Alan Williams Portfolio
FOUNDATIONS
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ARCHITECTURE
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FABRICATION
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FOUNDATIONS
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01 FORMAL FOLLIES Formal Follies, the second project in Visual Literacy II freshman year, focused on expanding our digital and physical modeling capabilities. The project called for precision, both digitally and physically, when assembling the models. The model I created focused on the juxtaposition of smooth, soft surfaces, and hard, steep inclines and declines.
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02 MOVEMENT AND SPATIAL STRUCTURE Movement and Spatial Structure from Foundations I second year, begins with High School Park and a situated site within the park. As a group, we measured the space around us with only our eyes and body. Through drawing and digital modeling of the space, we began to understand boundary, edge, and threshold. Once the site was measured and recorded, I began site analysis, studying how the body reacts to the spaces that occur naturally on my site. Through analysis of the site, I chose a 40x40 foot section of the entire sire to begin to focus on. I focused on two distinct envelopes of space that create different feelings when occupied; one private and one more open and public.
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Site Analysis
Qualitative Section - Charcoal
Mixed Media Collage of Selected Sit
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03 BODY AND SPACE Body and Space from Foundations II, second year, continued the investigations of spatial qualities that began in Foundations I. In this project I was to focus on the movement of the body in a measured environment. We started with group work, measuring our site, a staircase located in the Tuttleman Learning Center on Temple’s campus. We captured, with video, the body moving through the space of the staircase as a member of our group performed a choreography that went along with a specific song. The staircase and choreography are then transferred digitally to create an envelope of space that I then used to create a design intervention within the staircase space. I focused on creating two varied paths. One path followed the existing staircase but is encased by a cavernous-like wall. The second path is for the adventurous.; one must climb their way up the path. Each intervention presents multiple spaces that the user can interact with.
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Choreography Collage
Section and Plan of Choreography
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The final model is created from layers of plywood and a grid of dowels. The path to the left is the main path while the path on the right requires the user to be adventurous. The two paths create a stark difference between each method of circulation.
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ARCHITECTURE
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This project from my Fall 2017 Design Studio is situated at 1521-23 South St. Philadelphia. The objective was to create two identical row homes with a store-front studio space at street level for a graphic designer. My design focused on creating a split level home that included double and triple height spaces along with an atrium space in the center of the home. This allowed for a very open fluid relationship between spaces on each floor. The main circulation is situated as a catwalk from the first floor leading to stairs that rotate around the central atrium space. The main intention behind the designing of these spaces was to give the kitchen and the living room the largest amount of space as I believe these to be the most important and utilized spaces in the home.
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This project from my Fall 2017 Design Studio is based in Rittenhouse Square on the North-West corner of the park. The objective was to create a single shower/bathroom pavilion. The specific location I chose to place the pavilion was decided upon using sight lines taken from my site analysis. These sight lines also helped dictate the overall form of the pavilion from its walls to its roof angles. From different points in the park, the angles of the pavilion allow for certain sight paths to be visible. The screen and angular bench serve to direct people into the entrance of the bathroom/shower while providing privacy as you enter.
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Site Analysis Collage
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South Elevation
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03 39TH AND WALNUT OFFICE BUILDING This project from my Spring 2018 Design Studio is situated on the corner of 29th and Walnut St. in West Philadelphia. The objective was to create an office building roughly 70,000 sq. ft. in rentable space. The first floor is retail space, the rest of the floors being office space. The top floor was created as an open event space. My design focused on taking each rectangular floor and shifting it slightly in order to obtain a sense of movement in the design. The rotation allows for the floors to begin to shade themselves helping with the southern exposure to the sun.
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The core of the building is situated on the North and Western sides of the building. These facades are solid without any windows. The first floor of the building houses two retail locations as well as the main lobby for the office building. The edge of the street has a considerable amount of usable public space that the retail locations could take advantage of. The typical office layout for each floor is generated from the twisted edge of the facade. The edge of the window is given to the workers by providing breakout spaces as well as tables to take a break at. The top floor houses a special event space that could be rentable to any tenant in the building. It is an open floor place that could allow for many different event types. This space is celebrated by a vaulted roof that is supported by a series of trusses.
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01 BENCH DESIGN This bench was designed and fabricated in my Spring 2018 semester for the class Materials and Methods. The assignment was to create a stool. The materials and method of fabrication were open-ended. I chose to explore kerf bending 3/4� birch plywood. I set out to create a bench design that incorporated bending on two corners of the bench while keeping the other two sides at 90 degrees to create variance between each set of legs. This piece was created using a CNC router, as well as conventional shop tools such as a table saw, band saw, sanders, etc. The bench was designed in Rhino3D and the machine file was programmed in RhinoCAM.
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02 ROOMS OF THE HOUSE Rooms of the house is an installation piece from a CNC technology elective I took in Fall 2017. I focused on highlighting the experience someone has with their everyday objects. The installation is intended to be a procession through the movements of daily life and the interactions one person mavy have with a specific set of items. In this case, the items chosen are items that could have been picked up on a trip or used to plan a trip. Each item may seem very ordinary to an onlooker, but to that specific person, the item allows them to transport to a specific memory. I focused on creating four pieces of furniture for this installation; a chair, end table, bookcase, and coat rack. Through the design of each piece, I explored different methods of joinery and assembly. Each piece was CNC milled from 3/4� maple plywood. The pieces were designed in Rhino3D and programmed in RhinoCAM.
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03 SITE MODEL This site model was made in collaboration with Marty Henry, a recent graduate of Temple’s Graduate Architecture program. I helped in the fabrication from start to finish on this site model helping create the necessary cut files, as well as assembling the model. The model is constructed from chipboard, basswood, and acrylic.
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