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SLOAN SPRINGER

Syracuse University | Master of Architecture

Texas A&M University | Bachelor of Environmental Design
CONTENTS
Resume | Sloan Springer 1
Modern Vernacular | Visiting Critic Studio: Danny Forster 3
COAHSI | NYC Summer Studio 13
Syracuse Library | Catalyzing the Urban Edge 21
Urban Housing | AISC Living Steel Competition 25
Dallas Arts Hotel | Boutique Hotel Design Competition 29
RESUME
SLOAN SPRINGER

CONTACT ACADEMIC
903.918.5858 Visiting Critic Studio | Danny Forster Fall 2010
sloan@sloanspringer.com Master planning & design for housing in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
50 Presidential Plz. #2202 Professor: Danny Forster (“Build It Bigger”, Discovery Channel)
Syracuse, NY 13202
www.sloanspringer.com NYC Summer Studio | COAHSI Summer 2010
Nine week intensive studio in Manhattan producing design studies for the Council
of Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI).
EDUCATION Professor: Jonathan Lott (OMA/REX/Para)
Syracuse University | Master of Architecture Expected Dec 2011 Critics: Marc Tsurumaki (Louis.Tsurumaki.Louis), Kevin Rice (Diller+Scofidio
Texas A&M University | Bachelor of Environmental Design May 2009 Renfro), Craig Dykers (Snøhetta)
EMPLOYMENT Design & Technology Workshop | Stripped Bare Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant | Digital Media, Syracuse, NY Aug 2010 - Dec 2010 Two day team design charrette, hosted by Michael Meredith and Hilary
Assisted in instruction for 2nd year studios & advanced media courses Sample (MOS Office), taking a single-family suburban home in foreclosure and
redeveloping it to house three separate families
Graduate Assistant | Richard Rosa, Syracuse, NY Aug 2009 - May 2010
Assisted in the design of Richard Rosa’s website, infraredeleven.com Design & Technology Workshop | Plastic Infrastructure Fall 2009
Two day team design charrette, hosted by Sean Lally (Weathers Architects),
Draftsman | Johnson & Pace, Longview, TX June 2006 - July 2006 designing micro-climate conditions that accommodate and sponsor activities and
Produced working drawings for light commercial, educational, and facilities programs usually thought to need building interiority
projects
RebarGroup Artist In Residence | Mobile Art Gallery Spring 2009
Draftsman | Jim FIsher Builder, Longview, TX May 2003 - May 2005 Built a mobile art gallery as a one week interactive public intervention with
Aided in design and documentation of residential projects, collaborated with Rebargroup members: John Bela and Blaine Merker
clients, and worked on-site
COMPETITIONS Barcelona Study Abroad | EUROPAN 9 Fall 2007
Dallas Arts District Boutique Hotel Design | Dallas Arts Hotel Spring 2009 Entered in the EUROPAN 9: Urbanity in Housing competition
1st Place Professor: Juan Carlos Sanchez-Tappan (Studio of Architecture and Research)
HKS Hospitality studio competition for a boutique hotel and condominiums in the Critic: Miguel Roldán (Roldán + Berengué)
Dallas Arts District
Sponsors: Nunzio DeSantis and Eddie Abeyata (HKS) SOFTWARE
Drafting
AISC Living Steel | Urban Housing Spring 2009 AutoCAD, ArchiCAD
Student competition for innovative steel design in mixed-use housing
Sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction Modeling
Rhinoceros, Revit, ArchiCAD, SketchUp
EUROPAN 9: Urbanity in Housing | Ecopolis Fall 2007
Urban strategy competition for a port site in Barcelona. Tasked to design 10,000 Presentation
housing units, as well as cultural, business, and recreation centers. V-Ray, Artlantis, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver
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MODERN VERNACULAR
VISITING CRITIC STUDIO
Traditional master planning for multi-family residences typically requires sacrificing
privacy for density. Units are arranged in a way that looks specifically at achieving
a certain level of density, and the concepts of privacy and/or community are often
relegated merely to afterthought. These embody the connotation of suburbia, with
broad paved streets and row upon row of cookie-cutter homes.
This method, while acceptable and often financially successful in a wide variety of
locales, falls short of the potentials held in those very locations. In places such as
Miami, these strategies are unrolled en masse, without any consideration for the
unique characteristics of their given location. But Punta Cana is not Miami.
Punta Cana is defined by a series of sub-developments that operate within
themselves while still clearly maintaining a cohesive identity with Punta Cana
overall. Hacienda can function on this same premise within itself by defining a
series of localized clusters, each offering their own individual settings that also
represent Hacienda and Punta Cana as a whole. This allows the resident to have a
specific Hacienda experience yet remain connected to the identity of Punta Cana.
Team | Brian Schaller (Master plan only)
Professor | Danny Forster (“Build It Bigger”, Discovery Channel)
Fall 2010 | Syracuse University
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While the notion of increasing density begins to undermine the successful
aspirations of seclusion in Punta Cana, the idea of unrolling the high-end exclusive
plots of Coralles or Tortuga Bay is equally unviable. Herein exists the potential to
hybridize high-density living with the sense of exclusivity typically reserved for
high-end residences. By increasing density in each cluster, privacy and community
can be simultaneously increased, creating a beneficial paradox. To achieve this,
the concept of “multi-family” is reconsidered. By breaking apart a typical high-
end residence into 4 detached, but conceptually connected single homes within
the same lot that previously held only 1 large home, the density and communal
aspects are maintained, all the while allowing for increased privacy.
The challenge lies in managing the perception of shared community within the 4
units, while simultaneously enhancing the individual sense of retreat in the single
residence.
Each unit, then, exists as its own private enclave within a multi-family communal
setting of four units, which in turn is a part of a larger community within Hacienda
itself. This layering of development allows for an increase in density without
sacrificing privacy or community, and therefore gives the resident the benefits of
both settings that are uniquely Punta Cana.
 Master Plan Process Site Cluster Analysis Material Studies Unit Process

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thermal mass
minimal permeability
WOOD RAMP
static use
minimal insulation

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CALICHE BLOCK PARTITION GRASS RAMP
thermal mass thermal mass
controlled permeability potential water collection

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CALICHE PARTITION WOOD RAMP
thermal mass static use
minimal permeability minimal insulation
INHABITABLE RAMP
thermal mass
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potential water collection
increased greenspace

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dynamic application
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 Typical Lot Coverage Subdivde
Plot: 21,000 sqft
Unit: 8,000 sqft
Ratio: 2.5

Separate Re-develop
Plot: 5,250 sqft
Unit: 2,000 sqft
2-4 bedrooms

Unit Analysis Cluster Plan

Master Plan

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Sequence Unit Breakdown

92 1 Bedroom
32 2 Bedroom
32 3 Bedroom
156 Units
252 Bedrooms
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 First Floor Second Floor
1/8” = 1’ 1/8” = 1’

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First Floor Second Floor

Section C

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 2 Bedroom 3 Bedroom

Exploded Axonometric
CMU Gradient Patterining

HALL DOOR HALL DOOR BATHROOM BATHROOM

(public face) (private face)

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COAHSI
NYC SUMMER STUDIO
Team | Matt Farrell
Professor | Jonathan Lott (OMA/REX/Para)
Critics | Marc Tsurumaki (Louis.Tsurumaki.Louis)
Kevin Rice (Diller+Scofidio Renfro)
Craig Dykers (Snøhetta)
Summer 2010 | Syracuse University
The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, or COAHSI, operates
uniquely as a facilitator, providing a space for other individuals, groups, and
organizations, as well as initiating dialogue between said groups. Their initiative
is not to promote themselves, as a new MoMA or New Museum, but rather to
promote its individual users.
The design strategy provides a flexible and adaptable space that allows COAHSI
to provide its services to artists, performers, and viewers in a way that allows any
number of possibilities for display and dialogue. Such a space should operate as
both an overall collective as well hold potential for individual moments an varying
scales. By reorganizing the given program into two zones: static and flexible,
we were able to begin to maximize the potential for spatial and programmatic
flexibility.
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After analyzing the site conditions, a clear location for COAHSI’s intervention
became clear. The existing street going through the site holds great potential for
future development of the site, but it sits disconnected from the existing Bay Street
urban front. By locating COAHSI in between these, in alignment with the existing
storage vaults, both a connection to from the waterfront to Bay Street and a new
urban street is made. With this location, COAHSI becomes the catalyst for future
urban development of the site, as well as a key bridge to the larger area.
In order to maximize flexibility on the site, all static program is aligned on a bar
to the rear of the building, allowing all flexible program to fill the new streetfront
facade. In between flexible and static, a zone of interchange is created via a “wall”
that functions as the power strip for the flexible space. This wall condition hosts
the shop equipment, media, and office workstations, all of which “plug in” to the
wall for storage, and can be pulled out as needed to create new zones within the
flexible or static space.
COAHSI’s new facility serves as a catalyst for the urban regeneration of the overall
site and area, while also maximizing the potential for COAHSI as a host to any
number of possible activities. Ultimately, it provides both a flexible facility for its
users, and a key element to the cultural fabric of Staten Island.
 Schematic Process Midterm Proposal Pre-Final Review 1 Pre-Final Review 2

USABLE FOOTPRINT
1690 sqft

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 GIVEN PROPOSED

Plan Diagram

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Process
Program Analysis
Ground Plan

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SYRACUSE LIBRARY
CATALYZING THE URBAN EDGE
Team | Individual
Professor | Fransisco Sanin
Critics | Mark Robbins (Dean)
Mark Linder (Graduate Director)
Johnathan Massey (Undergraduate Director)
Fall 2009 | Syracuse University
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The project exists, essentially, as two ramps: the library and the public space,
created by extruding the parking lot retaining wall cut and folding up or down. For
the library ramp, the circulation takes you up through reading terraces, around
the special collections room, through the art gallery, and finally into the children’s
library before you descend back to the lobby. Outside, the public space ramp
begins under the library, taking you down to the community functions, such
as a cafe, classrooms, community room, and coffee bar, then on down to an
amphitheater and playground, and ultimately ending at the lower parking lot cut
where new commercial space has been generated.
The ramps up and down help create space that is multi-functional and multi-
operational in order to serve the needs of a library as an institution of knowledge, a
place of community, and a catalyst for urban development.
 Site Section
Building Section

Exploded Axonometric
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URBAN HOUSING
AISC LIVING STEEL COMPETITION
Team | Individual
Professor | Carlos Reimers
Critics | Pliny Fisk (Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems)
Phillip Tabb
Spring 2008 | Texas A&M University

The initial concept of this mixed-use project, located in downtown Montreal,

was to accentuate the merger of Avenue du President Kennedy with Boulevard
de Maisonneuve, the two streets that form the long facades of the site. This
directionality provided a strong footing to work in the context of the site, while also
informing the development of the building. To achieve this, the directionalities of
the roads acted as the primary axes of the building, alluding to the intersection at
the northeastern end of the site.
The second conceptual formulation, which was particularly for deriving the
massing, came as a solution to the height of the building, generated by the large
program and small site. By “pulling” the building apart at its intersection, a sense
of permeability is created, and therefore breaking up the mass. In doing so, it was
further possible to generate a vertical link to the metro station connection below
the site.
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In order to provide more space for living and to provide views, the design for the
housing units is multi-leveled with the lowest floor acting as either work space (for
the live-work units), solely living space, or a mixture of living and sleeping. The
intermediary floor, halfway between each main level, is the entry area, where the
use is varied. Finally, the top-most floor is primarily for sleeping, with some units
containing living space as well. This stacking of spaces generates both a dynamic
circulation inside a unit as well as an entire hallway level for mechanical equipment
and service, located every other floor in between unit entry floors.
 Skin

Structure

Metro

Large Retail

Small Retail

Office

Restaurant

Recreation

Housing
Process Program
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DALLAS ARTS HOTEL
BOUTIQUE HOTEL DESIGN COMPETITION

Team | Dakota Dunai

Professor | Craig Babe
Critics | Nunzio DeSantis (HKS)
Eddie Abayetta (HKS)
Spring 2009 | Texas A&M University

1ST PLACE WINNER

With a site surrounded by an all-star cast of architects including Rem Koolhaas/

REX, Norman Foster, I.M. Pei, and SOM, expectations were not to be taken lightly,
and therefore context was a crucial point of departure for the design. In order to
generate the form of the building, views from and through the site were heavily
analyzed and preserved, as well as main pedestrian and vehicular traffic through
and around the site.
The driving force behind the development of the programmatical planning and
detailing of the form was the idea of the site being the hub for the Arts District
and a source of energy and liveliness that contributes to the surrounding theatres
and symphony halls. The ground level is primarily reserved for public use, and
therefore allows the building to become more of a public destination in itself that
simply a hotel and residence. Restaurants line the main pedestrian routes and
help to energize the urban-like streetscape through the site, drawing people from
downtown Dallas into the Arts District.
The facade of the building is intended to provide a dynamic and artistic element to
the composition, allowing for the guests and residents to inhabit a more expressive
space that strongly signifies the Arts District. The overall project allows for a more
user-oriented program that directly adds to the public appeal of the Arts District,
and completes a host of exceptional architecture that embodies a love of the arts
and establishes a prominent focal point in the Dallas area.
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 level one
1 feature restaurant one
2 2 finishing kitchen
16 3 storage
15
11 4 front desk / reception
5 lobby / atrium
3 14 6 living room
13 7 feature bar
10
12 8 drop-off
9 art gallery
10 condo entrance
11 feature restaurant two
12 bistro
16 13 garage entrance
7 6 14 security
5 15 dock
16 sculpture garden
4
8 9
1 3
2 1 executive lounge 1 hotel office 1 deluxe suite 1 mid-level garden 1 rooftop garden
2 executive balcony 13 2 suite 2 suite 2 suite 2 presidential suite
level one 3 prefunction one 7 3 pool level garden 6
4 conference room 10 4 pool deck
5 prefunction two 5 pool 7
6 grand hall 5 10 6 destination spa
7 kitchen 10 12 7 fitness and track
8 9 12
8 banquet storage
9 av storage 6
10 storage 11 5
11 employee lounge
12 locker room
13 laundry 5
4
4 3
4
1 1 1
1 2 2 2
3 1 2
4 2 2 2 2 2
2
level two: conference level three: recreation typical level four through six level seven level sixteen

1 deluxe suite 1 mid-level garden 1 rooftop garden

2 suite 2 suite 2 presidential suite

1 1
2 2 2
1 2
2 2 2 2 2
recreation typical level four through six level seven level sixteen

Plans
Ground Level

1 feature restaurant one

2 2 finishing kitchen
16 3 storage
15
11 4 front desk / reception
5 lobby / atrium
3 14 6 living room
13 7 feature bar
10
12 8 drop-off
9 art gallery
10 condo entrance
11 feature restaurant two
12 bistro
16 13 garage entrance
7 6 14 security
5 15 dock
16 sculpture garden
4
8 9
1 3
2

level one

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