http://www.matthewlechowick.com Matthew Lechowick Design Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:21:49 +0000 http://www.matthewlechowick.com en http://www.matthewlechowick.com/360961/Add-me-to-your-Delicious http://www.matthewlechowick.com/360961/Add-me-to-your-Delicious Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:21:49 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 360961 http://www.matthewlechowick.com/360961/Add-me-to-your-Delicious http://www.matthewlechowick.com/359202/Resume http://www.matthewlechowick.com/359202/Resume Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:29:08 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 359202 Matthew R. Lechowick matthewlechowick@gmail.com Education: Illinois Institute of Technology, Master’s of Architecture: graduated May 2007 University of California at Davis, graduated June 2004 Bachelor of Individual Studies, Architecture: History & Application with a Psychology minor Professional Associations: American Institute of Architects, Associate Member Professional Experience: Designer, Stantec Architecture (formerly, Chong Partners Architecture, Sacramento, CA (Summer 2006; May 2007-current) Supervisor: Christopher Wilson • Created Construction Documents and Record Drawings for Hospitals, University, and Mixed-Use building types; Performed on-site project management with superiors; Coordinated review submissions with City of Sacramento Building Department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD); Assisted in all phases of multiple projects & their proposal presentations; Created animation for the Railyards Construction Sequence; Rendered 3d visualizations for Edmonton International Airport and Elks Restaurant Graphic Designer/Draftsman, Yuba County, Office of Emergency ServicesMarysville, CA (June 2005-September 2007) Supervisor: Pat Beecham • Designed brochures, pamphlets, and newspaper advertisements; Redesigned web pages for improved legibility and layout; Drafted and printed maps from ArcGIS for public and private use Intern Architect, Moniz Architecture, Sacramento, CA (June - September 2005) Supervisor: Alicia Moniz • Drafted residential and commercial projects; Conducted site measurements and evaluations for projects; Assisted in concept development Intern Architect, Moniz & Rusconi Architects, Sacramento, CA (March – September 2004) Supervisors: Alicia Moniz & Mark Rusconi • Drafted construction drawings for multiple projects; Assisted with client relationships Intern Architect, Architects and Engineers, Design Department, University of California at Davis (June - September 2003) Supervisor: Chris Adamson • Drafted construction drawings for multiple projects; Designed temporary signage for UC Davis campus buildings; Performed on-site installation of earthquake safe shelving Public Works Intern, Department of Public Works and Engineering, City of Ukiah, CA (Summers 2001 & 2002) Supervisor: Tim Eriksen, City Engineer • Worked with Civil Engineers for traffic and topographical surveys with Leica and GPS instruments; Revised the City of Ukiah standard details and city maps on AutoCAD and ArcGIS Computer Consultant, Learning Resource Center, Housing Department, University of California at Davis (School years 2001-2004) Supervisor: Chuck Huneke • Provided technical support to students in person and over the phone; Presented workshops and individualized tutoring sessions on popular software applications (Dreamweaver, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and basic HTML); Helped students configure their hardware and software systems for the student network • Provided a high level of customer service while working directly with students and parents Intern Architect, Industrial Design Corporation, Portland, OR (June - September 2000) Supervisor: Edward Vranizan • Visited construction sites to assess building progress; Wrote and designed Power Point presentations and created presentation drawings for clients; Constructed models of future industrial buildings Portfolio, references, and other work experience available upon request http://www.matthewlechowick.com/359202/Resume http://www.matthewlechowick.com/292789/Paint-Drip-End-Tables http://www.matthewlechowick.com/292789/Paint-Drip-End-Tables Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:36:51 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 292789 Previous&nbsp;/&nbsp;Next image&nbsp;(1 of 5)<img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/292789/Paint-Drip-Stacking-Table01.jpg" border="0" width="399" height="600" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/292789/Paint-Drip-Stacking-Table02.jpg" border="0" width="399" height="600" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/292789/Paint-Drip-Stacking-Table03.jpg" border="0" width="399" height="600" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/292789/Paint-Drip-Stacking-Table04.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/292789/Paint-Drip-Stacking-Table05.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" align="left" /> The Paint Drip collections concept comes from my experience and fascination of graffiti in the built environment. The paint drips of the work is increased in scale and then layered to work the same visually for the collection as it did for graffiti done over other graffiti. The three configurations of the Paint Drip collection are available for purchase. Please email me which table you are interested in, how many, and in what colors. The durable materials of thick gauge sheet metal and high quality wood board are protected by two layers of powder coating. This coating is done to the same level that farm equipment and other heavy duty equipment. This makes the Paint Drip collection usable in both indoor and outdoor settings. Coffee Table 60" long x 24" wide x 16" tall. Stacking End Tables 18" long x 18" wide x 18" tall. Round Table (not pictured) 42" diameter x 14" tall. http://www.matthewlechowick.com/292789/Paint-Drip-End-Tables http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259208/Ice-Cube-Lights http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259208/Ice-Cube-Lights Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:36 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 259208 This modular light is being researched to incorporate LEDs, batteries, and a special electrical connection to create a "daisy chain" based lighting system. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/259208/Light-LED-Ice-Cubes-planG.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259208/Ice-Cube-Lights http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259970/Polyhedra-Table http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259970/Polyhedra-Table Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:34 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 259970 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/259970/Coffee-Table-Polyhedra-perspective-01G.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259970/Polyhedra-Table http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259173/Reveal-Clock http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259173/Reveal-Clock Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:30:32 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 259173 I am currently researching and developing a new concept for a wall clock that tells the time in a new and exciting way. Progress notes and photographs to follow. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/259173/Clock-Reveal-Block-front-elevationG.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/259173/Reveal-Clock http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244369/Limnology-Institute http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244369/Limnology-Institute Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:02:52 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 244369 Lim•nol•o•gy noun:
The study of the biological, chemical,
and physical features of lakes
and other bodies of fresh water. This studio explored the intersection between landscape architecture and architecture as an experiential intensity. We will explore the experience of a specific structure intensified by its location on a particular site while the experience of the site is similarly intensified by the architecture. By intensity, I mean an intensity of experience and perception. Aspects of the site are made more vivid and enhanced by architecture and vice versa. Site and programmatic research can reveal contradictory, seemingly irresolvable, tensions. I am interested in design strategies that expose, rather than resolve, these points of abrasion. Building and site are in dialogue, creating a vibrant tension between them. The point where they spatially or materially meet is the most vivid articulation of their discourse. The studio will investigate the space between the landscape and the architecture, what the Japanese refers to as ma. The site chosen is a 25-acre site along the Menomonee River near Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee. The edge of the site creates intensity between land and water, city and lake. Design mediates the transition, not to blur its presence, but to make it more evident. Design is seen as a curator of our experience, creating the dialogue between the site and the architecture. The design concepts should fuse with that of the site, framing itself in an intense dialogue with the structure, in which one cannot consider the structure without the site. The proposed project is the Milwaukee Limnology Institute, a center for the study of lakes, focused specifically on the Great Lakes. Laboratories will house researchers and Institute directors and staff. Housing will be provided for the director and various staff members. Research will support the Institute with an emphasis on sustainability. A conference center and library dedicated to lake research will form the public portion of the Institute. The design concept was to integrate the complicated program into the site and close back the loop by remediating the site. First, the site would be mapped by the level of chemical contamination to determine which areas need to be excavated and treated off site and which areas can be treated by plants that leach chemicals out of the ground. Due to the intensity of the chemical plume, most of the site's soil will be excavated to be treated off site. With that leaving a good portion of the site unearthed, to better integrate the Limnology Institute into the site and the fresh waters it studies, I propose to eliminate the exisiting eastern edge of the site to allow for a larger surface area for the Institute to study. The buildings intends to gracefully grow out of the remaining part of the site to reach over the new edge of the water. The main street to access the site is lined with retail and housing. From there, visitors will park underground to leave the surface open for planting. A grand stair leads you down the main covered corridor where the different branches of the Institute will intermingle. As one goes to the office/branch of their choice, they are met with skylights and planter beds dropping down from the ceiling. These sunken boxes can double as water tanks for the Institute's research. As you reach the end of a branch of the Institute, you are greeted with a view of the water's edge framed by the surrounding city. Since housing the Institute's visiting and permanent researchers can grow or shrink based on their budget, modular house boats would be used. These house boats would sit in the Institute's water, anchored in around the Institute's branches and adorned with a linear shutter system to give the researcher's privacy when they need it. Site Program An existing 25 acre total site with a 15 acre chloride plume. Develop a site planning solution for site contamination. Site Limnology Institute research and conference center (140,000SF) a sustainable strategy is a given. Conference Center Auditorium Breakout space Total SF = 10,000 Library Reading rooms Stacks Total SF = 15,000 Directors office Research office Marketing office Open office Storage Meeting space Total SF = 5,000 Laboratories Research offices Open labs Lab stations General storage Total SF = 35,000 Research tanks inside (5000 gal tank) Tank deck Total SF = 15,000 Exhibit space Lobby Gallery Exhibit shop Multimedia space Classroom Total SF = 50,000 Loading dock Mechanical space Circulation Restrooms Total SF = 25,000 Total Enclosed SF = 140,000 Provide parking for 250 cars @ 350 SF Total SF = 87,500. photoshop model photos Illinois Institute of Technology, spring, 2007 Previous&nbsp;/&nbsp;Next image&nbsp;(1 of 15)<img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_Surface Area-1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_Water Cycle.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="476" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_User Hierarchy.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="428" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_Bubble Diagram-3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="416" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_research 2 view to arm.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="365" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_view between library and research 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="391" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_view down ramp 001.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="391" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_view from houseboat area to bldgs.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="412" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_view from research 1 arm 002.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="412" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_view on top of research 2 to east.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="391" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_model_5948.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_model_5941.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_model_5934.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_model_5961.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="393" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244369/Limn_model_5939.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244369/Limnology-Institute http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244372/Bloomingdale-Line http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244372/Bloomingdale-Line Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:42:38 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 244372 The Bloomingdale Line was originally constructed in 1873 by the Chicago and Pacific Railroad Company as part of the 36-mile (58 km) Elgin subdivision from Halsted Street in Chicago to the suburb of Elgin, Illinois. The railroad was elevated approximately twenty feet in the 1910s as result of a city ordinance aimed at reducing pedestrian fatalities at grade crossings. The line had been a street running railway within Bloomingdale Avenue, an east-west street running at 1800 north on Chicago's grid; creating the embankment reduced Bloomingdale Avenue's width in most cases. Steel-reinforced concrete embankment walls line the right-of-way and there are 38 viaducts built into the railroad to accommodate cross traffic from the street grid. Many of the viaducts are currently in need of repair. The line was used for both passenger and freight trains and served several local industrial businesses, including a Schwinn Bicycle Company warehouse. The Bloomingdale Line was primarily used to reach the Lakewood Branch and industrial district on Goose Island. The City of Chicago first investigated converting the Bloomingdale Line into a greenway in a 1997 bicycle facilities plan, but it remained a freight line with occasional service for several more years. The City and community reintroduced the greenway concept as part of the Logan Square Open Space Plan in 2002-2004. This plan proposes a linear park or greenway with public access ramps every six to nine blocks. At the east end, a trailhead would be created at the Chicago River and on the west end another trailhead would be integrated into the Logan Square YMCA campus. A grassroots, non-profit organization, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail (FBT), was formed in 2003 to be the focal point for advocacy and community involvement in the conversion project. FBT has partnered with the City and The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation group, in a collaborative that will lead the project management, design, and development of the park. Similar elevated greenway projects include: The High Line, New York City Promenade Plantée, Paris My concept for the Bloomingdale Line was to blur the public and private boundaries of the linear park. In investigating existing conditions and uses of the Bloomingdale Line and the immediately adjacent buildings, I noticed that some private properties that abutted the Bloomingdale Line started delineating this future public space as their private backyard. I found this interesting and wanted to use this idea of the private and public comingling. Over the first five years of the Bloomingdale Line Linear Park, it would need to bioremediate the soil and develop the public park paths and start adding the landscaping. Areas of extreme soil contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals will be bioremediated on other parts of the park (shuffling toxic soil mitigation where development is not occuring). Areas with existing public parks, open space, and/or existing high densities of traffic will have the Bloomingdale Line’s retaining wall carved down to grade to make greater accessibility to the public (public access at existing public areas). As the park is being developed and rehabilitated, the closest abutted buildings to the site (commercial, apartment buildings, and single family homes in that order) will be appropriated by the City of Chicago, much like the Canadian Pacific Railroad donated or sold the Bloomingdale property. This partial and/or whole appropriated property will then be recategorized in its use whether it be public seating areas, private areas, or new commercial spaces that will cater to the new use of the Bloomingdale Line as a public park. Any privatizing of the Bloomingdale Line Park is property of the immediate neighborhood/block as a community shared park area. This gives the immediate neighborhood more personal attachment, ownership, and sense of responsibility to this nearby park while they keep an open public pathway for the bicycles and pedestrians, thus fullfilling the needs of the nearby private residents/users and greater public that will come to use the park. Illinois Institute of Technology, fall, 2006 Previous&nbsp;/&nbsp;Next image&nbsp;(1 of 11)<img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="404" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="391" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="247" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-7.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-8.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="434" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-9.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-11.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-13.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-14.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/244372/Bloomingdale-19.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244372/Bloomingdale-Line http://www.matthewlechowick.com/258556/Pullman-Palace-Car-Museum http://www.matthewlechowick.com/258556/Pullman-Palace-Car-Museum Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:03:37 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 258556 Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman for his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company. Pullman's architect Solon Spencer Beman was said to be so proud of his creation that he asked George Pullman if the neighborhood could be named for himself. Pullman responded to the effect, "Sure, we'll take the first half of my name, and the second half of yours." In a day when most workers lived in shabby tenements near their factories, Pullman seemed a dream, winning awards as "the world's most perfect town." Everything, from stores to townhouses, were owned by the Company. The design was pleasing, and all of the workers' needs were met within the neighborhood. The houses were comfortable by standards of the day, and contained such amenities as indoor plumbing, gas, and sewers. Pullman's misfortune came during the depression which followed the Panic of 1893. When demand for Pullman cars slackened, the Pullman company laid off hundreds of workers, and switched many more to pay-per-piece work. This work, while paying more per hour reduced total worker income. Despite these cutbacks, the Company did not reduce rents for those that lived in the town of Pullman. The Pullman Strike began in 1894, and lasted for 2 months. George Pullman himself died in 1897. The Illinois Supreme Court required the company to sell off the town which was annexed into the city of Chicago. Within ten years, all non-manufacturing property - the houses, the public buildings - was sold off to the individual occupants. Along with the whole South Side, the town of Pullman had been annexed to the City of Chicago in 1889. After the strike Pullman gradually became a regular Chicago neighborhood, only with distinguishing Victorian architecture. The fortunes of the neighborhood rose and fell with the Pullman Company. The Pullman factory made its last car in early 1982 for Amtrak. The neighborhood's decline that began in the 1950s continued, but that economic decline at least spared the district's architecture. In 1960 the original Town of Pullman, approximately between 111th and 115th Streets, was threatened with total demolition for an industrial park. The residents there formed the Pullman Civic Organization and saved their community. By 1972 the Pullman Historic District had obtained National, State, and City landmark status to protect the original 900 rowhouses and public buildings built by George Pullman. Since the preservation, our studio project started where the residents left off--to turn the Pullman industrial and administration buildings into a museum to its railroad and community planning contributions. The concept for the Pullman Palace Car Museum project was to create a museum addition that contrasted with the existing. This visually striking contrast would let each work programmatically together, but visually each stand on their own. This "standing on its own" is translated to the more public functions of the program by jutting/pulling/bulging out from the main mass of the museum--restaurant, cafe, entry, and gift shop. Some Pullman Palace cars are used as displays and signage to people passing by to add to let the train cars to stand out on their own. The landscape concept was to blend the museum back to a more indigenous approach of natural grasses and contrast it with a more rectilinear set of boxes to frame the types of plants the original Pullman residents would have planted. This concept is also shown in the back of the museum where a large 5 foot deep pit of slag was left and would be installed with raised train tracks over the planting off indigenous grasses to showcase the newly restored train cars. Additionally, I used my programming class to do an extensive program research of transportation museums, specifically, the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Illinois Institute of Technology, fall, 2005 Previous&nbsp;/&nbsp;Next image&nbsp;(1 of 16)<img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-7.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="509" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-8.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-11.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="506" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-18.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-19.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-20.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="433" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-12.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="167" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-14.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="167" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-22.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="295" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-25.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="437" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-27.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="348" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-26.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="387" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/20953/258556/Pullman-36.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="344" align="left" /> http://www.matthewlechowick.com/258556/Pullman-Palace-Car-Museum http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244364/Very-Large-Array http://www.matthewlechowick.com/244364/Very-Large-Array Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:09:18 +0000 Matthew Lechowick Design 244364 The Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Augustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some fifty miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The observatory consists of 27 independent antennas, each of which has a dish diameter of 25 meters (82 feet) and weighs 209 metric tons (230 Short tons). The antennas are arrayed along the three arms of a Y-shape (each of which measures 21 km/13 miles long). Using the railroad tracks that follow each of these arms – and that, at one point, intersect with U.S. Route 60 at a level crossing – and a specially designed lifting locomotive, the antennas can be physically relocated to a number of prepared positions, allowing aperture synthesis interferometry with a maximum baseline of 36 km (22.3 miles): in essence, the array acts as a single antenna with that diameter. The VLA is a multi-purpose instrument designed to allow investigations of many astronomical topics. Objects that are commonly studied include radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, supernova remnants, gamma ray bursts, radio-emitting stars, the sun and planets, astrophysical masers, black holes, and the hydrogen gas that constitutes a large portion of the Milky Way galaxy as well as external galaxies. In 1989 the VLA was used to receive radio communications from the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flew by Neptune. The VLA studio project was to master plan the site and design an antenna hanger. The mater plan concept for this project was how to physically represent the culmination of the 27 antennas into one radio telescope. This is shown by rearranging the plan of the hangers and other buildings to be geometrically aligned to the overall shape of the concept as well as by the landscape plan. For the antenna hanger, the concept for the hanger was to be the counterpart to the pure, white, and functional scientific device. The hanger would be constructed out of a diagonal grid structure with modular metal panels that are perforated with images of the astronomy the radio telescope has helped found. The building forms color contrasts the antennas as well. Although this color may seem very worrisome for cooling, but the sites temperature ranges are on the lower side, due to the elevation and lack of trees. 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