Architecture Portfolio by LaSalle Tippens Jr.

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E D UCATION Syracuse University Master of Architecture. May 2012 Texas Tech University Bachelor of Science in Architecture. December 2008 NCARB IDP Registered.

E XP ERIENCE Intern Architect - Carrell Partners & Yost Architecture [12/2012 - 6/2013] Aiding licensed architects in pre-design, schematic, and construction documentation and administration of several types of projects including: restaurant and bar, residential, hotel renovations, and religious facilities. Collaboration with interior designers, MEP and structural engineers. Preparing projects for bid, city/state regulation and inspection, and seeing that regulating codes are met. IDP Credit.

Freelance Designer/Photography [present] Space planning and layout, material sourcing, scheduling, interior/exterior applications.

Graphic design for clothing and music companies. Photography and editing.

Research Assistant - Professor Ramona Albert [1/2011-5/2011] Contacted and discussed design issues with fabricators and manufacturers for architecture and product design with metal, glass and plastic materials. Created database of contacts and expertise. Researched, scanned, and edited images for design and article research.

CONTACT.

T E CHNOLOG Y 3D Modeling and Image Production Rhinoceros. Grasshopper. 3DS Max. SketchUp 8. Revit 2012. V-Ray. Adobe Creative Suite. AutoCAD 2012.

Physical Modeling and Craft 3D Printing. Laser cutting. CNC Milling. Furniture Making. Video Production.

General Office Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Windows 7. Mac OS X Mountain Lion

LaSalle Tippens, Jr. Phone: 315.706.6162 ltippensjr@gmail.com LinkedIn.com/lastarchi lastarchi.tumblr.com

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CONTENT. Tower Library

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Under Armour Headquarters

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Cotton Bowl Plaza

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Bus Stop....Sensorial Shade

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Research and Analysis

Urban Mapping [Syracuse, NY]

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Details [Rotch Library]

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Photo taken at Beijing Planning Exibition Hall, 2007.

During 2007 Beijing, China underwent several changes to its urban landscape changing the way the city reads. Contruction of Olympic stadiums and other Object buildings such as OMAs CCTV tower brought the architecture of that time from all around the world.

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New York City's Financial District consists of many towers with vacant spaces. Since the tragic event on 9/11 many towers surrounding the Twin Towers have unfortunately suffered many vacant spaces from businesses that found refuge in other areas.

The Financial District has now in a way become futile to business and as direct result population has decreased in the surrounding areas.

Libraries have been on a constant rise in quantity even with this decrease in population. There has indeed been a rise in culture and family in the districts/neighborhoods surrounding the Financial District. This project takes advantage of the location, 40 Rector St., to act as an outlet for the New York Central Public Library. This re-use library operates as a central location and research center for the many constituents surrounding the Financial District. Being in a very popular tourist destination, this public tower library accommodates high levels of tourist traffic.

For constituents it acts as a billboard of destinations to simplify the process of searching for a specific space.

TOWER LIBRARY 40 Rector St., New York, NY

Project Team: Anastasija Gridneva and LaSalle Tippens

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Manhattan branch libraries have acquired much real estate in neighborhoods. They have managed to gain great locations in almost all areas of Manhattan.

Although New York Public Libraries have increased in quantity they are merely becoming replicas of previous branch libraries. Branch libraries are losing their relevance in our multi-cultured societies today. With Manhattan being the gateway for more cultured societies and families, NYPL should be able to correspond to this fast pace and changing society.

In the NYPL Tower Library concept we found a dire need for choices for the surrounding neighborhoods considering the broad range of constituent types. Historically NYPL has opened up a branch library for specific constituents pertaining to surrounding demographics. Today, although demographics play a huge role in determining the needs of constituents the location of this library is on the edge of several neighborhoods. This is also known for heavy tourist traffic being in the Financial District. By providing a broad range of space types and interior environments with clear program intentions this library makes its best attempt to satisfy all users.

Views of tower from Rector St. street.

Aerial view of foam site model indicating site location and concept.

Elevation view of foam site model highlighting billboard concept projecting into public view.

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By bordering Battery Park this building exhibits an opportunity to be in public view. Main program is exposed to the plaza centered on the building's axis while collections and archiving can be in more concealed (less sunlit) areas.

The tower 40 Rector St. is strategically centered on Rector Plaza, a public park used by Battery Park residents. In using the facade facing the park as a form of billboard for passing constituents it serves as an active invitation for users of library.

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Rendered image of circulation atrium. Collections to the left and reading, group, meeting, and individual work spaces on the right.

Rendered image of atrium and public work spaces. Library collections reference system indicated above wrapped around floorplates for above and below wayfinding.

Photo taken at park entering Temple of Heaven.

Ribbon performers construct a performance for public at Temple of Heaven, Layers upon layers of movement, color, shapes, and forms in space produce this performance much like in buildings. Layers of a building should thus perform with movement, color, shapes, and form.

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Under Armour was founded on the following core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Reliability and Integrity. It has grown into a product that makes man feel superior to the many challenges they face. Under Armour enhances the effectiveness of the natural skin and really allows the skin to perform at its highest level. The human skin is a very complex and generative organ.

Under Armour is a company started with producing high-performance sports wear, which is now recognized as a second skin. Our design idea is to treat the whole building as a SKIN. With a new slogan "SKIN DEEP". Skin is usually considered as light and flimsy, but on the microscope view, it also shows a good amount of thickness with different functional parts inside.

This characteristic just perfectly describe our design inspiration : the building itself should be a slight as a piece of skin, but it also has different functional parts performs like a skin which interact to the exterior environment. A building surface which has the function of exhibition and protect the interior from severe weather and UV light, like the epidermis layer. The HVAC system to retain the moisture and temperature in a comfortable level just like the capillary and sweat gland in dermis layer. And all the different departments and facilities react to each other and maintain the whole company in function, this part is just like the hypodermis layer.

UNDER ARMOUR HEADQUARTERS East Village, 369 Lafayette St., New York, NY

Project Team: Yi-Hsuan Lee and LaSalle Tippens

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Exterior rendering indicating opaque glass for office areas and clear glass for heat producing areas and reaction with phase changing material (PCM).

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Program Sources HeatHeat/Energy Sources Private Offices @ 150 sf Conference Rooms @ 300 sf Open Office Service Entry and Loading Dock Core Retail Store Product Display Gallery Large Cafe Small Coffee/Juice Bar Lounge Work-out Room Game Room Lobby Security Station

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FRESH The night-time cooler ambient can be used to charge the latent heat capacity of also called Phase Change Material (PCM) solutions using any refrigeration machinery by simply allowing the surrounding air to freeze these solutions. Later the stored energy by the PCM can be released back to the occupied space during day-time to handle the heat gains.

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Phase Change Materials (PCM) can be used for Thermal Energy Storage (TES) which is a useful tool to reduce the cooling load requirement by means of spreading day time loads over 24 hour period utilising the naturally occurring ambient temperature difference.

Building Sectional rendering showing main "structural pore" and honeycomb raised floor system. Cable-suspension glass facade system shown to the right.

Rending of Under Armour retail store on ground level showing illuminated 3D ceiling and glass fin staircase.

Photo taken at Beijing Temple of Heaven, 2007.

The treatment of public and spectacle in regard to the hierarchy of power develop the organizing principles of pubic space. Beijing is a very populated city where architecture plays the most important roles in event and place. Architecture here has developed this hierarchy of power.

ORDER. Occurring as a direct response to current political and economic unrest, the “Occupy� era has advanced into a device that generates the sociability of cities. Its many pockets of pandemonium create urban conditions that in several ways compete against ordered urbanity. The social implications of the movement rely on the filling or "occupying" of urban spaces denoted as public space with forms of spectacle acts.

These acts fuel thought or the rethinking of urban issues concerning zoning and districting, gentrification or urban renewal, and the idea of interstitial (informal) public space. This evolution of testing democracy - along with the rapid transfer of information through mass media and web - produce reactions to policies simultaneously and in many cases before the implementation. Modes of speculative acts such as the Occupy movement manifest into the dystopian idea of critical urbanism.

The Occupy movement as critical urbanism will inevitably produce a restructuring of social class and redefine urban language relating to public vs. private space. Previous movements such as demonstrations by Situationists International also emerged from relative political unrest and economic conditions. In their essay, The Power of Negative Thinking, Robert Chasse compares the disjunction of utopian thought with real democratic societal issues. They critic bureaucracies attempt to control by policy making such as zoning and districting.

Recent architecture has remained in a state of timidity due to its lack of engagement with current social desires, i.e social media.

The architecture of public spaces needs to react to modern forms of liberation, masquerading, and social events in order to remain relevant. My project presents Dallas Fair Park Cotton Bowl Plaza in fashion with up and coming techno-generations. It in many ways formulates a reaction to pseudo spatial desires and needs. Dallas Fair Park is an example of a place that has lost its attractiveness due its inability to respond to new social desires and needs.

In comparison to downtown Dallas, Fair Park has the infrastructure and ability to provide its surrounding neighborhoods with sufficient amenities.

It has proven to be able to do this in its yearly event the State Fair of Texas.

It engages all user groups, at all scales, and at different hours of the day.

Vis a Vis Technoplaza, formerly the Cotton Bowl plaza, engages its users at all scales: mobile, personal, environmental, architectural, and urban.

COTTON BOWL PLAZA [RE-think] Fair Park, Dallas, TX

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Formal and informal space have historically been expressed as ground and above ground conditions.

In this public vs. private feud only have the formal been elevated and the informal de-elevated making architecture less publicly involved.

Informal architecture has recently been elevated above ground. They lead into very private spaces in which public access is obstructed.

The coexistence of informal and formal architectural instances have the chance to make for very interesting conditions for a mediated culture.

inconceivable Dallas : introducing psychotomimetic architecture This project aims at bringing to physical architecture experiences common to mediated environments. Also it attempts to situate the ways in which our senses have become receptive to space via socially mediated devices.

In doing so, psychotomimetic architecture introduces the modern forms of liberation and individuality that are present in social media. inconceivable Dallas aims at delivering Fair Park Cotton Bowl Plaza in Dallas, Texas as the social grounds for a mediated society where movements such as Flash Mobs, Occupying, and public opinion can take place.

My project proceeds to develop architecture around these situations in a way that becomes orderly and a way of life. It provides amenities to the surrounding people, a playground for local children, a safe hangout for expressionist teenagers, as well as a day out of the office for business men and women.

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Today's Net Generation is enthralled by mediated sociability. The focus on social encounters has evolved in ways in which the physical world is perceived as less real than cyber-societies . The 21st century is seeing a redefinition of sociability and even reality, to such a degree that architecture, traditionally fixed, nonetheless harbors intangible narratives. Created by the Net Generation we now live in a society of spectacle.

Deceptions created by cyber-societies are actually depictions of how our culture has grown to adjust to products of spectatorship. Why is it that architecture is so timid in reflecting the imitation of experience? Stimulations created by cyber-societies have replaced physical experiences of our physical world much like the interactions of the characters of lewd reality shows or comedies (i.e. Jersey Shore, Desperate Housewives, etc.)

Our lived lives are becoming virtual popular narratives.

Spectacle includes display of pseudo-liberation featuring popular culture, sexual activities, and drug consumption. These practices of liberation merely underpin both a new form masquerading and the projection of the individual voice. In doing this, our culture transplants the conception of the social world from one of predominately physical contact into one of digital alienation. With this change in awareness of the common objects of reality, what dominates innate social thought and behavior of the 21st century?

Psychotomimeticism describes the state of ambiguity between the sensory and mediated world. It has been used to describe the sensual and subconsciously fantastical effects that certain drugs with psychotropic agents have on users. Describing these effects Dr. Albert Hofmann writes: The psychotomimetics produce profound and acute changes in the sphere of experience, in the perception of reality. Changes even in space and time and the consciousness of self. Phenomena of depersonalization may also occur. Retaining full consciousness, the subject experiences a kind of dream world, which in many respects seems to be more real than the customary normal world. Objects and colours, which generally become more brilliant, lose their symbolic character, they stand detached and assume an increased significance, having, as it were, their own more intense existence.

To live now is to establish that exact sense of alternate reality where one can escape immediate or actual reality and rely completely on the free will of the senses. The built environment in which the construction of these secondary cupboards of social belonging takes place is where we can make distinctions between public and private architecture. How can this stimulating artificialness be applied to the experience of the contemporary image of the built environment?

What ways can architecture of the geospatial world reflect the technocultural moments behind social media in which the Net Generation can relate, respond, and react?

The techniques of the 21st century that people use to create their interpretations of liberation and public exposure produce environments where the senses become evolved and perhaps tangled in certain ways. Senses that have adapted to the new technicalities of social behavior and reform are simply aroused by different modes of the physical world. These same senses have innately become receptive to the infinite dialogue of an intangible civilization.

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In a mediated environment architecture has the opportunity to act at different scales and communicate to mass of people.

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N Diagram indicating circulation types and frequencies documented during the annual Texas State Fair. Colored boxes are follies or fair attractions scattered around plaza.

Social Evolution + Technocultural

Outlined as an explanation of the observed differences in human achievement, social evolution is an instrument for identifying the current dominant practices in social behavior. As man's social techniques have evolved so has the documentation. Anthropology and sociology charts the change in human behavior. Ideologists have attempted to explain human desires for social interaction. American anthropologist Lewis White championed the concentration of the Digital Age noting, "culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased." With energy consumption and capitalism being the additive components of progression in the last century it has manifested a hyper-technological class of society - a technocultural society. It's a group where technology is the generator of social behavior and interaction creating a disposition of an augmented reality. The amplified production and maturity of devices aimed at increasing the transfer of information has distinctly marked the Digital Age.

In today's technocultural society, the increase in the use of technology inadvertently causes a drastic change in ordinary social activity producing new forms of communication, entertainment, romance, etc. Reason being that now technology is entirely more than the extent of the work place; it has become a vital part of our daily lives.

Social Media + Individuality + Acceptance

Today social media and spectacle take most of our time; technologies are more readily accessed for exercising our day-by-day social interactivities . Social media contains but is not limited to social networks, TV sitcoms, comedies, and reality TV shows. People are attracted to media such as this because of their unique and emotionally informative and entertainment characteristics. What's interesting is that these have become more than just forms of entertainment; the spectacle has become interactive. With the other releases of society provided by American pop culture, acts of liberation via social media have become subconsciously like drugs or an addition to the effects of the consumption of drugs. Because of broad exposure to children, once banned behaviors have become commonplace. Demonstrations in media, illegal drugs and social media have telekinetically jumped from subcultural to cultural mainstream. Being that there are many types of drugs that produce certain effects, what types and classes of drugs scatter the popular landscape? Even more importantly what media classes have complemented popular social genres causing similar psychological effects?

The instantaneous ability to remove oneself from the problems of contemporary local and global societies that social media provides has helped people to develop practices of anonymous individuality. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Inastagram and Tumblr are all tools in which the user can actively broadcast their own personal narratives. Also known as psychological or self-narratives, "personal experience narratives" are ways in which people record and advertise their temporal experiences. As described by Donald Braid:

Tower Technofolly SPECTATOR/SURVEILLANCE - Urban connector/Icon - Observation deck - Club - Fireworks shows - View to downtown - Cinema via Cotton Bowl - Skyway seating/State Fair - Facade projections/Sports - Art galleries - Parades

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Wa l l T e c h n o f o l l y MEDIATION/LIBERATION - Social media stop and go - Skype - Facebook - Blog - Mediate environment - Masquerade/Anonymity - Vestibule/Threshold - Elevate - Reorient to downtown

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Furniture Technofolly SPECTACLE/FRAMING - Seating/Wait/Relax - Skype Booths - Watch Hulu, YouTube, Netflix - Video gaming cube - Charging station/mobile device - Exercise/Meditate - Parkour obstacle/Train - Flash mob stages - Tanning surface - Picnic

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Service Technofolly ATTRACT/ACTIVATE - Food shack/permanent - Aroma throughout site - Elevated dining - Small gatherings - Club/bar - Plaza activity counter - Lazer tag/night - Racing carts/day - Ice skates/evening

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Aerial rendering of redesign of the Cotton Bowl Plaza with heavy concentration on follies making a physical social media landscape.

Human beings have experiences in the world, and living in relationship with other human beings, they sometimes find it useful or meaningful to communicate these experiences to other people through narratives. This ability of narrative to embody experience is central to its essence. . . the experience of following can give rise to affectively engaging states of mind or flows of thought that I term experiential meanings.

In using the term experience Braid suggests the senses being used as an interpretative process in which knowledge is accumulated.

On spoken narratives and listeners, he speaks of how the experience of "following" (as in Twitter) institutes dynamics of performance. Individual constructions created from the understanding of a narrative permit a form of individuality. With the complexities of social networking one can see that there are countless narratives unfolding simultaneously. Forms of media where the user takes on dual services of the spectator and the spectacle are becoming exponentially more popular. The user's obsession as followers and narrators in social networks create a social class of hyper-individuality. Platforms on which these practices of hyper-individuality are rendered - mobile phones, computer screens, etc., replace many traditional social contexts. Examples such as profile pages, status updates, and wall postings are the components in which create the ultimate experience in social behavior and continuously build on the users class of hyper-individuality and liberation.

In modern day forms of masquerading people develop new principles for social acceptance. Social media has replaced the formality of communal spaces in developing the guidelines for the social norm. In an attempt to create categories of the social networking user types, Altoids produced an ad titled The Altoids Curiously Strong Awards: Tribute to the Stars on Facebook. The parody lists the different user obsessions as follows: The Like-a-lot The Lyric Lover Princess Snapshot Food-ographer The Oversharer The Jet Setter Past Blaster Friend Tycoon With social media creating the new categories of social classes definitely shows the transferred importance of social behaviors.

PROGRAMMATIC COMPONENTS Soft surfaces for physical activities (exercising, lounging, projected movie seating, picnicking, individual stages

RAISED SPECTATOR PLATFORM

Reflective surface and shading device for media touchscreen wall Personal surfaces and booths for accessing social media accounts

PROGRAMMATIC TECHNOFOLLIES

Movie + SkyWay seating Observation deck for viewing downtown, fireworks, parades.

Club + bar by night Digital galleries and event info viewed from ground level

SPECTACLE GROUNDS / ACTIVE SPACE

Touchscreen exhibits and presentation walls Ticketing and information Local flea and farmers' market, demonstration, and contest space

THE SPECTATOR LOOP

Elevated atmospheric dining for food shack and dance club Storage for plaza games and food shack Permanent food shack for creating aromatic element and Plaza games checkout center Path for exercising, parades, border for plaza games

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Cotton Bowl Stadium

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Museum of Natural History

Skyway lift + gondolas Museum of Nature and Science Tower Building

Automobile Building

In response, psychotomimetic architecture creates that sense of alternate reality. A place, space or destination where the senses become deprived or confused only because what is perceived as ordinary gives one that sense of belonging. Psychotomimetic architecture challenges traditional thought on space and experience by echoing the rapid dominance of technological societies. It responds to the popular methods of communicating and neo-social behaviors. It is more than formal. It doesn’t claim to be natural. It is more than digital representations of common typologies; in fact it calls for new typologies. It doesn’t attempt to manifest digital networks. It reacts to the evolution of perception.

Spatial Perception + Sensibility

Theories of how our senses communicate ideas of space go back to the beginning of Western thought. Socrates and Plato being known as the predecessors of spatial concepts developed empirical studies on spatial reasoning. Their theories have given us the belief that concepts of space are innate. Immanuel Kant, a rationalist philosopher, however suggests that our spatial concepts are derived from our experiences and introduces time as a differentiating factor . In actuality, both theories are relevant in today’s society. One, our innate characteristics have obviously changed due to the progression of convenience and technology. Two, the created or built environment in which we live, has formulated different experiences (dealing with war, politics, and disasters) in which we react and learn. And finally three, the rituals we conduct have drastically changed giving way to different uses of our spatial parameters.

Having said that in today's Net Generation we have developed an alternate sense of reality from the attention of social media entails that all of the above changes our relation to space. The ways we interact with technology. The ways we experience the physical world. The ways we behave in social situations or places. All of these factors give the idea that architecture in its present state lacks the maneuverability needed for the modern technocultural man.

How can we situate the ways in which our senses have become receptive to space via socially mediated devices into architecture? Is it even possible? To do this we need to know the ways our senses relate to space.

Our sensory organs produce the ways in which we narrate ourselves in space amongst objects. David Katz, a psychologist popular in the twentieth century, argues that the phenomenological characteristics of perception are no less important in touch than in vision and hearing. In spite of this, he also argues that perception is not mediated by unconscious cognitive inferences. The way that the Net Generation has replaced experience of the physical world with the narration of the spectacle in social media disproves his theory. The sensibility we generate when scrolling down our Facebook wall or Twitter page give us reading about other's lives are in fact cognitive. We think, we reason, we remember. This continuous dialogue of the spectacle arouses the senses in ways the physical environment lacks.

Rendering of Wall Folly at night illuminating the landscape for an added level of security. The Wall Folly is filled with touchscreen surfaces for public use.

Rendering showing the spectacle vs spectator concept. The Cotton Bowl Plaza is thought of a place where social media is openly engaged and accepted.

Photo taken on Beijing street sidewalk, 2007.

Beijing is known as the City of Bicycles. There I found bike stations filled with an overwhelming number of bikes. The streetscape became an architectural opportunity in densely public areas.

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Modeled using Rhino and Grasshopper this bus stop parametrically shades the sun throughout any given day. Rendered using V-Ray.

Sensorial Bus Stop projected in a town in India.

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land use of parcels within 1 mile buffer of 690

I-690, Syracuse, NY Project Team: Carrie Leneweaver, Elle Rudick and LaSalle Tippens

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street segments that cross 690, used by either or both user groups

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toxic chemical storage and release points stationary sources of air pollution

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Planted Surface - helps clean the air as well and introduce green space for pedestrian interaction

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Surface as Landscape - interaction and awareness of changing conditions

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Surface as Amenity - morph into benches and other conditions related to the pedestrian

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Covered Walkway - shelters and directs pedestrian traffic

Leneweaver | Rudick | Tippens

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Existing Landmarked (Historical) Facade

Existing Metal Window Frame w/ New Glazing 3/4” Hardwood Veneer Plywood w/ Edge Banding

Hardwood Trim Painted 1/8” Sheet Metal Panel A Law-I Floor to Wall Exansion Joint Pressure Treated 2 x 6 Framing Spans Between Masonry Opening Insulation Continuous 2” x 2” x 1/8” Aluminum Angle 16” O.C. Tie to Verticals in Wood Blocking 3 5/8” Galvinized Metal Stud 1/8” Aluminum Panel

Closure panel + Existing Window

Concrete Slab

Existing facade meets new steel panels

Above Grade Closure Because the exisitng structure is indeed a historic one, the architects had to devise a clever way of meeting the pre-existing facade without actually altering it. This forced them to come up with a way to seal the edges of the building that was effective but non-invasive to any original architecture. They accomplish this by abbutting every existing surface with a sheet metal panel hung from metal studs aroudn the base of the building.

Above Grade Closure

Because the exisitng structure is indeed a historic one, the architects had to devise a clever way of meeting the pre-existing facade without actually altering it. This forced them to come up with a way to seal the edges of the building that was effective but non-invasive to any original architecture. They accomplish this by abbutting every existing surface with a sheet metal panel hung from metal studs aroudn the base of the building.

Closure panel + Existing Window

DETAILS [Rotch Library] MIT Architecture Library, Cambridge, MA Closure panel + Existing Window

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Exploded Componentry of Closure System Exploded Componentry of Closure System

Existing facade meet Existing facade meets new steel panels

Formed Metal Flashing

Skylight Assembly

by Wasco

Formed Metal Flashing

Continuous Metal Cleat Nailed to Wood Blocking 1/2” Gypsum Board w/ Metal Edge Trim

Vapor Barrier

EPDM on 3/4” Exterior Plywood w/ Bonding Adhesive

Neoprene Flashing on Lap Cement Smoke Exhaust Fan Pressure Treated Blocking (Countersunk) to Steel Channel

Pressure Treated 2 x 4 Blocking

Continuous Metal Fastner Concrete Encased Girder

3 5/8” Metal Studs

Batt Insulation

MC 6 Continuous Between Girders 3 5/8” Metal Studs Fasten to Steel Above 3” 3-Component Ceiling Joint By Erie Metal Specialties Existing Building

Atrium Skylight The Skylight acts as a ventilator for the entire building with it’s built-in air vents. It also opens up the space of the rennovation, architecturally expanding what is normally a very compressed floorplate condition.

Skylight Assembly

by Wasco

Formed Metal Flashing

EPDM on 3/4” Exterior Plywood w/ Bonding Adhesive

Pressure Treated 2 x 4 Blocking

Continuous Metal Fastner Concrete Encased Girder

3 5/8” Metal Studs

Batt Insulation

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