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NEXT Office
Fall 2020 Design Studio
Communauté
Spring 2020 Design Studio
Eden Retail
Spring 2020 Design Studio
Bank of America
Fall 2019 Design Studio
Retail Fixture
Fall 2019 Design Studio
Hidden Room
Spring 2019 Design Studio
Elevator Intervention
Spring 2019 Design Studio
Togetherness
Fall 2020 Graphics
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“Flow” Lighting
Spring 2020 Lighting Design
Maison A Bordeaux Fall 2019 Design Com
Monumental Stair Spring 2020 BIM
Art Gallery
Spring 2020 BIM
Poche Library Spring 2020 BIM
Glass Botique Spring 2020 BIM
Iterative Desk Spring 2020 BIM
Artwork 2017-2020
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design studio work
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NEXT
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Fall 2020
NEXT Office The NEXT satellite office in Atlanta, Georgia is an innovative workplace with the universal well-being of all people built into the design. NEXT gives employees a sense of place to ensure emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being as they transition to the new normal. Covid protocols and WELL standards were implemented to ensure the safety of the occupants.
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The golden ratio in conjunction with Gestalt Principles define relationships between the architecture and interiors. This proportion has been tied to harmony and balance through creating spaces that are functional and have an equilibrium. This ratio was taken from nature and applied to the existing architecture, working within fractal parts of the building to create LEVEL02
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REJUVENATION SPACE
PATIO
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Communauté
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Spring 2020
Communauté Communauté is a shared housing complex in France for people and their dogs experiencing social isolation. The design strategy of architecture d’origine controlee takes advantage of the local environment and community to drive material selection, design, and construction techniques. Passivhaus design strategies turn the independent elements of the site become a single, well-articulated system. Human-centric design gives residents value to their stay in the community and helps connect them with other residents. HAPPY HOMES FRANCE COMPETITION INTD 3555 / REBECCA BOLES
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CommunautĂŠ
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Communauté
Spring 2020 Native Grasses Rain Garden
Green Roofs
North to South plant row orientation Native Wild Flowers Green Roofs
Wind Protection
Rotated 15 degrees from North
Southern facades for solar gain Windows located on South and East facades Bioswale Parking Lot
D’ORIGINE CONTROLEE SITE PLANNNING
SITE KEY
SITE SITE KEY KEY 1 Walking Entrance/ Flower Garden 2 Bee Hives 3 Vegetable Gardens 4 Chicken Coop 5 Rain Garden & Bioswale 6 Community Center 7 Car Entrace & Parking 8 Enclosed Dog Park A Neighborhood B Living, Kitchen, & Dining C Animal Clinic D Community Greenhouse
RESEARCH KEY
1 Walking Entrance/ Flower Garden 2 Bee Hives 3 Vegetable Gardens 4 Chicken Coop 5 Rain Garden & Bioswale 6 Community Center 7 Car Entrace & Parking 8 Enclosed Dog Park A Neighborhood B Living, Kitchen, & Dining C Animal Clinic D Community Greenhouse
SITE DEVELOPMENT
SUN STUDY
CIRCULATION
RESEARCH RESEARCHKEY KEY Addresses humans and dogs Angles, form, circulation, and natural lighting Rainwater harvesting Natural ventilation through closings and openings. Orientation of the building Gardens, green roofs, native plants, flowers Human-centric design Relates to the context, host environment, and local people Shading to close the buildings on the North and open to the South
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Communauté
Spring 2020
LIVING, GREENHOUSE, AND CLINIC PLANS
BEDROOM PLAN
RESIDENT BEDROOM 14
Communauté
Spring 2020
LIVING ROOM
LIVING, KITCHEN, AND DINING ROOM
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Communauté
COMMUNITY GREENHOUSE
Spring 2020
COMMUNITY GREENHOUSE INTERIOR 16
Eden
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Spring 2020
Eden Retail Store Eden’s brick and mortar location sells cleaning products for a sustainable lifestyle. Eden prioritizes social, environmental, and community well-being over everything else. Eden’s store design features framed spaces that elegantly show circulation through delicate, clean lines. As a tree can frame a landscape, Eden frames the natural products within the store to promote the natural composition of their products. Sophistication and freshness is amplified through the use of French style interiors, incorporating simple natural finishes and sustainably sourced materials.
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Eden
Spring 2020
FLOOR PLAN
REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
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Eden
Spring 2020
BULK GOODS DISPLAY
BEAUTY GOODS DISPLAY
CREATION DISPLAY TABLE 19
Eden
Spring 2020
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Bank of America
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Fall 2019
Bank of America The design for the UTA Bank of America location was inspired by a plant cell to create an engaging, nature-inspired environment offering high-tech solutions in a variety of spatial arrangements. The design was inspired by nature around the site and Bank of America’s sustainability initiative. That idea was taken a step further with the exploration of plant cells. A plant cell was then dissected and separated into different parts based on function. These separate functions became the rooms within the bank, and thus the floor plan.
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Bank of America is inspired by a plant cell to create an engaging, nature-inspired environment offering high-tech solutions in a variety of spatial arrangements.
Bank of America The design was inspired by the nature around the site and Bank of America’s sustainability initiative. That idea was taken a step further with
Fall 2019
explorations of plant cells. A plant cell was disected and seperated into different parts based on function. These seperate functions became the rooms within the bank,and thus the plan.
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Bank of America
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Retail Fixture
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Fall 2019
Retail Fixture This project included making a package design and a display fixture to feature Everlane’s Tread shoes. The packaging consisted of reclaimed wood that can be used over and over again. This is aligned with the Everlane’s transparency values. The display fixture integrated the packaging by allowing the boxes to become the shelves and slide in and out of the wall.
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PACKAGING DESIGN MODEL
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Elevator Intervention
Spring 2018
Elevator Intervention The Elevator Intervention began with an existing dance complex. As a studio, we had to understand the building. We started with blurry and incorrect plans and sections and worked to make sense of the building. The challenge was to take the existing architecture and interrupt it with an elevator. These adjustments could not include eliminating anything or reducing room sizes less than 80%. The design solution intertwines the stairs and elevator to create one element. The concept was to make the stairs dance around the elevator 538
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in an elaborate performance.
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Elevator Intervention
BASEMENT
Spring 2018
GROUND LEVEL
LONG SECTION
LEVEL 01
LEVEL 02
LEVEL 03
LEVEL 04
SHORT SECTION
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Hidden Room
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Spring 2018
Hidden Room This project is composed of 5 rooms, one which seems to be hidden from the other four. The program requires providing a means of access to the hidden room while controlling the degree to which the room becomes vulnerable to disclosure. Challenges in the program were that the hidden room had to remain 10% of the whole, there had to be two means of access to the hidden room (one interior and one exterior), and each of the four rooms needed to be accessible from two other rooms not including the hidden room.
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Hidden Room
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other coursework
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Togetherness
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Spring 2020
Togetherness The “Togetherness” exhibition features Rani Ban’s most inspiring works. The exhibit focuses on human connections that bring communities together and drive for change. The anchor piece for the exhibit is a playful screen print which shows figures dancing and floating around freely. This captures Rani’s approach to her free flowing designs. For this project, a logo, typeface, iconography, and signage system were created to be displayed within the museum.
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Togetherness
Spring 2020
FLOOR PLAN
AXONOMETRIC
CIRCULATION
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Togetherness
Spring 2020
ANCHOR WALL
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Flow
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Spring 2020
Flow Lighting Light flows gently, guiding the viewer, as if following a river of literature. As one gets deeper into the space, the ceiling light coves define spaces to gather below the ambiance. Expressive curvilinear elements on the walls offer the soft suggestion of circulation, subtle touches of color emphasize important zones, create hierarchy, and personality within each room to define different functions and helps add to the creative productivity.
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Flow
Spring 2020
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Alcon Lighting
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Energy efficient plexineon white 1x series Cool to touch , use as exterior interior direct or indirect lighting Silver Mounting Clip Standard Lengths 2’, 3’, 6’, 8’ Wattage 100 W Bookshelf bookshelf Wall
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lamp Lamp
CHILDREN’S READING ROOM
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PRIVATE STUDY BOOTH ELEVATION
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Maison A Bordeaux
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Fall 2019
Maison A Bordeaux Maison A Bordeaux was used as a precedent study to practice design program skills. Programs used included Rhino, InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Premier and Lumion. The exercise deliverables included creating plans based on existing photographs and rough existing drawings of the space, 3D modeling the project, rendering, and diagrams.
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Maison A Bordeaux
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Poche Library
SPRING 2020
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Project A
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Poche Library
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This library was created through the Room Schedule 2
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try was repeated and diagrammed to find the solid and void forms that 02/09/20
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world make up the functional rooms.
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Monumental Stair
Spring 2020
Monumental Stair 2
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West 1/8" = 1'-0"
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This social stair connected two BIM & VISUALIZATION
levels in an office building lobby. The
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Assignment 3
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requirements stated that it needed to incorporate both platforms and integrated seating. The design for this stair allowed a double approach on Section 1 1/8" =Under 1'-0" Stairs 3D
the right and left with 1
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portion. An underpass in the middle allowed the viewer to pass through the stair into the underneath nook for more acoustic and visual privacy.
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Interative Desk
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Iterative Desk
South 1/8" = 1'-0"
This exercise required a series of desks with complementary seating using a single Revit family that could be modified to create variations. The deliverable was 16 unique parameters that
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materials. The design for the desks originated
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in a simple circular form with a chair
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ent masses that incorporated a variety of seating and acoustic options. Some of the designs are geared towards comfort, some provide complete visual and acoustic privacy, while some are more social desks that can be interlocked with other designs.
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Trolley Stop Art Gallery The Trolley Stop Art Gallery was conceptualized from the Dallas trolley map route. Through tracing train track grids and overlaying it on the existing building, the design for the interior art gallery walls was
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formed. The walls make up a space that includes a large reception room, and winding paths that guide the
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viewer while allowing them to explore the gallery on their own.
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Glass Botique
FLOOR PLAN
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Spring 2020
Glass Botique This retail space was made to hold 20 plants. The brief required the space to measure 50’x50’ in area and have a ceiling. The excercise pushed the class to explore with creating glass and mullion structures using curtainwalls. This space was conceptualized through analyzing and diagraming the veins in a leaf, which resulting in the curvature of the walls that guides the viewer through the space. The curtainwalls serve as places where plants are displayed within the glass. Project B
Project B
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Artwork
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Artwork This is a collection of artwork spanning from painting, paper collaging, watercolors, and travel sketches. Artwork produced in the design program spans from ARCH 1341 Design Communications I, ARCH 2552 Studio Design, and travel sketches from INTD 3321 Interior Materials I. Additional sketches were produced for projects in the conceptual design phase, which were important to the final design solution.
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Artwork
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Artwork
2017-2019
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Artwork
2019-2020
BALL EDDLEMAN MCFARLAND HOUSE
FORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUM
MARTY LEONARD CHAPEL
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