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Integral Interaction and New Architecture Building
The following project was designed in Graduate studio One in which the studio competed as individual student in a steel competition.
The assignment was a new architecture building.
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cept of integral interaction pertaining to the architecture building states that action, effect and influence if the design in the user (student), the context (campus), and the environment (site) must be successfully integrated into the building in order to make the design beneficially interactive for students, faculty, and the environment.
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Analysis of Lubbock
In the first phase of the analysis of analyzing Lubbock the realization was quickly uncovered that Lubbock, unlike the European city, is not a figure ground dominated by architectural edges in the traditional sense. Lubbock is not made of building forms that create paths through the city. Lubbock is created by the roadway, dominated by the grid. The following model is a commentary on this observation. It shows disconnects, deformations, and connections that comprise one square mile of Lubbock, Texas. Using historical Sanborn maps and other reference material, figure grounds and vector drawings were created mapping the change in Lubbock over time. Maps of 1909, 1920, 1930, 1950, 1970, 1990, 2009 were all created to analyze one square mile of the city.
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South Plains Fairgrounds
The South Plains Fairground is an interesting urban environment that provides a center of interaction for people of various backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic classes. The goal of this studio was to provide a new fairground for the city of Lubbock that is relevant and useful to what is Lubbock, a cotton/college town. The fairgrounds itself is only active one week out of the entire year. This project focuses on the programmatic issue of the site namely the cross-programming of the site so that is can be used year round. (Below) Surface models mapping the breaks and barriers in the existing fairgrounds.
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Creating a System (Above) Line drawing analysis combined with collage from existing fairgrounds was created to represent a final
model of a new fairground that would inform both the organization of the site as well as its formal character.
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Fairgrounds The final drawing of the fairgrounds proposed a cross-programming of a cotton facility, fair, and wind farm. The fair is active only one week out of the year. Cotton is processed and stored on the site. The wind farm derived from the point grid provides power for the cotton facility.
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Progra m By cross-programming the cotton facility and the fairgrounds, the site can use movable mounds of cotton to create different configurations of the fair. A model was constructed to demonstrate how gantry cranes could move cotton around the site to create different configurations.
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
The Florissant Fossil Beds Interpretive Research Center is my Master Design Studio Final Project. The project site is located 35 miles west of Colorado Spring at the National Monument. The site originally was programed for and interpretive center to display the fossils on site but because of active research on the site the program of the project was adapted to include an Interpretive center cross programed with an active research facility. The public interpretive program is formally expressed as a ribbon of concrete with grass occupiable roofs representing the earth being lifted to uncover the unknown meanings of the site. The Paleontological research program is expressed as a tectonic steel structure raised above the site and searching for its meanings. An Interpretive spine joins the programs and existing trails taking the users on a journey through the park where at times they descend into the earth at others rise above it and finish there journey looking
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at the work that goes on in the Park.
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