dsanchick portfolio
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Cornell University Bachelor of Architecture Degree May 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Spring 2009
Tiburtina MarketFall 2008
Work Experience2008-2009
Market PulpSpring 2010
Libe Slope EmergenceSpring 2007
Changing RoomsFall 2005
Museum for the Cold WarFall 2007
Copenhagen GalleryFall 2007
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This project aimed to investigate the pos-sibilities of incorporating algae farming into an architectural project in an effort to create more sustainable architecture. Experimental algae growth panels were placed spanning across the littoral zone of the site. Algae were grown in a system of woven tubes made of ETFE that function similar to a closed bioreactor. The algae tubes range from being a fl oating dock on the water, to a south-facing wall, to a roof system covering outdoor terraces for labo-ratory spaces.
This was one smaller component that fi t into the larger programmatic extension of a research facility of the Scripps Institute. This facility was conceived of as a singu-lar building developed by the entire studio by combining various sustainable compo-nents. This project was developed through the use of Grasshopper parametric model-ing.
This project was completed as a true part-nership sharing the design ambitions. The images on these pages
Littoral Adaptationsited: la jolla, ca
Spring 2009 Design IXDana Cupkova &Kevin Pratt
In Collaboration with Katie Kasabalis
Three Types of Algae Farming
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CO2LITTORAL ADAPTATIONLa Jolla, California
Vertical Pathway Proposal
Littoral Adaptation and Energy Diagrams
Wet Lab Roof Canopy Proposal
The program is mixed use between live, work and commercial. We saw the site as potential for the creation of a new kind of urban mar-ket, which could serve to act as an extension of the new high-speed train station. This ur-ban market was developed through a modular system where each living unit had an attached work/commercial space. Variation was cre-ated through the placement of these units for different user types. These were organized in bars as smaller communities that could cater to artists, students or professionals.
The different users have varying needs for privacy and commercial interaction that af-fect the character of the bars. The central zone of each bar is where this variation oc-curs because it is the public zone where art-ists can sell their produce/ sell their work, students can study or offi ces would occur for professionals. The new urban market is thus a direct connection between the residents, their work, and the general public entering the site as a gateway to the city
Tiburtina Marketsited: rome, italy
Fall 2008 Design VIIAndrea Simitch
In Collaboration with Katie Kasabalis, Travis Fitch & Tim Liddell
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Work ExperienceFall 2009
Slade ArchitectureEstee Lauder
Shanghai, China
Work ExperienceFall 2009
Slade ArchitectureFlight Club
New York, NY
Flight Club NY is a collectible sneaker store focusing on both consignment and new basketball shoes. This project was a new downtown location for the company. The client was interested in creating a minimalist urban environment with limited seating and display. The incorporation of a basketball court was added to the rear of the store for customers to try out the merchandise. My contribution to the proj-ect included working on the furniture and fi nishes of the store. Renderings were done in V-Ray fro Rhino
These were a series of short design proj-ects for Estee Lauder in China. These per-fume counters were designed as prototypes for department stores in Shanghai.
The design was for two different display walls and counters, the larger for DKNY’s Be Delicious and the smaller for Tommy Hilfi ger.
My contribution to the work was the de-sign development of both counters as well as producing the presentation materials for the client.
Work ExperienceSummer 2008
Freelance Drafting and 3-D ModelingWestchester, NY
The project began as some SketchUp 3-D modeling work for a local architect and then evolved into the working and construc-tion drawings of the project. The addition included a new family room, kitchen and second fl oor as well as a new back deck.
The paper trail has given way to the in-formation highway and as a result con-ceptual structures and logical organiza-tions have grown with complexity. Digital information access and display are chal-lenges for the contemporary archivist, li-brarian, student, researcher or web user. Additionally the public availability of In-ternet challenges the permanence of the civic institution of the library. Its tradi-tional typology, organizational strategies, lighting and structural necessities have changed. These changes call for a new ty-pology of research and community library facility with potential for programmatic expansion and mobile extension. This new type can extend beyond the central-ized building and outwards into both the ecologies of community and landscape. The digital library is an urban infrastruc-ture which expands and compresses at various nodes but which permeates and interacts with existing fabric.
Market Pulpsited: holyoke, ma
Spring 2010 Design X: ThesisDana Cupkova &Henry Richardson
“Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.”
This system analyzed the surface condi-tions of various types or coral erosion on an atoll island. These effects were then mimicked as fi eld conditions through a series of digital transformations that can be seen in the line drawings on the right. These drawings and emergent effects were further investigated through physi-cal modeling to be mined for their archi-tectural potentials of surface, structure, enclosure, occupational fl ows and system fl exibility.
Emergent Slopesited: ithaca, ny
Spring 2007 Design IVMichael Chen & Kari Andersen
In investigating acts of change, the range of motion of the arms and legs of the body was studied to generate a system of fl exible rooms. These rooms could literally be used as a space to change clothes as well as having the capability to change form themselves. The various rooms contained systems for creating fl oors, benches and hooks, which could be adjusted to the user’s desire. This project dealt with notions of privacy and interaction between the users.
Sited in the Florida everglades the changing rooms were a temporary place that was climbed into dependent on the tide. A meandering pool was also added to the program occasionally docking at the structure.
Changing Roomssited: everglades, fl fall 2005 Design IArchie Mackenzie
Site: Landscapes
The Museum for the Cold War is located in Berlin at an under-utilized site, which was once part of the no-man’s land, asso-ciated with the Berlin Wall. The wall at this particular location came in from the north turned at a right angle and headed east.
The project was a memorial to the wall and the Cold War with a transparent wall, which could be circulated within. The project is also attempts to reconcile the two types of development occurring along the site of the former wall, that of commercial development and that of green space.
The project uses the memorial to the wall as a connection between the two kinds of developments along the former wall site. It links East and West, history and the contemporary, all the while maintaining the division as an identifi er of Berlin as a city. It also serves to extend the building beyond the site into the larger city fur-ther suggesting the presence of the wall.
Museum for the Cold War
sited: Berlin, Germanyfall 2007 Design IV
Werner Goehner
Museum Exhibition Circulation
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Sited near the University of Copenha-gen in the old city, this artist gallery/residence began with a series of volu-metric experiments about direction and orientation. The urban context of Copenhagen can be read as a series of inhabitable walls, punctuated by spires, and surrounding interior courtyards. The site emphasized these walls by facing two expansive blank fi rewalls. The no-tion of the wall in contrast with the pro-grammatic volume (both formally and materially) led to the fi nal scheme. The artist residence occupies the south wall while galleries and artist workspace occupies the west wall. A small public plaza is created along the street and the wall creates a small pocket courtyard containing a cafe.
Copenhagen Gallerysited: Copenhagen, Denmark
spring 2006 Design IIFelicia Davis