Trent Weatherford Portfolio

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Trent Weatherford is Bachelor of Architecture graduate from Oklahoma State University. Trent enjoys unique challenges that transform into a great design and has a diverse set of interests within the field. Trent has had experience in both the architecture and engineering fields, completing four internships with various companies in the United States. This is a collection of Trent's undergraduate work from the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture.

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C O N T E N T BOSTON URBAN REDEVELOPMENT BOSTON, MA Set next to Boston’s historic South Station, this project included master-planning and urban design focused on supporting a new walkable public realm.

OKSTATE MUSEUM OF ART STILLWATER, OK Located on a site next to Oklahoma State University’s campus, this museum was designed to revitalize the university’s excitement and enthusiasm for the arts.

PARAMETRIC PAVILION MULTIPLE LOCATIONS A pavilion designed to change locally and globally ,adjusting to any environment in which it is placed.

ACRYLIC DESIGN-BUILD NO LOCATION

With the challenge of designing and fabricating a usable object out of acrylic, this project utilized a variety of techniques to produce customizable studio desk organizers.

SOLAR ROW-HOUSE BORNEO-SPORENBURG, AMSTERDAM

Located in a large modern row-house development in the heart of Amsterdam, this project sets itself apart with it’s unique design, which captures and distributes lig ht with a glass element.

OKSTATE ECO-VILLAGE STILLWATER, OK

This project, set on the Oklahoma State University campus, required existing 1970’s apartments to be renovated into a sustainable eco-village for students to enjoy.

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URBAN PLANNING | WALKABILITY | PUBLIC REALM

BOSTON URBAN REDEVELOPMENT BOSTON, MA

STUDIO 8 | 4 MONTH DURATION | PROF RICHARSON.WILLIAMS.CARROLL

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Focus Area

Chinatown

Mixed-use Residential

Canal

Bus Te r m i n a l

Fort Point Greenway

Olympic Aquatic Center

Mixed-use Residential

Master Plan

Boston Urban Redevelopment

The Boston Urban Redevelopment team was comprised of six, fifth year architecture students. The first task given was the master planning of the southeast corner of downtown Boston (in between Chinatown and the Fort Point areas). The site included the historic South Station, a subway station, and the Fort Point Canal. Through the master planning, our team focused on walkability and creating a new public realm in Boston. The goal for the new master plan was to bring the Boston Greenway, a green belt running through downtown above a buried highway, into our site while focusing on a mix of uses which would activate the new development. The Master plan included burying the existing highway and rail infrastructure, placing the pedestrian’s importance above that of cars.

The final plan also included a proposal for a new aquatic facility and athlete housing for Boston’s Olympic 2024 bid.

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South Station Plaza

Following the master planning, the area around the historic South Station Building was chosen as a focus area of the site to develop further. A large element of this area’s design was a plaza that created a public space which connected downtown Boston back to the canal. Trent Weatherford and Hana Avey collaborated to design the plaza. They combined a linear scheme of paving, grass, trees, and water elements with an amphitheater and large projection screen viewing area.

The edge of the plaza up against the canal was abstracted, blurring the line where the water starts and the plaza ends. The plaza also included a geometric linear head house that served the trains buried beneath.

Focus Area Model Photograph

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Head House Model Photograph

New South Station Head House

The design for the focus space of the project called for a new head house serving the regional trains coming into the South Station area. Since the master plan required burying the train tracks underneath the development, a new head house was needed to transition passengers down to the submerged terminal. Trent Weatherford and Hana Avey collaborated in the new sleek design. The long linear form of the head house frames the greenway running through the site. Visitors are able to enter at the east and west sides, and center of the new head house. The design includes a diving frosted glass form, which reveals the lacy structure behind. The head house design also has a transition space to the greenway, covered by a large angular glass canopy which is suspended by a mast.

Head House and Tracks Section

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Concept Study

G r e e n w a y To w e r

Concept Study

T h e n e w G r e e n w a y To w e r was designed as a terminus f o r t h e s i t e s g r e e n w a y, making a vertical expression o f n a t u r e a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y.

Tr e n t We a t h e r f o r d a n d Andrew Schluterman collaborated on the tower ’s design. The tower is a mix of functions, with residential units on the plaza side, activating the public space at all times. The backside of the tower hosts both office space as well as a hotel. The south side of the tower is comprised of stacked twisting units creating a vertical garden f o r t h e r e s i d e n t s t o e n j o y. A duality is achieved with an open structural core dividing the public and private uses o f t h e t o w e r. A t t h e t o p o f the tower is a “Sky Garden” which houses a restaurant and public viewing deck.

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C U L T U R E

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R E V I T A L I Z A T I O N

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F O R M

OKLAHOMA STATE MUSEUM OF ART STILLWATER, OK STUDIO 7 | 4 MONTH DURATION | PROF SPECTOR

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Oklahoma State Museum of Art Development

The Oklahoma State University Museum of Art was designed to both revitalize the surrounding area and give new life to OSU’s art scene. The form of the museum was designed to be both exciting and inspiring, providing a new icon for the campus. The museum houses a permanent and temporary gallery, as well as cafe, store, and a lecture hall. Placing the buildings up against the street bordering campus gives a urban edge to help revitalize and urbanize the area. The design of the building highlights movement, with a unique metal clad form which opens and ungulates around the vertical circulation, giving spectacular views out to campus and the surrounding area. The museum has both a front and rear entry, making it usable and appealing from both sides of approach. The galleries in the museum are laid out in such a way to give the visitor an experience of rising to the top of the building, and encountering the structure’s fragmented geometry as they make their way down.

Site Plan

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Design Process

The design process for the museum was split into several stages, including concept searching, sketching, schematic design, and design development. The massing of the building stayed consistent throughout the project, yet the f a c a d e s , m a t e r i a l i t y, a n d f o r m e v o l v e d .

The concept of highlighted vertical circulation stayed constant and in the end was a major driver of the final design.

Facade Studies

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Floor 3 Public Spaces Support Spaces Galleries Circulation

Floor 1

Rear Entrance Perspective

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Interior Lobby Perspective

Systems Axonometric

Wall Section Structural Bay Model

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ADAPTABILITY

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PARAMETRIC VERSATILE LOCATION

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CONTROLLABLE

PAVILION

COMPUTATION STUDY | 1 MONTH DURATION | PROF CARROLL

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Frame

Design

The Pavilion, was designed in a team of two using the Grasshopper program. The

challenge of this project was to design a pavilion that could parametrically change and adjust to exterior forces. Our pavilion was designed to adapt to any environment in which it would be placed. The organic global shape of the structure can be altered to rest on any surface and even float. The pavilion has the ability to change not only its global form, but also its module count and extrusion length.

Module

The Pavilion is able to adapt to the different sites on which it could be placed. The pavilion is shown at Zucotti Park in NYC, where the modules extend to create shade, as well as Breckenridge, Colorado, where they retract in.

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CUSTOMIZATION | FABRICATION | MATERIALITY

ACRYLIC

DESIGN-BUILD

N/A STUDIO 5 | 2 MONTH DURATION | PROF WILLIAMS.SANZA.CARROLL

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Studio Desk Organizer

This project was the simple challenge of designing and fabricating anything out of acrylic with a budget of one hundred d o l l a r s . T h e d e s i g n g r o u p ( Tr e n t Weatherford, Anthony Chau, and Andrew Schluterman) identified a need for a architecture studio desk organizer that was completely customizable and could transition with the student from first year to fifth. The organizer had the ability to clip onto the side of a drafting desk while holding almost any creative instrument with attachable clips. The organizer can also come apart and be used as two separate apparatus. Both laser cutting and bending with a heat strip was necessary for the fabrication of this product.

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U RT BI A LN I ZI ZAATT II O NN | | F LUERX BI BAI LN I ITZY A |T ISO N T A| I NCAO US B INL TI TEYX T

S O L A ROW-HOUSE R R O W - H O U S E HELICAL

BORNEO SPORENBURG BORNEO-SPORENBURG, AMSTERDAM , AMSTERDAM S TUDIO | 1 M O N2012 T H |D INDIVIDUAL U R A T I O N PROJECT | PROF BILBEISI STUDIO 2 | 2SEPTEMBER

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Site Plan

Concept Models

Studio

Patio

Kitchen Living

Bedroom

Bathroom

Garage

Section

Solar Row-House

This project was inspired by the artist Rembrandt, and his paintings which organize light to highlight elements. This rowhouse features a hexagonal glass tube to capture the southern light, and disperse it through every space in the house. A steel structure and cladding gives the facades of the house a modern look. The house features an artist studio at the top along with an exterior patio.

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SUSTAINABILITY

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RENOVATION

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COMMUNITY

OKLAHOMA STATE ECO-VILLAGE STILLWATER, OK STUDIO 6 | 1.5 MONTH DURATION | PROF RODRIGUEZ

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Childcare Facility

Organic Market

Classroom Buidling

Oklahoma State University Eco-Village

Site Plan

This project’s challenge was to renovate a 1970’s on-campus apartment complex to create a sustainable eco-village for students and faculty to e n j o y. T h e d e s i g n f o r t h e e g o - v i l l a g e f o c u s e d o n p r o m o t i n g c o m m u n i t y a n d included creating row-house style apartments, as well as a new organic m a r k e t , c h i l d c a r e c e n t e r, a n d a c l a s s r o o m b u i l d i n g . I n a d d i t i o n t o t h e n e w f e a t u r e s , s u s t a i n a b l e i d e a s l i k e b i o - s w e l l s t o p u r i f y w a t e r, i n t e r a c t i v e produce gardens, and energy generating wind mills were added. The renovation and addition of these buildings focused on utilizing as much of the existing buildings as possible as well as using recycled materials.

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Aerial Perspective

Organic Market

The Organic Market for the eco-village originally housed res-life offices.

Keeping most of the building’s existing structure, two wings and a new facade were added to include a market and small cafe housed within. The style of the new building focused on creating a fusion between the traditional Neo-Georgian style of OSU with recycled materials and eco-friendly wood. As p a r t o f t h e d e s i g n t e a m , Tr e n t We a t h e r f o r d a n d E d u a r d o A r a n a c o l l a b o r a t e d on the design of the public buildings as well as the housing units.

Lounge Pre-renovation Footprint Organic Market

Cafe

Organic Market Perspective

Housing Unit Design Passive Cooling Through Unit Core First Floor Unit Plan Geo-thermal Cooling of Spaces

Second Floor Unit Plan Day-lighting Diffusion Third Floor Unit Plan

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