urban detail Noah Resnick : Selected Professional Work
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Biography : Noah Resnick currently teaches and practices in the city of Detroit, Michigan. He is a principal of uRban Detail, along with cofounder and wife, Melissa Dittmer. It is a small research based architecture and urban design studio that operates under the interrelated concepts of the architectonics of multiple scales; the architect as urban collaborator; and the architect as community builder. Noah grew up in Miami, Florida, where he attended the Design and Architecture Senior High magnet school (D.A.S.H.). He earned his BArch from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, graduating at the top of his class, for which he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal of Excellence. Noah completed his Masters of Science in Architecture Studies (SMarchS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Architecture + Urbanism stream. This degree culminated in an urban design thesis that focused on the potential for transit oriented development nodes in the city of Detroit. In addition to Detroit, Noah has lived and practiced in Chicago, Boston, and New York, as well as Berlin, Germany where he worked in the studio of Daniel Libeskind. His professional experience in architecture and urban design ranges from the conceptual and design development of a two hundred thousand sq ft mall/ spa complex in Switzerland, to in depth urban design studies and proposals for very high profile Central Artery sites above the ‘Big Dig’ in Downtown Boston, to the full service design and construction administration of a high-end townhouse building in New York City, to the landscape design of the City Hall Plaza and nearby park in Downtown Brockton, Massachusetts. Most recently, Noah served as the project architect for the construction administration of the Affirmations Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in Ferndale, Michigan.
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urban detail Professional Philosophy
It is the architect’s role not merely to design buildings and spaces, but to create wholistic environments, both physical and cultural, for humans to exist, inhabit, and transgress. This must be accomplished at a multiplicity of scales, with a diverse set of tools, and the proper balance between theory and practical knowledge. Nowhere is the employment of these elements experienced more clearly than with a successful architectural intervention in an urban context. Thus, it is through the lens of urbanism that I approach my professional practice and research endeavors. In practicing architecture, I intend not only to design buildings on an urban scale, but also to construct the details of urbanism at the scale of the body. A professional process focused on the conditions inherent in an urban fabric allows me to operate under three central concepts: The architectonics of scale, the architect as collaborator, and the architect as community builder. The first of these three concepts serves to explore the relationships between the micro and macro scales of an urban environment. My objective is to find projects that utilize the building not merely as the product of a single client, but as a design(ed) tool that mediates between these scalar poles. To do so, I must foster a process with which to work simultaneously on the construction details that engender interaction with the human body, and the urban plan that promotes interaction with the community. Louis Kahn stated: “A street wants to be a building”. I approach my practice under the theory that the entire city wants to be a building. One that is designed and constructed organically with an amalgam of architectural and landscape interventions,
as an emergent solution to a community’s needs. Through this viewpoint, I strive to exploit the potential for a detail at the human scale to create a new type of public space at the urban scale. The second concept at the core of my practice is to accept architecture as a predominantly collaborative endeavor. I appreciate that my design efforts can only be manifested as architecture through an engagement with those who will engineer, construct, finance, and use the building. And, just as the designer must work in concert with these agents, so should the architectural intervention engage with its surrounding urban condition and its cultural, historical, economic, and philosophical context. The third central concept integrates the first two in order to empower my work to reach beyond the physical boundaries of building design. By identifying the role of architecture in the urban fabric, I hope to fulfill the architect’s responsibility to the community - both as a sustainable builder/craftsman, as well as an intelligent and sensitive social problem solver. Although I seek to understand and employ universal concepts of urbanism, it is through the filter of a number of specific cities that I shape each design. My architectural outcomes are directly influenced by the particular city in which I am practicing, regardless of the project site location. Every design is infused with the culture, history, frustrations and opportunities extent in the urban context that surrounds me, and is compounded by the collective experience of the cities where I have practiced in the past. no a h resnick : ur ban det a il
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Detroit, Michigan: Grass-Roots Modernism “Forget what you think you know about this place. Detroit is the most relevant city in the United States for the simple reason that it is the most unequivocally modern and therefore distinctive of our national culture: in other words, a total success.”
Jerry Herron
The degree to which capitalism was allowed to shape the urban environment and define the culture in such a direct manner is what made Detroit the most successful modernist city of the twentieth century. The city’s single source of capital was the ability to move individuals at a rapid speed, independent from one another. It defined the individual by placing them in a modern conveyance, and giving them the freedom to go in their chosen direction, at their chosen velocity, in solitude. This freedom came at the expense of the city’s centrality of cultural activity and social interaction. The urban functions were spatially reorganized year after year based on a
logic of horizontally increasing distance and a network of paths leading out of the city. Detroit’s success was its ability to organize its pursuit of profit into a spatial logic, one that justified the product while simultaneously creating its market, controlling its labor force, and eliminating its competition. Detroit’s success was in its singular commitment to the industrial production of technologies that would profoundly affect the culture and space of every modern city. Detroit’s success was its failure. With these industrial giants rapidly fading, it is up to enlightened and empowered citizens and community groups to retread the city.
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PEDESTRIAN CROSSING PARK SPACE
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the masterplan design is a phased proposal which responds to the desires of the community, the potential for continued development along Michigan Avenue, and the dramatic presence of the historic Michigan Central Depot. the initial phase will include an amphitheater, a public work of art, landscape improvements, and lighting. The amphitheater will be formed from a series of shifts in the ground plane, utilizing the existing earth along with excess earth from nearby community projects that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The stage will allow for public performances, instantly breathe new life into the space, and offer both a physical and symbolic platform for further fundraising efforts for the park. When it is not in use, the grounds leading up to the stage will provide ample family-friendly green space for exercise and relaxation.
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Roosevelt Park has been fractured into four distinct pieces by Vernor Highway. This eight lane boulevard, which once
All streets cutting through Roosevelt Park will be closed off to vehicular traffic, creating a unified public green space, safe from automotive traffic.
served to bring large amounts of traffic to and from the now abandonded Michigan Central Depot, is currently obsolete.
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The first phase focuses on transforming the axial boulevard into a performance stage with strategically landscaped public seating.
Athletic amenities, including basketball courts, soccer fields, and skateparks, will be placed in the western portion of the Park. The eastern half of the proposed Roosevelt Park design will consist of serene natually landscaped spaces. The four portions of the park are unified by the closing of Vernor Highway.
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renovation and addition to a 5700 sqft dog daycare, grooming and boarding facility in midtown Detroit. The multiphased project consists of space planning, HVAC assessment, interior design, faรงade redesign, and 3000 sq ft of new construction. The design seeks to fold the exterior space of the sidewalk into a vestibule/lobby that separates the human users from the canines. Tight budget constraints necessitate both a creative approach to material selection and detailing, as well as fundraising through small business grants.
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Van Alen Institute 2007 Competition : Democracy of Disturbance uRban Detail w/ tadd heidgerken The re-envisioning of Gateway National Recreational Area as an urban public
Alternating tracts of appropriately programmed parkland are anchored to the
park is predicated on redefining the sites in terms of choices made by an
institutional nodes and assigned finite frequencies of time. A series of pathways
ever changing body politic, fully engaged in the democratic process. Included in this body are stewards of the biological
connect park program while cutting representational sections through the current body politic.
ecosystems, individual users as represented by publicly run constituent groups, and the park service responsible for land allocation. All groups evolve according to the
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disturbance in nature is to act as a catalyst, thereby preventing stagnation from predictable environmental trajectories. In addition, it promotes growth and adaptability of competing organisms. Disturbance
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Affirmations lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community center luckenbach | ziegelman pllc design and construction administration of 17,000 sq ft center for the l.g.b.t. community and their allies. The mixed-use facility includes a library, art gallery, cyber-cafĂŠ, youth center, game room, offices, conference rooms, and counseling center. The LEED certified building utilizes multiple atria to enhance both passive heating and cooling systems as well as natural illumination from large skylights.
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contextual modernism: modular housing in lafayette park, Detroit luckenbach | ziegelman pllc this project proposes the placement of 164 prefabricated condominium units in a vacant lot adjacent to Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Park in downtown Detroit. Dwelling units range from 864 square feet to 1728 square feet and include one bedroom, two bedroom, two bedroom with den, and three bedroom two-story townhouses. it envisions the possibility of expanding modular dwelling units vertically at some later date or removing units if a home owner wants to relocate onto a private lot.
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New Detroit River Walk Proposed Dequindre Cut Bike Path Downtown People Mover Public Green Space
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New York City Urban Anomaly
Rather than being considered the ultimate American city, New York stands out as anomalous to the growing number of post-industrial urban centers throughout the Midwest and South. One can almost imagine that the conditions plaguing these metropolitan areas - decentralization, depopulation of the urban core, municipal budget deficits, lack of public transit - are simply not manifested in New York. While this city does not offer creative solutions to the stressed conditions it does not seem to suffer from, it does provide a set of models that smaller scale urban interventions can aspire to. With the exception of a few large urban design projects occasionally dotted throughout the boroughs, most of the fabric of the city is manipulated one facade, or skyscraper, at a time. If an architect desires to contribute to the shaping of the city, they must accept their role in the enormous collaborative effort that is New York. no a h resnick : ur ban det a il
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world youth alliance: new york, new york murphy burnham & buttrick
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Project manager for the complete renovation of a four story townhouse in New York’s Upper East Side to house the new global headquarters of the World Youth Alliance. The 7500 sf building includes a library, gallery, lecture hall, offices, kitchen, lounge, garden, and permanent housing for the staff and interns.
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Boston, Massachusetts : The practice of theory
In 1959, Kevin Lynch described the perception Boston as being: “a city of distinctive districts and of crooked, confusing paths. It is a dirty city, of red brick buildings, symbolized by the open space of the Boston Common, the State House with its gold dome, and the view across the Charles River form the Cambridge side...it is an old, historical place, full of worn-out buildings, yet containing some new structures among the old.�
While the charm of the European street flavor and historic structures is still present in certain Boston neighborhoods, the city has progressed greatly with regards to its theory and implementation of architecture and urban design. From mega-projects like the Big-Dig, to cultural moments such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boston area is being gradually reshaped with guidance from the academic institutions at its center.
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Sustaining Development in Detroit Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Science in Architecture Thesis This thesis tests strategies that confront urban decay by accepting the city’s state of decentralization; viewing low density, low cost of vacant real estate, and low skilled workforce as being assets; and mitigating auto dependency as necessary steps to promote reinvestment and repopulation. It begins by identifying the factors that sustain development and uses them to map out multiple areas of urban activity. It suggests large-scale citywide initiatives to
utilize and expand the existing transit infrastructure to form a network of non-centralized urban nodes and then concentrates on one of these nodes– using a proposed intermodal transit station at the juncture of two potential rail transit routes–as the nexus for an urban design scheme that focuses on the re-use of existing building stock for sustainable programs, as well as the use of vacant land for community urban agriculture.
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urban, community based agriculture
intensive streetfront greening
recreational / pedestrian oriented greenspace
reforestation for park space, fruit production, or lumber
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intermodal transit station
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music incubator public athletic facility visual and performing arts high school art and design incubator intermodal transit hub state of michigan governmental offices research and technology park
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housing and amenities – while preserving the urban, industrial context of the Strip. Infrastructure improvements combined with civic and recreational facilities leverage the district’s unique advantages of unfettered access to the waterfront and immediate proximity to the convention center, cultural district and downtown. On a regional scale, the Center Strip will be a model for development along the Allegheny River shelf, reclaiming the formerly industrial zones and transforming the riverbanks into a series of neighborhoods along the shores of the Allegheny.
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As the Strip District in Pittsburgh extends to meet the waterfront, the master plan for the Center Strip builds on the foundations of the existing fabric, ensuring that future developments maintain the District’s distinct spirit and character without supplanting the thriving community, businesses and identity. Our Center Strip scheme promotes an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable approach to development, oriented around transit and continually adaptable. It provides for what is notably absent from downtown Pittsburgh– residential
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Toronto Portlands Massachusetts Institute of Technology Urban Design Proposal for the reuse of the Toronto Portlands, 450 acres of industrial land situated on a peninsula to the east of downtown. The design proposes an extension of Toronto through the formulation and arrangement of distinct communities, open spaces, and connections to the city center. The goal is to create a unique series of neighborhoods that will provide amenities for the residents, while simultaneously establishing cultural and recreational destination points. 44
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Berlin, Germany City Rebuilt
“ Berlin...was a city undergoing reconstruction (or construction twiceover). Now...many of the things that were there (on top of what didn’t exist) are no longer there. As if the city that was and no longer is were rebuilt. Berlin...is a city that doesn’t exist. It’s a shadow, a sigh, a pointless endeavor, a city that grows and un-grows, that rests and surfaces, that looks towards the future and at its own past.” Jordi Bernardo, Ramon Prat Berlin Bis no a h resnick : ur ban det a il
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west side: freizeit und einkaufszentrum: bern, switzerland studio daniel libeskind 180,000 sq meter multi-function leisure / shopping complex straddling the major highway that leads to the center of Bern. The wide ranging program included: the central shopping mall, a leisure bath and spa / fitness facility, cinema center, hotel, garden market, builder’s market, senior housing, and a parking garage. The larger scale programmatic elements were conceived of as static volumes linked by a dynamic crystalline circulation spine. This serpentine path carved out both the surface of the boxes to allow for natural light, as well as interior walls to provide social gathering spaces.
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Chicago, Illinois High-Rise / Low-Rise
Arguably the most significant city in the country with regards to the development of a uniquely American style of commercial architecture, Chicago has also historically been on the forefront of urban design. The foundations of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 plan continue to shape the growth of the city both formally and organizationally. Chicago led the trend for the return of the upper-middle class to the urban core via the residential gentrification of its industrial zones, and continues to creatively rectify the reprehensible treatment of its African American population during the public housing efforts of the 1950’s and 60’s. The city maintains its adoration and innovation of the modern skyscraper, while simultaneously embracing lowrise, environmentally sustainable, mixed income housing as a solution to the failed housing projects that once loomed over the racially segregated neighborhoods. no a h resnick : ur ban det a il
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cohodes residence dirk denison architects 7000 sq ft residence outside of san francisco for a family with a wheelchair bound child. The concept centers on three primary accessible circulation paths ordered around a procession of formal courtyards. The design process involved the development of the architectonic forms and interior spaces almost entirely through the construction of large scale working models.
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ch icago : dirk denison architects
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ch icago : dirk denison architects
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blue note records global headquarters illinois institute of technology, undergraduate thesis Revitalization of the former Chicago main post office building through the insertion of the Blue Note Jazz facilities. In addition to the corporate office program, the urban amenities include recording studios, a jazz museum, night club, performance hall, hotel, retail spaces, and river access, all housed within the vacant 3 million sq ft art deco structure. professor: susan conger-austin
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ch icago : illinois institute of technolog y
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drawing from travel illinois institute of technology, semester abroad program selected images from sketchbooks professor: timothy brown
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ch icago : illinois institute of technolog y
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