The Sydney Sail
A high rise competition in Sydney, Australia
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Sydney, Australia is a thriving city year round. It attracts millions of tourists every year, generating a plethora of money to enhance the city. By creating a new ferry terminal and residential tower would mean to enhance the visitors experience in Sydney, while also giving a real sense of place to the year-round residents of Sydney. This aerodynamic form located on the existing Circular Quay Ferry terminal site, helps continue the symphony across the harbour of the Sydney Opera House. It compliments, without being a distraction, from the many famous attractions in the area. By including an open-air market kind of style to the ferry terminal, it invites tourists to check out what else the city has to offer. The three towers help connect the terminal from top to bottom by becoming atrium spaces on the bottom floor, and office/residential towers as you progress through the site. It also attracts tourists through the roof top viewing deck at the top of the towers, as well as the roof of the ferry. They become the anchors for the ferry terminal and let the site breathe thanks to its aerodynamic shape.
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Dichotomy
An adaptive reuse, net zero project in Denver, Co
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This was a project for a team of two. This iconic Building, formerly known as the Weisco Building and now commonly referred to as the Junction Box, is located in the midst of RiNo, one of Denver’ s most trendy and quickly changing local neighborhoods. This building is a Denver icon not only for its brick and timber, early 20th century character, but for its location at the intersection of 5 different streets. The interior of the building is unique and industrial, with significant exposed brick , metal trusses, and columns. The multiple windows throughout the space allows for more natural light than normal to sift trough the large open warehouse area with a dance studio and entertainment space. The clinet, company FABS, needed a new headquarters. The Fresh Air Building Systems company generates fresh air from within buildings to improve indoor air quality while reducing indoor airborne toxins. This design is aimed to deliver adequate healthy air to interior inhabitants because existing HVAC systems do not eliminate many toxins, and actually increase the pathogenic composition of indoor air streams by removing microbiota that exist outdoors.
Project Team: Marisa Mines & Matthew Zepp |
Bird Blind
Design Build Project for the Althouse Arboretum, Pottsgrove, PA
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The client for this project is GreenAllies at theAlthouse Arboretum, Pottstown, PA. A "shelter" was needed along the trail to promote cover and education for the many children and adults that come her year-round. Our solution was to design a bird blind. In the classroom space of the Althouse Arboretum, a bird blind now emerges out of the children's forest path. It acts as a destination space for the people to visit. It gives the appearance of growing out of the Earth, while evolving into a shelter for a maximum of 3-4 people at a time. The space is used to quietly view birds and other wild life with carefully crafted vantage points near the pond.
It is to be installed in the Spring of 2017 Project Team: Professor David Kratzer, Mathew Lombardo, Marisa Mines, Christopher Murnin, Peter Nagel, Matthew Zepp |
