Leahy_Portfolio_October2012

INTERN ARCHITECTDESIGN PORTFOLIO

ERIK LEAHY

1SURROUNDING SAN FRANCISCO

3PARAMETRIC TYPOLOGIES

4HARD ROCKREDUX

2BEMISINFO SHOP

6INTO THE SEAM:THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOUNDARY

5UNI KITAGÖTINGEN

7elevATEbifurcATE

SELECTED PROJECTS

EDUCATION bachelor of science in design university of nebraska - lincoln, may 2010 gpa: 3.713 master of architecture university of nebraska - lincoln; may 2012 gpa: 3.82

HONORS / RESPONSIBILITIES alpha rho chi medal recipient teaching assisstant @ unl- second year design studio w/ professor Brian Kelly, 4 semesters daad study + internship scholarship, germany study abroad year-long study + internship @ uni applied sciences bremen german language - working knowledge project hope palestine volunteer united nations sponspored ngo taught english in palestinian refugee camps in nablus, west bank tau sigma delta collegiate honor society usgbc students unl past president and college recycling chairperson eagle scout WORK EXPERIENCE bcdm architects omaha, ne intern architect, august 2012 - present team member on various projects at schematic, development, and construction documentation phases of deisgn process min | day omaha, ne intern architect, may 2011 - august 2011 supervised in-house model shop producing presentation-quality models and assisting schematic designs on various projects despang architekten hannover, germany intern architect, march 2009 - june 2009 design team member on a speculative invited-competition entry and design development of built ‘post-fossil’ kindergarden

M.ARCH GRADUATE

[email protected] 714.273.266813017 EAGLE RUN DRIVE OMAHA, NE 68164

ERIK LEAHY

1SURROUNDING SAN FRANCISCOTYPE: WATERFRONT REVITALIZATIONLOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CATERM: FALL 2010

master plan axonometric viewsurrounding san franciscov e r t i c a l s t u d i o f a l l 2 0 1 0

coastal pleat

A project looking at revitalization of the Mission Bay community in San Fransiscos’ former port, focused around the issue of rising global water levels. The master plan creates a series of design-centered ‘penninsulas’, capitalizing on San Franciscos young, educated population. These penninsulas, plugged-into the coastline and elevated above a future high water level, would provide a live-work location for small start-up venture companies while activiting the negliected neighborhood beyond.

The project provides designs for the penninsula community typology; a housing typology, based on the San Fran row house; and the continuation of the “blue-greenway” along the waterfront, returning activity and focus to the unused port area of San Francisco.

+144

+96

-15

+36

building mass raises out to views and higher land value at water

building mass lowers towards south to provide efficient solar exposure

building mass lowers towards existing, re-purposed cultural hubs

*note: 1 story = 12 ft floor to floor

massing parameterssurrounding san franciscov e r t i c a l s t u d i o f a l l 2 0 1 0

multi-family housing

massing parameters

office

shopping

pedestrian plaza

parking / service

HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS

coastal pleat

PROGRAM LAYERING

local and regional connectionssurrounding san franciscov e r t i c a l s t u d i o f a l l 2 0 1 0

1000 ft

coastal pleatN

TO:SAN FRAN +NORTH BAY

TO:OAKLAND

TO:SAN MATEO

TO:SAN JOSE

CAR / TRUCK

MUNI T-LINE

LOCAL PEDESTRIAN

PARKING / SERVICE ACCESS (BELOW)

FERRY / WATER TAXI

20th STREET

MARIPOSA STREET

23th STREET

16th STREET

MARIN STREET

The proposed waterfront structures plug into existing and pro-posed transit connections. Transit systems include automobiles, water-based transit, public mass transit, and pedestrian access. These systems provide access into the city as well as the wider bay area region and beyond.

Multiple means of transit and connections will provide a density of people coming and going, working, playing, and shopping in order to provide a strong local character and sense of active community.

3rd STREET

ILLINOIS STREET (PEDESTRIAN ONLY)

INDIANA STREET

MISSOURI STREET

4th STREET

UNIT 1

UNIT 2

UNIT 3

KITCHEN / GREAT ROOM

SECONDARY BED

MASTER BED


SECONDARY BED

MASTER BED


SECONDARY BED

MASTER BED

SCALE: 1/8” = 1’

housing axonometricsurrounding san franciscov e r t i c a l s t u d i o f a l l 2 0 1 0

coastal pleat

The Victorian-era ‘Painted Ladies’ like the well known houses on Russian Hill represent the prototypical image of San Francisco.

Found in many styles, though rarely modern, and built in various income brackets the 3-story narrow rowhouses have been copied across the city and represent the predominant and desired living condition in San Francisco.

While they provide desired qualities of living, such as adjacencies to neighbors, street life and individual privacy, the height restricted row houses have not been adapable to a higher density, multi-family development, the kind of development which would allow land-exhausted San Fran-cisco to continue to expand

A typical house size averages 20’ by 60’ and 3 stories

A typical block size of about 200’ by 350’ allows for about 21 individual housing units

In order to increase housing density on site, the block could be stacked vertically 3-high,Iallowing for 63 units on the same block

A commerical / retail plinth is inserted on the base of the vertical ‘block’ created a total community of living, working, shopping

In a typical multi-family apartment housing, the facade is treated as solid face to preserve the integrity of the total building

However, if the project is considered not as a massive apartment block but rather a vertical san francisco housing block, each unit could be adjusted to create a variety of new opportunities for social and living spaces, including balconys, walk-outs and shading

housing typology parameterssurrounding san franciscov e r t i c a l s t u d i o f a l l 2 0 1 0

coastal pleat

SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING TYPOLOGY: ‘PAINTED LADY’ ROWHOUSES

Removal of units which do not fit into the 3-unit San Francisco typology are deleted which allows for communal social space vertically throughout the building, continuing the sense of a ‘block’ community into the multi-family structure

UNRESPONSIVE

ENGAGING

SOCIAL

2F.A.C.T. CLASS IN COLLABORATION WITH MIN | DAY

TYPE: ART GALLERY RECEPTION/ENTRANCELOCATION: OMAHA, NETERM: SPRING - SUMMER 2010 (DESIGN + BUILD)

BEMIS INFO SHOP

3/4” mdf finish surface- custom milled

1/2” plywood substrate- 4x8 sheets

2x6 stud structure- custom milled + site- built studs

connecting soffit- conceals ductwork through gallery opening- 2 options follow either duct or wall angle- finished in drywal

plan 1cut at 3’1/2” = 1’

plan 2cut at 6’1/2” = 1’

plan 3cut at top of main wall1/2” = 1’

bemis center for contemporary artsmin|day + FACT

structure diagramnot to scale

3’ mechanical closet door

air supply

air intake - patterned perforated surface

A design intervention within an existing art gallery in historic Omaha, Info Shop was a design/build collaboration between the Fabrication And Construction Team (FACT) course and firm Min | Day. The project scope included an entry/reception desk, modified wall on entry space, and display space for gallery exhibit and event literature.

Personal project responsibilities included pattern design for costum CNC manufactured wall panels as well as design and execution of a cost effective construction process based on a traditional stud wall system while alowing the irregular angular folds in the wall surface.

3TYPE: TOWER TYPOLOGY STUDYLOCATION: NEW YORK | SITELESSTERM: SPRING 2011

PARAMETRIC TYPOLOGIES

2 FLOORS 4 FLOORS 6 FLOORS 8 FLOORS 10 FLOORSTYPICAL PRECEDENT UNITSINGLE FLOOR = 13.5’

BASE STRUCTURAL UNITS:

1] EXTRUDEBuilding mass extruded upward

2] DIVIDEPrimary structural divisions made. Irregural spacing accomodates a variety of uses

3] FACETChampfered corners reduce required steel

4] TRIANGULATEFloorplates trimmed to form and structrual diagrid skin applied over form

Parametric design is a term increasingly found in the design and architecture fields and commonly associated with digital systems, fluid controls and agonizing hours of computer scripting. However the logic of parametric orders lies not in the computer systems they are found in but in the logical-based mechanisms of parameter-derived systems. In other words, a recipe. Whether digitally derived or analogue, the base is in these parameter-based logic systems.

A short study was developed to define a logic ‘recipe’ for a tower, in this case the Hearst Tower in New York. The existing tower was drawn, modelled, and ‘defined’ and then new hypothetical towers were developed using variations of the Hearst Tower recipe. These new towers sought to create new opportunities for the tower typology by literally stretching the logic systems of the building.

4TYPE: MIXED-USE HOTELLOCATION: CHICAGO, ILTERM: SPRING 2011

HARD ROCK REDUX

Situated on the site of the current Hard Rock Hotel (former Union Carbide and Carbon building) on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago. As the current building has been repurposed as a hotel out of a former office building, this project proposes a hypothetical redesign of the site for a tower design specifically for its program program: hotel and music experience. The design challenges both the role of the urban tower as an engagement with the streetscape; wrapping and ramping streetfront shopping up and into the tower, as well as the ‘hard rock’ hotel program; culminating this public procession in an elevated concert hall inserted into the hotel program and lobby lobby providing a true rock and roll experience. The tower serves not just as transient lodging feeding into the surrounding city, but as an experience and destination in itself.

2 PROGRAM AMMENITIES PLUGGED INSPECIFIC PROGRAM NEEDS ARE ‘PLUGGED-IN’ TO THE VOLUME TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HEIGHT AND ORIENTATION TO ATTAIN VIEW ADVANTAGES. DISPERSED PROGRAM CREATES CONNECTIONS THROUGHOUT VOLUME.

LOUNGE / BAR2800 SF

MEETING ROOMS16800 SF

POOL5500 SF

LOBBY6500 SF

SERVICE10000 SF

CONCERT VENUE10250 SF

BACK-OF-HOUSE6500 SF

RESTAURANT / ENTRY15000 SF

PROGRAMMED AMENITIES

STREETFRONT EXTENSION

MICHIGAN AVENUE STREETFRONT

EXISTING LINEAR CONDITION REVISED VERTICAL STACKED CONDITION:

STREETFRONT IS PULLED INTO THE BUILDING AS A CONTINOUS RAMP CONNECTING A DENSE, VERTI-CAL SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT

SHOPSHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP

SHOPSHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

RETAIL TYPE A:FEATURED SHOPSCONNECTS TO RAMP3000 SF

AMOEBA MUSICSAM GOODYGAPH&MAMERICAN EAGLEURBAN OUTFITTERSBEST BUY EXPRESSBORDERS EXPRESS

RETAIL TYPE B:SUPPORTING SHOPSNOT CONNECTED TO RAMP1000 - 1500 SF

DUNKIN DONUTSSTARBUCKSRED BERRYFANNIE MAY CHOCOLATESBABBAGESSHARPER IMAGERADIO SHACKVICTORIAS SECRETKAY JEWELERSAT&TCHICAGO TOURISM

B

A

A

B

B

A

A

A

BCONCERT HALL

HOTEL B

B

B

BB

STREETFRONT EXTENSION

MICHIGAN AVENUE STREETFRONT

EXISTING LINEAR CONDITION REVISED VERTICAL STACKED CONDITION:

STREETFRONT IS PULLED INTO THE BUILDING AS A CONTINOUS RAMP CONNECTING A DENSE, VERTI-CAL SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT

SHOPSHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP SHOP

SHOPSHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

SHOP

RETAIL TYPE A:FEATURED SHOPSCONNECTS TO RAMP3000 SF

AMOEBA MUSICSAM GOODYGAPH&MAMERICAN EAGLEURBAN OUTFITTERSBEST BUY EXPRESSBORDERS EXPRESS

RETAIL TYPE B:SUPPORTING SHOPSNOT CONNECTED TO RAMP1000 - 1500 SF

DUNKIN DONUTSSTARBUCKSRED BERRYFANNIE MAY CHOCOLATESBABBAGESSHARPER IMAGERADIO SHACKVICTORIAS SECRETKAY JEWELERSAT&TCHICAGO TOURISM

B

A

A

B

B

A

A

A

BCONCERT HALL

HOTEL B

B

B

BB

TOWER FACADE DEVELOPMENT

FLOOR PULLED FROM INITIAL MASSING MODEL - DIVIDED BY STANDARD 16’ ROOM UNIT 1

VARYING DEPTH OF FACADE CREATES BALCONY SPACE AND DYNAMIC PAT-TERN SHIFT 2

DEVELOPED FACADE SYSTEM ROOM WIDTHS ADJUSTED TO ACCOMODATE CHANGE IN DEPTH3

2’ 3’ 4’ 5’ REPEAT REPEAT

USE:

DEPTH:

SMOKINGWALK-OUT

LOUNGING / SUNBATHING

PODIUM FACADE DEVELOPMENT

INITIAL DOUBLE SKIN SYSTEM1 RAMP WRAPS SKIN SYSTEM2OUTER SKIN LAYER PULLED OUT TO ENVELOPE CIRCULATION WRAP CREATING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN STREETFRONT AND INTERIOR

3FACADE DEVELOPED INTO AN OCCU-PIABLE DOUBLE CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM.4

5TYPE: KINDERGARTENLOCATION: GÖTTINGEN, GERMANYTERM: SUMMER 2009

UNI KITA GÖTTINGEN

strategic tectonic methodology

A student and faculty kindergarten developed for the campus of the university of Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany. Project developed based on the conceptual design of Günther and Martin Despang while interning in their Hannover, Germany office. The kindergarten embeds itself in the hillside emulating the local existing ‘prarie dogs’ which have inhabited the site. The entire roof becomes a green roof, returning habitat for these local critters.

During internship period in the office, project was developed into construction documents, resolving the curved facade into a rational and constructable system. Detail and construction documents developed through Archicad software.

6DESIGN THESIS PROJECTMENTOR: PROFESSOR BRIAN KELLY

TYPE: BORDER SEAM FACILITYLOCATION: EAST JERUSALEM, WEST BANK PALESTINETERM: FALL 2011 - SPRING 2012

INTO THE SEAM: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOUNDARY

A design thesis addressing the role of architecture as a physicalization of border conditions between nations and peoples, an escalating trend in modern foreign policies.

The barrier wall between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank serves as the site for an intensive investigation into this condition. An intensive research project reveals the truth of the barrier, that of a shroud: an erasure of perception and communication across the seam. The design challenges this shrouding barrier - the creation of a seam zone which at once becomes seperation and also connection and place. A barrier not through physical height but through depth and overlap. Israelis move into the seam through seperate, but overlapping, facilities which allow access onto artificial land masses set aside for cultivation, livestock grazing and recreation. An architecture of strangeness and otherness, sacred to no one yet essential for both: for survival; for coexistence.

ATAROT AIRPORT[UNUSED]

QALANDIYA REFUGEE CAMP

KAFR ‘AQAB

ATAROT INDUSTRIAL

ZONE

QALANDIYA CHECKPOINT [PRIMARY]

JABA’

AL RAM

GEVA BINYAMINADAM

HIZMA

NEVE YA’AKOV

BEIT HANINA

PISGAT ZE’EV

‘ANATA

SHUFATREFUGEE

CAMP

SHUFAT

RAMAT SHLOMO

RAMOT ALLON

BIR NABALA

AL-JIB

GIV’AT ZE’EV

RAFAT

OFER PRISON[IDF]

BITUNYA

BITUNYA COMMERCIALCROSSING

BET HORON

AT-TIRAH

BEIT IJZA

BIDDU

QUBEIBA

HAR ADAR

BEIT SURIK

MEVASERET ZIONNEIGHBORHOOD

KIBBUTZMA’ALE HAHAMISHA

QATANNA

BEIT HORON

GIVONHAHADASHA

HAR SHMUEL

BEIT HANINAAL-BALAD

BIR NABALA

MOUNT SCOPUS / HEBREW UNIVERSITY

AL AQSA MOSQUETEMPLE MOUNT

OLD CITY

JERUSALEM

RAMALLAH REGION

pop: 10,024

pop: 11,254

pop: 279,730

pop: 19,761

pop: 2,100

pop: 1,034

pop: 671

pop: 11,200

pop: 3,818

pop: 3,321

pop: 6,368

pop: 7,500

pop: 352

pop: 3,200

pop: 22,800

pop: 50,000

pop: 19,000

pop: 26,762

pop: 1,498

pop: 19,969

pop: 4,700

pop: 6,100

pop: 27,668

pop: 30,000

pop: 6,591

pop: 50,000

pop: 10,401

EAST JERUSALEMtotal pop: 456,300jewish: 195,500muslim: 260,800

pop: 291,300

AZ ZA’AYYEM

ISAWIYA

FRENCH HILL

ANATOT MILITARY BASE

MA’ALE ADUMIM

ABU DIS

AL ‘EIZARIYA

SHEIKH SA’D

SAWAHERA AL-SHARQIYA

ZAYTOUM CROSSING

SAWAHERA CROSSING

SHEIKH SA’ED CROSSING

RAS AL AMUD

HAR HOMA

SUR BAHAR

AL-KHAS

NUEIMANCROSSING

BEIT SAHOUR

BETHLEHEM

CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

BEIT JALA

DHEISHA REFUGEE CAMPAL-KHADR

HAR GILLO

GILO

CHECKPOINT300

GIV’AT HATAMAR OUTPOST

GIV’AT HADAGANOUTPOST

EFRATApop: 7,183

pop: 13,017pop: 9,774

pop: 32,351

AIDA REFUGEE CAMP

pop: 18,041

pop: 3,260

pop: 479

pop: 40,000

pop: 13,000

pop: 16,635

pop: 567

pop: 1,166

pop: 1,034

pop: 1,777

AL JUDEIRApop: 2,121

separated satellite.

pop: 3,731

pop: 3,143

pop: 11,249

pop: 10,703

pop: 6,631

EASTERN GOVERNMENT

OFFICE CAMPUS

SHEIH JARRAHpop: 2,672

AMERICAN COLONYpop: 4,771

AS SAWANApop: 1,468

AT TURMOUNT OF OLIVES

pop: 18,701

AL AQSA MOSQUETEMPLE MOUNT

pop: 2,658

pop: 33,821

MUSLIMQUARTER

CHRISTIAN QUARTER

JEWISHQUARTER

ARMENIANQUARTER

pop: 18,808

pop: 13,092

pop: 5,632

pop: 12,984

SILWANpop: 9,994

ARAB AS-SAWAHRApop: 14,050

pop: 11,757

pop: 2,601

DAR SALAHpop: 3,373

AL ‘AZA REFUGEE CAMP

pop: 1,885

AD DOHApop: 7,664

ARTASpop: 3,959

PALESTINIAN BYPASS

ISRAELIBYPASS

QALANDIYApop: 1,247

ISRAEL-PALESTINE SEAM ZONE:JERUSALEM REGION

4000 FT

2 MILES4 MILES

8000 FT

PALESTINIAN FACILITYCOMPONENTS + CONTROL

ISRAELI FACILITYCOMPONENTS + CONTROL

WATER CONTROL AND DIVERSION

VERTICAL CIRCULATION + SEAM CONTROL

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION + OCCUPATION

WATER CONTROL AND DIVERSION

VERTICAL CIRCULATION + SEAM CONTROL

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION + OCCUPATION

PROGRAM SPACE CONSISTS OF PRIVATE OFFICES, SMALL MEETING ROOMS AND LARGE ASSEMBLY ROOMS FACITILTATING CROSS-SEAM DIALOGUE AND ARBITRATION

PROGRAM SPACE CONSISTS OF PRIVATE OFFICES, SMALL MEETING ROOMS AND LARGE ASSEMBLY ROOMS FACITILTATING CROSS-SEAM DIALOGUE AND ARBITRATION

VERTICAL CIRCULATION TOWERS CONNECT PRO-GRAMMED SUBLAYER TO CONSTRUCTED LANDFORMS

ARTIFICIAL LAND-FORMS FACILITATE ACTIVATED USE OF SEAM ZONE:AGRICULTURE, PAS-TURE GRAZING, RECREATION, CROSS-CULTURE INTERAAC-TION

ARTIFICIAL LAND-FORMS FACILITATE ACTIVATED USE OF SEAM ZONE:AGRICULTURE, PAS-TURE GRAZING, RECREATION, CROSS-CULTURE INTERAAC-TION

VERTICAL CIRCULATION TOWERS CONNECT PRO-GRAMMED SUBLAYER TO CONSTRUCTED LANDFORMS

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION GENERATES OVERLAPPING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FACILITIES

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION GENERATES OVERLAPPING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FACILITIES

GROUND SURFACE BECOMES A MANIPULATED WATER CONTROL SYSTEM ALLOWING DIVERSION OF FLASH FLOODS INTO NEIGH-BORING COMMUNITIES

GROUND SURFACE BECOMES A MANIPULATED WATER CONTROL SYSTEM ALLOWING DIVERSION OF FLASH FLOODS INTO NEIGH-BORING COMMUNITIES

100 FT200 FT

SHUFAT-PISGAT ZE’EV SEAM FACITILYSEAM ZONE SITE PLAN

CURRENT CONCRETE BARRIER WALL

DEFINED BORDER SEAM ZONE

DEFINED BORDER SEAM ZONE

SHUFAT REFUGEE CAMP

PISGAT ZE’EV SETTLEMENT

7ELEVATE - BIFURCATE TABLETYPE: EVENT INSTALLATIONLOCATION: OMAHA, NETERM: SUMMER 2012

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