portfolio 2014
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A representation of my work.TRANSCRIPT
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SELECTED WORKS2014
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CONTENTS 3 BOTANICAL GARDEN
7 AQUACULTURAL
11 INCARCERATION WITHOUT PRISONIZATION
13 INLIGHTENED CITY
17 ST. TROPEZ HOUSE
19 COLLIER HOUSE
21 GILLETTE+GENESEE STREETS PROJECT REPORT
23 ST. CATHERINE’S MONTESSORI
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BOTANICAL GARDEN Designing a botanical garden for downtown Houston was an opportunity to produce a combination of both the park and the high-rise.
The typically horizontal programming of a botanical garden was applied in vertical layers with a central void. This allowed for a continuous and varied visual experience for the user; from the exterior and through every level of the building one always has a visual connection to the flora on display. By choosing species that thrive in Houston, succulents, the building could also maintain an exterior quality. There was no need to condition the building or to produce artificial environments for the plants and, for the people, the height of the building and its many openings encouraged cross winds that would help to make the Houston summers bearable.
TOP: INTERIOR OF 1/16TH MODELBOTTOM: 1/16TH MODEL RIGHT PAGE: 1/50TH MODEL
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LEFT: URBAN CONTEXT DIAGRAMRIGHT: 1/50TH MODEL BOTTOM: STACKING DIAGRAM
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AQUACULTURALIn a design brief focused around tessellation and ecologically sensitive food production I looked to metabolists, like Kiyonori Kikutake, and the floating fisheries of Halong Bay, Vietnam for inspiration. Aquaculture is increasingly relevant in a world that requires more food while using less resources. Combining housing with the architecture of the cage “fishery” system brings about a new relationship between community and the cultivation of the sea.
Both the inhabitant and the fish are simultaneously isolated from and engulfed in their surroundings. Descending below the surface produces a constant relationship between the inhabitant and their new semi- aquatic environment. The aquacultural project seeks to produce a new typology, one free of the terrain and even of the subterranean. The new sub- aquarian architecture is not just about the mechanism of producing food but also about ones’ relationship with the environment that produces that food.
LEFT: PLAN
RIGHT: HOUSE INTERIOR RENDERING
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TOP: SURFACE RENDERINGS BOTTOM: SECTION
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TESSELLATION EXPERIMENTS
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INCARCERATION WITHOUT PRISONIZATIONThe studio brief of this project was to suggest an architectural solution to one or several of the problems currently facing the American Prison System. The proposal I make with this project is to integrate housing for the pre-incarceration communities of the convicts. One set of circulation and facilities are inmate specific and the other set is family and community visitor specific, these circulation systems are separate and secure. Each of these programs is then crenelated into one another at the scale of the room/cell where inmates occasionally share their living space with close members of their pre-incarceration community. In spaces that are shared by all members of this community the crenellation is visibly apparent so as to produce an awareness of the system that otherwise would be difficult to discern from the interior.
The suggestion made by this proposal is that facilitating the strengthening of non-criminal relationships for each inmate will not only help produce a society-positive identity for the incarcerated but also, for the larger prison community. To feel seen by and connected to the “outside world” would help to strengthen the incarcerated person’s sense of mutual responsibility to and from that world.
This accommodation also gives the opportunity to provide services that might have positive affects on the non-incarcerated community to which the convicted will return. If you consider the purpose of a prison system to rehabilitate people’s concept of their relationship to the social contract then I believe they have to maintain and strengthen their relationship to society. TOP: RESEARCH MODEL BOTTOM: CRENELLATION DIAGRAM
121/20TH SCALE MODEL EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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IN-LIGHTENED CITYThe InLightened City is part of a fictional collection of future pasts that are showcased in a World Expo at the beginning of the 22nd century.
This project, built in the early 21st century, problematized the 20th century idea of energy outsourcing as part of the productive division of territories and cities by bringing back to the city its sources of energy production.
The first prototype based on Sun Light Capture took place in L.A. as a three-way initiative between energy companies, social collectives and light researchers. The project took the typology of the tower and transformed it into a light tower, a sunscraper.
From the point of most light exposure a set of mirrors were laid out down and around the tower, guiding light into a series of different spaces where they were filtered into various colors of the visible light spectrum. Each of these colors related to a set of physiological effects that were meant to provoke and offer different sensations to the users of this new urban-energy tower prototype pavilion.
TOP LEFT: HELIOSTAT FIELD IMPOSED ON DOWNTOWN L.A.TOP RIGHT: LIGHT INTENSITIES FROM THE MIRROR CLAD DOWNTOWN BOTTOM: RENDERING OF LIGHT REFLECTION ONTO TOWER
RIGHT PAGE: PLAN
NEXT SPREAD: UNROLLED SECTION
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ST. TROPEZ HOUSE [NADAAA] My Rice perceptorship was at the firm NADAAA in Boston, MA. There I worked on a variety of projects. The following two examples are from my time there.
The St. Tropez House is a courtyard style home built on irregular topography for which NADAAA was awarded the AIA’s 2013 Un-Built Work Award. I produced renderings, diagrams, and drawings for our submittal. I also edited content and assisted in the printing and binding of the book.
TOP: INTERIOR RENDERING BOTTOM: ONE OF THE LAYOUTS OF THE PA BOOK
RIGHT PAGE: RENDERING OF EXTERIOR
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One of the most significant results of the typological displacement of the courtyard type is the creation of a view threshold into the house. At once an exterior and interior, the shift in topography produces a monumental space linking the driveway into the family courtyard.
SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT
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COLLIER HOUSE[NADAAA]Collier House was an apartment completely renovated for a couple with limited mobility who were down-sizing from a five-story townhouse to a single story apartment. The Colliers had an extensive art collection, the curation of which was an important part of the design of the apartment.
This was a project that I was very involved in during my final months at NADAAA. Much of my time was spent in going between suppliers and the client, picking out materials and finishings, and working directly with the client to hone the design.
I also produced many of the renderings used in our conversations with the client that were integral in the decision making process about materials and layout.
TOP: RENDERING OF CLIENTS’ TIFFANY GLASS COLLECTION IN BUILT-IN BOOKSHELF BOTTOM: RENDERING OF KITCHEN OPTIONS
RIGHT PAGE: HALL INTERIOR OF APARTMENT WITH CLIENTS’ ART COLLECTION
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connections to buffalo bayou
gillette + genesee streets workshop final report | 11
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street tree
PROPOSED GENESEE STREETSCAPE PLAN
mexican sycamore
flowering tree
tropical plant
fountains
mosaic columns
brick pavers
sand
grass
existing tree
GENESEE STREET
WEST GRAY
CLEVELAND ST.
VICTOR ST.
RUTHVEN ST.
ANDREWS ST.
ROBIN ST.
SAULNIER ST.
WEST DALLAS
GENESEE STREET
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL CARNEGIE VANGUARD BASEBALL FIELDS
GREGORY-LINCOLN EDUCATION CENTER
BUS DROP-OFF
HOUSINGHOUSINGHOUSINGHOUSINGWILEY PARKHOUSINGCORNER STORE
genesee street plan
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0’ 40’ 80’
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street tree
PROPOSED GENESEE STREETSCAPE PLAN
mexican sycamore
flowering tree
tropical plant
fountains
mosaic columns
brick pavers
sand
grass
existing tree
GENESEE STREET
WEST GRAY
CLEVELAND ST.
VICTOR ST.
RUTHVEN ST.
ANDREWS ST.
ROBIN ST.
SAULNIER ST.
WEST DALLAS
GENESEE STREET
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL CARNEGIE VANGUARD BASEBALL FIELDS
GREGORY-LINCOLN EDUCATION CENTER
BUS DROP-OFF
HOUSINGHOUSINGHOUSINGHOUSINGWILEY PARKHOUSINGCORNER STORE
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GILLETTE+GENESEE STREETS PROJECT REPORT [ARC] Since August 2013 I have been working with Asakura Robinson Company. The projects I have worked on range from creating the layout and content design for concept reports, SD, CD, and DD drawing sets, producing a cohesive visual identity of ARC’s presentation graphics, and creating a range of communication graphics for projects.
The Gillette+Genesee project report is a concept based on the history of Forth Ward. It included street improvements and park creations that were sensitive to the existing physical history (historic brick paving laid down by the neighborhoods original residents) and improved the visibility of that history at a civic level (monuments and presented historical information through a new streetscape and park layout.)
For this project I worked on creating a legible and appealing overall layout and also creating diagrams and rendered plans and sections through which the project could be understood.
This is the project that I presented at the 2013 “Design Like You Give A Damn” conference in San Francisco.
TOP: PLAN LAYOUT FOR GENESEE STREET BOTTOM: DIAGRAM OF CONNECTION TO EXISTING BAYOU PARK
RIGHT PAGE: ANDREWS ST. SECTION AND PLAN
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ANDREWS STREET SECTION DD
ANDREWS STREET SECTION
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ST. CATHERINE’S MONTESSORI[ARC] The St. Catherine’s Montessori School master plan is Net Zero project that includes a new arts and sciences building built adjacent to a retention pond turned bio-diverse learning landscape.
For this project, besides producing presentation graphics, I participated in a meeting series that involved architects, engineers, teachers and students at the school. The students were encouraged to imagine their new design in terms of education, sustainability, and community resources. It was an opportunity to educate but also collaborate with the students that was refreshing and interesting in terms of the client consultant relationship.
RIGHT PAGE: ST. CATHERINE’S MASTER PLAN
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PLAY AREA
POND SHELF
BRIDGE
BOARDWALK
BRIDGE
OPEN FIELD
PLAY POD
MEANDERINGSWALE
WETLAND
AMPHITHEATER
WILD PLAYAREA
ADDITIONALVEGETABLEPLANTERS
EXISTINGVEGETABLEPLANTERS
OBSERVATIONDECK
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