Ryan Clark Jason Trutner
Visualization II Portfolio Design I • Design II • Vis II
Thomas Jefferson University School of Architecture
Table of Contents Design I Mondrian
04 Invisible Cities 06
Design II Case Study House 08 Mondo Materialis 10 Tectonics 11 Visitors Center 12
Vis II Collage 16 Monograph 18 Site Analysis 20
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Mondrian Void • Lines • Planes • Solids
Mondrian: Painting No. 9
Orthagonal Drawings
Axonometric
Front 3/4 View
For the Mondrian project, we were tasked with taking a famous painting by Mondrian, and turning it into a 3-Dimensional object that can stand on its own. The painting I was assigned was Painting No. 9. The challenge was differentiating void, lines, and planes within the model.
Side View
Top View
Front View
The Mondrian model was crafted out of foam core and basswood dowels. It features an equal amount of void spaces, lines, planes and solids.
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Invisible Cities
M.C. Escher - Relativity
Elevation
Elevation
Backside Floor Plans
Front 3/4 View With Site
Staircase
Cross-Stairs Detail
Axon
For the final project, we were given a city out of Marco Polo’s “Invisible Cities”. I was given Esmeralda, a city based on various means of transporting from A to B. I decided to use M.C. Escher’s Relativity as inspiration for the final model.
The model was constrcuted out of basswood, as well as a strip of venere for the curved walls. I implemented multiple staircases, a nod to the Invisible City of Esmeralda. Ryan Clark Jason Trutner
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Case Study House The Stahl House
Site Plan
Orthagonal Drawings
Axonometric
For Project 1, my partner, Ari Podolnick, and I had The Stahl House, also known as Case Study House #22. The Stahl House was built in 1960 in Hollywood, Califronia, and is incredibly famous for it’s appearence in advertisements and movies. The house is best known for it’s astounding view overlooking downtown Hollywood, and it redefines the typical wealthy house look. It is constructed out of corrugatRyan Clark ed steel, glass and concrete. All models and drawings are done in 3/16th scale. Jason Trutner
For the Case Study model, we decided to put an LED light under the floor plate in order to illuminate the model. The Stahl House is built around entertainment, and my partner and I wanted to capture that element within the model. 08
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Mondo Materialis
Tectonics
Stacked • View • Modern
Study Model
Hybrid Drawing
Perspective Drawing
For Mondo, I chose to focus on the stacked structure of The Stahl House, the view the house offers, and the modern materials it is built with. The hybrid drawing features a grid-like design with lines intersecting in all directions, as well as 270° circles, representing the houses view. The perspectives showcases the houses structure. The model features the same stacked structure, and is built with acryllic and steel rods to mimic the house’s modern materials.
Final Model
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The Tectonics Project was a culmulative project in which we built a model of a house that we have created on our own. The first step was a floor plate and a wall, and each week we added another step until we had a complete house. My Tectonics project features a grand staircase with a double height ceiling in the foyer area, as well as an open face exterior wall on the lower level. The flat roof design was inspired by The Stahl House.
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Visitors Center Structure
Panorama • Converge • Unobscured
Example FloorPlan
Walls Example FloorPlan
Elevation Example
Floor
Section Example
Exploded Axonometric
All drawings were done by hand, scanned, and digitally rendered.
For the final project, we were tasked with creating a visitors center that either compliments or contrasts with our case study house. I chose to compliment The Stahl House. In order to capture the concepts of the house, I referred back to the ideologies within Project 2: Mondo Materialis. Ryan Clark Jason Trutner
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Example FloorPlan
Perspective Drawings
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The model of the visitors center was created out of foam core, and corrugated cardboard.
Roof Structure Detail
Glass Facade Detail
When designing my visitors center, I put an emphasis on realism. I focused on how the glass facade would be constructed, as well as how the roof would be supported structurally.
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Collage
The Philadelphia Art Museum
Collage First Attempt
The first step in the Collage Project was to go to the Philadelphia Art Museum and take pictures. With these pictures in hand, we were tasked with collaging various pieces of different pictures together in order to create a place that wasn’t the art museum. It started off as a physical collage, and as the project carried on, we worked in between physical and digital.
Collage Second Attempt
Collage Final Product
Throughout the design process, I decided to create a space that is dark and gloomy, because that is the polar opposite of the Art Museum. The Final Product was created by photoshopping the second attempt physical collage. Ryan Clark Jason Trutner
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Monograph Designing Structures For Skyscrapers
Designing Structures For Skyscrapers Front Cover
Example Spread
Example Diagram
For the Monograph Project, we were able to choose a top within architecture, and then find 3 books written on that topic. I chose the structure of skyscrapers because that had always interested me. From there, we were tasked with scanning images from these books and creating our own mongraph in InDesign that summarized the information. For my topic, a lot of outside research was needed.
Physical Monograph
Physical Monograph
Physical Monograph
We were also tasked with creating a physical binding for the monograph. I achieved this by threading the pages together.
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Site Analysis Influence of Circulation Paths
Basemap
Sketched Site Analysis
CAD Analysis Hierarchy, Natural Site Features, Auto-Circulation
The Site Analysis Project revisited the Art Museum’s site. We were tasked with creating analysis diagrams in CAD. Everyone’s files were combined, and moved into illustrator.
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Final Site Analysis Attempt
Final Site Analysis
We then had to choose an area of study and create a graphical site analysis diagram in Illustrator. The topic I chose was the influence vehicular cirrculation had on pedestrian circulation.
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