Expanded Portfolio

Massing Model Built I& Rendered iN Maya.

Boolean Merged for the geometries

TECHNOLOGIES: Autocad illustrator photoshop print 12 x 46

DIGITAL sketch T h e r e s a - P a u l i n University

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The Architecture provides connection to the Adjacent lake and serves as an icon to those using the park

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Retreat in the Woods Draws in Non-Athletes using the Park

The Plunge

Richmond, California Design Build and Historic Restoration Construction Documentation and Administration Todd Jersey Architecture This Historic Natatorium is undergoing reconstruction and will bill itself as the “Healthiest Pool in America� due to its new green technology of water irradiation. Todd Jersey Architecture was brought in to restore and rebuild the Plunge after being closed in 2001 due seismic hazards. This hollow core tile structure is being replaced in portions with wood frame construction and reinforced through historical portion with shear walls.

Richmond Plunge Todd Jersey Architecture Design Build & Restoration Construction Documentation Todd Jersey Architecture full set as independent project

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Writing Presentation and Discussion, Graduate Theory: “Semiotics and Post-Structuralist Thought in Architecture” Excerpt from Design Process versus Product Holocaust Memorial

Barthes claims that the monument is the pure signifier to which men have attached meaning. This meaning is never fixed. To Barthes, architecture is “dream and function”, and “use never does anything but shelter meaning” . Eco continues this idea and claims that it is through the suppression of this primary meaning of architecture, its function, that new meaning is created and communication is possible through the architectural artifact. The Monument and the Pavilion have been offered up as possible architectural texts. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, by Peter Eisenman is in turn an achievement of this post-structuralist thought.

Intending on creating an un-memorializing memorial, Eisenman seeks to both release and contain us within its meaningless/meaning. Hanno Rauterberg describes in “Holocaust Memorial Berlin”, that the space is “only accessible through the third and fourth dimensions, through space and time, through the alternation of outside and inside, repetition and subtle variation, through “a moment ago” and “in a moment”.

We are abducted to an in-between place…. we are entangled in paradoxes. “This is a place that presents nothing and where nothing is finished.”

Here there is no duty to remember as there is with other memorials, and it is you, as author, who must decide how to approach it. You may read this simply as a construction site and pass it by (perhaps reading its “unfinishedness”), or a park and claim a seat. Children have already found a joyful meaning and function with their authorship and rewritten the memorial as playground.

Should you choose to enter the non-entrance of a possible labyrinth, you may experience yourself sinking into the grid and finding the everyday vanishing.

Perhaps with the disorientation of tilting slabs, your anxiety may increase, as it is you who are left to make the decision of how to navigate these passageways.

The journey through the Stalea demonstrates that it is not the place of pure contemplation. It is monument and it is not.

How has architecture achieved this here when other buildings have not? Through burying meaning or function (here of the Information Center), Eisenman has erased authorship. This consistency in the method of suppressing function, as Eco states the Pavilion does, achieves the a-symbolic symbolism where meaning is lost and infinite meaning can be posited.

The “pure” rectangular blocks are both impure and precise and in their selves contain no meaning. The block (or blocks) require(s) a relationship with the viewer/author in order for this meaning to be created. The author may write on any scale necessary, looking down on the memorial, over it, through it, into it, in search of meaning.

The Memorial has one and many. One repetition, which gains otherness through its relationship to another repeated unit. From within the grid, you have both sight of surrounding buildings while simultaneously losing view. At times you may see only what is in front of you or see only what appears a great distance away, looking over the undulation of concrete slabs. There again is a view of “other”.

While within or without the field, the un-authored grid gives a sense of direction and security while the block rise to separate you. The rationality of the grid has an irrational presence and by nature has no end. It is the perfect form or interstitial space for meaning to be endlessly generated.

ANALATIQUE hand rendering T h e r e s a - P a u l i n University

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17 x 31 in graphite collage trace paper inks color pencil

animated film excerpt

http://www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/~paulintm/

media : Graphite, Pastels, Mylar, Bristol board, Basswood, Piano Wire, CS llustrator, Digital Photography, iPhoto & iMovie HD, Dreamweaver Music by Bjork

Motion:Media:Models in translation

The “Animation� is one click away, (Volume is recommended). The artifacts shown above result from a process of drawing movements of individuals as they move through a space. The drawing has been reinterpreted and expressed in a physical 3D model.

Section splits of the model are shown, with the model being converted back into both a 2D form and motion form within the animated movie.

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PRESERVATION historic

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CONSTRUCTION 3d modeling T h e r e s a - P a u l i n University

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Half House John Heyduck steel construction sketch-up

hallow asymmetrical glass structure plan view section cuts hallow asymmetrical glass structure

GLASSBLOWING technique T h e r e s a - P a u l i n University solid symmetrical glass structure

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3D Rapid Prototypes

Maya Rendered Sketch of Prototype

Maya Form Creation through Animation

Maya Form Rendered

ANIMATION rendering prototypes T h e r e s a - P a u l i n University

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TECHNOLOGIES: MAYA FORM Z 3D RAPID PROTOTYPES PHOTOSHOP