Luke Sinopoli Architecture Portfolio

Portfolio of Selected Architectural Works

Luke Clayton Sinopoli

Luke Clayton [email protected]

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University of Cincinnati Graduate HouseTYPE: ACADEMIC; PROGRAMMING & ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

LOCATION: CINCINNATI, OHIO

PARTNER: DREW SUSZKO

DATE: 2013

In this self-guided studio which focused on how design influences peoples’ behaviors, my teammate and I explored graduate housing on University of Cincinnati’s campus. Stemming from the University’s desire to distinguish itself as a research-oriented powerhouse through its graduate and doctoral programs, this proposal centered on a Graduate House for UC that would transform campus life and cultivate greater social interaction between residents, students and the community.

Inspired by the residential college model, elements of monastic living, and contemporary positions on integrating academic and off-campus living, this proposal aimed at balancing spaces for academic life and social life, private space versus public space.

PRIVATE SPACESEach student is provided with a small amount of private space, where amenities are shared with adjacent units.

Connecting each room, the traditional corridor is expanded to accommodate a number of loosely programmed spaces, intended to foster interaction.

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RESEARCHING

EATING

SOCIALIZING

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SHARED SPACESEach of these programmed areas accommodate a variety of functions; at their most basic are eating, researching and socializing. The conglomeration of these spaces make up the Graduate House’s shared space system meant specifically for the House’s residents.

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LOWER LEVEL READING ROOM

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BATH-ROOMS (L)

CUSTODIAL (L)

LAUNDRY

WASTE (L)

STORAGE (OTHER)

COMMON LOUNGE

DEAN’S RES

SINGLE BRs

SPAMEDI-

TATION SPACE

KITCHEN (L)

REC ROOM

VENDING

GARDEN / COURT

CUSTODIAL (C)

WASTE (C)

MAIL (C)

PARKING

BAR

BATH-ROOMS (W)

TUTOR SUITES

MAIL (L)

REC READ-ING

REFLEC-TIVE READ

DINER

DOUBLE BRs

FAMILY SUITES

DINING HALL

ASSEMBLY

CATERING KITCHEN

FOOD GAR-DEN

GREEN HOUSE

STORAGE (BIKE)

FITNESS

STUDY ROOM

MASTER’S RES

MEDIA LIBRARY

PUBLIC PRESENTA-

TION

COM-MUNITY CENTER CLASS-

ROOMS

CONFER-ENCE

BREAKOUT SPACE

STUDIO SPACE

BIZ INCU-BATOR

LABORA-TORY

ART STU-DIO

GALLERY

INTRAMU-RAL

SERVICE

PUBLIC

WORK

PLAY

LIVE

COMMON

BATH-ROOMS (L)

CUSTODIAL (L)

LAUNDRY

WASTE (L)

STORAGE (OTHER)

DEAN’S RES

SINGLE BRs

SPAMEDI-

TATION SPACE

KITCHEN (L)

REC ROOM

VENDING

GARDEN / COURT

CUSTODIAL (C)

WASTE (C)

MAIL (C)

PARKING

BAR

BATH-ROOMS (W)

TUTOR SUITES

MAIL (L)

REC READ-ING

REFLEC-TIVE READ

DINER

DOUBLE BRs

FAMILY SUITES

DINING HALL

ASSEMBLY

CATERING KITCHEN

FOOD GAR-DEN

GREEN HOUSE

STORAGE (BIKE)

FITNESS

STUDY ROOM

MASTER’S RES

MEDIA LIBRARY

PUBLIC PRESENTA-

TION


ROOMS

CONFER-ENCE

BREAKOUT SPACE

STUDIO SPACE

BIZ INCU-BATOR

LABORA-TORY

ART STU-DIO

GALLERY

INTRAMU-RAL

COMMON LOUNGE

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BATH-ROOMS (L)

CUSTODIAL (L)

LAUNDRY

WASTE (L)

STORAGE (OTHER)

COMMON LOUNGE

DEAN’S RES

SINGLE BRs

SPAMEDI-

TATION SPACE

KITCHEN (L)

REC ROOM

VENDING

GARDEN / COURT

CUSTODIAL (C)

WASTE (C)

MAIL (C)

PARKING

BAR

BATH-ROOMS (W)

TUTOR SUITES

MAIL (L)

REC READ-ING

REFLEC-TIVE READ

DINER

DOUBLE BRs

FAMILY SUITES

DINING HALL

ASSEMBLY

CATERING KITCHEN

FOOD GAR-DEN

GREEN HOUSE

STORAGE (BIKE)

FITNESS

STUDY ROOM

MASTER’S RES

MEDIA LIBRARY

PUBLIC PRESENTA-

TION


ROOMS

CONFER-ENCE

BREAKOUT SPACE

STUDIO SPACE

BIZ INCU-BATOR

LABORA-TORY

ART STU-DIO

GALLERY

INTRAMU-RAL

PROGRAMMINGProgramming was a significant component to this project. Critical programs were identified and ranked from most important to least important with respect to their ability to foster interaction at multiple levels: residents, UC students, and the adjacent community.

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SITE PLANThe House was divided into two buildings, forming a central pedestrian mall and connecting the busy retail street to the south to the bustling heart of campus.

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GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

CIRCULATION

W CALHOUN ST

W MCMILLAN ST

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ACCESSIBILITY

GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

PROMINENT VIEWS, AXES, AND GREENS

SITE SELECTIONThe site was selected to act as a strategic gateway or southern portal into the campus. This edge of campus has very few prominent connections between the newly revitalized retail dis-trict along Calhoun and McMil-lan Streets and UC’s own Main Street.

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Residence Hall RenovationTYPE: PROFESSIONAL; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & RENOVATION

LOCATION: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

DATE: 2012

Tasked with updating a number of the university’s historic residence halls, the firm was challenged with preserving the facades of these significant structures while enhancing the lifestyle of the university’s well-known undergraduate residential colleges. The process sought to understand the implications of future renovations based on a few key factors: access, structure, program, main entry and circulation. Each of these variables were singled-out, analyzed and re-assembled to develop a series of comprehensive options for the client’s review.

ROLE: My initial role was to manage the digital model of the existing structure – originally outsourced and constructed based upon its 1930s drawings.

Towards the design, I was charged with developing initial strategies and concepts for accommodating the common space program, access and circulation of the first floor and lower levels of the residence hall, eventually fusing these with the residential floors above.

CONTEXT AND CIRCULATION

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EXISTING TUTOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND CIRCULATION

PROPOSED HYBRID ORGANIZATION AND CIRCULATION

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STRUCTURAL BEAM LOCATIONS

EXPLORATION IN INTERNAL ACCESSIBILITY

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ITERATIVE EVOLUTION OF GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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ENTRANCE STUDIESEarly concepts concentrated on the building’s access and circulation on the first floor. As the building had many level changes, including a 30” plinth which the majority of the first floor rested upon, different strategies were explored to provide accessible and meaningful approaches to the building’s interior.

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Designing for Reuse: Mixed-Use StructureTYPE: ACADEMIC; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

LOCATION: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

DATE: 2014

Identifying issues in the limited lifespan of buildings due to economically engineered tactics of planned obsolescence, this thesis proposal approaches design and construction from a different vantage point. Rather than designing buildings that are constructed and demolished completely, what if certain building elements were designed to remain? What components would be left behind as usable infrastructure? What would the building look like? How would it be used?

In essence, it means a building meant to be adaptively reused, a building designed for change. This proposal explores what it would mean for a building to be a continual construction site, where certain common elements remain and new or specialized elements become interchangeable - a contemporary ruin, of sorts - viewing the shared permanent portion of the building more as a system of infrastructure than as a traditionally programmed structure.

The building proposal is comprised of two parts: the permanent and the ephemeral. This proposal explores how the permanent can accommodate the many different uses of the ephemeral via configuration of structure, chase and corridor space.

SITELocated in the southern part of Olde Kensington, Philadelphia, the site is situated between a recently gentrified neighborhood to the south and a former industrial corridor to the north. The site is chosen strategically to capitalize on these two areas in great flux as an ideal environment to suggest an adaptable building proposal.

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STRATEGIESThe permanent system is meant to be a conduit to allow multiple units to plug in to it, essentially a series of corridors vertically and horizontally oriented. The system is designed in such a way that each tenant can construct their own unit during any time in the life of the building without disturbing the general functions of the units around them.

Temp Occupiable Space

Temp Infrastructural Space

Perm Occupiable Space

Perm Infrastructural Space

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TEMPORARY AND THE PERMANENT

VERTICAL CHASE CONFIGURATION

DUAL STRUCTURAL SYSTEM

TOTAL BUILD-OUTCONFIGURATION

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PROGRAMOne of the primary roadblocks for constructing a building intent upon change is that change is not predictably foreseeable. This proposal intends to accommodate programming that is by its very nature temporary.

Programs such as: - Incubator space- Pop-up retail- Transitional restaurant space (i.e. food truck to perm. location)- Temporary art exhibition space- Field office locations- Short term apartment/lease

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TWO SYSTEMSThis project proposes two structural systems. The first system, at the core, facilitates the buildings main arteries, conveying people and services laterally and vertically – creating a core and anchor to which units will be fixated. In these corridors is a 3’ utility strip that provides access to the plenum space below each floor for maintenance and hook-ups for new construction

The second is a lighter external structure meant to be a permanent scaffolding for temporary units. Supported by thin/light columns and bracing, the units can be constructed on-site with available space on all sides for workers to access.

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Cincinnati School of Environmental LearningTYPE: ACADEMIC; SITE PLANNING & ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

LOCATION: CINCINNATI, OHIO

DATE: 2011

This graduate design studio focused on developing a school of environmental learning in an urban neighborhood near a thriving retail street and an iconic neighborhood church. While responding to its context, the core idea of this proposal was to expose the site to an environmental process - the water cycle - and design the building and its landscape around it. By designing a setting that would tell the story of rainfall, collection, filtration, storage and reuse as educational tools allowed experimentation with developing inside/outside relationships with the building spatially and structurally.

External the site, the school is scaled in harmony of its urban context with a focal entry point on its north side, oriented towards the neighborhood landmark of the church and acting as a backdrop for a new public plaza. Internally, a series of hallways follow the flow landscape terraces culminating in indoor/outdoor laboratory adjacent a water body used for the study of plant and aquatic life.

WEDGE

DOUGHNUT

EXPLODED BLOCK

HYBRID

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SITE STRATEGIES

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SITE PLAN

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CIRCULATION

SOLAR STRATEGIES

Roof runoffRoof runoff

Surface Runoff

VegetatedChannel

Undergroundconveyance

Undergroundconveyance

Catchment areas

Main storage andfiltration area

WATER FLOW

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Drop-off

School Courtyard

Second Floor Terrace

Public Plaza

No access

Limited publicaccess

OPEN SPACE

Access to Public

Public Entrance

Secured Entrance

School secured duringpublic events

EVENT ACCESS

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Classrooms

Community Spaces

Gymnasium (ht. `)

Media Center/Library

Corridors

Third Floor


/ Health Clinic

Gymnasium

Classrooms

Community Spaces

Corridors

Second Floor

Specialized Classrooms

Great Hall

Classrooms

Community Spaces

Corridors

Maintenance


First Floor

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Fabric Forms and the ModuleTYPE: ACADEMIC; MATERIAL STUDIES

TEAM: FREDERIK BERTE, JORDAN LEWIS, & ANDREW NEWMAN

DATE: 2012

FABRIC CASTINGFabric casting was the common interest in the group as a means of exploring fluid form from a material that, when cured, would be solid and massive. Of particular interest was the tendency of fabric formed concrete to be unrecognizable as a material. The textural imprint of fabric onto the surface of the concrete was also of interest as it was another means of transforming the concrete from a known material to an unknown material.

THE MODULEThe team was encouraged to consider integrating the idea of the fabric pours with that of the module; one, for the sake of greater applicability of the proposal as a construction element, and second, as a means of exploring deeper functional solutions to using concrete and the connection between materials in ways not previously explored. As the investigation progressed, it was recognized that there were even greater benefits of the module related to texture. The modular elements, when assembled created another level of texture at the macro level that contributed to the idea of rendering the materiality of the concrete obsolete.

FORMWORKIn considering the formwork and the module it was paramount that the material that made up the formwork was resilient enough for repeated use - a strategy derived from an interest to save material and time while ensuring consistent modules with each pour. We decided on quarter inch thick polycarbonate as the material would not degrade with each pour.

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FORM & MATERIALIt was decided that the interlocking concrete elements would not be structurally possible as the concrete would be brittle at these connections. Instead, interlocking would be in the form of tabbed inserts that would be integrated within each poured module, evident in the polycarbonate formwork. The bottom three layers in each pour would accommodate a tabbed polycarbonate layer to facilitate this connection. Finally, it was also considered to switch to a hexagonal module which would provide greater opportunities for interlocking without being too complicated.

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The Baths at CranbrookTYPE: ACADEMIC; SITE PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

LOCATION: BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN

DATE: 2012

As a two quarter course, this graduate design studio focused on comprehensive design from conceptual site strategies down to detail design. The following work embodies the culmination of the first quarter which focused on site strategies and conceptual design of this proposed spa on the Cranbrook school campus just north of Detroit Michigan.

This design focused on converting an under-utilized site facing a prominent green space on the Cranbrook campus. Space between an existing structure and this prominent green space is limited so various studies focused on narrow building configurations while designing for ample natural sunlight

SITE STRATEGIESThe proposed site was selected as part of an infill strategy transforming the a long strip of green called the “Grand Allee” into a green heart of the campus.

As the proposed site resided on the north side of an existing building, access to natural daylight became a large focus of this design.

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DAYLIGHT ACCESSAccess to daylight became a prominent driver in the design. As such, a light scoop became the primary architectural feature, garnering some influence from the campuses historic architecture, while providing interior spaces with washes of daylight.

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NORTH ELEVATION

FIRST FLOOR SITE PLAN

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LAYERSAs the design evolved, the building’s interior spaces were formed through a series of layers. Some of these layers acted as light scoops, providing different types of light for different types of spaces.

FRAMING

SHEAR WALL

DIAPHRAGM

COMPOSITE

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Luke Clayton Sinopoli

[email protected]

703-300-5935

EDUCATION

2010 - 2014

2000 - 2005

The University of Cincinnati, Ohio Master of Architecture

The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

EXPERIENCE

May 2013 - Sep 2013

July 2012 - Dec 2012

Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

Mar 2011 - Jun 2011

Apr 2008 - Jul 2010

Sep 2007 - Mar 2008

Jul 2005 - Aug 2007

GBBN Architects | Architectural Intern Cincinnati, OH

KieranTimberlake | Architectural Intern Philadelphia, PA

BHDP Architecture | Architectural Intern Cincinnati, OH

CK NBBJ | Architectural Intern Boston, MA

AECOM | Urban Designer Guangzhou, GD, China

EDAW|AECOM | Designer Brisbane, QLD, Australia

EDAW|AECOM | Designer Alexandria, VA

HONORS

2013

2012

2010

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University Graduate Scholarship


AIA Honors Award | Planning and Urban Design Monumental Framework Plan


COMPETITIONS

2014

2011

2006

2004

Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition

Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition

URBAN VOIDS: Grounds for Change

Flight 93 National Memorial International Design Competition

Revit

Sketchup

AutoCAD

Rhino

GIS

3DS Max

Sefaira

THERM

IES

Photoshop

Illustrator

Indesign

Lightroom

Premiere

After Effects

Woodworking

Laser Cutter

Concrete

Milling machine

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Luke Sinopoli Architecture Portfolio