Jack Nichols Vis II Final Portfolio Spring 2020

Visualization II Portfolio Spring 2020

Thomas Jefferson University

Jack Nichols Andrew Hart

Table of Contents

Vis II: Collage Vis II: Monograph Vis II: Site Diagram Cabin in the Woods The Understories

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Vis II Project 1: Collage

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Historic Photos

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Site Images

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Vis II Project 2: Monograph quaint /kwant/ adjective attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned. “quaint country cottages�

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Quaint is an adjective that is easier to see than it is to describe. Quaint could be an old English countryside, complete with rolling hills and brown wooden fences lining the dirt paths. Or, quaint could be the Lancaster farmhouse of elderly grandparents with doilies on the tables and white, floral kitchen cabinets. Quantifying the concept of quaint would be much more doable if everyone shared the same life experiences and preconceptions. While a person who has lived in Philadelphia may associate quaint with a charming brick townhouse in Fairmount, a person who was raised in rural West Virginia might walk through Fairmount and be shocked by the crowded, metropolitan feel. While people’s definitions and opinions of quaint are shaped by varying influences, there are some shared characteristics associated with the word quaint. Quaint is old and simple and natural. Quaint is dependent on the scale of the surrounding environment and the history of the surrounding environment. Quaint is made of both order and chaos. Above all, quaint is personal.

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Quaint is Order/Disorder Quaint is a wall in the garage covered with rusty hammers and wrenches and hand saws with wooden handles. To an outsider, it looks like a jumbled, disorganized mess of copper and iron and steel. To the old man who has lived in the home attached to the garage for 50 years, the wall of tools is exactly how he wants and he knows where every screwdriver and table clamp is. While the form and functionality are hidden to those unfamiliar with the intentions behind the wall of tools, the practicality is apparent to those who have taken part in its conception. The obvious chaos and underlying order personalize the quaintness of an item to the individual. Quaint is messy and crowded and chaotic, yet also utilitarian and practical and orderly.

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Quaint is Green Quaint and nature tend to go hand in hand, like a brick row home on a tree-lined street with the roots of the oak trees pushing up through the weathered sidewalk. Quaint is also green, like english ivy winding its way up the siding of an abandoned home deep in the woods and cinder blocks half buried under brown leaves reminds one of a time before the present. An apple orchard filled with ancient, gnarled trees brings back childhood memories of playing hide-and-seek amongst the thick trunks and winding branches.

Quaint is not barren and brown; quaint is green and earthy and wholesome.

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Spanish Steps Nature Experential Map

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Philadelphia Art Museum Nature In Urban Fabric Map

Vis II Project 3: Site Diagram

Step 1: Creating Linework in AutoCAD

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Experimenting In Illustrator

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A Cabin in the Woods

In the fall semester of 2019 I worked on a project where I became proficient in rhino and lumion The goal of the Project was to take an existing cabin from anywhere in the world, and recreate it in Rhinoceros

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Site Plan

Red Maple Acer Rubrum

Plant Palette

American Linden Tilia Americana

Red Spruce Picea Rubens

Cinnamon Fern Osmunda Cinnamomea

Black Gum Nyssa Sylvatica

White Pine Pinus Strobus

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THE UNDERSTORY

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In the Fall 2019 Semester My classmates and I worked collaboratively In a vertically stacked studio class to submit a design proposal to the Ed Bacon Design Competition. This was my first time ever using many of the Adobe programs as well as AutoCAD

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