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PROTO-MODULAR VARIANCES First semester of third year the project was a renovation of the seventh and eighth floors of the new Whitney Museum in New York City to be a botanical research center. The center was to include exhibit space for visitors as well as office space for workers. The design responds to the prompt by delivering a space that divides open office space and open exhibit space, allowing for privacy of office workers and exploration for the visiting public. The herbarium is part of the public space, with a system of pods nestled in a transparent wall, as seen above. The public may interact with the pods, though the more sensitive seeds are locked for scientists’ use only. The project added an outdoor garden for seasonal plants.
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GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF MY HELMET
This project was a live/work space for an artisan. I was assigned a metalworker named Jeremy. Jeremy has two children, and is also a woodworker in addition to his metalworking. In our interview, he expressed that he needs to keep his living and working spaces very separate because of the dust and dirt created by his crafts. Jeremy also showed me that he had built several Rietveld chairs and that he had plans to build a modular T-Rex to go on top of his office, a single story sturcture inside the double height woodhsop.
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COMMUNITY GREEN SPACE ON THE EDGE OF DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE First semester of second year our project brief was a restaurant for food trucks. Rather than a traditional restaurant with a kitchen in the back, this space has an area for food trucks to pull into and park with eating and play zones. Demographic research showed that there are many families in the area with very few family friendly restaurants or green space. This design provided an answer, providing grass and vines that are lit by skylights above. Children may play freely while their parents supervise in a secure and comfortable community location.
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ROMA [re]VISITED
These photos were taken on an iphone 6 during a study abroad trip to Italy. The trip included Rome, Venice, and Florence. The trip was focused on quick photography and sketching, using a shared Instragram as a way to share in each other’s personal experience of the day.
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ROMA [re]VISITED
The final presentation for this trip was in Instagram format, 5 drawings and 5 photos, along with a third person biography and a photo of the ticket stubs and receipts kept from the trip. I stayed after the porgram ended and went to Paris, where some of these photos were taken.
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DESIGN STATEMENT Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen is extremely complicated and layered. At first glance, Hedda can be cruel, manipulative, and condescending, but I found her fascinating. With further analysis, I became interested in what I felt could be one of the driving forces for Hedda’s behaviors: she was simply bored. While I didn’t want to remove the play from it’s period, these thoughts inspired me to think about a more abstract arrangement for this this period space, something that could express the dreary materiality in which Hedda views her surroundings In researching period spaces, I found that rooms were often cluttered and dark. I decided that a cluttered space full of pattern and texture, while accurate to the period, would be too interesting. Hedda is bored, and I felt that her environment should reflect the monotony of her life. I became fascinated by dramatic black and white photographs of abstract spaces and situations, evocative of emotions rather than literal depictions. I asked myself, “what if this space became something mundane, claustrophobic, and overwhelming, as if she were trapped at the bottom of a well?” In order to achieve this effect, I chose a semi-circular shape. In order to abstract the design, I chose a polished concrete finish, which also serves to reflect Hedda’s monotonous life back at her. By keeping the furnishings to the period, I kept the play in period while allowing the space to reflect Hedda’s feelings and actions. A consistent color scheme knits the world together. The color red symbolizes passion, feeling, and emotion, things Hedda is seeking in her world. The design results in a monotonous space, inhabited with lush period objects.
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This project was presented at SETC in the context of a tri-fold display board. This abstract rendering was chosen in order to convey a pivotal moment of the play. This project was a paper project, not produced.
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Process model and sketches
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Physical model at 1/4” = 1’ scale
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