CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL WORK/ Langham Hotel Chicago COMPETITION WORK/ New Acadia: Retrofitting Urban Decay ACADEMIC WORK/ Dematerialized Poolscape Science of Sleep Corridor City

WORK SAMPLES/

GARRETT ROCK/

LANGHAM HOTEL CHICAGO

Summer 2012-present

Dirk Lohan

Site: Ground Floor, IBM Building,

330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago

Lohan Anderson

This new five-star hotel set to open

in Summer 2013, occupies the first

thirteen floors of the historic 330 North

Wabash (formerly the IBM Building).

Designed by modernist icon Mies van

der Rohe, the structure, in particular the

lobby, epitomizes mid-century Chicago

Modernism. The tower was added to the

National Register of Historic Places in

2010; this designation, along with being

a Chicago Historic Landmark, protect

the structure from undergoing major

changes to the original design intent.

Understanding the sensitivity of the

landmark building and the challenge

of marrying a corporate environment

with a luxury hotel, the client hired

Dirk Lohan, grandson of Mies van der

Rohe, to oversee and design the interior

furnishings for the Ground Floor Lobby.

The lobby will be furnished with custom

pieces—reception cabinet, credenza,

lounge desk, lounge chairs and settees,

and floor lamps—specifically designed

for the project. The project also entails

a new bronze entry canopy, a beaded

drapery curtain, and artwork selection.

My role on the project has included

material selection and sample requests,

production of drawings and 3D models

of custom furniture pieces and canopy,

renderings, preparing submittals for

construction and landmark review, and

reviewing shop drawings and submittals

from sub-contractors.

Rendering of the Ground Floor Lobby, looking south.Brass beaded drapery mock-up, June 2012.

Ground Floor Lobby Plan.

Custom bronze entry canopy mock-up, February 2013.Canopy rendering at night.

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LANGHAM HOTEL CHICAGO

Summer 2012-present

Dirk Lohan

Site: Ground Floor, IBM Building,

330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago

Lohan Anderson

This new five-star hotel set to open

in Summer 2013, occupies the first

thirteen floors of the historic 330 North

Wabash (formerly the IBM Building).

Designed by modernist icon Mies van

der Rohe, the structure, in particular the

lobby, epitomizes mid-century Chicago

Modernism. The tower was added to the

National Register of Historic Places in

2010; this designation, along with being

a Chicago Historic Landmark, protect

the structure from undergoing major

changes to the original design intent.

Understanding the sensitivity of the

landmark building and the challenge

of marrying a corporate environment

with a luxury hotel, the client hired

Dirk Lohan, grandson of Mies van der

Rohe, to oversee and design the interior

furnishings for the Ground Floor Lobby.

The lobby will be furnished with custom

pieces—reception cabinet, credenza,

lounge desk, lounge chairs and settees,

and floor lamps—specifically designed

for the project. The project also entails

a new bronze entry canopy, a beaded

drapery curtain, and artwork selection.

My role on the project has included

material selection and sample requests,

production of drawings and 3D models

of custom furniture pieces and canopy,

renderings, preparing submittals for

construction and landmark review, and

reviewing shop drawings and submittals

from sub-contractors.

Rendering of the Ground Floor Lobby, looking south.Brass beaded drapery mock-up, June 2012.

Ground Floor Lobby Plan.

Custom bronze entry canopy mock-up, February 2013.Canopy rendering at night.

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The neighborhood is designed

around self-sufficiency and multiplicity of

program. Retail and restaurants occupy

the ground floor while housing, offices, and

institutions constitute the upper floors; three

to five story buildings replace current single

story structures to increase density in a site

appropriate manner. A variation in housing

types, from micro-unit studio apartments

aimed at college-aged students to three-story

town homes geared toward families, ensures

the neighborhood’s diversity of user groups.

The network of interstitial space

created leaves an exceptional situation for

urbanism to materialize. The streetscape is

arranged around a series of public spaces,

or nodes, that act as hubs of interconnected

informal social spaces that mediate between

home and work. The landscape and site

elements are arranged in rows; this module

of continuous variation provides a cohesive

language for site organization. Finally, the site

accommodates all modes of transportation

to act seamlessly together in hopes that

residents will opt to walk and bike more safely

and efficiently.

Lafayette, like many mid-sized American

cities, is losing a young and highly-educated

creative class of millennials. These children of

baby boomers raised most often in a suburban

condition are seeking out stimulation brought

about by more walkable cities defined by their

streetlife. According to market research, sixty-

four percent of college-educated millennials

choose the city they wish to reside first and

then seek jobs; seventy-seven percent of these

individuals choose to live in the urban core.

New Acadia is a response to a growing

demand for pedestrian-friendly and self-

sufficient neighborhoods within Lafayette’s

urban core. By creating a layering of diverse

programs over the site, the neighborhood

is used more evenly and efficiently. Local

residents can benefit from reduced travel

times by commuting closer and spending less

money on transportation.

Convent Street is closed to car traffic

between Johnston Street and Lee Avenue; it

becomes a promenade for pedestrians and

bikers to permeate across the site. The blocks

between Main Street and Jefferson Street are

divided between north and south to create

an open axisthat becomes the heart of the

new neighborhood. Street lanes are narrowed

to twelve feet to slow drivers down and a

dedicated two-way bike lane is introduced

on Johnston Street linking the site with ULL’s

campus.

NEW ACADIA:RETROFITTING URBAN DECAYSpring 2013

Site: Downtown, Lafayette LA

Program: Mixed-use Neighborhood

Design Competition

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The site straddles the trajectory between downtown Lafayette and the University of Louisiana’s ULL Campus. (Explo it the location.)The site is less than a quarter-mile wide which translates to a five minute walk from one end to the other. (Exploit the compact nature of the site.)Like many American cities, the retail core of Lafayette has expanded along arterial roads and far flung expanses of the city’s periphery. (Exploit recentralization of amenities.)

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6JG�PGKIJDQTJQQF�KU�FGUKIPGF�VQ�DG�UGNH�UWHƂEKGPV�CPF�mixed-use. The ground floor is occupied by a series

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NODES/

A way of prioritizing space by creating a network of

interconnected hubs of streetlife and informal gathering.

The city should be designed to connect public spaces as

a continuum.

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A way of organizing the streetscape in modules of

continuously diverse landscapes, infrastructure, and

architecture; the row recalls the vernacular agriculture

of the region. The city should be designed as a cohesive

system with a coherent language.

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A way of accommodating all modes of transportation

to work seamlessly together. The city should not be

designed around the car but rather the individual.

Place d’Acadie, formed between two blocks, functions as

the new social and cultural hub for downtown Lafayette.

The interstitial space between two apartment buildings

becomes a lively passageway with seating and lighting

displays.

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DEMATERIALIZED

POOLSCAPEProf. John Ronan

Fall 2011

Site: Lakeshore Park, Chicago IL

Program: Aquatic Center/Public Park

Studio Nine

Awards: Schiff Fellowship nominated; featured project at IIT College of Architecture Open House and Graduation 2012; featured on IIT’s website under Student Work.

The aquatic center—pools, saunas, steam rooms, and park—is based on a bottom-up approach where materiality dictates design. The project explores the use of acrylic chambers to dematerialize form and allow atmospheric conditions to provide visual legibility. As the visual boundaries disappear and reappear, it is the flux of conditions that governs the perception of the aquatic center.

The site is split between public park and private aquatic center. The streetwall is bound by an acrylic wall; punctures around the site lead to compartmentalized public spaces—including a water playground,dog park, and outdoor cinema. The views between the public and private site components are left unobstructed to reiterate the ability of atmospheric conditions to provide visual disruption of differently climatized aquatic spaces.

The meandering form of the aquatic center links individual components—whirlpool, steam rooms, and sauna—through a series of thresholds and vestibules that separate the specific atmospheric conditions. The order the bather circulates recalls the Roman Bath’s orderly sequence from cold to hot.

The poolscape also exploits the annual climatic shift. Certain tree species were selected to usher in the year at different moments. The outdoor lap and wading pools become heated in winter, emitting steam that condensates on the adjacent acrylic surfaces. Indoor components of the aquatic center, like the steam room, are able to accommodate the winter swimmer surplus by expanding to the chamber volume’s outer limits. The poolscape is able to adjust its spatial boundaries by dematerializing and allowing the atmospheric conditions to dictate form.

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These views portray a time elapse of the steam room expanding its volume in the aquatic center. The transparent chambers give the atmospheric cond i t ions the ab i l i t y to constantly readjust spatial limits. As the number of occupants increasees, the steam room grows to accommodate.

The winter renders the water playground unusable. The jetted fountains and misters omit heated water vapor that steams in the frigid air like a series of small geysers. At night a spectacle of colored lights is cast on the jets of steam illuminating the acrylic courtyard.

The precursor to contemporary aquatic centers is the Roman bath; the bath’s experiemce was organized around an orderly sequence of chambers from cold to hot. Likewhile, the aquqatic center is organized as a series of acrylic compartments that are visually continuous but physically separated.

The project began with a series of material studies. The implicit definition of the transparent volume became more clearly defined with the introduction of a new atmospheric condition.

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wading pools

steam rooms

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4’ 8’ 16’ 32’SITE PLAN

SITE SECTION4’ 8’ 16’ 32’

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(A) Acrylic Walls

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recreation pools

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The details of the aquatic center focus on simplifying form to create a minimalist enclosure with sealed concrete floors, stainless steel ceiling and columns, and a double acrylic facade.

The aquatic center’s programmatic components rely on specif ic environmental conditions. Relative humidity, air temperature, and water temperature are controlled within each chamber. Mechanical rooms and transitional corridors (yellow) help to keep the chamber’s conditions standardized.

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The Washington Square Sleep Center is a space for rehabilitation by fusing a clinical component with a private art collection. The integration of these two complex and opposing programs in such a dense site provides a dynamic interplay between private-public and night-day. The private art collection wraps around the sleep center, nesting the sleep rooms and technologist spaces in the center of the site. Two large courtyards separate public from private while instigating views between programs. The courtyards also introduce conditions of mutability between times of the day. The sleep rooms have a motorized shading device that opens during the day allowing uninterrupted views to the art collection. The street wall, composed of a profiled glass curtain wall, conceals the sleep center during the day but exposes the control rooms as they become illuminated at night. The main entrance into the building is the same for all visitors; a series of thresholds open and close according to time allowing the appropriate barrier between the two users while blurring the boundaries.

SCIENCE OF SLEEP

Prof. Leslie JohnsonSpring 2012

Site: 880 N. Clark St., Chicago

Program: Sleep Research Center

Studio Ten

Featured project at IIT College of Architecture

Open House 2012.

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The nighttime view of the streetwall, composed of channeled glass, emphasizes the active spaces of the Sleep Center.The same e levat ion as viewed during dayl ight emphasizes the entrance and vertical circulation. The uninterrupted form of the curtainwall acts as a thin veil between the busy streetscape and the inner courtyard.

The section at the north end of the site reveals the main circulation for all user groups. A series of thresholds in the corridor open and chose at particular times in the day to provide the appropriate physical separation.

The site faces Washington Square Park, a small green space in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. The northern extent of the site functions as circulation while two main courtyards offset the majority of the program into layers away from the busy front facade on Clark Street.

The section through the center of the site reveals the use of the courtyard as visual linkage between the diverse elements of the sleep center’s program. The sleep rooms and art gallery are left with uninterrupted views knowing that as one is occupied, the other will be empty.

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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

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good quality of natural, diffused/indirect light

good quality of natural, diffused/indirect light

adjustable walls and surfaces to allow multitude of displays

organized in volumes, long narrow volumes work best

group seating for 12 people; dining area; computer stations

sloped theatre space designed for 80+ people, researcher lectures, video museum display

group seating for 24 people, dining area, conference area

stations for 6 nurses; supplies and closet space for medications and equipment

seating for 12 people; dining area; conference space

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I n co rpora t i ng the t ime s p e c i f i c i t y o f t h e d u a l programmatic arrangement, th i s ser ies o f i sometr i c diagrams, beginning with the sleep patients arrival at 6:00PM, helps to qualify the activation and deactivation of the program.

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The dialogue between night and day began with a detailed exploration of the relationship of adjacenc ies and user groups.

During the night, the public components are deactivated while the technologist spaces and control room become the hub of activity in both day and night conditions.The different user groups form a web of connectivity where components are activated and deactivated.

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NIGHT PROGRAM

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DOOR TWOopen 10AM-6PM

DOOR ONEoperable 10AM-6PM

LOBBYopen 10AM-6PM

DOOR THREEoperable one way (out)

DOOR FOURoperable one way (out)

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This perspective portrays the corridor during daytime. The public slips past the sleep center entrance to circulate to the gallery space.The art collection is meant as a private exhibition for a privileged few. Visitors are scheduled ahead of time in small groups to visit in hour increments between 10:00AM and 6:00PM. Visitors to art collection are ushered through a series of thresholds within the same corridor, slipping past the entrance to the sleep center. The theatre on the third floor may alse be used for small public screenings; entry is granted in the reverse direction.

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Vital information relating to sleep research study is gathered while the patient is sleeping. The conduit is l inked through a bedside cabinet where it is connected to a nearby control room via a horizontal chase.The sleep research center contains eight sleep rooms total, four on the first floor CPF�HQWT�QP�VJG�UGEQPF�ƃQQT��Each sleep room is equipped with a private restroom, climate control system, and motorized shading device.

The public art gallery and private sleep center share a central courtyard. The view between the two are mediated by the time of occupancy; the sleep rooms are only used at night when the gallery is closed.

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Englewood is in decline. Over the last ten years, the neighborhood has hemorrhaged a quarter of its population. This continued pattern of exodus has added large swathes of vacant lots and disused buildings to a pre-existing condition of urban decay. What if this abandoned territory became Englewood’s greatest asset—a re-appropriation of urban density by introducing a corridor of productive landscapes?

Corridor City, a two-mile territory, is an urban alternative for Englewood. Over the course of the elevated rail embankment, a series of moves are made to create a layering of artificial topography to stimulate programmatic interventions. Having served as an industrial and manufacturing rail line, the corridor is littered with traces of historical past. By juxtaposing new relationships with the terrain, these foundations, loading docks, and abandoned structures serve as commemoration of Englewood’s distant history.

CORRIDOR CITY

Prof. MP Mattson

Spring 2011

Site: Rail Embankment,

Englewood, Chicago IL

Program: Urban Park/Recreational Center

Studio Eight

The two-mile corridor is split into six zones of varying topography and program strategy. These zones are connected to each other and to the urban fabric by a continuous elevated path that connects to street level. In its foreground, the blocks between 59th and 58th Street are tranformed into specified centers of recreation, education, energy production, and urban farming. The corridor forms a spine of density in this flighted community.

Awards: Dwight T. Black Scholarship 2011; featured project at IIT College of Architecture Open House 2011.

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Many neighborhoods in inner city Chicago, like Englewood, have large fragmentation of underutilized land. Corridor City aims to reimagine these fragments with moments of activity and liveability.

A sectional strategy exploits the raised topography of the embankment as a device for ins t igat ing programmat ic interventions.

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T h e l a n g u a g e o f t h e embankment, its topography, is replicated to differentiate program and planting. An inendated surface becomes a wetland, a hill becomes a lookout point, and a sloped surface becomes a theatre.

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