Dylan Betts
undergraduate portfolio
Dylan Betts
Education
Contact
Study Abroad Tilburg University Certificate of International Business
dtbetts@knights.ucf.edu (850) 803-6842 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-betts/
Accomplishments
IG: @into.themild Portfolio
Runner Up, Top Pin-Up Board Score UCF Pin-Up - 2019 Ranked second best Pin-Up board out of 70 candidates by a panel of independent jurors during the application process to the UCF upper division architectural design program. Acceptance to the UF School of Architecture UF Pin-Up - 2019 Accepted to the UF School of Architecture based on the review of my Pin-Up board by a panel of jurors.
https://issuu.com/dylantownsendbetts/ About I am an architectural designer concerned with smart, efficient and throughtful urban spaces. Our urban fabric plays a critical role in how we interact with our neighbors, build community, express our own individual and collective culture, raise our childern, and live happy and healthy lives. I believe in the increased human density of the urban environment in the face of the looming climate crisis, increased biodiversity in our cities, creating architecture that prioritizes public and community spaces, and in architecture that reveals the unique cultural underpinnings of each neighborhood. My work seeks to provide a framework - a canvas - on which others have the opportunity to express themselves.
Undergraduate University of Central Florida Bachelor of Design in Architecture | June 2021 Associate of Arts in Architecture | May 2019 Major in Design in Architecture Minors in Marketing, International Business
Design Jury Member UCF - 2020 Participated as a jury member for lower division final reviews in the Valencia Associate of Arts in Architecture program. Publication | “Social Media in the 21st Century” Tilburg University - 2017 Essay on the effects of social media on culture and society was selected for publication in an online journal. References
Tommy James, AIA Professor of Architecture UCF School of Visual Arts & Design Email: tommy.james@ucf.edu Cell: 772-538-5420 Ernesto L. Alonso, AIA, NCARB Professor of Architecture UCF School of Visual Arts & Design Senior Designer DLR Group Email: ealonso@dlrgroup.com Aranya Mom, AIA, NCARB Project Architect DLR Group Email: amom@dlrgroup.com Brenna Milne, IIDA Senior Interior Designer DLR Group Email: bmilne@dlrgroup.com Cell: 850-766-2732
Design VI Hourglass District, Orlando, FL
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recreating community
negotiating contexts Design VII Parramore, Orlando, FL
the kiln
Design V New Smyrna Beach, FL
mountain retreat Environmental Technology Saint-Felicien, Quebec, Canada
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RECREATING COMMUNITY Location: Hourglass District, Orlando, FL Year: Design VI Instructor: Herbert James This urban revitalization project takes place on a 242,000 sqft. lot containing a strip mall Winn Dixie and a blacktop parking lot. The site is located in the newly formed Hourglass District. The city has stated its goal for the planned development is to create a walkable, revitalized main street corridor along Curry Ford Road, which passes along the south end of the site. The project takes the existing building, plays with its form, and brings it up to the street edge to engage passers-by on the sidewalk. Rather than replace the parking lot with buildings, a park springs up from beneath the pavement to create an iconic landmark space for the fledgling district, drawing in people from surrounding neighborhoods and reinforcing their ties to the community.
bumby avenue
hourglass district curry ford road
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crystal lake drive
conway road
bumby avenue crystal lake drive
conway road
curry ford road
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residential neighborhood
Site Analysis
mixed use/commercial
public green space
curry ford road
The site originally contained a Winn Dixie and blacktop parking lot.
3|4 Herbert James | Design VI | I. Recreating Community | Render & Massing Studies
massing studies
A massing model was created around four key terms - anchor, envelope, permeate and weave.
active street edge
crystal lake drive
rotate 180°
massing studies
Massing model was rotated on site to activate the street edge.
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Master Plan
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1. activity node small gym bike retailer/repair smoothie shop activity/yoga studio green roof 2. recreation node pizzeria tap room wine bar patio seating roof deck 3. cultural node art gallery personal studio space rooftop sculpture garden
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CIRCULATION is drivien by the interior circulation in all three buildings. Access to each unit of program is granted from all sides of the building where applicable by stitching together each set of spaces around a permeable circulation.
PRIMARY SPACE in the activity and recreation nodes consist of multiple businesses woven together by the circulation pattern into a single accessible context.
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1. gym entrance foyer 2. restrooms 3. gym floor 4. smoothie shop 5. bike repair workshop 6. bike retail floor 7. storage 8. activity/yoga studio 9. roof deck 10. green roof
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9 | 10 Herbert James | Design IV | I. Recreating Community | Recreation Node | Plan & Section
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1. patio seating 2. pizzeria 3. pizzeria kitchen 4. pantry 5. tap room 6. storage 7. wine bar 8. rooftop deck
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NEGOTIATING CONTEXTS Location: Creative Village/Parramore, Orlando, FL Year: Design VII Instructor: Michael Compton
proposed program
current state
history
The introduction of an organization like UCF to the Creative Village offers infrastructural opportunity for the long-neglected Parramore district, yet must also be mindful of how it integrates into the residential fabric of the community. This intervention seeks to negotiate these two notions by creating a tower that both serves the educational requirements of a collegiate building and that stands as a symbol of integration to the residents of Parramore. Its glass facade and atrium offer an opportunity for the residents to see into their new building, revealing the program and those who use it; their neighbors and children. The 22 story building embeds itself into the vertical context of the Creative Village on the east side while gently stepping down to an inviting scale on the west side.
Analytical Timeline Posters | Render
road community program
academic program
atrium boundary
pedestrian traffic
13 | 14 Michael Compton | Design VII | II. Negotiating Contexts | Master Plan
The tower is broken up into two primary components - education and community. The residential component borders the Parramore neighborhood on the west side and is diagonally adjacent to the OCPS ACE K-8 school. The educational component is adjacent to the UCF Student Union and Dr. Philips Hall. The seven-story glass atrium connects the two while acting as a visual metaphor, funneling occupants towards downtown campus.
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY components.
CONNECT the two with a central atrium. Atrium frames view of Parramore while revealing program that would otherwise be hidden.
STEP-DOWN towards Parramore Ave. to create a street scale congruent with the two-story residential neighborhood.
ACTIVATE roof spaces to allow pedestrians to access community programming from the street without having to enter the building.
Massing & Satellite Image
fourth third
fabrication lab auditorium second floor community library first floor digital media studios community center second floor
multi-story volumes
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auditorium first floor makers space study room digital media studios community center first floor
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architecture studios faculty offices fabrication lab architecture library community library second floor
boys and girls club studio space boys and girls club offices study rooms
structure & core
floor plates
Educational programming extends across the central atrium disseminating into the community component creating a soft boundary between programmatic elements. This allows the atrium to serve as a unifier rather than a divider and encourages occupants on the community side to explore and engage with the higher education component of the tower.
15 | 16 Michael Compton | Design VII | II. Negotiating Contexts | Floor Plans
Section | Educational Program
Stepping the tower down towards the street creates the opportunity to activate roof spaces, increasing the available outdoor green space by 28,000sqft. Green space reaches down towards Parramore Ave, inviting residents to explore the verticality of the tower through public spaces. The gardens are designed to be planted and tended by the residents following the model of other community gardens in the district. Program inside the tower is accessible from each tier of the gardens and includes the community center, community library, digital media studios, gym and recreation center and public access basketball courts.
public access basketball courts aia design center community center 17 | 18 Michael Compton | Design VII | II. Negotiating Contexts | Section | Vertical Garden
second story wraps down to meet the ground creating a grassy slope for recreation
atrium interior
vertical community garden
vertical community garden
Plans & Renders
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THE KILN Location: New Smyrna Beach, FL Year: Design V Instructor: Ramona Samali The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach consists of a series of artist studios, living & eating quarters, and performance space. The redesign of this campus centered on the recreation of four artist studios each based on a key term derived from the Florida landscape. Silence, translation, kinetics and observation correspond respectively to a music studio, a glass blowing studio, a performing arts studio and a presentation gallery. Landscape analysis focused on the coastal wetland marshes - an ecosystem second in biodiversity only to the rainforest of the Amazon. This landscape expresses a profound density in both flora & fauna and in its rich, constant engagement with the senses. The organization of the studios around in a loose circle around a central void draws its inspiration from standing alone in a wetland marsh, pressed in on all sides by the constant presence of the landscape.
Site Map | Landscape Analysis
21 | 22 Ramona Samali | Design V | III. The Kiln | Site Model
Studio Model Vignettes
SILENCE
TRANSLATION
COLLISION OF FORMS
OBSERVATION
Glass blowing is an ancient art. It involves the twisting, molding and shaping of a molten mixture of sand into colorful, delicate work of art. It is a process of translation - that is taking something from one form and turning into another. The glass blowing studio itself is a testament to the work produced inside. Embedded into a hill, the form of the studio compresses and expands as it transforms up the slope, breathing in and exhaling again as it merges workspace, living quarters and a classroom in a graceful vertical translation.
23 | 24 Ramona Samali | Design V | III. The Kiln | Render
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process sketches
Floor Plans
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25 | 26 Ramona Samali | Design V | III. The Kiln | Sections
section b
hot shop
staircase structure begins on the lower level and moves with the occupant as they ascend
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MOUNTAIN RETREAT Location: Saint-Felicien, Quebec, Canada Year: Environmental Technology Instructor: Herbert James Tucked away in the hills of Saint-Felicien, Quebec, this small residence takes advantage of passive heating systems to capture and retain heat. To combat temperatures that regularly dip below freezing, the house is half sunken into the ground to take advantage of thermal properties of the stone. Large windows face south to trap heat in a direct gain system. Wood burning stoves are affixed to the exterior-insulated thermal mass walls and vented below the house, allowing the concrete soak up the precious heat. Located in a gully, the sloped rooves allow the prevailing winds to glide over them, preventing the home from being buffeted by the chilly air.
prevailing winds blocked by trees
living
master
roof overhang shades windows from summer sun
kitchen
large s. facing windows create a direct gain system
Render | Plan
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thermal mass walls with exterior insulation
sunken into ground to increase heat retention
thermal mass floor absorbs sunlight in direct gain system
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29 | 30 Herbert James | Environmental Technology | IV Mountain Retreat | Section
low-e triple glazed sealed windows trap heat direct gain system heats interior
hot air from fireplace circulates below floor increasing heat gain from thermal mass
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