portfolio
DESCRIPTION
Architecture Undergrad Work UK/CODTRANSCRIPT
CONTENTS
3 | LIFE IN A BOX6 | YOGA CENTER9 | SMITH HOUSE ADDITION12 | STUDIO RESIDENCE15 | CONVERGANCE PAVILION18 | SALK CENTER HOUSING [IN PROGRESS]21 | PERSONAL WORK
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LIFE IN A BOX | fall 2012
Instructor: Michael Meade
The influence of clothing on buildings is more relevant than ever as innova-tive materials are introduced which use textile tactics. Even more appar-ent is the fact that clothing and build-ing serve the people that inhabit them.
We were asked to pick out a piece of cloth and express its geometries volumetrically, creating new patterns. The overall program consists of an all-inclusive studio, a “life in a box.” The utilities are all located above ground as portable spaces brought together by the studio, which is locat-ed in the basement. The foundation contains underlying geometries found in the cloth that determines the pat-tern of the covering. The vertical shafts of sculptural structure let light in, provide accessibility, and create a dynamic landscape underground and above ground.
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Exploration of geometries Final form drawings
Volumetric study of geometries
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YOGA CENTER | spring 2013
Instructor: Liz Swanson
For this yoga center I was inspired by the yoga pose, “camel.” Exploring the movements of getting into the pose and the tensions it creates in the body helped govern my preliminary design. The affects of light in this first design drove my final iteration.
My concept was to create a climactic procession similar to that of Buddhist monastaries. You begin your proces-sion at the foot of a large mountain and end up at a tiny slit in the moun-tainside opening up to a private canti-levering floor where you can practice yoga and meditation.
As for the structure I drew from old tobacco barns in Kentucky with their slivers of air in between each board on the exterior. To create this image the connection points of each triangle is clear letting light drift through. The qualities of light chosen for this center are there to create a relaxing experi-ence for visitors.
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Preliminary iterations
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Plan of final design
Final design
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SMITH HOUSE ADDITION | fall 2013
Instructor: David Biagi
This studio involved designing an addition to Richard Meier’s iconic Smith House. We were asked to choose an artist to create the studio for. I chose Uta Barth, a German/American photographer, who creates ethereal, conceptualized photographs of light.
My concept revolved around the idea of a tower and its verticality, located on the highest point of the site. The addition is only as tall as the Smith House so not to overpower it. The extrusion of the light and airy stair-case contrasts with the massing of the tower. There is an element of diagonal addition and subtraction. The subtraction is the entrance and the addition is of a contemplative cube at the top of the studio. To get to this contemplative area, you must walk across a small catwalk above the studio space furthering the idea of verticality and exaggerating the height of the space. For the actual studio space, I imagined it as a giant black box with skylights that could be opened and closed at will. This way anyone using the studio could create interesting photographs of the chang-ing light and in the same space, shut the windows and develop the film.
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Geometries of site plan Smith House including the studio addition
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Section
First floor (office/utilities) Second floor (studio) Third floor (contemplative space)
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STUDIO RESIDENCE | fall 2013
Instructor: David Biagi
This project, similar to the previous one, was to create a studio space for Uta Barth in an urban landscape. The program contains a public studio space, utilities, living, bedroom, and office space.
The main theme was horizontal extru-sion from the flat back façade. I wanted to emphasize the use of natural light, which Barth uses in her photographs. These extrusions became cantilevering terraces that brought natural light into interior spaces while maximizing privacy from the street. The use of skylights creat-ed interesting spaces for light and shadow. To make the residence more prominent on its site, the cantilever juts five feet out in front of the adja-cent building.
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Basement First floor Second Floor
Third floor Roof
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PrivateCommunalPublic
West Elevation
Section
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CONVERGANCE PAVILION | fall 2013
Instructor: Mike McKay
The act of converging means to bring things together from different direc-tions so as to unify them. The pavilion draws people underneath its long cantilever. The interior texture, inspired by warp speed from Star Trek, directs them inside and through the pavilion to the second opening. As you move through the space it gets increasingly smaller acting like a funnel bringing people closer together.
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Materials system
Concept diagram
Plan
Site plan
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Section
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SALK CENTER HOUSING [IN PROGRESS] | spring 2014
Instructor: Clyde Carpenter
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The Salk Center, arguably one of Louis Kahn’s most influential buildings, was built in La Jolla, California. The designs called for a research center, a meeting house complex, and temporary hous-ing for scientists and their families. The latter of the three were not built though. We were challenged to design a one bedroom unit as well as a two bedroom unit. The next phase of the project will be incorporating the units into the site and properly aggregating them.
I was inspired by Tadao Ando’s Rokko housing 1 and 2 and how they engage their site. By stepping my floors down as you proceed through the first floor, the volumes of each room get larger. Ando also emphasizes the impor-tance of natural light. I stepped out the front facade with small light shelves and added a clerestory window above the dining room. Each bedroom has access to a private terrace. To create more privacy for each unit the bearing walls have been extruded to provide walls between outdoor spaces and other units. The aggregation scheme thus far is shift-ed so as to allow each unit equal views of the Pacific ocean and to help form private courtyards for each unit.
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North Elevation Section North Elevation
Two bedroom unit plans | One bedroom unit plans
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Aggregation
PERSONAL WORK
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Installation group: Ashley Carroll and Taylor Farmer
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Paper experimentsLinocut print
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Secrets installation
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