Architectural portfolio by Hunter Pope

Digital discourse in architecture is redefining the way designers are approaching the question of design. Through digital technologies, designers can provide a more intuitive design system by shifting and restructuring the design process. Digital and computational tools help in dealing with the complex ideas relating to architecture. This power of intellectual property results in the ability to explore and research more solutions more effectively. 3D modeling software’s allow there to be emphasis on the form generating process to define more complex geometries while engaging multiple design solutions. Although digital discourse is an evolving process to producing architecture, understanding the logical human relationships define the way we design.

HUNTER POPE Vice President - SCAD AIAS

Savannah College of Art and Design Masters of Architecture Bachelor of Fine Arts - Architecture Minor - Electronic Design (770) 757-3619 hupope20@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/hunterpope www.hpopedesign.com

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

RE-LINKING CHARLESTON URABN DESIGN STUDIO

PERFORMING ART DISTRICT STUDIO V & VI

CULTURAL ARTS CENTER STUDIO IV

ELVIS PRESLEY WEDDING CHAPEL STUDIO II

PEPPERHALL PLANTATION RESORT STUDIO III

INVOLUTION ARCH INSTALLATION VISUALIZATION STUDIO

MAHR-KEEZ ORNAMENTAL CANOPY (L)ABNORMAL

CONCEPTUAL WORK (L)ABNORMAL

RE-LINKING CHARLESTON URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

Charleston, SC Fall 2014 Mixed Use Master Plan Proposal In Collaboration with Victor Rodriguez Professor Arpad Ronaszegi The proposed master plan to the entrance of Charleston, South Carolina deďŹ nes a landmark into the city by introducing a need for unique developments of program, and emphasizing the hierarchy of pedestrians. A multi-level pedestrian plaza creates a dynamic identity for the users with enhanced views as well as public amenities. The development of program within the master plan revitalizes the surrounding context by bringing people within multiple plaza and event spaces. A variety of program have been located along the riverfront as well as the plaza. Residential , commercial, and office spaces have been implemented to help sustain and redeďŹ ne the entrance of Charleston and how pedestrians experience.

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Site Plan

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2 New Proposed Bridge 3 Elevated Plaza 4 Central Multifunctional Bridge

5 North Multifunctional Public Plaza

6 Riverfront Multifunctional Deck

7 Natural Park 8 Proposed Lockwood St 9 Proposed Spring St

10 Elevated Multifunctional Plaza 11 Proposed Cannon St 12 Central Corridor

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Proposed Pedestrian Walkways

Existing Conditions

The proposed pedestrian / friendly multi-functional space mixed with public amenities and re-organized natural ecosystem hopes to reactivate and develop hierarchy towards the pedestrians and away from vehicles.

Due to traffic, marshlands, ﬂooding conditions, relatively no program, lack of pedestrians / users visit the entrance of Charleston once they drive past it. The density towards the entrance has diminished and no revitalization is being done to preserve this land.

Proposed Vegetation

Proposed Master Plan The proposed development of the entrance of Charleston, South Carolina is highlighted in pink compared to the surrounding existing buildings in light blue. A signiﬁcant portion of buildings has been implemented with a wide variety of program.

Existing Program Proposed Program

Charleston’s current conditions are intricately connected to the area’s natural environment, which features miles of ocean coastline, salt marsh, tidal creeks, rivers and other waterways. This proposal extends, preserves, and promotes its natural habitat, creating a harmony between man and nature.

Green Space

Proposed Program

Proposed Circulation Charleston’s high density and dangerous highways /streets are ineffective for pedestrians and walking around. With the proposal of new streets and safe lanes and paths the use of these are more likely to be used by cyclist and pedestrians.

Ground Walkways Elevated Walkways

Pedestrian Vehicular

The masterplan incorporates residential, commercial, and office spaces that not only ﬁll what was lacking before, but revitalizes the entrance of Charleston, creating a landmark and a destination for locals and tourist.

Cultural Commercial Residential Office Space

The Entrance This render explains the overall concept of this master plan. A monumental bridge that welcomes users to the city. The elevated pedestrian walkways promote and increase pedestrian accessibility while the central ring connects the four main neighborhoods of the city.

Lockwood Street

HWY 17 Bridge

Spring Street This render shows the proposed new Spring Street that is more than a pass through street. It creates a destination with a cosmopolitan effect to an entry that felt abandoned. Shops, restaurants, and living spaces frame the proposed intention of this masterplan.

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Spring Street

The Riverfront This render shows one of Charlestons unique conditions. The natural environment has miles of marshland lining the coastal waterways. With rising sea levels being an issue, this proposal brings a unique waterfront edge bringing pedestrians up to a beautiful site.

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ARTS DISTRICT STUDIO V & VI

Asheville, NC Spring 2014 Performing Arts Centre / Mixed Use Proposal 45,000 sq. ft. Professor Ryan Bacha The proposal of this performing arts center and masterplan defines compression and releasing through accentuating levels and integrating movement. By using horizontal and vertical planes direct and indirect connections relate to the surrounding context. Implied lines through a defined gear correlate through section and plan defining circulation of spaces. Integration of different programs bridge environmental elements to connect through the site. The performing arts center and its relevance defines how the local artist will interact with a learning and lecturing facility in the River Arts District. The masterplan of the site will reimplement the local artist to one specific area for events and gatherings and allow for more tourist to interact with a more pronounced space.

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Concept Through the idea of the pre-existing logo of the River Arts District, the gear will act as a tool for how the site is divided and ultimately how the buildings will be oriented. While implementing the gears throughout the site to impead and slow down traffic, it is gives more options of how the site can be used. As the site begins transforming, the buildings follow along with the same gear lines.

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Allows natural daylight throughout the day while also storing the heat during the late hours by closing

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Operable Windows for natural ventilation Overhang to block high suns Heat to be released Summer

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Adaptive Panel Systems with insulated concrete wall to passively heat the building

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The perfoming arts center within the River Arts District will incorporate a transit center to give tourist a way to get to this location from the downtown area. Also, the masterplan will include residential units for the artist as well as tourist. The performing arts center will be connected across the railroad tracks to an upscale restaurant to host events and local gatherings. Local parking will be on the ďŹ rst level underneath the perfoming arts center due to being located in the ďŹ&#x201A;ood plain.

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Third Floor Plan 8 Restaurant 7 Kitchen 6 Exterior Event Space 5 Classrooms 4 Bathrooms 3 Performance Center B

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The Panel A custom panel was implemented in the skin of the building. The panel wraps the southern facade and is located directly outside of the performing arts center. The panel has operable devices that can open and close depending on the time of day and event that is being held. An adaptive system over the performing arts center will allow the mild to cold climate of Asheville to passively heat the building throughout the day while closing off the panels later in the evening to store the heat during events. The panel is 6” thick to give insulation to the interior when it is closed.

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RAISED WOOD DECKING STEEL CONNECTION FOR RAISED FLOOR CONCRETE SLAB METAL DECKING STEEL WIDE FLANGE BEAMS DROP CEILING CONNECTIONS DROP CEILING ACOUSTICAL PANELS STEEL WIDE FLANGE BEAM STEEL C-CHANNEL CONNECTION STEEL STRUCTURAL MULLION (HORIZONTAL)

STEEL STRUCTURAL MULLION (VERTICAL)

LOW-E DOUBLE PANE GLAZING

ADAPTIVE PANEL SYSTEM

METAL PANEL R VALUE = 17.5

Wall Section Detail

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Structure The structure of this performing arts center is typical wide ﬂange to steel joist system. The base is a load bearing CMU wall with concrete paneling on the interior and exterior.

WWF GIRDER BOLTED TO A WWF BEAM W8 x 18 WIDE FLANGE BEAM

OPEN WEB STEEL JOIST 12” DEEP 2” ACOUSTICAL PANELS

W12 x 24 WIDE FLANGE BEAM

The adaptive panel is held in place by attaching the glazing to structural steel mullions and connecting to the concrete columns. A steel extension off the mullions holds the panels in place. The operable panels are designed to move by a steel frame connector with a gear located at the corners of the panels.

CONCRETE PANEL LOAD BEARING WALL

CONCRETE PANEL LOAD BEARING WALL 20” DEEP CONCRETE BEAM WITH #8 REBAR

5” CONCRETE FLOOR WITH METAL DECKING 12” DEEP CONCRETE BEAM WITH #5 REBAR

Building Section Detail

Longitudinal Section B-B

WOOD PANELING BATT INSULATION W12 x 24 WIDE FLANGE BEAM AICS STANDARD FRAME BEAM CONNECTION FIBERGLASS CEILING BATT INSULATION R-VALUE = 20 OPEN WEB STEEL JOIST 12” DEEP CEILING HANGER BRACKET (STANDARD) 2” ACOUSTICAL PANELS AIR RETURN 5”x3” STRUCTURAL MULLION WITH EXTRUDED STEEL FRAME CONNECTOR

Aluminum Curtain Wall Mullion

ADAPTIVE PANEL SYSTEM (MOVEABLE)

METAL PANEL R VALUE = 17.5

Raised Flooring Steel Floor Connections 5” Concrete Slab WWF Girder Bolted Ceiling Hanger Bracket Suspended Drop Ceiling C-Channel Mounted to Flange

ALUMINUM CURTAIN WALL MULLION RAISED FLOORING (WOOD PANELING) STEEL FLOOR CONNECTIONS 5” CONCRETE SLAB WITH METAL DECKING WWF GIRDER BOLTED TO A WWF BEAM CEILING HANGER BRACKET (STANDARD) SUSPENDED DROP CEILING AIR RETURN C-CHANNEL MOUNTED TO WIDE FLANGE BEAM

Floor Slab - Curtain Wall

CONCRETE PANEL LOAD BEARING WALL

Curtain Wall - Double Paned Glass

CMU BLOCK WITH REINFORCED REBAR STEEL CONNECTIONS

CMU TO INTERIOR FINISH R VALUE = 40.1

Sill Concrete Panel Load Bearing Wall CMU Block with Reinforced Rebar AIR RETURN 2”x6” STEEL SILL PLATE #5 REINFORCED REBAR

Steel Connections

CMU Wall - Curtain Wall WWF GIRDER BOLTED TO A WWF BEAM

CONCRETE ON CMU R VALUE = 75.5

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CONCERETE FINISH FLOOR

WWF Girder Bolted to a WWF Beam

WATER VAPOR BARRIER CONCRETE FLOOR GRAVEL FILLED #5 REINFORCED REBAR DRAINAGE PIPE EARTH FILLED #8 REINFORCED REBAR #8 REINFORCED REBAR

CMU Wall - Floor Slab

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ARTS CENTER STUDIO IV

Jacksonville, FL Fall 2013 Cultural Arts Centre / Residential Proposal 60,000 sq. ft. Professor Daniel Brown The proposal defines the exoskeleton structure as a backbone for the disjoined and depleted Jacksonville area. This continuity throughout the building reconciles the resilience that Jacksonville has to define its city. The exoskeleton not only marks a landmark on the northside of the city but also connects itself to the southside. The masses connect the northside to the southside by extending 14 stories above ground and shows that this building serves as a defining element of Jacksonville, Florida.

Transformation The site of this cultural arts center surrounded by a parking garage and an abandoned hotel. Through transformations of masses, the form developed to conform to most of the site. Elevating the residential units to make them more private while keeping the cultural arts center low and more inviting developed throughout the program. Developing adjacency diagrams helped understand how and where programs would connect and be seperated. Concept sketches helped to develop the form as well as location of the building.

Concept Sketches

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Splitting

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Residential Utilities Cafe Gallery Education Auditorium Event Offices Foyer

Adjacency Diagram

Elevating

Bridging

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Program The program is a mixed use facility housing residential units as well as a cultural arts center that is open to the public. This is broken up into two distinct masses to allocate private vs. public spaces. While their are semi-private areas this allows to be able to move freely through the spaces. 2

The layout of ďŹ&#x201A;oor plans were deďŹ ned in how you moved through the spaces by making the experience of sight-lines different in every direction while being able to move through the spaces with ease.

Site Plan 1 Lobby / Reception 2 Restrooms

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Residential Units

Ground Level - Community

Eastern Site Section

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Structure The exoskeleton structure is deďŹ ned as a backbone for Jacksonville. The emphasis on the structure throughout the building connects the depleted northside of the city to the southside. This makes a statement on how people perceive this cultural arts center. The exoskeleton system is used in order to open up the ďŹ&#x201A;oor plans throughout the inside of the building. This allows for less columns and load bearing walls. The core serves as the load tracing system. This is what the exoskeleton structure ties into in order to carry all the loads. The red on the perforated surface is used to show that Jacksonville is hungry for revival.

Glass Surfaces

Physical Models

Perforated Panels

Concrete Floor Slabs

Exoskeleton Structure / Core

ELVIS PRESLEY WEDDING CHAPEL STUDIO II

Memphis, TN Winter 2013 Wedding Chapel Proposal 40,000 sq. ft. Professor Jean Jaminet This proposal blends three distinct masses by stretching a perforated skin to create one continuous volume. Each volume addresses the three corner conditions on the site. The elasticity of the skin simultaneously allows mass at the corners and voids for exterior public spaces. The surface logic of the skin is derived from the idea of aperture in the mansion - windows are obscured, creating openings modulated by colorful textiles. Large cuts for entry and perforations for diffuse lighting are folded into the surface curvature accentuating the gentle folds, ripples, and undulations.

Program Through each volume configures private vs. public to define how the spaces are divided. The Wedding Chapel of Graceland uses inspiration of Elvis Presley to relate how the program is defined within the masses. By stretching a perforated surface around the three volumes allows for outdoor public spaces below while allowing a descending entrance into the chapel.

Initial Mass

Quartering Masses

Addressing Corners

Pushing to Corners

A variety of spaces are conﬁgured by how the volumes wrap around the site.

Street Conditions

Eastern Site Section

Corner Conditions

Eastern Site Section

Blending Masses

1 Entry / Lobby 2 Restrooms 3 Public 4 Gift Shop

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Perforated Glass Panels

Glass Opening Undulations and creases create overhangs to block high summer sun while allowing low winter suns to enter the building.

Fiber Composite Vapor Barrier

The perforated skin lets diffused light enter during the summer and more direct light during the winter.

Steel Mesh Tube Steel Panelized Fiberglass Skin

Reinforced Concrete Slab Framing Rebar

3D Detail Wall Section

The Chapel This render shows one of the overall effect that The Elvis Presley Wedding Chapel shows at night. With a outer green glow, this effect lights up the surroundings drawing tourist from all over Memphis. This becomes an iconic building that represents the style of Elvis Presley.

PEPPER HALL PLANTATION RESORT STUDIO III

Bluffton, SC Spring 2013 Vacation Resort Proposal 80,000 sq. ft. Professor Mohamed El Nahas Detached - “Separate or Disconnected” 1. Graves Family - Disconnected from one another due to the proposal of Pepper Hall Plantation Masterplan 2. Building Masses - Buildings that are separated from one another or forming their own units Convergence - “Union or the point of Converging” 1. Graves Family - (Future) Concurrence of opinions once seeing the proposal - essentially a “meeting point” 2. Building Masses - Faceted surfaces imply a point of convergence for each individual mass as well as a convergence of the masses as a whole - extending outward signifying a relationship to one another

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Lower Floor - Fitness Center

Upper Floor - Balcony

Lower Floor - Retail

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Program The program of this vacation resort located in Bluffton, SC is seperated into 5 distinct masses inďŹ&#x201A;uencing a different activity in each one. The main programmatic developments are form from community activites such as Restaurants, Recreational, and Retail. The inďŹ&#x201A;uence for the style of architecture created around these programs will draw more attention to this area and invite people to want to interact with the spaces they create.

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Lower Floor - Fine Dining

Upper Floor - Lounge

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INVOLUTION ARCH INSTALLATION Visualization Studio

Savannah, GA Summer 2012 Arch Canopy Installation Studio with Professor Jean Jaminet Designer: Larry Martin Project Leader: Jesse Hammer Installation: Hunter Pope and Team A series of transformations upon the arch were induced, transforming the symmetrical mass into a nuanced, sculptural surface. Starting with reorienting the span’s symmetrical base, the movement incurred by this shift would lend itself to an interactive topological span. This surface logic redeﬁnes the classical conventions of ornament, poché, and rustication – sources for innovative ideas about form and materiality. The historical and classical conceptions of structure and ornament were examined and reconﬁgured to understand the role of architecture’s characteristic devices in contemporary building design.

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Installation The classical massive characteristics were exchanged for an intricate network of panelized surfaces and apertures. Subdividing the solid into faceted and triangulated panels sought to aid in this dynamic movement. Rather than a linear route, the arch distorts procession, ebbing and ﬂowing along with its subject. Apertures were oriented across the span to alleviate the weight of the mass both physically and visually – assisting the ﬂow of the subdivisions and feeding light through the mutated form. Involution is a series of diverse topological effects. Physically, the nuanced panelized surface creates inward curvature and penetration for enclosure and procession. Conceptually, the arch is reevaluated by looking both inward toward architecture’s history and outward toward the future of design. Materiality Studies

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Cross Section

Rear Elevation

Transverse Section

Mahr-kee(z) ORNAMENTAL CANOPY (L)ABnormal

Savannah, GA Winter 2013 Ornamental Canopy Installation (L)ABnormal with Jean Jaminet Designer: Timothy Howells Installation: Hunter Pope Assisted by: Tessa Watson, Xavier Ramirez Mahr-kee(z) creates a center in an asymmetrical space by utilizing the existing rectangular columns. A new faceted surface encases the columns and propagates into ďŹ&#x201A;owering canopies. In addition to the dynamic folding and pleating of the columncanopies, ornamentation is achieved by an aperture pattern that follows the geometric logic of the faceted surface. The aperture pattern is strategically placed to alleviate visual weight and generate lighting effects as it twists from the base to the capital. This project is part of continuing research addressing contemporary ornamentation and isomorphic transformation of architectonic elements.

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Portculis

Infusion

CONCEPTUAL ADDITONAL WORKS (L)ABnormal

Savannah, GA 2012 - 2015 Digital fabrication club Conceptual designs and studies (L)ABnormal with Jean Jaminet (L)ABnormal, SCAD’s digital fabrication club, explores contemporary discourse in design and architecture. We are interested in exploring new methods of design intelligence through the speciﬁc engagement of 3D modeling tools and fabrication technologies. We critically conceive, develop, and materialize our ideas in order to further this dialogue. We are intrigued by technology and its ability to inform the material logic of architectural form and space-making. Integrating tool and design environments gives perspective to contemporary aesthetics by demonstrating the visual and tactile experience of working digitally.

Savannah, GA AMELIA is a surface condition that creates a node in the path that reﬂects the geometry of the city. The squares within Savannah are incredible representations for the historic city. Their importance is recognized as multifunctional social spaces and used for gathering and passage. These ideas and their geometries have been translated to create the responsive surfaces of AMELIA.

Savannah, GA PORTCULLIS is a contoured undulating surface that represents the idea of savannah. The effect of walking around this object is not only asthetically pleasing but also interacting as well. This begins to deﬁne the the layers that are distinct in the project.

Savannah, GA INFUSION is a wall installation with a technique defined as object orient ontology. This proposal is classified as an object within an object. The definition of these pieces as it starts to peel away reveals more and more of the object. Slits interconnect the objects within each other.

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Through digital technologies, I begin to conceptualize what the architecture wants to be on the site relevant to its surrounding context. The design process focuses on exploring multiple design solutions which will ultmately further more complex developments by using digital tools to design more efficiently. I am therefore able to put more emphasis on analyzing and understanding these solutions. The process through computation allows longer periods of time to re-evaluate. This deďŹ nes a more intuitive thought out design due to the complex geometries of manipulating control points and parameters of multiple designs. The relationship of conceptualization to the site and surroundings will determine the best design solutions which will be further analyzed and developed digital discourse in architecture studios has impacted the idea of solutions to the design process.

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