JOSEPH WESSELS jwessel1@vols.utk.edu 865.292.3591 josephwessels.com
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. John Keats 1795-1821
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Santa Fe House 21
Haley Farm Retreat 33
Engel Apartments 45
Design, Build, Evaluate Initiative 55
Surface Explorations 65
Photography 73
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Market Hall and Culinary Institute Integrations Studio, Fall 2013 In collaboration with Michael Turko Professor James Rose Knoxville, Tennessee
This project re-envisions downtown Knoxville’s most prominent park as a public plaza. The new dynamic surface is bisected by a building that extends the historic market square with multiple levels of shops that open onto the plaza, culminating with a series of spaces for a new culinary institute. The project focuses primarily on integrating structural and mechanical systems in such a way that the building is both sustainable and adaptable, achieving LEED gold certification.
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The three key program areas of the building (market, pavilion, and culinary institute) are joined by structural grids and circulation zones, allowing for natural and enjoyable movement between the variety of spaces in the building.
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In both elevation and plan, key zones of the building are subtracted and recreated in the landscape, creating occupiable exterior spaces in the building and moments of pause in the landscape. These subtractions give the lengthy facade a dynamic character and allow users to identify with the building at a human scale.
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A ramp gives both levels of market shops similar accessibility and creates a visual event that draws passersby into the space. A recessed market zone shelters the shops from the elements and gives the markets a unique identity within the project. The screen facade system partially shades the upper level markets, visually connecting the plaza area directly in front of the shops as part of the urban market experience. The monumental ramp and stair tower break away from the facade and create interesting moments in the plaza space. These gestures extend an invitation to users to enter the market or culinary institute and give each entry sequence a unique character.
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The culinary institute and market hall are separated by a covered outdoor pavilion. This zone is spanned by a tensioned membrane structure and two story enclosed bridge. The screen facade extends across this space, reducing in transparency as it does so. Users moving into the pavilion are met with a grand reveal as they experience the full size of the pavilion and see users circulating between spaces above them. The pavilion connects the new market square extension with the east park, joining two important public spaces that were previously connected only tenuously by small paths. A new axis now connects Gay Street and Market Square, two of Knoxville’s most popular destinations.
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Each shop is mechanically zoned as a separate entity, allowing tenants to remain autonomous. Non-structural partition walls between market spaces encourage unique market configurations and shop types. Restaurants, retailers, and consumer services are equally welcome.
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Santa Fe House Sustainable Strategies Studio, Fall 2014 In collaboration with Lewis Williams Professor Mark DeKay Santa Fe, New Mexico
This project focused on designing a sustainable, net-zero community from an existing development. The studio entered the project at a point where half of the community lots were already sold or built out. We worked as a studio to create a fifteen year vision for the residents of Heartstone that centered around community connectivity and sustainable building practices. A final masterplan was realized where each of the lots was individually completed and connected back to the community using careful site study and sustainable design techniques.
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The client for this home is a retired book artist who plans to make this community her final place of residence. She is heavily invested in the future vision for the community and above all desires that the development is completed in a way that allows it to be a place of social interaction and tightly-knit relationships. The design process focused on balancing the studio directive for sustainable architecture with the client’s personal convictions about what a home should be. Five days spent in Santa Fe with the clients and community residents studying the site and brainstorming about the community’s future gave the studio a basis from which to begin masterplanning and schematic design. These sessions led to the development of a design logic which was referred to throughout the semester. 24
The client’s end lot offered unique opportunities to capture spectacular views of the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains. An unbuildable arroyo valley to the north ensured that the vista would remain unchanged for the life of the home. The design for the home evolved from her love of these mountains and her desire for the living room to be the heart of the home. Three wings extend from this central living space, each with its own purpose. The form of the building defines outdoor garden spaces and optimizes these spaces in response to the site conditions. The working zone consists of a flexible office and studio, allowing her to operate her business from home. The sleeping zone consists of a master suite with a private balcony and a guest suite. The service zone consists of a kitchen and informal eating space with a pantry and laundry area. 25
Structure for the home consists of concrete masonry mass walls running parallel to the view axes and lightweight dimensional framing running perpendicular to the view axes. This system allows key mass walls to be used as a thermal collection and distribution system for winter heating. The opposing lightweight system with generous openings optimizes the home for natural summer cooling. A community mandate for built-up roofs opens an opportunity for rainwater collection, storage, and distribution. Garden planters contain cisterns and break up the facade, allowing the home to gently step into the landscape. By adding elements of the landscape to the language and materiality of the home, the house begins to truly feel like it belongs in the high desert landscape. 26
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Sustainable design strategies were used to optimize the home for its site and climate. Studies of wind, shading, solar orientation, heat gain, and mass cooling were all crucial to the design development of the project. Hand and spreadsheet calculations were used to compare performance of various forms with the end goal of a net-zero home. The house was ultimately developed with total reliance on passive heating and cooling systems, with the option to integrate photovoltaic systems for additional performance. The final design combines sustainable building performance with a series of sunny and shaded outdoor spaces. Visually connected private and public gardens and living spaces work in unison to instill the home with a sense of open connectivity. 28
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Hand drawing and model making became a fast and effective form of communicating with the client and community. Weekly video and telephone conference sessions encouraged the client to stay informed and involved with the design process. A large final 1/8�=1’-0� model was created to visualize the design three dimensionally and study finish floor level changes. A variety of materials were used to distinguish existing conditions, new design elements, vegetation, and interior and exterior finishes.
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Haley Farm Retreat Regional Vernacular Studio, Spring 2013 In collaboration with Michael Turko and Lewis Williams Professor Robert French Clinton, Tennessee
This project developed a new conceptual campus for Haley Farm. The former farm is owned by the Washington D.C. based Children’s Defense Fund and operated as a physical and spiritual retreat where children’s advocates spend time rejuvenating mind and body. Haley Farm was interested in expanding their campus into a disused clearing, centered in a quiet forest. An expanded program was proposed that consisted of group and individual residences, a dining facility, and a meeting hall.
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The project developed with an emphasis on master planning a group of buildings in an untouched landscape. The new campus formed with a linear view axis down the length of the field, where each building contributed a boundary to the overall sight line. The schematic design further evolved as a study of the regional vernacular, a process where a thorough understanding of traditional building practices was combined with new materials and building techniques to develop unique architecture that felt as though it belonged in the rural landscape. The presentation drawings were creating using a graphic palette from the etchings of Claude Nicolas Ledoux. This allowed for a consistency in representation across a team of three designers. The final presentation was printed on cold press watercolor paper and composed in a grid of 14 large presentation drawings and 14 diagram vignettes.
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The dining hall is comprised of a ground floor gathering space, a cafeteria, a full size commercial kitchen, storage spaces, and dormitory rooms for visiting groups.
The dining and meeting halls focus on the hearth as an important compositional element. In both buildings, the hearth acts as a threshold and generator for community interaction.
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The meeting hall is the most public building, comprised of a lecture hall, lounge, individual work spaces, and small group work spaces.
Thorough site study led to the development of exterior shading elements that maximize building performance and allow for wide panoramic views from the south-facing facades.
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Two smaller living spaces provide additional lodging on the new campus. A community house provides multiple rooms for a small group, and a hermitage provides a space for an individual in residence.
Each building was further developed through a series of plan and section detail studies, allowing the group of designers to optimize building tectonics.
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Engel Apartments Programming Studio, Fall 2012 Professor James Rose Chattanooga, Tennessee
The city of Chattanooga has a number of parks that each fill a specific need for the city’s occupants, enriching the experience of living in the city. The area surrounding the disused Engel Stadium already contains the raw elements needed to form the city’s next park. This project acts as a catalyst, transforming an assortment of recreational spaces currently connected only by proximity into a new park facility, unifying baseball, football, and soccer facilities. The initial site is ideally located at the most visible corner of the stadium block, acting as a gateway along the busy Third Street corridor.
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A combination of building form, hardscape, and landscape elements create a stepped filter that transitions users from cityscape to park. The project gently dissolves the corner of the ball field, allowing residents to use the field on a daily basis while still maintaining the integrity of the ball field. The project contains a mixed-use space on the ground floor and ten apartments organized on two levels above. A generous atrium provides circulation between private and public spaces and visually connects the interior program to the street through several levels of transparency. The apartments overlook Engel Stadium, allowing the new building to act as an extension of the stadium during ball games. Residents are invited to use their terraced outdoor spaces during games and consider the field an extension of their apartment amenities, transforming an inaccessible part of the city into a daily play space. 47
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The mixed-use space combines a basketball court, a performance space, a running circuit, a small commercial kitchen, management offices, and group meeting spaces. The space is intended to energize the field level of the project, allowing users to pass freely between the indoor and outdoor recreational spaces.
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The apartments are organized as split level residences, each containing a well-proportioned kitchen, living space, two bedrooms, two full baths, and an outdoor patio. Floor-to-ceiling windows facing the ball field instill the units with directionality and pleasant, diffuse natural light.
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Each upper floor corridor extends above the public plaza to a fire stair that anchors the northwest corner of the site. This stair tower defines the corner of the city block and provides a visual threshold as users enter the plaza. A screen facade extends across the upper levels of the project, partially veiling the apartments with a measure of privacy.
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The building entry interpolates between sidewalk and field elevations, entering people into the atrium through a vestibule and ramp sequence, and exiting them into the stadium at field elevation. This sequence defines program zones, creating dynamic public spaces between destinations. Access is limited between recreational and apartment levels, allowing each resident to choose his amount of involvement with the public program.
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Design, Build, Evaluate Initiative AIA Middle Tennessee Convention Presentation, Summer 2013 In collaboration with Haley Allen and Reid Cimala Professors Tricia Stuth and Robert French Nashville, Tennessee
This presentation was created to represent eight years of UT College of Architecture design build projects at the 2013 AIA Middle Tennessee Convention. A modular presentation system was designed and fabricated from raw materials to hold a series of drawings that presented a visual timeline of projects and initiatives. A model of the showcase project was built to act as the centerpiece of the exhibit. The entire presentation was crafted to both fit the initial format and be easily reusable.
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09 PROJECT TEAM Tricia Stuth, Robert French, Richard Kelso
CLIENT The University of Tennessee LOCATION Norris, Tennessee
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A NEW NORRIS HOUSE
The New Norris House is a research and education project led by the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture and Design. Working as a team, faculty and students from architecture, landscape architecture, civil/wastewater engineering, interior design, environmental studies, and planning departments – with help from industry and professional partners, and community and government bodies – designed and constructed a sustainable home and landscape in Norris, Tennessee. Beginning August 2011, the home is host to educational programs and a one year residency. Researchers will measure performance of building and landscape systems, yet will also consider and record the experience of living in the home, landscape and community.
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Each project was analyzed in detail and represented in a format that was consistent across all projects showcased in the presentation. The presentation system was designed in tandem with these drawings to display them in a way that was both visually dynamic and easy to interact with in a convention setting.
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The town was supported by a strong community center (exactly 1/2 mile from the New Norris House by walking path) and was originally planned to operate economically around several small cooperative industries. The original Norris plan accommodated shared garages, which were utilized by the surrounding cluster of homes and connected by a network of walking paths. While the garages no longer exist, the walking paths remain. Today, Norris is largely a bedroom community for nearby Oak Ridge and Knoxville. Many original homes have been enlarged and modified to accommodate more contemporary lifestyles.
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The Town of Norris is centered on a common green with commercial, educational and spiritual amenities within walking distance to clustered homes. The historic plan supports lifestyles that emphasize walking and cycling a half-mile to schools, grocery, libraries, post office, a weekly farmer’s markets and concerts, and seasonal festivals. A forgotten path that connected Oak Road to a path network, forest preserve and amenities is reconstituted on the project site to encourage non-vehicular trips and chance encounters. The New Norris House seeks to become anonymous in the context of a historic town—the form of the house echoes the form, scale and materiality of original Norris Cottages. The siting of the home responds to the dominant pattern of existing homes along Oak Road.
Historically, construction workers for public works lived in temporary camps. Norris Dam workers were joined by technical and professional staff and their families, and remained for longer. The TVA built a permanent town that would, at a smaller scale, reflect its larger vision of stewardship and innovation for the betterment of society. The town is one of the first “planned communities” and “garden cities” in the US.
“The work proceeds along two lines, both of which are intimately connected - the physical land and water and soil end of it, and the human side of it.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Careful attention was given to each project, ensuring that it was presented in a way that was consistent with the vision of the original faculty and students who conceptualized and built the project. Presentation boards consisted of project origins and history, design development, construction process, and completed imagery.
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COLLEGE OF NURSING COLL LEGE OF ENGINEERING C O L L E GE O F A R T S & S C I E N C E S CO O LLE E G E O F A G R I C U LT U R E & N ATURA AL RESOURCES
The Design, Build, Evaluate Initiative applies the intellectual resources of the university to challenges in the built environment to achieve the highest levels of design excellence, environmental performance, and social responsibility while developing new knowledge and disseminating lessons learned to academic and professional peers.
CLAXTON PICNIC PAVILLION
ROBERT FRENCH AND JAMES ROSE
2005
The College’s first permanent design-build was a picnic shelter pavilion to be located near the playground in the Optimist Club Park in the community of Claxton near Oak Ridge. In the true spirit of pro bono design, the pavilion left a small, inexpensive, but significant mark on the local landscape. This outdoor space gave the community a shelter to gather for meetings, picnics, or simply to relax. Equally important is the ripple effect that can be seen in the increasingly ambitious design-builds undertaken in the years following this project.
2006 ROBE E R T FRENCH, TED SHELTON, AND TR R I C IA A S T UTH H Now off f i cially the Bill Catron Observation Deck, this prro jec e t was wa w a s an e a arr l y d esig ess g n - bu buil ild d d one e at P Pa a nt n the he her e r Cr C re ee ek S Sttat t at ate Park on Cherokee Lake. The Reservoir that the projec ec c t over err look lo o ok o s iss a p ro o du d u ct c t o f TV TVA’ A’s fam am mo m o us u s d am m s yste yss tem. t e m. te m . T he he observation deck is a quiet addition to the hillside, se e ek e k n g al ekin a l wa ayss t o pres esen es entt tth en h e site t ’s fanta t st s tic t ic c v ie i ew wss f orr f am m ili i l iie il e s, s, hikers, and tourists to enjoy.
ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY KATHERINE AMBROZIAK
UT ZERO / LIVING LIGHT
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The Odd Fellows Cemetery and Potters Field Rehabilitation Project is an evolving, long term project that addresses the potential for a deteriorating cultural landscape to be rehabilitated and reintegrated into the social lives of the communities that surround it. It is a research and architectural design project that serves as a model for academic scholarship and has become a focus or testing model for many socially and culturally geared courses offered through the College of Architecture and Design.
JAMES ROSE AND EDGAR STACH
2008
Inspired equally by cantilever barns and solar tubes, the College of Architecture and Design’s 2011 Solar Decathlon entry began in 2008 with the foundation of Smart Structures and the construction of the UT Zero House. Investigation into construction techniques and technology research were tested, proven, and tested again in the final Living Light House. Placing an impressive eighth overall at the Solar Decathlon on the Washington Mall, the house proved the depth of its research and performance goals. It now sits at its home in the UT Gardens awaiting further integration into a future
NEW NORRIS HOUSE
TRICIA STUTH AND ROBERT FRENCH
2009
Coincident with Tennessee Valley Authority’s 75th anniversary, a team of students and faculty won Phase I ($10,000) and Phase II ($75,000) EPA P3: People, Prosperity and Planet Grants. The competition prompted use of Norris, TN as an ideal lens to revisit the New Deal experiment and as a vehicle to question the use and scale of public and private resources. This design-build went farther than any before, challenging students and faculty to create progressive and purposeful residential spaces to eventually be sold to a member of the local community.
FOND DES BLANCS, HAITI JOHN MCRAE, CHRIS KING, AND DAVID MATTHEWS
2010 MAT MA T T H A LL TT L A pr p rolif oll iff ic i cha hara ract cter in n UT’s design-buiil i l d histt o ry is the A R CHild C H-425 “B “ B rut-Tech” Cou u rse t a ug ta ugh g ht h t by Pr Prof ofessor Matt Hall. l Often en doing n g t e mpo ng o ra a rry y projects, one of th h ei e r fi f irs i rs rstt pe e rm rma a n en ane an e n t works wass a stor o a ge/di or disp spla lay wa a ll a nd sal ale e s counter for The Flo es owe we r Po Pot ot Floriss t o n Gay Street in K no noxv xv x v ille e . Th h e c onss t r uc c tion use e s 3/4” lam a inated ed p ar arti tic c l e bo b ar a rd ard scra sc a pss t o create a low-tech, h,, h ig h i hh im imp p act m as a s s wa w ll for orr p ermane e nt n use e . Th The e sii mp m p a ct mple ct of s ta t ck ckii ng and offsetting ng i nf nfor o ms t he con onst stru ruction, f ab a b rica a tio tii on o n , an n d fun n c ti tion on n o f th t h is this i proj oje oj ect. ect ec
Seven months after the January 2010 earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed buildings and changed lives in Haiti, 19 students from the College of Design began researching prospects for a design-build. Shortly after, design work began on a Secondary School for the neighborhood of Fond des Blancs. After its construction, work began on housing for faculty and community. After the great success of these projects, a continued interest in the area provoked an investigation into the need for and design of a clinic. The project continues to expand and create a network of aid and growth for Haiti. With the hopes of making a relevant, necessary, and positive change on a chaotic environment, UT continues to seek opportunity for involvement.
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M ATT T LYL Y E AN N D MA MATT T T C ULVE TT V R
CoAD’s Fabric Co c a tion Laborat att or o y (T ( T he h e “F Fa b-L FabFa b-- L La a b”) is a works kss hop space that allow k ow s iin ows ow ndept de pth constru u c ti t on exp x lo o ra ra ti tion on at an o ff f f -c ff- c ampus location n . In 2011, Fab-Lab D ir i re c tto o r, Matt Lyle set ou o u t to o d es e s ig esig i n an n d bu b uild a class sr s oom space forr th h e workshop. Prefab b r ic c a tte ed within n the sho o p to o eventua a lly be b placed as an exterior a dd ddition to the build d in n g, t he e class s room is the e c um u ull ative t eff fort fo o rtt o f st stud u ents and faculty y. Though the class s s ro om ss om is comp co mpleted, the i nt n ter e io er o rs a nd d f ur urni r ni n tu u re re d esign provide ongoin n g construction n ex xp p lo l o ra ra t i on and an d d esign-build d o ppor pp p or o tu tuni n iti ni t i es tie e s f or o U T st s t uden u d e ts. ud
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BRIAN AMBROZIAK AND DAVID MATTHEWS
2012
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T h iss f ast-pace Th e d , b ol old d de e sii gn g n-b - build b ui uild i ld d took t o o k place over three weeks during the summer off 2 2011. 011 11.. T 0 The h g he goal oal wa oa was tto communicate, advertise, make a statement, and do it fast. With only plywood, aluminum, and particle board scrap, the CoAD reception desk and faculty mailbox storage became the public declaration it hoped to be. Night and day its orange glow spills into the open atrium of the Art & Architecture building, letting visitor’s and students know exactly where to find the College of Design.
In t he s um mm mm mer of 2012, UT made the move to renovate one of its most heavily used buildings o n c ampu am m pu p u s, s , Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The 48-year old Bruce McCarty building is tran tr ansf an s f orr mi sfor m ing ng n in tandem with an emerging trend in educational practice: the flexible classroom. No long ng g er d o st students s sit and watch a teacher at the front, they move about the classroom in mobile desk de sks, sk s, re eorganizing o according to tasks. Designed in part by Interior Design and Architecture stud stud den ents n nts, tts, the classrooms and corridors of HSS received a visual and functional refresher for the ts new 20 2012-13 school year.
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Ass p arr t of A o f tthe ongoing ngoing work at Potters Field and Oddfellows Cemetery the ARCH-425 “Brut-Tech” “Brut-Tech co o ur u r se urse e t oo ok o k part in designing a wall to enhance spatial definition at the Cemetery. Students worked wii th t he w he C City Ci ty of Knoxville and the Knoxvil Knoxville Rehabilitation Coalition to build the prototype of a l ow co lo co onc n c rete ncre nc re r e wall for seating a and demarcation. The wall displays an interest in surface textures, co c o nc n c re e te t e pouring p techniques, tech and site-sensitive design. The Demarcation Studies provide a small add ad d di d i tti tio i on o n to the long-term project that gathers strength from each accumulative undertaking.
CASA DE SARA
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SUTTREE’S TAVERN GREG SPAW
2012
THE COURTYARD D AT NORRIS MIDDLE IDDLE
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S u tttt rre Su e e’ e’ss T Tavern, a on Gay Street, Knoxville, is a busy, urban hotspot. It opened last summer and im m med med me dii at ate e ely ly found that it had noise and seating problems. Professor Greg Spaw realized an op p po p rt rtun u n it ity ty and had his ARCH-425 “Reformations” course design a solution. The final design was a stt ea e m m---be bent b wooden bench with acoustic backing. Installed in May of 2013, the bench has been a grrea g eatt su u ucc c ccess for Suttree’s and the College as well.
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WITH GREEN EN O OAK RESEARCH ROBERT FRENCH ENCH AND TED SHELTON
B R I A N A M B R OZ I A K
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Th is Exp lorator y p an el p r esen t s t h e ran g e of u p comin g a nd o ng o i ng d e s i g n p r o j e c ts . M a ny of t h e p r oj ect s b elow ar e t h e focu s of d esig n st u d ios, i nd e p e nd e nt stud e nt- l e d ex p l o rati o n, d et ailin g cou r ses, con st r u ct ion r esear ch , an d mu ch m o re. These projects are fresh and they’re t he f ut ure of The Col l ege of Desi gn’s Desi gn -B u i l d -Eva l u ate program.
CASA DE SARA
ROBERT FRENCH AND TED SHELTON
Casa de Sara is the name of a non-profit primary school in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. When the school outgrew its current home, local benefactor, Lori Santoro, approached the College of Architecture with designing a new complex for the school. Two studios took on the task of providing conceptual and programmatic ideas for the new construction. The difficulty of obtaining property in Bolivia currently retains the continuation of the project, but the College hopes to soon expand upon the work already completed.
THE COURTYARD AT NORRIS MIDDLE ROBERT FRENCH
After the great success of the New Norris House, the Middle School in Norris, TN approached Robert French for proposals on a rejuvenated courtyard space. The space between the Cafteria, Main School Building, and Related Arts Building is currently an unfriendly blacktop. Design proposals to enliven the courtyard with social, educational, and green space were made and well-received. The construction process awaits further detailing and funding.
HALEY FARMS ROBERT FRENCH
The Children’s Defense Fund, operated in Washington D.C. owns Haley Farms and opens it up to their many volunteers and employees throughout the year for retreat and quiet collaboration. Bought by Alex Haley in 1984, the Farm is located in Clinton, TN. In a partnership between Haley Farm, the Children’s Defense Fund, and the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, the Farm is exploring its options for an expansion in lodging, meeting space, and dining services. A design studio studied the project in Spring 2013 and the continuation of the construction process is near and optimistic.
WEST TN 4-H CAMP WITH GREEN OAK RESEARCH
ROBERT FRENCH AND TED SHELTON
New projects on the horizon are plenty, and great potential lies in all of them. However, with a positive financial forecast, a 4-H Camp in West Tennessee looks to be the likeliest new design-build for UT. Program requirements have been completed and the search for an appropriate site is reaching a close. With a goal of including Professor Ted Shelton’s research in Green Oak Construction, the project promises a bolder scale and even greater opportunities than DBE has yet to take on.
UT GARDENS JAMES ROSE
For the Spring Semester of 2013, UT Botanical Gardens director, Dr. Susan Hamilton, approached Professor James Rose with a request for design proposals regarding a new teaching pavilion for UT Gardens. Energy efficiency and low budget are the restraints and from eight original designs Dr. Hamilton chose one which will move forward towards detailing and construction in the Spring of 2014. The teaching pavilions in the gardens will ultimately sit next to the permanent home of the UT Living Light House.
CLAY COUNTY, KY JOHN MCRAE, DAVID MATTHEWS, AND TED SHELTON
Clay County, KY is one of America’s poorest and least developed counties. It lies in the super-rural coal mining region of Eastern Kentucky and is home to extreme issues of asthma, obesity, and untreated illness. As UT’s most recent undertaking, the Fall Term will see the beginning of federal grant-funded research. The College of Nursing in collaboration with the College’s of Architecture and Environmental Engineering, as well as local law enforcement, proposed this project last Spring and was awarded a three year term in which to develop plans to strengthen community wellness and collaborate with community leaders and locals to improve emergency readiness and overall well-being.
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The display system was fabricated using exclusively hand processes. Rough sawn maple and red cherry were milled and used to construct a modular system that assembled using a series of joints and mechanical fasteners. Both twelve foot panels disassemble and are stored under the model base.
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The model was fabricated using a combination of digital and hand processes. Laser cut facade panels accurately represent board and batten siding and CMU foundation walls. The house sits on a CNC routed site, surrounded by hand-cut landscape abstractions.
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Surface Explorations Self Directed Project, Spring 2015 Professor Scott Wall Elkmont, Tennessee
This series of topographical explorations represents the initial phase of a self-directed study of a former logging community located near the northern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This phase of the project has the goal of examining the site independently of the historical and cultural context, evaluating the site in a pure form, as the first inhabitants would have found it. The fabrication process uses traditional milling to create blocks of hardwood, from which the surfaces are then subtracted using 3D modeling, CAM software, and CNC routing.
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Photography Study Abroad, Spring 2014 Central European Tour Cracow University of Technology
This series of photographs focuses on the interplay between architecture and natural light, capturing the sun, moon, and sky as powerful and complex compositional elements for architecture. The featured architectural works are as follows: Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe, Berlin Royal Palace, Dresden Old City Street, Bratislava Bratislava Castle, Bratislava Jewish Museum, Berlin
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Thank you for your time. It has been my pleasure to create and share five years of architectural and personal exploration.
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