DENVER PIERCE CURTIS
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INDEX
DECORATED DUCK
1-4
LOCKHART LIBRARY
5-8
CULTURAL CENTER
9-12
RECREATIONAL CENTER
13-16
MULTIMEDIA HOUSE
17-20
SUPERFLAT WORKSHOP
21-24
URBAN ENSEMBLE
25-28
THE DECORATED DUCK
DECORATED DUCK FALL 2018 The decorated duck or North Canton Public Library located in Canton, Ohio is a replacement for the existing library on the site, These location is chosen based on proposals done by Robert Venturi for various buildings within the North Canton area. The form of the building comes from material studies done playing with ideas of paint, foam, and a pad of sticky notes. The orientation, and movement of the materials mimics those three studies and how they would move, the sticky note pad peeling up on the corners, the paint dripping off of the foam, and the foam itself being the base form. The library has different areas for various ages, Childrens, Teen, and adult areas, along with a general stacks area and a cafe.
LOCKHART LIBRARY
LOCKHART LIBRARY FALL 2019 The idea of the building is to take the familiar and interject the new. Throughout Texas there are a number of various buildings all with their own unique identity but they all fall back to the familiar false facade ideas. Therefor, through using a familiar facade form to those surrounding site and adjusting it to then allow for the new to break through. This new form acts as a bridge between the downtown square of Lockhart to the residential zone of Lockhart. Moving from the commercial height and dropping off to the residential zone. The facade resting against the residential side acts not only as a facade but a monument for the city, a view only read from the residential side.
CULTURAL CENTER
CULTURAL CENTER SPRING 2018 The Cultural Center located in Ohio City, Ohio acts as a jump start for the town, a piece to liven up the area and bring a sense of grandure. The building allows for the community to begin to come together and creates an environment in which learning and eduction can grow, with studio spaces, a computer lab, offices, and a gallery space in which student works can be shown. The exterior skin of the building is based on what was refered to as a sublime model, this model took the site and abstracted it to create a pattern that was then applied to the form and allowed for appatures to be created through the facade.
RECREATION CENTER
RECREATION CENTER SPRING 2018 The Recreation center located in Ohio City, Ohio is designed to be a new space in which to bring the community together.The focus of the recreation center was on accessiblity of everyone, being able to reach the pool on the roof and the unground areas while ensuring everyone has the oppurtunity to move the the space the same way. This is done by using a systems of interior and exterior ramps allowing all walkable areas are ADA accesible and egress would be treated the same for everyone as to avoid exclusion.
MULTIMEDIA HOUSE
MULTIMEDIA HOUSE FALL 2017 The multimedia house looks to create a student focused work environment in the center of Kent State Universies campus. The building is designed to be entirely accessible to students to provoke learning and understanding of the structure and the environment. The building is host to a library, a black box theater, studio spaces, classrooms and various other program that students will have access to year round.
SUPERFLAT
SUPERFLAT WORKSHOP FALL 2018 This workshop will investigate a set of precedents as seen in elevation. More specifically, it will investigate a set of precedents as drawn in profile; a facade reduced to an edge and pressed into a flattened “image”. Profiles are full of iconicity and void of literal depth. To this end, we will not concern ourselves with the ways in which a precedent is meant to be “read”. Instead, we will look at buildings specifically in terms of their “edge” and the opportunities it may afford us in being able to read them as a flat surface. Workshop and abstract by: Jeff Halstead & Jon Rieke
URBAN ENSEMBLE
URBAN ENSEMBLE SPRING 2019 Urban ensembles is two parts Part one looks at the redesign or reorganization of the campus of the columbus college of art and design. It proposed a variety of changes. The design of the campus comes from looking at a motherboard and how the pieces of the motherboard interacted with one another, the pieces were developed including four of which that became additional buildings. Part two looks into developing on of the four proposed buildings. The project looks to challenge the modularity of the structue and the strangeness of that modularity through the accumulation of different buildings with familiar fenestrations on their facades and seaming together to curate them to work with the existing underlying mass that acts as the grid for these to be applied to.