Personal favorite. A pavilion in Ithaca built entirely out of scaffolding that is specified from construction companies. The temporary elevator is fetishized for its industrial utility. First image is portfolio page, second is actual plot used in Seipp Memorial Prize Competition.
Spring 2007, Third Year Design Studio
Critic: Vincent Mulcahy
I like to think that this one was heavily influenced by Raphael but it doesn’t really make for a good narrative… Apart from that I guess it should be noted that triangles make for super inefficient plans but they sure look cool!
Lester S. Yu B. Arch ‘09
Spring 2007, Third Year Design Studio
Critic: Vincent Mulcahy
A predatory insertion and new entryway into the Capitoline museums of Rome. Contra posta is heavily employed to introduce a new addition -part building, part landscape into one of the historically most densely layered sites in Rome, Italy.
Lester S. Yu B. Arch ‘09
Spring 2008, Fourth Year Rome Design Studio
Critics: Francesco Garofalo & Lily Chi
This project uses the topological capacity of a game as an organizational device in architectural design. The first phase is to design a garden of 60000 sf.
Game: 3d cousin of tic-tac-toe. Capacity: dictate relationship between pieces by nodes and links.
Site: A transformation of the game is used to create a garden surface, imagined as an abandoned industrial site close to a dam.
The game is modified with physical laws such as gravitational and played on top of the garden surface to generate the first ecological layer of the garden - the water network.
The game is modified again and played on top of the first ecological layer to generate the second layer, and so on.
The studio imagined Fiber Placement Technology as an alternative future of building production and methodology. The placement of each composite fiber is computationally controlled to optimize structural and programmatic requirements throughout the material of the pavilion. Therefore the architectural effect is an elegant hybrid of spatial performance.
Marc Mintsioulis, M.Arch. I
panel 1
panel 2
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fiber pattern by processing
studio with fiber composite material.
Miranda Chatfield and Emma Schain.
CRP 1101, Spring 2009.
Cemetery Towers located on E. Houston between Bowery and 1st Ave. There is an amazing ramen place nearby.
Credit : Kevin Lim, Wendy Tsai, Gary He
Critics : Inaki Abalos, Urtzi Grau
AAP NYC Spring 08
Tanker Settlement, 2067
A screaming came across the sky…..
In the post- apocalyptic scenario the carcass of a beached oil supertanker becomes the basis for a complex human ecology. The structure is communally re- appropriated, erected vertically and embedded in the shore of a former metropolitan port. The former boat serves the dual purpose of shelter and elevated protection. An aggregate develops as the boat is mined for parts in some places and fortified in others. As the system evolves, the structural integrity of the vessel remains in a fragile balance with the forces of reassembly, rust and human relations.
Studio Fall 2007
Ksenia Chumakova
