Portfolio Austin J. Lightle
Austin J. Lightle
Bachelor of Science In Architecture
The Ohio State University 2019
Contents
Arch Design H
Image Object
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Arch Design 5
PUBLIC School
19-32
Arch Design 4
M.M.o.M
33-42
Arch Design 3
IKEA Gym
43-52
Arch Design 3
Photo-shopped Program
53-64
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Arch Design H
Image Object / 2019
Sandhya Kochar Dow Kimbrel
A found object, a Himalayan salt lamp, became the “original” object, and the photogrammetry of it, the “original” image. Swatches were created in Photoshop by pushing the filters to the extreme edge of their effects. The swatches are used as displacement maps on the 3d modeled salt rock in 3dsMax.
Partners: Jordan Scheuermann Jingyuan Wu
The authorship of the new object is limited to the design of the swatch. Within this process, the computer becomes an over collaborator, which facilitates the rapid creation of intricate form. This method of design is not labor intensive but creates complexity. Unlike Robert Somol’s definition of “the easy” that presupposes outcomes with simple figuration, we argue that “the easy” can create intricacy when the software is in a collaborative role. The design and reproduction process of
our rock is a design method that avoids a predetermined goal or scale. The rock was not designed for a specific function, but rather evaluated after creation for performative qualities and lose categorization. Kulper states that “categorization augment[s] the required program elements while structuring the key interests of the project.” It gives the design pragmatic analogical references and thus makes it useful within absolute atmospheres and scenarios. The design is now a solution to a problem, like “pillow rock” is the solution for sleeping needs. Contrasting the current attitude of architectural design that involves full authorship and high demand for problem-solving, we argue that critical qualities and required programmatic solutions can emerge through the evaluation of an existing design rather than guiding the process from its outset.
Image Object
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Diffuse Map
Photoshop
HighRes
Photogrametry
HighRes Photoshop
LowRes
Original Object
HighRes
LowRes
LowRes
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Arch Design H
Planar Map
Spherical Map
Cylindrical Map
Shrink Map
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a. Process Diagram
Image Object
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Swatch
Planar
Spherical
Cylindrical
Shrink Wrap
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New objects can be mass produced from a single photogrametry scan by mapping new swatches. The swatch can be created from a blank slate using Photoshop or the swatch could be crafted using the ideology of The Great Roe; a picture of the object can then be mapped back onto the object.
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Arch Design H
a. Image Object Rocks
A ROCK...
That you would sleep on
That you can throw far
That you could sit on
That you can eat soup out of
That you can use as a tenderizer
That Preston Scott Cohen would turn into a museum
That you would build a structure out of
That you could use as a loofah
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That does this and that
That you can get lost in
That is a good mountain
That is a good shelf
Similar Borges Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, a taxonomy of our digital rocks was created. Since a digital object has no set scale or physical material, objects can perform in multiple taxonomy’s. For example, a rock that you could use as a shelf could be scaled down and turned into a loofah. Or a rock that you can use as a tenderize could be modeled using pillow foam and then it suddenly becomes a rock you could use as a loofah.
a. Rock Taxonomy
Image Object
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A rock that you would build a structure out of. Interlocking shapes which indicate a modular system and datum. 7
Arch Design H
a. Axonometric Plan
b. Axonometric Section
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a. Model Photo [ All Work shown by Austin Lightle ]
Image Object
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A rock That Preston Scott Cohen would turn into a museum No curves at all and must contain planar surfaces with demarcated edges. 9
Arch Design H
a. Vignette Section
b. Vignette
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At the scale of a building, this object was classified as a rock Preston Scott Cohen would turn into a museum. Simultaneously, the rock can exist in a separated world as the scale of a piece of furniture and be classified as a rock that you could sit on.
a. Model Photo [ Physical Model: Jordan and Austin. Rendering Scene: Jordan. Final rendering: Austin ]
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a. Vignette
A rock that is a good shelf Existence of horizontal planar surfaces that is suffice to hold objects a. [Rendering and scene by Austin]
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A rock that you could ear soup out of Cannot Contain a hole and must contain at least one concave surface.
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a. Vignette
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The objects feature a concave surface on the bottom that can easily contain a liquid. The model can also serve different purposes when it is located at with the possibility on being numerous scales at the same time. The object does not have a set orientation and is free to be positioned in any orientation.
a. Model Photo [ Physical Model: Austin. Rendering Scene: Jordan. Final rendering: Austin ]
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A rock that you could use as a loofah. Curvilinear surface that has a fan-like quality with a slightly textured surface.
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a. Vignette b. Model Photo [ Physical Model: Austin and Jingyuan. Rendering Scene: Jingyuan. Final rendering: Austin ]
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Identical 3d objects were reproduced in the physical world using different materials such as resin and memory foam. Physical materiality created a new translation and allowed identical objects to create opposite emotions. a. Model Photo b. Resing Model c. Memory Foam Model [ Physical materiality study by Austin ]
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a. This or That Plan [ Edited at different times by Jingyuan, Jordan, and Austin ]
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Some rocks displayed a black and white quality. This quality can be interpreted as poche or figure. When these rocks were combined, they started to create a new architectural drawing that can be further developed and interpreted. Like a game of exquisite corpse, each group member added to the drawing. By each group member adding to the drawing, we created further misinterpretations of a plan and section.
a. This or That Section
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Arch Design 5
PUBLIC school / 2018
Karen Lewis
Schools in modern times are being built to keep people out, using similar planning strategies as prisons. They are often paid for by the public but yet feature minimal public amenities. This project seeks to design a school not to isolate the students from the public, but rather to bring the public to the school. The school is located along East Lafayette Street in Detroit, Michigan. The Dequindre Cut borders the site to the east, Mies towers to the north, and Lafayette Park to the West. The Dequindre Cut is an active park, meant for running, walking, and cycling. Lafayette Park is ore passive and meandering. The two parks run parallel
to one another but yet are unacquainted with one another. I created a new greenway that connects the two parks and cuts through the site for school. The new greenway acts as a public circuit that cuts through the school building. The greenway connects to the five public programs of the school: the library, gymnasium, black box, gallery, and the auditorium. The greenway takes on the dynamic nature of the Dequindre Cut and parks located at each public program take on the passive nature of Lafayette Park. The greenway creates a new type of school that does not isolate the public but instead brings the public in.
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Detroit, Michigan Age 5-17 756 - 1692
Parks
413 - 755
Greenways
151 - 412
Bus Routes
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The Aretha Franklin School for the Performing Arts is located on the corner of Lafayette street and the Dequindre Cut. Using GIS data, the site was analyzed to study the location of where the school aged children live within the city. GIS data also was used to study the public parks and greenways in the city and the relation they have to the site as well as the neighborhoods where the children are coming from.
a. GIS Data Map
b. Exploded Map
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a. Site Diagrams
a. a. Exploded Axonometric
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The greenway provided a connection point between the Dequindre Cut and Lafayette Park. The park cuts through the school in both section and in plan.
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a. Public Program Diagram
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The park created a public circuit that not only connected the Dequindre Cut to Lafayette Park, but created access to the public programs offered by the school.
a. Unrolled Park Plan
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The public remains separated from the school thus creating a site that is both for the public and for the school. Each public program features a park in front for passive recreation or for performance during after school hours. a.
a. Isometric Section
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a. L2 Plan
b. L3 Plan
a. a. Model Photos
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a. Isometric Section
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a. Site Model Photo
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Arch Design 4
M.M.o.M / 2018
Sarah Hirschmann
The “Yes, and...” improv philosophy is to provide supportive content to your scene partners, and build upon whatever you are given in the scenario is a useful way. The “Yes, and” philosophy was the basis behind the studio. The initial project of the studio was to interpret a 2x4 grid full of squiggly shapes, dashed lines, and primitives as an architectural drawing. The second phase of the studio was to create our prompt and site for the studio. They were created by all of the students collectively playing “Yes, and..” to create a narrative. The site was a derelict, inward-facing space-station that was being revamped by hipsters in the year 3,000. The program for our individual buildings was drawn out of a hat, after randomly selecting out the program we had to misinterpret what that program would be in the year 3000.
The paper I drew out of the hat contained only the word “Mall” on it. A mall could complex of shops and interconnecting walkways typically within a single building, or Mall could be the promenade connecting Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square. The Carson, Pirie, Scott Building was revolutionary in the world of shopping. It stacked all the goods you needed in one site, but it was missing one thing,. As noted by Rem in The Harvard Guide to Shopping, the escalator transformed shopping. Escalators allowed shops to be stacked on top of each other and easily accessible. By the year 3000, the mall as we know it had been long erased from the history books. Jeff Bezos ultimately destroyed the mall.
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A graphic containing squiggles, lines and primitives was given to each student. The assigned graphic had to be turned in to an architectural drawing. My assigned figures were re-imagined as a plan without scale or orientation. The plan became a collage of orthographic, axonometric, sheered and worms eye plans of different scales.
a. Interpreted Plan
b. Assigned Figures
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Dad Joke
Unfunny joke, with an ending that should have been predicted
One windmill asked the other, “What is your favorite type of music? He replied, “I’m just a big metal fan” Build Up
Bad Answer
Foreshadowed Answer a.
Resolution
The premise behind the studio was architecture and comedy. We began by analyzing and diagramming comedy. The “Dad Joke” is one of the most banal and repeated jokes in society. It centers around a clever, but seemingly obvious answer that is typically a double meaning of build up.
Rotate
Intersect
Slide
Shift
Mirrored Slip
Mirrored
Pulling Away
Rotated Shift
The Carson, Pirie, Scott building was revolutionary in the world of shopping. However, It was missing one key factor, the escalator. The plan diagrams explores what spaces are created when CPS is fitted with an escalator and then doubled. The plan diagrams were combined and explored in axonometric drawings.
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a. Dad Joke Diagram
b. Plan Diagrams
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The escalator and later the people mover allowed shopping to move vertically and horizontally with little to no effort. The world of shopping was forever transformed when the ease of circulation was added. The project became about stacking the doubled CPS diagrams and creating two continuous and effortless circulation path throughout the project.
a. Circulation Diagram
b. Blue Circulation Axon
c. Orange Circulation Diagram
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In the year 3,000, the Metropolitan Museum of Malls was an ode to the history of the mall. The mall was an architectural phenomena created by Gruen in the 1950’s. The museum features two conveyor belt loops that move people though the projects, escalators move people in the vertical direction. The museum features still life scenes of what malls used to be like.
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a. Site Axon
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c. a. Exploded Axonometric
b. Section Axonometric
c. Plan Axonometric
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Before the advertisement became a digital pop-up it was a physical folly in the interstitial circulation space of malls.
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The skylight became an architectural phenomena in 19th century. Skylights came at a great cost and required skilled engineering. Shopping malls created a new architectural innovation to bypass the problems of a skylight by creating fake back lit plastic “skylight�. 41 Arch Design 4
a. Folly Ads
b. Architectural Innovation
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The mall became a physical manifesto of the decorated shed, store fronts became signs of commerce.
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In the 1920’s, the world of shopping experienced a neo-classical revolution. The typology of the stoa re-emerged, but this time it included closed in storefronts with air-conditioning. a. Architecture as Signs
b. Neo-Classical Revolution
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Arch Design 3
IKEA Gym / 2017
Sandhya Kochar Jessica Sprankle
This gym was designed for a location on The Ohio State University campus. The site is bordered by Lane Avenue, The Lane Avenue Garage, and Neil Avenue. The Lane Avenue Garage and Lane Avenue create two orthogonal edges that are perpendicular to one another. Neil Avenue is semicircular, creating a curved edge to the southeast. The sight slopes six feet from north to south. The focus of the design is centered around a critique of the plan. I was interested in breaking up space without walling it off and adding corridors. IKEA served as an essential precedent for my design. IKEA uses a simple warehouse plan with stage sets inserted to interrupt the open space. I started the project by doing a series of figure-ground studies. I used a six by six-inch square
and insert primitives to interrupt the space. I would do this multiple times and then layer different orientations on top of each other to see how each one of the figure-ground studies delineated space. The study models could be combined with other models, creating an array of different spacial qualities. I used the vertical projections created by volumes in the study models to separate floor space. The horizontal projections created by the edge geometries of the volumes served as circulation space. I positioned the gym on the edge of Lane Avenue. The natural slope of the site left the southern edge of my gym elevated six feet above the earth I proceed to gradually lower the site three more feet and create an entrance into my gym from underneath of the first floor.
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IKEA creates zones by inserting stage sets that interrupt the open space. Circulation becomes an offset and of the shapes and space is delineated by the stage sets. Plan diagrams were created to study the way space can by created interrupting a plain with figures. The plan diagrams were then overlapped and studied as figure ground diagrams. The two dimensional figure grounds were then interpreted as three dimensional objects intersection the homogeneous plane.
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a. IKEA Plan
b. IKEA Axon
c. Primitive Diagrams
d. Figure Ground Studies
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b. Axonometric diagrams were created to study the way the shapes can project and interact witch each other. The diagrams were then built as studied and stacked with one another to study the different spacial conditions that were created by combining.
a. Axon Diagrams
b. Study Models
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a. Exploded Axonometric
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a. L3Plan
b. L2 Plan
c. L1 Plan
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a. L4 Plan
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a. Isometric Section
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a. Model Photo
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a. Model Photo
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Arch Design 3
Photo-shopped Program / 2017
Galo Canizares
This library was designed for a site located on the Case Western Reserve University campus in Cleveland, Ohio. The site is a rectangle with campus buildings bordering it to the south and west and Ford Drive and Juniper Road to the north and east. The library is 72,000 SF and was designed to have ideal spaces for students, faculty, and researchers. The design of the projected started as a process of gathering images related to medicine or libraries. The images were distorted in Photoshop and combined with other images. The new combined images were then live traced in Illustrator to create a figure-ground diagram. A nine-sided shape was then designed, and the figure-ground diagram was texture-mapped to the shape. The pattern was edited so that it
would wrap uniformly around the figure. Program massings were created based off of the pattern on the exterior. My design was centered around exploiting the circulation as a figural object that served as a web connecting the pavilioned program massings. The massings were broken down into super public, public, private, and super private programs. The stack space was isolated, and the shelving was located on the edge of a continuous ramp. I returned to the image to further develop my exterior. The exterior of my building was pixelated by creating a gridded frame structure. The structure was in-filled with glass and opaque panels to create pixelated skin. The pixelated skin mimicked the pavilioned program and the web of circulation.
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c. Images were combined in Photoshop and various filters were used to create a new image. After the new image was created, it was brought into Illustrator and live traced to create a binary drawing. A nine sided object was created without scale and then the binary drawing was mapped on to the object. a. 55 Arch Design 3
a. Progress Renderings
b. Photo-Shopped Image
c. Image Trace
The pattern on the object created a shell and based off the patter, program massings were created. The varying program massings were pushed to edges of the shell. A circulation system was created to connect all of the massings and to create a new type of space.
154’7”
Book Stacks
115’4” 63’8”
170’10” 122’8”
Offices
Auditorium
Journal Stacks
154’7”
170’10”
122’8”
Book Stacks
Curtain Wall
Infill Pannel 268’1”
Window 269’4” Computer Lab Group Room Rare Books
Study Carrels
154’6” Class Room
Study Carrels
35’2” 154’6”
Reading Space
Cafe Ground Plane 269’4”
98’8”
63’8”
Cafe Entry
229’9” Main Entry
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a. Unrolled Elevation
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1- Auditorium 2- Bathroom 3- Book Stacks 4- Cafe 5- Classroom 6- Computer Lab 7- Entry 8- Group Room 9- Office 10- Reading Space 11- Study Carrel 12- Journal Stacks
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a. Axonometric
Study Carrels
Reading Space
Journal Stacks
Classrooms
Offices Computer Lab Book Stacks
Group Rooms
Auditorium
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a. Exploded Axonometric
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a. Perspective Section
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Private
Study Carrels
Super Public
Journal Stacks
Cafe Entry
Reading Space Office Cafe Classroom
Book Stacks
Classroom
Main Entry Group Room
Auditorium Computer Lab Rare Books Bathroom Grouproom Public
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a. Circulation and Program Diagram
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a. Model Photo
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b. Perspective
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