Download - Crystal Gore's Architecture Portfolio
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
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ArchitectureLarge Scale Projects
Landscape Hotel
Fenway Park Hotel
Houston Museum of Art
School of Drama
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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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.
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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
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
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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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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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
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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
Cherry BlossomsOil Paint, Nu-PastelsSpring 2009
StairsOil PaintSpring 2007
Norman FosterPhotographySummer 2010
Christmas PortraitPhotography Spring 2007
Squirreled AwayIntaglio printFall 2008
Right: FlowerPhotographyFall 2011