PORTFOLIO architecture brent beicker
MUSEUM
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RURAL PAVILION
ITALY ABROAD EARTH BUILD
GRAPHIC DESIGN brent beicker beicker.brent@gmail.com
B.S. Architecture University of Texas: San Antonio 2008-2013
INDIVIDUAL
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URAL PAVILIO
For architecture to be successful, it must bring together a community to support it, maintain it, and fulfill its purposes. This rural pavilion is placed in the heart of Government Canyon, a state park preserving a watershed. Meeting the most basic needs of the community around the pavilion involves providing shade, vistas, a trail marker, and an opportunit for exchange between passing hikers.
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FLOORPLAN LEVEL 1
summer 2012 self - academic
FLOORPLAN LEVEL 2
The rural aspect of the project pushes for simplicity in construction and form - using a modular structural system in columns, lumber, and prefabricated pieces. In an attempt to draw visitors in to the serene nature of the park’s vistas and offer a contemplative space among an important part of the San Antonio region, the lookout-pavilion will be built at the top of a hill in a small clearing. The pavilion will act as an intervention in the park which links the visitors to the essence of the place by allowing a change in elevation above the tree tops so that the vistas may be consumed and contemplated from the bushy, green hills to the unincumbered view of the sky above. The pavilion, with age, will further intigrate itself with the site as wooden planks fade against the steel posts and beams. The vertical pavilion will enable visitors to access the stillness which resides just above the top most leaf of each tree
MUSEUM
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fall 2010 self - academic
Along the riverwalk in San Antonio lies the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art (SAMA). In this area an effort is being made to create a museum district. The location is Increadibly important as it connects the location to the other cultural hubs in downtown SA VIA the riverwalk. The wave and spiral like forms along the riverwalk inspired the form of the museum. The circular and smoothly bending forms were derived from a grid and project from a datum which projects from the street-side entrence out to the yard and riverwalk. The inner galleries are very open to each other, but closed off from the functional areas which are placed along the projected datum - shops, restrooms, learning center, and a restaurant. Approaching the the museum from the riverwalk the visitors are greeted with a form which is still, yet has been moved - gently twisted and warped by the passing water. The building erodes back on one side as the bank of the river does, allowing passers the vantage of one continuous bank shielded by trees in the yard and flanked by the projection.
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FLOORPLAN LEVEL 2 & ROOF
The sculptural museum becomes a piece of sculpture itself. The exterior betrays the interior layout, and seeks to hide nothing about its intent. And so the building itself becomes the display - a welcoming hand to passers.
fall 2012 self - academic study abroad
The hilltop town of Urbino, Italy a space where the idea of “urban� is at home. In a town filled with brick which has long since walled off the uncontrollable nature, I sought to question the very essense of this specific environment. The open nature of the gallery, its circulation, and garden push the boundaries of what is considered the common architype of Urbino. In the alley-like streets an abrupt opening emerges - an open garden - one not walled of and protected, but inviting. In an community which prides itself with its history, where does the historic break to the modern? Should the new be hidden inside the old like so many other renovations in Urbino?
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The presentation of this project was completed in the classical style. After studying Classicism and Modernism, this project was undertaken in order to better understand how what we build in time fits into our concept of history and appropriateness. The gallery is a cross-fertilization of the idea of the city and the wilderness that it pushes away. Once inside the city, the pieces of nature are contained inside a garden. If the primary street-side entrence had maintained a walled-off facade as so many other gardens in Urbino do, would it be more appropriate? When we build something new, should it be hidden behind something old?
The presence of a place is interwoven with time, and history is just that which has accumulated interest.
research
rammed earth material
summer 2012 group of 3 - academic
Our design began with consideration of form. As rammed earth is somewhat like concrete, we could create any form or shape so long as we could ram it. A small variety of basic arrangements and shapes were considered – including a slender, curving S-shaped bench. It was decided early in the design process that creating a formwork for anything which was curved would be exceedingly difficult with our desired budget and time-frame. It was then decided that something which was much more modular and cubic would best suit our needs. We began the design of the formwork by encapsulating what was to be a void. It stood to reason that the most easily created formwork would work off of rectilinear forms in their most basic of states, and so where the design of the form and the design of the formwork melded was at the point where we considered the form and the void in tandem and as one. The project was heavily researchoriented as the goal was to understand the construction process of these sustainable materials as much as it was to discover the materials themselves.
measured drawing and inkwash of the theater in Urbino fall 2012 - self - academic - study abroad
colored pencil rendering spring 2011 - self - academic
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fall 2012 - self - academic - study
spring 2011 - self - academic
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