CULLEN DAVID SMITH ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
Table of Contents Clemson University Graduate Studio
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The Cove Recycling Urban Gardens
Texas A&M University Under-Graduate Studio
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Texas Architecture Center Roatan Public Hospital The Open Box Theater Millican Resort
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Quandary Skyscraper Study Hand Drawings
The Cove Professor | Henrique Hoyeque Year | Fall 2017 Individual Project
With the number of refugees increasing drastically across the European content in recent years, there has be a spike in individuals living on the streets. In Italy alone there are an estimated 50,700 displaced humans living without shelter or means of decent living. The Cove is a response to this dilemma by reimagining how a shelter for the homeless can provide both short and long term remedies. Housing 88 beds distributed into ten apartment style units, the inhabitants live in small “families� where they share the amenities of the unit and interact with each other. The units are arranged along a single loaded corridor facing southwest towards the Italian Rivera, and share four open courtyards that separate the units. Each unit opens to these courtyards while facing the adjacent units to promote even further socialization while building the sense of a community within the Cove. Along the ground floor are offices and open floor store space to provide counseling, medical attention and other needs that can easily be given on site to the inhabitants. The roof of the Cove has been made accessible to the ground floor and the walkway along the retaining wall, adding a pedestrian flow from all possible approaches to the site. The Cove blends into an already dense urban space with its concrete formed structure while lightening its feel with its openings and subtracted spaces between units. It provides necessary needs for the less fortunate and interacts with the local residents, allowing for the community as a whole to grow and develop all together.
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The main headquarters that run the cove and oversee the inhabitants and activities on the grounds. Counseling is offered to help locate distant relatives, find permanent residences and career searching.
Elevated from the street level, the walk way and stairwell above the retaining wall are distanced from the highly crowded freeway below. The level serves as a temporary market where fruit and vegetables grown on the cove can be sold to the local residence in the adjacent neighborhoods.
LIVING QUARTERS| A series of 10 apartment units and terrace
gardens for food to be grown and consumed for the inhabitants. The cove can house up to 88 individuals, with rooms holding four each.
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Five viewing decks raised above the overpass to offer views over the shipping yard towards the west, four greenhouses are located on the east side of the roof, allowing for agricultural development in the dense urban site. Providing for the market and contributing to the income of the cove.
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Each unit opens to these courtyards while facing the adjacent units to promote even further socialization while building the sense of a community within the Cove. Each courtyard houses a series of planters for fruit trees, shrubs and vegetables that are tended to by and intended for the inhabitants. This makes food access easy for the community while also giving these people agricultural knowledge and skills that they can apply in their future.
Recycling Urban Gardens Professors | Ulrike Heine David Franco Ufuk Ersoy Henrique Hoyeque Year | Fall 2016 Team | JT Pennington + Cullen Smith
Recycling Urban Gardens is an adaptive reuse of an existing Brutalist, concrete structure that once served as the headquarters for the city’s newspaper. The project breathes new life in two scales: the outdoor urban condition and building scale that facilitate a variety of programs. The design uses a series of precise surgical removal into the city block to generate five buildings and an open community space at the center. There are multiple routes to pass through the site, each of which possess unique views and features. The site is in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, with an adjacent park to the south, which is divided from the project site by the city’s river.
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Recycling Urban Garden hosts a diverse variety of programs, including a 42 bed hostel (26,380 SF), cafe/ bar (5,930 SF), office (2,600 SF), a 26 unit apartment complex (15,320 SF), athletics facility (17,840 SF), live/work retail (17,270 SF), and a restaurant (12,800 SF). These buildings shelter the urban garden which has interior elements including inhabitable steps for social gathering spaces, cooling pools, and planted trees for shade.
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Program Land Use & Site Ecology A city park is adjacent to the south of the site and most of the city’s business is to the north; recycling urban gardens is an extension of the park upward and brings the city down, creating an urban garden that is a hybrid of both the city and the park’s landscape. The urban garden creates a micro ecosystem inside of the streets using trees to provide shade, large cooling ponds evaporating water to bring cool air into the buildings through natural ventilation. The ironwood and sourwood trees are both Southern plants, and the garden uses centipede grass because of the expected high traffic at greenscape areas. Irrigation for these elements are provided from graywater system from the rainwater harvesting cistern.
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The decision to make the urban garden with a central space for social gathering, reflection, and resting was present from initial design. The site sits on the in the heart of downtown on Main Street, which has a culture of pedestrian friendly wide sidewalks, storefront shopping, small businesses, and restaurants with sidewalk cafe exterior seating. The design complements the context of Main Street by placing the live/work retail units along the Main Street corridor, but providing multiple locations to get off of the axis of Main Street and into a more enclosed garden space. The new parking is only below the apartments.
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Design & Innovation Central to the idea of adaptive reuse was reusing as much of the existing building as possible; design of the urban garden and the hostel focuses on natural daylighting and natural ventilation. Multiple passive strategies are used in the form and the urban garden scale: passive solar brisole and fin shading devices, operable windows and doors, evaporative cooling pools, and landscape providing shade to make the site thermally comfortable.
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The Hostel uses 85% of the existing structure of the previous building, and new exterior walls are concrete for high durability and low maintenance. The exposed waffle slab is visible in most of the building, with limited new ceilings only at areas with overhead plumbing. To deal with sound absorption, homasote is used as accent wall paneling and patrons could use the sound boards as a continuous art gallery, pinning new artwork to the sound panels with push pins. Metric: 125+ years life expectancy
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100% of the public program in the hostel has natural light; all of the rentable sleeping rooms have a window and user customizable dampers that allow the building to passively breathe; the hostel units are overhung around the north, west, and south perimeter of the building and have holes in the floor for cool air intake; hot air is exhausted up a thermal chimney between the floors and out the roof. The two urban gardens inside the hostel provide opportunities for both daylighting and operable windows to permit cool breezes to pass through the entire building. The second and third floor hostel gathering spaces look south towards the urban garden, where the private dwelling rooms offer Main Street and Broad Street views to the city. Metrics: 92% of the building is daylit, 86% of the spaces have views outdoors, and 74% of the building is within 15’ from an operable window.
Texas Architecture Center The Texas Architecture Center is a multifunctional space for architects and citizens of Houston to increase their knowledge about architecture and its relationship with the city. It is important for the center to showcase exemplary environmental consciousness and enhance the urban fabric. The Texas Architecture Center will be home for the Texas Society of Architects. One of the main concepts for the program is to enhance the public realm’s knowledge about architecture. The experience of the building will teach its visitors about design and heighten their understanding about architecture. This building will provide adaptable spaces including an auditorium, exhibition hall, gallery, library and tech center, materials and bookstore, a cafe/bar, and a multifunctional space. This center will have conferences and different exhibitions for educational and professional services.
Professors | Marcel Erminy - Architecture Shelley Holliday - Structures Lillian Beltran - Systems Year | Fall 2014 Team | Jen Hocke + Cullen Smith
Houston, Texas
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Roatan Public Hospital The Roatan Public Hospital is a proposed health facility for the Honduran island. The hospital is able to tend to up to 60 patients at once. The form of the building was derived from a leaf as a symbol of an object that provides for its greater being. The curved external walls provide a comforting approach for anyone visiting the hospital. They will also redirecting any and all winds that the island could experience in anytime of the year. Each patient’s room has a view to the outside while also providing natural lighting. The center piece of the hospital is the central ramp that connects the floors and is the main pathway for the patients; the rooftop clerestory is located directly above the ramp and brings light into the waiting area.
Professor | George Mann Year | Spring 2015 Team | Martha Salinas + Cullen Smith
Roatan atan Island, Isla and, Honduras
*Roatan Public Hospital was featured in Healthcare Design Magazine in the November 2015 issue.
The sketch, building parti and section were completed by myself. The building model was completed by me while the surrounding site elements were added by Martha. The floor plans were done by both Martha and I. The building to the Southwest was done by another team for separate class.
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The Open Box Theater is an open concept theater. The building takes the form of an extruded cube surrounded by the suporting functions of the complex, dominating the overall structure and representing the focus of the theater space. The roof of the theater is retractable to create an open environment. The extents of the building consists of a two-story lobby in front and office space in back. The front corner is articulated with a curtain wall protected with a deep overhang, reducing direct contact from sunlight and natural precipitation. The exterior is constructed of concrete walls nestled within the context, glass for an open feel on the corner entrance and corten steel construction for the theater box. This adds an industrial and rustic feel and rejects eccentricity for context utalization.
Professor | Brian Gibbs Year | Spring 2014 Team | Jason Teal + Cullen Smith
Dallas, Texas Dallas Tex
The physical model of the building was done by myself while the model of the site was completed by the entire class. The story board concepts and aerial view were done by myself. The renderings and circulation diagrams were done by both Jason and I.
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The design for the Millican Resort consist of a twenty room inn, a conference center, a restaurant, ten cabins, and outdoor trails. The main goal of this design is allow the guests to become aware of the natural landscape surrounding them. By elevating the rooms of the inn, guests will be able to view not only the lake but also a heightened view of the forest. There is a path that traces the perimeter of the site and underneath the inn itself for guests and locals to walk and explore views of the lake and peaceful environment. The concept of this design is to minimize deviation of the natural landscape and preserve the forest by limiting the number of structures that will be built.
Professor | Phil Tabb Year | Spring 2013 Team |Kimberly Tran + Cullen Smith
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The rendering, aerial view, section, and sketches were completed by myself. The floor plans were worked on by both Kim and I.
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Quandary
Quandary is a board game designed around the concept of decision making. The players move in either a forward left or forward right direction, and NEVER backwards. The game teaches the players about making crucial decision making without the luxury of undoing something they had done prior to their turn. No jumping. No removing of pieces. The first player to effectively move their captain (located in the corner with a black pin stripe at the base) to the other corner of the board wins. The choice is simple...left or right?
Professors | Jim Barker Year | Spring 2017 Individual Project
The board is carved out of a single block of pine wood, and the pieces are shaped from the excess material. Dimensions for the pieces were developed based on the lengths of human fingers, to fit comfortably into a players hand, while responding to the boards diamond shape.
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Skyscraper Study The Skyscraper Study is a conceptual structure that cultivates a dual-hybrid-diagrid structural system. The vertical load structure is distributed within the building, avoiding any damage from external force on to the building. The horizontal load structure wraps along the outside of the building, acting as a wide stance to maintain stability and reducing sway. Bringing these two structures together, the third structure is a series of curved columns that transmit any horizontal force from the outside of building into the center and downward with the rest of the buildings vertical load. Rather than fighting the frontal winds, the floor is in the form of an ellipse with the narrow ends facing North/South redirecting the winds around the building.
Professor | Shelley Holliday Year | Spring 2015 Individual Project
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Personal Hand Drawings In my spare time I enjoy working and enhancing my drawing skills. Whether it is a sketch of what I see or a conceptual abstraction, I use my time to focus on the image and emotion that I want to convey to the viewer. I typically draw with ink pens and graphite pencils. The following are samples of my work.
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