Pier One
Design HQ / Summer 2023
Pages 22 - 25
Pages 26 - 27 05
Toby’s Resort
Design HQ / Fall 2022
Mediums: Archive and Display
Mediums 1 / Fall 2023
Pages 14 - 17
Advanced Modelling and Drawing Mediums 2 / Spring 2024
Pages 18 - 21
Design 3 /Fall 2024
Pages 28 - 33
Instructor: Gisela Baurmann
This project was heavily influenced by the flow of water currents. Although originally conceptualized from a series of conjoined tools, a common denominator through the entire process was curves that flow into each form.
Taking that into this part of the design, I used curvilinear elements to flow from one form to the next, guiding you into each space. A heavy influence is placed on the positive views which are demonstrated within the design.
The isometric view above shows the proposed design’s exterior. This not only adequately demonstrates the curvilinear corten steel panels that flow within the interior weaving itself outwards, but also how it interacts with the ground plane, and even sets the language for the landscape design.
The axonometric is a visual representation of how the curvilinear forms work within the interior, highlighted in both entry and gallery walls. The corten steel forms display the art pieces by chosen Artist in Residence, Tara Donovan.
Instructor: MJ Sieria
For this project, the primary elements were chosen not only due to the consideration of natural light, but also due to the attention the surrounding natural environment.
These natural environements are made up of circular and semi-circular forms, an architectural language that is used throughout the design process.
Massing Exploration
The form of these usable spaces was designed to wrap around the natural environments to generate accessability for natural light and access to outdoor spaces. This is achieved through courtyards, windows, skylights, terraces and fluted glass walls.
The entrance of the property runs along the south of the site, which also happens to be directly across from a park which serves as a primary node of the neighbourhood. This design served to further emohasize this.
This exploratory chunk model took the colors and textures from the chunk models and reinterpreted them in the form of this physical model. The goal was to allow the different forms and textures to be highlighted, and even emphasized. The yellow hue represents a nook wall, an area where children can relax and play between classes, while the curvilinear plaster texture shows the public hallways.
Majority of the exploratory chunk is monochromatic, however depending on the language of the element or space the texture may change.
Instructor: Hart Marlow
The purpose of ‘Archive and Display’ was to choose an object from a designated kit of parts presented to us in design studio, and document, model, and conceptualize it in a different form than what we are initially given. With this proposed design, the object chosen was a clamp taken from a toolbox.
This object may intially look simple to model, however upon further documentation it was quite complex. The object itself has delicate curves from most, if not every angle you approach it from. The design , mechanics and operations of the tool is quite simple and straightforward.
The final design was created by using the curves of the tool itself to mold it to another view of the same tool to create a completely new object. This process was repeated five times to create the final product.
The final display’s intent was to highlight pieces of this collage drawn out three dimensionally between seperate layers of acrylic sheeting. On these sheets, the aforementioned proposed final design is etched onto them via laser cutting, with the sheets being held together with dowels. This not only highlights the newly created objects, that seem to float in space due to the acrylic’s transparency but also to empathize the final design itself.
Instructor: Joseph Giampietro
This project was created from a collage of objects chosen with a similar language and a chunk taken from a stairwell in Higgins Hall. Triangles were used to anchor each corner of the floor plan, with them being designated as the larger exterior spaces, that is the entries to the space and courtyards. The usable exterior and interior spaces wrap around these courtyards.
With the use of materiality the language of the site has been emphasized, with seating devices, stairs and planters having a wooden materiality, and the elements that tie the proposed building together being a rusted corten steel materiality.
The final design of the ground floor plan had the chunk of Higgins Hall within the centre of the plan, with every other space branched off of this. Poches are used to show the transition between spaces, with foliage and people using the spaces used to accentuate the plan.
The final section demonstrates the double height space of the entry of the proposed building. A messanine layer over looks the entry into this space, with views to the courtyard as well.
Two elements are shown tying all the floors together, almost encasing them, and sometimes weving through the floors to tie the entire form together.
These chunks and elevational image renders further emphasize the change in materiality and all the vertical and horizontal elements that weave through the levels of the chunk.
Design HQ Limited
This project was a proposal done to communicate to external parties the intent of simultaneously renovating an existing plaza, as well as to propose a new parking and mixed use structure to accompany the boardwalk the city will be constructing within the next few years. My contribution to the project was to create preliminary plans and elevations to accompany the renders to lend some feasability to the proposal.
Located in the heart of the city, Pier One is a staple in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Currently just a restaurant with a few commercial stores, the intent is to branch out to become an even bigger tourist attraction, especially with the soon to be constructed boardwalk. The idea for this addition is to have commercial units on the ground floor, with short term rental units on the first and second floor.
Proposed Site Plan
The street sandwiched between the proposed boardwalk and building will become completewly pedestrianised, a feat in which the city has intent to incorporate due to Montego Bay being completely dependent on vehicular transport currently. The parking structure can be accessed from the boardwalk through a large passageway that cuts through the proposed building.
Solely one bedroom unit layouts were pitched, as an emphasis by the client was placed on getting as much units as possible from the building footprint as possible. These units can be accessed from two staircases on either end of the block, and maintain its positive views of the bay with balconies that run along the south of the units.
Design HQ Limited
Toby’s Resort served as my first project for the firm. This was a proposal done for an existing hotel along the Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in Montego Bay, Jamaica, to pitch to exterior parties to renovate its tennis courts.
This included proposed structures that housed a canteen, bathrooms, an office and a lobby on the ground floor, and a bar/ recreational area on the first floor.
Proposed Ground Floor Plan
Proposed Site Plan
Proposed West Elevation
The final design was done to reflect a more open concept for the first floor, and the building style following more of the Caribbean Vernacular.
Instructor: Peter Macapia
The proposed design was constructed by analyzing Bushwick Houses existing circulation paths and massings to develop its iterations. With its two main floors being community spaces, the remaining floors above remain primarily residential. The public facilites include an auditiorium, urgent care and a cafe, with gardens adjacent upon entry framing the approach. The auditorium consists of a double height space, that flows into the first floor space housed by a community day care centre. Above the residential cantilevers lie recreational spaces for the residents of Bushwick Houses. These include pickleball facilities, lounge areas framed by gardens, as well as a patio with activities targeted towards the elderly.
Analyticals
The Site Plan was also made to reflect the intent to have the proposed building be the first in a series of housing iterations that would be placed on the existing site. Site amenities included are a central community garden, a community swimming pool, basketball courts and two outdoor recreational/ gathering spaces.
Proposed Site Plan
The residential units ranged from one bedroom iterations to three bedroom, with an emphasis placed on each unit having their own outdoor spaces/ balconies. It was also essential that each unit be well lit and have easy accessability to at least one of the two cores present in the building. An outdoor area is also provided specifically targeted towards the elderly.
The corten steel panels’ undulations were made to reflect the overall languarge of the design reflected in both the section as well as the plan.
Within this project we were also tasked with carving out a chunk of our building to lend some practicality to.
This portion of the design demonstrates how the faacade and patio planters functions, as well as what is deemed necessary for floor and wall construction.
Proposed Bushwick Houses Render
Proposed Wall Details
Shae-Anne Reid
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