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TAAST Design - UT College of Architecture September – October 2015 Annual College Event
The College of Architecture and Design has a n annual celebratory event in the spring known as The Annual All-collage Spring Thing. This momentous occasion requires a poster, banner and t-shirt design. I drew inspiration from Mid Century Modern Travel Posters, the graphic style popular at the time when the College of Architecture and Design was founded at the University of Tennessee. The graphic plays with the connection between the College and Downtown Knoxville. In addition, it hints towards the impending graduation of the senior class who need to pack their bags after graduation.
kickball cherokee park 10:00 pm
csi game day reading room 5:30 pm
saturday sunday
banner drop atrium 7:00 pm
lecture room 109 5:30 pm
monday
silent auction third floor
foundry the foundry 5:30 pm
tuesday
interview days dunford hall
film series room 109 8:00 pm
wednesday
knowledge bowl room 109 5:30 pm
lecture room 109 5:00 pm
thursday
can drive ends first friday downtown 6:00 pm
friday
downtown pub crawl suttrees 9:00 pm
beaux arts ball sassy ann’s 8:00 pm
saturday
silent auction ends third floor
nomas event 4:00 pm
saturday
2016
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
2016
Congregation of Spectators September – November 2018 The following study catalogs the steps necessary to create an oasis of primal desires centralized within a matrix of socially isolated communities. The stadium stands as an icon for the release of human nature a midst a society restrained by suffocating political correctness. Renovations occur around a small town’s old sports complex. Driven by pride, the renovations grow at an alarming rate. Desire to live by the field, to smell the grass, to wake up beside the site of fondest memories facilitates a housing complex adjacent to the field. Soon a wall of shops and infrastructure line the sacred center. The wall grows exponentially, cutting off the school from the town. The youth become separate from the new congregation, the producers separate from the consumers.
Once existed a small town spread thin by parking lots and manicured lawns. Isolated from one another, the town’s social dynamic was broken apart by walls of pristine white picket fences. The town’s people relied upon Friday nights to engage in acts of communion. Town news and gossip was exchanged between raucous cheering and sharp whistles. Business deals were discussed between snap counts. The constellation of lights shone down upon a primal ritual that facilitated both the release of aggression and the scene of romance. The stadium became the center of culture within the town. The identities for two thousand measured between one-hundred yards. This condition facilitated an obsession. The obsession built a new town around the stadium. A wall of new infrastructure divided the new from the old. A utopia rich with pride and memory for those who engaged in the sport. The old town was soon deserted, left only to those who have no association with the stadium. The inhabitants of this new stadium looked down upon the ghost town with haught gazes. As so often before in this history of mankind, architecture was the guilty instrument of misplaced pride.
Allotments To provide a respite from the intense atmosphere of the game, each individual within the congregation is given a space within the wall that runs parallel to the fifty yard line. To preserve the memory of the past and provide an air of comfort as well as a source of pride, false facades replicating the abandoned homes of the congregation are pasted to the entries. Inside, the aspects of the field are condensed down into the home. Rolls of dark green turf line the floor while flood lights fill the room. Allotments are arranged hierarchically, the closer you are to the field, the greater your standing within the congregation. Those closest to the field are rumored to replace the disembodied voice that directs the spectators from the Jumbo Tron.
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[01] Institution of Youth [02] Garden of Desire [03] Lot of Aggression [04] Field of Aggression [05] Rooms of Desire
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50th Anniversary Exhibit September – November 2017 This is a design for the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design’s 50th anniversary celebration. An exhibit was requested to showcase the growth and accomplishments of the college. As an exhibit designer under Professor Diane Fox, I was tasked with the design and installation of the exhibit. In order to show all the required text while maintaining a distilled layout, I utilized three-dimensional protrusions that carried the majority of the lists and text on the perimeter faces. This allowed for two separate readings of the exhibit: the clean and simple reading from a distance and the more in depth reading once the exhibit was accessed.