Bachelor’s of Architecture | Pratt Institute Design Portfolio
Dakota Swainson
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Degree Project
B R O O K LYN ARMY TERMINAL: Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
One almost feels a sense of alienation, visually and physically, when wandering the streets of Sunset Park’s Waterfront. There is a haunting quality that is instilled within the area, with reminisce of industrial artifacts that have long fallen under decay and dilapidation. Manufacturing and industry have been vital components to the development and growth of Sunset Park, historically, economically and even culturally. With a population of 97,107, one-third (34,625) of those residents are working manufacturing jobs but have to commute outside of the city in order to get to work, making industry one of the community’s largest potential assets.
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Studio Type SF Professors Partner Year
Thesis Degree Project Multiple Purpose Building + Master Plan +4,000,000 ft 2 David Maestres + Adam Elstein Nicolas Mariscal Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Degree Project
West Exterior Render Maxwell Render 02
Historical + Existing Conditions Photographs (6 Black + White) Historical Photos | Sources: www.bklynarmyterminal.com + members.trainweb.com (3 Color) Existing Photos 2013
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Degree Project
Sunset Park has strong urban barriers that isolate the waterfront and its surrounding area to the residences. These barriers mainly include the Gowanus Expressway and existing zoning and programmatic divisions. Accessibility into the area remains a major issue that continues to enable and solidify these boundaries. As a result of zoning and programmatic segregation, the upland community remains primarily residential, while the waterfront remains industrial. The Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), which is situated at the south end of the Sunset Park Waterfront was once the main World War I and II shipping point of goods and people; a huge complex spanning 5 large industrial blocks with over 6 million square feet of space. After years of disinvestment, much like the majority of the waterfront, the BAT currently sits underutilized, and inaccessible to the public.
[Bottom]
Linking Industry to Society Connectivity Diagram Overlay
Legend Industrial Shipping Industrial Vehicular Public Transportation Waterfront Zone Sunset Park Industrial Manufacturing Zones
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Segregated Vacant Spaces
Isolated Green Spaces
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150’
Scale : 50’
1350’ 450’
150’
Scale : 50’
Legend
Urban Dead Zones Industrial + Manufacturing Transportation Parking Lots Vacant Lots 05
1350’ 450’
Legend
Dissolving the Urban Grid Through Block Corridors Existing Green Space Industrial Blocks
Degree Project
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Proposed Continuous Hardscape
Proposed Continuous Softscape
O w l ’s H e a d Pa r k
Ow l ’s H e a d Pa rk
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150’
Scale : 50’
1350’ 450’
150’
Scale : S u n s e t Pa r k
G r e e n wo o d C e m e t e r y
Legend
Green Space + “Pocket” Park Network Bus Loop Through Block Corridors Green Space
50’
1350’ 450’
S u n s e t Pa r k
G r e e n wo o d Ce m e t e r y
Legend
Existing vs Proposed Industrial + Manufacturing Transportation Parking Lots Vacant Lots
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South East Exterior Render Maxwell Render 07
Degree Project
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n an attempt to re-engage the community, our goal was to begin to redefine and reintroduce the Brooklyn Army Terminal as a center of community and industrial activity that showcases the interaction between people and the mechanisms of industries. With the introduction of public corridors we re-imagined the BAT with a series of cuts through the expansive complex in order to break up its massive scale to allow for multi-functionality and social collectiveness. The street fabric will be woven through the BAT to reconnect the upland community to the waterfront through the Brooklyn Army Terminal. The complex will become the new hub of activity in Sunset Park, connecting the area with the New York Metro Region while still maintaining the industrial and historic integrity of a newly imagined industrial waterfront.
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Degree Project
24’ 12’
96’ 48’
Sectional Perspective Public + Industrial Corridors 10
Pedestrian Bridges Maxwell Render 11
Degree Project
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Sectional Detail 3/8� Physical Model Styrene, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Design 401
EAGLEBROOK ADMINISTRATION BUILDING: Deerfield, MA
The proposed project for this 4th year design studio was an administrative building for the Eaglebrook Academy; a private boarding school for boys, located in the hills of Deerfield, MA. The building’s location in the heart of the campus acts as a hinge between the point of arrival and the expansive views through to the main campus. The building’s form is a manifestation of the dialogue between site, visual forces and architecture.
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Studio Type SF Professor Partner Year
Design 401 Multiple Purpose Building 4,500 ft 2 M. Louis Goodman N/A Fall 2011
Design 401
South-Eastern Perspective View 3/32� Physical Model Cherry Wood, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass 14
Programmatic “Jewel” Detail 3/32” Physical Model Cherry Wood, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass 15
Design 401
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he Eaglebrook Administration building’s form is a direct response to site circumstances, conditions and context. The building is centrally located within the campus, providing excellent views that expand out into the surrounding landscape. Programmatically, the building is divided into three wings that feather out towards main campus. The feathering provides natural light and views that pull out into the campus, as well as reveals the buildings internal organization. The building’s programmatic “jewels”, the boardroom and dean’s suite, protrudes through and emerges from the two flanking wings, visually and formally expanding out towards the campus.
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Design 401
3’
6’
9’
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Plans 1st Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan 18
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Design 401
East Elevational View 3/32� Physical Model Cherry Wood, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Exterior Detail Photographs 3/32� Physical Model | Cherry Wood | Basswood | Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Design 401
North - West Perspective Detail 3/32� Physical Model | Cherry Wood | Basswood | Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Roof Detail 3/32� Physical Model Cherry Wood, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass 23
Design 401
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Main Entry Detail 3/32� Physical Model Cherry Wood, Basswood, Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Design 302
DIAART MUSEUM: Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
The proposed project for the Dia Red Hook is a satellite museum to the original Dia Beacon. This 3rd year studio challenged students to design an architecture with large expansive spaces that would house large scale installations, paintings & sculptures from the likes of Roxy Paine, Tara Donovan, Doh-Ho-Suh & Anish Kapoor. A primary force behind the design intentions was to draw out relationships between artistic artifice, site and architecture.
Conceptual Sketch Graphite 25
Studio Type SF Professors Partner Year
Design 302 Cultural 78,000 ft 2 Ivan Shumkov + Gabriel Calatrava Dimitri Moustroufis Spring 2011
Design 302
South-Western Perspective View Maxwell Render 26
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Design 302
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he museum’s site, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, provides visual connections between site and city that rival the Brooklyn Height’s Promenade’s. The mapping of directionality and visual forces helped create a tectonic that defines the musuem’s form and orientation towards the city. The push and pull of visual forces create a unification of city, site, form and program through the contradictory nature of these opposing forces. The primary views provided by the site act as a backdrop for the art collection, also further establishing a relationship between museum, site and city.
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1st Floor Plan 29
2nd Floor Plan
Design 302
3rd Floor Plan
4th Floor Plan
3’8’
6’16’
9’ 32’
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Massing Detail 1/8� Physical Model Bristol Paper Illustration Board + Painted Chipboard
Design 302
South Elevational View Maxwell Render 32
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Design 302
3’8’
6’16’
9’ 32’
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North - East Perspective Maxwell Render 35
Design 302
1/2� Sectional Model Styrene | Illustration Board | Painted Chipboard + Plexi Glass
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Design 202
DISCOVER KINDERGARTEN: St. George, Staten Island, NY
The school’s sloped site allowed for an architectural response in orchestrating the movement and relationships between the students and their environment, that extends beyond the physical boundaries of the classroom. Pedagogically, the students experience is encouraged through the instillment of work, play & discovery, which is enhanced by the building’s intergration into the site, as well as how one circulates through transitioning transparencies.
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Studio Type SF Professor Partner Year
Design 202 Educational 7,000 ft 2 Philippe Baumann N/A Spring 2010
Design 202
North Western Perspective View Maxwell Render 38
Courtyard Maxwell Render 39
Design 202
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he organization of the kindergarten is designed to stimulate a child’s learning and developmental process through the balance of work, play and discovery. A strong interior and exterior relationship is created through the placement of classrooms and courtyards to further this notion of work, play and discovery. The school’s monolithic mass carves out terraced courtyard spaces throughout the site to provoke a child’s desire to play and discover. Variations of transparency were created to help define boundaries that provide balance between these notions.
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1st Floor Plan 41
2nd Floor Plan
Design 202
3rd Floor Plan
4th Floor Plan
3’
6’
9’
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Main Corridor Maxwell Render 43
Design 202
3’
6’
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Construction Documents
BEACH HOUSE Residential: Bay Head, NJ
Studio Type SF Professor Partner Year
Construction Documents Single Family Residence 2,500 ft 2 Nicholas Koutsomitis N/A Fall 2012
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LOT LINE
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The intention of this course was to gain a greater understanding of how various building components are assembled into a coeherent and structurally adequate architecture. Each student was required to create a full set of construction documents that comply with the current standards within the industry.
15’- 0”
LOT LINE
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Zoning Restrictions: 25’- 0”
Height Restrictions:
CURB LINE
75’- 0”
EAST AVE.
Top Floor Area:
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10’- 0”
EXISTING GARAGE
LOT LINE
Setbacks: Front: 25’-0”, Side: 10’-0” min. 35’-0’ Total Beach Side: 75’-0” from property line Limited to 2/3’s of the area of the floor below. From street elevation: 35’-0” from existing garage to ridge line. 3’-0” from grade to first floor slab.
Construction Documents
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40'
18'-23 8"
21'-95 8"
15'
ESTCODE
2'
1" 3'-32
8'-9" 6' ESTCODE
A
ESTCODE
14'-5"
ESTCODE
Living Room
22' ESTCODE
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Family Room
29'
11'-3"
5'-613 16"
Porch
6'
5'-6"
M.E 1" 5'-52
29'-313 16"
5'-9"
UP
47'-1"
3'-4"
C 6'
6'
4'-2"
Entry / Foyer
7'
11'
7'-6"
3'
3'
3' 16'-6"
Breakfast Area
D 2'-6" 3'
Dining Room
17'-1"
12'-6"
17'-6"
21'
Laundry
Mud Room
Kitchen 6'
1" 5'-32
1" 5'-32
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12'-11"
15'
17'-1"
5'
3'
45'
6'
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S2
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A-302
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47'
13'-8"
14'-4"
7'
ESTCODE ESTCODE
12'
8'-113 4" EDOCTSE
4'
A
6'
Bedroom ESTCODE
8'-75 8"
3'-515 16"
Family Room 14'-4"
11'-921"
Master Bedroom Bath ESTCODE
20'-315 16"
B
29'-6"
30'
11" 3'-716
1" 10'-116 6'
2'
11'-8"
C
3'-10"
Hall
6'-041"
Master Bath
47'
UP
11'-5"
7' 3'
4'-313 16"
2'-6"
3'-8"
A-301
A-301
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S1
7'-5"
ESTCODE
12' 1" 10'-116
ESTCODE
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6'-113 4"
Bath
Bedroom
7'-7"
Bedroom
11" 3'-716
Bedroom
17'
12'-6"
17'-6"
ESTCODE
3'-8"
5'-5" 5'-321"
2'
7'-83 4" ESTCODE
ESTCODE
14'
14'
14'
45'
S2
36’
26’
Plan 2nd Floor Plan
16’
3’ 4’
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6’
9’
A-302
38’- 8”
ESTCODE
11" 3'-716
4'-313 16"
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Construction Documents
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Key Decking Detail
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Frameshield Membrane 1/4” Plywood Sheathing Vertical Batten 2” x 10” Header 3/4” Gypsum Board Insulation 3/4” Sub-Flooring 3/4” x 1’ Walnut Flooring
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Anderson “Pop” Window Frame 1/4” Insulated Glass Exterior Sill 3/4” x 4” Thermawood Open Decking Glass Railing Sloped Fiberglass Sub-Flooring
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2” x 10” Timber Joist 3/4” x 4” Thermawood Open Siding
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Key Roof & Parapet Detail Insulated Glass Drip Edge Wood Blocking 1/2” Rubber Membrane Rigid Insulation Insulation 3/4” Gypsum Board 49
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Aluminium Parapet Cap 3/4” x 3” Thermawood Siding Weather Membrane 1/4” Plywood Sheathing 2” x 10” Timber Joist 2” x 10” Header Modulus Sealant
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Construction Documents
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S2
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A-302
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40'
14'-2"
A
25'-10"
2'
8'-75 8"
Outdoor Terrace
1" 11'-116
1" 9'-216 ESTCODE
7" 11'-1116
17'-7" 29'-6"
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Game Room
26'
17'-3" 5'-10"
2' 13'-10"
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43'
7'-1"
3" 4'-516
7'
4'-313 16"
DN
3'-8"
A-301
A-301
S1
S1 ESTCODE
2'-721"
5'-5"
11'-6"
5'
1" 10'-116
ESTCODE
D
6'-113 4"
Bath
Bedroom
11" 3'-716
7'-5"
Bedroom
17'-6"
5'-7"
M.E
4'-313 16"
ESTCODE
Storage
7'-83 4"
2' ESTCODE
3'-8" ESTCODE
14'
14'
14'
S2
45'
A-302
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12'-6"
ESTCODE
17'
3’
6’
Plan 3rd Floor Plan
9’
50 E
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C
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36’
A-401
26’
2 A-402
16’
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A-403
A-405
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Building Envelope Cross Section 51
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Construction Documents
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Key Awning Detail 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1/4” Insulated Glass 1/4” Wood Shim 3/4” Gypsum Board 3/4” x 4” Thermawood Open Decking 3/4” Sub-Flooring Insulation 2” x 6” Header Exterior Sill
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Anderson Window Sill 1/4” Plywood Sheathing 3/4” x 4” Thermawood Open Siding Copper Awning Lining Frameshield Membrane Vertical Batten Modulus Sealant Anderson Door Frame
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Dakota I. Swainson (t) 917.328.6466 (e) [email protected]