Thomas Meacham Clemson Undergraduate 3rd Year Portfolio

Thomas Meacham

I have begun to question the world around me in terms of design and derivation and this curiosity generally leads me to learn something new each and everyday. While not only does architecture satiate my cravings of curiosity, it also serves as a profession that gives me the ability to leave a tangible mark on the world, something that will outlive myself & be here for future generations to enjoy or question. My goal in life is to leave something behind that is able to inspire someone to find their passion,and if my architecture is able to do so then I personally think it’s remarkable

Cayce Arts Center Clemson Open-air Classroom Chelsea Office Building Chapel Analysis

Fascinated with the expression of floating within architecture, Journey strives to create a dialogue between light and heavy materiality & a playful journey of climbing up and over the landscape to access the building. The featured berm that creates such interaction also is responsible for creating a floating effect -by building up to the three large concrete massings, but never touching. This tension is subtle but noticeable as one endeavors into the up-and-over journey of entrance.

Cayce Arts Center The berm itself is reminiscent of the journey of the Cayce, SC riverwalk - that is located to the East of the site along the Congaree. This notion is respectful to the historical value of the Congaree & the sediment utilization for supplying local & historical brick works such as Guignard Brickworks. These bricks can also be found incorporated within the ground floor of the structure.

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The Pavilion Design project’s goal was to create an open-air classroom & study space for Clemson University, while maintaining the parameters brought upon designers by Covid-19. Individual “upside-down wine glass” study rooms were created to maintain personal distance in a new and intriguing environment. Inspiration was drawn from the Johnson Wax Headquarters by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Clemson Open-air Classroom Sunlight / Wind “scoops” were designed to socially distance traffic flow under the main walkway, throughout different times of day; while also helping with the ventilation of the public space, study rooms, and classroom environments.

Tasked with creating an office space within Chelsea New York, careful consideration was taken in utilizing the surrounding elements native to Chelsea.

To begin the process, site lines from plan view were drawn connectting all of the surrounding buildings and their dialouges over the site. As light became a parti for creating a humane workspace environment, the idea of framing light began to inform our structures form.

Chelsea Office Building Since the site line elements played such a curcial role in the devlopment of where to funnel light, site line diagrams were drawn in tranverse & longitudinal section in order to create the form of the building. Since the concept of the building is playing with light and materiality opaciticies, the exterioir of the building is able to be read as a section -in fact it is able to be read as the section informed by the surrounding 3 dimensional site lines both tranverse and longitudinal.

Thorncrown Chapel introduced a challenge of not only discovering the skeletal essence of the architecture itself, but also finding how the chapel interacts with its environment to create a space to experience both the interior and exterior surroundings simutaneously.

Chapel Analysis