FALL 2010 DAVIS SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION CENTER
NICHOLAS R. VANSYOC 1114 South College St. Apt 4.104 Auburn, AL 36830 251.923.6154 e-mail: vansynr@auburn.edu
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PROJECT STATEMENT: Adaptive reuse of the 1950s Davis Elementary School (Birmingham, AL) - design a mixed use educational center to house Jones Valley urban Farms, Alabama Environmental Council, and mixed income residential; additional programing is to be determined by each student. The building is to incorporate the methodologies of the Living Building Challenge 2.0. PROPOSAL: Create an educational community center that will promote sustainable practices and act as a hub for new development in the Lakeview district of Birmingham. This is achieved through two main initiatives. First, create various public areas and event spaces, that expand on the practices of the Railroad park, as well as incorporating outreach programs and a commercial entity. Second, integrate sustainable systems throughout the building and design them, with education in mind, to be easily understood while being visually and acoustically stimulating.
FALL 2010 DAVIS SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION CENTER
NICHOLAS VANSYOC 251.923.6154 v a n s y n r @ a u b u r n . e d u
FALL 2010
LANDSCAPE USES
FIRST FLOOR ZONES
DAVIS SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION CENTER
PUBLIC AND OUTREACH
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PROJECT STATEMENT: Design a new educational facility in Auburn’s arboretum which will incorporate office space for the Forestry department, classrooms, and space for events and art exhibitions. Wood must be the primary material used in the design.
PROPOSAL: Create a structure that evokes the imagery associated with forests while expressing the material and structural qualities of wood as an architectural medium. The plan and circulation were organized to create the feeling of moving through the arboretum while blurring the lines between interior and exterior.
SPRING 2010 AUBURN UNIVERSITY ARBORETUM
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SPRING 2010 AUBURN UNIVERSITY ARBORETUM
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PROJECT STATEMENT: Design and build a furniture piece that is occupiable and emphasizes and promotes a particular sense within the site. The design must be portable.
PROPOSAL: Create a private space within a public courtyard in which particular visual qualities of the site are framed to emphasize the sense of sight for the occupant. By experimenting with different levels of transparency this effect can be expanded upon. The form was to mimic the existing forms on the site while emphasizing the method of assembly.
FALL 2009 OCCUPIABLE FURNITURE
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PROJECT STATEMENT: Design a residence that can occupy a billboard and allow space for single tenant. There is a maximum standard width of four feet. PROPOSAL: Create occupiable volumes by pulling walls out and changing the tectonics of a basic rectangular billboard. The spaces are activated through a series of rectangular planes that seem to slide past one another varying the sense of privacy within the residence while constraining views on the site.
SUMMER OPTION 2009 BILLBOARD HOUSE
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