Asher Paxton
Architecture Design Portfolio
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Starkville Winery 4-9 Farmer’s Market Building 5-15 Boardwalk Axis 16-19 Armory Renovation 20-25 5th Year Fall Semester 26-33 Chicago Multi-Family Housing 34-41 Japanese Tea Hut 42-43 Selected Photography 44-49 Personal Designs 50-51
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Starkville Winery This project was a comrehensive studio semster in which our class was tasked with designing a winery in the North Farm site of Starkville, MS. A multitude of medias were incorporated into this final project. The building was designed in revit and rendered in lumion. The site plan was colored on vellum with pen and prismaolor. The model was made with cardboard, masonite, basswood and molded acrylic. Finally, the sections and plan were exported from revit and edited and touched up in photoshop and illustrator. Sited on a hillside, this winery focuses on procession and the experience of approaching the space. A long walkway with towering retaining walls guides you to the garden space surrounding the winery. Once in the compound you are freee to roam around at your leisure while sipping on a glass of wine or while seated on one of the many outdoor terraces overlooking the vineyard. A tasting room space is centered on the site while a bottling and factory center holds the norther edge. 4
Project Rendering
Lumion Render from Revit Model
Fourth Year Spring Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Solo design)
Site Master Plan Scale: 1/8” = 1’ - 0”
Hand Drawn Site Plan
Prismacolor Marker and Pen on Vellum
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UP
UP
MAIN FLOOR PLAN 1/4" = 1'-0"
Building Plan
Revit Floorplan of 1st Floor
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UP
Building Sections
Revit / Illustrator / Photoshop
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Building Model
Masonite / Basswood / Acrylic / Cardboard
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Design Renderings Lumion and Photoshop
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Farmer’s Market Building My 4th Year Spring Studio collaborated with the Carl Small Town Center to develop a master plan for the Ripley, Mississippi Flea Market. My main focus was the farmers market building and I aimed to create openness in the main atrium using post and beam construction methods mimicking a barn. This structure gives the aura of a farmers market through its construction method and appearance and will create a new home for vendors to sell their fruits, vegetables, breads and more. This design captures a feeling of the vernacular market style while adding a modern programme and spatial design.
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Farmer’s Market Exterior
SketchUp / Vray Rendering / Photoshop
Fourth Year Fall Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Solo Design)
Market Stalls Interior
SketchUp / Vray Rendering / Photoshop
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Structural Model Scale: 1/16” = 1’ 0”
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Post and Beam Model Construction
Basswood and Masonite
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Flea Market Master Plan Prior to designing the Farmer’s Market building, my partners and I collaborated to create a re-designed master plan of the Ripley, MS First Monday Trade days flea market. Many issues were apparent, including a lacking flow of traffic which was solved by introducing a boulevard that swept through the middle of the site, connecting the highway to the bustling market structures. Zones were created in response to a chaotic sale of items and we responded by clustering animal sales, food sales, and campground spaces. We also created large green spaces that serve as a relief from the business of the market and gave pedestrians the opportunity to relax and enjoy the day. Our design has a sense of meaning and cohesiveness and used lots of the existing structures to save our client money. 14
Master Plan
Vellum / Pen / Pencil / Prismacolor
Ripley, MS Flea Market Planning Students Involved: Asher Paxton Mitchell Hubbell Matthew Lewis
Site Sections
Watercolor / Pen
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Boardwalk Axis My 2nd year Spring Studio project was a site along the Tenn-Tombigbee Waterway. It sits adjacent to the Stennis Lock and Dam operated by the Army Core of Engineers and the program was an observatory, gallery, and path. The building design has a strong axis from the entry parking lot to the existing fishing dock and engages the 3 main ecologies of the site: the open field, the forest, and the river. The procession crosses the field and moves into the thick forest on a raised walkway. This walkway breaks out of the forest in a moment celebrated by the placement of the gallery situated just at the edge of the tree line and stretches out over the river to create a vista of the rushing water. The architecture engages visitors of the site in a new way, letting them inhabit the nature around them. 16
Building Model
Chipboard / Baswood / Plexi-Glass / Moss
Second Year Spring Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Solo Design) Model Photography: Kamau Bostic
Axis Building Model
Chipboard / Basswood / Plexi-Glass / Moss
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Site Plan
Lock and Dam Site / Path / Boardwalk
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Building Plan / Longitudinal Section
AutoCad / Photoshop
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Armory Renovation Five minutes from our university sits an old National Guard Armory recently renovated into a Police Station. Our studio was challenged to renovate the interior and exterior for a community administration hub, public auditorium, and outdoor pavilion and green space. I was charged with the exterior which included the reworking of the sloped site and introduction of an integrated pavilion and outdoor space. Some main features of the design include two small ponds intended to collect the site’s drainage. A pavilion situated closest to the sidewalk engages the corner of the street and draws in pedestrians that are passing. Lastly, a series of ramps and steps are carved into the ground to create accessibility and usability of the green space.
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Outdoor Pavilion Model
Chipboard / Baswood / Plexi-Glass / Moss / Masonite
Third Year Spring Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Outdoor Spaces) Mitchell Hubbell (Aedicule Space) Harrison Walker (Building Construction Science)
Model Detail Photos
Reflecting Pool / Infill Walls / Entry Aedicule
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Site Plan
Outdoor Spaces / Interior Community Spaces & Kitchen / Aedicule Space & Stage
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Hand Drawn Section / Site Section Pen / Faber Castell | Photoshop / Revit
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Outdoor Space Renderings Lumion / Revit
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Model Photographs
Section Model Cuts and Removable Roof
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Fifth Year Fall Semester This semester was focused on 3 different tracks. Sheet Metal Design: Learning to fold, bend, cut, and inevitably create a planter out of 26 guage sheet metal.
Color Study
Illustrator Color Balance
Color Studies : Solo Design Urban Mapping : Solo Map - Group design
Abstract Tower forms: Working with color and shape to create tower forms that sit in a specific site in downtown Jackson, MS.
Sheet Metal Planter : Rayce Belton / Asher Paxton
Facade Abstractions: Making small changes to a facade in downtown Jackson to abstract the face. Colored pencil renderings with 5 Prismacolor Pencils.
Tower Forms : Solo Design
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Facade Abstraction : Solo Design
Pedestrian Experiential Map Asher Paxton Rayce Belton Laura Cole Amanda Kotecki Jacob Turner
MISSISSIPPI ST.
STATE ST.
N. PRESIDENT ST.
N. CONGRESS ST.
N. WEST ST.
YAZOO ST.
E. AMITE ST.
Building Height
Tree Height / Vegitation
Pedestrian / Combo / Auto
E. CAPITOL ST.
SCALE - 1:750
Urban Mapping
Pixel Grid of the urban nature of downtown Jackson, MS
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Sheet Metal Planter
26 Guage Sheet Metal Folded - Details above
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PLANTER PLAN 15' - 7"
SITE PLAN 0' - 0"
EAST ELEVATION 1/8" = 1'-0"
2' - 10 29/32"
15' - 7"
5' - 9 25/32"
2' - 10 29/32"
2' - 10 29/32"
0' - 8 23/32"
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EAST ELEVATION ENLARGED 3/8" = 1'-0"
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AXON 7
0'-10 1/4"
1'-2 17/32"
0'-10 1/4"
1' - 5 7/16"
0' - 8 23/32"
PLANTER PLAN 1" = 1'-0"
0'-9 7/8"
1'-2 7/16"
0'-10 9/32"
2'-11 3/8"
6째
6.4
4'-10 3/4"
4'-10 3/4"
3'-3 5/32"
3'-3 5/32"
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0째
1'-7 19/32"
1'-7 19/32"
2째
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Sketches and Drawings
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Early schematic sketches and final proposal drawings 4'-11 15/16"
1'-11 13/16"
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SITE PLAN 1/16" = 1'-0"
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FLOORPLAN ENLARGED 3/8" = 1'-0"
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PLANTER SIDE ELEVATION 1" = 1'-0"
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PLANTER FRONT ELEVATION 1" = 1'-0"
PLANTER DETAIL 01 6" = 1'-0"
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PLANTER DETAIL 02 6" = 1'-0"
Tower Forms - Studies
Reflected Light, Cut and Color Studies
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Final Form
FInal tower form, process sketches and final renderings in the site
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Facade Abstraction
Original Building and 5” x 5” Prismacolor Sketches
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Facade Abstraction
Final abstraction of the facade changes - 5 prismacolor pencils
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Chicago Multi-Family Housing We were posed with a multi-family housing project near Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Our site was situated on a corner lot with single family homes to the east and mid-rise apartment buildings to the south. I arranged the symmetrical site plan to hold the two key property lines while creating an internal courtyard. A unit type is replicated throughout the complex and provides each unit with ample natural light and comfortable living spaces with views of both the city and the interior greenery. The building itself plays with edge conditions; large windows push and pull on the corners of the walls and a band of metal panels mimic the windows but at a larger scale. The design is appropriate by creating a much needed respite from the bustle of city life through the courtyard and by approaching the design in relation to the adjacent residences.
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Interior Section
AutoCad / Photoshop
Third Year Fall Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Solo Building Design) Mitchell Hubbell (Site Plan) Matthew Lewis (Site Plan) Hannah Hebinck (Site Plan) Rayce Belton (Site Model) Tahir Kahn (Site Model) Josh Cummins (Site Model)
Site Model
Chipboard / Basswood / MDF / Moss / Spraypaint
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Site Model Aerial
Building Context Within Site
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Building Model / Unit Model Detail Photographs
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N. SEDGWICK
W. SCHILLER ST.
Site Plan AutoCad
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N. SEDGWICK Complex Plan / Unit Plans AutoCad
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Building Elevations
Facade Character and Relationships
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Building Sections
Interior Layout and Courtyard Space
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Japanese Tea Hut In the second year of my architectural education my studio was challenged to design a Japanese Tea Hut. Using an arbitrary site, we studied Ancient Tea Hut practices and purposes. I created a Tea Hut that separated the public and sacred spaces through a small entrance that forces you to kneel as you enter. The angled design helps to create small storage niche spaces for shoes in the public space and tea sets in the sacred space. The large window on the North Side of the building opens up to the imaginary vista of Mt. Fuji while still shielding the visitor from rain and weather.
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Site Plan / Section Hybrid SketchUp / Photoshop / Illustrator
Second Year Fall Semester Students Involved: Asher Paxton (Solo Design)
Model Photos
Basswood / Foamcore / Plexi-Glass
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Photography I have always had a taste for composition, ever since taking art classes in my lower grade years. This love turned into my current obsession with composing images through landscape photography and using long exposure techniques to draw with light and capture stars in the sky. I have been incredibly fortunate to travel and visit a lot of national parks within the last couple of years and I’ve toted my camera and tripod along with me each and every step. From Yosemite to Glacier National Park, each place has majestic and magical views to capture.
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Giles Gallery Light Drawing 30 Second Exposure
Personal Work Asher Paxton Canon Rebel T5i
Wilderness Photography
HDR photography and Long exposure night photography Yosemite National Park & Arches National Park
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Winding and snow melted road in the park
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Glacier National Park
Many Glacier Hotel
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Crystal Mill / North Cascades National Park Logn exposure HDR Photography / Fog Photography
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Garden of the Gods
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Lamp Design In my Third Year of Architecture school I took a class called “Active Building Systems.� We learned Heating and Colling techniques, sound and lighting strategies and much more. We were challenged to design a lamp for reading, which would emit a desired amount of foot candles of light in a room. I decided to design this small lamp that expresses my design tendencies. I love to use strong horizontals that relate to large vertical elements. I worked with the scale of the lamp and different styles until I achieved the optimal size. The model is made of cherry wood stained with a deep red and the light bulb is encased in sanded plexi-glass to diffuse the light emitted.
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A Lamp For Reading
Context Photo (Matthew Lewis)
Active Building Systems Course Instructor: Emily McGlohn Design: Asher Paxton
Stamp Design
Stamp and Logo Design
Notebook with stamp on Concrete
Portfolio Packaging Stamp Design Instructor: Director Michael Berk Design: Asher Paxton
This stamp was designed to hold a logo and create a method to ink an object. I chose to use Cherry wood and drill a bold with a series of washers and nuts attached to serve as a gripping device. There are a few moments in the artifact that are important, including the spacing between the basswood pieces that hold the wooden stamp. There are three notches in the wood to define the top when stamping. The connection of the steel to the wood is a smooth transition through the use of a washer that maintains the rhythm of the gripping mechanism. The object serves its function while creating a heavy stamp holster that will last for years.
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