Daniel Murrow Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PORTFOLIO Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Undergraduate Architecture Studies 2010-2014 Daniel Clark Murrow, B. Arch.

Nature + Artifice Nature dictates all things A structure from within A dome that protects A grid work formation Radiating outward to form this edifice Alone useless Only in the presence of its counterpart – Can its true performance be recognized The absence, the incompleteness Dependency Not even balance can be obtained Not without a certain dependency Nature, Gravity, takes control Curves, symmetry, structure All present, but inadequate Without the object with which to perform on Internally or externally oriented Solid or hollow Singular characteristics are meaningless Performance through relationship The stability is realized.

FOLLY: a small structure free from the conditioning of specific use, a place with no major purpose other than the enjoyment of the experience. An opportunity for the exploration of ideas, concepts, forms, material, structure, weather, seasons, and more.

Location: Ozark Plateau highland region of the centralUnited States - Arkansas second year architecture studio - fall 2010 professor: Paola Zellner-Bassett the essence of one natural and one man-made object were inspiration for the folly as it formed at the ridge of this plateau

RETREAT for a photographer Much like a camera uses light to develop photographs, this retreat is designed to capture light, pulling it inward to its spaces.

The architecture is also formed to project views outward, overlooking the valleys below as it sits among the forests of the Ozark Plateaus. The west side of the roof folds upward, opening to a folly present on the site. The photographer would use this retreat while observing the folly and the surrounding plateaus and valleys. second year architecture studio - fall 2010 professor: Paola Zellner-Bassett

process modeling

Jorge Louis Borges WRITING INSTITUTE Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina “A shapeless mass of contradictory rough drafts.” A relationship that is not immediately identifiable, the writing institute begins to personify the ideas and themes found through Borges’ work; ideas of dreams, fiction and metaphors. Developed through an understanding that Borges’ words are not what they say, multiple levels of design are able to be created. The experience of the writing institute is then both logical and “contradictory.”

Aspects of materiality, procession, and scale all play a role in this unique spatial experience. second year architecture studio - spring 2011 professor: Paola Zellner-Bassett

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING academic cultural center Location: Blacksburg, Virginia The Academic Cultural Center for Aerospace Engineering was designed to include and inform the Blacksburg community of this field of study offered at Virginia Tech.

The cultural center builds out from the existing Randolph Hall, which houses the current classrooms and laboratories for Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. third year architecture studio - fall 2011 professor: Robert Holton

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING academic cultural center The form for the academic cultural center stemmed from the flight path of a rocket during the many stages of its mission. Visitors enter and are immediately taken underground to research laboratories. From there, a glass elevator ascends to the top level, with overlooks to the two large wind tunnels connected to Randolph Hall. Visitors can then make their way back to ground level, floor by floor, experiencing on-going projects and experiments carried out by aerospace and ocean students.

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LOADING DOCK 200 SQUARE FEET

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TRASH 200 SQUARE FEET

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SERVICE ELEVATOR MACHINE ROOM 100 SQUARE FEET

ARCHIVE/STORAGE 450 SQUARE FEET

MECHANICAL 200 SQUARE FEET

ARCHIVE 160 SQUARE FEET

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LIBRARY 1475 SQUARE FEET

DESCENDED PLATFORM 130 SQUARE FEET

LOBBY 400 SQUARE FEET

RESTROOMS 150 SQUARE FEET

ASCENDED PLATFORM 130 SQUARE FEET

DISPLAY 650 SQUARE FEET

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ELEVATOR MACHINE ROOM 100 SQUARE FEET

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LABORATORY 730 SQUARE FEET PARKING

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GROUND LEVEL

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FELLOWSHIP OFFICE 250 SQUARE FEET

CURATOR OFFICE 120 SQUARE FEET

RESTROOMS 100 SQUARE FEET

RESTROOMS 100 SQUARE FEET

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RESTROOMS 100 SQUARE FEET

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CLASSROOMS 500 SQUARE FEET

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CONFERENCE 180 SQUARE FEET

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COMPUTER PRINT/AV 250 SQUARE FEET

BOOKSTORE 400 SQUARE FEET

ASSISTANT OFFICE 130 SQUARE FEET DISPLAY 1500 SQUARE FEET

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE 200 SQUARE FEET

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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING academic cultural center The facade of the academic cultural center references wind tendencies and aerodynamics of flying vehicles.

Southwest Virginia PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Location: Roanoke, Virginia On an urban site in downtown Roanoke, a historical facade exists with commericial property and the central bus terminal for Roanoke Valley Metro. Maintaining the facade and the terminal use, a performing arts center is incorporated, giving Southwest Virginia a multi-purpose facility to stage local art and live performances.

Without using the entire footprint of the site, the main structure of the new center interacts with the existings facade, including some inhabitable glass cubes which protrude beyond the facade and into the street life.

Rainscreens cover the facade of the two main performance spaces, a smaller black box theater and a larger thrust theater. The design of this exterior cladding refer to the important transportation and railroad history of Roanoke. third year architecture studio - spring 2012 professor: Robert Holton

1ST STREET SW

CAMPBELL AVE SW

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PATTERN STUDIES

rainscreen design explorations

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FRIT ON GLASS CREATES RELATIONSHIPS TO VISUAL HISTORICAL REFERENCES WHILE SETTING THE THEATRICALEXPERIENCE

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RAINSCREEN PANELS ON PERFORMANCE SPACES ALLOWS FOR OPAQUE ENCLOSURE WHILE REFERENCING LOCAL MATERIALS ON THE CANTILEVERING VOLUMES

MASONRY EGRESS STAIRS FORM A TECTONIC SENSE AMOUNG THE FLOATING VOLUMES

PATTERN STUDIES

STRUCTURE EXPOSED ON REHEARSAL SPACES DELINEATES PRIVATE SPACE FROM PUBLIC - ENCLOSED WITH TYPICAL CURTAIN WALL ASSEMBLY

TEATRO VISTA ADAPTIVE REUSE G R E G

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AS AN ADAPTIVE RE-USE PROJECT, HOW CAN WE ALLOW HISTORY TO LIVE WHILE MOVING FORWARD? THE FUNERAL HOME GIVES US THE IDEA OF PROCESSION WHICH CAN BE USED TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN OUR OWN REALITY AND THE SHARED FANTASY THAT IS THEATER. THE PROJECT IS CONCEIVED AS A SEQUENCE MEANT TO REORIENT THE AUDIENCE AWAY FROM THEIR SENSE OF CONTEXT ALLOWING THEM TO BECOME MORE ENGAGED IN THE PERFORMANCE ITSELF. UPON EXIT, THE EMBODIED MEMORY OF THE PERFORMANCE IS REVEALED THROUGH THE BACK OF HOUSE, AND THE AUDIENCE CAN TAKE WITH THEM A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE PERFORMANCE CAME TO BE.

SHARED MOMENT

MEMORY CHICAGO STUDIO Location: Rogers Park, Chicago, IL a semester-long residency program for architecture and design students that provides a compelling alternative to the traditional academic learning environment. The program fully integrates education and practice by embedding A+D students within prestigious Chicago-based practices, creating a virtual campus and network of supporters who offer their time, space and knowledge. Its distinctive structure and curriculum promotes a collaborative design process encompassing multiple points of view within academia, the profession and broader community. fourth year architecture studio - spring 2013 professor: Andrew Balster

EUROPEAN STUDIES A study and travel itinerary is prepared specially each academic session, emphasizing various issues in design, urban studies, architecture and allied disciplines in the arts. Each travel program has approximately 8-9 weeks of organized travel. Students normally add two or more weeks of independent travel before returning to their homes. Courses in Design, History + Theory and Culture Study are offered each semester fourth year europe travel

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Individual elements, originating from a composed photograph, become decontextualized, allowing for the formation of a new composition. Without first breaking an existing relationship, the formation of new connections is severely limited. This is not to say that separated elements will not find the opportunity to rejoin in a similar fashion.

However, such elements, standing alone, have the possibility of finding a stronger context within the overall composition.

The recomposition of contextual elements allows the opportunity for better relational qualities that did not previously exist, activating and bringing focus to specific moments within the larger composition. Although the content has not changed, our understanding of it as a whole has.

Subject matter of this newly composed set of relationships is not defined, nor particularly important. The importance is that tools of connection can be found which are fundamental to this thesis because they endure throughout the exploration. advisor: Paola Zellner-Bassett

the composition of various degrees of shading define the elements of the collage with either distinct or gradual continuity

directionality of pieces establishes a relational character outside immediate proximity with regard to the holistic composition

Thank-you for your consideration

Daniel Clark Murrow School of Architecture + Design Virginia Tech, 2014

chicago studio document http://issuu.com/dcmurrow89/docs/murrow_chicagostudio_2/1 thesis document http://issuu.com/dcmurrow89/docs/140725_thesis/1