BAS _Carleton University Azreili School of ArchitectureM.Arch_UBC SALA (currently enrolled)

To fill the position of a full time intern/architectural assistant for the duration of an 8 month co-op work term.

To engage contemporary arcitectural practice through both the emerging methodologies of our current generation and fundamental processes informed by the hand, materiality, and the act of making.

To actively test the range and fluency of my currenttoolset, be it digital or analogue, while also challenging myself to expand it and adapt.

To learn.

davington.reeves@gmail.com2345 West 5th Ave. Vancouver, BC V6K1S6604.716.0149

// Masters of Architecture currently enrolled University of British Columbia School of Architecture, Vancouver BC // Bachelor of Architectural Studies High Distinction 2005 – 2009

Carleton University Azrieli School of Architecture, Ottawa ON // Premiere Autodesk Training: AutoCAD 2007

Seneca College, Toronto ON // AutoCAD 2d architectural drafting // Rhinoceros 3D nurbs based modeling // Grasshopper Parametric / algorithmic modeling for Rhino

// V-Ray 3d rendering and visualization // SketchUp 3D modeling // Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop 2D image editing and graphic design // Final Cut Pro / Adobe Premier Video editing and production // My Hands Physical model construction and drawing

// One Good Chair Chair Design Competition 2009

// Murray & Murray Architectural Drawing Competition 2008 Honorable mention // Carleton University 2005-2009 Honors scholarship/Dean’s List

references available upon request

// Patkau Architects, Vancouver BC 2010

// GCTC, Ottawa ON 2009 Member of set design team for the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s annual Lawyer Play // Bradford Construction, Ottawa ON 2008 Assisted with concrete finishing

// Building 22 Carleton School Of Architecture Student Folio 2009 Publication of selected work // Perspectives The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects vol 16, no3 2008 Publication of temporary dining pavilion

DAVID REEVES

// Visual Basic .Net Scripting in Rhino/Grasshopper

Semi finalist - design featured at the Las Vegas Market tradeshow

Assisted in physical model making for winning Fallingwater Cottages competition entry

// Cannon Design, Montreal QC 2010 Assisted in digital modeling, rendering, and visualization of the University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CHUM)

Materials behave.

Situated on a fictional, highly abstracted site with loose programmatic requirements, the making of space is left almost exclusively to the generative potential embedded in material behavior. Treating the grid shell as a precedent material system, this project explores how its inherent behavior can generate a variety of spatial conditions by means of material self organization.

Local operations are performed on a two dimensional planar grid shell. These perturbations cascade through system resulting in global reorganization. The system re-equillibrates into a three dimensional suface of complex curvature based on the location and degree of the local operations. A non linear part-to-whole relationship reveals itself as the system interprets these local perturbations and moves from a two dimensional order to a three dimensional one. This resultant surface geometry, derived from material behavior, goes on to be the primary driver of spatial configuration. When multiplied and stacked vertically, the surfaces create two distinct spatial zoneswith an inverse relationship of expansion and contraction. Changes to the initial series of local operations, cause spatial reorganization. In this way spacial order is foundthrough a bottom-up negotiation between architect and material behavior.

COMMUNITY CENTRECCOMMMUNN YY CCCE spring 2010

Given an array of bamboo members, two square meters of lycra, and a spool of string, the objective of this project was to explore the generative potential inherent in material logics through the design and construction of a full scale shelter for one. Rather than taking a deterministic design approach where materials are forced into a preconceived configuration, a series of simple recursive operations were applied to the given material palette. In this way, form, structure, and ultimately space were emergent properties of material interpretation. By allowing the specific behavior of bamboo to negotiate the applied transformations in a bottom up manner instead of overriding the material system with top down control, complexity emerged. Specific architectural intent exists within the syntax of the recursive operations applied. By following different patterns within the operative phase, different spatial and structural orders emerge.

PERSONAL SHELTERERRSSONNA SSHH winter 2010

MULTI UNIT RESIDENTIAL fall 2008

A market system is anything but static. The only constant is its state of flux. Situated in Ottawa’s Byward market, this project is embedded in a living exampleof a market system. As temporary vendors compete, the architectural environment is constantly resculpted by local and often unpredictable economic conditions. The complexity of such a system is resultant of collective behavior. Housing, as a typology, has this collective potential, where the whole can become greater than a sum of autonomous units. By fostering interactions between occupants, unpredictable behavior can emerge.

Taking the typology of the perimeter block and embedding public foci within it, an elevated connectivity tissue was generated within the volume of the inner court yard. This public network space acts as an interaction mechanism between units. Over time, as occupants engage each other, autonomous behavior transforms into collective behavior. Operable polycarbonate sun screens allow this internal behavior to be mapped onto the facade resulting in fluctuating emergent patterns. The binary like composition reveals a social part-to-whole relationship to the surrounding context.

SPACE MAKING SPECULATION winter 2010

For this speculative infill project, space making is treated as the by product of a dialogue between two self organizing systems over time. Rather than space being optimized for human occupation in a top down manner, it is created gradually through ecological interactions between occupants and a growing “space making organism”.

Confined to the volume of the infill site, the two species compete for spacial dominance. As they begin to encounter each other, they negotiate via a spatial feedback loop. The organism modifies its recursive growth pattern each generation according to human behavior. At the same time human inhabitation mutates as new spatial conditions emerge. The making of space no longer occurs in the form of deterministic sections and plans but rather in real time through interacting processes of self organization. The role of the architect then becomes one of scripting and manipulating these self organizing logics.

SCHOOL FOR THE CULINARY ARTS fall 2007

The art of cooking is based on combining raw ingredients to create an experience that transcends what any of those ingredients are capable of on their own. Discovering these combinations is an experimental process. Recipes are modified and developed as new ingredients are added and the ratios between them are tweaked.Variation is limitless. This exploratory process yields results that are inherently unpredictable.

This idea of a culinary construction translates well to an architectural one. Materials become the ingredients and stimulating spatial experiences are created through their various combinations. The culinary school is composed of three separate programs; restaurant, school, and residence. These programs are organized into a series of experiments with a single architectural recipe. The tectonics are consistent throughout yet the relationships between the material ingredients vary according to programmatic requirements. Spatial variation is yielded as the recipe is tweaked resulting in each experiment taking on its own form.

SEASONAL PAVILION fall 2006

In the Gatineau Hills, a cross country skiing park in southern Quebec, inhabitation is entirely dependant on the presence of snow. Thus with yearly seasonal transformation there comes a cyclical birth and death of human presence. Through exploring the generative potential of contextual logics, existing orders and phenomena became the conceptual foundation for a small ski pavilion. The response was an architecture that goes through the same reverse hibernation as its described milieu – dead in the summer and alive in the winter. Composed of an array of timber piles skinned with reinforced stretch mesh, the pavilion sits in the middle of a shallow pond. As the body of water freezes over, the space becomes accessible. The tensioned fabric envelope collects falling snow resulting in enclosure. Shifting wind directions alter how snow accumulates and articulate architectural form. The seasonal shift completes the making of space and the architecture becomes sympathetic with its context. Object and place are indistinguishable.

TEMPORARY DINING PAVILION fall 2007

Dinner is Served is an annual event at Carleton University’s School of Architecture where students investigate materiality at full scale through a collaborative design-build of a temporary dining pavilion. The focus lies on the act of dining as a ritual which is inherently tied to its architecture at every level of detail.

Situated under Ottawa’s light rail system, the existing context contained its own ritual - a train passing overhead in 15 minute intervals. Any other experiencesharing the site was subjected to interruption by the thunderous sounds above. The solution was the construction of a space and dining ritual tied to this existing experiential fragmentation. Through the use of salvaged lumber the envelope became a reconstruction of fragments from a previously existing spatial condition as well asthe bounds for a new ritual. The dining experience was guided by the punctuality of the overhead train, each course being allotted 15 minutes. Rather than being one complete ritual periodically interrupted, it became a series of rituals scripted by the existing nature of its milieu.

* Published in volume 16 of Perspectives by the Ontario Association of Architects

Team members: Kristen Tuttle, Przemyslaw Myszkowski, Brynn Macek, Mina Hanna, Adi Gerrits, Farida Abu-Bakare