TABLE OF CONTENTS LUX NOVA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY LYCEUM
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MATERIALS + METHODS I
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MUTANT EMBROIDERIES
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BRASS BRASSIERE STUDY
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PROJECTS
DRAWINGS MODELS PRESENTATIONS + WORK
PARAMETRIC CEILING
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SIX DRAWINGS
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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OPELIKA BOOKSTORE FAÇADE
MISCELLANEOUS SKETCHES
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ENTROPY
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EMBROIDERIES BOARDS
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ROOFTOP RESIDENCE
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PROUN COMPOSITION
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EXPLICIT DATA
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BIRD + HOUSE
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WALL STUDIES
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INTELAPTURE
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BOX 01
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FREELON GROUP WORK
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PROJECTS
LUX NOVA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CHICAGO, IL 600,000 FT2 FALL 2010 / STUDIO MOORE Situated at the intersection of Chicago Ave. and Mies Van Der Rohe Way, Lux Nova Children’s Hospital has the triple amenities of views towards Lake Michigan, the water tower, and nearby Seneca Park. By replicating an oblique condition to the city grid, the hospital is able to maximize views towards these amenities. By puncturing the building mass at its sky lobby level, the building is able to bring natural light to a northern facade that typically never sees it. In a context where every building becomes “excessively vertical” in a race for the sky, the facade of the hospital responds with a system of suspended vertical louvers that reduces glare on the northern facade and provides shade on the southern elevations. All of this to bring a “new” level of natural lighting to facilites for pediatric healthcare.
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY LYCEUM AUBURN UNIVERSITY | AUBURN, AL 30,000 FT2 FALL 2009 / STUDIO SCHUMACHER Smooth and Striated Space: The aggregate of local intensities of spatial polarities or striations generate emergent smooth space. Emphasis of one local spatial feature is folded seamlessly into the next, creating new connections between previously disparate elements and forming a spatial fabric that is heterogeneous yet continuous. The Baroque Fold: Transitions between smooth and striated space, public and private conditions, structure, skin, and ornament are articulated through a process of dual (but not opposite) processes of “folding” and “unfolding”. The exterior thrusts itself outward, creating exogenous folds; the interior generates endogenous folds, making space and matter become “infinitely cavernous” plica ex plica. Agencies: Individual responses of various species of architectural elements or “agents” with embedded behaviors generate an emergent, “intelligent” response to various spatial and environmental conditions.
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Rules: 1. Any line falls into one of three categories: a datum, generatrix, or inverse generatrix.
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2. A datum is any line taken extended directly from or parallel to the programmatic massing. 3. A generatrix is any line that connects between two points, whether those points are generated from the intersection of other lines or from the centroids or corners of programmatic massing.
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4. An inverse generatrix or “the fold� is a line perpendicular to a generatrix or datum and passes through a point. 5. Lines may be constructed on the analysis plane incrementally, with each line generating new points of intersection for the development of new generatrices and inverse generatricies. 6. The drawing procedure continues until a closed loop of points can be constructed within a certain proximity and span around the programmatic massing.
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MUTANT EMBROIDERIES TALLASSEE, AL 1,600 FT2 FALL 2009 / STUDIO SCHUMACHER Tallassee Mills, owned by Mount Vernon Mills of Mauldin, SC, dates back to 1844 and specialized in producing heavy cotton cloth for grain sacks and clothing. During the Civil War, the factory produced Confederate uniforms and carbines. Now defunct, the textile mill is now anticipated to serve as a museum dedicated to a history of textiles, particularly in Eastern Alabama, while also accommodating various events in the Tallassee community. The project explored the development of one room in order to accommodate part of this new program. Metaphorically, if the entire textile museum could be envisioned as one massive band of the cotton fabric that it produced, then Mutant Embroideries serves as a moment of spatial ornamentation within the cloth. Taking inspiration from both the delicacy and strength of lace, as well as natral forms and shape grammars, Mutant Embroideries becomes an object that strategically trims and mends, conceals and reveals parts of the original textile mill. The emergent narrative is one in which each artifact on display is connected to others, forming an emergent, constantly shifting tapestry of diverse people, places, and times.
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In order to take advantage of the existing structural system, the artifact enclosure system relies on a series of grids, axes, and adjacencies, derived from the position of columns in the space. By discovering lines of orientation based on the columns in relation to other features such as the midpoints of windows and walls, space is being continuously fractured and recollected in order to form unexpected connections between the gallery spaces.
MUTANT EMBROIDERIES
PARAMETRIC CEILING IN COLLABORATION WITH SCOTT TERRELL, JOHN WISEMAN, MIKE ANGLISANO, ANN MCSWINEY, AND BENJAMIN KRAUSS SPRING 2009 / FORREST FULTON, VISITING PROFESSOR
The third floor review space in Dudley Hall has an acoustics problem in its inability to serve as an adequate sound buffer for noise from surrounding studios and the hallway. The parametric ceiling proposal seeks to remedy this problem by intervening between the coffered concrete ceiling above and the review space below. Utilizing digital modeling tools and analysis, the ceiling system will dampen and diffuse ambient noise while still allowing for ample light to enter the space.
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PARAMETRIC CEILING
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SIX DRAWINGS SPRING 2009 / STUDIO TRUITT Different are used between a ing 5’ up serving a
modes of representation to explore the connection 20’x20’x25’ room connectto a 40’x10’ space for obgarden beyond.
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SIX DRAWINGS
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SPRING 2009 / STUDIO TRUITT As part of a master plan for the revitalization of Montgomery’s riverfront, the Riverwalk Natural History Museum introduces visitors to nature in a way akin to the Hawthorne effect: one cannot observe without changing that which is being observed. Likewise, one cannot propose to create a space for acknowledging the natural environment without creating a spatial disturbance in its context. Thus, the form of the museum is envisioned as a living “wrinkle” along the riverwalk, helping to remind visitors of the effect that they have on the natural environment in a way that seeks to promote change.
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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OPELIKA BOOKSTORE FACADE
Half of an existing faรงade in downtown Opelika is renovated to serve as an entry to a bookstore.
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SUMMER 2008 / STUDIO FAUST
ROOFTOP RESIDENCE
The rooftop of the annex to Dudley Hall serves as host to a temporary residence for one visiting professor.
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ROOFTOP RESIDENCE
BIRD + HOUSE FALL 2007 / STUDIO SMITH, SOUZA, O’NEAL-DAGG The Bird + House seeks not to serve as a literal refuge for a bird, but instead as an object that embodies the “attitudes” of a particular bird species with respect to its environment. The seagull, after some preliminary research, was found to be an example of adaptability par excellence: as a scavenger, the seagull adapts its diet to whatever is available in order to survive. Some species of seagull are able to drink both salt and fresh water with relative ease. Always on the move, there are also those that sleep in mid-air, constantly rising and falling on the warm air updrafts of the open sea. With this in mind, the Bird+House becomes an object able to transform itself from a benign image approximating the typical birdhouse into turbulent forms paying homage to the seagull.
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DRAWINGS
MATERIALS + METHODS 1 SPRING 2009 / PROF. ROBERT FAUST
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MATERIALS + METHODS I
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BRASS BRASSIERE STUDY / MISCELLANEOUS SKETCHES
MODELS
ENTROPY
SPRING 2008 / INDEPENDENT WORK
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ENTROPY
Beginning with a curiousity with complex systems, self organization, and mathematician John Conway’s Game of Life, Entropy deals with the potential for “noise” to generate spaces potentially applicable to architecture.
PROUN COMPOSITION SPRING 2008 / PROF. CHRISTIAN DAGG The Proun Composition investigates the spatial possibilities generated by the dimensional ambiguity of one of the Proun (“Projects for the affirmation of the New”) paintings by Russian graphic designer and architect El Lissitzky.
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WALL STUDIES / BOX 01
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EMBROIDERIES BOARDS
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Initial comparisons show little change in hourly gains. This may indicate that the efficiencies of the low-e glazing may be balanced by the increased re-radiation of thermal energy into the building interior from the enlarged exterior envelope. Further refinement of the wall system should utilize a interior-exterior envelope (double-skin) system that minimizes heat bridges.
Direct solar graphs show a marked decrease in gains for the updated model during the summer months.
INTELAPTURE IN COLLABORATION WITH SINAE KIM SPRING 2008 / PROF. CHRISTIAN DAGG
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THE FREELON GROUP | TABLE BASE ITERATIONS
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THE FREELON GROUP | MIT EXHIBIT PLANNING
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SECTION DIAGRAM | MIT BUILDING 7
WOLK GALLERY
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