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CONTENTSUndergraduate B.F.AThe College of New Jersey

Space Frame24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas 5Fracture24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas 6Fracture2 B/W24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas 7Untitled140”x48” Watercolor on Layered Oak Plywood 8Untitled220”x40” Watercolor on Plywood 9Template96”x24” Acrylic on Plywood (with hinges) 10Twenty72”x48” Acrylic and Fiberglass on Oak Plywood 11One Seventy On8”x11” Oil on Masonite 12

Graduate M.ArchNew Jersey Institute of Technology

Fall 2012 Hyde Park Pavilion 13Location: Hyde Park, U.KCritic: Nick McDermott

Spring 2013 CLT Mixed Use Midrise Development 19Location: Redhook, Brooklyn, NYCritic: Rhett Russo

Fall 2013 Civic Community Center 25Location: Linden, N.J.Critic: Nick McDermott

Spring 2014 Lowrise Housing Development (collaborative) 31Location: Union Beach, N.J.Critic: Keith Krumweide Martina Dekker

Fall 2014 Movie Theater 43Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y.Critic: Henry Grossman

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Space Frame24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas

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Fracture24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas

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Fracture2 B/W24”x36” Acrylic on Canvas

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Untitled140”x48” Watercolor on Layered Oak Plywood

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Untitled220”x40” Watercolor on Plywood

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Template96”x24” Acrylic on Plywood (with hinges)

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Twenty72”x48” Acrylic and Fiberglass on Oak Plywood

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One Seventy On8”x11” Oil on Masonite

13HYDE PARK PAVILION

First floor- Two conference rooms @ 600 sq’/ea. Two study/leisure spaces @ 600 sq’/ea. One lecture hall @ 1,200 sq’Ground Floor- Gallery space @ 1,200 sq’ Patio/balcony space @ 600 sq’Third Floor- One studio @1,200 sq’ One digital lab @ 600 sq’Roof- Rooftop patio @2,600 sq’

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- The pavilion located in Hyde Park, began with a precedent study of the “Serpentine Pavilion” projects done every year.

-Through these analyses, the concept of our own designs, achieved through a series of studies, by experiment-ing with various geometries to produce a tessellating pattern(page14)

-The goal was to create something with simple roots, while maintaining a complexity through theorientation of parts, the maximization of views, and integration of program.

19TIMBER IN THE CITY

Residential Studio 100 @ 350 sq’One Bedroom 35 @ 550 sq’Two Bedroom 25 @ 850 sq’Three Bedroom 15 @ 1100 sq’

-Max height of 185’ base height of 60’ setback 15’ after 60’

Wood Manufacturingmain production - @ 20,113 sq’ research workshops- @ 3,026 sq’ material storage- @ 12,750 sq’ showroom- @ 2,550 sq’ offices- @ 2,550 sq’ restroom/kitchen- @ 522 sq’ mechanical- @ 1,708 sq’ loading dock- @ 2,063 sq’

Digital main production- @ 6,055 sq’ research workshops- @ 2,822 sq’ material storage- @ 1,512 sq’ showroom- @ 2,086 sq’ offices- @ 1,221 sq’ mechanical- @ 548 sq’

Bike hub workshop/maintenance- @ 2,011 sq’ bicycle storage- @ 5,112 sq’ shop storage- @ 3,088 sq’ restrooms- @ 323 sq’ entry- @ 783 sq’ protected bike parking- @ 3,112 sq’

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-Preliminary exercises focus on incorporating rainscreen technology to the facade using CLT panels as a material.

-Here is a double layer facade that tapers from bottom to the top, while the windows slowly appear to puncture through each surface

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25CIVIC/COMMUNITY CENTER

Police Station- @ 8,000 sq’

Consolodated Courthouse @ 4,000 sq’

Urgent Care @ 6,000 sq’

Office of Emergency Management @ 2,000 sq’

Job Placement @ 2,000 sq’

Parking @ 12,000 sq’

Retail @ 1,200 sq’

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Courthouse

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O.E.M

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The integration of public and private space along with the transformative or flexible applications to those spaces can begin to bring people together and provide for, in many ways a stable and economically sustainable community. The Office of Emergency Management (O.E.M.) became a very inspiring design factor in the scheme of trying to incorporate a very wide variety of program on a single site. The flexible nature of the O.E.M. provided a means to experimentation on active/inactive/seasonal/perennial activities purely by the conceptual intent behind an O.E.M. During an emergency situation it is important that the citizens are aware of a place to go as refuge, or for goods in light of natural disasters. The inherent qualities of the program made this a very interesting challenge. Balance of community space and civil space is expressed by providing distinct urban street appeal while also allowing the porous nature of the building to invite guests into public courtyards where retail amenities lighten the atmosphere. Successful Integration of public and pri-vate space allows both workers and visitors the means to access the building cohesively and without interrupting one another.

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Child Center

Armory

Records

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Classroom

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Command Center

Rec.Room

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NurseStation

Storage

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Lab

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Roll Call

Interview

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Outoor Storage

Tra�c Bureau

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Bistro

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Exam Rooms

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COURT ROOM

Private Counseling

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Library

Info.Tech

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Library

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31LOW-RISE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

(Collaborative project pg. 31-41)Zainab Alaithan Phillip Grasso Fernando Campos DESIGN PROBLEM / INTENT The goal of the project was to generate a new way of looking at suburbia. The project needed to be low-rise, high density, but besides those conditions, it also needed to address issues such as resiliency in different scopes: economic, social and environmental; it needed to address the issues caused by, and exposed by Super Storms like Sandy, sea level rise, and FEMA guidelines; all of these parameters without forgetting the use of smart materials, that we were exposed to during the semester. Overall, it was a very complex project, with many different considerations to make. We intend to generate a dynamic process of interactions that will ulti-mately reflect a new way of looking to the form and function of suburbia and the surrounding activities. We will achieve this through the placement of dwellings, pedestrian, walkways, share spaces, vehicle circulation and commercial units, in the form of layers.

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VALUES, ATTITUDES, AND APPROACHES

We each were given a precedent to apply in a very loose and formal way to a site. One of us came up with a grid concept to this precedent, so that was also impor-tant in the design process. The fact that this project had to change the way we look at and think if suburbia made us think that, any new form that we applied to the project would give us that “different way of looking at suburbia”, but that was not the point, so instead we focus on “how suburbia was lived” and we let the project develop from there. We took as an example, Vicente Guallart and his Shared-Space tower and the idea of having very small units with limited services, which shared one common space that had the commodities that the unit did not. We then took this idea of how people could potentially co-exist, sharing the areas where activities could be done as part of a bigger group. Activities such as: cooking, eating, playing, laundry, leisure. The second key point is layering and that merged with the idea of the grid where we generated a series of layers in plan view but also in elevation. To think of units, pathways, car circulation, shared spaces and commercial units, as layers, we super imposed those layers within the grid to generate an architectural composition that would allow for those layers to co-exist. In elevation we thought of the relationship of private, semi-private and public layers, and how these could also begin to inform the design process.

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43PALACE OF LIGHT MOVIE THEATER

One Theater- @ 4,500 sq’(300 seats including mezzanine)

One Informal Grass Theater- @ 2,500 sq”(180 seats)

One Theater- @ 3,200 sq’(220 seats including mezzanine)

Additional Program- @ 6,000 sq’ Two box offices Five concession stands One pastry / ice cream shop One rooftop bar

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These stick models are part of a series of models and drawings that reflect specific cinematic techniques associated with particular films which revitalized or renewed an appreciation for watching film. What these intend, is to provide a way of translating the relationship of camera, to subject and scene, into a tangible object. In turn, becoming the basis for a cinema pavilion (pg. 45) which was the preliminary exercise before designing the theater.

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First FloorRiver Ave.

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First FloorKent Ave.

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Second Floor

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Third Floor

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Fifth Floor

The “Theater” is a transformative space that is experienced rather than viewed. The technological need by society has made the majesty of going to see a film obsolete, and therefore, watching a film must change and evolve to become as it once was. Through careful organization of components the space should envelope the user to become a much more integral part in the performance of the theater. Static energy of today’s movie theaters produce a very monotonous experience that has little value in the age of HD, 72” Flat Screen Televisions. The upscale home has become a theater of sorts, much different than that of 60 years ago. The theater re imagined into a 2 hour amusement park, that goes beyond the viewing pleasure, and into the felt, emotional and Imaginary world. To free the Theater and see it as an opportunity for growth and innovation is necessary for its success.

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