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Figures and Logics Advanced Studio
Marfa, TX
Cultural Artists Residency
Integrated Design Studio (IDS)
North Little Rock, AR
Sports and Leisure Complex
SustainabITALY
Rome, Italy
Graphic Design Exhibition
Gran Sasso Design Charette
Calascio, Italy
Mountain Bird Watching Tower
Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) AR Home Lab
Fayetteville, AR
Affordable Housing
Figures and Logics Advanced Studio
Marfa, TX
Cultural Artists Residency
In Figures and Logics, led by Marlon Blackwell and Ati Blackwell, students were given a facade out of Philip Schaer’s Bildbauten series to be the DNA of the project. The studio was charged with speculating what the building might be beyond it. Located in Marfa, Texas, this Cultural Artist Residency is critically regional, being inspired by local typology, material, and flora. To add one more layer of influence, a question was asked and answered daily: how might one occupy a skylight? The cultural artist residency provides the visiting artists with spaces that change throughout the day. The artist’s studios utilize zenithal light to transform the outside world into a distant reality. The living studios use the local ocotillo as branch screens in a transformative way that envelopes the space with its place.
Marfa, TX figure ground
Opposite Local material photos, regional photos, site sketches
Before work on the Cultural Artist’s Residency began, the studio explored inhabitable building archetypal elements. Studying and developing a skylight I used sketching, model making, and physical light studies to create a space which utilizes zenithal light to create mystery, drama, and reflection using natural systems.
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Physical model light studies
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Process sketches, perspective, and model
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Adapted Bildbauten no. 27 East facade collage
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Philip Schaer: Bildbauten no. 27, no. 27 physical model
Philip Schraer’s Bildbauten no. 27 was created using Photoshop collage. One of a series of facades created by Schraer was required to be the main facade of the building.
To learn the subtelties of the design, a physical model was made at a perfect 1:1 ratio. The only freedom the students had with adapting this facade for the artist residency was the ability to change the material of Schraer’s work. I opted to use regional corrugated steel and recreated the facade using the same techniques as Schraer.
The building uses the indigenous jacal as inspiration for the roof design. Using ancient, regional form provides multiple benefits, from shade generation, natural light conditions, material selection, and water capture systems.
Water Strategies Diagram
Luna’s jacal sketch, water capture diagram
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Exterior perspective collage
Using the same logic as the element studies, the interior spaces change throughout the day. In the living studios, the local ocotillo cactus is used as a screen door, casting changing shadows into the space. In the working studios above, zenithal light is used to transform the outside world into a distant reality, allowing artists to focus on their work in a dynamic space.
Integrated Design Studio (IDS)
North
Little Rock, AR
Sports and Liesure Facility
Integrated Design Studio emphasized learning and developing integrated architectural methods to respond to issues of typology, context, and technological suitability as sources of theoretical and developmental responses. The Sports and Leisure Pavilion used a mixed structure of concrete and mass timber that extends the public and community domains based on the integration of different communities to the city center, its green spaces, and natural landscape.
Led by studio section professor Bradford Payne, the project uses mass timber and concrete to lift the building and program off of the ground. This large move was done to safeguard and support the bicycle infrastructure in the area as well as to experientially shift the viewers focus from the city to the river front.
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Concept diagram, massing model
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Process models, process sketch
ESTABLISH DESIRED FOOTPRINT
DIVIDE FOOTPRINT INTO “BARS” DERIVED FROM NUMBER OF AXES
ORIENT BUILDING SECTIONS TO THE AXES
DIVIDE FOOTPRINT INTO “BARS” DERIVED FROM NUMBER OF AXES
ORIENT BUILDING SECTIONS TO THE AXES
MAIN LOUVER SYSTEM
8” COPPER LOUVERS SPACED EVERY 15’
SECONDARY LOUVER SYSTEM IRREGULARLY SPACED TO GIVE EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION VISUAL EFFECT AND IMPROVE SHADING ON WESTERN AND SOUTHERN BUILDING FACES
4” COPPER LOUVERS
KAWNEER 1600 WALL SYSTEM®1 CURTAIN WALL WITH LOW-E GLASS
Glulam Beam to CLT Column Connection
CLT Slabs
CLT Slabs
3 Ply
3 Ply
Glulam Beams
Glulam Beams
5” x 16”
Spaced every 2’ 6”
5”x16” Spaced every 2’ 6”
CLT Cloumns 14” x 21” Every 15’
CLT Columns 14”x21” Every 15’
Enclosed Concrete Circulation Cores
Concrete Circulation Cores
Concrete Two-Way Waffle Slab
Concrete Two-Way Waffle Slab 4’
4’
Concrete Shear Walls
Concrete Shear Walls
KICHLER 12V INGROUND CE NTE NN IAL
3" LINEAR SLOT DIFFUSOR 1/4" MUTINA PREMAVERA UNGLAZED PORCELAIN STONEWARE 3/4 " PL YW OO D TWO WAY WAFFLE SLAB
BEAMS
SUBSTRATE SUSPEN DED CE ILING SYSTEM
" PL YW OO D TONGUE AN D GR OO VE
SUBSTRATE
RIGID INSULATION
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Section model selection axon, interior rendering collage
Section model photos - 1/4” = 1’
SustainabITALY
Rome, Italy
Graphic Design Exhibition
During my time in Rome for my semester abroad, I had the opportunity to work on a team that curated SustainabITALY, a traveling exhibit. Working with the Italia GBC, we were tasked with the curation & graphic design for an exhibit highlighting Italian architecture projects that scored high on LEED. The exhibit traveled to Italia GBC headquarters, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Troy, New York, USA, and Dubai, UAE.
The studio began by individually creating separate graphic design templates, one of which would be chosen to be the template every project would use. The template design needed to have contain consistent graphic language, include data visualization of the LEED scores, and be adaptable to the differing project needs.
Gran Sasso Design Charette
Calascio, Italy
During my time in Italy while studying abroad, I had the opportunity to attend a design charrette hosted by the University of L’Aquila. Several teams were formed, being made up of students from Italy, Germany, the United States, and South Korea. Over the course of one week, each team designed a bird watching tower located in the Gran Sasso mountain range.
Bird Watch Tower
Urban Design Build Studio
AR
Affordable Housing Development Fayetteville,
The UDBS AR HOME LAB is an advanced housing studio at the University of Arkansas. Led by Architecture Department head, John Folan the studio tackles the issue of affordable housing in Northwest Arkansas, specifically for workers earning $16.00 to $18.00 per hour. Utilizing Wave Layered Timber (WLT), the housing solution aims to provide home ownership to the targeted wage earners and boost local labor forces. Every semester new students inherit the work built upon previous development. This student led, collaborative effort hopes to develop a solution for the housing crisis in Northwest Arkansas. As a part of the Service Core team, three other team members and I were tasked with the design of a centralized service core.
AR 16 Prototype Design to Income
AVERAGE WORKFORCE WAGE PER HOUR MAX MORTGAGE @ 30% WORKFORCE
DESIGN TO INCOME MODEL:
115,000 SALE PRICE OF HOME MINUS
$11,500 DEVELOPER FEES (10%)
$6,900 DESIGN FEE (6%)
$1,150 PERMITTING FEE (1%)
$85,029 CONSTRUCTION COSTS AVG. BUILD COST OF $175/SF
