http://www.nicholaspajerski.com nicholaspajerski Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:16:31 +0000 http://www.nicholaspajerski.com en http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Phalanx http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Phalanx Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:16:31 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5356032 2012 Evolo Skyscraper Competition Entry Collaboration with Matthew Conway What is the architecture of a new Egyptian democratic state in Cairo post-2011 revolution? Fullscreen <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/01_Small_900.JPG" width="900" height="454" width_o="1837" height_o="928" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/01_Small_o.JPG" data-mid="28818279" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/02_Small_900.JPG" width="900" height="450" width_o="1858" height_o="931" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/02_Small_o.JPG" data-mid="28818275" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/04_Small_900.JPG" width="900" height="456" width_o="1563" height_o="792" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/04_Small_o.JPG" data-mid="28818449" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/03_Small_900.JPG" width="900" height="499" width_o="1622" height_o="901" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5356032/03_Small_o.JPG" data-mid="28818445" border="0" align="left"/> Peace is a state of harmony, a void of violence providing infrastructural stability, ecological preservation, economic acceleration, and conservation of human life. However, There is no singular state of peace, therefore peace should be considered as a plurality. Proactive conflict prevention is more cost effective than reactive conflict prevention, thereby making proactive efforts more sustainable. After a conflict has become violent, efforts made to contain and reduce the intensity, interval, and the potential of geographic spill over are costly. There is a growing perception that there are limits to the level of violence the world can sustain. Conflicts resolution is found through dialog, providing serenity within the social tension. However, conflicts also catalyze revolution. Revolutions are class struggles against a government or social order in favor of new systems. Revolution results in a perpetual rearranging of social conditions and betterment of the mankind’s pursuits of truth and culture. Phalanx is an architecture for sustaining a peaceful cycle of continuous revolution. Currently operating within a state of dismay and unrest, Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia are landscapes filled with political and cultural shifting. Masses overthrowing failed totalitarian governments in Egypt, Libya, Syria have set precedents as a global call for equality of human rights. Egypt is now entering into a multi-party system between The Muslim Brotherhood, Freedom and Justice Party, and Al-Nour. Revolution continues to be integral to Egypt as a nation. The liberation continuing within the urban fabric of Cairo is ideal for Phalanx. Unbalanced reconstruction can create new inequalities, but harmonic reconstruction can also be an instrument of peace. The start of the twenty-first century found architects attempting to lariat the tools of the Industrial Revolution to resolve macro crises. Currently, it’s not the steam engine or electric light, but digital technology and urban spatial relationships which must be lariated. The success of a city, according to Jane Jacobs, is the health of its public spaces. Common expectations are that cities, by definition, provide places of public assembly, it is time architecture shares in this responsibility. Implementation of a novel spatial organization, which folds public space into architecture and re-emits interior relationships out to the larger urban sphere brings wellbeing to Cairo’s liberation potential. Public spaces like Tompkins Square, Tiananmen Square, and Tahrir Square have been stages for history because they provide the loci for urban gathering. Civil discourse should have a stage on which to play out, or in the case of the Phalanx, play within and flow out. Architectural public space allows for the expression of instability, for the expression of a world constantly in need of modification. Protests around the world have increasingly been built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Phalanx’s Media façade is a materialization, or physical extension and social symbol of netizens and public citizens desires via the Internet. The Internet as an egalitarian, organizing platform, embodied through a distributed infrastructure of mobile communication devices, with the ability to outflank central control. A viral phenomenon Coalescing from a disconnected crowd; elaborating their shared social identity, generating norm construction and an amalgamation of concerns. Phalanx offers a cosmopolitan stage for revolutionaries with the meshing of different social and economic and cultural classes within a government structure. Revolutionaries cast off their invisibility and embody a physical space; a dynamic platform for streaming public opinion directly to governmental personnel. Revolutionaries can transfer from physical to virtual world and never be dispersed; they are ubiquitous and omnipresent physically and virtually. Phalanx curtails draconian governmental tactics by infusing direct public space into governmental structures and ensuring instantaneous communication through the media façade. 2012 Evolo Skyscraper Competition Entry Collaboration with Matthew Conway What is the architecture of a new Egyptian democratic state in Cairo post-2011... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Labyrinthine-Logics http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Labyrinthine-Logics Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:03:13 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5290803 Fall 2012 Tutor: Marc Fornes Developed during a course focused on the role of representation and resolution required for description of a labyrinthine structure, this project focuses on a spinal location for moments of member interlocking and further growth. Evaluating a continuous spinal connection about voxels where interweaving coordination could occur to construct a desired labyrinth density while maintaining a conflict-free whole. This project tested methods of representation for such executions and specifically the agency of code in this manner. Fullscreen Spinal Weaving / Typology Logic <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images_o.jpg" data-mid="28460209" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images2_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images2_o.jpg" data-mid="28460211" border="0" align="left"/> Sorting / Weaving / Grafting Groups partitioned to navigate around each other, and grow to a neighboring member for support. <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images3_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images3_o.jpg" data-mid="28460214" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images4_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images4_o.jpg" data-mid="28460216" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images5_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images5_o.jpg" data-mid="28460218" border="0" align="left"/> Surfaces / Closed / Solid (w/o intersection) <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images6_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290803/Images6_o.jpg" data-mid="28460221" border="0" align="left"/> Fall 2012 Tutor: Marc Fornes Developed during a course focused on the role of representation and resolution required for description of a labyrinthine structure,... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/P-roject http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/P-roject Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:46:43 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5290732 Fall 2012 Tutor: Yusuke Obuchi (P)roject: Proliferating Prophylactics to Prevent a Potential Topophobia Tokyo, Japan (in conjunction with 2020 Olympic Bid) The following is work produced during a studio aimed at questioning the waste of material flows. The beginning is composed of a series of studies focused on studying the resultant material and performative output of computational generative models. These models were built with their physical translation and performance to be considered an evolving factor never specific to a single material but to the properties of more general material logics. The waste chosen to further drive the placement of this project within Tokyo is that of digital phenomena and the physicalization of such into the material world. Interest here lies in researching the influences of mainstream digital cultures and the influences they have on the material world, or highly enforced cultural constructs. Fullscreen Stitching: The initial physical studies were in the form of fusing plastic the laser cutter by calibrating the power, speed, and PPI to run over a series of scripted stitching patterns. Stitching the items together created pockets available to be filled in to then study the resulting volume and geometry. Digital / Physical Studies & System Rule Configuration <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_1_900.JPG" width="900" height="572" width_o="1367" height_o="870" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_1_o.JPG" data-mid="28459869" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_6_900.JPG" width="900" height="577" width_o="1363" height_o="875" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_6_o.JPG" data-mid="28459902" border="0" align="left"/> Proposed System Relations <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski_o.jpg" data-mid="28459922" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski2_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski2_o.jpg" data-mid="28459923" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski3_900.jpg" width="900" height="582" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/F12_WorkFinal_Pajerski3_o.jpg" data-mid="28459924" border="0" align="left"/> Final Working Model <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6604_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6604_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28459736" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6601_900.JPG" width="900" height="600" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6601_o.JPG" data-mid="28459747" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6605_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6605_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28459692" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6599_900.JPG" width="900" height="613" width_o="2048" height_o="1396" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/IMG_6599_o.JPG" data-mid="28459743" border="0" align="left"/> Perspective Rendering <img src="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_900.JPG" width="900" height="490" width_o="1652" height_o="901" src_o="http://payload149.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5290732/Capture_o.JPG" data-mid="28459656" border="0" align="left"/> Fall 2012 Tutor: Yusuke Obuchi (P)roject: Proliferating Prophylactics to Prevent a Potential Topophobia Tokyo, Japan (in conjunction with 2020 Olympic Bid) The... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Yangtze-River-Delta http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Yangtze-River-Delta Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:47:30 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5267834 2012 Model part fabrication for Guy Nordenson and Associates Yangtze River Delta Model part of 2013 Shanghai Exhibition 35" x 35" - Acrylic / Wood Fullscreen <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39233_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="902" width_o="2048" height_o="2053" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39233_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28333642" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39210_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39210_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28333646" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39218_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="675" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267834/Nordenson_Shanghai 39218_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28333649" border="0" align="left"/> All images copyright Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers LLP 2012 Model part fabrication for Guy Nordenson and Associates Yangtze River Delta Model part of 2013 Shanghai Exhibition 35" x 35" - Acrylic / Wood All... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Chubby-Wall-House http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Chubby-Wall-House Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:37:56 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5267749 January 2013 Renderings commisioned by Matthew Conway and Nate Imai Honorable Mention LIXIL Retreat in Nature Competition Fullscreen <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/exterior 02_900.JPG" width="900" height="435" width_o="1759" height_o="851" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/exterior 02_o.JPG" data-mid="28333191" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/interior 01_900.JPG" width="900" height="432" width_o="1761" height_o="846" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/interior 01_o.JPG" data-mid="28333194" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/exterior 01_900.JPG" width="900" height="430" width_o="1758" height_o="841" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267749/exterior 01_o.JPG" data-mid="28333196" border="0" align="left"/> January 2013 Renderings commisioned by Matthew Conway and Nate Imai Honorable Mention LIXIL Retreat in Nature Competition http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/National-Library-of-Israel http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/National-Library-of-Israel Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:52:14 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5267365 2012 National Library of Israel - Winning Competition Renderings Rafi Segal Architecture and Urbanism Fullscreen <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/Exterior View 02_link_900.jpg" width="900" height="421" width_o="1901" height_o="891" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/Exterior View 02_link_o.jpg" data-mid="28331061" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/View 01_link_900.jpg" width="900" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1074" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/View 01_link_o.jpg" data-mid="28330989" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/View 02_NP_link_900.jpg" width="900" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1074" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267365/View 02_NP_link_o.jpg" data-mid="28331085" border="0" align="left"/> All images copyright Rafi Segal Architecture and Urbanism 2012 National Library of Israel - Winning Competition Renderings Rafi Segal Architecture and Urbanism All images copyright Rafi Segal Architecture and... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Mo-Monies http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Mo-Monies Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:42:55 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5267158 Mo' Monies: Outlining Irregular Investment Opportunies Excerpt from Pidgin 15 2013 A lack of sufficient funding often halts entrepreneurial endeavors, snatching the breath out of a project before it reaches its potential. The large steps of starting a business, establishing legal rights, and defining market specifications can stall a project. There are, however, newly established business opportunities and non-traditional funding routes that can help designers to navigate around financial roadblocks. Contrary to more traditional (linear) project development routes, an iterative design model occurs when novel investor relationships and an ever evolving target audience come together. The following will describe this narrative in the design process of the Prop laptop stand by MAKE Collaboration. This model of project development interprets moments where substantial financial support was necessary for advancement as moments to rethink design strategies. In the design, manufacturing, and marketing of the Prop, we realized that the need for funding need not be considered a problem, but an opportunity to clarify our project and its mission. Funding Process Diagram <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267158/Diagram Icon_900.JPG" width="900" height="673" width_o="1218" height_o="912" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5267158/Diagram Icon_o.JPG" data-mid="28330195" border="0" align="left"/> Mo' Monies: Outlining Irregular Investment Opportunies Excerpt from Pidgin 15 2013 A lack of sufficient funding often halts entrepreneurial endeavors, snatching... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Cloud-Type-B http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Cloud-Type-B Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:58:14 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5266910 2012 Collaboration with Matthew Conway Proposal for CTBUH "Reimagining Tall: Considering Context, Sustainability, and Efficiency" Competition Fullscreen <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5266910/Final Export_900.jpg" width="900" height="1439" width_o="1812" height_o="2898" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5266910/Final Export_o.jpg" data-mid="28328546" border="0" align="left"/> 2012 Collaboration with Matthew Conway Proposal for CTBUH "Reimagining Tall: Considering Context, Sustainability, and Efficiency" Competition http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Prop http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Prop Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:29:58 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5264989 The PROP "Hot way to keep your laptop cool" 2010 - Ongoing Co-Inventor with Justin Brouillette Portable laptop stand developed under MAKE Collaboration 2011 Apartment Therapy Designers Showcase Winner More on the Prop here Fullscreen <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_8918-R2-full_900.jpg" width="900" height="597" width_o="2000" height_o="1328" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_8918-R2-full_o.jpg" data-mid="28327938" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/Prop-42-R_900.jpg" width="900" height="610" width_o="903" height_o="613" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/Prop-42-R_o.jpg" data-mid="28327882" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_7186-1024x576_900.jpg" width="900" height="506" width_o="1024" height_o="576" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_7186-1024x576_o.jpg" data-mid="28327897" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_7173-1024x679_900.jpg" width="900" height="596" width_o="1024" height_o="679" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264989/DSC_7173-1024x679_o.jpg" data-mid="28327901" border="0" align="left"/> the Prop is Protected under United States Patent #D652,044 S All images Copyright MAKE Collaboration The PROP "Hot way to keep your laptop cool" 2010 - Ongoing Co-Inventor with Justin Brouillette Portable laptop stand developed under MAKE Collaboration 2011... http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/Model-for-Change-Trenton http://www.nicholaspajerski.com/following/nicholaspajerski.com/Model-for-Change-Trenton Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:08:49 +0000 nicholaspajerski 5264618 Spring 2012 Tutor: Axel Kilian Fullscreen Planametric <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Planometric Overlay-01_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="504" width_o="2048" height_o="1147" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Planometric Overlay-01_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28325824" border="0" align="left"/> Section <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Section Overlay-entourage-01_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="399" width_o="2048" height_o="908" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Section Overlay-entourage-01_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28325818" border="0" align="left"/> Perspectives <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Roof Overlay-entourage-01_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="503" width_o="2048" height_o="1146" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Roof Overlay-entourage-01_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28325815" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Interior Perspective-entourage_reduced_900.jpg" width="900" height="504" width_o="2048" height_o="1147" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/0/18259/5264618/12_0508_Interior Perspective-entourage_reduced_o.jpg" data-mid="28325821" border="0" align="left"/> Spring 2012 Tutor: Axel Kilian Planametric Section Perspectives