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An American Vision

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Live Where You Work

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Piece it Together

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A Meta-Education

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Glacial Gallery

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Other Work

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An American Vision

Autumn Semester 2020 Professors: Sandhya Kochar, Dow Kimbrell In Collaboration With: Emma Powers, Grace Brott

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In a future where trash pollution has taken over the American

landscape, a utopian structure is placed to mitigate the impacts of consumer culture and provide an alternative and sustainable living situation. The project aims to critique the American Dream by creating an all encompassing world, including self-sufficient machine systems which provide sanitation, nourishment, rest, and renewable energy to the inhabitant. This liberates the inhabitant from the burdens concerning where these essential needs may come, therefore allowing for true self invention and exploration. The systems implemented through the architecture set up interdependencies and feedback loops which celebrate the importance of both the individual and the collective in a communal living environment. This is a new American Vision.

This building serves as an alternative to the American Dream

that we are familiar with today. Here the dream is accessible, leaving the uncertainty of capitalism behind. It is a vision that is no longer a dream and welcomes the individual into a collective that stimulates self-invention, is no longer fueled by the pressure of success but now teamwork and acceptance.

The vision leans away from the competitiveness and aggression of the American Dream and instead supports the significance and freedom of the collective, while still providing opportunities of exploration of the individual and their personal identity.

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This project takes place in a world where trash has consumed the

landscape of the country. The waste originates from businesses and corporations that benefit as a result of capital from the US’s military industrial complex.

The waste exists as a by-product of consumerism formed from the postwar interpretation of the American Dream. This waste is causing irreparable damage to the environment, and those living in it. The project offers an alternative way of living to mitigate the consequences of past actions.

An American Vision is situated amongst landfills across the United

States, forming a new network for connection and travel between units. Over time these models for living begin to appear in landfills across the country. The model includes a waste to energy system in which the burning of trash and the harnessing of these emissions can be used to generate power and produce electricity. In a future where trash is becoming an increasing problem, and landfills Map of the United States showing where major landfills are and where the project would be implemented Phebe Davis

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are only getting bigger, these structures can be placed to address the pollution crisis.

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nourishment and cultivation repository tower water treatment system rest and leisure

trash-electric system

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Live Where You Work Autumn Semester 2019 Professor: Justin Diles

In this project, a live work residence was built on a residential site

located in Columbus, OH. The goal was to design a space to house a shared workspace, a tenant, and the owner of the workspace. The workspace chosen here was a tattoo parlor and gallery space to host local art and traveling artists. The architecture was designed to allow for individual, yet shared studio spaces for the owner and his apprentice with separate living quarters upstairs.

The architecture is influenced by the surrounding residential homes,

as they take on typical house typologies. In this design, rectangular shapes were formed, skewed, tilted, and intersected to create the overall form. This intersection, containing the stairwell, separated the studio and living quarters for the occupants to give them their own spaces to thrive in. Apertures were formed by following the overall skewdness of the form.

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shown at top: diagram showing skewing, tilting, and intersection

shown on right: section cuts

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Piece it Together

Spring Semester 2019 Professor: Ashley Bigham and Erik Hermann

This project, created in a representation class in the spring semester

of 2019, and was inspired by David Hockney. Through his experimentation, he created several photo collages that he named Joiners. After studying his discoveries and super-positioned images, we followed suit in a similar study: by taking several photographs of one chair and then piecing them together to create three new “chairs”. One was chosen to move along with the process, where it was abstracted and then represented to translate the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional object.

The goal of this project was to experiment with different

combinations of perspective and parallel projections to create something that is familiar, yet abstracted. We practiced different ways of representing our joiners through linework, color, and pattern, ultimately allowing us to physically model the new “chair” that had been produced along the way.

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Images of a chair were taken and stitched together to create a new “chair” called the joiner.

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The joiner was traced to create intentional intersections and joints, patched together as one.

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Colors and patterns were added to the linework to create a more dynamic image.

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A model was produced to take the 2D drawing to a 3D object.

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A Meta-Education Autumn Semester 2019 Professor: Justin Diles

The goal of this project was to design an elementary school on

a topologically challenging site in Columbus, OH. By creating a metaball structure and nestling it into the ravine that was located in the site, the program on the interior was placed within the separate spherical wings.

These wings were separated by floors and helped dictate the program of the classrooms and of the public spaces of the school. Masonry was explored in this project as well, and bricks made out of mycelium, or mushroom, were chosen for their sustainability, strength, and teaching qualities for the elementary students. The metaball stucture was designed to looked stacked so that the bricks could follow this geometry and be placed evenly along the layers.

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Glacial Gallery Spring Semester 2018 Professor: Nicholas Kinney

After completing a study on a small pavilion meant to

house one chair from the Vitra collection, a larger gallery was produced by using pieces of that pavilion. Blue chunks of the pavilion were extruded into the ground to form the program for the gallery. The protrusion into the ground allowed for the gallery to house and display the chairs in a new and

unconventional way; the chairs were suspended beneath

the floor under a glass plate, and surrounded by lights. This

created an infinity mirror effect. This gallery space was meant

to be situated outdoors, and the orange overhangs were taken from the pavilion to create more of an enclosed space for this outdoor gallery. These overhangs intersected with the blue forms to create the gallery as a whole project.

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OUTDOOR GALLERY

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below: side view into model

above: aerial view of model

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Underground Railroad Seminar Autumn Semester 2020 Professors: Karen Lewis, John D. Davis, Mattijs Van Maasakkers In Collaboration With: Samantha Hrusovsky, Emily Loomis

Produced during a seminar about the Underground

Railroad, this graphic shows the experience that a freedom seeker may have when entering upon a new town. Three different routes could be taken here: hiding amidst built refuge (such as a barn), staying out of view in a field nearby, or continuing on their journey to see what lays ahead. Every freedom seeker had their own individual journey ahead of them, making countless decisions on how to stay safe on their journey towards freedom.

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it to live safer and better lives. Most representation and archival evidence is whitewashed and only tells about the white property owners that were “saviors” along the way, but not of the freedom seekers that experienced all the dangers along the path towards hid ei n

freedom. This graphic hopes to shift the lens from that of the white “savior” to that of the freedom seeker and their journey along the

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