justin smith undergrad design portfolio 2014

Justin M. Smith

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

/JUSTIN SMITHARCHITECT INTERN/DESIGNER/STUDENT

[email protected]

/EDUCATION

2007-2011. Roncalli High School Graduated with Honors2011- Present. Ball State University Bachelors of Science Architecture

/WORK EXPERIENCEHome Depot, Southport Store #2012

Ball State University

2010-2013 Special Service AssociateHelped customers with design issues while solving difficult order issues with contractors, developers, and owners.

2013-2014 Building ManagerSet up meeting rooms in the Student Center for school officials and student groups according to a strict schedule. Time management and attention to detail essential.

/AWARDS- MEMBERSHIP

CRIPE Capstone Competition 2014 Individual Finalist.AIAS Member. 2011- present.Freedom By Design. 2012- present. Community Outreach Executive. 2013- present.Emerging Green Builders. 2011- present.College of Architecture Dean’s List. 2011. 2014NAWIC National Drafting Competition. 2011 National Finalist.Top Draftsman of the Year. 2008, 2010, 2011.Men’s Swim Captain. 2010, 2011. Leadership Award. 2008, 2010.Home Depot Customer Service. Bronze Level. 2011, 2012, 2013.

Rhinoceres 4 and 5Adobe SuiteV-Ray Rendering SoftwareGoogle SketchupHand DraftingComcheck System CheckAutoCADRevitGrasshopper for RhinoCNC Router/ MillLaser CutterABS 3D Printer

/PROGRAM PROFICIENCY /TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hand DraftingFolded SpaceGalileo MuseumPallet SecurityBorder CrossingA+ FormMigrant Worker House

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CRIPE Capstone Competition 2014 Individual Finalist.AIAS Member. 2011- present.Freedom By Design. 2012- present. Community Outreach Executive. 2013- present.Emerging Green Builders. 2011- present.College of Architecture Dean’s List. 2011. 2014NAWIC National Drafting Competition. 2011 National Finalist.Top Draftsman of the Year. 2008, 2010, 2011.Men’s Swim Captain. 2010, 2011. Leadership Award. 2008, 2010.Home Depot Customer Service. Bronze Level. 2011, 2012, 2013.

The NAWIC association’s annual competition was to create a 1930’s era house with a modern interior, complete with a minimum of 7 pages of technical

drawings. My packet contained 12 construction drawing pages, and I was chosen as one of the 13 national finalists, after winning both the Regional and

State tiers. My design had grey water recycling, solar collection, along with an Italian style roof garden.

Spring 2011Drafting 4th YearNational Competition

Drafting 4th Year

HAND DRAFTING

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The project set before us was first to develop a system of folding a piece of paper in an innovative and creative way, and then to use that technique to

create a spacial experience. My challenge set for myself was to see how few cuts and folds I could perform to a piece of paper in order to still meet

the requirements of a space made from folded paper.

Spring 2012CAP 102Paper Exercise

Ball State First Year

FOLDED SPACE

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The Galileo Museum is a building focused on celebrating the scientist’s miraculous discoveries using a telescope. The central spherical building has a wide swatch

cut out of it, acting as a planetarium that follows the moon, Jupiter, and Venus on Galileo’s birthday, as they are the three primary specimens in his research. The

reflecting pond in the middle helps to ensure whether the visitors are looking up or down, they see the stars above.

Fall 2012Arch 201Concept Study

Muncie, Indiana

GALILEO MUSEUM

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Indianapolis, Indiana

PALLET SECURITY

Our professor presented us the project of making a security locker in his pallet garage for his kayaks and bicycles. Using the idea of recycling pallet parts, our group of three students constructed structural members out of stringers, and then

made a form using same material, but tried to make organic forms. It was an interesting project that challenged us with nontraditional materials as opposed to

traditional, store bought materials, and how we can test the limits of a material before we try to apply them.

Fall 2013Arch 301Material StudyGroup Project

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Found material Column Facade

North Elevation

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Garage Plan Storage Locker Plan

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Detroit, Michigan

BORDER CROSSING

The competition given to us was to design a border crossing station between Detroit and Canada. The neighborhood we visited in Detroit was not pretty by any means, and was

nearly abandoned. But it was one of the better neighbor hoods in Detroit. So I proposed raising the highway off the ground, and allowing for locals to have shops underneath using

shipping containers as shops, such as what I had seen in other parts of the city. Instead of demolishing what little was left of a decent neighborhood, I would rather help it to flourish

in the future.

Spring 2014CAP 302ACSA Competition

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1’’ thick A992 steel plate cut to form welded to 2‘ dia plate(see left)

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2x 1’’ thick A992 steel plate cut to form welded to 2‘ dia plate(see left)

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Muncie Makes, Ball State University

A+ FORM

To design a movable installation, three of my colleagues and I teamed up with seven graduate students in order to better use our time and resources. After pitching and

critiquing our proposals, we settled on these forms, which then could aggregate together, forming one cohesive project, with myself being the project manager in charge of research

and electronics. The idea was that we could place them in a space, and while individuals moved them around, we were tracking them using cameras and coordinate systems. This

data helped us and the gallery better understand how people move in a space.

Fall 2014Arch 498Digital FabricationGroup ProjectProject Manager20

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Prototype Evolution

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Coachella Valley, California

MIGRANT WORKERHOUSE

Our capstone project was to design better housing for migrant ad permanent residents of the Coachella Valley, who until now had trailers with little to no

electricity, and no water. I developed an environmental system that uses recycled water pipes, that is geothermally cooled on its way to the site, that then cools water as a solar chimney. This cool air is distributed throughout the house. In the winter this

process reverses using a thermal wall which forces hot air into the plinth.

Fall 2014Arch 401Capstone Project

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The solar chimney effect is when warm, dry air comes into contact with a cooler surface, forcing the air to fall.

This air is harnessed, and distributed to the building. Instead of one building with well-designed air flow, my site demanded a large amount of little buildings with air

flow. As this was impossible using the entire building, shown in the two top air flow diagrams on the right, in-

stead I minimized the wind needed with solar chimneys, shown in the bottom right diagram.Solar Chimeny Effect 27

Standing Seam Metal

Recycled Wood

Rammed Earth

Recycled Wood

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Recycled Wood

Recycled Wood

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/JUSTIN SMITH

[email protected]

www.justinsmithdesigns.com

justin smith undergrad design portfolio 2014

Documents

honors2011 present

national finalist

design issues

individual finalist

home depot customer

ball state university2010

student center

student groups