W. Martin Joyce Masters of Architecture
The Power of Place The power of place influences our everyday decisions, paths, emotions, health, perception of time, comfort, and so much more. As designers of the built environments, we can determine how people will feel in the environments we surround them in. Basalt Architects embeded the Silica Hotel into the landscape to intimately connect its inhabitants to the Blue Lagoon and make them one with the earth. The constricted galleries of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College campus uses the the natural contours of the landscape to promote movement through space. The massive curvilinear forms of Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti create gathering spaces that inspire and promote community togetherness. The possibilities are endless. It is up to us to design these spaces responsibly.
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4 Jacquard Hotel
Villa at Mount Falcon
2 Adobe Moderna
5 Personal Cartography
1 Villa at Mount Falcon My first experience in a traditional design studio enabled me to create the Villa at Mount Falcon. Taking precedent from Andrea Palladio’s Villa Emo and Il Redentore, the villa was an exercise of melding Palladio’s geometry, proportions, and regulating lines with a contemporary program. The traditional studio brought a different process of designing to light known as the esquisse. The esquisse process required the complete design of the building within a single weekend. I was able to refine this design for the remainder of the semester and dive into the fundamental details that brought life and character to the project. I greatly enjoyed this traditional style of designing and plan on continuing in this manner. May 2020 | Studio IV | Professor Laurence Keith Loftin III AutoCAD | Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop | Pencils!
Perfect Square Central Core Void Space
Villa Emo
Collonade
Overlapping Squares
Site Plan
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Ground Floor
South Elevation
2 Adobe Moderna Adobe Moderna is a small home that was designed to respect traditional adobe techniques. In an effort to reduce petroleum-based building products, the home was enhanced and integrated with new, innovative construction methods and green materials. The development of an eco-friendly adobe “breeze block” stacking module for constructing an exterior architectural screen. The adobe breeze block is comprised of 100% earthen components. The tectonic value of the invention is for passive cooling of the home’s courtyard and for enhancement of the residence’s interior thermal conditioning. December 2020 | Studio V | Professor Julee Herdt Rhino | VRay | Illustrator | Photoshop
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1| Cottonwood Tree-Lined Driveway
2| Lavender Field
3| Parking
4| Car Barn
5| Summer Courtyard
6| Winter Courtyard
7| Bird Sanctuary
Making Adobe 1. Mix soil into a stiff/wet mud mixture until right consistency is achieved, then add straw and lime. 2. Place mud mixture into formwork. Be sure to pack the mud tightly into the form. 3. Carefully lift form straight up from the adobes. 4. Leave adobes undisturbed for 3 to 4 days 5. Allow adobes to dry on their edges for at least 10 to 14 days depending on the weather. 6. Stack the adobes loosely and protect the top of the pile with a tarp, roofing metal, or plywood weighted with stones, dirt or concrete blocks.
3 The Transitioning Landscape One of the most prominent transitions in the landscape of Bosque Del Apache involved water. As the wetland landscape transitioned to the desert environment, water becomes less available. The availability of water created major transitions in life, color, texture, and environment. The photo essay inspired the concept for the studio and residence at Bosque Del Apache. The purpose of each project is to portray the concept of the transitioning landscape. September 2016 | Arch 201 | M. Hendrigsman Photoshop
Wetland Landscape Soft Textures
Vibrant Colors
Erigeron Speciosus
Lack of Water
Death Rough Textures
Desert Landscape
Monotonous Colors
Decay
The transitioning landscape is represented in the site model through the abstracted root system. Just as in the real world, the roots at the water’s edge are plump, full of life, and healthy. As the roots move further away from the waters edge, the roots become less healthy and represent lack of water in the desert landscape. Hand-Cut Museum Board | Wood | Coffee (stain)
Water
Healthy Root System
Unhealthy Root System
Dead Root System
The purpose of the residence and studio is to provide a space for the public to observe birds that migrate through the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge. The programmatic requirements for this project were: a private residence, a semi-private studio/laboratory, a public exhibition space, and various viewing platforms. The stratified color in the mass represents the transition of color in the landscape. The textural component on the walls represent the transition of texture in the site. The gallery space is embedded into the hill side so that the building transitions into the landscape. December 2016 | Arch 201 | M. Hendrigsman Basswood | Rockite | Acrylic | Steel Cardboard
Site Section Looking South
Wetland Landscape
Transition Zone
Desert Landscape
Transitions in Color and Texture
Site Section Looking North
4 Jacquard Hotel I had the opportunity to intern with CannonDesign in Denver,CO during the summer of 2018. During this time, I created drawings of the Jacquard Hotel, designed by Brian Klipp, for an AIA sponsored competition. Illustrator | Revit
West Elevation
West Elevation
ALLEY
E 2ND AVENUE
LAP POOL
SPA
MILWAUKEE STREET
Site Plan
5 Personal Cartography The personal cartography project was an introductory exercise to conceptual thinking and modeling. As my first studio project, this exercise taught me the power of simplicity within abstraction. The Game of Tennis is a conceptual map of a game in a tennis match.
A Game of Tennis I grew up playing tennis. It gave me wonderful friends and it was always a fun way to exercise without really feeling like exercise. The cartography is an abstraction of the sport that maps one game in a match. The bottom and top of the map symbolize the baseline and the net, and each level of string represents movement to the ball during a single point in the game. The red bar at the base of each pin represents the amount of energy it took to return the ball. A longer bar conveys that it took more energy to hit the ball, and a shorter bar conveys that it took less energy to hit the ball. August 2016 | Arch 201 | M. Hendrigsman Basswood | Needles | String
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