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Anderson ResidenceLocated in Titusville, Florida, this home is specifically designed to be a home base for the owners who spend half the year traveling the country in their RV. The building is designed within the limits of the owner of the RV resort, who stipulates a maximum square footage of 1000 square feet. Additionally, the home may only have one bedroom. The site requires a set back of 10 feet in the front and back and 5 feet on

house can be opened up to the exterior screened in lanai. The small enclosed garden provides natural light to the interior, taking advantage of the south facing windows. The building ‘s facade is made of fiber cement panels and a high albedo standing seam metal roof. Day lighting, natural ventilation, and an emphasis on indoor/outdoor living make this RV house a truly sustainable home.

either side of the 55ft. by 83ft. lot. The home is built using structurally insulated panels (SIPs), and incorporates many green building techniques. The layout of the house is an attempt to break up the linearity of the motor home. Rooms have high ceilings and are open to each other. The house’s close proximity to its neighbors make the only preferrable views that of the golf course to the east. The whole

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Shed Design 2009This backyard office was designed for the online competition, “Shed Design 2009,” for secrets-of-shed-building.com. It was designed to allow the owner to work from home in a secluded quiet environment surrounded by nature. The building takes advantage of an existing concrete wall to anchor the I-beam skeleton that supports the rest of the structure.

Designed as an architects studio and office, the structure is reminiscent of very Miesian ideals. Concrete, wood, steel, and glass are the materials used to create the space. A green roof helps to insulate the structure. An emphasis on sustainability through interaction with the natural environment is central to the design.

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New MosqueThe building is a reinvention of the traditional Islamic mosque. It promotes a religion of transparency, not secrecy, with the building itself becoming a tool for understanding. The wrapping screen is a physical representation of prayer as it reaches up towards heaven. The project began by selecting specific activities that were to occur in three defined spaces totalling no more than 1000 square

feet. After selecting the activities the connections between each space were chosen based on their context to the whole project. A structural system was designed to support the spaces and circulation. The facade of the project encloses the spaces and allows for the transmission of light to the interior. The moiré effect caused by the crossing lines of the facade screen creates geometries found in Islamic art.

Call to PrayerPrayer SpaceCleansing Space

The top of the structure is the minaret of traditional Islamic architecture. Here the Adhan is sung by the muezzin, calling the faithful to prayer.

The central part of the structure is the communal area used for worship. The only disruption in the facade illuminates the direction of the holy city of Mecca.

The entrance to the mosque prepares the worshiper for the prayer service. Its main feature is a small pool of water used to ritually purify worshipers before they ascend to the second level.

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[ENVD 1004 - Introduction to Environmental Design - Spring 2009]

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Mobile ClassroomDesigned for the Architecture for Humanity’s Better Classroom Design Competition, the building was a collaboration between local middle school kids from Casey Middle School in Boulder, Colorado and University of Colorado at Boulder students. The Casey students were in the process of having their school remodeled and subsequently were holding classes in typical mobile classrooms.

This gave the students a unique perspective in what they wanted the classroom of the future to look like. Through a process where the college students taught the Casey students about sustainability, groups were formed to develop plans and models. This building incorporates indoor/outdoor classrooms, individual computer workstations for each student, and many sustainable building features.

The exterior of the building is clad with bark beetle kill wood. It is a material that is produced locally in Colorado by the devastation of the bark beetle. A green roof and a small scale wind turbine allow this building to act as a teaching tool for sustainability as well a multimedia classroom. The building was designed to be an addition to the new Casey Middle School which will be a LEED certified building.

[ENVD 4363/4352 - Sustainable Planning and Design/Advanced AutoCad BIM - Spring 2009]

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The layout of the building was determined by a careful study of current classroom configurations. More efficient layouts were explored, focusing on student/teacher interaction, student personal space and group dynamic. A typical classroom usually consists of many desks all facing the same direction, with little to no student/teacher interaction. Single desks provide each student with their own personal space but do not promote group interaction. Grouped desks remove the personal space improving the student/teacher relationship and strengthening the group dynamic. The conference room setup promotes group interaction and teacher/student relationships but lacks the personal space provided by individual desks. We created a desk that functioned both as an individual workspace but also as a typical student desk. The teacher is able to move freely throughout the classroom giving each student one on one interaction. When it is time to share ideas or have group projects, students can move to the central conference table.

Growing Medium

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Porous Mat

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Foliewould influence the way someone would move through a space using a phenomenal element. This installation uses the properties of light passing through the structure to influence the movement patterns of students through the stairwell. The structure was designed using Rhino and would have used a CNC machine to produce the individual pieces.

Designed as an installation for the main stairwell of the Environmental Design Building on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, this architectural folie was part of an exercise in choreography. Students studied the effects the built environment has on the actions of its inhabitants.The assignment was to design an uninhabitable structure that

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[1] The basic form of the installation was derived by studying the movement patterns of students through the stairwell. Once calculated, a model was created in Rhino showing where students were more or less likely to walk. [2] As part of the project, students were introduced to basic geometries and how to generate them. It was required that the projects somehow incorporate these geometries into the fi nal design. [3] After generating the geometry it was then projected onto the previously generated model. [4] Using the RhinoScript “over under” the computer calculated the connections at every point the lines crossed. [5] Finally the individual pieces were laid out and prepared to be cut using the laser cutter. [6] A scale model was created for presentation to the class.

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CU Bike StationThe CU Bike Station was a joint project with fellow classmate Tyler Whaley and the Bike CU program. The directors of the program wanted to build a bike station on the engineering quad of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The station would offer bikes free for students to ride on campus as well as offering maintenance and information about local events pertaining to cycling.

The aesthetics of the building were dictated by the university and required that the building be painted black. They also required interior space for a computer and storage for bicycle parts and tools. This building is designed to be completely prefabricated off-site, flat-packed, and trucked to the site for construction. The building’s limited power requirements are provided by the solar PV array.

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SquereThis lamp was designed using Rhino 4.0 and was an exploration in geometry and pattern making. The form was created by merging a cube and a sphere together. The form, dubbed a Squere, is made up of 18 completely unique intersecting rings. Chris K. Palmer’s Rhinoscript “overunder” was used to generate the individual pieces that make up the rings. Each ring was then reconnected

using a puzzle piece connector. The connector is a two part system that locks each face, corner, and side section of the Squere together. Using the laser cutter the individual pieces of the lamp were cut out and assembled creating the lamp seen above. No glue, fasteners, or adhesives of ant kind were used. The lamp is held to gether with only its unique geometry and the puzzle piece-slot connection.

[ENVD 4352 - Digital Design and Fabrication - Fall 2008]

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[1] The Squere form, modeled in Rhino 4.0. [2] Individual pieces of the Squere were divided into “sides, corners, and faces”. [3] A puzzle piece connection was added to the ends of each piece. This unique two part system uses the puzzle piece connection to stabilize the pieces in one direction and another piece using a slot to stabilize it in the other. [4]&[5] After running the RhinoScript on the pieces the resulting reformed rings, were assembled into the final form.

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Mountain HouseThis two bedroom, one and a half bath home was designed as a vacation home for a family and their two young children. Emphasis on prefabrication and building information modeling were paramount to the design of this home. The home was designed to be shipped on a single flat bed truck with the concrete and steel support structure being the only structure built on site.

The size of the program was limited to a thousand square feet. The large use of glass is a response to the limited square footage in an attempt to make the space feel more open and larger than its true dimensions. Wood slat screens provide shading and privacy while the wrap around deck provides access to Colorado’s magnificent views. The slant of the roof provides the optimal angle for solar panel installation.

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[ENVD 4352 - Building Information Modelling - Fall 2008]

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Hand Drawing & DraftingAn introductory course in drawing and drafting, this class focused on the way architects and designers see and draw the world. Topics covered included but were not limited to: sketching, perspective isometric and axiometric views, shadows and shading, and hand rendering techniques.

[ENVD 2002 - Design Media - Fall 2008]

CollageA photoshop collage of images from the new Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

[ENVD 3352 - Computer Design Media - Summer 2008]

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Aaron Anderson107 Pond BridgeWindsor, CT 06095719.964.0010aaron.anderson.architecture@gmail.com

EducationBoston Architectural College - Boston, MA 2010-PresentParkland College - Champaign, IL 2009-2010University of Colorado - Boulder, CO 2008-2009

Non Related Work Experience Figure Skating Coach 1999-Present United States National, Junior National, and Collegiate Professional Skaters Association(Member) United States Figure Skating Association(Member)

Software KnowledgeBIM Software AutoDesk Revit Architecture 2010 Archicad 11-13

2D/3D Modelling SketchUp Rhino 4.0 + Grasshopper Plugin AutoDesk AutoCad 2008-2010

Rendering Artlantis 3.0

Presentation Adobe Photoshop CS3/4 Adobe Illustrator CS3/4 Adobe InDesign CS3/4 Flash

Interests Design Sustainability Rendering Animation Music Skating

ActivitiesLEED Green Associate Accreditation June 2010