Selected Architectural Works

selected works graduate | undergraduate

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plexus r+d

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dimestore red

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psychotropic house

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hybrid dronotypes

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m.o.c.a.a. asheville

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plexus r+d location: atlanta, georgia, usa purpose: architecture firm architect/mentor: jordan williams & erik lewitt employee: may 2019 - present Established in 2001 as a design think tank, jordan williams and erik lewitt address complex design challenges by focusing on strategic research and innovative problem solving, which lead to strategic and thoughtful intentions. Plexus r+d is a forum where great minds are assembled for the purpose of creating ideas and projects that embody the challenges of the present while embracing the promise of the future. Their projects are simultaneously about timeliness and endurance.

They believe that strong design is not a disposable commodity. Rather, it is an indispensable component of a successful project. Plexus is keenly aware of the conventional and always skeptical of cliché, allowing projects to capture people’s attention, engage with and inspire them.

While at plexus r+d, I contributed on all design fronts from residential to commercial. Through phases of schematic design to construction administration. I did almost all of the 3D modeling for the projects I worked on and a lot of the documentation to accompany it. Working at plexus r+d put my skills learned in academia to the test through rigorous contemporary execution on all projects.

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GROUND

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^ Fir ^ Th Ro

^ South-facing aerial view of model in Jacksonville context ^ East-facing aerial view of model in Jacksonville context

FIFTH F

COLLONADE

STAIR

STAIR

RETAIL

OPEN TO BELOW

SCULPTURE TERRACE BALCONY

UNIT 02 LOFT

COLLONADE RETAIL

UNIT 01

RETAIL

OPEN TO BELOW

SCULPTURE TERRACE

RETAIL

CORRIDOR

LOBBY

STAIR

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LOBBY

OPEN TO BELOW

STAIR

DRESSING ROOM

DRESSING ROOM MECHANICAL PENTHOUSE

BALCONY UNIT 04

MECHANICAL

UNIT 03 LOFT SCULPTURE TERRACE

BALCONY

FORTH FLOOR PLAN /// 1/4” = 1’-0”

D FLOOR PLAN /// 1/4” = 1’-0”

SIXTH FLOOR PLAN /// 1/4” = 1’-0”

rst Floor: Retail hird Floor: Air BnB units oof: Sculpture Garden

STAIR OPEN TO BELOW

BALCONY

CHEF’S TABLE

LOUNGE

BAR

STAIR KITCHEN

FLOOR PLAN /// 1/4” = 1’-0”

Lounge/Bar floor plan

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LOUNGE

Lounge/Bar perspective renderings ^ ^

^ Perspective of rooftop garden ^

Perspective of large Air BnB unit

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Perspective of lofted Air BnB unit

^ East-facing aerial view of model in Jacksonville context

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Street perspective from Boulevard St ^

East-facing street view of model in Jacksonville context ^

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Street perspective from Edgewood Ave

^ View from private lake View to additions from back deck area

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View of interior at entertaining room

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View to west facade from driveway ^

View of interior at kitchen and dining

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East-facing street view of model in Jacksonville context ^

^ Lake Spivey Residence: Floor plan ^

Broadland Residence: Side yard perspective

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Broadland Residence: Driveway perspective

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Broadland Residence: Floor Plan

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Lake Spivey Residence: Pool Perspectives

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^ Isometric/wormseye atrium drawings

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^ Isometric of atrium circulation

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Isometric sections of Ponce Ave townhomes

^ Aerial view of western facade fissure

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Elevation with plan overlay of science research park ^

dime store red location: savannah, georgia, usa purpose: art exhibition / installation / think-tank size: approx. 1,000 sqft. within a 22,000 sqft warehouse completed: open november 14-21, 2019 collaborators: will kesling, jules lupacchino,

ryan lawrence The idea of Dime Store Red began about four years ago. 2019 was the year we decided to bring that idea into tangible existence. 2019 was the year we began saying yes to finishing good ideas.

The major catalyst for this project was finding the right warehouse. The expansive and empty 22,000sqft space was perfect. Dime Store Red begins. We intentionally placed the installation itself in the back of the warehouse, so the viewer would enter the space, and have to walk a considerable distance to enter the installation itself. Our intention was to take away instant gratification - remove expectations, and provide a shock to the viewer during many moments of the show. We wanted to build something that represented who we are, what we strive to create, and why we create what we do.

We wanted to shake the city, bring the people together, and inspire the city as a whole through a moonshot project like Dime Store Red.

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original concept sketch of the store

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beginning of framing of the store

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digital model of overall progress

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initial paint blocking of the JULU Room ^ ^

celebrating the end of framing

^ dime store red opening day

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First Room: final JULU mural and BMW

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field of neon monoliths upon entrance ^ ^

dime store courtyard featuring its guest artists

^ Second Room: “Do Not Bend”

dimestore red Third Room: “Don’t Be A Sheep” ^

psychotropic house location: siteless purpose: residence / autonomous dwelling instructor: lars spuybroek completed: spring 2019 [graduate studio] The act of a transformation involves a disfigurement of shape and/or change in a form’s organization through physical means. The transformation may be evolutionary or reversible in which it responds to stimuli presented by its inhabitants. This creates a relationship between the ambiguous space (void) and ambiguous structure (poché). The disfigured spaces become transformable in function thus allowing an exploration of how the spaces have changed and altered to a specific purpose.

Similar to JG Ballard’s “psychotropic house” in The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista, this transformable house may potentially adapt and obsess about its inhabitants in order to create the maximized living environment. This house cultivates this obsession and explores social, technological, and spatial qualities of this near-future scenario through its treatment of form, surface, spatial sequence, and domestic rituals.

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The interpolated lines are simply diagrammatic to visually show the voids being formed.

J.G. BALLARD VERMILLION SANDS (1962)

SASKIA OLDE WOLBERS PLACEBO (2006)

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 5

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 10

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.75 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 5

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.75 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 10

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.75 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 5

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 10

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3.25 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

CENTERED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.5 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

DISPERSED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.5 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

EDGE CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 2.5 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

CENTERED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

DISPERSED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

EDGE CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

CENTERED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

DISPERSED CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

EDGE CONDITION

POINT FIELD DIAMETER: 3 / RESPONSE INTENSITY: 20

2D ITERATION 1.2

2D ITERATION 1.3

2D ITERATION 1.4

2D ITERATION 1.5

2D ITERATION 1.6

3D ITERATION 1.1

3D ITERATION 1.2

3D ITERATION 1.3

3D ITERATION 1.4

3D ITERATION 1.5

3D ITERATION 1.6

2D ITERATION 2.1

2D ITERATION 2.2

2D ITERATION 2.3

2D ITERATION 2.4

2D ITERATION 2.5

2D ITERATION 2.6

3D ITERATION 2.1

3D ITERATION 2.2

3D ITERATION 2.3

3D ITERATION 2.4

3D ITERATION 2.5

3D ITERATION 2.6

2D ITERATION 3.1

2D ITERATION 3.2

2D ITERATION 3.3

2D ITERATION 3.4

2D ITERATION 3.5

2D ITERATION 3.6

3D ITERATION 3.1

3D ITERATION 3.2

3D ITERATION 3.3

3D ITERATION 3.4

3D ITERATION 3.5

3D ITERATION 3.6

2D ITERATION 4.1

2D ITERATION 4.2

2D ITERATION 4.3

2D ITERATION 4.4

2D ITERATION 4.5

2D ITERATION 4.6

3D ITERATION 4.1

3D ITERATION 4.2

3D ITERATION 4.5

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2D ITERATION 1.1

ERIOR WALLS

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PANELS

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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

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^ exploded actuator detail

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floor plan

large wall detail

TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS After the spatial relationships have been established between the rigid structure and malleable surfaces, technical systems need to be implemented in order to realize them. Hydraulic actuators attached to the structural walls hook-up to a formable membrane that adapts to people within the spaces. This creates an endlessly programmable building that adapts to its user needs.

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ROOF PANELLING

E.T.F.E SURFACE PANELS

CONCRETE FLOORING

HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS

STRUCTURAL EXTERIOR WALLS

STRUCTURAL EXTERIOR WALLS

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building typologies ^

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

STRUCTURAL EXTERIOR WALLS

ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY The adaptive spaces need stimuli to respond to in order to create spaces that are truly transformable. Users of the space may manipulate them through normal sensory means: touch, sound, and sight. How they choose to interact upon the space creates a response that activates E.T.F.E. SURFACE PANELS surface articulation and lighting.

The part that becomes tricky is how the spacesHYDRAULIC and user form a relationship.

ACTUATORS Does the user pre-design the spaces to have specic responses to actions or does the space “learn” and adapt to user rituals? Either way, the space dictates how the emotions of its user through the spaces and lighting accompanying it.

WALL / ACTUATOR SYSTEM AXONOMETRIC

ROOF PLAN

RESPONSIVENESS

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HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS E.T.F.E. PANEL

LIGHT IN PANEL

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ARCHITECT? ALEXA / SIRI? USER?

ACTUATOR HOUSING

WALL / ACTUATOR SYSTEM ELEVATION

^ 3d wall section

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exploded actuator-panel detail

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transverse building section

LIGHT / SOUND / HAPTIC

WALL / ACTUATOR SYSTEM AXONOMETRIC

HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS E.T.F.E. PANEL

LIGHT IN PANEL

WALL / ACTUATOR SYSTEM ELEVATION

WALL / ACTUATOR SYSTEM AXONOMETRIC

SENSORY DIAGRAM

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ACTUATOR HOUSING

YELLOW MOOD

BLUE MOOD

YELLOW + BLUE MOOD

BLUE + RED MOOD

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RED + YELLOW MOOD

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interior perspectives

longitudinal building perspective ^

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hybrid dronotypes location: siteless purpose: drone hanger / fabrication lab instructor: keith kaseman completed: fall 2018 [graduate studio] Anticipating a time when the airspace below 400’ is variably granular, dynamically regulated and thick with newly formed protocols, rights and opportunities, Hybrid Dronotypes explores a focused set of architectural typologies and production potentials afforded by this expanded outlook.

Hybrid Dronotypes provides an opportunity to critically imagine and develop new spatial / material configurations within the air space of Atlanta. Through a mode of practice that utilizes design motivation and iterative exploration, a wide matrix of typological seeds and creative architectural strategies may be produced.

The HEX ANCHOR explores future notions of dwelling, drone utilities, automated production strategies and other associated technologies into clearly delineated architectural space. With a specialization in automated production, this drone garage outputs buildable units that may be used for construction on any associated drone or human structure. The building itself functions as a “blueprint” where the structure is broken down into diverse configurable units that may act as independent architectural objects or a holistic spatial construct.

HEX ANCHOR identifies, invents, refines and develops versions of architectural realizations in anticipation of new types that will populate our fabric in ways we are just beginning to imagine.

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axonometric section of 3D printable house with drone assembly

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HEX ANCHOR exterior drone airspace

HEX DRONOLAB

drone circulation routes

EXTERIOR AIR TRAFFIC Primary flight path for drones waiting to enter the garage

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DRONE TRAFFIC - HEAVY Traffic of drone flight through the interior spaces

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ROBOTIC RAIL MANUFACTURING SYSTEM This displays the possibilty of having a robotic arm manufacturing track

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robotic manufacturing rail

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interior volumes

INTERIOR FABRICATION LABS The spaces allocated for digital fabrication

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^ axonometric x-ray rendering

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anatomical contouring ^

^ internal drone circulation and storage

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interior spaces and structure ^

iridescent film on plexiglass glass channels plexiglass on metal tube framing

copper cladding glossy plastic panels

marble tiling plasma-cut stainless steel wood panels dichroic glass plexiglass on 3d extruded lattice

amber glass blocks

glass channels on 3d extruded lattice 3d extruded lattice from robotic arm 3d extruded panels

^ exploded axonometric material index

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^ longitudinal section

^ perspective eye-level section

^ aerial perspective of 3d printed model on vacuum formed site [north] aerial perspective of 3d printed model on vacuum formed site [south]

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birds-eye view of 3d printed model on vacuum formed site ^ ^

aerial perspective of 3d printed model on vacuum formed site [south]

locavore: m.o.c.a.a. location: asheville, north carolina purpose: museum of contemporary art instructor: dan brown completed: spring 2017 [undergraduate studio] Contemporary art galleries tend to showcase artwork created primarily by highly acclaimed artists that will bring forth revenue and attention.

This approach not only segregates classes of art, but also the artists involved. Art has always been a successful way of connecting people and their communities and in our current time, connection between people in a society is absolutely necessary. Asheville’s art district is thriving and becoming a cultural hub for surrounding areas, however, there is a lack of space to represent such a beaming society.

Locavore challenges the established contemporary art museum by reversing conventional museum hierarchies between local and acclaimed artwork.

By doing this, the regional artwork becomes the focal point through rotating exhibitions causing constant change and reason for viewing. The more acclaimed artwork resides in a permanent gallery that allows incoming artists to create unique installations for any exhibition.

Locavore not only functions as a vessel for local artwork and culture, but also as a functioning “green” member of Asheville that consumes locally derived resources and contributes to its community just as its people do.

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^ interior rendering of top floor site within park context

third floor 1. auditorium 2. lobby 3. ticket/coat check 4. primary local artist gallery 5. kitchen 6. gift shop 7. restaurant 8. outdoor deck

^ interior rendering of middle floor

second floor 1. rotating gallery 2. service/mechanical

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^ interior rendering of eastern vertical corridor

first floor 1. office spaces 2. outside artist gallery

base volume from square footage

pulled towards pedestrian traffic

corners are cut for entry

datum from downtown established as circulation

balanced spaces through center

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exterior and interior axonometrics ^

^ exploded facade system

corrugated metal / concrete roofing

steel truss system

steel louver support steel bracket attachment

curtain wall

reclaimed steel louvers from containers

steel truss system green wall

box truss system

concrete retaining wall

grass terrace

photovoltaic panel water cistern

irrigation network

skylight system water catch

pump

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^ conceptual rooftop irrigation system

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^ section perspective [bottom] eastern facade section with exploded facade system

perspective on park grounds facing south facade

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^ aerial perspective facing southwest

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river perspective facing northwest ^

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