Chair detailMilled Framing Lumber22”x22”x30”

architecturephotography

furniture design

design approachI’ve known I wanted to be a designer in some capacity since I was 9-years-old when my father found me haphazardly nailing two pieces of scrap wood to-gether in his work shop. I didn’t know it at the time but this singular occurrence would eventually lead into my desire to practice architecture, namely the satis-faction I find in creating. What neither my father nor I fully understood that day I chose to indiscriminately attach the first two things I could get my hands on was that I so desperately wanted to make something tangible from the previously nonexistent. I wanted to hold this object in my hands, marvel at my craftsman-ship, and know that it was a manifestation of something that had previously only existed in my head.

To the left is a detail of a chair I built in the fall of 2012. This project served me in two ways; first, I needed a chair for my apartment. Secondly, and more importantly, I had become something of an amateur furniture designer and this project was the last in a series of works that was meant to test my abilities and expand my understanding of wood working, design, and my skills of creat-ing details. There is not a single screw in the entire chair, every connection is custom-designed to fit together with wood glue, and dowels when necessary. It took almost 40 hours to build and taught me about patience, craftsmanship, and the beauty of details.

Joshua C. Ross345 W. 50th Street

New York, NY 10019

336.580.3682josh.ross789@gmail.com

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Museum of Cartoon and Comedic Art

Date: Spring 2011

Location: New York, New York

Rendering: Rhino, Brazil, Photoshop

The Museum of Cartoon and Comedic Art (MoCCA) is both a place to pay homage to the begin-nings of the medium as well as demonstrate it’s innovative techniques and display what the future holds. Located in the Lower East Side, MoCCA embodies the essence of the cartoon with it’s heavily emphasized structural system reminiscent of bold outlines, where all cartoons begin, and it’s spiral gallery space, mimicking the linear nature of a story. The gallery terminates with a sweep-ing view of the Lower East side, reorienting the patron with their location and reality after the highly immersive museum experience.

LEAP Collaborative

Date: Fall 2011

Location: Knoxville, TN

Rendering: Revit, Photoshop

The Landscaping, Engineering, Architecture, Planning (LEAP) Collaborative required a new head-quarters in downtown Knoxville that was both space and energy efficient. At the outset of the project we were told the building must achieve at least LEAD Bronze, this design is LEAD Gold. The three story structure features a grand staircase moving through a lobby, common space, and terminating at a double height studio space. A large green screen covers the west and south façades to minimize solar heat gain; and a mixture of green roofs and solar panels help to offset heat gain and energy costs, respectively. The building also utilizes geothermal heating and a water recapturing system located underground.

Galleria Cracovia

Date: Spring 2012

Location: Kraków, Poland

Rendering: Rhino, Brazil, Photoshop

Located on the fringe between Krakow’s downtown —an area which ceased development in the 19th century —and the newer, 20th century Kraków, the mixed-use Galleria Cracovia marks not only the transition into a new century and cultural persona, but a gateway both figuratively and literally. The design strives to be as pedestrian-friendly as possible, featuring a large pedestrian street cutting through the site. In an attempt to pay homage to the Błonia, an adjacent green space that has been set aside for preservation, and the rich history of the site on which sits an aban-doned hotel built in the 60s that represented to coming wave of modernism and progress that never quite arrived in Poland, the design is highly minimalistic and reactive. The façade features a combination of curtain walls, large Vierendeel trusses, and a dual skin of copper and green wall. The idea being that the transparency of the building allows the focus to shift to the patrons inside while highlighting one of the only parks in the city. A pedestrian bridge connects an underground parking garage and large public plaza for The National Museum of Poland which sits across the street. This bridge helps connect pedestrians traveling on foot or those who have driven to the site, while framing the green space and creating a well-defined, much-needed threshold condition which was previously non-existent.

Three Towers Market

Date: Spring 2013Location: Knoxville, TN

Rendering: Rhino, Brazil, Photoshop

Due to current unsustainable land-use practices and a swelling population projected to hit 10 billion by the year 2050, vertical farming in urban centers is becoming a more widely discussed solution for the impending food crisis.

Through my research into fast food production and popularity, and the consequences of these conditions, I am proposing a model for urban food production that satisfies the need for cheap, healthy, sustainable food that will solve both the need for the mass production of food and Ameri-ca’s addiction to fast food which is detrimental to individual health, local economies, and the envi-ronment. It is my goal to create both proper access to healthy food as well as sufficient education in regards to healthy eating and the benefits of the multiple systems I have compiled in this project.

The market boasts three large towers with 5.5 acres of vertical pod farming which can subse-quently feed nearly 6,000 people a day utilizing a highly efficient aquaponic system. Residential units are scattered throughout the towers offering various views of the roof-level park, grow floors, and the Knoxville skyline. The bar placed beneath the towers operates as a community center that emphasizes transparencies of systems, the ones serving the building and the ones serving the aquaponic system.

Piazza San MarcoVenice, ItalyMarch 2012

Abandoned Pill BoxCinque Terre, ItalyMarch 2012

The Pantheon Rome, ItalyMarch 2012

Malbork Castle Marlenburg, Poland

April 2012

Coffe TableWhite wood18”x18”x42”

Bar Stool Milled Framing Lumber

16”x18”x36”