ANDREW NEUMAN: Portfolio
EDUCATION 2012 2007 2005 2003
Master of Architecture - University of British Columbia Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting + Drawing) - University of Hawai’i Manoa Diploma of Fine Arts - Langara College, Vancouver BC 3D Design Stream (Continuing Studies) - Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver BC
WORK EXPERIENCE 2007-12 2007-09 2005-06 2001-03 1996-00
NEUMAN objekt/grafik, (Honolulu HI, Vancouver BC) Designer: Owner/Proprietor of independent multidisciplinary design studio; Exhibit Specialist, Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Honolulu HI) Preparator for the Art in Public Places program and the Hawai`i State Art Museum Gallery Artist, Elliott Louis Gallery (Vancouver BC) Director of Music and Arts / Inner City Outreach Coordinator Shadow Mountain Community Church (San Diego CA) Professional Musician, Spooky Tuesday, Kauai, Hi
SELECTED AWARDS + SCHOLARSHIPS 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
re:Think Housing competition, City of Vancouver - 1rst. Place, Award of Excellence Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal – highest level of academic excellence Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Honor Roll – Graduation Award, UBC Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence Nominee – Graduation Nomination Rafii Architects Scholarship – Academic Achievement, UBC Hughes Condon Marler Architects Scholarship - regional/urban design context, UBC Architectural Institute of British Columbia Scholarship – UBC Charles J Thompson Bursary – Academic Achievement Award, UBC Special University of British Columbia Award - Architecture Entrance Award Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce Recognition Award Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts purchase award Academic Achievement in Drawing and Painting, Faculty Scholarship, UH MAnoa John and Gertrude Moir Scholarship, Honolulu Hi Hawai’i Community Foundation Scholarship, Honolulu Hi Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity Scholarship, Honolulu Hi Painting Studio Award, Langara College. Vancouver BC Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited Scholarship, Assoc. of Univ. and Colleges Canada Langara Faculty Education Excellence, Langara College. Vancouver BC
SOFTWARE + TECHNOLOGY
ANDREW NEUMAN: Portfolio andrew004@gmail.com
Proficient AutoCAD 2011, Rhino 4.0, Brazil 2.0 (Rendering), Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Windows and Macintosh platforms, Laser cutting; 3 axis CNC modeling and file prepara tion; all wood fabrication tools/machinery Experienced Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Maya, Grasshopper (parametric modeling) Autodesk Image Modeler (image-based 3Dmodeling), Vectorworks, Sketchup, 3D Printing.
Geo-Longhouse Section Perspective, UBC Thesis, 2012 (1/4)
Defining Spaces of Typ. Lot
Resulting Spaces for Intervention (d)
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(a) Front Street (b) Boulevard
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(c) Req. Front Yard 20% = 7.4 m Subterranean Space
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(d) Under-utilized Side Yard Req. setback (12-15%): 1.2 m
(b) Private Garages removed to allow for Human Space
(e) Req. Rear Yard Depth: 10.7 m Subterranean Space
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(f) Rear Lot (houses for cars) Subterranean Space (g) Laneway House Setback: 0.6 m Unused space
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(d) Future Expansion of Existing Unit
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(c) Sunken Laneway allows for substantial density at/under rear yard
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(1) Defining spaces of the Typical Single-Family lot
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(a) Increased Lateral Connections: skinny lots replace fence divisions
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(b) Re-purposed Laneway: second tier of social engagement; Laneyway long house basements introduced for increased density
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(c) Shared Access / Egress becomes a requirement of infill (d) Future Expansion of Existing Unit
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Human Space
| UBC Thesis Project | 2012
In an increasingly urban world, ‘density’ remains at the center of the housing debate. But in the digital age where human interaction is progressively thin, to what degree can we rely on density and social media to effectively create community? Like digital technology, detached home ownership is partially responsible for social isolation; furthermore, the dominant program of individualism, investment, and privacy has resulted in significant environmental damage. These diagrams analyze
(e) Existing House and Yard maintained with space for future development
typical single-family lot usage as a way to determine appropriate sites for density. The final design of the thesis project replaces points of limited social interaction with performance-based interventions concerned with developing both density and community. Human Space is the consequence of a socio-ecological neighborhood, a community making collective decisions to enhance their natural and human environments. It is a proposal in the evolution of residential neighborhoods.
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10 m Lot Small Infill ~ 3 m 10 m Lot Medium Infill ~ 3.75 m 15.25 m Lot Large Infill ~4.5 m 15.25 m Lot
Human Space |
UBC Thesis Project | 2012
These infill housing typologies (Long Houses and Skinny Houses) have been developed alongside community-centered, performance-based lot patterns and are organized around shared energy and resources. The project proposes that housing assumes partial responsibility of the ecological and infrastructural impacts of increased density while acknowledging its potential to produce, and be produced by, healthy social networks.
Section Perspective
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UBC Thesis Project | 2012 | Air + Water House (2/4)
Water + Air Skinny House. Living Area: 2400 sq.ft; 2 units; Urban Rain garden Area: 460 sq.ft.; Air tubes: 100 ft. long pipes. Earth tubes provide thermally pre-conditioned air for subdivided and existing lots via buried air tube network. The rainwater water bio-retention gardens provide atmosphere to the ground plane gathering area along with a long table for larger gatherings or outdoor meals. Well defined private spaces encourage community engagement. Also shown is Geo House (3/4), an affordable housing Laneway Longhouse with 5 expandable units and a shared workshop (SEE ALSO Portfolio Cover Render).
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Tomato Hot House (3/4)
Living Area: 1100 sq.ft.; 1-2 units; Growing Area 678 sq.ft.; Yearly Harvest: 6012 lbs Skinny Hot houses use NextGen SmartWrap, a photo voltaic PT plastic wall system developed by Kieran Timberlake, that powers the green house and living unit below. The urban hot house encourages boutique farming opportunities in the neighborhood and a small honor store below allows for social connections within the block and with store patrons around the neighborhood.
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Human Space
| Garbage Long House (4/4)
Garbage Gasification Longhouse Living Area: 3200 sq.ft; 5 units; Garbage Processing Area: 500 sq.ft This long house integrates IST Energy’s “Green Energy Machine which processes 95% of house hold garbage with down draft gasification. At maximum production (3 tonnes/day) GEM produces 75 Kw net electricity + 180 Kw of heat, or power and heat for 200,000 sq.ft. or 500 people (4-5 blocks at existing density). At 100lbs/week/household of garbage it would provide service for 7.5 blocks if operated once a week. Garbage house also provides an outdoor hot zone and community synth-gas fire pit adjacent to the re-purposed lane.
Every intervention is concerned with 4 layers:
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HMS Design | 2012
This 5800 sq.ft. restaurant/lounge project, currently underway in Edmonton, Alberta, will be the centerpiece of the client’s impressive collection of restaurants and clubs throughout Alberta and will serve as a model for future chains of the same name. Central is situated on the ground floor of an existing building at the busy corner of Jasper Ave and 109th St, a rapidly redeveloping historic district in the downtown area. HMS Design hired me to collaborate on concept,
layout, design and material sourcing. Materials were chosen to reference the site’s industrial past and for their inherent ability to age and wear beautifully: live edge cottonwood bar tops, corten steal bar back, board-form concrete booths, silvered wood, saddle leather and industrial felt seating with exposed stitching, steal piping, butcher block and pine beetle wood ceilings. Distorted imagery of the area’s past is used as a rich surface texture to reference the site’s history.
(1) Material samples (2) Early concept render; poured concrete booths, saddle leather , live edge slabs (3) Concept render; back bar, flexible space for seating/dance floor (4) Exterior render from street; proposed entrance, vestibule, and patio (5) Proposed floor plan in existing downtown building (6) Main bar render; corten steal, butcher block, live edge cottonwood slab, Project Duration: 1.0 month
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International House
| UBC Studio | 2010
UBC asked the I. House Studio to imagine an alternate future for an early modernist building on campus currently in the redevelopment stage. The brief involved rigorous program planning to include new offices and additional space for Go Global, International Student Development, the VP International, classrooms, social spaces, advising and reception. Critical issues included structural implications of maintaining portions of the original, code upgrades, and the building’s
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historical record. Circulation and prospect became the guiding principles due to the site’s lush natural surroundings. The North/South facades are perceived as solid while the East/West are open. A new multi-purpose room ‘in the trees’ becomes the most desirable bookable space on campus. The entrance is repositioned to the building’s vertical center with a dramatic stair that connects the two atriums offering a healthy and logical alternative to the elevator.
(1) Exterior entrance render, north facade (2) Stair and lower atrium render (3) 1/20 scale model detail; view from multipurpose space floor down into entrance and surrounding forest (4) 1/20 scale model detail; entrance stair and ramp (5) Main Stair render (6) Stair logic with structural reinforcement detail (stair mitigates sheer); Stair Sections Project Duration: 2.0 months.
Net Zero Water RAINWATER COLLECTION AT ROOF LEVEL WATER IS DIRECTED DOWN FRONT FACADE FIRST STAGE, ROOF TERRACE FILTER POOLS - LARGE SEDIMENT AND POLLUTANTS FLOW IS DIRECTED BACK ALONGSIDE OF FILTER POOL TO ENCLOSED DRAIN BETWEEN FIRE STAIR AND ELEVATOR OVERFLOW IS DIRECTED DOWN SCUPPER TO ALTERNATE RAIN GARDEN THAT FILTERS WATER FOR IRRIGATION ONLY SECOND STAGE PURIFICATION POOLS CLEAN WATER PASSES DIRECTLY TO CISTERN AND PUMP ROOM UNDERNEATH RAMP
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Natural Ventilation Through Stack Effect VENTED AT ROOF TOP TERRACE REAR ATRIUM/ROOF TOP TERRACE ACOUSTICALLY SEPARATED MULTIPURPOSE SPACE FRONT ATRIUM - STUDENT ACCESS AIR IS DRAWN IN OVER OXYGEN RICH GARDEN-SCAPE THROUGH PERFORATIONS NEAR BOTTOM OF CURTAIN WALL
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A second set of criteria was introduced to the studio via the CGBC’s Living Building Challenge 2.0. Among other LBC integrations the I. House is designed to meet the Net Zero Water requirement with 100% of occupants’ water use coming from captured precipitation and a closed loop water system that is purified without the use of chemicals, accounting for downstream ecosystem impacts. The diagram shows the path of water from roof top collection through a series of
rain gardens, with one positioned at the entry providing an excellent opportunity for public education of the facility’s “living” features. Purification begins on the 5th floor outdoor terrace where sediment pollutants are removed through various constancies of sand and soil. Overflow is directed to a grade level, native garden-scape where airintake for natural ventilation occurs. The cistern is sized in order to provide all of the water needs for the building in a closed loop system.
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(7) Concept Model; bottom block is existing 3 levels with multi-purpose room removed for student atrium, top block is a reverse atrium addition of 3 levels for staff offices (8) 1/20 Section Model detail; entrance ramp rain water purification garden (9) Model detail; interior ramp above entrance connects multi-purpose with mezzanine (10) Annual rainfall collection = 792 cubi metres; 9,900 FTE days / 60 staff = 165 days of water provided by rainwater collection; Usage: (80 l/day x 60 people = 4,800l) + (15l x 150 guests/day on average = 2,250l) = 7,050l/day Summer dry spell storage = 7,050l/day x (65 work days x 15 weekend events) = 564,000l; Cistern sized for occupancy = 564 cubic metres
1. BASIC MODEL: one-way communication
1. INTERACTIVE MODEL: two-way communication
CONCEPT AT MASTER PLAN SCALE
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CONCEPT AT CLASSROOM SCALE
3. INTERCTIVE COMMUNITY MODEL
1. INTERACTIVE MODEL: two-way communication
1. BASIC MODEL: one-way communication
STUDENT LOCAL GROUP: physical and virtual community - local and regional significance NATIONAL GROUP: virtual community - national issues, political relevance
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WEST AFRICA UNIVERSITY GROUP: testing, mass communication, shared interest groups created 3. INTERCTIVE COMMUNITY MODEL from here
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NETWORK/GROUPS
CONCEPT AT INDIVIDUAL SCALE
1. INTERACTIVE MODEL: two-way communication
NURSING AGRICULTURE BUSINESS
BENIN BURKINA MALI LIBERIA BENIN BURKINA MALI TOGO BENIN BURKINA MALI LIBERIA BENIN BURKINA LIBERIA TOGO
PORTO NOVO PARAKOU KANDI YAKO OUAGADOUGOU BOBO DIOULASSO BAMAKO GAO MOPTI MONROVIA ROBERTSPORT ZWEDRU
INDUSTRY CONTACT INDUSTRY CONTACT MARIA JO-JO CHRISTINE TULU EMMA
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INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL
INDIVIDUAL ACCESS TO PROFESSOR
INDUSTRY CONTACT INDUSTRY CONTACT INDUSTRY CONTACT
OUAGADOUGOU HEALTH CARE
INDUSTRY CONTACT INDUSTRY CONTACT
GROUP ACCESS TO PROFESSOR ZONE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL
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EXTENDED COMMUNITY
PROFESSIONAL MENTOR
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
COMPOUNDED NETWORKS
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
3. INTERCTIVE COMMUNITY MODEL
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Bukina Faso |
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UBC Studio Project | 2011
This Studio was developed in partnership with John Robert’s organization Heal the World, whose primary mission is to provide free education to impoverished nations. The Open University of West Africa is a real world project for which this studio helped conceive of an appropriate architectural response to an online university that utilizes both Internet Portals throughout Burkina Faso (shown here) and a summer University Campus for testing (that doubles as an elemen-
tary school during the year). The project seeks to develop community through the way in which knowledge is transferred and skills are acquired as a response to the isolating affects of online learning. In West Africa education favors the transfer of knowledge over the necessity to connect education to societal needs. For this reason space and learning are programmed to maximize social interaction and to connect students to their local communities in culturally significant ways.
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Project Diagram: increasing human connections through online learning Organization of student groups (digital and physical); increasing education and employment opportunity connections Site Aerial; Dori, Burkina Faso; population 40,000; rural but still connected; this dynamic street grid helped inspire the building form and aggregation Internet Portal model/render; 4 separate structures shown as a possible final aggregation - built in stages as funding allows Project duration: 2.5 months
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Spatial ideas that increase opportunity for community connections are manifest in the way students interact with each other and their professors online (diagram on previous page); with each other and their local mentors in the classroom/Internet Portal (seating diagram); with the public through community events and services on campus; and with each other through the spaces provided between classrooms. A strong social connection to local communi-
ties creates a sense of belonging and place that will inspire students to invest their skills in West Africa improving the condition of their region and countries. This proposal utilizes local building knowledge and mud brick making techniques to minimize cost and environmental impact. The final form combines the structural stability of a Guastavino vault with a more culturally sensitive flat roof modified to drain strong flood season rains and increase light and ventilation.
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Plan shows the build out of four modules. The first shipping container arrives with computers, solar thermal panels for power, a small satellite for internet connection, chairs and tables, Guastavino vault molds, essential tools, brick molds and building plans. This container becomes the secure, weather protected bunker for storing equipment at night and during heavy floods. Seating Diagrams; Form Finding for solid masonry structures in hot dry winters and for extreme flood conditions in summer 1/100 Scale model; primary Internet portal unit
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Fold Gym |
UBC Studio Project | 2010
The brief for this project involved designing a day-lit, long-span structure for a community center/gym with an acoustically separated subset space in Vancouver, BC. The building was to have its longitudinal axis running North/South and be situated within a large open field surrounded at the North end by second-growth forest. A fairly comprehensive research phase into the flow of forces through vaulted, folded plate structures revealed that a cer-
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tain amount of perforation was possible by repositioning removed plates laterally across the folds, causing the structure to behave like a space frame. The result is a shifting quality of light, both ambient and focused, throughout the space over the course of the day. An enormous glazed facade faces North onto a natural amphitheater and outdoor space receiving almost no direct light from the low spring/winter/fall sun allowing for continuous day-lit play.
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Process diagram - form and light through structural folded plate investigation Plan: circulation ramp, basketball court + sub space - 1/500 Site plan: parking, edge forest, outdoor amphitheater - 1/5000 Section AA: court space, circulation, change rooms - 1/500 Exterior renders, lower entrance and view from amphitheater Interior views from two main overlook points Interior view at front entrance, circulation ramp explores compression and release Project Duration: 2.0 months
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Petite Elysium |
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UBC Studio Project | 2009
This small laneway project in downtown Vancouver began as an exercise in absurdity. A residential development of 32 units is situated on a leftover space surrounded by office towers. The design responds to Vancouver’s “cult of the view” manifested in view corridors throughout the city that help determine appropriate building heights and massing. Petite Elysium adjusts the program of housing to respond to the limits of the site by allowing its form and mass-
ing, unit organization, and position on site to be derived from the remaining slivers of sky and views of the mountains. Although the tower is an extreme interpretation of a challenging site it also provides every unit with two interior floor levels and a generous private exterior space. The combination of scrim walls and split level floor plates allows for privacy from surrounding office towers while providing each unit access to light, air, and views from all four sides.
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Process: photo study from site and sky silhouettes, extruded viewports across site Mass resulting from viewport extrusions determines building placement on site Plans: Typ. 600 sq. ft. units; Typ. 900 sq. ft. units Units: split level floor plates wrap around core providing light to each unit from 4 sides Massing - int./ext. space; Scrim - private/public; Organization - light, air and view Perspective view looking West: massing, scrim, glazing, and outdoor spaces Interior to exterior, all positions within units provide access to two “sky views” Petit Elysium in context Perspective looking North/West; Project Duration: 1.5 months
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Little Mountain |
UBC Studio | 2011
Dens_city was a comprehensive housing studio that helped to inform current proposals (City of Vancouver, James Cheng Architects) with alternative housing strategies for the Little Mountain neighborhood of Vancouver, B.C., a site previously dedicated to social housing and the center of political controversy. As a result of questioning what density the site could support against the block-defining typologies proposed for this primarily residential neighborhood (3 towers
+ 3000 residents), the following ideas became the guiding principles: 1. A strong connection to the ground plane - each unit within three levels; 2. Agricultural offset - creating community garden spaces for social interaction and food source; 3. Hydrology - day lighting an underground stream and using low site to our advantage (bioswale for irrigation); 4.Prefab and modularity; 5. Porosity of ground plane and buildings; 6. Flexibility and adaptability; 7. Pedestrian priority.
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Process Model (paper): initial ideas about aggregation and unit relationships Site Model (with basswood insert): late iteration of unit and site relationship Process Model (basswood): second iteration of unit relationships 1/1000 Site Model (CNC’d basswood with removable insert - 32 x 50in.) Project Duration: 2.0 months
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Little Mountain |
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In the final design these ideas are resolved in a prefabricated, modular, community ramp. The ramp provides pedestrian access to the vertical center of the 4-6 story prefabricated walk-up buildings, generous space for community gardens, a porous ground plane that accounts for a rich layering of spaces underneath (bike storage, workshops, studios, sport courts, child care), and central circulation that encourages networking and social overlap. The steal structure
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of the modular units allows for extensive green roofs with stowaway, hand-powered, pulley cranes (not pictured hear) to assist in harvest and heavy lifting to/from the ramp. The proposal of a new typology acts as a fresh but neutral architectural middle between quantitative, perceptual, cultural and social agendas with regards to density, one that allows for the kind of quality human spaces so desperately needed in dense and diverse housing devlopments.
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Process Models: final model combines modular aggregation with perforations that allow for light and air from 3 sides for each unit. 1/500 Site Section Model (CNC’d Bass, Koa): parking Ha Ha, pedestrian ramp, green roofs Section Model Detail: relationship of units to ramp Prefabricated Ramp Section/Detail (laser-cut chip board): naturally lit space Ramp Deck Detail: fenestration for light (resin infill) and stairs
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The key to flexibility in this scheme is the repetitive base unit with standardized exterior dimensions. Each module comes equipped with either kitchen, living, bedroom, bathroom or deck fixtures. Each module is organized around the shared plumbing/power wall for ease and cost of installation and maintenance. These modules are custom ordered with any amount or arrangement of interior walls and exterior glazing because of the repetitive structural column system.
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HiSAM | 2007-09
All of the above works were completed for the Hawai`i State Art Museum while working as an Exhibit Specialist for The Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. The I Love Art gallery was created to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts, as well as encourage the public to increase their own awareness of the place and significance of art in their lives. HiSAM needed a space to inform gallery visitors about the vocabulary and structure of art
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making while tying this information to objects currently on view in the HiSAM galleries. This educational space provides handson activities while walking the visitors through the elements and principles of art and design. Although the work here highlights my involvement on a team of four exhibition designers, the I Love Art Gallery was a project that I led from concept to completion.
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I Love Art Gallery, 2008; educational space - the elements of art and design; 468 sq.ft. I Love Art Gallery entrance signage; play and touch are encouraged Interior Elevations, I Love Art Gallery; design development stage Production phase of the I Love Art Gallery; building the Space and Texture stations I Love Art Gallery Texture station on opening night Intertwine logo, 2008 (11th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America); uncommon objects, 2007; gallery entrance signage; masonite, silver patina; 48 x 96 in. uncommon objects historical timeline and entrance to theatre 1: elements Accession gallery entrance signage;
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Furniture Design/Build |
2005-12
This collection of finished pieces, prototypes, and scale models represents 7 years of furniture design for school projects and competitions. The Floating Back Chair (Lam) reached the top six of Fine Woodworking Magazine’s 1rst International Furniture Build-off Contest in 2007 (open voting); Illusion Table was entered in Dwell Magazine’s Challenge your Imagination competition in partnership with Caesarstone in 2008; 1/4 Chair was developed for the
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Andreu World SA International Design Competition (Spain) 2009; the Book Chair and Ottoman was designed as a student project at the University of Hawai`i and then entered into the International Design Awards in 2008.
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Found Chair Re-design, 2008; teak and baltic birch plywood; 31 x 19 x 19 in. 3-way Table, 2006; 1/3/5 board widths; coconut, reclaimed wood; 28.5 x 39 x 39 in. Floating Back Chair (Lam), 2007; laminated maple; 28 x 26 x 21.5 in. Low Chair, 2005; pine and black walnut; 18 x 26 x 24in. Illusion Table scale model, 2008; monkeypod and card; finished dim. - 12 x 32 x 72 in. Lite Table, 2008; reclaimed maple plywood, hardwood and glass; 31.5 x 26 x 51.5 in. Book Chair and Ottoman, 2007; lychee, teak and reclaimed wood; 32 x 34 x 28.5 in. 1/4 Chair scale model, 2009; black walnut; finished dimensions - 27.2 x 20 x 21.7 in. Floating Back Chair, 2007; luan; 35 x 26 x 21.5 in.
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Fine Art |
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2005-08
The subject matter of these selcted drawings and paintings exists in the liminal space between reality and myth, between a concrete pylon and a pine tree. The work interrogates the opposition of culture and nature, the marks made by development, and the desire to save what is left of our fragile landscape. The constant charting of the landscape in typical Western fashion has not created a closer human connection with it nor a greater understanding of its mystery. The
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Kauai locations (1-3) speak about the formal beauty of the island’s landmass in locations that have proved impossible to develop. They continue to elude us even when otherwise useful technologies attempt to tame or bring understanding to the great unknown reaches of the earth.
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Nu`alolo Valley, 2005; Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 30 x 54 in. Kalalau Valley, 2005. ContĂŠ crayon and acrylic on canvas; 30 x 54 in. Mount Wai`ale`ale, 2005. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 36 x 36 in. Trees/Cones, 2006. Oil on stitched canvas, 26 x 36 in. Untitled, 2008. Ink on paper, 36 x 36 in. 7854, 2007. Oil on canvas, 48 x 66 in.
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Graphics |
NEUMAN object/grafik | 2006-11
These works represent selected graphic design commissions received over the few years and serve as examples of a commitment to working by hand in a digital world. There has always been a tension in the work between the convenience of digital technology and the seduction of the hand made mark. The music industry has long embraced this layered aesthetic and values technological tools that support rather than eliminate a sense of humanity in artwork.
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Jess Penner facebook/myspace header graphic, 2009; graphite, acrylic Mark Riley album cover art, 2010; ink and photoshop We Cry Diamonds CD artwork, 2011; ink Soleil Fashion Boutique logo concept, 2006; Honolulu, Hawai`i; ink and watercolor Jess Penner album artwork and design, 2010; water color and graphite We Cry Diamonds album artwork and design, 2011; ink on paper, water color Astoria Kings album artwork and design, 2011; CAD and watercolor