Portfolio - Selected Projects

Shane SmithClemson University

Tadao Ando - Chapel at Mount RokkoIn this project we were assigned well known buildings by acclaimed Architects, we were then supposed to research the buildings and find any existing Plans and Sections and analyze them. After learning what we could about our assigned projects we were then to begin redrafting the documents using Auto-CAD. The assignment also required that in the process of reconstructing the documents we generate new documents, by choosing new areas to take sections from and filling in the information from those sections based on the information we gained by analysing the existing documents. This was our first introduction to the Autodesk software and has served as the foundation for further design development in almost all projects since.

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Cut Axonometric

Single Point Perspective Interior Chapel Golden Ratio

Solar exposure

Structural

Diagrams

Fountain Inn Light Rail Station

This is actually the second part to a larger project which involved the masterplanning of a town in South Carolina named Fountain Inn. While creating that masterplan my part-ner and I realized the importance of the Railroad in the original design of the town and sought to bring that significant infastruc-ture back into importance for the town. The way that we proposed to do that was by creating a new Light Rail service from Greenville to Fountain Inn with the new train Station forming a new focal point for the town. While developing this project I began to utilize AutoCAD and Rhino as my main design tools as well as the Adobe Creative Suite for layout and other design elements. The following project is my Individual design for our proposed Light Rail Station connect-ing Fountain Inn to Greenville

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Fountain Inn

Exterior Occupiable Space

Circulation/Catwalk

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Ticketing

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Circulation/ Waiting Space

Replicating an object with Illustratior

While this project was not completed for an Architecture studio It has great importance to my understanding and development of the design tools used in studio. Specifically the Adobe Creative Suite; I took a Graphics Communications Course which focused on utilizing and understaning the tools found in the Adobe Suite. The programs covered in this class were Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. The example shown here is my final project for the illustrator portion of the course in which we were supposed to find a picture of an object and replicate it using the tools found in Illustrator only. This involved many of the advanced tools and exemplifies a deep understanding of the program.

Original Illustrator Copy

Passieg- Marketplace and Public Space

This is the most recent project I have com-pleted. Over the last semester I have been studying abroad in Barcelona, during this studio we were given a location in the city to design a marketplace in. The location my partner and I were given was within the Eixamlpe ( which is the planned and gridded area of the city) The location was located in the interior of one of the blocks and was hard to access so my partner and I focused mainly on a way to draw people into the space, drawing on the Idea of a pocket park and green roof above the marketplace. This project allowed us to design for a real world setting and exposed us to some of the diffi-culties surrounding the development of new architecture within an existing build environ-ment. An additional challenge we faced was Identifying and catering to a different culture than we were familiar with. Overall the proj-ect was a success

PASSEIGOperative Mapping: Upon Inspection and study of the Area where the site is situated we arrived at the conclusion that the major problem that needed to be corrected was the lack of access to the site. To resolve this deficiency we made a study of the building facades which were visible from possible points of entry. This analysis was undertaken from varying heights within the site from street level to terrace level in order to broaden our understanding of the visual impact of the space on upon entry. From this process we made decisions regarding new and existing points of entry as well as possible Interaction with surrounding buildings based on the flexibility of program.

CONNECTING MARKETPLACE TO PUBLIC SPACE

SITE PLAN OPERATIVE MAP

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ELEVATED PATHWAY

CORTEN LIGHT WELL

GREEN ROOF

EXISTING CATALAN VAULT

EXISTING IRON STRUCTURE

INTERIOR PATHWAY

How do we bring people into the space? What happens once they are there? These first and most important questions are what shaped and guided the course of our Market Proposal. Situated within the Eixample where our market intervention is to take place there is a space with great poten-tial that is currently being utilized as a parking deck. Our proposal involves keeping and repurpos-ing this space for the proposed market and the construction of a green roof and public space in the area above.

We envision our Project as a path not just to the market space, but a path THROUGH the market place TO the public space by activating previously dead waste space within the Eixample and transforming it into a usable and enjoyable public

space

EXPLODED AXON

CONCRETE PLANK SYSTEM

LIFTED BENCH

TUBE TRUSS SUBSTRUCTURE

SUPPORT RISER

VEGETATION LAYER

FILTER LAYER

WATER RETENTION LAYERVAPOR BARRIEREXISTING ROOF STRUCTURE (LAYERED BRICK)

SOIL

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