ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Samuel Shackelford Wentworth Institute of Technology 2015-2020
SAMUEL SHACKELFORD RESUME Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA (603) 337-5764 shackelfords@wit.edu
TECHNICAL SKILLS AutoCAD Revit Sketchup Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Vray Microsoft Hand Drafting Modelling
ADDITIONAL SKILLS Lightroom Photography Premiere
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES Communication Self-Motivation Efficiency Problem Solving Creativity
EDUCATION Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA
-Bachelors of Science: Architecture 2015 - 2019 -Masters of Architecture 2019 - 2020
EXPERIENCE Heather Wells Inc. - Interior Design Boston, MA - Summer 2018
-Worked on Construction Documents. This consisted of adding dimensions, adding labels, and making small adjustments to plans and elevations. -Filled out furniture and hardware schedules that corresponded with AutoCAD drawings.
Center For Community and Learning Partnerships - Community Engagement Boston, MA - Spring 2017
-Pro-bono work for clients in the Jamaica Plain area consisting of: -A new garden for St. Augustine and St. Martin Church. -Office renovations for Brookview House -Working in a design team of three students and a licensed architect, created design proposals for clients.
AFFILIATIONS The American Institute of Architecture Students - WIT National Chapter 2015 - Current
The National Technical Honor Society 2015 - Current
TABLE of CONTENTS STRONG CONCEPTS 3 BERKLEE MUSIC CENTER 7 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
WALL DETAILING 13 AXIS DANCE COMPANY
PHYSICAL MODELLING 19 STOCKHOLM PUBLIC LIBRARY 23 ISLAND RESIDENCE
HAND DRAFTING 29 WINE SHOP 33 KAUFMANN RESIDENCE
37 ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY 45 MASTER’S THESIS
STRONG CONCEPTS
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BERKLEE MUSIC CENTER Professor Paul Fowler Junior Year Fall 2017 For the first semester of my Junior year, I was tasked with designing a multi-purpose music center for Berklee College of Music. The site was located on a busy intersection between Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, MA. The building was to include a performance hall, practice studios, a library, and a cafeteria as its main programmatic spaces. The concept of this design is solid and void. However, the solid and void are related to each other in both size and shape. This idea was born from how Back Bay was created. In the 19th century, the Back Bay was filled by taking gravel and other land mass from quarries outside of the city to make buildable land in the dried out bay. Conceptually, the solid that is the Back bay now is equal to the void that was created in these quarries.
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As seen in the roof plan, the Mass Pike cuts straight across the north side of the site. On the southern side, you have the engaging street side of Boylston. I expose the concept of my project bluntly, with the main circulation ramp cutting into and through the ground plane of the site and beginning from the corner of Mass Ave and Boylston Street. The ramp leads down to the main entrance of the performance space. The top section cuts through the ramp, looking towards Mass Pike. It shows the program extruding from the ground plane, bordering both intrusions: the ramp and the Mass Pike. The bottom section cuts through the ramp looking towards Boylston Street. It shows the isolated performance hall as well as clear story windows as means of lighting the sunken practice rooms.
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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Professor Jennifer Lee Sophomore Year Summer 2017 For the final project of my summer semester of sophomore year, I was tasked with the design of a Children’s Museum located on the Long Wharf in Boston, MA. The building was to contain exhibits, libraries, and art studios for the children. The concept of the design applies to Relative Value. A child could have a toy that is ripped, stained and worthless, but to them the toy is priceless. This concept is based off of the children’s book Corduroy.
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I represent this idea with a glass “jewel box” containing the research stacks for the library. This central box is then surrounded by concrete “building blocks”. The ones on the north side being sturdy and formal, these contain program such as core spaces and the reading library. The forms on the southern side are more skewed and playful, these contain program such as the art studios and galleries.
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AXIS DANCE COMPANY Professor Manuel Delgado Junior Year Spring 2018 During the second semester of my junior year, I was tasked with designing a multi-purpose dance building for the Axis Dance Company. The company focuses on “integrated dance�, which consists of dance groups with both abled and disabled dancers. The building was to contain a performance hall, dance studios, class rooms, physical therapy spaces, and offices. The site was located on the narrow Church street in West Cambridge. I designed this project with two other students, because of this, we were able to go into great detail. I focused on the wall details for our project.
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Photovoltaic Glass Green Roof
Breathable Facade
Solar Detecting Lightshelf
Rainwater Collection
Equitone Panel Vapor Barrier Steel Column Steel Channel Absorbative Material Acoustic Panel
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Skylight Green Roof Assembly
Horizontal Truss
Suspended Glass Ceiling
Sprung Wood Floor
Luminous Ceiling
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STOCKHOLM PUBLIC LIBRARY Professor Jennifer Lee Sophomore Year Summer 2017 During the summer of sophomore year, I was tasked with a week long precedent study with two other group members. The building we were assigned was the Stockholm Public Library. During this week we had to analyze the building as well as build a quarter scale section model of the building.
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ISLAND RESIDENCE Professor Michelle Hobbs Sophomore Year Fall 2016 During the first semester of my sophomore year, I was given a week long group precedent with two other students. The precedent we were assigned was the Island Residence by Peter Rose + Partners. The house is located in Edgartown, MA. During this week, we were to analyze the building and produce what we found at the end of the week.
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WINE SHOP Professor John Ellis Freshman Year Spring 2016
During the second semester of my freshman year, I was tasked with designing a wine shop with two party walls and a garden in the rear. The design for this project is relatively basic, however the project helped sharpen my hand drafting skills.
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KAUFMANN RESIDENCE Professor John Ellis Freshman Year Spring 2016 During the second semester of my freshman year, I studied the Kaufmann House located in Palm Springs, California. The house was designed by Richard Neutra. The house is a modern design consisting of stone, steel, and glass. Analyzing the project was an interesting way to practice my hand drafting.
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Abstract: Urbanism In A New Mobility Age Blurring the lines between architecture, public space, and movement In the twentieth century the invention of the automobile completely changed our cities. As the technology of the autonomous vehicle develops, architects have an opportunity to redesign cities in a completely new way by blurring the line between architecture and public space. Autonomous vehicles with collision avoidance technology and electric cars that do not create emissions, provide many opportunities for urban design. Automobiles can share space with pedestrians and other modes of transit with ease; they could even drive indoors. Because of this, architecture, public and domestic space, and spaces of mobility no longer need to be separated. Any public space can be used by someone who is walking, riding a bike, or riding in an AV. Residential architecture will be designed to accommodate the small AV, allowing cars to bring people straight to their front door. Telecommunication will be more common for work, and most goods will be able to be delivered directly to you by an AV for very little cost. Because of this, retailers will refocus on the appeal of their physical space as experience and spectacle. Will site typologies born of car culture and modern architecture such as the shopping mall and the office park become obsolete? Or will they in fact become intensified? Key Words: Urban Design - The layout and fabric of a city Autonomous Vehicles (AV) - Driverless Automobiles Shared Mobility - Non-private transportation systems
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This thesis can act both as a path forward and a criticism of the past. Throughout the explorations recorded in this book, the influence of the automobile not only on the built environment but also on our lives became clear. As I came to the end of my thesis, a question arose: Is this a reclamation of the way public life, or city life, should be? Or is it merely an inevitable future that we can not escape, whether it is inherently good or bad? Back in the early 1900s when the use of the automobile was becoming a normalcy, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright designed their ideal automobile world. Some of their ideas can be seen in cities today, however in the end each and every city grew according to their own, random logic. One thing is sure, the autonomous car will have an effect on our cities, both at the urban scale and at the architectural scale. However in the end, architects and urban designers such as you and I will only have so much control over what that effect is. Looking at the intensified design of Shopper’s World, we will first look at the urban scale. The urban scale reflects many of the conceptual design tests I made. Removal of streets and parking, replacing them with adjacent plaza spaces and new residential architecture. You will notice lower building heights to accomodate the hierarchical plaza spaces as well.
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Moving to the architectural scale, you can begin to see how the autonomous and electric vehicle will change every step of someone’s day. Residences will change, you can see this in the top perspective and axonometric drawings. In this instance, small apartments are fitted with garages that act as a threshold into their living space. This garage allows the AV to pull right into a person’s home to pick them up or drop them off. This room would be refrigerated as well, giving the resident the abilty to order groceries and have them be dropped off even if they are not home. Each apartment includes a small pocket garden as well, bringing life and light into the residences. In the drawings, especially the axonometrics, you can see how the atrium spaces have developed, allowing the AVs to drive up ramps to the apartments on the upper floors. In the bottom perspective, you can experience what it would be like to ride in an AV through one of the plaza spaces. Seeing various pedestrians and other AVs moving through the space, as well as seeing the pet store ahead, which has converted their location to a petting zoo to bring more customers in. You can see this in the lower right corner of the top axonometric drawing as well.
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The experience of shopping will change drastically as well. In this instance, a furniture store is designed to be more acommodating to the autonomous and electric vehicle; you can see this in the top perspective and the axonometric drawing. The furniture store’s main program becomes a showroom of their finest pieces, allowing someone in an AV to circle the room to view the furniture. If the shopper decides they want to purchase something, there is a ramp to the subfloor where they can pay and pick up the furniture. In the center of the store there is a rentable party space containing some of the store’s best furniture. The intensified design of Shopper’s World also contains a pedestrian only area in the center of the site, you can see this in the bottom perspective. This is a lush, green space with grass and trees. In this perspective you can see various residents and visitors enjoying this area, completely separated from any cars.
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