SELECTED WORKS [2011 to 2016]
DAWSON CLARK PORTfolio 1
ARCHITECTURE
SELECTED WORKS 23rd STREET LIBRARY
Oklahoma City
BRICKTOWN BREWERY Oklahoma City
SAN JUAN OCEANARIUM Puerto Rico
PORTLAND URBAN DESIGN Portland
SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS Europe Study Abroad 2014
2012 2016
In Oklahoma City, the sole project of Studio VII was the comprehensive design of a library in the historic downtown in an effort to reactivate the area and bring a cultural emphasis back in to a previously high activity city center.
The second half of Studio VI was dedicated to designing a brewery in the heart of Oklahoma City, in a area with a strong emphasis on the pedestrian experience.
The first project of Studio VI, the Oceanarium was a look into the real world development of the Bahia Urbana oceanfront in San Juan and the design of an aquarium specializing in large sea animals.
The capstone project for my undergraduate program consisted of a two-and-a-half block development in the center of Portland’s primary retail district. This team project developed into a 1.5 million square foot design based around art, retail, residential and general mixed use.
As part of the integrated European Studies program at Oklahoma State, I spent ten weeks travelling through four European countries, sketching, and journaling.
RESUME
DAWSON CLARK
BACHELOR DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE: Expected May, 2016 School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK GPA Fall 2015: 3.655 MINOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY: Expected May, 2016 School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK C3 INSPECTION: GIS plotting and CAD Summer 2013 -Operated surveying equipment and plotted oil line locations. Welding Assistant Summer 2011 -Fabrication CALDERON CONSTRUCTION Contracting and Construction Assistant -Worked in all points of construction PELLA PRIZE WINNER Oklahoma State University PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL Oklahoma State University DEAN’S HONOR ROLL Oklahoma State University EAGLE SCOUT Boy Scouts of America McKNIGHT LEADER SCHOLAR AWARD Oklahoma State University VALEDICTORIAN Fort Elliot CISD, High School, Briscoe, TX
806.323.3025 dawson.clark@okstate.edu
REVIT RHINO GRASSHOPPER AUTOCAD INDESIGN PHOTOSHOP MUSIC: ARTIST:
MODEL BUILDING LASER CUTTING 3D PRINTING ILLUSTRATOR SKETCHING Piano and guitar Charcoal, pencil, marker, watercolor
GRAPHIC JOURNALING ARCHITECTURAL DETAILING
Summer 2012 Spring 2015 Spring 2014 Summer 2014 Fall 2014 Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Spring 2011
TOM SPECTOR Phone: Email: JEFFREY WILLIAMS Phone: Email: JERRY STIVERS Phone: Email:
405-744-6043 tom.spector@okstate.edu 405-744-6043 jeffrey.williams@okstate.edu 405-744-6043 jerry.stivers@okstate.edu
Award: 1st place Pella Prize: 4th year design.
LIBRARY: UPTOWN OKLAHOMA CITY Fourth Year, Comprehensive Studio VII, Dr. Spector (13 weeks)
CONCEPT project premise This project entailed designing a new branch library in downtown Oklahoma. This library’s program required a large community space and a strong focus on creating an environment that would be inspirational for children to learn in. I wanted my design to act as a light in the dark, drawing the community into it to experience knowledge and technology in a space conducive to learning.
3PM TIMELINE sunlight studies
6PM
MATERIALS fitting to the sourroundings 9PM DARK STEEL
for details and accents.
STAINLESS STEEL MESH:
sunscreen, adjusting as the sun angles change.
BRICK:
to relate to the context.
CONTINUITY form
focus space: details.
Roof Drain
CHARACTER structure
I chose to utilize a heavy timber structure, exposed and highlighted with indirect lighting, combined with expanses of tilted glass walls, shaded with a steel mesh skin. Large sweeping wood girders wrap around and encapsulate the collection spaces of the library. This combination allowed for great control over the quality and the quantity of natural light that enters the space.
PLANNING ground floor
second floor
Cafe
Lobby
Staff
Community
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SECTION vertical relationships
Childrens’s Library Mechanical Floor
Administration/Offices
Collections
Reading Area
SYNTHESIS the final composition
CONCEPT. This project, a brewing academy in the center of historic Bricktown, OKC, represented my first challenge in designing a multipurpose building in a very pedestrian oriented, urban area of downtown Oklahoma City. This design focuses on reinterpreting contextual elements in a creative and contemporary manner while working within a strict set of code limitationsa regarding footprint, materiality, and building heights.
BRICKTOWN BREWERY: OKC 4th year, Studio VI, Prof Stivers (4 weeks)
BEER GARDEN The multipurpose nature of this design is coordinated in a way that showcases the different function housed within. The pedestrian access linking the lower level of the canal and the street corner is designed as a diagonal that separates the cafe and the brewery, allowing views between them. On the upper floors, this datum is expressed as an outdoor atrium with the circulation spaces for the upper floors bridging across and along the length of the diagonal. The facade is expressed as a series of shifting planes of brick with varying patterns that allow natural light through, creating a surface that interacts with the pedestrian scale.
PEDESTRIAN PATH
Canal Level
-1
Street Level
Brewery
Cafe
East Elevation
1
Academic Levels
Brewery
Laboratory
Cafe
Offices
West Elevation
2-3
Housing Level
Housing
4-5
OCEANARIUM: San Juan, Puerto Rico Fourth Year Design Studio VI, Prof. Awilda Rodgriquez (4 weeks). Media: Rhino, V-Ray.
EXPLORING OCEAN STRATA
The design is driven by the desire to provide users with the ability to experience the differentiation between the multiple levels of ocean life, beginning at the bottom and working their way up as they circulate through the oceanarium floors and move vertically through the tanks, tunnels, and exhibits to emerge outside at the interactive hands-on pools.
SITE form
The roof of the Oceanarium is split into two levels, with the lower one serving as a green roof builds up from the ground plane therefore allowing access for pedestrians from the promenade and the bike bridge. This green roof looks over into the atrium space of the building, inviting people in and providing a backdrop of activity for the circulation of the oceanarium
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The atrium serves as a vertical organizing spacial element that runs throughout the length of the Oceanarium, providing a sense of location for the people that are moving throughout the building. It can be seen from all levels of the exhibits and looks out over the green roof and towards the rest of the Bahia Urbana.
PLANNING SUPPORT/PARKING
ENTRY LEVEL
SECOND LEVEL
THIRD LEVEL
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Parking Loading Processing Storage Filtration Ocean Tank Hands-on
H I J K L (F)
Animal Care Auditorium Food Prep Lobby Tanks Ocean Tank
M N O P (F)
Research Manatee WC Coral Reef Ocean Tank
M N Q (O) R S (F)
Research Manatee Mangrove WC Bioluminescent Jellyfish Ocean Tank
VERTICAL EXPERIENCE sections
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SHORT SECTION
STEEL MOMENT FRAME on outside of enclosure
RESEARCH
MANATEE
SPIDER CONNECTORS hold glass to cable mullion system PIPE FRAME provides structural support for the tension cables CABLES cross in elevation and plan to provide lateral support for glass curtain walls CABLES connected to moment frame carry weight of cantilevering floor plates Cantilevering FLOOR PLATES for circulation within the atrium Pedestrian accessible GREEN ROOF looks into atrium DOUBLE PANE GLASS with clips for removable storm panels DROP CEILING set back from edges of space and open at ends to partially reveal systems
WC
CORAL REEF OCEAN TANK
WC
THE DETAILS
The goal of the second part of the project was the design and development of a wall section taken out of the whole of the oceanarium. The section I chose to take was of the public circulation corridor with part of the manatee pool and the lobby.
The development was focused on the structure and detailing of the curtain wall that glazed the atrium space of the circulation area of the plan. Instead of a standard aluminum mullion system or even a glass fin mullion, the structural support for the glass curtain wall is composed of, a system of cables and rods that are attached to rhe glass by spider connections.
PORTLAND: URBAN DESIGN STUDIO TEAM
5th year, Urban Design Studio, Prof’s Williams & Richardson (7 weeks)
J. Jimenez parametrics
T. Buser planning
C. Hoskinson P. manager
J. Putnam research
D. Clark
P. architect
CONCEPT. The cohesive development of two and-a-half blocks in the center of downtown Portland, Oregon lead to a design driven by unifying the interactions of the pedestrians with their built environment and providing them with an iconic design solution for the center of the city. In the case of Portland, the artistic nature of the populace and the density of the city drove a design based around experiencing art, in the form of a museum created to display the unique expression of creativity found in Portland as a sort of canvas for the city.
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This project, in terms of concept, consisted primarily of an attempt to provide an iconic space to display the non-traditional art that is unique to the Portland area. This art museum would be an identitying piece of architecture for the downtown area, connecting the retail core and the arts districts located adjacent to the project site.
Movement
SKIN sunlight management METAL FRAME HEX-SKIN 5’ out from envelope
ROOFTOP TERRACE covered by hexagon skin
MURALS: commisioned on envelope framed by hexagons
There are two distinct skin systems used in this project, one being the parametric hex-skin used on the bar that comprises the museum aspect of the program. This skin is used to provide a recognizable symbol for the museum while simultaneously integrating multi-colored programmable lighting systems for artistic installations at night and parametrically designed shading for the day. The other skin system is a more subtle application of fritted glass panels layered over the enclosing curtain walls of the residential tower. These walls are pushed and pulled to create variance in the floor plates to provide for balconies and patios unique to each set of floors, which are grouped in 6 floor community pods.
PLANNING uses
Simply alotting 3 blocks of the city center for the exlusive use of a museum would not solve all of the issues found in this area; Portland, as a city, wishes for a solution to the housing crisis found in its downtown area as well as a continuation of the strong retail presence and mixed use development native to a pedestrian oriented city such a Portland.
PURPOSE
In order to provide for all of the needs of the site, providing pedestrian linkages, public spaces, living spaces, work spaces, and retail functions all needed to be included and organized within the 1.5 million square foot development. All of these functions were organized with the art museum comprising the iconic center of the project.
Art Museum Gallery Outdoor Spaces
RETAIL
COMMERCIAL
ART MUSEUM
RESIDENTIAL
GREEN SPACES
LOFT character
Residential
Modern Art
section
Office/Commerical
Retail
RESIDENTIAL section LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SHORT SECTION
The tower comprises the residential aspect of the program, made up of 30 floors of apartments, with a selection of type from two-story single bed lofts, single bedroom apartments, and two or three bedroom apartments organized along a double loaded corridor. These floors are grouped in pods that allow for whole or partial floors to be dedicated green spaces.
HOUSING
SCALE MODEL 1:20
286 Man Hours of Labor 1128 Pins (to attach skin to tower) 16 Sheets of Chipboard 42 Hours on Laser Cutter
SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS: CATALOGING THE EXPERIENCE OF STUDYING IN EUROPE
SUMMER 2014
These drawings represent my experiences during my time abroad for the European Studies program at Oklahoma State University. Seventy days spent travelling across four countries yielded over 100 sketches plus 3 notebooks filled with graphic journaling exercises and studies of the myriad public spaces and works of architecture that I viewed. I have selected these few drawings as examples of my skills using multiple forms of media and multiple types of subject matter. In terms of production, these ranged from less than ten minutes to more than one hour spent drawing with all of them done on site. This specific selection of drawings include works done in charcoal or pencil on white paper and white charcoal on black paper.
DAWSON CLARK