https://www.sydneytalcott.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2015-05-01 https://www.sydneytalcott.com/office daily 0.75 2015-05-01 https://www.sydneytalcott.com/project-4 daily 0.75 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622809738-S1UVBQQB4AGHZ2Y8A3ZT/remap_02.jpg remap Columbia GSAPP Core Studio II Dress Code: Rethinking Architecture’s Civic Presence Karel Klein   The main branch of the New York Public Library system, the Mid-Manhattan Library, contains the largest circulating collections of the entire library system. As a result of the breadth and size of its holdings, it serves as the main repository for the neighborhood libraries: it houses the primary collections from which the smaller, neighborhood libraries draw on a patron-requested basis. However, despite the larger, “shared” content of the NYPL system, each neighborhood library has its own unique, site-specific collection content that responds to its location and demographic, thus articulating various neighborhood needs and demands. The neighborhood branch characteristics are not entirely discrete and overlaps of collection content occur throughout the system. These overlaps are not necessarily stereotypical, expected, or geographically driven and therefore reveal new relationship between the Manhattan neighborhoods that are not otherwise apparent. Through examining and dissecting these new neighborhood relationships, a different diagram of Manhattan is subsequently created through a different lens. The project asks: what are the spatial implications of the information gathered regarding neighborhood-specific library content and the subsequent relationships established through overlaps? What if the Mid-Manhattan Library could function as a new diagram of the urbanism of Manhattan? Through the organization and content of its collections, could the library become analogous to a vertical city? The project investigates these questions and seeks to redefine the role of the Mid-Manhattan Library by integrating the various neighborhood branches into the main branch building. More specifically, the library is reconfigured based on neighborhood collections and the site-specific content that each contains, as well as the shared collections. These links and new relationships are expressed through circulation amongst these collections and their shared content. The variations in neighborhood are expressed through material differentiation and the relative volume that each collection houses. The ultimate aim of the project is to incite new perspectives regarding the diverse neighborhoods of Manhattan through a different approach to library organization and content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622809738-S1UVBQQB4AGHZ2Y8A3ZT/remap_02.jpg remap Columbia GSAPP Core Studio II Dress Code: Rethinking Architecture’s Civic Presence Karel Klein   The main branch of the New York Public Library system, the Mid-Manhattan Library, contains the largest circulating collections of the entire library system. As a result of the breadth and size of its holdings, it serves as the main repository for the neighborhood libraries: it houses the primary collections from which the smaller, neighborhood libraries draw on a patron-requested basis. However, despite the larger, “shared” content of the NYPL system, each neighborhood library has its own unique, site-specific collection content that responds to its location and demographic, thus articulating various neighborhood needs and demands. The neighborhood branch characteristics are not entirely discrete and overlaps of collection content occur throughout the system. These overlaps are not necessarily stereotypical, expected, or geographically driven and therefore reveal new relationship between the Manhattan neighborhoods that are not otherwise apparent. Through examining and dissecting these new neighborhood relationships, a different diagram of Manhattan is subsequently created through a different lens. The project asks: what are the spatial implications of the information gathered regarding neighborhood-specific library content and the subsequent relationships established through overlaps? What if the Mid-Manhattan Library could function as a new diagram of the urbanism of Manhattan? Through the organization and content of its collections, could the library become analogous to a vertical city? The project investigates these questions and seeks to redefine the role of the Mid-Manhattan Library by integrating the various neighborhood branches into the main branch building. More specifically, the library is reconfigured based on neighborhood collections and the site-specific content that each contains, as well as the shared collections. These links and new relationships are expressed through circulation amongst these collections and their shared content. The variations in neighborhood are expressed through material differentiation and the relative volume that each collection houses. The ultimate aim of the project is to incite new perspectives regarding the diverse neighborhoods of Manhattan through a different approach to library organization and content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622810624-TFHY3Z9JUOY3ETWW7GB0/remap_03.jpg remap public library content distribution in manhattan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622810663-952GVVW2AQ2TGICB5NH1/remap_01.jpg remap building curvature in stacked plan view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622811126-RQG90AD5E37QHMV7TFEE/remap_05.jpg remap longitudinal building section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433623312194-9KQ4HY96PSELQ99DGG4J/remap_04.jpg remap short building section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622811988-M0S65K6XY7H0TSOB91EY/remap_06.jpg remap building and section models https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433622811633-2NMXW7090UPQQ51QAT9T/remap_07.jpg remap interior perspectives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433623300320-C33LEZUTVYIYEL3FB6JW/remap_08.jpg remap exterior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433623300355-6UJVE89BPONGAMO0QCG2/remap_09.jpg remap exterior https://www.sydneytalcott.com/anisotropic daily 0.75 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1430440606638-29SB1EU47A2H7BWQ2U1C/anisotropic_01.jpg anisotropism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433092878614-ANRP5NP3YYAADIBVG1ZJ/anisotropic_01.jpg anisotropism - anisotropism Columbia GSAPP Advanced Studio VI Bio Design | Embryology, Architecture, & Innovation David Benjamin and Ali Brivanlou, with Danil Nagy and Jesse Blankenship   Anisotropy an·isot·ro·py noun; : the state or condition of certain flowers or plants of having different dimensions along different axes. : In physics, the quality of exhibiting properties with different values when measured along axes in different directions. Anisotropy is most easily observed in single crystals of solid elements or compounds, in which atoms, ions, or molecules are arranged in regular lattices.   The studio began with an immersive study of morphogenesis, cell growth, and cell differentiation. Students will conduct lab experiments in the Brivanlou Lab at Rockefeller University, with the idea that manipulating the embryo is part of understanding it. The studio emphasized new software techniques for capturing biological data, deriving equations of growth, creating 4D models, simulating dynamic systems, and designing unprecedented structures at multiple scales. Students developed and tested hypotheses about how biological development might translate to new possibilities for architecture—from structures grown from a single cell, to buildings that dynamically evolve in response to surrounding buildings, to cities that exchange materials and energy in complex ecosystems, to architecture that self-replicates. The inspiration for the project is the reaction-diffusion equation as observed in the pattern development of zebrafish embryos. The reaction-diffusion equation, also known as the Turing pattern equation, is one in which two rates of diffusion, when combined, create a dynamic equilibrium. The projects proposes a structural systems workflow in which material assemblies were modeled, simulated and eventually fabricated with varying properties in order to correspond with multiple and continuously shifting functional constraints, such as light and load. The structural units are composed of two materials: solid and translucent. Material is concentrated in regions of high strength and dispersed in areas where stiffness is not required, reflecting the principle of anisotropy as observed in the reaction-diffusion patterning along the spinal columns of zebrafish embryos during morphogenesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433103516742-04G5PQD8U0649TUKDGIP/anisotropic_02.jpg anisotropism pattern growth in zebra fish over time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433103516797-Y39LDF4WKUQDACMF4G2U/anisotropic_03.jpg anisotropism image processing reveals random distribution to linear banding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433105939712-4RGNYP30J902FELNEN1C/anisotropic_04.jpg anisotropism pattern simulation through particle formation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433105909869-S7SOEBIH6BIZBRW3B029/anisotropic_06.jpg anisotropism two-part material model lighting tests https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433105636514-AJKXKHIC1FJCCR7IAVS0/anisotropic_11.jpg anisotropism structural wall two-part material composition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723843775-4RC7CMJ0KKJSLMPEO8JS/image-asset.jpeg anisotropism Two-Part Material: Structural Application Variation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433104036887-1X3HWUQYY7VDFHXQJT4P/anisotropic_07.jpg anisotropism interior renderings of two-part material wall and floor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433105669922-9JVQGP8OXZL9R1TTQSDY/anisotropic_08.jpg anisotropism interior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433105675624-SIE0BXODMWZE13B4H9V0/anisotropic_09.jpg anisotropism interior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433106012459-V68S5YGRFMSOW2220QQE/anisotropic_10.jpg anisotropism facade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433107995989-EOZCJZN6QC4H6RS8C5U0/image-asset.jpeg anisotropism Bio Design: Final Animation https://www.sydneytalcott.com/harlem daily 0.75 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1430441104540-1UTW8KKO3OI6ZRFGP1TG/east_harlem-01.jpg harlem Columbia GSAPP Core Studio III Different States of Housing Hilary Sample Collaboration with Luis Felipe Paris   Sited in East Harlem, the project seeks to draw upon the existing condition of vacancy and underdevelopment plaguing the area. By examining the left over, or residual, space of East Harlem, the 300 unit housing project creates its own deliberate vacant space to be used by its residents. Three interlocking unit types aggregate to form ten towers encircling the single block site, with interior corridors functioning as semi-exterior streets among units. Within the question of housing,the interest of the project is in how the creation of built space, the positive, can create another space, the negative, and the edge condition that negotiates the two. More specifically, the way in which this edge becomes co-opted for uses that it was never intended for because in fact it was never intended for any use at all! The dual quality of the edge (as a separator and a unifier, as a revealer and a concealer) becomes a key element in design. By exposing and altering the relationship of different spaces and at different scales, the edge (or non-edge) becomes intrinsic in instigating a type of self-consciousness or self-awareness wherein the inhabitant is cognisant of the unseen relationships that are integral within the apartment, within the block, within the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1430441104540-1UTW8KKO3OI6ZRFGP1TG/east_harlem-01.jpg harlem Columbia GSAPP Core Studio III Different States of Housing Hilary Sample Collaboration with Luis Felipe Paris   Sited in East Harlem, the project seeks to draw upon the existing condition of vacancy and underdevelopment plaguing the area. By examining the left over, or residual, space of East Harlem, the 300 unit housing project creates its own deliberate vacant space to be used by its residents. Three interlocking unit types aggregate to form ten towers encircling the single block site, with interior corridors functioning as semi-exterior streets among units. Within the question of housing,the interest of the project is in how the creation of built space, the positive, can create another space, the negative, and the edge condition that negotiates the two. More specifically, the way in which this edge becomes co-opted for uses that it was never intended for because in fact it was never intended for any use at all! The dual quality of the edge (as a separator and a unifier, as a revealer and a concealer) becomes a key element in design. By exposing and altering the relationship of different spaces and at different scales, the edge (or non-edge) becomes intrinsic in instigating a type of self-consciousness or self-awareness wherein the inhabitant is cognisant of the unseen relationships that are integral within the apartment, within the block, within the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620349013-XVD8ATBZ43BXJAAQ54CN/harlem_03.jpg harlem stills from film documenting 125th street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620353676-93IH9B2DEDQI4MJF52N9/harlem_04.jpg harlem vacancy versus built studies of East Harlem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620363316-OK5ICB3RIH8UD2WNYB9M/east_harlem-03.jpg harlem vacant lot study of east harlem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620544963-FVBY9ML6V2F9L2H2G1F8/harlem_06.jpg harlem residential kit of parts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620879040-YH6PEOPNMWIJYUZ5ARE1/harlem_07.jpg harlem unit aggregation logic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620817298-WT1S2BK3LWTK0WOX955O/harlem_08.jpg harlem three bedroom unit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620836096-MZHL2EPOJGYQ76ISK89L/harlem_09.jpg harlem three bedroom unit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620846554-MY4U96P1TWVMA0992PPC/harlem_10.jpg harlem longitudinal site section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433620188836-SH5WI985YA2YFOIX84UE/east_harlem-16.jpg harlem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723730606-MD6RV9B8UMAJJUSP6DLM/image-asset.jpeg harlem 125th street, harlem, new york https://www.sydneytalcott.com/home daily 1.0 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723982341-3B3TM97UNQG7LTR3UH7Y/tina_03-01.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723982341-3B3TM97UNQG7LTR3UH7Y/tina_03-01.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433108143539-NZW6P3AW1VGN36YY53NJ/biosafe_04.jpg home site analysis: the space in-between https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723972564-FDO8U4LZD1VYY2DIHTLG/anisotropic_04.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433623271689-Z17F1LXSXGR687AN6MU9/remap_011.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433106345300-QMSXHJ30WSS12N68H0I7/home_01.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433625225845-XXGJ287X1FPT0YLTJ8VZ/microclimate_07-01.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433088905739-B9HMRNR8FK75UHH6EPC1/image-asset.png home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433110344356-0E77WDBA89OXVRXG3WTE/tropism-00.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433625243372-6ERRHPVJX38PJUMX5Y84/harlem_01.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433107717159-N8LUJ7XO1IG2RZE96BF3/biosafe_02.jpg home https://www.sydneytalcott.com/tropism daily 0.75 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1430440361807-P1YHTLD8WJMSSHO7OOPF/tropism-00.jpg tropism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433110302463-MJUNZ3OVTK3GRG1QPF4N/tropism_01.jpg tropism Columbia GSAPP Core Studio IV Sato Space Studio Craig Konyk & Michael Morris   “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Thomas Edison, 1931   The mission anticipates the dwindling of energy sources on Earth in the future. The spacecraft would serve as an experimental research vessel to discover innovations in energy use and production. More specifically, it would gather and test new energies in territories that have not previously been visited by human life. The information, experiences, and resources gathered would be relayed back to Earth upon reentry in order to move beyond the dominant fossil-fuel dependent model. By deploying several space crafts of 8 astronauts each, the mission’s route would follow the interplanetary superhighway via Lagrange points and reach the extents of the solar system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433619320094-NS69T4CUDB9C6T8CTL9U/tropism_04.jpg tropism study of energy cycles on the international space station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433619422029-81RMGLX0TYXLX17M94CX/tropism_09.jpg tropism exterior fin energy response over time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433619323474-HDN8PWFH1MXHCGKXXAFM/tropism_05.jpg tropism plan of space statio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433619326145-NMWP7WMCMVO45RHZ82HK/tropism_06.jpg tropism section of space station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433110519301-IVAFFZXC251O4YMAQT1I/tropism_02.jpg tropism interior rendering of interstitial space between garden and habitat pods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433619334537-L5U0XYJGGA1HQG56D4BI/tropism_08.jpg tropism interior rendering of interstitial space between garden and habitat pods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433110612967-EJXI0QI1PZ2UFR5G0V1F/tropism_03.jpg tropism exterior rendering of space station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723924164-EWR96EDCISC0402PX42T/image-asset.jpeg tropism Space Studio: Adaptive Fin System https://www.sydneytalcott.com/lines daily 0.75 2015-05-01 https://www.sydneytalcott.com/chandelier daily 0.75 2020-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433714138417-HXD9JWI9WDMYK2V5755L/chandelier_02-01.jpg chandelier prototype kit of parts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433714138417-HXD9JWI9WDMYK2V5755L/chandelier_02-01.jpg chandelier prototype kit of parts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433714138585-B7UVOBLWXG1CLCJEKBTG/chandelier_01-01-01.jpg chandelier Columbia GSAPP Independent Study: Interactive Systems Critics David Benjamin with Janette Kim & Andrew Payne Collaboration with Courtney Hunt, Bo Liu, and Mia Zinni   What does it mean for architecture to be smart? How does architecture become an active participant that has the capacity to engage and empower the inhabitants of our cities?   There is a rising need to incorporate intelligent systems into the infrastructure of buildings, streets and cities. Through prototyping kinetic architecture with physical and digital fabrication, the project created an urban lighting design to promote safety and well-being in the city. The mission of the project was to design a system that operated completely off the power gird and was driven by feedback and inputs sourced from the great urban collective that is the inhabitants of New York City. The project created an interactive system through the design of a personal, wearable device that digitally corresponds to a network of safety way-finding light system that is energy independent and can supplement existing urban streets. This would create a new utility typology in the city: one which serves to lighten unsafe areas, and through memory retention of light, can catalyze newfound ways of enjoying and interacting with each other in communities. Specifically, the ability for the urban environment to sense and respond to user input in order to create a richer, more efficient city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433714139243-1NWI4TKFAHR62PAV1TNR/chandelier_03.jpg chandelier prototyping process photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433722823575-1YD96G0AJOO88E4F7B7B/image-asset.jpeg chandelier urban chandelier: prototype fabrication timelapse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/553d312de4b0306f5b6e1171/1433723136282-ZXNCP353S8KY70QM4KMA/image-asset.jpeg chandelier Urban Chandelier: GSAPP EOYS Prototype https://www.sydneytalcott.com/photography-momentum daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50130f1ae4b006ef41174e6b/1380062382850-R610V6J2U4QN7RXE2F7G/IMG_65044-sm.jpg Photography - 1/23 Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. 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