Undergraduate Portfolio Austin Wyeth

PORTFOLIO

AUSTIN WYETH

PROJECTS CERDA BLOCK HYBRID

DRAPE PAVILION

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09 - 14

SANTS CENTER

OBSERVATION

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23 - 28

INSIDEOUT GHANA

DRAWINGS + ART

29 - 34

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02 School: UIUC / ETSAV - Barcelona Studio: Arch 476 - Arch Design & Exploration Semester: Spring 2015 Professor: Andres Martinez Program: Residential, Office, Commercial Location: Eixample, Barcelona, Spain

Proposal for a multifunctional residential, office, and commercial hybrid building. To be constructed as an infill in a superblock RI WKH (L[DPSOH RI %DUFHORQD b 7KH SURMHFW aims to provide dual purpose; to provide zero commute work environment for residents while also revitalizing the inner courtyard of the block that has been lost over the years due the growing density of residents and businesses into the blocks.

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The site sits on the edge of the Eixample DQ H[SDQVLRQ SURMHFW WKURXJK D VHULHV RI repetitive chamfered blocks of buildings, by the city to connect nearby towns of %DUFHORQD 7KH OHVV V\VWHPDWLF DUHD DGMD cent is the Gothic Quarter of the city. The oldest part of the city where cultural staples of Barcelona are found. The proposed building lies next to the northern corner of the block. It faces due north-west to the street and southeast to the courtyard.

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The limits of the site create difficulties in natural lighting of the building. The building itself is long and slender in the x - y plane and only allows for sunlight on the southeast and QRUWKZHVW VLGHV 7R VROYH WKLV OLJKWLQJ LVVXH a light-well is created through the middle. It brings in natural light and air flow to a central courtyard within the building.

The buildings multi-program function is split up into alternating stacks of offices and residential housing, with the commercial on the ground floor and floor. The two set of WRZHUV DUH RIIVHW HYHU\ IORRU 7KLV FUHDWHV D series of balconies on the interior light-well, and also facing the courtyard and the street side. Similiar to traditional Barcelona, Eixample, residential buildings.

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Drape

School: UIUC / ETSAV - Barcelona Studio: Arch 468 - Overseas Architectural Studies Semester: Spring 2015 Professor: Alejandro Lapunzini / Jeff Kansler

Drape Pavilion

Program: Outdoor Performance Venue / Recreational Pavillion Location: Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Girona, Spain Collaborators: James L. Carr, Raoyang, Yang, Ibrihim Salman

10 Posed with creating a roof structure to repurpose the ruins of an old church within a small municipality of Catalonia, we turned towards looking into the cultural traditions of the area. The Sardana dance is as much a dance as it is a symbolic ritual to the people of Catalonia. Recognized and practiced all over as sign of unity, it involves all ages and acts as a cultural connection through generations. The project connects the two remaining structures of the church through draping canopies to create a light, flowing roof structure for performance venues. When it is not being used the venue also acts as a meditative pavilion.

My contributions to the project ranges from collaboration of the initial design idea through the production of the drawing and models. In specific the design diagrams, structural drawings, and model building were . carried out by myself.

Drape Pavilion

The image shows an artists rendering of the traditional Catalonian Sardana dance. This particular image shows the members in the hard raised position. The dance progresses through a series of lowered and raised hand positions, with a variety of steps as well. All while remaining holding hands in a circle.

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A void must be filled. The existing site, the remaining structure of the Romanesque / Baroque church, peacefully sits in this site, but it asks for more; a performance space with a contemporary structure, something that doesn’t intrude space but represents a new space for activity.

The basic structure originates with a repetitive modular wood construction that staples into the site, bridging the void existing on the site, without seeming heavy and dominant, simultaneously creating a new more significant of space.

By compressing and extruding the wood posts, a range of different spaces are created within the footprint. Creating shaded spaces for reading and various activities, or lit spaces that catch the fresh sunlight of the region.

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An abstraction of the Sardana Dance, the roof of the structure drapes and holds at different heights sheltering the performance space. The roof also drops at certain moments and acts as a hammock for the space when it is not being used for performances, transforming the site to consistent active space.

12 Support Bolts

wood post Steel anchor cone

steal notch anchor bolts footing

cover plate fabricated steal plate Weld cone/ fab. plate

wire frame of canopy

canopy mesh

carabiner hoop connection allows for height change of canopy

hoop screwed in wood post

canopy carabiner connection

garage swing track stage deck/storage roof block seating

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Construction Details

front of stage opens as door

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Drape Pavilion

Exterior

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Sants Center

Sants Center

The concrete box, sever in its attempts to re the heart of th still needed someth and overall

16 School: UIUC ETSAV - Barcelona Studio: Arch 475 / Arch Design & Development Semester: Fall 2015 Professor: Amadeu Santacana Program: Social Center Location: Sants, Barcelona, Spain

Sants Center

government of Barcelona made a large intervention in the old barrio of Sants when they created a ral kilometers long, to enclose four metro lines and 2 high speed rails. The box, though successful educe noise level in the barrio, felt short however in that in created a physical barrier right through he neighborhood. With a park already in the process of being design for the top of the box the area hing more to connect and revitalize the area. This project aims to cultivate ideas, social gathering, enhance the community by creating a new office for Google directly adjacent to the concrete box.

The building will act as a social gathering space while also acting as a location of innovation.

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The site operates at three levels. Extruding the form to reach all three levels gives padestrian accessaabilty, and informs function through user density at different levels.

Rambla Bada (pedestrian street)

The building reaching up and on to the concrete box is vital to its incorporation with planned urbinzation of the top of the box as a pedestrian highway.

Metro Stop

Small Green Space / Park

Sants Center

Voids are created in the top floors. Pusing and pulling creates new space. Entrance bays on the two ends, and a exterior, yet private terrace.

Pedestrian access comes from the three different levels.

Clear entrances from eacho f these are created to invite people in to interact with the community ceter.

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20 Childrens Area Outdoor Recreation Kitchen / Cafe

Circulation /Lounge

Yoga Studio Dance Studio

Box Entrance Library Stacks

BR. /Elevator/ Stair Lounge Space

Cultural Center Computer Center

Mezzanine Informal Theater

Outdoor Main Stair Recreation Case Rambla Entrance Cafe/ Coffee Shop

Offices/ Admin.

Theater Lecture Hall

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Outdoor Walkway

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23 Observation

Observation Platform

24 School: UIUC Studio: Arch 352 - Mech of Ma t & Design Appl Semester: Spring 2014 Professor: Jeff Kansler

Program: Observation Pa villion Location: Meadowbrook Pa rk, Urbana, Illinois

Observation

The design is based around the idea of a new vantage point fro m which to take in the surrounding Illinois landscape through sculptural int ervention. Illinois topography is often flat and one dimensional. The observation pla tform provides quick access to a new elevation with a 360 degree vantage of the par k. By providing this new level, the user gains a different perspective of the landscape pre viously not achievable.

The design is achieved by clean lines and a light structure to pro vide a small footprint.

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Elevator Equipment

Roof Girder

Elevator Shaft

Main Girder

Stair Support

Elevation

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New Vantage

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Sctructural Plan

Steel Vertical Support Channel

Plexiglass Pane Girder Steel Angle Horizontal Support

Support Wire Wire Connection Plate Beam Column

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Concrete Roof

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Roof Girder

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Detail Drawings

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New Perspective

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InsideOut International Workshop

Since no electricit moving by hand 58 limitations becom walls of the class into the building, a of the porches, inc

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Earth Architecture Workshop Ashanti Region, Ghana 2017

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hool prototype built in Yaboahkroam, a rural village in Ghana where the wind had destroyed the only school of the area. gned by Andrea Tabocchini & Fancesca Vittorini, won several international awards. The project was constructed in 60 days with just 12 000 euro, togetherwith the local population and volunteers from 20 different countries.

ty was available it was built by hand, crafting materials available on site (earth, wood and vegetation), 8 000 kg of soil and planing 3km of wood with 2 hand planers. The lack of resources and the site me the opportunity to propose a sustainable design that merges architecture and landscape: the staggered srooms are built by compacting the local earth, a light wood structure lifts the roof up, allowing zenithal light and generates a natural ventilation of the spaces, while the vegetation of the garden becomes the continuation creasing the shaded spaces to study outdoor.

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The result is a work that blurs the boundary between inside and outside, offering an alternative to standard introverted classrooms and proposing an affordable and easily replicable design that values the local know-how and pushes its limits.

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Section A-A

I particiated in the immediate building process from the pouring of the foundation to the completion of the roof.

I worked intimately with the building process, and assited in hands on detail design work for the building structure.

Competition Drawings

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CURRENT LANDSCAPE

PHASE 1

STANDARD CLASS + OUTDOOR CLASS

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Competition Drawings

SHADED PORCH AND COVERED AUDITORIUM

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Drawings + Art

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