Portfolio 2023

P o r t f o l i o Architectural Design / Personal Works

Selected Works 2019 / 2023

Prepared by Garrett Smith

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E a r l e i g h H e i g h t s F i r e h o u s e Anne Arundel Community College, Spring 2022 ACH-212, Semester Project Professor Michael Ryan 3D Modeling & Design Thesis This semester long project focused on designing a local firehouse with real world limitations provided by the Earleigh Heights Fire Department.

The center tower provides the firehouse with a unique presense thats stands out and acts as a beacon for the surrounding community. Gable roofs were utilitzed throughout the design to relate back to the residences being protected by the firehouse.

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Located inside each protruding form are bunk rooms for various emergency staff and officers. Every room is in close proximity to the apparatus bay where the fire engines are stored Within the elbow of the firehouse there is a gym, kitchen, living room, and an outdoor patio space to give firefighters an area to decompress.

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Anne Arundel Community College, Spring 2020 ACH-112, Semester Project Professor Brandi R. Shepard Model Making & Ink Rendering This project was assigned to allow students to improve their model making skills and further improve upon ink rendering abilities. The subject chosen was the Hodson House located in Annapolis, Maryland.

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In doing an ink rendering of the Hodson House I used hatching to achieve the texturing for the wooden facades accompanied by mild stimpling on metal surfaces.

When modeling there were many quirks that came as a result of the angled connections. The front window system was achieved by sloting thin strips of chipboard into one another creating a grid.

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City Through the Lens

Anne Arundel Community College, Spring 2020 ACH-112, Semester Project Professor Brandi R. Shepard Ink & Color Rendering During this course, we learned how to render using a variety of mediums including marker, ink, colored pencil.

Each student chose and city and had to render different scenes which provided me with an assortment of different material textures to illustrate.

Allegheny Courthouse, Pittsburgh

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West Park, Pittsburgh

The West Park was rendered with ink pens and relied heavily on accurate texturing to differentiate between the different vegetation found at the site.

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H a i t i H o u s i n g D e s i g n Anne Arundel Community College, Fall 2021 ACH-211, Semester Project Professor Robert R. Lowe III Digital Design This project utilizes shipping containers as a form of refugee housing. The task was to design a small Haitian refugee village comprised of modified shipping containers.

In the design unity was a major focus which can be seen in the circular organization of the compound. The compound’s core contains the utility buildings which is surrounded by the housing units.

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Each housing unit is designed to accommodate a family of four and provides a comfortable sleeping arrangement with a small closet and additional storage.

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Realistic mock-up of one of the housing units.

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In the center of the refugee compound are four large containers which have been redesigned to house bathrooms, kitchens, water utilites and other utilitarian duties

An early study model demonstrates the relationship between the outer housing units and the utilitarian core.

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S i t e M o d e l : H a r b o r P l a z a University of Maryland, Spring 2023 ARCH-400, Group Project Professor Peter Wilson Architecture Studio I The Harbor Plaza Site Model is a preliminary model which functions as a display and communication device to be utilized communally by other students.

The Site Model was constructed by a small group of students consistenting of myself and two other students.

Site context is illustrated using a combination of chipboard, foamcore, foam and wooden dowels.

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In the center of the site model there is a large hole which represents the footprint of the site plan. Students build their own harbor plazas and insert them into the hole during display and presentation.

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University of Maryland, Spring 2023 ARCH-400, Midterm Project Professor Peter Wilson Architecture Studio I The Harbor Plaza was designed in accordance with an existing water promande on the edge of a dense urban area. The plaza’s open and inviting design facilites a large variety of activites for the end user to take advantage of.

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The plaza’s open greenspace allows for each occupant to act independantly from each other despite the small site.

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The most eye catching element in the plaza is the grid pattern present in the canopy and living wall. The rigid grid elements are contained within an organic shaped trim, further relating back to the nearby urban context.

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S i t e M o d e l : A r t G a l l e r y University of Maryland, Spring 2023 ARCH-400, Group Project Professor Peter Wilson Architecture Studio I The Art Gallery Site Model is a preliminary model which functions as a display and communication device to be utilized communally by other students.

The Site Model was constructed be two other students and myself. Site context is illustrated using a combination of chipboard, cotton balls, and wooden dowels.

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Outside of architecture and

design, photography has always been a passion of mine and it is rare for me to leave the house without my camera just in case a good photo opportunity arrives.

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Shenandoah National Park, VA

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North Potomac, MD

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Loch Raven, MD

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…

It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

Aaron Siskind

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Granby, CO

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In a recent project, I and another classmate were given the opportunity to construct a site model as an aid in a firm’s project competition. The model was relevatively complex compared to recent course work.

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The site model featured eleven buildings and had accurate typography to aid in the firm’s competitive design presentation.

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