Portfolio 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2-3

CRAFT

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MUSIC

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RURAL GARDEN DESIGNS

10-11

PHOTOGRAPHY

12-17

URBAN GARDEN DESIGN

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FROM THE SKETCHBOOK

20-23

LARCH 300

24-25

GOOGLE SKETCHUP ART

26-29

PHOTOSHOP ART

30-33

ARCH 210

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CLOSING

View of an emptied Rattlesnake Lake bed near North Bend, revealing the corpses of trees.

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A collaboration with my father, Roger Cash, a skilled wood craftsman.

We built my acoustic guitar by hand.

Music

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BEFORE

This Page shows some experiments with stick art (above), and the cleaning up and re-purposing of an overgrown lake edge.

The trellis shown to the right was designed by my mother, Judy Cash, who inspired me to create art from found materials.

AFTER

This place in Woodinville, WA (on Cottage Lake) was my home for several years, where my passion for design originated and I began manipulating the world around me.

This was also my first experience with a community that shared a common space as there were five residential structures on several acres. What I noticed was as the gardens took shape the community changed and the garden was the feature that attracted a new group of people to the environment. I found the act of imagination and design/build to be quite satisfying. This photo shows a fountain I designed and the “house of sod� fashioned from the sod removed to create the garden areas.

Behind is a greenhouse I built which we used to grow plants for the gardens.

Where there once was a lawn, a garden emerges

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A Lake-House Garden Project Woodinville, WA

A design in collaboration with my wife Kristen Cash

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Photograph of forest in Elwa Washington summer 2009

Photograph of Happiness at the Olympic Sculpture Park

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THE MARWOOD PROJECT The Marwood Apartments in Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA) is where I currently call home. This project was my first experience with site analysis and crafting a design with sketches to propose to the building owner. The owner wanted a low maintenance solution, that has year round interest. There were many design problems to address including poor soil, transient and pet intrusion, arid conditions during the summer, low light exposure, a shoe string budget with limited choices for gaining materials and limited time to work on the project consistently.

The following pages show a progression through time. I amended the soil by sifting through every square inch of dirt by hand. I added nutrients and allowed the beds to lay fallow. I used my knowledge of building systems to design/ install a drip irrigation system. I crafted an implied river bed with local rock materials. I installed a brick border and iron fence, as well as trees and a scooped stone feature. Then I began to fill the palette I created with plants.

ABOVE: A view down my implied river-bed OPPOSITE: Several sketches from the initial stages of design, that landed me the opportunity to work on this project.

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A study of Francis D.K. Ching’s book “Architecture: Form Space and Order”.

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A sketch from a concept project I am currently working on.

I have a deep reverence for trees. This page from my sketchbook explores the diversity and complexity of their various forms, and asks: what level of detail is necessary to convey the individuality of a specific tree?

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LARCH 300 Assignment 3-D model of “Caring�.

Front side depicting mother feeding her child.

Reverse side shows the sadness experienced with death of a loved one.

This page shows a sketch from my LARCH 300 design of Campus Parkway.

This side view looks East towards campus at Brooklyn Ave. I imagine a future where the building roofs are an extension of the Earth below.

The following page shows the various models I tried out during my creative process, leading up to the final design for the Campus Parkway project.

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With this model, I imagined a huge rooftop garden at the Brooklyn node connecting all dorm buildings.

My exploration of a tunnel and large covered roof over an elevated pedestrian walkway that extends from the four dorm buildings at Brooklyn and flows directly over the Henry Art Museum Roof.

This model investigates the scale of space between dorm buildings, and the possibilities of elevated planes.

In my final version, I incorporated the rooftops of the new dorm buildings. The roofs are a potential source of rain retention when connected to a bioswale underneath an elevated pathway.

Supports could be water retention silos. Utilities and bus cabling could be incorporated into the support framework. The rain water could be re-used instead of running off towards Portage Bay.

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This model elaborates on the idea of raising a pedestrian bridge to connect the dorms with campus.

What I learned from this process is that many different ideas need to be explored and imagined, without being committed to a single design.

Collaboration and re-invention is crucial.

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For the LARCH 300 final design, I created this sketchup scene of Campus Parkway using my own forms and various elements already created and available in the sketchup warehouse.

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Photoshop is fascinating and so is endless tinkering with many different things, and settling into the dream

This is the result of an experiment using vector shapes and images I took from Volunteer Park and The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.

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One of my earliest compositions with mass/void, where I realized the value of negative space as a way of revealing form.

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Quick 5 minute sketch of hand

ARCH 210

Blind Contour Drawings

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I took the advice of JoAnne Edwards and Julie Johnson, who encouraged me to challenge myself with ARCH 210. The investigations into spatial thinking, and introduction to the Adobe suite of software have been valuable tools to add to my understanding of communicating design.

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I’ve spent years preparing for this opportunity. My path has led me here. I’m ready to jump in head first and give everything I’ve got, so that I can be an asset to the University of Washington and the world.

2012 Portfolio

2,728 mile adventure in the wild frontier.

From Seattle to Homer Alaska along the Cassiar Highway.

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Gabriel Cash