Timothy Baker

Student Architectural Portfolio 2012

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Title Page

Table of Contents

Architectonic Pavilion

Steel Foundation Competition Entry

Artists Residence

Haiti Reconstruction

Sliding House

Hotel

Scotiabank Work

ECO House

Schematic Apartment

Art Work

Urban wildlife zoo

Arcology

The work that follows is a selection of design and artistic work that I produced for employers, school projects, along with work I have produced indepen-dently.

Timothy Baker

E-mail: t3baker@uwaterloo.ca

Phone: 519-502-2011Education

-Candidate for Bachelors of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo, September 2009 - present

Employment-Scotiabank Real estate department Assisant designer 2011 Sept-Dec

Architectonic Pavilion

A modeling project to create an engaging space by using ar-chitectural elements. This space was meant to give the impres-sion of an archeological dig and provide a changing relationship to horizon as the individual moves inside.

CURVATUREVELAJAR

A PAVILION FOR NAVARÈ

Located on the coast of Portugal, Navarè is the picture of a traditional fishing town. Its in-habitants spend their whole lives living by, and on, the sea.

Situated at the end of a preexisting breakwa-ter in front of the town, Velajar cantilevers out, surrounding its inhabitants with the ocean. The roof, its movement powered by the slow motion of the tides, shifts continuously be-tween a series of forms. This ever-changing slope serves as a constant shade for the in-habitants, while also providing shifting spatial definition of the space, evident in the change from the open morning canopy to the intimate space at sunset.

Velajar is a point in isolation. Like a ship at sail, it is entirely defined by the sea.

The daily stages of Velajar: morning, midday, afternoon, and sunset.

SSAF Steel Competition Entry

This entry was created by myself and Sean Maciel. The competition’s theme was curvature and we wanted to achieve this through a set of steel sections that would shift throughout the day by use of a system of cables and would be powered by the tide.

Artists Residence

To be built on a hillside next to Taylor lake Ontario south of Cambridge the building is designed for a painter to work and live comfortably. The spaces are divided into two masses one for working and one for living. The double height transition space directly connects each major space in the house as well as pro-viding the bedroom a better view of the lake.

The site with the lake to the Southwest.

An early parti model of the design.

Haiti Housing

A plan for the reconstruction of a community in Haiti after the earthquake. Starting from tarp roofed structures the community would develop in stages eventually reaching a two story composite building with a communal garden back yard. A primary part of the building is a large cistern for rainwater capture that the roofs tilt towards. These roofs can be lowered during extremely stormy weather preventing damage or an overflow.

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A few months after

A year after

Two years after

Final Stage

First stage building

Sliding House

A small dwelling designed to be built primarily out of structural insulating panels. The roof and floor are separate systems from the actual enclosure. This would let interior modules slide, by use of a rail system, to adapt to the weather. Open during the summer, for ventilation, and closed during the winter to have less space to insulate. The objective of the Project was to make a mass producible modular structure easily buildable in a back yard that possessed the ability to double its floor area easily.

First Floor plan

Section through the Structure

Cambridge Hotel The objective of this project was to design a hotel with a site in down town Cambridge, Ontario. I felt that with a preeminent corner site that it was important to try to provide a controlled space that would integrate its self easily with Cambridge at street level. The central courtyard is open to the lobby and restaurant during the summer. In winter its left closed It’s purposes changed to letting light warm the interior. The second floor consists of the spa and bar areas both of which take advantage of the upper floor terrace created by the administration offices. The corner is left as a space for a cafe that would invite the people into the courtyard space.

First Floor

Second floor

Section

Room plan

South Elevation

ABM Installation Work done for Scotiabank designing how new marketing and branding would be incorperated into branches undergoing renovation and how it would be installed in international branches.

Scotia iTrade Offices Design for updating the image of Scotia banks iTrade offices on young street.

Eco House

Designed for entry in the home sweet home competition. I worked with another student, Brian Lui, to create the final project. My role was to create the plans for the structure and design the environmentally friendly strategies that needed to be included to fulfill the projects goal. The site chosen for the competition was north of Kapuskasing Ontario. Environmentally responsible strategies are integrated into the design, building materials from the site would be used to lower the embodied energy cost of the materials. Passive solar heating would be the primary

Diagram of the systems used

Front elevation showing exterior louvers

First Floor

Second floor

Schematic Apartment Design Preliminary massing of a metabolism style building com-plex using Rhino and Adobe Illustrator

Artwork

Two of my more recent paintings. Most of my non-architecture work is nature related. Both are acrylic paint on canvas.

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URBAN WILDLIFE ZONEGreen Waste Recycling Plant and Wildlife Sanctuary

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Recycling

Urban Wildlife Zoo

A design for 2B studio Zoo project. Due to my dislike of the zoo as a program I used the project as an excuse to explore urban wildlife relationships with architecture. Looking at how animal life in the city makes use of the human environment and the resources that we produce.

Arcology An illustration of an imaginary city that exists as one structure, it’s ex-terior covered in parks and artificial rivers. Water colour and InkThis work was exhibited at the MacLaren Art Center in Barrie as part of their student art exhibition.