Alexander P. Raynor2300 Catharine St 2R, Philadelphia, PA 19146 p: 484 686 3444 e: a1raynah@gmail.com

3_Table of contents

5_Curriculum vitæ

6_New Dodgers Stadium_ Thesis Project

12_Olympic Media Pavilion_ London Architecture Studio

14_COAHSI Arts Center_ New York City Urban Studio

16_Accra Women’s Clinic_ Comprehensive Studio

18_Mobile Module_ Comprehensive Studio

20_Topo-table_ Structures I

21_Socia[Lite]_ Design and Technology Workshop

22_Frost Pavilion_ Design and Technology Workshop

Education Syracuse University, Masters of Architecture I (May 2012) Syracuse, New York (Aug. 2008 - Dec. 2011) - Thesis - Can you see over the Fence? - Brooklyn Dodgers’ Baseball Stadium, Brooklyn (2011) - London Studio - Xavier deKestelier / Jethro Hon, Foster+Partners (Autumn 2010) - NYC Urban Studio - COAHSI Art Center - Jon Lott, Para-Project (Summer 2010) - Japan-ness in Architecture, Japan - Anne Munly / Michael Carroll (Summer 2009) - Design and Technology Workshops - MOS Architects, WEATHERS/ Sean Lally Inc, SU Faculty University of South Carolina, Bachelor of the Arts (May 2008) Columbia, South Carolina (Aug. 2004 - May 2008) - Concentration in Ceramics and Sculpture, Minor in Business - USC CC - Secretary of Ceramics Students Association (2007-2008)

Work Experience Martha Freud Design - London, England (February 2012 - May 2012) - Design intern/assistant on interior projects, industrial design and art projects ranging from full interior design,lightfixtures,furniture,projectfixtures/installations,etc. Teaching Assistant - Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (2009 - 2011) - Introduction to Representation I - Prof. R. Petrie (Autumn 2009) - Introduction to Representation II - Prof. M. Tirone (Spring 2010) - Introduction to Structural and Building Systems - Prof. R. Svetz (Spring 2011) - Advanced Building Systems - Prof. M. Pelken (Autumn 2011) Research Assistant -SyracuseUniversity-Prof.AlexandraFrench(Spring2009) -Research,documentationandorganizationofperiodicals,books,andessaysrelatingtospecific topic designated by Prof. French Architrave Inc. - Columbia, South Carolina (Spring 2006 - Autumn 2007) - Intern - Developed skills in drafting, rendering, construction documents, organization and 3D modeling, as well as site visits and client meetings A. Thayer Smith III Inc. - Downingtown, Pennsylvania (Summer 2007) - Architectural and Ornamental Plaster Restoration for Historic Buildings Custom Construction - Philadelphia Area, Pennsylvania (1997 - 2008) - Carpenter,outfitter,andlaboreroncustomhomes,PhiladelphiaZoo,USTCsportsfacility

Exhibition and Interview Work Graduate Sessions 9: Keller Easterling - Research and scripting for interview with Keller Easterling on “active” architecture (Group work) Syracuse School of Architecture, NY (Autumn 2009) The Architect’s Work: Neil M. Denari Architects Inc. - DesignerandInstallerofexhibitiononNMDA’sHL23(GroupExhibition) Syracuse School of Architecture, NY (Autumn 2008 - Spring 2009)

Skills

Modeling: Rhino, AutoCad, Revit, Ecotect, Project Vasari, Grasshopper

3D Fabrication: 3D printing, Laser cutting, Vacuum forming, Hand built

Rendering: V-Ray, Flamingo, Rhino Render

Graphic Design: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Affects)

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel,Publisher, PowerPoint

New Brooklyn Dodgers’ Stadium Thesis ProjectSpring 2011 - Winter 2011Professors - Jon Lott and Robert SvetzProject Location - DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

The large architectural/infrastructural act of building a stadium allows for the surrounding context to be reconsidered and enveloped within its brief. Thestadium not only adds a major economic boost to the waterfront redevelopment project, but it seeks to add programs such as residential towers which double as stadium seating, subway access, and reclaims the waterfront from the Farragut substation and connects the Brooklyn Bridge Park to the Naval Yard redevelopment.

Section Collage Contextmap

Concept diagram

Concept sketch renderings

Plan

Manhattan Bridge Subway Stop

Residential Tower

Residential Tower

Jay Street Pier

BrooklynBridgeParkExtension

Residential Tower

Manhattan Bridge facing Northeast

Manhattan Bridge facing West

Facing West

Stadium tower view from DUMBO ThefinishedstadiumlieswithinthegridlayoutofDUMBOwhilenot disturbing the surrounding thriving businesses/residences.

Initial sketch renderingInitial sketch of the project with a singular bleacher rising to the height of the surrounding skyline.

Olympic Media Pavilion London Architecture StudioAutumn 2010w/ Sara Lee, Megan Diber-Dunlap, Elizabeth TweedaleProfessors - Xavier deKestelier/Jethro Hon of Foster+Partners ProjectLocation-OxfordCircus,London

Project was presented to the studio as an open brief with theonlyrequirementsbeingthatthebuiltformfitinto5standard shipping crates. Our Brief:The Olympics in London lack an urban presence, Stratford is not in “London”, Stratford is not urban. By imposing a large pavilion structure onto the intersection atOxfordCircus, an ‘Olympic’ urban node is created in one of the busiest intersections in London. This location combined with the spanning and encompassing structure add to the ‘circus’ of both the place and the Olympic spectacle itself.

Interior from West

Regent Street facing SouthPlan

ExplodedaxonofComponents

Structural Frame Interior ETFE Panel OLED Screen - Display Module

OLED Screen - Interactive Module - at interactive (height) levels, available for people to touch/ play with

OLED Screen - Display Module - at height where it can be seen over people interacting with alternative module

ETFE Panels w/o OLED display screens are positioned to allow natural light into the space

Exterior ETFE Laminated Panel

ETFE Sandwich panel - ETFE bladder fits in between the truss members and encloses the structure creating programmable space.

ETFE- Panels integrated into Truss Structure+

COAHSI Arts Center

Section from East

performers

curators

communityorganizers

teachers

artists

COAHSI

arts

galleries

transportation recreationleisure

museums

entertainment

public arts

institutions

experience

exercise

chelsea

nyc greenway

work

performance

sculpture

soho

schools

destination

NYC Urban Studio Summer 2010w/ Yi-Hsuan LeeProfessor - Jonathan LottProject Location - Staten Island, NYC

Program - Art spaces including Theatre, Gallery, Workshop, Administration, Cafe, and Public Space

Arenovationoftwoexistingbuildingsonthewaterfront in Staten Island create a new performing arts center for the Coalition of the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island (COAHSI). The program includes a new theater, gallery space, work areas, administrative spaces, and a cafe/lounge area. Located within the NYC Greenway, the new Arts Center seeks to become a catalyst for redevelopment of the waterfront.

View from South

Gallery

Administrative workspace

Siteaxon Rear courtyard/public space

Interventions modelModeloftheinterventionsenactedonto/intotheexistingbuilding.

NYC GreenwayStaten Islandcurrent ambigous Greenway route

the Greenway is absorbed into COAHSI andother buildings on the site, establishing a physical connection to the urban fabric

the route expands with the inclusion of COAHSI intothe Greenway vocabulary, creating a large concentration of urban activity

Accra Women’s ClinicComprehensive StudioSpring 2010Professor - Jon YoderProject Location - Accra, Ghana

An off the grid hospital designed specially for the harsh climate in Ghana.Theexterior roof structure is coveredwith thermodynamicheat plates that absorb heat and transform it into electricity. The intent ofthehospitalwastomakeitnotonlyselfsufficientintheunreliableinfrastructure of Accra, as well as elsewhere in Africa, but also to respondtothesemi-urbancontextaswellassensitivepatient/visitorneeds for emotional retreats and family gathering places.

a nested condition of program within a larger roof system allows cooler air to circulate around the program spaces, while heat is absorbed into the heat sink roof structure

a nested condition of program within a larger roof system allows cooler air to circulate around the program spaces, while heat is absorbed into the heat sink roof structure ExplodedaxonofThermodynamicCeramicpanels

3D Print of roof structure

Roof shell Ecotect model

Heat outside vs inside vs roof

Cross Section (North to South) through patient area and front public space

PlanThe formal bend creates two distinct areas beneath the mega-roof structure. The larger one for general patients’ families and the smaller for the women’s clinic which is secluded to the rear of the Hospital.

View from Women’s Clinic entrance (facing West)View from public area (facing West)

Mobile Health ModuleComprehensive StudioSpring 2010Professor - John YoderProject Location - Ghana, Africa

To begin our Comprehensive Studio we had a two week charrette focused on construction methods and materials to produce a modularandextremelymobilearchitecturalprojectthatwastobeused as a health clinic in rural Ghana.

5 ft

4.25 ft

9 ft

1.25 ft 2.5 ft

12.75 ft

22 ft

16 ft

9 ft

*

2x

5 ft

4.25 ft

9 ft

1.25 ft 2.5 ft

12.75 ft

22 ft

16 ft

9 ft

*

2x

Clockwise from Right-Airflowsection and dimensions, detail of photovoltaic cells, assembled base unit, hypothetical unit using all optional programs slices, additional program modules which can be made into various iterations.

A - power module

B - quarters module

C - entrance module

D - storage module 1

E - storage module 2

F - patients’s module

G - blank module

1.5 m

1.3 m

2.75 m

.4 m .75 m

CEB B DG AA FE

A - power module : generator battery for solar power water storage tank breaker panel

B - quarters module : sleeping quarters for two

D - storage module 1: shelving units 160 sq ft shelving storage

E - storage module 2 : desk vertical storage closet sink

F - patient’s module : bed storage

G - blank module : extra space for circulation optional bench for waiting

4.9 m5.2 m

2.75 m

photovoltaic bundles.4 m

10 cm3.8 cm

3.8 cm

Topo-table

Structural Elevation

Optimized Structural Diagrams

Final Design

Structural Frame

Structural Frame

Structures IAutumn 2009Prof. Sinead McNamera

Using structural optimization software (TopOp), the assignment was to create an object of the students’ choice to design.

Topo-table is a structurally optimized cantilevered table which was designed to be asymmetrically/maximally loaded with minimalstructure. The truss design became apparent during many iterations within the software changing loads, material placement, and formal input.Thefinaltablewasdesignedtocantileverasymmetricallyontwosides,withonebeingultimatelymoreextremeinitslength.

Socia[Lite]

Heat circulates through the infrastructure to give off ambient heat to warm occupants during colder climates

Design and Technology Workshop Autumn 2009w/ Anna Acklin, Vera TongD&T Leader - WEATHERS/Sean LallyProject Location - Los Angeles

Design and Technology Workshops occur once a semester and are a thirty-sixhourcharretteforteamsinthegradschooltoworktogetheron a brief and on the last day present their project. Socia[Lite] was a project based around a Julius Shulman photograph thatweidentifiedasbeingasocialatmosphereconcerningheatandlight. The brief was to turn it into a more phenomenal rather than architectural space. Social accomplishes this by virtually eliminating space with light and encouraging occupation through comforting heated space.

Heated structural diagram

Performance rendering

Nightandproposedcontextrender

Julius Shulman - Original Photograph

Frost Pavilion

Hydrophilic Micro-porous High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)

- Structural up to -110 - Surfactants- a blend of surface acting agents added to the porous plastic hydrophilic

Hydrophilic Micro-porous HDPE is an extremely strong and lightweight material that has many applications. Although micro-porous are inherently hydrophobic, surfactants can be added to the plastic to enable it to have hydrophilic properties. The pores act as wicks, attracting water and frost to the members, allowing the density of them to increase and grow. This will allow the frost to eventually leap members and form a solid structure.

Design and Technology Workshop Spring 2009w/KervinBrisseaux,ElijahYoon,MelissaSantana,andTimTackD&T Leader - Clare Olsen

The Frost! brief was to use ice and frost as our building material and design a winter sculpture/pavilion. Our Frost Pavilion uses Hydrophilic Micro-porous High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) to attract water during the winter. As it freezes, the structure gains mass and physically changes through-out the winter

ExteriorDetail of connections and rendering of material

FrostPavilion-Exterior

Initial Sketches

Hydrophilic Micro-porous High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)

- Structural up to -110 - Surfactants- a blend of surface acting agents added to the porous plastic hydrophilic

Hydrophilic Micro-porous HDPE is an extremely strong and lightweight material that has many ap-plications. Although micro-porous are inherently hydrophobic, surfactants can be added to the plastic to enable it to have hydrophilic properties. The pores act as wicks, attracting water and frost to the members, allowing the density of them to increase and grow. This will allow the frost to eventually leap members and form a solid structure.