Undergraduate Portfolio Fall 2016- Spring 2017

Portfolio Carson Thompson

PERSONAL STATEMENT

RESUME

I’ve always enjoyed playing with LEGOs whether it was putting together a set or creating my own from a pile of bricks. Every time I picked up LEGOs I saw a challenge to make something better than the last time.

Architecture appeals to me because the field is constantly changing and improving. When designing a building, its more than just another problem to solve. That building has a lasting impact on the people that use it and the community surrounding it. A building should be more than just four walls and a roof. It should change with people’s needs. After graduation I hope to design housing that can change with the needs of its tenants.

Education

Experience

Clemson University

May 2020 GPA 2.9

Creekview High School

May 2016 GPA 3.6

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Minor in Creative Writing AIAS Central Spirit High School Diploma Beta Club Symphonic Band Soccer Track and Field (Lettered) Cross Country (Lettered) Swim Team (Lettered)

References Jey Willis State Farm Insurance Company (770)-720-1200

Jey Willis State Farm Insurance Company Planned travel arrangements for staff Compiled and produced documents and annual reports Oversaw business transactions Handled and processed confidential client information

Skills AutoCAD Rhinoceros Revit Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel PowerPoint

CONTENTS

ARCHITECTURE IS LIKE WRITING, YOU HAVE TO EDIT IT OVER AND OVER SO IT LOOKS EFFORTLESS. ZAHA HADID

Hardin Hall....................................................................................6

Boolean Difference....................................................................18

House in a Plum Grove............................................................10

Where Earth Meets Sky...........................................................22

Curves and Lines........................................................................14

Technical Drawings...................................................................26

Hardin Hall

Fall 2016

Analyzing Hardin me to understand The focus of this windows and the

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Hall at Clemson University how to design on a grid analysis was the symmetry horizontal lines across the

helped system. of the facade.

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House in a Plum Grove

Spring 2017

Through analyzing the building, I found that there are cutouts in the walls throughout the house that connect the rooms visually. The cutouts in the walls break up the closed, boxed-in feeling that can be seen on the plans. Natural light can enter interior rooms through the cutouts because some look through other rooms that have windows that look outside. To show this I drew different sections of the building where you can see the visual path between rooms.

I also drew the elevations of the building with the rooms lightly drawn to show that despite the window placement looking random, they line up with the rooms and allow light to reach the inner rooms of the build. Drawing the different diagrams and sections helped me to understand that the reason the windows look odd from the outside is because they are based on the rooms and the cutouts in the walls inside the house.

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PARTI

STRUCTURE

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PARTI

STRUCTURE 80

GEOMETRY NATURAL LIGHT

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STRUCTURE

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GEOMETRY

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NATURAL LIGHT

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Curves and Lines

Fall 2017

At the start of the carpenter’s ellipse project, I started playing around with the placement of different sized ellipses. Once I understood how changing different variables impacted the outcome, I began to use that knowledge to create more complicated designs that have a center focus and varying line weight.

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Boolean Difference

Fall 2017

The idea of boolean difference was to image a solid cube and then to create boxes that would carve out spaces in the solid cube. At first the boxes I created were compacted in one corner and did not interact with each other much. As I made more iterations, the boxes became less concentrated in one spot. I later used this technique to design Where Earth Meets Sky.

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Where Earth Meets Sky

Fall 2017

The purpose of this project was to build an installation that had three distinct areas: a place to view the land, the sky and an outdoor space. I used the Boolean difference project as my precedence. I used two cubes instead of one and positioned them on the hill to mimic dice rolling. Through different iterations I found the placement of the cubes on the hill and I created two slits in them to pull the occupants from the top of the hill to the bottom.

In my final model I simplified the many cuts I had in a previous model and added wide stairs so that people could rest and enjoy the view to the north.

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Technical Drawings

Fall & Spring 2013-2015

This is a collection of drawings and floor plans I did as a high school sophomore . Some are hand drafted, others were made in AutoCAD and Revit.

Small office building designed using Revit Fall 2014 26

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AutoCAD Drawing Spring 2013

AutoCAD drawing Spring 2013

Hand Drawing Fall 2013

Hand Drawing Fall 2013

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Ground Floor Plan of Design a House Project Fall 2015 29

Carson Thompson carsont@clemson.edu (678)-689-5006