Cloud House. First year studio Bent window screen used to dictate over all shape. Then the inside was made to be a single family home.
Infill project on the University of Oklahoma campus. Creating a usable and interactive space in a thin alley. Chipboard, bass wood and wire.
With a set amount of cubes I made a sculptural structure that I then constructed and then drew to percieve and accommodate human interaction
A farrier’s stables, with a forge, vet, and boarding for the horses. Located in Norman, OK on a wildlife reserve in the city. Radial organization with program driven design. Emphasis on natural light, lots of room, and other considerations that come when the design is for an animal like a horse. Much thought to how one space can be comfortable for two species.
This project is a farm in the Deep Ellum district of Dallas. Located in a lively and artistic neighborhood, I wanted to maintain the public and open area that the empty lot provided. The entire bottom level of the design is made to be a public park that does not impede crossing from one street to another and is inviting for all people to congregate. Large bearing walls break up the lot in a rhythm in line with the rest of the street. The large growing space floating above provides food for the surrounding neighborhood.
These are renderings of my urban farm project in Dallas. All are both watercolor and digital.
Arabesque drawings. Fine liners on paper. Studio I
Comic strip using a combination of hand and digital drawing.
City concept from a poem. Four first iterations and then one final design. Pencil, pen and some colored pencil. Zenobia.
From raspberry to flowers. A study of design principles through the deconstruction of two of my own drawings, morphing them into each other slowly in three different ways. Graphite, digital and collage.
THE ETCHMIADZIN CATHEDRAL IS A CHURCH LOCATED IN VAGHARSHAPAT, ARMENIA. IT WAS BUILT BETWEEN 301 AND 303 CE BY THE PATRON SAINT OF ARMENISA, GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR. IT IS LISTED AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE AND REMAINS A POPULAR PILGRIMAGE DESTINATION. IT IS BOTH RELIGIOUSLY AND CULTURALLY
ARMENIA, ACTING AS THE MOTHER CHURCH FOR THE REGION. IT FELL INTO NEGLET BUT WAS RESTORED IN 1441 TO BE THE CATHEDRAL WE HAVE NOW. SIGNIFICANT TO
ETCHMIADZIN CATHEDRAL BY KATHARINE YOUNG
THE CHURCH ITSELF HAS LITTLE ORNAMINTATION ON IT AND LOOKING AT IT YOU SEE, MORE THAN ANYTHING, A BIG BLOCK OF CONCRETE. IT HAS ALL OF THE FUNCTIONALITY OF GREAT CHURCES AND YET FOR A CATHEDRAL SO SIGNIFICANT IT REALLY SEEMS TO TO BE RATHER SMALL AND LACKING IN ORNAMENTATION.
DESPITE HOW ODD THE CATHEDRAL SEEMS TO BE AT FIRST, THERE ARE SEVERAL CHURCHES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT SINCE IN ARMENIA THAT REFLECT THIS CATHEDRAL’S FLOOR PLAN. THE LACK OF ORNAMENTATION ACTUALLY DOES A VERY GOOD JOB OF MAKING A STRIKING AND ATTENTION GRABBING SILHOUETTE IN THE SKY.
THE CHURCH HAS LITTLE ORNAMENTATION COMPARED TO OTHERS, THERE ARE MANY GREEK RELIEFS IN THE EXTERIOR, POSSIBLY FROM THE SIXTH CENTURY BEFORE THE ARMENIAN ALPHABET WAS CREATED. THE INTERIOR BOASTS OLD AND BEAUTIFUL FRESCOS, RESTORED AND REPAINTED OVER THE YEARS. NATURALLY THERE ARE MANY DEPICTING ARMENIAN SAINTS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. ONE OF THE MOST APPEALING THINGS ABOUT THE CHURCH IS THAT IT HAS BEEN RESTORED AND TAKEN CARE OF SO MUCH THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
THIS
INDICATES THAT PEOPLE REALLY LOVE THIS PLACE AND IT HAS MEANING AND IMPACT WORTH PUTTING WORK INTO.
Posters from a history of architecture class. Spread out over two semesters, the first poster looks at just a single church. In the second one there is a more broad approach, looking at an entire style. Research, and digital drawing.
Reinvented honey bee hive. Studying both the bee and the natural hive itself to fully understand the nature of the creature, I then created an artificial hive. An exersice in accomadating for scales and needs beyond our own human ones.
These are maps of the south side of downtown Dallas. The one on the bottom is the original iteration showing noise pollution, parks, roads, transportation and districts. After completion the map looked interesting but was all together too busy to be effective at comunitcating how this area of Dallas is ordered, which was my original goal. Going back in I took away the noise pollution, knowing that the roadway thickness could convey this for me to some extent. I also added more detail and neighborhoods to the map. The color coded legend at the bottom of the first map was not clear so I went ahead and substituted that for label on the map that were discrete but also drew attention to site-specific conditions. I also slightly dulled the colors when I printed it.
Notes from first year when we first started learning how to look at a building Analysis of Bizzell Library, new compared to the old.
Diagrams analysing existing buildings from a variety of locations and designers. The large diagram shows several analyses of each building. The bottom diagram is the same buildings, redone with an emphasis on the best aspects of each building. I also used more colors to communicate clearly. These ideas I brought into my own designs in different ways.
Digital drawing of Katharine Hepburn. Exploration of colors and technique.
Flowers, a hybrid of colored pencil and digital drawing.
Oil pastel and graphite on paper. Exploring how the eye moves across the page to follow movement in a picture.
Study break from studio by drawing studio. Pens and grey scale markers.