FrameWork
For The Birds
Joinery
Fargate P30
Reciprocal P34
Craft
FrameWork - ARCH 3500
Clarissa Mendez
Joshua Graham & Taj Blair
Framework is a study of the urban workplace in Chelsea NY. The high-rise building is located next to The High Line and has eight floors dedicated to both work and play, as well as public roof access space to allow for gatherings. Each floor is split into two interior spaces connected by an open air walkway, this allows one to step outside for some fresh air no mater what floor they’re on. The ground floor plaza is open on all sides to allow fluid public access with spaces for events. On the southern side of the building there are set backs that allow sunlight to reach down to The High Line, these spaces have balconies with wonderful views of the city. The geometric facade creates multi-use interior spaces with abundant natural lighting and sight lines.
Starting Mass
Lift up to create plaza on ground floor
Split into two masses to create walkways
Add floor plates
Pull back floors to create setbacks
Cut through walkway to allow more sunlight to hit the Highline
Add support structure
Pull windows to create geometric facade
Add core
Journey - ARCH 3520
Bradford Watson
Joshua Graham
Journey explores how one can be fully immersed into nature while still in an urban setting. Designed as a nature education center near Union Pier in Charleston SC, it combines nature education with outdoor civic space. The path beside the building provides outdoor spaces for classes or to relax. It opens up to views of the harbor and then wraps back around and onto the green roof, intentionally blocking views of the city before entering.
My pathway is designed to allow an escape from city life by surrounding one in nature. It gives access into the building from the street or the ability to take a quick journey out of the city before coming back into the educational space.
Concord St
Concord St
S Market St
Large open civic space to invite gatherings in learning spaces
Long elevated green-way to provide a journey into the building
Spaces on green-way to provide outdoor educational spaces
Occupied green-roof that provides new views towards the cooper river
Trees and vegetation planted in setback provide different moments while inside the building and help minimize the vertical scale
Large frontage to concord street to hide parking
Printed - ARCH 4520
Edgar Mozo
Joshua Graham
Printed is a 3D printed community for the homeless and less fortunate. Designed for The Initiative 99 Competition by Icon, based in Austin TX. Each building is comprised of seven single bed units that are offset to create semi private patios. Lifting the fronts of the units create butterfly roofs that allow for rain water collection, as well as aiding in the chimney effect for passive cooling. Clerestory windows located above the bedrooms allow for natural lighting through the unit. These buildings are then placed in a radial pattern to create centralized multi-use greenspaces or amenity centers.
Total Buildable Area
The build plate has a total volume of 12’x28’x100’
Maximum Unit Area
A maximum area of 396 sqft is allowed to stay under the $99,000 maximum, we can fit multiple on the build plate to minimize costs
Shifting
We shift each unit as to create spaces between units for patios or storage
Extrude
We extrude each unit up to the maximum build height of 12’ to fully utilize the buildible area
Pull Down
Pull the back of each unit down to the minimum wall height to create interesting unit shape as well as utilize the chimney effect
gather and collect water, as well as have area for solar panals.
Roof
The roof slope inward to
5’
For The Birds - ARCH 3520
Bradford Watson
Joshua Graham & Sheldon Johnson
For the Birds is a nature observation area designed for Brittlebank Park on the coast of the Ashley River in Charleston SC. The design aims to provide shelter and a nesting area for the birds in the area. The base of the structure helps passively filter the water of the Ashley River by providing a hard surface for oyster beds to form. The boardwalk is designed to be narrow to create a more intimate experience with the surrounding wildlife, and to lower human impact on the birds nesting in the structures.
For the Waiting Birds
2,564 oysters x 50 gallons = 128,225 gal./day x 365 days
46,802,125 gal./year for 1 structure
3 x 46,802,125 = 140,406,375 gal./year
1 structure has 106 sq.ft.
1 oyster needs 659 sq.in.
1 structure can hold 2,564 oysters
1 Oyster lters 50 gallons
The oysters lter the water, which creates a cleaner and safer space for sh /crabs. These sh/crabs will then attract birds. This will give us the opportunity to create a space for human interaction.
CLEAN WATER!!
Cleaning the water will allow for both swimming and an overall healthier environment.
Being that it is a natural ltration system, it allows for low to no upkeep in it’s function.
This gives us the opportunity to currate a human-made natural ecosystem.
Structures will also provide the opportunity to either help strengthen and add to the existing oyster population in the current environment.
In the future, a larger oyster population will exist that will be able to clean any body of water naturally in a short amount.
Fargate - ACCelerate 2022
Dr. Winifred Elysse Newman, Dr. Brygg Ullmer, Dr. Sida Dai, & Timothy Shan Sutherland
Joshua Graham & Kyle Kane
Fargate was a collaborative project between the Architecture and Computer Science departments at Clemson. It was designed to physically and digitally bridge people, places, and content through the use of multi touch screens and interactive paper. The project was displayed at the ACCelerate festival at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Here, the Fargate was used as an information kiosk.
Kyle and I were the design/ build team for the supporting structure. My design allowed the screens to be usable by anyone no matter their height or accessibility need. The structure created a comfortable working area for multiple people at once. We used aluminum signage material for each fin, and used threaded rod with spacers between each fin to compress them together.
Photo credits to Dr. Newman
Photo taken by me
Reciprocal - ARCH 3510
Joel Brown
Joshua Graham, MG Wolf, Tank Ford, & Kiese Blake
For a design/build studio our team was tasked with creating a wooden dome that could be cut out using a CNC mill. After many joinery iterations we decided to use my reciprocating system. Three pieces are laid overlapping, each being supported by one another. After milling the pieces out of poplar boards, we assembled the dome at the Clemson Lee hall court yard as a temporary installation. We were able to construct the entire dome easily in roughly 3 hours.
Joinery - ARCH 3510
Joel Brown
Joshua Graham
The next two projects were part of the same design/build studio. Our main focus was on wood as a material, and wooden joinery. The wooden mallet was a quick one week design project learning the basics of wood joinery through the mortise and tenon joint. The handle was required to be designed ergonomically for the user and the mallet head needed to be balanced.
Since this was the first time many of the students had been into the wood shop, a majority of this project allowed us to get acclimated with the equipment and tools.
Joinery - ARCH 3510
Joel Brown
Joshua Graham & Kiese Blake
For the second project we were tasked with creating a prototype chair out of pine. It was required to have; three legs, a place to sit, a chair back, backrest, and optional armrests. Each of these had to have their own joinery, and when completed the chair had to hold at least 250 LBS. We were given total creative freedom as long as we met those criteria.
On this project we were also limited on material. Each team was given three 2x8 boards and was required to use only two of them, with the third being a backup in case a piece broke. The entire project was an in-depth study of additional joinery concepts, grain direction, and planning out a project for efficiency.
Photo credits to Kiese Blake
Front Elevation
Joshua Kiese Scale: 1"=3"
Joinery - ARCH 2510
Timothy Shan Sutherland
Joshua Graham, Taylor Long, & Harrison Underwood
The bamboo project we were tasked with designing and building a small shade structure out of bamboo. We studied bamboo joinery and construction methods to find the most efficient process to build our design. We used a modified mortise and tenon joint for the majority of our structure and added lashings and dowels to joints that were at an angle. Our team’s design was a tall, ruled surface that allowed for cloth strips to be laid over and create shaded space for studying or relaxing. After the project was over we were able to recycle the bamboo and use it for more projects and join demonstrations.
Craft - ITC
Brian Leounis
Joshua Graham
These next few pages showcase three projects I made in Intro to Craft, a class offered during my study abroad in Charleston.
The first project was a string art board. Each of us came up with an idea or algorithm to wrap the string into a complex pattern. The whole project was designd to teach us to follow through with meticulous tasks.
The second project was a reed pendent lamp. Reed is a material that none of us had used prior to this class so we were able to study how to use it properly. I found that soaking the reed allowed me to braid it and use it as structure for my lamp.
The third project was a small piece of furniture. We had complete creative freedom as long as it contained two materials and used no hardware for the joinery. I designed a table that was CNC’d and waffled together which allowed me to sandwich in pieces of acrylic for the table top.
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