scott harrison portfolio 2014
table of contents
JFK Terminal Expansion
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Larimer CoHousing
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Carrie Furnace Visitor’s Center
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Frick Park Environmental Center
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2024 Fifth Ave
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Carlsberg Sponsorship Center
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Carlsberg Mixed Use Row-Housing
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Lunar Gala
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Furniture
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JFK Terminal Expansion
As part of the systems integration studio, we were tasked to expand JFK’s Terminal 1 and to add 7 gates to the existing terminal. The design aims to centralize the main departures and arrivals functions. To do this and create continuity across the processor, the same language was used while extending the processor. The geometries established by the existing terminal were extended to the site boundary where a new geometry, normal to the curve, was introduced. The shift in geometry is remedied through a tensile roof physically connecting the two concourses and through the introduction of a second retail node at this point. The shift in the geometry allows for a series of parabolic troughs to face south to produce the maximum amount of electricity.
Existing Figure Ground T2 and T3 to be demolished
Expansion to site boundary
Expansionofexistinggeometry
New Figure Ground
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Departures Level Plan
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Arrivals Level Plan
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Aerial view showing continuous processor, tensile roof and parabolic troughs.
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Section Through Processor
Section Through New Node
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View exiting security
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Transverse section through concourse
Longitudinalsectionthroughconcourse
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View through concourse
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The troughs track the sun to provide the maximum energy and to eliminate unnecessary heat gain.
A chilled Glycol solution is pumped from mechanical rooms on the 2nd floor up through glass vacuum sealed tubes that pass over a series of parabolic troughs. The troughs direct the sun’s heat onto the glass tube, super-heating the glycol solution. The superheated steam then travels through a steam generator, converting the heat energy into electrical energy to be used by the terminal.
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Larimer CoHousing As part of the Urban Design Studio, we worked with the Larmier Community to redevelop the northwest corner of Larimer with the goal of acting as a catalyst for the regrowth of the community as a whole. The project redevelops three blocks, providing 65 units of housing as well as large community spaces. The two outer blocks each have two clusters of cohousing, with two common houses. The center block reverses the figure ground relationship and places a nature center in the middle of the block, becoming an icon for the community and allowing from a number of smalled spaces surrounding it.
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Site Plan
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Cluster Plan
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Plans
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Site Section
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View Down Larimer Ave.
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Street Elevation
Courtyard Elevation
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Carrie Furnace Visitor Center For the advanced construction studio and in collaboration with the Rivers of Steel Heritage group, we were asked to design a visitor center to showcase the history of the Carrie Furnaces and the process of making steel. The Carrie Furnaces were originally built in 1884, and at the peak of production, seven blast furnaces stood tall. After the fall of the steel industry the site became abandoned and five of the furnaces were demolished. The design focuses on the contrast between the new and the old. The building, viewed as a mass in juxtaposition to the wireframe-like structure of the furnaces, delicately touches the furnaces where the viewing platform is located. From the interior of the building, views to the outside are limited and selected to highlight specific aspects of the furnaces. A large kinetic oculus, the mechaincs for which are exposed in a similar fashion to that of the site, sits above the waiting area to serve as a monument to the history of the site..
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Ground Floor Plan
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Entry Information Ticketing Lobby CafĂŠ Kitchen Waiting Area
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Theater Mechanical Storage Viewing Platform
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Second Level Plan
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4’ x 8’ Perforated Metal Panel 2” Bent Steel Pipe
6” Hat Channel 3” Rigid Insulation 2 x 6 Metal Studs 1/2” Sheathing Air Vapor Barrier
2 x 6 Header
IGU Glazing
Z Girt 3/4” Plywood Steel Plate T&G Wood Flooring Structural Steel Plate Foundation
Wall section through waiting area and kinetic oculus
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Transverse section
Longitudinal section
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View to waiting area under kinetic oculus
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The mechaincs for the movement of the occulus are displayed to the visitor as an homage to the furnaces and the mechanics of the site.
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Frick Park Environmental Center The environmental center at Frick Park called for a series of classrooms and office spaces. The chosen site, an anomaly in Frick park, is an existing meadow. In contrast to the meadow, a large portion of Frick park is built on slag heaps, which are waste from the process of making steel. The building acts a container for the meadow and three large concrete walls create an ellipse surrounding the meadow. Apertures created from the gap of the spine of the roof allow for light to wash the walls, creating an emphasis on movement through the building. This same spine divides the office spaces from classrooms. The classrooms have direct access to the meadow and the students are able to interact with nature through an operable component wall on the south side of the building.
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Water Classroom
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Ground Floor Plan
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Lobby
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Greenhouse
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Water Classroom
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Section through office and classrooms
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lobby roof
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education roof
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greenhouse
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LIGHTthrough ENTERS THORUGH OPENINGS ON ROOF AND Light enters openings inIS DIFFUSED roof THROUGH TENSOTHERM FOR OFFICES and is diffused through Tensotherm
LINEAR GREENHOUSE CREATES Linear greenhouse creates TIMELINE OF GROWTH timeline of growth
Canted wallCANTED allows forFORplants to WALL ALLOW WATER AND LIGHT TO ACCESS PLANTS access light and water
ALLOWS students FOR INTERACTION ComponentCOMPONENT engages WITH ENVIRONMENT with environment
Carved pulls CARVED handrails HANDRAIL MEET SLOPING WALL PULLING USER INTO CLASSROOM student into classrooms
“FLOATING” STAIR CREATES UNDERSTANDING OF Reveal in staircase showcases MOVING ACROSS DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES shift in geometries
Opposition of wall panels and ramp create focus onto landscape
OPPOSITION OF SLOPING RAMP AND WALL PANELS FOCUS ATTENTION THROUGH NOOK TO LANDSCAPE
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2024 Fifth Avenue The design for the renovation of the turn of the century structure was done in collaboration with Kevin Kuntz, Lee Yan Shun, Matt Ho, and Monica Tong for CMU’s Issues of Practice class and Action Housing. The project statement tasked each group to work with an existing structure in Pittsburgh’s mainly abandoned Uptown neighborhood. The goal was to meet the criteria for affordable housing at 80% median income. In order to accomplish this, we needed a detailed understanding of the components and process of construction. The design keeps intact much of the original front facade while creating a new relationship to the street for business. The interior of the home was reorganized around a new centrally located stairwell. The stair volume also acts as a passive cooling mechanism. Unlike the front facade, the rear facade has been heavily altered in order to relate to the new double height kitchen/dining area and to emphasize the backyard community.
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Garden Level Existing Roof Level 24
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Carlsberg Sponsorship Center Completed while studying in Copenhagen, the Carslberg Sponsorship Center is a museum of sorts, designed to showcase the Carlsberg brand’s sponsorship in sports under the Carlsberg name and in music under the Tuborg name. The building is situated in the old Carlsberg area, which is currently under development. To enclose the largest courtyard within the Carlsberg development, the building engages with the existing context and creates a central pedestrian throughway towards the courtyard. This creates two separate buildings on grade, one for tickets and entry, and the other for retail and exit. Underground, two parallel exhibits connect the two buildings. A series of skylights create a connection between the the exhibit space and the courtyard above. With Carlberg’s interest in the public realm, the entry portion of the building slopes to grade, making an accesible rooftop space for visitor or passerby to relax in the sun.
Site footprint
Create access to courtyard
Submerge buildings, create connection underground
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Create accessible public roof
Final build out
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Section through retail and exhibition space
Section through lobby and beginning of exhibition space
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Common Exhibition Space
South Elevation
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Ground Floor
Basement Plan
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Carslberg Mixed-Use Row-Housing The site of the original Carlsberg brewery has sat idle for years, recently a new master-plan has been revealed for the development of the site. A mixture of high-rise and low-rise mixed used buildings are planned to populate the area. At one edge of the site lies a large parking lot bordering a number of row houses from the 1880s. To close of this development from the new, a series of mixeduse houses follow along a slight curve. The homes are designed with ground floor retail with living spaces above. Access to the homes comes from a shared stair and it is this stair that allows for the curve to occur. The house itself uses an open stair to create spatial divisions throughout. Outdoor spaces out back and on top of the house allow for different levels of privacy in outdoor living.
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Ground Floor Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Lunar Gala: MĂ˜BLER with Morgan Stampf Lunar Gala is an entirely student run fashion show, culminating in a thousand person event. Morgan and I were selected to design a line shoes for the show. With our combined interest in shoes and methods of fabrication, we designed and fabricated 6 pairs of shoes. A mixture of digital fabrication (laser cutting and CNC milling) and analog methods were used. All six pairs were finished for the show and were the first shoe line in the show’s 14 year history.
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Furniture Displayed are two pieces of furniture, a desk chair and a rocking chair. Designed in a furniture design and a digital fabrication classes, respectively. Each chair aims to showcase to tools used in its construction. The desk chair uses ash, hard maple and ipe supports. The rocking chair uses baltic birch plywood and canvas.
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