specializing in design technology for the built environment
Polshek Partnership Architects | Master Planning Project Revit Support

 

Polshek Partnership Architects hired CASE to support their use of building information modeling for a large master planning effort. Spatial program validation and its accurate graphic representation across a long term master plan is the focus of this project. CASE worked with the team to accurately model use-areas across several buildings in a large campus, while also designed the complex model structure. A comprehensive set of model specifications were also developed.

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CANNON Design | Project Support and Best Practices

 

CASE was hired by CANNON Design’s New York office to support their move toward building information modeling and model-based project delivery. As an architecture and engineering office, CANNON’s in house coordination of trades is a key element of their delivery method. CASE supports their SFMO (single firm, multiple office) approach, through direct project support on several projects, including two large hospitals, coordinating across a bi-coastal (multiple office) model management effort.

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PARA-Project | MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Competition Geometric Rationalization

CASE provided technology consulting and geometric rationalization to PARA on their finalist entry for this renowned competition to construct a temporary installation in the courtyard of P.S. 1 during their annual summer program, Warm Up. PARA's proposal, entitled Stimulator, aimed to turn excess into resource by proposing an installation of mass, rather than of surface.

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Scripted Vases | Experiments in Computational Design and Rapid-Manufacturing

These Scripted Flower Vases were completed by Steve with Jon Kontuly in 2006, as their final project for a computational design class taught by Chris Lasch of Aranda\Lasch at Stevens Institute. The goal of the project was to design a series of vases that demonstrated the algorithm used to generate the vases, didactically through their form. This was as much an editorial process, as a generative one: identifying the elements that best represent the algorithm, while still maintaining the form and function of a flower vase.

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BLDG 2.0 | Crowd-Sourcing Building Energy Performance

BLDG 2.0 is a research project initiated by CASE, in partnership with New Buildings Institute, Arup Sustainability, SHoP Architects, Columbia University and IDEO. BLDG 2.0 will address two, somewhat paradoxical, barriers to informed sustainable design: the lack of publicly accessible performance data and the difficulty of extracting meaningful, consistent information from the raw, unstandardized data when it is available. BLDG 2.0 will move beyond this to create a real knowledge resource for building performance.

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Cut&Paste Design Slam Competition | Autodesk University 2008

What happens when you are given a brief to design 500 housing units, a site in the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, and 20 minutes to model your idea from scratch? You try to come up with an awesome idea!

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Grimshaw Architects | Revit Standards Strategy and Implementation

CASE was hired by Grimshaw Architects as part of their effort to implement Revit as a common BIM platform across their New York office.  Our tasks include the migration of existing standards and the creation of new ones, and devising the strategy for implementation of the new platform using the Miami Museum of Science as a pilot.

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Grimshaw Architects | Miami Museum of Science Environmental Modeling

CASE was hired by Grimshaw Architects as part of a US Department of Energy Renewable Energy Project Grant to assist in the research, design and planning necessary for a full integration of the renewable energy resources and optimal energy efficiency in the new Miami Museum of Science.

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DS+R | Alice Tully Hall Geometric Definition

This project was completed by Dave in early 2005, prior to the formation of CASE, but it represents one of the services that CASE will offer firms that are dealing with complex geometric rationalization for design and fabrication.

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