Graduate of Pratt Institute, Masters of Architecture: Portfolio

1. WORKS
ANDREW LOUIS APPELL GRADUATE OF PRATT INSTITUTE MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE

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ANDREW LOUIS APPELL ANDREWLOUISAPPELL.TK
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CONTACT
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SUMMARY
Graduate architecture student with strong interest in design methodologies that intricately and
responsively address the contemporary urban condition. Primary interest in avant-garde
approaches to urban renewal and multi-use civic projects integrating sustainable practices.
Profoundly influenced by digital representation and its role in the production of hyper-radical
tectonics and typologies in architectural design.
INTENTION
Seeking full-time position in architectural firm, joining collaborative design groups and
contributing toward enriching the built urban environment.
SKILLS
AutoCAD, 3DS Max, Rhino, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Microsoft Office. Qualified
in drafting, parametric modeling, physical modeling, and producing presentation material.
Experience with construction observation and the creation of full drawing sets for the DOB.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY__M. Arch
September 2007-May 2010; Dean’s List
CAP project selected for NAAB show, Spring 2010
Rome Study Abroad program, Summer 2009
University of Massachusetts, Amherst__B.A., Fine Arts
September 2001-2005; Dean’s List
Concentration in painting
ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Integrated Building Systems, Pratt Institute
Spring 2010
Aided students with technique and general technical design issues. Attempted to motivate
students to conceptualize and develop their projects through detailed orthogonal drawings to
help enhance the integration of structural design + narrative-based formal decisions.
Robert Piccolo, AIA, Deputy Commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities
Summer 2008
Member of the review and editing team, Inclusive Design Guidelines, New York City 2008. The
IDG provides guidance for design professionals to help them produce inclusive environments.
Non-disclosure agreement with Office of the Mayor.
Stephen Lepp Associates, New York, NY
Full Time June 2005-July 2007, Part Time June 2002-May 2005
Constructed and revised architectural drawings and construction documents. Projects ranged
from new apartment buildings to renovations of schools and retail complexes. Created digital
renderings and aided presentation material.
Gruzen Samton Architects, LLP New York, NY
,
Summer 2000
+ Assisted a team of professional graphic designers in producing architectural presentation material.
+

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a defensible response to twentieth century antiquated avant-garde*
The project is intended to acutely examine potential new relationships between artist, exhibit, and the public. The
stratification of program is intended to strategically engage and reflect a new avant-gardism.
The language of form, materiality and spatiality is one of inclusive mutation, surgery and adaptation. Through breaking
integral elements and then re-connecting, a transformative gradient of apertures, fenestration, and formal qualities
emerge, rendering a reactionary dynamism.

4. how does the innovative a b c
program and radical critique of mechanical
systems
relocated roof as destination
architecture inFORM project design?
x
allowable green/public
existing conditions_madison avenue discontinuity_severing hinderance dynamic connectivity_
first disconnected, then reconnected by piercing reactive intrusion
through the existing structures, the whitney plus
is a highly reactionary design that is intended to
respond directly to the following notions:
d e f
+ nyc as ‘referential city’
+ conservative & corporate nature of nyc arch
+ the unjustified want for preservation mutation_expansion fenestration_ realized bldg envelope_
slicing @ critical moments strategic attack
program
the need for FRESH SPECTACLE & new advancement in SOCIAL INTERACTION
21st century creative artist housing
transparent production facilities
hyper-contemporary digital + performance art
plan/diagram
formal language dispersed in floor plates
applying the residual severing/ convergence amitosis bifurcated culmination/
oblique to effect/ amputation ->procession entities ascendancy
reguralized consequence
condition

5. PERFORMANCE
ATRIUM
EXPERIENCING PERFORMANCE
ART ON THE GRANDEST STAGE
THE NINTH: HYPER
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBIT SPECIAL EXHIBIT
TRANSPARENT STUDIO B
THE DIGITAL VOLUME:
DOUBLE-HEIGHT VIEWING
TRANSPARENT STUDIO A SPACE/STANDING THEATER
COMMUNITY BALCONY C
ARTIST
DWELLING COMMUNITY BALCONY B
GREAT HALL UNIT
PROMENADE
ARTIST
DWELLING
UNIT
GREAT HALL COMMUNITY BALCONY A
PERMENANT
COLLECTION
ARTIST ARTIST
DWELLING DWELLING
UNIT UNIT
COMMUNITY TERRACE
PERMANENT COLLECTION
FLEXIBLE GALLERIES HISTORICAL GATEWAY
PERMANENT COLLECTION
the
store
FLEXIBLE GALLERIES PERMANENT COLLECTION
OFFICES
MAIN LOBBY
OFFICES
SANDWICHED artisan sandwich cafe RESTROOMS/VENDING MACHINES/ WIRELESS LOUNGE OFFICE + OFFICE STORAGE
madison avenue long building section
MORPHOLOGY PERMANENT
ART BAR COLLECTION
PERMANENT PERMANENT
COLLECTION COLLECTION
GREAT HALL PUBLIC
SEATING STEPS
SPECIAL
EXHIBIT
PERMANENT
FLEXIBLE COLLECTION
GALLERIES
the
MINI-EXHIBIT
store AUDITORIUM BEHIND
MAIN LOBBY MAIN LOBBY
SANDWICHED sandwich cafe MECH +
STORAGE
MECH +
STORAGE
short building section from 74th street

7. 5th floor 2nd floor
6th floor
5th floor 2nd floor 6th floor

9. RE
TH!NK
AUTOS
+ comprehensive architectural project employs generative computation and architectural operations that engage all
The
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building systems. Structural, mechanical and all infrastructural requirements are considered catalysts in the
development of an intricately integrated design strategy.
The auto showroom site is located in Portland, Oregon. The project addresses the varying climatic and urban conditions
present. Research and design of site strategy, program research, materiality investigations and the documentation of
construction details are performed.
The "Reth!nk" auto showroom offers urban sub-compact and alternative sustainable vehicles to the public. The narrative
and objective of the project is to provide a RED CARPET procession for the visitor. A general re-conceptualization of
what a contemporary auto showroom should provide is undertaken, resulting in specific detail and innovation in
geometrical organization, circulation and formal language. P O R T L A N D O R E G O N
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ANDREW APPELL
ANDRI KLAUSEN
DANIEL BUENING

10. PROCESSION
Heightening drama and the sense of spectacle for the visitor. The architectural elements of the auto showroom
are intended to reflect the nonconformist attitude of those who are interested in learning about or purchasing alternative and
sustainable vehicles. Two examples in the intent of creating a sensory and emotional experience for the guest are evident in the
use of light and formal organization.
Intricate fenestration applications: Light cannons top level, gradient of aperatures in the facade, large-spanning picture window.
Circulation: Sharp and sleek ramping system, partitions and furniture design; and the strategically planned escalator that floats
the visitor through the entire volume of the building.

11. developing facade system
CONTINUOUS RADIANT UNDERFLOOR
FLOOR DIFFUSER HEATING & COOLING
shaded surfaces 9am-5pm wind frequency + avg temp
6” ROUND SUPPL DUCT
Y
unitized curtain wall system
sunlight exposure 9am-5pm wind speed MECHANICALL Y ROUND CEILING
OPERATED DIFFUSER
WINDOWS AT LOW
+ HIGH LEVEL FOR
CROSS VENTILATION
unfolded facade layer buildup 2”
INSULATION
WHITE ARCTIC WHITE S06 introducing natural light & air in facade
ALUMINUM ACRYLIC SOLID
PANEL
SURFACE
ALUMINUM
MECHANICALL Y
EXTRUDED T
OPERATED
SECTION
WINDOWS AT LOW
+ HIGH LEVEL FOR
CROSS VENTILATION
unitized panel system
WHITE POLISHED
CONCRETE
rain water run-off through seems in facade
facade substructure
structural steel trusses gradient condition from transparent to solid

12. building section aa
north elevation west elevation
building section bb

15. emergent
tubes*
W I L L I A M S B U R G B R O O K L Y N 2 0 5 0
Emergent Tubes is a project intended to focus on the near-future dense urban
condition. The mixed-use building is located in an industrialized zone in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The design is purposefully abstract; the complexity intended
to radically react to the physical and cultural environment present in the
neighborhood.
Concurrent methodologies that were implemented initially in the design phase were
the research of mathematical computation and the application of scripting to
generate architectural design. By engaging this formal research in conjunction with
the socio-cultural and ecological concerns, a new-fangled tectonic is produce: tubes
weaving through a structural mesh.

16. form generation via simple splines
homeomorphic condition
selected to connect tubes
script-generated gridmesh as harness for housing tubes
establishing networking rule set
a
n
tio
nec
con
nodal network connection
of
ts
unit condition behavior generated b
uni
A single connection static no transformation
@ intersection
B dual connection dissipation expansion with gridmesh
weaving
C multiple connection mutation collision
c

20. SPACE
ASYLUM
ESTABLISHING A PERMANENT PRESENCE IN SPACE *
The Space Asylum introduces modularized containers for private living to be deployed into space for long
durations of time. These personal units of confinement would be introduced as a new kind of therapy for the sane
and insane alike.
This new phenomenon of fabricated isolation existing extremely far away from the Earth and gravity as we
understand it is intentionally implying a social and political critique of the systemic failures in addressing mental
health in the Western world.

22. GENERATING FORM EVOLUTION OF MODULE CONTAINER DESIGN
a.
primal unit iteration
b.
padding corroding exterior
c.
final proposed unit assemblage
REMOVING
waste p r o d u c t i o n
CLEAN ING
rejuvination
CONSUMING
n o u r i s h m e n t
LIVING
self maintenance
division of program

23. ARCHITECTURAL INGENUITY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE:
artificial intelligence regulation systems
scale of a person new urban environment
architectural morphology promotion of peace
cognitive capacities artificial intelligence
intrinsic properties
synthesizing waste
material production self-replicating systems
fabrication of components
memory
monitoring systems operating rules
salubrious infrastructure unit
provide oxygen
carbon dioxide removal
temperature control in and out of
sunlit areas
contaminating/trace gases removed
radiation + contamination control
waste vacuum removal/
intraveneus drug+nutrient supply
all excriment vacuumed out of pod
via absorption tubes
wires and tubes deliver sedatives
+ nourishment to inhabitant
hygenic steam room chamber
steam generators release steam
inhabitant can clean or receive
theraputic treatment within

24. THE ROLE OF ADAPTABLE ARCHITECTURE IN SPACE psychogenesis
sensory deprivation
perceptual isolation
impact of presence of gravity on the human form with respect to ground plane
ability to deprive sensory abilities
controlling artificial environment
respond to particularities of inhabitant
fiber reinforced
operable fiber
plastic
reinforced
steam revitalization
plastic door
emitter
region
nozzle
regulation
multiicolor systems
LED
lighting
panel,
typical
exterior interior
plan(section)
PLAN/SECTION RIGID COMFORTER WALL ASSEMBLY

25. AGGREGATION
INFRASTRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY THROUGH MODULES FIELD CONDITION

26. united nations
intervention
expansion of curves
to create interior volume
constriction
of curves
to create
partitions
Intended to replace the current crude security tent at the entrance of the General Assembly, the
proposed structure would contextually resolve the ‘building versus site’ in terms of engaging the
existing monumental architecture and surroundings of the site.
The relationships investigated throughout the project are: horizontal versus vertical logic, stacking and
cladding systems, thickness versus thinness in shell and partitions, force acting on an object, and
most important: the unraveling of form and this is interpreted sectionally.

27. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

28. PERSPECTIVAL SECTION SERIES
b
c
a b c d
d

29. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

30. BROOKLYN
METROPOLITAN EXCHANGE GALLERY
33 FLATBUSH AVENUE - BROOKLYN, NY 11217
EXCHANGES
WHAT IS
CHANGING IN
DOWNTOWN
BROOKLYN?
Produced by Architecture and Communication Design students at Pratt Institute, with help from Professors
David Frisco and Meredith TenHoor, the exhibit Brooklyn Exchanges presents Downtown Brooklyn's past
and present development projects in order to imagine a more creative and just vision for its future.
Though the project was highly collaborative and group-oriented in nature, personal contributions included:
exhibit design, construction and installation; producing a comprehensive timeline and essay that
presented a critical history of physical and social development in Brooklyn.

31. EXISTING CONDITIONS
DESIGN CONCEPT:
WHAT IS RISING BEHIND THE BLUE CONSTRUCTION WALLS?
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE
EXHIBIT IS TO PROVIDE
MATERIAL IN A
NON-BIASED MANNER.
HOWEVER, THROUGH THE
ARRAY OF RESEARCH AND
IMAGERY PRESENTED,
THERE IS AN INTENT OF
PROVOKING THE AUDIENCE
TO RESPOND TO THE
ALTERATIONS THAT HAVE
TAKEN OR WILL TAKE
PLACE IN THESE PIVITOL
NEIGHBORHOODS
FUTURE RENDERINGS TO
EXPLORE FINITE AND
CONCEPTUAL
PROPOSALS FOR THE
FUTURE OF DOWNTOWN
BROOKLYN
HISTORICAL TIMELINES
& CURRENT
STREETSCAPES POSTED
ON BLUE PLYWOOD
WALLS TO PROVIDE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT

32. Shaping Brooklyn: Modern-Era History Relevant to Downtown
‘Great
Migration" of
African
Americans from
America's rural
South,
continues
through 1930s
and is followed 40 different
trolley lines Brooklyn Navy Yard
First ‘Great by renewed closes. In the early
Wave’ of migration from active in
Brooklyn 1970s the City and
European the South City Planning local nonprofit
Dodgers play their
immigrants during and after Commision last game at groups begin to
in Brooklyn; World War II announces
Fulton Street Ebbets Field; transform the site
primarily McCarren Pool plans for
elevated leave for into an industrial Fulton Mall opens;
originating United States completed; the large civic Brooklyn
Prospect Park Ebbets Field, home service Califomia and park. the development
from gives center in Bridge
completed; street to the Brooklyn enormous become L.A.
Northern and citizenship to discontinued was intended to Coalition
grids mapped for Dodgers, opens Brooklyn is New public pool was Downtown Dodgers- Stadium Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Western Brooklyn City Brooklyn Bridge Domino Sugar Brooklyn Museum of Puerto Ricans; to Rockaway; reinvigorate the formed to New York
Towns of Flatbush, York City's most an example of Brooklyn for demolished 1960 designated New
city plan Europe Hall (now Completed factory begins Art (Originally beginning of this office, middle-class develop East Marriott Hotel
Flatlands, New populous Brooklyn’s and replaced with York’s first historic
adopted; (Ireland, Borough operation; closed Brooklyn Institute for large migration foreshadowed Grand Army residential Brooklyn shopping River opens in
Utrecht, and borough, large-scale high-rise district
street grid Britain and Hall) completely in 2004 Arts and Sciences) to Brooklyn and the end of the Plaza Library and public experience waterfront into downtown
Gravesend population successful civic apartment
mapped Germany) Completed Completed New York area ‘el’ Completed space public park Brooklyn
2,560,401 projects complex
1839 1840-50’s 1849 1874 1883 1880’s 1897 1913 1915-1920’s 1930 1936 1940 1941 1940’s 1957 1966 1977 1989 1998
1834 1841 1850 1860 1867 1870 1885 1890 1898 1900 1908 1924 1929 1937 1939 1941-45 1950 1956 1965 1967 1977 1980 1992 1990-2000 2000
Population: Brooklyn Long Citizens Population: Population:
Immigration Act Bedford- Power failure in Metrotech The final decade of
138,882 now third Island Gas Williamsburg Brooklyn Navy Population: Brooklyn’s U.S. Cadman Stuyvesant 2,230,936 2,508,820
Brooklyn Brooklyn Second great Electric City of Population: of 1924; United Williamsburg Brooklyn the CIty led to Center the 20th century
largest city (now Company Savings Hotel St. Houses Queens Yard at 2,738,175 trolley immigration Plaza Civic Restoration
incorporated Daily Eagle wave of trolleys Brooklyn 1,116,582 States enacts widespread opened; witnessed a revival
White: in America Brooklyn) provides First Elevated Bank George open; first Expressway production service laws Center Corporation White: White:
as a city: newspaper European introduced (Kings restrictive rioting, looting embodied in Brooklyn's
134,817 Historical commerci Train Completed completed; federally opens to peak durinfg White: terminated eased; new Project established: 1,278,081
24,000 begins immigration to Brooklyn County) White: legislation, and arson in 1,249,486 the fortunes. Crime
Society al gas Introduced to the separate subsidized traffic WWII 2,525,118 immigrants completed the nation's
residents publication lasts into early consolidatd 1,146,909 aimed largely at Brooklyn’s large-scale ebbed, and
Black founded; lighting for Brooklyn buildings low-cost manufacturing mainly of after nearly first Black Black
twentieth into Greater Southern and unprivileged downtown neighborhoods like
4,065 Henry Ward later Brooklyn (Lexington Ave began 1885 housing and repairing Black Caribbean, twenty years community 722,812 development Brooklyn Heights, 953,197
century, largely New York Black Eastern downtown
Beecher moved to Line. Brooklyn project in ships; 71,000 208,478 Latin development movement of Fort Greene, and
Eastern and 18,637 Europeans, people neighborhoods;
active in current Bridge to Brooklyn American, corporation Other: the 1980’s Clinton Hill began to Other:
Southern which sharply employed portions of
anti-slavery Pierrepont Broadway The IRT , Other: and Asian partnered 258,638 and 90’s witness a 277,542
Europeans Other: reduces African-
activities at Street New York’s 4,579 origin begin with renaissance. New
(Russian Jews, 1,306 immigration for American
Plymouth location first to arrive in residents construction both
Poles, Italians) next forty years neighborhoods
Church 1881 subway, large and business residential and
along with literally went up
(Brooklyn connects numbers in flames office boomed
those from the Fulton Ferry
Heights) Manhattan closes,
Netherlands
to Brooklyn operating since
through the 1839 under the
Joralemon The curent
New York and
Street BAM
Brooklyn Ferry
tunnel builidng
Companies
completed
(founded
1859)
DAWN OF TECHNOLOGICAL ERA URBAN EXPERIMENTATION METROPOLIS OF HORSE CARS + ELEVATED RAILWAYS INDUSTRIAL CITY OF DOCKS + FACTORIES EXPANSION IN POPUL ATION +URBANIZATION CONTEMPORARY CITY OF RETAIL + OFFICES

35. ONE_ SYNTHETIC ARCHITECTURE: The functions of software are utilized so as to extract critical approaches to the
digitization of architecture. Experimentation through digital techniques of geometrical and formal manipulation,
lighting, texture mapping, and materiality, investigate the roles of media and computation in the production of
architectural objects.

36. TWO_COMPONENT TO FIELD: Through transformation, iteration and serialization, the original component is a
catalyst for the production of a field condition. The defined unit is cloned and manipulated through animation
techniques. The units are then morphed further by being arrayed to create a topological lattice system.

37. THREE_LANDSCAPE TO ENVELOPE: The systemically derived articulations in the surfaces of the design house the
transition from ground to building while intricately connecting both. The geometry and structure are intended to delineate a
new relationship between horizontal and vertical partitions.