267.337.3501 | jeffdchris@gmail.com | 201 River St, #31 Troy, NY 12180JEFFrey CHRISTIANSON

TURIN, ITALY with Kendall BaldwinThe Lingotto area of Turin is bisected by major rail lines. The outdated train station needed to be replaced by a higher capacity station that could also bridge the tracks and connect the existing residential neighborhood with the proposed commercial masterplan designed by Massimiliano Fuksas. By mapping and superimposing the various paths of existing circulation patterns generated by pedestrian, vehicular, residential, business, and leisure

traffic, areas of frequent and minimal traffic as well as areas of density and sparsity clearly emerged. Using this information, as well as considering the future implications of the Fuksas Masterplan, this proposal was developed by creating ruled surfaces from the meshworks of line drawings that were obtained during the site analysis process. In some instances, the current circulatory paths needed to be disrupted by the bridge station in order to

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facilitate a more efficient system and, in other cases, circulatory paths were widened and absorbed into the structure to generate new circuits of high use and density, in order to deflate the overflow that so often occurs within the present conditions. Regardless of whether or not the design process was additive or subtractive, the outcome was always positive and resulted in the creation of a successful linkage between the two sides of Lingotto.

The Lingotto Bridge Station was created using Bently Microstation and Generative Components parametric modeling software. It was featured in a city-wide arts exhibit in Turin sponsored by Bentley Systems, Inc and Z-Corporation and was selected for the Bentley Academic Be Inspired Award.

Rome is a city of layers, many of which are found beneath the street and thus are seldom revealed. To span these layers a large volume is inserted in the ground, providing both a visual and physical connection. The programs associated with an information center are located on individual platforms suspended within the volume. The volume is oriented to match the sun’s

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angle on the equinox, maximizing the amount of sunlight that penetrates down through the space and between the platforms. Additionally, this angle allows the ancient Roman insula to be visible from any platform and from the street. On the summer and winter solstices, the information center becomes a sun dial. Each hour, sunlight shines directly down a small shaft through the

ground and volume to a point on a platform. The openings of the shafts are articulated on the surface, and their paths through the ground are echoed by the paving pattern. To the pedestrian, the volume emerges from the piazza as an identifiable beacon of information without obscuring any of the adjacent landmarks.

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In his Four Elements of Architecture, Gottfried Semper writes that walls are not solid elements but consist only of surfaces, having originated as woven material hung from a frame, not solid masonry built up from the ground. A wall can be hung vertically or inherit its form from the solid wall which it adorns. When a single surface is allowed to interact with several voids it gains

“The surface of a wall is, simply and profoundly, an interface between space that we can occupy and solid that we cannot.”

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a third dimension without the necessity of any solid construction. The form of the wall is freed from the form of the solid and is instead determined by the symbiotic relationship between the surface and the voids. This surface-void interaction allows the entire depth and length of the wall to be experienced inside and out, as the entire wall itself can be occupied.

To construct the installation full-scale, the surface was digitally faceted into 500+ unique triangles. The triangles were laser-cut from corrugated cardboard and fastened together on-site with plastic zip ties.

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NEW YORK, NYStreets lie like ribbons between the solid masses of city blocks. To create a college campus for a school of architecture, the ribbons of the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan were extended across the landscape of Inwood Hill Park, connecting the city to the water. By strategically folding and directing these ribbons into one continuous element, the form and architecture of the buildings began to emerge. The mass of the three buildings (programmatically

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broken down into the three main functions of residence, instruction, and administration) and the spaces between them are an inverted extension of the urban fabric, creating open space where city blocks are expected and filling the extended streets with the mass of the building. In this way, one single urban ribbon simultaneously defines the spaces of three individual buildings and an entire campus.

CLIFTON PARK, NY with WCGS ArchitectsAs part of their consolidation within an office building, the Cengage Learning Company required the construction of a new cafeteria. Introducting a new program to this part of the building provided the opportunity to improve the traffic flow of the building’s second level and expand upon the Adirondack theme prevalent throughout the company’s space. The finish selections and custom details of the cafeteria were inspired by the famed Adirondack Lodges of Upstate New York.

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