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COLLIN R. ANDERSON
Portfolio of workMaster of Architecture, 2009 - 2013
Columbia UniversityGraduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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While this body of work is layered with a system of explorations in history, tectonics, computation, and methods of representation, it is presented under a more unifying lens - that of explorations of surface as interface.More specifically, the projects in this portfolio consider the functions of ground plane and envelope, and their performance as thresholds in space and time. Ground plane and envelope, as we know, are innately polemical terms. Despite the popular definition each suggests, neither embodies a finite architectural element: the ground plane is not a plane; the building envelope is not a line. The following experiments seek expanded definitions for the functions of ground planes and envelopes, as they perform as interfaces and extend into and beyond three-dimensional space.
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E EnvelopeEnvelope as mechanism to connect multiple buildings1. Advanced Studio IV, Part A. Spring 2011.
Critics Laura Kurgan, Scott Marble, David Benjamin.
Envelope as inhabitable building component2. Advanced Studio IV, Part B. Spring 2011. Critics Laura Kurgan, Scott Marble, David Benjamin.
Envelope as structure5. Architectural Technologies IV. Fall 2011.Critic David Wallance.
Envelope as mechanism to inform internal program3. Architectural Technologies V. Spring 2012.Critics Robert Condon and Russ Davies.
Ground planeGGround plane as plinth1. Advanced Studio IV. Fall 2012.
Critics Laurie Hawkinson, Vishaan Chakrabarti.
Ground plane as mechanism to conflate space5. Advanced Studio VI. Spring 2010.Critic Mark Wasiuta.
Ground plane as mechanism of resistance4. Core Studio III, Housing. Fall 2010.Critic Michael Bell.
Ground plane as mechanism of re-orientation3. Core Studio I. Fall 2009.Critic Philip Parker.
Ground plane as remediated landscape2. Architectural Technologies, Infrastructure. Fall 2010.Critic Sean Gallagher.
Envelope as light filter6. Advanced Curtain Walls. Spring 2013. Critic Robert Heintges.
T ThresholdThreshold as fold1. Architectural Drawing + Representation II. Spring 2010.
Critic Bryan Young.
Threshold as interval in space and time2. Experiments in theory. Fall 2009 and Spring 2010.In tandem with first year studios.
Threshold as event space4 History, Architecture History II. Spring 2010.Professor Kenneth Frampton.
Threshold as continuum3. History, Architecture After 1945. Fall 2010.Professor Felicity Scott.
Envelope as hypersurface4. Core Studio II. Spring 2010. Critic Karla Rothstein.
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GSAPP Advanced Studio VI, Fall 2012Critics Laurie Hawkinson and Vishaan Chakrabarti
Fabrication is an emerging industry based on materials research, and advanced softwares and machinery used to manipulate materials in new ways. It has been driven in recent years by tools now known as rapid prototyping, 3D-printing and digital electronics fabrication. The most innovative projects being completed today are the products of collaboration among small companies and start-ups. The tools and machinery required for this industry, however, are expensive and unaffordable for most startups: shared facilities are a must. Additionally, Cornells future campus will serve as an ideas-producing factory that will be in great need of product development and fabrication facilities.
Merging fabrication with office program
Design for a fabrication center and greater technologies development corridor in Long Island City, New York
The project proposes a new Technologies Hub for the Long Island City (LIC) waterfront along with the construction of a pedestrian and light rail bridge to connect Queens at Anable Basin with the new Cornell University Roosevelt Island campus.
In 2011, Mayor Bloomberg announced the choice of Cornell University to build a new Applied Science Campus on Roosevelt Island, marking a new phase of development and public policy for the city. LIC holds great potential for extending new, high-technology development beyond the proposed campus as an opportunity to integrate tech industries with the rest of the city.
The most innovative projects of the emerging fabrication industry are the products of collaboration among small companies and start-ups that require materials research facilities, advanced computer software and machinery for rapid prototyping, 3D-printing and digital electronics fabrication. The tools and machinery are expensive and unaffordable for most startups - the shared facilities of the Tech Hub provide an opportunity for new businesses to innovate and succeed. The Hubs facilities will complement Cornells future campus as a laboratory for the materialized development of new ideas.
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The project is sited at Anable Basin, historically an industrial boat slip, and the adjacent vacant lot at 44-02 Vernon Blvd. At current, this areas development has been stalled by its disconnection from the city due to the lack of public transportation. Located along the East River adjacent to the new Cornell campus, the project proposes a new pedestrian and light rail bridge to Roosevelt Island, as well as a new terminal for water-based transit, such as the East River Ferry. These increased transportation connections will bring the whole of LIC closer in greater contact to the city.
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Regenerating Long Island Citys industrial fabric with an urban strategy at three scales:
Regional light rail system and pedestrian bridge spanning from LIC to Roosevelt Island
A product development center works in conjunction with new industry and the future Cornell campus
To incentivize added density and building preservation for non-waterfront sites
Three-part development strategy
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Long Island City connects to Roosevelt Island
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FAR Trade program guidelines1. Buildings within special zone can enter into the
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Expected spatial requirements
Expected population increases
Space required to meet population increase:11.8 million sq ft
Available unbuilt floor area: 7.2 million sq ft
Space deficit: 4.6 million sq ft
For regions with access to proposed light rail line
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Existing conditions with underbuilt and vacant lots
Purchase of available far within zone
Garage typology intermixed with infill development
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GA proposed FAR-trade program encourages infill development along Vernon Boulevard, to meet projected population increases resulting from new transit connectivity.
Corridor development
New development as a result of the FAR trade program
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The Technologies Hub at Anable Basin performs as the projects centerpiece, and works in conjunction with the proposed FAR-trade program to initiate corridor development and connect Long Island City to Roosevelt Island, Greenpoint, and Astoria.
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1. 230,000sf Atria + Convention
2. 780,400sf Commercial
3. 117,000sf Boulevard + Park
4. 55,000sf Retail
5. 153,600sf Infrastructural Plinth
6. 165,000sf Walkways
1. 242,500sfTownhouses
2. 405,500sf Apts
3. 25,000sf Retail
Commercial Office + Hotel phase
1. 192,000sf Hotel
2. 336,000sf Commercial Tower A
3. 273,000sf Commercial Tower B
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GThe plinth houses fabrication workshops and vehicular support circulation for materials and equipment distribution. These are separated from offices above by a porous public plane, programmed with a mix of indoor and outdoor spaces that house classrooms, cafes, an auditorium, and a library. The atria perform as visible connections between these three sets of program.
Atria as both connector and divider
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Shared fabrication machinery and software facilities based on size:
1. Materials cutting and milling; testing
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Public spaces, including a library, cafe, classrooms, and auditorium
A collection of atria house shared facilities embedded in the plinth:
Atria distribution
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The waterfront real estate in Long Island City is prime for development, but remains vacant due to soil contamination from decades of industrial use, risks of storm-surge flooding, and a regional disconnect from public transportation systems. This project establishes a new destination with a design that attempts to solve the issues that currently undervalue the land, by leveraging expected future growth initiated by the Cornell campus, the first phase of which will be constructed by 2017. It proposes to reinvigorate LICs waterfront with new, innovative activity and help to bring NYC to the forefront of tech innovation.
Waterfront development
A pedestrian bridge spans Anable Basin
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Ground plane as remediated landscapeProposing a development strategy for contaminated brownfields in Jersey City, New Jersey
Part A: Lot scale
Man, Machine, and the Industrial Landscape focuses on industrial techniques for material extraction, refinement, and redistribution. The intent is to identify areas where the industrial technology or landscape might be re-calibrated to serve future infrastructural networks that imagine new relationships with the public.
Infrastructure and ground manipulation
Jersey City developed as a chromite processing center beginning 1905. One hundred years of ill-managed waste removal has resulted in widespread land contamination, now urgently requiring remediation.
Chromium processing refers to the extraction of chrome from chromite ore, which generates as a byproduct Chromate Ore Processing Residue (COPR). COPR includes hexavalent chromium, now recognized as a human carcinogen.
PPG Industries operated from 1954 to 1963 selling an estimated 2-3 million tons of COPR as fill material used in construction sites across the region. The residue was judged as hazardous to human health; in 1982 Jersey City and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection initiated the detection of chromite ore processing residue sites.
In 2010, a class-action lawsuit brought against the former operators of the site qualified immediate remediation measures with plans for a future mixed-use development.
This proposal seeks to remedy the effects of past industrial land use by providing in-situ remediation techniques for future development.
Architectural Technologies, Infrastructure, Fall 2010Critic Sean Gallagher
Collin Anderson Simon McGown
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Soil analysis and infill strategyContaminated soil is identified. Heavily contaminated soils at risk of spreading are removed, while contaminated soils surrounded in protective layers of clay are capped. Locations of removal become sites for new construction, while capped locations become open or green spaces.
Case Study Site: 900 Garfield Avenue, 16 Acres
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The $2.2 billion Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system established in 2000 is the states largest infrastructural project to date, covering a distance of 30 miles, serviced by 32 stations with an estimated weekday ridership of 50,000.
Rail development and direct regional connectivity to Hudson County and New York City has shown to increase local real estate value. As a result, 6000 residential units and 4.5 million square feet of commercial and retail space will be built on lands within walking distance of Light Rail stations.
In tandem, the Brownfield Reimbursement Fund Program will reimburse developers up to 75% of annual property taxes to offset costs incurred for brownfield site cleanup.
This study proposes new Light Rail lines and stations based on locations of known brownfield sites. By adding new lines, surrounding land values will increase, and remediation will be incentivised.
17-year land value appreciation rates based on vicinity to rail stations
Part B: Urban scale
Proposed lines based on brownfield remediation sites located along the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system
Remediation by rail extension
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This project systematizes the translation of climatological data into form. By assessing climate variations in a given space over a defined time period, it establishes the places and moments of climate stasis as islands in a sea of otherwise constantly shifting conditions. These spatial-temporal places of stability or relative calmness are inscribed onto an urban site: locations for primary program, to be surrounded by a system of overlapping circulation networks.
A proposal for an institution focused on climatoligical research and data, the designed buildings program includes private faculty offices and laboratories, as well as public spaces for weather-related events and educational facilities. These are distributed three dimensionally within a downtown-Manhattan site along the High Line, a raised public park which is itself a place designed with a special focus on the natural environment.
Experiments in drawing
Ground plane as mechanism of re-orientation
A study of changing conditions read as vectors in a field, this project focuses on moments and places of stasis, assigning these to be opportunity areas for a variety of programmed spaces.
Fields of change
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Axes of movementA series of climatological readings over time produce a continuum, approximated here in a process of conditional layering. Overlapping areas of sameness are considered to have stability - these are highlighted and re-formulated as bridges connecting multiple sets of otherwise different conditions. All other points in the field are considered to be places of change - axes of movement connecting earlier with later conditions.
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Points of re-orientationWhen translated into three-dimensional form, moments of stasis are considered to be points where multiple conditions converge, or forks in a road leading to a series destinations. The resulting form produces a range of spatial affects as a public art pavilion.
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Site as public climate center
A collection of exhibition, gallery and cafe spaces open to the street and drop below ground level. Strips of circulation lead both from the street and internal spaces upwards to connect with the High Line.
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Site as climatological research institution A cross section through the buildings center reveals a collection of large spaces for research and exhibition. At the buildings periphery, the spaces become atomized and privatized into faculty office, as seen in the street view (left).
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The ubiquitous use of internet-based computing services has helped to perpetuate a lifestyle of increased mobility and simultaneity. The cloud has in many ways conflated the once-separate worlds of home life and work life. Urban lifestyles in particular are fueled by mobility and connectivity.
Our conception of the cloud is immaterial: massless, imageless, faceless, formless or free-form in its actions and performance as an infinitely distributed network of connectivity. But the lightweight, or hardly-invisible devices used to connect people in cities rely, ironically, on massive cumputing infrastructures built on cheaper, remote lands.
The territory of the cloud is expanding infinitely. It is highly structured and structural. Datas location, even as it shifts, can always be pinpointed to a specific server, hard drive, or IP address. The cloud exists in a highly formalized matrix. Server farms, at hundreds of thousands of square feet, serving the uploads and downloads of millions of people and shifting the locations of trillions of megabytes in ever-shorter periods of time, are composed of softly humming, linear rows of vertically stacked hard drives. The cloud is framed by a highly structured platform.
Ground plane as mechanism of resistanceA series of structural details links residential units with office spaces in Hoboken, NJ
The project seeks to reveal a dichotomy between free form and structure. Structure is treated as a highly-ordered platform, onto which a more varied set of surfaces and spaces is overlaid. In this way, the project proposes an architectural response to modes of living in the age of the cloud, based upon this structural versus post-structural dichotomy.
Housing and technology
Core Studio III, Housing, Fall 2010Critic Michael Bell.
Collin Anderson Simon McGown
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Use of the oblique to organize housing units
The key function of oblique surfaces is ones shifting sense of weight and gravity, and hence his continual sense of gravitational change. By inclining surfaces, the changing relationship with the horizontal puts the user into a state of resistance.
Forces exposed by use of the oblique
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This project proposes new forms of cultural capital within the Brazilian city. It is focused on new ways of viewing art in public spaces funded by corporations, and is based on the corporate tax structure of Brazil.
It is in part a comparative study, initiated with an analysis of the Benesse Art Sites in Naoshima and Teshima, Japan. Here, a museum collection is set up as a shareholder of Benesse Holdings, an international corporation, and funded by annual stock dividends. The expanding art collection and its similarly-expanding geographical territory describe a unique relationship among corporate economy, art, architecture, and the changing spaces of cultural production as a result of accumulation.
Using this logic, a similar analysis was performed on the economic structure of Brazil, which has one of the worlds strongest mechanisms for funding culture, driven primarily by modes of corporate investment as a means to tax breaks.
This project expands upon the existing tax system to propose a new form of urban renewal based on corporate-sponsored art pavilions, that also house civic spaces central to Brazilian culture. The conflation of corporate space, civic space, and art space establishes a new architectural form that ultimately blurs public and private components of the Brazilian city: the city becomes the museum, and vice versa.
Ground plane as mechanism to conflate spaceCollecting Architecture Territories: The architecture of public capitalism
The proposal offers new forms of viewing art based on corporate sponsorship strategies. It is a hybrid model of existing forms of cultural space in Brazil, combining conventional civic activity spaces, with spaces of corporate-sponsored art displays. The spaces perform like a museum, or art pavilion, dispersed as a series of arcades within the existing city fabric.
Corporate-cultural funding in Brazil
Advanced Studio VI, Spring 2013Critic Mark Wasiuta
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Benesse Holdings, Inc. Naoshima Art Foundation
Art collector and businessman
I am proposing a type of management concept called public capitalism.... After using our company to establish a foundation with the clear objective of cultural and regional development, the foundation became the largest shareholder in the corporation. With the dividends it earned as capital, we have created a mechanism to make a positive contribution to society.
Soichiro Fukutake
The Naoshima Art Foundation in Japan is funded by the dividends it receives as the largest shareholder of Benesse Holdings. The chairman of Benesse, Soichihiro Fukutake, is the art collector that provided the shares to manage his collection, which is housed by art sites on the islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima in souther Japan.
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Go'o Shrine Art House, Masaru Kimura
Chichu Art Museum, Tadao Ando
Naoshima Ferry Terminal, SANAA
Ishibashi Art House, Tadakatsu Honda
Art and Agriculture Project
Gokaisho Art House, Tadakatsu Honda
Haisha Art House, Tadakatsu Honda
Benesse House Additions, Tadao Ando
Paradise 36, Thomas Struth
Inujima Art Project SeirenshoHiroshi Sambuichi
Naoshima Bath House, Graf
Con of Light, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Lee Ufan Museum, Tadao Ando
Infinite Heartbeats, Christian Boltanski
Teshima Art Museum, Ryue Nishizawa
Setouchi International Art Festival sites
Art house Project, Kazuyo Sejima
Art house Project, Kazuyo Sejima
Weeds, Yoshihiro Suda
Kinza Art House, Masaru Kimura
Naoshima Art Foundation becomes top Benesse Holdings shareholder
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Ishibashi Art HouseTadakatsu Honda
Gokaisho Art HouseTadakatsu Honda
Haisha Art HouseTadakatsu Honda
KinzaMasaru Kimura
Inujima Art Project SeirenshoHiroshi Sambuichi
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SESC community centers
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The constraints of the Brazilian corporate tax structure for the funding of culture
To establish new ways of viewing art and public spaces, by inverting the logic of the city
The logic and program of existing models of civic community centers in Brazil
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To enhance the conflation of multiple types of space in this corporate-civic-art system
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A series of compressed art spaces border a public pool. The pool is inserted within an existing city block and accessed through an entry to this civic, corporate-sponsored arcade. Concrete walls are patterned with a series of coroporate logo pores through which the pool is viewed.
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A dance hall is suspended within a larger art gallery. The artwork is made of a material product affiliated with the sponsoring corporation. In this model, the civic space is inverted to be contained by the art space, and the civic activity of dance is put on view to pedestrians walking through the space from below.
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A theater is sited beneath a glass floor, in which artworks are embedded. Theater seating materiality and color is affiliated with the corporate sponsor. In this sponsorship model, viewers transit through a compressed space, informed to look down, through the artwork, to the civic space below.
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The proposal offers new forms of viewing art based on corporate sponsorship strategies. It is a hybrid model of two existing forms of cultural space in Brazil, combining conventional civic activity spaces, with spaces of corporate-sponsored art displays. The spaces perform like a museum, or art pavilion, dispersed as a series of arcades within the city.
Corporate-sponsored art arcades
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In determining a surfaces role as an interface between spaces, times, experiences, this project investigates a distorted, and seemingly infinitely-thin surface at its most interesting geometric point: its fold.
Experiments in drawing
Threshold as fold
The project questions the relationship between two sides of the same surface.
Thinness of a surface
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Point 2: Henri Bergson, in the early 20th century, formulated the notion that time is always in a state of flux through changes in space: Thanks to the third dimension of space, all the images making up the past and future are...not laid out with respect to one another like frames on a roll of film.... But let us not forget that all motion is reciprocal or relative: if we perceive them coming towards us, it is also true to say that we are going towards them.
The following work explores surfaces and their relation to these notions of time and space.
Henri Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity, trans. Leon Jacobson (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965), 142.
Experiments in theory
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Paper: The Architectonics of Space-Time Physics
Threshold as continuum
History, Architecture After 1945, Fall 2010Professor Felicity Scott
An analysis of Sanford Kwinters reading of futurist theories in Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, through his interpretation of the philosophies of lived time and experience as proposed by Henri Bergson. Drawing from the work of French cultural theorist Paul Virilio, this paper will update these readings with elements of Bergsonism evident in Virilios later writings. Two distinct theoretical frameworks particularly influenced by both war and technology are considered: (1) Italian futurist plastic-field theory prior to WWI and (2) Virilios limit-state theory in the decades following WWII. This paper seeks to discover a level of relations shared by these disparate frameworks so as to suggest a unified continuum theory of space.
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The combination of extensive technological innovation and developments in scientific theories concerning space and time at the turn of the twentieth century rejected classical Euclidian geometry and redefined the human experience. French philosopher Henri Bergsons Time and Free Will, 1889, and Creative Evolution, 1907, employed Einsteinian special relativity and Reimannian multiplicity to align ideologies of consciousness with physical theories of space-time; these writings significantly influenced the work of Italian futurist artists Umberto Boccioni and Antonio SantElia prior to WWI.
This lecture course addresses key developments in architecture during the period 1850-1930.
History of Architecture, II
Paper: The Physics of Futurist Theory: Continuity, Dynamism and Field-Condition Plasticity; Bergsonism and Italian Futurist Architecture Prior to the First World War
Threshold as event space
History, Architecture History II, Spring 2010Professor Kenneth Frampton
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Advanced Studio IV, Spring 2011Critics Laura Kurgan, Scott Marble, David Benjamin
Using parametric construction, this project re-evaluates open floorplan programming and energy use by spanning between high-rise towers to join adjacent vertical spaces. Minimal facade reconstruction or removal will affect maximum program area: passive ventilation will drive down energy costs; newly constructed public atria will transform program.
The design responded to one of the central challenges of PlaNYC a city wide initiative to reduce carbon emissions in NYC by 30% by 2030 by developing adaptive strategies for the existing NYC building stock that reduce energy consumption while also enhancing the quality of urban life.
The design of this parametric element was driven by fundamental energy metrics and the challenge of making a significant building and urban intervention through minimal means. The intent of the project is to establish architectural solutions for energy mitigation in existing buildings.
As an adaptive building component, this intervention is designed to be grafted onto a variety of high-rise towers. It is comprised of a connective bridge surrounded by a hyperboloid-form atrium with triangulated glass envelope. The parametric envelope can be oriented in the direction of primary winds to maximize ventilation, and offers new shared program space by spanning one or multiple floors in height.
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The envelope and bridge structure transforms traditional open-floorplan offices by merging programs among multiple buildings. It decreases energy use via passive ventilation, with open-air atria located on floors adjacent to the new shared structure.
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Micro and macro parameters drive changes in geometry, as well as the effects of passive ventilation. The open-air cool adjacent spaces in the summer months, and heat adjacent spaces in the winter months as greenhouses.
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Multiple small-scale atria open to the new primary, ventilated space, activating several floors of engaged office buildings with shared program and decreased energy use.
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In the early and mid 1900s, building ventilation standards called for approximately 15 cubic feet per minute (cfm) of outside air for each building occupant. As a result of the 1973 oil embargo, however, national energy conservation measures called for a reduction in the amount of outdoor air provided for ventilation to 5 cfm per occupant. It is widely thought that these reduced outdoor air ventilation rates are inadequate toward maintaining the health and comfort of building occupants. Only recently have the building regulations changed the requred air-exchange to 15 cfm per occupant, and in the case of offices, 20 cfm.
60 Broad street in Manhattan suffers from poor natural daylighting and air circulation, as do most NYC glass towers constructed in the 1970s. Additionally, single-client leases are fractured among various floor levels, creating working conditions that inhibit collaboration and flexibility.
Part B. Re-thinking 60 Broad Street, Manhattan
This retrofit strategy pairs new methods of inhabitant connectivity with passive ventilation and natural daylighting to recirculate both people and clean air. It aims to positively change the internal life of the building, drive down energy costs, and decrease carbon emissions. This is accomplished via a double-skin cladding that houses perimeter stairwells and programmatic breakout nodes.
Facade inhabitability + sustainability
Collin AndersonAlexis BursonStephen Chou
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Advanced Studio IV, Spring 2011Critics Laura Kurgan, Scott Marble, David Benjamin
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The facade extension consists of double skin components and perimeter circulation components: the double skin increases natural ventilation and more efficient management of building mechanical systems; the perimeter circulation components increase flexibility for building inhabitants.
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Collin AndersonMichaela MetcalfeSimon McGownJohn SimonsDavid Zhai
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Architectural Technologies V, Spring 2011Critics Robert Condon and Russ Davies
The building is imagined as a state-of-the-art laboratory for innovation and exchange, intended to provide open commercial loft space for artisan workshops and light manufacturing.
Floors are subdivided to accommodate multiple tenants with co-operative studio spaces ranging in scale from 150 sf to 3000 sf. Support and collaborative spaces include wood and metal shops, photography studios, and digital media labs. Exhibition galleries, lecture rooms, storefront space and a cafe are located at ground level to offer connections to the surrounding community.
A variety of collective and individual spaces for creative production are housed within an undulating envelope of glass and terra-cotta. The envelope is designed to peel away at points to expose internal spaces and control solar heat gain.
The structure is composed of a concrete beam and column assembly; its grid varies between 20x20 and 20x12 and includes four shear walls inserted within the core. Two 8x11x30 grade beams support a column-free auditorium located at level 2 and require a transfer structure at level 3.
Situated in the Bronx, the site is accessible via district thoroughfares with the potential to become a locus for community-based industrial design partnerships and private enterprises. The concentration of designers within open workflow spaces harbors the potential for integrated design collaborations.
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The structure is a cast-in-place system; building loads are transferred to 11x11x3 footings and two 8x11x30 grade beams which support the column-free auditorium located at level 2. The auditoriums transfer structure at level 3 exhibits 8x16 beams and spans 60. The transfers structure houses an air handling unit.
Four shear walls inserted within the cores counter the structures gravitational and lateral forces. Shallow grade beams support the lateral forces at the base of each shear wall. An elevator shaft in each core services freight and passenger circulation; each 20x12x120 shaft is provided a 5-deep footing. Columns at levels 1-3 are 22 in diameter; columns above are 18 in diameter. Columns support cantilever beams that are enforced by a 12-deep, 2-way slab and perimeter curb walls that also support the facade.
Formal moves are driven by a series of envelope peels that allow openings with a range of sizes based on internal programmatic needs and scales . Terracotta is the primary visible envelope material. 12x60 typical terracotta panels are engaged by steel channels, backed by 4 of rigid insulation. A stick mullion system is supported by a 22 cast-in-place reinforced concrete perimeter curb.
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Memories of the deceased comprise a unique set of remembered events and feelings, both real and imaginary. This project for an urban burial structure seeks to unite visitors with the memory of the dead, and to create a phenomenal experience for the general public - in many ways a reminder of the density of human life in cities.
Hypersurfaces make use of the geometries of physical materials and the techniques of dynamic projection to take on a temporal dimension. The project uses calibrated projections driven by sunlight entering through a thin outer membrane, to establish a constant alternation between light and darkness.
Design for an urban burial ground and public sanctuary, using light projection to generate a dynamic outer membrane
Core Studio II, Spring 2010Critic Karla Rothstein
Envelope as hypersurface
Bodies, placed as ashes within glass tiles, create unique projections of light and shadow. The program includes a variety of ceremonial spaces as well as a more intimate private sanctuaries.
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The envelope is transformed with the addition of each body in time. As the membrane is adjusted, so are the ways by which it transmits and reflects sunlight, altering the internal and external building conditions.
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Exterior walls are made of high-strength prefabricated perforated concreteperfcon panels, composed of a 10x20 with 40-square grid, to distribute lateral and gravity loads at the building perimeter.
The system of panels acts as a rigid exoskeleton frame similar to a Vierendeel truss , and functions as a load-bearing wall, with a regular pattern of cavities that supports large openings and cantilevers.
The colors of the windows (blue, green, yellow, red) correspond to the level of stress within them. Each color represents the size of reinforcing steel required by the concrete. Where stresses exceed the capacity of the system, panels are infilled.
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Envelope as structure
This 180,000 sf undergraduate residence at MIT, whichmeasures 10 stories in height (100), 385 long and 54 deep, was envisioned as a porous sponge. The concept of porosity permeates the architecture at a number of scales, from the incorporation of five large openings in the envelope which correspond with entrances, views, and outdoor terraces, to the 40x40 square window grid at the resident dormitories.
The envelope is composed of a specialized system of perforated concrete panels, which are mechanically spliced to form a continuous structural faade. The envelope is clad in both standardized L-shaped and custom aluminum panels. The L-shaped aluminum panels are used on the faade to clad the majority of the perforated concrete exoskeleton and light gauge steel construction.
Two types of aluminum panels are used: 0.90 anodized aluminum and perforated aluminum. The L-shaped geometry correlates with the network of 2x2 window openings built into both concrete units and light gauge steel construction. Custom fabricated panels are utilized at large curvilinear openings.
Facade analysis of Simmons Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Architectural Technologies IV, Fall 2011Critic David Wallance
Collin AndersonJake Matatyaou Tom McKeoghMichaela Metcalfe
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NINTH FLOOREL. +80'-0"
EIGHTH FLOOREL. +70'-0"
SEVENTH FLOOREL. +60'-0"
SIXTH FLOOREL. +50'-0"
EL. +40'-0"FIFTH FLOOR
EL. +30'-0"FOURTH FLOOR
EL. +20'-0"THIRD FLOOR
EL. +10'-0"SECOND FLOOR
EL. +/- 0'-0" (20'-4")FIRST FLOOR/GROUND LEVEL
EL. +103'-6"T.O. PARAPET
EL. +100'-0"ROOF LEVEL
EL. +90'-0"TENTH FLOOR
NINTH FLOOREL. +80'-0"
EIGHTH FLOOREL. +70'-0"
SEVENTH FLOOREL. +60'-0"
SIXTH FLOOREL. +50'-0"
EL. +40'-0"FIFTH FLOOR
EL. +30'-0"FOURTH FLOOR
EL. +20'-0"THIRD FLOOR
EL. +10'-0"SECOND FLOOR
EL. +/- 0'-0" (20'-4")FIRST FLOOR/GROUND LEVEL
EL. +103'-6"T.O. PARAPET
384'-10"
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EL. - 18'-0"BASEMENT
EL. +100'-0"ROOF LEVEL
EL. +90'-0"TENTH FLOOR
NINTH FLOOREL. +80'-0"
EIGHTH FLOOREL. +70'-0"
SEVENTH FLOOREL. +60'-0"
SIXTH FLOOREL. +50'-0"
EL. +40'-0"FIFTH FLOOR
EL. +30'-0"FOURTH FLOOR
EL. +20'-0"THIRD FLOOR
EL. +10'-0"SECOND FLOOR
EL. +/- 0'-0" (20'-4")FIRST FLOOR/GROUND LEVEL
EL. +103'-6"T.O. PARAPET
EL. +100'-0"ROOF LEVEL
EL. +90'-0"TENTH FLOOR
NINTH FLOOREL. +80'-0"
EIGHTH FLOOREL. +70'-0"
SEVENTH FLOOREL. +60'-0"
SIXTH FLOOREL. +50'-0"
EL. +40'-0"FIFTH FLOOR
EL. +30'-0"FOURTH FLOOR
EL. +20'-0"THIRD FLOOR
EL. +10'-0"SECOND FLOOR
EL. +/- 0'-0" (20'-4")FIRST FLOOR/GROUND LEVEL
EL. +103'-6"T.O. PARAPET
384'-10"
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Elevation, with structural stress regions higlighted
Section through atria
Typical floor plan
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Facade as structure
Cast-in-place concrete columns at the perimeter of the building distribute vertical loads in zones where perfcon panels are not utilized.
Precast concrete panels, typically 10 x20, distribute vertical and horizontal loads at the building perimeter. The system of panels acts as a rigid frame similar to a vierendeel truss.
Non-structural, light gauge steel construction infills zones where perimeter columns are utilized to provide continuity.
Perfcon panels
Light gauge steel
Perimeter columns
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1. Perfcon panel, assembled
2. Rigid board cavity insulation
3. 1 argon-filled insulated glass light
4. Break form aluminum panel
5. Iodized aluminum panel
Panel components
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Panel construction sequence1. Perfcon panel with cast-in-place concrete curb
2. Rigid board cavity insulation
3. Break form aluminum panel screwed into place. Screws mounted to grout joint cast into perf-con panel. Aluminum panel finished with 2 coat megaflow paint.
4. Break form aluminum panel screwed into place. Screws mounted to cast-in-place concrete curb.Aluminum panel finished with 2 coat megaflow paint.
5. Argon-filled insulated glass light (1) with low-e coating and clear anodized aluminum frame
6. Anodized aluminum panel mounted to gaskets via slip joint connection with concealed gasket
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Designed for a NYC gallery, the curtain wall is composed of translucent, acid-etched glass panels to fill interior spaces with indirect sunlight. The facade fans open at perimeter stairwells to exterior views at these spaces outside of main galleries. Here, hinged fins reveal a second layer of transparent glass.
Light filter concept
Aluminum curtain wall design for a NYC gallery
Envelope as light filter
This unitized curtain wall system is factory-assembled and -glazed, delivered to the job site in unit sizes of 2-6 x 12 and 2-6 x 24, and hung from the face of the concrete floor slab. The design features translucent glass combined with clear vision glass, so as to transmit filtered natural light to interior spaces while allowing for visual openings at perimeter circulation corridors. A smooth transition between the two glass types is achieved with a hinge element inset within the vertical mullions. The laminated, continuous hinge performs as a bearing from which translucent glass fins are hung, allowing for an opening effect in the faade that reveals the second layer of vision glass. Fins are fixed with a pin that can be released for maintenance and cleaning. Translucent glass is low-iron, surface-treated with an acid etch on the #1 surface of the outer lite, and laminated with translucent interlayers. Vision glass is also low-iron with a low-reflective coating.
Advanced Curtain Walls, Spring 2013 Critic Robert Heintges
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Sections through curtain wall at stairwell
Fabricated units at stairwells are double-height (24) with a 12 translucent, acid-etched fin connected to a continuous hing with a leaf glazed into the glass. This design has two purposes: aesthetically, the angled fin appears as a door to a second layer of transparent glazing beyond for exterior views at stairwells; mechanically, the hinge can be opened for maintenance.
Hinged fin design
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Acid etched outer liteTranslucent interlayer
Acid etched outer lite
Polished inner liteContinuous, laminated leaf
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Polished inner liteContinuous, laminated leaf
Custom container hinge
Low iron, low reflective coating
Translucent interlayer
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Low iron, low reflective coating
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Acid etched outer lite
Acid etched outer liteTranslucent interlayer
Acid etched outer lite
Polished inner liteContinuous, laminated leaf
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Polished inner liteContinuous, laminated leaf
Custom container hinge
Low iron, low reflective coating
Translucent interlayer
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Low iron, low reflective coating
Custom container hinge
Acid etched outer lite
Acid etched outer lite
Vertical mullion detail at fin and glazing transition Vertical mullion detail at fin
Vertical mullion detail at glazing transition Vertical mullion detail, typical
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COLLIN R. ANDERSON
Portfolio of work
Master of Architecture, 2009 - 2013
Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation