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• CG Rendering

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• Little Black Pearl Workshop
  

  Project Manager: Matt Kupritz
  Collaborators: BEN TOAM

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• Installations

  Installations are small-scale architectural projects.  The are often sculptural, but large enough to affect the space that contains them.  They can take the form of large scale furniture that modifies the usage of a space.  Interior architecture could also be considered an installation.

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• Little Black Pearl Workshop
  

  Project Manager:
  Matt Kupritz
  Collaborators
  BEN TOAM
  Program:
  K2 Architects’ Little Black Pearl Workshop Project incorporates an internally lit translucent ‘pearl’ in the center atrium. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia Digital.
  The LBPW project called for a shining focal point above the atirum stairs. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia Digital, and attached to [...]

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• Posable Street Furniture
  

  Collaborators: ADAM FREETLY | JUAN GUERRERO | BEN TOAM | PROF. CELINE PARMENTIER
  Description: UIC Architecture Program, Undergraduate Digital Media Studio
  Spring Semester 2002. Design and construction of a street furniture prototype for mass production. Designed for CWC Wood Competition.
  Process
  Posable Street Furniture was initiated as a project that dealt only with wood construction. [...]

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• Microhouse

  Professor:
  Ken Isaacs
  Program:
  800 s.f. House built on a flood plain in Mississippi. Design to accomodate flooding up to 6′. The House is built on piers, which circulation wraps around. The glass floor in the kitchen extends over the river, to engage the interior space in the surrounding environment.
  Medium:

  Ink on Mylar hand drafting
  Hand [...]

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• Drafting

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  Drafting

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• Model Photos

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  Model Photos

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• Model Building

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• Microhouse

  Professor: Ken Isaacs
  Program: 800 s.f. House built on a flood plain in Mississippi. Design to accomodate flooding up to 6′. The House is built on piers, which circulation wraps around. The glass floor in the kitchen extends over the river, to engage the interior space in the surrounding environment.
  Model Photos
  [...]

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• Redirection

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• Retreat
  

  Professor:
  SARA DUNN
  Program:
  An 800 sq. ft. artist’s retreat, located within an urban park. The project was divided into 3, 60′x60′ sections, the first two of which were fully open to the public. the 3rd contains the artist’s retreat, along with a public area for viewing the artist’s studio, as well as a lookout to the rest [...]

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• Motion-Based Design

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• Envisioning Chicago
  

  Professor:
  Randy Jacobson
  Collaborators:
  Josh Myers
  Program:
  This project uses a watch and a camera to document the experience of traveling through a variety of neighborhoods in Chicago. Pictures were taken at a set interval along the path, and are paired with a timeline and a map. This system creates an inverted relationship between travel speed and movie speed.
  Dempster [...]

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• Redirection
  

  Professor: Ammar Elouini
  Collaborators: Ben Toam
  Description: Mass Customization in Digital Media: Prefabricated Row Houses, designed for a typical chicago lot (125′x25′).
  direct v.
  two ways of looking at
  a reversal. instead of space defining the rooms, the rooms have the power to define the space around them. interest is created where two or more rooms overlap
  This movie requires [...]

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• Posable Street Furniture

   
  Collaborators
  ADAM FREETLY | JUAN GUERRERO | BEN TOAM | PROF. CELINE PARMENTIER
  Description
  UIC Architecture Program, Undergraduate Digital Media Studio
  Spring Semester 2002. Design and construction of a street furniture prototype for mass production. Designed for CWC Wood Competition.
  Process
  Posable Street Furniture was initiated as a project that dealt only with wood construction. The PSF was [...]

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• Writings

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  GUERILLA ARCHITECTURE

  is an attack on the establishment. how do you find clients for street furniture that doubles as a homeless shelter? DO IT YOURSELF. Commandeer the side of a building. attach a prefabricated unit in the middle of the night. spray-paint an instruction template on the wall. keep somebody in a warm dry bed for [...]

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• Process Renderings

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• Grand Egyptian Museum
  

  Project Lead
  MATT KUPRITZ
  Collaborators
  TIM BURD | ADAM FREETLY | JOSH MYERS | LYLE PORTZER | DAVID PINDEL | BEN TOAM
  Description
  K2 Architects Competition Entry for Grand Egyptian Museum Competition
  Summer 2002. Firmwide competition entry, museum campus design integrated with landscape design of equal magnitude. Rendered in an “overlit” style, to give the appearance of a [...]

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• Retreat

  Professor:
  SARA DUNN
  Program:
  An 800 sq. ft. artist’s retreat, located within an urban park. The project was divided into 3, 60′x60′ sections, the first two of which were fully open to the public. the 3rd contains the artist’s retreat, along with a public area for viewing the artist’s studio, as well as a lookout to [...]

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• Drafting

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  Line

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  Volume

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• Line, Plane, Volume

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  Line

  The choice of pathway. A chaotic system that allows the visitor freedom in navigation Rules are both broken and followed.
  The stairs govern the speed and rhythm of passage. By moving across stair systems, [...]

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• Photos

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  Retreat Photos

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• Submit

  Submit Graphic

  Client:
  Matt Kupritz
  Collaborators
  BEN TOAM
  Brief:
  A design competition to be hosted by a local restaurant, and sponsored by an architecture firm. Design of competition brief (poster) and promotional postcard. Design completed and delivered, but competition never opened.

  Pearl Cladding
  Project Manager:
  Matt Kupritz
  Collaborators
  BEN TOAM
  Program:
  K2 Architects’ Little Black Pearl Workshop Project incorporates an internally lit translucent ‘pearl’ in [...]

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• Phase 1 - Graphic

  The title of the competition to play up the subserviant relationship implied in submitting work to be judged. The rendered graphic mirrors the varying densities of the city, one of the issues the competition intended to address. The deliverables were an 18×24 poster containing the competition brief, and a promotional postcard.

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• Phase 2 - Installation

  The LBPW project called for a shining focal point above the atirum stairs. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia Digital, and attached to an aluminum frame. The final installation is lit from within.
  After the image was rerendered and printed by 3-Form, it was necessary to use a water jet to [...]

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