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Throughout my education in architecture I have learned two things that have remained consistent; the concept of knowing something about everything, and the power of architects to move through multiple types of design, not just the building arts. Within this portfolio are works that could be considered “good� design. Things I’ve done in studio; a museum, a delicate facade. Also in this collection are things I think are worth sacrificing my time for. Socially-responsible design for a city, a crematorium, and a earthquake resistant structure. Each of these works overlay the other, and my education would not be complete with the absence of one. This represents my development as of right now, and a springboard from which I can further develop my skills as a shaper and designer.
Jessie Hughes Undergraduate, Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology
CONTENTS
INSPIRATION THROUGH NATURE
TEXTILE TECHTONICS
IN A FOREST
SEISMIC
VCEA
CHAPEL OF LIGHT AND MATTER
INSPIRATION THROUGH NATURE
FALL 2011 | PROF. LARS SPUYBROEK
The beginning of my second year marked my formal introduction to architectural education. This first studio focused on the derivation of form through observation of the natural world. Each student was given a naturally occurring aggregate to study, mine being the formation of ice. From there we derived rules for the construction of the given form, and created a structure from those rules.
TEXTILE TECHTONICS
SPRING 2012 | PROF. LARS SPUYBROEK
Woven
Grid is woven at the same time as the pattern; no prefixed grid.
Continous Linear
Made of stitched groupings(platts) woven together.
Diverse
Radial and linear patterns of stitchery.
Plait.
Linear stitch directions.
cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.cross.twist.
Cloth. cross-twist-cross.cross-twist-cross.cross-twist-cross.cross-twist.cross.cross-twistCross-twist-cross
Cross-twist-cross
Gimp. cross.cross.twist.cross.cross.twist.cross.cross.twist.cross.cross.twist.cross.cross.twist.
Picot. cross.loop.cross.cross-loop-cross.cross-loop-cross.cross-loop-cross.cross-loop-cross.
The second semester of my second year at Georgia Tech was similar to the first. This time students were given a manmade textile and told to learn the rules behind these techniques. The eventual skin was used to create the new facade for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, located in Midtown. My textile was lace, and I found there were a variety of stitches that could be combined in a staggering number of ways to derive a skin for the bank.
TEXTILE TECHTONICS
SPRING 2012 | PROF. LARS SPUYBROEK
Final renderings, elevations and drawings.
Western
Southern
Eastern
Northern
FALL 2012 | PROF. JUDE LEBLANC
IN A FOREST
Section 3
Students were asked to study the Emory Juior College Campus in Covington, Georgia, and design a media and arts center for the school. My approach to the project was one of focusing on the forest behind the site, and discovering ways to integrate it with the campus. The project’s main feature is a twist in axis, which orients the user to the forest immediately after entering the building, creating the analogy of the building as a forest.
Section 4
SEISMIC
SPRING 2013
a prototype | we intend to create a prototypical structure model. This model can be applied to different future sq in 20 height: 4.00in buildings in the city of Seattle. The structure has floorarea:183.37 area:183.37 sq in height: 4.00in floor 19 a basic octagonal plan for its structural core. sq in Different types of floor plans can be accomodated floorarea:183.37 height: 2.00in 18 in this case, and that can also be arranged freely area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 17 within its bigger framework (with the assistance area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 16 of additional regional forces and connections) area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 15 pre-fabrication | the parts of the building are area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in pre-fabricated off-site, which allows to speed up floor 14 sq in the construction process as well as reducing the floorarea:183.37 height: 2.00in 13 material cost... area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 12
area:183.37 sq in floor 11 height: 2.00in
area:183.37 sq in height: 4.00in floor 10 area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 9 area:183.37 sq in floor 8 height: 2.00in area:183.37 sq in floor 7 height: 2.00in area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 6 area:183.37 sq in height: 2.00in floor 5 area:183.37 sq in floor 4 height: 2.00in area:183.37 sq in floor 3 height: 2.00in area:183.37 sq in floor 2 height: 2.00in
area:183.37 sq in height: 4.00in floor 1
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centered, rotated
centered, pinched
varied sizes, stacked
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4.56
The SEISMIC Competition is an annual engineering competition conducted by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. In 2013 Seattle served as the host city, with nearly every top engineering institute represented. This year Georgia Tech decided to work with two architecture students to create a poster, renderings, and a working model to be tested on an earthquake simulation machine.
GTower
Georgia Institute of Technology
VCEA
SPRING 2013 | HERMAN HOWARD
The neighborhood is historically cut of from the City of Atlanta, due to past construction of the Georgia World Congress Center.
This project is currently under review by the City of Atlanta. Vine City and English Avenue are two historically black neighborhoods on the West side of Atlanta. We were asked to evaluate the neighborhood in terms of the aggravating Atlanta Falcons stadium directly next to it.
The presence of many vacant lots(in black) in the neighborhoods.
Houses along the Proctor Creek Water flood lines become vacant very quickly.
The existing sewer lines. Ill equipped to handle 70% of Atlanta’s runoff and flooding often..
The neighborhoods have a haphazard system of roads, making navigation difficult or impossible.
SPRING 2013 | HERMAN HOWARD
VCEA
7’
9’
sidewalk
Parallel Parking
11’
11’
9’
7’
Parallel Parking
sidewalk
Local Street
7’ 4’ 10’ walk
shoulder
Parallel Parking
12’
14’ median/ bike lane
12’
10’
4’ 7’
Parallel Parking
shoulder walk
80’
Collector Street
15’ walk
4’ 12’ shoulder
12’
14’
12’
median/ bike lane
left turn lane
80’
Arterial Street Simpson
12’
12’
4’
15’
shoulder
walk
Jam es P . Br aw l ey
Dr.
My new plan fixed the grid structure of the neighborhoods by revitalizing the major streets that lead to the rest of the city, retying it to Atlanta proper, so close by. The presence of all the vacant lots permitted me to straighten out the streets with minimal disruptance to the existing population. This created more green space, established a hierarchy of streets, and provided for bike lanes to be established, giving residents a new way to travel outside VCEA.
Final concept map.
New bike lanes on all major and connector streets
New green space created.
Vine
Existing Sewer Line
n Ale adiso
Existing Sewer Line
Cam eron M
Section detail, water collection system taking advantage of existing topography.
Bike Routes Through the Area
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er Blv d.
New Areas for Green Space
Locations of new water collection system intersect with the existing watershed.
Existing Sewer Line
Existing Sewer Line
Existing Sewer Line
VCEA
SPRING 2013 | HERMAN HOWARD
Final concept render as presented to the City of Atlanta.
FALL 2013 | TRISTAN AL-HADDAD
CHAPEL OF LIGHT AND MATTER
Obstruction of view A “walk” of faith
Descent/Ascent Faith as a threshold
Convergence/Transformation Life and Death in tandem
ISOVIST, VISUAL OPACITY INTO THE PARK
TYPICAL VS. ATYPICAL ENTRY POINTS
EARTHQUAKES 2008-2013, ALL
S
This chapel of light and matter, in reality a crematorium located in Mexico City, forced us to take a look at the elements that draw us to a structure. The chapel filters through the clutter of the user’s everyday life and refocuses their priorities in order to make the user realize a piece of humility towards their role in the world. We use an analogy of earthquakes, common in Mexico, to shake the user’s idea of faith and how it is portrayed.
The remembrance of One within Many The existance of Many as One
Focus within chaos Beauty within noise
10m
1000m
5000m
100m Scale: 100 cm = 1,000 m
Scale: 100 cm = 1,000 m
SCALE 1M:10,000M
Circulation of contemplation Doubt within faith within doubt
1m = 10,000m
SCALE 1M:1,000M
SCALE 1M:500M
CHAPEL OF LIGHT AND MATTER
FALL 2013 | TRISTAN AL-HADDAD
With this chapel we were also aiming to make a statement about the acceptance of the infinite circles and masses of life working hand in hand with the void of death. The user should experience pride in existing within the adversity of the Universe, for the end purpose of reinforcing their existing belief structures.
5m
50m Scale: 50 cm = 1,000 m
Plan, 1m = 500m
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