The Permutations of IntuitionAndrew Davis . University of Florida . BA of Design

A Design Portfolio of Selected Works

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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

-C.S. Lewis

The Permutations of IntuitionA Design Portfolio of Selected Works

Striation, Envelope

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Room and Garden

Five x Five x Five

Mind the Gap

Sediments Urban

Spectrum Anatomy

El Preso Del Arbol

Measures of Line and Tone

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Striation, EnvelopeThe Construction of a Multi-use Container.

Design VIIIARC4323

Critics: Alfonso PerezWilliam Tilson

A multi-use pavilion for the sole purpose of flexibility.

Normal program is substituted for the infinitude of possible programmatic episodes. Given this contextual void, focus is removed from form and invested in the calligraphy of construction methods to transform the “dumb box” into an architectural event.

Samples of similar “making”throughout nature.

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1 Ext. Envelope2 Skin Construction3 Plan4 Cross Section5 Long. Section

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Interior space is characterized soley by the structural components involved in the making of the pavilion. A ‘column and beam’ primary system supports secondary and tertiary components.

Systems of articulated trusses along the perimeter of the pavilion house pre-fab panels and strips of plywood, composing a final breathable skin.

Room and GardenSpatial Etudes of Content and Context.

Design IARC 1101

Critics: Jen DanielsLinda Daniels

Martin Gundersen

Volumetric space is defined by the logistics of Point, Line, Plane, Volume. By investigating relationships between these components, design becomes a process, and only then a product.

Compound, processed information embedded into systems produce layered results of transformative thinking, a matrix, birthing a spatial language from which new design episodes can then take place.

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Five x Five x FiveDwelling in the Florida Landscape.

Design V ARC 3320

Critic: William Tilson

Panama City,Florida

“Five x Five x Five” (measuring 5m in each dimension) is the given name for a house outside of Panama City, Florida. Lying on a relatively flat, sloping landscape, the structure rests on top of the prairie elevated above the grass below it.

The house aligns itself with a view of preserving the habitat, therefore serving as an altogether separate entity from the environment in which it is located.

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Plan Index

1 Entry2 Living3 Kitchen / Dining4 Studio5 Bedroom

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Living and dwelling spaces are elevated to the second story of the house, organized about the public central room. The private spaces extend horizontally over the prarie, situating private living in a greater context of place.

Anchoring as a public transitory space, the NYU:CU Student Center bridges the populations of two major schools- New York University and The Cooper Union. Horizons are pulled in from contextual forces to create a the Student Center, while a vertical construction distributes hotel and other private programs.

Mind the GapStitching Place / Idenity in East Village.

Design 7ARC 4322

Critic: Donna Cohen

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1 Blocks intersecting at Astor Place2 Proximity public locations3 Above + row living and housing

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Sediments UrbanExploring layers of the Metropolis.

Design 7ARC 4322

Critic: Donna Cohen

All work in currentproject done in

collaboration withDanielle Duryeah.

(Above) Mixed medium drawing creating a physical and theortical palimpsest for design speculations; drawn by Danielle Duryeah.

Manhattan, NYC. The former Hudson Railyards serve as the site for an infrastructural proposition for the benefit of the city.

Preliminary hyptothesis for the renovated yards begin with various studies of cultural analysis and metaphysical forces. Sketches and diagrams seek to propose an organization of ideas, finding a foundation for the vast breadth of the rest of the project.

Photographic drawings dissect the Hudson Yards into vectors and territories, providing a foundation for insert-ing design possibilities.

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main entryw/ overhead bridge

publicgrade school

hotel

art school+ galleries

museumextension

anchoringcultural center

residential towersconnected tocommercial hub

Plan Analysis

1 Figure Ground2 Pedestrian Traffic3 Vertical Transitions4 Public Greenspace5 Public Cells

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Two super-blocks, the East Yards and West Yards, provide the basis for a large redevelopment for public greenspace and commercial settings. The creation of the city blocks sway from small, investigative, tectonic thinking towards larger sociological and cultural magnitudes.

Although the majority of inhabitation on the site occurs in the volumes of the various towers, a higher resolution of focus was centered over where towers and ground intersect. The ground plane becomes a highly charged relief negotiating forces of itineraries, free space, building structure, and public occupation.

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Gallery VoidCultural Exhibits

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ConnectionArm

The Commercial Center serves as an interstitial hub that anchors multiple itineraries linked to its perimeter. Pedestrians use this diverse space to travel among all the cardinal directions, as well as in the vertical.

The west super-block contains five residential towers whose bases rest uopn a Commercial Center. The towers filter light through their seams, creating a rhythmed experience in the public space below through light and shadow.

Cross-Axis EntryInterstitialCommercial Hub

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1_ A broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap as to form a continuous series or sequence. 2_ An array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass.

Environ. Tech. 2ENV 4202

Critic: Tom Smith

Samples of materials derived from pre-existing tectonics. Used repetitively with exploratory intent, systems are formed to create design possibilities.

Spectrum AnatomyA Vessel for Light and Its Constituent Parts.

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Analysis of a local billboard on Archer Road began the process of creating a light spectrometer.

Investigations of the billboard were recorded in the form of fragmentary details, which in turn became the codification of a new tectonic language. The details established a sort of “precedent materiality,” and were further negotiated into two-dimensional generative drawings (i.e. plan and section).

IngredientsRequired to Make aLight Spectrometer

4 Cedar Planks1 Pressure Regulator Assembly1 Diffraction Scope2 1/2” Ø Steel Fasteners5 Luminescent Panels6 Diffraction Discs1 Compact Flourescent Bulb

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Light Source

Diffraction Scope

Diffusion Wall

Power Source

The diffraction scope is inserted along the main axis of the spectrometer, existing as an indexical tool that breaks light into its various colored wavelengths.

Two-dimensional information is extruded into three-dimensional compositions through a variety of spatial operations. Digital recordings link a sophisticated process of making to the end result of the constructed light spectrometer.

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How to usea Home made Light Spectrometer

1 Assemble as listed2 Activate light source3 Adjust focusing lens in diffraction scope4 Look through eyepiece5 Record color separation

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El Preso del Árbol“The Prisoner Tree.”

The Cultural Center in San Martin extends an existing, isolated space of congregation into an expanded public plaza. Prior conditions along streets and building corridors lead to a large void at the water’s edge. A pre-existing canal that spans the length of the city street negotiates between preexisting public space and the defined territory of the intervention’s public space, creating a sum of social activity for the city’s inhabitants.

Design VIIIARC4323

Critics: Alfonso PerezWilliam Tilson

San Martin, JaliscoMexico

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Interpretive diagram displaying city’s canal and relevant territories.

Tectonic Palette

Tertiary [2] Fabricated Roof

Primary Black Fabricated Steel

Secondary [A] Overhead Diaphragms

Secondary [B] Hanging Diaphragms

Tertiary [1] Horizontal U-glass panels

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The intervention’s primary structure consists of two volumes fabricated of black steel.

Secondary systems of diaphragms are imbedded into the ceiling of the primary overhead structure. Layered linear systems are stacked, one upon the other, resulting in a unique dialogue of light, shadow, and spatial connections.

At the water’s edge the volumes are defined by twin shells, though are transformed to create overhead conditions as they move through the building toward the public space.

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1 Entry2 Welcome Desk3 Restroom4 Mechanical5 Community Room

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Interior space is enclosed by systems of curtain walls and extensions to the water’s edge. Furthermore, the space is defined by the juxtaposition of roof and floor.

Roof systems create a porous experience of light and measure. Floors emerge resulting from the act of carving into the ground. The combination of the roof’s and floor’s sectional qualities result in a layered composition of inhabitable plenum space.

Sectional qualities pertaining to the site allow for a narrative of one’s relation to the water along the building’s terraces.

The nature of the columns adjust to take different functional roles toward the perimeter of the structure: of base, of window, and of door, giving birth to a melodic combination of form and joint.

The two volumes take the form of a ceiling/roof structure supported by large columns of a similar constructed language.

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Measures of Line & ToneSamples of Freehand Drawings outside of Studio.

// “The Skull” Pencil Medium, 28” x 40”Measure, Proportion Excersice

// “Battle Royale” Pencil Medium, 28” x 40”

Perception of Depth Excersice

Drawing ICritic: Pam Greisinger

Visual definitions and senses of acuity bridge the divide between studio drawing and architecture practices, teaching the student not what to draw, but how to see.

// “Balancing Act,” Pencil Medium, 28” x 40”Tonal Recognition Excercise

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1880 W. Granada Blvd.Ormond Beach, FL 32174386.566.6654andrew.lloyd.davis@gmail.com

Bachelor of Design, August 2009Major in ArchitectureThe University of Florida; Gainesville, FloridaGraduated Cum Laude, GPA 3.52 on a 4.0 scale.

Eight Design StudiosArchitectural History I, II, and IIIArchitectural Theory I, IIMaterials and Methods of Construction I, IIIntro. to Digital ArchitectureAdv. Topics in Digital ArchitectureEnvironmental Technology I, IIArchitectural Structures I, IIArchitectural Educational Issues

Karl Thorne Associates, Inc. (KTA) Summer-Fall 2008Internship with Prof. Karl Thorne, former student of Louis Kahn.Skills required included CAD drawing, 3D Modeling, designing layouts for prospective job / award s ubmissions, assembling required information for submissions.

Teaching Assistant Spring 2009Assisted Prof. Levent Kara with teaching 15 Design IV sophmore students. Involved direct interaction/guidance of students individually and corporately through the knowledge of design theory and development, and critiquing with professor.

Study Abroad, Mexico Summer 2009Traveled through the cities o f Guadalajara, M exico C ity, and Guanajuanto. Focus o f study involved t he m ethodology o f tectonic processes in relation to environmental f orces in the pursuit of Architecture. Trip lasted three weeks, followed by a three week studio in Gainesville, FL.

Architrave Magazine, Editor Fall-Spring 2009Served as an editor for student run design magazine Architrave, of t he University o f Florida’s school of Architecture. Responsibilities included the design/editing of layouts, gathering financial resources for publishing, recruiting, etc. with other editors.

JELD-WEN® National Student Door Fall 2006Competition, Runner-up Competition involved d esigning a manufacturable entry d oor. Design was selected out of several hundred a pplicants f or a winning entry. Awarded $2,000 scholarship.

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Andrew L. Davis

This portfolio could not be possible if not for the strong support and encouragement from my classmates, professors, family, God, and His Son Jesus Christ.