Joel Austin Setzer 2013
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -JFK
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San Martin de las Canas Community Center Jalisco, Mexico
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School of Performing Arts Charleston, SC
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Round Re//use Orlando, FL
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Hiker’s Bath House Wekiva Springs, FL
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Masonic Lodge Orlando, FL
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Smithsonian Tower Baltimore, MD
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Nap Ford Community School Orlando, FL
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Starter’s House Winter Park, FL
37 41 Native Social Bar Orlando, FL
Furniture
~ Community Center San Martin de las Canas A vessel for viewing the landscape Mexico Study Abroad Summer 2013 The intervention in San Martin de las Canas serves the community in program while acknowledging the landscape that it lies within. The site is located on a platform thats lies between a large open public space to the east and a path that lies below the platform to the west. The San Martin de las Canas p Community Center prodives ammenties to educate, entertain and unify the community in program while it’s architecture performs as a vessel for viewing the landscape.
Site intercepting the landscape
Evolution of form
Initial form
An object within the landscape
Level 2 1. Book/Reading Room 2. Classroom 3. Community Meeting Space/ Viewing Platform
Circulation to Viewing Platform
Level 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Interaction of Forms
Entry/Lobby Media Room Mechanical Room Restroom Bar Service Lounge
Roof Panels
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Vertical Skin Construction
Columns
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Platform
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Research of Charleston began with studying the conditions of the urban fabric within the penninsula as a whole. Investigation of a crease in the fabric was documented in a series of drawings that illustrated ways in which different functions of the city utilized the crease and its relationship to vital districts. Upon visiting it was clear that the crease was an element that citizens, local goods, and events inhabited temporarily and moved through. It contained entertainment, markets and restaurants. It was a vital element that engaged other elements within the city.
1 Entry lobby 2 Reception 3 Director’s office 4 Administration offices 5 Staff offices 6 Conference 7 Teacher’s restrooms 8 Public Restrooms 9 Storage 10 Retail 11 Meeting Space
12 Cafe 13 Library 14 Music studio 15 Music storage 16 Dance studio 17 Dance storage 18 Individual practice space 19 Black box theater 20 Mens locker/shower 21 Womens locker/shower 22 Mechanical
Administration Circulation Music Studios Dance Studios
Competition -2nd Prize -Joel Setzer Jameson Deighan Matt Kelly
Structure
Scale
Acoustics
Year: 3 Critic: Jason Towers
INHABITING THE LINE [The Hiker’s Bath house] Wekiva Springs, FL Year: 3 Critic: Jason Towers The Investigation of the site began with a two mile hike into Wekiva Springs state Park. The hike became the foundation for the concept of a sequence of spaces that were impacted by the situations under which they were formed. The site itself rests on a line formed by the edge of a deciduous canopy with thick underbrush and pine flatwoods, a condition created by forest fires. The project investigated the implications of a space created by circumstance. Site analysis was explored through hand drawings and constructs documenting the path of the hike. and the notion of arrival.
Cold Bath
Hot Bath
Warm Bath
[Furnace]
Baths
Paths
Showers/Changing
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Changing Rooms Shade Deck Sauna Cold Pool Warm Pool Furnace\Chimney Showers Hot Pool
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The hot bath and sauna are organized around a furnace. As fire has created the line that the bath house inhabits it is also the heart of the program. The furnace is marked by a towering chimney that mimics the pines that compose the flatwoods. It also provides a landmark by which the baths can be located by hikers. Should fire return to the site, the materialty of the baths and chimney will withstand as the rest of the program is burned away. It will remain a monument to the conditions of the site.
Site Relation
Masonic Lodge No. 69 Renovation and Expansion [Exchange: The Brotherhood and the Community] Orlando, FL
Year 4 Professor Dan Kirby The expansion and renovation of Masonic Lodge No. 69 in Orlando, FL was a client-based and highly interactive studio excercise. Through conversations with the members of the lodge, our team abstracted an intriguing contradiction in their wishes. The members had the desire to engage and educate the neighborhood on the philanthropic nature of the freemasons while protecting the secretive essence of their brotherhood. These desires resulted in a double facade in which the ceremonial lodge was constructed of block, purveying the strength and exclusivity of the brotherhood, and then cased in glass in order to demonstrate an openness to the community.
existing Transformation of volume and program involving the integration of community interaction.
South (private) entry
Exchange
Diagram of transparency and exchange between the brotherhood and community.
1 Ceremonial Lodge 2 Cornerstone and Portrait Gallery 3 Library 4 Catering Kitchen 5 Casual Dining Room (66 persons) 6 Formal Dining Room (192 Perons) Lobby/P 7 Lobby/Pre-Function 8 OfďŹ ce 9 Conference/Classrooms 10 Toilet Room 11 Changing Room 12 Storage 13 Electrical/Telecommunication/ Mechanical Closet 14 Courtyard 15 Garden
Fractured Densities [The Smithsonian Research Tower] Baltimore, MD Independent Study Fall 2011 In the years between 2000 and 2010 Baltimore lost 8.1 residents a day. Just as the population of Baltimore has decayed so has the harbor on which it sits. Its ecosystem has been devastated by polution and overfishing.The conditions have solicited a susbstantial response from environmentalists and scientists who are researching solutions to the alarming conditions. Shellfish feed at the base of the food chain - as first order consumers they are vegetarians. Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs are an essential link between the bottom-dwelling aquatic communities and phytoplankton production in the water column. Shellfish are highly efficient water filters that directly remove particulate material thus reducing turbidity and both directly and indirectly removing nitrogen and other nutrients. Via this process, these highly efficient water purifiers remove or reduce organic matter, nutrients, silt, bacteria and viruses, and improve clarity and light transmission which, in turn, improves the condition of critical habitat, including survival of critical habitat species such as seagrasses and other submerged vegetation. Thus they provide a net gain for the environment. The smithsonian Environmental Research Center also known as SERC presently has research facilities in many locations along the Chesapeake Bay. This new facility would focus on the regeneration of oyster reefs and contain “The museum of extinction,” an educational facility that would reconnect the community to the harbor through the education of it. The museum would also physically connect via pedestrian bridge to harbors edge, a tourist district. The occupation of SERC as a museum and research facility will provide multiple jobs at various pay scales. The tower will offer living units to accommodate each of these pay scales so that employees may live and work in the same location, increasing density along the harbor.
The “City of Neighborhods” Population by neighborhood
Nap Ford Community School Graduate Studio 1 Dr. Frank Bosworth The concept for this design proposal resulted from site analysis. There is a significant difference in culture between Downtown Orlando and the Parramore District. Densly developed street edges and a public realm activated by multi-use buildings in the downtown district decay into parking lots and abandoned structures once you reach the Parramore district. Many residents of the city attribute thisto the division caused by Interstate 4, but it has much more to do with than that. Historic Parramore was not unlike downtown, but when vital businesses and public places left Parramore they area declined, and so did a sense of place and culture. This design proposal is intended to begin the process of renewing density in the Parramore District by using Nap Ford Community School not only as a place for students, but also a place for the larger Parramore Community. This is accomplished by occupying the street edges on all sides of the school with muliple functions. Through this, the the streets of the new “Creative Village” will be engrained with the cultural values of the Parramore District.
Community The facade along Livingston Street is activated by circulation that serves as a connection from the public Library/ Media Space to the community of Parramore. This gesture clarifies the use of the site as public as well as private
Educational The primary instructional spaces are stacked to respond and connect to the existing higher education district.
The initial sketch
1. Public Entry 2. Music Room (NF) 3. Music Room (HS) 4. Outdoor Classroom 5. High School 6. Parking 7. Reading Room 8. Pre - K 9. Kindergarten 10. Classroom Restrooms 11. Mechanical 12. Storage 13. Kitchen Multi-Puropse Space 14. Multi-Pu 15. Auditorium 16. Gymnasium 17. Media Center (NF) 18. Media Center (HS) 19. Mechanical 20. Community Media Center 21. First Grade 22. Second Grade 23. Third Thi Grade 24. Administration 26. Fourth Grade 27. Fifth Grade 28. Sixth Grade 29. Garden
30. Seventh Grade 31. Eigth Grade 32. Art Room
Nap Ford Community Entry
Nap Ford School Entry
The Starter’s House Wall Process Architecture The earliest iteration of the Starter’s House was constructed in 1916 for the City of Winter Park. Extensive termite damage required the reconstruction of many structural elements including most interior partitions and portions of the exterior walls. Process architecture seized the opportunity of recycling the damaged wood in order to construct an undulating wood wall that reflected on the history of the structure. As the members were ripped into strips and sanded the beauty of their history was revealed. Myself and a fellow student were included in the construction of the wall.
Photo Credit: James Cornetet
Native Social Bar
27 W. Church Street Orlando Fl, 32801
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013 Lead Designer In October of 2012, myself and a colleague we were asked to design a bar by local entertainment and nightlife specialists Team Market Group. We were equipped with a construction team and were responsible for every aspect of the design from concept to construction, and even built many of the designs ourselves. The space had previously been used by another bar known for questionable behaviour, parties and attire. It was TMG’s intention to “clean up” the image of the space. The theme to Native Social Bar is a rememberance of mid-century Orlando. The interior of the space was mostly gutted, in cluding tearing away plaster, drywall and mirror from the walls in order to reveal the decades-old brick. Native has been extrordinarily successful and the design has allowed them to sustain a higher pricepoint for their beverages. This project has led to 3 more commissions from Team Market Group: two night clubs and an “All American Bar.”
“Penny Bar”
VIP AREA PLAN
MAIN FLOOR PLAN
1/16” = 1’
1/16” = 1’ NORTH
Main Bar Design
Existing Conditions
Elevation (for construction)
Whiskey Bar Design
Awkward Space
Existing Conditions Existing Conditions
Wood Inlay
Because of the costs of moving plumbing etc. this bar was to remain in its location and be refinished. The service area of the bar was constructed in a “W” shape makinf an awkward, unusable space. The solution was a wood inlay transformed the unusual space into bar top and produced the opportunity for more seating.
The display of the main bar was lit with RGB LEDs so that it’s color could change for occasions.
Conversational Chairs Joel Setzer + Matt Kelly + Jameson Deighan + Daniel Miko
1/16” = 1’ mock-up
The Conversational Chairs were digitally designed then fabricated from over 1000 pieces of laser-cut cardboard. Each of them contained a void in which books could be stored and shared with other UCF students. The carved void was a concept taken from book safes.
Magazine Coffee Table
This coffee table was designed for a magazine and book lover. The techniques used in joining the elements of the coffee table were borrowed from techniques of book binding and the design optimized opportunities for the storage and display of magazines.
Joel Austin Setzer
joelaustinsetzer@gmail.com 321.297.3459
Work Experience
LEAD DESIGN CONSULTANT Team Market Group Lead Designer for Native Social Bar, ONO Nightclub Sound Bar, and Saddle Up October 2012 - Present INTERN RLF Architecture November 2011 – June 2012 INTERN Process Architecture December 2011 – As needed INTERN IBI Group May 2010 – November 2010
Pedagogy
TEACHING ASSISTANT Architectural Design I: Fall 2011 Valencia Community College: Orlando FL
Education
Master of Architecture University of Florida May 2014 Bachelor of Design in Architecture University of Central Florida May 2012 Associate in Arts Valencia Community College May 2010
Skills/Software
Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator AutoCAD 2011 Google Sketchup Grasshopper Maya Rhinoceros 5.0 Revit 2012 3ds Max V-ray for 3ds Max and Rhinoceros 5.0