m1 Spring Portfolio -

m 1 st u d i o

d a v i d . p o l k

s c h o o l o f a rc hi tec ture

m 1 st u d i o

d a v i d . p o l k

s c h o o l o f a rc hi tec ture

m 2 s t u d i o pushed students to work as, for, and with teams and communities to develop basic skills in architectural composition and representation, develop an awareness of the role of program in architecture, and develop an awareness of the interaction between buildings and their context. Students were encouraged not only to find solutions through architectural design but also the communications of those ideas.

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letterpress parametric screen thin brick vault workshop

biomorphic outdoor recreation center bespoke bike collaborative

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letterpress sun screen

p a r a m e t r i c s c r e e n this group project involved desiging a facade system to rehabilitate an existing builging in downtown Salt Lake City using the approach of parametric modeling.

The new design served to provide protection from solar gain, privacy for the workers, engaging views from both interior and exterior, and define the graphic identity for the Letterpress studio that would occupy the building.

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biomorphic outdoor recreation center

b i o m o r p h i c o u t d o o r r e c r e a t i o n c e n t e r sought to apply parametric modeling to a thickened building skin that responed to the natural elemets inorder to help the recretational center better respond to the contextual community of the 9 Line in Salt Lake City. the final result would fuse not only parametricism with modular design but also the Jordan River with the surrounding neiborhoods.

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thin brick vaulting workshop

t h i n b r i c k v a u l t John Oschendorf from MIT and other faculty from Berkeley hosted a two-day workshop to educate students on the advantage, beauty, sustainability, history and future of Gaustavino vaults. students were split into groups of seven-ten students, given three hundred bricks, plaster of paris, and two sheets of osb for a base and formwork, and only tweleve hours to build.

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bespoke bike collaborative

b e s p o k e b i c y c l e c o l l e c t i v e challenged students to study the pervasive culture of custom bike building, the predominance of bike culture in the city of Portland and a specificly the Pearl District where we proposed a solution to bring together craftspeople, community organizers, and outreach programs in a common building. the intention was to capture the essence of our study into the mass, context, and articulation of the building.

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