Graduate Work

BENJAMIN E THOMASGRADUATE WORK

Architecture is a pleasantly complex practice in which attention paid to the smallest details can result in the largest impacts. Details, however, must not be relegated simply to fastening hardware and material selections of the built environment. Progressive architectural intervention succeeds best when it is appreciative of the details of the built, contextual, and personal environments of human behavior. It is in this appreciation that I position my own work in order to afford the opportunity for best practices on physical and non-physical scales; to retain theoretical ingenuity within the scope of plausible reality.

Through my work experience I became actively engaged with the realities of scope, budget, bidding process, scheduling, board reviews, and team leadership. The critical thinking skills acquired through this exposure, when applied to design, posit the fact that all aspects of the design process are opportunities for successful work. Academically, this success is cataloged through the multiple projects archived as teaching tools, a publication in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee architecture student magazine, Studio 2131, exhibited work at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez as well as the University of Michigan, and an awarded installation at NOLA DesCours through the AIA, New Orleans chapter.

The work within is evidence of how progressive thinking coupled with realistic grounding allows the conversation of architectural intervention to be had at multiple scales. Moreover, it highlights the agency of architecture outside of the built environment as it aids in the narration of the everyday, aiding the individuals ability to move, interact, play in-, and contribute to the environments in which we exist.

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STARfIELD DESCOURS: AIA NEW ORLEANSfALL 2011

MEGA-TERMINAL OPTION STUDIO: fAITH MCLAIN CLUTTERfALL 2010

MOBILE AGGREGATIONCOMPREHENSIVE STUDIOMICHAEL KENNEDYfALL 2011

EL MUSEO DEL NORTECOMPREHENSIVE STUDIOMICHAEL KENNEDY fALL 2011

NSS HEADQUARTERS OPTION STUDIOjENNIfER HARMONWINTER 2011

EXPANDING INWARD THESIS STUDIO, ANCA TRANDAfIRESCUWINTER 2012

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STARfIELD DESCOURS: INSTALLATION, AIA NEW ORLEANS. 2011

Cut Sheet: Connection Plates

TEAM LEADER:Lecturer jennifer Harmon

CONCEPT AND PROPOSAL:joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Benjamin Thomas, Grant Weaver

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT:Missy Ablin, joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Will Martin, Catherine Pyenson, Benjamin Thomas

ASSEMBLY:Missy Ablin, Ashley Banks, joshua Kehl, Spencer Kroll, Michael Gelnboski, Will Martin, Catherine Pyenson, An-drew Stephens, Benjamin Thomas, Grant Weaver, Logan Wiedman, Wencan Xue

INSTALL:Missy Ablin, Spencer Kroll, Catherine Pyenson

CONSULTANTS:Peter von Blow, Maciej Kaczynski

ADDITIONAL CREDITS - Benjamin Thomas:

- Material Research and Project Budgeting- Project Scheduling- Proposal Renderings- Initial Connection Assembly Concept- Connector Plate Cut Sheets

LIGHT YEARS 100 200 300 400 500

GIAUSAR : 334 ly

ELTANIN : 148 ly

SHAOWEI : 498 ly

THUBAN : 309 ly

EDASICH : 102 ly SHANGZAI : 68 ly

ALDIBAIN : 88 ly

ALDHIBAH : 340 ly

DZIBAN : 289 ly

BANTENTABAN : 26 ly

DRA : 150 ly TYL : 146 ly

ALTAIS : 100 ly

KUMA : 99 ly

RASTABAN : 361 ly

GRUMIUM : 111 ly

Diagram: Extruding Draco

9Details: Connection SkirtThe connection to the existing structure will be applied by the use of a protective skirt that surrounds the vertical structural members of an ideal site. This protective skirt will provide the connection between the cables that suspend the starfield from the existing balcony.

NO. 02: SPECIFICATIONS

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Detail: Hanging the Construct

Top Aluminum Plate

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Acrylic Ring

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Clean and assemble with good sIde visible

Clean and Sand both sides. Check Orientation with Starfield Diagram.

Glue to Acrylic Lens Plate

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Assembly: Star Connector Assembly: Codifying the Structure

In-Situ

MEGA-TERMINAL OPTION STUDIO: fAITH, MCLAIN CLUTTER. fALL 2010

The goal of this studio was to develop a conceptual project concerning the evolution of the Megachurch in the exurban landscape. Various trips to such institutions as well as comparative studies with other building types such as large big box retail were the point of departure. Of primary effort in this studio was understanding the programmatic incorporation and distribution within the church as an example of interior urbanism. This work projects the incorporation of mass transit into the programmatic concerns of the church. Vehicular access into the interior begins to create a completed whole of the institution as a metropolis. Moreover, ideas of network distribution and iconographic imagery speak to the attitude of building as billboard, associating the programmed interior with a single exterior expression.

Site Discovery: Preliminary Mapping

Site Plan

Site Phasing User Routes by Transportation Type

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Partial Plan: Terminal Level

Strategy: Programmatic Stratification and Objectification

Objectified Metropolis

MOBILE AGGREGATIONCOMPREHENSIVE STUDIO, MICHAEL KENNEDY. fALL 2011

LA CARPA MOBILE MUSEUMIn conjunction with the University of Michigans Latino Studies department and El Museo del Norte public committee of Southwest Detroit, the project was to design a mobile museum to help tell the history of Latinos in the area. Each student was to develop a unique proposal that was showcased to the public for consideration. The proposal below called for the development of flexible nodes that could be easily transported and reconfigured to accommodate a variety of sites, audiences, and programmatic intents.

Axon: Constructing the Node

Handling and Distribution

Tourist-Limited knowledge of area or the history of the community. This audience would benet from program that incorporates a way to explore the neighborhood.

Educational Groups-May have sucient knowledge of the neighborhood as is relates to the larger Detroit area, but limited in the history of those who dene the community. This demographic can stand to gain from program that gives more depth to the exhibited pieces such as lectures and informed presentation.

Mexican Revolution

Agricultural Migration

Automotive Industry

Great Depression

Discrimination

Repatriation

Family Life

St. Annes

Diego Rivera

1/128 = 1

DEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

AUDIENCE

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Tourist-Limited knowledge of area or the history of the community. This audience would benet from program that incorporates a way to explore the neighborhood.

Educational Groups-May have sucient knowledge of the neighborhood as is relates to the larger Detroit area, but limited in the history of those who dene the community. This demographic can stand to gain from program that gives more depth to the exhibited pieces such as lectures and informed presentation.

Mexican Revolution

Agricultural Migration

Automotive Industry

Great Depression

Discrimination

Repatriation

Family Life

St. Annes

Diego Rivera

1/128 = 1

DEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

AUDIENCE

SUBJECT TO PHYSICAL DEPLOYMENT

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Strategic Deployment

Community Engagement

Historical Superimposition

Partial Plan 3 = 1

TECTONICS

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INDIVIDUAL TEACHING / GROUP EVENT / MULTIPLES

Manipulation: Programmatic Intent and Audience Size

Southwest Detroit Art Walk

On-Site Curation

Learning in the Park

EL MUSEO DEL NORTECOMPREHENSIVE STUDIO, MICHAEL KENNEDY. fALL 2011

To promote the efforts of the Southwest Detroit community, the studio was geared towards the development of a permanent museum to house performances and exhibits centered around the Latino culture in the area and the larger context of the city. One proposal per student.

This project makes use of an existing ironworks building from the 19th century as a contrasting agent to a proposed addition. Through their dialogue, the new and old relate to the historical sensitivity of the surrounding Latino community. Incorporated into the project is the knowledge that the visitor is at once patron and exhibit, living history. Therefore, the project is designed to fully expose the community to itself through active display and interactive activities such as the offering of the exterior to local artists and the bleeding of performance space from building to exterior neighborhood.

Building the Discussion: Past, Present, future

PROPOSAL ONE: OPEN SITE

ZONE 3: MOBILE HOUSING

The museum will serve as housing for its mobile component. When docked, the mobile museum will serve as major frontage of the museum along the street edge.

ZONE 1B: GROUND LEVEL

Lower-level of museum will house more dynamic programming and even space with exhibits constantly changing. It will have the ability to open to exterior to extend programmatic footprint.

ZONE 1A: ABOVE GROUND

This level will house a more perma-nent collection as well as administration

ZONE 2: EXTERIOR

Soft perimeter to act as extended program area to cater to large events and outdoor activities.

GENERAL PLAN A series of progressional spaces will vary in scale, denoting spatial use and depth of personal e

Large Congressional Space1:1 InteractionFormal Platform

General Exhibition

Extension to Exterior

Visual Accessibility

GENERAL SECTION Spatial operation will be denoted by compression and expan-sion of spaces through manipulation of the vertical and horizontal planes, emphasizing the nature of conduct relative to program.

NOTES-Exterior to maintain language expressed by mobile museum. Emphasis on verticality on exterior and horizontality on interior.

-The museum will house utility at core to open exterior to programmatic perimeter.

-Materiality TBD

GENERAL SITE PLAN

PROPOSAL TWO: SHARED SITE

ZONE 3: MOBILE HOUSING

Mobile museum serves as barrier from interior to exterior with points of visual and physical accessibilty

CONTEXTUAL CONSISTENCY

The museum will address the proportions of any new facade based on the rule set dened by adjacent structures. While the development in the vacant lot may have material dierence and, perhaps, a unique character, it must abide by the proportional system in place to not be perceived as a foreign body amongst well known establishments.

ZONE 1: BORROWED FRONTAGE Working with an existing shell, the museum adhere to the language consistent of the block in which it is located.

ZONE 2: VACANT SPACE

ideally, additional space will be found adjacent to the existing building shell. Preference given to sites with bordering commercial operations as to implant the museum as an active participant within the context of a main artery in the neighborhood.

GENERAL SECTION The interior structure of the existing building will be preserved and highlighted through renovation. The addition will take on a dierent character, making obvious its relationship with the building it uses to create the museum. Points of reection present themselves as cuts in the oor plane, allowing the museum-goer to re-address their past experiences from a dierent vantage point. The oor may become a more active participant in the transfer of informa-tion at this point of reection.

GENERAL SITE PLAN

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Contextual Nodes

Site Plan -- 1/64 = 1

Major Development Type: Single Family Residential

Density: Around 50%

Historical Anchor: St. Annes Church

Nearby Institutions: Preston School, Roberto Clemente Recreation Center,Michigan Hispanic Chamber, Welcome Center

Transit: City Bus Lines 49 (1/8mi), 19 and 27 (1/4mi)

Smart Bus 125, 150 (1/4mi)

Site Area: 90 x 105 = 9,450 sf

Preliminary Data

Site Selection

Staying in the same vein as the mobile component, El Museo del Norte should be an active player within the community it serves. As a museum of history, it should locate itself near a historical anchor, which it refer-ences through its curated exhibits and physical proximity. Access to areas of public engagement such as recre-ational centers, parks, and/or schools allows the museum to lend itself as an extension of focused pro-gram. Within the site and its context there should be ample room for the museum to: 1) expand physical foot-print, 2) occupy multiple areas to increase range of vis-ibility and deploy/store portions of the mobile unit per its intent, 3) interact with the community at both large and small scales. Southwest Detroit is part of Detroits Em-powerment Zone initiative; therefore, the museum should site itself within a particular area of revitalization as a gesture to the communitys progressive nature and his-torical sensitivity. Moreover, it would be ideal to have a site housing a pre-existing building that the new museum can interact with, furthering this gesture.

Site Summary

Located on Porter Road between St. Annes Street and Stanton Park, the site houses a 3-storey, masonry build-ing measuring 40 x 80 and a slightly larger lot on the buildings East side. It is the location of 19th century T.X Rosseau Iron Workers Manufacturing Co. The building is surrounded by single-family residences, except for a slightly larger lot to the North. Other open lots avail-able nearby to relieve the need to house all necessities on one site such as parking or large events. Open lots also offer potential for mobile unit deployment, engaging publics that may not pass directly by site. St.Annes is visible to the South; Detroit skyline visible to the East. Historically, the neighborhood has always been small residential with commercial sites scattered throughout. The T.X. Iron Workers building is one ofthe few buildings still remaining from the 19th century development. It can be speculated that many of the areas residents worked at the nearby iron working building and other commercial developments to the north, alongBagley St. Using this site for the museum exposes the potential to reestablish a node that has provided for the community it inhabits. The building can serve its community in a similar fashion to the German Turnverein associations of the early 19th century. Their goal, through their halls, was to develop sound body and minds within the community. This was done by providing program that was physically and intellectually engaging, such as gymnasi-ums and tutoring services.

Contextual Nodes

Potential Lots of engagement

Engaging the Site: Early Strategy and Site Plan

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Freston School

Contextual Nodes

Site Plan -- 1/64 = 1

Major Development Type: Single Family Residential

Density: Around 50%

Historical Anchor: St. Annes Church

Nearby Institutions: Preston School, Roberto Clemente Recreation Center,Michigan Hispanic Chamber, Welcome Center

Transit: City Bus Lines 49 (1/8mi), 19 and 27 (1/4mi)

Smart Bus 125, 150 (1/4mi)

Site Area: 90 x 105 = 9,450 sf

Preliminary Data

Site Selection

Staying in the same vein as the mobile component, El Museo del Norte should be an active player within the community it serves. As a museum of history, it should locate itself near a historical anchor, which it refer-ences through its curated exhibits and physical proximity. Access to areas of public engagement such as recre-ational centers, parks, and/or schools allows the museum to lend itself as an extension of focused pro-gram. Within the site and its context there should be ample room for the museum to: 1) expand physical foot-print, 2) occupy multiple areas to increase range of vis-ibility and deploy/store portions of the mobile unit per its intent, 3) interact with the community at both large and small scales. Southwest Detroit is part of Detroits Em-powerment Zone initiative; therefore, the museum should site itself within a particular area of revitalization as a gesture to the communitys progressive nature and his-torical sensitivity. Moreover, it would be ideal to have a site housing a pre-existing building that the new museum can interact with, furthering this gesture.

Site Summary

Located on Porter Road between St. Annes Street and Stanton Park, the site houses a 3-storey, masonry build-ing measuring 40 x 80 and a slightly larger lot on the buildings East side. It is the location of 19th century T.X Rosseau Iron Workers Manufacturing Co. The building is surrounded by single-family residences, except for a slightly larger lot to the North. Other open lots avail-able nearby to relieve the need to house all necessities on one site such as parking or large events. Open lots also offer potential for mobile unit deployment, engaging publics that may not pass directly by site. St.Annes is visible to the South; Detroit skyline visible to the East. Historically, the neighborhood has always been small residential with commercial sites scattered throughout. The T.X. Iron Workers building is one ofthe few buildings still remaining from the 19th century development. It can be speculated that many of the areas residents worked at the nearby iron working building and other commercial developments to the north, alongBagley St. Using this site for the museum exposes the potential to reestablish a node that has provided for the community it inhabits. The building can serve its community in a similar fashion to the German Turnverein associations of the early 19th century. Their goal, through their halls, was to develop sound body and minds within the community. This was done by providing program that was physically and intellectually engaging, such as gymnasi-ums and tutoring services.

Contextual Nodes

Potential Lots of engagement

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Elevation: Community Character

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Lobby / Vertical Training

NSS HEADQUARTERSOPTION STUDIO, jENNIfER HARMON. WINTER 2011

The studio was charged with the task of designing a headquarters for the National Speleological Society. After collective research aimed at defining the needs of the society was published, each student was to propose a building design.

This project employs the play between interior and exterior, above and below ground, to create moments of tension and intrigue that work to heighten the experience of the whole. The three publics of the building (caver, administrator, public) are purposefully given moments of overlap to extend their programs to one another, creating hybrid environments for education and interaction. The architecture actively presents key features of program to each other, increasing the legibility of space and the components that define the NSS as a society. The transfer of information from caving society to touring public will increase, further solidifying the NSS as a serious, conservation-minded institution whose efforts are on multiple fronts: research, training, education

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Site Discovery: Centers of Activity

Caver

Local

Tourist Site Discovery: Overlapping Publics

Survey -Stations established and act as markers to create whole.

Difining Moments-Areas of greater recognition are cataloged through sensory awareness of the human body.

Three-Dimensional space is characterized by individual as reference tool

Sensory Influence from Adjacent Program/Moments

Sensory Influence of Moment

Physical Accessibility and Utility

Major Programmatic Features

Secondary Program Adjacencies

Kentucky Geological Shifts

formal Geological Shifts

Cave Experience v Programmatic Experience

formal Discovery: Tracking of Shifts Over Time

Exterior Court

Section: Exterior - Interior Interplay

Sub- Level Plan

LOBBY/VERTICAL TRAINING

ADMINISTRATIVE WING

MUSEUM

BARRACKS

RESEARCH LIBRARY

ARCHIVES

LOADING DOCK/BOOK DISTRIBUTION

EXPANDING INWARDTHESIS STUDIO, ANCA TRANDAfIRESCU. WINTER 2012

Prompted by the proposal for compaction initiated by the city of Chicago, Illinois, this thesis investigates the latent potential of physically constrained sites. Engaging the exposed interstate rail platforms of the Blue Line, the projects curiosity comes from the negotiations between the 15 foot width of the platform, the commuter culture of the rail, and the programmatic aspirations of the project. Using the YMCA Headquarters as the pressurizing agent, careful physical considerations are coupled with programmatic overlays that not only accommodate the constraints of the site, but offers a plausible dynamic of integration.

Methods include exploration through isometric drawing, vignette, and conceptual section to draw out the plausibility of action through exactness of execution.

Sectional Elevation

POPULATION INCREASE

CHICAGO, IL.

Changing Rooms

Physical Wellness

Education / Youth

Social Responsibility

Admin / General

Utility / Service

Dance

Yoga

Daycare ShelterHousing

Martial Arts Weights BasketballRaquetball Scuba Running Track SwimRope Vertical Training

Print / Copy

Lockers

Computers Tutoring Center

Gardens

Music Room

YMCA Oces

Food

Urban Explorers Lecture Classroom

Restroom

Job Training Support Group

Housing Admin

Labs

Youth Dev

Primary Program

Secondary Program

To Downtown

To Airport

NETWORK

TIES AND TAILS

DOJO GARDENS

URBAN EXPLORERS / SCUBA SCHOOL

STAYS AND STACKS

YMCA UNIVERSITY

PHASE I OF RAIL RENOVATOIN

City Compaction:Population Increase 1960 - 2010 Strategy: Phase I Distribution

LECTURE

WORKSHOP

RAIL ACCESS

PROGRAMMATIC BORROWING

TRANSITIONAL COMPROMISE DIVIDING THE HORIZONTAL

NEW PROGRAM ALLOWANCE

ACCOMMODATION

FORMAL NECESSITY

CONSTRICTION

ACTIVATING THE STRUCTURE

STRUCTURAL SEPARATION

LAYERING

ACCESSIBILITY

RAIL ACCESS

STRUCTURE

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

PRIVATE PROGRAMMING

MOVEMENT A

MOVEMENT B

PROGRAM REQUIRMENT

SPLIT / VOID

INSERTION / CAP REINTRODUCTION

PROGRAMMATIC EXTENSION

ZONE A-

ZONE A-

ZONE B

STRUCTURAL INFILL

VERTICAL MOVEMENT

EMBEDMENT

VERTICAL CONNECT

VISUAL REGISTRATION

LECTURE

WORKSHOP

RAIL ACCESS




ACCOMMODATION

FORMAL NECESSITY

CONSTRICTION



LAYERING

ACCESSIBILITY

RAIL ACCESS

STRUCTURE

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING


PRIVATE PROGRAMMING

MOVEMENT A

MOVEMENT B

PROGRAM REQUIRMENT

SPLIT / VOID



ZONE A-

ZONE A-

ZONE B

STRUCTURAL INFILL

VERTICAL MOVEMENT

EMBEDMENT

VERTICAL CONNECT

VISUAL REGISTRATION

LECTURE

WORKSHOP

RAIL ACCESS




ACCOMMODATION

FORMAL NECESSITY

CONSTRICTION



LAYERING

ACCESSIBILITY

RAIL ACCESS

STRUCTURE

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING


PRIVATE PROGRAMMING

MOVEMENT A

MOVEMENT B

PROGRAM REQUIRMENT

SPLIT / VOID



ZONE A-

ZONE A-

ZONE B

STRUCTURAL INFILL

VERTICAL MOVEMENT

EMBEDMENT

VERTICAL CONNECT

VISUAL REGISTRATION

Strategy: Negotiating the Constraint

PROGRAMMATIC BORROWING ACTIVATING THE STRUCTURE TRANSITIONAL COMPROMISE

DIVIDING THE HORIZONTAL

platform

maint terrace

to courts

sauna

brainstorming workshop

SECTION: ACCOMODATION/ =

platform

main terrace

to courts


SECTION: FLEXIBILITY/ =

platform

outdoor court


SECTION: OPPORTUNITY/ =

platform

overlook

intermission

SECTION: BRIDGING/ =

platform

outdoor court

lockers

SECTION: MOVEMENT/ =

ballroom

adopt-a-puppy

snackatorium

outdoor play

platformplatform

sauna

main terrace

makers gallery

intermission balcony

obedience training

street entry


rail entry

teach and talkmakers workshop



interior waitingkennel

outdoor court

first aidrentalinformationintermissionlockers

overlook

overlook

entry

outdoor court

outdoor court

transition

ballroom

adopt-a-puppy

snackatorium

outdoor play

platformplatform

sauna

main terrace

makers gallery

intermission balcony

obedience training

street entry


rail entry

teach and talkmakers workshop



interior waitingkennel

outdoor court

first aidrentalinformationintermissionlockers

overlook

overlook

entry

outdoor court

outdoor court

transition

platform

congretional play


makers workshop

SECTION: STRATEGY/ =

rail entry

main terrace

workshop access

teach and talk

SECTION: EDUCATION/ =

interior waiting

obedience training

intermission

makers gallery/gates

SECTION: DEVELOPMENT/ =

adopt-a-puppy

outdoor play

snackatorium

ballroom

SECTION: ACTION/ =

kennel

outdoor play

balcony

entry

SECTION: EXPOSURE/ =

Cross Section Series

Section: Programmatic Cohesion

Interior: Makers Workshop / Teach and Talk

Exterior: Rail Access / Outdoor Play

Benjamin E Thomas414.333.2799 I [email protected]

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