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2009 studio
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2008 studio
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2007 studio
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2007 renderings
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Landscapes and sketches
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Interiors Dwelling
for
the
Yanito-Chee
family
Navajo Nation, San Juan County, UT Design
Build
Bluff
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Spring
2010.
Collaborators Jeff
Adams,
Nathalia
Camacho, Trent Smith
Contributions Sliding
door
detail,
juniper
branch
door-pulls, interior color pallette, custom roman drapes, 5’ x 3’ fired local clay wall panel.
The
interiors
exhibit
primal,
massive
tectonics of repurposed materials. Recycled steel,
reclaimed
pine,
and
fired
local
clay root the home in the contemporary reservation landscape. The smoothely sliding mass of the doors and the fluid, anatomical forms of the handles bring users into a mindfulness of their own corporeality.
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Shade House Dwelling
for
the
Yanito-Chee
family
Navajo Nation, San Juan County, UT Design
Build
Bluff
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Fall
2009
Collaborators Erin Shoop, Judson Kemsley, Blake Powers.
Contributions Design, detail,
foundation on-site
detail,
construction
gusset oversight.
The shade house is the center of daytime activities for the Navajo in warmer months. A structure
consisting
of
elements
of
varying degrees of permanence, it will be topped with freshly cut branches in the summer. Echoing the structural frame of the house and studio, it beautifully frames the view through the grey-water-fed apricot tree to the west.
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Proposal Dwelling
for
the
Yanito-Chee
family
Navajo Nation, San Juan County, UT Design
Build
Bluff
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Fall
2009
Collaborators Krysta
Hanson,
Tamela
Beck,
Jeff Mallory
Adams, Platt
Contributions Concept,
schematic
design,
computer renderings
The family makes a humble living selling home-fired pottery at flea markets around the four corners. This home includes a pottery studio, a large great room for family gatherings, and a wall of sliding doors displaying heirloom hand-woven rugs. Following the gentle slope of the hill, the ceilings rise from 8 feet in the kitchen to 10 feet in the family room. The sacred colors, geometry and cosmology of the Navajo tradition informed this design.
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P e t r o g l y p h Landscape intervention San Juan County, UT Spring 2010
High on a cliff face in the wilderness of remote San Juan County, a commemoration of
personal
events
awaits
discovery
by those few who will encounter it as it weathers over the coming millenia.
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S t e e l
J e w e l r y San Juan County, UT Spring 2010
The steel spent years weathering in the desert near the four corners. Pitted and scarred, it carries the patina of time.
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P L AY ! Student Life Center Salt Lake City, UT Graduate Studio - Fall 2009 Instructor: Mira Locher
The building facilitates the joyous acts of climbing and jumping, celebrating human movement
through
space.
Spaceframe
structure encloses fitness activities whose energy is harnessed to pump greywater to the living roof and walls for purification.
W a l d o r f
S c h o o l
Elementary and Secondary Education Arrowpress Square, Salt Lake City, UT Graduate Studio - Spring 2009 Instructor: Anne Mooney
Waldorf education recognizes the sacred nature of childhood, and aims to nurture the strengths and abilities inherent in the being of the child, rather than force the child into an artificial pedagogy. The
philosophy
emphasizes
the
experiences of natural materials; flowing curvelinear forms; and hand crafting of lesson materials, artwork, and toys. 16
As one enters the school the regular geometry of the city gives way to a canyon of fabric walls, translucent and glowing. The experience of the school is the interplay between the orthogonality fo the wooden skin and structure and the freedom of the interior canyon walls. Even so, the child’s journey is defined by the tension between the mystical and the rational, the subjective and the objective, between their past childhood and their growing adolescence.
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W a l d o r f
O b j e c t
Conceptual Exercise Studio IV - Spring 2009 Instructor: Anne Mooney
The object is an abstraction of a codex. As a record keeping device, it communicates form, rhythm, transformation, mechanics, tectonics, balance,
kinetics, mystery,
friction,
arithmetic,
obscurity,
revelation,
graduation, light, and shadow.
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Each permutation shapes exterior form and
interior
space
differently.
Each
transformation is a new revelation of the object.
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A n a l y t i c a l D e v i c e Character Study Studio III- Fall 2008 Instructor: Brenda Scheer 8”x8”x12” Steel and Sycamore Bark
Vardaman Bundren interpretes the crises in William Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay Dying, through
his
six-year-old
body.
Freshly
interpreting each sensory experience, he imputes mystical significance into everyday objects and situations.
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W e s t S i d e H o u s i n g Multi-family Housing Salt Lake City’s west side Studio III - Fall 2008 Instructor: Brenda Scheer
Collaborator Sarah Frassa
Contributions Concept,
design,
site
plan
development, 3d modeling and digital rendering,
physical
modeling
On the border between a low-density suburban neighborhood and an industrial zone, these rowhouses form a nucleus of higher density development around which the new urban fabric can be built. As from one solid mass, a canyon has been eroded through the buildings on the site, allowing foot traffic to flow from the street in the front to the preserved fruit orchard in the northwest corner.
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Reflecting the duality between surface and erosion, the metal exterior gives way to the warm, organic, wooden skin of the canyon.
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S u n
S c u l p t u r e
Collaborators
Cody Storey, Joselie Mendiolea, Jessica Batty, Steffan Lofgren
Contribution
Concept, design,
formwork fabrication
A conical excavation through five concrete plates, capturing the sun at solar noon on June 21 at 40 degrees north latitude.
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A l t a
S k i
R e s o r t
Ticket Office and Night Club Studio II- Spring 2008 Instructor: Libby Haslam
To maximize the use of the building, it must be in use night and day, accomodating two very different functions in a versatile, transformative space. During the day, the unassuming building acts as the ticket office for Utah’s premier ski resort.
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As night falls, the walls of the building come alive as light slices through concrete and splashes across the snow. The club announces its arrival at the base of the slopes, inviting in crowds of skiers eager to party.
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T h e C h a p e l o f t h e D e p a r t e d Crematorium and Chapel Salt Lake City Cemetery Studio II- Spring 2008 Instructor: Libby Haslam
Like seafarers charting a course by the light of stars, we navigate our lives through key relationships.
When death ends one
of those relationships,
we are often left
disoriented. We must construct a new map. We must learn to find our way under an unfamiliar sky.
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The building is a liminal space, set apart from the ordinary rules of daily life. Its courtyards and corridors, lit diffusely from above, lift a person out of their normal orientation, offering them space to construct something new. It is a place of transition, elevation, peace, and metanoia.
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D i n o s a u r N a t i o n a l M o n u m e n t Interpretive Center Studio I- Fall 2007 Instructor: Joe Jacoby
The building sits on two layers of Jurrassic sediment, each uplifted to a 70-degree declination. Preserving the fossils displayed on the surface of one layer, it must adapt to the dynamic movement of the other. The building must behave like the juniper trees surrounding it, some of which have thrived in a moving landscape for a millenium, and deal with change on all timescales. The building becomes a timepiece, illustrating the change of the seasons, decades, and centuries as it lives, dies and decays.
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The systems of the building interact with the landscape on different timescales. The concrete piers penetrate deep to the firm sandstone; the concrete block floor and the rammed-earth walls rest on the moving surface of the bentonite mudstone; and the vegetated roof highlights the changing seasons and weather.
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T i m e , C h a n g e , a n d S p a c e Material experimentation Studio I- Fall 2007 Instructor: Joe Jacoby
Collaborators Cody Storey, Nick Tanner, Brad Jones
Contributions Experiments, diagrams, charcoal section
We carefully documented the effects of material transformations through space and time. The exercise demanded the discovery and illumination of space, rather than its creation.
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P a r a s i t e An
addition
architecture
to and
the
college
of
planning Studio I- Fall 2007 Instructor: Joe Jacoby
A writing space for one person;
One
can sit and write in a freely composed concrete microcosm, the space defined by the translucent folds and ripples of the tensile fabric. The weight of the concrete is palpable through the tension in the the supporting cables. The summer parasite attaches to the northwest face of the architecture building.
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The winter parasite feeds off the warmth of its host structure in the frigid winter months; hanging from the roof, through the third-floor studio, into the Bailey Exhibition Gallery.
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H a n d R e n d e r i n g s Fa l l 2 0 0 7
Left:
1150 Pencil on Illustration Board 17” x 14”
Right:
Una Mujer Grande Desnuda Graphite on butcher paper 3’ x 6’
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Left:
Martine Colored pencil on canson pearl 14” x 17”
Right:
St Vitus’ Cathedral, Prague Pen on bristol 10” x 14”
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P e n
S k e t c h e s
Clockwise from top left
The Water Temple The Dorius Salzer Valley Schoolhouse The Lion House
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C h a r c o a l 12”x18” Landscape Series Summer 2009
Clockwise from top left
Calf Creek Falls Spiral Jetty Oil Ruins Spiral Jetty Sunrise Near Boulder Mt.
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