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Compiled work done during my time at the Boston Architectural College
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ACADEMIC
COMPETITION
chinatown cultural centerb2 studio [s2011]6 weeks // p.6-15
stool for an oboista2 studio [f2010]2 weeks // p.32-37
3d jointrhino 2 [s2012]2 weeks // p.64-65
techyes houseshelter [s2011]16 weeks // p.78-83
screen wallsrobotic arm fab [s2012]8 weeks // p.54-61
hallway googenerative design [f2011]8 weeks // p.62-63
parametric snowflakedesign computing [f2011]6 weeks // p.74-75
barcelona pavilion3dsMax l/ll [s2012]8 weeks // p.75-76
arnold arboretumb2 studio [s2011]6 weeks // p.16-25
passagea2 studio [f2010]6 weeks // p.38-45
3d printed benchrhino 2 [s2012]3 weeks // p.66-69
eVolo 2011eVolo [f2010]16 weeks // p.84-89
tectonic apparatusb2 studio [s2011]4 weeks // p.26-31
skating paviliona2 studio [f2010]8 weeks // p.46-53
cribrhino 2 [s2012]3 weeks // p.70-73
long island cinemasuckerpunch daily [f2011]16 weeks //p.90-99
Boston Architectural College2010-2012
B.ArchB. Design Studies (Design Computing)
year
locationavon, ct portland, me
k-1st
national figure skating coach
married
daughter born
intern architectski instructor
employment
education2nd-high school graduation Univeristy of Colorado Boulder Univeristy of Colorado BoulderParkland College Boston Architectural College
simsbury, ct colorado springs, co thornton, codenver, co champaign-urbana, il boston, ma boulder, co
1981 19991984 1988 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013
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locationavon, ct portland, me
k-1st
national figure skating coach
married
daughter born
intern architectski instructor
employment
education2nd-high school graduation Univeristy of Colorado Boulder Univeristy of Colorado BoulderParkland College Boston Architectural College
simsbury, ct colorado springs, co thornton, codenver, co champaign-urbana, il boston, ma boulder, co
1981 19991984 1988 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013
other
006 / 007 // Chinatown Cultural Center Academic
chinatown cultural centerAt the end of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Chinatown sits as a cultural, financial, and tourist destination. The neighborhood is devoid of a cultural center for the residents of the area to gather, to learn, relax and present their culture to the world. The building acts as an art gallery, cafe, theatre, community computer lab and cultural nexus for the residents but also for Boston at large. Situated at the terminus of the rose Kennedy greenway parks system the site is uniquely suited to be a punctuation mark to this new pedestrian core of Boston.
B2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Jonathan Hananhan Ryan Pinkham
below: night renderingopposite top: attractions map
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chinatown cultural center
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top left: pedestrian movement top right above: zoning
top right below: mass transitbelow: chinatown growth history
top: massing processadjacent: facade
bottom: facade module process
010 / 011 // Chinatown Cultural Center Academic
this page: exploded axonopposite top: below: section
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012 / 013 // Chinatown Cultural Center Academic
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this page: floorplansnext page: theatre rendering
014 / 015 // Chinatown Cultural Center Academic
016 / 017 // Aronld Arboretum Pavilion Academic
arnold arboretum pavilionThe Harvard University Arnold Arboretum is currently without an informational center in its Peter's Hill section of the arboretum. With views reaching all the way to the skyline of Boston, the elevated pavilion and accompanying steps provide a center for people to gather and enjoy the natural beauty of the arboretum. The building, steps and the landscape are intertwined to emphasize the connection to nature that is ever present when visiting the arboretum.
B2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Jonathan Hananhan Ryan Pinkham
below: exterior rendering
arnold arboretum pavilion
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018 / 019 // Aronld Arboretum Pavilion Academic
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these pages: Olmsteads plan for the emerald necklace of which the arboretum is a part.
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020 / 021 // Aronld Arboretum Pavilion Academic
this page: building design processopposite: building diagram
massing elevated for views steps for outdoor habitation
access to the pavilion landscape covering the building pedestrian access to landscape
022 / 023 // Aronld Arboretum Pavilion Academic
below: sectionopposite top: exploded axon
024 / 025 // Aronld Arboretum Pavilion Academic
opposite top left: computer labopposite top right: exhibition & viewing
opposite bottom: night site plan above: floor plan
026 / 027 // Tectonic Apparatus Academic
tectonic apparatusGiven a detail and told to extract the tectonic properties inherent within, the resulting apparatus became the driver of the two previous projects. The apparatus at its heart is the connection between three disparate entities, each integrally dependent on the others. The project began by creating a 9"x9"x9" box extrapolated from the detail, then the box was abstracted and aggregated to multiple pieces that have at their core the tectonic principles studied earlier. Finally the apparatus begins to take on architectural characteristics creating interstitial spaces and voids. By fabricating the modules a study of the connective forces both physical and tectonic were explored.
B2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Jonathan HananhanRyan Pinkham
below: original detailopposite: tectonic aggregation
tectonic apparatus
above: simplified tectonic
above: 9x 9x 9 box using tectonic principlesbelow: laser cut model
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028 / 029 // Tectonic Apparatus Academic
below: night renderingopposite top:
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opposite: tectonic box aggregationabove: tectonic box diagram
below: rendering of final tectonic apparatus
030 / 031 // Tectonic Apparatus Academic
032 / 033 // Stool for an Oboist Academic
stool for an oboistThis project focused on understanding objects at the human scale. By understanding the proportions of the human body, the design of a chair for a specific function was initiated. The material for the chair is corrugated cardboard, no glue or fasteners are used. A study of the material properties of the cardboard was done to optimize the structural rigidity of the final chair. This is a chair for an oboist. The chair forces the user through comfortable/uncomfortable positions into the optimal position for playing the musical instrument.
A2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Amanda SandersCynthia Bubb
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[1]The arms should be supported from below relieving tension in the neck providing an open and free air path. [2]The spine should be elongated and free of tension so it can support the free movement of the neck.[3]The back should be straight so the diaphragm can inflate fully.[4]The feet should be offset to create a strong base.
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[1]The arms should be supported from below relieving tension in the neck providing an open and free air path. [2]The spine should be elongated and free of tension so it can support the free movement of the neck.[3]The back should be straight so the diaphragm can inflate fully.[4]The feet should be offset to create a strong base.
034 / 035 // Stool for an Oboist Academic
The basic form of a cube was the starting point for the creation of this stool.
The legs are formed by lifting the centers of each side of the base. The arches are stronger and carry the load better than square legs would.
foldingby folding the cardboard in parallel with its corrugations a very rigid structure can be achived.
material investigation
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rollingtightens the corrugations thereby increasing the rigidity. Strength is improved in the normally weak direction due to the increased lateral mass.
interlockingallows for the creation of complex forms capable of supporting heavy loads. When multiple driections, above two, are used the structure becomes extremely rigid.
weavingignoring the directional strength of the corrugations and instead empahsizing the malleability of the cardboard, weaving can create a structure that resists tearing.
To force the user to sit in the proper posistion the top of the stool is depressed and imprinted in specific areas.
The edges of the cube are rounded to make the stool more comfortable.
The whole stool is twisted in order to offset the posistion of the feet to the desired position.
The whole geometry is sectioned in 3 directions to create the most stable and strong matrix that can carry the users weight.
foldingby folding the cardboard in parallel with its corrugations a very rigid structure can be achieved.
rollingtightens the corrugations thereby increasing the rigidity. Strength is improved in the normally weak direction due to the increased lateral mass.
interlockingallows for the creation of complex forms capable of supporting heavy loads. When multiple directions, above two, are used the structure becomes extremely rigid.
weavingIgnoring the directional strength of the corrugations and instead emphasizing malleability of the cardboard weaving can create a structure that resits tearing.
elevation plan elevation
this page: stool 3d model
036 / 037 // Stool for an Oboist Academic
opposite page: 3d axontop: finished stool
bottom: finished stool
038 / 039 // Passage Academic
passageThe project is an interpretation of a city described to Kublai Kahn by Marco Polo, as recounted in the book Invisible Cities. The inhabitants of the city either hate nature and therefore stay as far away from it as possible, love nature so much they wish to leave it unharmed, or they wish to only see it as it once was. This becomes an interesting commentary on environmentalism today, Will we some day reach the point where we revere nature so much that we separate ourselves from it ? Architecturally the project is a choreographed passage through the landscape which recreates the story told by Marco Polo.
A2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Amanda SandersCynthia Bubb
below: model-plan view
passage After a seven days march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage. There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that [they hate the earth]; that [they respect it so much they avoid all contact]; that [they love it as it was before they existed] and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant contemplating with fascination their own absence. From Invisible Cities - italo calvino
above: drawing of the citybelow: axon diagram
bottom: landscape intervention
existing unnatural/natural movement
park[1]natural and elevated from the digital landscape
tree[2]revered and studied by those who live above it but never touched
digital foliage[3]a bridge between the natural and unatural worlds
info tree[4]scanable poles that mimic the natural trees
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marco polo descibes a city to kublai kahn
040 / 041 // Passage Academic
below: elevationopposite: model
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044 / 045 // Passage Academic
046 / 047 // Skating Pavilion Academic
skating pavilionIn figure skating there are disciplines, they are: singles (mens + womens), pairs, and ice dancing. In order to compete skaters must pass a series of tests. In ice dancing the first test and in effect most skaters intiation into ice dancing is the dutch waltz. The dance is made up of alternating lobes that form a serpentine pattern. The skating pavilion is the physical manifestation of that dance, as is the facade, which is an abstraction of the tracings made by the skaters blade across the ice.
A2 Studio 2011Instructors:
Amanda SandersCynthia Bubb
below: renderingopposite top: diagram
opposite bottom: dutch waltz diagram
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Invented: George Muller, Boston Skating Club, Boston, MAFirst Performed: 1948, Broadmoor Ice Palace, Colorado Springs, COType of Dance: WaltzPattern Type: Serpentine -half rinkPosition skated in: KilianTempo: 3/4 time, 138 bpmMusic:
Step list: LFO[2], RFI[1], LFO[3]RFOSW[6]LFOSW[6]RFO[2], LFI[1], RFO[3]LFO[3]RFI[3]LFO[2], RFI[1], LFO[3]RFOSW[6]LFO[3]RFI[3]
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048 / 049 // Skating Pavilion Academic
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050 / 051 // Skating Pavilion Academic
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left: floor planbelow: interior renderingopposite: exploded axon
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052 / 053 // Skating Pavilion Academic
054 / 055 // Screen Walls Academic
screen wallsFocused on the relationship between the unit and the group, and its effect on the perception of continuity, the screen wall serves as a reconfigurable, space dividing filter. As the nature of its porosity changes with each new composition, so does the manner in which it filters light, views, touch, and sound. Depending on the type of configuration, it may behave more like a column (vertically oriented) or a fence (horizontally oriented). The module's transportable and formal attributes enable it to be moved, positioned and oriented according to potentially varied surrounding conditions.
Robotic Arm Fabrication 2011Instructors:
Matthew Trimble, RabLabCritics:
Skylar Tibbets, SJETCarl Solander, Reverse Architecture
below: kuka robotopposite: precedent study
screen walls
below right: digital sol lewitt drawingbelow left: grasshopper definition
Wall Drawing #56 A square is divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts, each with lines in four directions superimposed progressively.
Wall Drawing #289 (fourth wall)Twenty-four lines from the center, twelve lines from the midpoint of each of the sides, twelve lines from each corner. (The length of the lines and their placement are determined by the drafter.)
PRECEDENTMuch like an architect the artist Sol LeWitt allowed his art to be produced by someone else, only giving simple directions that would act as the rules or parameters that would generate the work. LeWItts work emphasized the idea behind the work as parmount to the execution. He designed architecturally scaled wall drawings with deceptively simple geometric patterns executed at immense scales.
Wall Drawing #797The first drafter has a black marker and makes an irregular horizontal line near the top of the wall. Then the second drafter tries to copy it (without touching it) using a red marker. The third drafter does the same, using a yellow marker. The fourth drafter does the same using a blue marker. Then the second drafter followed by the third and fourth copies the last line drawn until the bottom of the wall is reached.
Each wall drawing begins as a set of instructions or simple diagram to be followed in executing the work.
056 / 057 // Screen Walls Academic
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816 =281 TrillionEach of the sixteen modules can be rotated in four directions, flipped, and rotated four more times, allowing for eight orientations.
FORMA screen wall comprised of sixteen modules. The geometric properties of each module are products of the following conditions: [1] every 4x6 connector platform distributed around the perimeter must remain uncut, [2] all surfaces must be ruled (through every point on the surface there is a straight line that lies on the surface) or doubly ruled (through every point on the surface there are two distinct lines that lie on the surface), [3] only single sweep passes between any two connector nodes are permitted.Material & MachiningExpanded Polystyrene (EPS) is lightweight, inexpensive, recyclable, holds its shape well, and is easy to machine. The material is meant to be read both as literal, and as an abstraction, or placeholder, for what could be a variety of materials. For cutting the material, RadLabs Kuka KR15-2 robotic arm with a hot-wire attachment was used. The robots dimensional constraints and motion limits were taken into account at the onset of the project.
In an effort to show the potential for compositional variation, three distinct screen walls were configured, each expressing a particular global condition.
Quick Response (QR) codes were used for cataloging to distinguish the location of a particular module within the three predetermined configurations.
Gradient Directional Fragmentation
above: robotic arm cutting an EPS foam block
058 / 059 // Screen Walls Academic
060 / 061 // Screen Walls Academic
061 / 063 // Hallway Goo Academic
hallway gooHow can digital technology begin to let us question our traditional spaces? Can something as mundane as a hallway be infused with a digital design that forces the user to view it in a new light? Developed as an installation for the 4th floor computing hallway of 320 Newbury st.. Hallway Goo is created using the grasshopper 3d plugin for Rhino. The design is fully parametric allowing the user to pick any two points on opposite walls and then generate the connection and fabricated pieces automatically. Each piece is laser cut and hand assembled.
Generative DesignInstructors:
Kevin Cespedes
below: renderingopposite top: fabricated scale models
opposite bottom: grasshopper definition
hallway goo
064 / 065 // 3d Joint Academic
3d jointSix identical pieces interlock together to form two opposing pyramids interlocked at their centers. The project focused on creating an assembly of pieces that could be fit together without the assitance of glue or fastners. The relationship between the individual parts to the whole was an established criteria. Fabrication issues such as the kerf from the laser were necessary considerations to the successful completion of the project.
Rhino 3 Instructors:
Matthew Trimble
below: digital modelopposite top: digital process
opposite bottom: final fabricated joint
3d joint
066 / 067 // 3d Printed Bench Academic
3d printed benchA plane rotates from the horizontal to an inclined position, upon reaching its new inclination the plane reaches out to hold itself up. Twisting and stretching it finally reaches solid ground. The bulges and twists created serve to create a dialog with the surrounding ground that the plane used to inhabit. The bench was designed to be a form that could not be easily fabricated by traditional methods but rather took advantage of additve fabrication (3d printing).
Rhino 3Instructors:
Matthew Trimble
below: final 3d print model
3d printed bench
top: process diagrammiddle: grasshopper definition
bottom: rendering
068 / 069 // 3d Printed Bench Academic
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070 / 071 // Crib Academic
cribWhy not have a piece of furniture that can change and grow with a child? The majority of baby furniture is not modern or built to high levels of quality.Based on Jall/Toftas Rocky, this adapatation is designed to be CNC milled and put together with minimal fasteners. The crib has four stages or configurations relating to the needs of the child from infant all the way to toddler. The pieces are interchangable and rearrangable depending on the type of function needed.
Rhino 3 Instructors:
Matthew Trimble
below: stage one bassinet
cribSTAGE 1
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Bassinet:Curved side pieces on the bottom allow this stage to rock. Combines a rocking chair and bassinet in one.
Crib:The bassinet is ipped over and the crib sides are added to raise the railing to 26 above the mattress support.
Toddler Bed:The crib sides are removed and the end pieces ipped, providing a semi enclosed bed the toddler can climb into.
Childs Bed:The whole piece ips again including the end pieces, creating a childs bed.
072 / 073 // Crib Academic
074 / 075 // Parametric Snowflake Academic
parametric snowflakeNo two snowflakes are alike. Through the power of parametric modelling I wrote a definition to allow people to create their own unique snowflake. I then fabricated a few different types and handed them out at Christmas and as part of final presentation. The definition is capabale of creating 9.9e10^19 number of variations.
Intro to Design ComputingInstructors:
Brandy Brooks
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076 / 077 // Barcelona Pavilion Academic
barcelona pavilion3dsMAx 1A careful study of Mies's Bacelona Pavilion using photos, plan, section, and elevation drawings was done prior to modelling the building in Autodesk 3dsMAx 2012. The images were rendered with mental ray and post processed in adobe photoshop. 3dsmax 11to view the animation please visit the following link: http://vimeo.com/42242390
3dsMAX 1+2Instructors:
Vincent Laclour, NEOSCAPE
below: renderingopposite top: model views
barcelona pavilion
078 / 079 // Techyes House Competition
techyes houseFuture advances in materials and the processing power of the computer will allow man to become, once again, connected to nature. Imagine a building that is not just a barrier to the elements but acts more like the skin of the human body. An elastic, ever changing structure that responds and reacts to the conditions of its environment, adapting to its users needs and desires, redesigning itself accordingly. A thinking living machine.A machine for living in.
Shelter International Student Competition 2011
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Man and his created environments will return to a symbiotic relationship with nature through the designed intelligence of technology. Eventually technology will allow man to live a more simple life where even the static structures of today will become malleable to the needs of man. A parametric architecture is by definition parametric only when it can be changed; as soon as the designer makes a choice and solidifies the design the object is no longer parametric. To truly make parametric architecture we must make structures that are pliable and able to adapt to their environments, imbued with the intelligence to redesign themselves.
TECHYES HOUSE is an attempt to imagine this future. The building does not change the way man wishes to function rather it offers the possibility of change through technology. TECHYES HOUSE is built out of thousands of small robots connected and controlled by each other. They create the shape of the building based on the input of
its inhabitants and the environment in which it is situated. Its skin adapts to the changing needs of its inhabitants, it releases moisture to cool itself, creates views to the exterior whenever needed, collects water, ventilates itself, and collects information about the surrounding environment and responds, maximizing efficiency. The adaptive facade of TECHYES HOUSE will be an on demand experiential skin that works in partnership with the environment and its users to begin to return modern man to nature.
top: adaptive facadenext page: use diagram
080 / 081 // Techyes House Competition
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EVPARKING
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COOKING
TOILET
LIVING
BATH
SLEEP
EATING
PARKING
VIEWS
VENTILATION
SUNLIGHT/HEAT
WATER
082 / 083 // Techyes House Competition
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084 / 085 // eVolo 2011 Competition
eVolo 2011The City of Chicago exploded into being during the mid-Nineteenth Century; an amazing growth fueled by an emerging national commerce and centralized rail system. Many of the amenities of the natural environment were ignored during the city s rapid development. During the time of the city s maturation, architect Daniel Burnham made the case to redevelop the lakefront into a vast city park, a park that would also be the home for the city s great institutions of culture. The lakefront, he felt, belonged to the people. Today, the Chicago River is an underutilized amenity much as Lake Michigan was a century ago. We have an opportunity to transform a portion of the river with our project.
eVolo 2011EVOLO SkyscraperCompetition 2010
Team: Aaron Anderson, Team Leader
Ryan HunterDarian Mason
Mark Allison, Architect /Advisor
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086 / 087 // eVolo 2011 Competition
Residential
Hotel
Offices
Retail
Offices/Retail
Urban Farming
Helical Wind Turbine
Tallest in Chicago (1800)
Photovoltaic Solar Shade
Football Stadium
Park/Greenspace
METRA Train Station
Urban Farmingfarms at the base of the tower slope gradually to allow crops to be harvested without the use of elveators. The slopes also clean water collected from the building through gravity fed sand beds.
Parka nine city block park on the top of the building allows people to get down to water level at the river, and skiing in the winter.
Football Stadiumat the base of the tower a sports stadium fits thousands of people, half enclosed and half open the stadium protects spectators and athletes from the harsh Chicago winter without being too warm, the stadium also has luxury apartments with views to the river along its edges.
Islanda continuation of the park on the opposite bank this island has a canal carved through its center to allow a rotating floating bridge to ferry passengers, effectively connecting all three banks of the river.
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Residential
Hotel
Offices
Retail
Offices/Retail
Urban Farming
Helical Wind Turbine
Tallest in Chicago (1800)
Photovoltaic Solar Shade
Football Stadium
Park/Greenspace
METRA Train Station
088 / 089 // eVolo 2011 Competition
090 / 091 // Long Island Cinema Competition
Long Island CinemaWhat does the future of cinema look like? How does the digital social revolution affect the movie going experieince? With the home theatre becoming so prevelant and the quality of the at home movie watching experience beginning to rival that of the cinema how does the cinema attract people to theatres that have been traditionally crowded, noisy, irritating, tacky and completely devoid of any natural environment. We propose to accomplish this future by combining the best of the current cinema and the the home theatre. Individual pods that are mini home theatres are housed in glassed in natural atriums. Outdoor theatres have views of the skyline of New York City. The future of cinema is a modern, inviting, intimate and social experience.
Long Island CinemaSuckerpunchDailyCompetition 2011
TOP 23 FINISH
092 / 093 // Long Island Cinema Competition
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Typical New York Apartment
sense of connecTion
big screen
home TheaTre exPerience
siTTing nexT To PeoPle you donT know
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no inTeruPTions from sTrangers
small screen
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noT The newesT films
newesT releases
quieT
movie sound exPerience
Future Cinema
sense of connecTion
big screen
home TheaTre exPerience
no inTeruPTions from sTrangers
newesT releases
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094 / 095 // Long Island Cinema Competition
096 / 097 // Long Island Cinema Competition
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098 / 099 // Long Island Cinema Competition