https://arpino.studio/contact daily 0.75 2025-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/2ab487f8-a988-495f-9d5e-87be9fbac691/No+Smile_bw_edited.png Contact - arpinoarch@gmail.com jac744@cornell.edu https://arpino.studio/cv-resume daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://arpino.studio/nuova-pagina daily 0.75 2024-04-11 https://arpino.studio/home daily 1.0 2025-11-24 https://arpino.studio/home/digital-gothic monthly 0.5 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/48172b99-d852-49a7-94eb-a1eeebc81d80/vaulting.png Home - Digital Gothic Gothic architecture was a style which was prevalent from the 12-16th century, and grew as both an aesthetic and structural system through its primary use of stone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/04bf6301-6b70-4823-bf1a-b85138c5c051/Notre+Dame+-+render+01.png Home - Digital Gothic Notre Dame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/845ed9b4-bcd2-44b8-89c3-385186296a1a/Galgano+2.png Home - Digital Gothic San Galgano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/4eaf7bf6-dd3d-4c55-bd1b-fa8b75334532/Muybridge+A-compressed.png Home - Digital Gothic Joints and linear members, composed of CLT and glue laminated timber respectively, are designed to be robotically milled off-site, then assembled with mallets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/15b4d497-aa5a-4401-8b67-94c1be154c53/cross+section+01.png Home - Digital Gothic Seen above, the vaulting of Amiens Cathedral depicts a spatial condition which coincides with the dilemmas of primarily stone construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/4dfcfc37-e71c-4b6a-8985-3ea7ddbcb63e/Paris+Map+nd.png Home - Digital Gothic Notre Dame, originally constructed from 1163-1345, was the victim of a fire in 2019 which destroyed most of the wooden roof, as well as its wooden spire. Notre Dame's roof was eventually reconstructed, re-opening on December 8th, 2024. The restoration took a total of 2,000 craftspeople and 500 tons of oak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/c9e9402e-b396-4a68-a8b1-d5439ab53761/Muybridge+B-compressed.png Home - Digital Gothic No use of glues, or other joining agents are included, in order to capitalize on the advantages of a compression-based system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758758153834-H00AT6YMLEXT1HELFR1E/02-pdf%252BSITE%252BMAP%252B1000.png Home - Digital Gothic Constructed in the 13th century and located in Tuscany, San Galgano is a monastery which had lost its roof in 1786 after a collapse of its bell tower. Today only the walls remain in their 13th century style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/226bebc2-1170-4285-a692-fe49c091d347/amiens.png Home - Digital Gothic Amiens Cathedral shows us a structure which is primarily composed of the stacked and serial array of compression vault structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/063be26d-45f8-40ec-abf2-e1edb336fe84/Muybridge+C-compressed.png Home - Digital Gothic In order to test the capabilities of this wood to wood connection system, a full scale model was assembled using glued plywood nodes and 4x4” timber posts (3.5 x 3.5”). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758758140513-YQ1A4E6S9ERBAXJ5PSQ0/02_PDF%252BSite%252BIntervention%252B3.24.png Home - Digital Gothic In order to begin iterating on a new roof for San Galgano, it was first modeled from sourced 3d scans and drawings. From there, our funicular strategy was used to design a series of vaulted structures, varying in pattern and size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/94b272a9-ee11-46c0-aead-c49d9cd12b8b/NOTRE+DAME+PLAN+png.png Home - Digital Gothic In order to accurately re-roof Notre Dame, 3d mesh data was obtained from the previous research done by Professors Myles Zhang and Stephen Murray on the construction sequence and documentation of Notre Dame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/5741203b-05c0-4b02-a26d-6d33026cac08/arch+division.png Home - Digital Gothic Through the gothic limitations, what is today achieved through more complex means of beam sizing, finite element analysis, and statics, was once achieved through the investigation of geometric proportions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/27828d70-2da3-4383-87ac-b263fccd20c1/nd+section+pdf.png Home - Digital Gothic As an alternative re-construction of Notre Dame's roof, this new process involves the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in Karamba in order to add a variational beam sizing to the overall structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/062d8945-2f34-4ff0-9e2d-0ed5269cb96f/galgano+section+dwg.png Home - Digital Gothic 1’ Square glue laminated timber was determined by the FEA analysis. In addition, our system had to adapt and stretch in order to meet the challenges of real world construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/3bfd44a6-8638-445b-afcc-5efd69510f84/Muybridge+D-compressed.png Home - Digital Gothic The assembly of node elements involved a process of stock gluing and shaping, followed by robotic milling with a 6-Axis IRB 6700 robot. The pieces were glued from 3/4” plywood, which were shaped into hexagonal stocks for the robot to mill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675641810-RNDJDZGNVD3UYRH82LYY/03-PDF.png Home - Digital Gothic The linear rib was the ultimate display of the gothic's computational power. Ribs were both ornamental and diagrammatic, revealing the flow of compression as both ornament and structure. This language of gothic ribs was inspired by earlier Norse weaving techniques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675933346-BVCPYJ878MG73ZJHPFOD/01.png Home - Digital Gothic Robotic milling involved the creation of a parametric script, from which the desired output surface could accurately and repeatedly be milled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758685143914-HB92WDUZGXU807FOJ1FH/nd%2Belevation%2Bpdf.png Home - Digital Gothic In collaboration with Annie Wang and Adam Stein, these 3d meshes were traced into two dimensional drawings to create the representations shown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/dcd4ba70-9c40-48ce-845d-91c9d2c40fe7/galgano+1.png Home - Digital Gothic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/42ea6740-5f7f-49e0-8482-f9030e4ee63d/steel.png Home - Digital Gothic Above is a steel connection. Just as stone inhabited the weaving techniques from wood, the logic of steel has inhabited mass timber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675947965-XJ99MCG120QBQS0DX17W/02.png Home - Digital Gothic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/9faefe71-246b-44e3-86cb-fbf8074a3387/wood.png Home - Digital Gothic Mass timber is a relatively new material system. The current use of mass timber appears to have adopted the intelligence of older systems, and forgotten its past as wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675963444-2DWE8EXUQ51RC9MS4L3I/03.png Home - Digital Gothic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/2a17238f-bbf5-49ea-a97d-80a76c69c337/timber+faults.png Home - Digital Gothic How can this newer material of mass timber, trapped in the industrial logic of steel and concrete, be used in a manner more in accordance with its potential from wood? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675978803-J2TCPV7RNLVO1ZR34TNK/05.png Home - Digital Gothic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/dc3ddb18-47f4-4f0d-9da1-0e2247a4eb22/wood+capabilities.png Home - Digital Gothic In order to test these claims, first we must observe what mass timber is as a material. It comes in several forms such as Cross Laminated, Finger Jointed, Laminated Veneer, and Glue laminated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758675348005-H66TT9TUUR7FAXGFSXCO/06.png Home - Digital Gothic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758430950547-0T5MA46ZXDZ49ORTUATK/04.png Home - Digital Gothic A funicular compression logic was determined. This funicular, linear logic would allow the timber to behave along its grain line, necessitating the use of glue laminated timber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/c8828f34-ee88-4bc5-ab04-1935544820fb/pdf.png Home - Digital Gothic This required a grasshopper script that would create ruled, unsplit surfaces, slice those surfaces into layers which were each the depth of the tool bit radius, and offset those sliced layers by the radius. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/7b9263f8-e32c-4189-9f32-fc7389f6caed/funicular+discretization.png Home - Digital Gothic Above, a catenary curve is split in half, divided into five sections, and rotated 90 degrees around a base point. This method allows the conversion of funicular 2d geometry into a quarter-vault. 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Our location contains the dividing Interstate as well as a storage housing facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/28c9cc81-2f6f-4da7-9ebb-033e07aaba8c/pdf+close+plans_Page_1.png Home - Legba Meanwhile, the old storage facility will be converted into a civic center, allowing elders , artists, and students to converse and educate about Africana and African history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/c9d7e424-bf16-4694-b8f4-fe88f846d2da/pdf+close+plans_Page_2.png Home - Legba Featuring housing for artists and religious leaders, the facility will allow students to learn and collaborate on African culture and art. The building features a sculpture garden, theater, gymnasium, pool, and fabrication lab, as well as a private library and archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/5c91a450-82e9-40f0-a3ec-7c6f46f1aa32/pdf+close+plans_Page_3.png Home - Legba Living facilities are placed on the second floor, leaving elders and artists dry in the event of flooding. Records and archives are also raised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/9a6383f9-5103-4590-b3b3-b624805b9041/01_pdf+composite_Page_13.png Home - Legba Our roof, inspired by ancient Yoruban practices, is a large structure meant to be an icon to be seen from the highway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/cb9ef08d-6af9-4a64-9df1-958ffa211101/massing+diagram.png Home - Legba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/c5ede3e8-440e-4ea5-94ad-3d9ae585d8c0/01_pdf+composite_Page_14.png Home - Legba Artist housing provides large operable windows, and ample room for making https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/b2bda64b-28bc-4a3f-9fa1-916b878a2dc1/perspective+section.png Home - Legba The center of the Legba Center is an interior courtyard, designed as a meditation space and containing special herbs with ancient and religious meanings in Vodou and Yoruba practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/de7c5ef3-786f-454e-8825-5f7693f4969d/01_pdf+composite_Page_01.png Home - Legba All parts of the construction are recycled from the old storage facility, featuring a fully circular material usage strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1683829519059-6PESEHV1I1V0NK7WLPF5/01_pdf%2Bcomposite_Page_02.jpg Home - Legba By inspiring the construction logic from ancient African practices, the building features natural climatic strategies to circulate air and heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/31bdf813-abf4-47a6-9d38-03721409d96c/01_pdf+composite_Page_06.png Home - Legba Elder housing is entirely flat, with a private library as well as dimensions required in hospital design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/b014b109-4208-43a0-8e69-ff5ae7a3e53f/01_pdf+composite_Page_09.png Home - Legba Specialized decking can fold upwards to cover the floor-to-ceiling glazing, allowing for added protection and privacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/dfa07249-548f-465d-b5b9-09052ada4f72/01_pdf+composite_Page_20+new.png Home - Legba A look at the artist's living spaces showcase a humble material pallet, inspired by Yoruban traditions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/efdd982f-4252-4397-9d3d-7ae093c12457/01_courtyard+view.png Home - Legba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1acbdf1e-fcc0-4ab1-994d-70bd1ce76be2/03_top+view.png Home - Legba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/fd15d408-485a-47eb-8ce4-90b2bfd9d87e/04_oblique.png Home - Legba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/572f085b-f629-4ffb-87b9-74ac85ecad7e/04-png+red+and+black.png Home - Legba https://arpino.studio/home/9west monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1738514596772-LE6DG1X9Q0ALVKX63QPY/skyscraper+-12+copy.png Home - 9-West 9-West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/0f0f8932-77f9-4d43-bb95-e06bfbbf0edb/cover+sheet+tower.png Home - 9-West By 2050, 68% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas, up from just over 50% in 2016. Yet in cities like New York, critical programs for tenants—such as public housing and Section 8—remain stagnant or are in decline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/af4c9e8a-a0a4-41a9-8d52-3581d3a1b18e/SITE+LOCATION+Tower.png Home - 9-West As urban populations swell, cities face the dual challenge of expanding affordable housing while confronting the urgent demands of climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1ed9c478-6738-4b39-81bb-78928554f0d8/paper+iterations+01.png Home - 9-West This requires a new urban strategy—one that balances density with sustainability, and equity with resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758848781728-EWHMFO22IYR2MKUQEJ6C/00-%2BFull%2BPortfolio%2BV249.png Home - 9-West Using environmental analysis with digital ray-tracing, this strategy optimizes the overall form and facade of a super-tall tower in Manhattan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/9d0083d4-9ac2-4e25-b381-8221ab2536b0/detail+analysis+png.png Home - 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CC3dP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/536807ba-e51f-44f9-96db-459a16a7da09/fig_3.png Home - CC3dP The gyroid is a triply-periodic minimal surface that can efficiently distribute large amounts of compression stress. 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Construction started in 1928, and was not completed until 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758937991852-4OZAOYY0WFDRD7QN5B69/Hearst%2BAtrium.jpg Home - Hearst Heart tower is a net-zero high rise builing in New York City, capable of collecting rain water on its roof surface, which is then recycled throughout the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1738507720080-6YPLU8B7VN3YASYUX1WS/04-Plan+Rendering+png.png Home - Hearst In an effort to increase the effectiveness of this buildings rain-water collection system, I devised a new atrium ceiling for the tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/152716c4-7cff-4e2e-8fef-8e8258602073/edge+analysis.png Home - Hearst FEA was used to optimized the folded and cut sheet-metal surfaces, into a structure that gains its strength through the folds in its metal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/f4e02b89-bbdd-4632-a8ce-306c0bf1ff63/03-png.png Home - Hearst Architectural detailing focused on the connection between the folded metal and windows, as well as the transition between Hearst Towers historic walls and its new roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/70c387db-e72c-4904-b88f-19f089817680/top+view+copy.png Home - Hearst Physical models were used to iterate on folding techniques, and water flow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/df52b84f-62ee-446e-9110-c0472731f1f4/Binder1_Page_07.png Home - Hearst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/701a939e-9fd1-405b-893b-90276155717b/Binder1_Page_09.png Home - Hearst https://arpino.studio/home/dune-shack monthly 0.5 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1759205249458-SIWE61HON02738TR8WVH/exterior-7%2Bcorrected.png Home - Dune Shack Dune Shack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758429602053-UO58Q9MIRYKKP5WC5Z8Z/04-PSD%2Bcopy.png Home - Dune Shack Along the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, small weathered dune shacks were once informal shelters for fishermen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/88313019-0156-4874-b8a7-67745e19bd1f/04-PNG.png Home - Dune Shack This residential home provides a dwelling for a local sea captain while honoring the Capes vernacular architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/da7a7a49-31c1-4fc1-83b1-28718cb0e871/summer+solstace-+glare+final+.png Home - Dune Shack Computational analysis allows for glare and window optimization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1efedd80-e7e8-4a76-b21e-102106a75452/summer+solstace-+glare+final+c.png Home - Dune Shack Windows were optimally chosen to both reduce electricity costs, and lower glare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/e4fc13e5-dce0-49da-b4d4-c85a96cf8802/04-ground+floor+png.png Home - Dune Shack Ground Floor Plan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/85b3effd-c526-4708-b9b4-c0bb7ee25429/04-+Second+Floor+png.png Home - Dune Shack Second Floor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/ac93d3b7-0f42-45bf-bede-b0ef78faac8c/Third+Floor.png Home - Dune Shack Third Floor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/172e4521-ed48-4aae-9e47-703c58675514/white+version.png Home - Dune Shack Accurate detailing ensures optimal energy efficiency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/59421e82-5b61-44da-a2bd-c45368e3ea18/white+templates.png Home - Dune Shack Above, the CLT forms assemble into the main surfaces of the home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758429087852-EZIP9YEF1LGHD2YRSQ9X/Interior-4.png Home - Dune Shack The final form is compliant with Cape Cod's cultural aesthetic while experimenting with CLT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/40b3724c-9ab0-4f0a-b254-66ef22b1dfbf/Interior-3+.png Home - Dune Shack Stained red, the main staircase highlights a light shaft which provides ocean views to every floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758429121438-O89INOPV5QRDZAWYWEU4/Interior-1%2Bcopy.png Home - Dune Shack Windows frame major views and iconic landmarks https://arpino.studio/home/daphne-chair monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/1758845481054-6K8EGFEK6EJ2NGEYTICX/03-Oblique.png Home - Daphne Daphne Chair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/f9ee3984-5377-4ea8-836f-77b0f72aa236/Thatcher-11.png Home - Daphne Apollo, struck by Eros’ golden arrow of desire, chased after Daphne. She fled in terror, desperate to escape him. Just as he was about to seize her, she cried out to her father for help. Peneus transforms her into a laurel tree. 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Daphne Toolpaths added a new layer of surface treatment to the wood chair, with the tools rounded bit effecting the creation of joints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/ff41cc7d-496c-4d9c-b393-8ec1d89d1c21/isometric+rendering.png Home - Daphne Designed to be milled for easy transport and assembly, the chair is cut from two plywood stocks, and assembled as five parts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/872d9f72-c51e-41a1-bcaa-07e69896f808/IMG_0591.png Home - Daphne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/c09a63c8-c937-46fb-bc3e-1b4914768016/IMG_0560.JPG Home - Daphne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/0179b1e1-d79e-4ad6-9564-e31f314ab586/IMG_0599.JPG Home - Daphne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/9dda34fd-5680-41c8-aec5-a293fdf26aa2/chair+3.png Home - Daphne Process Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c203089f77de087d58daeb/62105442-c9a7-4374-b392-348302fe0ba9/chair+2.png Home - 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