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15-16Carnegie Mellon University Larimer Neighborhood Redevelopment

Rothschild + Doyno Collaborative Center of Hope Dinwiddie III Homewood Station Braddock Commercial Hillel + Miscellaneous

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IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Boston Velodrome Children’s Learning Center Hat Collector’s Loft Des Moines Bus Hub

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LIBRARY / MEETINGOFFICEEXEC. OFFICECONFERENCE ROOMKITCHENETTEFILE / RECORDSPATIOENTRYHALLWAITING / RECEPTIONARCHIVE / STORAGEUTILITYMENWOMENCONFERENCE PATIOADMIN.

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This project was unique in that it was our firm’s first international project. It was a very short time frame and I was involved from schematic design through construction documents. The design is intended to feel light and airy, adding

to the comfortability of overhead structures in an earthquake. The butterfly roofs also help naturally ventilate the spaces and allow water collection and control. The entry opens up into the landscape and has views of the soccer field.

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Limit of Work Phase I

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Center of Hope Hinche, Haiti. World Vision Center of Hope

Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope Site Phasing [Revit]

Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope Roof Axon Explosion, Phase I [Revit]

Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope Area Plan, Phase I [Revit]

This project consisted of a campus in Haiti for international volunteers to stay. My design contribution consisted of elevation design for the office wing (A) and roof slab draining plans (B) & (C).

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Pictured are more renderings I made for World Vision to use as presentation materials for the donors.

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Center of Hope World Vision Center of Hope, Hinche, Haiti

An aerial perspective rendering of the entire campus after completion of both phases. Phase 2 includes short term housing for visitors and volunteers.


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Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope, Complete Phases [Revit + Photoshop]

This view you would be standing on the road facing the entry of the building.

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Center of Hope World Vision Center of HopeHinche, Haiti

Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope Entry Perspective Phase I[Revit + Photoshop]

This courtyard rendering shows the nature of the building and its intention to lay low within the landscape and sprawl out to “hug” and area, creating a controlled outdoor space.


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Hinche, Haiti World Vision Center of Hope Courtyard Perspective Phase I[Revit + Photoshop]

This is a representation of the construction document phase of a combination of new housing units and a school-to-loft renovation. Revit was utilized from design development through to construction

administration. Even material choices were made and displayed via Revit. These are currently under construction as part of multi-family housing units in their third phase in Pittsburgh.

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Dinwiddie III Dinwiddie 3 Multi-Family Housing, Pittsburgh PA

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Pictured is a CD sheet of the first floor of Lot D. The shadows were rendered to give a sense of scale and depth for an easier comparison of size capacity verses the non-handicapped accessible units.

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Homewood Senior Housing called for a large 4 story complex on a small urban block and was to surround an existing cafe. Square footages, building program, program correlation, etc. was imagined through sketches via teams of upper-level staff members. My part included assembling these ideas into 3-D

format, color coding certain functions and giving the building visual tangibility (left column). After weeks of development, I was able to make later decisions on the retail curtain wall (A) and stair tower shading (B) schematic designs.

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Homewood Station Homewood Senior Housing, Pittsburgh PA

Homewood Senior Housing, Pittsburgh [Sketchup + Kerkythea + Photoshop]

Pictured are studies of what the preliminary building may look like from afternoon until dusk for a judgement of safety, context, aesthetics, etc.


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[Hand sketch overlay done by Daniel Tse]

This was my first involvement at Rothschild Doyno Collaborative in Pittsburgh. It was the study of the dis-tressed community of Braddock, PA and was a great learning experience. Both are examples of RDC’s “sketchbook process”. We studied the community and broke it into 4 areas, each of which had their

own specific issues and site forces. I built the model and diagrammed it to show the contextual topics at hand. This page also shows buildings in good condi-tion, questionable, or slated for demolition. Also we documented points of interest, intersection nodes, building’s visual impacts, and areas of empty lots.

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Braddock Commercial Braddock Vision Planning & Design. Braddock, PA

Braddock, PA. Commercial Development Site Model [Sketchup + Kerkythea]

Braddock, PA. Commercial Development Site Model [Sketchup]

Above is another sketchbook page I constructed showing “Area 1” of the overall Braddock study. That and other visuals were printed at poster size and presented at a few Braddock community meetings.

gateway property +public ownership: future fossil fuels site


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Pictured on this page are design presentation boards for a client who want-ed an addition to their current school. We had a little bit of design freedom to carry through on the sun shading and rhythmic

windows and wall spandrels. I helped with the schematic sketches and then modeled and photoshopped the final designs. Since the program calls for flex space in a box, we focused only on the exterior of the addition.

Hillel Academy, Pittsburgh. School Addition Model [Sketchup + Photoshop]

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Hillel + Miscellaneous Hillel Academy, Pittsburgh+Assorted Examples

Grandview Brookline Residential Development, Pittsburgh. [Sketchup + Dan T. color fill]

Morse Gardens Senior Housing Renovation [Revit with 2 other coworkers]

Braddock, PA. Commercial Development Site Model Axial Study [Sketchup]

Braddock, PA. Commercial Development Entry View [Sketchup +Piranesi]

Assorted examples of all models I’ve made ranging from existing-condition’s studies, to urban contextual studies, to competition proposals.

“Free Skate” Gallery & Skate park, Building ReUse Competition [Sketchup + Kerkythea]

“Free Skate” Gallery & Skate park [Sketchup + Kerkythea]


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Neighborhood Redevelopment Larimer Neighborhood Pittsburgh, PA

“Green Connections” intends to connect neigh-borhoods, people and places in a sustainable fashion. There are 5 key areas that make up the larger concept of our design consisting of: an urban transit node(A), civic space(B), common interest housing(C), central linear park(D), an urban farm(E).

The urban node is connected to the main artery into downtown. The civic space is the focal meeting point for the region. The common interest housing connects tenants via gardening interests. The central linear park is the connection strip for neighbor interaction. The urban farm is community driven.

Housing for people with an interest in garden-ing or caring for plants. Houses are prefab-ricated with patented “QuaDror” bracing and equipped with green roofs. They can be reconfigured or even raised on stilts for parking and gardening underneath the house.

2 CIH blocks of the 3 are on the edge of the site and serve as gateways into the community. Those 2 gateway housing blocks have the units on stilts, allowing unobstructed views into the neighborhood (seen in the rendering below).


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This project consisted of looking at a very distressed and blighted neighborhood and refurbishing it to integrate modern methods of living and farming to bring the community together.

Train RouteUniversity Arenas

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Morse SchoolNeighborhood Residential areaBus RouteMajor pedestrian way

Veterans Pool

Boston University

Memorial Dr

Boston U. Bridge

Massachusetts Turnpike

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Bike Racing Velodrome Boston, Massachusetts

This was a partner project design of a stadium in Boston. We visited the city and the site along the Charles river and came to conclusions on what we thought were the conceptual influences:

• Boston is a “city of firsts”• Movement of people• Flow of the river• Motion of the bikes in action• Language of the urban landscape

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polycarbon-ate paneling

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The stadium is able to seat up to 40,000 spectators. Other highlights includes box & media seating, an indoor/outdoor restaurant, bicycle retail & repair, full athletic spa & gym, locker rooms, and admin. offices.

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There were numerous design intentions. We wanted to explore an arena that doesn’t necessarily portray a “circular” event from the exterior. The wavy roof canopy covers the interior and exterior spaces, blurring the threshold between the two. The roof is supported on 8 mega structures to give the canopy

a floating appearance. It’s gesture portrays the language of a landscape while the entire site is flattened with a mixture of pavers to elevate and give focus to the floating canopy. A crosswalk connection is established from the neighboring Cambridge area right into the main entrance.

Grass rectangles remain where the trees previously existed and have been cut to stumps for seating.

Reflection pools that transition from the hardscape to the river

Small-boat docks that with alternating depths of infiltration into the river and under the building’s canopy

Elevated crosswalk to bring uninterrupted

pedestrian traffic into the arenaOutdoor sunken bike track (half

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Riverside bike path

Administrative, athlete, and bus parking


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The site has been flattened and made obstruction free putting more emphasis on the undulating roof above you. The canopy’s purpose is to move you throughout the site and to blend the distinction of being indoors or out.

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With this design project the main constraint was the standardized velodrome track. We looked at many precedents and noticed that nearly all velodrome stadiums have a circular or oval form portrayed from the exterior. We looked at

this as an opportunity to explore what it would be like to represent an event without being bound by its main constraint, visually. We also intend to draw curiosity from passer-byers via the roof’s intriguing form.


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The roof spans 360 feet in the longest direction and 270 feet in it’s width. The trussing is composed of 10’x10’ grid in plan and the depths range from 2’-18’. They are sandwiched by insulated polycarbonate to create a SIP system that is semi-translucent and can house all HVAC and electrical systems.

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Wind Zone-wind tunnel-wind socks-wind mills-weeping willows-base fort on mound

-rain cisterns-pond with wildlife-island with bridges-base fort on mound

-fire escape maze-campfire pit-p.v. powered lighting-hand crank fire alarm-base fort on mound

-green house-climbable rocks and trees-outdoor vegetable garden-sandbox-base fort on mound

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Children’s Learning Center Arboretum - Ames, Iowa

This project required a learning center and retreat for 60 children (ages 0-5) allowing them to learn about nature and sustainability. The program consists of 2 separate “learning wings” that are joined at the

center with a 2 story common space. The south curtain walls slide open to merge the indoor & outdoor spaces. The landscape radi-ates into 4 learning zones: Wind Zone (1), Fire Zone (2), Water Zone (3) and the Earth Zone (4).

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Each wing is a flexible learning space equipped with restrooms, private partitioning, connection to the common space and personal access to Outdoor Elemental Zones.

Southern facade:glazed curtain wall shaded with 2 overlapping leaf-cut steel metal panels.The metal panels can align to let more light in or slide apart to block up to 25% direct sunlight.

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Children’s Learning Center Arboretum - Ames, Iowa

Each learning wing has a series of these modular bookshelves that have multiple other uses: toy storage, seating spaces,

partitions, play stations, etc. Since the spaces are highly flexible, these furniture pieces have the ability to be pulled apart, stacked, and rearranged to accommodate nearly every situation.


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A view into the learning wing during a typical winter day. The overlapping leaf-cut facades are aligned to let in more direct light to increase heat gain.

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Hat Collector’s Loft Downtown - Des Moines, Iowa

The requirements for this project were to design a loft for a specific collector. My hypothetical client for this 800 s.f. space was a hat enthusiast and collector. With that, the program is laid out around the central “hat tower”. The tower

of cubbies is centralized and functions in every room as more than just hat storage. It is acces-sible in the kitchen and bathroom for their needs and serves as the stairs to access the bedroom and also wraps to be a custom headboard.


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The cubist style assortment of cubbie holes are intend to portray beauty even when empty. The white tower acts as a canvas for his dynamic collection of colorful hats that paint a different picture everyday.

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Proposed underground tunnel connectionExisting underground tunnels to building access

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Bus Hub Downtown - Des Moines, Iowa

This design’s intention is to turn what is now a bus stop sign on the corner, into a Hub for the capitol building and the surrounding congress buildings. They are currently all connected via underground tunnels, and this hub will have

access to that below-ground network. The language of the bus hub’s form is seen flowing in and out of the landscape, twisting to act as a curtain wall for winter’s wind and hovering for shelter from the summer’s sun.

Semi-Opaque Polycarbonate panels and seating

translucent panels for bus schedule/city maps and wind protection

720 s.f. of covered space

covered entrance connecting to the underground tunneling system

140’ of seating, 40’ sheltered

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The design’s intention is to be as if someone cut a ribbon from the site, pulled it up, turned and twisted it into functional spaces with modern materials and an elegant form.

J o s h A b b e y [email protected] c. 319.669.9366

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