Justin M. Smith
DESIGN PORTFOLIO
/JUSTIN SMITH ARCHITECT INTERN/DESIGNER/STUDENT 317.696.6978 drasesmith@gmail.com www.justinsmithdesigns.com
/EDUCATION 2007-2011. Roncalli High School Graduated with Honors
2011- Present. Ball State University Bachelors of Science Architecture
/WORK EXPERIENCE Home Depot, Southport Store #2012 2010-2013 Special Service Associate
Helped customers with design issues while solving difficult order issues with contractors, developers, and owners.
Ball State University
2013-2014 Building Manager
Set up meeting rooms in the Student Center for school officials and student groups according to a strict schedule. Time management and attention to detail essential.
/AWARDS- MEMBERSHIP CRIPE Capstone Competition 2014 Individual Finalist.
AIAS Member. 2011- present. Freedom By Design. 2012- present. Community Outreach Executive. 2013- present.
Emerging Green Builders. 2011- present. College of Architecture Dean’s List. 2011. 2014 NAWIC National Drafting Competition. 2011 National Finalist.
Top Draftsman of the Year. 2008, 2010, 2011. Men’s Swim Captain. 2010, 2011. Leadership Award. 2008, 2010.
Home Depot Customer Service.
Bronze Level. 2011, 2012, 2013.
/PROGRAM PROFICIENCY Rhinoceres 4 and 5 Adobe Suite V-Ray Rendering Software Google Sketchup Hand Drafting Comcheck System Check AutoCAD Revit Grasshopper for Rhino CNC Router/ Mill Laser Cutter ABS 3D Printer
/TABLE OF CONTENTS 4-5 Hand Drafting 6-9 Folded Space 10-11 Galileo Museum 12-15 Pallet Security 16-19 Border Crossing 20-25 A+ Form 26-29 Migrant Worker House
Drafting 4th Year
HAND DRAFTING
Spring 2011 Drafting 4th Year National Competition
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The NAWIC association’s annual competition was to create a 1930’s era house with a modern interior, complete with a minimum of 7 pages of technical drawings. My packet contained 12 construction drawing pages, and I was chosen as one of the 13 national finalists, after winning both the Regional and State tiers. My design had grey water recycling, solar collection, along with an Italian style roof garden.
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Ball State First Year
FOLDED SPACE
Spring 2012 CAP 102 Paper Exercise
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The project set before us was first to develop a system of folding a piece of paper in an innovative and creative way, and then to use that technique to create a spacial experience. My challenge set for myself was to see how few cuts and folds I could perform to a piece of paper in order to still meet the requirements of a space made from folded paper.
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Muncie, Indiana
GALILEO MUSEUM
Fall 2012 Arch 201 Concept Study
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The Galileo Museum is a building focused on celebrating the scientist’s miraculous discoveries using a telescope. The central spherical building has a wide swatch cut out of it, acting as a planetarium that follows the moon, Jupiter, and Venus on Galileo’s birthday, as they are the three primary specimens in his research. The reflecting pond in the middle helps to ensure whether the visitors are looking up or down, they see the stars above.
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Indianapolis, Indiana
PALLET SECURITY
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Fall 2013 Arch 301 Material Study Group Project
Our professor presented us the project of making a security locker in his pallet garage for his kayaks and bicycles. Using the idea of recycling pallet parts, our group of three students constructed structural members out of stringers, and then made a form using same material, but tried to make organic forms. It was an interesting project that challenged us with nontraditional materials as opposed to traditional, store bought materials, and how we can test the limits of a material before we try to apply them.
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Found material
Column
Facade
North Elevation
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Garage Plan
Storage Locker Plan
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Detroit, Michigan
BORDER CROSSING
Spring 2014 CAP 302 ACSA Competition
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The competition given to us was to design a border crossing station between Detroit and Canada. The neighborhood we visited in Detroit was not pretty by any means, and was nearly abandoned. But it was one of the better neighbor hoods in Detroit. So I proposed raising the highway off the ground, and allowing for locals to have shops underneath using shipping containers as shops, such as what I had seen in other parts of the city. Instead of demolishing what little was left of a decent neighborhood, I would rather help it to flourish in the future.
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/ Public vs. Private
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/Open Customs Hall
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/ Detail Schedule 1 Conc footing with recycled fly ash /Toll Booths
2 1’ anchor bolts threaded at end 3 1’’ thick A992 steel plate cut to form welded to 2‘ dia plate(see left) 4 8’’ threaded bolts with 1’ head
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5 2x 1’’ thick A992 steel plate cut to form welded to 2‘ dia plate(see left) 6 HSS24x0.625 steel pipe
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Muncie Makes, Ball State University
A+ FORM
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Fall 2014 Arch 498 Digital Fabrication Group Project Project Manager
To design a movable installation, three of my colleagues and I teamed up with seven graduate students in order to better use our time and resources. After pitching and critiquing our proposals, we settled on these forms, which then could aggregate together, forming one cohesive project, with myself being the project manager in charge of research and electronics. The idea was that we could place them in a space, and while individuals moved them around, we were tracking them using cameras and coordinate systems. This data helped us and the gallery better understand how people move in a space.
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Prototype Evolution
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Coachella Valley, California
MIGRANT WORKER HOUSE
Fall 2014 Arch 401 Capstone Project
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Our capstone project was to design better housing for migrant ad permanent residents of the Coachella Valley, who until now had trailers with little to no electricity, and no water. I developed an environmental system that uses recycled water pipes, that is geothermally cooled on its way to the site, that then cools water as a solar chimney. This cool air is distributed throughout the house. In the winter this process reverses using a thermal wall which forces hot air into the plinth.
Solar Chimeny Effect
The solar chimney effect is when warm, dry air comes into contact with a cooler surface, forcing the air to fall. This air is harnessed, and distributed to the building. Instead of one building with well-designed air flow, my site demanded a large amount of little buildings with air flow. As this was impossible using the entire building, shown in the two top air flow diagrams on the right, instead I minimized the wind needed with solar chimneys, shown in the bottom right diagram.
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Rammed Earth
Standing Seam Metal
Recycled Wood
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Recycled Wood
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/JUSTIN SMITH 317.696.6978 drasesmith@gmail.com www.justinsmithdesigns.com