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Shane Smith Clemson University Class of 2014
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Clemson University Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Minor in Business Administration Expected Graduation: June 2013 GPA: 3.30 Architectural GPA: 3.9 Byers Design Group Architecture Intern | January – June 2013 | Charleston, SC
Experienced in creating construction documents based off of measured sketches, produced all facets of construction sets. Some experience in project management for small scale residential projects.
Proficient in |Adobe Design Suite Programs | AutoCAD | Rhino | SketchUp| Maxwell Render| Revit|
Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Fraternity (ALD) American Society of Architecture Students (AIAS) Clemson Outdoor Recreation Education (CORE) Palmetto Fellows Scholarship ($7,500)| Fall 2010 – Spring 2012 | Trustee Scholarship (2,500) |Fall 2010 – Spring 2014 | Dean’s list: Spring 2012 |Fall 2012| Spring 2013|
Passeig
Connecting Market Place to Public Space Fall 2012 | Barcelona, Spain
Phenomena
A Experiential Landscape
Spring 2013 | Charleston, South Carolina
Invigorate
Creating A Revitalized Community Spring 2012 | Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Illuminate
Sculptural Lamp and Centerpiece Spring 2013 | Charleston, South Carolina
CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE
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PASSEIG CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE
L’Eixample in Barcelona, Spain is a unique urban environment whose design owes its roots to Ildefons Cerda, a Spanish architect and urban planner who conceived of what is now the typical city block structure. L’Eixample is composed of square city blocks with chamfered corners which allow for ease of pedestrian movement, and a network of roads within the Eixample is composed of main arteries which connect centers of the city and subsidiary roads which network the neighborhoods together. While L’Eixample is an amazing example of urban planning it falls short of Cerda’s original plan. Cerda originally called for “green avenues for pedestrian movement between the blocks but future urban planners took advantage of the space and filled them in to be the four sided block that is typical in Barcelona. Pedestrian space is seeing a new rise in demand and the need to explore new options for the often dead space within the block is becoming more pressing. The Development of Passeig was an attempt to meet two needs at once while creating a unique usable space out of what is now a parking garage at the center of a block. Passeig combines a marketplace with a public square while retaining the existing parking structure that occupies the site. The goal was to create a hidden oasis above the converted parking structure for public activities and to improve the interior appearance of the block interior as a neglected façade. By introducing a walkable surface and green space above the market place and creating access to the site it became possible to redefine what the block had to be.
Barcelona, Spain L’ Eixample at the Intersection of Passeig de Gracia and Gran Via
CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE
Interior Plan Exterior Plan
CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE
Passeig, Market and Park Rooftop Render with Context
Section Perspective, Park In relation to Marketplace
Longitudinal Section
CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE
Passeig, Market and Park Entry Sequence
Overhead view from office ELEVATED PATHWAY CORTEN LIGHT WELL GREEN ROOF EXISTING CATALAN VAULT EXISTING IRON STRUCTURE INTERIOR PATHWAY
Exploded Axon of Basic Elements
Proposed Viewing Platform, Castle Pinckney, Shutes Folly Island
Charleston, SC Harbor Area Shutes Folly Island in relation to the Harbor
PHENOMENA AN
EXPERIENTIAL
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‘Phenomena’ is a project designed for a competition held by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) called, “Preservation as Provocation”. This competition was designed to challenge the participants in multi-disciplinary fields of architecture; Preservation, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and Engineering. Participants were asked to interpret and re-imagine the extant historic fabric of the chosen site as a destination for eco-tourism while taking steps to preserve the historical and ephemeral qualities of the location.
We visited the Island to gain an understanding of the site in relation to the harbor and also to assess the conditions of Castle Pinckney. Upon the Island we experienced the feeling of standing on sacred ground. Even though the Island is situated in the heart of the harbor and has a visual connection to the City and other major landmarks in the area it retains a sense of pure Isolation like a place out of time. The Island also has a unique composition of tidal marsh and true wetland, bounded on one edge by a rare type of beach composed entirely of oyster shells called an “oyster wash”
Challenges unique to this project competition were: To explore issues of access, the relationship between preservation and design (both architectural and landscape), off-grid energy consumption, changing climate patterns, water management, land use, and habitat protection.
The realization that the site could be such a temporal changing place heavily influenced the development of our intervention on the site. We chose an approach geared toward a phenomenological experience of the Island, and accomplished this by creating three stages to the project; Path, Field and Tower. The path begins with the boat dock and wraps in a semi-circle around the Island’s tip. As the path wraps around the Island the sides gradually rise over the user’s head and the curvature of the path limits visibility which reinforces the feeling of Isolation of the Island. The path then opens up into the field, a space created in the outline of an older iteration of the fortification which no longer exists. The field is composed of irregularly spaced weathered steel fins eight inches wide and between 10 to 15 feet tall which wave in the wind. The gentle swaying of the fins and the seclusion of the field create “sacred space”. Within the field rises a tower composed of horizontal blades of weathered steel which elevates the user above the Island and provides a never before experienced view of the harbor and locates the Island and castle to the surrounding city.
The competition was located on Shute’s Folly Island; an island in the Charleston harbor that is home to Castle Pinckney, the oldest surviving fortification in Charleston, South Carolina the current incarnation of which was built in 1809. Castle Pinckney is one of only three surviving examples of the American “castle” a rare type of transitional costal fort, circular in form and lacking angular bastions. Castle Pinckney is evocatively situated within the view shed of one of the nation’s most historic and well-preserved cities, yet its history and significance is virtually unknown to the citizenry at large. The goal of the competition is to develop a strategy to provoke a new response to the decay of the historic structure by creating a dialogue between the new architectural insertion and the extant historical surroundings while taking a stance on current preservation tactics.
Tower Section
Tower viewing platform
Shute’s Folly Overall Scheme Welcome Center Plan
Tower Landing 2
Welcome Center Longitudinal Section
Welcome Center Transverse Section
Tower Landing 1
Tower Generation Diagram
Render, Night View of Phenomena Shute’s Folly Island, Charleston SC
Fountain Inn, South Carolina Rendered perspective of Train Station
INVIGORATE C R E AT I N G A R E V I TA L I Z E D C O M M U N I T Y
Set in Fountain Inn, South Carolina; Invigorate was part of a master planning project for the town. Fountain Inn is a typical southern town on the decline; most of the industry from the town has dried up and moved on. All that is left is a shrinking downtown with no life to speak of, and a seldom used railroad that cuts through the town. The challenge of this project was to find a way to reconnect and revitalize Fountain Inn. My hope was that by redeveloping Fountain Inn as a destination to visit from the larger city of Greenville it would reinvigorate the downtown area and create a new vision of Fountain Inn. The second part of the project focused on the design of a critical element of the master plan. I chose to design a Light Rail station. By imagining a light rail from Greenville to Fountain Inn I provided a much needed link to the City both for the residents of Fountain Inn and an escape from the City for the residents of Greenville. I wanted my design to be an Iconic structure to represent a new beginning for Fountain Inn so while I held my design to the scale of the surrounding context I made no attempt to mimic the existing town. My Train Station features an ornamental canopy structure to shade and cover the platform area. The canopy was inspired by Origami corrugation patterns and is a variation on the Yoshimura folding pattern. The station itself is a small open concept plan nestled beneath the canopy that is mostly dedicated to circulation space. I wanted to add some texture to the glass faรงade without compromising the fullness of the light entering the space; After some research I found a product called Slump glass, a structural glass system that allows for greater spans of glass with less structural frame support.
Site Plan
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Roof plan
Fountain Inn, South Carolina Interior perspective of Train Station
Transverse Section
Longitudinal Section
Box Project View from above into lamp
ILLUMINATE SCULPTURAL LAMP AND CENTERPIECE
Illuminate began as a project in an Intro to Craft Studio; the original project was to build a box, the box could contain anything so long as it fit within the volumetric limits of the project. After some thought about what I would put in a box and if the box would be used often, I began to think of unconventional things to put in a box; this is how Illuminate was born. I wanted to design a Box to contain light; a traditional lamp with a shade was not an option. The end result of my design is a truncated prism composed of two components; the base and the shade. The shade is built like a lattice that is denser at the base than the top, this allows light to bleed out from the larger openings and less from the tighter weave. The base contains all of the electrical components of the lamp. Because the lamp is intended to act as a centerpiece I did not want it to have a cord so I incorporated a battery operated system that is activated by remote. The lamp is not intended as a source of light in most cases, rather it is intended to be used for ambience or low lighting.