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AUSTIN WYETH
RESUMÉ
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I N T E RWOV E N : S PAC E B E T W E E N S PAC E S
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NORTH NORWICH ARTS CENTER
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INSIDEOUT GHANA
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D R A P E PAV I L I O N
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SANTS CENTRE
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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I L L U S T R AT I O N / A R T
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Hello! I am a passionate and easy going designer and MArchD graduate specializing in International Vernacular Architecture, Regeneration and Development. I have special interest in traditional building and craft methods and specific cultural influence on architecture. I enjoy designing through making and tactile endeavors as a whole. A tangible connection to my work. I aim to make my impact in the architectural field being a part of quality design based in an environmentally and socially conscious foundation. while mindfully considering traditional techniques with the help of modern day technology to push forward a new architectural language. INTERESTS Photography Drawing Cooking Travel
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INTER WOVEN: SPACE BETWEEN SPACES Program: 1: Shrine Pavilion 2: Central Market School: Oxford Brookes University Location: Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain The craft of basket weaving is steeped in traditional techniques handed down through generations, yet is adaptive in technique and formal expression. Mastery of the techniques results in inherently parametric volumes. As the craft becomes less prevalent, an architectural application provides a dynamic opportunity for basketry. The project explores the possible architecture application of basket weaving techniques, and aims to find a new life for a diminishing craft through pushing the limits of possibility through analog crafting, computational manipulation and digital fabrication. It looks at the four most prevalent basket weaving techniques found on the north American continent: Coil Weaving, Then Plaiting, followed by Twining, and finally Wicker woven baskets. In dense existing urban centers these weaving techniques create an exciting opportunity to interact with existing structures and stitch together an architecture in voids and non spaces, creating new expressive ambiguity adapted to the rigidity of the building stock, all while avoiding mass demolition and construction issues. Thus leading to a sustainable intervention and thereby weaving together differing layers of the urban context into a cohesive architectural moment. In response to the craft and site, the project was driven by 3 main objectives: 1. Stitch together the diverse community through a central public market. 2. Challenge the rectilinear flow forced by the BCN Cerda Block via multi-level circulation bridges. 3. Interact cohesively with existing building stock through weave and sub frame to create architecture between spaces.
Section Visualization : Market Space and Walking Bridges: Semester 2
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Woven Shrine Design: Semester 1
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TERTIARY SPACE - TWINED WEAVE
QUATERNARY SPACE - COIL WEAVE
Analog and Digital Form Finding Experimentation. Semester 1, Tectonic Making
SECONDARY SPACE - PLAITED WEAVE
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PRIMARY SPACE - WICKER WEAVE
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Taxonometric Drawing: Combination of Weaves Resulting in a Final Shrine Space. Semester 1
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Woven Shrine Design: Semester 1
Woven Shrine Visualization and Section: Narrative: Semester 1
Central Market Space Visualization, Semester 2
DS2 2020 - DESIGN PROJECT
SITE + BUILDING TYPOLOGY DESIGN SKETCHES
TRANSITION AND CONNECTION
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Conceptual Sketches and Site Visualization Overlays: Semester 2
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EXISTING BUILDING FOOTPRINT
FLOW PATH THROUGH SITE FROM BLOCK EDGES
PEDESTRIAN FLOW TO SITE
RESULTING MARKET KIOSK SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT
SECONDARY SPACE ABOVE
EXTERIOR MARKET SPACE
MAIN AXIS FROM TRULLAS PLAN
Series of Design Diagrams: From Site Analysis to Final Formal Design: Semester 2
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
ORGANIC TO RIDGID
CENTRAL MEETING SPACE
The weave works with a timber subframe to create columns and structure where existing structures cannot. The subframe in the most straightforward sense provides the necessary structure for the weave to operate as an architecture, but also also allows the weave to create dyanimic formal experssions These columns start to form the basis for the main market space, as well as the public space above and multi level circulation bridges.
Woven Column Protoype: Formal and Strucutral Column Design: Semester 2
Structural Design Detail: Strucutral Shell and Woven Membrane Connection: Semester 2
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Market Entrance Visualization : Semester 2
Exploded Axonometric Drawing: Semester 2
Main Market Space Vaulting Visualization: Semester 2
Structural Design Detail: Strucutral Shell and Woven Membrane Connection: Semester 2
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NORTH NORWICH ARTS CENTRE Program: Arts Centre and Galleries School: Oxford Brookes University Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK wFollowing a regeneration Master Plan for the Modernist Shopping center located in Norwich, UK, building analysis, demographic studies, and design logic lead to the design of the North Norwich Arts Centre. A new cultural centre for a city prime for regeneration. The building programme follows two objectives in response to building and site research. 1. Enhance existing community and avoid displacement by: creating flexible and adaptive spaces for artists to foster a creative and makerly building space, creating a link with existing artist communities in the city, and improve amenities and services to create a better makerly atmosphere for artists. 2. Create a new arts center for emerging living working community in Norwich by: providing gallery space and public amenities to engage the public, engaging the public through arts community and public interaction, and being a focal point on and in anglia square through the artistic community.
Exterior Ramp and Facade Visualization: NNAC
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Regeneration Master Plan Site Plan
Target Demographics of Regeneration
Design Diagrams From Existing Structure to Adaptive Reuse Design.
Illustrative Elevation and Section Visualizations
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Exterior Visualization
Art Gallery and Studio Plans
Illustrative Section Visualization
Target Demogra
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Structural and Environmental Details
Structural and Environmental Details
Interior Gallery Visualisation
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INSIDEOUT I N T E R N AT I O N A L Ghana where the wind had destroyed ni &WORKSHOP Fancesca Vittorini,- GHANA won several
12 000 euro, together with the local InsideOut is a school prototype built in lunteers from 20a different Yaboahkroam, rural village countries. in Ghana
where the wind had destroyed the only school of the area. The project was constructed in 60 days with just 12 000 euro, together with the local population and volunteers from 20 different counable tries. on site (earth,
I participated I particiated ininthe theimmediate immediate building process building processfrom from the the pouring of the foundation pouring of the foundation to to the thecompletion completionofofthe the roof. roof. I worked I workedintimately intimatelywith with the the building process, and building process, andassisted assited handson ondetail detaildesign design work work ininhands forthe the building building structure structure. for
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The lack of resources and the site limitations become the opportunity to propose a sustainable design that merges architecture and landscape: the staggered walls of the classrooms are built by compacting the local earth, a light wood structure lifts the roof up, allowing zenithal light into the building, and generates a natural ventilation of the spaces, while e, offering an alternative to standard the vegetation of the garden becomes sily the replicable design values the continuation of thethat porches, increasocal ing know-how pushes limits. the shadedand spaces to studyits outdoor.
Competition Drawings
The result is a work that blurs the boundary between inside and outside, offering an alternative to standard introverted classrooms and proposing an affordable and easily replicated design that values the local know-how and pushes its limits..
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DRAPE PAVILION Program: Outdoor Performance Venue / Recreational Pavillion School: UIUC ETSAV - Barcelona Location: Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Girona, Spain Collaborators: James L. Carr, Raoyang, Yang, Ibrihim Salman Posed with creating a roof structure to repurpose the ruins of an old church within a small municipality of Catalonia we turned towards looking into the cultural traditions of the proud locals. The Sardana dance is as much a dance as it is a symbolic ritual to the people of Catalonia. Recognized and practiced all over as sign of unity, it involves all ages and acts as a cultural connection through generations. The project connects the two remaining structures of the church through draping canopies to create a light flowing roof structure for performance venues. When it is not being used the venue also acts as a meditative pavilion. Program: Outdoor Performance Venue / Recreational Pavillion
Design Diagrams: Existing Structure to Covered Pavilion
Section Drawing The image shows an artists rendering of the traditional Catalonian Sardana dance. This particular image shows the members in the hard raised position. The dance progresses through a series of lowered and raised hand positions, with a va-
Exploded Axonometric Drawing
Interior Visualization
Model Visualization
Exterior Visualisation
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Rambla Bada (pedestrian street)
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School: UIUC ETSAV - Barcelona Studio: Arch 475 / Arch Design & Development Metro Stop
Semester: Fall 2015 Program: Social Center Location: Sants, Barcelona, Spain The government of Barcelona made a large intervention in the old barrio of Sants when they created a concrete box, several kilometers long, to enclose four metro lines and 2 high speed rails. The box, though successful in its attempts to reduce noise level in the barrio, felt short however, creating a physical barrier right throughthe heart of the neighborhood. With a park already in the process of being design for the top of the box the area still needed something more to connect and revitalize the area. This project aims to cultivate ideas, social gathering,and overall enhance the community by creating a new office for Google directly adjacent to the concrete box. The building will act as a social gathering space while also acting as a location of innovation.
Small Green Space / Park
Site Plan and Design Oppurtunities
Exterior Visualization
Design Diagrams
Exploded Axonometric Drawing
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Axonomteric Drawing
Elevation Visualization
Section Visualization
Exterior Visualization: From Elevated Park
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