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ACADEMIC WORK 2005-2009

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Design 1

This sconce explores the processof bending light. Its form was inspired by the natural layering of rose petals. With each fold, the light becomes softer and augmented leftward. Each layer augmented leftward. Each layer was cut individually and formed with a heat gun. The sconce can be disassembled to fit into smaller packaging.

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This project asked to build the Lovell Beach House, and design a visitor center for it. The house was visitor center for it. The house was designed by Rudolph Schindler in 1926. Its main feature consisted of five free-standing reinforced con-crete frames that Schindler referred to as ‘an organic skeleton.' The new visitor center also has its own skeleton which lines up with the skeleton which lines up with the axis of the house. These models were made from balsa wood.

Design 2

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VISITOR CENTERSPRING 2006

Lovell Beach House Structure Visitor Center Structure

Lovell Beach House Visitor Center

Main Street Elevation

The site is located towards the end of Market Street in Philadelphia. This hotel high-rise is in develop-ment to revitalize this new district. By applying a directional twist to the form, the sight lines are being redirected towards downtown from every side. The lower half serves every side. The lower half serves as office space for expanding com-panies, and the upper portion hosts a 5 star hotel with fantastic views.

Design 6

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BOULBA TOWER FALL 2007

SectionConcept Model

Market Street Perspective

Wall Detail

The Boulba Tower provides lavish suites and an unbeatable location. It also has

plenty of office space for new businesses to move into the city. With a great location, the Boulba Tower will become the gateway

to Philadelphia’s new epicenter.

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Design 7

This design attempted to fit over a 100 linear feet of climbing wall into a two story building to create a climbing school for the community.My concept managed to fit 164 My concept managed to fit 164 linear feet by wrapping the climb-ing wall upward in a spiral. Start-ing at the basement, students can climb all the way around to the second floor, or choose to continue up to the roof where they can watch their classmates catch up through the glass floor. The 3D model was designed in Revit, and the plans were built AutoCAD.

Concept Diagram

Unwrapped Climbing Wall

Basment First Fl. Second Fl. RoofPlan Plan Plan Plan

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CLIMBING SCHOOLSUMMER 2008

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Detail

This studio asked to design a gas station on a site that had three four-way intersections. The challenge was to assist the public challenge was to assist the public across the site from the hills of Manayunk to the Fairmount Park along the river. My design bridged the gap by making the gas station’s roof a pedestrian bridge that spanned over the building and across the traffic. across the traffic.

Design 8

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BRIDGING PUMP FALL 2008

Pedestrian Diagram Bridge Level

Ground Floor (with structure)

2nd Floor Plan

Interior Sketch

Model

Two main beams span the length of the stadium and direct the focus toward the city. Both beams lean away from the center, allowing the smaller perpendicu-lar beams to carry the load down the sides. This creates a more elliptical opening, and allows the main beams to span a larger distance. span a larger distance.

This public indoor Track and Field Stadium’s site is located 1.2 miles south of Philadelphia on an abandoned navy base. In order to reconnect with the city, the designfocused on the North/South axis. focused on the North/South axis. The structural beams emphasize this axis by leading the eye towards a panoramic view of the city.

Design 9

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TRACK AND FIELD FALL 2008

Structural Model

The stadium skin consists of a double PTFE membrane which passively coolsthe stadium. During games, excess heat rises into the double skin throughvents and gets pushed out by rising cold air. This cold draft entersthe double skin layer on the bottom of the East/West sides withthe help of wind currents.

In addition to passive cooling, the stadium is equipped with a forced air handling unit equipped with a forced air handling unit for additional support.

Passive Cooling Diagram

North Elevation

20-40 dB 50-70 dB

Section 16

The roof pillow serves a double function. It acts as a double skin membrane for climate control. It also serves a performable function of being an activity indicator. Sound sensors placed throughout the seating measure decibel levels to determine the volume levels within the stadium. A corresponding light color goes off in the pillow to illuminate the roof. The louder the crowd cheers, the redder the roof will glow. This will allow the city dwellers to interact with the stadium. the roof will glow. This will allow the city dwellers to interact with the stadium.

South Elevation

80-90 dB 90+ dB

Active Roof Diagrams

J F M A M J J A S O N D

Interior Exterior

Phototropism is the growth or movement towards a source of light. Plants distribute a sensing hormone called Auxin unevenly to promote growth of the darker side. The end result creates a bend in the stem that places the plant in the a direct position towards the sun. direct position towards the sun. This design explored how photot-ropism could benefit new building methods in architecture by creating structures that can collect the most electricity by maximizing the sur-face area of solar exposure. This digital model was developed in Rhino to demonstrate an “Auxin-enhanced” concrete shelter.

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Theoretical Studio

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PHOTOTROPIC DESIGN SPRING 2009

Plan

Archive Interior

Outdoor CourtRoof Plan

Exterior Perspective

This competition asked to design a Bioethics Center on Jefferson University’s campus in downtown Philadelphia. The design had to intiintigrate an archival building with a classroom building. The Presi-dent of the University gave a de-scription of their needs:

“We are not planning high rises and high-density buildings that dwarf our residents and shadow our streets. Rather, we are committed to creating open spaces and to constructing build-ings that are human in scale, outward looking, and express our university's openness topenness toward our Philadelphia neighbors.” -Robert L. Barchi

Fourth Floor Plan scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”

Stewardson Competition

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BIOETHICS CENTER SPRING 2009

Plan Diagram

East Elevation

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PERSONAL WORK 2008-2010

* No tools required

Collapsed Position

Today’s furniture evokes traits of a throw-away society primarily by lacking refurbishing qualities. MDF is the main component of most cheap furniture. Due to the toxicity of the glue that holds the wood pulp together, it can not be recycled. MDF is quickly filling up recycled. MDF is quickly filling up landfills around the world.

My goal is to reuse discarded MDF to create new furniture. Chairs are a perfect fit because they can reuse slender MDF boards to produce the chair legs, while flat boards make great seating slabs.

The Easel Chair is collapsible to The Easel Chair is collapsible to minimize shipping waste, storage space, and packaging. The tripod design locks in place with a U-pin and is reinforced by downward pressure from a person’s weight. It is a sleek modern solution to a modern problem. modern problem.

Trans American Competition 2008Taras Bohonok- Personal Work

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EASEL CHAIRSPRING 2008

Landscape Plan

I worked with a client to develop preliminary documents for a proposed shopping plaza in Mundelein, IL. I reworked the plans to accommodate a WB-50 truck, developed the landscaping, elevations, specs, and renderings.

Plaza Development ProjectTaras Bohonok- Personal Work

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ROUTE 83 PLAZA FALL 2008

WB-50 Access Plan

Front Elevation

This design invokes “youthfulness” in the reserved streetscape. When we swing, we feel free; gravity releases its releases its grip for a brief moment. With age, the dreamers inside all of us get talked down into becoming proper professionals and we lose that ambitious goal to defeat gravity. The streetlight blends into the streetscape sur-roundings with its roundings with its form. The swing suspends from a secondary light that creates a pedestrian des-tination. Low-emitting LED’s on the seat jazz up the street with motion and color as the public swings. Once again, you feel gravity easing up beneath your feet in a surreal urban environment.

Philips Light CompetitionTaras Bohonok- Personal Work

OSCI-LIGHTSPRING 2010

Motion Diagram

Jenga Tower demonstrates a new level of comfort and luxury in urban living. Each tenant is dedicated a personal floor. In addition, each floor has a private 625 sq. foot outdoor patio to provide a unique living experience. provide a unique living experience. All the patios are connected by an outdoor staircase. This provides an extra means of egress and promotes interaction with the tower community.

Conceptual Tower DesignTaras Bohonok- Personal Work

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JENGA TOWER SPRING 2010

Interior Perspective

PROFESSIONAL WORK 2008-2009

During my internship at ARRAY,I worked on an ambulatory project in Reading, PA. The program included an emergency department included an emergency department as well as an out-patient wing. I developed overall design proposals, adapted the layout to a three phase proposal in Revit, and designed the digital site according to the specifications.

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Reading Ambulatory Project 2008ARRAY Healthcare Facility Solutions

AMBULATORY FALL 2008

Phase 1 Plan

In 2009, I moved to Germany to work at MBA/s. This was a proposal for the Warsaw History proposal for the Warsaw History Museum. The site was situated over a busy highway and the goal was to cover the highway in order to bridge a local park to a historic district of Warsaw. The W.H.M. design creates a beacon at the en-trance of the tunnel that welcomes trance of the tunnel that welcomes citizens from the city at the bottom of the hill. The park paths were designed to emulate the historic routes that once crossed this area before the highway was put in. The free-flowing form is inspired by the White-tailed Eagle which marks White-tailed Eagle which marks the Polish flag.

Warsaw History Museum ProposalMatthias Bauer Associates/ Stuttgart

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W.H.M. FALL 2009

Southern Section

Perspective

Tunnel

Museum

Galleries

Escalator

Parking Under Bridge

Northern Section

Plan

Highway Exit Ramp

Highway

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New Construction

Underground

Existing Buildings

This competition entry asked to design a Natural History Museum with only 10,000 sq. feet of new construction. The rest of the museum would have to fit into existing structures on the site such an old factory building, and a geological facility. Our concept at geological facility. Our concept at MBA/s was to restore the two historic buildings and fill them and their voids with new exhibition spaces.

Denmark’s Natural History MuseumMatthias Bauer Associates/ Stuttgart

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D.N.H.M. FALL 2009

Section B

Section A

Whale Exhibit

Whale Exhibit Greenland Room Ice Core Hall

ENTER Ice Core Hall

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Stored Collection

Animal Kingdom

Insects Reptiles

Fish

Plants

Mechanical Room

Electric

Fossil Exhibit

Ice Core Hall

Greenland Room Storage Backroom

Whale Hall

Labs

Janitorial Room

Storage Displays

Office

Displays

Library

Lab

Greenhouse

BASEMENT PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Entrance

Offices

Solar System

Climate RoomAtmosphere

Admin.

Plans

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Greenland Room

ARTWORK 2000-2004

“Finger Flowers”- Acrylic finger painting“Hand”- Pastels

“Mozart”- Pencil

Architecture is my love, but art is my passion. I studied fine arts for four years at Carnegie Mellon. I recieved four consecutive full scholarships to attend their Prescholarships to attend their Pre-graduate Art Program for four years. I developed welding skills, fell in love with anatomy drawing, and got an opportunity to become a better artist.

Carnegie Mellon Univ. Art Program

“Melodic Composition”- Metal Sculpture

Taras Bohonok- Artwork

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C.M.U. ART 2000 - 2004

“Pose #4”- Pastels and charcoal

“Nude Man”- Charcoal and eraser “Shirt and Fern”- Monochrome paint with charcoal

“Guitar Player”- Watercolor paint“Clothed Man”- Charcoal and water

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