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Table of Contents: ECHOES SUN PATHS 321
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CONVERGENCE
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Tears Personal + Creative Works
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ECHOES UTSA CoA: Fall 2010 Professor Adrian Lipscombe
As young design students, we often look to famous architects to understand the idea of architecture and space. Their mastering of form and stylistic apporaches often are what make them and their work both intreguing and recognizable. As a result, our assignement was to build a 6in x 6in frame, pick a designer we admired, and then create a form inspired by them to be contained within the cube frame. Zaha Hadid, a entreprenuer in all design fields, was the particular inspiration chosen for this. Known for her organic, highly futuristic, and complex forms, I aimed to mimic those elements through the idea of echoes. With said concept, a thin basswood strip was countured to achieve curvaceous forms. After, more strips were made (diminishing in size) and were iterated back to the original in an effort to imitate something and then return to the initial as an ommage. By doing so, a sense of harmony was established. Although it may seem like the contents of the cube are in tension, in reality they are working in a harmonious, sweeping motion. It seems as if these two forms are echoing back to each for eternity.
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Design Process + Sketches:
Exploring how echoes interact within a space
Overlapping and manipulating the same form in the same manner as echoes
Beginning to apply the previously mentioned forms into the cube
Details:
Faces:
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Sun Paths UTSA CoA: Spring 2012 Professor Curtis Fish
Although it is accustomed to being unnoticed and underappreciated, the sun is at the very center of our solar system. This perfect sphere, the king of all the planets, acts as the earth’s primary source of energy. In an effort to celebrate this celestial beauty, three important times of the year were chosen (Winter Solsitce, Summer Solstice, and Equoinex) along with the architectural element of framing. The angles of the sun during these particular days manipluated the rotation of the repeating element. Doing so allows a space to be created that represents mankinds major dependence on the sun and reminds humanity of the interbeing amongst itself. Beaucase of the specifity of the form and the location of the virtually flat site, the light that enters the framed path is never the same from one day to the next. Addittionally , there is a timeless quality that results from the reoccuring angles produced by the cycles of the sun.
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Design Process + Sketches:
Exploring how echoes interact within a space
Aligning simple frames to create a linear path Analyzing the sun’s path and rotation
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Rotation Diagram
West Elevation
East Elevation
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321 UTSA CoA: Spring 2012 Professor Curtis Fish
We often fail to realize the opportunities that The Earth itself offers us in the realm of design. Everything from building materials to concepts can be right in front of our eyes if we just look deeply enough. After considering this, we can allow The Earth and its various terrain to guide the space and forms we will be creating. In this specific program, the structure is kept as simplistic as the site. In a similar fashion, its rigid geometry and perfect 45/90 degree angles are derived from those innately present within it. This was done in an effort to maintain the miniamlistc nature of the site and to establish a relationship between was is to be created and what already exist. To further develop this idea, a concept of how we as humans relate to the Earth was incorporated. As one moves from above to below ground, a spiritual connection begins and quickly grows parallel to the physical journey forward. Site of the surroudings diminish as one continues ahead and eventually there is no seperation between man and earth; they have become one.
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Design Process + Sketches:
Manipulating forms with the angles in site
Applying and stregthening the man/earth relationship
Stuctural Axonometric:
One-Point Perspective:
Below Ground Floor Plan:
On Ground Floor Plan:
Combining both contextual +philosophical views
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Above Ground Floor Plan:
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CONVERGENCE UTSA CoA: Fall 2011 Professor Curtis Fish
As we being to explore concrete and the characterisitcs that it embodies, we begin to discover the rich history and evolution that has followed it. Unlike any other material out in the architectural and construction world, concrete really has unique properties that allow it to do practically anything aesthetically and structurally. Unfortunately, in this world where design is underminded and not properly utilized, concrete becomes unoriginal, massive, and overbearing. The concrete is not pushed to its full potentia. In an effort to seek and diplay the pure and simple beauty of crete, this particular design aims to let the important points inately present in the site drive the 4 story building. The secondary important attributes of the museum carve the rest of the shape within the building: the main staircase and the utility core act as the circulation and intends to help the occupants interact with the museum on a different level while simeltaneously and seamlessly weaving throught the permanent collection of artifacts.
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Finding intersections
Connecting strong spatial points
Massing spaces from connections
Refining and limiting intersections
Final spaces / volumes
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1st Floor
Basement 1 4 4A
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Room Legend:
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Basement -1: Storage / Prep Room First Floor -2: Lobby -3: Auditorium -4: Gift Ship -4A: Gift Shop Storage -5: Large Machinery Gallery Second FLoor -6: Second Gallery Third Floor -7: Samples Gallery -8: Art Gallery / Exhibit -9A / 9B / 9C: Offices -10: Meeting Room -11: Utility Core
South Elevation
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
Roof Plan
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East Elevation
West Elevation
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Tears UTSA CoA: Spring 2011 Professor Curtis Fish
They City of San Antonio, just like any other major cty, acts like a fabric and is essential to the city in order to function effeciently. However because of its rich history & culture, San Antonians are living in tension with the rebelious aspects of technology, individuality, and the futureas they become more prevelant in our modern world. In an effort to live harmoniously, the contrasting elements of the fabric are allwed to create tears amognst themsleves to relieve the tension and to create a spae that is unique due to carefully responding to its surroundings.
Analysis
Vector Interpretation
Concept Models
Tears + Radius
Spaces
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Site Plan
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Room Layout
First Floor
Second Floor
Front Elevation
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Third Floor
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Personal + Creative Works
Sketches + Drawings
Photography
Digital Media 15
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