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Merck Lawsonia Addition
Merck Master Plan
10,000sqft addition to the existing production facility with new gas storage area. Material and personnel airlocks separate the antigen labs from the rest of the facility.
Drone images, processed by Pix4D, created a 3D mesh of the existing campus. A master plan diagram was created from the resulting perspective drawing.
Merck Necropsy Facility This building is dedicated to breaking down and incinerating the carcasses of animals used for testing Merck’s immunizations and medications.
The main work area is accessed through a bank of showers, so employees can efficiently scrub in and out, and a bridge crane helps keep material moving.
KCI - Gate Renovation The new international arrivals area was completed in the first phase of the project. This included offices, customs area, and hardened holding areas.
The second phase added a security line for international departures, as well as a hold lounge and egress stair.
youtu.be/MipwPL3H3MU Enscape Walkthrough This animation depicts a day in the life of this building, with captions and graphics added in Premiere Pro.
Center for Urban Enterprise
KCP&L - F&M Restrooms
The HEDC's adaptive reuse project at 2720 Jarboe will include classrooms, meeting areas, and teaching kitchens for developing local hispanic opportunities.
Two sets of restrooms, a conference room, and a break room were renovated in phases to avoid disruption of the office environment.
Typical yeast growth curve in a brewing scenario. This was traced in Rhino and tweaked for visual effect in the end product.
Yeast cell geometry during reproduction. Though they do all the work, I have never seen yeast represented graphically by a brewery. Hops and grain adorn brewery buildings and 6-packs, but yeast and water are unfairly omitted.
Grasshopper algorithm distributes ellipse geometry across a given panel. Time is the vertical axis, cell count is the horizontal axis. Points are generated within the boundary in trails, as if tracking lineage from a single cell as the colony grows and expires. I wanted to add the budding/breaking/growing geometry depicted in the diagram above, with random rotation each iteration, but gave up after running out of processing power.
Boulevard Brewery Wall Concept Turner Construction requested a wall concept and cost estimate for Boulevard Brewery. That quick exercise sparked an idea.
I used the idea to learn [a free trial of] Rhinoceros 3D with Grasshopper on my own. No client ever saw this.
Prototypes 1 & 2
Prototype 3 - motor too weak
Prototype 2 - magnet rotation too slow Prototype 3 guts Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation devices using permanent magnets is a fairly new idea. They are much easier, cheaper, and safer to build than their electromagnetic counterparts. I 3D-printed nylon herringbone gears and a PETG frame. All the shafts are non-ferrous in an attempt to keep the machine from binding. The DC motor was harvested from a deceased ink-jet printer, and was run using an old laptop power supply with pulse width modulation. I quickly discovered that the diametrically opposed magnets were too strong to get any sort of reliable timing. The goal was reliable timing in the range of 1-10Hz, but since the magnets were so eager to align North to South, they spent very little time with either pole oriented toward the head. Genesis of the idea...
3D Printed rTMS Device Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is growing in popularity, but affordability is a problem for many. I sought to circumvent the market.
I realized after prototype 3 that an electric hand mixer is a better starting point, so this project is mothballed for the time being.