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The synthetic iron ore project explores the potentials of an innovative material that blends synthetic biological compounds with traditional iron ore, creating adaptive, self-healing architectural elements. Imagine buildings that grow, change, and repair themselves, erasing the line between the built environment and natural growth. Through advanced additive manufacturing and a precise lattice structure, our material evolves in response to external stimuli, offering unparalleled durability and adaptability. This approach challenges perceptions of architecture, transforming buildings into dynamic, living entities that enhance sustainability and redefine our interaction with the urban landscape.

The current state of production relies on the extraction of ore from the earth through mining. The next step introduces flux to the mineral-bearing substances to separate metal from the minerals. During flux and addition of other metals, alloys are created, strengthening iron for use under more conditions.

_EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY

Purification + Refinement

_PHYSICAL METALLURGY

Alloying or Powdering

_IMPLEMENTATION

_The Base Unit

The key design is the unit cell, showing the repeating patterns that dictate the arrangement of structural element.

_IMPLEMENTATION

_The Lattice System

The concept of our lattice structure comes from an exploration of a unit cell type that determines the most efficient geometry for our synthetic material’s fundamental building block. The unit serves as the smallest repeating unit for complex large-scale structures. This mimics a natural crystalline process, making the replication system a strong and consistent geometry.

_IMPLEMENTATION

__Erosion, Repair & Restoration

Integrating the compound into existing materials can allow for self-sustaining eco-systems. This allows for material longevity and reduction of virgin materials used to construct the built environment.

_AT SCALE

This proposal showcases the lattice system in a pavilion form. Where one is able to inhabit a lattice system brought to the human scale.

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_Form Creation

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_Surface Development

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_Output

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Digital

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_FORMATION

2D Diagram

CREATION

_Digital

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_Physical

The project called for a synthesis of an Ecology Library and a Data Center, forging a site-specifc relationship between programatic space it houses, and the ecology it inhabits.

_Final Film - Downtown Data

_GEOMETRY CREATION

Negatives and Positives

The process began by exploring individual moments. Searching for patterns that could be identifed and replicated later on. We approached the search with a focus on puzzles, starting at a larger scale before reducing the working area to a cube. The resulting opposing faces allow for two scenarios for seating and lounging, one being served by the canopy condition, while the other remains separated from the exterior via the solid wall. The dark data center is incased in the library portion, its fins serving to redirect the heating by-product into its natural upward trajectory.

_WHOLE Development

_Moment to Space

These ideas merged with other moments to enable the building to flourish. The building rests on three points, the street level serving as an garden consisting of ecology islands. Its facade is broken by two overhangs that reveal themselves to terraces. The slicing curves that enable the overhangs enable circulation, in the interior, to be conducted via a set of ramps, with secondary staircases located throughout the building. The building is served by two inner occuluses, these alongside the inner sloping glass, enable light to enter the lower levels. These glass facades, as well as the interior spaces are filled with extruding geometry that serve themselves to the programatic requirement of the space. Denser geometry is allocated towards the Library Closed Stacks and the Data Center Racks. Meanwhile the geometry on the facades serve as flowering beds for vegetation, increasing noise and heat insulation.

_FUTURE RUINS - MASP

_At a time in the future

Conducted precedent study on the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo by Lina Bo Bardi. Design served as guiding principles for developed building. Study concluded with a vision into an uncertain future. M.A.S.P. in Ruins.

Worked underneath the artist to develop the spacial qualities of the space for ideation and ultimatly construccion in-situ.

Having just moved into a new office, I was asked to design a series of furniture for their space.

_Office Furniture

A series of communal wooden tables to be crafted using the wood from their space in Upstate New York. It uses two X-Frame Legs which meet at a central pivot point where the horizontal stretcher is connected.

_Exterior Patio Stairs

To access their newfound exterior patio, a fabrication plan for a set of steel stairs was devised.