'08 Architecture Portfolio by LaSalle Tippens Jr.

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c ontents - Architectural Delineation I

- Bouding Space Project

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- A Pleated Square

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- Architectural Delineation II

- DesignStudio_3501

- The Interim_Exposition

Center

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- DesignStudio_3502

- Day Labor Station on

19th and Quaker

- The Einstein Project

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- MontrealStudio_4601

- Test Place_a School of

1:1 Urban Design

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Art & Conceptual

DESIGN Studios

- DesignStudio_2401

- Black and white media - Color media

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- Architectonics

- Modular Project

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- Digital Media

- Digital Media Collage

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- Poetics

- The Pandemonium

Device

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Bounding Space Project

A study to become familiar with the spatial values of bonafide boudaries and fiat boudaries. Dimensioning every detail of my living space (dorm room) and then mapping this data developed the bonafide space. Then thereafter recording the events taken up in the living space including event time and event space. Event space is recorded through a process known as chronophotography. This spaceis visualized as the fiat boundaries.

As a result the bonafide and fiat boudaries are combined and then subtracted from the entire inclusive space leaving the interstitial space or the space that goes virtually goes untouched. This space, the interstitial, is very important in developing a spatial awareness for architecture and surroundings.

A Pleated Square Straddled between the Texas Tech University Administration Building, the Student Union Building, and the University Library lays a massive parking lot. The area is very high traffic for students as well as collegiate faculty; however, the parking lot takes away from commuter paths and hangout/lounge space for students and teachers. In response to this need, an active space comes to mind. The answer to this situation was attained via Folding Architecture. Several different folds of paper were made and several were thrown away.

By incorporating site studies such as lines, planes, and volumes, the final fold became site specific.

Folding a Campus Parking Lot

Responding to this need for transitional and active space, The Pleated Square provided quick access walkways through and shaded scenic areas in for lounging. The Pleated Square can easily be the place to lie down and read a book, throw a Frisbee or ball with friends, chat with other faculty members, or sat down and have lunch.

A Pleated Square Folding a Campus Parking Lot

Section North-South

Section East-West

The Interim In order for a building construction system to be successfull and more productive we discovered with our reasearch that networiking is the most effective step in a business. Researching the Infobox in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin and the virtual networking program 3DS Live helped in developing a concept for our project. In an Architectural Project the intergration of the different sections would allow design, construction, and legal problems to be more successfully resolved. So providing a place for the public to get involved with the progression of a building project helps them actually feel the architecture. It would provide a place for people from around and about to stop, relax, research, and network.

THE INTERIM provides an environment for the public to access an architectural project directly. It provides a place for a building project to be viewed in progression. It is equipped with an Exposition Area, Cafe, and Shop for the public. This area also provides a place for the public to experience the project virtually via virtual goggles and touchscreen monitors or projections. Then it offers places for management to oversee the project in privacy which is the Office Area. As a public-private integration, the Conference Area supplies a place for the design team to present their project on a more personal level with the public.

Program

Models Design

Command. Animate.

Submit.

Progress

-Here designers can view designs, make changes, submit files.

Information Center Enter. Point. Visualize.

People Public

Process

- Here directional information displayed on virtual walls guide one through virtual formations and separates professional and public infomation.

Professional

Open. Enlighten.

Resources

Question. Answer.

Manage. Transform.

-Here the public will be guided to rooms of project details, information, and 3D models.

-Here the participating members of construction and design are able to access, upload, and manipulate data.

Construction Build. Update.

-Here find pictures, site and building information. Find contributors to project.

-Here construction managers and workers can view and order construction techniques.

Process Precedence

Interactive Model

Prints Legal

Document. Verify.

-Here check building codes, property documents, and ensure building design.

Documents Codes

The Interim

Plan B B'

+ 2.25

+ 2.25

Entrance

Plan A A'

+ 2.25 1.49

1.00 1.20

+ 1.0

2.01

1.59

+ 2.25

Media room

Lobby

3.71

2.30

2.18

Media room

1.77

Office Space

2.11

B

Desk

Office Space

B

1.03

Workstations

+ 2.25 + 2.25 1.02

1.26 0.92

Entrance

1.59

+ 2.25 1.00

+ 2.25 1.00 1.20

B'

2.01

1.24

Office Area

+ 1.0

+ 2.25

2.24 0.50

Shop 1.54

Plan C

1.40

C' 1.00

A

1.38

Exposition 1.30 Space

Cafe

0.60

1.80

1.40

A 2.40

1.20

+ 2.25

+ 2.25

1.20

1.40

1.24

1.00 1.26

1.24

+ 2.25 1.62

1.00

0.99

2.48

0.99

+ 2.25

2.01

1.80

Men's

0.70

Women's

+ 1.0

0.76

3.98

2.00 3.75

Meeting Room

C 6.66

C

Large Conference Room Small Discussion Room

1.77

6.63

MEP 1.59

+ 2.25 1.00 1.06

MEP

A'

Exposition Area C'

Conference Area

2.21

+ 2.25

Prefab Roofing Units

Rubber Compression Seal

Narrow Rib Metal Roof Deck K-Series Truss Bearing Length .065m x .065m

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Section A-A Custom Prefab Roofing Unit

Side Elevation: Back View

Bearing Length .065m x .065m

Trusses Provide Room For MEP Custom K-Series Truss 8K3 .20 Deep K-Series Truss 16K5 .41m Deep Spaced 1.0m o.c.

Custom Side Truss W-Section Steel Member .24m x .24m

K-Series Truss 24K9 .61m Deep

Side Elevation: Front View

W-Section Steel Member .24m x .24m K-Series Truss 8K3 .20m Deep K-Series Truss 24K9 .61m Deep

AlumaFloor Prefab Flooring System 1m x 1m Panels

Custom Side Truss K-Series Truss 16K5 .41m Deep Spaced 1.0m o.c.

EPS Foam Insulation Layer Under Finish Flooring

Side Elevation: Right View

Concrete Pier Foundation Concrete Floor Slab .064m Thick Over Narrow Rib Metal Deck K-Series Truss 24K9 .61m Deep

Ground

Side Elevation: Left View

Day Labor Station on 19th and Avenue Q

Provides a place for people whom do not have daily jobs to come and have a sheltered space to advertise their capabilities and skills. It is not an elegant building strickly because it needs to stand but be in the context of the area.

Being in East Lubbock, I used metal materials (corrugated steel, perforated metal, steel) all around so it stand well against damage. The perforated windows allow light to fill restrooms evenly throughout the day. I chose to use only garage doors for entrances because of ease of use and security. The station also has a spot for vendors to sell food- plenty of preparation space and room for a barbeque grill or stand.

ORDER HERE!!!

8’-6”

18’-1”

ENTER COVERED AREA

VENDOR STATION: room for grill or small vendor trailor

21’-2”

COVERED WAITING/RESTING AREA FOR DAY LABORERS

ENTER TO RESTROOM

12’-1”

ENTER VENDOR STATION 11’-0”

WOMEN’S RESTROOM

MEN’S RESTROOM

22’-0”

The Einstein Project Rest/Pause/Break

Museum/Luxury Apartments/Funiture Store

A space in between sound/noise/activity; although there is no sign of activity, time continues to count away. A change in flow but also plays a part in the overall composition of a piece/experience/work. The unique quality of space in between sound/noise/activity is that it is not dead space. If it is not dormant then what is in this time of unseen activity?

Einstein. He obviously was one that did not leave an idea unthought-of. At times he was not presenting his ideas and when he seemed to be inactive, he was actually developing and testing all of his ideas and theories. Being such a busy man how did he find the time to do this with all the activity surrounding him? He simply took a timeout – the time he separated himself from the busy life that was around him. He worked at the dead hours of the night, in secluded areas, at times he knew or made known that no one would disturb his devoted thinking and testing. Perpetual thinking.

[Viertelpause.]

Einstein played the violin for leisure so here are DIAGRAMS of musical notes arranged by spatial attributes according to physical space.

The Einstein Project 1 MEC 2 Hermiller Miller Retail Sublevel 3 Eistein Museum Lobby 4 Herman-Miller Retail Main 5 Einstein Museum Gallery Space 6 Small Theatre 7 Apartment Main Lobby 8 Small Cafe 9 Vertical Transportation Core 10 Kitchen Area 11 Living Room 12 Balcony 13 Master Bedroom 14 Small Bedroom

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Top of Roof 93’-8”

SECTION A-A Level 7 82’-4”

Level 6 71’-0”

Level 5 59’-8”

Level 4 48’-4”

Level 3 37’-0”

Level 2 25’-0”

Level 1 12’-0”

Ground

Top of Roof 93’-8”

SECTION C-C

SECTION B-B Level 7 82’-4”

Level 6 71’-0”

Level 5 59’-8”

Level 4 48’-4”

Level 3 37’-0”

Level 2 25’-0”

Level 1 12’-0”

Ground

Test Place

Place D’ Youville has undergone several transformations in its 300 hundred years of existence. The site has been in many different configurations and done many different things in service to the city.

It has been a meeting place just outside the city walls, a river beside the city, a canal around the city, sewage under the city, a market on the edge of the city, the parliament centering the city, and a parking lot in the middle of the city.

Adjacent to the test place, which is nothing more than a surface for play, a building towers up to fill in the missing link in the urban wall. This building serves as a facility for design, urban design; Test Place: a School of 1:1 Urban Design.

In this school of urban design we will teach students by way of design/build. The school will be hands on full-scale urban design projects. We will accept student every two years. The first year of school will be for learning about urban design and the second year for building. It hosts all the equipment a student needs to undergo a design and build their project: space for class- studios and lecture, offices for consulting teachers and professionals, gallery space for presenting project to professors and public, observatory decks (extend over site) to overlook site and projects, library and media space, lounge and cafĂŠ, and temporary living. Professors, professionals, and studios are directly connected to drive the urban project, test place. In studios, professors work with students in creating urban designs for the test place. In the classrooms, students learn history of urban design and relating subjects. Professionals of different construction techniques will directly help groups of students in building a temporary structure, such as scaffolding, for their design for the Test Place.

a School of 1:1 Urban Design

Test Place a School of 1:1 Urban Design

Test Place a School of 1:1 Urban Design

+ 64 m

+ 46 m

+ 36 m

+ 28 m

+ 15 m

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+ 64 m

+ 46 m

+ 36 m

+ 28 m

+ 15 m

+ 0 m a.s.l.

Campus Sketch Medium: Graphite Pencil In 20-25 minutes, to create representational sketches of buildings around campus. To show awareness of proportion, form, structure, and depth by line weight and shading.

Scale Drawing and Orthgraphic Medium: Graphite Pencil Projection Using pencil as a measuring mechanism, draw chair to scale as accurately as possible being aware of proportion and structure. Then on grid paper do orthographic projection to scale.

Ranching Heritage Center

Sculpture Garden

Medium: Grey Marker, Micron Pen, Color Pencil

Medium: Grey Marker, Micron Pen

To establish a good drawing working from a photo reference that exhibits perspective and proportions. Then, with grey markers, create values, contrast, and transitions while maintaining structure. Finally, go in with micron pen and color pencil to sharpen and add detail.

After several sketches, to design garden using cubic shapes.

To establish good composition taking shapes and repeating, shifting, and rotating. To cast shadows from these objects to show light source and how these forms interact in environment.

Color Sketch

Black and White Reproduction [Copy of Ripley]

Medium: Graphite Pencil, Watercolor, and Color Pencil

Medium: Watercolor and Miron pen

In 25 minutes, to establish an fairly accurate drawing that show proportion, perspective, and structure. Then, add color and values using watercolor but also maintain structure of the drawing. Lastly, to sharpen and add small detail using color pencils.

To make transitions and create values using only the black watercolor. This piece was to introduce the many transition that can be achieved with watercolor. Also, this piece emphasizes the maintaining of structure while incorporating the loose quality of watercolor.

Car Study_show of wheels [Fairfield, Tx]

Self-Portrait

Medium: Watercolor, Color Pencil, and Air Brush

Medium: Watercolor and Color Pencil

After several outside sketches, to establish a drawing that exhibits understanding of perspective and proportion. To study the reflective quality of paint when hit by light by using watercolor while maintaining structure. To show understanding of composition by placing car in a fully rendered environment.

After several sketches and work from a photo reference, to create a drawing that maintains proportions. To study the variations of flesh tones in light source to establish forms . Also to show structure using watercolor and to make portrait seem as life-like as possible.

Color Sketch [TTU College of Architecture]

Fenestration Study

Medium: Color Pencil

Medium: Watercolor and Color Pencil

After several outside sketches, to establish a drawing that exhibits understanding of perspective and proportion. To study the reflective quality of paint when hit by light by using watercolor while maintaining structure. To show understanding of composition by placing car in a fully rendered environment.

To establish an under drawing that shows the understanding of 1 pt. perspective and structure. This study shows the control but loose approach to watercolor. It also exhibits the maintaining of structure while creating contrast in values and harmony of colors. Shows how perspective continues through reflective surfaces.

Sky Meets Built Form [Church in St. Louis, Missouri]

Micro-Study

Medium: Watercolor and Micron pen

Medium: Watercolor and Color Pencil

Developing a 2 pt perspective by understanding proportion and composition. This piece shows how the two color gradation sky envelops a structure and how the structure comes forward from space by means of perspective. Shows the maintaining of structure, form and color while creating depth and values.

Studying the finest of details of objects very closely and then creating a drawing based on accurate perspective, proportions and good composition. This piece incorporates different textures techniques such as flat wash, dry brush, and scratching. This piece also shows reflective surfaces, as well as a rust look.

Modular Project After doing several sketches and submitting proposals to TA, To explore the volumetric space contained within a cube and order panels at perpendicular positions in this space. From working in metric scale of the Modular System stretch imagination and spatial dexterity, and build 3-d model exploring several volumes, voids, materials and jointing.

Digital Media Collage

The Pandemonium Device A mere particle in nature How it is positioned on a surface.

Come closer, closer.

Feel free to partake in a journey Of structural phobias in complete asunder.

Juxtaposition, warp, pleat, fold, bend.

Persevere, for it is only a tangible dream Of subjects and ideas causing great paranoia.

Disentangle and no longer an object of perplexity Move through, progress in this nightmare of Paragon. Only ideas are solid in this calamity.

And confusion the provider of energy.

Nothing is conspicuous without puzzling the mind.

1. wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.

2. a place or scene of riotous or utter chaos.

The Pandemonium is a place Where ideas go to be tested.

And where confusion is success, For bewilderment entails curiosity.

In this place ideas are unyielding, adamant And can be moved, positioned, deformed, and entangled without restraint.

Questioning ideas is the ultimate Goal; nothing more, and surely Nothing less.

A mere particle in nature How it is positioned on a surface.

The Pandemonium Device

The Pandemonium Device

The Pandemonium is a place Where ideas go to be tested.

And where confusion is success, For bewilderment entails curiosity.

In this place ideas are unyielding, adamant And can be moved, positioned, deformed, and entangled without restraint.

Questioning ideas is the ultimate Goal; nothing more, and surely Nothing less.