Nathan Baker
University of South Florida Undergraduate Portfolio
Table of Contents Intro 1- Spring 2011 The Matrix
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Final Project for Intro 1
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Ceiling, Summit, Canopy
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The Urban Wall
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Analysis of a Bound Space
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Intro 2- Fall 2012 Extensions Toward the Horizon
The Matrix
INTRO 1
Generating Spaces Professor Alexander Bothos
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Ocean Park No. 27 by Richard Diebenkorn
The Matrix, an interesting term, one of which when incorporated with architecture causes one to look for the underlying connections. Using Ocean Park No. 27 by Richard Diebenkorn I was told to look for ways that he connected his painting. From there I came up with my own definition of a matrix: A continuous network that generates from a main space, with nodes or special moments happening within the network. From Ocean Park No. 27 the main “shape“ that was continuous throughout my models was the red polygon, because it was the only one that he painted red and it stands alone. Using the shape of that polygon I started to design my generator and then make it my own.
First Matrix Model from Painting
Matrix “Framed” Draft Model
Matrix Parti
Matrix Draft Model
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Matrix Final Model
INTRO 1
Final Matrix Model
Section of Final Matrix Model
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Close Ups of the Generators
Framed Generator
Draft Generator
Final Generator
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Drawing of Final Matrix Model
Final Project for Intro 1 Transitions of Space Professor Alexander Bothos
INTRO 1
Joseph Cornell: Untitled 1956-58
Using spaces from my Matrix and concepts from one of Joseph Cornell’s boxes: Untitled 1956-58; I had to make a model that not only had to use spaces again, and concepts from an outside source, but it also had to be a path either circular, or one that leads to an interesting space. I chose to have my path start at a space of security and with a direct reference to my matrix (the Basswood). Then lead into a space of ascension (the Museum Board). Finally ending in a space of exploration (the Chipboard). My idea was to go from an area of linear pieces, into an area of planes, and ending it in an area of mass, which would leave someone who was wandering around in amazement that a space full of mass would be seemingly oating above all. Or below depending on the orientation the model.
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Draft Model Space of Exploration
Draft Model of Final Project
Drawing of Space of Exploration, Draft Model
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Drawing of Secure Space, Draft Model
INTRO 1
Final Model Space of Exploration
Final Model
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Drawing of Space of Exploration, Final Model
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Drawing of Secure Space, Final Model
Analysis of a Bound Space
INTRO 2
Relation Between Plan and Section Professor Nancy Sanders
The first project in Introduction to Design and Graphics 2 gave me the opportunity to examine one of each of Steven Holl and Gary Chang’s works. Through the process of this project I was able to find the relationship between plan and section. With the Stretto House, I wanted to emphasis the connection that the house had with the site. With the use of a blue colored pencil I highlighted the dams that were in place and the way that Steven Holl made the main sections of the building line up with the dams. My hatching represents the way you would move in the house. Steven Holl placed the stairs in certain locations with the intention of directing you through the house while still keeping you in touch with site outside. With the Suitcase House, I made my hatching show the connection that the plans had with each other, and with two of the plans I showed how one set of stairs connected with another. With the colored pencil I showed the changes in elevation on one chosen plan.
The Stretto House by Steven Holl
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My Interpretation of The Stretto House by Steven Holl
The Suitcase House by Gary Chang
My Interpretation of The Suitcase House by Gary Chang
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Extensions toward the Horizon
INTRO 2
Water Wall Professor Nancy Sanders
To start this project o I examined: Leca Swimming pools by Alvaro Siza, The Thereme Vals by Peter Zumthor, and Les Bains des Docks by Jean Nouvel. Of the three pools I found the Leca swimming pools to be my favorite pool. Mainly because of the way that Alvaro Siza blended together the natural terrain and the building that was constructed. That was a large part of my design process, the idea of having something that is natural and adding onto what already exists. From there I was given the task of elevating my model and making it stand with the help of museum board and plexi glass, both with the intention of being water. In one area of my final model I have two thin curving pieces of basswood, which represents man’s attempt to control nature, with the vertical piece of museum board being nature. We try to do one of three things: control it, work with it, or over compensate. I feel that Alvaro Siza was able to find the median between nature and architecture and intertwine them.
Beginning Water Wall Parti
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Leca Swimming Pools by Alvaro Siza
Beginning Model based on The Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor
Water Wall Draft Model
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Water Wall Draft Model
Water Wall Final Model
Water Wall Final Model
INTRO 2
Water Wall Final Model Plan View
Water Wall Final Model Section View
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Water Wall Final Model Axonometric
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Water Wall Final Model
Cieling, Summit, Canopy
INTRO 2
The Habitable Light Well Professor Nancy Sanders
With spaces from our previous project, we were instructed in the way of light. Specifically in the way in which it affects planes below it. Through pictures of three spaces from our Water Wall we embedded the edited pictures into rough ideas for our overhead plenum. A plenum to me is a large space with different conditions shaping it, and through those conditions a void of space which is smaller than the plenum, and a ground plane that is affected not only by what is happening overhead but also how the plenum touches the base. The main idea that I wanted to keep returning to was the concept of a cantilever, and having multiple overhangs happening throughout the model. Within the model I have a museum board and spatial circuit navigating you through not only the three light wells but also all of the spaces within the model. With the subtle green light that is in the model I wanted the plenum to not only affect the ground plane but also to affect it and create different spaces to explore that may have been previously overlooked.
Plenum Beginning Sketch
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Water Wall Final Model
Plenum Beginning Sketch
Water Wall Final Model
Light Well Parti
Light Well Parti
Plenum Final Model
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Light Well
Light Well
Light Well
Plenum 7x7 Section
Plenum Section Perspective
Plenum 7x21 Section
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The Urban Wall Plenum in the Real World Professor Nancy Sanders
Raymond James Stadium Ramp
Looking Through a Plenum Space
Moffit Cancer Center Raised Walkway
Plenum Final Model
INTRO 2
Using pictures and drawings of our plenum project we found real world representations of spaces from our model. From there we overlaid these “real” spaces over our spaces. The idea being to help us to see how our spaces can be inhabited. Once we overlaid our pictures on top of each other the next step was to connect them, but not just with a line but also with a story. The story of my spaces is one of different lighting conditions: direct light, diffuse light, and artificial light. I did not just leave it there, all three of my pictures are distorted, so as to give them a unique quality but also to blend them together into one flowing picture. Returning back to where our plenum came from, our water walls.
Marshall Center Breeze Way
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Plenum Section Perspective
3 spaces Overlaid on Plenum Drawings and Pictures
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