Crystal GorePortfolio

Through my architecture I seek to provide experiences that evoke sensation. Colors, textures, reflec-tions are common elements in this body of work.

The art pieces featured are meant to reinforce these concepts. Archi-tecture and art are the practices of engaging all our senses and responding back to the world.

Texas A&M ‘11Masters in ArchitectureBaylor ‘08BFA Fine Arts

BeginningDigital PhotographyFall 2010

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Architecture

Large Scale Projects Landscape Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Fenway Park Hotel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Houston Museum of Art. . . . . . . . . . 24 India School of Drama. . . . . . . . . . . 30

Small Scale Projects Retro Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Wolf Penn Creek Bridge. . . . . . . . . . 46

Fine Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Table of Contents

ArchitectureLarge Scale Projects

Landscape Hotel

Fenway Park Hotel

Houston Museum of Art

School of Drama

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LandscapeHotelThis boutique hotel is located at Chile’s Vina del Mar. The main concept of this work is respecting the oceanic seascape, to blend in harmony with the surroundings instead of towering over the beach and casting a large shadow like the other high-rises that line the coast.

Vina del Mar is the center for Latin American music and very popular with young profes-sionals and tourists. For this reason the de-sign is lively, different, and the interiors give the feeling of being “on set” at a concert.

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Street Side Elevation

Site PlanView from Park

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01. Main Entry/Lobby02. Reception Desk03. Hotel Office04. Atrium Cafe05. Kitchen06. Multi-Use Space

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07. Gym08. Changing Area09. Restroom10. Mechanical11. Storage12. Outside Veranda13. Water Feature14. Indoor Landscaping

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The design is created by nested diagrids, creating a layered exterior shell.

Earthquakes are a common occurrence in Chile. The diagrids provide a repetitious structure, and the base isolator helps guard the foundation against the sands’ possible liquefaction during a quake.

Nested Diagrids

Wall Section

Base Isolator

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Fenway Park HotelThis boutique hotel features forty rooms, a green-house, and a dinner theatre. The program of this building was designed to make Boston’s Fenway dis-trict more than just a place to catch a game, but also a place to be frequented off-season. The split building concept was derived from striving to be a friendly neighbor to the apartments behind the site.Spring ‘10

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SkywalksSite

Hotel Lobby 18

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Floor plans

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Houston Museum of ArtThis museum design focused on experience and sensibility. It itself is a hidden treasure of art as it sinks below grade.Fall ‘09

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Museum in Downtown Houston

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Floor plansSection

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National School of Drama

This School of Drama is set in New Delhi, India. It wraps around a historically significant Indian palace.My design looks to Indian culture by incorporating color and screening. It also seeks to bring this ancientculture into modern day by looking to the drama of itsperforming arts and reflecting that into the architec-ture by allowing the forms to curve and flow.

The campus features an Academic Building linked via a skywalk to the Performance Building as well as a Hostel where the students live.Fall ‘10

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Academic Building connecting to the Performance Wing

Site Plan with the Indian Old Palace in the middle

Overall Site Plan 32

Academic Building Lobby

Academic Building Lobby Performance Building Lobby 34

Academic Lobby

Hostel 36Academic Lobby

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Academic1. Library2. Bookstore3. Sound Department4. Photography5. Crafts Room6. Carpentry7. Lecture Hall8. Computer Room9. Cyber Cafe10. Studio (recording)11. Studios12 Small Design Studio13. Large Design Studio14. Classrooms15. Small Lighting Studio16. Large Lighting Studio

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Performance17. Auditorium18. Black Box19. Laboratory Theatre20. Rehearsal Space21. Greenroom

Living22. Guest House23. Kitchen24. Cafeteria25. Gym26. Indoor Sports27. Laundry

Support28. Documentation and Archives29. Publications30. Storage for Set Materials31. Wardrobe32. Costume Trial Rooms33. Storage for Lighting34. Storage for Properties35. Storage for Exhibition36. Under stage Storage

Administration37. Chairperson’s Office38. Director General39. Executive Directors40. Officer’s Rooms41. Open Office Areas42. Faculty Offices43. Break Room44. Committee Rooms

Basement45. Electrical Panel Room46. Generator Room47. AC Plant48. Fire Fighting Equipment49. Water Supply Pump50. Car Parking

The Hostel (dorm) is a place to break from the drama of a performance school. Its design is more rectilinear to encourage simplicity, introspectiveness, and rest for the students that live here.

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Metro Station

Performance Building

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The campus plan has the Hostel and Academic/ Performance Building on opposite sides of the site. This layout creates a division between working and sleep, but also between private and public areas.

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Architecture

The Retro Home

Wolf Penn Creek Bridge

Small scale

The Retro HomeSmall scale

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This home was inspired by looking throughSeventies era architecture and magazine ads.The design was driven by the idea of a roofMerging with the ground. The plans revolveAround a center courtyard.Fall ‘10

Floor Plan

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Wolf Penn Creek Bridge

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The tree-level bridge wraps around Wolf PenCreek, revitalizing the area as well as creatinga safe pedestrian walkway. It was done with one group member, Dustin Mattiza.Spring ‘09

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SunPhotographyFall 2011

SkyPhotographySummer 2010

Fine Arts

White ColorsPhotographyFall 2011

PrayerPhotographySummer 2010

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Cherry BlossomsOil Paint, Nu-PastelsSpring 2009

StairsOil PaintSpring 2007

Norman FosterPhotographySummer 2010

Christmas PortraitPhotography Spring 2007

Squirreled AwayIntaglio printFall 2008

Right: FlowerPhotographyFall 2011

Crystal Gore