Sam Wirth Portfolio
Table of Contents
International Projects
- Village Planning - Congo - University Design - Rwanda
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Residential Design/Build
- Design Build Project - Pool Design Build - Freelance Design
School Projects - Photoshop Project
- Entrance Design - Conservation Subdivision - Urban Planning - Architectural Poster - Resort Pool Design - Mixed Use Development - Pencil and Sketch Up Concepts - Urban Plaza/ Architectural Sections - Study Models
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Makana Village Project- Congo On a trip to the Congo with Engineering Ministries International in March 2008, I had the opportunity to work on a multidisciplinary team of architects and engineers on a village planning project in the Republic of the Congo. The team surveyed the entire existing village in order to locate which buildings would be removed from a road right of way. The team also worked towards trying to located a clean water source for the village and design new homes for the village. I helped to develop and render the master plan which we presented to the US Ambassador to the Congo for funding. The article on the following page was written by US Embassy personnel and outlines the work we did while in the Congo.
This is an article written by the US Embassy in Brazzaville Congo. The pictures below were taken of the people in the village we were working in.
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University Project- Musanzee, Rwanda
While interning with Engineering Ministries International, I had the opportunity to travel to Rwanda to work on the design for a University master plan and building architecture. For this project I assisted in the master plan design and graphic presentations. I also spent time building a sketch-up model of campus to present in a “fly-through� movie to Rwandan government officials in our final presentation.
Pictured left- The design team reviewing master plan concepts and meeting with the client to review the program. Below- Sketch Up models built and made into a movie to convey the architectural style and design. The design was presented to the Presidential cabinet in Rwanda through a video fly-through of the model. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=oKQTSR1OSf8
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Carlton Residence- Roswell, GA This project was a design build project designed in collaboration with and built by Integrity Landscape Group. For this project I created several sketch-up models of the pergola structure to present to the client showing different shapes and materials. The pictures to the right are before, during and after pictures of the design build process. The construction process of this project was filmed for an episode of HGTV.
Carlton Residence
The Carlton residence master plan, designed in collaboration with Integrity Landscape Group. This rendering was created in AutoCad and photoshop. This color rendering used to depict the overall design intent during the filming of the episode of “Ground Breakers� on HGTV.
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Pool Landscape Design-Roswell, GA This residential pool and landscape was designed in collaboration with and installed by Integrity Landscape Group and Masterpiece Pools. For this project I had the opportunity to create a conceptual planting plan (seen on next page) to present to the client as well as to observe the construction process of the pool and landscape.
Jacuzzi
Fire pit
Pool Arbor
Patio
Turf
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Tummler Residence- Colorado Springs, CO The Tummler residence was a design project that I took on myself as a freelance design. This project was located in Colorado Springs CO. One challenge I faced in this project was coming up with a plant list since many of the plants I would normally specify in Georgia will not thrive in Colorado. I was able to take a trip to a local nursery to select plants for this project. The before and after pictures are photoshoped photo montages given to the client to help them perceive the design as it would be installed.
The planting plan, deck and patio design was created in AutoCad and color rendered with photoshop. Part of the project was to redesign the deck and add a patio space where a sun room would be torn off the house. I created a sketch up model for the client to give them perspective views of the proposed deck and patio design (seen below).
MASTER PLAN
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Chilivis Residence- Athens, GA The Chilivis residence was a design project that I took on myself as a freelance design. This project was located in Athens GA. The client had restored 4 historic cabins from the Athens GA area on their private property as a vacation home and asked for a landscape design that was fitting with the place and the historic character of the structures. The before and after pictures are photoshop photo montages given to the client to help them perceive the design as it would be installed.
The planting plan, and patio space design was created with a combination of hand graphic and AutoCAD and color rendered with marker, colored pencil and pastel. The scale and complexity of this residential project required me to go through extensive analysis. Some of the process graphics, analysis and schematic bubble diagrams can be seen below.
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Photomontage- Before/ After
This is a photoshop exercise intended to create a conceptual idea of an installed landscape on a newly developed home. The before picture above and the completed photomontage to the right.
School Entrance Design- Athens, GA
This project was for a planting design class. The goal was to design a planting plan for a local middle school and draw an elevation of a proposed sign for the school. This drawing was hand rendered with pen and pencil.
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Conservation Subdivision- Athens, GA For this class project we were given a parcel of land and instructed to develop it as a conservation subdivision. The drawings to the right are the site analysis drawings. The completed master plan of the subdivision is on the following page. These were drawn in AutoCAD and rendered with marker.
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Urban Design- Atlanta Belt line Development
This project was an exercise in schematic massing and urban planning. The program called for a certain amount of residential, and commercial square footage and a certain amount of open green space fit onto a designated site. This particular site was historically a lake that had been drained so I chose to bring those water features back onto the site for storm water retention and for aesthetic benefits.
Town Planning- Covington, GA TOWN SQUARE COVINGTION, GA
Problem- Limited pedestrian access causes town square to go unused and unappreciated. Solution- Remove 16 parking spaces from around the square to make room for raised pedestrian crossings. Far left- Site analysis shows heavy traffic and limited pedestrian access. Top- Plan shows location of proposed pedestrian crosswalks. Bottom- Photoshop concept of pedestrian crosswalk.
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Architectural Style Poster
This project was a research and presentation on architectural styles. The goal of this project was to create a graphic poster which mixed words and graphics that accurately described and reflected the style and era studied.
Resort Pool Design The Marbella Resort pool design program called for a pool area of a certain square footage while planning room for a minimum number of pool lounge chairs on a site. I decided upon a rectilinear pool design that would mimic the shape and form of the site that the pool accommodated. This project was rendered in photoshop. Below is a bubble diagram, which shows the ideal spatial relationship between program elements.
Sketched Pool Island Concept
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Mixed Use Development
This is the master plan for a large mixed used development. This development contains retail space, town homes and 190 single family lots. The following sheets detail specific areas of this site
Single Family Residential This sheet was a graphic exercise representing examples of single family lots and the potential for nice gardens in a small back yard space. The elevation below is a rendering to depict the architectural character of the single family homes.
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Mixed Use Development For this class project we were given a parcel of land and instructed to develop it as a mixed use development. The program called for a certain square footage of commercial/ retail, a certain number of town homes and a certain number of single family lots. The drawings to the right are concepts of what the commercial area of the site would be like. The previous pages showed the master plan and the conceptual landscapes on the single family residences. These notions and concepts were hand rendered with marker.
Sketched Concepts On the left are some sketched concepts that I drew while in the design development stages of an urban plaza project which required an entry gateway and a pedestrian bridge. The related project can be seen on the next pages. The rendered concepts of an entry arch and arched pedestrian bridge were put together from the pencil sketches.
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Arch Plaza- UGA Campus
This project was to take a space on the UGA campus and make it into more of an urban plaza for large gatherings. The driving forms are an abstraction of the historic UGA arch. Some design process graphics are featured to the left.
These sections were taken through The Arch Plaza. The goal of these sections is to show the elevation changes through the site as well as convey the architectural character of the surrounding buildings. Given the historic location of the plaza, I decided to keep the facades of the buildings very traditional.
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Study Models This is a cardboard study model of an urban plaza space. These are pictures taken of the study model from the perspective of a person in the space. The image in the bottom right corner was of a sketch up model built of the site and space.
The foam core model on the left was built for a site engineering class to represent a finished grading plan of the site. The balsa wood model on the right was built for a deck construction class. The model is built to represent wood deck construction methods.
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