PORTFOLIO
ANDREW CARR
Andrew Rudolph Carr Master of Architecture Candidate The University of Texas at Austin (813)777-6841 arcarr@utexas.edu
CONTENTS
Savannah Market 4
Fall 07
Porous Housing 4
Spring 11
Topo Block 4
Summer 11
Desert Shelter 4
Spring 08
Center for Art 4
Spring 09
Tectonic Pavilion 4
Summer 09
Platform Hotel 4
Tidal Record 4
Fall 09
Spring 11
University Club 4
Fall 11
Professional Work 4
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Savannah Market Term: Fall 07 Size: 2500 sq. ft Location: Savannah, GA Instructor: John Maze This structure provides spaces for an open air marketplace on the historic waterfront of Savannah, Georgia. Analysis of the city’s unique structure and scale generated a series of shifting corridors that provide stall modules to be occupied by vendors. The project straddles the approximately 30 foot bluff found on savannah’s waterfront, directly engaging with factors walk, a historical remnant from the years that Savannah served as a key shipping port. Nested along the edge of the bluff, the walk was used for the moving of goods either being received or dispatched from the port. The project maintains the integrity of factors walk by bracketing it with a large mass and incorporating it into the circulatory logic.
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The individual stalls themselves are delineated by the repetition of structural elements, based on a module compatible with adjacent structures. The scale and degree of openness of the structure make it conducive for a variety of public events and also as an access point to the historic waterfront.
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Left: Waterfront Presence | Right: Site Plan Study
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Left: Vendor Stalls, Public Circulation | Right: Transverse Sections
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Porous Housing Term: Spring 11 Size: 180,000 sq. ft Location: Austin, TX Instructor: Larry Doll This proposal for an urban mixed-use housing development attempts to address the need for higher density housing mid sized US cities. The building is attuned not only to its urban context, but also its target audience. The project incorporates normal expectations of American domestic neighborhood life, but at a much higher density and much smaller footprint. Each unit is offered a generous exterior space 40 percent the size of its interior. Additional exterior space is collected at special moments to create shared community space. For equitable distribution of light, the building pushes back as it progresses vertically.
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The primary social feature of the building is an ascending series of connective circulation elements across a central void. Residents can view the activity in the center while occupying a porch space removed from circulation. By providing several options for any given path, the building encourages its residents to form their own patterns movement and occupation.
Left: Building Presence Study | Right: Sectional Study
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A connective tissue of circulation ramps and staircases create a social setting for the life of a vertical neighborhood. The strategy heightens interaction between residents via small chance encounters to large organized parties. Verticle inhabitation at the scale of the neighborhood becomes a catalyst for a type of community life not known by most high density urban residents.
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Typical 1 and 2 Bedroom Units
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Each unit inclues an exterior space greater than or equal to 50% of the total enclosed area of the unit. The resulatant porosity of the overall buidling mass greatly reduces cooling loads and provides a lifstyle that attracts suburban minded consumers.
Typical 2 Bedroom Unit
Community Volume
Typical 1 Bedroom Unit
Above: 5th Floor Plan | Below: Facade Study
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Active programs are housed in the lower level including several retail units, a large restaurant, as well as a small car dealership. The project brings life to the street through thoughtful incorporation of program and view.
Above: East Elevation | Below: South Elevation
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Topo Block Term: Summer 11 Size: n/a Location: n/a Client: FXAV This object is a marketing tool designed for FXAV. The office desired a packaging solution to carry and protect four glasses during transport and exchange. The result is a laminated cardboard block precisely fitted and proportioned to the objects. No glue or other binding agents are necessary in its construction. Three corners were filleted while one is left at a right angle to receive the office stamp. The subtle detail, solidity of construction, and singularity of idea elegantly communicate office ideals.
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Desert Workshop Term: Spring 08 Size: 4,000 sq. ft Location: Desert Landscape Instructor: Martin Gundersen This desert compound is designed to house a silent retreat for visitors seeking respite from daily life. The structure provides workshop/classroom spaces, dormitories, a dining hall, and storage. Much of the architectural decision-making was informed by the extreme conditions of the hot-humid climate. The dormitory cells are embedded into the ground, to help mitigate the extreme diurnal temperature shifts of the desert, also as a protection against wind. Elongating the structure along an east-west axis reduces heat gains from early morning and late afternoon sun. Additionally, operable ventilation shafts allow warm air to escape when needed. The building plan opens up views and access to pathways for strolls into the desert.
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Right: Building Plan
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Center for Art Term: Spring 09 Size: 3000 sq. ft Location: Charleston, SC Instructor: Levent Kara The following are two designs for community art centers in Charleston, South Carolina. Each building provides spaces for galleries, workshop, cafe, and office use. Both are situated on East Bay street, a wide commercial/mixed use street in the heart of the historic district. The street experiences a high degree of activity, due to proximity to the waterfront and a variety of tourist and local interest points. The project conveys a sense of urban presence as an institutional scale building. It provides pressure on the street by continuing the street edge and declares its prominence with a strong entry, a skinned facade, and its large scale ‘urban window’. The aperture provides for a heightened degree of visibility thereby increasing visual dialogue with the city.
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Left: Rendered Study, CIty Plan, Right | Roof Plan, Street Study
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Rendered Sections
A structural spine gives shape to the spaces of the interior, employing a series of undulating frames that house gallery spaces and allow for controlled permeation of natural sunlight. Moving back, the armature fames out larger spaces for group meeting, cafe, and exhibition of installation works.
Above: Public Park, Building Armature
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Site Plan
The second proposal employs a similar program and is situated across the street. The project is much larger than the first, at around 20,000 square feet, and contains a much more substantial public space. Many of the same strategies were employed only at a larger scale in a more complex building.
Above: Public Corner | Below: Elevation
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2nd and 3rd Floor Plans
The rear of the building provides a more varied spatial experience in contrast to the more continuous street facade. Protruding volumes become the public face to an exterior park, providing opportunities for shade and protection, encouraging casual use by local residents and visitors. Above: Public Park
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Tectonic Pavilion Term: Summer 09 Size: 1000 sq. ft Location: n/a Instructor: Alfonso Perez The tectonic pavilion derives its character from the act of making. Clarity and order is instilled in the constructed elements by virtue of their function. A system of metal frame support elements intersect a 5 by 8 foot plate to form the floor. Bricks are placed in a porous organization to entice breezes. Metal Panels are lightly fitted to complete the enclosure.
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Left: Building Section, Plan | Right: Rendering, Elevation
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Platform Hotel Team: Andrew Carr, Daniel Greenspan Term: Fall 09 Size: 180,000 sq. ft Location: New York, NY Instructor: Alfonso Perez The concept for the platform hotel arose from a sociological study of the typical hotel lobby. The lobby is the setting for a whole host of different activities. Considering each of these activities carefully, we were able to organize them into three distinct categories: procedure, staging, and leaving city. In the typical hotel, one space is provided to house all of these functions and perhaps cannot be optimally suited for any of them. The process explores the possibility of creating a multiplicity of spaces and circulatory systems, in order to address each of the three categories individually.
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Unwinding Portal beeline condition threshold departing city pace decrease
Procedure Platform arrival orientation checking in checking out
Gathering Platform waiting planning gathering interior park condition
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10’ X 16’ Panel arrangement provides each room with a single viewing window and a series of smaller apertures adjacent to the beds.
Several arrangements repeat, exposing the scale of a single room. Each provides a different orientation
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Above: Facade Study, Below: Building Sections
The provocative overall form of the hotel gives it presence in the city and attracts clients. The building emphasizes three rising slender towers, exaggerating the verticality for a bold statement.
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Exploded Diagram
The result was a vertical extrapolation of the lobby, combining traditional lobby functions with other social and public amenities. The building clearly faces the street and offers transparency to allow the energy of the urban park to be felt within.
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Tidal Recording
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Term: Spring 11 Size: n/a Location: n/a Instructor: Larry Doll The task is to embody unexpected natural data cycles into a built object. Tides were chosen both for their reoccurring and easily observable nature. High and low tides for one month in San Diego, CA are registered by the object through a series of vertically aligned ellipses, expanding and contracting with the tidal range. The inner curve marks the varying gravitational pull of the moon over the same period. Inconsistences between the two curves describe variations caused by local conditions.
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Lunar Perigee/Apogee Lunar Spring/Neap Perigee/Apogee Cycle Monthly Monthly Weekly
Spring/Neap High/Low Tide Cycle Cycle Weekly Daily
High/Low Tide Cycle Daily
Solar/Lunar Forces
T ide Levels Port San Luis, CA
T ide Levels Port San Luis, CA
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University Club Team: Andrew Carr, Brittany Cooper Term: Fall 11 Size: 60,000 sq. ft Location: Austin, TX Instructor: Kevin Alter, Ernesto Cragnolino The concept for the platform hotel arose from a sociological study of the typical hotel lobby. The lobby is the setting for a whole host of different activities. Considering each of these activities carefully, we were able to organize them into three distinct categories: procedure, staging, and leaving city. In the typical hotel, one space is provided to house all of these functions and perhaps cannot be optimally suited for any of them. The process explores the possibility of creating a multiplicity of spaces and circulatory systems, in order to address each of the three categories individually.
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Site Plan, Site Section
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Transverse Section
Longitudinal Section
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Left: Plan Ground Level, Plan Restaurant
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Wall Section
Plan and Elevation Cutouts, Details
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Left: Plan Great Hall, Plan Library | Right: Threshold Studies
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Left: Plan Pool, Plan Hotel | Right: Tower Elevation/Plan Cutouts, Wall Section
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RESUME Education University of Texas at Austin Master of Architecture Candidate -Nominated by faculty (1 of 12) for Design Excellence University of Florida Bachelor of Design, Architecture Cum Laude -Selected by faculty (1 of 14) for semester gallery exposition
Activities 2011 : Certificate in Wood Window Restoration 2008 - 2010 : UF SOA Studio Cultur Committee Representative 2009 : Bicycle Tour, Jacksonville, FL to Washington D.C. 2009 : UF Design 1 Teaching Assistant 2002 - 2006: Varsity Rowing Team, H.B. Plant High
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Austin, TX Spring 13
Gainesville, FL Spring 10
Work FXAV Building Design Junior Designer -Managed drawing set for home remodel and addition -Worked on marketing development, website -Helped develop office standards for diagrams and rendering UT Austin Teaching Assistant - Visual Communications 1 UT Austin Design Teaching Assistant - Design 4
Austin, TX Summer 11+
Austin, TX Summer 11 Austin, TX Spring 11
TEN Arquitectos Design Intern -Worked on conceptual drawings for Times Square competition -Worked on schematic design for Rutgers Business School, renderings and drawings -Worked on renderings for BAM
New York, NY Summer 10
Software Rhinoceros Vray
Adobe Indesign Illustrator Photoshop
Sketchup Vectorworks Autodesk AutoCad Revit (familiar)
Microsoft Word Powerpoint Excel
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