Portfolio of Works

RESUMÉ + PORTFOLIO

AUSTIN WYETH

RESUMÉ

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UNIVERSITY

I N T E RWOV E N : S PAC E B E T W E E N S PAC E S

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NORTH NORWICH ARTS CENTER

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D R A P E PAV I L I O N

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SANTS CENTRE

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COMPETITION

THE GROVE - KAIRA LOORO 2021

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PROFESSIONAL

INSIDEOUT GHANA

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V I S U A L I Z AT I O N S - B P

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POLARIS CLUB O’HARE - SCB

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ART + PHOTO

PHOTOGRAPHY

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I L L U S T R AT I O N / A R T

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DESIGN WORKS

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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FURNITURE DESIGN

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ABOUT Hello! I am a passionate and easy going designer and MArchD graduate specializing in International Vernacular Architecture, Regeneration and Development. I have special interest in traditional building and craft methods and specific cultural influence on architecture. I enjoy designing through making and tactile endeavors as a whole. A tangible connection to my work.

I aim to make my impact in the architectural field being a part of quality design based in an environmentally and socially conscious foundation. while mindfully considering traditional techniques with the help of modern day technology to push forward a new architectural language.

INTERESTS Photography Drawing Cooking Travel

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INTER WOVEN: SPACE BETWEEN SPACES Program: 1: Shrine Pavilion 2: Central Market School: Oxford Brookes University Location: Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain The craft of basket weaving is steeped in traditional techniques handed down through generations, yet is adaptive in technique and formal expression. Mastery of the techniques results in inherently parametric volumes. As the craft becomes less prevalent, an architectural application provides a dynamic opportunity for basketry.

The project explores the possible architecture application of basket weaving techniques, and aims to find a new life for a diminishing craft through pushing the limits of possibility through analog crafting, computational manipulation and digital fabrication.

It looks at the four most prevalent basket weaving techniques found on the north American continent: Coil Weaving, Then Plaiting, followed by Twining, and finally Wicker woven baskets.

In dense existing urban centers these weaving techniques create an exciting opportunity to interact with existing structures and stitch together an architecture in voids and non spaces, creating new expressive ambiguity adapted to the rigidity of the building stock, all while avoiding mass demolition and construction issues.

Thus leading to a sustainable intervention and thereby weaving together differing layers of the urban context into a cohesive architectural moment.

In response to the craft and site, the project was driven by 3 main objectives: 1. Stitch together the diverse community through a central public market. 2. Challenge the rectilinear flow forced by the BCN Cerda Block via multi-level circulation bridges. 3. Interact cohesively with existing building stock through weave and sub frame to create architecture between spaces.

Section Visualization : Market Space and Walking Bridges: Semester 2

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Woven Shrine Design: Semester 1

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TERTIARY SPACE - TWINED WEAVE

QUATERNARY SPACE - COIL WEAVE

Analog and Digital Form Finding Experimentation. Semester 1, Tectonic Making

SECONDARY SPACE - PLAITED WEAVE

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Taxonometric Drawing: Combination of Weaves Resulting in a Final Shrine Space. Semester 1

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Market Entrance Visualization : Semester 2

Exploded Axonometric Drawing: Semester 2

Main Market Space Vaulting Visualization: Semester 2

Structural Design Detail: Strucutral Shell and Woven Membrane Connection: Semester 2

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NORTH NORWICH ARTS CENTRE Program: Arts Centre and Galleries School: Oxford Brookes University Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK wFollowing a regeneration Master Plan for the Modernist Shopping center located in Norwich, UK, building analysis, demographic studies, and design logic lead to the design of the North Norwich Arts Centre. A new cultural centre for a city prime for regeneration.

Regeneration Master Plan Site Plan

The building programme follows two objectives in response to building and site research.

1. Enhance existing community and avoid displacement by: creating flexible and adaptive spaces for artists to foster a creative and makerly building space, creating a link with existing artist communities in the city, and improve amenities and services to create a better makerly atmosphere for artists.

Target Demographics of Regeneration

2. Create a new arts center for emerging living working community in Norwich by: providing gallery space and public amenities to engage the public, engaging the public through arts community and public interaction, and being a focal point on and in anglia square through the artistic community.

Design Diagrams From Existing Structure to Adaptive Reuse Design.

Exterior Ramp and Facade Visualization: NNAC

Interior Gallery Visualisation

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Exterior Visualization

Art Gallery and Studio Plans

Illustrative Section Visualization

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Structural and Environmental Details

Structural and Environmental Details

Illustrative Elevation and Section Visualizations

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DRAPE PAVILION Program: Outdoor Performance Venue / Recreational Pavillion School: UIUC ETSAV - Barcelona Location: Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Girona, Spain Collaborators: James L. Carr, Raoyang, Yang, Ibrihim Salman 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 proud locals. 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.

Program: Outdoor Performance Venue / Recreational Pavillion

Design Diagrams: Existing Structure to Covered Pavilion

Section Drawing 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 va-

Exploded Axonometric Drawing

Interior Visualization

Model Visualization

Exterior Visualisation

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Rambla Bada (pedestrian street)

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School: UIUC ETSAV - Barcelona Studio: Arch 475 / Arch Design & Development Metro Stop

Semester: Fall 2015 Program: Social Center Location: Sants, Barcelona, Spain The government of Barcelona made a large intervention in the old barrio of Sants when they created a concrete box, several kilometers long, to enclose four metro lines and 2 high speed rails. The box, though successful in its attempts to reduce noise level in the barrio, felt short however, creating a physical barrier right throughthe heart of the neighborhood.

With a park already in the process of being design for the top of the box the area still needed something more to connect and revitalize the area. This project aims to cultivate ideas, social gathering,and overall 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.

Small Green Space / Park

Site Plan and Design Oppurtunities

Exterior Visualization

Design Diagrams

Exploded Axonometric Drawing

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Axonomteric Drawing

Elevation Visualization

Section Visualization

Exterior Visualization: From Elevated Park

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THE GROVE WOMEN’S HOUSE - KAIRA LOOR0 2021 In Senegal the baobab tree is revered.

Sometimes thousands of years old, they have been the basis for communities throughout time. Every part of the tree is utilized, They store massive amounts of water in their trunks, and can act as an oasis and for the weary traveller, and refuge for the overheated. Baobabs serve as town halls, meeting places for leaders to assemble, discuss, and make key municipal decisions for the future and progress of their community. The Grove Women’s House (name pending) aims to be just that, the baobab at which Baghere village communes. By becoming the central location for the village, the Grove will promote gender equality by guaranteeing an equal opportunity at the table for women in the discussion of equality and human rights, guaranteeing involvement and emancipation of the female community in favour of the region’s social, economic, and political development.

Taking inspiration from the Baobab tree’s central role in Seneglese society and culture and its physical form and qualities. The Grove is designed around three central concepts.; The trunk, as a central meeting place for the village, The Branches, as program and space for formal and informal congregation. The roof and central reservoir acting as a cover from the region’s tough weather, water collection, and as a key store of natural resources for the village.

To be constructed by and for the community The Grove utilizes locally sourced materials to promote economic opportunity and growth, and takes advantage of sustainable building methods and materiality, The use of local materiality and constructions methods Integrates the project into the surrounding environmental and cultural context. The communal construction will allow a collective opportunity for commmunity members to take part in creating a space for equality in future development through tactile engagement.

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INSIDEOUT I N T E R N AT I O N A L WORKSHOP - GHANA InsideOut is a school prototype built in Yaboahkroam, a rural village in Ghana where the wind had destroyed the only school of the area. The project was constructed in 60 days with just 12 000 euro, together with the local population and volunteers from 20 different countries.

Since no electricity was available it was built by hand, crafting materials available on site (earth, wood and vegetation), moving by hand 58 000 kg of soil and planing 3km of wood with 2 hand planers.

The lack of resources and the site limitations become the opportunity to propose a sustainable design that merges architecture and landscape: the staggered walls of the classrooms are built by compacting the local earth, a light wood structure lifts the roof up, allowing zenithal light into the building, and generates a natural ventilation of the spaces, while the vegetation of the garden becomes the continuation of the porches, increasing the shaded spaces to study outdoor.

I participated 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 assisted in hands on detail design work for the building structure

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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 replicated design that values the local know-how and pushes its limits..

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VISUALISATION & RENDERING - BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES A Selection of works visualizing conceptual spaces, restaurants, retail space for client and commercial leasing aquistitions. Mediums include Heavy Phtoshop, Collage, and 3D Modeling.

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UNITED POLARIS | O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - SCB A new luxury passenger lounge for United Polaris. A project i worked on in my professional experience with Solomon Cordwell Buenz. Working through all phases from site survey to end design phases. the lounges were strategically deployed in nine airports worldwide. The first location, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. The primary design objective was to generate a sense of continuity between the on-board cabin environment and the lounge experience.

Numerous hospitality-level amenities into the lounge to support United’s vision for an unprecedented standard of guest services.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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A selection of works taken from my clthing brand ARCADIA OUTFITTERS to show case graphic design and illustration.

All designs a focused arond the lifestyle brand we hae created at ARCADIA OUTFITTERS. A true sense of northern lving inspired by the breathetaking landscapes and nature of Norhern Michigan.

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FURNITURE DESIGN / WOODWORKING My first venture into furniture design took me into a small interior residnetial project aimed at better utilizing this sunny corner of the clients house. Proposed as a breakfast nook and cofee par the design reqiured a four part design. 1. Built in bench with interioir storage. 2. A shelving unit to acompany the bench and fit in under the window to fill out the awkward angle. 3. A two part shelf, and desk, acting in one part as a bookshelf for the reading for th eexisting reading area, and acting as a coffe and wine bar to acompany the breakfast nook. 4. A table to fill out the space.

Construction utilized red oak as the main material, with some lumber structure to support the bench. Details utilized wooden dowel connections for a seamless look.

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