EB.Arch dw a r d R. W i n n 2014 | Selected Works| UNC Charlotte
table of contents
resume
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Vault
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Urban eden
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Competition|Solar Decathlon 2013
[tri] vents 15 Charlotte active learning center 21 Current
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Competition Entry
urban housing studio 29 Studio Competition
bamboozler 33 Research Grant
central europe 35 Digital Photography
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E d w a r d R. W i n n 1005 California Street, Kannapolis, NC eddiewinn@gmail.com | 704.224.4106 www.linkedin.com/pub/edward-winn/89/783/7a3
Education
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Bachelor of Architecture 2013 | 2014
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Bachelor of Arts in Architecture 2009 | 2013
Cum Laude
Study Abroad Central Europe with UNCC_SoA Summer 2012
Germany | Czech Republic | Austria | Hungary | Slovakia | Poland
Rowan Cabarrus Community College Associate of Arts | Sciences 2007 | 2009
Work
Teacher’s Assistant SoA | UNC Charlotte 2014 | Current
Teacher Assistant for Computational Practice course.
Research Assistant Digital Arts Center | SoA | UNC Charlotte 2012 - Current
Designed, developed, and built projects conscious of material constraints, characteristics, and efficiency utilizing advanced architectural form-making methods.
Fabrication Shop Worker Sign Art | Charlotte, NC 2012 | Current
Ran CNC machinery fabricating sign faces and components. Also worked assembly phase of sign building.
Fabrication Lab Assistant Fabrication Lab | SoA | UNC Charlotte 2010 | Current
Operate and supervise use of laser cutters, CNC plasma cutter, CNC router, 3d printers.
Summer 2013
Member of primary construction team. Involved as primary team member throughout entire project.
Construction Solar Decathlon House | Urban Eden | UNC Charlotte
Whitewater River Guide Nantahala Outdoor Center | Nantahala National Forest | Bryson City, NC Summer 2010 | 2011 | 2012
Worked as river guide leading families and large groups down the Nantahala River. Qualities required and expanded upon included leadership, teamwork, ability to anticipate situations, and ability to relate to and gain trust of participants.
Student Intern Lorenz Architecture | Concord, NC 2005 | 2009
Responsibilities included working on CDs, site surveying, secretarial and inventorial work.
Notable Projects | awards
Solar Decathlon Competition 2013 Urban Eden _ UNC Charlotte 2011 | 2013
Received People’s Choice Award. Received 3rd Place in Engineering Competition for innovative Geopolymer Concrete. Involved in material research and development of innovative Geopolymer Concrete aspect of project. Designed and developed facade of home, fabricating and building formwork using our in-house fabrication machine tools. Employed by University as member of construction team. Helped build then disassemble home in Charlotte, transport to California, and re-assemble. Once competition started, gave informative tours to the public.
SoA | Studio Competition Urban Housing Studio Spring 2012
Awarded 1st Place. SoA at UNCC designated the 3rd year studio as a competition. The final review was made of three rounds of reviews with different jurors per review; eliminations until final.
SoA | Grant Research Through Making Grant Spring 2013
Awarded $500 grant to design, develop, build project of personal interest in which methods of advanced digital form-finding and fabrication were utilized.
Skills
Digital
Analog
Affiliations
AIAS Charlotte Green Initiative
Mac platform | Windows platform | Rhino3D | AutoCad | Revit Basics | Rhino_Grasshopper | Rhino_Vault | Rhino_Nest | VRay Render | Maxwell Render | Adobe Creative Suite | Microsoft Office Model-making | Prototyping and fabrication | CNC Routing | CNC Plasma Cutting | Laser Cutting | Powder-based 3D Printing | Plastic-based 3D Printing | Familiar with traditional wood-working and metal-working
Member Member
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Vault
Overview
The Vault project was an exercise in which a complex, computationally derived form was designed and built using advanced methods of digital design and fabrication. Material characteristics were used to establish the parameters within which we worked. Rhino, Rhino_Vault, and Grasshopper were the software tools used for form generation. The machines utilized were laser cutters (for small-scale mockups), and a CNC router and CNC plasma cutter for full-scale fabrication. Minimizing waste was one of the primary goals of the project. Rhino_nest was used to most efficiently organize our cut files for the CNC router and CNC plasma cutter. However, our efforts to minimize waste began early on in the project and extended well beyond the life of the installation. The project became a successful exhibition of precycling.
precycle
With the notion of precycling in mind, we decided the Vault must be built of something with a use after disassembly. Ultimately, it was decided that the building unit be a small bench or table. The Vault’s surface would be made of plywood shapes, which became the tops of the tables and benches. Sheet steel was used for the supports. Varying cut patterns allowed the sheet steel to be folded into a 3-dimensional support structure. However, they were left out of the full installation due to issues of weight. Upon disassembly, each wood panel was matched with its own steel support. We assembled each set into a bench or small table, and gave them away to students, faculty, and staff. A preliminary competition decided which student’s table/bench design would be used as the building unit, in turn making them project leader. My design was chosen.
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computation
Once the final form was found using Rhino_ Vault, the surface was divided into separate panels, which were then individually processed in Grasshopper. The script shown accomplished three tasks: -references vault form and extracts individual panels at a time. -establishes points and cut paths along the perimeter of a [plywood] panel, which became locations for the connection components that attach one panel to another. -generates the cut paths and perforation patterns for the [plywood] panel’s associated steel support. Final cut paths for one of the wood panels [below] and the matching steel support [above] are shown to the far right, bottom. A secondary script generated the components used for attaching each wood panel to each adjacent panel. Upon inputting two adjacent panels into the script, the basic connection component profile would adjust to accommodate the angle between the panels [immediate right]. We also employed a simple pin method to ensure that structural integrity.
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fabrication | Assembly
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Urban eden Solar Decathlon 2013
Solar Decathlon 2013
My involvement with the team began at the project’s early phase in October of 2011, the proposal. I was a member of the founding proposal team. Collaborating with a group of architecture and engineer students we developed a strong conceptual design on which to expand over the next 2 years. Throughout the course of the project my areas of involvement varied. The arenas in which I contributed the most were Material Research, Facade Design, Formwork Research and Development, and Construction. Upon finishing the initial construction of the home in Charlotte, NC at our university, I traveled with the team to Irvine, California for the competition.
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material research
Geopolymer flyash concrete is relatively new to the building industry, at least in the scale we applied the material technology. As far as we know, our home was the first occupiable structure to be built of flyash concrete. Before we could commit to using, or even be allowed to use, the flyash geopolymer concrete we needed to develop a better understanding of its properties and characteristics. A fellow architecture student [Michael Kinard] and myself teamed up with a group of civil engineers to develop our case for using the new material. The defining difference between our geopolymer concrete and typical concrete is in the admixture. We substituted 100% of the portland cement in the concrete with flyash. The production process of portland cement is a huge contributor of CO2 emissions. Flyash, however, is a by-product of coal production. By using flyash as a substitute, we are recycling a waste product and are not adding to the demand for portland cement. Replacing a key admixture component changed the material’s characteristics and behaviors. Our team was in charge of learning what these differences were, as well as ensuring that we would be able to achieve the desired aesthetic and workability to justify using the material.
small scale tests
The initial researching and testing we performed was to prove that we were able to meet the required strength. Many test batches were made. We also used this opportunity to test different admixtures and textures in attempt to find an aesthetic we would like to explore for the final finish of the home. Below are some examples of the tested finishes, as well as the procedure for testing.
Intermediate Scale Tests
Once the appropriate strength results were achieved in labs at our university, we teamed up with a local concrete plant to begin testing the concrete in conventional concrete plant processes. We would eventually be using this plant’s resources and procedures to cast our walls. The biggest difference between our flyash concrete and typical concrete is the curing process. The flyash concrete lacks the chemical make up to produce an
exothermic reaction, preventing it from curing on its own. We initially tried to heat the concrete using forced air, which proved to be inefficient. Finally we found a solution that proved to be doubly beneficial. We attached pex tubing to the reinforcement, and once the concrete had been poured, we ran hot water through the tubes for an extended period of time. The same tubes were used later for radiant heating and cooling.
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facade design
As soon as it was decided that we were using geopolymer flyash concrete, Michael Kinard and myself were taken off of material research and were put in charge of designing and developing the facade of our home. We knew early on we would have to be as efficient as possible with our time and resources due to the curing process. As a way to reduce time spent building forms and material use, we planned to use reusable plastic form liners. The form liners we developed, and used to design the facades, were hexagonal tiles with varying extrusions. This method allowed us to achieve variation between each facade, with a minimum number of formliner tiles. One combination would be laid inside the formwork, poured, removed, and then rearranged for the next pour.
[Top] Full facade arrangement of tiles. [Above] Individual hexagonal tiles shown with varying extrusions. [Left] Three different iterations of facade achieved by simply rearranging a constant number of hexagonal tiles.
formwork
The plastic form liners were going to be produced by a local manufacturer. However, it was important to us that we design and build as much of the formwork in-house as possible. Michael Kinard and myself were in charge of this phase. Using our CNC router, we were able to fabricate a master mold of our hexagon tiles to send off to be massproduced. Although our CNC router was capable of cutting sloped surfaces, the resulting cuts would be scalloped in shape due to the type of bit and the design. We decided to create a custom jig that would allow us to achieve our sloped, milled surfaces, without any unwanted side effects. The jig held our material at the desired angle while the CNC router ran parallel to the ground. The result was a very clean sloped surface that did not need any post-production attention. Unfortunately, the plastic formliner manufacturer was only able to produce enough tiles for one of our test pours before their machines failed. We were then rushed to build the desired formwork for each wall out of plywood.
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[tri] vents
Overview
[Tri] Vents was a team project I was part of as a member of the Digital Arts Center. I worked with a fellow student [Christian Sjoberg] to replace a set of air-intake vent covers in our primary lecture hall. Rather than replace them with typical vent covers, we seized the opportunity to design and fabricate custom vent covers. We chose dibond as our material. We had already begun exploring dibond’s material capabilities and limits in other work, and decided to continue with [tri] Vents. Our goal was to explore dibond’s ability to be formed into complex, folding surfaces by manipulating typical digital fabrication methods while working within parameters set by the material itself.
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process | fabricate
Through other projects we were involved in, we already knew the potential of dibond as a flexible building material. The images to the right show the computation phase of the project. The script shown generated complex, curved surfaces, which became the vent covers [examples of iterations shown]. The surfaces were then triangulated, creating a multi-faceted, folding form. These triangulations became the cut paths for the CNC milling phase. Precision control of the cut depth allowed the dibond to be foldable and workable. Once we determined the appropriate depth to score the dibond we were able to create the complex forms we modeled digitally.
[before]
[after]
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charlotte active Learning center
Overview The Charlotte Active Learning Center will provide the community with a comprehensive explorative experience through the holistic integration of built form, ecological building components and active learning opportunities. The Learning Center will be an extension of the neighboring educational facilities by providing the learning community with a shared garden and a flexible multi-purpose space for exhibits, as well as group activities. Program spaces on the ground floor will include a cafe, light rail ticketing areas, and a city information display area. The second floor includes shared work spaces and offices for students from UNC Charlotte to collaborate with professors, as well as students visiting from local elementary schools. The majority of the program above will be speculative office spaces. The top floor will be a hands-on learning kitchen. Groups will be able to take cooking lessons, utilizing the community garden produce.
[ Current project ]
Material system research The south and southwest facing facades overlook the shared garden and offer the occupants expansive views into the community. The folding form of these facades will be achieved through varying orientations of fabric screen panels hanging from the curtain wall. Running solar insolation analyses on the facade determined which areas of the facade would be the most beneficial locations for photo voltaic integration. Depending on results from the solar analyses, certain fabric panels will be integrated with photo voltaics, and the remaining panels will be aesthetic, varying in color and opacity.
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[PRE]
overview
[PRE] was a team entry for the Flat Lot Competition in Flint Michigan, hosted by the Flint Public Art Project and the Flint Chapter of the AIA. The team was made up of Digital Arts Center employees: Christian Sjoberg, Shannon Hosey, Hank Schellenger, and myself. The competition asked for a design of temporary structures providing shelter, shade, and space for public events during the summer months. Innovative and contemporary methods of architectural form-making were to be used to design and construct the installation. Overall, the design guidelines were rather lenient. We saw this as an opportunity to employ our own limitations, letting us design within parameters we were interested in exploring. The afterlife of PRE of particular interest to us. We designed for disassembly with the notion of precycling in mind. Our installation would be able to be disassembled and donated to other purposes within the City of Flint. My contributions to the project included overall concept design, form exploration, prototyping, component fabrication, 3d modeling, and model renderings.
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Design | Develop | prototype
The installation creates different types of spaces through the varying arrangements of catenary arches and canopies that differ in size. Each catenary canopy arch is easily constructed using a combination of off-theshelf and prefabricated components. The arches’ catenary structure is constructed of conventional metal studs. Upon disassembly of the installation, these can be donated to a local construction charity. The steel joints connecting metal studs together are fabricated from flat sheet metal. They can be shipped flat and assembled on site, by hand. They are 100% recyclable. The panels of the arches are fabricated using sheets of dibond. The way in which we cut and perforate the dibond allows it to fold into different shapes and forms. During the installation these panels will give the canopies memorable, interesting textures and light conditions. Upon disassembly, individual dibond panels can stand alone as benches and bike racks throughout the city. Full canopy assemblies can also be placed throughout the city, functioning as bus stops and shaded benches.
adaptable joint
The joints connecting each metal stud to the next is folded into shape out of plasma cut sheet metal. The script shown only requires an input of two straight segments of the catenary structure. The outputs of the script (shown to left) are cut paths, used to produce the joints. A few initial iterations of the joint are shown to the far left. The final, simplified design is shown above, being folded into its final stage.
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Design | Develop | prototype
The dibond panels would be milled so that it could be easily bent into different shapes. Prototypes made of museum board are shown. Many iterations were done to explore the way in which different cuts and scores into the material would produce different shapes and forms. While one goal of the cut and formed dibond was to give the installation texture and a visual identity, another goal was a postinstallation function. We imagined some of the panels could become bicycle racks. The cuts into the dibond would be dimensioned to accommodate a bicycle wheel.
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Urban housing studio
overview The Urban Housing Studio (3rd Year Studio) was set in Durham, NC. The final review was a studio-wide competition. My project placed 1st. Our site was located only a couple blocks from both downtown and the residential district. I organized the site and building so that the housing complex would become a defined boundary condition between the two districts. The diagrams to the right show this edge condition and the direct connection between the two districts with a main road. Across the street from our site was a local farmer’s market. During appropriate seasons, the market is an active area on the weekends. The opposite corner of the intersection is a small park where kids and families can go in the evenings and on the weekends. The intention of my housing project was to become an extension of these two places. The housing complex would offer a third place for the community to gather, as well as comfortable living for the tenants.
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organization | form
The project’s organization, circulation, and facade were all derived from varying room-unit types and their arrangement, which ultimately defined the project as a boundary between the two districts. The diagrams and section shown here, illustrate the organization of a varying unit types and how they regulate the facade. Each unit shares a common width, but each vary in length. By aligning each unit on one side, the facade orientated toward the city became formally restricted and defined the edge. However, the opposite side, facing the market and garden, responded to the active and engaging environment over which it looked. The varying lengths created an undulating facade offering each unit a unique engagement with the park and farmer’s market, which they overlooked. All units were lifted up, creating an open air community platform for people to gather and program as they wish.
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Bamboozler
Overview The Bamboozler
was designed and built through our school’s Research Through Making Grant. I worked with a fellow student, Michael Kinard. The Grant invites students to propose a project of their interest in which a physical object must be produced as a result of research and exploration. We decided to explore the challenges and opportunities provided through construction in which manufactured, off-the-shelf items and natural building materials are combined. Using sheet metal, typical hardware, and bamboo, we designed and constructed an occupiable shading structure. Iterative modeling and solar analyzing led us to the form. The geometry of a cross-cut section of bamboo would naturally block light at certain times. However, we further controlled when the light would be blocked by deforming the form at a particular point The joints attaching each stalk of bamboo to the next were folded into shape out of sheet metal. Once the structure was built, we created the shading screen with sections of bamboo cut to approximately 3 inches. By slitting the bamboo pieces we were able to insert them between two wires in tension.
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Central Europe Study Abroad
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Digital Photography
Over the course of six weeks, our group traveled through Central Europe, stopping for a few days at a time in several different countries. These countries included Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. While staying a few nights in a major city in each country, we would explore nearby sites. One of the courses I took while traveling was Digital Photography. This class helped me to expand on my techniques and skills in digitally editing and manipulating photos using Adobe Photoshop. While traveling through major cities we documented each through photography, and one final work from each city was submitted. The following 4 images are examples of these works. We spent our last 2 weeks in Berlin, where we established a concentration for our final portfolio. My portfolio focused on the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus has played important role in the history of modern architecture, and is still referred to in today’s architecture history courses. My portfolio explored and visually represented the deterioration the Bauhaus will experience once forgotten.
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Digital Photography Portfolio
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