Justin Davidson Portfolio

WORK Justin Davidson Princeton University M.Arch I Class of 2016

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M.Arch Thesis Facade Design IAS Gallery Recycling Seoul Integrated Building Studio

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Longhua Competition Telegraph Ave Housing MUSEO Italo Americano Campus Club & Residence

M.Arch Thesis Advisor: Paul Lewis Spring 2016

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During the great suburban migration(s) of the 20th century, the American countryside seemed to offer an endless reserve of open space for successive rings of settlement that pursued lower and lower densities.

In the past two decades, the maintenance of this fallacy has proven increasingly difficult: whatever was once “sprawling” seems by now to have largely “sprawled.”

If the movement from the city was planned as an arcadian retreat, and the archetype of the suburban home was the country villa, the typical subdivision demonstrates that the pursuit and provision of this ideal en-masse only resulted in a textbook demonstration of the Tragedy of the Commons, depleting the very resources and the attendant lifestyle that was initially sought.

This thesis starts with the proposition that a house of one’s own, and a yard of one’s own might be more effectively provided en-masse via a new approach to the subdivision that draws from the strategies of mat-building.

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Facade Design Instructor: Sameer Kumar Spring 2016

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The site of this project was Renzo Piano’s Morgan Library in New York City. The assignment was to re-clad the main entrance to the library with concrete.

A variation on the traditional concrete masonry unit (CMU) was proposed as a means of harmonizing the facade with the neighboring structures.

The majority of the concrete blocks are solid. Others have voided interiors to permit the passage of light and views. These voided blocks are distributed along the wall surface as necessary: the highest concentration occurs at the top floor to provide daylighting to the reading room. The middle floor, which contains gallery spaces for the viewing of rare documents, is kept largely opaque, while the ground floor is similarly porous.

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Channels for Vertical Rebar and High Strength Grout

Channels for Vertical Rebar and High Strength Grout

Vertical Rebar

Vertical Rebar

Water Barrier

Water Barrier

Vapor Barrier

Vapor Barrier

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Horizontal Rebar

Mineral Wool Insulation

Mineral Wool Insulation

PTD. GWB

PTD. GWB

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Double Pane Window

Double Pane Window 7 1/8"

Cement Portal Trim

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Angle Varies 1'-4"

0 1/2" 10 1/8"

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SS Reveal 1 7/8"

Angle Varies Cement Portal Trim

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Horizontal Rebar

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Detail Wall Section 4” = 1”

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Detail Wall Section 4” = 1”

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IAS Gallery Instructor: Michael Meredith Fall 2014

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Since its founding in 1930, the Institute for Advanced Study has steadily grown its faculty from an initial focus on the hard sciences to one that includes experts in the arts and humanities. Traditionally, each department was allocated its own building on the forestal campus. In light of the growing importance of art historical scholarship and media studies, the IAS requested proposals for a flexible museum space that would be capable of hosting any number of traveling exhibitions.

This proposal locates the museum directly adjacent to Wallace Harrison’s Historical Studies Library, a mid-century monolith complete with stone plinth. Galleries are arranged around a series of linked-double height spaces that provide a visual connection between the floors and alternatively function as a light well.

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Recycling Seoul Studio Instructor: Alejandro Zaera-Polo Spring 2015

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Graduate option studio that focused on the redevelopment of the ‘88 Olympic complex in Seoul, Korea with new, mixed-use towers to supplement the aging housing stock of the surrounding Jamsil neighborhood.

Drawing from the traditional standards of high-rise dwelling in Korea, a generic floorplate was developed with dimensions that would permit the easy transformation from residential to commercial tenants, thereby rendering the new neigbhorhood resilient to fluctuations in the housing market.

The towers are distributed between the staidums atop a plinth containing shopping, daycare, and recreational facilities, (programs that will attract visitors to Jamsil even when games and concerts are not happening). The height of the towers is adjusted to ensure that the iconic view of the stadiums is not hidden from nearby streets.

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Integrated Building Studio Instructor: Paul Lewis Fall 2015

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The “Black Maria” was the world’s first movie studio, designed and built by Thomas Edison in 1893. Since the 1970s, the “Black Maria” has been on display at Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, NJ. The wood stud and tarpaper structure has aged poorly and is climactically inhospitable to summer and winter visitors alike. In the summer of 2015, the National Park Service invited architects to propose auxiliary structures that could be built to protect the studio and curate the visitor’s experience.

The strategy of the project was to provide added programmatic and climactic potential via the most minimal of means: by simply doubling the skin of the Black Maria.

At times, this new wood stud and tarpaper envelope is flush with the existing skin. At other times, it “peels back” to create interstitital zones capable of containing a film screening room, a terrace, and circulation.

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Longhua Competition Entry Rafi Segal Architecture & Urbanism Summer 2015

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Schematic design proposal submitted to the international competition for a new library and museum complex in the Longhua province of China.

In contrast to the surrounding high-rise towers, the Longhua Museum & Library was conceived with an emphasis on the “Fifth Facade� (the roof).

The building was intended to be read as an extension of the adjacent park. Beneath the sloping, traversable, landscaped roof, are the library stacks and art storage rooms. The main public spaces of the reading room and the museum galleries are accessible from atop this roof surface.

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4700 Telegraph Ave Housing Mark Cavagnero Associates Summer 2014

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One half of a block along Oakland’s rapidly gentrifying commercial corridor was rezoned in 2014 to allow for a higher density of residential units.

In addition to completing feasability studies and permit sets, a series of schematic renderings were made to help the developer ease the anxieties of concerned neighbors.

The 60 apartments are all prefabricated off-site and lowered into place with a crain.

Units range from market rate two and three bedrooms, to more affordable “micro-apartments.� Rentable commercial space is located on the ground floor.

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MUSEO Italo Americano Mark Cavagnero Associates Summer 2014

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The MUSEO Italo Americano was planning to move from its existing, cramped location in the Presidio to a spacious, waterfront structure that once operated as a furniture warehouse.

The building originally contained three floors and a basement. In order to make the museum self-sustaining, the idea was to insert an additional floor and penthouse that could serve as rentable office and event space.

Guidelines called for the preservation of the historic facade, which was achieved by stepping back the street-facing floors to create an entry atrium.

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Campus Club & Residence IwamotoScott Architecture Summer 2013

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Interior rennovation of a night club in the Marina district of San Francisco. Within the envelope permitted by zoning, a new double-height lounge area with mezzanine was designed to link between the existing bar and backyard.

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