S1S2S3E1
Studio I
Phenomenology Exercises
Exercise 1.1-3 engaged and challenged students in orders of perception and communication. Starting with continuous contuor drawings, continuing onto gestures with charcoal and finally tonal with charcoal, each exercise incorporated a different motif of visual language that can be used in architectural studies.
Charcoal Movement
Spectacle of Light
Charcoal Gesture
Charrette I
Charrette I is a study in the intersection of 2dimensional objects (squares/triangles/circles) and the Voids + Spaces created thereafter. The final model represents the diagram as a three-dimensional Solid/Void construct.
Charrette II
This charrette demanded students engage in critical design thinking from start to finish. Students were instructed to abstractify a phenomenom, be it natural or choreographic. The geometries from the abstraction were used to inform the design of a three-dimensional wood artifact.
Charrette III
This charrette examines the consequence of a Trabeated system of columns and beams. It also explores the deconstruction of cubic forms and the arrangement of planes. The final result is a massive model examining the spaces that arrangement of planes can make, and how that interacts with an enviroment of light.
Charrette IV
This charrette explores the inner workings of a fully trabeated 9 by 9 cube. These explorations are then used to demonstrated the consequence of colliding a fully constructed Trabeated cube with another: and the resulting Boolean construct.
Villa Nova
This charrette necessitated a critical understanding of the a given site. Students engaged in mapping out every elevation contour and tree on the site. Inspired by the precendent of Peter Eisenman’s House VI, this site and pavilion design is created with a strong motif of walls and an intesecting point where all corresponding sections of the cite flow from. The final product is called VILLA NOVA.
Parking Pavilion
Lakeside Pavilion
Studio II
The Nexus Pavilion:
The Nexus Pavilion provides a protected path near the Atrium building on Kennesaw State Univerity’s Marietta campus. The design of the pavilion is derivative of the idea of the nexus: a series of connections linking places, items, or ideas. Whether it’s campus buildings, students, or even its own structural system, the Nexus Pavilion is all about forming connections.
Parametric Development
Precedent Abstraction
Tectonic Studies
The Nexus Pavilion draws its tectonic language and parameters from the real world precedent of sand dunes. Sand dunes are masses of an inorganic and unalive material, sand. which is given character and shape by everchanging environmental factors, including wind, rain, and earthquakes.
Original Contours
Division Points
Generated Curves
New Substructure
West Elevation
Scaled to Fit
North Elevation
Scaled to Fit
Site Context
The Nexus Pavilion sits just northeast of the Atrium building on the Marietta campus. Building upon an established rest area, the Nexus will provide a new vital connection to a major sidewalk intersection in between the Atrium, Norton Hall, and the Johnson Library. This will increase access for handicapped students and provide a shaded experience for all students on a very exposed piece of land.
Scale Model
Produced at 1/8”=1’ Scale
Light Studies
The Bermuda House:
The Bermuda House is a single-family, two-story residence located in the heart of downtown Atlanta. It consists of a core 5-sided polygon represented in three major masses. There is a core living space, the collective bedroom space, and a studio space.
The Hawkes are a small family with three members: Tristan, Claire, and Drew. Tristan is a storyboard illustrator for blockbuster studio company Pinewood Studios and does a lot of work at home. As such it is essential that the Bermuda House incorporates an isolated studio space so that he can work while close to his family while still being able to separate his work and home life. The design of the Bermuda house draws from the content of his profession: storyboards. The Bermuda House is defined by three essential “frames” which have beautiful views into the interior courtyard of the home.
Client Profile: The Hawke Family
Tristan Hawke, 35, Storyboard Artist
Tristan is a storyboard illustrator and supervisor for blockbuster films at Pinewood Studios. This design accomodates him with a separated studio space.
Claire Hawke, 32, Veterinarian
Claire is the administrative manager at the Peachtree Animal Hospital in downtown Atlanta. This design features quiet spaces for her to destress from work life.
Drew Hawke, 6, Student
Drew is the Hawke’s only child who enjoys playing soccer. Safe and observable outdoor space put his parents’ minds at ease..
Adjacency Diagram
Site-Driven Design
Site Plan with Critical Site Factors
Scale: 1/32”=1’
Critical Design Elements
Perspective Sketch with Sun Path Facing Southwest
Shrink + Stack
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
South Section
East Section
South Elevation
East Elevation
Circulation
Environmental Technologies I
Material Explorations
This project serves to demonstrate an understanding of the materiality of 4 different materials: wood, foam, PETG plastic, and concrete. This unit is comprised of a set of four tiles each made of one of the aforementioned materials. The tiles were designed with parametrically carved faces to allow them to interlock. Design constraints for the parametric face include the necessity of both a positive and inverse design, a generous draft angle to allow formwork release, and proper thickness to preserve material integrity.
Final Assembly
Digital Design
Concrete Tile
PETG Tile
Foam Tile
Wood Tile
Wall Section
This tectonics exploration project demanded in-depth research into an existing precedent structure. Research and analysis included tectonics, material, and construction. This wall section demonstrates a command in both the understanding and replication of all of these factors.
Studio III
The Owl’s Wings: Watchtower
Structure Precedent
Project
THe Owl’s Wings is a project intended to provide the utility of a watchtower/ communications tower to Kennesaw State University’s Marietta campus. It also serves as a visual landmark for the city of Marietta, particularly the developments surrounding Cobb Pkwy near the iconic Big Chicken. The Owl’s Wings borrows design principles from KSU’s mascot: the Great Horned Owl. The design principles are biomimetic in nature, such that the tower’s design ponders on what makes the core components of a wing without replicating wings in of themselves.
Representative Models
PATSCENTER
Firm: Rogers and Associates
Project Partners: Mike Davies and John
Young
Client: PA Management Consultants Ltd
Time: 1985 Location: Princeton, NJ
Structure
The main structure of the PATscenter is a gable system that holds up the roof using tension in cables and vertical beams. This allows the circulation in the main workspaces to not be interrupted by columns or supporting walls.
Site Driven Design
The site offers opportunities for students to study or rest in a new environment, separate from their dorm, classrooms, and the library.
This site serves as entrance and thus herald of the Marietta campus. It should serve as a landmark for both visual/ aesthetic purposes and as a guide.
This site is ripe for entertainment opportunities. An open air amphitheater could provide that function to student and citizen alike.
Program
This site is adjacent to S Marietta Pkwy and can provide useful information to passerbys and visitors via large analog clocks or digital displays.
Biomimetics and Abstraction
Owl feathers can be categorized into groups of both Primary and Secondary Remiges. The feathers rift air to silence flight.
Owl wings are nature’s jet wings. The ratio of camber height to chord length produces optimal aerodynamics, minimizing drag and maximizing lift.
Exploded Axonometric Scaled to fit
chord
camber
Hand-drawn Floorplans
Scaled to Fit
Elevations
Scaled to Fit
Interior Perspective Looking Up
Exterior Perspective
Night with Potential KSU Advert
Concept Study
Built to Scale: 3/32”=1’
Structure Study
Built to Scale: 3/32”=1’
Final Iteration
Built to Scale: 1/8”=1’
The Instrumentality Project:
Marietta Square Art Gallery
The Instrumentality Project is an omnipresent art gallery. Featuring means of display for digital artwork on both the exterior and interior of the gallery, the artist is able to display his work publicly and privately as he chooses. Refik Anadol, the chosen artist, specializes in AI mindscapes. Through the use of the front and center RosenCube and the interior theater, the Intrumentality Project takes these mindscapes and translates them into spaces.
Refik Anadol paints with algorithms instead of paintbrushes. By feeding machine learning AI sets of data, images, or readings, Anadol is able to develop giant 3D pieces that swirl, splash, and wave at the viewer.
Artist Spotlight
example data set
“Quantum Memories”
The selected site, on the north face of the Marietta Square, already hosts a revolving collection of artwork. The Instrumentality Project will push art into the site and not let it just rest on the fringes.
The Instrumentality Project will also create new observation opportunites by displaying art at a scale and scope visible from throughout the square.
Program Iterations
Studio
Theater
Gallery
Circulation
Entrance
Streetview Spectacle Diagrams
Each iteration features a primary “street feature” that would illuminate artwork to the square.
Study Model
Floorplate Model
Cube
Dome
Curved-Wall
• Steel Rod construction with
• Plastic curtain allows exit without breaking projected images.
• Laser projectors cast moving images over all 5 faces of the cube.
Structure Diagram + Installations Scaled to fit
• High-density LED panels span the 35
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Final Model
Built to Scale at 1/8”=1’
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”
-Ernest Dimnet
Nathan Johnson