D O U G B AC O N P o r t f o l i o 2007 - 2013
Cordova City Hall
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A Center for Healthy Living
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Kappa Sigma Fraternity House
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Culinary Arts Institute
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The Courtyard House
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Marshall Space Flight Center
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The Main Gate and Auburn Oaks at Toomer’s Corner
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Drawings
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Cordova City Hall
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CORDOVA, ALABAMA
Master of Integrated Design & Construction | fall 2012
Rebuilding a Community On April 27th, 2011 a tornado tore through Cordova, Alabama. The entire downtown was destroyed along with some of the surrounding community. The studio assignment was to provide the city with a proposal to present to the community, with the objective of gaining support for implementing the plans in it’s efforts to rebuild. This proposal was a team project which included two other students. Primarily made of red brick, the exterior facade includes a subtly exposed steel structure, metal composite panels, and storefront glazing to celebrate the industrial past and future of Cordova. The vernacular ‘dogtrot’ concept was applied as an exhibition space which allows a line of site between two memorials on either side of the building, a resurrected veterans memorial to the south and a new memorial in a garden on the north side, dedicated to those who were lost in the tornado. The auditorium is also accessed via this exhibition space so that during events all indoor and outdoor spaces are integrated. On the south side of the building a portion of this space includes a two story atrium that connects the public with city employees above. This allows more natural light upstairs, creating a two story glazed portion on the south facade that is shaded with a horizontal louver system, giving a monumental presence to the proposed public green space to the south.
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SOUTH ELEVATION
Future Building
Memorial Garden
Pedestrian Alley
Utility Office
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Auditorium
Exhibition Space Mayor’s Office
Restrooms & Storm Shelter
City Office
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Development Office
Conference Room
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Mechanical
Break Room
Water & Gas Office
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Supply
Magistrate’s Office
Inspector’s Office
Zoning Office
Grocery Store ‘The Pig’
Future Buildings
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Main Memorial Garden
Grocery Store
Mill Street
Veterans Memorial
Vault
Baseball Fields Future Buildings
Outdoor Amphitheater
SITE PLAN
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Conference Room
Break Restroom
Magistrate’s
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Office
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Zoning Office
Exhibition Mayor’s
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Restrooms and Storm Shelter
Section Perspective looking north
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A Center for Healthy Living
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
Defining the Edge between City and Nature The Center for Healthy Living serves Montgomery by reconnecting downtown with the Alabama River, which was the incentive for the foundation of the community. The site design utilizes the existing shelf of land as an edible garden and a place to dwell and pass through, just as the architecture structures activities and views. The design is a filter with an edge building signifying the merging of the city with nature. To integrate agriculture into the fabric of the site, pattern and texture were explored, as landscape behavior is a direct outcome of texture and materiality. Through analysis of agrarian ingredients, certain ‘textures’ emerged as organizing elements for landscape; livestock, native trees, planting beds, and orchards. This farm would be Montgomery’s primary urban park and garden, with herds of animals, rows of vegetables, and long vistas of an edible forest - Montgomery’s agrarian garden. The Center provides farming opportunities for local residents in conjunction with conveniences which provide varied demographics with recreational opportunities. With this two pronged approach to the project, a productive landscape draws residents to the river, and unifies the city with it’s environment.
Boat Dock
Riverwalk
Pedestrian Bridge
Livestock
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Raised Plant Beds
Pasture Windmill
Future Buildings
Proposed Pedestrian Avenue
Bachelor of Architecture | thesis
Boat Ramp
Boathouse
Lawn Pedestrian Stairs and Seating Tunnel
Orchard
Parking
Orchard Train Tracks
Baby Pool
Pool Orchard
Center for Healthy Living
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Bus Drop-off
Maxwell Boulevard
Future Buildings
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The Center is on the urban edge, uniting the city with nature.
Boathouse
Windmill and raised plant garden
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Greenhouse and steps
Sidewalk perspective
Kappa Sigma Fraternity House Spatial Conjunction and Ventilation Examination of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity House by Paul Rudolph in Auburn, Alabama revealed several needs. The fraternity brothers lack a ceremonial gathering space capable of hosting formal meetings and dining, as well as adequate bedrooms to ensure residents are present to take responsibility for the premises. In this proposed renovation, adding an additional floor resolves several issues. The addition of a fourth floor would allow the chapter to have fraternity brothers live in the house, while creating a double height formal hall on the east side of the building. This hall would have tall windows, creating a dialogue with the large trees and courtyard while providing residents on the third floor this enhanced view. During events with high occupant loads the roll-up shutter doors in the basement would open, connecting the basement space with the courtyard and allowing natural ventilation. Initial studies of wind showed its ventilating potential and drove this event ventilation strategy. Also, the main stair would gain an exhaust fan, to vent the existing living room and new hall during these large social events. The glazing at the entry would extend to the new fourth floor, lighting the elevator lobbies, and correlate to the stairs on the east side of the building, creating a well lit and ventilated circulation core.
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AUBURN, ALABAMA
Bachelor of Interior Architecture | thesis
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Brothers Hall
Sketches exploring spatial relationships
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Existing South Facade
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South Facade
Bed Bed Brother’s Hall
Den Living
Event ventilation strategy
Turbine ventilation study
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Existing West Facade
Bed
stream lease limit proposed bicycle trail West Magnolia Avenue
courtyard basketball court
parking
SITE PLAN
Hemlock Street
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West Facade
THIRD FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
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Den Living Mechanical
BASEMENT FLOOR
Courtyard
Basketball Court Kitchen
Brothers Hall
Study
GROUND FLOOR
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Culinary Arts Institute
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
American Institute of Steel Construction | Competition
Exploring Program and a Connection to Public Space Produced in a team of four, The Culinary Arts Institute project embraces Alabama’s history in steel production and culinary traditions. Utilizing flat stock steel pieces, the project explores using a local material in innovative ways. The culinary Arts Center’s is split to create two thin programmatic bars that define a campus which engages public space. Using the abundant resource of empty parking decks found in Montgomery, the two buildings share the elements of two parking decks that face each other. As the program splits to create a campus and engage the public realm, so does the structural concept; one building explores the compressive while the other the tensile qualities of flat stock steel.
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Classroom Career Services Admissions Director’s Suite
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Wine Room
Restaurant Bake Shop & Pastry Kitchen
Outdoor Eating
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Kitchen
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Library Lecture Hall Classrooms Admin Offices
Lobby
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Compression Exploring the tensile and compressive qualities of a locally sourced steel
Library
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Parking Deck Classroom
Circulation
Food Truck Market
Level change detail
Grate flooring system detail
Floor connection to tension members detail
Plenum connection to structure detail
Student Lounge
Mechanical Plenum
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Restaurant
Service Alley
Parking Deck
The Courtyard House
FOOTWASH, ALABAMA
A Study of Community Architecture and Environmental Controls In 2007, during the fall of my second year, I attended the Rural Studio based in Newbern, Alabama. Our 16 student studio project began to design and build part of a house for our client Rose Lee Turner and two of her sons, BJ and Jason, in Footwash, Alabama. The following Spring semester another studio of students designed and built the rest of the house which included a wing for the two son’s bedrooms and a courtyard. Rose enjoys a daily routine that involves morning privacy while watching the outdoors, hence the views from her bedroom. The house will also host gatherings of friends and family with an emphasis on the large porch and courtyard. A number of environmental issues were considered through surveys of vernacular architecture. The large porch overhang shades the house from the intense southern sun and the cedar rain screen protects the house from the wet climate. The ceilings are high to utilize the stack effect with corresponding openings on opposite sides of the house to allow for cross ventilation.
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Photograph by Timothy Hursley
Design Build | second year
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Entrance to courtyard
Original House
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Courtyard
Fall Construction
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Summer Construction
Bed 3 Courtyard
Bed 2
Deck
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Dining
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Kitchen
Bath
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Porch studies from surrounding area
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WEST ELEVATION
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Photographs by Timothy Hursley
Marshall Space Flight Center
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
Historic American Building Survey, HABS AL-199-B In the summer of 2012 I was selected to intern for HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey), the Federal Government’s oldest preservation program, and companion programs HAER (Historic American Engineering Record), HALS (Historic American Landscapes Survey), and CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems). My duties involved on-site field work and preparation of measured and interpretive drawings. Working primarily in Washington D.C. in the offices of the National Park Service my project team travelled to our site three times for field documentation, including hand measuring and high definition laser scanning. I was assigned to the Administrative Complex at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. MSFC was established in the 1960’s to provide the U.S. Army, and eventually NASA, with mission-critical design, development and integration of the launch and space systems required for space operations, exploration, and scientific missions. Our team documented three buildings and the surrounding site. The drawings that I produced were for the twin buildings 4201 and 4202.
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Photographs by Renee Bieretz, HABS Photographer
Professional | Internship
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SHEET SET
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The Main Gate and Auburn Oaks at Toomer’s Corner
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Ink on Mylar, 36” x 24” Drawn with Ivan Vanchev
AUBURN, ALABAMA
Leicester B. Holland Prize | Competition
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Drawings The following pages represent selected drawings that I have created over the last few years. Some were assignments from classes and others are personal drawings.
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GUARANTY BUILDING Buffalo N.Y. Graphite, 12� x 15�, American School class
Personal | Educational
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COLUMN DETAIL SHEET (hand reproduction) Graphite, 24” x 36”, Architectural History I class
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218 COMMERCE STREET (Montgomery, AL) Prismacolor pencil, 6” X 18”, Thesis Studio Nahkjavan
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Sketches, graphite
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ALL HANDS ON DECK Graphite, 36” x 24”
DOUG BACON
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