Tyler Colville
DESIGN PORTFOLIO
TC
TABLE OF CONTENTS Vicenza Civic Center
Haiti: A Second Response
Deschutes Cultural Center
Oregon State B.E.E. Building
Parasite & Group Projects
VICENZA TRAVEL SKETCHES The University of Oregon study abroad program in Vicenza, Italy was three months long and began with two weeks of travel (one week in Rome and one week in Florence), two months in Vicenza, and concluded with a trip to Switzerland. During the program, I was able to visit and study the work of Palladio, Scarpa, Zumthor, and many other historical and contemporary European architects. A large part of my time in Italy and Switzerland was spent sketching and water-coloring.
Marostica: Palazzo Del Doglione
Marostica: Piazza degli Scacchi
Vicenza: Corso Palladio
Venice: Grand Canal Facade
Verona: Castelvecchio
Vicenza: Villa Rotunda
HAITI: A SECOND RESPONSE Graduate Thesis Design Studio, Winter-Spring 2013 University of Oregon, Portland, OR The topic of this thesis design studio was regenerative design. I chose to focus on the issue of healthcare in Haiti by designing a school of medicine in the city of Jacmel. The design evolved from a hospital to a medical school, ultimately becoming an entire campus encompassing both programmatic elements. The school portion of the program was designed in full detail, while the hospital became part of the campus plan. The studio also required that we formulate an urban plan for the city of our project’s location.
Narrow Wings
Variety of Shared Spaces
Arcades & Layered Edges
URBAN DESIGN There is an extremely unbalanced number of health care facilities in Haiti’s larger cities, resulting in uncontrolled growth and crowding. This was a driving factor of the site selection for my project in Jacmel, Haiti.
Existing Hospital
Cap Haitian
Project Site
The regeneration of the city of Jacmel as a whole (in which 70% of structures were damaged by the earthquake) was approached at a citywide scale. I proposed education hubs in the form of a medical school on the northwest edge of the city and an engineering school on the southeast edge, which could offer a long-term solution to two of the biggest issues in Jacmel (and all of Haiti) today - healthcare and construction/engineering. I also proposed developing a water catchment and treatment facility in northern Jacmel at an elevation that would allow for easy distribution of potable water throughout the city and a tourism center connected to a boardwalk along the oceanfront. This could grow Jacmel’s already relatively strong tourism industry.
Port-au-Prince
Jacmel
Health Care Facility Clustering
Water Treatment Facility
Hospital And School Of Medicine
Construction And Engineering School
Tourism Center
CAMPUS DESIGN The campus is situated on a hill in the northwest corner of the city. The entire development is organized along a uniting axis that runs north-south. The campus includes a hospital stretching to the north, housing to the west, overlooking a river, and the medical school to the south (red on the opposing page diagram). Proposed infill developments surrounding the campus consist mostly of shop-houses with ground-level floors being used for businesses and upper floors for housing. A market across from the main park space would activate the neighborhood as well. In Haiti, much of the economy relies on small-scale production and trade so these developments would cater to that economy and culture. Green spaces in the form of courtyards and parks varying in size and shape stretch throughout the campus. Deforestation is a huge issue in Haiti, so giving back green space was a priority.
Uniting Axis
CAMPUS DEVELOPMENTS
INFILL DEVELOPMENTS
HEALING GARDENS
NORTH-SOUTH CAMPUS SECTION
TB ISOLATION WARDS
WARDS WOMEN’S, CHILDREN’S, MEN’S, & MENTAL HEALTH
MAIN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM, SURGERY, INPATIENT
OUTPATIENT CLINIC & HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
COMMUNITY CLINICS & MEETING SPACES, HOSPITAL & SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER
CLASSROOMS, LABS, LIBRARY
SOUTH
BUILDING DESIGN The school consists of four buildings– a pair to the north & a pair to the south, centered along the main campus axis. The north buildings house the administrative & community elements of the project program. They are divided by the campus axis, which takes the form of a covered open-air shared space. A light canopy made of locally manufactured textiles covers this space, accentuating the axis running N-S. There is a community meeting room, dispensary, cafeteria, & walk-in community clinic on the ground floor of the north buildings. The second floor houses more community meeting rooms, administrative meeting rooms, & offices for both school & hospital staff. A bridge connects the two buildings & overlooks the shared space on the ground floor. The west building houses the clinic & offices & is meant to represent the connection between hospital & school. The campus axis culminates in a covered open-air auditorium that rests between the two south buildings of the school. The upper floors of the south buildings house classrooms & a library. The lower floor contains research & educational laboratories.
Site Plan
South Building Section Diagram
Entry Perspective
Courtyard Perspective
Perspective from Auditorium
DESCHUTES CULTURAL CENTER Graduate Design Studio, Fall 2011 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR The indigenous design studio was taught by Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor, Johnpaul Jones of Jones & Jones Architecture in Seattle, WA. Each student was responsible for writing their own program and choosing their own site with some guidance from the professor. After several weeks of research, I chose to design a Native American fishing cultural center and museum at Sherars Falls on the Deschutes River in central Oregon (one of the few existing platform fishing sites left in the state of Oregon).
Adapted Longhouse Building Footprint
Adapted Traditional Roof Form
Materiality and building form were both strongly influenced by the indigenous architecture of the region. The stone, wood, and glass structure grows out of the rocky slope bordering the Deschutes river, focusing outward toward the river. Locally-available materials give the building a sense of belonging to the place, while the building form recalls significant elements of traditional Native American architecture.
Perspective from the Deschutes River
Site Plan
View of Site & Fishing Platforms
Perspective from Drying Racks
East-West Section Perspective
OREGON STATE B.E.E. BUILDING Graduate Design Studio, Winter 2012 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Oregon State University’s Biological and Ecological Engineering (B.E.E.) program is one of the first of its kind in the country and is rapidly outgrowing its current facility on the Corvallis campus. The design project was a renovation and addition to the existing building and focused on upgrading the building to reflect the progressive program which it houses. The studio was taught by Ihab Elzeyadi, professor of the Environmental Controls course taught at University of Oregon. The focus of the studio was sustainability with an ultimate goal of designing a net zero lab building.
Parti Diagram
Entrance Perspective
Several different systems were implemented in the design to achieve the program’s goal of a net zero lab building: monocrystalline 255 watt photovoltaic panels - manufactured locally, intensive and extensive green roofs, a living machine - 10,000 gal. system with vegetated aerobic tank, wetland, and clarifier tank in the atrium space, daylighting with light shelves, and natural ventilation.
Solar Reflectance Analysis
Atrium Perspective
North-South Section Perspective
PARASITE Digital Media Collaborative, Spring 2011 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR The Digital Media Collaborative Group (DMC) at University of Oregon designed and built this “parasite” that attached onto an existing furniture installation in Lawrence Hall. It was modeled using Rhino and Grasshopper and then fabricated using the University’s CNC Router. As a group we focused on parametric design. website: http://dmcuoregon.wordpress.com/ Prototype Model
Final Design
LUMINAIRE Environmental Control Systems, Spring 2011 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR The “madera artica� luminaire was designed and built with two fellow students for our Environmental Control Systems course. It was made from salvaged English walnut lumber. A strip of 30 hand-wired LEDs and color-correcting reflective and translucent paper strips inside the luminaire create slits of light, meant to accent the natural beauty of the wood.
MARKET HALL Structures, Winter 2012 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR This Market Hall project was designed and modeled in Google Sketch-up then analyzed using hand calculations and Multiframe Structural Analysis & Design software.
EDUCATION Master of Architecture Option III Candidate Spring 2013 University of Oregon Study Abroad University of Oregon in Vicenza, Italy Bachelor of Arts - Economics May 2007 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
CONTACT Tyler Colville 1500 SW 5th Ave. Unit 1001 Portland, OR 97201 Phone: 503-957-0251 email: ty.colville@gmail.com Website: http://tycolville.tumblr.com/