Sammie Brown M.Arch 3.5 Year Portfolio

AZUMA HOUSE

Tadao Ando is a self-taught architect. One of his first designs, the Azuma House (also know as the Row House), is a narrow concrete home seated in the dense urban city of Osaka, Japan. Ando received an award from the Japanese Association of Architecture in 1976 for his Row House design. The building, situated in a working class neighborhood, is designed to create an oasis in a bustling city. The simple exterior highlights Ando’s minimal, modern design and alludes to the simplicity of the interior. The concrete facade creates a welcomed contrast from the wooden framed structures seen throughout the rest of the neighborhood. Schematically the design creates many private spaces, seemingly in conflict with traditional Japanese home design. The building is divided in thirds, with two of sections for living and the other for circulation. The central courtyard bridges the design between the two main living spaces and opens up towards the sky to allow interaction with nature.

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Table of Contents

Undergraduate

Environmental Design Capstone Studio

A Creek Trail Narrative

Civic Engagement and Research Live to Ride

Graduate

Core Studio 1

Corner Park

Media and Modeling 1

Azuma House

Core Studio 2

Terminus

Core Studio 3

Prototype

Media and Modeling 2

Folded Roof

3D Attractors Systems

Advanced Studio 1

Georgia Tech Visitor’s Center

Media and Modeling 3

Final: Museo Soumaya

Integrated Building Systems 1

Novel HVAC System

U N D E R G R A D

Environmental Design Capstone Studio

A Creek Trail Narrative

An undergrad project set in the city of Birmingham, AL. This studio assignment was to reimagine the trail design of the Jones Valley Rail Greenway, a greenway that had been proposed but no work on it had since beem completed.

Environmental Design Capstone Studio

Civic Engagement and Research

Live to Ride

Civic Engagement and Research

G R A D U A T E

Core Studio 1

Corner Park

Using a set “kit of parts” and the 90 degree rule, the goal was to create a park space at the corner of an apartment complex and a busling sidewalk.

Incorporating a minimum of one large and two small gathering spaces, the project focused on the creation of thresholds and passages that assisted in defining figuratively enclosed spaces in an entirely exterior environment.

Media and Modeling 1

Azuma House

Media and Modeling 1

Carol Mock

Madie Mason

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A group project which involved recreating Japanese architect, Tadao Ando’s, project Azuma House. The overall structure of the building and its geometric patterns were analyzed and recreated in several plan and section views in Rhino. These views were combined to create a 3D model of the house. And finally, the house itself was rendered in Rhino and multiple views of the interior, edited in Photoshop, were added as well.

AZUMA HOUSE

Tadao Ando is a self-taught architect. One of his first designs, the Azuma House (also know as the Row House), is a narrow concrete home seated in the dense urban city of Osaka, Japan. Ando received an award from the Japanese Association of Architecture in 1976 for his Row House design. The building, situated in a working class neighborhood, is designed to create an oasis in a bustling city. The simple exterior highlights Ando’s minimal, modern design and alludes to the simplicity of the interior. The concrete facade creates a welcomed contrast from the wooden framed structures seen throughout the rest of the neighborhood. Schematically the design creates many private spaces, seemingly in conflict with traditional Japanese home design. The building is divided in thirds, with two of sections for living and the other for circulation. The central courtyard bridges the design between the two main living spaces and opens up towards the sky to allow interaction with nature.

Plan +1 Diagrams

Plan +0 Diagrams Section Diagrams

Mock Madie Mason Sammie Brown

East - West Section

Prototype

An explorative project into varying housing styles and elements. The project shown is the culmination of a semester of work and various iterations. The project emphasizes varying privacy levels in outdoor space, utilizing private, semi-private, and public options. It also encourages modularity and stackable units, as well as allowing the rooftop space from the unit below to determine available outdoor space for the unit above.

Core Studio 3

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Wall Axo

Interior View 1

Interior View 2

Interior View 3

Media and Modeling 2

Folded Roof

Project Folded Roof

Media and Modeling 2

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Seminar

Media & Modeling II

Year Summer 2022

Instructor Daniel Baerlecken

The first project in a grasshopper-based course. This assignment was used as an exploration of points, lines, and curves within grasshopper in order to create a unique folded roof structure.

Top View

3d Attractors

3D Attractors

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Media and Modeling 2

Seminar

Media & Modeling II

Sammie Brown

Year

Summer 2022

Instructor

Associate Professor Daniel Baerlecken

This assignment was intended to create varying greenhouse structures in grasshopper using 3D attractors, designated as the two tree models seen in each example below.

Option Option 1: elongated | sequence: large space to small space

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Seminar

Media & Modeling II

Year

Summer 2022

Instructor

Associate Professor Daniel Baerlecken

Option 2: compact | sequence: medium space to small space to large space

Option 2: compact | sequence: medium space to small space to large space

Option 1: elongated | sequence: large space to small space

Option 3: elongated | sequence: wider large space to medium space with a flat end

Option 3: elongated | sequence: wider large space to medium space with a flat end

Option 3: elongated

Systems

Media and Modeling 2

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Located in New York City and completed in 2017, 56 Leonard Street collective housing tower that stands at 245 meters. The tower was to act as a series of stacked houses. In order to avoid a repetetive boring sameness, the shifting of floors, cantilevers and asymmetrical balconies were implemented when it was discovered this could be done staying structurally sound. The building was built inside-out, with original focus on the rooms first. The rooms were considered pixels grouped together into floors to determine the footprint of each floor, the overall building.

building emphasizes the creation of a vertical neighborhood while maintaining privacy for each homeowner. The many terraces and balconies were carefully arranged to avoid looking into another’s apartment.

completed in 2017, 56 Leonard Street stands at 245 meters. The tower was houses. In order to avoid a repetetive floors, cantilevers and asymmetrical it was discovered this could be done The building was built inside-out, with first. The rooms were considered pixels determine the footprint of each floor, creation of a vertical neighborhood while homeowner. The many terraces and avoid looking into another’s specifically second row far right)

Street tower was repetetive asymmetrical be done inside-out, with pixels each floor, neighborhood while terraces and

(reference: top right plan image, specifically second row far right)

Project 56 Leonard Street

Architect Herzog + De Meuron

Location

New York City, NY

Status completed in 2017

Media & Modeling II Summer 2022

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Sammie Brown

The final assignment was a 3-part case study of an existing building. Part 1 was a 2D parti describing the parametric logic of part of the floor plan, while also creating various other examples. Part 2 was a 3D parti with focus on understanding the parametric logic of the overall structure along with the creation of variations. Part 3 involved defining and modeling various building systems within the structure itself.

Located in New York City and completed in 2017, 56 Leonard Street is a collective housing tower that stands at 245 meters. The tower was built to act as a series of stacked houses. In order to avoid a repetetive and boring sameness, the shifting of floors, cantilevers and asymmetrical balconies were implemented when it was discovered this could be done while staying structurally sound. The building was built inside-out, with the original focus on the rooms first. The rooms were considered pixels and grouped together into floors to determine the footprint of each floor,

The building emphasizes the creation of a vertical neighborhood while also maintaining privacy for each homeowner. The many terraces and balconies were carefully arranged to avoid looking into another’s

(reference: top right plan image, specifically second row far right)

Part 1

Part 3

Advanced Studio 1

Georgia Tech Visitor’s Center

North-facing Section

Section 1: North-facing

Section 2: South-facing

Section 3: East-facing (Short)

Section 4: East-facing (Long)

East-facing Section (short cut)

East-facing Section (long cut)

South-facing Section

North-facing Elevation

Walkway to Main Entrance

Lobby and Gallery

Outdoor Event Space Bird’s Eye View

Outdoor Event Space Close-up

Cafe

Reading Room

3rd Floor Patio

North Avenue Courtyard Close Up

Media and Modeling 3

Final: Museo Soumaya

Media and Modeling 3

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Alex Tate

Carlos Rios

Tanmay Nawar

Novel HVAC System

Integrated Building System 1

Devin Lohman

Sarah Grunert

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Alex Tate