fall 2016 - 2019 “places...become chapters in your life.� - paul salopek, out of eden walk
aubrey bader university of tennessee, knoxville | abader@vols.utk.edu | abader1.wixsite.com/website
Iteration Six (Million):
The perpendicular lines of graph paper stress order, an exact science, and a specific intention, but exploring the spaces in between the lines intrigued me. (-Aubrey of childhood) College opens a world with responsibilities and freedoms. Childhood opens a world with endless possibilities and imagination. Find the tie—the part that makes you whole—that connects college with childhood, and you will find the direction your heart will follow. For me, this tie has been design.
Please enjoy this selection of works from the first half of my architecture education.
contents projects + interludes.......................................................... plastic: a(n un)natural history
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assurance pavilion
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ambiguous boundaries
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the bellows
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bare necessities
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print.................................................................................80 travel photography...........................................................84
projects
interludes
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plastic: a(n un)natural history year three | fall semester | professor t. moir mcclean The premise of this project was to create a space for people to have realizations about plastic’s ubiquity and role in human history. Through twelve exhibitions dealing with the different aspects of plastic waste, the visitor is invited to stroll across the entire site, which is covered in artificial turf and has a malleable topography, purposefully designed to reflect the heights of buildings at the adjacent DOW company site. The overall intent is to force the visitor to think more deeply about their use of plastic materials.
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1 interactive overlook arrayed catalogued colored one-to-one precious bottled object of shadows surrounded blank canvas drowning
schematic site plan, with labeled exhibition spaces and topography
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initial conceptual models
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site overview with topographic references to dow chemical (red lines)
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“blank canvas” exhibition space: concept, plan, perspective
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the highway (left) acts as a boundary, but with the greenspace, its presence is mitigated
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section cut taken through the entrance driveway, directly adjacent to the highway
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site interior perspective. many of the exhibition spaces dive into and rise out of the earth
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studies on the flexibility of artificial grass and the saran-wrap stretching of the ground
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systemic disintegration
area of interest a taste buds allow textures to simu simulate ulate late the taste of decay.
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our contaminated state is finite.
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labelled decomposition the light-green, almost-yellow promise of a sweet taste from across the world embodied in a striking blue oval. but the beauty of contrasting colors is lost when the brown of rot envelops our world
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internal dilemma we have wasted our world and found no solution.
peninsular examination
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our pinnacle achievement: the landfill. yet we reach out, we yearn for more. and somehow we have achieved it. we have reached beyond the land’s edge and into the sea. our accumulated fragments are reshaping the landscape and seascape.
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degrees of debris a closed system will bring us a to the natural ways. back
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palatable visual pa palat v su l colors rs indicate the natural process: everything y hin bright, dulls ull and vitality fades e tto decay.
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the earth’s crust is visible to us. as are churning, tearing processes that exist within our society. they often go unseen until we find ourselves surrounded by them. the folds, the fabric in which we live are in a constant state of decay.
with plastic bins and nd plastic as trash, we have lost touch with th raw earth. a
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bud of realization
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we cannot do this forever. plastic will never be a food source. it is not natural. none of it is. finding our way back to the beginning, to the dirt, to the earth is our only hope now. our future exists on top of what we discard today.
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cigarette butt paper pa
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cotton gloves
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orange peel
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leather shoe
milk carton
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ten years
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foam cup
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plastic buoy
eighty years
batteries
one hundred years
aluminum can
two hundred fifty years
plastic bottle
four hundred fifty years
styrofoam container
does not biodegrade
banana decay diagram year two | fall semester | professor b. ambroziak We chose a place, object, or idea to study and diagram for this initial studio assignment. This analysis began as a study of physical waste and the decay of waste, and it slowly turned to the icon of waste: the banana peel.
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assurance pavilion year two | spring semester | professor s. wall Located in New Orleans, this pavilion is designed and located to perform as a control center during another Katrina-like disaster. Located strategically next to a Walmart and the nearby Mississippi River, it is placed in an optimal location to redistribute resources, whether they come by boat or from within the store. Its everyday use is a shaded, open-air pavilion where children can play, employees can rest, and all can enjoy the breeze coming off the Mississippi.
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partial aerial view of pavilion
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plan of site, in relation to walmart, walmart parking lot, and mississippi river
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short section demonstrating its relationship to the mississippi river and its multiple entries
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longitudinal section through the center of the pavilion, demonstrating its connection to walmart infrastructure
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interior perspectives from the everyday and the disaster scenarios
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object of arresting novelty: lite brite year one | spring semester | professor m. stanley Taking apart, analyzing, and breathing new life into a thrifted object were key elements in the brief for this representation class assignment.
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ambiguous boundaries year two | fall semester | professor b. ambroziak The program was simple: create a new studio space for our studio of twelve students and one professor. The form generated became more than a studio; it became a pathway, a redirecting of the passing-by greenway, and a place to interact with the Tennessee River.
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site aerial view and perspective from the river
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aerial view of the design showing terracing and a non-orthogonal path
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perspectives show points along the path and the tucked-in studio building
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section cut through studio building, terraces, and island
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roof-top skylights and site “spill out” perspectives
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introduction to architecture year one | fall semester | professor d. ammon Exploring form was central to the first studio, and in this instance, form involved thumbprints and plastercasts. Through iterations of plaster molds followed by an in-depth study of the Hollyhock house by Frank Lloyd Wright, this final iteration of many models abstractly illustrates the formal principles of space-making in design.
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the bellows year one | spring semester | professor j. rose We were assigned to design an art gallery and auditorium on Cumberland Avenue, which runs parallel to the university campus. My concept stemmed from a folding procedure, which I likened to the folded bellows of an old camera. The stepped-down nature of design allowed for the addition of a sunken outdoor seating area.
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diagrammatic folding concepts and conceptual model
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front elevation and longitudinal section, demonstrating the rigorous aperture-like roof structure
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perspectives from the auditorium and art gallery, also demonstrating the soft light
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photographs of final model, both standalone and within the site massing model
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embedded narratives: rainbow (acid) rain year one | fall semester | professor m. stanley What if there were factories in the clouds where men in hard hats and orange vests dumped toxic, but beautiful, rainbow-colored liquid from wheelbarrows down to earth? This handmade collage considers our impact on the world and explores the very nature of natural occurences.
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bare necessities year two | spring semester | professor s. wall Creating a park and also a shelter after a Katrina-scale disaster for the adjacent military base, Jackson Barracks, were the goals of this design. The park was accomplished in two parts: the wandering path on the land-locked side of the levee created a soft, natural buffer. The river-side of the levee hosts a multitude of concrete platforms, revetment, and a barge-like building constructed to withstand flooding, host farmers markets and a garden, and provide shelter for a platoon of 39 men in the event of a disaster.
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site plan, shown in connection with jackson barracks, a military base behind the wall at the top
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site overview comparing the two sides of the levee: one developed and the other left to go wild
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section through the barge-like building. the hull is an emergency shelter for 39 men
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market stalls atop the barge-like building in both disaster and everyday scenarios
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studies of water flow over and through the platforms and section detail of the barge-like building
METAL RAILING GLASS BLOCK CYPRESS DECKING RIGID INSULATION DECKING SUPPORT BEAMS CYPRESS BEAM BEYOND SUBMARINE-GRADE STEEL PANE AIR CAVITY STEEL FASTENER VAPOR BARRIER CONCRETE
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“personal is political� poster project
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mock money + “humility� prayer flags for america project
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travel photography
cathedral of saint dominus’ bell tower, diocletian’s palace in split, croatia
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roman concrete in split, croatia + iron canal railing in edinburgh, scotland
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danube river in vienna, austria + jewish museum reflection garden in berlin, germany
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...but the journey is what we will remember.