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Contents

Block Studies

Unit Wall

Spacial Construction

Building from Within

Drawings and Renderings

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Line Plane Volume Armature

At the beginning of first year studio, little is understood of form, space, and order. One must start from the ground up. Starting with the simplest of all forms, the line, each block further explores form making and craft by adding a dimension. Finally, the armature combines the ideas behind each block into a final idea of form.

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Block Studies

Process Work for Line, Plane, Volume, and Armature Blocks

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How can one be created from many? Starting with drawings which conglomerate the cube studies, one drawing pops, showing potential for aggregation and linking. From this drawing, a unit is created, which, when aggregated, can link with itself to create a curtain wall.

Unit Study

Drawing Matrix

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Interlock

Pulled Drawing: Linking Arms

Completed Unit Model

Seating

Spatial

WallContinuing from the unit study, the studio is divided into teams. Each team is to construct a unit that can be built into a wall, a seating arrangement, and a spacial arrangement. The driving idea behind this design is a mother-child geometry combined with the feeling of wrapping. The construction consists of bent sheet metal and rivets.

Unit Wall

Single Unit

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In a full studio collaboration, a human scale promenade is designed with site considerations. Starting with figure-ground studies, the personal space study models plays with apertures to create unique lighting effects. Studio sections choose a study to iterate and construct. Each constructed space is connected to create a promenade. This space was created using the ideas of wrapping and space reaching out. Each constructed space is lined up to create a human scale promenade.

Spatial Construction

Figure-Ground Studies

Model of Final Construction

Iterations of Final Construction

Drawings: Wrapping and Reaching

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Exploded Construction Axon Construction Elevations

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Thinking of design program, one must create a space that fits human proportions. Starting with basic human measuring, a mock club space evolves, which is fitted to the measured human. Five different poses from in the club space shape the abstraction of space the precedes the final design. The 5 abstractions combine to make a space called Club Metabolism.

Building from Within

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Human Proportion Measurements

Narrative Section

PinchReflect

SliceJoin

ArrayExtrude

ReflectFracture

CarveJoin

OverlapScatter

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Cincinnati Art Museum (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop)Detail drawing (graphite)

Emblematic Drawing: Corbett Theater Stairs (charcoal, watercolor, graphite)

Starting with little artistic experience, each drawing is a new step forward. Skills of representation are acquired through several media, including both hand and computer. Through these media, space and detail are explored and understood.

Drawings and Renderings

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Corbett Theater Stairs (Rhino, Photoshop)

Cincinnati’s Music Hall (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop)

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