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Curriculum Vitae
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Frame House
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Interlocked: AIA R + D Facility
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Geode
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Raleigh Housing Matrix
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Raleigh Media Arts Center
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Precedent Study: Sendai Mediatheque
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Parametric Peaks
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FRAME HOUSE Tonic Design | Tonic Construction Winter 2014
The Frame House begins with an internalized set of programmatic activities derived from the client’s pre-existing two houses compacted into a narrow, two-story box. Public interior activities are expressed through a series of pure, white portals that expand out of its original footprint and merge with the exterior. These portals become formal expressions that boldly demarcate a sense of arrival and departure, but also allow light to interact with the interior while providing various views to the exterior.
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INTERLOCKED: AIA R+D FACILIT Y Professor Patrick Rand + Dennis Stallings Spring 2015
The AIA R+D Facility serves as a place where newcomers can potentially cross paths with designers and builders who are exposed to the tools and knowledge necessary to innovate for better design in the community. The building attempts to accommodate two different users each approaching from two contrastive realms of the site. The southern end of the site adjoins Peace Street and is characteristic of noisy vehicular traffic but also is in close proximity to the NC Center for Architecture and Design. In contrast, the northern portion of the site is accessed from Seaboard Station Drive, which is indicative of a quiet, pedestrian-friendly atmosphere inclusive of restaurants, cafĂŠs and shops.
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GEODE Tonic Design | Tonic Construction Winter 2014
This house is situated to provide privacy from its neighbors while maximizing exposure to the view of the ravine the house hugs. The rusty corten texture provides a sheltered experience tied to the land while the living room, screen porch and master bedroom express a crystaline experience that opens itself up to the natural beauty of the site.
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RALEIGH HOUSING MATRIX Professor Thomas Barrie Spring 2014 In collaboration with David Gallo
Located between skyscrapers on one corner and single family houses on the other, the Raleigh Housing Matrix transitions residents and visitors from the public city block into intimately scaled microcommunities and streetscapes.
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BLOCK QUADRANT MICROCOMMUNITY Through an order of operations, the city block is pregressively broken down into basic 12x12x10.5 foot modules. These modules are then combined and scrambled to produce a multitude housing variants while allowing for a mixing of social classes around a community courtyard. Each unit’s square footage is determined by family size (1br, 2br, and 3br) and income level (S, M, L). 29
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RALEIGH MEDIA ARTS CENTER Professor Matthew Griffith Fall 2012
On a sunny day the Media Arts Center would shimmer back upon Raleigh as an invitation for the public to experience new media arts downtown. To ensure spatial efficiency on the 3446 ft2 site, the placement of the opaque service elements regulated the boundaries of the public gallery, library, lobby and theater.
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The Helios Modular School System is a demountable and transportable assembly of prefabricated modules that could combine to support a full-sized campus of middle school students. The campus is divided into three wings linked by a continuous circulation loop as a metaphor for students to live balanced lifestyles through the mind, body and soul.
HELIOS MODUL AR SCHOOL SYSTEM Professor Dana Gulling Spring 2013 In collaboration with Alex Backeris
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The “mind” is comprised of the library and
The “body” is contains of the administration,
The “soul” is made up of the auditorium
computer labs nested between the math
cafeteria, lockers and physical education
embedded into visual arts, drama, music
and science classrooms.
classrooms surrouding the gymnasium.
and english classrooms.
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The system transforms the social arangements of ordinary modular classroom design through the production of a wedge-shaped module that could be shipped in pairs and still remain with in the highway dimensions. The translucent Kalwall roofs allow for daylight to enter into the insulated classrooms, while dynamic louvers would be able to control the lighting and view conditions from any solar orientation. 43
DWELLING FOR A SCULPTOR Professor Rebecca Necessary Spring 2012
Two twisting masses emerge from the earth to provide the client with the means to exhibit his outdoor sculptures to visitors while maintaining a private lifestyle.
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By assessing the client’s daily activities in connection to the landscape, three comparitive lenses drove the programmatic organization of the dwelling: work vs living, public vs private, and interior vs exterior. An intuitive public path descends with the slope of the site as the transitional space between the twisting masses. The walls neighboring the two adjacent lots are introvertedly oriented to create a focused view towards nature.
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PRECEDENT STUDY: SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE Professor Matthew Griffith Fall 2012 In collaboration with Andrew Shields
Through an intensive study of the Sendai Mediatheque, design decisions were made to most clearly express Toyo Ito’s concept of fluidity. The building was analyzed through five critical lenses (orientation, circulation, program, structure, and circulation) to reveal the most crucial elements of the building: tubes, plates, and skin.
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Parametric Peaks Professor David Hill Fall 2014 In collaboration with Arsalan Abbasi, Will Sendor, Amanda Tan, Samantha Thimsen and Daniel Goldstein
The parametric wall was a semester long team exploration into the capabilities of plastics as a means to translate the digital concepts into materialized realities.
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Grasshopper and Rhino enabled the team to visualize a desired aesthetic, but the majority of the exploration was spent on the testing of different types of plastic and their extremes before failing. The MDF base grid with interchangable dowel heights allowed the team to produce a variation of thermoformed panels with a single mold.
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The newly imposed carpark structure would affect the daily patterns of lifestlye of the exisiting property as the retired couple find enjoyment in maintaining their gardens and landscape. Two massive stucco storage boxes act as anchors that delinate the space for the car while a thin planar roof shelters the whole form.
CANADERO CARPARK Tonic Design | Tonic Construction Spring 2015
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3606 Corbin St. Raleigh NC 27612 919-803-9845 dyji@ncsu.edu