David Evancho

Portfolio2012

Peer-to-Peer Architecture Peer-to-Peer Architecture Chicago, IL

Peer to Peer Architecture asks how archi-tecture can be a tool for communities to empower themselves and become a local, ethical check on globalization?

When current building types cause us to retreat from each other, a new architecture is necessary to promote collaboration that is essential for healthy and safe communi-ties to grow.

How can communities use this as a tool to empower themselves and seek an alterna-tive of traditional capitalism?

The global market can only judge what is pro�table, it lacks the capacity to discern right from wrong. Combined with increas-ingly ine�ective government protection, individuals can easily be dehumanized, and lack the ability to compete with corporate entities. By uniting as a local community, people now have power outside the reach of the market.

Can Architecture create cohesive commu-nities as an ethical check on globalization?

To maintain trust and freedom from exte-rior in�uences communities are moving toward local economies and a new com-munity infrastructure is needed to allow these markets to grow and for connections to be manifest in the physical world.

GFRY 2012 : Designing a Next-GenerationPublic School Cafeteria

In the spring of 2012 the GFRY studio at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago had the opportunity to redesign the cafeteria at the Academy for Global Citizenship, a public school in Chicago.

Our studio divided up into di�erent groups to tackle the many opportunities presented at the school.

I was the team leader for designing a better process for eating lunch. My team focused on three main aspects of the lunch period.

1: The newly formed school is forced to operate out of an old paint factory with the cafeteria serving multiple uses.

How can we make the transition between activities in the cafeteria smoother?

2: The existing Lunch process was the same monotonous system used everywhere.

How can we make the lunch experience more enjoyable?

3: School has a unique chef who makes food on site.

How can we leverage the school’s commit-ment to healthy eating and the environment? PROTOTYPE TEST AT AGC

Community Center, Evanston, IL

The focus of this project was the distinc-tion between the Physical and the Intel-lectual programs of the building. The program replaces and expands upon the existing athletic facilities while integrat-ing a library and community learning facility that leverages the school adjacent to the site.

The design of the project splits the Physical and the Intellectual with a central passage between the athletic �elds and the school. This passage allows for casual viewing of athletic events inside.

Major gathering spaces in the project are de�ned by double height spaces and standing seam metal surfaces. More intimate program is de�ned by single height spaces and rough �nished concrete.

The Intellectual program of the library is described with a curvilinear wood section that connects all major library activities.

MAD-Hex: Parasitic Community System

Design Team: David Evancho, Mohommod Alam, Xeudi Chen, Alejandra Obregon

Park Slope, Brooklyn

Our Design Team developed this project to activate the growing cultural and artistic community in the Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.

We designed for three creative community actions. Studio, Forum, and Performance. The parasitic architecture installations can be attached to the dead spaces of vacant warehouses, expressway underpasses, and blank walls along sidewalks, prevelent to the area.

The interactive system is made up of intelligent and adjustable OLED touch screen pannels. Interspersed between the screens are speakers with solar panels above to power the system. The power is stored below in the battereis adjacent to the processors that control the system.

Interspersed between the growing residen-tial Park Slope neighborhood and the shrinking Gowanus artist community the system facilitates connection between the two and promotes a more free form and less institutional form of and urban cultural center

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Studio

Performance

Center For Advanced Learning, Rome, Italy

The Center for Advanced Learning and Research in Rome, is located on the Capitoline Hill. This site is possibly the most historicaly rich sight in the world. This area is the mortar between the “bricks” of nearby monuments. Currently the sight is only leftover space, with numerus retaining walls. The project required many different types of major program from Auditorium, Museum, and Think Tank.

The design attempts to recreate on a smaller scale, a collection of distrinctly diverse buildings. This also creates the opportunity to solve the same problem that effects the current site. What to do with the “mortar space” between the buildings? Therefore it was imperative to design an interesting and usefull circulation space between the major elements of program.Another focus of the project was to utilize the existing retaining walls and materials of brick and travertine in conjuction with new materials like litracon (semitransparent glass infused concrete) in the design.

Retaining Wall Reclaimed for Interior Gateway

Retaining Wall Reclaimed for Auditorium Entrance

Retaining Wall Reclaimed for Think Tank

New Wall for Museum

Pedestrian scale adverstisement

Vehicle scale advertisement

Unique Walls on Site

AuditoriumEntrance

Cafe

Museum

Roof Plan

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Auditorium,Scholar Residence Plan

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Think Tank, Museum Plan

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$100K Vermont HouseCompetition for Residence under $100,000

This design was selected when “East End representatives chose to work with elements of designs by two students -- David Evancho and Amelia Golini.”The studio was approached by East End Builders to design a 1,000 sf House for under $100,000 in Ludlow Vermont. The challenge was to keep the cost low on the home, and to keep thbuilding architecturally interesting.

Streamlined design using tight zones and cores in the house were critical to keeping costs low.Smart choices on structure and mate-rial were also important in reducing the !nal price.Important to my design was the use of the Miracle Truss system that reduced the material needed for the walls of the home, and the elimination of a tradi-tional foundation in favor of concrete sono tubes for a signi!cant reduction in labor costs.Due to the Dimensions of the Miracle Truss system my design grew beyond the the 1,000 sf dimension, yet was still able to keep the cost below $100 psf.

2100 sf house $210,000 cap @ $100 sf 1Foundat ions $2861 Sono Tubes $13.06 each 12’ -0” length 12 ” d x 20 = $261.20 Rebar \ - 2 -3 #4 Bars 20’ long $9.47 each 20’ -0” length #4 rebar 2 -3 / footing: $9.50 x 40 = $380 Concrete Mix Bag s $4.25 each x 7 bags for base/ ftg + 5 bag s tube = 12 bags total each @ $51 x 20 = $1020 Digging / Labor $300 / day x 2 = 4 da ys $1200 2C Miracl e T russ + C onvent ional Fl oor & W all Const ruction Miracle Truss Lean To Fram e $21,189

Foundation $2861

Floors TJI’ s $2975 Carrie r Beams $3024

Post s $20.50 / LF x 8 = $164 x 6 = $984 Headers 16’ -0” long Timberstrand $40.85 each x 20 max = $820

Sheathin g $2400

Subfloors Plywood $113.57 @ $11.33 = 4’x8’ panel Carpet $1278.00 @ $2.22 psf Laminate $428.16 @ 2.23 psf = 1 92 sf

Insulation Foam panel $1960 125 - 2’x8’ panel. @ $15.68

Wall Framing $1257.96 = $1095.92 169 studs 2 ”x6 ” @ 24’ studs + $162.04 280’ @ $1.23LF of 2 ”x6” truss spanning members

Homasote interior $1340 = 67 4’x8’ panels @ $ 20

Pine Interior finis h $224 200’ - 1” x 12 ” @ $1.12 / LF) Tyve k $1540

Cladding Texture 111 $1675.86 53 - 4’x8’ panels @ $31.62

Roofing SS Metal $15, 668 Roof + 2 Wall s 2,487 s f ($6.30 / S F In stalled)

Roof Sheathing $640 OSB 4’x8’ @ $16 - 40 sheets Roof Insulatio n $9 60.48 10 ” R31 @ $.69 – 1392sf Windows Jeld We n $5905.06

2 Sliding Doors @ $1000 each = $ 2,000 8 Sliding Windows @ $179.87 each = $ 1438.96 13 Fixed Windows @ $57.34 each = $ 745.42 12 Fixed Windows @ $143.39 each = $1720.68 Plumbin g $12000 est Electrical $8000 Acme Kitchenett e $2000 -3000 Stair $3000 2 Bathrooms $6400 Electrical $7500 Radiant Floor Heating $3000 Furnace $3000 est Hot Water $1000 est Labor @ $7 00/day x 30 day s framing sheathing = $25 ,100

Total cost

$137 ,760.09

Total sf 1728 $79.72 psf

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A: Living RoomB: Dining RoomC: KitchenD: BathroomE: BedroomF: LaundryG: Deck

D: BathroomE: Bedroom