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whitehall
history
Mary Immaculate Hospital closed down in 2009. The original building was built in
1902 and a secondary build in 1940. Both buildings will be converted in to apartments. The
interior scheme of the 1902 building focused on art deco details and clean lines in conjunc-
tion with modern materials and amenities. The smaller scale secondary building ‘the town-
houses’ design reflects a simplified rendition of the main building with focus on texture of
materials.
involvement
. Whitehall Interiors: schematic design through to 50% CD
. Worked directly with Goldstein Hill & West Architects
with interior architecture.
. Designer of the party room and amenity spaces
Jamaica hospital conversion
queens, ny 2014
selected plan of primary building
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Whitehall Jamaica hospital conversion
queens, ny 2014
rendering of amenity space in main building: party room
rendering of amenity space in main building: party room
rendering of amenity space in main building: entry lobby
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Whitehall
. Secondary building
. Whitehall Interiors: beginning through to 100% CD
. Full CD set available
Jamaica hospital conversion
queens, ny 2014
selected plan of secondary building
rendering of typical kitchen in secondary building
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Whitehall Jamaica hospital conversion
queens, ny 2014
selected plan of secondary building
rendering of elevator space in secondary building
rendering of hall in secondary building
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whitehall
history & involvement
. Renovation of penthouse in Trump Tower. Full CD set available.
. Whitehall Interiors: schematic design through to 100% CD
. Liaison between subcontractors, client, and designers
RIVERSIDE PENTHOUSE
new york, ny 2014
rendering kitchen Selected page from CD Set
rendering master bath
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LU ning
history & involvment
. Lu Ning Architecture: schematic design through to 100% CD
. DOB representative, zoning analysis
. 5-story mixed use building expansion and renovation
. Full CD set available
903 60th street
brooklyn, ny 2014
Selected plans from CD Set
Selected zoning from CD Set
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profession project list
RESIDENTIAL
2015 Two Family Residence Addition: 1200sf RD: Project manager/Designer
Armonk, NY
2015 Singlefamily Historic Reno & Addition: 3500sf RD: Designer
Yorktown, NY
2014 821 53rd Street: 16 Story: 339 apartments WH: Designer
Queens, NY
2014 Riverside Penthouse: singlefamily: 8000sf WH: Designer
Manhattan, NY
2013 821 53rd Street: multifamily: 7000sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Brooklyn, NY
2013 198th Street: multifamily: 7000sf LN: Designer
Queens, NY
2013 303 E 60th Street: single family: 700sf LN: Custom Interior Designer
Manhattan, NY
2013 147-43 Ash Ave: two family: 3200sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Queens, NY
2013 163-04 72nd Ave: single family: 1620sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Queens, NY
2013 64-14 174th Ave: two family: 1000sf LN: Designer
Queens, NY
2012 2466 Hoffman: Multifamily: 6000sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Bronx, NY
2012 903 60th Street: mixed use: 6500sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Brooklyn, NY
2012 Spini: single family detached: 1500sf LN: Designer
Fort Lee, NJ
2012 Gonzalez: single family addition: 600sf LN: Designer
Leonia, NY
2012 Gary: single family addition: 600sf LN: Designer
Leonia, NY
RESPONSIBILITY PHASES
SD DD CD B CA
PROJECTS RESPONSIBILITY PHASES
SD DD CD B CA
PROJECTS
COMMERCIAL
2013 15-19 132nd st warehouse: 6000sf office:2500sf WH: Designer
Queens, NY
2013 43-10 Main Street: salon: 600sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Queens, NY
2012 82-10 37th Ave: pharmacy: 1800sf LN: Project manager/Designer
Queens, NY
2013 372 Lafayette Ave: cafe: 2000sf LN: Designer
Brooklyn, NY
2013 658 Grand St: cafe: 400sf LN: Designer
Brooklyn, NY
2012 The Colony: Roadway PW: Designer
Edgewater, NJ
2012 Delux Auto Sales: office: 3500sf PW: Designer
Linden, NJ
OFFICES
2015 11 Broadway GHWA & Whitehall Office: 1600sf WH: Project manager/Designer
Manhattan, NY
2013 137-01 Northern Blvd: Dentist: 1600sf LN: Designer
Queens, NY
2013 130 E 63rd Street: Dentist: 500sf LN: Designer
Manhattan, NY
2012 229 W 61st Street: Dentist: 1700sf LN: Designer
Manhattan, NY
2012 Ishitani Chiropractic: 1000sf PW: Designer
Fort Lee, NJ
SD: Schematic Design
DD: Design Development
CD: Construction Documents
B: Bidding
CA: Construction Administration
RD: Rayex Design
WH: Whitehall
LN: Lu Ning Architects
PW: Pulice Williams Architects
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Conversion
history
The Old Street Magistrates Court Police Station was designed by architect John
Dixon Butler and built in 1903-05. The site is directly across from the existing Shoreditch
Town Hall. The Baroque façade facing Old Street was built to the full height allowance at
the time while simultaneously is mindful of light rights of the surrounding buildings. This is
shown through the east and west sections of the building are lower than the main building.
There are also many light wells to bring in light into the interior of the building. The north
façade is more utilitarian and reflects the internal functions. It is also off the car park and
where the prisoners were transferred. The single building was designed to hold two civic
functions but they were to be kept and run separately. The Magistrates Court had a juvenile
court and a separate minor crimes court. The police station was not just an office and
holding cells but also included housing for officers. The Court remained open until 1999 and
the police station until 2008. (Divers 2010)
The building is Grade II listed. The building footprint and main façade of Old Street
are highly significant. The courtrooms and their surrounding layouts are historically sig-
nificant. The courtroom on the ground floor is mildly intact with a few upgrades making it
medium to high significance. The courtroom on the first floor is completely original and one
of the first juvenile courts making it of high importance. The main entrance hall was once
the ‘public waiting hall’ and because of this, it is the most highly and freely
decorated space in the building. The décor includes wrought-iron balusters, wood handrails,
geometric windows, and globe lamps. The space is historically intact and highly significant.
All stairs and major circulation paths are of medium significance. They do not contain major
architectural significance but they reflect the unique nature of the separation and circula-
tion of the courts and police station. The rest of the building had numerous minor interior
changes over the twentieth century making them of very low significance. (Divers 2010)
proposal: two schemes
Architecture School : Interior alterations only
Student Accommodations : Parasitic addition and interior alteration
For both proposals, understanding the public and private realms of this building is crucial to its
success. The building gives specific circulation access because of its unique past use. Coupling
the existing stairs and access corridors with new circulation will allow the building to
permeable for the public while simultaneous successfully separating it from the private pro-
gram.
The building is structurally sound and is adaptable to numerous programs. Certain additions
such as lifts and the addition and removal of select walls will cause minimal damage to the
building. This will maintain its historical significance while transforming its use. The Old Street
Magistrates Court and Police Station building is a redundant civic building with unique
characteristics that will be exposed through either reuse proposal.
old street police station and court house
london, uk 2015
Architecture school
This program would also be used for other types of education such as another art discipline. The Old Street
Magistrates Court and Police Station will act as a secondary location for a studio based curriculum from either the
Bartlett or an addition to the near by Prince’s Drawing school or the University of the Arts in London. This
proposal would not require an addition to the building but will consist of an alteration of the interior only. This
scheme will also consist of proper organization of the public and private realm within the building.
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Conversion
Student accommodations
As a public civic building, creating a completely private
building would counterintuitive to the architecture. The cellular
nature of the building with unique spaces such as the court-
rooms and holding cells allow for multi uses. Creating a student
accommodation with public amenities would serve the most
people while sustaining the historical fabric of the building.
old street police station and court house
london, uk 2015
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REUSE
history
Morden Hall and Park is 125 acres large. The grounds were once owned by Westmin-
ster. After Henry the VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536, it was sold to merchants and
they built the country home. The property was used a residential home until William White
leased the property and created a ‘school for young gentlemen’ in 1830s. It remained as a
school until 1867 when Gilliat Hatfeild purchased the property. Morden Hall and Park passed
through many owners but the most significant were the Hatfeilds, Gilliat Hatfeild Senior and
then his son, Gilliat Edward Hatfeild. (National Trust)
The property was used for tobacco merchants. There are snuff mills on the prop-
erty along with other service buildings on site. Gilliat Hatfeild Senior laid out the park with
avenues and clearings, as it is known today. When Gilliat Hatfeild Senior died in 1906, Gilliat
Edward inherited the property. GE Hatfeild lived modestly in Morden Cottage instead of
Morden Hall and used the hall for public benefit.
GE Hatfeild set up numerous wildlife sanctuaries, gardens, and orchards. He also
opened up the property for children of the area. He would throw parties for poorer children,
tours of the rose garden and give back to the community. During the First World War, GE
Hatfeild turned Morden Hall into a hospital for wounded soldiers. GE Hatfeild used Morden
Hall and Park philanthropically. This theme remained when he endowed the property to the
National Trust with one condition, for it to always be for public use and benefit. (National
Trust)
The National Trust followed GE Hatfeild’s wishes but also needed to lease out the
property for an income. They threw film parties and events throughout the 1947 and 1952.
The hall and park are both Grade II listed. The hall eventually became offices for council of-
ficials. In 1994 the hall was leased out to a restaurant. The property and maintenance was too
large for a sole restaurant and eventually closed. The National Trust is currently restoring the
building to its former décor to be able to sucessfully lease out the property. (National Trust)
approach
Connectivity to park, Morden town center, Tube
Park sites: Snuff Mills, book store, café, and Sustainability Center
Adhere to the needs of Morden
Create a mixed-use program that is flexible and will last
Follow National Trust’s objectives
Maintaining historical significance, generating income,
creating a community staple
site connectivity
Major Axes through building
Public connection from street to park and car park to park
Landscaping approach
Referencing historic pictures
Clear paths to Hall from street, car park, and park
Visual connections
MORDEN HALL and Park
morden, uk 2015
1915 Morden Hall
Today Morden Hall
1926 Morden Hall
Today Morden Hall
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reuse
PROPOSAL
Adhere GE Hatfield’s intention for the Hall to be for public benefit and fulfill to the needs of
Morden’s low income/working class and high unemployment demographics
Career training, job help, education
ex: National Career Services, Training Courses
Education
Adult and children’s education
Works in conjunction with existing education centers on site
Potentially used for professional training with Career Training
IE: London Youth, CityLit, etc.
Generate Income
Space for start up companies
short term leases, flexible spaces, coworking schemes
Restaurant and Venue hire
Affordable, night life, continuously populated
Community Connections
Events & Market – indoor and outdoor – food, goods, gallery
Connection to outdoors, drawing people in
room typology
Restaurant & Venue Hire
Using existing outfit with proper historical conservation
Connection to outside – visible use
Career Services
First Floor – low significance rooms allowing for flexible outfit
Start up offices
Second floor – low significance rooms allowing for flexible outfit
Education
Using existing cellular rooms – high historical significance
Market and Gallery
Maintaining high historical significance
All temporary outfits depending on event
Connection to outside – visible use
MORDEN HALL and Park
morden, uk 2015
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landscape
history
At Rousham, William Kent built off Charles Bridgeman’s existing garden. Kent
combined a naturalized design and his love for Roman architecture. He used a way finding
technique that moves a user through the gardens by setting up moments at classical statues,
breaks in landscape, ponds, and small structures. At these pauses, there is something in the
view that pulls you to the next moment. The views are key to moving through the relatively
small and untraditional shaped property. The design created less of a singular intended
route but a series of options to weave throughout the whole landscape.
proposal
Create an outdoor theatre with Rousham Gardens that is sensitive to its history.
approach
The theater intervention uses the principles from that technique. The current
circulation leads to a junction to go down the existing Kent path or the new smaller one.
The larger path, lined with the existing pine trees brings one through with a break in the pine.
The view reiterates the layers of the working landscape. Within the view is the theater, but
it not seen because the theater is sunk into the ground; the user is looking over it, through
the landscape. The smaller new path is defined by thick low ground covering and existing
pine trees; a similar design seen throughout Rousham. The path confronts the theater, which
opens up in the middle of the existing natural forest by Kent.
Much like the Romans influenced William Kent, the theater uses elements from a
Roman amphitheater. The theater’s geometries are semicircular seating steps down that
surround the elevated rectangular stage. The stage has two pine trees on either side framing
it, as curtains. These trees also frame the view to the river and meadow beyond. These same
trees provide the frame of the view from the existing path that looks over the theater to
beyond. New pines create a backdrop behind the audience. The pines deliberately placed feed
into the surrounding existing, Kent designed, natural forest. A secondary path leaves from
the base of the theater to connect back to the primary and secondary circulation paths. The
theater is another moment with views and options pushing the user through the landscape.
rousham gardens
rousham, uk 2014
propsed site
intersection of
views and
circulation
circulation and views
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thesis
Deployable architecture can be the tool to enable sustainable change
and opportunity in numerous places. The deployed system conforms
to a pallet that can be transported by boat, truck, and air. In order to
address numerous types of program including economics, health, and
disaster relief while simultaneously engaging its community, the
system needs to be flexible.
The design method is to test in six different conditions, including rural
and urban settings, while focusing on a primary location in Boston. By
using a kit of parts it to be universal yet also be configured differently
at different scales. This will allow it to be customized to any location.
The next level of design steps towards sustainable change using local
resources to create permanence and ownership.
the architecture of deployable opportunity: 2011
changing lives through mobile initatives and socially conscious design
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THESIS
DEPLOY
An airdrop system (aircrafts that use pallet 463l) allows the structures
to be placed anywhere despite if there is
infrastructure. Using its delivery restraints as part of the
design probletm allows for the creation of efficient and
adaptive spaces.
the architecture of deployable opportunity:
changing lives through mobile initatives and socially conscious design
shipping requirements
Air Drop
Pallet 463L
88”xu”x2.25” (84”x104”useable)
10,000 lbs (9,645 lbs. usable)
weighs 355 lbs. with netting and tie downs
max 250 lbs. per square inch
22 tie down rings 7500 lbs. restraint capacity
materials: aluminum skin with wood or fiberglass core
side and top nets. aluminum rails
C-130 aircraft
total pallets: 6
C-141 aircraft
total pallets: 13
C-5 aircraft
total pallets: 36
C-3 aircraft
total pallets: 18
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THESIS
KIT OF PARTS
An airdrop system (aircrafts that use pallet 463l) allows the structures
to be placed anywhere despite if there is
infrastructure. Using its delivery restraints as part of the
design probletm allows for the creation of efficient and
adaptive spaces.
the architecture of deployable opportunity:
changing lives through mobile initatives and socially conscious design
south boston
Characteristics
-large site that breaks the barrier of
industrial and can allow South Boston
residents to gain access to the water front
-large volume of people with numerous uses
-broad spectrum of programmatic influences
Organization on Site
-continuation of the residential grid and scale through to
the water, connecting to the harbor walk
-path is created by the street grid and the canopy shapes
-deployable structure ridged and modular but the canopy
is unique
Programmatic Solutions
-headquarters for deployable structure manufacturing and
non-governmental organizations (NGO’s)
-acts as an icon for humanitarian associations
-education indoor and outdoor
facilities to accommodate different size groups
-community interaction through a market and
event space
-health care facilities consultation rooms to the site
-the canopy is amorphous and is custom to location
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the architecture of deployable opportunity:
changing lives through mobile initatives and socially conscious design THESIS
global initiative
thesis
south boston
NYANGA, SOUTH AFRICA | 18 pallets | c-3 transport
Characteristics
-high violence
-unemployment
-health crisis AIDS
-urban landscape
Breakdown
-large health clinic
-numerous safe and offices for
microfinance
-open outdoor gathering
kabul, afghanistan | 24 pallets | c-5 transport
-female segregation
-unemployment
-low income
-urban landscape
Breakdown
-education and community
functions
-numerous safe and offices
for micro finance
-enclosed space to protect
from extreme weather
conditions
titanyen, haiti | 13 pallets | c-141 transport
-disease
-natural disaster relief and
cannot to go to the city for
help (overcrowding)
-rural landscape
Breakdown
-large health clinic
-open outdoor interaction
-education rooms
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engage
Competition Winner of a
World War II Veteran’s Memorial in
Somerville, Massachusetts
concept
The memorial would stitch outdoor library seating to and open public
gathering space. The limbs of the structure expand throughout the
site, activating the different types of program.
details
The structure uses wood that connects to nature and landscape. The
pathways are sewn into the ground. The structure’s seating is both
sculptural and purposeful. Merging the public library and the high
school’s land as one, it allows for both public paths and introspective
pauses in remembrance of the veterans. The library site features the
intimate section of the memorial. There are smaller trees and plants,
along with a narrower path. The other side is the public side of the
memorial, opening up into the large gathering space. These spaces are
depicted by scale of trees, and landscape, as well as the wooden forms.
The canopies of the indigenous trees create space that flows with the
architecture. The names of the 287 Somerville veterans are carved out
of the cascading wooden beams. These names are back lit with LED
lights. At night, the memorial radiates light
world war II memorial
somerville, ma 2009
private seating
public gathering
private seating
memorial
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engage world war II memorial
somerville, ma 2009
Hedge Maple
corresponds to
intimate spaces
20-25’ high | small
canopy
decidious
Serviceberry
20-25’ high | small
canopy
white flowers
Freeman Maple
corresponds to open
public spaces
40-60’ high
large open
canopy
decidious
Golden Raintree
corresponds to
public
gathering spaces
30-40’ high | large
canopy
decidious
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sustain
An environmental center in Jamican Plain next to Jamaica Pond
concept
Separating programatic elements by orientation and using sustainable
design tactics
detail
Using different building techiniques for different spaces
education - large concrete building standing out of nature outdoor
multi-use space - a cantilevered light outdoor space over looking the
park and floating above the green roof to be the closest to nature
admistration space - partially underground and hidden
sustainable design tactics
roof garden
atrium space
window treatment/louver system
cut and fill foundation
orientation
environmental center
jamaica plain, ma 2009
classroom
classroom
gallery
exhibition
space
outdoor
space
roof
garden
administrationeducational
educational
outdoor space
administration
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scale
A facade for an existing building to be converted into a library by
Boston Book Archives
The required program is a ten foot wide space including study carrels
(private and group), stairs, and light sensitive books. stacks were in a
specific unchanged space and each floor was already designated its
basic program (entry, stacks and study or conference hall)
concept
Using two different point of visions, pedestrian and vehicular, to
create the facade
detail
The entrance level is for pedestrians, the angles of display walls lure
pedestrians inside. the rest of the facade is numerous digital screens
displaying an image of vehicle traffic.
A painting by Chuck Close was chosen because his work embodies
the concept of different points of vision, from a far the colors come
together to make a picture, but close up it all blurs. for the building, the
digital screens change to any image.
The grid of screens was determined by the proportion of the human
body. The interior also uses that grid and punctured windows are used
to create different spaces relatng to program.
facade overhaul
boston, ma 2008
ground floor plan
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unison
To successfully combine the large-scale space of the apparatus
storage with the small-scale elements associated with the living
quarters
concept
To have all parts of the program to act as one space.
The program works in three parts, starting at private living (bed, bath,
living), work related area (gym, office) to the apparatus storage.
detail
They are connected by a continuous reverse truss system, that is seen
through the whole building the roof twists to change the scale of the
volume of the space gradually and continuously.
firehouse
lincoln, ma 2008
