MONTANA FEIGER
PORTFOLIO 2006-2013
High School Modeling
High School Vellum Drawings Active Spaces
Commisioned Spaces
Violinists Residence with Performance Space --May 2009
Saratoga Boat House --February 2009
During my senior year of high school at Lick-Wilmerding, we were assigned to design and build two different Architecture models, the first of which was a space of sanctuary that could be placed in any specific part of the world, and the second was a house with a performance space for any musician of our choosing.
Tree House--March 2009
Saharan Sanctuary --December 2008
We we taught how to work in place elevation and isometric view through three different projects, a bus stop, a treehouse and a boat house.
Ocean Avenue Bus Stop--October 2008
The earrings are design prototypes that are laser cut masonite and done as an extra curricular. The resources available to me in both my high school wood and fabrication shop allowed for me to combine both materials to make the rotating frame chair. The table is the final project for a Brown University Design course in which I explored Japanese pagoda roof construction.
Exploration of Blacksmithing and Silversmithing Variations on Orbitals
Iteration
Masonite San Francisco Streets --April 2012 During high school I developed skills in both blacksmithing and silver smithing. The handle of the ladle was blacksmithed and then spot welded to the cup. The three jewelry projects represent stone setting, soldering and cold formed links and twisted wire designs.
Rotating Frames Chair --May 2008 Japanese Tiered Coffee Table --May 2012
World Necklace --December 2006
Black-eye Ring --March 2007
Ladle --September 2007
Woodworking
Masonite Feather Earrings --March 2012
Orbit Silver Bracelet --May 2008
Design Principles is the first studio course in the Rhode Island School of Design Architectural curriculum. The three projects represent different stags throughout the semester. First we played with stop motion charcoal drawings in which we were allowed to use lines and planes. Next we interpreted our drawing in model form.
For my junior project in high school myself along with two of my classmates designed, welded and installed a pedestrian gate sign for an urban garden in our community.
Design Instillations During my summer Architecture internship at Huntsman Architectural Group in San Francisco in the summer of 2011, I designed and constructed a hanging sculptural piece with the help of other members of the firm, for the entrance hall of a bank in the financial district of the city at 456 Montgomery Street.
Contango Capital Offices Hanging Atrium Installation --August 2011
Alemany Urban Farm Pedestrian Gate Sign--January 2008
Design Principles Studio Straight curves
Swinging Lines and Planes Drawing--October 2012
Swinging Lines and Planes Model--October 2012
Final Stravinsky Rite of Spring Model --December 2012
The final project involved the mapping out the dance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ballet and transforming it into a space which evoked our mapping while simultaneously an initial comprehension of how topography impacts architectural design.
Architectural Design Studio
Balanced Centroid of the Sun--March 2013
Plaster-Popped Dome Volumes--April 2013
Wire & Cloth Lobester Tail--February 2013
8th Scale Privaue Quadrant Model--May 2013
The second part of the course was entitled the “Architecture of Earth” and we were to take a 16”x16”x4” block, remove 50% and have it balance at its centroid. Thereafter we added back the 50% and attempted to keep the same centroidal balance point.
The Architectural Design Studio is the second core studio in the Rhode Island Design Architecture curriculum. We started with the “Architecture of Air” which inolved using piano wire and nylon cloth to create a mass that spanned the length of our desks.
16th Scale Natatorium Museum Board Model--May 2013
The final project was to design a Nattatorium for a specific site in India Point Park in the south of Providence. We were introduced to the concepts of designing for a number of programs as well as the challenge of a large square footage and an existing marine topography. Natatorium Southern Elevation--May 2013
A portion of Architectural Design was to begin to explore natural forms taken in architecture. For me intersecting vaulted domes and the pressures that hold them together were a point of interest. I explored this idea with plaster bubbles formed over baloons that were popped after the plaster had properly set.
Architectural Design Studio
East Boston Urban Complex Section--December 2013
East Boston Urban Complex Typical Unit Plan--December 2013
Natatorium Roof Plan--May 2013
Architectural Design Studio The varying roofs also defined private and public space, using flattened open direct sky-light to create a moment of pause versus volumunous domed roofs to create diffused more fluid light for movement.
Urban Design Studio
Urban Deisgn Principles in the third and final mandetory architecture studio in the Rhode Island School of Design curriculum and focuses on connecting a design to a larger urban context and what that entails.
My section was a given a site in the southern portion of East Boston, diagonally bisected by the Boston Greenway. The complex included between 150-200 units of a single, double and multifamily variety, as well as a public dance theatre.
East Boston Urban Complex 2nd Floor Plan--December 2013
1/8the Scale Natatorium Birch Model --May 2013
A main focus of my project was the way in which intersecting arcrhes of different widths and heights could define the places of movement, pause, public and private throughout the design.
Urban Design Studio
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First Splice
Ground Condition
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Techstyle Haus Website Home Page
Second Pull Urban Mass
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Second Splice
Techstyle Haus Kickstarter Prize Packet
Public Through-way
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East Boston Urban Complex North-East Perspective--December 2013
Techstyle Haus Location on Versaille Plot
Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 Techstyle Haus is a collaborative project between three cross-continental institutions with diverse educational expertise: Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany. theatre.
Techstyle Haus Construction Diagram
East Boston Urban Complex Big Moves Diagram--December 2013
East Boston Urban Complex Model in Site--December 2013
First Pull
We will be presenting the product of our work in July 2014 as a stimulus for further exploration into highly efficient textile architecture. As a structural engineering student, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain a knowledge of how to design and construct a Passiv-Haus rated structural and tensile exterior. Interior View of Techstyle Haus Final 10th Scale Model--December 2013
Rendering of Techstyle Haus--November 2013
Techstyle Haus Final 10th Scale Model--December 2013
Solar Decathlon Europe 2014