CHRISTOPHER LEPPERT

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

CHRISTOPHER LEPPERTArchitecture PortfolioBachelors of ArchitectureNew Jersey Institute of Technology

2010-2012

sections01_Florence Botanical Gardens02_Electronic Music and Arts Center03_Whaling Museum04_Miscellaneous Work

Contents

Florence Botanical Gardens Electronic Music and Arts Center Whaling Museum Miscellaneous Work

FLORENCE BOTANICAL GARDENSProject Location: Florence, Italy

Project Size: 150,000 sq ft

Critic: Professor Stephen Zdepski

Program: Interior and exterior gardens, marketplace, overlook, piazza

Project Description:

Centuries of the Arno River overflowing its banks as it runs through Florence, Italy has resulted in engineering construction which have made the riverbanks inaccessible and functionally bifurcates the city. Yet, the desire to use the Arno River persists for boating, swimming, parties, fireworks, picnicking and other forms of recreation, during the dry seasons at low water levels. The historical center of Florence is composed of a dense and narrow streetscape. Most of the urban center is void of natural landscape. Much of the adjacent pedestrian streetscape is relatively narrow with vertically “over-scaled” buildings. Occupiable shade and naturallandscape mostly occur in private interior courtyards. The Arno Botanical Garden is composed of a series of interior gardens (winter garden), and exterior gardens which connect the city East to West, and connect the pedestrian to the Arno. The “garden-river path” is a thread which connects a number of “garden themes and public events” both along and across the Arno. Each themed garden requires a specific light and ventilation level, min.-max temperatures and humidity. The Botanical Garden also includes a public overlook tower, riverbank courtyard for public events, opportunity to public street markets, and outdoor dining for adjacent restaurants.

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Botanical Gardens Along the Arno River

The Arno River acts as a physical divide between the historical city and the residential neighbor-hoods. By building large flood walls, Florence lost its relationship with the river and have become fascinated with the cities bridges instead. There are very few points where the city actually meets the river. Along the site there is a very urban context that relates to major buildings, landmarks, and great public spaces. The only public space missing along this area is one that integrates with the river itself. In juxtaposition to the urban context and within the flood walls, there is also a very natural landscape that flows into the Arno. The goal is to blend these two sites with the Arno River it once made contact with and embrace its changing groundplan. The botanical gardens will connect with the river through a new piazza below the city walls and buildings. By linking this space with the UFFIZI GALLERY, it provides a new program for the museum, making the landmark have a special relationship with the river.

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Aesthetic battle within Florence (new vs. old); People of Venice embracing the flood

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ARNO=the new piazza

Progression of public space into the Arno RiverPiazza de’ pitti

Piazza della signoria

Duomo

Piazza della santissima annuziata

The botanical gardens are a living entity in which plants are grown and used in the ingredients of the products sold in the market

DRINK CAFE DESSERT PERFUME TOBACCO-hops/barley-Sangiovese grapes

-coffee tree-herbal garden

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TECHNICAL BUILDING SECTION

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A 1. DRILLED PILE FOUNDATION2. SOIL3. CRUSHED STONE INFILL4. SUPPLY AIR DUCT WITH INSULATION 5. RETURN AIR DUCT WITH INSULATION6. CONCRETE WALL CONTAINING INSULATION LAYER, WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE7. 18” STEEL COLUMNS8. WALKABLE STEEL GRILLE9. 8”x8” STEEL CHANNELS10. TREE COLUMN MADE OF 5 6” STEEL MEMBERS11. WATER OBTAINED FROM THE ARNO RIVER12. CONCRETE BENCH13. ALUMINIUM DOUBLE GLAZING UNIT14. 5’ WIDE TRIANGULAR CURVED STEEL TRUSS15. LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL SECONDARY I BEAMS16. 1/4” STEEL CABLES CONNECTING THE WALKABLE GRILLE TO THE CHORDS OF THE TRUSS17. STEEL RAILING18.6-8” WOOD FLOORING19. CONCRETE SLAB20. WOOD RAILING WITH 1/8” STEEL CABLE CONNECTIONS21. ROOF SYSTEM CONTAINING OF 4” STEEL DIAGRID STRUCTURE FIXED AND OPERABLE GLASS PANELS, PLASTIC ENCASING MEMBRANE22. 8 x 8” WOOD ROOF BEAM23. 2” x 2” WOOD STRIP FINISH24. WOOD PANEL ENCLOSURE25. WATER SUPPLY PIPES

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Electronic Music and Arts Center (EMAC)02_EMAC

Project Location: New York City, NY

Project Size: 70,000 sq ft

Critic: Professor Joshua Zinder

Program: 300 seat blackbox/whitebox theatre space, back of house support, cafe/restaurant, office suite, class-rooms, computer lab, practice rooms, recording studios

Project Description:

The International Electronic Music and Art Center (EMAC) shall provide a home for the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF). It shall accommodate social,educational and studio spaces. The EMF will support the use and creation of digital media, audience interaction/immersion and outdoor performance. Students are to investigate 3 possible site locations for the EMAC and select one which will best serve the programmatic, social, and formal needs of the facility. All the sites are located along the High Line in New York City and should contribute to the further development of community and arts in this section of the city. The EMAC will actively encourage the convergence of art and technology, providing exhibition, educational and performance space where technological, electronic and innovative performance art can be developed, displayed and exhibited.

Fall 2011

Electronic Music and Arts Center

The Electronic Music and Arts Center serves as a new transformational object on the Manhattan grid. In a context full of buildings in love with themselves, the EMAC is dedicated to the public ear and eye. All performance and display spaces are located adjacent to the highline adding new program to the stretch of the park it encounters: SOUND and VISION. The flexibility of the operable spaces and the structure allow many opportunities: To embrace or completely remove the city, to practice music for the public, to allow the public to see the interworkings of the building and the spaces in it.

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Open areas with visibility to EMAC site

Varying context near EMAC site

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Performative stair rendering

Stair to living machine

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Theatre space detail

Whaling Museum03_Whaling Museum

Project Location: To be installed throughout the world

Project Size: 9,000 sq ft

Critic: Professor Don Wall

Program: Interactive audio/video installation

Project Description:

Students are asked to design a portion of a museum dedicated to the whaling industry of the 1800’s. This project examines the anatomy and physical make up of the sperm whale. The exhibit uses projections onto an impermanent medium (FogScreen) so that the visitor can physically dissect or break the image once they walk through it.

Fall 2010

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Whaling Museum

The exhibit is the dissection of the whale through digital images. The whale’s head will be digitally split into ten longitudinal sections and displayed on a fog screen in which the user will be able to experience the act of dissection in the process of entering or breaking the image. The images are directly aligned with one another so that, in the end, the user will see all transparent sections and their relation to one another and the whole. The physical space or form that houses the digital images is designed from the only ‘content’ available, the entry video clip. The architecture in terms of materials and structure should relate to the act of dissection and peeling of the layers of the whale both internally and externally. The exterior surface will be taken apart in strips by unrelated mechanical systems, to reveal the complexity of the structure underneath. Since the exhibit will be designed from an impermanent and digital medium, the use of digital systems should be magnified throughout the museum both aurally and visually. The exhibit should be treated as a foreign object, with no physical relation to anything around it but the video that it elongates from. That being said, visitors can move around it walking underneath, around, and on top of it but only entering it through the initial fragmented video. The succession through the exhibit (after the video) is very linear and once one enters the exhibit they cannot turn back and must exit at the end on of the dissection. In the end, the visitor will have a better understanding of both the whale and the physical space through viewing small fragmentations of each that relate to the whole.

Sperm whale

Slaughter of a baleen whale

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Whaling Museum projection sequence

04_Miscellaneous-Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park Project Location: Newark, New Jersey

Project Size: 180,000 sq ft

Program: Lincoln Park music festival,

Project Description:

A response to a programmatic need from Lincoln Park’s immediate environment. Where do people sit? During the city’s infamous riots of the late 60s, most of the park benches were removed. Now, in an area that is slowly redeveloping and is home to one of the largest music festivals in the state, the need for seating needs to be adressed. Working closely with representives for the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, a scheme for moveable furniture was developed. The moveable furniture, in the form of a milk crate, was inspired by the objects visitors would bring to the park to sit on. This new furniture would be allowed to be moved and dispersed freely throughout Newark and serve as an advertisement for Lincoln Park. Each “crate” would contain flyers and other information on upcoming events in the park. The seats would be electronically tagged to track their locations and collection areas would provide incentives for seat returns.

Summer 2011

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LincolnPARK branding

flyers/advertisements

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04_Miscellaneous-Siena Studio

Siena StudioStudio Location: Siena, Italy

Studio Description:

Studio traveled throughout the cities of Italy (Milan, Rome, Siena, Florence, Venice) completing various design exercises and workshops along the way.

Milan Wonder Breakfast Abitare Article:http://www.abitare.it/it/design/wonderbreakfast/

Milan Wonder Breakfast Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_3Kh6TF3U&feature=related

Siena Porta Pispini Final Presentation:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0iv45MARAKQ

Siena Studio Blog:http://chrisleppert.tumblr.com/

Summer 2011

Milan Wonder Breakfast

Milan Wonder Breakfast locations

Siena sketches/AnalytiquePorta Pispini proposal

04_Miscellaneous-Sky Condos Competition

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Sky Condos CompetitionProject Location: Lima, Peru

Project Size: 5000 sq meters

Program: 10 duplex living units, coffee shop, administration office, parking garage

Project Description:

Proposal to ARQUITECTUM “Sky Condos” International Architecture Competition. Collaboration between 3 designers.

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GROUND FLOOR 525CAFE 226LOBBY 63

AUTOMATIC PARKING 119RECREATION ROOM 62

1ST FLOOR 300OFFICE 50

GYM 127MECH. ROOM 32

TYP. UNIT A (5) 530

TERRACE 62POOL 50

LIVING/DINING ROOM 89MEZZANINE 100

ROOF 530

TERRACE 157INFINITY POOL 124

MECH./WATER TANK 153

TYP. UNIT B (5) 530

TERRACE 66POOL 50

LIVING/DINING ROOM 89

MEZZANINE 96

LEVEL B1 225PUBLIC POWER STATION 77

VEHICLE LIFT 94

LEVEL B2 225MECH. ROOM 77

STORAGE 94

LEVEL B3 796AUTOMATIC GARAGE 608

(105 SPACES)TRASH COMPACT ROOM 94

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04_Miscellaneous-Sky Condo Competition

CHRISTOPHER J. LEPPERT 47 Route 645 � Branchville, NJ 07826

Phone: 201-230-1802 � Email: chrisleppert@gmail.com

EDUCATION NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NEWARK, NJ May 2012

Master of Science, Civil Engineering � GPA: 3.5/4.0 Bachelor of Architecture (accredited) � Major GPA: 3.41/4.0 � Selected to present to the NAAB on behalf of the New Jersey School of Architecture � Nominated for New Jersey School of Architecture Design Showcase (5 years) � Dean’s List Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall

2011 UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA, MILAN, ROME & SIENA, ITALY August 2011

� Completion of “Siena Studio,” an eight-week intensive study of the architecture and urbanism of Italy � Work published online in international design magazine Abitare

SKILLS

Relevant Courses: Architecture Studios, Architecture History, Building Systems, Comprehensive Studio, Introduction to Design, Real Estate Analysis, Surveying Technical Skills: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Archicad, AutoCAD,

Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, Autodesk Revit, Google SketchUp, Grasshopper, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Rhinoceros, Vray Renderer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sussex County Facilities Management Division June 2008- September 2009

� Worked from construction drawings from local architects in the construction of the Sussex-Wantage Library Amphitheatre

� Completed numerous landscaping design projects for local municipal facilities � Assisted hands-on in various site improvements, performing basic construction, painting, and

landscaping functions

Leppert Lawncare � Established and operated local landscaping business � Worked with clients in developing and executing small scale landscaping designs � Managed customer accounts, invoicing and collections

JK Architect

� Worked on a residential project in Atlantic Beach, NY � Currently under construction � Prepared preliminary digital models � Developed plans and elevations