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Bachelor of Architecture
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 2017-2018 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
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BALLINGER 2016-2017 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Architecture
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 2011-2016
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
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PROJECTS
01 / FORT FISHER Visitor Center at Kure Beach, NC
02 / RCL Library in Raleigh, NC
03 / ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE 04 / MATERIAL TRANSLATIONS Procedural Bus Shelter
05 / DIY CARTOGRAPHY
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Teaching Animal Unit in Raleigh, NC
Uncovering Through Mapping
06 / WOLF PROWL Animal Husbandry Lab in Raleigh, NC
07 / U.H. KRAUS Kinesiology Building for UMich in Ann Arbor, MI
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01 FORT FISHER Selected Works
Can a historic fort you can barely see have a strong presence in your mind?
PROGRAM: ........................Visitor Center ACADEMIC: ....................................NCSU DATE: ...................................................2018 LOCATION: ......................Fort Fisher, NC
Paul Rudolph states that the environment of the building, its relationship to context, and the site should determine its architectural form. A truly successful building must be related to its neighbors. Most importantly, it must define and render eloquent its role in the whole scheme. The site proposed aims to define Fort Fisher and render eloquent the story that it has to tell.
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Lighthouse Excavation
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Cape Fear River 5 min walk Visitor Center
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“... over 90% of the fort has eroded into the ocean.”
Marsh Maritime Forest Beach
The Basin
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SITE ANALYSIS The site derives it’s location from several contextual elements associated with Fort Fisher’s historic site. First, the historic WWII runway forms an axis across Fort Fisher, which should be taken into consideration. Placing the proposed site at the end of the runway makes it, and the historic Fort which it cuts through, comprehensible to the visitor. Second, the proposed site is currently underutilized. It is essentially an open field with no connection to it’s historical context. Third, it’s proximity to the natural beauty of the maritime forest should have a connection with the Visitor Center.
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The site is situated just North of Fort Fisher. Being in close proximity to the Fort, as well as a popular vacation spot for beach-goers the new Fort Fisher Visitor Center will be an important cultural resource. The site is unique, in that it is dynamic and constantly changing. As Paul Rudolph describes in his Six Points of architectural form, the building should respond to the site and environment. The Building should reflect the unique site conditions that have created and destroyed the historic Fort.
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Parking
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New Vegetation
Exhibition
Path around Fort Fisher
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Path around Fort Fisher 50’ 25’
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PROGRAM Fort Fisher is a place of great natural beauty, and the footprint of the building should be minimized, as to avoid spoiling its fragile ecosystem. The program should set to air the understanding of the historical role of Fort Fisher. Classrooms, exhibitions, and research libraries, and a special observatory aim to foster this understanding. A modest staff of archaeologists also inhabit the space, and they should be integrated into the building scheme. The archeology lab can also act as another learning tool for students and visitors to understand the historical role of Fort Fisher.
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Spaces receive their being from locations and not from ‘space’
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Metal
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Timber Structure
Office
Operable Shutter System
Observation Classrooms
Library Dining
Every room gets a good view. The deck and glass is an extension of that room.
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Perspective Showing Rooms Open to Ocean
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Section of Dining/Kitchen
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Pulley System Opens Shutters
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Sketch of Teacher Opening Shutter
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Perspective of Operable Shutter
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Street Perspective from Moore Square
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02 RALEIGH CENTRAL LIBRARY
to readers?
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How can a library provide the most optimal daylight
PROGRAM: ..................................Library ACADEMIC: ....................................NCSU DATE: ...................................................2017 LOCATION: ...........................Raleigh,
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This Raleigh Central Library aims to symbolize an open and inviting public space for study and reading. It also aims to provide a well-lit reading experience. The main goal of the facade is to harmoniously provide sufficient ambient lighting to enable the building to serve as a place for study and reading. Light control was a large concern for the library, as reading is its primary function, and the largest facade opens south. To solve the issue of diffusing the direct sunlight, the project propose to shelter the facade with a translucent ‘veil’. The veil consists of an undulating translucent glass facade which wraps around the south, east, and west facades of the building, providing an optimal amount of daylight while avoiding direct sunlight on readers.
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N Blount St.
S Wilmington St.
Fayetteville St.
NC State Capitol
Marbles Kids Museum
Vintage Church
Site E Hargett St.
Transit Hub
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MATERIALITY
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The minimalist form of the building stands as a lightbox that captures and filters sunlight throughout the building. The etched tempered glass glows when it is illuminated by sunlight from the exterior during the day and glows at nighttime from the interior. A virtue that etched glass has over plastic alternatives is its long lifespan as well as its ‘gravitas’. Its virtue is also its vulnerability as glass weighs much more than its plastic counterparts. Additional supports are required for a glass facade as compared to a translucent polycarbonate material. Another vulnerability of glass is that it can break and glass shards and drop onto people below.
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INTERIOR CONCEPT
Makerspace
Reading Stacks
Push by Program
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Central Atrium
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Reflect Atrium
Trim
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Layered complexity with simple geometries
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Veil
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Atrium
Exploded Axonometric Diagram 20
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Early Iteration Section Model The glazing system is comprised of folded glass panels. They are supported by vertical mullions, which are fixed to horizontal supports and struts which are then attached to the main structural hollow steel column. Given that annealed glass has a low-characteristic strength and is susceptible to rupture provoked by thermal shock under differential solar loads, tempered glass was the safest choice. Because the folds in the form of the glazing are generally sharp, and the faces of the glazing are generally flat, cold-bent tempered glass will fit between the vertical mullions. The curvature of the panels is gradual enough that there would not be excessive stress generated between the panels and they would stay in place. The glass panels would be cut into custom trapezoidal shapes and fit in between the mullions. The mullions and supports are a high-strength stainless steel grid, that supports the glazing panels.
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Taichung Metropolitan Opera House: Toyo Ito
Zollverein School of Management and Design: SANAA
High Contrast & Variability
Atrium Perspective
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PRECEDENCE
Sendai Mediatheque: Toyo Ito
Low Contrast & Variability
DAYLIGHT
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Seattle Public Library: OMA
Thermal Vals: Peter Zumthor
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Naked House : Shigeru Ban
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Perspective from Entrance
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ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE Selected Works
How can a swine farm teach a future generation of veterinarians?
PROGRAM: .......Industrial / Educational ACADEMIC: ....................................NCSU DATE: ...................................................2016 LOCATION: ......NCSU Veterinary College
Architecture never happens in an isolated environment. It is always responding to a series of existing conditions. The context, culture, and environment are all settings which influence the design of place. Vernacular architecture is authentic – it is part of the land, in harmony with environment, and is a derivative of the culture of the place.
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reclaimed water swine gestation
feed / storage
swine farrowing 40 ft. spacing
swine finishing
Animal Staging Area
learning lab
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gathering / wash
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Datum
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poultry facility
swine facility
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equine services
dairy cattle barn
pasture
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PROGRAM The objective of the project was to create a new swine facility and education facility on the NC State veterinary college campus. The main concerns for the project are bio-security of the animals, student education,and the day-to-day activities of the swine care-takers.
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For the safety of the animals, the program is separated in to four elements: gestation, farrowing, finishing, and the classroom space. The buildings are 45’ apart so that airborne diseases do not transfer between them.
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Animal Teaching Lab
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Vehicle Ramp
Embedded Walls Stored
Embedded Walls In Use
Swine Gestation Bay
Storage
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A Feed
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Pig Run with Operable Doors
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Perspective South from Gestation
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06 WOLF PROWL Selected Works
Does beauty and spirit have a role, as well as functionality in agrarian architecture?
PROGRAM: ....................Animal Husbandry ACADEMIC: .................NCSU Design/ Build DATE: .......................................................2015 LOCATION: ..........NCSU Veterinary College
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As part of the ten-week summer 2015 Design/ Build Studio, architecture and landscape students worked as a team to design and then build a wild animal husbandry facility for the Zoological Teaching animal unit at the college of Veterinary Medicine. With limited time and budget, the students worked tirelessly to design and build The Design Development and construction process each took approximately five weeks, with some overlap in the middle. The Construction Document set was submitted to the NC State Construction office in June. Construction was complete by July 31, the day of the final review for the studio.
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Custom Windows
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Custom Barn Doors
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PROFESSIONAL WORK: E.H. KRAUS BUILDING Selected Works
Can a state-of-the-art science building fit into the heart of a historic campus?
PROGRAM: .............Kineseology Department PROFESSIONAL: ......................Ballinger AE DATE: ................................................2016-2017 LOCATION: ................University of Michigan
While working at Baillinger AE in Philadelphia, I was part of a 5 person team tasked to renovate the 102-year-old E.H. Kraus Building, located in the Northwest corner of The Diag. The $120 million dollar project called for a deep renovation of the existing 183,000-square-foot building, plus an addition 61,000-square-foot infill addition within the interior courtyard. My primary responsibilities included working corroboratively on the drawing sets through the schematic and design documentation phases of the project. 2012 - 2018
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Perspective of Atrium (Rendered by Team)
Perspective of Atrium Staircase (Rendered by Team) 36
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Level 2 Floor Plan
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MODEL MAKING UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PROPOSAL PROGRAM: Science Research/ Education
FIRM: Ballinger
DATE: 2016
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LOCATION: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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TECTONICS AND CRAFT - FRANK HARMON PROGRAM: Home + Museum
FIRM: Foster and Partners
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DATE: 1993
LOCATION: Kawana, Japan
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