Spring 15 portfolio

Baxter Smith

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design M Arch Candidate 2016

BOUNCING LIGHT Instructor:

Shelia Kennedy

A photo deconstruction of a typical street light helped to address which elelements of the light must remain and which can be traded out for softer elements.

FABRICATION PROCESS LIGHT

3DPRINT

STREETS

BROWSER

WIFI

LIGHT-WEIGHT TRANSPORT

PARTS

ADJUSTABLE

SOLAR POWERED NIGHT SCHOOL

CNC

BENDING LIGHT INSTRUCTION EXPLODED PARTS

BENDING LIGHT ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTION STEP BY STEP

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Bending Light

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Bending light is a solar powered permanent lighting for fringe areas with little infrastructure. The design is flack packable, adjustable, adaptable, easy set up, light weight, low cost, and use common local materials such as plywood. It could be set up in singularity as a piece of landmark or in multiple in cluster for market or different events. By bending the material pressed against each other at specified points self-forming a subtle asymmetrical curved form, wood not only achieves the structural properties of an arch but also creating a soft form to an otherwise flat piece of material. Digital fabrication process using 3-axis CNC is used, then. each joint is pressed and secured with 3-d printed ‘clamps’. Taking advantage of the flexibility of the bent structure, pulling the red string allows adaptations for multiple directions for the light as well as solar adjustablilty.

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STUDY MODELS POSSIBLE CONFIGURATIONS

not to scale 3 strips standing with one leg with tension stength and T angle anchored to the foundation material = 1 ply chipboard + 1/16” plywood joint = paper clips

not to scale 3 strips and one unique leg piece material = 1/32” basswood joint = paper clips

not to scale 3 strips standing with one leg + one flat piece counter balancing material = 1 ply chipboard + 1/16” plywood joint = paper clips

EVENTS

not to scale 3 strips twisted forming 3 legs material = 1/32” basswood joint = paper clips

not to scale 4 uniuqe strips formined in tension forces material = 1/32”plywood

not to scale 2 unique pieces held at 3 points and standing on 3 legs material = 1 ply chipboard joints = paperclip

PARAMETERIZING THE BENDING FOREST

GRID

MARKETS

EVENTS

COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION

COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION MOUNTING AND DISPENSING

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION

COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION MOUNTING AND DISPENSING

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type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

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1.5” = 1’

COOL TO GO

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COOL TO GO - POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

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COOL TO GO PROTOTYPES

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A study of the cold chain revealed a need to impelent freeze proof vaccine carriers. The very compact form of the Cool To Go vaccine carrier unfolds to create a store front for vaccines. In this way, the bicycle is used to the maximum. It provides transport while providing power for charging mobile phones for just in time vaccine curriers, and provides a dispensing space for the mobile “clinic”. A biodegreable design allows for the box and interior vaccine holder to be resposibly disposed after its useful life.

An ATOM bicycle generator coupled with a thermoelectic panel enables Cool To Go to remain cold during transportation and while dispensing goods. Pop up mobile vendors are able to sell cool fruits, vegetables and drinks, creating a new typology for the mobile street vendor.

The design is also applicable to bike curriers outside of the vaccine cold chain, specifically the "Boda Boda" riders that transport goods and people across the border into neighboring countires. These riders already utlize the rack for storage and transportation, and could include the use of cool storage to transport perishable goods.

The entire design is made cardboard. This material traps air to insulate the interior vaccine carrier, which is cooled by the thermoelectirc panel. Cardboard is a workable material readily available in in many sizes.

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mobile vaccine dispensary

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informal vending set ups

COOL TO GO - CUT FILE 3

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COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION

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1.5” = 1’

COOL TO GO PROTOTYPES

COOL TO GO PROTOTYPES

COOL TO GO PROTOTYPES

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

COOL TO GO - CUT FILE type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

COOL TO GO - SECTION BOX COOL TO GO - INSTRUCTION COOL TO GO - SECTION BOX

type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

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“TO-GO BOX”

1.5” = 1’

1.5” = 1’ “REVERSIBLE BOX”

PRODUCTION DIAGRAM

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COOL TO GO - SECTION DISPENSARY SET UP type: flat pack type designer: MATT AU, SOO HAN, BAXTER SMITH

UNMANNED MANOUVERS Collaborators: Instructors:

Chandini Sheth Arian Tajik Nicholas de Monchaux Mark Anderson Laci Videmsky

Robots take on specified tasks, each establishing its own way of working and moving around the site. Mahitikalektar focuses on data gathering and conducting research on the site. Motughar houses all of the workers and scientists that work and live on the various robots, and collects water and solar energy.

Krabbelaar is an earth working robot, responsible for earthwork activities and planting wetlands.

Each action represented on the site map is a movement of the robot, and is built up over a period of time. The layers of the actions representing the conflict in interest that each robot has with various parts of the site, and open areas act as buffer zones between the moving robots.

NEST WE GROW

House of Food, for Food In response to an international design-build competition, our team proposed a quintessentially Californian approach embracing many ideas still new to Asia, from where most of us hail. These Californian ideas formed into Nest we Grow, which grew from a shared interest in the materials that make up our build environment with a focus on renewable materials.

Nest We Grow won the 4th Annual LIXIL International designbuild competition in 2014, and unlike structures built in the first years of the competition, it is an open, public structure.

Its main intent is to bring people in the community together to store, prepare and enjoy local foods in the setting of Hokkaido, Japan.

We focused on a heavy timber construction technique coming from the US, which uses large sections of wood. In Japan this translated to the composite column, which uses smaller pieces of wood to generate a larger column. It took considerable effort to identify a way to join materials, which was influenced by both local carpentry practices and the Japanese material market. We were also under a considerable time constraint with the entire building process taking only six months to complete.

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The program of the Nest is decided according to the life cycle of these local foods: growing, harvesting, storing, cooking/dining, and composting, which restarts the cycle.

All members of the community help to complete each stage, allowing the structure to become a platform for group learning and gathering activities in the Nest throughout the year.

Community participation extends and completes the life cycle of local foods, which is a symbiotic relationship. This is the time-line of people and food in the Nest, and this is the Nest for people and food.

Memu Meadows, 158-1 Memu, Taiki-cho, Hiro-gun, Hokkaido, Japan Completion date: November 2014 Design group: College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley: Hsiu Wei Chang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Fanzheng Dong, Yan Xin Huang, Max Edwards and Baxter Smith (Instructors: Dana Buntrock, Mark Anderson) Project supervisor: Kengo Kuma & Associates, Takumi Saikawa Structural engineer: Masato Araya Mechanical engineer: Tomonari Yashiro Laboratory at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo / Bumpei Magori, Yu Morishita Contractor: Takahashi Construction Company Floor area: 85,4 m sq Client: LIXIL JS Foundation

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COMPOSTING

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KITCHEN

water tank

steel bracing

concrete stool

vertical Ø38mm

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wood table Daikon (6)

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planter

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Salmon (1)

SOIL

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Salmon (1) planting area

Salmon (1)

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concrete

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MECANICAL WATER TANK

wood panel

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ENTRANCE STORAGE

SOIL

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GROUND LEVEL PLAN

slope roof: transparent curragated panel 450

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operable skylight window gutter

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exterior envelope: translucent curragated panel

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rope

Fluorecent Light

Log (D=100~150mm)

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sliding window: translucent curragated panel 2200

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handrail: rope

Chain

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Hemp Rope Wood Block 2200

Iron Pot

Trunk Seat

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GROUND FLOOR GROUND FLOOR

STEPPED STEEM Instructor:

Rudy Pakravan

The STEEM center, short for Science, Technology, Engineering, Exercise, and Math, at Potero Hill hopes to create a stepping stone for young students in middle and high school to pursue higher education. The site is located at a city wide intersection of local grade schools and University of California, San Francisco. The center provides a direct yet challenging path to any student willing to commit to the extra curricular activities available to all ages.

The form makes up an urban hill that lends itself to be explored by opening up a variety of spaces meant for people of different sizes to find their own space to exploit. This fabric of steps and plateaus surrounds and interweaves itself into the programs that make up the center. The stepped facade of the interior courtyard is translated into an outdoor auditorium under an overhanging roof. The science wing is half in doors and half out, allowing for experiments to be conducted in the lab and field.

Each program has its own area, but is connected via interior and exterior urban pathways, where young and old students can mingle in between the specified program spaces to create their own spaces suited to their needs.

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Columbia University Instructor: Jane Kim Site: Orchard St btw Delancy and Broome, New York City An analysis of the site focused on the relationship between one’s head movement and the direction traveled. A prosthetic device was created to align this relationship as one entity.

Site: 125th and Lenox Ave, Harlem

Experiencing the site during rush hour led to the documentation of movement from animate and inanimate objects over the course of two traffic cycles.

Columbia University Thomas de Monchaux Instructor: Site: Wendy, PS1 MoMA, group project

As a group we studied the installation at PS1 and diagrammed our experience at the site. Wendy, the installation, became the focus for the rest of the term and inspired out later work. The drawing is an axonometric representation of Wendy.

Site: Living space

Analyzing everyday activities over a 24 hour period was the basis for representing the space I inhabit. Actions are split between the morning when time is rushed and evening when time is relaxed.