Thomas Mouton design Portfolio

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I N D E X PROFESSIONAL WORK 2017- PRESENT

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO FALL 2014

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GRADUATE DESIGN BUILD STUDIO FALL 2015

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GRADUATE ASSISTANT STUDIO SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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GRADUATE THESIS STUDIO FALL 2016

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C O N T A C T 337.247.0251 thomasmx83@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL WORK

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Project: Terrace on Lubbock/ Terrace on Waits.

Completion date: Lubbock-March 2019/Waits - January 2019 Square footage: Lubbock - 22,000 Sqft/Waits - 15,875 Sqft

The design goals for this project were to develop a unique design esthetic’s for each complex while establishing a few elements that maintained their relation . This was accomplished through the use of a typical floor plan along with subtle design cues like the end units that differ enough to act as book end anchors. These design moves are further reinforced through the use of a common material palate demonstrating how each material can yield vastly different styles when applied differently.

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This private residence in Fort Worth was completed in the spring of 2019 and sits on a long linear lot nestled within existing trees. The nature of the site required a floor plan with a minimal foot print that lead to the additional upper level. The additional floor provides needed space and allows for the overall form to frame views to the street by cantilevering over the stucco wall. This wall provides a heavy mass that grounds the project while also providing an element of security and privacy for the ground floor

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Client Goals:

Spring 2016

-Establish presence on two main streets -Clean minimalist asthetics that allign with museum -Provide dynamic signage that doubles as sculpture

In March of 2016 I along with another classmate Josh Floyd in the graduate program were recommended and choosen to design new signage for the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum. This commisioned project was made possible through the recommendation of Professor Geoff Gerjtson, with whom we both work with on the Lafayette Strong Pavilion. This project was my first commisioned design job in which I along with Joshua Floyd were in complete control. The project enovled many meetings with clients and local fabricators and was an extremely valuable learning experience that yeilded a great final design that complements the existing building and design language. The projects budget/bid was 15,300 USD

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Form exploration

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Final renderings

Publication

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June 2016

Nov 2016 the project was featured in the Fall 2016 publication ot View Finder. Which is the Hilliard Art Museum’s Quaterly magazine

Completetion of design development and construction documents with plan construction in Feburaury of 2017.

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100 W. CYPRESS ST. LAFAYETTE L.A

The spatial qualities of downtown Lafayette exist in a resurgent urban environment attempting to reconcile its juxtaposed moments of density with the scars of urban sprawl and the prominence of the automobile. It is exactly this relationship that creates opportunities for experientially rich moments in which to built on. Through an exploratory urban analysis three moments or potential sites where discovered, each on the outer edges of the downtown urban grid serving as gateways.

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Gateway 1 ultimately was chosen as the most appropriate site for its unique context as a gateway as well as a district threshold

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This gateway served as an introduction to the urban grid as well as a pronounced threshold in the form of a tunnel under the existing railroad.

The sectional procession drove design decisions and intent. The final design accomplished this through a common space/atrium that cuts through the building starting at the south west entrance and tracks north as it rises each floor, culminating with a skylight boarding a residential public space at the 4th level.

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LAFAYETTE STRONG PAVILION (CAMELLIA GRIDSHELL)

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THINKINGWHILE DOING Thinking While Doing (TWD) is a $2.48 million (Canadian) Partnership grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in March 2013. The grant entails a 6 year project consisting of design-build collaboration between UL Lafayette, Dalhousie University, University of Arizona, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of King’s College, University of Manitoba, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, and Parks Canada.

The goal of the partnership is to develop, test, and prototype new construction technologies and processes through collaborative workshops and student conducted design-build installations and buildings.

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LOCATION:LAFAYETTE, LA

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CAMELLIA GRIDSHELL

SITE PLAN

1. THe site is not zoned on current zoning maps, however we have allowed for a 30’ setback to maintain traffic sight triangles at intersections.

4. connecting sidewalks to be provided by city/parish of lafayette.

5. underground electric service is to be provided to project by city/parish/lus.

6. temporary power connections to be provided by city/parish/lus at closest power pole.

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The designing and fabrication of the panel mounts involved collaboration with local fabricators like Begneaud Manufacturing. This collaboration yielded a node and panel support design that was directly incorporated into the node plate design.

SPRING 2015 PHASE 2 - CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION - CLADDING DESIGN/DETAILING - NODE DETAILING/DESIGN - SCARF JOINT DETAILING

THE SPRING OF 2015 MARKED MY FIRST INVOLVEMENT WITH THE PROJECT WHICH WOULD LAST THROUGH THE COMPLETION AND DEDICATION IN DECEMBER OF 2015. DURING THIS SEMESTER WE CONTINUED WERE THE PREVIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS LEFT OFF WITH CONCEPTUAL DESIGN. IN THE SPRING OF 2015 A FULL CD SET WAS COMPLETED. WHILE COLLABORATION BEGAN WITH LOCAL FABRICATORS TO FINE TUNE THE DESIGN OF THE NODE CONNECTION AND SHADING SUPPORT SYSTEM. THROUGH THIS COLLABORATION WE WERE ABLE TO DEVELOP A ALL IN ONE SYSTEM. THAT WAS BOTH BEUTIFUL IN IT AESTHETICS AND FUNCTION.

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During the spring of 2015 schematic design and CD’s were finished. So in the summer of 2015 it was finally time to begin construction and the daunting task of processing 9000 linear feet of white oak into 20-40 ft laths so that this unique structure could be assembled. This process was very time consuming and pushed back the actual erection of the pavilion into the fall semester of 2015. Many visitors stopped by to see what exciting structure we were creating and to see how the project was going like acting city president Joey Durel. These visitors gave us the boost in energy to push extra hard and complete the project.

SUMMER/FALL 2016 PHASE 3

- ASSEMBLY PROCESS OF PARTS - FABRICATION OF NODE CONNECTION - ERECTION OF GRIDSHELL

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DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS MY ASIGNED RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED. -PRODUCTION OF MARINE PLYWOOD NODE SPACERS -MOCK UP DESIGN OF SEATS -PANEL CONNECTION AND ASSEMBLY -EDGE BEAM SHEAR BLOCKING -LATH ATTACHMENT TO FOUNDATION

AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS

In the spring of 2016 the Lafayette strong Pavilion was awarded the InDesign Gold award. It was also at this same time that the pavilion was featured in Architect magazine

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THINKING WHILE DOING: Published in the spring of 2019 cataloged the process of each of the four gridshell pavilion built by different universities under the Thinking While Doing. The book includes a fore word about my own experience with the project and the design build pedagogy

DEDICATION THE FINAL DEDICATION CEREMONY WAS HELD ON JANUARY 11 WITH THE PAVILION COMPLETE AND THE FIRST SCULPTURE INSTALLED. THE TOTAL BUDGET OF THE WHOLE PROJECT CAME TO 86,000 USD

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CONNECTOR 1990 The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), working with the City of Lafayette and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), began studying the environmental impact Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Elevated freeway concept was adopted.

The I-49 Lafayette Connector is a future 5.5-mile segment of highway that will extend I-49 from I-10 to the Lafayette Regional Airport. It is a critically needed transportation link for Lafayette and the state of Louisiana. The I-49 Lafayette Connector is a key component of I-49 South, which will function as a: HURRICANE EVACUATION ROUTE

A MAJOR ENERGY AND TRADE CORRIDOR TO THE NATION

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NEW INTERSTATE PROVIDING CONNECTIVITY FROM LAFAYETTE TO NEW ORLEANS

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Congress Authorizes Funding

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The Lafayette Areawide Planning Commission (the Metropolitan Planning Organization at that time), published the “Lafayette North/South Corridor Study: Path to Progress“.

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FHWA and DOTD restarted the EIS process based on the Evangeline Thruway corridor and elevated freeway option.

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Draft EIS Public Hearing.

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Final Environmental Impact Statement completed.

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In January and February, 2001 the Citizen Advisory Committee, the Transportation Technical Committee, and the Transportation Policy Committee of the Lafayette MPO held meetings to recommend a Locally Preferred Alternative Alignment.

Federal Highway Administration issued the Record of Decision (ROD), including Measures to Minimize Harm, which includes 21 commitments intended to mitigate unavoidable effects during the design and construction process.

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Functional plan/CSS process re-started under an 18-month timeline:

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Evangeline Thruway Redevelopment Team (ETRT) advisory committee was created

by LCG to serve as the public body to lead the development of the Economic Redevelopment Plan called for in the Corridor

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During the summer of 2016 the Community design workshop (CDW) recieved a contract through the primary design consultants AECOM and STANTECH. The goal for CDW was to serve as a think tank that could generated design proposals based off of a series of selected schemes.

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For this project we focused on the series 6 development concepts 6D, 6G, and 6F. Within the 6 series there 150' are 5 options that all incorporate a semi-depressed facility for I-49. These options either maintain an open, or uncovered, semidepressed facility, or cover the facility allowing for other programs and activities to take place on top of the facility. We chose one of the five alternatives to develop (6D). The second alternative (6F) is a strategy developed by this team that makes 163' slight alterations to the proposed 6E plan. The third alternative (6G) is another 140' that incorporates what we felt were132' strategy developed by this team the strong 6D - Current Alignment Covered of the five options and proposes a new alignment of the facility options from- each (moved 87’).

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We began the project with sectional diagrams of each scheme that eventually lead to the individual development of park master plans. We then put together one master plan based off of each plans strongest elements.

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3 The intention of this investigation was to design a piece of architecture that emphasized and accentuated the intrinsic values of architectural elements. In order to do this two parameters were set. The first was the incorporation of two historical elements; a fire pit(hearth) and an oculus(axis mundi).

The second parameter was that its design and construction consist of 100% recycled or discarded material.

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The site is located in a clearing of trees that form a natural oculus with a path that frames a prominent oak tree.

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In order to heighten the experiential qualities of the space capturing natural elements like the setting sun and the wind became design goals. Over 1800 linear feet of discarded beach wood was incorporated as a hanging element that could capture the wind and fragment the light from the setting sun. Transforming the natural elements into a spatial 3 dimensional form.

Column/Beam connection detail -2 1/2” lagg bolts connecting 6” c-channel beams to 6” by 6” ‘Shou Sugi Ban’ timber post

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3,600 linear Ft of Beach wood collected from the the scrap wood bin

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1,800 linear Ft of White Oak wood Salvaged from the half scale model built for a previous project

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