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I am a recent graduate of the University Of Arkansas Fay Jones School Of Architecture receiving a 5-year professional Bachelors of Architecture degree. My aspirations now that I have graduated are to further my education as first a student in the professional field of Architecture. After developing a strong understanding of the profession and completing all NCARB requirements, I plan to reinvest myself at a University where I will get my Masters in Architecture.

InspIratIon

Singularity in an object requires the denial of the the traditional dialectic between figure and ground. In place of this dialectic, it is possible to concieve of a figure-fig-ure relationship, where the ground no longer frames the object, but rather becomes part of the object itself.

-Peter eisenman

E n t a n g l E m E n t

ConCePt:The Line is perhaps the essential “stuff” of architecture and gives Architecture its fundamental qualities and discipline through profiles, edges, patterns, and joints. The Line will be explored in a way that allows it to move effortlessly between diagram, drawing, and space, instigating promiscuity between those mediums and allowing work to be created that is literally drawn into space. Lines, when embedded with information, have the capacity to generate architectural organization.

abstraCt: This study explores the complexity of an object in relation to its form. Form being the relationship between the complexities found and the abstraction result. Color to an animal is equivalent to elements surrounding a site. It’s hills, foliage, and topography all contain information. This information became the departure point for an exploration of scale within the Entanglement Project.

E n t a n g l E m E n t a b s t r a c tstudio, Fall 2013

ProjeCt develoPment

Concept Abstract Process

Above the Ground On the Ground Of the Ground

Combining the use of the line in architecture with a design research studio modeled after the context of practice, this studio challenged both the development of a new architectural design language and the student’s ability to express concepts of design in multiple client presentations. By that imperative we worked to satiate disciplinary architectural practice’s paradoxical nature: to deliver a product the both meets and exceeds our client’s needs, and advances a disciplinary reaserch agenda through applied design.

entanglement: When embedded with imformation, the line has the capacity to generate architectural organization. Entanglement implies connection, and connection is what architecture must do to give lines specificity and quality.

E n t a n g l E m E n tstudio, Fall 2013

suPer jury / naab aCCreditation seleCtion

rhino, v-ray, sketCh uP, auto Cad, PhotoshoP, illustrator

Client: botaniCal gardens oF the ozarks

Program: Wedding ChaPels, reCePtion halls, amPhitheater

approach

“Obviously, a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line”

-sol leWitt

The project was developed as a simple system of connect the dots. After first understanding particular relationships (sound quality, public vs. private, etc.) between the given programs, it was necessary to define individual spaces off particular qualities desired. Example, in a chapel space one might want a tall light filled space. This simple method of approach set up the the first stage of the “connect the dots” system previously discussed. Once the essential heights were set for each particular program, structure and drainage became the next moments of influence. The resulting form is a direct relationship between programmatic effect and architectural efficiency.

Program Space Program Height Enterance/Structural Efficiency

Directing Drainage Result

90% 70% 50% 30% 10%

PublicPrivate

arboretum

In a addition to the given program, the client challenged the students to develop a design for its new arboretum. This meant blending the language of the architecture with the development of a new ecosystem. Funding being a concern of the publicly funded Botanical Gardens, low maintenance foliage was vital. Compatible Soil PH, Annual Precipitation, and Temperature where explored to understand how to select tree species

Soil PH

Precipitation

Temp.

Client Impact: To further the efficiency and cost, the structure and main cladding was designed to utilize both repetitive members lengths (6’, 12’, 20’, 24’, and 48’) and a standard method of construction.

Likewise, the interior of the chapel space is made up of a combination of 12’, 10’, 6’, and 4’ lengths saving the

Due to the delicate nature of the site, lower impact means of construction are needed. As a result a majority of the forms panels (under 24’) are prefabricated. The panels are then delivered via a pre-existing bike path found along the south of the site.

project both time and money.

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E n t e r a n c e - P u b l i cfR e p o se - S e m i - P u b l i cf

s i x t u s VProject Narrative: Redefining the notion of a “gateway” to the historic city of Roma requires a cohesive relationship to the pre-existing reading of Sixtus’s plan. Termini, the central hub that collects all systems of public transpertation arriving in Roma, acts as a modern Piazza Del Popolo (historic gateway to Roma). This project aims to create a direct connection from Termini to the Sixtus v’s historic path of pilgramage at Santa Maria Maggiore.

Extending the concept but not diminishing the importance of the system, the creation of this new arm orients the population directly to the plan of Sixtus and the major monuments it connects. As a reinterpretation of the Obelisk, the project establishes a new link, allowing Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore to extend out into the corridor of Via Cavour. Lifting into space as a perceived mass, the project establishes a direct visual relationship from Termini to the Piazza. The result of lifting the Piazza’s surface creates a series of spaces defined by a pre-existing geometric relationship between the width of the Piazza, the height of the obelisk, and the remaining distance to the new edge of piazza. In this newly formed mass, a series of seven spaces are developed to directly inform the visitor about each of the seven major monuments along the Sixtus plan.

i - H u b xaFFinity study

studio sPring 2014

rhyno, Casted ConCrete

PreCeeded i-X-hub

the aFFinity sPaCe: A fictional place with the potential of having real time impact. It is both virtual and physical, where informal learning takes place.

In the creation on solid void concrete models, a relationship between the size of the issue and the scale of space it relates to. Shown in the section above.

Cast Concrete Study

Country: usa

City: los angeles

site: northern edge oF alameda Corridor

size: 10 aCers

Program: transPortation

use:inCubator For learning

the ProjeCt: Imagine a place, conceived as an incubator for today’s generation of creative leaders, post-grad and pre-pro; to invent a life in a collaborative community of interdisciplinary creators networked in physical and virtual space. A modern day urban Caravanserai for traders, travelers, and settlers: a creative incubator for entrepreneurs inventing a new life.

the site: The site’s organizational strategies reflects fluid collaborative working relationships based on the concepts from: game theory, affinity spaces, development of a narrative, research of the Caravanserai, the development of cities (medieval through post-modern), and geo-caching.

H y b r i d o f E x t r E m E s : i - H u b xIntermodal transportatIon Hub

studIo, sprIng 2014

rHIno, V-ray, auto Cad, 123d make, Illustrator, pHotosHop, ConCrete modelIng, CnC

professor: mICHael rotondI

The significance of a new Transportation Hub is understanding the potential that the average person has in influencing research and development. Unsolicited feedback: giving the power of knowledge to those who remain ignorant to the problem at hand will allow for more creative problem solving.

Program intention: The development of program was a direct derivation from my personal experience in LA, the concepts found in a Caravanserai, the understanding of video game theory, and the importance of public program in the development of a city.

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Parking

Housing

Arts/Culture

Theater

Education/Study

Cafe/Restaurant

Taxi/Go CarsBike Rental/Storage

Train Bus

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suPPort Program and aFFinity:Developing a language between multiple programs and the understanding of Affinity allowed me to acknowledge an organizational pattern for the site. Time becomes pivotal to the display of problems; as program time increases problem severity also increases.

At lower levels the use of structural surfaces become vital for the display of low severity problems, arrival and departure time due to its transient nature.

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a r t i s t g a l l E r y studio sPring 2011

auto Cad, Casted ConCrete

boston, ma

transition & artist gallery

After a brief study of concrete, this project was delivered as a proposed artist gallery and building link on the waterfront in Boston, MA. Due to the Limited size constraints of 48’x40’x15’, the intention was to isolate the affiliation between facade and interior space.

The development of the facades undulation was a direct result of a computation design process. I first developed the interior space; Due to the nature of the program (Art Gallery) Natural light had to be controlled; Once this relationship was understood, a system was generated were no neighboring panel would be co-plainer.

E x p E c t a t i o n sSpecing Spring 2014

Drawing Machine

“To the extent the profession has used parametrics today, there is very little to instigate complexity other than the mind numbing image of complexity, falling far short of its rich potential to correlate multivalent processes or typlogical transformations, parallel meanings, complex functional requirements, site specific problems, or collaborative networks.” -miChael meredith

In this study of movement and pattern, I have been led to believe that simplicity should be found in the idea behind a project, and complexity is found threw the development and in the result. With this in mind, I think that among the given components (site, program, Sq. footage, client, budget, code…) of our field lay an untapped opportunity. Acting as a counterpoint to today lackadaisical fade of Digital formalism, this project also shows the power of Computation design. We are given the answer in every project, we just have to figure out how to word the question.

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c o n c r E t E s u r f a c E : H o l o c a u s t m E m o r i a l

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s t o n E s u r f a c E : p o m p i H o l o c a u s t m E m o r i a l : b E r l i n

g l a s s s c u l p t u r E , g l a s s m u s E u m : t o l E d o o H i o

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m a x i m u s E u m : r o m a J E W i s H m u s E u m : b E r l i n

s t o n E s t a t u E : t i V o l i i t a l y

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b u i l t c o n t E x t : b u d a p E s t