Portfolio of Selected works between 2007 and 2013. Works from Temple University Tyler School of Art Architecture Department, WRT Design, and my own person work
4. Forecasting Chance
Architecture + Landscape + Weather
B. Arch Thesis 2012
Jason Austin and John James Pron, Thesis Advisors
Sneha Patel | Coordinator
Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 | Semester IX and X | 30 weeks
The making of architecture is tied to human experience and site. Weather events are also linked to site locality while
providing intense human experience. Although architecture has the ability to wait for all sorts of weather events to
occur, architects tend to resist processes of weathering.
This thesis seeks to manipulate weather conditions with built form to ecologically and culturally remediate the landscape of the former Scranton Iron Furnaces. These conditions are created within a proposed train station due to a
station’s semi-enclosed spaces that must allow weather in. This scenario examines how natural weathering processes can develop an architecture and landscape that both reacts to the latent history of a post-industrial site and the
future needs of the city.
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to these shifts as a way heighten user’s perception of weather as they way for
the train. The specific atmosphere or mood of a space is tied to this relationship
of time, season, and weather. These processes work in a looping pattern where
certain uses change hourly, daily, seasonally, and annually as shown in this
drawing.
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Collection at enclosures and sun, building as
shelter
Snow |Ice studies: Collection, Drifting,
Dripping, Staining
6. Manipulating Site Conditions
The above drawing locates the key experiences from studying weathering on
site. This was performed not scientifically, but through observations to find the
points of interest between the weather, the city, and its historical artifacts
These conditions were manipulated to retain more water on site and process
it on its way to the river. The path of the water, from the top of the train shed
to Roaring Brook overlaps several times with a meandering path between the
upper and lower station. The architecture funnels weather occurrences to the
landscape where they are then filtered or retained. Markers throughout the site
gauge these changes over time.
7. Sectional Site drawing
An iterative process of manipulating water patters across the
site to locate the stations and path connecting them
8. Top Left: Aerial View of Station from Downtown Scranton
Top Right: View of Station from Pedestrian Bridge
Street View of Station and model images
9. Archive House
Juiliet Whelan, Critic
Fall 2008 - Semester III - 7 weeks
“Place of Display”
She wants to throw them away, but she can’t bring herself to do it. She
continually tells herself “what if I need that paper? What if I need that reference? What if I can’t find it…ever…ever again… and I need it?”
She rarely finds time to do much else. Work, study, organize, reorganize.
A woman obsessed with keeping her work, keeping her notes, keeping
everything. She needs a place for all of her books, notes, everything. A
rowhouse is built as an archive.
10. Shaping the Exterior Skin
With a North facing facade, a series of bands were developed to cut lateral openings into
the front face of the building. The width and number of bands are further articulated to provide natural light at certain times of the day within the building. The cladding also projects
out to become the front steps.
11. Transitions Inside and Out
The project takes shape both in section and through the exterior
skin system. As the exterior bands contort to create window openings, they also move from the exterior to the interior to become the
storage points for the archive.
12. LEGEND
SEPTA RAIL TRANSIT
1
Broad Street Subway
8
2
Market-Frankford Subway
9
3
Norristown High Speed Line
Delaware Valley College
8b Elwyn-West Trenton Line
b-Fox Chase
69th St. Trolley to Media
b-to Sharon Hill
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4b Thorndale-Chestnut Hill Line
b-Cynwyd
T1
Lancaster Ave. Trolley
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Doylestown-Airport Line
5b b-Warminster
T2
Baltimore Ave. Trolley
6
Norristown-Newark Line
7
Woodland Ave. Trolley
T4
Elmwood Ave. Trolley
T5
Trenton Line
T3
New Britain
Chalfont
Link Belt
Colmar
Fortuna
Station Name
Chestnut Hill West Line
10 10b
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Doylestown
Free Transfer
Fare Zone
Zone Boundary
Terminal Station
Terminal Station
with Transfer
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Girard-Richmond Trolley
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Lansdale
Pennbrook
North Wales
5b
Warminster
Willow Grove
Crestmont
Roslyn
Ardsley
4
Main Street
3
Bridgeport
DeKalb Street
Hughes Park
Gulph Mills
Matsonford
County Line
Radnor
Radnor
Villanova
Stadium
Garrett Hill
Rethnking Philadelphia’s transit map allows for the visualization of a new system
that is multimodal. In this map all of Philadelphia’s rapid transit types, Regional
Rail, Subway, and Surface Trolley are overlain on the same map. This allows for
a better visualization of where these systems overlaps. The way they are notated
also establishes
Philadelphia’s previous map colored the subway system while leaving the
regional rail as an underlay of grey lines. By establishing the two as equals, the
system feels more comprehensive and usable. By adding in the exact locations
of the trolley lines, which were previously on separate maps, the system locates
additional transfer points that would have gone unnoticed by most transit users.
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Haverford
Ardmore
Narberth
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Philadelphia
Zoo
Overbrook
Ogden
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48th-Lancaster
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56th
52nd
30th Street
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40th
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6
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Collingswood
Westmont
Haddonfield
Woodcrest
Ashland
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Lehigh
Cumberland
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Fairfield Ave.
40th
Walnut St.
36th 33rd
Avon Rd.
Clark Park
Hilltop Rd.
Beverly Blvd.
Cedar Park
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Congress Ave.
University
Lansdowne Ave.
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47th
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Irvington Rd.
Drexel Hill Jct.
54th
Huey Ave.
Garrettford
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Drexel Manor
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54th
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Anderson Ave.
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Lansdowne
Scenic Rd.
Penn St.
Bartram’s
Springfield Rd.
Gladstone
Springfield Rd
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Saxer Ave.
Leamy Ave.
Main-Front St.
65th
Woodland Ave.
Clifton-Aldan
Summit St.
Providence Rd.
Thomson Ave.
Magnolia Ave.
Springfield Mall
Elmwood
North St.
Primos
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Paper Mill Rd.
Trans.
Bartram Ave.
Secane
Pine Ridge
Andrews Ave.
Beatty Rd.
Morton
MacDade Blvd.
Darby
Providence Rd.
Swarthmore
Curtis Park 76th
Manchester Ave.
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Sharon Hill
Lindbergh
Edgemont St.
Wallingford
Sharon Hill
Folcroft
Monroe St.
Moylan-Rose Valley
Norwood
Jackson St.
T4
Prospect Park
Olive St.
Ridley Park
Veterans Sq.
Crum Lynne
Media
Eddystone
Media
Chester T.C.
Elwyn
Highland Ave.
Marcus Hook
Claymont
Wilmington
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Churchmans
Terminal B
Crossing
Terminals C & D
Newark
Terminals E & F
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Temple
University
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Fairmount
Spring Garden
Race-Vine
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College Ave.
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19th
Croydon
Eddignton
Cornwells Heights
Cheltenham
Wyoming
Hunting Park
Erie
Allegheny
Bristol
Fox Chase
Lawndale
Olney
SusquehannaDauphin
Cecil B. Moore
Merion
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Ryers
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Wynnefield
Ave.
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Elkins Park
Melrose Park
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Bala
Wynnewood
Penfield
Township Line Rd.
Parkview
69th Street Terminal
Philadelphia’s multimodal transit system, with rapid rail and regional rail is quite
similar to Paris’s Metro and RER system. The Paris RER is their regional rail
system, but once it enters Zone 1 it operates under the same pay scheme as all
other Zone 1 vehicles. This allows for a seamless and free transfers between all
types of transit within center city. Philadelphia could operate in a similar fashion
allowing for all types of vehicles to become a singular system. With Philadelphia implementing a new payment method that uses electronic cards instead
of tokens, seamless transfers between different transit types will become possible.This creates a more comprehensive system that includes all types of rapid
transit.
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East Falls
Allegheny
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr
Haverford
Ardmore Ave.
Ardmore Jct.
Wynnewood Rd.
Beechwood-Brookline
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Jenkintown-Wyncote
Chestnut
Hill East
Gravers
Wyndmoor
Chestnut
Fern Rock
Mt. Airy
Hill West
Trans. Ctr.
Sedgewick
Conshocken
Highland
Stenton
St. Martins
Washington Lane
Olney T.C.
Spring Mill
Allen Lane
Germantown
Logan
Miquon
Carpenter
Wister
Upsal
Ivy Rige
Tulpehocken
Manayunk
Chelten Ave.
Wayne Junction
Queen Lane
Wissahickon
Villanova
Rosemont
Roberts Rd.
RER Philadelphia
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Norristown
Trans. Center
Downingtown
Whitford
Exton
Malvern
Paoli
Daylesford
Berwyn
Devon
Stratford
Wayne
St. Davids
Forest Hills
Philmont
Belhayres
Meadowbrook
Rydal
Levittown
Norristown
Thorndale
Neshaminy Falls
Trevose
Somerton
Noble
Glenside
6
Yardley
Woodbourne
Langhorne
Hatboro
Gwynedd Valley
Penllyn
Ambler
Fort Washington
Oreland
North Hills
West
Trenton
9th
Lindenwold
13. Typewriter’s Lounge
Rashida Ng, Critic
Fall 2010 - Semester VII - 15 weeks
“Repository”
The typewriter as an instrument for creation (writings) and a machine for immediate production
(print) becomes the departure point for a space that incubates the tendencies of writers and their
work.
The spaces take hints from the aesthetic nature of the typewriter itself. Its rhythm, kinetics, light
qualities, and the ability for immediate print all take specific roles in the building’s development
and program.
Unlike the computer, which separates word processing from printing, the typewriter collapses
them into one device. This facility attempts to accomplish the same task, becoming a self-publishing center and writers collective.
The TYPE-Writer’s Lounge becomes an arena for writers to create in solitude or converse with like
minded individuals. Public and private workspaces allow writers to share their work with more
people. At the same the ability to self-publish on site allows for the work to be freely distributed.
14. Translating the Typewriter
Spaces for writing are dependent upon proper lighting both natural and artificial.
Due to the monolithic neighboring walls on both sides of the site, there are not
many opportunities for standard apertures.
To combat this portions of the building’s façade are extruded out to allow indirect
light into the building. This also allows for oblique views from the interior to the exterior as a method to screen the neighboring buildings. This method of cutting into
the building’s volume to allow opportunities for daylighting to enter is used both
horizontally and vertically.
A series of models and photographing them under strong light starts to conceive
spaces and light qualities that are in the spirit of the typewriter itself
Composing light and material qualities of the typewriter
A series of models used to recreate the light qualities embeded in the typewriter
15. Building as Typewriter
In the spirit of the typewriter the building’s program contains spaces
for writing and spaces for prinitng under one roof. Workstation pods,
the places where writers can most efficiently work operate with the
flexible lighting for reading and writing. The building is also equipped
with spaces for both mass printing and publishing work. So the ideas
and writings produced here can become widespread more easily.
With an office floating above the reading room, this Writer-inResidence becomes the face of the facility. Over the course of the
year public critiques are held of the work they are being developed
on-site. Several workshops are also held and led by the Writer-inResidence.
View of interior where writing pods hover above the main
reading room
SMARTBOARD SYNCED TO LAPTOP
AMBIENT LIGHTING
PRINTER EMBEDDED INTO WRITING SURFACE
SLIDING POCKET DOOR HIDDEN
ACOUSTIC PANELS
ENCASE WALLS
WRITING SURFACE
LOW VLT GLAZING TO
PREVENT GLARE
LIGHT SHELF
UV RESISTANT BLINDS
POWER, USB, ETHERNET,
PRINTER, SMARTBOARD CONNECTIONS
Plan Diagram showing the configuration of writing pods.
Side elevation revealing banding to allow verigated light into
building. This was developed from the findings of photographing the actual typewriter
TASK LIGHTING
PIN-UP BOARD
RESTING SURFACE
INDIRECT LIGHTING
TO REDUCE GLARE
Walnut Street
Sansom Street
16. GRANITE FACADE RECYCLED;
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NEW FOLDING GARAGE DOORS WITH
PANELS TO MATCH SCREEN ABOVE
NEW STREETSCAPE AT ARCH STREET
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ARTIFICIAL LIGHT OUT AT NIGHT
VENTILATION BY DESIGN: FOLDS WITHIN THE ARCH STREET
FACADE MAXIMIZES OPEN AREA OF GARAGE AND CATCHES
NORTHWEST WIND AND PUSHES IT INTO THE GARAGE
WRT Wallace Roberts and Todd
Professional Work
Architectural Designer
BIM Manager
WRT is a collection of city planners, landscape architects and architects. Projects usually involve the collaborative efforts of all three design practices to create solutions to complex urban spaces. The work typically falls in
between fields, projects that are a mix of landscape and architecture, a mix of landscape and planning, or a
planning project that leads to architectural work. These experiences have cemented my interest in becoming
both an architect and landscape architect. Although the three projects shown represent the more graphic aspects of this work, we do work on projects in their entirety. I am currently doing construction projects for the first
two projects.
Building Renovation and Streetscape strategy for 8th
and Filbert Street Garage
17. 8th and Filbert Streetscape and Garage Renovation
WRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd
This project is envisioned as a signature work that will serve as the model for the Authority’s other garage improvements in Center City. Through aesthetic improvements, lighting, storm water collection, and
recycling of existing materials for reuse this project seeks to become a model for sustainable garage
renovations. The garage underpass is also reimagined as an outdoor room and a new civic space for
the neighborhood.
Project team:
Joe Healy (Principle)
Modesto Bigas-Valedon (Architect)
Keiko Cramer (Landscape Architect)
Timothy Nawrocki (Designer)
Role: In charge of modeling the entire project along with all drawings, renderings, diagrams, and graphics under the guidance of Joe, Keiko and Modesto. The three also sketched and helped me understand
the detailing of the project both in terms of architecture and landscape. I am currently performing some
construction administration of phase 1 of the project with Modesto.
Located along 8th street, this garage sits at one of the
four major access points to the city from the interstate.
18. Eager Square
WRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd
Eager Square is a multi-building apartment project in Baltimore
designed to bridge the gap between a small residential neighborhood and a large college campus. The project is composed of two
buildings, on both sides of Eager Street. The project also seeks to
define the street between through a new streetscape strategy.
Project team: Joe Healy (Principle)
Modesto Bigas-Valedon (Architect)
David Gamba (Architect)
Timothy Nawrocki (Designer)
Role: In charge of modeling and drawing the project. I also created
all renderings, diagrams, and graphics. I am currently working on
construction documents with David Gamba.
View of Building B from the corner of Wolfe and Eager streets
Interior diagram
19. St. Luke’s Manor
WRT | Wallace Roberts and Todd
A larger adaptive reuse project that WRT has won several awards for its
successful reimagination of an old hospital into a school and residence. The
project was lacking a larger graphic to showcase the scope of the entire
project. I created this by modeling the exterior shell of the building and the
entire second floor. I then overlaid the two to create this revealed view.
21. Sloped Approach
Stewardson Fellowship in Architecture
2012 Recipient
These are some images from the boards I submitted for the 2012 Stewardson Fellowship, a
10 day individual competition between Pennsylvania’s six architecture schools. The project
sought to make several sloped connections between the street and the viaduct park above.
The series of slopes were embedded into both the architecture and the landscape to create
multiple connections. A large sloped park was conceived as the main entrance to the viaduct.
This created an elongated transition between the busy street and the more desolate park
above.
The winner receives a $10,000 travel prize. I chose to visit the works of several architects that
I believe successfully merge landscape and architecture. I spent 3 months travelling across
central Europe studying works by Peter Zumthor, Carlos Scarpa, Peter Latz, and West 8. My
lecture upon return was entitled “Architecture influenced by Landscape, Landscape influenced by Architecture.”
22. INDIAN LISTENING STATION
INDIAN NAVAL PORT
CAUTION
“INDIA, WHICH HAS THE SIZE, MIGHT,
AND NUMBERS AS CHINA WILL
MANOEUVRE ITSELF INTO A DOMINANT
POSITION IN ORDER TO BE SEEN AS A
COUNTERWEIGHT TO THE CHINESE
POWERS IN ASIA”
-JASJIT SIGNH STRATEGIC ANALYSIS [2001]
INDIAN NAVY PATROL
CHINESE LISTENING STATION
SEOUL
WARNING
BOARDER DISPUTES
BETWEEN INDIA, PAKISTAN,
AND CHINA MAKE FOR
HAZARDOUS AIR SPACE
CHINESE NAVAL PORT
CHINESE NAVY PATROL
WARNING
UNITED STATES LISTENING
STATION
“CHINA WOULD NEVER SEEK
HEGEMONY, NOR TURN TO
MILITARY EXPANSIONS OR ARMS
RACES WITH OTHER NATIONS”
-Chinese President Hu Jintao [2007]
GWADAR
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“Institute for Extra-Continental Antagonism”
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Due to the rising interest in the protection of each nation’s oil supply, much activity
is occuring in the Indian Ocean; a major oil route. Naval Imperialism is re-emerging. Instances of Antagonism between nation states is common and with the impending expiration of the US Navy lease on Diego Garcia, a space will be needed
to conduct the negotiation of the island’s future use, a political arena emerges.
The building, made of recylced oil tankers, becomes the prize.
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Drawings for the initial site location and material make up of the arena. A series
of abandoned oil tankers exist on the island, these become the building material
for the project. A study into Indian Ocean Shipbreaking helps to see tectonically
how the exterior skin develops as a collage of found objects. Through drawing the
project finds a site on the island that allows for easy access by naval cruiser, and
provides an easy escape by a smaller shallow water boat if necessary
24. Assembling the Arena
The building forms from the parts of the oil tankers found on the island.
These parts are welded together as a collage. A distance between the
sleeping/dining quarters from the arena allows for the landscape between to become an additional space for politicking. The arena is also
equipted with digresssion chambers that allow for less public negotiations between parties. These chambers exist both inside and in outside
courtyards contained by the arena.
Perspective Collage of Interior of Arena
Plans and elevations were developed through both drawings
and modelling
