Caleb Crawford Teaching PorĆžolio
Third Year Design The work represented here is third year design at Pra Ins tute and Mississippi State. At Pra the fall semester is a prelude to a full comprehensive semester in the spring. At Mississippi State, this semester was a prelude to a full comprehensive studio in the fourth year. I approach comprehensive design from an environmental perspec ve, concentra ng on the impact of the site, passive and ac ve strategies, and use of landscape elements, in addi on to issues of structure, skin, systems, space plan, egress and life safety. It’s a full plate for the students. Formal development is down-played in favor of performance. This course has a series of major constraints. Students are expected to develop all aspects of a building: structure, egress, accessibility, movement, skin, code issues – it’s a lot of prac cal baggage, and I decided to take it as a challenge. I wanted the studio to ride between the two worlds of the developer with his/ her “bo om line” logic, and the architect’s search for expression. The developer’s logic fits in with another philosophy, that of Stewart Brand, who gives voice to the “long view.” Brand posits that architects do not account for me in the design of their buildings. Brand’s diagram of the building in order of permanence was the inspira on for the denouement of the studio: “site, structure, skin, services, space plan and stuff.” Buildings are constantly changing. They change in response to individual taste, cultural change, new processes and materials, atrophy, economics. The areas of play and experimenta on are twofold: sustainability and expression. First, we explore the integra on of a variety of techniques and technologies of sustainability. This includes renewable energy, high performance building envelopes, passive and ac ve hea ng, cooling and ven la on, day ligh ng, rainwater and gray water capture and storage, various mechanical systems, and the incorpora on of plants and other living systems. The forms of these things influence the ul mate form of the building, but also the narra ve giving it form. Light monitors on the roof can feed fiber op c lights for interior dayligh ng. Photovoltaic panels could sheath the building serving as both curtain wall and energy source. Plants can filter waste and provide oxygen, but also act as a space making material.
ARC 3546 Architectural Design 3B Spring 2010 Net-Zero Now: Leading Edge Student Design CompeĆ&#x;Ć&#x;on Students: Dennis Daniels and Andrew Graydon In this comprehensive design studio, students worked in teams modeled sun studies and ran the required energy calcula ons for the of two. The studio did the Leading Edge Compe on. The brief compe on, in addi on to site design, structure, skin, systems, and for the compe on was to design a green tech-nology training center in Long Beach, California. The studio collaborated with the space plan. Ac ve Building Systems course and the Structures 2 course. Students
Analogous structures: Skin
Analogous structures: Circula on
ARC 3546 Architectural Design 3B Spring 2010 Net-Zero Now: Leading Edge Student Design CompeĆ&#x;Ć&#x;on Ryan Morris and Robert Featherston This team used a performa ve curtain wall that had interchangeable panels. Depending on the orienta on and interior ac vity, the panels would be applied according to the needs.
ARC 3546 Architectural Design 3B Spring 2010 Net-Zero Now: Leading Edge Student Design CompeĆ&#x;Ć&#x;on Nels Long and Aaron Schwartz Long and Schwartz used parametric modeling to design a structural skin and shading system. The same tac c was used to develope the landscape spaces. Dayligh ng and shading analysis was performed with the aid of ray-tracing rendering.
ARC 3546 Architectural Design 3B Spring 2008 Trimjoist CompeƟƟon: Design ChareƩe The Trimjoist corpora on sponsored a compe on with the sustainability as the only criteria. This was a one week chare e in which the third year students were asked to design a house that is ecologically responsive.
Micah McGee
AusĆ&#x;n Barnes
Blake Daniels
Adrian Massey
ARC 3546 Architectural Design 3B Spring 2008 Eco-Logic Housing Goals and Objec ves: To integrate first and second year design issues with technological requirements (structure, skin, natural and manmade environmental systems, life safety and accessibility) To address a complex architectural program To demonstrate ability to analyze, evaluate, and create – i.e. Comprehensive Architectural Project The project was the design of a mul ple dwelling for downtown Starkville, Mississippi. ARC 3546 Spring 2008 Student: Austiin Barnes
ARC 3546 Spring 2008 Student: Adrian Massey
ARC 301 Comprehensive Design 1 Fall 2005 and 2006 These are mul ple dwellings conceived as dwellings for families. The units consist of two and three bedroom units. The eort will be dedicated towards two aspects of the project: the building form as an expression of a narra ve, and sustainability. Carved from the skin will be areas that will give expression to a narra ve. The use of a narra ve allows for interven ons into the fabric of an otherwise ordinary building which are solely for the purpose of giving form to ideas. Provision must be made for some form of sustainable energy: solar or wind. Also possibly the storage of rainwater, the treatment of sewage, the filtering of air, etc. The forms of these things will influence the ul mate form of the building. Student: Heidi Jandris The primary idea behind this project was a forest on the roof. This central green roof idea was expanded through a green lobby and a large indoor greenhouse public space. In addi on, balconies were screened to protect against summer sun, and opened in winter.
Schema c model
Seasonal views
Roof views
Balcony views
Green wall and roof systems
ARCH 301, Fall 2005 Student: David Mans The goal of this project was to provide every unit with sunlight, on a very deep infill site, with primarily north and south exposures. This solu on cut open the site on the north-south axis, then splayed that opening to maximize daylight penetra on to the lowest layers. In addi on, double skin systems were employed to mediate temperature, photovoltaics, greenhouses, rainwater capture were all employed.
Concept development
Apartment layout
Structural model
North eleva on/Street eleva on
Sun studies
Model views
ARCH 301, Fall 2006 Student: Erin Bartling The building is cut on the corner to maximize the amount of the facade that faces due south. The roof acts to harvest rainwater. A large gu er runs down the face of the building to a pool at grade with a cistern below. The skin is wrapped in an uncondi oned space that can be opened in the summer and closed in the winter. These would be growing spaces for plants.
Site plan
Schema c plan
Water harves ng diagram
Model photo - view from southeast
Model view - view from the southwest
ARCH 301, Fall 2006 Student: MaƊhew Howard Playing Tetris Badly This project was based on a series of modules for dierent apartment types that was then stacked in a manner to allow for permeability through the building, and also outdoor spaces. In addi on, a system of awnings and louvered shu ers was developed to modulate environmental condi ons.
North facade
Project in assumed context
Research dis lla on
Research
South facade
Skin schema c
Structural model
SUPERUSE: Useful and Useless Reuse “When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.” -Louise Nevelson This elec ve seminar looked at “waste.” Nature has no such concept; all material is part of a cycle – the waste of one en ty is the sustenance for another. It has only been recently that humans have adopted the concept of a linear process of inputs and outputs, crea ng the concept of trash. This seminar will look at waste as simply material for another process. We will a empt to repurpose the discarded produce of domes c and industrial processes and put them back into service as both useful and useless objects. The useful objects will be in service of the school. The useless objects shown here derive their lineage from Kurt Schwi ers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Louise Nevelson. The seminar endeavored to use li le to no new material. These assemblages are produced by the group. Even the paint was reused from other sources.