portfolio :: architecture

Cameron P Cole Carcelén

Small Farmers Project :: Eugene, Oregon

Blair Streetfront Project :: Eugene, Oregon

Kirjava Satama [ master’s thesis ] :: Helsinki, Finland

I.S.I.S. Center of Lane County :: Eugene, Oregon

Crane Garden :: Eugene, Oregon

[works]

Enclosure Details :: Nature Center :: Eugene, Oregon

Sketchbook

Environmental stewardship :: touching the earth lightly

Cities and landscapes :: thriving, interconnected urban and ecological systems

People :: making the built environment work for all users

Problem solving :: reconciling function and poetry at all scales

[principles]

Small Farmers Project :: Eugene, Oregon

Ten architecture students collaborated with seven low-income latino families to design and construct a structure for the families’ collectively owned and run berry farm.

Program elements:

:: tractor storage area

:: covered, outdoor berry-packing and vending space

:: walk-in cooler

The farmers do not own the land, so the entire structure is demountable and transportable by pickup truck.

All phases of the project were as collaborative as possible, with frequent cycles of feedback between the students and the farmers.

We began defining the ‘problem’ in September, 2010, and celebrated the ribbon-cutting in October, 2011.

Collaborative, iterative, inclusive design process.

Communication coordination :: across languages and media.

[ Full-scale mockup + diagrams + drawings + models + dialogue ]

Blair Streetfront Project :: Eugene, Oregon

Wells Fargo and the City of Eugene sponsored a streetfront improvement competition between three local businesses, in summer and fall of 2011. Mi Tierra’s project team of three young design professionals collaborated closely with the family that owns the taquería. Our project won the competition, earning an additional business development grant for the owners.

Existing conditions, summer 2011

Recently completed dining area fall 2011

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MI TIERRA TAQUERIA

MI TIERRA PROPOSED ENCLOSURE FOR DINING AREASEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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Dining area 2.5 years later; spring, 2014

Kirjava Satama Competition [ master’s thesis ] :: Helsinki, Finland

Urban Intervention :: Redesign of Helsinki’s South Harbor

Architectural design :: Helsinki Museum of Baltic Industry & Ecology

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Finland :: World Finland :: Baltic

South Harbor urban design objectives ::

+ accommodate uses [ tourism + fishing ]

+ extend urban fabric into harbor

+ provide opportunities for people to interact with water at different scales.

+ integrate landscape [ street + park + water ]

Urban fabric + park extend through proposed museum and into harbor

integrated landscape

[ park + building + harbor }

cafe

bookstore

interpretive

demonstrative prototypingworkshop

classroomlabs

administrative

cafe outdoorseating

tidal pools for labexploration

services

welcome

visitors pass through an enclosed wooden box as they move from primary exhibit space to bridges.

compression

services vs. interpretive

Helsinki Museum for Baltic Industry & Ecology

The museum is oriented with its back to Observatory Hill, bridging Observatory Park and the South Harbor Waterfront.

The objective is to link this important urban park to the urban fabric and to the harbor.

Three gallery-bridges extend from the hillside over the South Harbor, with additional gallery spaces reaching into the water, enclosed in hydrostatic glazing.

As visitors descend into these spaces, they can view out into the harbor to compare its ecological health to the exhibit content in aquariums within the museum.

The museum is a timeline of human technological/industrial development and the ecological consequences of each time period on Baltic ecosystems.

Each of the three fingers corresponds to a time period, framing a view of a building from that era in the urban landscape across the harbor.

Just as the museum’s architectural form weaves park, water and city together, the exhibit content reinforces the connectedness of human activity and ecology.

The narrative culminates in a workshop that opens out to the harbor. Here, visitors can interact with technologies that look toward a sustainable industrial future.

Section through finger

Integrated Illumination

daylighting

electric lighting

Section along timeline

Presentation models

Process models: : urban

: : schemat ic : : des ign development

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link to downtown eugene

whitaker gardenriparian edge

bascom riverbank trail system

Crane Garden :: Khenkho

Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is home to about 1,500 people who identified as Native American for the 2010 Census, constituting about 1% of the city’s population. There is no single dominant tribal affiliation, but rather a diversity of cultural backgrounds. Indigenous people in the United States experienced forced estrangement from their ancestral lands and ways of life when Europeans and Anglo-Americans imposed assimilation measures, displacement, and worse. Today, Indigenous people not currently living on reservations are further separated from their tribal heritage by distance. Several federally recognized tribes in Oregon have offices in Lane County; the Confederated Tribes of Siletz is the only tribe that currently has an office in Eugene.

The purpose of the Crane Garden is to provide a place in which people from a variety of cultural backgrounds can engage with indigenous customs through the cultivation of traditional plant, and the subsequent production of food and art using plants grown here and elsewhere. The site is adjacent to the Whitaker Community Garden, a thriving community agricultural space.

The Crane Garden is conceived as two separate buildings: a messy zone to support the garden, and a clean zone with offices, classroom/resources room, and storage. A place for classes, workshops, ceremonies and performances celebrating the diverse cultures that preceded the arrival of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest.

confluence of cultures + food traditions in eugene

demonstration garden

+ kitchen

for the practice and study of indigenous food traditions

structures that connect ::

axis through classrooms links garden to river

:: to indigenous building traditions that preceded them

:: to the indigenous arts made inside them

:: to the landscape that sustains them

Suspended glass canals convey rainwater to sculptures inspired by traditional Pacific Northwest indigenous motifs; water then flows into streams integrated into the garden, and into the Willamette River.

Nature Center :: Eugene, Oregon

Enclosure DetailsEast Elevat ion

Eave : : Sect ion Detail

Sill : : Sect ion Detail

Window : : Plan Detail

Construct ion assembly based on rain scre en pr incip le for effect ive deflect ion , drainage, and dry ing [appropr iate for ra iny/humid Paci fic Northwest climate] .

: : thermal breaks : : lapped flashings

: : s taggered s tuds to opt imize thermal insulat ion

Sketchbook

Thank you.

cameronpcole@gmail.com

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