Orion Keith Design Portfolio January, 2015
Overlake Village
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Urban Design Studio
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TwispWORKS Studio
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5th & Columbia
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AURORA BRIDGE
Photography Collective Studio
History
Concept
The Aurora Bridge was designed by the engineering firm Jacobs & Ober as the final link in the Pacific Highway (US Hwy 99) between Canada and Mexico. Jacobs & Ober researched four different locations for the bridge: Aurora Way, Stone Way, Albion Way, and Fremont Ave. Aurora was chosen for its cost and easier construction. The bridge was coronated on February 22nd, 1933: the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birthday. The bridge stands at 167 ft high, 70 ft wide and 2945 ft long, serving three lanes of traffic in the north and south direction as well as two pedestrian walkways.
The Washington State Department of Transportation has, in recent years, attempted to fund a pedestrian walkway that would be built below-deck. This would allow for greater connectivity by foot and bike between Fremont, Downtown and Queen Anne hill.
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Our project attempts to reclaim this piece of public infrastructure and give the pedestrian a greater sense of space and importance. As well, the existing bridge acts to hold up this light suspended structure that gives visual prospect to the surrounding community.
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suspended urbanism
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Competition: Urban Jungle
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Independent Study: Suspended Urbanism
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Overlake Village
Master Plan and Block 3 Design Development Phase, ZGF 2013-Present
Located on the former site of the Group Health Hospital of Redmond, the Overlake Village is a twelve-block Master Plan. The design focuses on bringing a new urban scale to Redmond and capitalize on the planned Light Rail stop opening in 2020. Integrated into the plan is an urban hillclimb that separates the pedestrian from the street and integrates with a planned 2.67 acre park. We are now in Design Development on the first of five office towers, called Block 3.
Working with lead designer Randal Bennett, the Block 3 project has given me the opportunity to work at various levels of scale and detail. Specifically, I produce diagrams, conceptual modeling and presentation graphics to forward design development.
MICROSOFT CAMPUS
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I-5
BLOCK 3
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PEDESTRIAN HILLCLIMB
152ND AVE NE
FUTURE CONNECTION TO 520
NE 28TH ST
CONNECTION TO 156TH
156TH AVE NE
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6B 8
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FUTURE CONNECTION
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BEL-RED COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR
1/32” Scale Presentation Model In Collaboration with Derik Eckhardt 4
Site & Hillclimb Experiential Diagram
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Perspective - N.E. Corner
LOBBY
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Block 3 Plan - Level 1 & Site
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Facade Modulation Diagram
Preliminary Design Model - 1/32�
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Later Design Model exploring Facade Modulation - 1/32�
1/32� Scale Presentation Model In Collaboration with Derik Eckhardt 7
Urban Design Studio Arch 302 - Professors Brian Mclaren & Brad Khouri Spring 2009
This project creates an urban community center that would house ďŹ tness and cafe space in the heart of Capitol Hill, an area of rapid evolution and expansion. The site, an empty parking lot located on 10th Ave between Pike & Union, is in the center of this evolution. Surrounded by turn of the century brick apartment complexes and repurposed repair garages, there is a rich history layered in the building record.
Front
This changing cultural and social landscape led to an architectural response of buildup and renewal. The layers of posters, graďŹƒti and street art was mirrored in the design. Back
Site Response Collage
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Mixed Media
Material and Connection Study
Mixed Media
Active
Active
Static
Static
Simple Division of Program
Addition of Volume to Program
Street View
Overlapping of Volumes and Boundaries
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Mid-Review Model
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TwispWORKS Arch 400- Professor Rob Corser Fall 2010
Parti Diagram
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TwispWORKS is a community project based around an old Forest Service lot in the heart of Twisp, just o Hwy 20. This project creates a mixed-used building that would act as a gathering center, place for culture and culinary classes, and residence for artists and other travelers to the Methow Valley. Inspired by the unique hills that surround the valley, the design for this project raised the private and inďŹ lled with public space. This creates transparency into the TwispWORKS project, while granting privacy to guests.
Exploratory Collages
Section Longitudinal 1/8” = 1’
Section
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Overhead Sleeping
Each window is oriented to the center of the Twispworks site, and brings in south-eastern light.
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1st Floor Plan
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2nd Floor Plan
Section Perspective
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5th & Columbia Traveling Model ZGF Marketing Model - Summer, 2013 Collaboration with Derik Eckhardt 14
Working with the ZGF Model Shop, I was tasked with creating a high quality model that was designed to be elegant yet rugged enough to be taken around the world. Because it must be easily portable, its
dimensions were designed to fit in a standard airline overhead compartment. The base and context buildings were made out of CNC milled foam with an applied cherry veneer. The tower was created with thin
sheets of Plexiglas notched into a structural core. A Plexiglas rod in the center of the core communicates light through the model.
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A vacant lot on Ballard Ave is bought by an artist collective, who are driven to become an integral part of the art community and be deeply involved in the Ballard Art Walk.
Photography Collective Studio Arch 301 - Professors Jennifer Dee & Peter Cohan Winter 2009
This building envisions this collective using digital photography and projection to render private property public temporarily, and becomes a frame for a larger statement of space and ownership in city life. This dialogue inuenced the design: creating a secondary street into the site, and a building that could literally open to the public. Model Photograph
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Section
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The purpose of this competition is to rethink the meaning of home in modern urban life.
Competition: Urban Jungle Collaboration with Cameron Irwin
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We increasingly want to be surrounded by the urban environment, but at the same time seek further respite from it. This project is a response to this dichotomy. An architectural intervention that can attach itself to its host. These pods can separate from its urban context by way of rails mounted to an existing building and create a secondary compacted neighborhood within the larger urban dynamic.
Figure-Ground at Alley Level
Figure-Ground at Roof Level
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ortation has, in recent years, attempted to fund a pedestrian would allow for greater connectivity by foot and bike between
ublic infrastructure and give the pedestrian a greater sense of ridge acts to hold up this light suspended structure that gives
Suspended Urbanism Independent Study Spring 2010 Collaboration with Jeff Ko
The intent of this independent study was to explore the idea of architectural intervention, and apply our findings to a project. We defined architectural intervention as the point of contact between extant site elements and new architectural design. The interplay between these forces vary based on interpretation of site circumstances and historical factors. The specific dialogue between new and old was triggered by the active elements that drive the intervening design process. After our investigation into the definition of intervention, we applied this analysis to the Aurora Bridge.
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Elevation View
Plan view Perspective - Pedestrian Bridge
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206.354.0068 orionkeith@gmail.com 1216 NE 68th St Seattle, WA 98115
Orion Keith 206.354.0068 orionkeith@gmail.com 1216 NE 68th St Seattle, WA 98115
EDUCATION
WORK HISTORY
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, 2011
Junior Architect - ZGF Architects(Sept.2012 - Present) While at ZGF I have been involved in the design process from Concept Development through Construction Documents on a number of building typologies of varied scale and scope.
University of Washington College of the Built Environment School of Architecture 3.52 Departmental GPA Architecture in Scandinavia Study Abroad Program, Summer 2010.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, 2011 University of Washington College of the Built Environment School of Architecture 3.52 Departmental GPA Architecture in Scandinavia Study Abroad Program, Summer 2010. Studied National Romanticism and the beginnings of European Modernism across Finland, Sweden, Norway & Denmark. Independent Study
Architectural Consulting - Freelance (July 2011-Sept. 2012) Provided design solutions and plan sets for permitting.
Studied National Romanticism and the beginnings of European Modernism WORK HISTORY across Finland, Sweden, Norway & Denmark.
Junior Architect - ZGF Architects(Sept.2012 - Present) PROFICIENCIES
Independent Study While at ZGF I have been involved in the design process Developed independent studio course Development through Illustrator CS5 Rhinoceros 3D 4 from Concept Construction Indesign CS5 and structure. BroughtDocuments design through on a number of building typologies of variedGrasshopper Photoshop CS5 multiple iterations, andscale set upand a midscope. Vray 1.48 and final panel review with professors Sketchup 8 Maxwell Render 2 from the department. Chosen for Vectorworks 2010 Autocad Architectural Consulting - Freelance (July2012 2011-Sept. 2012) end-of-year department show. Revit 2012 Provided design solutions and plan sets for permitting. BobCAD/CAM v24 Model-Making with skills RhinoCAM in CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, 3d & Parametric Modeling.
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