B.Arch Application Process Book

By: Aaron Stills-Todd

Visual Hierarchy

The task was to a one dimensional pattern into a 3d model that visually represents your pattern while not be a simple extrusion of the shapes. We also had to make all sides look different. This project challenged us to think of a different way to make certain objects pop with not only color but with visual hierarchy.

Making Space

This project challenge us to build a city from what we made in the previous project based on a city for the book Invisible Cities. We were task to make this city with approved model making materials off of the original we made.

By: Aaron Stills-Todd

By: Richard Neutra

Kaufmann Desert House

Hill House

By: Aaron Stills-Todd

Codex Space

The community is not just the buildings that people reside nor is just the parks and communal spaces. A community is comprised of people that care about their neighborhood and make it their own. A community is built by the community for the enjoyment of the community.

Rowhome Project

Both projects made essential to know your client and all the context not only surrounding the home but the context of the person themselves.

Mini Project

Hill House

By: Aaron Stills-Todd

A Small Space

For this project we were tasked recreating the main features of any building we chose. So I chose my hypothetical Jefferson residential cabin from design 2.

Hill House is meant to blend in with the surrounding hilly environment and a perfect balance between indoor and outdoor. Making it feel like you have immediate access to the outdoors and when outside there is a clear threshold to cross in order to enter the space.

Olsen Kundig

Assignment

Cabin Competition

With this Cabin Competition all class were tasks with choosing a cabin from multiple options. In order to recreate the cabin within Rhino and Enscape.

The Rolling Hut by Olson Kundig, built in 2008, is a compact corten steel fortress that is able to go anywhere on land and is made to weather any condition. Although the Rolling Hut can be quite imposing on its site it can easily be moved without negatively impacting the surrounding environment.

This Architecture program at Thomas Jefferson University so far has taught me to pivot and stand firm in the face of adversity. It’s also taught me the importance of co- creative partners and the creative process itself. Overall this program has allowed me to realize that as a designer you must design with intention and for all parties involved not just the client. A designer must design for those who are marginalized and excluded while also designing for those who are neither of those things. I would like to become an architect for those very reasons. As a true Philadelphian I have grown disgusted by the site illiterate designed residential properties popping up in neighborhoods neglected by the city in order to drive marginalized groups out of these “Neighbors on the Rise.” With this University’s education within me I won’t be able to solve it myself but will be given the opportunity to design for those who are not considered in designs today.