Undergraduate Architectural Portfolio

Portfolio

Bachelors of Science | Architecture Christopher Pope | Selected works

Selected Works 2016

Architectural Portfolio By Christopher Pope

3 Experience

4 Fashion Design Center

10 Conceptual Modeling

16 Seoul Studio

22 Lotus Chair

24 Droplet Cups

26 Floating Secretary Desk

Education Texas Tech University Bachelors of Science in Architecture August 2011 - May 2016 (Expected Graduation)

Directed Studies Abroad | Seoul, South Korea Accompanying Professors: Kuhn Park (Associate Professor) | Jeff Nesbit (Assistant Professor)

Summer of 2014

Experience Student Assistant | Architectural History II

Honors DEANS CUP 2014 Honorable Mention

Crop 04 | TTU Student Publication Studio IV work published from Fall 2013

Dean’s Fund for Excellence Scholarship Spring 2015

Language English (Fluent)

Spring of 2014 & 2015

Professor: Associate Dean of Academics, Dr. Clifton Ellis

Shop Assistant | TTU Architecture Wood Shop August 2014 - December 2015

Competitions |DEANS CUP 2014 www.arch.ttu.edu

Design an escape pod/ Spacecraft for people to leave an uninhabitable Earth.

| SAF Student Ideas Competition 2014 www.citybuild.seoul.go.kr

Challenge students to present an idea that addresses the importance of the Seoul plaza to the city and its people, as well as potential special connections.

|BIADW 2015

Contact cwpope13@gmail.com

940-395-1312 1800 McGee Ave | Northlake, Tx | 76262

Skills Rhinoceros V-ray Grasshopper Autocad Revit Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Microsoft Office Physical Modeling

Busan International Architectural Design Workshop http://biacf.or.kr/english/index.php

Teams must generate ideas on an urban-based architectural space that will act as a catalyst to revitalize the community near Sanbokdoro, as well as sustain any outcomes gained.

Other Software: Dprofiler, BlackInk, UE4

Fashion Design Center Lincoln Center Plaza | NYC | New York Texas Tech Studio IV | Fall 2013

A facility, working in conjunction with the adjacent performing arts center, to promote year round fashion activities, classes and showcases.

The design was influenced by a preliminary project focused on pleat folds which investigated the structural properties inherent with each pleat.

The pleat exercises were a valuable tool, informing program drawings and final forms within the design.

The Fashion Design Center capitalizes on the relationship between the Plaza and Park; destroying it by folding the site at the convergence of the two forces.

The site folds up from Damrosch park to allow two masses to be inserted. The site is then left to extend upon these inserted masses, retaining as much public space as possible. This vegetated roof condition is then pixelated, carrying the concrete from the park and dissolving into vegetation to create visual emphasis park extension. From Lincoln Plaza the site is folded downward to bring guests into the lower courtyard. The mixed use space to the south is covered by a folded canopy. The covered mixed use space keeps intact the atmosphere of “temporary� that fashion week is known for, showing that there is no intent to stop their tradition of utilizing the open park.

Park/Plaza Relationship

Site fold from park/ Volume Inserted

Site fold down from plaza

Site fold up from plaza

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Hybrid Diagram (Site, Pleat Diagram, Program)

Site Plan

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W Design Studio

Runway Room 2 M

Reception Backstage

Lobby

Runway Room 1

-36’

-21’

0’

FASHION dcenter esign

-4’ -8’

Plan and Longitudinal Section

Concept Model (From Lincoln Plaza)

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Structure Model

Concept Model (Aerial)

Early Ventilated Model

Riverwalk Apartments Riverwalk | San Antonio | Texas Texas Tech Studio V | Spring 2014

A mid rise tower of mid/high end apartments located on the edge of the riverwalk. The site allows for a unique interaction with the public, recreating a common access point to the river that now weaves between fractures of the tower as well as redefining an alley connecting to a restaurant. The open lobby serves as a mixed use space, allowing for temporary markets and daytime events, as well as performances on the stage at night filling the tower with local music.

Early studies of event spaces along the rvierwalk informed a series of diagrams and modeling focusing on relationships between light and sound and the elements that manipulate them. This, along with relevant forces on the site, influenced a series of conceptual models that generated the fractured massing of the tower and the stitching that reconnects them.

Preliminary Abstract Diagram

Extruded Boundaries

Fractured Mass

Inserted Stitching Elements

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Preliminary Study Model

Concept Model (2nd Iteration)

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Concept Model (3rd Iteration)

90’

75’

60’

45’

30’

15’ Restaurant

Longitudinal Section

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Bed Rm

Mixed Use

Bed Rm

Kitchen Circulation Tower

Living

2nd Floor

Lobby Living Bed Rm

Office

Kitch

en

Mezzanine

3rd - 6th Floor

Ground Floor

Plans

Fragment Connecting Factors at Seoul City Plaza | Seoul | South Korea Study Abroad: Seoul Studio | Summer 2014 In collaboration with Gaby Blake http://workshop-a.net/SEOUL/

Redesigning and inserting new proposed connections between the embedded plaza and its surrounding tensions, altering the effectiveness of the interstitial space.

The plaza rests in the heart of the city, along its main axis Sejong-daero, and is framed by two existing underground connections (A & B) with a third proposed connection for this project (C). The Plaza being the largest open space in the city, which is surrounded by high rise structures, appears as a valley amidst a concrete jungle.

The three connecting factors serve as density attractors across the plaza and its extensive connecting tissue. This tissue, which links the plaza surface, surrounding surface and underground programs, is fragmented and manipulated. The connecting factors control the density of this fragmentation, allowing the surface to fold down into the underground. As this density dissolves outward the surface reveals how it is a direct extension of the plaza itself. This play in movement and conversation between surfaces works together to enhance the experience of coming to and being in the plaza’s space.

Define Surface

Apply Reference & Diagram

Fragment & Manipulate

Refine Circulation

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Formal Abstraction Diagram

Abstracted Site Plan

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A

B

C

배치도 Site Plan

A-C Longitudinal Section

투시도 Perspective Overlooking Connection B

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Citizens Hall

Underground Market

Connection B

Perspective from Connection A

Citizens Hall

Subway

Subway Underground Market

Connection C

Connection A

Lotus Chair Welding and Metal Working | Spring 2015

The lotus chair, first in a series, was designed around the form of the lotus position, where your legs are crossed and arms extended to your knees, but with the standard seating position in mind. The light weight frame (approx. 20 lbs), made up of hollow 3/4” square steel tubing and hollow 1/2” round steel pipe, allows for easy maneuverability while maintaining structural integrity. Each leg reaches down to the floor then back to the center where they are welded together. The mid grade, full grain brown leather seat was sewn together from a single piece. The hoods allow the seat to slip onto the frame in seconds, or be taken off and rolled up for storage.

32”

39.5”

7.75” 80˚

19.875”

80˚

70˚

3”

Rear Leg

Front Legs

23.6875” 33.25”

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Droplet Cups Personal Project | Fall 2015

The inspiration came from a set of bottomless snifter cups I had made the previous year. To work on a much smaller scale the design was changed to something of a shot glass with an elongated tail. The final shape mimicked that of a raindrop. To highlight the fact that they’re “bottomless” the stand was designed to securely hold the cups for pouring without masking the profile. The cups cannot hold any reasonable amount of liquid once laid down, implying the intended use, and once emptied the cups may roam the table rolling in circles.

The cups were turned on a lathe from maple. The stand is made from claro walnut with steel rings inlaid, cut from eighth-inch pipe from an old project.

10.25” White Maple 1.125”

1/8” Steel Ring Claro Walnut 3”

Top

Front

Right

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Floating Secretary Desk Architectural Furniture Design and Construction | Spring 2015

The floating secretary desk serves as a drawing and modeling desk in a small apartment. The drawers are scaled to efficiently house paper and modeling supplies, the center shelf for working models or a camera, and the right shelf for the many sketchbooks in my collection. The overall dimensions, 36” x 18”, allows plenty of room to model and sketch while accommodating a laptop. The majority of the project is constructed from three-quarter-inch birch plywood and contrasting orange padauk cut from two-inch slabs and the drawers are made from poplar. In order to reinforce the corners aluminum angle has been inlaid and fastened with brass screws. The desk is then mounted on a wall and held up by french cleats which are concealed, giving the floating effect.

11.25”

12”

36”

13.75”

Front

Section

6” 18”

16.5” 11.25”

Modules

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