Evan McCurdy- Architecture Transfer Portfolio by Evan Mccurdy

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO EVAN MCCURDY DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE 2011-13

DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE

EVAN MCCURDY

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557 MAUREEN LANE PLEASANT HILL CA 94523

ARCHI ARCHI 121 121

DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE 2011-2014 A.S. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

REVIT RHINO V RAY SKETCH UP

ARCHI ARCHI 131 131

ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN II

EMCCURDY13@GMAIL.COM EVANMCCURDY.COM

SKILLS: IN DESIGN PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR AUTOCAD

SPRING 13

LASER CUTTER CNC ROUTER 3D PRINTING CARPENTRY

WORK EXPERIENCE: MCCURDY CONSTRUCTION MCCURDY LANDSCAPING

SUM (09,10) FALL 2011

VOLUNTEER WORK: GREENBUILD CONFERENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

FALL 2012 FALL 2013

ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN II

MONDRIAN MUSEUM

CALDER MUSEUM

HAYES VALLEY HILL COMMUNITY PARK

ARCHI ARCHI 135 135

ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS GRAPHICSI I

ARCHI ARCHI 136 136

ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS GRAPHICSIIII

EAMES HOUSE CASE STUDY GRAPHICS

SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAIN RETREAT

ARCHI ARCHI 150 150

CAL POLY DESIGN ASSEMBLY & VILLAGE COMPET. FABRICATION

SUM. 13

FALL 13

ARCHMEDIUM ARCHMEDIUM

ARCHI ARCHI 105 105

COMPETITION COMPETITION

ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY&& FABRICATION FABRICATION

ARCHI ARCHI 220 220

ARCHITECTURAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DESIGN IIII

DESIGN VILLAGE 'THE KITE'

SF FIRE DEPT. 'TILTED PIERS'

CONCRETE ERGONOMICS

HEALDSBURG LIVING MARKET

HAYES VALLEY URBAN WEAVE

MONDRIAN MUSEUM The form of this museum (a place for Piet Mondrian's work) was conceived as two gallery spaces shifting through and intersecting with a central atrium that serves as the entry/circulation core. This process creates long open gallery spaces, and roof terraces. By intersecting multiple planes, a courtyard is formed behind the main gallery space. Where the two solid gallery spaces intersect, the common space is turned into the open entry and atrium the provides circulation vertically through the museum.

CALDER MUSEUM The driving force behind the Museum of Calder's work was to organize the plan to highlight three main Calder mobiles as the spectacles of the museum. The result is a sunken entry way that redirects visitors into three sprawling separate atriums that grow as one ascends through them. These large spaces for the mobiles open up to the south bringing in large amounts of natural light into the space, while dedicating the formal art such as paintings to the Northern gallery.

HAYES VALLEY HILL

Embeded within an upscale boutique neighborhood in San Francisco, the project provides a pocket park in the wake of a destroyed freeway. In an effort to maximize public use and appreciation of the adjacent Patricia's Green Park, a hill protrudes above the surroundings oriented toward the park as well as surrounding cafe's and pop up eateries. The triangulated structure that lines the east end of the site, weaving through the planters, serves as a sculpture and as a barrier from the bustling incoming traffic that confronts the site. This creates a comforting barrier and wraps around a circular meeting area that focuses on groups interested in gathering and facing each other.

VIEWS / FOCUS

CIRCULATION

CONCENTRATION / DENSITY

DIGITAL TOOLS I Eames House Graphic Study Using Sketchup + Photoshop

DIGITAL TOOLS II Sierra Nevada Mountain Retreat Using Rhino + VRay + Photoshop

THE KITE

(design village)

Team: Evan McCurdy(team leader), JonathanSeto, EmilyGrace, CasperCheung

Winner of the ‘MAKE award’ for best craftsmanship and innovation in design. The Kite serves as a transformative shelter derived from a common rigid origami geometry. We adapted the typically monolithic folded form into one constructed with a tensile system designed with moving joints between the compressive and tensile forces. This allowed our structure to be built with extremely light materials and for it to fold and transform for different purposes throughout the day. Ultimately the most basic forms were a day use position that was an open arch, and a night use position of an enclosed dome.

DETACHED FABRIC PANEL FUNCTIONS AS KITE

TENSION TO COMPRESSION PIVOTING JOINT

SEWN CANVAS PANEL WITH GROMMET

ARMATURE SKIN

TENSION COMPRESSION

500' of sewing 930 1/4" grommets 300sq.ft. of canvas

180' of steel cables 72 cable fasteners (25)JOINTS

25 1/8" threaded rod segments 50 eye nuts

144' of 3/4" EMT

FLAT (assembly position)

OPEN ARCH (day position)

CLOSED DOME (night position)

THE TILTED PIER SF Fire Department

Team: Evan McCurdy, Jonathan Seto, Sammie Zhang

To create a public icon along the waterfront of San Francisco and redefine the importance of the Fire Department Headquarters, this project blurs the line between the public realm and the fire department. Located on piers 30-32, between the bay bridge and the ballpark, the structure is built from recycled components of the old section of the Bay Bridge. They are stacked and built on an angle, tilted towards the south which allows public access and views along the rooftop gardens and solar panels. The fire department inhabits the space between and beneath the truss components.

SUN PUBLIC SPA CE

LIVING ROO

FIRE

D E PA R T M E 07

WATER COL LEC

TION

training tower utilize recycled components of the old span of the bay bridge

gym athletic feilds administration living living/parking firetruck garage

SECTIONS

CONCRETE ERGONOMICS A chair is designed for a specific use. In this case, two. Typically oscilating between a relaxed sitting position and an upright working posture, I wanted to create a dynamic stool that could respond to both conditions. By using concrete to its strengths, a monolithic form can be poured to create a varying base for the stool so that it can rock from a gentle slope to an angled platform. This tilted position puts the stool in the desired ergonomic tilt for a working posture. For relaxed use, a slight rock can be achieved in a less upright position.

FORMWORK ASSEMBLY

REBAR INSTALLATION

CURED CONCRETE IN FORMWORK

FINAL PRODUCT

HEALDSBURG LIVING MARKET

In the outskirts of the tourist town Healdsburg in Sonoma wine country, a dead site by a freeway cries to be transformed into a symbol that stands for sustainable practices and responsible living. The Healdsburg Living Market demands respect for nature and gives every visitor the experience of wandering through a diverse and lush farmland before accessing the produce in the market place that is harvested and sold by those living in on-site housing. The housing and job production supports the underpayed and misrepresented farmworkers of California farmland, while the market eliminates the need for monopolizing grocery stores like Safeway.

The marketplace is the final point of the journey through the site. The slots of entrance open up into a diverse oasis of seasonally harvested produce that can feed a large portion of Healdsburg, replacing the need for large chain grocers shipping in produce from hundreds of miles away.

There are two spaces created by the lifting of the ground plane. On below where the market place flourishes and one above for farming and the practice of permaculture. The bridge between these two realms is the housing units.

The entry into the market creates a dynamic moment where one must find a sliver in the lifted earth hill that widens, leading the visitor into the open market.

The entry to the site is a dense array of larger trees and shrubs that create a buffer while invoking curiosity as to the diverse produce created throughout the entire site. The journey is in weaving through the site experiencing the joy in how the food is cultivated and farmed.

HAYES VALLEY URBAN WEAVE

With the premise of redefining a mixed use urban building typology, this project weaves typically separate functions of the building into common spaces. To integrate separate funcitons of the building, all levels are morphed up or down a level for a new interaction with adjacent programs. The structure of the building was designed as structural inosculation. This mimics the growth of separate plants that can grow together and then apart. The result is a grove of separate columns that grow together to support each other, while also serving as light wells, percolating through the building.

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