JOSEPH KOON

Floor 32007 - 2012Portfolio

v Contemporarycultureconfrontsuswithanoverwhelmingquantityofinformation.Themediaannexiscomposedofaseriesofarticulatedmembranestofilterthebehavioralinformationofitsoccupants.TheinterioroftheadjacentPalazzo becomes accessible as the surfaces disrupt and intersect its facade. The curvatures are regulated by the expansionofthefloorplatesinrelationtoprogrammaticconstraints.Circulationelementsareplacedbetweentheselayerstoproduceanexperienceofdynamic,spatialporosity.

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Perforations Perform as Spatial Filter

Floor 3Modulation of Surfaces to Program

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Vertical Surfaces Layered Betweem Circulation

Perforated Surfaces Filter Interaction Between Programmatic Layers

ALFRED LERNER HALL

BERNARD TSCHUMI

1999

DETAIL: GLASS RAMP/ WALL

Detailing ArchitectureSpring 2011Instructor: Gerard DamianiDrawn: Joseph Koon

1. Tube Railing With Threaded Wire Guard2. Laminated Glass Heat Strengthened 30mm 3. Steel Edge Plate4. Adjusting Turning Buckle5. Lighting Tube6. Steel Facade Column7. Exterior Laminated Glass 8mm with Internal 15mm Toughened Film Interlayer

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ALFRED LERNER HALL

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DETAIL: GLASS RAMP/ WALL

Detailing ArchitectureSpring 2011Instructor: Gerard DamianiDrawn: Joseph Koon

1. Tube Railing With Threaded Wire Guard2. Heat Strengthened Laminated Glass 30mm3.SteelEdgePlate4. Adjustable Turning Buckle5. Lighting Tube6.SteelFacadeColumn7.ExteriorLaminatedGlass8mmwithInter-nal 15mm Toughened Film Inner layer

ExplodedAxonometricFacadeRampDetail,LernerHallAssembledAxonometricFacadeRampDetail,LernerHall

Detailing Lerner Hall

Grand Palais

1897-1900

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Thomas Grand Palais

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Grande Halle, Drawn in ParisBiblioteque Saint Genvieve, Drawn in Paris

v Structural Ornamentation

v Theprocessofwaterfiltrationisintegratedintoanexperienceofsmoothspace.Lightisfilteredthroughtheexposedtubingthatcarriesliquidfromtheriverbelow.Thepretreatment,flocculation,sedimentationandsandfiltrationofthewaterisexpressedinthecontinuousmodulationofthesteelframes.Acontinuumofspatialcompressionsandexpansionsareenhancedbythegraduallyalteringqualityof light. Theprojectwasrefinedthroughan iterativeprocessofformalexperimentation.

FilterBridge

Weeks1-2/SpatialExpansions Weeks 3-4 / Surface Fluctuations Week 5 / Aperatures and Periodic Frames

DetailingLerner Hall

FormalRefinementProcess

Weeks6/SegmentedEnclosure Weeks 7 / Ruled Surfaces Weeks 8 / Continuous Structural Variation

Week 9 / Final Iteration

v CUNYLaboratory

The lab building is conflicted by the historical character of the City University of New York campus and thetechnological requirements of its program. The building utilizes poche to integrate mechanical systems into circula-tion.Publicmovementisfilteredthroughlargestonevolumesplacedbetweenprivatelabvolumesandacentralizedatrium.Within thesemasses, radiantfloorheating isconditionedbysolarhotwatercollectorson the roof.Theenclosure is composed of operable, prismatic louvres.

Fluid Distribution

Integrated Poche

Lab Mass with Atrium

Sculpted Ground

v MattressFactory

InstallationArtat theMattressFactorynotablefor itssitespecificity, temporalityandthe inclusionof theviewer.Artists are granted residency in the building to incorporate aspects of the interior into their work. The proposed annexprovidesstudiospacewheretheprocessoftheartistsisexposedasspectacleontheexterior.Inthisway,the viewer directly engages with the artist as a performer. As if folded, the form of the enclosure appears to be in continual transformation. The architecture remains incomplete.

Surface Folded Over Program

Fold

Cut

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v FauxBois

Steel is wood.

The barge was to be renovated as a gallery space for historical artifacts. As if made of wood, the steel envelope decays with a gradation of perforations.

MDF, Gold Paint on Foam, Gold Paint on Chipboard

v Memorial InFrancisBacon’spaintings,thebodyisnotrepresentationalbut ‘goesthroughintensivelyrealdeformation.Asfluidsescape,thebodydiscoversthematerialityfromwhichitiscomposed.’Toevokethematerialmemorialoflostrelatives, the surfaces of the memorial are in constant change. The wooden skin is clad to a structure of steel frames braced into the landscape. Visitors descend and progress through a series of spaces elevated above the stream. Over time, the substance of the wood cladding decays into the water.

Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon : The Logic of Sensation. New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.

Material Memory Site Analysis

Frames Braced into Landform

Variable Sectional Relation to Landscape

v PlazaEdit

CamilloSitte,in‘CityPlanningAccordingtoArtisticPrinciples’,emphasizesthesignificanceoftheplazaindefiningdistincturbanexperiences.Throughthemanipulationofsurroundingsurfaces,historicalspacescanberefreshed.Theprojectstrategically layerspublicprogramaroundtheedgesofvacant lotsalongPittsburgh’swaterfront. Aseries of landscape elements, structural follies and surface articulations incite moments of intensity along the promenade.Eachplazaisdifferentiatedbyitsscale,programmaticcontent,andrelationtopre-existingforms.

Sitte, Camillo. City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889). Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins. London: Phaidon Press, 1965.

Historical Plaza Precedents from Sitte

Articulated PocheLandscapeElementStructural ArtifactSurface Folly

v HousingParcel

The schematic design resolves tight mechanical systems, square footage, and circulation constraints into a singular spatialexperience.The750squarefootapartmentunitsarestackedandshiftedtodefineaninternalvoid.Variationin plan is produced as each apartment is rotated around a centralized utility core. Circulation is carved from the volumes and detailed in raw plywood. The entire assemblage is clad in a diaphanous trellis to condition light and support plant growth. The project was completed in collaboration at Rice + Lipka Architects in New York.

v ArtFactory

The iridescent building volume is sited within a vacant property in a distressed Pittsburgh neighborhood. The facility expands theadjacent rowhouseandprovidesnecessaryutilities for thearea’sdevelopingartscommunity.Therenovations include a sawtooth ceiling with an integrated photovoltaic array and an escape stair to satisfy egress requirements. The project was presented to the community through a town meeting and included a business and event plan.

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1. NEW STRUCTURAL STEEL MEMBERS2. EXISTING BRICK WALL WITH NEW CONCRETE BLOCK BACKUP3. NEW GLASS WINDOWS4. NEW GYPSUM PARTITION WALLS5. NEW PREFABRICATED CONCRETE WALL PANEL WITH PRECAST COLUMNS 6. EXISTING WINDOWS WITH NEW ALUMINIUM FRAME7. NEW POLYCARBONATE CURTAIN WALL8. NEW CONCRETE FLOOR9. NEW ELEVATOR10. NEW METAL STAIRS11. NEW STEEL HOLLOW DOORS12. NEW CONCRETE PARAPET13. NEW FIRE-PROOF CURTAIN GLASS WALL14. NEW SIGN PLACED ON THE OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE POLYCARBON-ATE WALL SYSTEM

W1- CURTAIN GLASS WALL [ 084413100150 , 088410102100 ]W2- IMPROVED BRICK WALL [ 040120200320 , 042210140300 , 072123200200 , 072510100401 ]W3- POLYCARBONATE WALL ASSEMBLY [ 051423050100 , 051516500550 , 055316500020 , 088130100280 , 088410101000 , 088723132010 , 051223050020 , 088420101500 ] REFER TO IP 5.00, IP5.01 & IP5.02W4- PREFABRICATED CONCRETE WALL PANELS [ 072113130700 , 072510100401 , 034513500210 , 034105150700 ]W5- PARTITION WALLS [ 092113100600 ]W6- STOREFRONT GLASS [ 079213200060 , 084113200250 ]

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W1- CURTAIN GLASS WALL [ 084413100150 , 088410102100 ]W2- IMPROVED BRICK WALL [ 040120200320 , 042210140300 , 072123200200 , 072510100401 ]W3- POLYCARBONATE WALL ASSEMBLY [ 051423050100 , 051516500550 , 055316500020 , 088130100280 , 088410101000 , 088723132010 , 051223050020 , 088420101500 ] REFER TO IP 5.00, IP5.01 & IP5.02W4- PREFABRICATED CONCRETE WALL PANELS [ 072113130700 , 072510100401 , 034513500210 , 034105150700 ]W5- PARTITION WALLS [ 092113100600 ]W6- STOREFRONT GLASS [ 079213200060 , 084113200250 ]W7- WOODSIDING WALL [ 072123200600 , 072113130600 , 061636100105 , 072510100401 , 074623103200 , 092910300350 ]W8- SKYLIGHTS, INSULATED SAFETY GLASS WITH ALUMINIUM FRAME [ 086213202300 ]

F1- METAL DECKING FLOOR WITH CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE [ 033053402150 , 033543100210 , 053113505100 , 054113305120 ]

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v Arbitare Exhibtion

ThealuminumandfabricstructurewasthecenterpiecefortheannualArbitaredesignexhibitioninHeslinki,Finland.Asonemovesaroundthestructure,thelayeredfigureselicitdifferentexpressions.Thelight-absorbingmaterialityiscarriedthroughtheexhibitionasasetofsuspendedplanesplacedbetweenthedisplaysofexhibitors.Thesys-temofmodular,minimalsurfacessimplifiedfabricationandassembly.Theprojectwascompletedincollaborationat Sotamaa in Helsinki, Finland.

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Aluminium Fabrication

Component Position

Component Assembly

v MarimekkoFolding Fabrics

Furniture dressed in seasonal Marimekko Fabrics create an atmosphere of color and pattern. The set is developed fromasinglegeometryscaledtobecomeastool,table,andbartable.Eachpiecewascutfromapieceofcard-board which was then folded and wrapped in the fabrics.

‘FoldingFabrics’waspublishedintheFinnishDesignYearbook.

CNC Cut Folded Board

v Porous Screen Panelized Formed Plastic

v Porous Brick Lacquer on Cast Ceramic

v ElaineScarry,in‘TheBodyinPain’,describesourinabilitytoreflectandintellectualizewheninpain.Thesepow-erful, internal sensations demarcate the limitations of language. In a medical setting, patients are left powerless without the ability to communicate. A selection of words used to describe varying intensities of pain are distributed throughout the corridors of the hospital. At these moments, the patients are confronted by colorful resin topologies. Throughthesequenceofdifferentiatedspaces,thepatientexperiencescatharsis.

Thesis:Clinic Scarry, Elaine. The Body In Pain : TheMaking and

UnmakingoftheWorld.OxfordUniversityPress,1985.

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