Christopher Long Portfolio 2025 by longc816

Christopher Long, RA, NCARB Design & Professional Portfolio

JL C

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Management

Construction Documents

Revit Model

Schematic Design

Consultant Coordination

Client Coordination

Contractor Coordination

Contract Administration

Design Presentations

Finish Selection

LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PARSIPPANY, NJ

CONTRIBUTORS:

Christopher Long

Steven Colella

Rachel Tiedemann

Komal Acharya

Cayla Robinson

Drawing samples available upon request.

One of my most recently completed projects, the addition at Littleton Elementary School included six new pre-kindergarten classrooms and one small group instruction room, as well as various other spaces for building systems and future expansions. The addition was planned for an additional three phases, one of which being a second floor. Further, the project included facade and site improvements to the existing building and a new playground. The second phase of the project is currently in the schematic design phase.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Construction Documents

Revit Model

Schematic Design

Client Coordination

Design Presentations

Finish Selection

RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOL

RUTHERFORD, NJ

CONTRIBUTORS:

Christopher Long

Rachel Tiedemann

Katarina Djuric

Drawing samples available upon request.

As part of a two-phase project, the Rutherford Public School District transformed their mid-century addition facade into a more modern, updated system that will last for years to come. In addition to curtain wall facade replacements, this project included minor renovations to classrooms along the facade wall, HVAC upgrades, and roof edge replacements. Together, these upgrades allowed for a new, more unified facade system that incorporates school branding as well as school colors.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Construction Documents

Revit Model

Schematic Design

Client Coordination

Design Presentations

Finish Selection

RUTHERFORD KINDERGARTEN CENTER

RUTHERFORD, NJ

CONTRIBUTORS:

Christopher Long

Rachel Tiedemann

Kyle Pollara

Drawing samples available upon request.

This project involved an elevator and lobby addition to an existing three-story kindergarten school structure. The project required in-depth coordination with existing building systems and structures for connection, as well as integration with existing corridor layouts. Exterior finishes were coordinated so as to seamlessly blend the old with the new. In addition to the elevator and lobby, the project included classroom renovations to add toilet rooms and upgrade finishes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Construction Documents

Schematic Design

Design Presentations

Casework Design

Interior Design

MARKY’S CAVIAR BAR

NEW YORK, NY

CONTRIBUTORS:

Christopher Long

Chris Manos

Conrad Roncati

One of the first projects of my career, working closely with the architects at Architectura, Inc., we completed this retail space to serve the needs of the client, Marky’s Caviar. The design included complex casework design storage, storage spaces, and extreme attention to interior layout to accomplish the client’s needs in a very small space. The end result is a luxurious space that allowed the client to serve their products and display them in a beautiful manner, with open, transparent display cases and storage solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Rhino Models

Concept Renderings

Schematic Design

Community Outreach

Design Presentations

City Coordination

Design/Park Research

Planning/Development

ROSE FOREST URBAN PARK

NEWARK, NJ

CONTRIBUTORS:

Christopher Long

Kassandra Castillo

The Rose Forest plan seeks to improve neighborhood resident’s access to Branch Brook Park, a valuable asset to the neighborhoods and the city. We are also working to improve pedestrian safety and mobility and increase the visibility of the park as a whole by creating new park programs and activities throughout the year. Through the creation of priority projects that are tailored to the needs of the neighborhoods as well as the organizations surrounding the park, we hope to jumpstart our framework and help the city to develop new ideas about how to improve the neighborhoods of the area and the rest of the city.

HYDROHOODS OF TO-MORROW

MUMBAI, INDIA

CORE COMPETITION TEAM:

Christopher Long

Rehma Asghar

Joseph Giambri

Naymah Hashmi

Sean Rackowski

Chau Tran

Bo Zhang

CONTRIBUTIONS BY:

Catherine Brito

Kassandra Castillo

Priti Dawadi

Matteo Ferraro

Vishun Shankar Krishnan

Rebecca Morales

Melissa Nieves KEY

Rhino Models Concept Renderings Schematic Design Community Outreach Design Presentations City Coordination Design Research Planning/Development Competition Coordination

Net zero WATER CATCHMENT Districts

Hydrohoods of To-morrow revolves around the hydrohood—a new net-zero neighborhood unit that will equitably and sustainably shape the future of Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront. The hydrohood concept reverses the trend of Mumbai’s unsustainable, inequitable, and ever-expanding water supply system, and in doing so, leapfrogs the development of a traditional, top-down distribution network to create a waterfront framework organized around smart and equitable water management.

ExistingDischarge

Our waterfront framework is anchored by ﬁve hydrohoods, each with its own mix of housing, workplaces, and public spaces that takes inspiration from the existing uses and practices currently found on site. While each hydrohood has its own character, all hydrohoods collect, retain, clean, and reuse water through blue-green infrastructure.

Walkable WATER centric Neighborhoods

WATER centric Neighborhoods introduces new hydrophilic housing that serves a mix of income+lifestyles. Housing in proximity to jobs encourages people to walk more. Each Neighborhood has its own identity that builds off of what’s there.

Our net-zero waterfront learns from existing practices of resource modesty and proposes a new hydrohood model that adds to the Mumbai housing stock, increases accessibility regionally and locally, improves environmental conditions, increases public open space, and creates educational and job opportunities for upward mobility.

Net zero WATER CATCHMENT Districts

ExistingDischarge

Barrier Island

ExistingDischarge

Reduce and/or eliminate storm water discharge

Walkable WATER centric Neighborhoods

New Blue Infrastructure resists, delays and reuses water

Create water retention area that double as public places

WATER centric Neighborhoods introduces new hydrophilic housing that serves a mix of income+lifestyles.

Housing in proximity to jobs encourages people to walk more.

Each Neighborhood has its own identity that builds off of what’s there.

School as Center of Each Hydrohood

E-W connection Stitches

Makes connections across exiting barriers + manages storm WATER

retention

school

Existing dominant work areas

School as Center of Each Hydrohood near school

E-W connection Stitches

Proposed ferry stops

Blue-green Spines

Improve mobility + retain + buffer WATER

Existing dominant work areas

Station

Makes connections across exiting barriers + manages storm WATER Recreatinalpath retains water and extends exsitingBRTline

Station

Connections across existing barriers

Station

Station Proposed train terminal

Green Station

ine extendingN-S nection

Proposed ferry stops

HYDROHOODS OF TO MORROW

Blue-green Spines

Improve mobility + retain + buffer WATER

CST Station Sandhurst Station

Proposed train terminal

LACK OF NATURE. SOCIALOPPORTUNITY.EXTREME CROWDS. PLACESOFRECREATION.PROXIMITYTOWORK

Central Line

Harbour LineW c o n tcensnoi

Connections across existing barriers

Sewri Station

Cotton Green Station

Wadala Station

We get up in the morning and once in a while we brush our teeth, we wash our faces and get an empty sack, and we go to a nearby gutter and channel

I GH SALARIESANDWAGES.HIGHPRICESANDRENTS.CITY. M O R E ECONOMICOPPORTUNITY.FLOODSDURING M O N S OON. DROUGHTSWHENNORAIN.INSUFFICIENT

NAGE ANDSTORMWATERUSAGE.FOUL AIR.

AND PALACES. CONGESTEDROADS. NOT

WESTMASSTRANSITLINKS

ACCESSTOCLEANWATER

THREE MAGNETS SUBURB . LACKOFOPENSPACE . SOMENATURE .VERY CROWDED DENSEBUILDINGS . LONGCOMMUTETOWORK . LOW WAGES . LESSECONOMICOPPORTUNITY FURTHER FROMAMUSEMENT . LOWERRENTSAND PR I CES FLOODSDURINGMONSOON . DROUGHTS WHEN NO RAIN . LARGESLUMS . SOMEWHAT EAS

THE WHERE WILL THEY GO? HYDROHOOD.

NORTH-SOUTH . INSUFFICIENT

ACCESSTOHOUSING . MASSTRANS

LACKINGACCESSTOCLEAN

ABUNDANT OPENSPACE.SOCIALANDEQUITABLEANDSUSTAINABLE ACCESSSTOWATER.

EQUITABLEHOUSING AND RENTS. HIGHWAGES. MASSTRANSIT ACCESS NORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST.ANDEDUCATIONALOPPORTUNITY. WALKABLENEIGHBORHOOD. BEAUTYOFNATURE.

Existingrailway line extendingN-S connection

Recreatinalpath retains water and extends exsitingBRTline

EQUITY . MOBILITY. COOPERATION OPPORTUNITY. HYDROPHILICHOUSING . BRIGHTGARDENS AND COURTYARDS. NOSLUMS.SAFEFORCHILDREN. CROWDING . LESSCONGESTED ROADS. FLOOD PROTECTION.CONSTANTWATER. ENGAGEMENT . PUREAIR. PROPER STORMWATERHARVESTING.LESS SHORTCOMMUTE PLENTY TO DO. ACTIVECOMMUNITY

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT WATER, AND WHY ITS AN EQUITY ISSUE

The inequalities and injustices that mark everyday life in contemporary Mumbai are exemplified by problems of access to water.

What happens when you privatize something as essential to human survival as water. What happens when you commodify water and say that only those who can come up with the cash to pay the market price can have it?

TECHNOPOLIS HYDROHOOD

The Technopolis Hydrohood utilizes the existing hospitals and universities in this area as an opportunity to create a hydrohood that focuses on educational, scientiﬁc, and technological development and research. With reinforcemenent, the creation of new research centers and educational facilities will allow for the continuity of practice and development of sustainable, net-zero strategies for next-generation Mumbai.