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KYLE JORDAN SMITH Los Angeles, CA 518.701.3079 kjs2@clemson.edu www.kylejordansmith.com
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
2014 Awarded
B.A. ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Minor, Architecture State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
2011
Niskayuna High School, NY
2006
ELECTROLAND Fabricator, Los Angeles, CA
2013 May-Aug
Assisted with managing on-site construction and fabrication of a large interactive installation for DirectTV’s new headquarters in El Segunda, CA. The project was completed under the direction of Rome Prize architect Cameron Mcnall and media designer, Damon Seely. The construction and design team was multidisciplinary inclusive of architects, artists, welders, programmers and electricians. CANNON DESIGN Human Resources, Washington DC and Baltimore
2012 Feb-Dec
During a year leave from graduate school I performed sole human resource functions for the Washington DC and Baltimore offices of Cannon Design with advisement from our corporate office. Reported locally to Operations Leader. Recruited for constantly evolving talent needs, designated candidates in talent management system, handled daily office issues, mediated personnel issues, interviewed candidate prospects, organized and edited performance reviews, assisted with layoffs, advised employees on benefits and policies, provided direct assistance to operations leader and regional principals where needed. I left to finish graduate degree at Clemson University. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Graduate Assistant (merit-based scholarship)
2011
Assisted administration at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston in daily tasks.
SKILLS
Rhino 5 and Vray 2.0 rendering (preferred tools) Grasshopper (basic, actively exploring applications) Autocad Sketchup Adobe suite (Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, AE) Model Making Laser cutter operation & basic CNC knowledge Fabrication and woodworking Human resources (recruiting, benefits, mediation) DSLR video expertise and Glidecam operation Film editing/post processing
2007-2014
CERTIFICATIONS/ AWARDS
California OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety Certificate
2013
Co-Author/Conference Submission Learning with CyberPLAYce, a cyber-physical learning environment for elementary students promoting computational expression CHI EA ‘14 CHI ‘14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2579478 *National Science Foundation funding pending
2013
Associate AIA Member
2014
3rd Place (19 teams) Comprehensive Studio Competition, Clemson University
2014
Graduate Assistantship: Tuition waiver + hourly pay
2011
REFERENCES CAMERON MCNALL, RA Principal, Electroland Mobile: 310.990.3364 DAMON SEELEY Principal, Electroland Mobile: 310.594.5248 JOSE M. SILVA, AIA, LEED Principal, Operations and Practice Leader, Cannon Design Office: 703.907.2300
D e s ig ne r & F a b r icat o r I’m a designer interested in contributing to beautiful and functional work. I hope to make a living in the design industry as an architect, fabricator, or product designer. In my free time I enjoy collaborating with others on new products and creations. I received my Master of Architecture degree from Clemson University in May of 2014 with a certificate in Digital Ecologies. I will be available to work in Los Angeles beginning in September. I look forward to working with you.
Master of Architecture | May 2014 Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities B.A. Environmental Design | May 2011 Minor, Architecture State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
C o n t e nt 1 | Architecture 2 | Models & Fabrication
A R C HI T EC T U RE
CAC.C A new facility proposal for the Clemson Architecture Center of Charleston. With an architect selected and site purchased, our studio was challenged with creating proposals that could accomodate the needs of a growing program while existing within the historic fabric of Charleston, SC. A prior attempt by Clemson to build in Charleston ended in public rejection of the project. This proposal responds to the massing of surrounding historic structures while incorporating modern materials and construction techniques. Size: 26,000 sq ft Program: Studios to accomodate programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Historic Preservation; Fabrication Shop; Administrative Offices; Large Community Space; Conference/ Meeting Rooms.
HINGE. HINGE is a project addressing the need to provide a live/work business incubator for the Greenville, SC community. This relatively new building typology gives residents of the building access to adjoining professional office space in order to be intimately connected to their new start up. The concept of the hinge was used to connect the adjoining greenbelt with the living and work spaces. “Hinging� between these spaces was both a poetic and practical way to begin the organization of our major programmatic elements and circulation. Size: 29,000 sqft Program: 28 residental units, 30 private offices, large multi-purpose space, cafe.
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kroc tennis complex
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falls park
cleveland park
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
flashing EPDM cant cover board
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CLT roof panel
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Kawneer mullion system double pane glass .25” thick 1” air barrier
CLT wall panel
custom steel angle 4”x 5.5” 1” extruded polystyrene r-value of 5
2” conc. poured in place finished floor
2x 8 finished with poly.
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8” cmu block poured grout with rebar
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precast 1’x1’ conc. beam with rebar
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Kawneer mullion fixed window hinge
precast conc. 8” hollow core floor slab with prestressed steel rebar
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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operating box
1”x2” steel tube mullion closed position
1’ alum. grate water drain
2x12- polyethylene
trombe wall system
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Feedback/Straightjacket
Feedback/Straightjacket is a project born out of the need to rethink the way in which we process immigrants to our country. Specifically, this project addresses those seeking asylum at Los Angeles International Airport. Defining elements of the building include interactive and individualized units, water storage and reservoir, and continuous movement of individual units. The intent and goals of this specific project were to improve upon the ethical treatment of those seeking asylum in our country and to utilize the size of the site to make use of limited resources - all while increasing the efficiency of the asylum process. Individualized units move through the building at a rate dependent on the status of their legal case. There are 3 primary zones - the last of which is designated for long term cases. At the end of the legal process asylum seekers will be transported with their individual unit to a settlement location.
RESERVOIR LEVEL >18-20 million gallons: December, January, February >15-8 million gallons: March, April, November >10-15 million gallons: May, October >06-10 million gallons: June, September >0 -06 million gallons: July, August
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FAITHSPACE Research/Writing Sample:
Independent study to examine and map the decline of church communities (and structures) within the city of Buffalo in relation to changing mechanisms of charity within our country. Proposal speculates future uses of abandoned churches in Buffalo and maps current/future declines of its communities on the East side.
CONCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT
LINEAR DEVELOPMENT
LIGHT URBANISM Temporal, but organized. Until settlement patterns can be better defined, small organized communities will center around the former faith based institutions. Once patterns are established, more collective and permanent developments can be made.
THIRD WORLD ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Patterns of development will be defined by constant change and temporary structures. The church will remain the epicenter of respective communities. Residents will return to more agrarian methods of survival.
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in the calm...settlers spread
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The impact of faith based institutions within distressed urban communities has become increasingly obscured and replaced by pseudo-government/political institutions and corporate structures. It is not disputed that church consolidation on scales both large and small have some effect on their respective communities. What is disputed, and perhaps justly so, is how these churches should be used in the future. The debate is both a human issue and a theological one. Terms such as “social justice” and “community” have long been associated with the mission of the Catholic Church; in part, the Catholic Church has helped define what these terms mean to Americans. The meaning and interpretation of these words, however, has gone through an evolution – people’s perception of community and social justice has not changed, necessarily, but the mechanisms by which they are accomplished have. “Even those who do not think civic life is in decline feel that people’s style of commitment to social institutions has changed and, as a result, institutions themselves have become restructured.”1
1. Edgell Becker and Pawan Dhingra, “Religious Involvement and Volunteering: Implications for Civil Society,” Sociology of Religion 62, no. 3 (2001): 318. 2. Nile Harper, Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Be yond Charity Toward Justice (Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999), 299. 3. Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin and Ronald Thie man, Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare. Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000) 84.
Historically, the urban catholic community provided necessary services and goods for those under its geographic influence. Members of the church community had an active role in charity and ensuring “social justice.” Over time, however, this type of active participation changed, and increasing separation between the institution of the church and social justice occurred. Gradually, there was a transition toward charity meaning simply the giving of money to support organizations, which were expected to provide aid to those who needed it. In this process, services --- food, shelter, clothing, counseling, health care – were provided to people in need, who became clients, by social workers, who became professionals. This developed on a massive scale in the public sector through government bureaucracies, and on a smaller scale in church-sponsored social service agencies. The operative motivation became service…The goal became the providing of social services to needy people on a regular basis in an efficient, coordinated manner.2 In short, there was a shift from “social justice” in the personal and participatory sense to “charity” in the corporate sense. The difference between the terms charity and social justice is important to understanding how this shift manifests itself in very real physical forms. Mary Jo Bane, author of Who Will Provide describes justice as being “not a univocal or unambiguous concept that can be simply compared to charity. Conceptions of justice differ in the degree of valence that they attribute to a principle of entitlement or to a principle of equality of opportunity.”3 In essence, the realization of social justice involves processes far more complex and demanding than charity or welfare – it involves community.
CHARITY MODEL: CURRENT
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PUBLIC GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES STATE
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Professionals Those distributing services/goods become a part of the paid service industry A major shift from the voluntary (or freely participatory) goodwill of communities.
Clients Those receiving services/goods become a part of an economy of charity. Often no personal connection to source of assistance -limited accountability.
M O D E LS A N D F A B RI C A T I O N
ACRYLIC MODEL: LAX IMMIGRATION FACILITY A 6ft long acrylic model representing basic elements of a proposed facility for asylum seekers arriving through LAX. The assembly consists of 6 ft steel rods, 1inch plastic spacers, laser cut acrylic layers, and cap screws (holding the model together with compression). The base (ground) of the model was created by spltting the rhino model into dozens of sections and converting those sections into 2d laser cut files. This particular assembly allows for the appearance of an all acrylic model without all of the mass (and cost) asociated with such models.
SECOND SKIN The proposal for this project was born out of the need to resolve and accommodate diverse positions of two human bodies. Using modular components angled at various degrees we were able to create a structure that could bend, move and conform to several different scenarios. Using only two 4’ x 8’ sheets of plywood with little waste, we were able to create a flexible, but structurally sound piece of sculptural furniture. Fabrication required custom made brackets cut and rolled out of sheet metal, hinges, and standardized assembly. Through this process, we were able to assemble the entire project in one day after fabrication was complete.
HINGE. COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO MODEL SERIES A series of models representing various aspects of a live/work facility. These models were used to show programmatic and structural elements of the facility.
Museum of Temporal Art Model As part of a larger architectural proposal, this model served as a working prototype for a temporal gallery space. In the larger scheme, several of these structures project from a permanent collection building and house diverse and fluid collections chosen by the community. They establish a new museum typology based around community input and reject the notion of a static museum. The base is comprised of nearly 400 pounds of white hydrocal. The molds for this hydrocal base were fabricated out of MDF since it is highly rigid and tolerant to moisture. A rod system runs through the base with spacers to hold each base section together with compression. The bottom of the molds were lined with a thin layer of acrylic to provide a high gloss finish to the top surface of the base. The moving channel glass layer is comprised of a custom designed and fabricated acrylic structure and shell. This structure glides on a series of ball bearings located on the perforated wood structure. Sole model displayed in Clemson University’s 100 year anniversary gallery celebration in 2013.
Robotics Projects Working with several masters students from electrical engineering, prototypes were developed to address a wide range of problems and learning initiatives. Two of the most successful projects from this partnership were the Assistive Communication Surface and CyberPLAYce. The first of these products addressed a specific disability and the latter attempted to address computational thinking within an elementary classroom setting. CyberPLAYce is continuing development with funding from the NSF pending.
AURORA, Electroland LLC Electroland designed and constructed the new interactive lobby experience of the DirecTV headquarters. 47,000 LED RGB light nodes are diffused by 600 curved plastic panels. This interactive light and sound project was realized with extensive use of parametric modeling computer modeling and CNC fabrication. Unique software was created to map video files into 3-D space.
Photo Credit: Electroland LLC
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