summer a b s t o n P: 606_306_1767
E: summerabston@gmail.com IG: @summerabston
a b o u t I am a designer. I am woman. I have a passion for
making things and exploring worlds and cultures.
selected w o r k s These selected works embody my explorations of de-
sign and collaboration via experiment and speculative aproaches integrated with environmental and
humanist
intentions. These projects chosen highlight the diverse scale and methods used in my architectural education.
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urban inf rastruc ture studio _with a uste n ba r r e tt_ a n d r e w ma d l
i nt ra c a t as t r op h i c ur b a nism
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catas trophic urbanism studio_with lindsa y c la r k_d a r iu s a mmo n
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making worlds stud io_ ma r k s ta n le y
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gov e rnors studio e ne rgy + urbanis m _ ja me s r o s e
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urban infrastruc ture studio_with auste n ba r re tt_ a n d re w m a d l
Nashville’s geography and increasing population has been subjected to the domination of powerpants, scrap recycling, construciton
manufacturing and waste op-
erations. A community of hidden choreographies cover the urban space. There are operations to maintain self-sufficiency within the city; agent operations. Editing the definition of landownershipat Cornelia Air Fort Park includes a maintenance regime of hidden geographies that can be extrapulated via land agents_sheep. In this scenerio sheep lend themselves to produce an economy. The choreography of grazing patterns along with tagent density directed by herders allows the site to become a landscape of dynamic change over time.
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cornelia air fort park_site
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Recognizing an association of population density with urban infrastructure and how it effects water, air, geothermal qualities led further investigations of geographic change by agent operation on land; Cornelia Air Fort Park. Population denisty influences
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continious grazing
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haha procession haha procession haha agentprocession adaptation
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The identity of the land surface yields topographic change.
the surface . The application of time reveals an emergent
An agent migration regime of pasture rotation pose as
chreographed surface. Agents enable a cycle of succes-
boundaries for agents. Recurrent grazing, over grazing,
sion as time and paths compact and degrade into emer-
compaction, and flooding assists and guides agents to
gent choreographed surface. Micro ecologies curate suc-
inform the hidden undersurface. Overgrowth, undesired
cession toward the grneration of a changing landscape.
vegitation, and irrigation allows density to grow from
LITTER ZONE_ 2in brush//leaf litter
TOP SOIL _ 10 in
silt mineral//humus
SUB SOIL _25 in
leaching//edisposition
Overgrazed brush _leaf litter
HORIZON VARIATION_32in maximum leaching
Top soil humus _wet _compaceted
FRAGMENTED SOIL_ 40in
unweathered//accumulation
Sub spil humus _nutrient deposit _compaced soil
Subsurface humus
_leaching groundwater _poor drainage
BED ROCK
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UNDISTURBED SOIL PROFILE
deep section investigation
Bed Rock
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ERODED SOIL PROFILE
action_ pasture rotation
agent_ sheep
hearding agent_ sheep dog
director/ observor_ human
irrigation radial pivots_
cornilia air fort park_site plan
exaggerated model investigation
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Along with the emergent landscape, the sheep agents
Parametric serfaces created with RhinoGrasshopper em-
enable new economies and learning environments for
ulate a herding scenerio. Over time this displays dynamic
both local and international arenas. Some of which
outcomes that could possibly generate motocross econ-
may include mutton busting competitions where chil-
omies with its steep hills and valleys. The agent based
dren race to the finish line bareback on sheep. Social
coding toolset simulates interactions on a surface based
economies of learning, observation, and public space.
on obsticles [detractors] while vegetation [attractors]
Production ecomomies of products such as sheering,
allows prediction and speculation of agent behavior in
wool, and the curation of products sold in tents and
areas of reosion, population density, and overgrowth.
existing buildings, creating a fair like atmosphere.
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catastrophic urbanism studio_with lindsa y c la r k_d a r iu s a mmo n
An urban design for a hypothetical city poised to survive the harsh conditions of a future fraught with catastrophe. Focused on the concept of aleatory design, which utilizes chance or a â&#x20AC;&#x153;roll of the diceâ&#x20AC;? as a design tactic, this project explored the effects of natural disaster on an urban-scale design. Early experiments with calcium carbonate, limestone, and cheesecloth developed into explorations of the natural topography of the San Andreas Fault. The result is a concept for a partially subterranean community poised to withstand sandstorms and floods in a hypothetical, intra-catastrophic future.
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Floods, sandstorms, and earthquakes are catastrophic events that have an effect on humans and the environment. Natural events are aleatoric. In aleatory design, nature is the designer by incorporating the factor of chance and adapting to the given circumstances of catastrophic devastation.
The aleatoric process began with materail exploration condicted with an assortment of powders and liquids, such as limestone, calcium carbonate,water, and india ink. The product of these experiments were expressed by the nature of the material against its reactants that resulted to emulate a bit San Andreas landscape espically in arial view, creating scalar ecologies.
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On the current surface of the San Andreas Fault there are boroughs and mounds along with the natural layering of the rock, sediment, and sand. The fault seems uninhabited, yet life exists. There is a relationship between the inner and outter spaces; the above and below. The adaptive techniques nature has employed to make this desolate place habitable is emulated in this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;will to liveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mentality in the face of catastrophie.
Designed as an urban condition, the position of the habitable spaces underground is intended to allow the wind and rain to pass over without affecting the population below. The organization of the town is derived from the idea of rain drops clustering on a surface as well as the way pebbles cluster together socially. The utilization of patterns found in experiments aid in the design of the paths of transport in drawings.
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programming
programming_exploring via sketching
aleatory urbanism_section
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Evaluating the natural processes occuring at the San Andreas Fault, wind forms mounds of sand and the seasonal rain erodes the land creating valleys and lakes. In turn, this design emulates these processes as the wind and rain covers and uncovers the glass surfacesof the domes, hubs for the urban community living underground. Where the outside is unfit for cultivation, the domes provide seasons of difuse light for thriving gardens below the surface. Water is stored and fresh filtered air is brought to the indoors. The interior spaces embedded even further down are ascribed different functions based on their relation to each other spatially. This natural, aleatoric organization of spaces in small clustes gathered around larger areas can be repeated and adapted to fit potentially any landscape scenerio.
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aleatoric urban model
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Here sits the contemporary branch library where parallels can be found and interpreted broadly in the universal notions of knowledge-seeking and discovery in the district of Washington Heights and the Manhattan borough it sits within. An evolving district in Upper Manhattan, Washington Heights encompasses yet segregates diverse cultures and socioeconomics. In response, a new branch library at the Audubon Terrace creates an architecture that intrigues the mind and senses, inviting explorations - subsequently interspersing those who follow personal or shared motivations. The parallels of the existing schist and relocated trees, structure experiences from ground to the understory, and finally within the canopy. Light wells and reading nooks also function as bookshelves, filtering light across the library. In a divided social system, equality is essential for innovation and growth to move forward. Parallels in this sense rely upon both of equality and difference, bringing them together.
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Through difference we are united as equals.
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street elevation
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concept drawings_site
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section_schist and trunk
The parallels of the existing schist is kept preserved within as an icon for the library along with its use of geothermal
to provide temperature controlled heating and
cooling.
The existing trees are replanted nearby
and
metaphorically kept within the concept of the library. From ground to sky the trees form as the library itself, with its growith extending from the schist. Each floor represents apart of the forest from the understory to the canopy lightwells filter in light form floor to floor providing shelf space and nooks for avid readers and adventurists.
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integrations focus area_the Trunk
The highlighted system is named â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the Trunkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as it serves as a reminder to be courteous to your neighbors - allowing a rememberance of the existing church side is left exposed. It also serves as a specticle for artworks to be hung in or outside the system
as the wood screen
can be replaced with other sculptural features that enhance community engagment. The Trunk is meant to also filtrate water, light, and air to the schist below communicating new cultures are welcome within the library.
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Motel for Archiologists begins as to create a new world through material exploration. Extrapolating qualities, atmospheres, and aromas to define spatial expeiences of speculation and awe.
New cultures are formed by collaboration and passion, allowing for complexity of ego. Forming latent posibilitie outside of their bounds as perplexity accures in those who stifle with sound. Do not misconstrue that in which you have yet to understand. There is many of us here as it may get out of hand. We all mean well of what we only know. The past has taught is of friend and foe. Come together as one, let us look ahead and grow.
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The material culture of cloth allows expansion oand contraction as it produces fluid shapes inot solid form from the actions of twisting, stretching, tying, and knotting. Now that we have a solid mass, what is inside? What did we create? How can we apply experimental design into habitable form?
These cultures are formed by simular and contrasting materal given its nature allowing for complexity. Possibliities arise when materials are misconstrued. What you achieve is not based on what one said you cannot do.
He would ho everywhere to get somewhere but never know where he was going.
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Inconsistent repetition, accumulated density, intersecting lines. Embracing what there is and what is given - the past. The site an ally way in downtown Knoxville, TN is cultivated through the interactions of everyday life. The culture od Knoxville and the surrounding Appalachia region is defined by the things accumulated overtime. From stockpiled to swept under teh rug, storage forms an architecture that adapts to the land and area from past to present circumstances. These things fossilize and become antique trash and treasures. We treasure the things that mean the most to us and trash the things of least importance - becoming treasure to others.
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gov e rnors studio e ne rgy + ur b a nis m _ja me s r o s e
A system which changes its structure, behavior, or resourses according to demand based on the concept of anphibious traits, frogs. A frogs skin is unique in its life cycle and adaptability. The microscopic qualities shuch as the systematic randomization of hexagons in its top layer of skin allows patterns to emerge. This project extrapolates the characteristics and qualities of the anphibious creature into an architecture.
Urban Scale Adapting to the growing dowtown, forwarding new ideas and relationships with the natural environment. Building Scale Engneering new ideas and methods for creating architecture with additative manufacturing applications. Human Scale Meshing the amphibious adaptations of the body adn life cycle of a frog to the adaptations of humans and the envirionment make on an everyday basis.
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The architectural program consists of nine housing units, a community pace, a cafe, and a private emminities space for washing clothes and grabbing your favorite soda. The ar-
Amphibious Frog Skin:
chitecture uses the technology of additive manufacturing to
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construct the units, printed at 5’ increments. The units are
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manually pieced todether having hexagonal patterns that
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manifested from the amphibious nature of the frog. Within the opaque
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be exchanged, Adaptive Skin opaque
one for the other, dependent on the occupier.
A frog skin is unique in its life cycle and adaptability. The microscopic qualities mesh such as the systematic randomization of density in the hexagonal pattern of its top layerSkin of skin, further develop the idea of an adaptable building in the Adaptive relationship to the urban, building, and human scale. A frog skin is unique in its life cycle and adaptability. The microscopic qualities such as the systematic randomization of density in the hexagonal pattern of its top layer of skin, further develop the idea of an adaptable building in the relationship to the urban, building, and human scale.
Amphibious Frog Skin: layers + long hexagons transparency transparent
Governor’s Chair Energy + Urbanism
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Adaptive Skin
units are separated in 12’x6’ incriments for additive manufactured printing
A frog skin is unique in its life cycle and adaptability. The microscopic qualities such as the systematic randomization of density in the hexagonal pattern of its top layer of skin, further develop the idea of an adaptable building in the relationship to the urban, building, and human scale.
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The organization of housing units are in a three part system based on the triangularity of the site where each side of the triangle becomes a unit, therefore manifesting a center space for community gatherings fit for residents and cafe guests.
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The housing units skin wrapped around the units and slowly move with the sun through solar power or the skin can be adjusted manually to fit ones lighting of privacy needs. The skin Corten steel adn is prefabricated using the CNC water jet.
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m.arc h th e s is_ ma r k s ta n le y
Topographic and metabolic systems of our landscape have changed over time by the human influence on the earth. This change is caused by a wide range of networks causing impact on our planet, including that network of agriculture. Because of population increase of the human species, the agency of agriculture was turned into a mode of production â&#x20AC;&#x201C;the law of demand; More. Quicker. Cheaper. Things got [get] messy. Additives, modifications, combinations, GMO [Object] - all unconventionally mixed in a pot to boil. Machines spreading the mix across the land, seeping into our streams and digested as we drink the water and eat the cow that ate the grass that ingested contaminants from soil and the water.
This thesis investigates the impact of surface by human implication as a fusion of artificial and organic ingredients redefining scales of human reality. Where parts and pieces are augmented - took apart and fueled together forming hybrids of hybrids â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rigged in such ways to get predicted results. Speculating and interrogating the farming practice in the built environment within the age of the Anthropocene.
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The farm situates itself on a small 200 and some odd acre property in rural South-Central Kentucky with a makeup of mixed arable, pastoral grounds. The farm is divided into three territories that service mixed use architectural implications through the design a farmhouse in spirit of the four seasons, serving as a hybrid of the traditional gable farmhouse vernacular. Speculating on the impact of the environment in correlation to the small farm, the method of attack starts as a network of economies that establish territory to uncover an underlying metabolism through the data, analytics, inventories, mechanics, atmospheres, and recourses. All of which acts as devices that ultimately helps to design a farm house that exists within and beyond its boundaries of a into new realities of the farm through its networks of networks, connecting other networks. Developing a rhythm and setting a tone of my work that encourages conversation and engages people to think about the farming practice in new ways and the impact of a small farm to a larger condition.
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farm photos
Speculating the future of the farming practice, this thesis takes on many of the characteristics and attributes of the current farm but suggests future implications in relation to the Anthropocene state of being. Speculating on the impact of the environment, the farm consists of many developed natures in the form of DNA and binary code retention in trees -data grove, methane extraction of cattle, livestock meat marbling, pollination typologies, and branch grafting.
Four conditions of the farm: the field, the swamp, the forest, and pasture.
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territory
The territory does not connect physically but virtually via cloud computing and DNA data mining at the source. The shape of the territory now will change next week just as it will change tomorrow. This representation is of a moment in time housing parts of the field, the swamp, the forest, and pasture - as the field and pasture are rotated, the forest harvested, and the swamp levels rise and lower. There is no fixed, constant; always in oscillation.
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The farm house acts as a free agent to the farm - rigged with multiple assemblages through timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seasonal shifts and flows. The farm house is autonomous. It is divided into 4 parts one named after each respective season. Each part is a part of the whole; thus, each part is considered whole. Each farmhouse connects to one another, corresponding to seasons, one farmhouse having its own agenda specific to the time of year. The farm house as whole houses intimate background involvement through ritual, protocol, and procedures -modeling a farm culture that is hyper interactive with its internal and external infrastructures. Taking account for gathering data inventories of localized crop yields, chemical outputs, soil moisture content, and plant spacings to compare to global markets -continually downloading and uploading, stored in the DNA of trees of the data grove. New inventories and DNA mechanics are coded through pollination and branch grafting. The farm house constructs and deconstructs itself from season to season contingent on need and function.
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fall_farmhouse
Fall Farmhouse In the fall, the farm house operates on all four conditions of the farm: the field, the swamp, the forest, and the pasture. The farm house is not on a leash yet knows its boundaries as it does the work it is instructed to do. The farm house is not physically connected being that it is separate from the whole but connected virtually -having data, actions, and observations transferred to the winter farmhouse to be analyzed. In the farm house collects crop data and stores it for record in the trees of the data grove. The fall farm house is not only responsible for collecting and transferring data but for cultivation and harvesting for all seasons; such as the summer hay crop or bi-weekly gathering of methane production. The yield in the fall is the survival rate of the winter. The fall farm house gathers yield by probing into the trees to update data that cycles back to the winter farm house, so the farmer knows what, when, where, and how to plant for the start of the spring season and has good predictability for the seasons following.
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Winter Farmhouse The field and pasture are where the farm house situates itself in the winter, alongside where crop cultivation and pasture for cattle takes place. The fields harvest is dependent on the crop growth period -quicker the harvest, quicker the data transfer, quicker the benefit and less storage capacity (such as soy beans - 150day growth period); slower the harvest, slower the data transfer -higher storage capacity (such as trees -infinite growth period to a degree). The trees within the territory are in the swamp and forest regions, the data grove. They are responsible for data storage of local yields and climates that correspond to the global market.
In the winter farm house is rounding the parameter - checking fences, collecting, and analyzing data to upload in the forest come spring. The farm house mobilizes using animal power and skids to tread through the snow and frozen top soil. It analyzes soil and moisture conditions by data transfer of fall farm house data collection for the upcoming season to ensure ultimate planting, growing, harvesting. In the winter the farm house is where the farmer sleeps, nested by the motherboard analysis station where heat is exhausted. Communicating with the fall farm house via interface the winter farm house deploys the fall farm house to chase a coyote out of the field.
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The pasture includes grazing grounds for cattle to feed, breed, and nurse calves. Cattle combust methane into the atmosphere. For farm efficiency each cow is surgically connected from their intestines through a series of tubes to a hot air balloon powered by methane extracted from the cow. The methane powers the hot air balloon at a low frequency ââ&#x201A;Źâ&#x20AC;&#x153; conserving most while powering the cow.
RIFD cow tags signal hormones in the cow that alerts the balloon to go up or down. Cows are lowered to milk graze and breed. To reduce the impact on the pasture grounds and to increase the marbling of meat -the methane extractor allows the cow to hover over the grass field just enough to eat their daily amount, restricting their mobility yet allowing free range for a happy herd. For final extraction of weekly methane output, cattle are drove to the barn repository by the methane extractor from the farmer interface. The methane is extracted from balloons and converted to liquid or stored as gas to operate farm. The barn stores accumulated implements, methane, and feed. Herd that.
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Spring Farmhouse During the spring, the farm house is combined with the winter farm house where they are located within the forest as the fall farm house plants an early crop of corn. In the spring, the farm house is within the data grove and is responsible for DNA breeding and storing data records of farm yields. Plants are cross bread using pollination parachutes and by grafting branches on trees to account for new information.
The data of the farm is stored in tree DNA within the data grove and connected globally from cloud networks. In house data stored is continually compared to global market economies to better model and operate the farm to its maximum potential and predictability for the seasons following.
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Smmer Farmhouse In the summer, the farm house is combined with the winter and spring farm house as the fall farm house is harvesting methane and the summers hey crop. The swamp is where the summer farm house floats and trawls along the low-lying water. Dependent on natural water fluctuations, the summer farm house searches for interesting plant and animal specimens while water samples are collected and analyzed in the lab to ensure proper water quality as the swamp serves as a mouth of a creek that leads to the lake. After a hot day’s work, the farmer relaxes at the farm house to feel the cool breeze off the water. She calls in the cows – one by one they enter the farm house into a narrow corridor bawling, the farm house heats up the swamp water – steam a rolling – the cows muscles ease as the walls contract and start to vibrate and message, tenderizing the meat live. The cows are happy.
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Farming Futures The farming practice of small farms is becoming more progressive in sustainability and awareness of impact on the ecosystems of our environment. As we move forward with this thinking, farmers will become more reliant on technology and data to better advance their internal and external systems. Multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, teaching, and design becomes more prevalent. Our genealogists, computer programmers, coders, and hackers become farmers and develop theory into reality. It is important to go beyond todays reality and embrace speculative thinking of the future because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not far away; the future is tomorrow.
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