Austin J. Lightle Undergraduate Portfolio 2019
Contact Austin J. Lightle Lightle.34@osu.edu (740)-708-7013
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IKEA Gym Instructor Sandyha Kochar Rhino Illustrator Photoshop 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 important precedent to 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 positioned primitive shapes within the square. I would do this multiple times and then layer different orientations on top of each other to see how each one would delineate space. I proceeded to turn the figure ground studies into physical study models. 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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Figure ground Diagram Primitive shapes were placed on a square and then combined with other arrangements. The primitives combined to create unique interruption of space. The figure ground drawings were built as study models that could be layered to observe the physical space they created
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Isometric Diagrams Projections of the objects delineated the program and circulation.
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Military Axonometric Section Vertical projections of the volumes define the Program. The lateral projections of the edges of each volume define the circulation paths.
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First Floor Plan
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Medical Library Instructor Galo Canizares Rhino Illustrator Photoshop This library was designed for a site located on the Case Wester 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 out as a process of gathering images that 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 ninesided 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 program. 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 a pixled skin. The pixled skin mimicked the pavilioned program and the web of circulation.
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Process Diagrams Images were distorted in Photoshop and line work was extracted in Illustrator. The line work became a figure ground drawing that was texture mapped to a nine sided figure.
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Process Renders The voids created by the texture map was used to developed program massings. The outer shell was further developed into a grid resembling the pixels of the original image.
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Book Stacks
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Book Stacks Curtain Wall
Infill Pannel 268’1”
Window Computer Lab 269’4” Group Room Rare Books
Study Carrels
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Reading Space 154’6” Cafe Ground Plane 269’4” Cafe Entry 98’8”
229’9” 63’8” Main Entry
Unrolled Elevation
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Double Dome Instructor Ryan Keener Partners J. Scheuermann B. Sorg C. Grohnke E. Heiselt Rhino Grasshopper Illustrator Photoshop The Double Dome project was a six week long design-build project. The site was located inside of Knowlton Hall at The Ohio State University. The objective of the project was to create a usable study space for students. The study space was required to incorporate a double dome structure. The model had to be fully constructed out of cardboard and could not exceed a 12’ x 12’ floor area. The goal of the design was to create the study space out of a single surface. The surface folded down to the ground creating a bench for students to rest on and a column that had a desk integrated into it. Waffling was used in order to achieve the curvature of the structure with cardboard. Since waffled structures are prone to sheering, a secondary system of rectangular columns were added to the voids of the waffle to stabilize the structure. Cellophane was used as a secondary material to create unique reflections from the natural lighting. The primary dome was located in the middle of the study space, and the bottoms of the rectangular columns were trimmed to create the curvature of the secondary dome. The model was design in Rhino as a single surface, and a Grasshopper script was used to create the waffle. The structure had 18 vertical and horizontal spans. A 3-axis CNC router was used to trim the individual strips. 127 4’ x 8’ sheets of cardboard were used to cut out all of the pieces. The structure had to be assembled into seven individual sections and then the seven sections were connected to one another by cardboard plated and an adhesive.
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Construction Diagram
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127 Sheets of 4’ by 8’ corrugated cardboard were cut by a two axis CNC Router. The primary structure was waffled and a Secondary system of rectangles were inserted in the waffle to prevent sheering.
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A waffled structure was used to allow lighting to filter in from above. Cellophane was Inserted into the secondary structure to create a pink and green diffuse.
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Triple Dome The objective of the project was to reinterpret a double dome. Our first dome was achieved by the waffled structure. The secondary structure was extended downwards from the waffle and the bottoms were trimmed to mimic the curvature of the waffle. The cellophane was hung from inside the secondary structure and became the third layer to the dome.
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Yes, And Instructor Sarah Hirschman 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. In this project, each of the 13 students in studio were given a four by four grid with random lines and shapes on it. Each student edited their grid using only the shaped and lines given. A new four by three grid was to be created by combining the grids of other students. All thirteen of the grids were given a number, a number generator was used to obtain twelve separate number that corresponded with the drawings. The process was repeated, leaving each student with two, four by three grids. The next phased of the project was to take the random assortment you were given and transform them into a plan of section. There was no scale or orientation assigned to the drawings. I interpreted my plan as a series of cities. I represented the cities using different sheared plan types. Each city was assigned a different scale by applying vector objects and faux building facades. The section is a compilation of different sheared sections from each of the cities.
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Detroit School Instructor Karen Llewis The Aretha Franklin School for the Performing arts is situated along East Lafayette Street in Detroit, Michigan. The school is bordered by the Dequindre Cut to the east, Mies towers to the north, and Lafayette Park to the west. Lafayette Park and the Dequindre cut are two public green spaces acting synonymous to one another. The Dequindre Cut is a active green way and Lafayette Park is passive park. Schools in modern times are being built to keep people out, they use similar plan stratagies as prisons. Rather then designing a school that seeking to isolate the students from the city, this project creates a public amenity that cuts through the school. A new green way is created that connects the Dequindre Cut to Lafayette park, this green way acts as a public circuit that cuts though the school. Along the green way is five public parks that allow access to the public programs of the school; the library, gymnasium, black box, gallery and the auditorium. The green way takes on the passive nature of Lafayette Park and the active nature of the Dequindre Cut. It creates a new type of school that does not isolate it from the public, but rather brings the public in.
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Austin J. Lightle Lightle.34@osu.edu (740)7087013