BRAD GITHENS DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2017
TAB LE O F C O NTE NTS graduate 01 | mass as a collector, volume within a volume 02 | decentralized design lab 03 | from veg to symmetry undergraduate 04| museum of space 05 | the tree garden 06 | karamu gardens - design/build
“The exploration of architecture is a tactile thing. It comes down to the space, light, materiality, and where you touch it and you feel it. It’s a rarity today. Architecture can change the way you feel…” - Steven Holl
MASS AS A COLLECTOR, VOLUME WITHIN VOLUME SPRING 2017 GRADUATE DESIGN STUDIO: YEAR ONE THE ART OF DAYLIGHTING: CELEBRATING THE ATMOSPHERE OF LIGHT IN PLACE
A studio that focused on a real locale and program, investigating a set of iterative daylighting issues and questions to consider both the poetic and pragmatic opportunities of an ecological approach to daylighting design. This project demonstrates a journey that takes you through the simplicity of above ground to below. Using dynamic light to guide through volumes within volumes. To experience the contrasts of mass, light, and space. With many field studies of architecture throughout the Twin Cities, using Velux and Sefaria to study the autonomy of daylight and solar gains, and physical modeling.
VELUX STUDIES MARCH | JUNE | DECEMBER 9 |12 | 3 ILLUMINANCE ISO CONTOURS|1-200 LUX
MARCH
PHYSICAL MODEL DAYLIGHT STUDIES
MARCH | JUNE | DECEMBER
JUNE
DECEMBER
CONCEPTUAL AND DYNAMIC DIAGRAMS Sun Paths, Programmatic, Light Studies
daylighting
Gallery
SUMMER 12 PM SUMMER 3 PM
NOR TH WINTER 12 PM
WINTER 3 PM
Conference Room
SUMMER 9 PM
GROUND LEVEL
Conference Room
Rest Room
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GALLERY CONFERENCE ROOMS RESTROOMS
program
WINTER 6 AM
SUMMER 6 AM
SUN PATH
WINTER & SUMMER SOLSTICE
Summer Solistace Equinox
Winter Solistace
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Construction and thermal properties within wood architecture and specifically a kitchen
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radiant floor:
fuel oxygen energy( in the form of heat) flame region
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living space:
64- 73 F
luminous zone dark zone
non-luminous zone blue emission
continous flame
O₂ surplus chemiluminescence of excited CH radicals
smoker: 180-275 F
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wood stove:
500-1100 F
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EXHAUST SYSTEMS flush pressure flue
CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS heavy timber non-combustible wood framed WOOD LOGIC wood masonry rain screen shingles stacked
campfire:
1571 F
and solved singularly, but rather students are challenged to work collabora problem statements that emerge from a thorough and careful analysis of re
A design focused on the use of wood for who is The trans-scalar topics of this inaugural lab are Forests and Fiber. Our co feedback loops embodied in tree|timber|wood interestedperformative in cooking as entertainment with others that necessari wood fiber buildings across space and time. What are the performative v and to cook with the intention of efficiency. forested landscapes and how can their design positively impact the buildi
from them? How can material specification and construction impact the landscapes and the design of rural economies and communities that liv architecture and landscape architecture students and will ask both to ca systems’ boundaries for their design interventions.
The program consists of general temperatures necessary to be used within a specific kitchen. The organization More than anything else today, architects and landscape architects ne of spaces production within the diagrams show hiearchial components and practice that are much more cosmopolitan in the most liter politēs (citizen). lab will deliver a set of critical as well as+spatial usage.TheThis can inform how theinquiries that re-imag repositioning the architect and landscape architect as non-experts, o spaces need to be defined and how they should be larger and com disciplines and unlikely collaborators, within a vastly arranged. determined by feedback loops across multiple scales. This kitchen will be efficient for the user. The main concern is to be able to entertain friends/ family while cooking. It is to introduce the interaction between the user and the people sharing the space. To enhance the interaction and to focus the pleasures of a wood kitchen.
THERMAL ZONES 70+ F
150+ F
1500+ F
sauna:
120-140 F
CHE MIC AL RE AC TI
Intake
combustion and fire:
zone 3 and 4
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Graduate Studio This laboratory is built around a deeply analytical, collaborative, researchSpring 2017 premature presumption of solutions. Unlike typical design studios, problem
non-luminous zone blue emission radiation
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Design Feedback: a trans-scalar inquiry into the production
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A trans-scaler inquiry into the production of forests and fiber
105-115 F
FIRE CO₂ H₂O radiation
ecentralized
HEATING SYSTEMS woodburning direct/indirect
FIRE TYPES campfire smoker wood burning oven
Construction and thermal physical studies within wood architecture and a focus of oven systems
A secondary part that is to be intergrated as well: A highly thought out usage of the thermal properties of how wood, fire, and the tools of cooking interact. To prepare a dynamic experience for the user and the people that share the space with the user.
cale1/4”
Site intervention
WOOD LOGIC wood masonry rain screen shingles stacked
Convergence: Array of thermal conditions THERMAL ZONES 70+ F
set 4: 1/4 scale”
set 5: scale 1/4”
150+ F
1500+ F
HEATING SYSTEMS woodburning direct/indirect
set two: 1/4 scale”
FIRE TYPES campfire smoker wood burning oven
set one: 1/4 scale”
Proposed Design Intervention- campfire, smoker, wood-burning oven
Proposed design intervention- campfire, smoker, wood-burning oven
EAST SECTION - ‘CAMPFIRE’
SOUTH SECTION - ‘SMOKER’
WEST SECTION - ‘WOOD BURNING OVEN’
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Phase 1: Immersion
Table to Site
The work of this studio was rooted in architectural convention. Understanding the role and modes of architectural design research, representation and production was the fundamental expectation. A means of exploring ideas and possibilities. This studio required curiosity, inventiveness and a willingness to investigate trajectories from the fertile ground of conventional representation. The most successful approach was interrogating the assignments opportunistically—not as a series of problems to be solved but as an opening into new territories rich with design potential.
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Phase 3: Spatial Studies This phase focused on how conceptualized explorations become materialized as space and volumes. Symmetry was used to inform the physical development of each iteration within the model making process.
Phase 4: Final Intervention A building proposition that materialized from an exploration through the function of process work. As well as committing to a conceptual lens of symmetry to amintain a constraint throughout the semester long project.
12'-6 1/2"
20'-8 1/2"
48'-7"
57'-6"
Museum of Space Design Fundementals II Spring 2015
Designed for a site on the West Bank of the University. Conceptually constructed (with the help of Caleb Lohrberg all drawings and models by me) and envisioned with sketches, paper models, hand modelling, and design software. Used in unison to inpire forms and create spaces.
The Tree Garden Design Workshop Summer 2015
A workshop dedicated to the study of portable architecture. With three weeks to develop a design and build a prototype. My contribution involved many aspects of the design, including the crucial details of the apendable parts of the design. This includes the use of square pegs for stability and to hold the periscope stand in place. This was a key design implementation leading us to a successfull project.
Karamu
short side piece
long side piece
vertical box design
Community Design Practice Design Workshop Summer 2015
16.00" bottom piece
14.00" 6.00"
3.15"
hanging piece 1.57"
1.00"
8.00"
Community design is a movement focused on the creation and management of environments for the people. Promoting change to the built environment from the nieghborhood to regional scale. This workshop engaged in design, implementation of design, and collaboration with active partnerships within the communities.
16.00" 1" 1"
16.00" 16.00"
1"
8.00"
1" 1"
16.00"
8.00"
8.00" 12.00"
16.00"
1. purchase fence components
3. assemble components
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Karamu
fence components +assembly
2. cut components section before and after dato cut of 4”x4” posts
section after cutting 1”x4” and 1”x6” boards
section after cutting 4” and 6” spacers. (not to scale)
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4. install place on 3-3/8” concrete footing pads, 6” below ground. connect modules with lag screws.
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