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QUINN LUCAS GREERCV & SELECTED WORKS 2017.
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QUINN LUCAS GREER [email protected], England+44 7397 319423
EXPERIENCE
DSDHALondon, September 2016 - Present October - January 2011, February - April 2010 Architectural Assistant
Design development and coordination from RIBA stages one through three of mixed-use and residential schemes ranging from 10 to 275 units. Design and production of high quality working and presentation models. Preparation of competition proposals, feasibility studies, research and presentation material.
Quadrangle ArchitectsToronto, July - August 2014Architecture Intern
Lateral OfficeToronto, March - June 2014Associate Curator, Arctic Adaptations
Consultant and associate curator for Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, Canada at 14th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia. Design, development, and production of exhibition models including the coordination, and supervision of model assembly, and installation.
LIN Architecture UrbanismBerlin, January - April 2013Architecture Intern [Co-op]
Production of research and concept material for Atelier International du Grand Paris [AIGP] study “Ville légère, Habiter le Grand Paris”Design of communication and exhibition concepts for Contrat de Développement Territorial [CDT] de l’Est Seine-Saint-Denis.
Montgomery Sisam ArchitectsToronto, January - August 2012Architectural Assistant
Preparation of feasibility studies for Build Toronto exploring development of city owned property.Design development, detailed design, and coordination for the planning and renovation of two Toronto District School Board projects. Master and logistical planning for proposed and existing Ontario Ministry of Health projects.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Visual Communication Fall 2015University of Waterloo
Teaching Assistant, Design Studio Winter 2015University of Waterloo
REFERENCES
Deborah SauntDirector, [email protected]
Jack SelfDirector, [email protected]
Lola SheppardPartner, Lateral [email protected]
David LevainProject Architect, [email protected]
Jason DobbinSr. Associate, Montgomery Sisam [email protected]
Master of ArchitectureUniversity of Waterloo 2016
Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honors Co-op University of Waterloo 2013 Academic ExchangeÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 2011
EDUCATION
Special Mention, Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 for Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 with Lateral Office
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2010with DSDHA
AWARDS & HONOURS
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!!23.03.2011 !Dear Sir/Madam !REFERENCE FOR QUINN GREER !We were lucky enough to have Quinn do an internship with us twice during his training at University of Waterloo when he came to London and made an invaluable contribution to the studio from 05/02/2010 – 30/04/2010 and 04/10/2010 – 28/01/2011. !Despite being only in his second year, his professional diligence and creative intelligence far outstripped our expectations and he excelled in all aspects of the tasks he undertook. Responsibilities ranged from helping to test options with models for projects at the early stages of design through to detailed elevational studies for buildings as they approached planning submission. He was always curious and engaged and mature beyond his years. !In particular he showed determination and patience in undertaking the daunting task of preparing a significant model for exhibition at the Royal Academy – where David Chipperfield selected it for inclusion in the Summer Exhibition 2010 – which is quite an achievement. The quality of his work, his desire to test and test until he gets the result he was striving for demonstrated that Quinn is an extraordinary student with a very bright future ahead of him. !I would not hesitate in re-employing Quinn, and fully supported and encouraged his decision to go to Switzerland to study for a semester at the prestigious École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. !Yours sincerely !!!Deborah Saunt !Director !For DSDHA !!!
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P r o f S t e f a n B e h n i s c h , H o n . F A I A
A I A , B D A , C I M A , R I B A
Professor Stefan Behnisch, Hon. FAIA,
Eero Saarinen Chair Yale School of Architecture
EPFL Lausanne, Svizzerland
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To whom it may concern
Letter of Reference
Stuttgart, 11/29/2011
Quinn Greer was one of my 3rd year students at the EPFL in Lausanne. The studio asked the students to
design on the basis of an existing building, the library of the University Baltimore, MD. The focus of the
design exercises was on re-use, sustainability, flexibility.
Quinn performed very well in the design studio and supported me and my assistants also as student assistant.
I can recommend Quinn as an interested and ambitious young designer.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
With kind regards,
Prof. Stefan Behnisch, Hon. FAIA
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Near Lambeth Bridge in Westminster, the development replace two ex-government buildings close to Tate Britain and adjacent to MI5, with a mix of private and affordable housing. The scheme comprises of 275 residential units divided between two blocks on either side of John Islip Street.
Through the use of analytical diagrams highlighting the composition and articulation of the existing streetscape, the design makes reference to the pro-portions of the neighbouring buildings, such as Horseferry House and Thames House, and in the case of Cleland House, St John’s church on Smith Square. Abell House provides a transition between the ‘modern city’ to its immediate north, the Millbank Estate and Tate Britain to the south. The span and rhythm of its columns increase in frequency from ground to the upper stories and strong horizontal banding breaks the eleva-tions down to a classical composition of base, middle and top to create visual hierarchy.
ABELL & CLELAND HOUSE
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01 Working models were used extensively through the design and planning process to explore the massing, form and composition of the buildings in the local context.
02 Aerial view. Abell & Cleland House are seen positioned between the Smith Square & Millbank Conservation area and imme-diately south of the Palace of Westminster Conservation Area.
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03 Working model exploring the façade composition on an early massing of Cleland House.
04 Working model of the final massing of Abell House beginning to explore key hori-zontal datums in the detailed development of the façade.
05 View of Abell House as submitted for planning looking South along John Islip Street towards the Tate Britain.
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CORBRIDGE CRESCENT
Located on the Regent’s Canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets the site sits between the emerging art district of Vyner Street and popular Broadway Market at the nexus of road, rail and canal infrastructure. It provides a unique opportunity to connect the wider area and develop a sophisticated transition between the commercial and residential uses surrounding it.
The residential-led, mixed-use scheme mixed-use scheme for Corbridge Cres-cent was developed by DSDHA through an iterative process over a number of years beginning initially in December 2011. In 2014, two planning applications were concurrently submitted for the site and taken to appeal, before being dismissed by the Planning Inspector in 2016.
Following the dismissal of the appeal for both schemes, the team has under-taken a reappraisal of the potentials and opportunities of the site to develop a scheme in accordance with the feedback
received through the appeal process, namely a reduction in building’s height.
A simple massing and limited palette of materials provides legibility to the scheme and encourages the three blocks to be read as an ensemble, while each responding to an analysis of local views and negotiating between the industrial and domestic scale of its setting.
To compliment the robust, industrial aesthetic of the precast concrete façade, a series of roof pavilions are proposed to be constructed in dark, weathered met-al. These pavilions address functional requirements including roof access, lift over run, and plant enclosures, as well as providing a strong visual identity for the scheme at an urban scale. At a hu-man scale, the language and materiality of these rooftop elements is drawn down the elevations to ground level in the location of the lift cores, disrupting the grid of the façade and highlighting the location of the roof pavilions above.
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01 View from Mare St. looking South towards Cambridge Heath Road.
02 Site aerial.
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03 Iterative studies exploring the composi-tion and hierarchy of the of the facade, massing and the articulation of roof ele-ments.
04 Axo illustrating the principals of the facade and roof elements in relation to each of the three blocks.
05 View from canal path looking South toward the site.
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01 Situational detail Bagneux; adaptive event space housed in rehabilitated facto-ries hosts occasional events for up to 800 people.
02 Catalogue Paris; post industrial periph-ery.
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HABITER LE GRAND PARIS
«Habiter le Grand Paris» explores the ambitious growth projections for new housing in the Paris metropolitan area (up to 70 000 per year), and the rela-tionship between housing and employ-ment in the Grand Paris. The need for new housing is seen as opportunity to drive urban development and territorial equality through the expansion of public transportation systems and socio-demographic evolution of the region. L’Atelier International du Grand Paris [AIGP] selected 15 international teams of architects, planners and consultants to prepare a series of studies each exam-ining “Living in the Grand Paris” around a chosen theme.
The study «Ville légère - La part souple des métropoles» consists of three parts. The first, the theory portion proposes several notions imagining the trans-formation of the Grand Paris through urban process and development of a post-Kyoto European city.
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The second portion, the catalogue explores the urban texture within ten metropolitan cities around the world. Each influenced by a diversity of issues, histories and representing a specific ur-ban condition observed during the 20th century. The catalogue presents a tem-poral framing and evolution of a selected region by observing and identifying the distinct qualities and morphology of each instance.
Part three, the situations express in ten sequences the diversity of the ville légère. Locations in the Grand Paris are evoked in the constructed scenes, the images consider the forces, themes and devices that can assure a durable and positive transformation in the periph-eral territories of the city. The proposed interventions are not unique nor of an equivalent intensity but strive together to enhance and enrich the existing com-munity qualities.
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03 Situation Sevran; permeable shared surfaces connect pedestrians to micro-mobility networks and reclaim the canal as an essential transportation infrastructure to access the Paris city centre.
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05 Situation Bagneux; a macro transporta-tion hub exits to an adjacent housing development connecting GPE and metro networks to buses, parking and bike ga-rages.
06 Situation Massey; with the arrival of the GPE, Massey-Palaiseau has become a major hub in the Grand Paris. Targeted densification surrounds the new station in-troducing mixed usage towers with flexible typology and diverse programming.
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01 Animated model showing cultural centre proposal for Iqaluit. Latreille Delage Photography
02 Detail of Corian bas-relief model of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. Latreille Delage Photography
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ARCTIC ADAPTATIONS
Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 was Canada’s national representation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibi-tion - la Biennale di Venezia. It repre-sents a survey of a recent architectural past, a current urbanizing present, and a projective future of adaptive architec-ture in Nunavut. Nunavut is Canada’s largest most northernly territory, with a population of almost 33,000 living in 25 communities across two million square kilometers, making it one of the least densely populated regions in the world. The climate, geography, and people of Nunavut, as well as the wider Canadian Arctic, challenge the viability of a uni-versalizing modernity.
Arctic Adaptations explores modern-ism’s legacy within the contextual par-ticularities of the North. The exhibition documents architectural history and describes the contemporary realities of life in its communities, and examines a projected role for architecture moving forward. It argues that modern Inuit cultures continue to evolve and merge the traditional and the contemporary in unique and innovative ways, and
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questions whether architecture, which has largely failed this region – both technically and socially – can be equally innovative and adaptive.
The exhibit reflects on this rapid modernization and presents innova-tive architecture proposals by five design teams. Each team is made up of a Canadian school of architecture, a Canadian architecture office with extensive northern experience, and a Nunavut-based organization. Proposals examine the theme of – housing, health, education, arts, or recreation – and is rooted in Nunavut’s distinct land, climate and culture. They reflect local traditions of migration, mobility and seasonality and respond to regional as well as local realities, including climate change, economic transformations, and a young and rapidly growing population. Proposals are described through ani-mated architectural models at the scale of the region, community and building. The five proposals are accompanied by a series of topographic models represent-ing the 25 communities of Nunavut.
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03 Bas-relief Corian models of the 25 com-munities shown pre-mounting.
04 Animated model showing education proposal for Clyde River,Latreille Delage Photography
05 View of Arctic Adaptations exhibition.Latreille Delage Photography
06 Sectional model showing the housing proposal for Iqaluit. Latreille Delage Photography
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SOUTH MOLTON STREET
Located on a prominent central London corner site The Building South Molton Street responds to historic Mayfair while addressing the intersection of South Molton Street, Davies Street and Oxford Street. The 1:100 model measuring 110 x 115 x 60 mm is constructed from mirror card and steam bent plywood. It was se-lected for display at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2010 curated by Sir David Chipperfield.
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EVANESCENCE OF SOLUS
The work developed in Proteus Moves Studio investigates and translates dynamic flowing matter of natural phe-nomena into an inhabitable time-space. This speculative exercise has focused on the evanescent form of a steam index left by the eruption of a geyser. Through numerous models, capturing first the movement from the exterior, then the threshold and then the temporal volume of the interior imaginings, sensations and events. The current exercise seeks to develop a cultural site, “[...] a new spatio-temporal composition where durational space and the architecture of time are poignantly mobilized through affective architectonic form, matter and light.” The evanescence of solus, out of emptiness, a solitude, the glory of being alone enveloping the participant.
01 An illuminated small scale model made from perspex and wax explores the move-ments of the steam index.
02 A vignette taken from a large scale model imagines descending through the space.
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0303 Medium scale model from perspex, tis-sue and wax examines the effects of light through the medium.
04 Interior vignette; the ascent and envelop-ment in the experience of the space.
05 Interior vignette; transparency creates visual boundaries, and the impression of solitude.
06 Large scale model of the installation suspended within the external structural framework.
07 Interior vignette; considering threshold.
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SANT’ANTIOCO WATERFRONT
Sant’Antioco is the largest city on a small pair of islands off the south-west coast of Sardinia. Located on a shallow salt water lagoon and connected to the mainland by a peninsula. Once an important min-eral resource in Italy, the local economy has begun to transition from it’s mining history. As part of an overall master plan for the region the waterfront became an important connection between the city and the proposed harbour development on the Mediterranean sea.
The project develops and strengthens the connection between the city and wa-ter by establishing a park and waterfront path. A light weight structure extends the length of the waterfront to create a covered promenade. The free plan of the structure is capable of absorbing a variety of permanent and adaptive pro-grams. The new framework effectively serves the park and waterfront while establishing a lost connection between the city and its waterfront.
01 The site model was used as a tool in the development of the master plan to consider the transition from an industrial to human scale.
02 Site plan of the waterfront extending along the lagoon the historic city centre.
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03 Master plan including the waterfront proposal, tower, mega-structure and port redevelopment.
04 Activation of the promenade through the insertion of programmatic containers serv-ing the waterfront and park.
05 The expansive lightweight roof has the ability to absorb a range of adaptive and permanent programs to active and recon-nect the city and the waterfront.
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PIAZZA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ
The project considers the re-planning of the urban block terminating the Circo Massimo in Rome. Composed of three large buildings and the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, the block is surrounded by several notable urban artifacts and as such is a popular tourist destination in the city. The urban space is fragmented by vehicular traffic isolat-ing the various points of interest across the site.
The project proposes various interven-tions to re-engage and reconnect the site. By identifying exiting building penetrations we seek to reestablish historic connections across the block by removing massing from the existing buildings. This allows for the creation of a continuous public realm connecting the Circo Masimo and and the various urban artifacts across the site. The exist-
01 Collage; reclaiming the historic Piazza Bocca Della Verità based on a photograph from 1890.
02 Conceptual image overlaying the pro-posed massing, radial paving of the public realm and the Nolli map of Rome.
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ing buildings are repurposed to accept a range of programs through the introduc-tion of “machines”. The vertical cores connect and serve the existing floor plates while preserving the memory of the buildings the “machines” define a strip of permanent use programs and a space of adaptive opportunity. With no relation to the variable internal program the building façade is treated as a unify-ing element of the block through the application of graphic geometric pattern that creates visual interest on an expres-sionless façade. The final intervention seeks to activate the roof plane of the block and claim an aerial view of Rome through the creation of an expansive public terrace. The various interven-tions together propose a technique and management of existing spaces to pro-pose a new adaptive public and cultural destination in the city of Rome.
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03 View from Via della Circo Massimo. The removal of existing massing (grey) establishes connections and promotes a permeable pub-lic plane across the block.
04 The site in the greater context of Rome. The creation of a public roof terrace offers a new aerial perspective of the city.
05 As a terminus for the Circo Massimo the site is positioned adjacent to one of the larg-est open gathering spaces in Rome a has the potential to establish itself as an important cultural destination within the city.
06 Reclaiming the public realm the piazza reestablishes historic connections across the heart of the block encouraging new cultural programs to occupy the exiting buildings.
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NEW RUINS
The thesis explores the emergence, decline, and regeneration of council housing in the United Kingdom, and specifically London. It presents a conception of housing as a commod-ity derived from Arjun Appadurai’s The Social Life of Things, suggesting that commodities possess “a particular type of social potential”, a value realised only in their use or consumption. Housing understood in these terms provides an essential utilitarian and social function as a means of shelter, the domain of human association and its reproduction.
Recognising a need for consistent, sanitary, and fairly priced housing, the 1890 Housing of the Working Classes Act established the role of the state in maintaining quality standards of living as a right. Council housing, housing built and maintained by local authorities directly mobilised the social potential of housing as a commodity. Within a restricted commodity context, its value was realised through its consumption – a domestic use-value realised through rent.
The strategic removal of council housing from this restricted commodity context was promoted as a progressive redis-tributive policy under Thatcher as “the Right to Buy”. Through the diversifica-tion of tenure, it has enabled the transfer of housing capital from local authorities to stable council tenants, establishing a “property-owning democracy” while reducing council housing stock and the presence of the welfare state. Since 1980, the right to buy and subsequent housing reforms have promoted a political and idealogical disinvestment from council
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housing, intensifying the process of its social, and economic devalorization.
The thesis examines the regeneration of council housing as the product of two parallel processes each manipulating the ground rent or land value of a given site. In this way, the gentrification of council housing is directly initiated by local and regional authorities. Though maintain-ing a rhetoric of social improvement, the neoliberal strategies promoted by such practices instead intensify the so-cial exclusion and deprivation it alleges to address. The gentrification and de-molition of council housing concludes a broader historical narrative describing its slow deliberate privatisation, and diminishing value ascribed to the state provision of housing, since its peak in the 1970s.
Appropriating the new ruins of the welfare state as sites of agonistic potential within the city, the project demands a theoretical re-foundation, and critical recuperation of the social and ideological objectives of council housing. Mobilising the latent social potential of housing as a commodity it describes a projective model of devel-opment separating financial form and social function. The project pursues the financialization of property under neo-liberalism to its most illogical extremes, abstracting housing from the financial armatures that enable investment in the built environment. Specifically, it pro-poses the development of high quality, permanently affordable housing realised through the exploitation of speculative property investment.
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01 Previous Page. After enclosing the pe-rimeter of site and decanting its residents within the circumscribing development a speculative urban void is created through the incremental demolition of the Heygate Estate.
02 View from personal room looking out across the void.
03 Aerial view of development indicating the division and commodification of the urban void.
04. Site plan of the former Heygate Estate.
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Fig 01 Model photo, from within the building across the commons.
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05. Model view from East.
06. Model view looking across the void.
07. Southwark Council is largest local authority landlord in London – housing 49% of its population in approximately 55,000 tenant and leasehold properties. The Southwark Council Housing inventory map opposite, illustrates the extents of this social infrastructure. The Elephant and Castle Opportunity Area Boundary within which the Heygate Estate is located is indicated in red.
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