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137 JORALEMON ST, APT 5BROOKLYN, NY 11201

[email protected]

DESIGN PORTFOLIO FALL 2014

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GSAPP CLOUD & ARCHITECTURE ONLINE LAB ........EXTREME CITIES ...............................

PLEASURE BOX .................................

CLOUDS .......................................

MAKING ROOM ..................................

BUELL HYPOTHESIS .............................

FORECLOSED: THOUGHTS ON A WALKING CITY .......

BE ALARMED ...................................

LONG DIVISION, BUILD A BETTER BURB ...........

BEETLE WRESTLER ..............................

SELECTION OF GRAPHICS ........................

SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS ....................

SELECTION OF STUDENT WORK ....................

2011-PRESENT2012-13

2014

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2010-13

2011-12

2011-12

2010

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2013-14

2009-13

2011-14

LEIGHA DENNIS


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Team: Leigha Dennis, Troy Conrad Therrien, Jochen

Hartmann (Teaching Assistant)

Established in 2012, the GSAPP Cloud Communications group

works with the dean, faculty, students and staff of the school

to develop experimental forms of online communication. As

a studio within the school, the group is working to define

its role through actively developing new tools and services

that help GSAPP maintain its ambition as a laboratory for

architectural education.

The Architecture Online Lab is an experimental practice

which aims to develop the inquiries, tools, protocols, and

frameworks of thought and action to be consumed, advanced

and critiqued as we continue to question and define

architecture online. The lab explores how architects can

utilize digital tools to reinvent methods for representation

and communication, and what interactivity means for the

nature, use and translation of space. Our approach is both

discursive and practical, operating in and on new and

traditional forms and media, and by creating our own through

working prototypes.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYS GRADUATESCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE,PLANNING AND PRESERVATIONCLOUD COMMUNICATIONS GROUP ANDARCHITECTURE ONLINE LAB

GSAPP CLOUD/AOL


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GSAPP CLOUD

THE GSAPP HOMEPAGE PULLS FROM A NUMBER OF LIVE FEEDS IN

ORDER TO KEEP NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS UP-TO-DATE


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THE GSAPP WEBSITE AND REAL-TIME FEEDS

PULLING TAGGED EVENTS FROM THE GSAPP EVENTS WEBSITE

PULLING FROM STUDIO-X LOCATION TUMBLR BLOGS


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GSAPP CLOUD


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WWW.ARCH.COLUMBIA.EDU


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GSAPP CLOUD

STUDIO KAZYS VARNELIS, SPRING 2012

AN AGGREGATION OF COURSE BLOG LINKS FILTERED BY PROGRAM, SEMESTER AND LOCATION


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COURSE BLOGS

STUDIO KARLA ROTHSTEIN FALL 2012

SEMINAR KNOWN UNKNOWNS SPRING 2012 INSTRUCTOR: JANETTE KIM

Some courses use microblogs as tools for

research and collaboration, while others

use them strictly for presentation purposes.

Each blog is customized to fit the particular

needs of the students and instructors.


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GSAPP CLOUD

Each event is color-coded by location,

corresponding to the seven Studio-X

regions, conveying at a glance the breadth

of global activity.

The GSAPP Events calendar aggregates

all GSAPP related events into one website

promoting events, but also acting as an

archive by hosting image galleries, Flickr

galleries, videos and chats.


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GSAPP EVENTS

VIEW BY MONTH (DEFAULT)


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GSAPP CLOUD

RANDOMIZED HOVER IMAGE LOCATIONS

EVENT PAGE WITH POSTER, IMAGE GALLERY, VIDEO, TWITTER HASHTAG CONTAINER, AND COMMENTING


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GSAPP EVENTS - WWW.EVENTS.GSAPP.ORG

VIEW BY WEEK

VIEW BY SEMESTER


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GSAPP BOOKS - WWW.BOOKS.GSAPP.ORG

SORT INDEX BY AUTHOR, EDITOR, DESIGNER

SORT INDEX BY TITLE


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EACH PUBLICATION IS PHOTOGRAPHED

BOOK PAGE

GSAPP CLOUD


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GSAPP BOOKS

VIEW AND SORT BY SERIES

THE MISREADING TUMBLR BLOG EDITED BY CRAIG BUCKLEY AND REVOLVING GUESTS


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END OF YEAR SHOW 2013

INDEX PAGE


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Network Architecture Lab: Kazys Varnelis, Leigha Dennis

Architecture Online Lab: Leigha Dennis, Troy Conrad Therrien

Building Megalopolis, as one project of Extreme Cities, was

a 4 week workshop and exhibition located at Columbia

University GSAPPs Studio-X New York from May 1-30, 2013.

The project was a collaborative effort including Mark

Wigley, C-Lab, The Network Architecture Lab, David King,

Architecture Online Lab, Neil Donnelly (exhibition designer),

Studio-X, and a host of students.

The Network Architecture Lab, which included an Advanced

Graduate Studio, researched the Megalopolis 50 years into

the past in order to project possible scenarios 50 years into

the future.

The Architecture Online Lab designed and built aninteractive research tool, which organized content along

a horizontally scrolling timeline and provided a number of

filtering options. The timeline was built as an opensource

project with aspirations to be used by other research

projects at GSAPP.

BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS

EXTREME CITIES


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EXTREME CITIES, BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS


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ARCHITECTURE ONLINE LAB

CONTENT SCROLLS HORIZONTALLY ALONG A TIMELINE


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EXTREME CITIES, BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS

PROJECT PAGES INCLUDE TAGS, DATES, AND DESCRIPTIONS


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ARCHITECTURE ONLINE LAB & NETWORK ARCHITECTURE LAB


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ARCHITECTURE ONLINE LAB & NETWORK ARCHITECTURE LAB


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MUSCHENHEIM FELLOW,TAUBMAN COLLEGE

PLEASURE BOX

Final Final Final, Taubman College, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, MarchApril 2014

As the 2013-14 William Muschenheim Fellow at the Universityof Michigans Taubman College of Architecture and Urban

Planning, I investigated issues of domesticity as they relate

to ambient digital culture, and tested new protocols for

intellectual property rights in architecture during an age of

rapid image and information dissemination. My fellowship

work combined research through teaching in graduate

and undergraduate design studios and seminars, and the

production of an interactive exhibition, titled Pleasure Box,

which engaged an over-connected audience.

Pleasure Box engages a distracted user, attempting to

reveal human relationships with objects and physical space.The installation provides an outlet to disconnect. Smart

phones capture video inside randomly timed lock-boxes,

transporting them to new worlds created with a variety

of digital and analog environments. Meanwhile, users are

detached, left to ponder other pleasures, making the choice

between an everyday reality or a simulated reality.


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PLEASURE BOX


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PLEASURE BOX


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PLEASURE BOX AND CLOUDS

_FINALFINALFINAL EXHIBITION IN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN


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MUSCHENHEIM FELLOW,TAUBMAN COLLEGE

CLOUDS

Final Final Final, Taubman College, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, MarchApril 2014Clouds, ARPA Journal Issue 2, forthcoming

Clouds is a photo essay that documents the self-storage

industry as the cloud storage for domestic objects. If todays

Clouds act to provide data storage with remote servers,

then what are self-storage facilities if not the clouds to our

homes? As a critique of contemporary aestheticization of

data centers and of consumer relationships with objects, the

project investigates storage space as both the embodiment

of a stagnant past and of latent futures.

Photographs were taken throughout the geography between

New York City and Ann Arbor, Michiganthe locations of the

photographers two homesand were recently exhibited atthe University of Michigans Taubman Gallery.


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CLOUDS


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A SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS


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CLOUDS


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_FINALFINALFINAL EXHIBITION IN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

CLOUDS


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Team: Terri Chiao, Leigha Dennis, Deborah Grossberg Katz,

Joseph Vidich, Peter Gluck

Making Room Showcase & Symposium, Japan Society of

New York, November 2011

Making Room, Exhibition, Museum of the City of New York,JanuarySeptember 2013

A project of The Architectural League and Citizens Housing

and Planning Council.

Five architectural teams were commissioned to speculate

on the future of housing in New York. Proposals were meant

to expose existing and outdated building regulations that

make finding safe and agreeable housing difficult, along

with the policies that make building new housing models

nearly impossible. Throughout the workshop and exhibition

process, members of the city government and citizenactivists were involved, and in the end, the administration

allowed a selection of these regulations to be broken on a

test site.

Selected Press:

Rethinking Ways to Divide Living Space, The New York

Times, Nov. 10, 2011.

New York City Planners: Pack Em In!, Forbes, Nov. 14, 2011.

Imaging New Housing Models for a Changed New York, The

New York Times, Nov. 16, 2011.

Adaptation and Experimentation: New Housing for New

York, Urban Omnibus, July 18, 2012.

Making Room, Domus, March 5, 2013.

A HOME OF ONES OWN

MAKING ROOM


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MAKING ROOM: A HOME OF ONES OWN

A Home of Ones Own doubles the density of the typical

25 x 100 lot found in New York by creating an apartment

building of micro-lofts. Designed for single inhabitants

and small families, the buildings twenty compact units,

232 square feet each, are smaller than a typical studio,

but their fifteen foot high ceilings and large mezzanines

provide a sense of open space. The building has a twenty-foot frontage, leaving a five-foot side yard that provides

diffuse light and ventilation to the units. The micro-lofts

are completed by shared building amenities, including a

laundry room, childrens play space, and communal work

tables, which are located in common spaces on each floor.

Local regulations needing modification to build this

proposal:

Minimum Unit Size

Density Controls

Side Yards

Parking

Lot Size: 25 x 100

Lot Coverage: 56%

Zoning District: R7A

Max FAR: 4.0

Total Floors: 5

Building Height: 73-8

Density: 340 units/acre

Gross/floor: 1800 sq/ft

Net/floor: 1158 sq/ft

Units/floor: 3 to 5Units/total: 20

Unit area: 232 sq/ft

Floor to floor: 15-6


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GROUND FLOOR - WITH ADA UNITS

THIRD FLOOR - WITH BUILT-IN UNITS

FIFTH FLOOR - WITH OPEN UNITS


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TYPICAL FLOOR - MODEL


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TYPICAL FLOOR - FULL AMENITY PRIVATE APARTMENTS WITH SHARED SPACES

PRIVATE SPACES

SHARED SPACE


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EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK



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Reinhold Martin, Director Buell Center

Leah Meisterlin, Lead Researcher

Anna Kennoff, Coordinator

MTWTF, Designer

Research Team: Jordan Carver, Leigha Dennis, Jake

Matatyaou, Andy Vann

The Buell Hypothesis is the result of a years worth of research

into the history of public housing and its perception in the

America public sphere. It was accompanied by in-depth site

analysis, qualitative and quantitative, locating ideal sites for

new public housing following the 2008 mortgage crisis. With

an essay challenging the ideas, expectations, and roles of the

public, written by Reinhold Martin in the form of a Socratic

Dialog, the hypothesis was used as the workshop brief for

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, an exhibition at

the Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

REHOUSING THE AMERICAN DREAM

THE BUELLHYPOTHESIS


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THE BUELL HYPOTHESIS


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3 SECTIONS: SOCRATIC DIALOGUE, HISTORICAL, SITES STUDIES

HISTORICAL PRIMARY SOURCES, NARRATIVE AND CHRONOLOGICAL PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT CUT SHEETS


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COMMENTS ON FORECLOSED

ARTICLES EXPAND TO SHOW CONTENT AND COMMENTS


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HOME PAGE, SORT BY DATE

Columbia Universitys Buell Center

collected and edited commentary on the

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

workshop and exhibition, a collaborative

project between the Buell Center and

the Museum of Modern Art , which took

place at MoMA PS1 and MoMA, New

York from May 2011August 2012. Each

comment, selected from print, web, and

social media sources, is tagged with a

variety of metadata. The project acts as

an objective catalog and database of the

shows perception in the public sphere,

documented in a print publication and

sortable website.

The web project was a collaboration

between the Buell Center, GSAPP Cloud

Communications, and MTWTF.

Publication and Website

February 2013

COMMENTS ONFORECLOSED


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SORT BY IMAGE

SORT BY VIDEO

SORT BY CITATION

COMMENTS ON FORECLOSED


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EXHIBITION DISPLAY


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FORECLOSED: THOUGHTS ON A WALKING CITY

MODEL PHOTOS BY JAMES EWING

SITE MODEL CENTERED ON TRAIN STATION

SCALE: 1:1000 (1/4 MILE RADIUS)

BUILDING MODEL

SCALE: 1-0 = 1/6


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THE STREET AS SITE


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FILM OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY

CINEMATOGRAPHY WITH CHRIS WOEBKEN FOR MOS


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ITERATIVE MASSING AND SITE MODELS AT VARIOUS SCALES


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SELECTED DATA PUBLIC LAND AND PUBLIC STREETS

19.5 %Public Street Land Area*includes sidewalks and

medians

22.8%Public Street Land Area*includes sidewalks andmedians (not including I-28)

Public Streets - Linear Length (1/2 mile radius)

36.7 %City of Orange PublicStreets within The Site(1/2 mile radius)

Budget Allocated to Street Maintenance (on site)

Public Streets - Land Area (1/2 mile radius)

The Site (1/2 mile radius)-Budget Allocation to Streets

The City - Budget Allocation to Streets

Public StreetsThe City of Orange - Budget - Public Works

2007 2007

11.6%

$49,080,328

$5,728,125

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$1,495,500

2009

$2,695,053

2010

$2,225,060

2011 2011

4.8%

$53,051,700

$2,551,000

The City of Orange - Budget - Public Streets

City of Orange

The Site

2010 - Estimated for our specific Site (1/2 mile radius).Department of Public Works - Budget Allocation(against the Total Municipal Budget)

Street Lighting - $535,000(city) / $196,345(site)

Snow Removal - $60,000(city) / $22,020(site)

Equipment and Vehicle Maintenance - $602,030(city) / $220,945(site)

Street Maintenance - $554,900(city) / $203,648(site)

58,935-6

$10.91/sf

4,418,519 sf

$642,958

$1,751,930


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Utilities - Water Infrastructure

Water Supply Well1- Gist Place Well2 - Brook Alley Well3 - Orange Park Well

Fire Hydrant

Sewer Line

Water Line

Sewer Manhole

Orange Train Station

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South MountainReservation

Fire Hydrants Sewer Lines Manholes

PumpingStation

*Connection to:South MountainReservation

-WalkerRoadStorage Resevoir-Orange Resevoir-CampbellsPond

*Connection to

WalkerRoadStorage Resevoir

*Connection toSouth Orange

*Connection toEastOrange



*Connection toWestOrange

1/4 Mile

1/2 Mile

3/4 Mile

Sewer Length

5 in South Mountain Reservation /

2 in the City of Orange

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Housing and Household Economic Stastics Divison. American Housing Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, 1985-2005

Mean Living Area - All Housing

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

United States 1,883

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Mean Living Area - New HousingSquare Feet

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Per Capita Consumption

1974 2003 :

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France 964

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United Kingdom

Square Footage (per person)

Square Footage (per person)

The American Living Size

300 s.f.

(200% increase)150 s.f. 144 s.f.

90 s.f.

2,349 s.f.

(72% increase)

1,695 s.f.

The American HomeAverage home, kitchen, and bedroom size1974 vs. 2003

HomeKitchenBedroom

Renter -Lowest Quartile

Renter -Highest Quartile

Owner -Lowest Quartile

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SELECTED DATA HOUSEHOLD AND CONSTRUCTION

68.4% Rent31.6% Own

41.6% Married40.5% Single9.8% Divorced8.1% Widowed

69.4% Without Kids30.6% With Kids

60% Owner -Paying more than30% of income

50.1% Owner -Paying more than30% of income

88.6% Single Family9.2% Condo2.2% Other

Housing Tenure Housing Type

Median Home Size

1,918 sf

$4,279,168

Average Year Built

2010 Total Property Taxes Paid (within the site)

1905

Average Household Size

2.61 ppl

Average Family Size

3.34 ppl

Source: Zillow.com, Census American Community Survey 2005-2009

$190k

$200k

$210k

$220k

$230k

$240k

$250k

$260k

$300k

$310k

$320k

$270k

$280k

$290k

Median Home Value - City Of Orange

East Orange West OrangeCity of Orange

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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$260

Median Home Value (per sf)

South Orange

Economics of ConstructionHousing and Household Data for The City of Orange

Relationship Status Children Owner - 30% Income Renter- 30% Income

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15.6%

19.0%

27.1%

22.6%

6.3%

1.3%

5.4%

2.2%

9.3%

18.9%

21.2%

41.6%

Home Size in Sq. Ft

1000 or less

1000 - 1400

1400 - 1800

1800 - 2400

2400 - 3600

3600 or more

2000 to present

1980 to 1999

1960 to 1979

1940 to 1959

1920 to 1939

1900 to 1919

1900 and before

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Location: Cancer Alley, LouisianaBe Alarmed, Bracket: Goes Soft (Actar, 2013)

The communities that are positioned most vulnerable to

the Chemical Industry in Louisianas industrial corridor

are afflicted by forces of toxicity that transcend human

perception. While the presence of harmful dust, noise and

the subjugation of space are apparent at many levels, the

power of the unseen and the unknown are the subject of this

investigation.

DETECTING TOXICITY IN THE AIR,WATER, AND GROUND THROUGH ANEW SYSTEM OF VISUALINFRASTRUCTURE

BE ALARMED


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The industries intent to deflect the transparency of information that is

ultimately necessary for the safety of the public has left an overriding

sense of uncertainty and anxiety. Toxic chemicals are released

into community environments and nearby ecologies, effecting the

consumption of air, food and water. Deposited deep below the homes

of many communities lay containers for dormant toxic waste with

unforeseeable shelf lives, and questionable migration activities.Similarly, underground geological salt caverns are often used for the

storage of chemicals and crude oil, leaving ground water at the risk of

contamination. While the air above the ground is subject to invisible

harmful pollutants, the expanse below conceals the existence of a

corresponding precariousness.

Attempts at providing systems of security and alarm for nearby

communities have been benign and otherwise unsuccessful, resulting

in moments of panic and confusion. Alarm speakers, functional and

not, dot the landscape, while intercoms have been installed in homes

asserting a latent paranoia of surveillance and potential disaster. As

companies grow over time, acquiring farmland and entire communities,

their expansions subsume the landscape leaving homes within

unsafe proximities, sometimes only a matter of feet away. Building

directly up to property lines as a not-so-passive warning to leave, still

some homes remain if not by resistance alone, then by the reality that

there is simply nowhere else to go. For those homes that are bought

out, swaths of pastoral greenscaping are left in their place a kind of

visual illusion that everything is fine.

In many ways, these attempts have both succeeded and failed

at achieving illusions of safety. Yet, the security systems that are

implemented often act to secure the plants themselves, rather than

the people vulnerable nearby. Alarms are sounded when danger is

nearly eminent, and the only option is to flee. The events that arealerted are extreme; explosions, massive spills, etc. However, everyday

the communities that are subsumed by the chemical industry are

sensitive to varying levels of toxins in the air, water, food, and ground.

These quantities of contamination are themselves alarming, yet go

unknown and unnoticed.

For those communities that remain, this project aims at providing

methods for monitoring, alerting, and revealing the everyday conditions

of toxicity. Designed as a kind of public service announcement and kit-

of-parts, it will provide a transparency of information that does not

currently exist for the public. Through a network of devices for seeing

the unseen, this Alarm System will present levels of ground water, riverwater, and air contamination through recognizable and decipherable

forms of display: a new kind of public utility. Personal accessories

to test vinyl chloride levels within homes, in drinking water, and in

the body enable the residents to actively improve and keep their

communities safe. By establishing trending in data, concentrations

of contamination can be identified. The subterranean will be mapped

above, while the air will be inscribed. The aesthetic of infrastructure

is transformed into an active response system. Through the use of

phyto- and sensor-technology, passive and active systems will alert

of latent and harmful toxic levels, as well as provide the infrastructure

for improvement in an altered, augmented landscape. As the devices

integrate into the rural-suburban condition, if levels of toxicity become

increasingly harmful, residents will have the ability to track changes

giving enough time to evacuate in the event of danger. Over time, the

devices improve contamination through remediation and awareness,

resulting in their own optimistic obsolescence.


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POSTERS FOR THE PUBLIC: TO INFORM OF LOCAL TOXICITY CONDITIONS


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OTHER PUBLIC INDICATORS: AIR ITSELF AS A SENSOR OF TOXICITY

Enforcing the use of artificially colored vinyl

chloride could reduce the risks of high-

dosage contamination. Even with small

amounts of color, with larger quantities

of vinyl chloride, the effects would be

noticeable and disturbing .

PSUEDO-COLOR


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PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED PAMPHLETS: TOXICITY SENSOR DEVICES


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BE ALARMED

PHYTO-COLORED GRASS

PHYTO-COLORED POPLAR TREES

MONITORING LIGHTS

MONITORING WELLS


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MONITORING LIGHTS

TREE TAGS

HOME DEVICES

STREET SIGNAGE

(*AT A HIGHER RESOLUTION)

MONITORING WELLS

MONITORING LIGHTS

TREE TAGS

HOME DEVICES

STREET SIGNAGE

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THE ROLLOUT: IN PHASES ADJUSTING TO TRENDS IN THE COLLECTED DATA

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PHYTO-COLORED POPLAR TREES

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THE INVISIBLE IS REVEALED: BUT IT IS ALL ABOUT TIMING

THE ALARM SYSTEM DISPLAYS INCREASING TOXICITY OVER TIME, ALLOWING ENOUGH TIME FOR EVACUATION


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OPTIMISTIC OBSOLESCENCE: LIFE AFTER CONTAMINATION


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GROWTH ZONE

NO-GROWTH ZONE, AQUIFER RECHARGE

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LONG DIVISION

Suburban re-development must be regional. Our proposal

for the Build a Better Burb competition divides Long Island

into two zones based on infrastructural and ecological

factors: Western Long Island is already relatively dense,

integrated into the metropolitan area by rail while eastern

Long Island is undeserved by infrastructure. Moreover, Long

Island sits on one of the most productive aquifers in thecountry and needs to defend this to assure its future.

To this end, we propose no-growth zones for the east and

north where the aquifer is deepest and closest to the

surface. As the population of that area ages, communities

such as Riverhead revert to dense villages surrounded

by sustainable farming, nature preserves and other uses

compatible with aquifer preservation while serving as an

amenity for the vacation region of the Hamptons and for the

dense west.

In the west, we propose a second-city approach, creating a

viable set of dense centers both as a support area for New

York and also as independent, productive communities.

Typologies aim to increase diversity between communities

and create identity rather than homogeneity in downtowns.

Instead of searching for one solution, we propose a set of

solutions for housing, open space, and productivity, each

responding to an areas population: e.g. seniors, aspiring

minorities, recent immigrants, and artists/artisans. Over

time, outlying areas within suburbs will become voided to

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GROWTH ZONE

CONTRACTION ZONE

LESS CITY SUSTAINABLE CITY

MORE SUBURB SUSTAINABLE SUBURB

To the East:Where the potential for recharge is highest,

we suggest controlled contraction of the

population, rather than growth. Here, the

transit infrastructure is the least developed

and the population the oldest. Inhabitants

move to remaining villages, and the

suburban expanses from which they have

fled become voids that are compatible

with aquifer regeneration, such as nature

preserves, and sustainable agriculture.

To the West:

Towns that are already well integrated with

metropolitan transit, such as Hempstead,

Levittown, Babylon and Islip, will become

productive centers for new growth and

vitality.

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SALT WATER

UPPER GLACIAL AQUIFER

GARDINERS CLAY BARRIER

JAMECO AQUIFER

MAGOTHY AQUIFER

RARITAN CLAY BARRIER

LLOYD AQUIFER

BEDROCK

SALT WATER INTERFACE

FLOW OF GROUND WATER

GROUNDWATER DIVIDE

PRE-DEVELOPMENT CONDITION:

EQUILIBRIUM

POST-DEVELOPMENT CONDITION:

IMBALANCE

WATER IN = WATER OUT

WATER IN < PUMPING + WATER OUT

CONSEQUENCE: SALTWATER CONTAMINATION

OF AQUIFERS

GROUNDWATER

PUMPING

SALTWATER

INFILTRATION

RAINWATER

RECHARGE

NATURAL

DISCHARGE

RAINWATER

RECHARGE

NATURAL

DISCHARGE

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Despite the fact that the island sits on

the states largest aquifers, it is likely to

experience a water crisis by the end of the

century. Prior to development, recharge

and discharge were at a rate of equilibrium,

but both the withdrawal of water from

the aquifer and development have placed

a negative load on the system, causing

saltwater infiltration. One day soon, the

island may face the fate of Brooklyn and

Queens, which have contaminated their

aquifers and now have to import water from

upstate New York.

Because of these threats to the water

supply, any strategy for Long Islands

future must also take into account the

preservation and expansion of voids, the

most productive sites for recharging the

aquifer.

LONG DIVISION

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HYBRID TYPOLOGIES

ARTIST/ARTISAN:LIVE/WORK UNITS

SHARED WORKSPACE

COOPERATIVE GALLERY

MOSAIC:MULTI-FAMILY

DORM/COMMUNAL

EXTERNAL COMMUNAL SPACE

SMALL SCALE RETAIL

GRAMMAS HOUSE:ELDERLY HOUSING

CHILDRENS MALL

FAMILY HOTEL

TRANSIT CENTER:TRAIN STATION

DAILY USE AMENITIES

RIDESHARE

BIKE STORAGE

BUS TERMINAL

CO-OP OFFICE:SHARED OFFICE

WORKSHOPS

COMMUNAL SPACE

RETAIL BASE

CONCIERGE DEPOT:MOBILE SERVICES (FOOD, HEALTHCARE)

DISTRIBUTION

URBAN BACKYARD:PUBLIC PARK

GATHERING SPACE

BARBEQUE

URBAN PLAY:TENNIS, HANDBALL,

VOLLEYBALL, BASKETBALL

BLEACHERS

URBAN FARM:GREENHOUSE

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THE HEMPSTEAD INSTANT CITY

These hybrid typologies take advantage of specific

demographic clusters to strengthen community identities.

Taking cues from Archigrams Instant City, new productive

buildings infill downtown Hempstead and deliberately

overwhelm the area with economic and cultural growth.

These refreshed districts are not tied to a specific formor plan, the matrix provides ingredients and a strategy for

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LONG DIVISION

Only if we think biglooking at the health of

entire regionsand think boldlyrejecting

accepted ideas that suburbs cannot be

changed can we rebuild the nation to face the

challenges of this century.

A NEW BEGINNING


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in collaboration with Natalie Jeremijenko, Chris Woebken

OOZing, Van Alen Institute, New York, December 2008

An apparatus that enables humans to wrestle with the

strongest animal in the world, the rhinoceros beetle. The

device includes a head-and-body mounted display that

equips humans with the appendages necessary to interact

with the animal. A camera, attached to the mechanism,

directly engages the beetle and communicates with a

display inside the human wrestlers helmet. The systemutilizes a network of switches and motors to scale the

actions of the wrestlers, granting similar manipulative

capacities and an even playing field; an architecture of

reciprocity.

BEETLE WRESTLER


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BEETLE WRESTLER


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BEETLE WRESTLER


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A SELECTION OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

GRAPHICS


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THERRIEN BARLEY WEBSITE


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WEB DESIGN

HEADER LOGO DISAPPEARS AND REAPPEARS AS CONTENT SCROLLS

A SINGLE PAGE WEBSITE WITH SCROLL-TO LINKS IN THE NAVIGATION


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COLUMBIA GSAPP HOLIDAY CARDS


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