Kimberlyn Bacchus
design portfolio
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
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Kimberlyn Bacchus School
Meiji University Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA), University of Technology, Jamaica
Graduate:
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Address
Tokyo-to, Koto-ku, Aomi, 2-2-B-1223 Telephone
03-5520-6773 (Home) 070-2823-5279 (Mobile) email
kimberlynbacchus@yahoo.com
From a very young age, I have been compelled to create. Whether it’s poems, stories, comics, cartoons, decorations, flyers, furniture or even a carnival costume- once I am making something, I am truly happy. From this compulsion to create stems my design philosophy, “The Fun is in the Making”. This love of making drives me to try different, quirky ways of designing spaces and to constatnly research state-of-the-art materials for use in my designs. I am honoured to present to you a collection of my work which showcases the projects that embody my design philosophy.
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Contents
Architectural Design
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Peaktown Community
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Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Cultural Center for Youth and Sport Georgetown, Guyana
Controlled Complexity Nakano Ward, Tokyo
The Kiosk Tower Street, Kingston, Jamaica
The Village- Urban Housing Haining Street, Kingston, Jamaica
St. John’s Public Library St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
Graphic Design
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Architectural Design
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Peaktown Community Quarry Bay, Hong Kong MU: Year 1, Semester 2
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This project involved the renovation and expansion of an outdated, mixed use building complex which was typical in mid-century Hong Kong. This complex was identified as one of several which embodied the concept of a ‘city in a building’ due the myriad of functions which coexist within the buildings. The objective of the project was to solidify and improve this ‘city in a building’ concept by manifesting it spatially, thereby creating a new typology.
Oceanic Mansion Fook Cheong Building
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Montane Mansion
Yick Cheong Building
Yick Fat Building
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‘THE BIG PROBLEM’ The original design of Montane Mansion failed to take advantage of it’s desirable position at the junction of 3 major roads and at the foot of scenic mountains. Also, the building presents many difficulties for users and residents with poorly placed entrances, long, narrow corridors, tiny apartments and numerous voids which failed to perform their function as light wells and air vents..
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BREAK UP EXTRA LONG FACADE AND USE OPENINGS TO CREATE VISUAL INTEREST
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DESIGNATE RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL REALMS
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PROVIDE SHARED SPACES FOR RESIDENTS
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Residential Realm
SIZE UNITS BASED ON USER TYPE AND PROVIDE AREAS FOR ‘CONTROLLED’ EXPANSION
Controlled movement?
INITIAL DESIGN SOLUTIONS After discovering the issues with the building, several design strategies were developed to aid in improving the experience of the residents and other users. These initial strateges formed the basic framework for the proposed solutions.
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Commercial Realm
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‘CONCEPT- LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN’ A mountain is made habitable by introducing levelled terraces for buildings which are connected via stairs, ramps and bridges. This ‘mountain’ of a building will be reorganized to create spaces that are easily navigable and options for floor to floor and intra-floor movement.
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THE MOUNTAIN PATH This sloping path stretches for almost 1km throughout this ‘city in a building’ serving as the main street where commercial activity is concentrated, and where the resident community and visitors mix and meet. Several spaces along this path are provided for community interaction.
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SUMMIT DISCOVERY CENTER AND CAFE
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RETAIL PATH
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COMMUNITY CENTER
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STRATIFIED CONNECTION VIA VERTICAL CIRCULATION
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LIMITED CONNECTION (VISUAL AND DAYLIGHTING) VIA AN ATRIUM
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FULL SPATIAL CONNECTION VIA RAMP
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WHY A RAMP? A ramp, particularly one on a building scale, allows the visual and physical experience of the building to flow across floors and spaces. This gives a more accurate feeling of a street moving through a city with constantly changing functions, spaces and spatial qualities.
One Floor
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THE PEAKTOWN EXPERIENCE
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Floor plans and imagery have been selected to showcase the experience of life in Peaktown Community. Highlighted is the effect of the ramp which ties the design together and enables mixing of all users.
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1ST FLOOR
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SHOPPING PODIUM ENTRANCE
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PODIUM-TOP PARK
3RD FLOOR
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RETAIL PATH
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RETAIL PATH
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19TH FLOOR
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COMMUNITY CENTER
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COMMUNITY PATH
VALLEY RD
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ROOFTOP GARDEN AND DISCOVERY CENTER
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Cultural Center for Youth and Sport Georgetown, Guyana CSA: Year 4, Final Project
This project involved the creation of a community space using a sample from local literary works as a conceptual framework. This building is meant to serve as a hub for the annual Mashramani celebrations and as a place of gathering and recreation for the residents of Georgetown and its immediate environs. It features a multipurpose court, rooftop gardens and pool and a courtyard water feature.
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First Floor Plan Exhibition Hall
Training Rooms
Media Room/Lounge
Mashramani Hall
Seminar/ Meeting Room
Reception/ Gift Shop
Library
Staff Lounge
Service Yard
Housekeeping/ Storage
‘ONE AND THE SAME’ The form is derived from the chevrons in the country’s flag and a ‘ring’ form is made to allow the users views of activity around them making the myriad of activities at the centre ‘one and the same’.
PUBLIC TO PRIVATE FLOW The program described activities that gradually required increasing levels of privacy. The spaces for these activities were arranged from public on the first floor to private on the third floor. Each floor was also arranged in degrees of decreasing public character from the entrance to the back of the site.
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Utility Room
Power supply/ Equipment Battery Storage Room
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MIXED (PUBLIC AND PRIVATE)
PUBLIC (FREE TO CONTROLLED)
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PASSIVE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Several passive design techniques are employed in the design. These include custom cladding which allows the passage of wind while shading from the sun; roof planting which reduces direct insolation and a recycled plastic grid supported grass area that helps with stormwater removal and accessibility.
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2” ALUMINIUM FRAME
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WALLABA CLADDING MEMBERS
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ALUMINIUM BRACKETS FOR WALLABA CLADDING TM WIREWALL FENCING
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GROW MAT IMPREGNATED WITH ENGINEERED SOIL
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ROOT BARRIER
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SACRIFICIAL THERMOPLASTIC POLYVINYL CHLORIDE LAYER
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SECOND THERMOPLASTIC POLYVINYL CHLORIDE LAYER FOR WATERPROOFING
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STEEL COMPOSITE DECKING
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GRASSPAVE GRID MAT Provides support that makes grass wheelchair accessible and secures topsoil layer.
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GRAVEL SUBSTRATE Enables quick percolation of water and provides support for Grasspave grid.
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PERFORATED DRAINAGE PIPE Helps to remove excess water from Grasspave system.
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COMPACTED FILL Provides firm, level surface for Grasspave installation.
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SUB SOIL
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View of Cascading Gardens and courtyard monument.
View from the courtyard looking at the monument and multipurpose court.
Training Rooms
PERMEABILITY The ‘ring’ shape of the building also creates a series of interacting spaces that are connected either visually, physically or both. The central courtyard serves as a common factor for all spaces with direct views to and from it from every angle and at every floor. This is evident in the vignettes above showing the ability to observe persons and activities on different floors and in different parts of the ‘ring’ simultaneously.
Reception
Offices COURTYARD
Mashramani Hall
COURTYARD Multipurpose Court
Library
Reception Parking Parking
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Controlled Complexity Nakano Ward, Tokyo MU: Year 1, Semester 1
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This project involved the design of a building to fit within an urban design master plan along Nakano Street that was completed earlier in the semester. The site given for this building exists on a ‘threshold’ between the organized, large scale layout of Nakano Street and the much smaller scale, somewhat haphazard collection of buildings, spaces and paths that exist within the neighbouring Sun Mall and Fureai Road. This building’s design seeks to connect and integrate the elements of this dual-themed zone.
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SUN MALL
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NAKANO STREET
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GATEWAYS THROUGH THE ‘BARRIER’
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‘ORDERING’ STREETS BECOME ORDERING CORES
OFFICE
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ZONE ACTIVITES APPLIED TO VOLUMES
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CONCEPTN‘ORDERED CHAOS’
ELLIE ROBIN
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The building’s form stems from the intent to make it a gate between the differing themes of this zone and to mimic the loosely inferred organization made by Nakano Street, Sun Mall, and Fureai Road.
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FUNCTIONS & ORGANIZATION The main activities found in this zone are different types of commercial activity- offices, entertainment, restaurants and retail. These activities are grouped around each core, thus making the building a collection of 3 themed ‘streets’.
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LIFE SERVICES POST OFFICE BANK
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HAIRDRESSERS MASSAGE PARLORS SPECIALTY STORES
CONVENIENCE STORES FAST FOOD GENERAL RETAIL
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NELUTILIZED ‘IZAKAYA’ LANTERN PATTERN SON
ENTERTAINMENT
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The Kiosk Tower Street, Kingston, Jamaica CSA: Year 4, Semester 2
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This project was a follow up to the generation of a master plan that was carded to rejuvenate downtown Kingston. The Kiosk was designed using a tension- based structure and utilised easily found objects. These common items were upcycled to produce a simple, elegant kiosk meant for housing information and advertisements.
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UPCYCLED TELESCOPING PAINTING POLE
FORCE STRUCTURE
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3.5mm BRAIDED STEEL CABLE
The Kiosk used a very simple adaptation of a structure supported by tensional forces:
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30cm dia. CONCRETE BASE CAST WITH BOLTS EMBEDDED
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CARABINER
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EMBEDDED 15mm dia. BOLT
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300mm dia. CONCRETE BASE
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THREDDED STEEL BAR
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CYLINDRICAL HINGE
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STEEL ELBOW JOINT WITH CABLE LOOP
1- The pole pushes up the centre of the tensile fabric roof. 2- A braided steel cable ‘pulls’ the roof frame towards the weighted feet. 3- A fixed connection keeps the other side of the frame from tipping by also ‘pulling’ it towards the weighted feet.
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CUSTOM DETAILS Details were designed to accomodate the forces imposed on the frame. All other materials used in the design were recycled objects.
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The Village: Urban Housing Haining Street, Kingston, Jamaica CSA: Year 3, Semester 1
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The Village is a high density housing community project along Haining Road in New Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica. This project required organization of housing units based on accessibility levels and life stages of the users. The housing community features a courtyard garden, parking for all residents, outdoor lounge area, laundromat and commercial spaces.
COMMERCIAL
Site Section
RESIDENTIAL
Mature Families
Young Expanding Families
Transient residents
Commercial
CONCEPT The small size of the site required close attention to the arrangement of the units for the different types of users requiring housing. The organisation was based on a tree: the Mature families with experience and wisdom are the trunk; the Young Expanding families are the branches bearing fruit that need support from the trunk; the Transients are out on a limb, now budding and not ready to bear fruit and may even blow away.
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SPACE PLANNING The surrounding area showed a gradual transition from commercial to residential character from the north to the south. The residential units are arranged following this pattern and unified with a shared courtyard.
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PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN The sustainable design elements included in this design include the use of solar panels for power and water heating, rooftop water storage for a gravity fed plumbing system, deep window frames to reduce direct insolation and the use of insulated building material to reduce overall internal heat gain.
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CONCRETE PLATFORM
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EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE SANDWICHED CEMENT BOARD
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SQUARE STRUCTURAL STEEL TUBING
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SOLAR PANELS- WATER PUMPED THROUGH PANELS TO PREVENT OVERHEATING IS WARMED FOR USE
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PUMP
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OVERFLOW SPOUT
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ROOFTOP WATER STORAGE
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DEEP WINDOW FRAME REDUCES DIRECT INSOLATION WHILE ALLOWING WIND
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LOUVERS (TO PREVENT RAIN ENTRY)
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CASEMENT WINDOW (OPEN)
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COLLEGE GRADUATE
NEWLYWED
FIRST JOB
SECOND CHILD
FIRST CHILD
KIDS IN COLLEGE/ HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED CAREER
RETIREMENT
FOR EACH STAGE IN LIFE The timeline sbove shows typical milestones for the intended users of each housing unit type designed. The units align with the finances and needs of each life stage, namely Transient, Young Expanding and Mature. The Young Expanding unit has been designed to grow along with the family with areas designated for future expansion.
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AREA FOR EXPANSION
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REDCLIFF St. John’s Public Library St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda CSA: Year 3, Final Project
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This project involved the design of a library for St. John’s, Antigua’s capital city, following a detailed analysis of the city. The design required gaining an understanding of the functions and organization of a large-scale library and applying that knowledge to a challenging yet interersting site in the heart of the city.
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CIRCULATION IN A UNIQUE SITE First Floor Plan
The long, narrow site opened onto streets to the north and south but was sandwiched by buildings to the east and west. This presented a unique opportunity to make an ‘internal street’ with seating, shade and commercial activity which would attact potential users and create internal views as the site lacked attactive external views.
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SPACE PLANNING INTERNAL STREET
A library needs a myriad of dedicated public and controlled spaces for the daily functions to run smoothly. These spaces were arranged around the central entry point where circulation easily split into public and private.
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Second Floor Plan
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CREATING AN INTERNAL VIEW
INDEPEND
The lack of external views from the site posed a problem since libraries need large openings to maximise natural light. In response to this, internal views were created with the pedestrian path running through the site and with a dramatic facade (above) which doubled as study bays in the teen library (uppermost image). The timber construction used for this library required careful detailing of this facade.
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50X100mm TIMBER CLADDING
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TIMBER SHED TRUSS
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50mm GLASS SHEET
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50X100mm TIMBER FRAME
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150X100mm GUTTER
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STEEL ANGLED CLEAT
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250X250mm GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER BEAM
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100mm STRUCTURAL GLASS GLAZING
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TO UNDERGROUND WATER STORAGE
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250X250mm GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER BEAM
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STEEL COLUMN CAP WITH BRACED C CHANNELS FOR BEAMS
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STEEL COLUMN BASE BOLTED TO CONCRETE FOOTING
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STEEL PLATE TRUSS CONNECTION SITS ON BEAMS
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HEAVY TIMBER STRUCTURE Timber buildings permeate the city of St. John’s, both old and new. To honour that fashion, the library was designed as a heavy timber structure. Close attention was paid to the required sizing of members and the design of connection details. The model above was constructed to resolve the structure during the design process.
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Graphic Design
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Mavis Bank Promotional Logo 2011
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This design was done during a group design charette in 3rd Year, Semester 1 at the Caribbean School of Architecture. I used the muted greens seen in the vistas surrounding the town for the background and the mountains in the logo. The typeface is crumbly and animated to represent this traditional and tightly knit town.
R.E.L.A.Y NGO Branding and Advertising 2010
This design was done by the request of the group’s founder as a first step in establishing the group in the country. The revolving hands represent the older generation ‘passing the baton’ of knowledge to the youth of the country, which is the group’s objective.
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Zaftig Personal Project 2012
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This design originated as a doodle done in 2006 that seemed to show some promise. It was refined in Adobe Illustrator in 2012 and the name ‘Zaftig’ added. Zaftig means having a pleasantly plump figure. I particuarly like this logo and may use it in the future.
HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICES
ONG Home Maintenance Company Branding 2013
I was hired by a coworker to design branding for his startup company. I decided to try the recent trend of ‘negative space’ logos and produced the image above by subtracting the form of common maintenance tools to make the letters in the logo.
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Braided Knots Company Branding 2015
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I was hired by an acquaintance to design a logo for her hairdressing business. She wanted to highlight that she was able to style any texture of hair and so I showed the typical features and hair textures of the major ethnicities in Trinidad and Tobago in silhouette and braided the hair types together to represent the comany name.
Thank you for reading!!
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