Ryan Grace Architectural Graduate Portfolio

Ryan John Grace architectural graduate portfolio

design

studios

High Street and Ellicott Street Intersection 4

Inclination Library

Inclination Library Brief Libraries have been subject to a paradigm shift in their programmatic allocation. They are no longer buildings containing books and reading spaces.

Computers and e-books have significantly reduced the need for people to enter a library. This poses the question, “How does a Library regain its identity as a Civic Building?�

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Spring 2017 Professor

Brian Carter Duration

6 weeks

This project was submit to the 2016-2017 ACSA/AIA Steel Design Competition Inclination Library

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The North face shifts vertically to match adjacent building heights

Building Adjacency

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The orthogonal pieces extend up to meet the square footage requirements

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Inclination Library, a new Health Sciences Library on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, seeks to answer that question by providing a range of different public spaces.

These spaces include an auditorium, museums and collaboration spaces, in addition to the traditional library spaces. An auditorium space, designed to accommodate over 200 people, will host events for the Medical Campus and for public events. The existing health sciences library houses three unique medical collections. These collections, which include exhibits about the brain, radiology and the history of medicine, will be displayed in specially designed museum spaces within the new library and made accessible to the public. The collaboration spaces will be both for large groups and individual readers.

Located within the glazed areas of the library, they will be clearly visible from the surrounding street.

Auditorium

Additionally, more private areas with quiet study spaces and book stacks will be screened by Corten steel panels.

Atrium / Museum Inclination Library

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Gusset Plate bolted to wide flange beam Wide flange Lateral Reinforcing

Structural Services Core/ Secondary Framing Members

Web member cut to allow extension of flanges into gusset plate, weld steel plate over beam and gusset plate

1. Gusset Plate Detail

Curtain Wall Deflection Track Tension Cable fastened to steel beam with stiffener plate above each cable

Primary Truss Structure

Typical Spider Fittings Typical double glazed panels At each floor level, anchor spider fittings to adjacent steel beam (steel beam shown in foreground)

Tension Cable Suspension System

Spider Fitting Curtain Wall

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2. Spider Fitting Curtain Wall Detail

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The auditorium and the floors below are hung by a tensile steel structure supported from a long span structure. In addition, the glazed curtain wall will also be hung from a tension cable structure. This will obviate the need for columns, offer flexibility in use and give the appearance of weightlessness within these spaces.

As a result, Inclination Library reestablishes the civic identity of a Library by providing new facilities for a wider community.

The angled roof of the auditorium allows for a perfect angled array of photo-voltaic panels Cross ventilation passively exhausts the warm air which rises within the atrium and then around the auditorium 3.

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Longitudinal Section Perspective Tie guardrail rail steel cables with 2” Steel Cable Supporting Atrium Floors Pour concrete around steel cable Concrete Floor, over perforated acoustical metal decking, over Bar Joist-Rod Webs Anchor Cable to Bottom of Wide Flange beam

1. Typical Atrium Edge Detail

2” Steel Cable attached to Wide Flange Beam supporting Auditorium floors Precast hollow core concrete plank floor, supported by bent steel plate welded to wide flange Anchor Cable to Bottom of Wide Flange beam

2. Auditorium Floor Detail

Inclination Library

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The Cabinet’s Cabinet 10

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

Cabinets.

Cabinets.

Cabinets.

Brief This studio looked at Cabinets at several different scales and the relationship between these scales. These include the cabinet as a book, as a fragment, a literal cabinet, cabinet as a studiolo room, and more. Our journey through different scales of cabinets started as mainly individulaistic efforts which then turned into a collaboration of 14 different cabinet makers merging into one cabinet world.

Semester

Fall 2016 Professor

Dennis Maher Duration

16 weeks This project was submit to the Internatinal Fairy Tales competition sponsored by Blank Space Please SCAN THE QR CODE or CLICK HERE to direct you a walk-through video of the final cabinet.

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

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Task:

Make a book of the cabinet; Make a cabinet of the book Too static?

The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker’s Director

by Thomas Chippendale

Too literal?

360 viewing?

Storage?

Initial Book Cabinet Studies

What if you invert the conception of the spine as a binding element, and disguise it as a key to open the hidden cabinet?

Hidden cabinet gets revealed!

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Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

Preliminary Book Cabinet Study

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But rather than challenge the trespasser, rather than frighten him by signs of power, it is preferable to mislead him.

-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Front of Final Book Cabinet

Final Book Cabinet

Final Book Cabinet

Opened Hidden Cabinet Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

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Task:

Create a fragment of a piece of Thomas Chippendale furniture.

China Case Elevation

Fragment Exploded Axon 14

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

Final Fragment

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Fragment Insert

Task:

Insert fragment into the ‘site’.

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Recognizeing the plane fragment, it has now re planear storage area 2.

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Fragment inserted into the site

By continuing key design features of the fragment into the nearby elements of the site, the integration of the fragment becomes less intrusive.

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Form Through Void

While trying to leave th in tact, voids were crea 3. cabinet to hold the sha

Form Through Void

Door Fold Impression

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

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Task:

Enclose the cabinet within a cabinet.

The Cabinet ‘Site’ after the classes fragments have been inserted

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Verticality

Continues...

Traverse

Book Cabinet

Book Cabinet’s Cabinet

Passageway

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

Enclosure Begins

Continues...

Caution

Time

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Ascend

Enclosure

Collage

The Cabinet’s Cabinet

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

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Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

To Cabinet Number,

Cabinet Number One, You were our first challenge and also our initial spatial configuration of material. For some, you were our first interaction with the other members of our class. Although you were relatively simple and modest in scale, you helped to prove something.

You proved we all had something different to offer. Our material and constraints were limited, yet we all managed to come up with something unique. By creating you we all realized we were diverse. Diverse in thinking, designing, our background experience, etc. Moving forward, this diversity proved to be beneficial and a challenge.

Cabinet Number Two, You were our initial group interaction. This interaction was certainly more of a challenge than Cabinet Number One. Communication, or lack thereof, worried me in the early stages of your creation. However, in the end, you became complete. While you may have appeared to others as a Frankenstein piece of art, you appeared to us as something more. You appeared to us as a collaboration. A collaboration through negotiating, strategizing, communicating, etc. You made us work closer together and helped us to distinguish ourselves as a community.

Cabinet Number Three, You provided us with larger growth into this world. We began to enclose Cabinet Number Two, and ourselves, inside of you. For the first time, we are not only working on the cabinet from the exterior, but now the interior as well. We now have the opportunity to inhabit a cabinet with our bodies. While our efforts as a community became a less centralized collaboration, it was still centralized knowing we were bound amongst your exterior. Scales began to change, familiar objects began to be placed within you, and hidden secrets are embedded inside you that not even all of the workers know of. The cabinet has become a journey, not a destination.

Cabinet Number Four, I ask, how will you continue this journey? Or will you be the final resting spot? How will you accept the previous cabinets within your enclosure? Will you interact or engage with any of the previous cabinets? What will you have to offer for our community?

I find myself asking too many questions about what may happen next. However, I would like to think of you optimistically. I will not think of you as a final resting spot since we have seen how cabinets can be discovered and repurposed at a much later date and time. Possibly in a century a similar group of workers or an individual may discover our cabinets inside of you. From there, I like to think they may continue your journey, thus creating Cabinet Number Five. Time will tell.

Cabinets. Cabinets. Cabinets.

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Sectional Model 20

Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

Branch Bank:

The Modular Bank Brief Increased online and mobile banking usage continues to question the identity of the traditional bank. Customers are no longer stepping into the brick-and-mortar buildings; therefore, the need for square footage in a bank decreases. The question then arises, how small can a bank be?

Semester

Spring 2017 Professor

Brian Carter Duration

6 weeks

Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

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Task:

Create a 1000 square foot prototype for a branch bank.

Need for square footage is decreasing!

How small and economical can the protoype be?

Traditional Bank Bank in 2017 go to a bank “Why when I can bank at home?

What about these individuals?

PRIVATE AREA

PUBLIC AREA

Area: 325 sqft

Area: 325 sqft

Worker

User Toilet Room

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Mechanical Lobby

Vault and Storage

ATM’s / Vestibule

Teller Area

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Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

Private Meeting Area

The module design derived from separating the bank into its private and public uses.

Then designing those spaces for minimal square footage, while still providing users with comfort and the banks with functionality.

Why not have this minimal bank size act as a building module?

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Furthermore, these public and private spaces were developed to allow for flexibility and expansion.

Banks can then adjust the modules based on specific needs/desires.

MINIMAL BANK

Area: 650 sqft

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Varying layouts within the private and public modules create a range of options

Users:

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Drive-Thru

Coffee

Computer Stations

MODULAR BANK COMBINATIONS

Minimum per bank: 1 Private Space and 1 Public Space (not all combinations shown)

Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

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URBAN

Facade Design

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Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

Standard Brick creates image that the bank is small

33% shorter brick, for 33% increased visual height!

Alternate pattern allows voids for glazing behind

SUBURBAN

Facade Design

Public = Transparent

Semi-Private = Translucent

Private = Solid

Branch Bank: The Modular Bank

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Intersection of Van Brunt Street and Coffey Street 26

Crisis. Connect. Continue...

Crisis. Connect.

Continue...

Brief Red Hook, Brooklyn suffered great damage during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The community is still found to be rebuilding their infrastructures several years later. Many of the small businesses were not able to bounce back from this due to lack of needed funds and resources. Our class aimed to answer the question, “Is there a way to design to prevent this damage from happening again?”

Semester

Spring 2016 Professor

Martha Bohm Duration

12 weeks Partners

Lauren Josselyn & Patrick O’Brien

Crisis. Connect. Continue...

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Pop-up Stores = Interchangeability During typical times, Red Hook citizens will be able to rent a space to start up their business.

During extreme events, the spaces will provide relief to locals.

Dynamic Facade The facade was designed to add to the unique character of Red Hook while serving multiple purposes. The facade wanted to be pedestrian friendly, offer unique lighting and shading solutions, all while offering protection to the building against extreme events.

The mixed use facade worked well with the ‘flexible’ floor plan.

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Resilient = Quick turn-around time Being in a coastal area where flooding is a great risk, it was important to keep the floor plan open with easy to clean materials.

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Lot available: 380 Van Brunt Street Borough: Brooklyn Block: 587 Lot 1 and 2 Zone = R5, C1-3 Commercial Overlay

Pop-up Store Placement

Van Brunt Corridor Flood Zone Indicator Health & Social Service Assests

Services / Mechanical

Community Assets Food Source

Structure

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Future Addition Crisis. Connect. Continue...

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Seating

Sunshading

Canopy

Extreme Events

Building Axon

All materials chosen are Class 4 or 5 on the acceptable Building Materials chart in FEMA’s “Flood Damage-Resistant Materials Requirements for Buildings Located in Special Flood Hazard Areas

Structural System

Steel (with corrosion protection)

Drop Ceiling

Wood (solid, decay-resistant)

Interior Partitions

Steel (with corrosion protection) or Wood (solid, decay-resistant)

Facade

Steel (with corrosion protection)

Floor

Concrete (cast-in-place)

SERVICES VERTICAL STORAGE CIRCULATION

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Crisis. Connect. Continue...

Scale: 0’ 8‘

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Crisis Times Crisis. Connect. Continue...

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technical

methods

Final Pinecone Quilt 34 Pinecones

Elemental Materials:

Pinecone Quilt Brief This course explored how one can fabricate naturally-occuring, and readily available, “elemental� materials into an architectural scaled object. Our exploration involved a series of various test swatches to help us study our materials physical and structural properties. We then gained insight from these swatches to help grow our material into an architectural scaled object.

Semester

Fall 2016 Professor

Stephanie Davidson Duration

14 weeks Partner

Xiong Shuiping

Pinecones

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Task:

Find a natural occuring material and use it to create a series of test swatches leading up to an architectural scale

Pulverized pinecones

Planear Study

Pinecones!

Shredded pinecones

Shredded & whole pinecones with plaster

Volumetric Study

2 Foot Span Study

Interlocking whole pinecones

We became excited with the interlocking How to scale study, unfortunatley it this up? could not scale past Follow up Study few pinecones -Do not modularizea it! Issue happened at the connected of large module.

Final Interlocking Study -Do it all in one run!

4 Foot Span Study

String!

Interlocking Study Initial Study

Starting point

Same interlocking method as before

Add One

Same interlocking method as before

Repeat

Same interlocking method as before

-Triangle = Strength -Module as a 'Building Block ' -Connect modules using the same technique as -All facing 'up' give us the arch - concavity needed for our shape

String Tie Process 36 Pinecones

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Always one missing in the next 'triangle shape' Use it as a design element?

Need Strength to progress

Scaling Process

Interlock to as many adjacent pinecones as possible Same interlocking method as before

Final Test Swatch - Pinecone Quilt

Fabrication Section

Architectural Scale Rendering Pinecones

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Trampoline Installation 38

PS 32 Bennett Park Montessori Installation

Play Elements:

PS 32 Bennett Park Montessori Installation Brief The Bennett Park Montessori, Buffalo Public School 32 teamed up with our class to help create a play element which was to be deployed in the lawn behind their school. This was intended to be a singular element which would ideally be made out of recycled or cost efficient materials. This installation was to be designed for children ages 5 to 14 and any adults who may wish to try it out.

A questionairre and on site observations helped our class figure out how these children wanted to engage in play.

Semester

Spring 2017 Professor

Julia Jamrozik Duration

8 weeks Partner

James Feind and Nicole Little

PS 32 Bennett Park Montessori Installation

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Task:

Create a Play Element for Bennett Park Montessori School What equipment would you like to have for OUTDOOR recess?

-Questionairre to the children

Task:

Create a Trampoline

In-ground vs above ground

Preliminary Models

OSB covered in exterior grade paint -OSB provides non slip texture -Neon = Fun!

Pool noodle tied to boards with elastic cord

-Cushion the sides to ensure safety

See Section A-A

Above Grade Below Grade

Donated springs from Rogers Industrial Springs Inc. Final Trampoline 40

PS 32 Bennett Park Montessori Installation

OSB below grade has a weather resistant coating

Bennett Park Montessori School Axonometric

Island of trampolines creates a communial environment Enlargement of Site Plan for Trampolines

Section A-A PS 32 Bennett Park Montessori Installation

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miscellaneous

Parametric Analysis:

Silo City,

Buffalo, NY Brief The monumental Grain Silos in Buffalo, New York appear to be similar at first glance, but further investigation reveals their subtleties. Using the parametric computer program Grasshopper, we looked at how historical buildings have parametric qualities to them, far before computer programs existed.

The animation shows the plans of the Grain Silos being generated using parametrics.

Semester

Spring 2017 Professor

Adil Mansure Duration

14 weeks

Please SCAN THE QR CODE or CLICK HERE to direct you to the animation.

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Suitability Mapping:

Buffalo, New York

Brief The City of Buffalo asked our class to identify areas in Buffalo which are suitable to be rehabilitated or developed. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, we analyzed the city through several categories. This chapter of the report deals with potential remediation efforts.

Semester

Spring 2016 Professor

Sean Burkholder Duration

14 weeks Partner

Nahshoon Jagroop

Please SCAN THE QR CODE or CLICK HERE to direct you to report.

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PHOTO-VOLTAIC PANELS BASELINE: NONE TESTED RENOVATIONS: 1 KWh - 7 kWh SYSTEMS ORIENTATION SOUTH ABSOLUTE

Energy Analysis:

ENVELOPE INSULATION BASELINE WALL: NONE ROOF: NONE BASEMENT: NONE TEST GROUP 1 WALL: R-13 CELLULOSE ROOF: R-30 FIBERGLASS BASEMENT: XPS R-5 TEST GROUP 2 WALL: R-13 CELLULOSE ROOF: R-38 FIBERGLASS BASEMENT: XPS R-10 TEST GROUP 3 WALL: R-13 CELLULOSE ROOF: R-30 FIBERGLASS + R-19 FIBERGLASS BASEMENT: XPS R-15

WINDOW REPLACEMENTS BASELINE: SINGLE PANE WOOD FRAME WINDOW TESTED RENOVATIONS: SINGLE PANE WOOD FRAME WINDOW (U= 0.84, SHGC = 0.63) DOUBLE PANE Low-e (U = 0.35, SHGC= 0.35) TRIPLE PANE Low-e ARGOND FILLED (U = 0.18, SHGC= 0.4)

Brief Using energy modeling programs, we tested the energy efficiency of typical retrofit options available for a home.

These tests were them compared to initial cost and payback period. This posed the question, what is the most efficient and feasible way to retrofit a typical Buffalo home?

Semester

Spring 2016 Professor

Nicholas Rakovic Duration

14 weeks

TESTED ORIENTATIONS

Partner

Nate Heckman and Nate St. John

Please SCAN THE QR CODE or CLICK HERE to direct you to report.

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STANDARD ASSUMPTIONS INSULATED AND SEALED DUCTS INSULATED HOT WATER PIPES SOLAR HOT WATER UNIT

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Structural Analysis:

The Brooklyn Bridge Foundation Brief The Brooklyn Bridges use of caissons to construct the foundations was unprecedented at tha time where technological advancements in machinery equipment have not begun Advancements in technology have made this process easier, but This report looks at how they managed to construct the foundation for the two towers.

Semester

Fall 2016 Professor

Matthew Dates Duration

14 weeks Partner

Xiong Shiuping Please SCAN THE QR CODE or CLICK HERE to direct you to report.

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Learning Commons