Untitled Still-Life. 2’X3’Pencil On Cold Pressed Illustration Board, 1998.

Portfolio byAaron Mittman

Archtitecture

New Orleans’ Culinary Institute

URBANbuild 07

Parametric Bus Stop

Parametric Sky Bridge

Theory & Visual Arts

Architectural Theory

Photography

Glasswork/Sculpture

New Orleans’College of Culinary Arts

A strong notion of economic growth and community rebirth in New Orleans is underway. Around the site, the area is populated with many local businesses and churches lining the street, community gardens, a boxing gym and after-school activity centers.

New Orleans’ College of Culinary Arts pushes the use of steel through a figural, structural steel-skinned tower, which plays an active role on the stage of the site and rebirth of the area. It ouses meditative space such as lounges, classrooms and a two-story wine room. Its structure penetrates though the single-story restaurant and serves the public at the street edge, while the Culinary Arts School occupies the main six-story tower.

Project Members:

Aaron MittmanWilliam NemitoffDevin Reynolds

Render By William Nemitoff

Render By Devin Reynolds

Concept And Double-Hex Grid By Aaron Mittman

Revit Parametric Bus Stop May, 2012Team Project

Render By William Nemitoff

Render By Devin Reynolds

WINDOWINSTANCE PARAMETER

FRAMETYPE PARAMETERS

PARAMETERS FLEXCustom parameters - in the form of mathematical formulas - are used to generate form. In turn, the frames and windows flex as parameters change by the user; this is a snapshot of one design.

NESTED FAMILIESWINDOW HOSTED IN FRAME

TYPE PARAMETERSFrame - Flat, Triangle-based Rig

Frame Width = 6”Frame Depth 1 = 3’-0”Frame Depth 2 = Frame Depth 1 * 1/3Frame Depth 3 = Frame Depth 1 * 2/3

TECHNICAL_REVIT, RULE-BASED PARAMETRIC SKY BRIDGE MARCH, 2012LOCATION: 860 LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO

URBANbuild Prototype Home Dec, 2011

“Architecture has a long history independent from

computer science; however, digital technology has become

imbedded into our contemporary society at a global scale. As a

global society, our values are also changing as the degree of

separation between computer aided thinking and human thought

comes closer together. Digital technology has the capacity to render

what were otherwise unattainable ideas into fully realized solutions.

Hand-drawing and fast thinking allow for a less fragmented creative

process compared to the slow thought necessary to process

computer generated ideas quickly. Our schools are teaching

students to rely upon slow thought technology early during the

design process. Computers can process information quickly but they

cannot think intuitively and I don’t believe there is a substitution

for a human’s ability to create. New generations of architects are

being introduced to complex thought-process thinking via digital

technology at an increasingly early age. I wonder if this introduction

to computers will enable students and practitioners of architecture

to design more intuitively in the future. My hope is that students

of architecture, and the profession, do not reduce their ability and

responsibility to generate ideas using their natural intuition. They

are the sources responsible for the generation of ideas. Human

intuition continues to guide digital technology and not vice versa.“

Theory_Photography_Sculpture 1998-PRESENT

CONCLUSION FROM RESEARCH ENTITLED: Digital Regression: Intuitive Practice and the Future of Architecture (2011).

INDUSTRIALIZATION BY FORCE. 10”x4’CAST GLASS, SALVAGED LIVE OAK, AND STEEL.

Theory_Photography_Sculpture 1998-PRESENT Images Of Cuba. Digital Images. 2001.

Spanish, Terracotta Roof View Cuban Woman On Balcony

Quintessential Cuban Photo Wooden Truss Support Systems

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