Green_Ian Selected Works 2025 by ianogreen

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IAN GREEN T A B L E O Interests

University Of Washington

My name is Ian Green, I recently graduated from the University of Washington with my BA in Architectural Design. I am currently on my first year of my Masters in Architecture and Construction Management with a planned graduation date of 2026. I have a wide, eclectic range of interests in the design program; anything from parametric, metabolism, severe climate, or even tiny home design.

Machining and Welding Rock Climbing Photography

I hope to one day open an architecture practice focusing on ADU and tiny homes which utilize passive energy consumption and work on recycling gypsum wall board to reduce carbon impacts in the built environment.

I have a high interest in fabrication and digital fabrication. I plan to use my experience in these fields to not only further my own ambitions but to help others design and complete projects more efficiently. I have been a welder and metal fabricator for six years and stepped up to become a project manager, designing everything from aircraft engines to architectural steel work.

Design Build

Cultural Kitchen DB

The Design Build studio in 2023 focused on a cultural kitchen on UW farm to provide a gathering space for all cultures and farm activities

The Garden Ravine

A mixed-use housing project focusing heavily on FAR and maximizing units in Rainier Beach, Seattle. The project designed on modular urban gardening

Mooring Tower CYtokinesis

A study on parametric design with green transportation implements that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lowers carbon footprints

The Tree Garden

The Tree Garden is an environmental intervention in the Union Bay Area focusing on plant life, rain collection and preservation

FURNITURE STUDIO DESIGN

A collection of furniture designs fabricated over the past years. Proficiency in metal and woodworking

DESIGN BUILD STUDIO: CULTURAL KITCHEN

The Cultural Kitchen is a gathering and cooking space for large groups. The ribbon cutting occurred on June 8th 2023 after a successful release of the project. The project was built over the course of one quarter. To conform with a tight budget and timeline, the structure was build using 2x2s and chainlink fence posts with minimal concrete footings and cement board panels.

CULTURAL KITCHEN

Neighborhood Design Build 2023

The Cultural Kitchen is a gathering and cooking space for large groups. With the ribbon cutting scheduled for June 8th, this project will be designed and built over one quarter by the Community Design Build Studio, a group of UW seniors and graduate architecture students. To conform with a tight budget and timeline, 2x2s and chain-link fence posts are structural materials, with minimal concrete footings and cement board panels

Designing and Welding the Column System

Grass Hopper Sun Path Diagram

The impact diagram below,generated by using the EC3 tool, shows the material, the assembly, and ecological impact along with the possible reduction of carbon within its structure. “Conservative Estimate” is a high appropriation, given the products we chose, of the total embodied carbon, while the achievable EC is closer to 37% lower through only procurement. The axonometric diagram illustrates where in the building each component is.

This building totals 54 kgCo2e/m2. This figure is low relative to conditioned interior finished spaces which falls between 300 and 400 kg.

2,995.85 kgCo2e is equivalent to:

Garden Ravine

“Mixed-Use Housing proposal”

Program Areas and Housing

Housing: Mixed Use

Ground Floor: Bike Repair, Cafe and Bakery,

Waldorf School, Food Market Tool Trade, Roof

Top Urban Storage,Used Bookstore

Floor Plans

“A look into sustainable cargo transportation” Dirigibles have been used throughout the 1930s for transporting individuals through transcontinental travel. The Mooring tower is a resource depot that provides sustainable energy that charges zeppelins docking at the top. The tower follows a parametric design that allows smooth transportation from passengers, materials, or parcels through the eyelet and down through the service elevators. Helium and vacuum based zeppelins provide an alternative means of transportation while the Mooring Tower provides resource that is needed to help reach a carbon neutral environment.

RinCon Hill San Francisco

South Union Square

Entrance

The second mooring tower is located on Boeing 3-825, the Boeing flight testing operations location. The tower is inspired by other parametric designs such as the Cytokinesis Tower.

The design allows for maximized solar gain in winter months and provides wind tunnel shaping, controlling how wind flow travels through the building. The multiple separations in the building allow for multiple docking points for dirigibles and allows faster economic growth and sustainable practice.

Other mooring towers can be designed and placed throughout the United States and even transcontinental to reduce carbon emissions.

Grasshopper Rhino 3D

Stair way access

North SECTION Access

Solar frame for recharging and offsetting energy costs

Glass and aluminum alloy facade

Vacuum chamber diagram for mooring towers to decompress dirigibles after docking. The ability to control atmosphere from the chamber produces lift by reducing mole weight from 2g/mole to 0g/ mole and is the first carbon neutral airship.

THE TREE GARDENS

“A look into botany and spacial gathering” An intervention placed on the Union Bay Natural area located in Seattle Washington. A design based on cultivating growing plants in the area while providing a space for individuals to experience the landscape.

Exploded axonometic view

WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM THROUGH THE TOWER FACADE

Layers of Tree Towers (dome) (Platform) (Base)

Furniture Design Studio

The Design build studio is a long tradition at the University of Washington. I participated in the studio to further my woodworking and metal fabrication skills in 2022-2023.

In my chair design I wanted to focus on learning new ways to fabricate. The chair is a mixture of walnut and birch veneers, with 1080 cold rolled steel. Bronze accent members are also added to the supporting arms in a special process of silica bronze welding. The legs were from a CNC process on a water jet and then powder coated.