GREG NORTON JULY 2014

PROFESSIONAL WORKHBX STAFF SPACEHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE MA

A new curricular initiative by Harvard Business School required a quick fi t-out of an older building on campus. The project was done in (3) phases, changed contractors mid-construction while all working under a strict budget. The project entailed various user meetings to go over fi nish options, anticipated user needs, and scope expansions due to quicker than anticipated hiring by HBS.

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

PROFESSIONAL WORKHESBURGH LIBRARY MASTER PLANNINGUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, SOUTH BEND IN

DESIGNOPPORTUNITIES

LANTERNS

CONCEPTUALISOMETRIC

ZONINGCONCEPT

MATERIALITY

FLOORPLAN

The Hesburgh Library at Notre Dame is undergoing a phased process to contemporize their interior. We composed a Master Planning document for them helping to explain and visualize the phased process which includes removing collection over time, providing more public seating, and creating a more intuitive zoning scheme that helps in breaking down the massive scale of the fl oorplates.

GRAND READING ROOM

TECHNOLOGY COMMONS

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

PROFESSIONAL WORKCORNELL UNIVERSITY - eHUBITHACA, NY

Cornell University has started exploring spaces on campus and their hometown of Ithaca to support their Entrepreneurship@Cornell network (E@C. These hubs will help support and drive Cornell’s existing entrepreneurial network by providing spaces, tools and mentorship to articulate ideas and build prototypes for real-world application.

Program components consist of fl exible workspaces, classrooms, group study rooms, hang-out spaces and support staff offi ces.

PLAN OPTION 02 INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - OPTION 02

EXISTING CONDITIONS

ELEVATION A

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GREG NORTON JULY 2014

PROFESSIONAL WORKCORNELL UNIVERSITY - eHUBITHACA, NY

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - OPTION 02

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

STUDENT WORKDEGREE PROJECTRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Architecture provides a way of conceptualizing and constructing on the basis of a combinatorial of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined, while leaving room for any and all assemblies by outside parties in particular ways that could not have been foreseen.

A combinatorial defi nition derived from:

Michel de Certeau Italo Calvino Umberto Eco

PROGRAM STATIC

PLACE & SCALE

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

STUDENT WORKDEGREE PROJECTRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

In order to share conceptual ideas we manifest constructions that attempt to best represent the purest form of our original concept. But within this machine of construction, losses occur and hinder perfect translation for others. Even our own memories suff er unavoidable losses, for every recollection / re-collection of a memory initiates a completely new construct of the past moment (and therefore a less pure construct), with the gaps fi lled by fi ctions we have acquired over our own continuing experiences.

How then can architecture, as a construction, deal with loss; loss of memory, loss of concept, loss of life?

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

STUDENT WORKPASSIVE HOUSERHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Light frame construction

Off set frame wall & additional insulation

Cellulose insulation

Wooden siding & high-R windows

Continuous soffit vent

Wooden siding

4.5” high density spray foam

1/2” air space

Substrate to support spray foam

Rigid insulation

Gypsum board

Airtight drywall approach

PU Foam

NP1 sealant

Metal flashing

Water protection membrane

Insulation wind baffle

Roof insulation Continuous ridge ventilation

Styrofoam sis sheating

Gypsum board

Closure board

Sealant

Adhesive

Crawl space vent

Masonry

Concretefoundation

Gasket

Sealant

4.5” high density spray foam

Capillary break

Masonry foundation wall

Continuous vapor retarder

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An independent study meant for an introduction to basic Passive House technologies, wall assemblies, mechani-cal specifi cations and design considerations. The site, in Andover ME, was located adjacent to a camp site frequented every summer by my family.

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LAU

1 UltimateAir ReCoupAerator

2 Heat Exchanger

3 Solar Hot Water

4 Backup Hot Water

5 Mitsubishi MSZ-FE12NA wall mounted heat pump

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GREG NORTON JULY 2014

STUDENT WORKECUADORRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

A travel studio within the rainforest in Ecuador, we partnered with a local architecture school to design and build a museum out of treated bamboo in order to help educate the young people in the local village about their heritage.

GREG NORTON JULY 2014

STUDENT WORKECUADORRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Hand drawn record documents for the village