GEOMETREE ROOTS
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SEED DIGEST Thematic Moments Chair Light and Shade
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Corners Artwork
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Introduction It’s been a long time coming. But there’s still a ways to go. I decided at 8 years that I was going to become an architect after reading a gatefold portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. Every sucessive exploration of the field strengthened this desire, from teaching my 5th grade teacher how to make a hip roof, to mastering autocad drafting classes, to my first architecture internship my senior year of high school. Throughout college I’ve realized that I want to change the world through the built environment, and that I’m most inspired by natural geometries and natural systems because of their perfect blend of form and function that makes existance on earth dumbfoundingly beautiful. The first space enclosers, the original architectural element, were the trees. The way they take hold of a foundation with their roots, the way they are able to support wide cantilever canopy loads and disperse them through one column to the roots, and in turn move nutrients and water the entire opposite direction to facilitate energy production and growth is incredible. These beings taught us the basics of creating space, and further, shelter, and even further, beauty. They still have so much to teach, as I’ve gathered in undergraduate study. This portfolio outlines ways in which I have understood these system and have applied them to projects. With growing technologies and innovation, we’re closer than we have ever been to being able to copy nature’s perfection. I hope to continue this discovery process, among many others, at Clemson University. Let’s change the world through design.
THEMATIC MOMENTS ARCH 251 FALL 2nd Year DAVE LEE
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Moment Inspiration
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Process Models
We were given the task of creating three architectural moments, through a common theme, that were tied together by challenging the typology of the door, the window, and the stair. My theme was the Greek god Artemis, so ideas like the forest, hunting, and the constellations that relate to Artemis drove the programs and forms of the moments. The overall structure was vigorously modeled after the trees’ own structure, with the adj roots below, the threshold of the grounds surface, and then the trunks and branches that support a canopy of spaces. The root moments represent “hunt,” a voyeristic space where you can look out, but are sheilded from view yourself. The top of the canopy holds a space where you can contemplate the mysteries of the universe in “star watching.” The “forest” moments that tie them together create a euphoria of soaring up above the tree tops as you scale the various ramps and are surrounded by the complexity of the canopy.
Process
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Final Model
Canopy planes
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CHAIR
ARCH PRODUCT DESIGN FALL 3rd Year ROB SILANCE
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Plywood Cut Lines
A design should ideally be able to adapt; to its environment, to different functions, to people. Just as a tree’s column provides structure and transports water and nutrients, this chair has two adaptations: task and recline to suit the different needs of the setting or people using the adapt chair. The form is taken from the most efficient way to fit the two chair type geometries together without changing the seat angles of the chairs. The result is a chair that can easily and simply tilt one way to become a task chair, fold in the legs and tilt it the opposite direction, and you can enjoy a reclining chair.
Construction
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LIGHT AND SHADE
ARCH 352 (Barcelona) SPRING 3rd YEAR TONI MONTEZ Partner: MARC MEDDAUGH(Landscape Architecture Major)
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Barcelona has many abandoned or poorly utilized industrial buildings from the turn of the century. We created a prototype design for the city, a way to integrate public space and program space into these typologies. This involves removing and restructuring the roof so that a public space can be created above, leaving the interior of the existing building open for programatic use. For this site, the program inserted was a community center, and the public space’s focus was to generate shadows that responded the the ephemeral nature of the sunlight that traversed it using sculptural rib structures. Eventually, this prototype system would expand towards the other side of the eixample block, and beyond the block to create a raised public space system throughout poblenou.
Massing and lighting diagrams by Mark Meddaugh (above)
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CORNERS
ARCH 351S Fall 4th Year LYNN CRAIG Beaufort, SC
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The Lowcountry of SC is a place dominated by the landscape of trees and the waterbodies that scupt it from the soil. The Corners Community there is a crossroads that deserves to be a destination. Oak trees and marshgrass forms combined with conclusions from analyses created a new zoning construction of the comunity with new commercial, open air market space, and a boardwalk. These all work together to promote pedestrian and vehicular circulation, as well as make the saltwater marsh more accessable. I took the idea of the live oak tree as the formal and circulational influence for the market structure, and the grasses that grow in the marsh as the structural and formal system for the boardwalks. Various analyses led to the final scheme, which creates a new sub-urban density at this crossroads.
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Phasing
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Technical Section of Column Structure
ARTWORK
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PAINTINGS I was commisioned to paint large window murals by my organizations, 26and have even served as the painting director in one of them. These were both to promote the Tigerama pep rally for 2011 above, and 2012 below.
GRAPHIC DESIGN Trees are able to express their identities in one design movement; their leaves. These small statements help us easily identify them, like the maple leaf, for example. In the same way, a designer can express an entity’s identity through a graphical statement. These marks and the T-shirt design were all developed to speak about the essence of an identity, and in this case also match Clemson’s branding policies. The bottom two are designed to strengthen the Central Spirit sub-brand.
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These are various marks I’ve created that are about branding people and other organizations. Two were commissioned by my fraternity’s district advisor. The top is for a friend James Raymond Cormany the Fourth, a proud sandlapper and a large Crimson Tide fan. One is my own, which reflects my main inspiration that I’ve threaded throughout this portfolio, natural systems.
South Carolina
KAPPA SIGMA DISTRICT 16
HOMECOMING FLOAT An old Clemson tradition for homecoming week, fraternities construct large displays on Bowman Field that speak to the week’s theme. I designed my fraternity’s innaugural float for the theme “The Spirit of ‘89” around the will of Thomas Green Clemson, which the university wouldn’t exist without. I worked closely with my contractor (the float chair) and sub contractors(the pledges) to make sure the vision became a reality. We tied for 3rd our first year in competition in the week long design/build project.
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These have not been edited in any way. I took them while studying abroad in Germany, Spain, and 30 Italy respectively. (above: Berlin Olympic Stadium. Below: afternoon cape storm in San Sebastian)
(Above: Madrid Train bombing memorial. Below: Duomo in Firenze morning)
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William Josey Craig 109 Summerfield Drive Lexington, South Carolina 29072
(803) 673-4842 wjcraig@g.clemson.edu
Objective To obtain admission into the Clemson University Graduate School of Architecture. I’m very passionate about architecture and it would be an honor to refine my education at Clemson on my way to becoming a licensed architect. Education Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Minor in Sociology
Aug 2009 - May 2013
Study Abroad Experience Barcelona Architecture Center, Barcelona, Spain Focus on Contemporary European Urbanism and public space.
Jan 2012 – May 2012
Related Experience Jenkins, Hankock & Sides Architects: Integrated Design Intern
Columbia, South Carolina May 2012-August 2012
Talmage Architects Incorporated Intern
Columbia, South Carolina January 2009 - May 2009
Work Experience Topspin Racquet and Swim Club Life Guard and Swim Team Coach
Lexington, South Carolina May 2007 – Present
Leadership Experience Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Kappa Upsilon Chapter, Re-founder Positions Held: Public Relations Chair, Historian, T-Shirt Design Committee Central Spirit, Member Positions Held: Painting Director, Marketing Director (2 terms) Blue Key National Honor Society, Member Positions Held: Internal Marketing Director Organizations The Order of Omega, Chapter Correspondent Clemson American Institute of Architecture Students, Member Student-Faculty Advisory Board for the Dean of Architecture, Member
March 2011 - Present August 2009 – Present
September 2011 – Present November 2011 – Present September 2010 – Present Sept 2011 – December 2011
Technical/Computer Skills Software Proficiencies: Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD, Sketchup, Prezi, Microsoft Office, Some web site design experience
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