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Mark CruzM. Arch. 1640 Brooklyn Ave, Apt. 6Oakland, CA 94606415 689 [email protected]

Contents:Creative WorksAesthetically oriented, but mindful of fabrication logic, my aesthetic theory of design deals with the expressions of intelligent complexity using techniques of parametric and biomimicry. With a strong interest in the morphogenetic and biological, I have always been a geometrician and my explorations in scripting, parametrics, and 3-D modeling have shown me the power of computation in aesthetics. I seek to harness more processing power, but with a delicate human sensibility to scale. My work as an artist continues to change with each new technological leap.

Academic Selected projects from studios and competitions executed at UCLA. In this intense three year program, our agendas of study were largely about exploring advanced geometry and expressions of the Architec-tural Avant Garde. Imagability and fabrication were the themes of most studios and I also pursued a parallel interest in Real Estate Devel-opment as well as participating as Lead Architect on the NAIOP Real Estate Challenge Team (1st Place). Additionally, I chose a course of research on themes in Infrastructure and Urbanism by taking a traveling studio in China and a research studio in Brazil.

Solar DecathlonSelected photos and drawings from my experience as Design Team lead on the 2005 (1st Place) and as SR Designer on the 2007 University of Colorado Solar Decathlon Teams. This collegiate com-petition of 20 schools must successfully design, engineer, and build solar-powered homes and compete with them on the National Mall. Its an intense 18 month design/build debacle that empowers students to deal first hand with the broad range of AEC industries, and under the extreme constraints of stainability, buildability, and marketability. We had to not only design, build, and ship our houses across the country, but were tasked with educating thousands of people about the virtues of sustainable design once we arrived.

ProfessionalI have 10 years of Construction Management, and Drafting/Design ex-perience. I have included here samples of design and PM work I have done on small residences, tenant interior (TI), and assorted commercial and modeling projects.

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Topographic Characteristics

There are three divisions to the body of the horseshoe crab: the prosoma , the opisthosoma, and the telson. These are sometimes referred to as the cephalothorax, the abdomen, and the tail. (You can mouse over the "Divisions of the Body" in the illustration for a closer look)

The prosoma contains a sizeable intestinal tract with an esophagus and proventriculus (used to grind food), a nervous system concentrated into a bulbous brain, a tubular heart, excretory glands at the bases of the walking legs and connective tissue and cartilagenous plates.

The opithosoma contains chiefly the musculature for the operation of the book gills and the telson, though the horseshoe's 113 distinct muscle groups (comprising over 750 individual muscles) are not limited to this section of the body.

Of the six "pages" of the book gills, the first has an operculum with genital openings and the other five have small sensory branches and gill leaflets. (See appendages for more). There are three main regions on the underside of the horseshoe crab: the doublure , the vault, and the axial platform. (Mouse over the "Primary Regions" in the illustration.)

The illustration shows the underside of the horseshoe with the appendages removed. The bases of the appendages attach to the axial platform, beginning at the top with the chelicerae, which the crab uses to place food in its mouth and ending with the book gills, which are five branchial "legs" used for propulsion when swimming and for "breathing".

Viewing the horseshoe crab from the front, you can easily see the flare of the shell and the ridge of the midcardiac spine. Note that the view shown to the right is of the male limulus.

When both males and females are present (during spawning), it is easy to tell the gender of the horseshoe because the females are significantly larger than their male counterparts. Based on studies done by Carl Shuster, the width of the prosoma on females ranges from 243-351 cm (with an average of 291 cm); the prosoma of the males averages 169 cm in width, but can range from 137 to 213 cm.

A single horseshoe crab can still be sexed, however, by noting a few subtle differences. The axial area on a female is lower, with the underside of the crab barely visible from the front view. The flange on the female is also wider in front.

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/ 2008 UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design

:AN EXERCISE IN INTERPOLATIVE MODELING OF A HORSESHOE CRAB

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This is work from a digital workshop to learn advanced NURBS modeling techniques using Rhino. The hand drawing below was the template used to duplicate and model the horse show crab geometry.

UCLA Digital WorkshopAug 2008Prof. Georgina Huljich

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Continuity of theoretical and mate-rial surfaces, both actual and digital were themes of our surface explora-tions. The veneer wood lends itself well to multi-directional force-flows to achieve a static shape that involves the calibration through pattern mak-ing, and finally vacuum forming to a specific form. We were quickly introduced to many possibilities in shaping the wood to explicit angles and curves in order to achieve the final ergonomic shape of the Eames Splint. We learned of the Eames processes and developed our own knowledge of their techniques through a kind of reverse engineering of their pattern exercises, which often proved challenging when met with such conditions as splices, bends, blends, joins, and lateral adjust-ments. As we relied not only on the strength of accumulated laminations to hold such ergonomic shapes, we were naturally led to seek to control certain specific locations to a degree of substantiated localized resistanceand flexibility in the final form.

Mathematically speaking, we were conscious of the topological meaning of these kinds of surface mathemat-ics, as we surveyed geometries taken from Topological Catastrophe Theory, yet the Mbius strip geom-etry emerged as a simple inspiration to frame the material problem at hand. In our attempts to avoid an obvious formal one-liner of a just a Mobius-Strip-Board, as a formal agenda in and of itself,.. we took a step back to study the relationship of the raw material behavior to the 3-D modeling exercises. This duality of digital simulation and form finding alongside material testing became an enlightening and successfulWorkflow for us, which expedited production problem solving through the original pattern-makingexercises and in concert with more increasingly ambitious envelope-pushing geometry.

The WrinkleAs a result of our pattern refinement and development of our tactile vacuum forming skills, we were forced to reckon with issues of accumulation of veneer in ways that isolated the tension between material limits , surface rigidity and global shaping. We consider the wrinkle to be an emergent quality of the process that defines a indeterminate yet desirable effect.

UCLA Technology Seminar:Manifold Destiny & The BendsWinter 2010 AUD_289.5Professor Jason PayneIn collaboration with Stephanie, Willsley, Ryan Wilson, and Renee Smith

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This research explores a biomimetic supposition that serial propagation occurs sequentially and graduates to creat enclosure. This form was created from a simple L-Systems branch generator and sprouts form a single source code. Enclosure and affect were drivers for the form evalu-ation, and random vaurbles were intoduced to add heterogenity.

Geometry Studies:Growing a StructureWinter 2006

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Cumulative CoherenceFall 2009ARC_411 Professor Georgina Huljich

Willy NillyPlywood veneer units or willy nillies, coalesce into a fervently arranged massing. The pieces themselves are symmetrical leaf shaped assemblies with rolled internal connection pieces. The fl exibility of the units are manually curled to vary in a range laterally free to fi nd its own way through the loose calibration of the material logic of the heated plywood veneer and the accumulation pattern.

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Anabolic EnclosureThe overall massing and composition is loosely an L-Systems driven layout that swirls into a multi-directional fl owing stream. This swarm mass-ing biases operative moves of enclosure over radial spreading. This logic drives the assembly upwards.

Anabolic EnclosureThe overall massing and composition

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Curve Fitting Curve fitting is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, possibly subject to constraints. These curve-systems are drawn with variable degrees of curvature. This system encompasses with both explicit and visibly indeterminate

vectors showing the range of each system. This composition of meridians articulates nodal relationships that and ultimately suggests spatial implications. The idea is to capture an graphic speculation on energy fields charted by the calculus based meridians.

Cumulative CoherenceFall 2009 ARC_411 Professor Georgina Huljich

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Speculative Site DiagrammingA site visit to the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, was the experiential component to this case study. Analysis of the program and how the building truly functions yielded insight into the Architects original processes and goals. These diagrams were used to describe the observances and potentialities of the design.

Case Study:Asbuilt Site AnalysisSpring 2009 ARC_413 Professor Craig Hodgetts

DatascapeViewing census data and speculating on population were the inspiration for this drawing exercise for an infrastruc-ture studio. The emphasis for this Datascape drawing on the left was to look age in a boundary condition located in central Los Angeless Kore-atown. The image above from a visual survey of the provisional infrastructure of a random streetscape section in LA. This drawing was primarily for indexing simultaneous systems and looking for solutions to in efficiencies.

Case Study :Urban Analysis GraphicsSpring 2010Professor Dana Cuff

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As Los Angeles history of power involves supply of utilities and infrastructure over time, the order of the respective systems implementation tells of a language of provision and Necessity. As each system is installed, it must contend with existing adjacencies often without much anticipation for future technologies. The consequences of this additve logic is the muddling of the composotion to a degree of rhetorical geometry and banality.

Street AnalysisAcross Los Angeles , we see the result of systemic redundancies in the accumulation of water, electricity, cable TV, telephone, internet, plumb-ing, and sewers lines and pipes. All these metabolic se vices fill up any voids that remain in the sky and underground. The consequences of this additive logic, or illogic, is the muddling of the composition of the city-scape that lacks a principal uni-fying order that could otherwise ser-vice the built environment elegantly.

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Academic Work SampleMark Cruz

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This open-air pavilion design pro-posal to enclose a space for show-casing Tara Donovan sculptures, accentuates continuous, fl owing structural tectonics. The facades of is a system fi n-shades to create a fl uidic moir pattern. The shape was informed by circulation and formal notions about her work.

Pavilion for Tara DonovanFall 2009 ARC_411 Prof. Georgina Huljich

Moire 1999by Tara DonovanAnalysis byMark Cruz & Lillian Nobel

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Structural StudioWinter 2009 ARC_412Building Design StudioProf. Hadrian Predock

412 Winter Studio 2009Department of Architecture and Urban Design

UCLAMark Cruz 1/2" = 1'-0"Westwood Sculpture Center 1Diagram / Detail

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Parametric FacetingThe modulating wall trusses facili-tates the panelization of a continu-ous skin which performs multiple functions based on the per face ori-entation, direction, and angle of inte-rior and exterior parameters. These parameters can be calculated from environmental data ,such as active and passive solar angles, acoustical

uses (amphitheater), or cross ventila-tion locations. They can also respond to programmatic requirements such as day-lighting (or darkening), best views, and overhang (by shifting the panels out). Optimization was not however the prime directive as much as the exploration in continuity and sculpting.

412 Winter Studio 2009Department of Architecture and Urban Design

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Structure as SpectacleThe faceted facade is supported on a tertiary vertical truss system carried by the primary super structure of large columns ar-ranged to maximize drama and spectacle of the gallery space. The super-structure, is intended to support the roof truss system while maneuvering to carry the slabs in an angular shifted orien-tation. This unusual maneuvering allows the columns to position specifically to the nodes an isostatic structural system, but mainly to compose structurally dramatic events.

Building energy loads share a sinusoidal wave of peaks and troughs throughout teh day and seasons.

Diurnal and circadian cycles can be evalueted coincedentaslly with ese for more blanced

approach top load manegemtn.

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)Efficiencies are expected to double in the coming decades elevating the building integration to a standard facade technol-ogy.

Solar Thermal Energy (STE)High Temperature Solar Thermal Technologies are increasing in popularity and may make their way onto buildings facades to deal wit energy loads, heating loads, and domesticate hot water needs..

Vertical Gardens and Algae Photobioreactors Building facades are a great surface for urban gardening. Sealed containers of algae photobioreactors could be inte-grated into the sides of buildings to produce befouls and sequester carbon.

Primary arterials feed tertiary branching while maintaining a axis through the site.

A perimeter scheme provides lines of supply while enclosing and freeing up central voids.

A diagonals matrix can quickly divide the site up providing a scalable implicitness and can work in contrast or con-cert with the orthogonal building grid.


Explicit flows feed into parallelisms yet networked grid.

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This study demonstrates a parametric rule based L system mesh that can expand and contract to address flows and distribution intensity.

Bucky Fullers Dymaxion Power Grid once ignored is gaining polarity again as recent stimulus moneys go into reinvigorating our national power grid. We see here a map of how the distribution geometry creates an a global exchange of power over a dynamically fluxuant power grid. This design uses the network as a battery: as the earth turns, the nigh time half of the planet is trading power with the sunlit side.

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MEP GeometriesThe experimental studies above show organizational strategies that could be applied to systems of power delivery. Each geometry has a vector-based solution diagram for distribution , sharing and metabo-lism. Once programmatic possibili-ties are refi ned, their choice-act as an example of how to create dynamic metabolic ecologies rather than just provisional supply (or elimination) lines.

Infrastructural AutonomyWinter 2009 ARC_414Major Building Design StudioProf. Deborah Richmond

Building energy loads share a sinusoidal wave of peaks and troughs throughout teh day and seasons.

Diurnal and circadian cycles can be evalueted coincedentaslly with ese for more blanced

approach top load manegemtn.

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)Efficiencies are expected to double in the coming decades elevating the building integration to a standard facade technol-ogy.

Solar Thermal Energy (STE)High Temperature Solar Thermal Technologies are increasing in popularity and may make their way onto buildings facades to deal wit energy loads, heating loads, and domesticate hot water needs..

Vertical Gardens and Algae Photobioreactors Building facades are a great surface for urban gardening. Sealed containers of algae photobioreactors could be inte-grated into the sides of buildings to produce befouls and sequester carbon.

Primary arterials feed tertiary branching while maintaining a axis through the site.

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Bucky Fullers Dymaxion Power Grid once ignored is gaining polarity again as recent stimulus moneys go into reinvigorating our national power grid. We see here a map of how the distribution geometry creates an a global exchange of power over a dynamically fluxuant power grid. This design uses the network as a battery: as the earth turns, the nigh time half of the planet is trading power with the sunlit side.Multi-Faceted Solar HarvestingEmerging high performance photo-voltaic technology is poised to revolutionise the building industry. An example of this is a new lumi-nescent solar concentrator (LSC) breakthrough that will potentially increase photovoltaic production 10 fold. This diagram shows a dual PV array faade potential that managed loads between the optimum summer and winter PV angles

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ent and future multiplicitous energy systems.

Multiple Building Types in OneThis exercise was to fi nd a solu-tion to density and Infrastructural integration (solar) via manoeu-vred massing to accomplish a megastructrue that includes street grade plaza, courtyards, mid-rise housing, and a luxury tower.

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Rhiz(h)ome Rhiz(h)ome is a housing system that utilizes a modular construction of unique geometries and oblique skylites to exploit a sites available solar and day lighting amenities. The fenestration strategy is to design each module to not only be oriented, based on environmental data and day-lighting optimization, but also to include suitable volumetric for added programmatic accommodations.

These columns can provide functions like housing mechanical equipment storage, a sleeping loft, or tall ceilings providing natural ventilation. Structurally the modules are designed to a 14 x 11 max. width ideal for loading onto trucks and craning into place. The geometry of the steel frame module is configured to address with lateral forces

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Nanjing Industrial RehabilitationSpring 2010 - UCLA Travel Studio Tianjin UniversityProfessor Ben Refuerzo , Professor Zhen Xu

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This urban design studio at Tianjin University was an immersive experience in China, exchanging and sharing ideas with Chinese Architecture students. The historic Nanking district incorporates an industrial zone next to historic governmental district, and the polluted Yellow River. Density, community, history, and landscape design were all themes in the planning process, and the goal was a master planning strategy that repaired provided for future developers. The use of solar and Infrastructural grid overlays here prescribes a system of nodes and alignments, arranged to buffer the freeway, enclose a community park, and allow for multiple scales of development.

Normative GridAn 100 orthogonal grid overlay is driven by the adjacent urban street grid to regulate site flow and study a distributive approach to the a pedestrian street scape and its scale.

Concentric GridFreeway noise and proximty to river are mea-sured via concetnic rings that show locations for buffering and arranging of building.

Southern Exposure OverlayThe soler angles are crucial for aligning each parment block to some degree of southern exposure.

RiverRiver views and access to river front are facilt-ated by lifting the buidlings up 20 at the grade.

City Wall of NanjingThe 600 year old wall establishes a cultural boundary and attention to height of building comes into question, with rgard to preserving the horizon yet providing modern solutions for densification.

Existing Warehouse iDistrictWhether repurposing or demoliting Nanjings existing warehouse district, this new develop-ment warrants addressing the current infras-turctual grid, but with a change in cadence and pace for future community development.

Freeway The freeway is the hardest boundary condition to address. This geometry artiuclates the wetsren border, an ideal location for storefront.

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This multifamily housing block idea was centered around a diamond-shaped courtyard building typology, inspired from the Duo Gong, or Chinese structural-bracket system This maneuvering of stacked living units is intended to unify communities but with discreet private and communal open spaces for each unit. Central corridors, and dispersed green ways modulate with the single family apartments and propose to deal with density in a sensibly scaled porosity strategy.

Duo Gong Housing Block TypologySpring 2010 - UCLA Travel Studio - Tianjin University Professor Ben Refuerzo , Professor Zhen Xu

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The double height condominium was envisioned as a new form of real estate as whole fl oors are treated like sovereign Bel Air properties. Fellow UCLA student and brilliant designer David Johnson and I developed a two story condo with a modulated outdoor spaces, and an operable, responsive facade system. We were tasked to commit to a single material to carry through as the theme of our design efforts. We chose wood and developed a kind of parametric shingle to variably control light, wind and views.

Parametric ShinglesFall 2010 - UCLA Advanced Topics Studio Instructor Michael RaDesign Team: Mark Cruz, Dave Johnson

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Literal Arts StudioWinter 2010 Professor Roger Sherman

This Hollywood night club. dealt with the use of supergraphic imposition on a louvered facade. Thematically, the classic Greek pediment reinvented was a theoretical justifi cation for this arrangement of images. Instead of Gods and Godesses, this selection of images suggests simalar panoply of mythic humanoid beasts corresponding to primal desires of part goers of LA night life.

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Graduate Research StudioWinter 2010 Professor Jason Payne

This preliminary look at the Favelas of Ecualyptos, Sao Paulo, was an experiment in representaional analyisis. In contrast to the GIS impericallity approach, these are intended as speculative diagrams. exploiting light, tones, colors, and values of hi res satelite imagery to expose and isolate qualities of the image. Mutation and overlaying techniques whimsically lead me to pursue a graphic style that in teh end was akin to engraving.

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Graduate Research StudioEucaliptos, Brazil - Winter 2010 Professor Jason PayneWith 8 billion people in the world, we must ever focus on creatively finding ways to help design places for them to survive, organize, and thrive. My experience while studying the Favelas in Sao Paulo, involved direct exposure not only to infrastuctural failure, pollution, and blight, but to the daily life of the people who live there. These images are not intended as a curatorial photography exhibit. Rather, they are arranged here as

simple reminders of the very need for infrastuctural innovation in the world. This need is what I hope to work on, so I include as an example of my ambitions. It is fine for a portfolio to show a range of capabilty, experience, and credential, but this page is dedicated to the recognition of need that exists for Architects.

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Deep in the slum neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, we investigated the constituent parts of the buildings, streets, and sewers. This asbuilt exercise of the Favela houses, not only taught us about the ingenuity of local trades, but exposed us to new and beautiful ways of seeing design. For example, in modernist design, deliberate moves and gestures often occur perhapsat the whimsy of the Architect. Here in the Favelas, houses designed with many skewed angles,bent walls, and stacked cottages were conceived out of necessity, untrained eyes, and even haphazard. The absence of zoning and codes yields a freedom of form that has great worth to the distinguishing eye. Our observations were treated as fodder for new inspiration in design moves.

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Graduate Research StudioWinter 2010 Professor Jason Payne

Our visit to the Favelas, and to the Housing Authority Office managing (or attempting to manage) the infrstructural and social housing projects of Sao Paulo, taught us about the controversy of Favelas. Working in ghettos and slums is a highly political problem. The polarity of socials issues and land entitlements often debilitates any progress put forth by municipal planning departments.

Our studio intended to avoid the typical polarizing points of debate of any Academic research done on impoverished people of another culture. We instead chose the High Art route, and focused on representation an curation as devices used to expose and dignify the Architecture of the Favelas. We abandon the social agenda in favor of an exercise in more innocent viewing to their raw buildings. The moves we learned form the Favela Asbuilts were deployed and then we printed (and 3-D printed) them as iconic displays of geometry, with only hints of brick and concrete

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Graduate Research StudioWinter 2010 Professor Jason PayneThis was an exercise in inventing an architectural folly, based on tectonics we learned form in the Favela. The use of a folly to celebrate the vernacular stylings of Favela houses, circumvents the political entanglements of shanty villages, while still dignifying the structural moves in a venue for designers and visitors alike. Here masonry patterns combine with heroic concrete buttresses to devise a sculptural ode to the accidental innovations of Favela builders.

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This shade design strategy for the city at large is to think of the sun-shade design as a continuous fabric that morphs and responds to a vast range of urban sce-narios, but ultimately aspires to a citywide presence. As the fabric of linked sunshade elements begins around intense areas like downtown cores, malls, and park-ing lots. The linear components

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on boulevards, and streets act to suture them together. Critical masses of cover could begin to create a kind of surrogate atmo-sphere for Phoenix that creates a cooler citywide micro climate - one in which heat is more effi ciently dis-sipated, and where shade prevents

Competition Center for Civil RightsAntione PredockFall 2009

M O O D Y N O L A N / A N T O I N E P R E D O C K

Center for Civil & Human Rights

Rainwater lters through the tissue of the project along furrows, and is eventually stored within visible cisterns. The water is used to irrigate gardens, and subsidize non-potable water sources in the building such as restroom sinks.

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Photovoltaic cells are embedded in the roof slope at an optimal solar angle. These panels contribute to the overall energy supply for the building and considerably reduce dependence on fossil fuel sources.

During optimal months, natural ventilation is introduced into the interior environment, owing from prevailing wind directions and creating a chimney effect inside the proj-ect.

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Solar arrays act as demonstration sites on the path of the projects roofscape while harness-ing energy from the Sun.

Light courts bring natural sunlight into some portions of the project. These cuts in the buildng also act as demonstra-tion gardens for the sustainable systems in the project.

Stair wells and light courts also act to exhaust hot air from the interior spaces via passive measures.

As guest designer on this National competition, I worked with a team of designers to produce this design for a Center for Civil Rights. We were short listed for this anti-building : a subterranean museum and reflection chamber for the disturbing imagery of the era of the Civil Rights struggle. We laid out a garden on top as respite from the labyrinthine structure of spectacular imagery and structural acrobatics.

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NAIOP Real Estate Challenge1st PlaceWinter 2010 UCLA Anderson School of BusinessEvery year USC and UCLA face off for the National Association of Industrial and Offi ce Properties (NAIOP) competition: The Real Estate Challenge. This years site was the famous Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. My winning design included the tactical use of a parking garage to shore up and the mitigate the steep slope while providing a foundation for the mixed use and mixed income housing strategy mandated buy the Community Redevelopment Agency. The historic Angles Flight Funicular Tram is fl anked by tiered gardens that tie the upper plaza with a new retail lined street.

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Univeristy of ColoradoSolar Decathlon 2005Design Team Lead

1st Place OverallDIY Best Built House1st Place Communications1st Place Transportation

Few projects provide the training in a design/build education that being on a Solar Decathlon Team does. As Design Team lead in 2005 for CUs school of Architecture, I took a pro-totypical solar-powered mobile home that designed and built to the mall in DC. Our team won 1st place overall that year and we brought the house back and used it as teaching facility for sustainable design. In 2007 I re-turned to the Team as Sr. Designer, and worked with a team of engineer-ing students to build a modularized

shipping container house. Span-ning three years of intense designing, engineering, and building, this unique experience was a crash course in cross-disciplinary cooperation and creative problem solving.

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CU Solar Decathlon 2007SR Designer/ Communications Team LeadSummer 2005As Sr., designer team I returned to help the 2007 team. So much fan fare in 2005 caused quite a lot of expecta-tion of us to continue innovating.

COREAs SR Designer for this years University of Colorado Solar Decathlon Team, I worked with a small design team daily for a year straight

year to develop a prototype for integrated solar architecture/systems . .The reclaimed container,, integrated photo-voltaics, and architec-turally fore-grounded mechanical systems, showcased to thousands, the virtues for renewable energies.

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The CORE strategy encourages freedom of aesthetics, construction method, and material selection. In a production home environment, modular construction can be em-ployed without every house looking the same. The system also allows users to create connection and response to local conditions. By combining a prefabricated core and high performance energy technolo-gies with vernacular architecture and local materials and methods, housing can be created with better local economic regeneration, lower materials costs , and less overall embodied energy.

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Our containers are modified to provide windows, doors, and circulation to adjoin-ing spaces. We also reinforce the open-ings and retain the removable panels. Once customized as a building core, the removable panels can be re-attached and container shipped to a construction site. With careful design, our containers retain their ISO certification and ship-ability.

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Dynamic FootprintThis design utilizes the shipping container spine to modulate the spatial experience of the home. The dwellings servant (utility) spaces flow into the served areas for living, dining, working, and sleeping. The containers central position allows the rooms to be added or subtracted per user needs over the time, as they function as transition zones between the public and private areas of the home.

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While competition rules and practical logistics dictate that all homes in the Solar Decathlon are small, light-weight, and mobile, our team has taken the bold approach of designing, and ulti-mately building, a 2,100 square foot full-size home, and delivering a smaller competition com-ponent to Washington, D.C. This component conforms to the programmatic and size constraints of the competition. The full house is more relevant to typical home buyers and home builders, and includes three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a larger living room and an office/media room. All indoor environmental control equipment is sized for the complete house, yet allows modular deployment in the competition entry.

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Most current PV systems are installed over the roof, with additional cost for the PV support system and framing. The CORE approach to photovoltaic energy collection eliminates the need for duplicate roofing and support systems - the PV system is the roof. This imple-mentation of a sleek energy-collecting roof of-fers a low-profile geometry that is aesthetically efficient as well as technologically advanced.

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Our containers are modified to provide windows, doors, and circulation to adjoin-ing spaces. We also reinforce the open-ings and retain the removable panels. Once customized as a building core, the removable panels can be re-attached and container shipped to a construction site. With careful design, our containers retain their ISO certification and ship-ability.

CU Solar Decathlon 2007Communications Team LeadSummer 2005100,000 people visit the Solar De-cathlon every year. They com to see the design , the homes, and to learn how sustainable tech-nologies will change their lives. I designed a manual that the tour gave out to explain the tenets of our design.

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This CORE concept uses the shipping con-tainer spine to modulate the spatial experi-ence of the home. Our full house design adds a second container, housing two additional bathrooms and a dedicated laundry area. The containers central position allows them to function as transition zones between the public and private areas of the home. Count-less other variations are possible. The cores flexible, transportable, and modular nature al-lows it to be used in diverse applications, from off-grid vacation cabins to high-density in-fill housing. Cores can be stacked in multi-story designs. They can be combined with local ma-terials and methods. Over time, the footprint size can change as the lifestyle of the owner evolves, adding rooms for a larger family or removing rooms as the nest empties.

*Mass Customization - a business technique which allows any customer to buy a product or service that has been pre-designed (customized) to fit a customers exact needs.

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A comprehensive design build experience, this low budget project included a full LADBS submittal phase, a series of renderings and schematic designs, as well as 3-D framing drawings. A 500 sq. ft. residence addition for Gary Steinborn in Venice CA, entailed a elaborate schematic design phase and extensive construction management services to monitor a very limited budget.

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5 1/2"

21' - 11"

17' - 2 5/8" 3 1/2" 5' - 7"

W.I.C.213

Bathroom214

13' -

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3 1/

2"6'

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25' - 1 1/4" 5 1/2" 13' - 0"

7' -

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14' -

8 3

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5 1/

2"19

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Exterior Wall:5/8" Stucco Finish SystemBuilding Paper Installed Per Manufacturer1/2" OSB Sheathing2x6 Studs @16" O.C. w/Min. R-19 Batt Ins.1/2" Interior Gyp. Board

Interior Wall:1/2" Interior Gyp. Board2x4 Studs @16" (w/Opt. Sound-Proof Ins.)1/2" Interior Gyp. Board

NOTICE: DUTY OF COOPERATIONRelease of these p lans contemplates fur ther cooper-a t i on among th e owner , h i s con t rac to r an d the a rch i -tec t . Des ign and const ruc t ion are complex . A l thoughthe arch i tec t and h is consul tants have per formed the i rserv ices wi th due care and di l igence, they cannotguarantee per fect ion. Communicat ion is imperfect ,and every cont ingency cannot be ant ic ipated. Anyambigu i ty o r d isc repancy d iscovered by the use ofthese p lans sha l l be repor ted immedia te l y t o the a rch i -tec t . Fa i l u re t o no t i f y t he a rch i t ec t compounds m is -unders tanding and increases const ruct ion costs. Afa i l u re to coopera te by a s imp le no t i ce to the a rch i t ec tshal l re l ieve the arch i tect f rom respons ib i l i ty for a l lconsequences. Changes made f rom the p lans wi thoutconsent o f the a rch i tect are unauthor ized, and sha l lre l i eve the a rch i tec t o f respons ib i l i t y fo r a l l conse-quences ar r iv ing out o f such changes.

DRAWN:CHECKED:

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R O D W I N A R C H I T E C T U R E1425 Pearl St. Suite BBoulder, Colorado 80302(p)303.413.8556 ( f) 303.413.8557www.rodwinarch.com

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1/4" = 1'-0"1Second Floor

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33

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B

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C

C

G

G

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199 SF

Men's RR16

577 SF

ComputerClassroom

18 576 SF

InteractiveWorkshop

22

Not Enclosed

Classroom26

Not Enclosed

Classroom27

352 SF

Computer Repair28

1A102

25' -

0"

8' -

0"25

' - 0

"

D3D3

9' -

6"

155 SF

Storage36

568 SF

Classroom37

Outdoor Corridor

Outdoor Corridor

Outdoor Corridor

Open To Below

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Administration

Classroom

Computer Classroom

Shop/Storage Space

InteractiveWorkshop

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34' -

6"

8' -

0"25

' - 0

"

Student Printers62

Equipment /PrintRoom

64

Women's RR65

Admin.88

Men's Bath90

Principal's Office91

Corridor95

4' - 11"

Women's Bath104

Restroom105

4' -

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Lounge92 Conference

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This community college is set to be built in a remote location in the African Bush of Nigeria. This design useshumble materials and local labor. An open air trussed roof and ventilated masonry walls helped to to creatively mitigate the hot climate with the un-air -conditioned computer labs. occur in air condition-less building.

Schematic DesignChristian Technical CollegeNigeria

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YURT CABINS, LLC[Address][website/email][logo]

General Notes

Scale

7/19

/201

0 7:

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3 A

M

3/4" = 1'-0"

6.0Roof

1 Roof Panels

3/4" = 1'-0"2Roof Section

This Colorado Startup hired me as a desiogner/modeler to develop their kit of parts emergency shelters. This modifed Yurt features a quick assmbly time (under 4 hours), sleep 8 ppl and can be shipped within days of order. This image suggestes the Yurt-Cabin being deployed in Haiti.

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Tenant Improvement Bikrams Yoga StudioBoulder, CO Fall 2007

Rasa Zubkute hired me to do design work and permit docu-ments for the yoga franchise Bikrams Yoga, in the historic Tulagis Building (specializing in heated yoga rooms). The project required oversized mechanical systems measures to accommodate the increased heat loads and in compliance of historic preservation constraints.

register

register

fan

fan

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" dia

AHU-1

H-1

F-12

dryer vent

add (4) 12" dia.S.A. diffusers

existing truss

existing truss

existing truss

existing 24" dia

existing ductwork from roof AHUon roof to space below

Note: enclose the existingductwork from unit on roofto space below withG.W.B. on3 5/8" stl. studsenclosure..

Connect NEW 18" dia.SA to existing 24" dia. SAduct.

new location forexisting 12"" dia. SA

Mechanical ScheduleMark Description Manufactrurer Performance/ Capacity RequirementsAHU-1EF-1H-1F-1

Comments

12" dia. R.A.

6" dia. R.A.(typ. 6 loc.)






12" dia. R.A.

16" dia. R.A.

proposed 12" casework bench & return airconnect 6" dia. tocasework bech asRA plenum ( typ.6 )

AHU-1

SA

RAF-1

H-1

AHU-1GGas SupplyGas Cock

6" min. Dirt Leg

Finish Floor

strap

elbow

combustion air

pad

3"

3"

3"

1"

1"

1" 1"

Proposed full height partiton

Proposed full height partiton

Note: Alter to accomodate new walllayout & new ceiling installation

existing truss

existing truss

NEW 18" dia. RAplaced aboveexisting 24" SAduct

NEW 12" dia. RA

AHU-1

Scale

Date

Tenant Finishfor

Bikram's Yoga

1129 13th st Unit CBoulder, CO

Revisionsdate

8-22-07

P.O. Box 763Boulder, CO 80306(303) 442 1144

Hatcher Engr Assoc

As indicated

M1

HVAC 1/4" = 1'-0"1Reflected Ceiling Plan - SA Ductwork

2 Interior Axo of Ductwork

3/4" = 1'-0"3Mechanical Schedule

1/4" = 1'-0"4Proposed Return Air Duct System

5 3D View of Retunr Air System

1" = 1'-0"690+ AFUE Gas Furnace Detail

1/8" = 1'-0"7Existing Sprinkler Plan

1/8" = 1'-0"8Reflected Ceiling Plan - RA Ductwork

4' - 10"

2' - 0"

4' - 10"0' - 0"

0' - 0"

8' - 9 7/8"

8' - 9 1/2"

4' - 7 7/8"

8' - 9 7/8"

0' - 0"

0' - 0"

0' - 0"

4' - 10"

7' - 0"

7' - 0"

0' - 0"

-1' - 4"

T.O.W.-2' - 2"

-0' - 9" (TOP OF SLAB)

-0' - 4"

2' - 0"4' - 10"

7' - 0"

7' - 0"

4' - 10"

0' - 0"

0' - 0"

4' - 7 7/8"

8' - 9 1/2"

-0' - 4"

-0' - 4"

-0' - 4"-2' - 2"

0' - 0"8' - 9 1/2"

BOTTOM REINFORCING

DOWELS - MINIMUM #4 x 30"WITH 6" HOOK @ 32" O.C.FOR REINFORCING.

FOOTING - SEE PLANS

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2" M

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MAX

TOP REINFORCING

OPEN

COVER OVER OPENINGS

4'-0 MIN.

ADD 2-#5 ALLAROUND OPNGS

4'-0 MIN.

2'-0

BOTTOM REINFORCING.

THAN 2'-0

HOOK VERTICAL BARSWHERE "H" IS LESS

2-#5 OR MATCH TOP AND

MINIMUM 6" CONCRETE

INSTALL 2x4 INTERMITTENT KEYWAY

AND LAP WITH REINFORCING FORALL HORIZONTAL REINFORCING 2'-0FULL HEIGHT OF WALL, AND EXTEND

2'-0 TYP.

2nd POUR.

1'-0

2'-0

WHERE COLD JOINTS ARE REQUIRED,

MINIMUM SPLICE LENGTHS#4 BARS:#5 BARS:

26"34"

Bear Ftgs onUndisturbed Soil

(2) #5 Top & Bot.Cont. , Typ.

#4 @ 16" O.C.VERTICAL

4" Conc. Slab

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0' -

8"

FoundationDrain

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1' - 6"

2x6 Treated ACQ Platew/ 1/2" dia.Galvanized Anch. Bolts @ 32" O.C.

(Typ.)

VA

RIE

S.

(Typ.)

#4 @ 16" Vert.

0' - 3 3/4"

#5 @ 12" O.C.HORIZ. CENTERED

#4 AT 16" O.C. VERTICAL

Perimeter Drain toDaylight or Sump

max

.

0' - 8"

#5 AT 12" O.C. HORIZ.CENTERED

(Typ.)

slope grade

1/2" Anchor Bolt

#4 AT 16" O.C. VERTICAL

Perimeter Drain toDaylight or Sump

#5 AT 12" O.C. HORIZ.CENTERED

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3A105

2A106

3

3A106

4A106

1A106

3S101

2S101

1S101

WORKSHOP LAUNDRY

GARAGE

UTILITY

UTILITY

50' - 0"

27' - 8"22' - 4"

44' -

4"

ALL GRID LINES ARE TO EXTERIOR OF WALL.

BEAM POCKET (above)

BEAM POCKET (above)

8" WALL w/ #5 O.C. AT 12" HORIZ#4 AT 16" O.C. VERTICAL

TYP. COUNTERFOOT FOOTING3' X 3' X 10" w/ 4 #5 EACH WAY

T.O.W. 12" +- BELOW GRADEAT COUNTERFORTS, (Typ.)

EXTEND ALL COUNTERFOOTREINFORCEMENT TO INT. FACE OFWALL w/ 18" HOOKS (Typ.)

FOOTING 3'-0" x 3'-0" x 10"w/ 4 #4 EA. WAY

HD-2

HD-1HD-1

HD-1HD-1

NOTE:TOP OF WALL & FOOTINGSTEP AS SHOWN AREAPPROXIMATE ANDSUBJECT TO CHANGE PERACTUAL SITE CONDITIONS.

NOTE ON SLAB:4" SLAB ON UNDISTURBED GRADE ORCOMPACTED FILL WITH FIBERMESHREINFORCING, JOINT IN MAX 150 S.F.SECTIONS, MAX LENGTH: WIDTH RATIO3:2, JOINT AT COL CENTER LINES AND RE-ENTRANT CORNERS.

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BEAM ABOVE

#4 x 6' @ 16" O.C.IN SLAB

DROP T.O.W. 16" @DOOR AND POURSLAB OVER

(4) 4 #5 DOWELS TOWALL, (TYPICAL)

4" Step in Slab

4" Step in Slab

BEAM ABOVE BEAM ABOVE

6' -

0"

16' - 4"0' - 8"

16' - 0"0' - 8"

16' - 4"

6' -

0"

4' - 0"

BEAM ABOVE

14' -

3 7

/8"

14' -

3 7

/8"

13' - 5"13' - 9 1/2"8' - 4 1/2"13' - 1"

2' - 11 3/4"

16' - 4 1/2"

4' - 0"

2' - 11 3/4"

3A104

-0' - 4"

0' - 0"

0' - 0"

-0' - 4"

0' - 0"

Step T.O.W.

Step Footing

4' -

10"

4' -

3 1/

2"

NOTE:ALL FOOTING REINF. SHALL BE SUPPORTED ON CHAIRS, CONCRETE, BRICKS OROTHERWISED SUPPORTED FIRMLY AND TIED IN PLACE, 3" CLEAR OF EARTH.

Step T.O.W.

Bot of Footing(-3'-9") Field Verify

FOOTING 1'-6" x 1'-6" x 10"w/ 2 #4 EA. WAY

ENLARGE FOOTING TO 4'-0" x 4'-0"x 10" W/ 4 #5 EA. WAY AND 2 #5CONTINUOUS THROUGH

1' - 6"FOOTING

(Typ.)

2 #5 VERTS FULL HEIGHT OFWALL 1 1/2" CLEAR OF OUTSIDEFACE, TYP. @ COUNTERFORTS.

Step T.O.W.

Step Footing

BEHINDPEIRS(Typ.)

2 # 4 12

6

6

NOTE ON SLAB:ICF FORMING SYSTEMS MAY BE USED WITH NO CHANGE INREINFORCING. 8" THICK WALLS PER SECTIONS

4S101

0' -

8"

1' -

6"

BEAM POCKET (above)

15' -

0"

15' -

0 1

/4"

14' -

3 3

/4"

Scale

Project number

Date

CELL 303-803-3788Designed by

RESIDENCE

Paul Merritt

Revisionsdate

Mark Cruz

70 Collins WayRollinsville,

Gilpin County,Colorado

As indicated

7/25

/200

8 7:

29:1

1 PM

S101

FOUNDATION

60210-6-2006

HD-1 = SIMPSON STHD14 PER CAT C - 2006, PG 42

HD-2 = SIMPSON STHD 14 RJ CAT C-2006, PG42

7 3d Foundation

8 Rear 3d Foundation View

JVA Job # 12604

Merritt Residence70 Collins WayRollinsville, Gilpin County, Colorado

DESIGN LIVE LOADS: 2003 IBC, U.O.N.* Snow 75 psf* Wind 120 mph, exp C, 3 second gust* Floor 40 psf* Exterior Decks 75 psf

FOUNDATION:* Foundations are designed without an engineer's soil investigation. Foundation design criteria was assumed for purposes offoundation design and shall be confirmed by a soils engineer, at owner's expense, prior to construction. (This procedure mayrequire revisions to foundation design, at additional expense to the owner, if soils engineer determines that such design criteriaare inappropriate for this building site.)* Footings shall be placed on undisturbed natural soil or compacted fill tested and approved by soils engineer.* Maximum design soil pressure: 2000 psf

BASEMENT WALLS:* Design lateral soil pressure (equivalent fluid pressure):Basement Walls: 45 pcf.* Backfill all retaining walls with free draining granular material except the top two feet.* Provide perimeter drain system with invert minimum of 6" below bottom of basement slab. Extend perimeter drain to daylight orto sump.* Slope perimeter grade away from building.* Place concrete continuously without horizontal cold joints.* Basement slab and main level floor joists must be in place prior to backfilling, or provide adequate shoring and bracing.

CONCRETE AND REINFORCEMENT:* Concrete shall conform to applicable provisions of ACI-301 and 318. Minimum 28 day compressive strength (F'c) as follows:

Footings : 3000 psiFoundation Walls: 3000 psi 6-7% air entrainmentInterior Slabs: 3000 psi max 0.45 water : cement ratioExterior Slabs: 3500 psi max 0.45 water : cement ratio, 6-7% air entrainment* Cement Type: I / II* Deformed reinforcement: ASTM A615 grade 60, except bars specified to be field-bent, stirrups, and ties which shall be grade40.* Fibremesh: 100% virgin polypropylene, fibrillated fibers as manufactured by Fibremesh Co. per ASTM C-1116 type 111 4.1.3and ASTM C-1116 performance level one, 1.5 lb. per cubic yard.* Welded Wire Fabric (WWF): ASTM A185. See also plan.* Typical minimum foundation reinforcing: 2 #5 top and bottom, (except as noted) continuous at corners and steps.* Reinforcement shall be fabricated and placed per ACI Manual of Standard Practice (ACI-315). At splices, lap bars 50 diametersunless noted otherwise.* Minimum 2 #5 around all four sides of all openings, extend min. 2'-0 beyond openings.* Concrete cover over reinforcing: 11/2" for concrete placed against forms; 3" for concrete placed against earth. See alsodrawings.* In continuous members, splice top bars at mid span and bottom bars over supports.* Keep reinforcement clean and free of dirt, oil, and scale. Oil forms prior to placing reinforcement.

STRUCTURAL STEEL:* Structural Beams: A992* Angles, misc.: ASTM A36* Anchor Bolts: ASTM A307 or A36.* Connector bolts: ASTM A307* Adjustable pipe columns:3" diameter, 11 (eleven) gage, shall be certified by the manufacturer for a safe load capacity of 13,500 lbs. at 7'-6"3" diameter "Heavy Duty" schedule 40 (3.5" O.D.) Columns shall be certified for 28,000 lbs. at 7'-6". Maximum screw extension 2".* Expansion Anchors shall be NER approved, installed in accordance with manufacturers specifications.In concrete: Wedge Type* Non-shrink grout beneath column base and beam bearing plates shall be non-metallic with minimum compressive strength5000psi.* All structural steel shall be fabricated and erected per the current edition of AISC Steel Construction Manual.* Welding by qualified welders. E70XX electrodes.* Except as noted, framed beam connections shall be detailed to develop 0.6 x Allowable Uniform Load values tabulated in the 9thEdition AISC Manual, Pp. 2-27 and following.* All beams shall have fitted web stiffeners welded to each side of webs above and below columns. ( plate or as noted)* Attach wood nailer plates to beams with 3/8" diameter bolts at 32" with glued contact face, or 5/32" diameter powder actuateddrive pins at 24" o.c., U.O.N.

1/2" = 1'-0"5Typical Reinforcing @ Steps & Openings

1/2" = 1'-0"1Foundation Detail 1




1/4" = 1'-0"6Foundation Plan

Structural DrawingsPaul Merritt Residence Rollinsville COFall 2007Paul Merritt hired me to do structural drawings for his mountain home. Axonometric foundation drawings assisted the contractor in building the extreme excavation and shoring needed for this steep mountain site.

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Loft Aeronautics Inc, an air travel startup is developing shipping tech-nologies or developing countries. These 400 yard long dirigibles can lift shipping containers and deliver them, via remote control to and place in the world.

They hired me to digitally develop their geometries of the outer Air-ship manifolds and produce basic renderings used to explain their concepts to potential investors.

Freelance 3-D ModelingLoft AeronauticsSummer 2006

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