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Content Resume - 4 Academic Architect’s Club: London - 6 The Marilyn Monroe Museum for Comedic Sensuality - 14 Medius - 24 Farming the Flood - 28 Dense Atmosphere - 34 A Silence in the City - 42 Big Sky Ski Lodge - 50 Personal Garden Party - 58 A Beautiful Conflict - 64 Sanctum Elementum - 72 Don’t Mind the Rock - 76 Optional Intent - 82 Teaching Design Communications 1,2 - 88 Professional Not in Kansas Anymore - 92 International Square - 96 Hermitage Place - 102 Hudson Yards - 106 Chicago Boogie-Woogie - 112
Mircea Eni +1 312-813-5826 mirceaeni@gmail.com Education Harvard University Graduate School of Design Master of Architecture with Distinction, 2013-2015 Illinois Institute of Technology Bachelor of Architecture Cum Laude, 2008 - 2013 Employment History Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Adjunct Professor: August 2016-June 2017 www.arch.iit.edu/ Created the curriculum for a visual training class and taught it for one year. Krueck + Sexton Architects, Chicago, USA Architectural Designer: March 2015-July 2017 Internship: Summer 2013, 2014 www.ksarch.com International Square - competition, concept and schematic design. Hermitage Place Residential Complex - concept design. Hudson Yards Tower - concept design. 130 N Franklin Tower - concept design, schematic design. Obama Foundation Offices - construction documents and administration. Spertus Institute Interior - construction documents and administration. Franklin Center Lobby - schematic design. 10-30 S Wacker Lobby - design development. LAX United Terminal - competition, design development. Nairobi Embassy - schematic design. McCormick Arena - competition. Speculative projects and exhibitions - lead. Site Design Group, Chicago, USA Internship: Summer 2012 www.site-design.com Private Residence - entry sequence schematic design. University of Chicago Landscape - schematic design. Skills Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite, Unity Engine, CAM software. CNC milling, rapid prototyping, advanced model making. Fluent Languages English, Romanian, Russian. http://issuu.com/mirceaeni mirceaeni.com
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Awards Finalist in Lamborghini Road Monument Young Architects Competition, 2016 Won Moldova’s Prime-Minister Award for Top Student Studying Abroad, 2014 Won VIATechnik’s George Lucas Museum Design Contest, 2014 2x Honorable Mentions for isArch International Student Competition, 2013 Won AIA NEI Excellence in Architecture, 2012 Won Samuel Horwitz Award, 2012 Won Dwight T. Black Scholarship Award, 2012 Won AIA Finalist Award, 2012 Won Holabird Study Fellowship, 2011 Nominated for Horowitz Award, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nominated for Danforth Scholarship, 2012 Top 10 MOCCA International Ideas Design Competition, 2010 Nominated for Peterhans Visual Training Award, 2009 Publications www.suckerpunchdaily.com // Top 20 MOCCA International Design Competition 2010 www.suckerpunchdaily.com // STRETCH – Urban Campus Connector 2012 www.evolo.com // STRETCH – Urban Campus Connector 2012 www.viatechnik.com // George Lucas Museum Competition Winner Announcement www.isarch.org // isArch 2013 International Student Competition Special Mentions www.bustler.com // isArch 2013 International Student Competition Winner Announcement Exhibitions Architecture at A+D Museum // Los Angeles, California // 2017 One Night Stand LA // Los Angeles, California // 2017 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry // Chicago, Illinois // 2016 Chicago Architecture Biennial // Chicago, Illinois // 2015 Illinois Institute of Technology Open House // Chicago, Illinois // 2009 - 2013 isArch International Student Competition // Barcelona, Spain // 2013 ACSA/AIK International Conference: Open Cities // Seoul, Korea // 2014
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Architect’s Club: London A Place to Get Away From it All Studio, 2014 Instructor: Sir Peter Cook
Architects are trained to be able to relate anything to architecture. Their profession consists of being able to take any problem and resolve it through design. This creates an overwhelming feeling within the profession and a constant desire to escape work; a necessity to get away from it all. London is one of the more popular cities for architectural offices. The specific neighborhood Clerkwell is the home of numerous fresh and progressive architectural offices and schools such as the Bartlett and the AA. This becomes the ideal location for an Architecture Club, one that can provide the above mentioned escape. To do so, this proposal provides a space to get away from it all and at the same time it provides the all. The club ignores the existing context and creates a solid block on the entire site. The building wraps around the existing houses located on the site to provide a sense of grounding and beginning for the rest of the building. The entrance is located at House #1 which remains unchanged, as the club members moves to the second floor of the house The Club begins to emerge as a series of distortions from normative to the architectural. The building distances the architect from the outside world and squeezes him into a world of itself through a gradient of highly public to highly private spaces until the architect reaches his/her private room from which he/she is able to escape down into the underground communal bath. The bath is lit through the light shafts which carve the interior of the building illuminating the rest of the spaces. The club thus exists in a tension between the constant desire to get away from it all for architecture while always returning to it all through architecture.
1. The architect in the most comfortable state. 2. Interior space diagram . 3. Front and back building elevations.
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1. Interior transformations. 2.The gallery. 3. The room. 4.The bath.
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1. Through the back to the top. 2. Study models.
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The Marilyn Monroe Museum for Comedic Sensuality A Simultaneous Inhabitation of Multiple Instances of the Same Space Studio, 2014 Instructor: Mack Scogin
Inspired by an early personal spatial experience, the Simultaneous Inhabitation of Multiple Instances of the Same Space refers to a spatial impossibility where space is a dynamic form unbound by its physical defining boundaries. The phenomena refers to the jump in scales of the ordinary in ways which are so dynamic and fluid that these merge into a seamless new reality. The Marilyn Monroe Museum for Comedic Sensuality is an exploration of the above mentioned phenomenon within the personality of the individual manifested in architecture and space. Located in Central Park, New York, the museum creates a East to West void within the site of the park spanning the width of one block. The museum is divided into the spaces formed by this assigned intersection of the New York block and the existing Ramble zone of Central Park. The formed spaces represent the infinite number of personalities and scales of the Marilyn persona and are articulated in a appropriately incomprehensible way. All the spaces are located underground with individual access from the ground surface. Thus the museum can only be experienced one space at a time leaving its scale, size and vastness indefinitely unknown. One is always aware of an incomplete experience of the museum, however he/she can never fully achieve the complete one. Similar to Marilyn’s way of achieving sensuality: never exposing everything at the same time, while expressing all the parts individually.
1. Marilyn in her last photoshoot. 2. Spatial narrative in video form.
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1. The site. 2. The formation of spaces. 3. Experience of the museum.
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1. The spaces. 2. The paths. 3. The model in parts. 4. Physical site model. 5. Assmebled through perception. 6. The incomprehensible. 7. The separated spaces.
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Medius Shapes of Utopia Theory, 2014 Instructor: Erika Naginski Partners: Royce Perez, Jessica Sevilla
Medius magnifies current economic trends of a nation’s gross domestic product as a means to propose a dystopic condition. This magnification separates the northern and southern hemispheres into their respective product outputs while allowing the basic needs for both to converge at the new world capital: Medius. Items such as trade, education, and consumer markets all take place at Medius. This global city stretches the entirety of the planet and controls the dialogue between the north and the south. All existing cities will be reconfigured and adapted to a new distribution network. Under this regime each city has a stronger cultural identity, which is attached to the local practice and the product it provides. Items are produced in the outskirts of the city and then transported to the main port located in the center of the social and governing facilities. The transportation system becomes a spectacle in the landscape. The population holds a high respect and reverence to the institution of Medius. It is a symbol of humankind and the consequence of its history, for this reason Medius is the place held in the highest regard, where only the most devoted and capable members of the system reside. Not only is Medius a place, but it is also the manifestation of our beliefs. It represents the duality between the north and the south, conception and craft.
1. The New World Map. 2. View into the world of North. 3. View into the world of South.
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1. Section through medius. 2. The central trading space.
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Farming the Flood Green Card Conversations Studio, 2013 Instructor: Solano Benitez
The current emerging global issues are evolved from the abrupt increase in population and decrease in available resources. This scarcity of materials and increase in demand for architecture urges architects to create new types of architectural materials and construction methods. Farming the Flood is a project that attempts to solve these issues. Cities are currently overflown by people who are leaving their farming behind to attempt a life in the city. Farming the Flood is driven by this social factor. The project uses the farmers’ agricultural expertise in order to create a new type of architecture. The construction process is revolved around the routine tasks common in agriculture such as irrigation and hoeing. With these two techniques and the proposed mixture of sand and Bacillius Pasteurii a new construction method is formed. Pasteurii is a bacteria that produces calcite and is able to bind the sand forming sandstone. The farmers are required to set up an irrigation system followed by a systematic weekly addition of layers of sand. This method is similar to 3D printing and allows for the architecture to grow vertically without the need of any formwork. The current proposal’s site was chosen based on the country’s expertise in agriculture and increase in urbanization. Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay is currently under a heavy process of urbanization that results in an increased favela population. Farming the Flood is placed in one those favela’s in Asuncion which undergoes regular flooding damaging the lives of these new urban inhabitants. The project incorporates itself in the already existing favela phenomenon of destruction and reconstruction with long term goals to eliminate the fragility aspect of the favela life while keeping its identity as an expressive urban organism.
1. Farming the tower. 2. Development and phasing diagrams.
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1. Cross section. 2. Building with farmers. 3. Plan.
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Dense Atmosphere A Center for Religious Understanding Studio, 2012 Instructor: John Ronan
Inspired by lace, Dense Atmosphere, explores the possibility of creating complex atmosphere using a basic construction material - lumber. The structure utilizes lace like densities to both block and reveal activities in the building promoting religious understanding. Designed in response to the scale of the construction material, the structure is based on a grid defined by the structural capabilities of the material. Using a 2x4 as a proposed material, the grid becomes constrained to a maximum of 6’ by 6’ based on the member’s span distance as a beam. This results in a dense flat grid that is extruded to the maximum possible height of the member acting as a column: 16’. The column elements are slanted to affect visitors at the scale of an individual. Movement becomes more restrained thus the visitor of the building is slowed down and encouraged to experience wandering rather than rushing. In order to connect the visitor with the building, the grid houses stacks of books. These are “scanned” by the visitor as he experiences the building. As the individual continues to explore the building, he begins to discover larger spaces. These are freed from the density of the angled columns. Even though these spaces are more open than the rest of the building, they still feel enclosed as result of the aggregations formed around them. These voids provide a sense of serenity that can be used for meditation.
1. Lace with multiple density. 2. 2x4 jointery. 3. Density development. 4. Spaces as absence of denisty.
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1. Study of density in plan. 2. Exterior view. 3. Plan. 4. Section.
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1. Study models. 2. Exterior elevation. 3. Interior morning. 4. Interior afternoon. 5. Interior evening.
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A Silence in the City Studio, 2010 Instructor: Leslie Johnson
This Benedictine Monastery in Stearns Quarry Park investigates the physical manifestation of the search for God. It unfolds itself in three stages: search, conversion and closure. These three elements are portrayed as distinct architectural expressions that respond to their spiritual persona. The search element takes the form of raw architecture. It is a long sharp volume that grows out the earth housing separate private and public spaces. Here both the visitor and the monks gradually lose contact with the city while approaching the second stage, that of conversion. This second element is the church. Standing tall as a clear rectangular volume, the church is invaded by the volume of search carving the interior mass and forming the church sanctuary. The sanctuary is a tall sculptural element that opens itself to the sky becoming the final stage in the search for God. Here under the light both monks and public are seen as equal before God, and both share the same faithful commitment. Following the monks life pursue and devotement to God, they journey into the final stage of the monastery, that of closure. This final element is represented by living cells. Portrayed as individual fragments, the cells escape the volume of the church branching out into the pond. These shard-like living spaces carry remains of architecture encountered along the journey forming a cloister over the surface of the pond. The cloister is nested by the limestone ridge, providing the monks with the desired solitude. The dense sunken structure of the cells and the quietness of the cloister provide a fish spawning area ensuring the renewal of the public fishing pond. Fishing then becomes a way for the public to transcend into a state of patience and solitude similar to the atmosphere of the monastic community.
1. Benedictine monks. 2. Site collage. 3. Plans with unrolled section.
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1. Overall model. 2. Element of search - exterior. 3. Element of search - section.
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1. Cloister section. 2. Church section.
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Big Sky Ski Lodge Studio, 2010 Instructor: Dan Pohrte
The Big Sky Ski Lodge is a concrete structure that grows from the landscape and manipulates the context to its own advantage. It improves the social experience of the skiers and provides a wider variety of interaction between its visitors. Located at mid-mountain altitude, it creates a safety net phenomena for the descending skiers forming an outdoor plaza-like space. The architecture of the lodge reinterprets the idea of private and public spaces. The intent was to push the limits and breach private spaces, allowing the public to get glimpses of “behind the scenes� activities. The lodge controls the collision between visitor and staff members and responds to those spaces accordingly.
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1. Site strategy. 2. Approach from valley. 3. Approach from slopes.
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Garden Party Competition, 2016 Partner: Marshall Ford
Forced relationships fail; organic relationships thrive. In order to revive the garden as a thriving and viable living organism in the heart of the city we reintroduce the human-nature relationship lost and forgotten over time with architecture (human) that celebrates and embraces endemic, existing (nature) and nurtures a lush, expanding, natural green foundation for the future of the garden. Based on primitive forms, the lightweight structure necessitates a weightless, translucent membrane penetrated by existing trees, blurring the lines between human and nature, architecture and landscape, architecturally balancing and embracing the chaos of these intersections into sublime moments where the garden is reborn from the organic pieces that have existed there for decades. Integrated within the structure is an invisible irrigation system that nourishes the immediate surrounding landscape into a micro-garden within the larger park, anchoring the architecture to the garden as a necessary, thriving moment born from the disdain and abandonment that so often results in renaissance.
1. Pavillion deployed in park. 2. Inhabitting the pavillion. 3. Construction sequence and use.
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A Beautiful Conflict University Island Competition, 2016 Partner: Nikita Troufanov
The island of Poveglia is a place of beautiful conflict. It is both natural and man made. It manifests in a serene struggle between land and sea. A single entity in which nature and architecture are deeply intertwined. A place of isolation and now a space for interaction. A city of ruins and a village of collective living. These opposing elements form a great place for learning. A place that provides students with the engaging city density in a tightly knit campus. Old ruins and new structures all come together around a large piazza. Here the students mingle, collaborate and exchange, moving from building to building. The classroom spaces are spread across the campus cluster to encourage maximum interaction and friction between the idiosyncratic students. The buildings share that same characteristic with the students. These are such unique locations and architectural expressions that they assimilate nicknames. Students meet to brainstorm in ‘The Hat’, they search for books together in ‘The Cloud’, take classes in ‘The Tower’ and get inspired in ‘The Village’. These structures either stand on their own, or attach to the existing structures, playing off of the features of the old buildings. Together, they create a lively roofscape and define a unique silhouette for the whole island. As the day slows down so do the students, slowly working their way home. Some by boats back to mainland, others on foot to their island accommodations. They drift away from the busy campus to their place of solitude at the edge of the island. Two hundred students are provided with individual rooms to experience the true nature of living on an island. The experience of the edge, living on the line of conflict between land and water. On the edge of the lagoon students are able to ponder and assimilate their daily active experiences in their own bubble. Outside their apartment lie pavilions for interacting with their neighbor, forming small villages. The students are able to have small communities and at the same time enjoy their own selves. Although within close physical proximity to the campus, the lush forest in between provides the necessary buffer for students to let go of work and indulge in play. At least until tomorrow. 1. Land versus sea. 2. Land locked and sea locked.
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1. Campus center 2. Forest commute. 3. Seclusion. 4. Campus plan. 5. Arrival. 6. Campus plan. 7. Housing plan.
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Sanctum Elemental Competition Finalist, 2016 Partner: Marshall Ford
Lamborghini is built to provide a moment of inherent human exhilaration - at the crux between anticipation and satisfaction, driving, heart racing on both sides of a razor sharp edge. It is the machine between the unknown and revelation, passion and achievement and this is a monument that embodies what drives the dream of Lamborghini - the dueling elements of the machine. One cannot exist without the other. Without the core - the engine, the machine - the shell is nothing, hollow, unfulfilled, and static. Without the shell the core is unprotected, raw, devoid of potential and destined to stillness. The shell is fragile but necessarily iconic in form. The core is solid but necessarily humble in personality. The shell is wanted; the core is needed. Without the perfect engineering of each, creating elements that combine to culminate in the pinnacle automobile, Lamborghini does not exist. This engineering happens here, at Lamborghini. Thus the gateway to the factory is a monumental distillation of the pure forms, the essential elements of Lamborghini.
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1. One factory two monuments. 2. Speed drawing. 3. Half elevations. 4. The shell - rendering. 5. The shell - plan. 6. The core - rendering. 7. The core - plan.
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Don’t Mind the Rock: A One Night Stand in LA Exhibit, 2017
This is not just about motels. It is about all of America. The recession of the motel as the American place of comfort speaks directly to the socio-economical transitions happening in the country in the past 50 years. The disappearance of this building type is caused by the disappearance of the American middle class. The motel used to be where the non privileged America could comfortably rest in their travels and enjoy refreshing pools in the summer while exploring the vast cross-country highway. Now it is a place with no audience and no ability to continue in its former minimally glorious form. Like a manifestation of absence, this solid black mass emphasizes the disappearance of one of America’s greatest architectural typologies: the motel. The mass directs the attention away from itself and onto the context of this room. A place that used to be about familiar comfort has become a place for discomfort. In turn, the motel itself is not the real issue for its decline, but rather the context it exists in.
1. Interior collage. 2. Invasive rock. 3. Plan.
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1. Fabrication offsite. 2. Offcuts.
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1. Rock tension. 2. Inhabitted rock. 3. Material relfectivity.
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Each individual submission will consist one text, one image and one object. text - A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form. (text must contain language) image - A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art. To make a representation of the external form of. (An image must be printable) object - A material thing that can be seen and touched. (An object should contain three-dimensionality)
Each submission will use these mediums to represent architecture, architectural and Architecture. architecture - The general public’s view of the discipline. (This would be the view of Architecture from one outside the discipline) architectural - What you claim architecture to be. (This can consist of inspiration, precedents and or any form of working tools you may use in your explorations. This would be considered a bottom up view of Architecture) Architecture - What the discipline claims to be. (This is to be what you consider the discipline to be in its purest form. This would be a top down view of Architecture towards the discipline) 1
Optional Intent Architecture at A+D Museum, Los Angeles Exhibit, 2017
As part of the Architecture exhibit at the A+D Museum this submission consisted of three elements: image, text and object. Each of these had to be associated with a specific look at architecture. Optional Intent looks at architecture through the lenses of Villa Le Lac by Le Corbusier, and focuses at the garden wall with a window overlooking the lake. The letters are a satirical demonstration of how this design situation is approached in contemporary offices, while the object shows the pure experience of that design desire. The image - the photograph - is the only real element in this collection and also happens to be the true form of architecture.
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Design Communications 1, 2 1st Mandatory Visual Training Course Academic Year 2016-2017
The course was developed to introduce 1st year students to a wide variety of tools through which they can communicate their designs and most importantly: think. The class was backed up by numerous video tutorials created and published specifically in the support of the assignments in the class. This way the students can use class time for pinup, critique and assignment explanation and outside class-time to learn the software. The learning process happens through the video tutorials paired by rigourous practice. The assignments were crafted and introduced to the students with great attention and care in order to get them excited for the new task. The work made use of digital tools such as Rhino, Photoshop and Illustrator but it never ended there. It was mandatory to continue drawing and making after clicking print.
1. In-class drawing exercise. 2. Multi-media drawing by student: Piotr Wojcik.
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1. Class preparation. 2. Assignment presentation. 3. Documentation and drawing by student: Dominique Sokan.
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You’re Not in Kansas Anymore Museum of Science and Industry Exhibit, 2016 Krueck + Sexton Architects
Tasked to express architecture through LEGO, our proposal searched to plea for a change in architecture. Rather than show existing architecture we moved the LEGO outside its comfort zone to make it express itself in new ways. Today architecture seeks to resolve new issues with old solutions, unwilling to accept change. For the LEGO block this situation is simulated by simply changing the context and forcing it to adapt to un-clickable territories.
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1. Solid cuts. 2. New topography. 2. New sites. 4. New constructions.
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International Square Competition Won, Concept Design, Schematic Design, 2015 Krueck + Sexton Architects
The project was part of a redevelopment initiative of one of Tishman Speyer’s major properties in Washington DC. The existing building was at capacity in terms of office lease, however the commercial spaces were of little use. The intent was to up the value of the ground and basement level of the property in an attempt to create a new urban destination. The proposal looks at turning the building inside out and creating “street frontage” in the basement. This is done by carving out a major portion of the current floorplate to allow for a double height enclosed plaza with clear exposure to the adjacent major street. This new street frontage would be used for commercial space with a living room condition in the center.
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Hermitage Place Concept Design, 2016 Krueck + Sexton Architects
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The client owns land adjacent to a unique train track condition. The Chicago Transportation Authority uses the land behind the client’s property to transfer the train track from underground to above ground conditions. The stretch of about 500ft is proposed to be used as an elevated park platform that 1313 N. Moorman would allow the11,construction on the property of the client to span across the KRUECK SEXTON ARCHITECTS | OCTOBER 2016 tracks. This new public park would allow for pedestrian connections to happen across the currently divided land. Additionally the proposed towers contain commercial spaces situated around the newly developed platform to increase traffic and create a new type of urban condition.
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1. Unit with courtyard view. 2. New platform use. 3. Artist lobby. 4. Unit type distribution. 5. Artist lobby plan.
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Hudson Yards Tower Concept Design, 2015 Krueck + Sexton Architects
A fast reshaping of a tower in Hudson Yards. The client was interested in reshaping the building skin while maintaining the already designed core and floor layouts. The proposed design looks at shrink-wrapping the building skin to respond to the interior cascading cores. Using cold-bent glass for the curtain wall system the skin is able to express more bay-window conditions closer to the ground level while gaining rigidity of form as it approaches the sky.
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Chicago Boogie-Woogie Chicago Biennial, 2015 Krueck + Sexton Team
With hundreds of empty lots around the Chicago south side the neighborhoods become more and more segregated. Since bigger isn’t always better Chicago Boogie-Woogie proposes a shared live space where individual’s own units for personal space and share amenities as public space. Segmented in three bars of three unit types, this prototype for living encourages different family statutes to living within the same building complex. This forces a higher density to occur in a small area creating the currently non-existent urban condition. The three bars are then cross-intersected with rows of marching trees which mediate the levels of privacy between the units as well as establish a central courtyard orchard. When you own a unit here, you own, a bed, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen , a café, a restaurant, a florist, a barbershop, a workshop, a library. You own everything. Even an orchard.
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