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selected work of James M Deering
CONTENTS GRADUATE WORK 2 Housing Station 2010 - Tech Comm - Instructor: Vince Snyder 12 Studio London 2009 - Urban Design - Instructor: Simon Atkinson 18 Tectonic Constructions + Boat House for Lady Bird Lake - Instructor: Joyce Rosner
UNDERGRADUATE WORK 26 Forming a New Ground - TOD Los Angeles - Instructor: Warren Techentin 30 Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory - Instructor: Dan Hoffman
PROFESSIONAL WORK 34 The Galleries at Turney - multifamily - Employer: (merz) project 36 Nuzul Hotel: Dubai - Employer: Marwan Al Sayed Architects 40 Amangiri Resort: Utah - Employer: I-10 Studio
GRADUATE WORK HOUSING STATION 2010 STUDIO LONDON 2009 TECTONIC CONSTRUCTIONS + A BOAT HOUSE FOR LADY BIRD LAKE
HOUSING STATION 2010 Tech Comm: instructor Vince Snyder A collaboration with Cory Dear. The design challenge for this studio was to create an adaptable portable dwelling unit that could be sited in two locations at minimum 2000 miles apart: one urban with a low grade, and one more rural on a 30% slope. We drew our inspiration from many different sources, ranging from the film, Road Warrior to the practical mechanics of construction equipment, such as boom cranes and semi-monocoque feusalages. Our ultimate design became a lab and residence that inhabits man-made wastelands. The aim of the project was to create a structure that was flexible enough to adapt to different climates, to live off the grid, or plug into existing infrastructure on site. December 2009 Design Excellence Award, The University of Texas Austin
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GRADUATE WORK HOUSING STATION 2010 STUDIO LONDON 2009 TECTONIC CONSTRUCTIONS + A BOAT HOUSE FOR LADY BIRD LAKE
STUDIO LONDON 2009 Instructor: Simon Atkinson In the summer of 2009, I traveled with a group of architecture and landscape architecture students to London to take part in an interdisciplinary Urban Design Studio based on the adaptive reuse and new planning for an area between King’s Cross and St Pancrass station in London. The Project involved 67 acres of a brownfield development, thus creating 8 million sq ft of mixed use, making it one of the most significant opportunities in Central London for revitalization. My scheme involved Section 1: 1/32”=1’-0” reconnecting the surrounding neighborhoods with the reuse of existing industrial buildings for cultural, academic, and commercial purposes. The site offered many opportunities to interweave new construction with the urban fabric on both macro and micro scales.
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GRADUATE WORK HOUSING STATION 2010 STUDIO LONDON 2009 TECTONIC CONSTRUCTIONS + BOAT HOUSE FOR LADY BIRD LAKE
TECTONIC CONSTRUCTIONS AND A BOAT HOUSE FOR LADY BIRD LAKE Spring 2009 - ARCH522 - Joyce Rosner This studio leant itself towards an intensly process driven exploration of materiality, through the use of a variety of media. We created many drawings using pencil, ink, watercolor, and pastel+turpenoid. Our first series of constructions were built of 2x4s within a 16�x16� cubic spatial constraint. No glue was to be used. This leant itself to explorations of wood joinery and much craft was involved in the creation of these objects.These cubes served as inspiration for the design process of a boathouse, which itself involved a munber of explorations in material and tectonic relationships. Below are a series of sketches from the design process that led to the full size constructions seen on the right. These constructions attempt a minimalist reduction of tension and compression. All of the forces rest on two struts that hold the edges of the frame apart
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A BOAT HOUSE FOR LADY BIRD LAKE Spring 2009 - ARCH522 Joyce Rosner This project involves the design for a new boathouse and recreational facility for the Austin Rowing Club. The Program involves space for housing a fair number of boats, an area for the delivery of boats and for staging competitions, a recreational component with rowing machines and other exercise equipment, and a gathering area for club members and the public at large. The design emerges from the landscape that rests just beneath the ground where the city rests just behind the site, a subtle incline, and the horizontal datum of the lake beneath where one can experience horizontality where the landscape meets the water’s edge.
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A light volume of wood ribbed construction clad in vertically slotted rain screen members rests upon a heavier lower volume of vertical board form concrete with lazy lift lines, The choice of materials relates to the experience of the site itself. As the visitor descends from the higher ground to the lower level of the water, they are drawn into the gravity of the land mass. One reaches the water’s edge by a long horizontal dock below, or from the deck of the cafe and casual gathering space above. The more intimate spaces of the project are housed below in massive and heavy spaces that engage the land. As the rowers return from the bright lake, they enter through the thick concrete mass with dripping water bodies and into a private screened court and from there into a series of chambers which afford the members a purely framed and exclusive view to the landscape.
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UNDERGRADUATE WORK FORMING A NEW GROUND: T O D LOS ANGELES PHOENIX URBAN RESEARCH LAB
FORMING A NEW GROUND: T.O.D. LOS ANGELES Spring 2006 - ADE422 - Warren Techentin Los Angeles suffers from massive transportation problems due to the way that it developed over he last century. Transit Oriented Development seeks to provide alternate forms of living adjacent to mass transportation while still accomodat ing the existing infrastructure which is based on the automobile. The site, placed within the near south eastern suburbs of Los Angeles, required the making of connections between disparate elements within the greater site. a city hall, public library, and city park are separated from a university and large residential neighborhood by a busy road. Circulation within the community is divided. My proposal sought to remediate these issues. process work
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There is a considerable difference in elevation between the two sides of the street. The area is currently taken up by parking lots, but can easily be connectsd to an existing green space in between the university and park. I turned the road itself into a bridge, and connected the two sides by manipulating the landscape in a way that follows the existing topography of the site. The pedestrian bridge underneath the roadway serves to create a hub of pedestrian activity and bridges the gap between civic, residential, university, and park. This section follows the main axis of circulation in the project. Public spaces are open and shared. The ground is celebrated, and merged with the buildings themselves, blurring the line between landscape and the built environment.
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UNDERGRADUATE WORK FORMING A NEW GROUND: T O D LOS ANGELES PHOENIX URBAN RESEARCH LAB
PHOENIX URBAN RESEARCH LAB Spring 2005 - ADE321 - Dan Hoffman The P.U.R.L. is intended as a link between ASU, the city of Phoenix, and the public. Here the academic, civic, cultural, and business communities will meet to discuss and debate multiple scenarios for the future of one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The site is located in the heart of downtown Phoenix. The program calls for think tank head quarters, galleries, a coffee shop, lecture hall, studio space, library and administrative space. The challenge of this project was to meld a programmatically complex number of spaces into the existing urban fabric of downtown Phoenix.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK THE GALLERIES AT TURNEY NUZUL HOTEL: DUBAI AMANGIRI RESORT: UTAH
THE GALLERIES AT TURNEY Employer: (merz) project I worked on several presentation models and the CDs for this project in 2006. The Galleries consist of eight detached residences in a quiet gated enclave located several blocks south of Phoenix’s bustling 24th Street and Camelback area. Each residence is nearly 2,000 square feet and two stories/30 feet in height. Each features spacious interiors- two bedrooms, den/office/bedroom option and two baths. Large windows and decks provide spectacular views of the Phoenix skyline This project is the first LEED-H certified project in the state of Arizona.
Completed March 2007 2007 AIA Arizona MeritAward 2007 AIA Arizona Sustainable Award
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PROFESSIONAL WORK THE GALLERIES AT TURNEY NUZUL HOTEL: DUBAI AMANGIRI RESORT: UTAH
NUZUL HOTEL: DUBAI Employer: Marwan Al Sayed Architects I was heavily involved in the design process (SD through CDs) for a mixed use hotel building in Dubai in 2008. The program calls for a hotel, leasable office space, and retail space in addition to a spa and hammam. The concept for the building is based on a traditional Islamic courtyard scheme.It is massed as very monolithic from the street. Only subtle hints are given as to what happens on the interior. The scheme of the building is strongly focused on the interior world. This is where the life of the building is revealed. southwest facade study
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We mediated between these two worlds through the use of mass, transparency, and light. These were used to mediate between the different programatic elements, and to give a very personal scale to the individual spaces within. I had never worked on a project of this size, and it was exciting to take part in the challenging process of designing a building that is so large, yet very intimate in scale. I was ultimately placed in charge of the design process for the sixth floor apartment level. The plan for the individual units is inwardly focused on this level, but the major circulation occurs under a exterior shade canopy flanked by garden spaces. The scheme “breathes� in between units, as the canopy opens to the sky and to selected views of nearby downtown. Individual apartments are also based on a courtyard scheme. Living and bedroom spaces flank a central entry courtyard. Each room has its own exterior component and one lives within their own internal courtyard scheme. They are largely focused on the sky and on the larger shared hotel courtyards beneath. Although the site is located in the middle of a bustling city, Nuzul Hotel will be a resting place; a small village within a large metropolis where one can spa courtyard
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PROFESSIONAL WORK THE GALLERIES AT TURNEY NUZUL HOTEL: DUBAI AMANGIRI RESORT: UTAH
AMANGIRI RESORT: UTAH Employer: I-10 Studio I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with I-10 Studio on the development of Amangiri Resort and Spa. This was a unique collaboration between three established individual architects: Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy. The three architects came together under a separate company, I-10 Studio, which was formed solely for the design and execution of Amangiri resort, using their individual firms to support this effort. Together, our offices collaborated to design every piece, down to the light fixtures. I worked on the final phase of the project, which was seven years in the making. It was refreshing to work on a smaller scale and to develop ideas from an extremely detailed, material, and user oriented perspective. This project has piqued my interest in the process of translating large concepts to the scale of the individuaI.
Completed December 2009 Published in Wallpaper January 2010
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We were also responsible for designing of all the interiors, lighting, furnishings and signage, which are all crafted to blend in with the architecture and the surrounding landscape. With modern reinterpretations of woven hides and leathers, blackened and forged steel, the interiors and furnishings includes everything from desks, couches, chairs and tables to lights, and hooks which has been designed to capture something unique and particular about the American Southwest, yet rendered in a thoroughly modern way. The interiors allude to, yet without ever succumbing to, essences about the Native American tribes, and the cowboys and ranchers that continue to inhabit this particular corner of the earth. This segment of the project represents the bulk of my work with I-10 studio.
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JAMES M. DEERING
M Arch 1 | BSD Arch
EXPERIENCE I am a designer with a formal education in Architecture. My experiences as a team leader, in both academic and in the professional work environments, exemplifies my ability to think critically and act responsively. I seek expertise, clarity, and collaboration
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT | CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE The University of Texas at Austin: July 2009 - January 2010
At the Center for American Architecture my primary task was to source imagery and obtain copyright permission for the publication of
Center 15, a scholarly journal published on a bi-yearly basis at The University of Texas. I also assisted graphic design, advertising, book orders, corespondence, and production for symposiums and lectures.
TEACHING ASSISTANT | VISUAL COMMUNICATION III
The University of Texas at Austin: August 2008 - January 2008 I very much enjoyed the chance to teach an introductory level course in the studio environment. Much of my time was spent providing third year architecture studuents with the know how to alternate between digital and analog modes of production within the context of the design studio. The course was a beginner level introduction to computer application for architectural design. I focused on the use of hand drawing, AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER | MARWAN AL-SAYED ARCHITECTS + I-10 STUDIO Phoenix, AZ: November 2006 - August 2008
Working as a Designer at this office has been my most highly valued position to date. I worked in close collaboration with a tightlyknit group of architects and designers. Everyone wears many different hats at a firm of this scale. The work was very solidly based in the pursuit of design excellence and construction expertise, particularly through the exploration of materiality, light, and detail. I was heavily involved in the design of a private residence in Phoenix and a hotel in Dubai. I was also able to play a role on the design team at 1-10 Studio for the final phase of Amangiri resort in Utah (a one-time collaboration with Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER | RICHARD + BAUER Phoenix, AZ: June 2006 - November 2006
In addition to working in many facets of the firm, I enjoyed the opportunity to take a more active role in the design process from the very start of a project. I gained much experience about building process as a whole. I played a significant role in a central library project for Prescott Valley AZ, from schematic design through design development. I was also involved in the design of a staircase and several pieces of built-in millwork for a residential project in Aspen, Colorado and was responsible for the design and completion of several project proposals.
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ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | [MERZ] PROJECT Phoenix, AZ: November 2005 - June 2006
This was a very valuable position in terms of the hands-on experience that I gained in many facets in the world of architecture and construction. The firm maintains a strong commitment to design and to the community. My work at Merz Project included model building, graphic design, construction drawings, and architectural presentation renderings. In addition to working in many facets of the firm, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time on job sites and learn more about the process of construction.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | SPBR ARQUITETOS Sao Paulo, BR: June 2005 - August 2005
I was offered the opportunity to work for a summer in Sao Paulo, Brazil with Angelo Bucci, a remarkable Architect and teacher. I took part in the schematic design process for several civic projects and documented a number of models for the firm’s portfolio. I also helped to build conceptual models and took part in the initial development of several schemes for a residence in Bahia.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | TENNEN STUDIO
Phoenix, AZ: September 2002 - January 2004 During the end of my second year in architecture school I was hired to build a number of conceptual and presentation models for Tennen Studio, a small design + build firm. This was my first experience dealing with tectonics, landscape, and the process of site design. This job led into led to a part time internship position that I held for two years while in school. I was involved in site analysis and production work on presentation models and drawings
EDUCATION The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Master of Architecture graduation May 2010 Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | 4 year BSD in Architecture, May 2006
AWARDS Design Excellence Award | The University of Texas at Austin | Nominated 3 semesters and awarded Fall 2009 Design Excellence Nomination | Arizona State University | Spring 2002 and Spring 2006 Blake Alexander Traveling Student Fellowship in Architecture | The University of Texas at Austin | Spring 2010
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY Adobe CS4: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and all the rest. Equally procient on Mac OSX and Windows platforms. Experienced in AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, 3dVIZ, FormZ, and VRay. I am also very experienced in the building of hand models, and have worked on a number of full scale constructions.