Zechariah Simpson's Architectural Portfolio

Architectural Portfolio Zechariah Simpson

ZSim1514@gmail.com (210) 849-5658

Fall 2019 - Spring 2023

Synopsis

The works showcased through this portfolio seek to demonstrate the skills I have crafted through my undergradutate education at Texas A&M’s Bachelors of Environmental Design program.

During this time, I was dedicated to gaining a broad knowledge of the architectural discipline. I pursued understanding of fabrication, technical skills, graphic representation, creative problem solving, design principles, and the comprehension of architecture as an inherently critical practice.

In one way or another, each project depicted helped me learn a pivotal skill that molded my interests in architecture and my education.

I am forever adherent to maintaining a scholarly mindset, so I hope that my skills will continue to evolve along with my interests.

Thank you for taking the time to look at the work that I have such a strong passion for.....

Table of Contents Travis Bryan Midtown Park: A Critical Cultural District pg. 1-14 Castiligon Fiorentino: Cadence in Culture, Community Center pg. 15-26 Los Angeles Highrise: Morphological Media, Mediatheque pg. 27-36 Texas A&M: Aplin Center College of Hospitality/Management and Hotel pg. 37-50

Travis Bryan Midtown Park: A Critical Cultural District In this investigation my peers and I were tasked with completing research on Bryan, Texas. This research lasted the majority of the semester and varied in focus and goals. For my partner and I, we decided to research the demographics and spatial configuration of the town along with its history. Our research question asked “To what extent has the racial and cultural presence dictated spatial exclusion throughout the history of Bryan, Texas.” Through the mapping of the data found in our research (See examples below) and critical thought we found that -

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1950s Exclusion Urban Plan vs. Black Population Black Schools and White Schools c. 1950

Map of Brazos county showing Location of slave plantations in 1854

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Future Elementary School c. 1950

Existing Elementary School c. 1950

Middle School c. 1950

High School c. 1950

Area services Blacks c. 1950

Future school service area c. 1950

Area services Whites c. 1950

5 Black people c. 1950 5 White people c. 1950

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Area services Whites c. 1950

Middle School c. 1950

Slave Plantations c. 1854 Future Elementary School c. 1950

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there was a lack of historical and spatial inclusion for minorities, thus our proposal to remedy such an issue was a cultural district. This cultural center would contain a plethora of programmatic elements that sought to create a new urban condition in the city of Bryan while simultaenously addressing the lack of inclusion. Included in the proposal is a library/cafe, exhibiton space, auditorium, sculpture garden, and classrooms/meeting rooms. These programs and their corresponding functions all serve to educate the whole community on its rich past and create and even richer future, together!

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INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY Creating an environment that utilizes systems to actively enable all groups to interact.

GROUND CONDITIONS

FLEXIBLE SPACES

INTERACTIVE LEARNING

INCLUSIVE DESIGN

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

CIRCULATION NETWORKS

AUDIENCES

TYPE OF PROJECT- CULTURAL CENTER Due to modes of Segregation established in the past, the city of Bryan as an urban area has developed and expanded without remedying the issue of Spatial Exclusion of minority groups. As a result, there has been much ignorance surrounding such cultural presence throughout the city’s history. Implementing a Cultural Center presents an alternative to the status quo by educating and connecting the community at large.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SITEInterconnection through an interactive site that acts as a hub of both education and community involvement for different groups to learn and interact with each other. Various scenic locations of multiple scales are placed across the site in relation with the main structures.

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Zinc Plating

Concrete

Glass

Wood Decking

Wood Panelling

Steel

TYPOLOGYCultural center- The Cultural Centre is a new building and institution typology developed during the post-war European welfare state governance, where culture was regarded as a social instrument with the same standing as sanitation or education.

Sequential network of spaces-

Cultural center- Gallery/ Educational spaces, terraces Convention center- Indoor presentation space/ Meeting rooms / Auditorium Outdoor interactive landscape- sculptures, memorials, gardens, observation tower, parking space, ground conditions (textured pavement, gravel) Systems of circulation- tunneling/ bridge systems that serve to weave and stitch together the different areas both within the site and its surroundings

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FOLDING DIAGRAM BUILDING ZONES / FOOTPRINTS 1.

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As a folding strategy the, “rule of thirds” allows elements within a composition to potentially appear more harmonious, balanced, and follow a system of distribution that coincide with a number of geometrically determined points. This method of folding triangular geometries was a result of our investigation into patterns, where we developed a composition that would take into consideration the use of undulations as surfaces to dictate both ground conditions of our site and influence building geometry. The structures themsleves, experience a seemless act of continuity through the manipulation of surfaces.

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ADDITIONAL ZONES / SITE FOLDS This investigation following the strategies of fold and pattern had the intent of composing a series of surfaces which become both structure and ground conditions. The notion of scenic sprawl and promenade through a main thoroughfare and branching paths can be established.

The patterns serve to differentiate the paths in their elevations spaces, in their general use, essentially a type of zoning defining system.

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The Site Plan and Site Axonometric drawings help to show the exact location of each piece of program on the whole site, and the spatial relationships between them. They also give a futher glimpse into the materiality (being zinc plating, wood, steel, and concrete) and formal nature of the proposal, being derived from a series of precedent projects we sought to emulate. The form however was based on a framework of the two strategies “pattern and fold” shown in the previous diagram.

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In addition to the macro scale, each piece of program had its own floorplan and included context. These last drawings include floorplans but also two sections which serves to display the unique volumetric properties of the proposal as a result of its folding strategy.

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Depicted in the site section below is the Theater, Education Building, and Library/Cafe. The drawing speaks to how the folding geometry creates inherently unique sectional qualities as the undulations span across the site from one side, crossing the lake to the other. This literally reinforces the conceptional notion of bridging the community.

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This sectional perspective illustrates the underground exhibition space at night, where artwork could be displayed from local artisans which focus on combating historical injustice. The many columns that hold the artwork serve to suspend the glass floor of the space over water of the lake, and also act as a structural framework. Above this space on the plaza level is an inhabitable green space on the roof of this building for public use and enjoyment.

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Overall, this project taught me how to develop a large civil project in an urban context. The process and level of production, and especially the amount of deliverables my partner and I needed to produce made it that much more rewarding. I was responsible for the about half of the mapping and research we conducted leading up to the project, the Site Plan/Axonometric, along with each floor plan.

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Castiligon Fiorentino: Cadence in Culture, Community Center For this semester a portion of my peers and I were given the opportunity to study abroad in small town of Castiligon Fiorentino located in Tuscany, Italy. This experience was not only rich in knowledge pertaining to architecture, but also that of history and culture. Through our travels, my group and I realized that there was a particular cadence or rhythm to Italian life. This was evident in their daily life, melodic language, and even the rooflines which cascaded up and down the beautiful hillsides of Tuscany.

The photo below is a great example of this quality.

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Due to the importance of cadence to the culture in Italy. We sought to implement this into the project in a literal and spatial way. As a result, We took pictures of the rooflines throughout the small Tuscan town, and then used them as regulating lines and footprints in a grid for the development of a community center for the town.

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My group was tasked with designing the cultural center for the town with programmatic conditions being that the center contain an exhibit, library, cafe, jazz bar, visitors center, and a large multi-use space. The formal design of the project along with precedents was centered is further explained below.

CADENCE IN CULTURE English:

Italiano:

Italian culture is rooted in rich traditions and vivid

La cultura italiana è radicata in ricche tradizioni e

social interactions. The small Tuscan town of Castiglion

vivaci interazioni sociali. Il paese toscano di Castiglion

Fiorentino is an excellent case study of this sentiment,

Fiorentino è un eccellente caso di studio di questo

demonstrated through a characteristically cadent

sentimento, dimostrato attraverso uno stile di vita

lifestyle, be it a daily stroll through town, the church bells

tipicamente cadenzato, che si tratti di una passeggiata

that ring in each hour of the day, or the midday “riposo”

quotidiana per il paese, delle campane delle chiese

taken by local businesses to be with family or have a

che suonano a ogni ora del giorno, o del riposo di

break. Chief among these is the weekly local market

mezzogiorno preso dalle imprese locali per stare

that takes place in the town’s Piazza Garibaldi, where

con la famiglia o fare una pausa. Il principale tra

vendors gather every Friday morning to sell locally-

questi è il mercato locale settimanale che si svolge

sourced food, clothing, and other goods. However, this

in Piazza Garibaldi, dove i venditori si riuniscono ogni

rhythm isn’t just exclusive to the town’s daily culture.

venerdì mattina per vendere cibo, vestiti e altri beni

An investigative look at the town’s architecture reveals

di provenienza locale. Tuttavia, questo ritmo non è

physical patterns that reflect a similar cadence—

solo esclusivo della cultura quotidiana della città. Uno

adjacent buildings’ roofs stair step up and down from one

sguardo investigativo all’architettura della città rivela

another, while chimneys, towers, church steeples and

schemi fisici che riflettono una cadenza simile: le scale

cypress trees vertically punctuate their profile. These

dei tetti degli edifici adiacenti salgono e scendono l’una

two distinct patterns, cultural and physical, became

dall’altra, mentre camini, torri, campanili di chiese

the driving influence behind Castiglion Fiorentino’s

e cipressi ne punteggiano verticalmente il profilo.

new cultural center located directly adjacent to Piazza

Questi due modelli distinti, culturale e fisico, divennero

Garibaldi. A cafe, jazz bar, visitor center, exhibition

l’influenza trainante dietro il nuovo centro culturale di

space, library, and outdoor gathering space populate

Castiglion Fiorentino situato direttamente adiacente

the site, with building massing and circulation patterns

a Piazza Garibaldi. Un caffè, un jazz bar, un centro

derived from studies of rooflines throughout Castiglion

visitatori, uno spazio espositivo, una biblioteca e uno

Fiorentino. In addition, the project incorporates outdoor

spazio di ritrovo all’aperto popolano il sito, con schemi

space fit for occupation by market stalls and public

di volumetria e circolazione degli edifici derivati dagli

events. This design pulls in not only the economic

studi sulle linee del tetto di Castiglion Fiorentino.

opportunities from the adjacent piazza, but also the

Inoltre, il progetto incorpora uno spazio esterno adatto

social interactions that define Castiglion Fiorentino’s

all’occupazione di bancarelle ed eventi pubblici. Questo

cultural cadence.

progetto attira non solo le opportunità economiche

CULTURAL CENTER IN CASTIGLION FIORENTINO, ITALY

BY ZACHARY MARTINEZ, SHAELYN PARKER, ZECHARIAH SIMPSON SPRING 2022 CARC 301

PIAZZA GRANDE LOGGIA (1572), GIORGIO VASARI Piazza Grande is located in the heart of the city of Arezzo. This elongated loggia is an important structural and circulatory element for events occupying the Piazza space. This structure extends and interacts with the piazza to encourage the visitors to freely enter the weekly market and progress through the spaces. A fantastic opportunity that the loggia offers, is Transposed roofline diagrams

how it serves as an extension of the market itself. Vendors utilize the free space under the structure a place to set up their booths. This loggia’s interaction with the adjacent piazza, and its relationship with the market in town was a major influence on the loggia in the current proposal.

Derived building forms

CANYON PRESERVE (2020), LAKE FLATO The Canyon Preserve project by Lake Flato is inspired by the surrounding vegetation, sloping hillsides and highlighted viewpoints. The proposed cultural center draws inspiration from structure and the use of materials to accentuate those standalone moments. The overhang

dalla piazza adiacente, ma anche le interazioni sociali

that pierces the building is supported by stylistic steel columns and beams and is translated

che definiscono la cadenza culturale di Castiglion

into the concept for the loggia in the new proposal. The use of the stone and the contrast to

Fiorentino.

the steel elements was a visual appeal that could be exploited in the proposal’s materiality.

BRADBURY BUILDING (1893), GEORGE WYMAN Final building massing

This particular project hearkens back to a Beaux Arts style of architecture, integrating a steel framing system that spans multiple floor levels. It creates a massive atrium space along with open floor plans and a sense of expansion. This creates a primary hierarchical moment in the structure, pierced by natural daylight entering from a skylight above. The user experiences the space beginning at the ground level in a more dense and heavy architectural design as a result of the thick, load-bearing brick walls with neutral-colored brick to accentuate the height of the space while also grounding it. The focus was to utilize this same language of thin structural elements of steel in combination with glazing to emphasize verticality and

Roofline Study Diagrams

generate open interior spaces.

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These floor plans help to show the different pieces of program through the northern building, and the southern building. We can clearly see the public piazza where the weekly market and other events can take place, located in the center right of the site, situated between the north/south masses. We also notice the small amount of green space seen as a refuge toward the western part of the site. The northern mass has the exhibition space and visitors center and the southern contains the cafe/jazz bar.

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The second floors of either building include terraces and generous views of the valley below. The nothern building has a library space and study rooms, while the southern mass includes seating area on its terrace to host a rooftop bar space.

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Exhibition Space and Library: Longitudinal Section 23

Loggia and Piazza 24

Mural wall

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This particular project helped me to understand what it meant to be immersed in a different urban environment and allowed me to learn a wealth of knowledge in terms of how european modes of urban planning and culture can impact design. I was responsible for all the Floorplans, Elevations, Exhibition Space/Library Sections, and assisted one of my group members in doing the renders for the project.

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Los Angeles Highrise: Morphological Media, Mediatheque During my final semester of undergraduate education, our studio considered the conditions of designing a highrise in downtown LA. Each group generated a proposal that addressed a series of societal issues such as climate change, data injustice, equitable housing, and many others while serving as a headquarters for AI4ALL. The highrise would include several universal programs in addition to apartments, artist residencies, dorms, offices, labs, collaborative work areas, and many other public spaces.

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My group and I wanted to design a mediatheque. A digital library and media center where culture, knowledge, and learning intersected. At this juncture, both present and future technologies could be made accessible to large swaths of the populace in a new and meaningful way architecturally. Our goal was to draw upon certain notions of how the library and museum functioned in antiquity and morph this into a 21st century experience in both form and function.

Elevations

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The tower implemented a series of moves incorporating the formal or spatial utilization of draping, folding surfaces, generating mass varying in thickness and thinness. The form is predicated on the idea of morphology, drawing influence from how media has changed in form over time, so does the formal and spatial organization of our building. Architectural objects such as the dome, space frame, and column are redefined from their traditional notions in their shape but then serve as an object of media dissemination for information. This is accomplished through virtual reality chambers, the articulated space frame, and habitable columns which project art or convey knowledge in relation to users needs in collaboration with each other and AI.

Space Frame

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To demonstrate a sense of scale and provide orientation, here is a render that highlights our proposal in pink and shows how our tower was required to dwarf most of its context exceeding a height of 110m tall. There is also a satellite image of the skyscraper embedded into our supposed site adjacent to Pershing Park, only a short walk away from US Bank.

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These subsequent line drawings highlight the integral spaces in our mediatheque in relation to our design intent. In both section and plan, we see the relationships of thick vs. thin, habitable vs. non habitable mass, and redefinition of tradtional architectural typologies.

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AI4ALL Headquarters

Penthouse Restaurant

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This is Morphological Media’s ground level. It is a plaza that reflects the hypostyle halls of old with amorphous columns of various scales and functions. Their spatial configuration brings in guests from the site flows of Pershing Park, and leads people deeper in this hub learning and collaboration.

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On this floor plan we see the actual mediatheque in the tower located in the middle segment of the structure. We get a glimpse as how the space frame segments become thicker poche and we can see spaces in which the VR chambers are located. We can also see the central circulation core represented in the middle of the tower.

Mediatheque Plan

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Our last floorplan illustrates the offices of the AI4ALL Headquarters toward the top of our tower. Here we see a combination of conference rooms, collaborative workspace, and open office space.

AI4ALL Plan

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In addition to the line drawings that show how the mass of the building is formally articulated, our section chunk and elevation perspective give light to how our building serves as one giant media canvas inside and out.

Elevation Perspective/Section Chunk

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One of the most beneficial aspects of this project is that I was able to learn how to fabricate a model with a 3D printer for the first time. This gave some notion of assembly to our process and was very rewarding for our group especially when we documented our model through these photos. I completed all renders, assisted with the sections, and helped fabricate our model.

3D Printed Model

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Texas A&M: Aplin Center College of Hospitality/Management and Hotel This project from my senior year design studio tasked my four person group with designing a proposal for a Higher Education building and a three star Hotel on Lot 61, in Texas A&M’s West Campus. The project was to fully integrate a mass timber structural system and an HVAC system with a Boiler, Chiller, AHU, and Cooling Tower. It was crucial for the team to focus on the student and guest experience in terms of comfort, circulation, necessities, and other amenities.

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This Site Plan shows some of the important programmatic elements, and how people circulate around the site. It does a great job at showing the landscaping, drop off for the hotel, generous parking for guests, bike racks, and bus stops located at the terraced burms on either side of the site.

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This render gives a glimpse into the guest/student experience into how it may be like walking up to the hotel from John Kimbrough Blvd onto the site. One can see the overhang of the building creating a concourse that forms the pick-up and drop-off point for guests, the hotel guest rooms with their balconies, and a skybridge connecting the Hotel and College. The following pages contain floorplans that better show the important spaces in the hotel like the lobby, restaurant, cafe, bar, common area, study space, exhibition space, gym, pool terrace area, guest rooms, mechanical rooms, admin offices, and housekeeping .

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Management office 150 sf

Fire Stairs 400 sf

Admin office 150 sf

Electrical room 1000 sf

Management office 150 sf

Mens locker room 400 sf Womens locker room 400 sf

Telecom room 150 sf Breaker room 150 sf

Laundry storage 500 sf

Sprinkler control room 200 sf

Cafe (seating) 3000 sf

Laundry room 1000 sf

Cafe Storage 100 sf

Cafe service Elevator Control Room 100 sf

Fire Stairs 250 sf Commons Area 3000 sf

Boiler/Chiller Room 1000 sf

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As stated previously, a crucial part of the integrated studio meant that we had to integrate mass timber into our project, follow building code, fire code, and determine the placement/makeup of our HVAC system. To aid us in this endeavor we used the architects studio companion and consulted our structural engineering professor and building systems professor. These bones models and MEP plan help to represent the integrated nature of the studio.

STRUCTURE KEY LATERAL BRACING SHEAR WALLS FOUNDATION BEAMS/PIERS

STRUCTURE BONES MODEL

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SYSTEMS KEY AHU/DUCT PIPES/CHILLER/BOILER PHOTOVOLTAICS

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MEP Plan

PROGRAM KEY 1. FIRE STAIRS 2. STORAGE 3. LOBBY 4. JANITORS CLOSET 5. RESTAURANT 6. RESTROOM/BATHROOMS 7. BAR 8. BOILER/CHILLER ROOM 9. ELEVATORS/CONTROL ROOMS 10. COMMONS AREA 11. CAFE 12. LAUNDRY ROOM 13. ELECTRICAL 14. SPRINKLER CONTROL 15. BREAKER ROOM 16. TELECOM ROOM 17. EMPLOYEE BREAK ROOM 18. LOCKER ROOM 19. MANAGEMENT OFFICE 20. ADMIN OFFICE 21. MOTHERS ROOM

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This last drawing serves to show the facade facing the courtyard and how large the spaces are for the interiors volumetrically.

These are followed by some Enscape renders that highlight what our team considered important to the overall design of the project. These were things such as: plentiful opportunities of using daylighting to fill spaces through generous but controlled amount of glazing with skylights, exposing the materials of mass timber and concrete through the project, access to outdoors, views of the outdoors, and circulation of guests.

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This particular proposal remains the most practical and realistic of all that I have done through my undergraduate experience.

This project helped me learn a great deal about using Revit to generate projects and also allowed me to think about a project across multiple scales, from the large site to details for structure. I was responsible for the entire Revit model, bones models, all the floorplans (regular, MEP, and structural), the site plan, section, elevations, and renders through Enscape.

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Thank You!