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Architecture acts as a medium for me experience and explore the expression that self can have on culture. It allows the opportuity to critic society and search for a more honest way in which design can better humanity.
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“While U Wait”
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The Container
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Historical Innovation
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Photography
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Drawing Studies
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San Fransico, California
Black’s Heritage Farm, Iowa
Columbus, Indiana
Rome, Italy
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San Fransico: “While U Wait”
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While “U� Wait is an adaptive re-use project that is rooted in the cultural variety the city offers. The project is integrated in search of a new experiential architecture. By mixing restoration, preservation, and construction, this project creates a place where formal performances and daily routines become celebrated.
403 Studio: Fall 2013 Professor: Mitchell Squire Collaboration: Meredith Philips, Zach Bark
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1) Program diagram: structural system of the integration of users & sound function in
2) Interior model perspective: showing close up the boring mill and balancing pit installation 7
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1) Play models: spacial studies overlayed onto the building floor plans. Deals with how to occupy space while letting the voided space remain.
2) Collage models: reaction to play models, shifting 3 dimensional space into 2 dimensions and incorporating background nformation into a visual representation of spacial structure.
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1) Longitudinal section, reflected elevation
2) Installation line drawing depicting possible user interactions 11
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1) A working model allowed our thoughts to progress visually through the entirety of the project
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1) Full scale section of the lathe installation; which acts as a bench and platform for performance
2) 1/4� cast scale installation models fixed within the building’s historical context
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1) Details of isolated areas where the building would need updates to bring the building to code. These details are also combined with new designed interventions for the space. It is a technical look at how the existing would interact with the designed.
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1) Birds eye view of the space showing installations as well as the upper level restaurant and hanging offices.
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Black’s Heritage Farm: The Container
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The container, a now dormant corncrib acts as host to a new experiential venue that highlights the temporal qualities present in agricultural settings throughout Iowa. It reaches to facilitate a space for reflection on one’s self.
Studio: Spring 2014 Professor: Pete Goche Collaboration: David O’Brien
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1)Examining the body in space (the site), it silently fads into its surroundings and the mass be comes part of its surroundings.
2) Investigating how an object can portray silence. There is a stillness and a sense of reflection the light emits. We perceive to see everything, yet our view is inherently skewed by the warping glass.
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Photo survey exhibiting the current nature of the Black’s Heritage Farm. The second photo is the corncrib that serves as the container for our spacial phnemonon.
Looking at the nature of isolated objects at the site. These photos experiement with the nature of how context plays a role in persepations of space.
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Black’s Heritage Farm: The Container 1) Detail of the tonal mechanism 26
2) Full corncrib section of the installation 27
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1) Series of the mechanism in use, a pulley system is activated to create a tonal device.
2) A limited number of variables creates a space where one can reflect upon themselves. They can appreciate stillness and silence.
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Columbus: Historical Innovation
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Historical Innovation demonstrates the connection between the development of culture and the growth of the Columbus’ architecture. The museum hosts a rotating collection of cultural objects including fashion, music, and cars interspersed with the cities architecture throught the decades. The museum is designed to be flexible, this is facilitated by a moveable vignette system connected to a precast double tee. This embedded track system allows the museum to evolve with the collection.
401 Studio: Spring 2013 Professor: James Leach Collaboration: Laura Lynch
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4) Longitudinal section displays the top floor gallery space with a movable wall panel sections to allow for flexibility within the space.
1) second floor: gallery space 2) ground level: community & office space 3) below grade: archive and storage, connection to the existing library on site
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2) Transverse section showing the large window in the gallery. This was an opportunity to view the historical architecture of the site.
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Double tee depth- 2ft
Precast double tee- 4ft on center
Track Glide lenth- 6 in Precast track inset width- 6in Track opening- 3 in Panel Connector- 8in by 8in Wall Column- 2in by 2in
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1) Detail of double tee joint enabling the flexible wall system 2) Exterior wall section: comprised of primarily precast concrete and insulation
3) Detail operable model of moveable museum panel and how it will interact with the design wall joint 37
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1) Gallery vignette layout; the moveable wall panel allow for the gallery space to be flexible and alter as the collection changes
2) Gallery perspective showing the movable wall panel system allowing for changeable gallery spaces as the collection shifts
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1) Museum entry that looks onto the courtyard space and the surrounding historical architecture. 40
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Photography
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Photography is a medium that allows me to view my surroundings through a new perspective. It acts as an alternative method to express my creativity and capture moments that may be unseen.
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Graffiti Wall 44
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Jazz Hall Interior 46
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Iowa farm 48
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Piano 50
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Rome: Drawing Studies
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This study began with my interest in light and shadow and its impact on a structure. As I explored this, the piece expanded into how one views and choses to highlight characteristics of place. This study is about exploring the various perceptions of an object in space.
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