Bahij Chancey

Yale UniversityB.F.A. Architecture, Design Class of 2013

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HammonassetEcologicalCenter

An ecological center sited at the tip of the Hammonasset State Park peninsula that includes preserved salt marshes and public beaches. The Ecological center serves as a monument to the site’s shifting tides. The project’s language of angular stairs both integrates the structure into its topographic surroundings and distinguishes it as a landmark. The steps channel water into the building footprint and form tide pools within for research. A field station located on the far side of the peninsula emulates the building’s monumental character.

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foot paths

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Site diagram, tracing the link between the ecological center and its field station, Illustrator

Field station concept sketch, pen and pencil on trace paper

Spring 2013Professor Ariane HarrisonMadison, Connecticut

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Roof plan, an inhabitable roof allows movement from the road to the peninsula’s highest point, Rhino and Illustrator

Plan, containing gallery space, a cafe, a laboratory and an auditorium, Rhino and Illustrator

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Gallery space panorama, Rhino, Maxwell Studio, and Photoshop

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Transverse section, auditorium and outdoor seating both face a stage by the canal, Rhino and Illustrator

Cross section, water is channeled from the canal into the lab’s salt water fish nursery, Rhino and Illustrator

Field station concept model, Inspired by Indian step wells, cast concrete

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An inhabitable roof allows movement from the road to the top of the adjacent mound.

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The building’s changing levels allows water to enter the lab for a salt water fish nursery.

Steps to the roof act as outdoor seating.

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MusicHaven Center

The Music Haven Center serves as a headquarters for the Music Haven string quartet. The group performs professionally and provides free music lessons for New Haven public school children. The design features large and small auditoriums, two group practice rooms and five individual practice rooms suspended in the roof; the various scales are intended to promote different levels of intimacy. The center engages its community with public seating in the building’s courtyard and on the roof that face outdoor performance spaces.

Concept Sketch, ink on trace paper

Section, pencil and ink on bond paper

Fall 2012Professor Turner BrooksNew Haven, Connecticut

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Ground floor plan, pencil and ink on bond paper

Basement plan, pencil and ink on bond paper

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Sectional model

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Landscaped areas and courtyard

Site model

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Individual practice rooms and roof seating

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StonycreekQuarryDwelling

A light, single occupant, structure sited in the Stonycreek Quarry in Branford, Connecticut. The suspended chair, located in a retired dig site, offers its user the opportunity to step out into the fabricated void created by the harvested granite. The structure is subject to the winds and pivots to be either against the rock face or cantilevered over the quarry’s pond.

Concept sketch, ink, colored pencil on trace paper

Perspective of full quarry,colored pencil on bond paper

Fall 2012Professor Turner BrooksBranford, Connecticut

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Section, pencil on bond paper

Plan, pencil on bond paper

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Ropes allow the occupant to rotate the structure over the void or against the rock face

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Danish Resistance Museum

A museum in Copenhagen memorializing the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II. Inspired by Danish burial mounds, this subterranean museum guides visitors chronologically through four exhibits named Adaptation, Resistance, Terror and Liberation. Each exhibit features controlled natural and artificial lighting effects that create a tailored atmospheric experience. Clerestory windows and a sunken courtyard allow natural light to enter the museum’s galleries and offices.

Concept sketch, ink on trace paper and Photoshop

Concept light drawing

Spring 2012Professor Bo ChristensenCopenhagen, Denmark

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Site plan, Illustrator

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Terror room lighting sketch, pencil on paper and Photoshop

Diagrams showing natural lighting methods, illustrator

Individual lighting concepts for each exhibit,AutoCad, Illustrator and Photoshop

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Plans from top: ground, sublevels 1, 2,AutoCad and Illustrator

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Sectional model

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Biomega ConceptStore

A flagship store designed for the high-end bicycle brand Biomega. Sited on Strøget, Copenhagen’s main pedestrian thoroughfare, the store’s façade is designed to fit contextually into a row of historical Danish buildings. The plan and façade take the golden ratio and the square as their point of departure. The building includes spaces for bicycle display, events, offices and product testing.

Site plan, ink on vellum

Facade concept diagram,ink on vellum

Spring 2012Professor Bo ChristensenCopenhagen, Denmark

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Facade elevation, pencil on bond paper

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Plans from bottom floor 1, 2, 3 and 4,ink on vellum

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Interior perspectives,pencil and ink on bond paper

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A+ABuildingPenthouse

A penthouse designed for Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building (1963) at Yale. The penthouse accommodates two Yale administrators, one from the School of Architecture and one from the School of Art History. A long hallway spans the courtyard between the A+A building and Loria Hall, its 2008 addition, allowing the two residents to use common space in the Rudolph building’s original penthouse. The hallway’s fenestration allows only selective views of the existing buildings and the surrounding campus.

Site Plan depicting the penthouse on Rudolph Hall and the Loria Center, AutoCad and Illustrator

Site model of the A+A Building and Loria Hall

Fall 2011Professors Peggy Deamer and Bimal MendisNew Haven, Connecticut

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Plan and section cuts, AutoCad and Illustrator

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Detail model of penthouse hallway, irregular fenestration intensifies the haptic experience.

Lighting study

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House From aRoom

This house extrapolates upon the formal language of a room designed by a fellow studio mate. The original room was articulated with a set of planar ribbons that are then extend to form the walls and roof of the second floor. The ground level takes a simplified monolithic form, as a plinth that gradually introduces the second floor’s greater complexity. The second floor is supported on pilotis that allow for a clerestory window to wrap around the entire ground level.

Plans from bottom, floor 1 and 2. Cross Section, AutoCad and Illustrator.

Fall 2011Professors Peggy Deamer and Bimal Mendis

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Highlights the original room that generated the house.

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A clerestory window separates the lower monolithic plinth from the ribbon-generated second storey.

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Second floor.

First floor.

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Analysis of Eiermann’sDeutsch-OlivettiHeadquarters

This series of models represents an extended analysis of German architect Egon Eiermann’s Deutsch-Olivetti Administrative Headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany. By examining the architect’s original documentation I attempted to trace the structure’s guiding principals and formal genesis. The series includes a massing model, a tectonic model, and a contour model.

Original section, AutoCad and Illustrator

Original plan, AutoCad and Illustrator

Spring 2011Professor Emmanuel PetitFrankfurt, Germany

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Massing model, shows the building’s existing form juxtaposed with an implicit modular genesis.

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Tectonic model, separates the building’s main body and towers into tectonic components that include their spine, columnar field and skin.

Highlights the relationship between the structural cores of the complex’s two towers and its horizontal spine.

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Contour model, traces geometric rotations and translations derived from the relationship of parts in the building’s final form.