stage for the city
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thermal baths and spa |
explorations
Patrick Griffin
CONTACT INFO email - griffinpat08@gmail.com phone - 706 474 1303
SELECTED WORKS
2021 - 2023
This portfolio emphasizes craft and design thinking - only showcasing hand models in wood
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stage for the city
sculpture gallery
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thermal baths - spa
explorations
Potfolio 2023 | Patrick Griffin
STAGE FOR THE CITY We were tasked to consider the idea of a Culture Condenser... My interpretation proposes a performing arts center that investigates the role of performance and audience - to blur the line between the two. Movement becomes the central motif of the project as the ritual of moving through spaces becomes a performance in itself. Accentuating key ideas of ascension and descension mark the beginning and end of the promenade - relating to the tragic history and hopeful future of a once thriving community. Dance and music are a tool to unite people - they are art forms that capture a passage through time. Both mirror the crescendo and decrescendo of the site - tethering their connection and setting the stage to weave art and history into place. Spring 2023
Instructor - Marratt, Marisabel Location - Atlanta, Georgia
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DESCENSION
ASCENSION
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The site - located on the corner of Auburn Ave and Piedmont Ave, can be seen as a datum between history and the future. ... Civic... educational ... business ... history ... and local all converge on this point, establishing the argument to connect individuals across diverse communities.
qualities of space The six “archetypes” are re - presented using photography and photoshop - helping to discover potential atmoshperes and feelings associated with each one.
Finally, using these spacial ideas - a series of physical models were built and collage’d to explore spatial relationships and organizations beginning a design process in section
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reflection
fields and forces
transition
anonimity
light and shadow
underbelly
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X axis
Y axis
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Sculptural Atrium Design Using the composite collages to shape spaces - I traced elements from the collages and extruded the outline.
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Intersection
Articulation
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THE DESCENT
The first steps.
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REFLECTION
The gift of clarity.
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SCULPTURE GALLERY This assignment focuses on a mixed-use artist studio and gallery located in the city of Marietta. We are challenged to design a new facility that creates an intentional relationship between the studio and gallery and its adjacent public space while taking a position on and creatively engaging the roles of public and private realms within and around the site. Summer 2022
Instructor - Saleh, Uddin Location - Marrieta Square, Georgia
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The series of sculptural form models originates in the contents of the gallery itself - a sculpture that communicates a sense of weightlessness despite the rigid materials.
Each iteration establishes new key design factors. The first establishes the language of the intersecting “el” shapes - carved out to distinguish an entrance into the site. The second pulls them apart to create skylights.
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final form model builds further and defines the intersecting volumes
Starting form - Site Demensions
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Carved spaces creating access Collision with second volume to site through circulation paths to create the main indoor - while also creating outdoor gallery gallery spaces
Third volume as an extension to the second geometry, and creating large skylights
Slight rotation as a subtle ackowledgement of the Marietta square directly across the street
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Second Floor
Third Floor
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Section AA
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Section BB
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Potfolio 2023 | Patrick Griffin
THERMAL BATHS AND SPA Located in Myvatn, Iceland - this project approaches the brief with an understanding of its place rather than site. The larger context (iceland as a whole) is quite literally formed geographically through the phenomenal relationship between ice, water, and fire. This presupposition informs the articulation of the program and it’s organization. Placed in a feild adjacent to the lake the building itself is contextualized by the use of the same phenomenon through tectonics. Bringing focus to the craft using material to design an atmosphere.
Fall 2023
Instructor - Bermek, Memet Location - Lake Myvatn, Iceland
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The form aims to sit un oppresivelly in it’s environment allowing the landscape to become part of the architecture as well. The stracture for the majority of the project is a series of pilotis to allow the object to gracefully be placed on the site.
geothermal activities
psuedo craters
dimmuborgir
“dark castles” unique geological formation
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Material essence / construction studies. Using fire as an integral step of production
Thus the nature of the project is embedded with the phenomenal characteristics of it’s place.
beginnings of atmosphere ... texture and color
local volcanic rock
process
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charred pine
charred concrete
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1. Bar / Lounge
2. Restrooms
3. Spa Reception
4. Spa Lounge
5. Beer Baths
6. Treatment Room
7. Bar / Brewery
8. Changing Rooms
9. Warm Pool
10. Sauna
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12. Cold Plunge
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axonometric section plane study
ramp persepctive into geothermal bath space
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sectional study of hall to beer baths
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geothermal baths
west elevation
east elevation
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0 degrees isometric
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EXPLORATIONS
This section focuses on exploring a variety of analogue and digital mediums of architectural representation, art, craft and expression.
Including charcoal drawings wood working architectural rendering photography
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CHARCOAL DRAWINGS The learning of materials - A study on light - shadow and tonal values
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WOOD ARTIFACT We were tasked to experience, explore, and document 2-3 demensional phenomena, translating animate [in]animate phenomena into 2 demensional visual design narratives of pattern languages, tactile surfaces - a formal and rational compositional ordering system of modulating scale, proportion of form - space - order. The object’s concept is not best explained by a single moment but by an approach, I developed through my design process. Instructor - Pittman, Peter
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Compositional iterations - establishes proportions, direction, and means to construct
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CANTILEVER A structures project focussing on single steel and wood members and their performance - turned design charette - developed into a small art gallery cantilevered out 100’ into the mountain range. This project returns to fundamentals, with concise concept sketches following a modular language informed by the materials’ structural limitations. The structure is produced by two separate L-shaped truss systems intersecting, which suspend the habitable gallery space within the structural members. Resulting in a relatively simple design consisting of a structural exo skeleton and an internal wall system cladded on the outside with metal paneling. Through their overlap, the primary circulation is created - marking the only moment the structure is experienced internally as you walk through a ramp between the interlocking truss systems.
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