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The bureau of transnationalism
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manhattan project 2.0 // a field guide to late post-modernism
strategic reconnaissance rapturous south // a retro-active manifesto
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international advanced architectural design // bauhaus universität
integrations
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LEED platinum low-rise office building
green oak 3.0 design-build exploration of undried wood construction
nature center
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extraction 2.0 specialized ddition to an existing library
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extraction 1.0 high capacity dormitory
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poetic morphogenesis for the museum of a dead art
hollywood house competition entry for an iconic house of the 21st century
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moontopia competition entry for a lunar colony
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the bureau of transnationalism
professor // Mark Stanley studio // Manhattan Project 2.0 // A Field Guide to Late Postmodernism host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp
Global connection tiers separate people the way physical borders once did. The Bureau of Transnationalism seeks to dissolve borders and encourage globalization by compressing these tiers of connection that currently segregate the world. This is accomplished by providing internet access of an unprecedented speed to the entirety of the world’s population in exchange for individuals’ personal data, eliminating any borders separating people from people. The result of this complete globalization of Earth’s population requires a massive reevaluation of the concepts of culture and diversity, of partisan politics, and of the role of government in authority. Only then can a more pure form of capitalism on the brink of anarchy be attained, where the physicality of laws has withdrawn entirely, replaced by instantaneous market demands and hive minded justice. The migrant, the hacker, the terrorist, and the celebrity are no longer the outliers of society; society becomes an outlier of the exceptional. Each installation works at the macro scale of dissolving borders and at the micro scale rejecting rigid forms or configurations. Modularity and malleability merge together into a writhing mass of mesh and mechanics. A conductive sack attracts and retracts to and from masses and voids in the surrounding wireless topography. Physical patterns are not followed, rather the unseen geography of cell signals and wireless hotspots determine its physical form. Orb-shaped processing cores continually shift themselves to the adapting mesh around them. Coolant(s) of various viscosities are circulated into and around the cores to optimize temperature control. More conventional devices circulate the perimeter of the structure on circular tracks, creating strong links from installation to installation via long-wave transceiver dishes as well as acting as an interface for various future-proofing widgets.
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Strategic Reconnaissance
professor // Brian Ambroziak studio // Rapturous South: A Retroactive Manifesto host // The University of Tennessee tools // Rhinoceros, VRay Buildings are temporal vehicles. Space becomes separated from space and a new environment is created within, allowing changes in time, temperature and atmosphere to occur separately within and without the line of enclosure. The rivers of the South are ruptures in time. The endless flow of water and the stillness of reflective stars collide and combine in ancient veins dug down into the Earth. The river has been augmented by bridges, dams, and vessels that collect, control, or mitigate the natural state of place to better suit those who encounter it. What other prosthetic forms can help us encounter the river in a new way?
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Time is collapsed by high speed machines. The spy plane and the bass boat compress the vector of time into short bursts of acceleration. Lockheed Martin’s SR-71 “Blackbird” adjusts its surfaces and perforates its skin in order to survive at the extremities of the outer stratosphere. It remains hidden from detection through geometry and speed. The high speed bass boat of the South avoids its prey though speed and surface reflectivity. Depth and pressure press on bathymetric contours define form. Skins separate and interlock to reveal bone and tendon beneath, breathing in and breathing out through ducted gills of sheet steel. Active floor panels track movement and physically react, creating internal topographies. Internal dialogues of form and texture create an experience of speed and of progress.
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iAAD European Skyscraper IV
collaborators // Ariane Fischer professor // Karl-Heinz Schmitz studio // International Advanced Architectural Design projekt (iAAD) host // Bauhaus Universität tools // ArchiCAD, SketchUp, Kerkythea, physical modeling
The prompt called for an extensive study and analysis of the Hardenburgplatz area of Berlin that culminated in each team of four students designing two swkyscrapers that worked together to form an appropriate response, and in our case, reformation of the context. We began by closing off vehicular traffic to the site and forming a small courtyard book-ended by our high rise-mixed use tower on one side our and performance auditorium on the other. The tower contains floors of dorm rooms for music students along with multiple rehearsal rooms and multifunctional spaces intermittently as as shown to the right. There are restaurants on the top and bottom floors, and additional multi-use spaces in the plinth. The low-rise performance hall building to the north contains multiple ballrooms and chamber ensemble sized concert halls. A colonnade ties both buildings together and links them both to the Zoofenster tower to the east.
The work process, studio setup, and language barriers involved with this project provided a unique situation for me during my 5 month study abroad semester at the Bauhaus Universität. I believe I gained a very valuable perception on how design can be explored within an international setting.
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This mixed use office building in downtown Knoxville was my first project working with a partner, using BIM, and coordinating the technical sides of design including MEP and structural engineering. We decided to embrace these requirements and emphasize the structure, mechanical and lighting systems wherever possible. A strong emphasis was also placed on sustainability and efficiency. This theoretically would reach LEED platinum as of 2014’s standards.
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Integrations
collaborators // Hannah Margush professor // Kevin Stevens studio // Integrations host // The University of Tennessee tools // Revit
The office is for a design firm that contains the practices of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, and interior design and reserves the top floor for rentable tenant space or future expansion. We took those four disciplines, gave each an equal space and created a massive collaborative floor plate in the center of the shared atrium. The glass atrium works in tandem with multiple other glass shafts to bring natural light, heating, and cooling to each floor while also housing the structure and smoke ventilation required. The street level contains restaurants and a bookstore as well as a diagonal passage through to an existing park area. The copper finish and repetitive rhythm of the facades compliment the Knoxville aesthetic while not being lost in the sea of brick.
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Green Oak 3.0
collaborators // Brice Holmes // Angie Claeys // Emily Threadgill professor // James Martella studio // Green Oak 3.0 host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp, AutoCAD This project was started two semesters prior by an entirely different studio as an exploration on how to integrate oak members that are currently being discarded due to the amount of time it takes to dry and treat them.
The third iteration of this thesis involved a studio-developed area plan and three team developed cabins with varying programmatic and material restraints. Our variant utilizes a skeleton of undried “green� oak members that are allowed to warp and dis-form over time as they dry. This otherwise wasted material is in-filled with traditional light frame construction via spring-loaded joist connectors.
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nature center
professor // Scott Wall Andrew Godwin studio // Programming host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp, AutoCAD This studio was a joint effort between architecture and landscape architecture. My group of four worked with a graduate landscape architecture studio to create a preliminary masterplan of the city of Townsend, a small rural community in the Great Smoky Mountains. Several meetings with the community and local city officials helped inform both the LArch students’ plan and my team’s programmatic selections for the area. At the macro scale this nature center acts as a threshold between the city and the park as well as a visual marker of the end of town. At the micro scale the building acts as a bridge between the natural and unnatural. The structure is raised above the ground to cleanse the palate of the built environment it creates. The polar ends of the explore different types of learning with lecture space closer to the city and self-directed exhibits and observatories near the river.
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Extraction 2.0
professor // Matt Hall studio // Place/Context host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp, AutoCAD A precise program was provided for this project giving the exact spatial and relational requirements of each room. This concept pulls regulating lines from the existing library it is attached to and extrudes each space out to the exact dimension required, creating an almost non-design that merges with the existing structure seamlessly. This new theological research center is seemingly being pulled out of the center of the library, as if it were there all along and is now on display for the scrutiny of all. There are offices on the bottom floor, public space and a cafe that serves the entire library on ground level (right), personal study carrels on the upper floor and archival stacks on the very top floor. Each new floor relates directly to the existing floor it is augmenting so that rather than construct a new building that would only fragment the study culture of the campus, it instead enhances it and welcomes new possibilities for cross pollination of ideas between research trajectories.
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Extraction 1.0
professor // Matt Hall studio // Place/Context host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp The quad of the campus is extended toward the river and the capital while the greenspace below and views from above are preserved. This dormitory features a large public hall, multiple sunken and raised courtyards, and compact room layouts to encourage the communal aspect of the complex.
professor // Brian Ambroziak host // The University of Tennessee tools // SketchUp
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Resurrect
This museum would be dedicated to the art of letterpress and display the work of local artists who still have a love for the craft of printmaking in a world that is ever more digitized. The form is derived from a synthesis of mechanical movement and bodily resurrection, appearing to rise out of the Earth. Curtain wall glass wrapped in copper mesh creates a massive form by day and a glowing entity by night. Massive cantileavers create public space on street level for while all of the program is located in the upper and lower floors. A tiered green space to the East engages a long abandoned aqueduct, aligning this new structure within a time and scale that’s much older and larger than can be attained through simple additions.
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Hollywood House 26
collaborators // David Berry, Ryan Ballek host // arch out loud tools // Rhinoceros, Lumion
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MOONTOPIA
collaborators // Josh Parsley host // Eleven Magazine tools // SketchUp, Rhinoceros In 2016 Eleven magazine invited designers from around the world to envision a habitable lunar future. Our entry comprised of a multi-staged time-line organizing major watershed moments into different technological “epochs.� The narrative has unmanned machines paving the way for rudimentary 3D-printed dwellings to constructed in the Drone Era followed by a massive transplant of raw material to and from the Moon in the Carrier Era. At this point the development of the lunar surface would develop far beyond a single colony and flourish into a network of nodes across the surface of the Moon eventually making it the primary source of fuel in a future run by Helium-3 powered cold fusion. This precious fuel would create a utopia while it lasts, fueling ventures to other planets and becoming the new testing grounds for new innovations and ways of living not possible on Earth.
Our sample colony consists of a central greenhouse/light source that acts as a beacon of life in a desolate landscape. A decommisioned particle accelerator is re-purposed for transportation of people and materials and links the various districts of food production, material refinement, scientific development and tourism together. Our site being the first colony would be located near the North Pole on the ridge of Shakelton Crater where solar power would be effective over 23 hours per day.