Architecture Portfolio by LaSalle Tippens Jr

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Syracuse University

Master of Architecture. May 2012

Texas Tech University

Bachelor of Science in Architecture. December 2008

NCARB IDP Registered.

Intern Architect - Carrell Partners & Yost Architecture [12/2012 - 6/2013]Aiding licensed architects in pre-design, schematic, and construction documentation

and administration of several types of projects including: restaurant and bar, residential,

hotel renovations, and religious facilities. Collaboration with interior designers, MEP and

structural engineers. Preparing projects for bid, city/state regulation and inspection, and

seeing that regulating codes are met. IDP Credit.

Freelance Designer/Photography [present]Space planning and layout, material sourcing, scheduling, interior/exterior applications.

Graphic design for clothing and music companies. Photography and editing.

Research Assistant - Professor Ramona Albert [1/2011-5/2011]Contacted and discussed design issues with fabricators and manufacturers for architecture

and product design with metal, glass and plastic materials. Created database of contacts

and expertise. Researched, scanned, and edited images for design and article research.

3D Modeling and Image Production Rhinoceros. Grasshopper. 3DS Max. SketchUp 8. Revit 2012. V-Ray. Adobe Creative

Suite. AutoCAD 2012.

Physical Modeling and Craft3D Printing. Laser cutting. CNC Milling. Furniture Making. Video Production.

General OfficeMicrosoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Windows 7. Mac OS X Mountain Lion

P O R T F O L I O .

CONTENT.Tower Library

Under Armour Headquarters

Cotton Bowl Plaza

Bus Stop ....Sensorial Shade

Research and Analysis

Urban Mapping [Syracuse, NY]

Details [Rotch Library]

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Photo taken at Beijing Planning Exibition Hall, 2007.

During 2007 Beijing, China underwent several changes to its urban landscape changing the way the city reads. Contruction of Olympic

stadiums and other Object buildings such as OMAs CCTV tower brought the architecture of that time from all around the world.

DISPLAY.

New York City's Financial District consists of many towers with vacant spaces. Since the tragic event on 9/11 many towers surrounding the Twin Towers have unfortunately suffered many vacant spaces from businesses that found refuge in other areas. The Financial District has now in a way become futile to business and as direct result population has decreased in the surrounding areas.

Libraries have been on a constant rise in quantity even with this decrease in population. There has indeed been a rise in culture and family in the districts/neighborhoods surrounding the Financial District. This project takes advantage of the location, 40 Rector St., to act as an outlet for the New York Central Public Library. This re-use library operates as a central location and research center for the many constituents surrounding the Financial District. Being in a very popular tourist destination, this public tower library accommodates high levels of tourist traffic. For constituents it acts as a billboard of destinations to simplify the process of searching for a specific space.

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TOWER LIBRARY40 Rector St., New York, NY

Project Team: Anastasija Gridneva and LaSalle Tippens

Manhattan branch libraries have acquired

much real estate in neighborhoods. They have

managed to gain great locations in almost all

areas of Manhattan.

Although New York Public Libraries have increased in quantity they are merely

becoming replicas of previous branch libraries. Branch libraries are losing their

relevance in our multi-cultured societies today. With Manhattan being the gateway

for more cultured societies and families, NYPL should be able to correspond to this

fast pace and changing society.

In the NYPL Tower Library concept we found a dire need for choices for the surrounding neighborhoods considering the broad

range of constituent types. Historically NYPL has opened up a branch library for specific constituents pertaining to surrounding de-

mographics. Today, although demographics play a huge role in determining the needs of constituents the location of this library is on

the edge of several neighborhoods. This is also known for heavy tourist traffic being in the Financial District. By providing a broad

range of space types and interior environments with clear program intentions this library makes its best attempt to satisfy all users.

Views of tower from Rector St. street.

Aerial view of foam site model indicating site location and concept.

Elevation view of foam site model highlighting billboard concept projecting into public view.

40 Rector St. has 18 floors, 7 or 8 of which are occupied. This leaves 60% of the building unused or vacant. Occurring on the upper floors these vacancies bring many issues for use as a public library.

By bordering Battery Park this building exhibits an opportunity to be in public view. Main program is exposed to the plaza centered on the building's axis while collections and archiving can be in more concealed (less sunlit) areas.

The tower 40 Rector St. is strategically centered on Rector Plaza, a public park used by Battery Park residents. In using the facade facing the park as a form of billboard for passing constituents it serves as an active invitation for users of library.

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Rendered image of atrium and public work spaces. Library collections reference system indicated above wrapped around floorplates for above and below wayfinding.

Photo taken at park entering Temple of Heaven.

Ribbon performers construct a performance for public at Temple of Heaven, Layers upon layers of movement, color, shapes, and forms in

space produce this performance much like in buildings. Layers of a building should thus perform with movement, color, shapes, and form.

PERFORM.

Under Armour was founded on the following core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Reliability and Integrity. It has grown into a product that makes man feel superior to the many challenges they face. Under Armour enhances the effectiveness of the natural skin and really allows the skin to perform at its highest level. The human skin is a very complex and generative organ. Under Armour is a company started with producing high-performance sports wear, which is now recognized as a second skin. Our design idea is to treat the whole building as a SKIN. With a new slogan "SKIN DEEP". Skin is usually considered as light and flimsy, but on the microscope view, it also shows a good amount of thickness with different functional parts inside.

This characteristic just perfectly describe our design inspiration : the building itself should be a slight as a piece of skin, but it also has different functional parts performs like a skin which interact to the exterior environment. A building surface which has the function of exhibition and protect the interior from severe weather and UV light, like the epidermis layer. The HVAC system to retain the moisture and temperature in a comfortable level just like the capillary and sweat gland in dermis layer. And all the different departments and facilities react to each other and maintain the whole company in function, this part is just like the hypodermis layer.

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UNDER ARMOUR HEADQUARTERSEast Village, 369 Lafayette St., New York, NY

Project Team: Yi-Hsuan Lee and LaSalle Tippens

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Rending of Under Armour retail store on ground level showing illuminated 3D ceiling and glass fin staircase.

Photo taken at Beijing Temple of Heaven, 2007.

The treatment of public and spectacle in regard to the hierarchy of power develop the organizing principles of pubic space. Beijing

is a very populated city where architecture plays the most important roles in event and place. Architecture here has developed this

hierarchy of power.

ORDER. Occurring as a direct response to current political and economic unrest, the Occupy era has advanced into a device that generates the

sociability of cities. Its many pockets of pandemonium create urban conditions that in several ways compete against ordered urbanity. The

social implications of the movement rely on the filling or "occupying" of urban spaces denoted as public space with forms of spectacle acts.

These acts fuel thought or the rethinking of urban issues concerning zoning and districting, gentrification or urban renewal, and the idea

of interstitial (informal) public space. This evolution of testing democracy - along with the rapid transfer of information through mass media

and web - produce reactions to policies simultaneously and in many cases before the implementation. Modes of speculative acts such as

the Occupy movement manifest into the dystopian idea of critical urbanism.

The Occupy movement as critical urbanism will inevitably produce a restructuring of social class and redefine urban language relating

to public vs. private space. Previous movements such as demonstrations by Situationists International also emerged from relative political

unrest and economic conditions. In their essay, The Power of Negative Thinking, Robert Chasse compares the disjunction of utopian thought

with real democratic societal issues. They critic bureaucracies attempt to control by policy making such as zoning and districting.

Recent architecture has remained in a state of timidity due to its

lack of engagement with current social desires, i.e social media.

The architecture of public spaces needs to react to modern forms

of liberation, masquerading, and social events in order to remain

relevant. My project presents Dallas Fair Park Cotton Bowl Plaza

in fashion with up and coming techno-generations. It in many ways

formulates a reaction to pseudo spatial desires and needs. Dallas

Fair Park is an example of a place that has lost its attractiveness

due its inability to respond to new social desires and needs.

In comparison to downtown Dallas, Fair Park has the infrastructure and

ability to provide its surrounding neighborhoods with sufficient amenities.

It has proven to be able to do this in its yearly event the State Fair of Texas.

It engages all user groups, at all scales, and at different hours of the day.

Vis a Vis Technoplaza, formerly the Cotton Bowl plaza, engages its users

at all scales: mobile, personal, environmental, architectural, and urban.

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COTTON BOWL PLAZA [RE-think]Fair Park, Dallas, TX

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-Product and craft exhibits-55,000 s.f.

Education Annex

-served as Christian Science Monitor pavilion

State Fair Storage

-storage shelter-houses equipment and is usually fenced in

Cotton Bowl Stadium

- 9th largest stadium in the nation-Red River Rivalry-Southwest Airlines State Fair Classic

The Midway-State Fair Grounds-Holds booths, rides, other, attractions-Contains largest Ferris Wheel in USA-fenced off in other seasons

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Formal and informal space have historically been expressed as ground and above ground conditions.

In this public vs. private feud only have the formal been elevated and the informal de-elevated making architecture less publicly involved.

Informal architecture has recently been elevated above ground. They lead into very private spaces in which public access is obstructed.

The coexistence of informal and formal architectural instances have the chance to make for very interesting conditions for a mediated culture.

inconceivable Dallas: introducing psychotomimetic architecture

This project aims at bringing to physical architecture experiences com-

mon to mediated environments. Also it attempts to situate the ways in which

our senses have become receptive to space via socially mediated devices.

In doing so, psychotomimetic architecture introduces the modern forms of

liberation and individuality that are present in social media.

inconceivable Dallas aims at delivering Fair Park Cotton Bowl Plaza in

Dallas, Texas as the social grounds for a mediated society where move-

ments such as Flash Mobs, Occupying, and public opinion can take place.

My project proceeds to develop architecture around these situations in a

way that becomes orderly and a way of life. It provides amenities to the

surrounding people, a playground for local children, a safe hangout for

expressionist teenagers, as well as a day out of the office for business men

and women.

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Today's Net Generation is enthralled by mediated sociability. The focus on social encounters has evolved in ways in which the physical

world is perceived as less real than cyber-societies . The 21st century is seeing a redefinition of sociability and even reality, to such a degree that

architecture, traditionally fixed, nonetheless harbors intangible narratives. Created by the Net Generation we now live in a society of spectacle.

Deceptions created by cyber-societies are actually depictions of how our culture has grown to adjust to products of spectatorship. Why is it that

architecture is so timid in reflecting the imitation of experience? Stimulations created by cyber-societies have replaced physical experiences of

our physical world much like the interactions of the characters of lewd reality shows or comedies (i.e. Jersey Shore, Desperate Housewives, etc.)

Our lived lives are becoming virtual popular narratives.

Spectacle includes display of pseudo-liberation featuring popular culture, sexual activities, and drug consumption. These practices of

liberation merely underpin both a new form masquerading and the projection of the individual voice. In doing this, our culture transplants the

conception of the social world from one of predominately physical contact into one of digital alienation. With this change in awareness of the

common objects of reality, what dominates innate social thought and behavior of the 21st century?

Psychotomimeticism describes the state of ambiguity between the sensory and mediated world. It has been used to describe the sensual

and subconsciously fantastical effects that certain drugs with psychotropic agents have on users. Describing these effects Dr. Albert Hofmann writes:

The psychotomimetics produce profound and acute changes in the sphere of experience, in the perception of reality. Changes even

in space and time and the consciousness of self. Phenomena of depersonalization may also occur. Retaining full consciousness, the

subject experiences a kind of dream world, which in many respects seems to be more real than the customary normal world. Objects

and colours, which generally become more brilliant, lose their symbolic character, they stand detached and assume an increased

significance, having, as it were, their own more intense existence.

To live now is to establish that exact sense of alternate reality where one can escape immediate or actual reality and rely completely

on the free will of the senses. The built environment in which the construction of these secondary cupboards of social belonging takes place is

where we can make distinctions between public and private architecture. How can this stimulating artificialness be applied to the experience of

the contemporary image of the built environment?

What ways can architecture of the geospatial world reflect the technocultural moments behind social media in which the Net Generation

can relate, respond, and react?

The techniques of the 21st century that people use to create their interpretations of liberation and public exposure produce environments

where the senses become evolved and perhaps tangled in certain ways. Senses that have adapted to the new technicalities of social behavior and

reform are simply aroused by different modes of the physical world. These same senses have innately become receptive to the infinite dialogue of

an intangible civilization.

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Fair Park presents many scales at which psychotomimetic architecture can exist and be useful on many levels to public.

NDiagram indicating circulation types and frequencies documented during the annual Texas State Fair. Colored boxes are follies or fair attractions scattered around plaza.

Social Evolution + Technocultural

Outlined as an explanation of the observed differences in human achievement, social evolution is an instrument for identifying the current

dominant practices in social behavior. As man's social techniques have evolved so has the documentation. Anthropology and sociology charts

the change in human behavior. Ideologists have attempted to explain human desires for social interaction. American anthropologist Lewis White

championed the concentration of the Digital Age noting, "culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased." With

energy consumption and capitalism being the additive components of progression in the last century it has manifested a hyper-technological class

of society - a technocultural society. It's a group where technology is the generator of social behavior and interaction creating a disposition of

an augmented reality. The amplified production and maturity of devices aimed at increasing the transfer of information has distinctly marked the

Digital Age.

In today's technocultural society, the increase in the use of technology inadvertently causes a drastic change in ordinary social activity

producing new forms of communication, entertainment, romance, etc. Reason being that now technology is entirely more than the extent of the

work place; it has become a vital part of our daily lives.

Social Media + Individuality + Acceptance

Today social media and spectacle take most of our time; technologies are more readily accessed for exercising our day-by-day social

interactivities . Social media contains but is not limited to social networks, TV sitcoms, comedies, and reality TV shows. People are attracted to

media such as this because of their unique and emotionally informative and entertainment characteristics. What's interesting is that these have

become more than just forms of entertainment; the spectacle has become interactive. With the other releases of society provided by American pop

culture, acts of liberation via social media have become subconsciously like drugs or an addition to the effects of the consumption of drugs. Because

of broad exposure to children, once banned behaviors have become commonplace. Demonstrations in media, illegal drugs and social media have

telekinetically jumped from subcultural to cultural mainstream. Being that there are many types of drugs that produce certain effects, what types

and classes of drugs scatter the popular landscape? Even more importantly what media classes have complemented popular social genres causing

similar psychological effects?

The instantaneous ability to remove oneself from the problems of contemporary local and global societies that social media provides

has helped people to develop practices of anonymous individuality. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Inastagram and Tumblr are all

tools in which the user can actively broadcast their own personal narratives. Also known as psychological or self-narratives, "personal experience

narratives" are ways in which people record and advertise their temporal experiences. As described by Donald Braid:

Towe r Tec h no fo l l y

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- Urban connector/Icon

- Observation deck

- Club

- Fireworks shows

- View to downtown

- Cinema via Cotton Bowl

- Skyway seating/State Fair

- Facade projections/Sports

- Art galleries

- Parades

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- Social media stop and go

- Skype

- Facebook

- Blog

- Mediate environment

- Masquerade/Anonymity

- Vestibule/Threshold

- Elevate

- Reorient to downtown as Surface as Connectoras Frame

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- Seating/Wait/Relax

- Skype Booths

- Watch Hulu, YouTube, Netflix

- Video gaming cube

- Charging station/mobile device

- Exercise/Meditate

- Parkour obstacle/Train

- Flash mob stages

- Tanning surface

- Picnic

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- Food shack/permanent

- Aroma throughout site

- Elevated dining

- Small gatherings

- Club/bar

- Plaza activity counter

- Lazer tag/night

- Racing carts/day

- Ice skates/eveningas Satisfaction as Display as Quality

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Aerial rendering of redesign of the Cotton Bowl Plaza with heavy concentration on follies making a physical social media landscape.

Human beings have experiences in the world, and living in relationship with other human beings, they sometimes find it useful or

meaningful to communicate these experiences to other people through narratives. This ability of narrative to embody experience is

central to its essence. . . the experience of following can give rise to affectively engaging states of mind or flows of thought that I term

experiential meanings.

In using the term experience Braid suggests the senses being used as an interpretative process in which knowledge is accumulated.

On spoken narratives and listeners, he speaks of how the experience of "following" (as in Twitter) institutes dynamics of performance. Individual

constructions created from the understanding of a narrative permit a form of individuality. With the complexities of social networking one can

see that there are countless narratives unfolding simultaneously. Forms of media where the user takes on dual services of the spectator and the

spectacle are becoming exponentially more popular. The user's obsession as followers and narrators in social networks create a social class of

hyper-individuality. Platforms on which these practices of hyper-individuality are rendered - mobile phones, computer screens, etc., replace many

traditional social contexts. Examples such as profile pages, status updates, and wall postings are the components in which create the ultimate

experience in social behavior and continuously build on the users class of hyper-individuality and liberation.

In modern day forms of masquerading people develop new principles for social acceptance. Social media has replaced the formality of

communal spaces in developing the guidelines for the social norm. In an attempt to create categories of the social networking user types, Altoids

produced an ad titled The Altoids Curiously Strong Awards: Tribute to the Stars on Facebook. The parody lists the different user obsessions as

follows:

The Like-a-lot

The Lyric Lover

Princess Snapshot

Food-ographer

The Oversharer

The Jet Setter

Past Blaster

Friend Tycoon

With social media creating the new categories of social classes definitely shows the transferred importance of social behaviors.

PROGRAMMATIC COMPONENTS

RAISED SPECTATOR PLATFORM

PROGRAMMATIC TECHNOFOLLIES

SPECTACLE GROUNDS / ACTIVE SPACE

THE SPECTATOR LOOP

THE SITE / COTTON BOWL PLAZA

Soft surfaces for physical

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Movie + SkyWay seating

Observation deck for viewing

downtown, fireworks, parades.

Club + bar by night

Digital galleries and event info

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Touchscreen exhibits and

presentation walls

Ticketing and information

Local flea and farmers' market,

demonstration, and contest

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Elevated atmospheric dining

for food shack and dance club

Storage for plaza games and

food shack

Permanent food shack for

creating aromatic element and

Plaza games checkout center

Path for exercising, parades,

border for plaza games

Cotton Bowl Stadium

Tower Building

Skyway lift +

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Automobile Building

Museum of Natural History

Museum of Nature and Science

Midway

In response, psychotomimetic architecture creates that sense of alternate reality. A place, space or destination where the senses become

deprived or confused only because what is perceived as ordinary gives one that sense of belonging. Psychotomimetic architecture challenges

traditional thought on space and experience by echoing the rapid dominance of technological societies. It responds to the popular methods of

communicating and neo-social behaviors. It is more than formal. It doesnt claim to be natural. It is more than digital representations of common

typologies; in fact it calls for new typologies. It doesnt attempt to manifest digital networks. It reacts to the evolution of perception.

Spatial Perception + Sensibility

Theories of how our senses communicate ideas of space go back to the beginning of Western thought. Socrates and Plato being known

as the predecessors of spatial concepts developed empirical studies on spatial reasoning. Their theories have given us the belief that concepts

of space are innate. Immanuel Kant, a rationalist philosopher, however suggests that our spatial concepts are derived from our experiences and

introduces time as a differentiating factor . In actuality, both theories are relevant in todays society. One, our innate characteristics have obviously

changed due to the progression of convenience and technology. Two, the created or built environment in which we live, has formulated different

experiences (dealing with war, politics, and disasters) in which we react and learn. And finally three, the rituals we conduct have drastically changed

giving way to different uses of our spatial parameters.

Having said that in today's Net Generation we have developed an alternate sense of reality from the attention of social media entails that

all of the above changes our relation to space. The ways we interact with technology. The ways we experience the physical world. The ways we

behave in social situations or places. All of these factors give the idea that architecture in its present state lacks the maneuverability needed for

the modern technocultural man.

How can we situate the ways in which our senses have become receptive to space via socially mediated devices into architecture? Is it

even possible? To do this we need to know the ways our senses relate to space.

Our sensory organs produce the ways in which we narrate ourselves in space amongst objects. David Katz, a psychologist popular in the twentieth

century, argues that the phenomenological characteristics of perception are no less important in touch than in vision and hearing. In spite of this,

he also argues that perception is not mediated by unconscious cognitive inferences. The way that the Net Generation has replaced experience of

the physical world with the narration of the spectacle in social media disproves his theory. The sensibility we generate when scrolling down our

Facebook wall or Twitter page give us reading about other's lives are in fact cognitive. We think, we reason, we remember. This continuous dialogue

of the spectacle arouses the senses in ways the physical environment lacks.

Rendering of Wall Folly at night illuminating the landscape for an added level of security. The Wall Folly is filled with touchscreen surfaces for public use.

Rendering showing the spectacle vs spectator concept. The Cotton Bowl Plaza is thought of a place where social media is openly engaged and accepted.

Photo taken on Beijing street sidewalk, 2007.

Beijing is known as the City of Bicycles. There I found bike stations filled with an overwhelming number of bikes. The streetscape

became an architectural opportunity in densely public areas.

Modeled using Rhino and Grasshopper this bus stop parametrically shades the sun throughout any given day. Rendered using V-Ray.

Sensorial Bus Stop projected in a town in India.

FRAGMENTS.

present-day conditions along 690

commercial

industrial

vacant parcels

artery through industrial programs

salt sheds

salt sheds

state fairground

onondaga lake

future I-690 as rail line

erie canal

I-690 circa 1919

Preliminary Analysis Surface Analysis Solid Analysis Urban Effect Intervention Leneweaver | Rudick | Tippens

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street segments that cross 690, used by either or both user groups

land use of parcels within 1 mile buffer of 690

36-65 mph26-35 mph25 mph toxic chemical storage and release points

stationary sources of air pollution


industrialvacantutilities

commercialparksrecreationreligious

URBAN MAPPINGI-690, Syracuse, NY

Project Team: Carrie Leneweaver, Elle Rudick and LaSalle Tippens


Planted Surface - helps clean the air as well and introduce green space for pedestrian interaction

Surface as Landscape - interaction and awareness of changing conditions

Surface as Amenity - morph into benches and other conditions related to the pedestrian

Covered Walkway - shelters and directs pedestrian traffic

Insulation

Continuous 2 x 2 x 1/8 Aluminum Angle 16 O.C. Tie to Verticals in Wood Blocking

1/8 Aluminum Panel

Concrete Slab

3 5/8 Galvinized Metal Stud

Existing Landmarked (Historical) Facade

Existing Metal Window Frame w/ New Glazing

Pressure Treated 2 x 6 Framing Spans Between Masonry Opening

Painted 1/8 Sheet Metal Panel

Hardwood Trim

A Law-I Floor to Wall Exansion Joint

3/4 Hardwood Veneer Plywood w/ Edge Banding

Above Grade ClosureBecause the exisitng structure is indeed a historic one, the architects had to devise a clever way of meeting the pre-existing facade without actually altering it. This forced them to come up with a way to seal the edges of the building that was effective but non-invasive to any original architecture. They accomplish this by abbutting every existing surface with a sheet metal panel hung from metal studs aroudn the base of the building.

Existing facade meets new steel panels

Closure panel + Existing Window

Exploded Componentry of Closure System

Insulation


1/8 Aluminum Panel

Concrete Slab






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Insulation


1/8 Aluminum Panel

Concrete Slab






Hardwood Trim







Insulation


1/8 Aluminum Panel

Concrete Slab






Hardwood Trim







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Concrete Encased Girder

3 5/8 Metal Studs

Batt Insulation

Skylight Assemblyby Wasco

Formed Metal Flashing

Continuous Metal Fastner

Pressure Treated 2 x 4 Blocking

EPDM on 3/4 Exterior Plywood w/

Bonding Adhesive

MC 6 Continuous Between Girders

3 5/8 Metal Studs Fasten to Steel Above

Existing Building

3 3-Component Ceiling Joint By Erie Metal Specialties

Formed Metal Flashing

Continuous Metal Cleat Nailed to Wood Blocking

Pressure Treated Blocking (Countersunk) to Steel Channel

Neoprene Flashing on Lap Cement

Vapor Barrier

Smoke Exhaust Fan

1/2 Gypsum Board w/ Metal Edge Trim

Atrium SkylightThe Skylight acts as a ventilator for the entire building with its built-in air vents. It also opens up the space of the rennovation, architecturally expanding what is normally a very compressed floorplate condition.

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Documents

Architecture Portfolio by LaSalle Tippens Jr