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CONTENT
CONCEAL | REVEAL STUDIO PROJECT UTOPIA STUDIO PORJECT INSTALLATIONS BUILT WORKS ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE
CONCEAL
REVEAL ARCH 201 STUDIO
BOSQUE DEL APACHE SAN ANTONIO, NEW MEXICO
The Bosque Del Apache is a National Wildlife refuge located south of San Antonio, New Mexico. The primary function of the park was to restore the wetland habitat that has been destroyed due to the channeling of the Rio Grande. Our task was to develop a concept that encompasses the characteristic of the site and use that as the conceptual underpinnings for a series of works.
PHOTO ESSAY Using a photo taken from the site this piece emulates an aggregation found in nature. The differnt levels of clarity give the viewer a sense of how the reeds conceal and reveal your view.
SITE ANALYSIS
During the 1950’s during the consruction of a water channel the qualaco puebo was discovered and later escavated by archiologists.
Qualaco Pueblo was inhabited during the 1500’s as part of the piro pueblo Native American tribe
Bosque Del Apache
Volcanic Rock Native Americans 0-1800 CE Spanish Settlers 1800-1939 CE Wildlife Refuge 1939-Present
Miocene Oligocene Rock
Spring Equinox 12h 57m
Precambrain Granite
Spring Equinox
PIlo Pietocene Pennsylvanian Permian
Summer Solstice Autumn Equinox
Winter Solstice The bosque del apache has been inhabited by humans for the last eleven thousand years. This graph shows the differnt occupants over the last two thousand years.
The Rio Grande River Basin is composed of mutilple types of rocks.The graph above shows the different types and the amount of each represented by thickness.
HABITATION
STRATIGRAPHY
Spring Solstice 13MPH WNW
Summer Soltice 13MPH
Summer Soltice 15h 22m
Eocene
Being apart of the high desert climate, the bosque experiences drastic changes in temperature from day to night. This graph represnts the high (green) and low (grey) temperatures at the begining of every season
CLIMATE
ESE
Autumn Equinox 22MPH
Autumn Equinox 12h 59m
S
Winter Solstice 16MPH
Winter Solstice 10h 45m
The graph above shows the hours of visible sunlight at the begining of every season.
LIGHT
WSW
The animal in the bosque rely on the plants areound them to sheild them and protect them from predators. This graph represnts some of the wildlife in the bosque and the flora they use to conceal themselfs.
FLORA & FAUNA
New Mexico is known for gusty winds. The graph above shows the maximum wind speed and directionon on the first day of every season.
WIND
CONCEPT MODEL BASSWOOD / ACRYLIC
This piece mimics the catail reeds that are found at the site. Frosted acrylic louvers are aggregated in the same pattern as the photo essay. This time looking three dimensionally the Aryclic opens and close diffent apatures within the model depending on your proximity.
PARTI MODEL
BASSWOOD / ACRYLIC / PIANO WIRE 1/16” = 1’
FINAL MODEL
BASSWOOD / ROCKITE/ ACRYLIC / PIANO WIRE 1/4” = 1’
DRAFTING BOARD
UTOPIA ARCH 202 STUDIO
UTOPIA Based on Donald Judd’s’ vision for Marfa, Texas, a creative utopia for artist and designers, I designed an all-encompassing makers space at the gate of Nob Hill in Albuquerque, NM. This space houses a fabrication lab, both manual and digital, as well as an open studio space and a triple height gallery space.
ARTIST MODELS HAND POLISHED ALUMINUM / ACRYLIC
A series of three that is based on the core principals of american artsit Donald Judds’ works: materiality, reflection and proximity. As you change your spatial relationship with each piece the polished metal chenges the reflection of the acrylic.
FINAL MODEL
ROCKITE / MUSEUM BOARD / ACRYLIC 1/16” = 1’
MAIN ENTRANCE
RENDERINGS
STUDIO
MAIN GALLERY
GALLERY
RHINO - LUMION - ILLUSTRATOR
GALLERY
EAST ENRANCE
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
DRAWINGS 1/32” = 1’ -0”
RHINO - ILLUSTRATOR
FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1/32” = 1’ -0”
LOWER LEVEL PLAN 1/32” = 1’ -0”
INSTAL
LLATIONS
TEDxABQ WOMENS EVENT 2018 KIMO THEATRE, ALBUQUERQUE NM The Installations team was presented with the opportunity to design the stage for the TEDxABQ Women’s Event, a yearly event produced by TEDxABQ. We took the events graphics as a starting off point and used white tulle and powerful stage lights as our medium. We created a flowing orgic form that was intended to frame and create a dramatic backdrop for the speakers.
LIGHT PAVILION - SOMOS FESTIVAL DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE NM The Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than the parts, even when all of the components are not evident, your mind fills in the missing pieces to create the understanding of the object as a whole. Light Pavilion .2 is meant to serve as the physical manifestation of that thought process. The user is encouraged to use the pressure sensitive tiles as the trigger to fill the space with constant light. When all users work together the entire structure will be illuminated and perceived as a whole, not its individual parts.
SUB FLOOR ASSEMBLY GUIDE (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
SECTION (1) RUNNER 2’x4’x8’ 10”
BLANKS 2’x4’x7’ 10-1/2”
DRILLED STUDS 2’x4’x7’ 10-1/2”
2’ 4-1/4”
ELECTRIC
PLAYHOUSE
COLOR CHANGING SHELVES ROLE: LEAD DESIGNER - CO FABRICATOR ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE - ALBUQUERQUE, NM These shelves are meant to serve the functional purposes while adding a pop of light and color. The unit is built from clear and frosted Plexiglas with LED light strips edge lighting to create a uniform glow on the horizontal pieces of the shelves. We utilized an Arduino controller to program the lights and change the color to customize to events etc.
THE TUNNEL ROLE: DESIGN CONSULTANT - WIRING DESIGNER - CO FABRICATOR ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE - ALBUQUERQUE, NM The Tunnel is a portal that takes you from our physical world into the digital realm of the Electric Playhouse. Utilizing traditional elements of art like sculpture and form and blending them with over ten thousand individually addressable LED lights this piece creates a fusion of physical and digital that prepares you to enter into the landscape of technology. In this piece we created 25 custom “ribs” using CNC routing and other traditional fabrication techniques. We also inserted over 10,000 LED pixels that change colors to create animations flowing and pulsing thought the tunnel.
WIRING DIAGRAM
KEY: Power Strip Power Supply Power Cables PWR/GRND Insert Data/PWR/GRND Direction of LED