Joseph L’Heureux Portfolio
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From Ruin to Threshold
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The Climb
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Case Study: El Tecuan
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Still Water Sanctuary
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Living by Light
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Modeling Precedents
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Chicago Inventors Club
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Urban Infill Castleberry Hill
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The Lantern’s Song
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From Ruin to Threshold TERM
SUMMER 2021
CLASS 3RD YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
RYAN ROARK
From Ruin to Threshold is a mixed-use apartment complex located in South Atlanta in a community known as Artisan Wells. With 30 residential units, this project provides housing for single homeless women and homeless families. Along with housing, it provides onsite services to help the homeless residents. With a pharmacy, daycare, and homeless help, this project serves to help the homeless gain skills as well as provide resources to help them find employment. Along with helping provide this aid and assistance, this is also an entrance to the rest of Artisan Wells. Through the use of large courtyards and nature trails, From Ruin to Threshold brings guests to experience not only the nice elements of its own programs but welcomes guests to explore the other sites of Artisan Wells.
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Mechanicsville has a large homeless population which is currently underserved.
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With the given site, I explored different layouts for the mixed-use apartments. First starting out with the who plot of land and then splitting it along the vertical axis to create a large courtyard like space between the two buildings. Liking the idea of having outdoor courtyards the rest of the itterations are attempts to find a good solution.
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Single Bed with Loft (11 Blocks/Units)
Initial Building
Facade with Extruded Massing
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Studio Apartment (11 Blocks - 22 Units)
Massing with Courtyards
Shifted Masses + Extrusion
Floors and Units
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Elevations with their given sections
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Entrance Courtyard
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Seventh Level 18
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Studio Appartments
Sixth Level
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Single Bedrooms with Loft Appartments
Fifth Level
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Outdoor Terrace
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Single Bedrooms with Loft Appartments
Fourth Level
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Rooftop Courtyard
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Outdoor Terrace
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Studio Appartments
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Third Level 10
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Outdoor Terrace
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Single Bedrooms with Loft Appartments
Second Level
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Auditorium
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Office Space/Homeless Services
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Outdoor Terrace
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Studio Appartments
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Park/Trail Level 4
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Outdoor Cafe
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Park/Trail to Artisan Yards
Ground Level
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Lobby
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In attempt to create social spaces for the different families on the different floors, I iterated different punctures and cutouts ending up with a splitting/stepping movement. This subtracted element creates semi-outdoor spaces, providing social zones for the different families and peoples on the different floors. This also allows for there to be a visual connection through this stepping motion, allowing the users to look, not only through the building in one axis but two.
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The Climb TERM
SPRING 2020
CLASS 1ST YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
GUSTAVO DO AMARAL
The Climb is an pavilion designed through the iteration of different transformations; scale, shear, boolean, rotate, and chamfer edge. With an emphasis on vertical circulation, this pavilion pulls inspiration from Escher’s Staircase, where the users look to the stairs to try to figure out where to go and how to get from one place to another.
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Rotate
Scale
Shear
Chamfer Edge
Composite 01
Composite 02
Stairs
Circulation
Zones of Transition
Sheared Stairs
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Case Study: El Tecuan TERM
SPRING 2021
CLASS 2ND YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
JULIE KIM
In this case study, I explored the structure and the different elements of the project through exploded axon as well as collage. The collage looks at the geometries of the structure and the openings, extending the lines to come up with a new composition.
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Zones of Transition
C a s e S t u d y : E l Te c u a n
Circulation
Structure
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Still Water Sanctuary TERM
SPRING 2021
CLASS 2ND YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
JULIE KIM
Still Water Sanctuary is a wellness retreat located just outside of the Atlanta perimeter at the Sweetwater State Park Mill Ruins. In protection of the ruins, Still Water serves as a wrapper or buffer for noise and movement that is outside of the site. It allows for the guest of the retreat to be immersed in a state of peace and tranquility while they are within the sanctuary and especially the ruins. Aside from the pools and the meditation chambers, all the programs surround the ruins to provide the peace necessary for revitalization. Working with those programs, the running creek offers a soothing white noise that allows users of the space to unwind and focus on self-love while engaging in the different wellness functions that the sanctuary provides.
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tretch Unwinding
Sleeping elax
Greeting Buying Wading
Swimming
Reflection
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Parti diagrams and sketches showing how the Sanctuary provides peace for the ruins.
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Programmatic Key: 1 Studio Space 2 Massage Rooms 3 Locker Rooms 4 Saunas 5 Pools 6 Meditation Chambers
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Programmatic Key: 7 Hotel/Sleeping Quarters 8 Cleaning/Service
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Programmatic Key: 9 Lobby 10 Admin 11 Cafe 12 Relaxation Deck 13 Restrooms
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Programmatic Key: 7 Hotel/Sleeping Quarters
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Initial sketches to study models
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S t i l l Wa te r S a n c t u a r y
Meditation Space Drawings
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S t i l l Wa te r S a n c t u a r y
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Living by Light TERM
FALL 2019
CLASS 1ST YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
MEGAN McDOUNOUGH
Living by Light is a proposal for a space that is soley controlled by sunlight that utilizes the light at different times to determine the program of the room. The sleeping quarters only recieve sunlight in the morning to wake up the user but then is dark after noon. The living space recieves sunlight throughout the day.
Sunrise
Noon
Afternoon
Sunset
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Modeling Precedents TERM
FALL 2020
CLASS MEDIA + MODELING INSTRUCTOR
NAZANIN TABATABAEI
This project looks at two precedents; The Domus Museum, located in Galicia, Spain and the Absolute Towers, located in Mississauga, Canada. With these precedents, my partner and I were set to recreate these buildings using Rhino and Grasshopper looking at the general form, pattern, and structure of the two precedents.
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Chicago Inventors Club TERM
FALL 2020
CLASS 2ND YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
HAYRI DORTDIVANLIOGLU
The Chicago Inventors Club is a design studio based in Downtown Chicago at the intersection of South Wabash Avenue and East Bablo Drive. Being located near multiple schools of design as well as architecture and design firms, the Chicago Inventers Club provides the resources and machinery to help develop and furthen designers projects. With computure labs, collaboration spaces, libraries, studios, and workshops, local inventors can work design, create, and work torwards their design ambitions. The buildind’s form is reflective on the work that is created inside as it is composed of four interlacing sheets that work as envelope, structure, and phenonmenal quality. The intricate knotwork is Celtic inspired, looking at past knots to create a contemporary twist, making sure to follow the same guides that the Celtics used hundreds of years ago.
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Knot 01
Knot 02
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Knot 03
Knot 04
Knot 05
Configurations
Exterior Sheets
Initial Sheets
Interior Sheets Rotated
Tearing/Bending
Applied Knots
Interior Sheets
Thickening
Materialization
Cellular Decay to Create Opennings in Sheets 1 2 3 4 1 2 3
Exterior Sheets
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Interior Sheets
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Each floor-plate is organized by the different screens and the how they are split up as they move up the building.
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Demographic and Transit Diagrams
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Entrance Atrium
Bridge Connection
Loft Workspace
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Urban Infill Castleberry Hill TERM
FALL 2020
CLASS 1st YEAR STUDIO INSTRUCTOR
GUSTAVO DO AMARAL
This project looks to infill an empty lot in Castleberry hill. This is a proposal for a building that houses two different artist; a glass blower and a studio photographer, where both of their crafts are used to bring people to the site. The building, along with houseing their studios/workshops, also houses a gallery and an apartment for the artists.
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Urban Inf ill Castleberry Hill
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The Lantern’s Song TERM
FALL 2021
CLASS
3RD YEAR STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR
GEORGE JOHNSTON
Located just outside of downtown Atlanta, the beltline intersects North Highland Avenue to create two triangular parcels. This project proposes using those parcels, one for a vertical circulation connecting the Beltline to North Highland Avenue and two, to house a Musicians Collective. Atlanta, being a growing hub for the entertainment industry, the Music Box provides artists the opportunity to record, perform, and develop their music. The formal composition of the music box is the reflection of the vertical circulation to create a bent arrangement. The Music Box plays with transparency to create a floating illusion where the top floors are glazed in a translucent screen and the bottom floors in a transparent screen.
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Site Collages
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Parcel 02
Parcel 01
Intersection Parti
Existing Paths
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Parcel 02 Geeomety Process
Parcel 01
Stretch (X Direction)
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Reflected
Stretch (Y Direction)
Rotation
Simplify Geometry
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Initial conceptual sketches for parcel 01 vertical circulation, creating connection between North Highland Avenue and the Beltline.
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SW Axon
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NW Axon
NE Axon
SE Axon
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4th Floor (Residential)
3rd Floor (Recording Studios)
2nd Floor (Mezzanine)
Street Level (Entrance + Lobby)
Beltline Level (Theatre and Light Rail stop)
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Recording Room
Instrument Gallery
Beltline Theatre
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