Advanced Design Portfolio

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a d v a n c e d d e s i g n p o r t f o l i oschool of architecture + community design

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d e d i c a t i o nI d e d i c a t e t h i s p o r t f o l i o t o C h r i s t i n e, R y l i e a n d G r a e m e, t h e l o v e s o f m y l i f e, a n d w i t h o u t w h o s e s u p p o r t t h i s w o r k w o u l d n o t b e p o s s i b l e.

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contentsadvanced design a

re-ligare institute

noah nothing house

advanced design bvertical urbanism

cultural catalyst

advanced design cbarrio de colón

architecture dance videobound: a performance

lincoln center installation

thinking & makingreconstructing copenhagen

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Re-Ligare Institute Reconnecting Mind and Body(re-ligare: re “again” + ligare “to connect”)

The Re-Ligare Institute was a competition presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) with the intent of challenging students, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

The competition challenged architecture students to design a public urban center dedicated to reconnecting people with their authentic selves, others, and nature. The new institution aimed at stopping the enslaving cycles of unchecked production and consumption dominating peoples lives, by turning the attention and practice to “being” in its entirety and in all its rich dimensionalities. The project encouraged students to consider ethic, aesthetic, and critical issues facing contemporary civilization, vis-à-vis novel programmatic, technological, environmental, spatial, and phenomenological issues.

Steel construction was considered to offer great benefits, as it is ideal for multi-story buildings, standardization of parts for quick delivery and assembly in congested urban environments, covering long spans without sacrificing flexibility and aesthetic lightness. The project was intended to utilize these benefits of steel construction by consisting of a light-weight frame work, various modular for fast construction, open circulation to allow for cross ventilation and a screen system to optimized shading throughout the day.

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Noah Nothing HouseA Design Build ProjectCurrently still under construction, the Noah Nothing Teaching and Caring House is our most extensive design build project to date. The primary multi-purpose space is flanked on three sides with reclaimed shipping containers providing the main structure. These volumes house a food pantry, kitchen, computer lab and bathrooms for the Church of the Kingdom of God in East Tampa. The function of the project will be “to meet the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children with a center that provides food, tutoring, and other services so that those who are hurting can become fully functioning members of society.”

Working of this project has given me interesting perspective on the latter half of the architectural process. The experienced gained from working hands on with a project through the building stages is extremely valuable in the design studio. Studying precedents can be an amazing recourse to help one better understand the structure and tectonics of a building. But this pales in comparison to the first-hand experienced gained from working on an actual project. One I hope to repeat in the future, and a practice I hope to carry with me into my professional career.

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Vertical Urbanism A Speculative Chicago TowerWhen given the challenge of creating a programmatic proposal for Downtown Tampa it was necessary to look at what is already offered. The new Tampa Museum of Art, John F. Germany Library, Straz Performing Arts Center and Florida Aquarium, present downtown as an emerging cultural hub for the Tampa Bay Area. In addition, Downtown Tampa has been expanding its public spaces, with the newly constructed Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park that will tie into the Tampa Riverwalk and the Franklin Street corridor.

The program will contain public and private elements that address connection, density and culture. The connection between Curtis Hixon Park and Franklin Street will be enhanced through various public spaces (i.e. shops, cafés, markets, plazas) and architectural elements (i.e. shaded promenades, urban parks), allowing the lower levels of the project to serve as a public passage of pedestrian activities. A thriving metropolis needs density and to promote this the proposal will include a residential/commercial tower that overlooks the Riverfront Park. Diverse cultural growth will be nurtured through the development of a Hybrid Learning Institute, consisting of a USF satellite campus, a magnet high school and a dynamic student/faculty housing project.`

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Cultural CatalystA Speculative DowntownTampa DevelopmentWhen given the challenge of creating a programmatic proposal for Downtown Tampa it was necessary to look at what is already offered. The new Tampa Museum of Art, John F. Germany Library, Straz Performing Arts Center and Florida Aquarium, present downtown as an emerging cultural hub for the Tampa Bay Area. In addition, Downtown Tampa has been expanding its public spaces, with the newly constructed Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park that will tie into the Tampa Riverwalk and the Franklin Street corridor.

The program will contain public and private elements that address connection, density and culture. The connection between Curtis Hixon Park and Franklin Street will be enhanced through various public spaces (i.e. shops, cafés, markets, plazas) and architectural elements (i.e. shaded promenades, urban parks), allowing the lower levels of the project to serve as a public passage of pedestrian activities. A thriving metropolis needs density and to promote this the proposal will include a residential/commercial tower that overlooks the Riverfront Park. Diverse cultural growth will be nurtured through the development of a Hybrid Learning Institute, consisting of a USF satellite campus, a magnet high school and a dynamic student/faculty housing project.`

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Barrio de ColónRevitalizing Havana, CubaCollaborators Leo Morantin & Derek Pirozzi

Barrio de Colon Havana is a moment captured in time. The people, the culture, and the existing contextual conditions have been left for a new generation to re adapt and rehabilitate. Such unaffected nostalgia is nearly impossible to locate in a global culture consumed with commercial and economical charge. The yearning for a respect of the past and its often idealized form drives the new conditions of a revitalized Havana. A history, the character, an ambiance almost seems to be palpable when experiencing the existing countenance of Barrio de Colón. This is a place which is truly “real” and exposes that reality with a celebrated demeanor. Nothing is fake. This is the truest state of “real” that something could ever wish to be.

An architectural appreciation for what once was can become a daunting task. It is an obligation that we begin to effect the immediate in a manor that is as much about what is “real,” as the remaining so that the new architectural vocabulary is not an intrusion, but instead a benefactor which advocates the rich character that is the place. There is a marriage there, a union which can only survive through the benevolent juxtaposition of the old and new. The environment is then embellished by a completeness that has been enhanced from a layering of architectural vocabularies. The result becomes a space not about an architecture of arrogance, imagery, or ornamentation, but instead about the spirit of the place. This is an architecture of virtue, an architecture of merit.

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BoundA Colloaborative PerformanceCollaboratorsArchitecture Jose Gomez, Stephanie Herring, John Roman, Juan Sanchez, Jonathan Torres & Justin WarnerDance Caitlyn Casson, Seline Dipronio, Caroline Rhoden & Amanda Samons Video Julia Fowler & Steve Yancar

Architecture, dance and video are attentive to skillfully molding, representing, transforming and inhabiting spatial worlds with forms which create differing effects visually emotionally and physically. These effects manifest through various combinations of spatial dynamics such as: level changes, directional pathways, inner-outer relationships, symmetries and asymmetries, focal attention, contrasts and intersections, as well as other types of dynamic influences in terms of timing/rhythm, weight, materiality/costuming and lighting.

As architects we sometimes overlook the human body interaction in and around the space and structures which we create.

This course exposed architecture students to elements of dance/movement through improvisational and non-improvisational collaborative activities with the goal of becoming more in-tuned with their own physical form (body “architecture”) and movement as well as the movement of others. They were also exposed to the role of video in revealing new worlds and perspectives. The intent was to facilitate an increased understanding and appreciation for movement, structure and the body’s interaction and relationships in architectural design.

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Lincoln Center InstallationAn Architecture of Movement,Action, DialogueThis project, fresh on the heels of the collaborative performance, posited the scenario: “If a Building Could Make You Dance.” The selected theme was for an annual architecture conference that sponsored an international competition, with the goal of refocusing attention on human body interaction as a generator for new architectural constructs. The competition offers a platform for exploring the body and “performative transformations of the subject” in architectural design, while the completed “installation” will create a dialogue and inspire innovation from those architects who inhabit and experience it during the annual conference. In addition, the installation will serve as the generator for the choreography of a site-specific dance, created in conjunction with a leading contemporary choreographer and the architecture student to be performed on the final night of the conference.

My specific installation looked at the use of scaffolding as a means of relating to the human scale and it’s flexibility to generate customized structures. Through the utilization of a bamboo-like structure, the installation was able to take on a form that explored the role of the viewer, performer and technician and how a space can shift the perspective of each, lending itself to richer experience and ultimate a better understanding of the space one views, occupies and moves though.

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Reconstructing CopenhagenIntuitive MakingThinking and Making is a course that explores those elements of the design process through which the manipulation of media is a means of generating ideas. Having been assigned to watch a contemporary drama that takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, the students were then required to generate two-dimensional images that captured some essence of the film. Through this series of studies a “reconstructed” urban context of Copenhagen was created, leading to new ways of thinking about various scales, how they relate to one another and how they can begin to generate their own modality, linked to the film but all the while still remaining self-contained. Through an evolutionary process of making and re-making, the new context took on a life of it, generating its own story, its own context and its own modality.

Parallel to this project, a series of “threshold” study models were made, exploring the flow and scale of spaces in, around and through one another.

In the final stages of this project, the two studies were combined, one creating a context or urban setting, and the other inhabiting that context. Each construct, having its own generative process, relates to the other through tectonics, thresholds and scales. In retrospect, however, I found it extremely interesting how the two projects, whose influences and drives dealt with different scales and modes but whose ends were ultimately bound, had surprisingly similar generative processes that readily communicated similar concepts and ideas.

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