Alex Tomlinson Architecture Work Sample

ALEXTOMLINSON [P] ABBREVIATED WORK PORTFOLIO

The intent of this portfolio is to showcase design principles created, nurtured, developed and founded at [CSOA] Clemson School of Architecture.

I am a recent graduate of the [CSOA] Clemson University School of Architecture. In May 2011 I received my Bachelors in Art in Architecture degree Magna Cum Laude. In addition I completed a Business Administration minor. After graduation, I intend to work to gain practical experience in the business world.

I intend to bring my principles of design into this field to create postitive change within our urban environments.

Sincerely,

Alex Tomlinson 1

864.270.6099 alexander.r.tomlinson@gmail.com http://alexrtomlinson.wordpress.com/

207 Sugar Mill Road Greer, South Carolina 29650

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Clemson University B.A. in Architecture, Business Administration Minor 3.78 Magna Cum Laude

STUDY ABROAD Clemson University New York City, New York

May 2011

May - Aug. 2010

Universitat de Politecnica de Catalunya Aug. - Dec. 2009 Barcelona, Spain EXPERIENCE Earl Architects Greenville, SC Intern Architect

May - Aug. 2009

Marketing for proposed hospital designed for Madison, GA. Envisioned a constructed physical model to be given to Madison patrons as a gift.

Final model designed and constructed

out of laser cut acrylic and basswood at 1:200 scale.

The Dish LTD Atlanta, GA Freelance Graphic Designer 2008 | 2010

Developed graphic artwork for cities of Greensboro, NC; Raleigh, NC; and Buffalo, NY. The artwork consisted of each cities’ most iconic art, architecture, and historical figures. Illustrated these venues as signature-black sketches to be printed on specialty white chinaware.

DESIGN BUILD EXPERIENCE HATCHPAD FOR HATCH FESTIVAL Independent Study

Asheville, NC Feb. - Apr. 2011

PRIVACY WALL FOR CLEMSON STAFF Computational Design Methods

Clemson, SC Mar. - Apr. 2011

STUDENT ORGANIC FARM Community Research and Design Center

Clemson, SC Sep. - Dec. 2010

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Architecture Design portfolio

ranked 1st in senior class.

Architecture work presented in ‘New New York Street Fair.’

Brooklyn, NY Architecture work presented in Clemson Student Online Gallery Clemson, SC National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Greek Honor Society Order of Omega, Greek Honor Society Alpha Lambda Delta, Honor Society Presidents list 4.0 Deans list 3.5 + ACTIVITIES

F 2008 | S 2010 F 2007 | S 2008 | S 2009 |F 2009 | F 2010

American Institute of Architecture

Students Vice President F 2010 | S 2011 Treasurer

Spring 2010 Studio South, Design Build

Organization Member 2010 Alpha Tau Omega, Leadership Development Fraternity Public Relations 2009 Senator, Clemson University Student Government Senator 2009 Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout + Order of the Arrow 2003 VOLUNTEER

Farm Aid Volunteer Oct. 2010 Welcome Leader

Aug. 2010 Boy Scouts of America 1998 - 2007 Fall for Greenville

2003 - 2005

SKILLS Adobe Creative Suite CS4/CS5 Rhinoceros 4.0 + Grasshopper Google Sketchup References on request.

AutoCAD PC/Mac 3D Rendering Microsoft Office

Wood Shop + Handcraft Hand Drafting +Modeling Laser Cutter

[DB] DESIGN BUILD DESIGN BUILD AS A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOOL. In my experience, the greatest architecture has a higher calling than developing a uniformed aesthetic. The community that will engage the architecture must be everpresent in every aspect of the design phase in order to create a successfull design.

These are built works from my career.

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[DB] 1.0 STUDENT ORGANIC FARM ACCESSIBILITY (SOF) professor d. harding | spring 2010 design build | community design DURATION: 10 weeks PROGRAM: Design Build Project SITE Perimeter Road Clemson, South Carolina TEAM Evan Morris Lena Roper Ellis Taylor Tyler Whitehead

1.0 COMMUNITY DESIGN + BUILD FOCUSING ON CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESSIBILITY. The site is located on perimeter road, next to Clemson University’s main campus.

Perimeter road divides the main campus from the Student Organic Farm (SOF), an organization on campus that supplies locally grown organic vegtables, fruits and foods to students.

This early render shows both Phase one and Phase two of our student organic farm. To see our website, please visit: http://clemsoncdb.ning.com/ 4

The SOF sells produce at their farm. There is no accessible means to walk to the farm, unless one walks around 15 minutes. Our project gives an quick accessibility point to the farm.

This project will be completed in two phases.

This is phase one.

STUDENT ORGANIC FARM

1.1 RAISE PROJECT AWARENESS: FARM AID COMMUNITY EVENT. To raise awareness and create potential workers for our project, we took part of the Annual SOF Farm Aid festival that takes place at Clemson every year.

1.2 SOF PROJECT PROCESS. This project will be constructed in two phases.Our completed project has covered phase one. Phase one includes the SOF informational lookout, and a set of stairs to reach the SOF. Phase two will introduce a ADA accessible ramp for handicap patrons, and site landscaping.

Our tent included renders, images, flyers and models of our design + build The diagrams to the right explain our process for both phases. project. In addition, a kids corner set up allowed children to construct their own design + build project out of recycled and previously scrapped material.

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1.2 + 01 INACCESSIBLE SITE The [SOF] Student Organic Farm sells produce at their farm. There is no accessible means to walk to the farm, unless one walks around 15 minutes.

INACCESSIBLE LAND

The land built on is previously unusable by pedestrians, so our carbon footprint is negligent.

1.2 + 02 ACCOUTING FOR VANTAGE POINTS By creating a rotation point around existing cross walk infrastructure.

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1.2 + 03 TRANSITORY TUNNEL + ADA REQ. The [SOF] Student Organic Farm sells produce at their farm. There is no accessible means to walk to the farm, unless one walks around 15 minutes.

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1.3 CONSTRUCTION PROCESS. Construction took place after Fall semester, for two weeks. A team of 4 students built directly off our 3D models, supplemented with cad drawings produced.

Green was chosen in the spirit of staying organic, and keeping in touch with Clemson University’s initiative to “Stay Green”, a program implemented by Clemson to preserve resources.

This project has been completed to phase one. Phase one includes the Information area and stair set. Once funding is in place, a future group of students will follow our project to completion, implementing the ramp into the final design.

8’ 6” HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE. Standard L’Exiample Ring with permeability palettes applied.

0’ FLOOR PLANE Standard L’Exiample Ring with permeability palettes applied.

-11’ 6” FLOOR PLANE Standard L’Exiample Ring with permeability palettes applied.

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1.4 PLAN

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After 4 x 4 lumber foundations were placed inside dug holes, concrete was delivered from a concrete mixer. After 30 minutes of pouring, dirt was placed on top of the concrete to keep the concrete from freezing during winter.

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1.5 AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

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[DB] 2.0 COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN METHODS professor d. lee| spring 2011 design build | a study in digital fabrication DURATION: 12 weeks PROGRAM: Design Build Project SITE Lee Hall Staff Tower TEAM Veronica Acosta Nate Boykin Xiaokang He Johnathan Jones Patrick Lee Kevin Miller Jefferey Pauling

2.0 COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN METHODS (DCM) INTRODUCTION. “Computational design methods is a course taught by Dave Lee at Clemson University exploring computing in architecture, particularly through parametric and generative algorithms.

We develop models for processing information with an inherent intelligence. Our designs are hyperindexical, self-referential machines for architecture. The quality of visualization is thereby measured by the structure of these machines, not in the pixels of their rendering.�

This picture is a close up shot of our final built work. To see our website, please visit: http://clemso.ning.com/ 11

Implementing CDM allows us to intelligently process information through perfection of a digital system.

2.1 LEARNING THE SYSTEM In order to learn the program and what materiality our project utilizes, Studio Mode (New York City) visited our class to lecture about equilibrium in a system, and how to achieve this equilibrium in digital form.

Lycra, our final material, shows equilibrium in the purest sense. If the model is in equilibrium, there are no stretches within the fabric. In contrast, a system out of equilibrium creates distortions and wrinkles, showing visible problems to the system.

Using crude tools, our class created many models learning how to optimize the lycra system by working intelligently with the material.

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2.2 USING STATE-OF-THE-ART TOOLS FOR PRODUCTION. The digital tools used to process our design is Rhinoceros 4.0 with a plug-in named Grasshopper. Grasshopper is a parametric modeling plug-in, allowing us to vastly change our information on the fly; altering our final outcome.

As a study for these tools, we chose to create a privacy screen for the aptly named “fish bowl� staff offices in the newly renovated Clemson University School of Architecture building.

Using Grasshopper, we developed a visual density/aperture field according to the distances of individual desks from the glass wall.

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2.3 PRIVACY SCREEN REALIZED. After several iterations and discussions with the faculty and staff, our final project was plotted and fabricated to be placed on the glass panels.

The hallway is over 100� feet long, with over 60’ feet of glass.

Many faculty and staff felt a lack of privacy, but still wished to have some view of what else is happening within the office.

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2.4 ADDITIONAL TOOLS USED IN PROCESS. In addition to Grasshopper and Rhinoceros, our group used several tools to keep everyone up-to-date on the progress, and other methods to progess our final design.

+ 01 SHARED WORKSPACE ON INTERWEB. To manage our significant database of files accumulated, our Class created a website to host our progress. This website also had a “photo log”, and collective and individual blog sites.

+ 02 LYCRA PROCESS MODELS. After designing the individual system, our class had to learn how to “aggregate” our lycra model in order to create the screen. Several models were produced to learn the tectonics of the system, and how it would hang to the wall.

+ 03 SUCTION CUPS AS AN ANCHOR SYSTEM. To make our privacy screen hang in suspension, we used suction cups to adhere to the glass, in order to not have to get a building permit.

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A shot of our class working on the screen. Construction took roughly 2 weeks of steady work.

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2.5 FORMAL RECEPTION 4.22.2011 To celebrate the project and explain the thought process, a public reception was held in April.

An open discussion was held on the computer as a design tool, specifically on our application of it.

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I THINK WE ARE ALL JUST AMAZED AT THE TIME AND WORK AND DESIGN CREATIVITY YOUR CLASS PUT INTO THE FABRICATION PROJECT. SANDY ELGIN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT School of Architecture

[AP] ACADEMIC PROJECTS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AS AN INTELLECTUAL DESIGNER Architectural school is certainly a “releasing” experience. Everything is infused with an aspect of design; unintentional or intelligently applied.

These are my academic projects documenting my growth.

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[AP] 3.0 USITT IDEAL THEATRE personal | may 2009 - present Theater Design | Working within context

DURATION: 10 weeks PROGRAM: Multiform Theater Student Housing Teaching Facilities Parking Public Space SITE Washington and Main Greenville, South Carolina SITE $35 Million for theater programmatic costs

3.0 GPAC: GREENVILLE PERFORMING ARTS OF CLEMSON CENTER. To provide an investigational experience that cultivates all aspects of theatrical production, Clemson University plans to fund a charter campus which houses a study-abroad experience for the performing arts student.

Here they will live, work, and finally produce a theatrical production to the larger Greenville area in an intense 4-month semester. This will foster diverse skills in performance, design, and playwriting.

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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

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3.1 VOLUMETRIC STUDY BETWEEN SCHOOL, LIVING, AND PLAY. Based upon the programmatic placement of theatrical elements, parking, and mechanical systems, a series of programmatic studies are completed to study the relationship between the living quarters and the school with the theater.

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3.2 + 01 EXISTING SITE. The site is located at Washington and Main street. Currently, it resides next to a dead piazza (Piazza Bergamo) that is not utilized by the public.

3.2 + 02 MAXIMUM SITE AREA. First, the site is pulled up to respect the surrounding streetscape and context.

3.2 + 03 KEY PROGRAMMATIC ELEMENTS PLACED. The Flyhouse is given position near the back of the site for easy loading.

The residential student living is placed along Washington and main for its popular restaurants. The school is placed along main street in order to publicize Clemson’s presence.

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3.2 + 04 DERIVED ENTRANCES FROM SITE ANALYSIS. Finally, the building is lifted up on different corners to allow the public and students to gain entry.

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3.3 + 01 ELEVATION MAIN STREET From public to private entries.

3.3 + 03 SECTION MAIN STREET Floors react to Greenville’s context.

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3.4 + 02 SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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4.0 [AP] CONCENTRIC DEVIATION professor r. bruhns | fall 2010 googie architecture | modular design DURATION: 2.5 weeks PROGRAM: Restaurant Kitchen Outside Dining SITE: Clemson SC

4.0 “BRANDING” AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF “GOOGIE” STYLE. The site is located next to highway 123, leading from Clemson University. This highway is used by truckers, Clemson students, and travelers alike. This realization led to a study in roadside architecture, the concept of “branding”, and “Googie” style.

The Jetsons are the ideals of googie taught to children in cartoon form.

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Car washes, Bowling Allies, Coffee Shops, Restaurants are all infrastructure that was revamped into the “googie” trend.

John Lautner angular style that seems to be firmly planted within the gound on one side and uplifted into the future on the other.

Radial in layout to permit car traffic, drive-in restaurants were not only a destination, but

EMPLOYEES Chef Waiters Pick Up Line Employee Bathroom Employee Users MEATS Pulled Pork Prime Rib Chicken Wings Chicken Breasts CUSTOMERS Current diners Waiting to be seated Parking Pick up Line Bathroom users

a culture and a “hang out” spot for teenagers and citizens enveloped in the era.

Instead of the automobile dictating the circulation throughout the building, what if a different vehicle dictates the circulation?

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4.1 THE RADIAL CIRCULATION. “Googie” Architecture from the 1950’s era was rarely monotonous; innovative detailing with expressive use of new-age materials, weightless canopies and free-flowing program elicit the fluidity of the era. Along with a new aesthetic, new “genetic code” and layout was created, in part with the birth of the automobile generation, and the optimistic thinking of the age. This includes: the drive in theater, the modern roadside coffee shop, and most relevant to this project, the drive-in restaurant.

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4.1 +01 CREATING A RADIUS AROUND THE HEARTH. Angular velocity describes the speed of rotation and orientation of the instantaneous axis about which the rotation occurs.

By creating a radius around the Hearth, the employees will always have a view of what creates the atmosphere of the kitchen.

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4.1 +02 CREATING TANGENTIAL PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOYEES To create the pathways that employees take, tangents are taken off the circles.

Through these tangents, they can access different programs.

4.1 +03 SMALLER CIRCULAR ZONES FOR EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS. Smaller circular zones are created at each program. This allows each program to interact with each other, similar to a ven diagram.

This places employees in close proximity to their workplace.

4.2 FLOOR PLAN. The Radial concept can be seen in the “drive thru” lane.

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4.2 + 01 SECTION THROUGH HEARTH. The hearth as a “Connective Tissue” for the site.

4.2 + 01 ELEVATION OF OUTSIDE DINING Roof structure as a “stone.”

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4.3 + 01 AXONOMETRIC Concrete roof acts a solid volume that “sinks” the buildng into the ground. The roof is perforated with lightwells above the kitchen.

4.3 + 02 LOGWALL Usable log wall provides cover for restroom and use for indoor and outdoor hearth, as well as blocking views of highway 123.

4.3 + 03 MODULAR SEATING Movable seating runs on tracks to provide a flexible seating to dining room.

4.3 + 04 POURED CONCRETE Poured concrete base sits 3’ 6” below grade to provide fill behind the building.

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4.3 + 05 PARKING Parking is placed in a semi-circular motion to cradle the building. The drive through goes around the building, giving views into the outdoor seating as you drive by.

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[P] PERSONAL PERSONAL WORK AS AN CONTEXT-LESS OUTLET Being creative has always been in my blood.

Ever since I was little, I have always drawn, painted, scibbled, collaged, and framed the spaces around me.

The two main areas that have developed over the years are sketching with pens, markers, and a dash of color; and photography (mostly black and white). These two in my mind are the quickest representational techniques to grasp the emotion and phenomenalogical feeling of a space.

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[P] 5.0 SKETCHES + DRAWING personal | may 2009 - present spacial exercise | documentation skills

5.0 SKETCHING AS A DOCUMENTATION TOOL. I enjoy concept of documentation and the immediate natural selection process that inevitably occurs. What determines which elements are drawn and which are left out? This is achieved by a combination of intuition and common sense.

In order to establish an emotional connection to site, space, culture, and moment, I practice freehand sketching supplemented with watercolor.

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NEW YORK CITY SKETCHES

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5.1 METAMAPPING SUBCULTURES IN NYC. Experiential sketches were drawn while simultaneously walking around New York City’s various borroughs, districts, and neighborhoods.

Distinctions between borroughs becomes evident through the culture and make-up of the demographic of citizens.

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