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The Fort Worth Urban Farming Center is a project that focused on creating a place to provide education and demonstrations of plant cultivation. This center is meant to draw a connection between the urban environment back to the land, with a focus on how food can be easily and locally grown as a part of a more sustainable lifestyle. There is a cafe as a part of the complex which will serve fresh produce grown on site. The design of the Farming Center makes use of a voronoi pattern, which recalls the form of plant cells as well as creates dynamic interior lighting conditions. Some walls were glass, with the voronoi structure becoming the frame, which allows a lot of natural light into spaces, such as the greenhouse, but also aesthetically aligns with the overall design premise. This also created an interesting experience for visitors, as the light cast on the ground would create dynamic forms in the interior spaces. The overall form of the structure makes use of sloping roofs, creating opportunities for connections between the ground and the structure, as living roofs are used. There are also multiple access points into the site, allowing the visitor to determine what their experience will be like when approaching the building. Visitors will leave the complex with a better grasp on how their environment and urban 2 context can be melded into one unified experience and have a better connection with their world.
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The goal of this project was to design an equine center that accommodated the movement and needs of both horses and people. The requirements consisted of 12 stalls, an arena, 3 work stations, a kitchen, restroom, storage space, office, wash space, and mobile farrier space. The site was on Lake Thunderbird, in Norman, Oklahoma, and was meant to be a trail riding facility. The main focus was, knowing that horses naturally prefer to be outside, to create a space that allowed horses an open view of the outdoors, that felt more connected to nature.
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The final design was made to address the needs of horses and people, as well as to consider the environment around it. There are lots of locations for ventilation in the design, with the roof being lifted for this purpose, as well as there being many openings around the arena and stalls. The central hallway is more of a human space, with there being an office, kitchen, and restroom. On the other end is more of a combined human and horse space, with the farrier access and work space, as well as the wash space for the horses. This hall also has movable louvers actually making up the walls, which allows sunlight and air flow in the hall.
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This intent of this project was to create a tower on a given site, the Duck Pond on the University of Oklahoma campus. A visit to the site provided information on conditions in the area.
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The design concept began centering around the idea of a tree, wanting something that almost fit in with its surroundings. This tree became more geometric and abstract, with branches becoming circular tubes and platforms resting on these branches. While it no longer blended in with the surrounding environment quite as much, the overall form and individual components still recalled the surrounding trees. The design would rest at the very edge of the shoreline, with platforms then spreading out over the space, some over the water, others farther back on the land, all at different heights, and allowing different views of the surrounding environment.
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The goal of this project was to create a new, developed habitat, that fulfills the needs and functions of the Potter Wasp. The project began in researching the wasp itself, then on their habitat, focusing on diagramming the movements and life of the insect. Finally, ideas towards development of possible habitat designs began.
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This project allowed for a new way of thinking. The requirements focused on an unconventional occupant,and research had to be done on how they move, what they need, and a design for a habitat catered to them needed to be developed. Wasps live in small spaces, and all of the compartments of this design allow for different functions. They often collect and store insects to feed their young, so there are spaces for storage and there are spaces that will naturally collect rainwater. It is a structure that would provide them protection above all, which is their main need in seeking out a habitat.
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This project began with research into the requirements for plants to successfully grow. Provided was a five gallon bucket, and the requirements were to create some sort of strucutre around the bucket, and provide a suitable environment for a plant that required partial shade and a plant that required full sun. The plants that this bucket were designed for were spinach and chives. The spinach would be planted in the lower level, which would be shaded by the wooden structure as well as the chives which would be growing at the higher level. The bucket was set at an angle so as to provide adequate depth and space for the plants to be able to grow. The wooden strucutre was placed high enough to allow the plants to not have their heights limited. There were also holes created at the bottom of the bucket so excess water could drain. This project included constructing the designed bucket and structure on Rhino, then building a physical model and later adding the plantings to the container.
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The Hydrostone Slab project began with learning first and foremost how hydrostone would function and perform when poured into different kinds of molds. Many smaller slabs were created to test out different designs to figure out how fragile the slab may be and if it would need any interior reinforcement. Designing the mold was a process of creating the negative space with foam board, then creating the hydrostone mixture and pouring it in, after the foam mold had been reinforced. This was left to set, and once completely solid the mold was removed, leaving the hydrostone slab. Drawings were then created of the slab, with elevations and sectons being the primary focus. This project helped create an understanding of the construction side of the design process. Designs were first developed, but the fact that physcial models had to be produced as well forced alterations and limitations, especially once learning that if the hydrostone was too thin in places it would be very brittle and easily break. It was an interesting project to clearly see the translation between the design process to the construction phase and the final resulting project. 13
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In this project, the requirements were to design a house with three squares involved in some manner. Because the simplest solution would be to create a block form, an added challange was decided upon and circles were also used prominantly in the design. The floor plan was designed first, out of a desire to create a practical and comfortable floor plan, then the elevations were later developed. The design began with a large square, then circles were added which cut out and subtracted space from the main square. Some interior spaces were also then made into the square form to meet the requirements, while other spaces were made circular. The elevations and exterior form of the building ended up being made of block-like spaces and cone forms. Sloped roofs were also used so as to create a more dynamic overall design.
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