Samuel Weston | Parsons M.Arch '14

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01Navigations of Virtual Space

Thesis

02Mediating Office

Studio V: Office Tower

03Library for the Digital AgeStudio III: Natural Systems

04Infrastructure Housing

Studio II: Housing

05Villa Müller - Adolf Loos

Representation & Spatial Analysis

06Center for Re-use

Studio I: Waste Systems

07Habitat for Humanity Passive House

Studio IV: Comprehensive Studio

- - 08

DebuildingCompetition: Timber in the City

09Face / Off

Competition: Living Cities Tower

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LEVENBETTSWork: Taystee Building

Works 2014

Navigations of Virtual Space

Thesis Advisor: Mark Rakatansky

01

The project re-navigates the contemporary art museum accord-ing to an internal logic learned from the virtual reproduction of physical space and objects in Google Street View and Art Project. It is based in the philosophy that if constructed according to a rigorous internal logic, a virtual space (or work of art, or architec-ture, creates a self-contained world equal to our own. Reshaping our perception this world becomes the lense through which we view the world.

Reproduction(s) of MoMA New YorkGoogle Art Project has documented floors 2 and 5, in doing so reorganizing

the sequence of spaces and work according to the limitation of the method of reproduction. These ‘glitches’ then inform the (re)production of the reproduction,

at the new site in the L.E.S.

Analysing the virtual reproduction of MoMA

3D Reconfiguration to new physical site constraints

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03-13-2014 Thesis Mid Review

Collapsed Motion in Circulation2. Zoom: Spatial continuity achieved while breaking the experience into a series of stills through perspectival jumps.

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01 Thesis

Perspective to ObliqueThe spatial navigation of the museum is driven by a sequence of shifts between forced perspectives and illusions of flat, or obliquely projected space. This sets up the gallery experience to be a heightened spatial experience, in contrast with intermediate spaces

collapsing, to act as images.

01 Thesis

Interior shaping ExteriorAt upper levels the exhibition content relates to two distinct views to the context. The pop-out display to the Eldridge St Synagogue connects it to a permanent site history display and the

lower Manhattan skyline is pulled into the top floor through a series of reflections collpasing the city view into a spatial image.

01 Thesis

01 Thesis

SkinDue to the siting off the intersection of Division and Eldridge Streets the building

has two distinct faces, each is shaped by the internal operations morphing to respond to the immediate context.

Standard Office Tower Use

CORE

WORK

8:45AM

1:30PM- 5:00PM

5:15PM

9:00AM-12:30PM

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12:00PM

12:10AM

12:10PM

1:00PM

1:10PM

12hr Anytime Day

1:10PM

3:30-3:36PM

9:20-9:26PM

4:30-5:46PM

Tower UseThe traditional office tower is used for 9 hours a day with enormous traffic to get to upper floors at peak times - hence the circulation core grows, eating up usable

space. What if your office came to you?

6 floor walk-up

** 25% of offices walk-up accessible at any time

* 50% of offices walk-up accessible over 2 hours

MediatingOffice

Studio V: David Lewis

02

The traditional office tower serves an understanding of time de-fined during the Industrial Age - of the 40hr work-week devoted to labor. In the digital age the office is wherever/whenever, how-ever we cling to the idea that it is necessary to occupy dedicated work environments at specific times. The tower explores what it means to restructure our understanding of time tied to a me-chanical/digital device rather than a specific place.

Building Entry to Multiple Office Entry PointsTo keep regular working hours necessitates a choice between occupying a consistent work

space, with a different entry point each day or embracing the flexible workspace which can be occupied from anyplace, anytime.

02 Tower

Street Level Plan1. Main Lobby

2. ‘Mixer’ Lounge

3. Conference Pod

4. Open Desk Pod

5. Public Bike Parking

6. Gym Foyer and Store

7. Gym Change Rooms

8. Bike Ramp Down to Rock Wall

9. Bike Ramp Up to Bike Parking

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02 Tower

Building Entry to Multiple Office Entry PointsTo keep regular working hours necessitates a choice between occupying a consistent work

space with a different entry point each day or embracing the flexible workspace which can be occupied from anyplace, anytime.

iPad 11:17 PM 65% iPad 11:17 PM 65%

TIME

VIEW

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TECH

ROOM

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AVAIL.?

WHAT IS THIS CUSTOM

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leave7:00pm

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App Prototype for Navigating and Organising the TowerThe digital ‘app’ becomes as integral to the workings of the office as the built

architecture - it is used to track and reserve the office suited to you.

TIME

DAY

VIEW

SPACE

ROOM

TECH

AVAIL.

Open Desk

Private Desk

Conference

Private Office

Media Room

Exec. Office

Upper ‘Lobby’ - The Mixing ZoneOperating by the logic of social media - workers aggregate and negotiate space

according to social, environmental and spatial preferences - the mixing zone is a hub of social interaction.

02 Tower

Slender SectionThe small site pushed the tower taller to achieve an occupant density

competitive with a traditional office tower.

02 Tower

LED Media FacadeEach office is clad in a transparent media facade - ‘mediating’ between the

office/exterior and office/interior.

02 Tower

Library for theDigital Age

Studio III: Kimberley Ackert

03

The Dry Dock Library is a reaction to the modern library becoming social gathering space, media hub and icon to the detriment of it’s fundamen-tal role in disseminating knowledge. It questions our relationship with knowledge, in the transition from books to data.

The library is divided by two functions. Below ground storage for books and data-servers are in strictly controlled environments. Above ground, the library is a series of specialist rooms each with specific natural light-ing, views and acoustics for accessing the knowledge. These rooms are suspended within a volume which protects them and mediates daylight and exterior conditions.

THE LIBRARY IS NO LONGER A PLACE BUT AN ACTIVITY.

THERE IS STORAGE AND THERE IS USE.

Concept ModelsThe library is no longer a place but an activity, there is storage and then

there is use.

03 Library

Section Through Reading RoomsThe ‘reading’ rooms are each sculpted for varying daylighting conditions and

scattered throughout the main volume creating informal spaces between.

Interior Circulation and Break-out AreasThe interstitial ‘fly-space’ is top lit by diffuse light and a dappled glow through the PTFE teflon-

coated membrane.

03 Library

Library LandscapingThe landscaping is designed to retain stormwater (11,200 gallons) through a combination of

permeable surfaces and a detention pond - the planted areas have diverse soil, water and sun conditions and species are selected for year round blooming and to attract wildlife to the site.

03 Library

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Coneflower

Prairie Junegrass

Sundown Coneflower

Staghorn Sumac

Parkers Fernleaf

Yarrow

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Shenandoah

Switch Grass

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Infrastructure HousingStudio II:

David Leven and Erica Goetz

04

Situated in the South Bronx, the project responds to a movement by the local community to eliminate the Sheridan Expressway, a 1.25 mile stretch of under-utilized highway running between the Bruckner and Cross Bronx Expressways. Currently the Sheridan Expressway acts as a divide between the natural systems of the Bronx River and the West Farms neighborhood. Its removal will allow for the local urban area to reconnect with the recovering natural system of the Bronx River.The scale and language of this infrastructure is adapted for hous-ing in the form of a mega-structure extending the urban envi-ronment out over the Bronx River greenway. It creates a human scaled infrastructural system designed specifically for the needs of its South Bronx residents.

04 Housing

The scale and language of the massive regional scaled infrastructure of the South Bronx is adapted for housing

creating a human scaled infrastructural system within which the individual units nest.

Unit Dispersal / Circ within Structure

Mix of Unit Types: Studio, 1bd and 2bd

Greenway Cross-Circulation

Site ModelIt goes against the typological standard to close off housing from the world -

instead bridging and embracing the community.

04 Housing

Apartment InteriorWithin the structure the individual apartments nestle, as if growing in a found

space, bringing life back to industrial relics.

Residential Bars span the Greenway

Marshland with walkways connecting street and new bridge across the Bronx river.

Public Programs at street level.(grocery, day-care, housing facilities)

04 Housing

Villa Müller:Adolf Loos

Representation and Spatial Analysis I: Erica Goetz and Luben Dimcheff

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Center for Re-useStudio I:

Bronwyn Breitner and Nicole Robertson

06

Studio I explores waste management systems in NYC through research and analytical diagramming of waste systems from the scale of the studio to the city.The final project for a waste education center and ferry terminal focussed on the waste cycle of buildings by reusing building ma-terials from the existing waste transfer station at 125th St Har-lem. It then becomes a study of building life-cycles and a poetic response to sea level rise.

Trash Analysis DiagramAnalytical diagram exploring the waste process within the Parsons studio - then

proposing alternative process and futures.

Concept ModelThe project floats and responds to the changing aquatic environment - both the tides and the

long term rise of oceans, which will ultimately float the center free of it’s piers to a new location and use.

06 Re-use

Interior PerspectiveThe primary path dips below the center - a constantly perilous situation.

06 Re-use

CLT Construction Time

Stick-Build Construction Time

HFH Passive HouseStudio IV:

Laura Briggs and Tim McDonaldCollaborators: Rose Bothomley, Vera Leung and Jacinda Ross

07

In collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia we devel-oped a scheme for 5 units exploring the possibility of using CLT within the strict budgetary limitations of HFH. On top of this we strived for Passive House standards. We developed the project using Passive House Planning Package and in consultation with Nordic Engineered Wood.

16’

A505

21’

Bathroom

Living

Walkable Grass Paving

9’ Emergency Egress Window

Electrical Panel

Plumbing Chase

Mini Split

Susp. Ceiling for Sprinklers + Lighting

Built-inLighting

Laneway to rear

ERV Component

East/West Section

2-Flr and 2.5-Flr SchemesWithin a 14’ wide lot, CLT allowed for three bedrooms and a full floor living space

without additional material or construction time.

07 Passive House

A504A503

A503

A502

A501

Mini-split air-handling unit

Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2

Living

Kitchen / Dining

Hot Water heater

Electrical Panel Plumbing lines exposed

Drainpipe concealed

Vertical Strip Lighting

Built-in unitCoat hook strips

Baseboard Electric Chase

Street

1/4” slope roof w/- built up ins.

Basement(unfinished)

41’

Mini-split condenser

0.5 Bath

Passive House CalculationsApertures are driven by balancing daylighting needs and the precise heat gain

required to meet passive house standards.

Fiber Cement Rainscreen (5/16”)

07 Passive House

2 x 4 studsEPS Type II (4”)

Gypsum BoardCLT 3-Ply

Furring Strip Fiber Cement

TyvekMetal Flashing

Plywood

Metal Screw

Tape

Flashing

Flashing

Optiwin Wood 2

EPS Type II (4”)

Tyvek (Vapor Barrier)EPDM

Metal Flashing

4”

6”

0.75”

6”

CLT 3-Ply (4.125”)EPS Type II R-10(4”)

Tyvek (Vapor Barrier)Furring Strip (1x3)

Fiber Cement Rainscreen (5/16”)

4” 4” 0.75”

4”

1”2”

8”2.5”

Gypsum Board

Concrete front step 6”

Concrete Topping Rigid Insulation CLT 3-Ply

Metal Bracket

Anchor Bolt

Conc. Foundation (8”)

Self Tapping ScrewGROUND LVL Baseplate

0.75”9.625”

7”

Ext Wall: R26

Fakro U-6 Skylight

EPDM RubberRoofing Metal Flashing

EPS Type II (4”)Plywood Lining

10.125”

Roof: R26

Basement

Hot Water Heater

Electrical Panel Meter

Emergency Egress

UP

Bedroom 3

Kitchen / Dining

Living

UP

0.5 Bath

Mini Split Condenser

Mechanical Chase

Custom Millwork (see A401)

Built in shelving + lighting

Coat hooks

41’

8’-8

”

15’-4”

5’-3

”10

’-6”

9’-6”

7’-6”3’-6”

Ground Floor Plan Basement Plan

Row House PlansAccomodating a 3 bedroom house on the 14’ wide plots called for a ground floor

bedroom with two more on the second floor. We developed a second scheme with a split upper floor which allowed for a full floor living area at ground.

Built-in unit

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Built-in unit

void

DN

Bath

Mechanical Chase

Laundry Unit w/- ERV above

Custom Shading Device

Mini-Split

2 x Skylight

Roof Drainage

41’

10’-8

”

15’-4”

8’

15’-4

”

6’-5

”

1’-10”5’-6”

First Floor Plan Roof Plan

07 Passive House

Timber in the City:Debuilding

Competition / Independent Study: Andrew Bernheimer

08

Debuilding challenges current notion of permanence in buildings - treating building stock as material storage to be reused to meet future material needs. It is a response to the specific properties of CLT and the challenges of the site in the context of the Post-Superstorm Sandy city and rising waters.

building/ debuilding

Harvesting forests destroyed by Pine Beetle.

Milling wood intro max. dimension CLT (64’ x 8’).

Max. dimension become primary vertical structure.

Life of the ‘building’ - awaiting the flood.

Material redeployment after flooding.

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C

IN FLOOD ZONE-A

BERM

TEMPORARILY

PROTECT 6,174 NYCHA REDHOOK RESIDENTS

*pilot projectmanufacturing

bike shareday carehousing

shoppingrestaurants

shoppingrestaurants

housing

schoolcommercial

cultural center

manufacturingcommercial

commerciallight manuf.

commerciallight manuf.

housingbike share

supermarket

housingbike share

supermarket

comm. centerlibrary

produce market

schoolhousing

commercialhousing

commercial

SUBWAYrestaurantsshoppinghousing

commercialbike share

SUBWAYrestaurantsshoppinghousing

commercialbike share

+ housing+ community facilities+ employment opportunites

WITH A INHABITED

REASONS TO CROSS THE BQE

08 Debuilding

CAPTURE WATERTREAT WATER FOR USE

HYDRO POWEREMERGENCY HYDRO-POWER

GENERATION

SEMI-FLOATSACRIFICE GRND PROGRAM+ ONE ELEMENT ADAPTS

CUT / FILLRES. ON GRND

+ WATER FILTRATION EMERGENCY HYDRO-POWER

GENERATION

EMERGENCY RECONFIGURATIONGROUND TO ROOF

RAISED RES.SACRIFICE OTHER PROGRAM

+ CAPTURE DEBRIS

RAISEDOUTDOOR PROGRAM?

ON GROUNDSACRIFICE GROUND FLR

FLOATRAISED DATUM

BATHTUBBASEMENT PROGRAM?

INVERTED BATHTUBCAPTURES WATER

RAISED RES.SACRIFICE GROUND PROGRAM

Responding to SandyThe Red Hook site demanded a response to the very present threat of storm surges. Manufacturing is a temporary program at ground level with housing raised above

flood levels on a concrete podium.

186163.

3 bedroom860sf860sf

2 bedroom575sf

1 bedroom430sf

Studio288sf

storage acts as thick-ened theshold and

privacy screen

Rainscreen

5.5” Rockwool Insulation

5-ply CLT (64’x8’) primary wall

metal bracket connections

[Passive House wall assembly]

heavy felt curtain room divider

fold out table

mech./electrical chase in built-in woodwork

Lunos ventilation system

planter box water

2” screed

1” acoustic insulation

Outer glazing

Mech storage cage

Inner Glazing

Aerogel (translucent insulation)

murphy bed

Bd1Bd1

Bd1

Bd2 (Bd3)(Bd2)

Bath Bath Bath Bath

0.5Bath

Kitchen Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Study

Study

built-in storage

built-in units maximize space and are a modular

component, dividing rooms yet acting as

furniture which can be removed.

the murphy bed accomodates visitors or becomes a permanent bed with the heavy felt

curtain drawn.

murphy bed

186163.

3 bedroom860sf860sf

2 bedroom575sf

1 bedroom430sf

Studio288sf


privacy screen

Rainscreen






fold out table



planter box water

2” screed


Outer glazing

Mech storage cage

Inner Glazing


murphy bed

Bd1Bd1

Bd1

Bd2 (Bd3)(Bd2)

Bath Bath Bath Bath

0.5Bath

Kitchen Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Study

Study

built-in storage





curtain drawn.

murphy bed

Typical UnitsThe apartments embrace the rigid structural bay made necessary by using

maximum size CLT panels - the repetitive primary structure is in contrast to more permeable facades.

186163.

3 bedroom860sf860sf

2 bedroom575sf

1 bedroom430sf

Studio288sf


privacy screen

Rainscreen






fold out table



planter box water

2” screed


Outer glazing

Mech storage cage

Inner Glazing


murphy bed

Bd1Bd1

Bd1

Bd2 (Bd3)(Bd2)

Bath Bath Bath Bath

0.5Bath

Kitchen Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Study

Study

built-in storage





curtain drawn.

murphy bed

08 Debuilding

Building Debuilding - Material StrategyTaking advantage of on-site production the project uses the largest possible CLT

panels for primary structure - the project becomes a store of raw material.

186163.

3 bedroom860sf860sf

2 bedroom575sf

1 bedroom430sf

Studio288sf


privacy screen

Rainscreen






fold out table



planter box water

2” screed


Outer glazing

Mech storage cage

Inner Glazing


murphy bed

Bd1Bd1

Bd1

Bd2 (Bd3)(Bd2)

Bath Bath Bath Bath

0.5Bath

Kitchen Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Study

Study

built-in storage





curtain drawn.

murphy bed

08 Debuilding

8’

18’-30’

8’

64’

8’

18’-30’

8’

64’

Sunset Park Row Home

Manhattan Infill

Tribeca Tower

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14

17

12

18

96

Material RedeploymentThe project is a material store - holding as it’s primary structure 55,990 cf of timber to eventually be

redeployed, densifying the city’s high ground areas.

Subway ConnectionTransit Hub activating street level and

expanding the public realm while reviving the public sunken plaza typology.

Residential MixMicro-units, 1bed and 2bed units mixed through full

height for a diverse population and to break the economic stratification of Manhattan real estate.

Active Public ProgramsCoworking space and gym at ground and dispersed within residential tower, each

spaced within 5 floor walkup.

Programmed FacadesMedia facades at public program zones

inflected toward major site lines for more direct visual communication

Parking & Change-Room

FacilitiesCiti-Bike Hub

Bike-HubCitiBike and private bike parking with

change and shower facilities.

Residential

Public Program

Facade Inflection

Subway Connection

Transit Hub

Face/OffTower

Metropolis Magazine Skyscraper Competition

09

Face/Off Tower continues an investigation into multi-functional facades, exploring an adaptable system incorporating media and heating within the facade, in response to a competition brief from Metropolis Maga-zine and the Steel and Ornamental Metals Institute of New York. The building massing is restrained due to the desire to move away from the tower is singular icon as well as in deference to the adjacent Seagram Building. Being sited next to this Modernist icon serves to question the ‘building as machine’, as we move beyond the age of the machine to the age of digital devices, fundamentally changing the way we interact in private and urban settings.

Media Facade DetailThe media display can display information and obscure or reveal the interior

depending on user preference by using an LED system embedded within a triple layer window unit.

Aluminum Curtain Wall

Insulated Low-Iron Glazing Unit.

Motorized Shading Device

Cantilever Bracket Tied to Spandrel at Every Floor

Winter Warm Air InSummer Ventilation

Unitized Outer Curtain Wall Layer...double layer curtain wall thermally

separated at each floor

Reflective Stainless Steel Spandrel Panel

Digital Device (direct control)

Curated by Creative Agency

Facade LED Lighting-Media Display System

Brightness (0-100)

Image

Subway ConnectionThe sunken plaza activating the street level - the media facade is inflected to

communicate with street and subway pedestrians.

09 Face / Off

Lexington Ave

53rd Street

DN

DNSubway Connection

Citi Bike

Bike Parking

Bike Facilities

Res. ElevatorLobby

Res./PublicElevatorLobby

Street Level

Dynamic Street PresenceBuilding a bike/subway/foot transit hub - it breaks the

stereotype of dead residential areas in the city by inviting the surrounding area into the site and even up into the tower.

Street Level The sunken plaza connects public programs with the subway.

2 Bed

1 Bed

Studio

2 Bed

2 Bed

1 Bed

Studio

2 Bed

2 Bed

1 Bed

Studio

Resident Coworking

Typical Residential Level

Residential + Coworking Level

Typical Upper Level Supporting a mix of residential and commercial use the building is resilient to

change. Dual facing circulation core allows switching between public and private floors by reprogramming the elevator without major physical change.

09 Face / Off

‘Taystee Building’ Study ModelsUsing 1/32” = 1’ - 0” models to study massing responses to zoning guidelines and

to test facade materials and patterns

LEVENBETTSWork:

10

Work completed at LEVENBETTS includes massing models and detailed renders for a large office building in the design develop-ment stage, a large scale model for Cornell AAP studio interior project and design/visualizations for the FAR ROC competition.

Axonometric DiagramsSeries of diagrams used to test and finalize landscaping at street and rooftop level before

moving to CD.

10 LEVENBETTS

Upper Level LobbyFinalizing typical lobby design, custom concrete material and vine pattern, ceiling

material and lighting before CD.

Render of Public Pass ThroughTesting landscaping options, materials and strategies for the negotiating the

grade change between 125th and 126th street.

10 LEVENBETTS

Main Lobby Render StudiesStudy of lobby materials and vine graphics and lighting relating to the

‘pass-through’.

Concept DiagramsFinal diagram set for client meetings and web.

10 LEVENBETTS

Education

Parsons the New School for Design Master of Architecture, 2014

Curtin UniversityB. AppS. (Architectural Science), Dec 2010

- - Selected Awards

AIA Henry Adams Medal For top ranking graduating student at Parsons the New School for Design.

Eileen Gray Thesis PrizeFor top M.Arch thesis at Parsons the New School for Design.

- - Work

LEVENBETTS, New York, NY. Intern, July 2012 - May 2014.

STPMJ, New York, NY.Designer, April 2013.

Matter Practice, Brooklyn, NY.Intern, Summer/Fall 2012

Woods Bagot, Perth, WA.Intern, March 2011

MPS Architects, Perth, WA.Intern, July – Dec 2008.

- - Additional work and animations:

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