and Water Conservation for a better tomorrow • By harvesting sun through the abundance of sunlight through the array of solar panels, the building achieves net-zero energy consumption. • Funnel-shaped overall geometry allows for capturing and recycling of rain water and creates air movement by utilizing its shape. • E-Trees and W-Trees placed across the site harvest further sunlight energy as well as harvesting water from the humid air. • The canopy utilizes trusses, a lightweight structural typology, which converge at a small footprint of 20 meters. • Radial PV array packs rectangle modules and provide sun exposure by utilizing the geometry of the canopy • Light reflectors/refractors, seamlessly integrated with PV panels, help achieve required ambient light level to the courtyard. • Louvers along the edge provide shading along the perimeter.
TYPICAL APPROACH Building above ground exposed to harsh environmental conditions
BURIED ACCOMODATION By submerging spaces, earth provides insulation reducing climate control loads
CANOPY STRUCTURE Shields building from Sunlight
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LANDSCAPE CANOPIES Additional shade provides pedestrian comfort with the main canopy, provides solar energy and atmospheric water generation
T.O. CANOPY 30.80 m
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PAVED ENTRY PATH EXHIBITION
Sustainability District There are three main themes of the Expo that divide the site into three districts: Opportunity, Evolution, and Sustainability. The Sustainability Pavilion acts as the centerpiece of the district and represents the aspirations energy and conservation ideals of the United Arab Emirates in its future.
Canopy Evolution Evolutionary diagram follows the rationalization of the canopy structure moving toward the most structurally efficient and sustainable solution.
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15 HUDSON YARDS Residential Tower Integrated with the Culture Shed in NYC’s Hudson Yards Development w/ Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group This 88-story tower, consisting of condominium and rental units, is a part of the Hudson Yards Development, sited between 30th and 31st streets on 11th avenue. The building’s form is defined by a corset at the middle of the tower. The curvature created by the tension of the straps creates a soft flexible appearance of a building formed by glass and steel building. On the ground level, the lobby spans between to blocks, creating a continuous lobby experience between 30th and 31st streets. The materials and organization of the lobby space accentuates the language of the building and continues the play of “soft” and “hard” through the interior.
Involvement includes concept and schematic design of base building development and interior architecture, coordination with building systems and adjacent Culture Shed.
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Central Amenities Spatial planning and building systems coordination for the amenity floors. Located within the corset of the building, the amenities span two floors and provide services to the condo clients. Planning went through numerous alterations to meet client’s needs.
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rendering [above] // early conceptual rendering of corset plans [right] // updated space planning
38th FLOOR
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One Lobby Concept The complex section of the lobby shows two different entrances, on 31st and 30th streets, at different levels. The plan is organized through a ramp that bifurcates the movement through the space while maintaining an architecturally connected space.
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plan rendering [above] // 31st street level lobby plan
31ST STREET LOBBY PLAN
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section [above] // rendered section through both lobby levels illustrating the “one lobby” concept hard (public)
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LOBBY SECTION LOOKING WEST
31st street lobby entrance (image w/ DS+R)
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30th Street Entry - Option 2 Concept Design
Public Hard
Private Soft
Materiality and form of the core wall represent the transition in the space from the public exterior to a more intimate and private interior, and back again. This is created through a weaving of stone and leather materials where the leather bulges out from behind the stone.
31ST STREET EAST ELEVATION UNROLLED
mock-ups [top] // “hard to soft� detail mock-ups unrolled elevation [middle] // detail showing transition from stone to leather renderings [bottom] // transition wall from hard to soft (stone to leather) 20
renderings [from left to right] // 31st street entry hall, central lobby space, condo lounge, 30th street lobby
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TRI-CLIMATIC BIOSPHERE Design for a 10,000 square meter greenhouse w/ Leeser Architecture This greenhouse is conceived as three overlapping masses, each circle contains a separate biome with different atmospheric conditions. The overlapping volume is an atrium space feeding to the three biomes (spring, summer, and winter climates). Complex environmental issues arise when building these climates in the Middle Eastern desert. The roof and exterior elevations are comprised of ETFE, a system using pillows of plastic to give maximum atmospheric control and visual transparency.
Involvement includes: Schematic Design, Design Development and CD development My involvement was with the development of the SD, DD drawing sets and CD development. Specifically, I focused on the structure of the building, detailing the undulating roof structure and supporting columns. This showcasing concentrates on my individual contribution to the project.
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atrium // hanging atrium supported by biome structures
perspective [above] // view over building roof and atrium space roof system // composed of bent steel members infilled with ETFE pillows
vernalized biome
tropical biome
central space
mediterranean biome
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exterior surface // series of columns insulated with ETFE
construction photograph [left, top] // exterior structure axon section [left] // slice through the ETFE elevation detail section [above] // detail of ETFE connection and roof connection detail photograph [right] // ground view perspective 26
details [above] // atrium ramp details photograph [below] // atrium interior view
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Atrium Roof Structure Exploded axonometric view of the atrium roof reveals the steel structure system. Steel columns act in suspension to hang the roof from the surrounding structure of the biomes.
NEWARK AIRPORT - TERMINAL 1 Flexible aviation design of the new terminal at Newark Airport w/ Grimshaw Architects Grimshaw, in partnership with STV as Lead Design Firm, are designing the new $1.41 billion terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport. The team was chosen by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey based on its combined experience and expertise in the successful delivery of designbuild projects. The new Newark Airport Terminal One will feature 1 million square feet of space with 33 gates spread across a two-level T-shaped building. The design is intended to accommodate the airport’s growing capacity while meeting the changing demands of passengers and airlines for years to come.
My involvement includes working as a senior team member from the design development phase through to construction administration.
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Airport Designed for the Future Once completed in 2022, Terminal One will replace the adjacent Terminal A building and will include additional amenities, a more efficient check in process and ample space for passenger amenities and an efficient security screening process.
NEWARK LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REDEVELOPMENT TERMINAL 1 - INTERIORS
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Details and Design-Build Designed to deal with an ever-increasing volume of passengers, the airport will provide flexibility and the project is the largest transportation infrastructure design-build contract in New Jersey state history.
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DOUBLE AGENCY The Institutional-Public Threshold and Urban Representation Rice University Master’s Thesis This thesis formally defines a diagrammatically transparent judicial system as a method of exploiting architecture’s urban agency. Government and judicial institutions are typically architecturalized as either a semantic reading or a monolithic object. This thesis produces an architectural double agency merging the idea of a public object and public space. Double agency creates architectural produce in two distinct capacities: creating a new relationship between the public and the courthouse, and the representation of the formal object in the city. This is addressed using the elements of form, organization, and legibility to reconfigure the relationship. Mies’ courthouse marks a shift in institutional representation from a semantic historical reading to an abstracted slab privileging organization. This thesis proposes a new shift bringing representation back to the table. The relationship between diagram and legibility challenges standard notions of the relationship between public and the courthouse institution, and between architecture and the city.
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public object public object public object public space public space public space public visual public visual public visual A New Urban Representation Chicago’s former federal courthouse seen here (left) in the foreground is being replaced by the Mies federal courthouse building in the background, c. 1965. The image marks a shift in the representation of the institution (figure 3) from a semantic historical reading to the organizational prominence of the Mies abstracted slab. The image suggests that organization had superseded and replaced representation. This thesis calls for another institutional shift bringing representation back to the discussion.
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judge’s chambers jury deliberation walk
sectional rendering [above] // section through courtroom, jury deliberation sequence
jury meeting room
public area
public services
Diagrammatic Legibility This abstracted diagram specifies courthouse adjacencies and the three circulation types (public, restricted, and secure). Formal variations within this project exploit this organizational diagram while maintaining necessary adjacencies.
OFFICE / ADMINISTRATION
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Connectors <<< The box creates a centric node for program accessible by the secure constituency (gun-controlled) including courtrooms and the cell block. Pictured above is a courtroom that situates itself within the city through expansive views of the surroundings.
Public Surface <<< The connectors span between boxes and envelop boxes. These formally shifting components maintain necessary courtroom adjacencies while allowing for a continuous public surface up through the building. 40
<<< Creating a new interface between the public and the institution, this continuous surface is home to various public program including a cafe, law library, and public courthouse spaces. A series of escalators connect the surfaces that populate the tops of the connectors.
rendering [top] // administration area / jury deliberation walk rendering [middle] // public surface / atrium rendering [bottom] // perp-walk 41 over cafe
READING CLUSTER SUPPORT SERVICES
COMPUTER LAB
GROUP STUDY ROOMS
rendering [above] // perspective view of atrium
UP TO PUBLIC SURFACE
LIBRARY STACKS
READING CLUSTER
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Transparent Courthouse Skin conditions change where the form meets the cube. The typically singular pattern is inverted at the edge creating moments of transparency, such as in the courtrooms. This connects court users to the city as well as the city to the judicial process. Section rendering below shows how public space is created by manipulating connections between courtroom and jury rooms.
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MICRO-HOUSING RENOVATION Adapting Stanford White’s Patterson Mansion in Washington D.C. w/ Rockwell Group This proposal within the historical Patterson Mansion - designed by McKim, Mead & White - intends to preserve the detailing of the interiors while adding new elements in a surgical, minimal manner. The Mansion is one of three buildings within a simultaneous strategy concept and design proposal for three micro-housing development projects in the Capitol city. The project took the existing structures and retro-fited them as a new typology of luxury short-term living quarters. My role included leading the design, working with the local architects, and managing the production through the construction documentation phase.
My role included leading the design, working with the local architects, and managing the production through the construction documentation phase.
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Histor design ic mansion ed b Mead y McKim, & Wh ite
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PATTERSON / LATHAM UNIT VIEW - SLEEPING
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perspectives [above] // views of the standard micro-unit in different 10.06.2014 configurations PATTERSON / LATHAM UNIT VIEW - LIVING
SB-Urban
Micro-Unit Means Customizable Space
BATHROOM 10’-5” x 4’-8” LIVING ROOM 17’-9” x 11’-3”
As a method for dealing with the confines of the limited space required for these micro-units, the design proposes a combination bed/dining table unit to vary the use of the room through different uses and times of day.
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Historical Details As a method for dealing with the confines of the limited space required for these micro-units, the design proposes a combination bed/dining table unit to vary the use of the room through different uses and times of day.
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section [above] // section through ballroom amenity space renderings [below] // renderings of a multi-use space
ool in 5 bladders A SCHOOL IN FIVE BLADDERS Exploring Learning Space Through Morphological and Typological Variance @ Rice University
A simple topological concept guided the development of this building, both morphologically and programmatically: the difference between the inside and the outside of a closed, orientable surface. This closed surface is referred to as a bladder, its inside condition 2 space, and its outside condition 1 space. Deformations of this bladder were permitted so long as its status as a closed, orientable surface was maintained.
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Ultimately the deformations applied could be easily communicated with the use of three basic categories: columns (giving the bladder a waist), doughnut holes (holes that do not pierce the pment of this building, both surface), and bulges. Using this simple topological concept and these basic deformations, we erence between theto inside were able satisfy a large number of demands with a continuous system. These concepts further We have demanded chosen to call this reconsideration of learning environments in general, and particularly learning a careful space, and its outside inconenvironments a school devoted to media. Spatially, condition 1 and condition 2 spaces tend ormationtoward of this the bladder so of significantly different sorts of environments. The arrangements of the various creation was maintained. Ultimately deformation types are used to create a diverse range of affects thus producing interesting and useful spaces for engagement. easily communicated with
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ving the bladder a waist), (in collaboration w/ David Dahlbom and Rachel Dewane) rface), and bulges. Using deformations, we were able nuous system. These concondition 1 n of learning environments condition 2 nts in a school devoted to condition 1 and condition 2 space: The building is one continuous, closed, orientable surface, and as such possesses a topological “inside” and “outside.” This “inside and outside” does not necessarily correspond to the inside and outside of building as would be casually understood by that expression. In order to avoid confusion, we call the inside space —the space that is, strictly speaking, inside the bladder— condition 2 space, and the space outside and on the bladder condition 1 space. The diagram above labels these two conditions and shows an inverted view to emphasize the fact that condition 2 space is not merely poche space.
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condition 1 and condition 2 a topological “inside” and “ou of building as would be casua space that is, strictly speaking 1 space. The diagram above l space is not merely poche spa
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Dense Surface An overlay of the building surface, viewed in plan above, reveals the varied density of the deformations that react to program, site, circulation, acting in section as light wells, classrooms, auditorium space, and more.
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Morphological Catalog The deformations to the topological surface can be classified in four categories, each with their own structural and programmatic qualities.
Columns In maintaining the singularity of the surface, columns curve to provide ultimate load-bearing strength. The resultant forms create programmed condition 2 spaces. Program: media classrooms, bathroom and service areas, offices.
Donuts Acting as an “inverted column�, donuts provide structure while allowing for light to enter deep through the building. Direction of light wells are designed to optimize the amount of natural light in the building. Program: light wells, circulation, lobby areas.
Shells
These large surface deformations create large condition 2 spaces. Loads are dispersed through the structurally powerful shell. Program: Auditorium, lecture rooms, computer labs.
Truss Formed from a grouping of narrow columns, the truss produces an expansive area for a new learning environment experience. Program: classrooms.
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15 WATER STREET - FACADE DESIGN Facade proposal adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO, Brooklyn w/ Leeser Architecture This competition proposal for a building facade challenges the rigid form that was determined by the local building restrictions. Conceived as a series of stacked boxes, the facade breaks the singularity of the form while reflecting the context of the Brooklyn Bridge back to visitors. I was involved throughout this project from initial concept design to the detailing of the facade system. I worked through the design with various glass, mechanical, and facade consultants.
Involvement: design, modeling, rendering, detail and elevation drawing, consultant coordination
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diagrams [above] // angled facade pieces are minimized to reduce customization
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Systematized Irregularity The regularity of the building mass is broken up through the angled blocks. These irregularities were designed within a rigid system to minimize the customized parts while achieving the maximum effect.
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completed photographs [above] // final design implementing glass fins along the facade
D-33 Installation at P.P.O.W. Gallery - New York, NY. USA, 2012 w/ Sarah Oppenheimer/Folding Enterprises This installation by Sarah Oppenheimer at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea (2012) investigates the connections between different spaces, challenging the visitor both physically and visually. Punctures made through the existing gallery walls create circulation and line-of-sight between the rooms producing new connections between spaces and people. Lighting strategies create a visual mosaic through the interventions.
My role included producing the fabrication drawing set for the steel structure that is inserted into the voids created in the walls. The project relies on the complex angles and custom metal joints that support the voids.
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Void Design and Fabrication The complex architectural voids are created, at their most distilled, by the compound joints and integration of materials. Exhibited here are examples of the manifold connections that ultimately produce the desired affect.
photographs [above] // installation view (image courtesy Folding Enterprises) 3D model view [opposite, top] // snapshot from model, used to derive fabrication drawings detail drawing [opposite, left] // markup on steel structure drawing photograph [opposite, right] // installation view (image courtesy Folding Enterprises)
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photographs [above, left] // installation view (image courtesy Folding Enterprises) fabrication drawings [opposite, right] // steel fabrication drawings used for construction
JUSTIN W BRAMMER P: 937 430 5926 E: justinbrammer@gmail.com www.justinbrammer.com