Sayer's Portfolio 2021

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Course Category: Class Name_Project Name

Building 37

Hardware, Software, & Materials

Table of Contents

Left: A Representation of a 17th-Century building through the lens of a fictitous entourage.

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Deco-Dense

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2

Stocked-In

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Co-living the Dream

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Internship

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Heaving & Weaving

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Loose-Fit Architecture

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7

Shifting Shadows

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Models

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Miscellaneous

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Advanced Studio: Odd Facades_Deco-Dense

Rhino, Illustrator

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Deco-Dense This project alters a precedent Victorian home through material, formal, and conceptual changes. Past and present constituents aided in the evolution of their Victorian’s ornament because they were usually confined to limitations of technology or preservation codes. The irony lies in the codes attempt to preserve a style that is symbolic of change.

Above: Process of the Victorian facades form based on motif of accumulation.

Left: Front elevation of amorphous building. Structure of building was informed by this drawing.

The drawings show an amorphous house that is just as alive as its constituents. House and persona are symbiotic systems that cannot be fully isolated. The Victorian house, like many people, maintains a façade in the midst of its public (the street front and along with other Victorians) while displaying its “true” everchanging undefinable interior. Each room is lined with a fabric containing holes created by previous inhabitants. People are able to role play by “wearing” the spaces made by previous guests or creating entirely new ones.

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Advanced Studio: Odd Facades_Deco-Dense

Section #1

Rhino, Illustrator

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Long Section

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Advanced Studio: Odd Facades_Deco-Dense

Rhino, Illustrator

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Long Section

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Rhino, Illustrator,Vray, Photoshop

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Stocked-In

Above: from left to right, diagrams show the 10 minute walking radius, amenities, primary streets, secondary streets, and quiet areas.

Left: Aerial render of the proposed design.

In order to house Stockton’s expected growth in population, the project imagines a community that utilizes the land in a way that can satisfy both urban and agrarian lifestyles. The project does this by incorporating a series of courtyards of different sizes allowing for a variety of different sized farmland within. The courtyards are contained in a semi-circle with a radius of 3000 ft meant to minimize walking time to 10 minutes. This would make it easier for people living on the edges of the city to travel to the train station in the center.

The courtyards are designed using a skipstop system & are made of CLT panels and glass.

Occupants are able to expand both horizontally and vertically by cutting through the wood.

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Advanced Studio: The Territorial City_Hinterlands

Rhino, Illustrator

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Hinterlands In this project, we researched cities along the California High Speed Rail. Their histories, city amenities, cultural amenities, housing typologies, and urban form were looked into. With this information, as well as the geographic information provided by the maps, we were better able to predict the “fate” of these cities. Tier 1 cities such as Fresno, Madera, Merced, and Los Angeles were likely to grow because of their desirable location at intersections of the HSR. The convenience of travel will attract more people and businesses. Major cities such as Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Diego were also likely to grow because of the amenities available and reputations as centers of innovation.The maps below show primary and secondary cities located within a specified radius.

HSR Stops

Peripheral Cities

Process

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Advanced Studio: The Territorial City_Hinterlands terlands

Merced

Fresno

Gilroy

Madera

Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Urban Analysis We then looked more closely at the cities along the HSR by plotting the available resources within their limits such as gas stations, post offices, and grocery stores. Following this we looked at the urban fabric around the HSR. Finally, we drew isometric views of typical houses and their respective lots in each city to help illustrate the ratio between the built and unbuilt environment.

It also helped us get an idea of the environment inhabitants of each city were used to.

Bakersfield

Millbrae

Palmdale

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Advanced Studio: The Territorial City_Stocked-In

Rhino, Illustrator

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Site Plan

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Advanced Studio: The Territorial City_Stocked-In

First Floor

Second Floor

Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

First Floor

Second Floor

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Advanced Studio: The Territorial City_Stocked-In

Rhino, Illustrator

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Two-Point Perspective

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Independent Study: Co-Living the Dream_Quilting in Quarantine

Rhino, Illustrator

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(Co-)Living the Dream This independent study examined the spatial, social, and political properties of such communal utopias, working from the hypothesis that the relationship between their ideologies (motivations) and the physical forms (manifestations) that represent them speak to the agency of architecture in promoting alternative, and more equitable ways of sharing domestic environments.

Above: Original organization of the drawings. Faded ones are not included in following pages.

Left: Critics were asked to create their own quilt/collage which became part of a larger one.

The project, conceived as a digital ‘quilt’, examines various ways people struggled and strived to live together. From communes to cults, essentially human questions of freedom, family, and industry helped shape visions of ideal communities.

These communities’ alternative ways of life serve as a reflection and critique of their contemporaries and context. Lavish greenery, clean air, joy in labor, and free love are among the values many of these utopias share, inspiring a determined enlightened few to put theory to practice. But not all is rosy in the usually arid fields they occupy, nor is all work joyous, and when faced with the difficulty of life off the grid, many communities faltered and dissipated, leaving only specks of a social dream dared dreamt. This is a story about those dreamers and the tensions that arise from the manifestations of their Edenic visions tainted by forceful change, questionable determination, and ulterior motives.

Drawing from CCA classes like Graphic Architecture and/as/Representation, Novels, Darnit, and Politics of Utopia, Rhino windows are used to flatten the drawings and highlight relationships that may arise from their adjacencies.

The resulting quilt is meant to present and represent stories, spark discussion, and catalyze interaction.

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Independent Study: Co-Living the Dream_Quilting in Quarantine

Arcosanti

Rhino, Illustrator

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Drop City

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Independent Study: Co-Living the Dream_Quilting in Quarantine

Kibbutz

Rhino, Illustrator

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Onieda

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Independent Study: Co-Living the Dream_Quilting in Quarantine

Phalanestere

Rhino, Illustrator

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Narkomfin

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Internship: Urban Works Agency_Atlas of Collective Living

Rhino, Illustrator

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Internship

Above: Sargfabrik’s other analytical drawings which include a sharing diagram, site axonometric, and a collapsed drawing respectively.

Left: Exploded axonometric of Sargfabrik highlighting shared spaces in blue.

During my internship at the Urban Works Agency we looked at and analyzed various case studies that differed from typical single family units.

This was done to help offer glimpses of alternative living conditions that could help alleviate some of the contemporary problems people face in cities.

Each case study is researched, reconstructed, and then represented in a series of axonometrics. We observe the building in its context, as a whole, and exploded then create a diagram that framents and organizes its spaces from the most public to the most private. Areas in blue highlight shared spaces clearly distinguishing them from adjacent private spaces. Public and private spaces were also measured by there square footage and compared in an infographic.

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Internship: Urban Works Agency_Atlas of Collective Living

Star City: South Park

Gap House

Tribe

Rhino, Illustrator

Podshare

Star City: Mission

Dragon Court Village

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Integrated Building Design: Buoyant Ecologies_Heaving & Weaving

Rhino,Vray, Photoshop

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Heaving & Weaving The project is designed to take advantage of the potentials of buoyant living arrangements allowing an adaptive, scalable system for local families.

The infrastructural systems facilitate the harvesting of resources that allow the community to grow in harmony with the underwater ecology. By abstracting and mapping existing cultural patterns onto the water, the project invites island residents onto the water to participate in market activities and community gatherings, while creating new ways of living with the prospect of increasing endangered land suggest an optimistic approach to maintaining a connection to locations threatened by climate change and erosion.

Above: Process models of the module and housing structure.

Left: Community and ecological renders showing life above and below sea-level.

The living shoreline system is capable of gradual evolution into a variety of forms. With six potential connections per module, water, energy, and wastewater can be linked together and reconfigured as community or family dynamics change. Configurations can be developed where Individual clusters can form community centers along existing piers. More extensive arrays can evolve where living clusters of breakwaters can shelter the emerging floating community. The system provides for an integrated community that can be readily adapted, grown or reconfigured.

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Integrated Building Design: Buoyant Ecologies_Heaving & Weaving

Rhino,Vray, Photoshop

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Two-Point Perspective

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Integrated Building Design: Buoyant Ecologies_Heaving & Weaving

Housing Aggregate

Mangrove Aggregate

Housing Module

Mangrove Module

Rhino,Vray, Photoshop

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Housing Typologies The initial community center has a solid connection to the land, making the first step onto a buoyant community as comfortable as possible.

The center invites residents onto the water to participate in communal activities. The subsequent growth of the community is enabled by fiberglass modules which can be aggregated into different groupings: singles, doubles, quadruples. They can also be used in different configurations: wave dissipation with mangroves (linear configuration), housing (informal configuration) and community centers and markets (formal configuration). This aggregation like the differentiation and division of cells suggests a community that evolves more organically.

Community Aggregate

Community Center Module

Market Module

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Integrated Building Design: Buoyant Ecologies_Heaving & Weaving

Rhino, Illustrator

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Integrated Building Design: Buoyant Ecologies_Heaving & Weaving

Residential 1st Floor

Rhino, Illustrator

Residential 2nd Floor

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Sttu ud diio o 3333: Lo Loosse-Fi e--Fi Fit A Arrch hiittecctu ure r _T _Turr n T Taabl bles

Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Wood

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Loose-Fit Architecture

Above: Different configurations of the library walls during seminars, performances, and quiet hours.

Left: Model of the library and stage made of rotating walls reversible tables.

The loose-fit architecture summer studio tasked us with designing a variety of structures meant to be dynamic. Some of these tasks included the creation of a changing city and a music library. Shown on this page is the music library with a centralized plan, that could host a variety of activities, ranging from large performances to individual research. This is done through the structure’s rotating walls and furniture which creates configurations fit for each activity. During large performances the walls are able to point to the stage made of the combination of tables. The library can also take on a scattered organization for group work and an orthogonal organization during quiet hours.

Through the rotating shelves people can create compartments that respond to individual spatial needs. The further you get away from the central point the compartments can potentially become. Which in turn creates new focal points. This adaptability insures the people’s “right to the city” without compromising the key organization.

Each wall rotates 360 degrees around a central axis and holds the physical collection. All the furniture is multifunctional. The following pages show two of the six drawings produced of the changing city.

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Studio 333: Loose-Fit Architecture_Progressive Nostalgia

Rhino, Illustrator

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Rhino, Illustrator, Grasshopper,Vray, Photoshop

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Shifting Shadows

Top: Interior render of the housing/medical facility and the perimeter walkway.

Left: Street view render attempting to represent building through the perspective of a dementia patient.

For certain populations, the tethers of community are not a luxury; they are essential to daily life. For dementia patients, the bonds to memories can be frayed. If the project develops a typology of coliving that fosters healthy, comfortable relationships between the caretakers and their dependents through the integration of a routine guided by organic architectural forms then there would be less stress on the caretakers as well as the dementia patients.

The project does this by having a pinched form which would increase walkable area in the perimeter. Activities are also conveniently located on the corners bordering patient rooms.

A clinic, restaurant, pharmacy, and ambulance entrance are located in the ground floor.

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Core Studio: Studio 4_Shifting Shadows

Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Resin, Rockite

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Alzheimer’s floor Caregiver’s floor

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Core Studio: Studio 4_Shifting Shadows

Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

Roof Plan

Ground Floor

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All Studios: Models

Plaster, Wood, Powder, Rockite, Acrylic, Photoshop

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Top Left: Powder 3D print of final studio 1 model.

Bottom Left: Design media model using parametric design, waffle structure, and CNC casts.

Bottom Right: Model of the Loblolly House.

Above: Studio 3 model of a hotel for perfomance. Facade structure mimics curtain carved

by CNC.

Models Because many of the projects in the portfolio had a digital leaning, I have chosen to dedicate this page exclusively to some architecture models I produced during my time in CCA. These models were chosen to display the range of modelmaking techniques that I am familiar or have experience with. Techniques include wood working, 3D printing, casting/molding, laser and CNC cutting.

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Extr traccur urri ricu cullar & Unsp peeccifi fieed

Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Ballpoint Pen, Photoshop

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Miscellaneous Top: Sketch series inspired by mannerist art. Figures are embodiments of abstract concepts.

Left: Oil painting of an older sketch. Perspectival shifts influenced by older work.

The final section of the portfolio gives a glimpse of the various everchanging passions and affinities I have when not explicitly working on architecture. Some are old hobbies that I continue to build upon, while others are newly found interests.

Though these were done outside the studio, lessons of compostion, flexibility, and curiousity incorporated themselves into my projects. Work included here are examples of my painting, sketching, photography, and found-object art.

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Extracurricular & Unspecified

Photoshop, Bottlecaps, Plastic Thread

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Beer Bottlecap Prayer Rug