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Syracuse University | Master of Architecture Texas A&M University | Bachelor of Environmental Design

SLOAN SPRINGER

CONTENTS APPROACh ThESIS: ThINk RATIONALLy MOdERN VERNACULAR COAhSI SyRACUSE LIbRARy dALLAS ARTS hOTEL URbAN hOUSING AddITIONAL wORk

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APPROACh
Architecture is not exclusively about a final product, but rather, the process of creation and execution of a product. I believe that it is the architects role to serve as a shepherd of that process through collaboration rather than dictation. Architecture should be about performance, both in process and execution, where collaboration drives innovation, creating solutions that transcend any individual “genius sketch” and allow for architecture to go beyond just the representation of something to the actual performance of it. This performance is achieved by viewing challenges as opportunities, capitalizing on the unique aspects of a given project and leveraging constraints for innovation. I believe that great architecture is a result of intelligent engagement of constraints and the collaborative production of a product that capitalizes on them. I am not afraid to delve into the seemingly banal realm of codes, budgets, or politics in search of moments that can be catalyzed for innovation. In a time where getting things built is increasingly difficult, architecture that arises from the creation of a process for designing through constraints offers greater potential for both innovation and financial value.

“Agency”, Joshua Prince-Ramus

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ThINk RATIONALy
Thesis | Spring-Summer 2011 Advisors | Art McDonald, Bruce Coleman, Ted Brown, Richard Rosa

Throughout history, public space has been seen as the connective tissue of urban fabric. From Pope Sixtus V’s plan for connecting key spaces in Rome, Haussman’s vision for creating grand avenues through Paris, or John Nash and his development of a bustling route between two prominent parks in London, public space has driven economic development through connections for centuries. But these examples only came to pass through the will of a monarchy. In an ever-urbanizing democratic society, opportunities for the actual interface between public and private space are often left wanting. Despite the fact that development is now driven exclusively by market value and economics, the full potential of an interface between market strategies and architectural design is rarely capitalized upon. The contention of this thesis is that by leveraging public space for private development, critical opportunities can be capitalized upon to not only decentralize capital costs but to set up new potentials for design innovation through the constraints of the project. Through the use of such strategies as public private partnerships, a process for interfacing the design of public space with that of private architecture can be established, where both begin to inform that of the other, increasing value and maximizing the utilization potentials of the spaces for both public and private sectors. The city of Austin, Texas, considered the “Live Music Capitol of the World”, is known for it’s unique urban outdoor lifestyle, blending the amenities of a rich urban context with the laid-back atmosphere of more rural settings. Few other cities allow for the ability to visit art galleries and music venues then, within walking distance, go kayaking and hiking. In an effort to further bolster this atmosphere, the city is pursuing several large developments aimed at increasing density while also increasing the public value of private developments. One such endeavour is the Green Water Treatment Plant Redevelopment, consisting of 2 million square feet of retail, office, housing, hotel and public space. Situated in between the proposed hotel and recently completed Austin Music Hall, the developments proposed main public plaza holds
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significant potential for leveraging the interests of the hotel and music hall, as well as setting up a key urban public space for the entire development and it’s connection to the city, capitalizing on the uniqueness of Austin. This thesis seeks to demonstrate the potentials of rethinking the interface between public and private space, and the relationship between architect and developer; designing through critical analysis and rigor to capitalize on the constraints of the project and thus maximizing both market value and architectural innovation.

Concept

plaza

amphitheater

hotel

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Ground

Second

Third

Section A
1/16” = 1’

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hotel Rooms Fitness/Rec

Upper Lobby bar

Function

Lobby Restaurant & bar Service

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MOdERN VERNACULAR
Visiting Critic Studio | Fall 2010 Critic | Danny Forster (“Build It Bigger”, Discovery Channel) Team | Brian Schaller (Masterplan only)

Process

Precedents

Traditional master planning for multi-family residences typically requires sacrificing privacy for density. Units are arranged in a way that looks specifically at achieving a certain level of density, and the concepts of privacy and/or community are often relegated merely to afterthought. These embody the connotation of suburbia, with broad paved streets and row upon row of cookie-cutter homes. This method, while acceptable and often financially successful in a wide variety of locales, falls short of the potentials held in those very locations. In places such as Miami, these strategies are unrolled en masse, without any consideration for the unique characteristics of their given location. But Punta Cana is not Miami. Punta Cana is defined by a series of sub-developments that operate within themselves while still clearly maintaining a cohesive identity with Punta Cana overall. Hacienda can function on this same premise within itself by defining a series of localized clusters, each offering their own individual settings that also represent Hacienda and Punta Cana as a whole. This allows the resident to have a specific Hacienda experience yet remain connected to the identity of Punta Cana.

While the notion of increasing density begins to undermine the successful aspirations of seclusion in Punta Cana, the idea of unrolling the high-end exclusive plots of Coralles or Tortuga Bay is equally unviable. Herein exists the potential to hybridize high-density living with the sense of exclusivity typically reserved for high-end residences. By increasing density in each cluster, privacy and community can be simultaneously increased, creating a beneficial paradox. To achieve this, the concept of “multi-family” is reconsidered. By breaking apart a typical high-end residence into 4 detached, but conceptually connected single homes within the same lot that previously held only 1 large home, the density and communal aspects are maintained, all the while allowing for increased privacy. The challenge lies in managing the perception of shared community within the 4 units, while simultaneously enhancing the individual sense of retreat in the single residence. Each unit, then, exists as its own private enclave within a multi-family communal setting of four units, which in turn is a part of a larger community within Hacienda itself. This layering of development allows for an increase in density without sacrificing privacy or community, and therefore gives the resident the benefits of both settings that are uniquely Punta Cana.

Typical Lot Coverage
Plot: 21,000 sqft Unit: 8,000 sqft Ratio: 2.5

Subdivde

Separate

Re-develop
Plot: 5,250 sqft Unit: 2,000 sqft 2-4 bedrooms

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Ground Plan

First Floor

1/8” = 1’

A

C

C

B

B

A

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Material Studies
TRADITIONAL

CMU Gradient Patterning
TRADITIONAL

HALL
MESH SCREEN minimal enclosure controlled permeability THATCH CANOPY natural application maximum cooling

DOOR

HALL

DOOR

CALICHE PARTITION thermal mass minimal permeability

WOOD RAMP static use minimal insulation

BATHROOM (public face)

BATHROOM (private face)

ATYPICAL

CALICHE BLOCK PARTITION thermal mass controlled permeability

GRASS RAMP thermal mass potential water collection

ATYPICAL

THATCH SCREEN natrual application minimal permeability

MESH CANOPY thermal mass potential for atmospheric lighting

EXTRUDE WALL MASS

PUSH DOWN TO RAMP

LAYER
HYBRID

TRADITIONAL

CALICHE PARTITION thermal mass minimal permeability

WOOD RAMP static use minimal insulation

ATYPICAL

TRADITIONAL

INHABITABLE RAMP thermal mass controlled permeability potential water collection increased greenspace

HYBRID

CANOPY-SCREEN dynamic application controlled permeability potential for atmospheric lighting maximum cooling
THATCH CANOPY natural application maximum cooling

MESH SCREEN minimal enclosure controlled permeability

ATYPICAL

CALICHE BLOCK PARTITION thermal mass controlled permeability

GRASS RAMP thermal mass potential water collection

THATCH SCREEN natrual application minimal permeability

MESH CANOPY thermal mass potential for atmospheric lighting

EXTRUDE WALL MASS

PUSH DOWN TO RAMP
HYBRID

LAYER

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INHABITABLE RAMP thermal mass controlled permeability

HYBRID

CANOPY-SCREEN dynamic application controlled permeability potential for atmospheric lighting maximum cooling

COAhSI
Team | Matt Farrell

NyC Studio | Summer 2010 Critics | Jonathan Lott (OMA/REX/Para), Marc Tsurumaki (Louis.Tsurumaki.Louis)
Kevin Rice (Diller+Scofidio Renfro), Craig Dykers (Snøhetta)

The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, or COAHSI, operates uniquely as a facilitator, providing a space for other individuals, groups, and organizations, as well as initiating dialogue between said groups. Their initiative is not to promote themselves, as a new MoMA or New Museum, but rather to promote its individual users. The design strategy provides a flexible and adaptable space that allows COAHSI to provide its services to artists, performers, and viewers in a way that allows any number of possibilities for display and dialogue. Such a space should operate as both an overall collective as well hold potential for individual moments an varying scales. By reorganizing the given program into two zones: static and flexible, we were able to begin to maximize the potential for spatial and programmatic flexibility. After analyzing the site conditions, a clear location for COAHSI’s intervention became clear. The existing street going through the site holds great potential for future development of the site, but it sits disconnected from the existing Bay Street urban front. By locating COAHSI in between these, in alignment with the existing storage vaults, both a connection

to from the waterfront to Bay Street and a new urban street is made. With this location, COAHSI becomes the catalyst for future urban development of the site, as well as a key bridge to the larger area. In order to maximize flexibility on the site, all static program is aligned on a bar to the rear of the building, allowing all flexible program to fill the new streetfront facade. In between flexible and static, a zone of interchange is created via a “wall” that functions as the power strip for the flexible space. This wall condition hosts the shop equipment, media, and office workstations, all of which “plug in” to the wall for storage, and can be pulled out as needed to create new zones within the flexible or static space. COAHSI’s new facility serves as a catalyst for the urban regeneration of the overall site and area, while also maximizing the potential for COAHSI as a host to any number of possible activities. Ultimately, it provides both a flexible facility for its users, and a key element to the cultural fabric of Staten Island.

Process

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Schematic diagrams

Program Analysis

GIVEN

PROPOSED

Plan diagram

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Ground Plan

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SyRACUSE LIbRARy
Urban Studio | Fall 2009 Critic | Francisco Sanin (Graduate Director), Mark Robbins (Dean)

The project exists, essentially, as two ramps: the library and the public space, created by extruding the parking lot retaining wall cut and folding up or down. For the library ramp, the circulation takes you up through reading terraces, around the special collections room, through the art gallery, and finally into the children’s library before you descend back to the lobby. Outside, the public space ramp begins under the library, taking you down to the community functions, such as a cafe, classrooms, community room, and coffee bar, then on down to an amphitheater and playground, and ultimately ending at the lower parking lot cut where new commercial space has been generated. The ramps up and down help create space that is multifunctional and multi-operational in order to serve the needs of a library as an institution of knowledge, a place of community, and a catalyst for urban development.

Site Plan

erie erie

e fayette

columbus

wescott

allen

westmoreland

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ellis

Site Section Exploded Axon

building Section

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dALLAS ARTS hOTEL
dallas Arts district boutique hotel design Competition | First Place Winner Critics | Craig Babe, Nunzio DeSantis (HKS), Eddie Abayetta (HKS) Team | Dakota Dunai

With a site surrounded by an all-star cast of architects including Rem Koolhaas/REX, Norman Foster, I.M. Pei, and SOM, expectations were not to be taken lightly, and therefore context was a crucial point of departure for the design. In order to generate the form of the building, views from and through the site were heavily analyzed and preserved, as well as main pedestrian and vehicular traffic through and around the site. The driving force behind the development of the programmatical planning and detailing of the form was the idea of the site being the hub for the Arts District and a source of energy and liveliness that contributes to the surrounding theatres and symphony halls. The ground level is primarily reserved for public use, and therefore allows the building to become more of a public destination in itself that simply a hotel and residence. Restaurants line the main pedestrian routes and help to energize the urban-like streetscape through the site, drawing people from downtown Dallas into the Arts District. The facade of the building is intended to provide a dynamic and artistic element to the composition, allowing for the
Site Analysis

guests and residents to inhabit a more expressive space that strongly signifies the Arts District. The overall project allows for a more user-oriented program that directly adds to the public appeal of the Arts District, and completes a host of exceptional architecture that embodies a love of the arts and establishes a prominent focal point in the Dallas area.

1

1

dallas performance center

4

3

meyerson symphony center

4

2

wyly theatre

5

nasher sculpture center
6 5

3
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winspear opera house

6

woodall rogers park

greenery pedestrian vehicular framed views

12

16

7 5 4 1 2

6 8 9

8 drop-o 9 art gallery 10 condo entrance 11 feature restaurant two 12 bistro 13 garage entrance 14 security 15 dock 16 sculpture garden

Upper Plans

1 executive lounge 2 executive balcony 3 prefunction one 4 conference room 5 prefunction two 6 grand hall 7 kitchen 8 banquet storage 9 av storage 10 storage 11 employee lounge 12 locker room 13 laundry

3 7 5 13 level one 10 10 10 12 8 9 12 11

1 hotel o ce 2 suite 3 pool level garden 4 pool deck 5 pool 6 destination spa 7 tness and track 5

6 7

1 deluxe suite 2 suite

1 mid-level garden 2 suite

6 5

4 4 1 2 3 4 4 1 3 2 2 level three: recreation 1 mid-level garden 2 suite 1 rooftop garden 2 presidential suite 2 1 2 2 typical level four through six 2 1

level two: conference 1 executive lounge 2 executive balcony 3 prefunction one 4 conference room 5 prefunction two 6 grand hall 7 kitchen 8 banquet storage 9 av storage 10 storage 11 employee lounge 12 locker room 13 laundry 13 10 10 10 12 8 9 12 11 1 hotel o ce 2 suite 3 pool level garden 4 pool deck 5 pool 6 destination spa 7 tness and track 5 1 deluxe suite 2 suite 7

7 5

6

6 5

4 4 1 2 3 4 4 1 3 2 2 level three: recreation 2 1 2 2 typical level four through six 2 1 2 2 level seven 1 2 level sixteen

level two: conference

Ground Level

16 11

2

15 3 14 13 12

10

16

7 5 4 1 2

6 8 9

1 feature restaurant one 2 nishing kitchen 3 storage 4 front desk / reception 5 lobby / atrium 6 living room 7 feature bar 8 drop-o 9 art gallery 10 condo entrance 11 feature restaurant two 12 bistro 13 garage entrance 14 security 15 dock 16 sculpture garden

3 level one

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Adjoining Room Plan

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URbAN hOUSING
AISC Living Steel Competition | Spring 2008 Critics | Carlos Reimers, Pliny Fisk (CMPBS), Phil Tabb

The initial concept of this mixed-use project, located in downtown Montreal, was to accentuate the merger of Avenue du President Kennedy with Boulevard de Maisonneuve, the two streets that form the long facades of the site. This directionality provided a strong footing to work in the context of the site, while also informing the development of the building. To achieve this, the directionalities of the roads acted as the primary axes of the building, alluding to the intersection at the northeastern end of the site. The second conceptual formulation, which was particularly for deriving the massing, came as a solution to the height of the building, generated by the large program and small site. By “pulling” the building apart at its intersection, a sense of permeability is created, and therefore breaking up the mass. In doing so, it was further possible to generate a vertical link to the metro station connection below the site. In order to provide more space for living and to provide views, the design for the housing units is multi-leveled with the lowest floor acting as either work space (for the live-work units), solely living space, or a mixture of living and sleeping. The intermediary floor, halfway between each main level, is

the entry area, where the use is varied. Finally, the top-most floor is primarily for sleeping, with some units containing living space as well. This stacking of spaces generates both a dynamic circulation inside a unit as well as an entire hallway level for mechanical equipment and service, located every other floor in between unit entry floors.

Process

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Program

Skin

Structure

Metro

Large Retail

Small Retail

Office

Restaurant

Recreation

Housing

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AddITIONAL wORk
Advanced digital Media | Spring 2010 ARTificial Urban | Fall 2009

Ghana health Center | Spring 2010
Semi-Shade is a standard framed solar module with a tempered front glass and durable clear polymer substrate. It can be used to increase natural light levels below the module while still providing shading and power generation.
TM

Las Colinas hotel | Spring 2008
Parans SP2.1 emloys 62 pivot-suspended optical fresnel lenses that follow the solar path and fo- cus incadent sunligth into optical bers. The optical bers are bundled into four exible optical cables that transport the collected sunlight up to 20 meters.Parans SP2.1 can be installed on both roofs and facades which generates a wide range of installation possibilities. A single panel can provide up to 8 hours of stored light at 2000 lux (a common desk lamp provides approximately 500 lux) with no heat gain and no UV transmittance.

Plyboo architectural plywood panels and roo ng are made from 100% rapidly renewable bamboo. This plywood can be cut and sanded using conventional woodworking equipment and o ers excellent dimensional stability. It can also be glued or mechanically fastened using the same materials and fasteners commonly used with wood. Neopolitan bamboo plywood is sanded to 180-grit and is an open-grain material that takes nishes exceptionally well. Urea formaldehyde-free (PlybooPure) panels are now available.

Screens respond to a growing trend in how public spaces are used and de ned. Drawing upon Forms+Surfaces' long-standing tradition of helping speci ers on a custom basis, as well as upon its extensive surfaces palette, Screens will enable architects and designers to create a highly custom look without the logistical or budgetary constraints typical of a custom system. Screens can be used to divide space, provide privacy, or to alter or protect from light. In this application, a micromesh lm is placed between two layers of screens to minimize particle tranasfer between exterior and interior while allowing maximum ventilation.

Galveston Residence | Fall 2006

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