Julian Owens' Design Portfolio

JULIAN OWENS

Julian T. Owens Design Portfolio 2018

As a freshman studio teaching assistant in the 2016-2017 school year, I was able to reaffirm my passion for impacting lives through architecture.

Woodworking has always been a passion of mine, ever since I made a gate to keep my dog out of the kitchen in the 9th grade.

About Me

In August 2017, I marched in Chicago’s Bud Billiken Day Parade encouraging youth to dream big and making sure they know that they can also be an architect.

I’ve lived in 11 cities, 6 states, and 2 countries.

My career goal is to use architecture as a tool to help people.

I love basketball so much that my first design portfolio was themed after the sport.

In 2014, I co-founded Clemson University’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students. I now serve as the National Student Representative for the professional side of the organization.

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Table of Contents

Academic La Escocesa Social Center 4th Yr Undergrad Page 10 Ashley Landing: Elevated Performace 1st Yr Grad Page 24 Clemson’s Missing Art Piece 3rd Yr Undergrad Page 34 Market By Main 1st Yr Grad Page 38 4 Main 1st Yr Grad Page 48 Growth in a Barren Land 3rd Yr Undergrad Page 56 The Julian Drafting Table 2nd Yr Grad Page 60

Professional Waterfront Residence Meadors, Inc. Page 70 Master Bedroom Addition Meadors, Inc. Page 74 Fish n’ Chips Patio Meadors, Inc. Page 86

Selected Works Selected Works Page 96

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La Escocesa Social Center

Use: Community Center Location: Barcelona, Spain Status: 4th Yr Undergraduate Year: 2015 Time Frame: 15 Weeks

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La Escocesa Social Center

MAKING A CONNECTION The library is shared with the school next to the social center. The spaces underneath the school are dedicated to children, and the spaces underneath the social center are designed to promote social interaction in a library-appropriate manner.

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UNDERGROUND FLOOR

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La Escocesa Social Center

Sound Barrier A replica of an existing facade, along with a glass curtain wall, creates a sound barrier between the classrooms and the activity, ensuring comfortable and appropriate social interaction in all spaces. The movement of the floor plates and circulation force people to look at this iconic sound barrier.

Existing Structure Wide flange beams of the existing structure will be reused to define the renovated spaces. The existing front facade will remain standing, in oder to iconicly represent the building’s past.

Art Displays The spaces between the floor plates are occupied by either circulation or glass cases that function as art displays and sky lights for the floors below them. It’s also a great way for artists living in La Escocesa to display their work. There are also three private spaces located in the underground library relate to the art displays on the upper levels by being enclosed in glass.

OVERLAPPING FLOOR PLATES Spaces within the large common area containing multiple activites are organized in a way that, in plan view, resembles this sketch of overlapping geometries.

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La Escocesa Social Center

Communication with Adjacent School The L-shaped building surrounding the social center is occupied by a school. The auidtorium and outdoor leisure space are exposed to the school in order to create a dialog between the two buildings.

Sound-based Organization The program for the social center calls for a variety of spaces that produce different quantities of sound; therefore, the program is organized throughout the building based on noise production, which keeps the loudest spaces far from the quietest spaces.

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Ashley Landing: Elevated Performance

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Concept Sumar Street

This design offers a space of an urban typology that is new to West Ashley.

Situated on a site completely surrounded by heavy traffic, visitors of this space have the ability to get away from it all and enjoy the relaxing views this space has to offer, or even a performance.

While it takes the user away from the suburban rush, it still allows viewers from the outside to get a glimpse of the daily get down occuring on the site.

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Ashley Landing

Shield Exterior Space w/ Interior Spaces

Allow Exterior Space to Leak Out

Transition to Urban Scale

Create Visual Break in Urban Wall at Height of Activity

Use Site Edge Conditions to Address Adjacent Roads

Incorporate Same Curve From Edge into Overall Plan

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Site Plan

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1. Civic Building 2. Residential & Commercial 3. Residential, Commercial, Private Residential Parking

Ashley Landing

West Ashley Gateway It’s great news that the city of Charleston will have the chance to dramatically improve this key intersection, a prominent “gateway” into West Ashley from North Charleston, and a vital piece of infrastructure for the surrounding community. Our studio was asked to design possibilities for this gateway site; therefore, the civic building was given special attention throughout the design process, as it sits at the tip of the site and serves as a new landmark in West Ashley.

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The Daily Getdown

The programmatic elements introduced to the site were done so in order to ensure constant activity.

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Ashley Landing

Elevated Platform Commercial

Vertical Circulation

Green Space

Residential Unit

Lobby Space

Pathway

Level Above Elevated Platform Parking Structure

Drainable Splash Pad

There’s never a dull moment outside of the civic building because, when not in use, the exterior space transforms into a beautiful water feature.

Residential Units

The site will never be inactive because people will be living in the residential spaces.

Sumar Street Shopping

Occupants who don’t live on site have more reasons to occupy the site with the commercial spaces along Sumar Street.

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West Ashley Landmark

The building takes its shape from the adjacent roads, assuring it can address the public as a landmark should. However, it does not pretend to be anything more that it is: a civic space. From afar, it’s seen as a glowing object at the edge of West Ashley, but it also offers passing views of its indoor activity, as well as a brief view of its outdoor activity.

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Ashley Landing

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Exterior Event Space Ticket Office Administrative Office Storage Restroom Lobby Auditorium Choir Loft Men’s Dressing Room Women’s Dressing Room Green Room Audio/Video Booth Cry Room Outdoor Meeting Space Indoor Meeting Space

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Closed Louvers

Ashley Landing

Screen Private Space

A Performing Space

The exterior wall of the auditorium is composed of a mechanical louver system that offers privacy to the auditorium when necessary and a view to the public when appropriate. A perforated screen protrudes from the exterior wall of the meeting spaces above the auditorium. The screen offers privacy to those occupying the spaces while still communicating its activity to the public. The screen then continues around the perimeter of the building to hide loading area away from the public traffic.

Public Space Mechanical Louvers

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Clemson’s Art Piece Use: Live and Learn Facility Location: Clemson, SC Status: 3rd Yr Undergraduate Year: 2014 Time Frame: 9 Weeks

Concept

The premise that I chose to incorporate into my design revovled around this image of a tornado making its way through a city. The site, downtown Clemson, SC, contains an abundant amount of traditional, brick buildings.

Designing a building with tornadolike, rotating faces would stand out from the rest of the buildings around it and give downtown Clemson, SC the work of art that it is currently lacking.

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Clemson’s Missing Art Piece

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Facility Program

Commercial spaces on the first floor and residential units on the remaining floors are located around the rotating, ecliptic void that makes up the atrium.

Each residential floor contains a common space that offers a view of downtown Clemson. Each residential unit includes three bedrooms, one bathroom, one kitchen, and a living room.

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Clemson’s Missing Art Piece

In this design, I worked from the inside to the outside. It works something like a tornado, rotating from the very center of the atrium space all the way to the exterior walls of the building, with a spiralling walkway that surrounds the atrium space and emphasizes the constant rotation throughout the building.

Three learning spaces are located along the spiralling walkway, becoming larger yet more private as one moves up the building.

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Market By Main Use: Mixed Use Location: Greenville, SC Status: 1st Yr Graduate Year: 2016 Time Frame: 15 Weeks

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The proposed Greenville Market looks to attract all types of people within the Greenville community to just one city block. The central concept of the design is a large market space comprised of a mixture of traditional commercial shopping and open space for stalls used by local vendors. An axis running from the northwest corner of the site to the south serves as the main circulatory pathway through the site towards Falls Park.

Supplementing the market space are an office tower, movie theatre, residential towers, restaurants, galleries, and an amphitheater, all looking to attract the various types of people one might find in Greenville.

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Flashing Stone Paver

4" Concrete on 2" Metal Deck 4x8x8 CMU

Fiberglass Rim Clip Perforated Diffusion Hood

Gypsum Metal Stud Frame

Metal C-Stud Plywood Sheet 2" Rigid Insulation Z-Tie

6" C-Channel Grass Soil Drainage Membrane Gravel Vapor Barrier

24" O.C. 1 1/2" Fiber Reinforce Concrete Panel

Raise Floor System Housing HVAC Insulation

4" Concrete on 2" Metal Deck

L-Angle 6x4 Flashing

W10x49 Structural Beam

Hollow Structural Column 8x8

GEOPAVE OPEN GRADED BASE PREPARED SUB GRADE GEOTEXTILE AROUND PIPE

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Use: Flexible Theatre Space Location: Summerton, SC Status: 1st Yr Graduate Year: 2017 Time Frame: 15 Weeks

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Growth in a Barren Land

Use: Community Uses Location: Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria Status: 3rd Yr Undergraduate Year: 2015 Time Frame: 9 Weeks

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Growing Architecture

Using a simple template, modules can be used to create spaces dedicated to the 4 things the people of Makoko need the most, water collection, vegetation, fishing, and vending. Each of these modules can be built with tools already available to the people of Makoko. Over time, hundreds of these modules can be built along the border of Makoko, creating an hub for the community.

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Growth in a Barren Land

The Green Water System Salt Water Plant

The green water system is designed to extract clean water from plants. The water can then be used for consumption or agriculture. A plant grown upside-down will be covered for 4-6 hours at a time. Essentially, the plant sweats clean water while being covered, and the clean water can be funnelled for collection. The greatest part of this system is that the plant providing the water can produce clean water while being fed unclean, salt water.

Airtight cover causing evapostransporation In Makoko, there is an abundance of plastic barrels found throughout the slum. These barrels come from the waste of local industrial factories.

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Green Water Module

If installed correctly and maintained adequately, these systems can produce 1/2 cup of clean water in 4-6 hours every day (proven by experimentation).

Floating Well

Yielding Exchange

Wading Garden

Fishing Isle

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The Julian Drafting Table Location: Charleston, SC Status: 2nd Yr Graduate Year: 2017 Time Frame: 4 Weeks

Concept The assignment given in an “Intro to Craft” course required each student to design and build a box containing an inside volume of no more than 250 cubic inches. Those were the only requirements to be met. With woodworking being a passion of mine, I decided to go above and beyond with my box project.

This “box” functions as a portable, collapsible drafting table. Inspired by and named after the Jullian Easel out of France, the box’s inside volume is just large enough to contain an 11x14 sketchbook, pencils, trace paper, and other drawing tools. The lid of the box unfolds to reveal a seamless drafting surface, and the key used to lock the panels of the lid together functions as a T-square.

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Waterfront Residence Use: Residential Location: Charleston, SC Status: Professional Firm: Meadors, Inc. Year: 2017 Time Frame: On-going

This was a very large project that occupied much of my time at Meadors, Inc. I was involved with different components, such as details for the fireplace, kitchen hood design, etc.

However, I enjoyed working on the house’s interior stair the most because that component gave me opportunities to design and also get my hands dirty.

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Waterfront Residence

Options

The original design consisted of steel rods and cables completely surrounding and supporting the staircase on both the main floor and the floor above. I was tasked with designing different options for interior stair components and preparing those different options to be presented to the client. I designed a total of 9 options, and they all experimented with the use of both steel and glass.

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Upper Floor Stair Plan

Main Floor Stair Plan

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Waterfront Residence

Final Design

At the end of the design process, the client decided to move forward with an option that utilized steel cables and rods around the stair on the main floor and a glass handrail on the floor above, while continuing to utilize the steel components in the trough running through the middle of the staircase.

Construction

The opportunity to construct the stair components is what made the project so special, giving me the opportunity to see a design come to life outside of the academic realm.

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Master Bedroom Addition Use: Residential Location: Charleston, SC Status: Professional Firm: Meadors, Inc. Year: 2017 Time Frame: 4 Weeks

For this project, I was responsible for the following: 1. Verfiying all of the requirements for a building permit 2. Completing the client’s design 3. Producing all of the drawings required for the permit set Overall, this project allowed me to gain significant experience in client relations and the permit process, while also putting my advanced Revit skills to use.

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Master Bedroom Addition

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1st Floor Demo Plan

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Master Bedroom Addition

1st Floor Plan

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Roof Demo Plan

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Master Bedroom Addition

Roof Plan

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Foundation Plan

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Master Bedroom Addition

1st Floor Dimension Plan

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South Elevation

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Master Bedroom Addition

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Wall Section

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Master Bedroom Addition

1st Floor Power Plan

1st Floor Reflected Ceiling Plan

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Fish n’ Chips Patio

Use: Restaurant Location: Charleston, SC Status: Professional (Meadors, Inc.) Year: 2017 Time Frame: 2 Weeks I had the opportunity to work on quite a few projects while at Meadors, Inc., but, due to its simplicity, this is one of my favorites. A local restaurant was in the process of relocating, and the owner was looking for a patio design that he 1) found to be affordable and 2) could construct himself.

Signage

Privacy Wall

The original main entrance into the building was on the street facade, but the owner was looking to put a large covered patio and main entrance at the side of the building adjacent to the concrete parking lot and additional restaurant seating along the street facade.

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Privacy Wall

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Fish n’ Chips Patio

1st Floor Plan

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1st Floor RCP

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Section Through Patio

Section Through Streetside Seating

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Selected Works

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The Pantheon

Location: Rome, Italy Year: 2015 96

Old City Jail

Location: Charleston, SC Year: 2017 97

Abandoned Charleston Single House Window Location: Charleston, SC Year: 2015 98

Six Mile Library

Location: Six Mile, SC Year: 2016 99

Coffee Table

Location: Augusta, GA Year: 2016 100

Barajas Airport Structural Analysis Location: Madrid, Spain Year: 2016

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