Darek Jerome | Portfolio

darek jerome

University of Cincinnati | Graduate Architecture Portfolio + Résumé

Digital Fabrication Center

Cranbrook Academy of Art | Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Fifth Year | Campus Studio

Exterior Perspective | Main Entrance + Exhibition Gardens

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Interior Perspective | Upper Level Studio Concourse

Interior Perspective | Main Level from Entrance

Located on the historic campus of the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the new Digital Fabrication Center highlights the growing field of technologically-driven design. This new edition to the traditional Saarinen master-plan serves as both studio space for the upper-level students of Cranbrook and a center for digital innovation for the neighboring communities. The building itself is designed to push the boundaries of the established methods of design and surrounding red brick and ivy vines - featuring a veiled exterior of translucent channel glass and sleek interior of aluminum grid and smooth white module.

The Digital Fabrication Center houses several programmatic components designed for students and resident artists including working studios, review spaces, an electronic media center, private dormitory complex and dining hall, and a robust digital fabrication lab. Also geared towards the visiting public, the center contains a large exhibition gallery and exterior sculpture garden as well as an expansive lower level with space for large receptions and public assemblies showcasing student and artistic works.

Axonometric | Building Components

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The building design was constructed around individual spatial volumes each housing separate programmatic elements. The modules were then slid in and out of an overarching structural and organizational grid creating circulation zones. In order to achieve this scheme of floating and sliding masses, the building design called for a combination of one unifying structure as well as individual moments of double and hidden structure. Although the design is essentially composed of one large structural matrix and individual masses, the structural composition is far more sophisticated and complex. The building essentially tricks the viewer into thinking that it is a simple operation of trebeated structure and harbored volumes, when in fact there are several instances where the structure is hidden or composed in a deceptive way to achieve this simplified and unified look.

Final Massing Model + Volumetric Study Models

Ideation Sketches | Diagrammatic Partis

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Precedent | Materiality + Formal Qualities

The Fabrication Building design was grounded heavily upon the strategies established within the New Residence at the Swiss Embassy project by Steven Holl Architects. Specifically, the use of channel glass and building materiality as well as the construction ethic of the interior were emulated within the Cranbrook project. Although visually simple and reduced to simple architectonic elements, the building is far more complex - using sophisticated wall systems that incorporate structural, environmental, and construction considerations. The two designs diverge significantly, however - Holl’s project served as an architectural basis on which many decisions were made, especially for details about structure and assembly.

Upper Level Artist Studios Roof Terrace Electronic Media Center Restrooms Student Studios

Ground Level Reception Area Exhibition Space Review Space Fabrication Lab Student Dorms

Ground Level Assembly Area Materials Storage Dining Area Restrooms Break-Out Space Student Dorms Recreational Courtyard

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Contextual Site Plan | Facilities + Courtyard Integration

Axonometric | Spatial Plan

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Section Perspective Study | Exhibition Gallery

Section Perspective Study | Fabrication Lab + Assembly Courtyard

The use of large plenum spaces within the ceiling and floor address issues of construction, structural, and environmental design. The space itself allows for a second structural system that can support the internal floating volumes of the architectural intent. It also gives ample room for the required active building systems and ventilation space. Constructionally, the use of plenum spaces to hide the HVAC systems behind a dropped ceiling and raised floor allows the interior spaces to appear as seamless, monolithic construction - re-emphasizing the simplicity of the architectural esquisse.

The masses containing vertical circulation actually serve as shear walls within the structural organization of the building. The main structure is composed of a basic framing system, however, multiple instances within the building introduce a secondary structure in order to achieve the floating nature of several internal programmatic volumes.

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Exterior Perspective | Courtyard + Grand Allée

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Thick Drawings

Graphic Analytiques Fifth Year | Graduate Studio

Site | Thom Mayne + Morphosis

Volume | Steven Holl

It is truly the architect’s sculptural and studio art that is most telling of his thought process.

Buildings emerge from their site through a careful manipulation of the matrix. Excavated from the ground below, they take sculptural form like a piece of architectural origami. The skin of the building itself is a constructed coat, folding and subdividing in all dimensions. The veil of mesh and glass adds yet another layer of complexity to the bare skeleton of the building’s structure, giving it its intrinsic character of a sleek, swooping work of art. It seems that every project is composed this way: several layers of mixed porosity and opacity. Every move is calculated out of the intuitive nature of the site - moving out of the forces directed by movement, light, and air.

There is an inherent phenomenological quality infused into each project. Volumes are masterfully eroded and concealed - harboring the narrative of the space within. This set of volumetric Russian Dolls delivers an ethereal quality - refracting every temporal quality of light and color, sense and direction. Hidden behind the rigid and often elementary nature of the exterior of each building, the interior is an array of grand volumetric gestures. These large capsules of positive or negative space perform simplistic boolean operations within space, resulting in incredibly complex and intriguing sculptural forms. The architect is a master of composition, using volumes as individual elements within a broader composition.

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Detail | Renzo Piano

Aperture | Door System

Although visually simple, slender, and effortless, every structure is perfected through a complex system of connection, balance, and layered construction. Often dealing with specific lighting and environmental issues, the building performs incredible feats to mitigate the effects of conditioning the space; at the same time, these screens of glass, architectural mesh, and louvers, float in space - two-dimensional planes of varying opacity. Details are never duplicated, but specifically designed for each project.

For the final analytique an aperture is developed in great detail - Customizing a system to be used within the given studio project. Architectural precedent gives insight into construction detail, but every piece must be manipulated and controlled to fit the aesthetic of its host building. This design, for example, extrapolates on a simple barn door - modernized into a sleek opening system. The track is concealed within the trebeated frames above and expressed grooves made into the ground - denoting the potential of sliding modules. Each panel is composed of polarized glass, that when slid together form a black screen, yet when parted become transparent once again, becoming a part of the architectural esquisse of sliding volumes and floating planes within a larger organizational and structural matrix.

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Constructivist Courtyard

DAAP Aronoff Center | Cincinnati, Ohio First Year | Foundation Studio With the Eisenman Aronoff Addition, the DAAP complex was essentially “completed” - no longer a set of disparate buildings; however, the building remains incomplete. There exists a void in the design, a hole in the system that encapsulates the previous complex. The exterior courtyard located at the terminus of the building’s Grand Stair is functional, accessible, visible, yet it is also unkempt, under utilized, and compromised. This re-design attempts to complete the current design of the building by recognizing the established parameters and rules of the architect and filling in the blanks.

The space develops itself through a continuation of the original architectural response. Walls and mullions are extruded through grids, terraces bridge topography and level changes, and finally the system twists to correct for skewed datums and restraints. Additionally, the building is supplemented through expansion of the current programmatic functions - enhanced performance and assembly space, recreation, and street access. This extension respects and reinvigorates the existing structure and finds the inner mechanisms that cultivate its space and order: a translation of interior materiality and devices to adept exterior usage, making dynamic use of hidden lines, and animating a phantom form.

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Precedent | Elemental Grid + Form Details

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Programmatic Site Plan | Proposed Extension

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Connecting Greenspace Existing DAA Building Existing Alms Building Performance Area Gridded Gallery

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Upper Level Lounge Connecting Bridge Event Break-Out Space Terraced Greenscape Grand Stair Extension

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Systematic Diagrams

Exterior Perspective | Gridded Gallery + Connecting Bridge

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Uptown Transit Center Burnet Woods | Clifton, Ohio Fourth Year | Capstone Studio

Exterior Perspective | Plaza + Entrance

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Enlarged Plan | Existing Site Context + Metro Routes

The stigma of a broken metro system has crippled progress and led to a decaying infrastructure. Similarly, many of the parks in Cincinnati area stand vastly under utilized and stagnant of any significant activity, in part due to crime and reluctant city dwellers.

In proposing Burnet Woods as a model site for an Uptown Transit Center, the patterns of neglected landscape and non-existent pedestrian experience may be reversed. The park becomes a framework for activity and interaction by combining a functionally rich green space with an effective, streamlined transportation platform. Together, the two interventions create a unique and viable zone for recreation and bring quality, accessible means of transportation that the city so desperately needs.

Ideation Sketch | Platform Assembly

Diagrammatic Site Circulation Systems

By introducing a transit center within a naturally green space, a symbiotic relationship is formed. Maintaining the integrity of the park, while infusing more vibrant programming creates a dynamic synergy moving people throughout the area. While the metro system effectively brings people away from the city and into the park, the park allows people easy access to the metro system and the rest of the city.

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Exterior Perspective | Platform + Track

In order to establish a strong connection with the surrounding areas and to maintain the park as a convenient access point for the residents of Uptown Cincinnati, the park includes a local circulator that runs along the park’s perimeter and ultimately transfers passengers to the Uptown Transit Center. Three additional, smaller platforms along the edges of the track allow for access from the surrounding communities such as the West Side via Good Samaritan Hospital, The University of Cincinnati via Campus Main Street, and The East Side via the Medical Campus and the Cincinnati Zoo. These secondary stations offer rapid shuttles that pick up passengers from continuous, local routes and drop them off onto the park platforms. There they may either connect to the park circular, running approximately every 3-5 minutes, or to the elevated pedestrian/bike track, allowing for quick access to a few of the park’s amenities including the fountain area and courtyard to the west, the fishing dock to the south, and the residential community garden to the east. Travelers also have the option of riding the circular along its counter-clockwise route in order to transfer between platforms and access other areas of the park.

The Uptown Transit Center operates 24 hours every day to provide a common platform for all Uptown residents, despite their individual schedules. All buses traveling in the immediate vicinity of the park make a connecting stop at the transit center, allowing Uptown residents the convenience of streamlined transfers from one route to the next. In addition to its added convenience, providing a running system throughout the day and night enhances security in the park and surrounding community with additional lights, video surveillance, and park staff. The Transit Center also includes a Metro Informational Kiosk where oncoming riders may purchase Metro passes, fare tickets, and obtain information about local routes, the park, as well as Uptown events and attractions.

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Aerial Views |

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Fishing + Dock Area

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Elevated Bike Trail

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Future Development West Side Platform Courtyard + Fountain Track + Soccer Complex Event Parking Local Circular Track Dog Park

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Axonometric | Tiered Overlook Sloping Lawn Fishing + Dock Area East Side Platform University Platform Elevated Bike Trail Clifton Plaza

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Spatial Plan

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Uptown Transit Center

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Clifton Recreation Center

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Metro Informational Kiosk Platform Convenience Store Cafe + Restaurant Public Restrooms

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Pool + Fitness Complex Locker + Shower Facilities Equipment Storage + Rental

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Artistic Work

Graphic Analysis + Composition Documentation Lab + AP Drawing

“Torrential” Mixed Media HS | AP Drawing

Line Studies

Still Life

Ink First Year | Documentation Lab

Graphite First Year | Documentation Lab

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“The Distracted Viewer” Mixed Media HS | AP Drawing

“Waiting for 5401”

Light Studies

Graphite First Year | Documentation Lab

Charcoal First Year | Documentation Lab

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Chaise Fantôme

Conceptual Chair Fourth Year | Furniture Design Seminar Although significantly different in appearance, the Adirondack Chair by Thomas Lee and the Sling Chair by Charles Hollis Jones are incredibly similar in purpose, ideology, and relative construction methods.

Each was designed as a simple lounge chair set to blend in with its surroundings. This can clearly be seen with the Adirondack’s natural wood and reclaimed lumber and the Sling’s sleek acrylic body. Both chairs place emphasis on the user’s profile, serving as a practical yet invisible means of relaxation. Lee and Jones also used starkly different construction techniques, but in context each is relatively simple, refined, and requires very few resources - Often being cut from only one or two sheets or materials.

This reinterpretation speaks to both of the aforementioned chairs. Its incline and slats speak to the natural ease of the Adirondack while the profile, materiality, and curvilinear system reflect the sleekness of the Sling. The chair is cut from two sheets of one singular material - Speaking to the utilitarian method of both designs. Its structure is well balanced and simple, modernized by the use of unconventional materials: acrylic.

This clear material allows the chair to literally disappear against its background similar to the others, creating the “invisible lounge chair”.

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Precedent Lounge Chairs

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Finished Presentation | Constructed Chair + Process Journal

Kinetic Structures

Future Cities Fourth Year | Urban Design Seminar The ideal city must be adaptive. It must be conscientious of space and the constant growth and decay of the urban environment. This future city is aware of conservation yet also accepting of expansion and contraction.

In order to adjust and account for this constant transformation, the setting should be comprised of modular space and connections.

The ideal city is based on the systematic approach of topotransegrity – Architecture that not only responds to present demand but also has the capacity to meet the needs of the future society. Tensegral structures have the inherent ability to change and transform. Spaces are appropriated based on volumetric necessity and ultimate capacity. There is always a constant structure, but there are limitless configurations – a 3D “open concept”. This allows for a development at not only the city scale but also at the humanistic level. Topotransegrity bridges gaps that have led to urban deserts in the past: making apposite use of interstitial spaces; appropriating environments, yet allowing for restructuring of previous programming; and attempting to connect existing “concrete” establishments.

It is as if the city is constantly shuffling – making room for people before they even exist, and economizing space that should never be laid to waste. Ultimately the ideal city must help us to realize that our entire planet is made of topotransegral structures – space that is constantly shifting within one greater, finite closed loop system.

Section Perspective | Topotensegral Spatial Stack

Topotensegral Structures

Kinetic High Rise

Individual Structural System | Resting + Expanded Form

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Suburban Anomalies

Unconventional Subdivision | Los Angeles, California Third Year | ESA - 3X Studio (1)

Generative Lighting Studies

Building Sections + Modules

The concept of residential building is revisited. Every living compartment is broken down into one essential module, explored through an unconventional study of section - Light, space, form, and experience.

These exploratory collages are then transformed into architectural parti sketches literally encompassing a stack of residential components. Focusing on the experiential and spatial sequence, the boundary, the edge, and the void, manipulation is translated into structure and program.

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This urban anomalies is identified through strategic and extraordinary responses. The formal gesture is a compartmentalized station - pieces of the whole connected by common ground and common backbone.

Parameters are set, but permeate to connect and expand, bend and fold. Reaching upwards and opening to light and air. A variable abode, experimenting and creating though unconventional means to break simple borders and preconceived notions of contrived regularity.

Exterior Perspectives | Street Views

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Station de Métro

Place Sainte-Opportune | Paris, France Third Year | ESA - 3X Studio (3)

Exterior Perspective | Light + Sound Activation

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Ideation Sketch | Generative Form

Situated in the heart of Paris, this site lies forgotten and neglected yet positively surrounded by all kinds of urban activity. It is connected to the second largest Métro station in the city, Châtlet, however, Place Saint-Opportune is often overlooked as a mere passage to get from one boulevard to the other. This architectural intervention therefore attempts to establish an identity for the urban causeway by enhancing the activity of all passing by. Its grandiose form is derived from several existing factors - incorporating elements from surrounding elements including a local Tabac, street Presse, and bike stations. It sweeps up and over to connect to these parameters, then dives down beneath the ground to become the new Métro stop, itself. The central courtyard becomes a hub for activity with a spectacle of sound by day and light by night - activating this once deserted part of an otherwise boisterous civic center.

Contextual Site Plan | Urban Installation

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La Presse

Existing Site Factors

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Exterior Perspective | Interior Courtyard - Sound Activation

Exterior Perspective | Interior Courtyard - Light Activation

By day these seemingly blank panels are actually sonorous, activated by touching the smooth surface. The walls echo each users sound, bouncing back and forth upon itself creating a symphony just as complex as the structure itself. Children especially may find this feature absolutely dazzling as they run through the passages with their hands outreached grazing the surface like a stick running across a picket fence. The grid emits a reedy, smooth note - varied in pitch by the actual size and shape of each parametric panel.

At night this urban intervention becomes yet another Parisian spectacle of light. Just as the panels emit sound during the day, each surface traces the path and form of each passing individual. The once blank walls erupt in cascading colors, each wave colliding representing the complexity of each person’s interaction. This sensory playground is enchanted by color and light creating a cacophony of visual excitement upon the blank canvas of a regimental and typical Haussmanian landscape.

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Transversal Section | Urban Hub + Métro Entrance

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Métro Entrance Pass Through Passage to Train Gathering Space

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Ticket Vendor Kiosk Lower Level Skylight Presse Compartment Métro Pass Station

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Clifton Literary Center

Ludlow Gaslight District | Clifton, Ohio Second Year | Immersion Studio

Ideation Sketch | Exterior Perspective

Amidst the traditional red brick buildings of Ludlow Avenue, the new Clifton Literary Center breaks erupts from the norm. The new library and temporary artist residence emerges in manifest geometry, folding and twisting to fulfill a variety of functions - the library stacks, the central staircase and elevator track, and reading niches on the lower floor. Its design was generated during a long charette, inspired by an intelligent form breaking the divide between an austere concrete box and a floating glass interior. The grid of the curtain wall and skylights allow a carefully calculated array of lined light to hit the white sculpture - a residual reminder of the manipulation of the original form, changing throughout the day.

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Ideation Sketch | Interior Perspective

Precedents | Formal + Spatial Qualities

Upper Level

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Lower Level

Floor Plans

Interior Perspective | Library Stacks + Form

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Vista Vineyards

Ridge Golf Club | Amberly Village, Ohio Third Year | Site Studio

Interior Perspective | Event Center Observatory Deck

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Site Development | Plan + Section

Site Study Models

Final Site Plan

Vista Vineyards is a local sustainable winery and event center located in scenic Amberly Village, just north of the greater Cincinnati area. Built on a previously overgrown golf course, the site plan takes advantage of existing rolling hills and enhances established greenscapes. It features a special path leading to the main building specifically designed to frame the scenic views of the sprawling landscape.

Within the main building visitors are offered a grand view under the sweeping roof. Several observation decks allow for casual dining and drinking while enjoying the rich views. The lower level features a wine shop as well as connection to the processing building where a local circular track gives hourly tours around the vineyard.

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Precedent Analytique | Giardini Giusti - Florence, Italy

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Site Diagrams

Building Section | Event Center + Observation Decks

Interior + Exterior Perspectives

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Northside Community Center Northside, Ohio Third Year | Urban Studio

Aerial Perspective | Community Center Building + Nox Circle

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Within this rather unconventional studio students were asked to develop a festival and community center to unite the diverse and historic community of Northside, Ohio. Located in the northern sphere of greater Cincinnati, this eclectic neighborhood boasts a variety of activities, but nothing wondrous, permanent, or noteworthy - perhaps the source of the local stagnation in community development and local interest. The new Northside Community Center is just grand and eccentric enough to combat this. The verbose, erratic building asks the surrounding area to question the normal, like a catalytic frag growing in a once abandoned site.

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Residential + Public Parking Lot Northside Auditorium Main Promenade Picnic Area Local Farmer’s Market Hoffner Circle Public Greenspace

The Northside Festival occurs once every Equinox and Solstice, celebrating the change of the seasons. Two large LED interactive gnomons display colorful and playful scenes changing throughout the day. Hamilton Avenue becomes a bustling center of local commerce with a Farmer’s Market plot as well as a new renovated Café and Grand Promenade, falling within the tracks of the former railroad line dividing the current site. Finally, the whimsical new building houses a large event space as well as performance venues, auditorium, and the home of the Cincinnati Planetarium - yet another nod to the mysticism of the seasonal Northside Festival.

Ideation Sketch + Exterior Perspective

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Cadillac Flagship Store New York City, New York Spring Co-Op |

Exterior Perspective | 11th Avenue + 50th Street

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Exterior Perspective | 11th Street Display + Main Entrance

Exterior Perspective | 50th Street Corner Signage + Ramp Feature

Located in New York City’s bustling downtown atmosphere, the current Cadillac / GM / Chevrolet store is in desperate need of a major renovation.

The Westside’s 11th Avenue has become a major car buying destination with several new dealerships arriving in the past few years alone.

Companies like Lexus and Honda have invested millions into creating a unique storefront experience along the busy NYC thouroughfare in hopes of beckoning passersby within their brand new facilities. Now it is time for Cadillac to create a flagship store all its own - one to match the prestige and quality of its world-renowned brand as well as the fast past and sleek style of New York City.

The building takes a prominent foothold of the urban fabric with a heavy corner of rich, varied Indiana limestone and back-lit signage. Finally, the previously utilitarian ramp, located between the first-second and secondroof levels, becomes a signature design element with match glass curtain wall and clean-white interior.

The building currently features an array of outdated façade treatments and antiquated interiors. The new design not only brings the Potamkin location up to Cadillac branding standards, but propels the brand forward with an elegant street display, unique interior / exterior ramp feature, and highly modernized, luxurious interior space. No longer covered in dark, mismatched exterior panels and old blue iconography, the main entrance shines brilliantly in the exposure of southwestern sun with a branded stainless steel entrance and a stunning double-high glass curtain wall.

The interior of the flagship store is also overhauled with a smooth, futuristic palette of polished black floors, rich wood accent walls, and brilliant white walls and ceilings accented by the liveliness of Cadillac’s display vehicles in signature colors of black, white, blue, and crimison.

I spent a majority of my time working with Gensler on this $50 Million project, starting with a basic computer model that fluorished into a very detailed framework for the entire schematic design process. The building went through almost 75 variations during its 2 month re-envisioning. The renderings presented here were generated, presented, and agreed upon as the final bid by the Cadillac board and overseeing project designers.

Photos | Existing Conditions

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Interior Perspective | Reception + Showroom

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Interior Perspective | Guest Lounge + Feature Wall

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T/ PARAPET A 54' - 2"

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T/ PARAPET A 54' - 2"

ROOF 40' - 4"

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LEVEL 02 21' - 4"

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Interior Perspective | Service Entry + Check-In Area

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Entry Level

LEVEL 01 A 2' - 4"

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Building Section | Street Display + Main Entrance

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Visitor Center

University of Cincinnati | Clifton, Ohio Fifth Year | Interchange Studio

Exterior Perspective | Arrival Plaza + Main Entrance

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Interior Perspective | Central Atrium + Reception Area

Interior Perspective | Ascending Gallery

Interior Perspective | Ascending Gallery

Despite its innovative foundation, striking urban campus, and prestigious programs, the University of Cincinnati fails to attract positive attention or elevated recognition due to its poor location and lack of significant branding or “curb appeal”. The campus, although thoughtfully designed and engineered, is missing a key focal point or iconic style that evokes a central, overarching university image, and a new visitor’s first impression is often besmirched by a lack of concise direction, confusing infrastructure, and entangled urban decay.

UC will re-brand itself and bring its image as a top-tier higher-learning institution to par with its nationally recognized academia by creating a new branded experience that encapsulates the true essence of UC for all visitors and potential students, athletes, directors, faculty, etc. A new corridor will draw people from major access points into the university, unified by iconic campus elements, ultimately leading to a multi-functional visitor center / UC orientation facility and a completely branded, packaged tour experience surrounding the campus and the essence of the Bearcat community.

Ideation Sketches | Design Process

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Exterior Perspective | Arrival Ramp

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Building Sections | Transversal + Longitudinal

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Burnet Woods Campus Green Drive Parking Garage Entrance Langsam Library Future Development Site

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Meyer Alumni Hall Sigma Sigma Commons Lindner College of Business Arrival Plaza Visitor Center

Reception Desk Guest Lounge Public Restrooms Administration Offices Waiting Area Staff Lounge Copy + Fax Storage Area Ascending Gallery

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Pleasant Perspectives

Pleasant Street Corridor | Over-The-Rhine, Ohio Sixth Year | MetroLab Studio

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Located in the heart of Over-The-Rhine, the Pleasant Street05.20.2015 corridor that connects Findlay Market to Washington Square Park is both an eyesore and an opportunity. Over the decades, much of this area has been blighted by poverty, socio-economic instability, and neglect; however, with recent efforts OTR is now the center of Cincinnati’s booming revival. Many of the deserted buildings and vacant lots have been restored and reimagined, breathing life into this urban desert.

As a part of UC’s MetroLab, this interdisciplinary studio looked specifically at Pleasant Street and how it might become a vital pedestrian throroughfare. Teams worked with several community engagement committees, local stakeholders and business owners, and OTR residents to explore revitalising and re-imagining the pedestrian experience. The studio identified several nodes or areas of opportunity as well as a strategy to both engage the community and create one cohesive vision. [Pleasant Perspectives] uses simple materials, hands-on interaction, and the power of social media to spark the the Queen City’s imagination. Passersby use the plexiglass viewing frame to show the world their imagined possibility of what each space might become. After drawing up their great ideas, visitors can walk into their own creation, pose, snap a photo, and share it with the world: Asking the rest of Cincinnati, “Do You See What I See?”

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thankyou acknowledgments

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN Academic Advisors + Studio Professors George Bible

Udo Greinacher

Vincent Sansalone

Terry Boling

Ellen Guerrettaz

David Lee Smith

Robert Burnham

Gerald Larson

Ming Tang

Edson Cabalfin

Amberly Maryo

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