max senini 2015

Max Senini

Max Senini, BA, M.Arch candidate | 403.608.4498 | [email protected]

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Assistant to shop technicians at the university of Calgary. Summer 2014. Supervisor - Nathan Tremblay.

Design and fabrication team for Myrtle Beakerhead festival design build. Summer 2014. Supervisor - Jason Johnson.

Design and fabrication team for Sukkah the Journey. Summer 2014. Supervisor - Jason Johnson

TA for Graphics One at the University of Calgary. Fall 2014. Supervisor - Jason Johnson, and Marc Boutin.

Music: I have been an avid performer and composer for more than half my life.I am also very passionate about poetry, painting and philosophy.

Studies in jazz performance (percussion) at Vancouver island university BC, 2004-2007.

BA (with distinction) in philosophy at Concordia university Montreal QC, 2010-2013.

Master of Architecture at the University of Calgary, 2013-2016 (current)

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE INERESTS PROFICIENCIESRhino 3D Modelling

VRay Rendering

Photoshop

Physical Modeling

Illustrator

Hand Drawing

Grasshopper

AutoCAD

Keir Stuhlmiller Jason S. Johnson Joshua M. TaronSimon Kim

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Associate, Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd.Principal, Minus Architecture StudioPrincipal, SynthetiquesPrincipal, IK Studio

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Deans list Concordia 2010-2013Deans list U of C 2013-2015EVDS recommended award 2014AGSS award 2014Murry Waterman award 2015

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Material Driven Art Gallery.Instructor: Joshua TaronStudio III Fall 2014

Multifamily Housing.Instructor: Tony LeongStudio II Winter 2014

Digital Exhibition Centre.Instructor: Keir StuhlmillerStudio IV Winter 2015

Beakerhead design buildCoordinator: Jason S. JohnsonSummer 2014

Sukkah design buildCoordinator: Jason S. JohnsonSummer 2014

Taylor Seminar design buildCoordinators: Jason S. Johnson + Simon KimWinter 2014

Paintings and Photography2008 - Present

CONTENTS


axoplan


PROJECT 1 - STUDIO II

constitute a totality of distinct yet similar parts. This brief calls for an eight-unit multi family social housing project. Each unit is to be approximately 700 square feet for a total area of 5600 square feet. The brief states that each unit is to be a two-bedroom apartment with a full kitchen, full bathroom, and living room. The building must also incorporate an amenity space covering one third of the property, in addition to a mechanical room for the building.The Parti for this project is written music. This to me captures a quite literal, yet abstract notion of the idea of community. One note taken on its own is meaningless, rather, it is the combination of notes taken as a whole, with a certain rhythm and logic, that constitutes a song. Notated music, in this sense captures the idea of similar yet distinct parts coming together to create something meaningful; the whole.

This project is situated at 649 McDougal Road NE, adjacent to Edmonton trail and memorial drive. This site in particular provides the unique challenge of the 4th street flyover, which crosses the lower South West corner of the property. However, this site also provides the rich opportunity of connectivity given its location within the surrounding communities, Calgarys East Village, and major the pedestrian arteries within the area. I wanted to be able to learn from these aspects of the site and be able to have a design that responds to these characteristics of the location for this multifamily dwelling.Taking the idea of Community as my starting point and generator for my conceptual driver, I had in mind the notion of similar parts that come together to form a whole in such a way that the diversity of the part is recognized in the logic of how these parts

parti and concept modelsformal exploration

unit types


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PRODUCTION

By diagramming the formal development of this project as an iterative process, I arrived at an organization of units that allowed for similar parts, to come together in differing ways to constitute a whole. This formation that I arrived at, allowed for a simple repetition of similar unit formations, to create an interconnected complex of parts. Throughout this project, I allowed the concepts of connectivity, part/whole relations and community to drive my project in order to explore the opportunities that could be achieved in the process of this design.


tectonic model

PROJECT 2 - INTERMEDIATE STUDIO


i material

ii process

iii condition

In order to make this project not only more engaging for myself, but also more attainable and developable, I have decided to specify my conceptual driver in such a way that both limits and expands the possibilities of my project. First, I take architecture to be excessive. It is not a thing/discipline of modesty in the sense of meaning, scale, or capital. Next, the need for a specific site to define specific problems concerning that site that is qualified by (but not solely limited to) a property boundary. The need for a typology to house the program, and the use of a material. What will hold all of these together is reason, but reason is not something I wish to think of as the strictly modern Reason (as some kind of deity) but rather as the events held together to produce a narrative as an overarching movement throughout the project. I am attempting to create a dialogue, or dialectic upon the instantiation of a building that holds within it both a positive and negative effect for the community at one and the same time. In this scenario, the struggle of class conflict will be explored, and a speculative use of material will enable the conversation of public space to be progressed and engaged with. The goal of this project will be to produce a structure or framework from plastic garbage/refuse (generated by the lower classes) that produces an art gallery (for the upper classes). Here there will be an implicit tone of class unconsciousness that drives at highlighting the excessive consumer world we live within. The aim is to display the generation of garbage by lower classes through a hyper-consumption as a positive good/utility to be turned into the backbone of the structures that hold up the excesses of the upper classes. From an exterior perspective this project will be seen as a revitalization of the area, whereas from the interior perspective, this project will probe at the initialization of gentrification.

With this project I am aiming to articulate how sourcing a material that is relatively available and inexhaustible (plastic based garbage) can assist in specifying the material manufacturing process. Here the very potential of the material itself use can help in the justification of the building within a specified site. The program and typology of a sculptural art galley enables the ability to deploy this robotic

manufacturing process both structurally (for the design of the building) and conceptually (as a spectacle that is appropriated as sculptural).

The urban goal is to revitalize the area into an industrial/art based live work zone of condensed culture and productivity. Striving towards a Net Zero Material architecture. Thus, the decalcabots will extrude post

consumer produced plastic garbage into a structurally sound polymer framework for the architecture. This will then house a sculptural art gallery where the perpetual production of plastic objects will be exhibited and sold as art. The goal will be to strive towards a net zero material production process.

Estimates of plastic waste produced by post-consumer residential products.

CALGARYALBERTACANADANORTH AMERICAWORLD WIDE

Material resource for production that is in essence inexhaustible.

The decalcabots provide a progressive and innovative way to capitalize off of basic human trends of consumption.

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entrance

production floor

Plan - First Floor

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10 permanent collection

exhibition gallery

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Plan - Third Floor

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visitors center

kitchen

washrooms

retail

dining

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Plan - Second Floor

11 offices

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Plan - Fourth Floor

20 m


need to select material for formingneed to as Craig about re-millingneed to ask Nath about nestingneed to start Monday

complete dimension sheetrepair about curve segmentslower curves to proper heightinquire about bit sizesneed to start Monday

PERSPECTIVE

The community of Sunalta within Calgary is situated in a very unique way to the downtown, the beltline, and other great amenities such as the interconnected transportation network within the city. As such, there is a great opportunity for Sunalta to be revitalized and become an up and coming vibrant urban community. The decalcabots will take garbage provided by the city and surrounding regions, melt, process, and extrude this polymer in such a way that produces a high density polymer with the properties of structural steel. This use of garbage is not only sustainable, and environmentally progressive in nature, but it also enables unfettered continuation of our consumer trends for the sake of exponential economic development.


PROJECT 3 - COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO

Studio Team: Max Senini + Kailey OFarrell

Communication is a fluid activity that symbolizes and captures movement. For us, we take up this movement as a crucial parameter for the ways in which we gathered information about the site and then synthesized this into a conceptual design. What became important to us during our conceptual development was the notion of the dialectic. The back-and-forth activity between elements and entities. This movement or oscillation became the driver for how we could integrate our initial conceptual work with the site and program analysis to arrive at a formal study. Particularly, the synthesis of oppositional notions and expressions in order to arrive at new conclusions.The program of this project is a digital media center. This facility will provide an exhibition space, a retail space, an educational component of seminar rooms/workshop labs, and a research center where production will be oriented around digital fabrication and innovative technologies. This digital media center will be a vessel for emergent technology where the production and presentation of the produced can be exhibited for the communities of Sunny Side and Kensington.The LRT is an important site feature being adjacent to one edge of the site. This is an aspect that we want to embrace in our design given the dominance of the LRT on the site. The presence of the train divides Kensington and Sunnyside and connects the rest of Calgary at once, while the absence of the train connects these two communities.This results in a circulatory path through the site with an opportunity to utilize the paths/desire paths to inform the footprint of initial program and massing studies. By taking up the gesture along the LRT and extending this across the site, we arrived at a location for a public plaza, this was informed by the orthogonal and diagonal shift that exists on the site, where we then viewed this opportunity for a public plaza as a type of catch basin on for people moving across the site. This we feel provides us with the relational adjacencies that embrace the LRT, the local commercial zones in Sunnyside while respecting the single residential buildings along 2nd Ave.


division of space

semi private

hardscape

public

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program elements

exhibitiontarget 500m2level (2)

retailtarget 75m2

level (1)

lobbytarget 100m2level (1)

kitchentarget 50m2level (2)

resource areatarget 250m2level (2)

washroomtarget 10m2level (1)

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admin workstationtarget 40m2level (2)

Garbagetarget 10m2level (1)

custodialtarget 6m2level (1)

server/telecomtarget 7m2level (1)

mechanicaltarget 75 m2level (0)

electricaltarget 20m2level (0)

shipping/receivingtarget 40m2level (1)

seminar roomtarget 70m2level (2)




admin supporttarget 20m2

level (2)

recyclingtarget 10m2

level (1)

research supporttarget 20m2

level (2)

admin officetarget 40m2

level (2)

receptiontarget 60m2

level (1)

washroomtarget level (1)

1,570m2excluding horizontal + vertical circulation

resource areatarget 250m2level (2)

washroomtarget 10m2level (1)

admin officestarget 40m2level (2)

admin workstationtarget 20m2level (2)admin support

target 20m2level (2)

washroomtarget 10m2

level (2)

retailtarget 75m2level (1)

mechanicaltarget 10m2

level (1)

electricaltarget 10m2

level (1) garbage/recyclingtarget 20m2level (1)server/telecom


custodialtarget 10m2

level (1)

shipping/receivingtarget 75m2level (1)

lobbytarget 100m2

level (1)

receptiontarget 60m2

level (1)

exhibitiontarget 500m2level (1/2)

kitchentarget 50m2

level (2)

seminar roomstarget 280m2level (2) research support


first floor

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second floor

second floor

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second floor

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circulation

commercial

public accessibility

service

commercially zoned

multi residential

single residential

PROGRAMMING

Our comprehensive studio project centralizes itself around the conceptual driver of movement, specifically, the space in between two or more entities that enables a dynamic relationship of communication through the mediation and manifestation of a dialectic. To us, this notion of movement and the oscillation between binaries resulted from a process oriented site analysis that yielded the physical relationships currently existing on the site.

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shift volumes

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implied mass shift cut

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3 plans 4 plans + form

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PROCESS

The program of our building is a digital media centre that we are taking up as a vessel for emergent technology. The building program will provide a space for exhibiting new media and technology, while also providing an educational atmosphere coupled with a substantial research oriented facility. This research component of the building will enable the spectacle of production to be housed alongside the exhibition areas of the building. This will programmatically articulate the complexity of movement that we are seeking, where production and the produced can be experienced simultaneously as an oscillation and constant ongoing dialectic between the new and the innovative.

revised modelMYRTLE


DESIGN BUILD - MEDITATION PAVILLION

Exhibition: BeakerHead 2014 - Art, Science and Engineering Exhibition Beakerhead.com

Design/Fabrication Research Collaborators: Kevin Spaans, Max Senini, Kailey OFarrellResearch Advisor: Jason Johnson

A meditation pavilion designed and fabricated on campus, the organic ordering system of components take their shape from the myrtle leaf. The final design is comprised of two components, one made of HDPE and the other of polystyrene, fabricated through the use of digital modeling, cnc milling and vacuum forming. The components are designed to interlock and stack to form the enclosure.

OLD CONNECTION STRATEGYrevisions

MYRTLE

NEW WORKING CONNECTION STRATEGY

STRETCH SLOT

SIMPLIFY SLOT PINCH

TOWER TO ARRAY REPEATING LOGIC

Friction-fit assembly using dado cuts from CNC

Fastening system connects component to adjacent components above and below

connection strategyMYRTLE

assemblyMYRTLE


assembledMYRTLE

DESIGN BUILD - SUKKAH

Event- Sukkot- Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites 40 years of wandering in the Sinai wilderness after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. The sukkah is reminiscent of the temporary shelters built by the Israelites in the desert at this time.

Sukkah, the journey

Design/Fabrication Research Collaborators: Caitlyn Bidochka, April Battenfelder, Thiago Bueno, Kailey OFarrell, and Max Senini

Research Advisor: Jason Johnson

The Sukkah design incorporates the history of the Exodus from Egypt through numerous references. The perforations over the structure is the map of the Exodus route taken by the Isrealites, its shape and coordinates are respected through the form in a parametric relationship. The triangle panels represent Mount Sinai and the four species, representing the spine, heart, eye and mouth are present in the integrity and entrance of the structure, as well as in decorative perforations representing those who left Egypt. This sukkah was fabricated through digital modeling, numerous prototypes and tectonics, and cnc milling.


i diagramming

ii fabrication

The initial diagramming process that enabled generation of this design culminated out of an elective offered by projessor Jason Johnson concerning the role of the diagram as a prototypical means of process oriented architecture. The resulting physical diagrams produced exeplified a tectonic order that maintianed a fabrication strategy for the project as a whole.

Iteration 01

Iteration 05 with spline connexion

Iteration 07Iteration 06scaled and

re-triangulated

Iteration 02 Iteration 03 Iteration 04Iteration 02 as ground condition

Iteration 08nal design

Iteration 07

Iteration 04 ground condition

Iteration 04 with ground

condition

back to iteration 04 without ground

Iteration 04 with perforation

initial design proposal

Iteration 05

IMAGE SAMPLE 05 OUTPUT 05

HOLY SUKKAH!: iteration of map

EGYPT MOUNT SINAI JERUSALEM

HOLY SUKKAH!: image mapping

HOLY SUKKAH!: tectonic development HOLY SUKKAH!: tectonic development

Egypt

Mt.Sinai

Jerusalem

26oN30oE

28.5oN33.9oE

31oN35oE

COORDINATEScarried through form in same

parametric relationship

Egypt

Mt.Sinai

Jerusalem

ROUTE SHAPEcarried through form in plan

MT. SINAIthree sided shape

integrated into the form with every triangle panel

LULAV- Spine- Integrity- StructureETROG- Heart- Emotion- Thousands of circles representing those who left EgyptHADAS- Eye- Ability to see the good/bad in people- Ability to see through the perforationsARAVA- Mouth- Spoken Word- Entrance into the Sukkah, Inviting people into the space

HOLY SUKKAH!: iteration 08 concept

MAP OF THE EXODUS ROUTEincorporated as the base image mapped over the sukkah

HOLY SUKKAH!: elevations

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BACKFRONT


DESIGN BUILD - TAYLOR SEMINAR

Design/Fabrication Research Collaborators: Kailey OFarrell, Ronli Mak ,and Max Senini

The Taylor Block Week seminar led by professor Jason Johnson and guest professor Simon Kim of IK studio focused on exploring the material limitations that of planar components of fabrication that through the curve crease fold technique push the regular limits of materiality. Through an iterative study of this process, teams designed a proposal for construction in the Kasian gallery at the University of Calgary. This project was fabricated using laser cut PET-G plastic, and formally developed through an aggregation of the initial assembly logic from one singular piece through the entirety of the whole.


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