Architecture Portfolio

T y C a l d w e l lT y C a l d w e l l

Manual Skills

Computor skills Revit

Abobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

Microsoft Office

Adobe Illustrator

Hand Drafting

3ds Max

SketchUp

AutoCAD

This Portfolio is designed to give you a sample of my work that I accomplished throughout my college career with the goal of attaining a job in the field of architecture or design. I would love to work for a design firm to help in achieving my goal to complete the Intern Devel-opment Program and become a licensed architect. I hope this portfolio will give you enough information to properly demonstrate my skills in and passion towards architecture and design.

Some areas I wish to highlight with this portfolio are the skills in com-puter aided drafting and rendering. Some of the programs that I have used throughout this portfolio are Revit, 3ds Max, SketchUp, and Auto-CAD. Another area of emphasis is the ability to create clear and effec-tive presentations through the use of such programs as Adobe Photo-shop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Lastly, I hope this portfolio shows my ability in hand drafting, rendering, and sketching. Although there is not as much emphasis on my hand drawing skills, I still believe it is as important as computer aided drafting and rendering skills, and I am just as able in my hand sketching and rendering, as in computer aided rendering.

Sketching

Rendering

Photography

Model Building

Bilingual in German & English

Ecotect

<[email protected]>

University of IdahoCollege of Art & ArchitectureDepartment of Architecture & Interior Design

801.597.58079

I ntroduction I ntroduction

Personal Background

The things that inspire me most as a designer are my love for the outdoors, my passion for art, and my desire to build and design.

My love for the outdoors is one of my greatest inspirations. I enjoy many outdoor activities such as climbing, backpacking, fishing, and cycling. I have worked for the forest service for many years doing seasonal trail maintenance and construction. This has allowed me the opportunity to use my design skills in a different manner. During my experience on trails I had the opportunity to influence and work on trail design. Also, I was able to design and build smaller structures such as bridges for water crossings on trails and retaining walls to help stop trail erosion.

My passion for art has had a great influence on me. I have always enjoyed creating and experiencing art. This is one of the main reasons I chose to study architecture. Ever since I was a child I have loved to draw and create art, which I continue to do today.

My desire to build and design has been another interest of mine from my childhood. Some of my favorite jobs have been construction jobs. I have had the opportunity in the past to work on construction jobs installing glass in curtain walls and other windows on the Rendezvous building at Idaho State University, as well as working doing smaller scale construction building decks and tilling floors. I also like to use my desire for designing and creating things around my house to design and build things such as a cat tower or book shelves.

Another aspect of my life that has influenced my designs is my travels to foreign countries. I spent a week with the architecture program in Mexico City studying Mexico architecture. I like their use of color and clean design and feel it has affected my designs. Before I started my studies of architecture I had the opportunity to live in Germany. Germany has been a big influence in my design and my ideas about sustainable cities. It also afforded me the opportunity to learn the German language.

Sustainability

Sustainability seems to be a important topic in many aspects today. It is also a word that is used throughout this portfolio and it seems to be an over arching theme in many of my designs. This relates back to my love for the outdoors and my desire to preserve it for future generations. In order to avoid confusion I thought I would give a general definition of the word and its use pertaining to my projects. Sustainable by my understanding relates to a way of living that is more in harmony with nature and its systems, so that our natural resources are not over used or destroyed. I believe that it should be a major part of architectural design being that the design of our built environment can greatly influence our way of living. A sustainable design refers to a design that helps us live more sustainable lives through the re-use, reduction and recycling of our natural resources such as fossil fuels and water.

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This Portfolio is designed to give you a sample of my work that I accomplished throughout my college career with the goal of attaining a job in the field of architecture or design. I would love to work for a design firm to help in achieving my goal to complete the Intern Devel-opment Program and become a licensed architect. I hope this portfolio will give you enough information to properly demonstrate my skills in and passion towards architecture and design.

Some areas I wish to highlight with this portfolio are the skills in com-puter aided drafting and rendering. Some of the programs that I have used throughout this portfolio are Revit, 3ds Max, SketchUp, and Auto-CAD. Another area of emphasis is the ability to create clear and effec-tive presentations through the use of such programs as Adobe Photo-shop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Lastly, I hope this portfolio shows my ability in hand drafting, rendering, and sketching. Although there is not as much emphasis on my hand drawing skills, I still believe it is as important as computer aided drafting and rendering skills, and I am just as able in my hand sketching and rendering, as in computer aided rendering.

b oise Public Library b oise Public Library

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Course

ProjectLocation

DesignConcept

Spring 2012

Final Graduate Project Studio

Boise, Idaho

In an attempt to create a more sustainable environment that encourages us to live more in harmony with nature, I am designing a new public Library that creates a fusion between the built elements and the natural elements. My hopes are that by creating this fusion, it will bring us to a greater awareness of how important it is to preserve our natural resources. I have always had a great love for the outdoors so it only seemed natural to create an architecture that worked with nature instead of against it.Boise is the perfect place for creating this fusion of the two elements with the downtown sandwiched between the foothills and the Boise River. The library seemed like the perfect program to affect a wider range of people, with it being a place of learning and knowledge. It had a great potential not only affect a wide range of people but the existing site was situated perfectly to have a great connection with the natural environ-ment.Through the design process and my research I have discovered that one of the best ways to connect the built with the natural is to allow a direct physical connection to nature through the use of transitional areas. By manipulating these spaces one can start to create areas that allow nature into the building or the building can start to expand father into the natural environment..

The Design of the Boise library starts to allow the connects with nature in a variety of ways first to engages the river by creating an urban edge to the river, in a city that the river plays such a big role it has no real urban edge to the river. Second the program has been broken up allowing for the form of the building to break up and allowing for more opportuni-ties for nature to penetrate the built form and the built form to penetrate nature. This has created a better fusion and more of a seamless transition between the two. Topography also played a big role in connecting with nature with the manipulation of the natural topography and the manipulation buildings topography.

Design Strategies:

Battery Street

C A p i t o l b l v d.

8th Street

Fusing the Built with the Natural

The Design of the Boise library starts to allow the connects with nature in a variety of ways first to engages the river by creating an urban edge to the river, in a city that the river plays such a big role it has no real urban edge to the river. Second the program has been broken up allowing for the form of the building to break up and allowing for more opportuni-ties for nature to penetrate the built form and the built form to penetrate nature. This has created a better fusion and more of a seamless transition between the two. Topography also played a big role in connecting with nature with the manipulation of the natural topography and the manipulation buildings topography.

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“How can people who are trapped in the city try to create a more ecologically minded world if you don’t know that it’s possible. A good example of how people become closed off from their ecosystems is with their walkmen or iPods. So you start to further close yourself off. You don’t want to breathe the dirty air, you don’t want to hear be-cause it’s annoying, you don’t want to look because it’s ugly. That is why we don’t understand nature, love it or take care of it. We don’t realize that we depend on it psychologically and physically 100%” -180˚ South –

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Discovery Center Section

Children and teen Library Section

Main Library Section

Community Center Section

Site Section

Discovery Center Section

Children and teen Library Section

Main Library Section

Community Center Section

Site Section

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Level four

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” -Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire-

i nstitute for sustainability i nstitute for sustainability

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Course

ProjectLocation

ProjectDescription

DesignConcept &

Solution

Spring 2010

Architectural Design VI

West side of Lake Union, Seattle, Washington

To design a sustainability institute that promoted sustain-able living and could be a place of learning for business professionals, students and other members of the public. The buildings needed to represent Seattle as well as sustainability. We worked in a team of four on the concept and master plan of the site. Than we each worked on differ-ent buildings and parts of the master plan. All renderings and diagrams that I show are done by me.

Creating a functional demonstration of sustainable urban-ism in Seattle to educate the public in practices of sustain-able design. In order to make this place represent Seattle and sustainablility we wanted to re-use shipping containers in different ways throughout the sustainability campus. The different buildings consisted of a sustainability center, laboratories, educational facilities, auditorium spaces, urban agricultural center, dormitories and housing for the public. We also wanted to create a connection for public use between Dexter Ave and West Lake Ave to help make the place more walkable. This was an extension of an already existing pedestrian pathway that ended at Dexter Ave. I was in charge of designing the connecting pathway and the sustainability center.

Sustainability Center Viewed From West Lake StreetThe Sustainability Center building contains the receptionist area, small public galleries, recycling center, and some conference rooms and classrooms. Shipping containers were reused as shad-ing for the glass facade with openings cut out to allow for views.

Left: view of the connecting pedestrian pathway. The pathway is the continuation of an already existing pathway that ended at Dexter Ave. It now continues down from Dexter Ave dropping thirty feet to West Lake Ave and connecting the existing pathway to the water front. You can either take the more direct path down the stairs or meander along the winding ramp. Shipping containers were reused as planting beds.

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Left: site plan I did with all the team members buildings on it. It shows the connection to the water front created by the new pedestrian path and the transit routs on Dexter Ave and West Lake Ave.

Below: section cut of the Pedestrian path with the parking below. This helps show the elevation change between the two streets.

Apartments

Living Machine

Sustainability Center

Laboratories, classrooms,and urban agriculturalcenter

Auditorium

Dormitories

Restaurant and retail

Queen Anne Neighborhood

Lake Union

The Site

Seattle Center

Olympic Sculpture Park

Main Business District

Pike Place Market

Ferry

Left: view of the backside of the Sustainability Center

Bottom left: the second entrance to the Sustainability Center. This is a more direct classroom entrance.

Below: is a Site Connection Plan

Opposite PageRight: shipping container facade diagram.

Far right: view from inside the sustainability center overlooking Lake Union.

Bottom right: view from inside the Sustainability center looking at the main stairway to the court-yard.

S ketches & artworkS ketches & artwork

Semesters

Description

Fall 2006 - Fall 2011

These are a few of my sketches, drawings and paintings throughout my time studying at the Univer-sity of Idaho and Idaho State University.

This Project was to take a well daylit space and build a daylight model of it. Its goals were to study well daylit spaces and practice building realistic daylight models. This is the Church of Santa Monica, Vicens & Ramos in Madrid, Spain. The real images were taken form <http://www.archdaily.com/26101/parish-church-of-santa-monica-vicens-ramos/>

This project was to use Ecotect and Radience to evaluate the same space, we designed using physical modeling, digitally.

A rchitectural design workA rchitectural Design Work

SectionDescription

ProjectDescription

This Section is a sample of my work from my time at Idaho State University till my time at the University of Idaho’s, Idaho Urban Research and Design Center in Boise Idaho. Most of this work done while at the Univeristy of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.

The goal for this building was help create a place that fosters a sense of community and security for the residents. The inspiration for the design comes from my trips to Canyonlands in southern Utah. The walls of the buildings like the walls of the canyons create a sense of security. The entrances to the residents is through the courtyard which incourges people to meet their neighbor and helps foster a sense of community. The balconies open up to the court-yard and allow for places to grow plants extending the courtyard up. This along with the green roofs go along with the inspiration of the canyon walls, as the canyon walls have a similar transition of green spaces. Each unit has two floors and a balcony over looking the courtyard. This Project shows my hand rendering skilld

Site Plan

Portland courtyard housing

View From Balcony Overlooking Courtyard

Moterized Traffic

Pedestrian Traffic

Our Site

Residential Housing

Motor Businesses

Public Places

University Buildings

Non-permeable Spaces

Proposed Buildings

Proposed Green SpacesExisting Conditions

Phase I

Phase II

ProjectDescription

To design a suitable alternative for infill development on an already empty lot across from the University of Idaho’s recreation center in Moscow, Idaho. The objective of our design was to create an urban retail park that increases pedestrian connectivity, walkability and density. We worked in a team of two for the master plan and than divided the work up. I designed the retail and office space building while my partner designed a new University of Idaho bookstore. We thought retail and offices would be the most viable option for this location due to the sites location between one of the main off campus student housing areas and the university campus. We also wanted to create a nice public plaza with sustainable features such as bio-swells. This page highlights the bio-swells and phasing plans

Above: section diagrams through the bio-swells.

Right: view of mixed use office & retail building from the pedstrian plaza.

Phasing Diagrams of

Master Plan

Sustainableurban infill

Project Description

Concept Sketches

Basement Floor First Floor Second Floor Third Floor

Left: pictures showing how I derived the facade from the wheat fields.

Top Right: interior view from the third floor book stacks over looking the outdoor rooftop reading area.

Bottom Right: concept massing model.

Site Plan

The main goal of this project was to create a library for the 21st century. An open book: The design of this library is based on the concept of a book. It takes the main components of a book and transforms them into a library of the 21st century. A 21st century library is a place that has all the traditional compo-nents of a library and allows available room for expanding and changing technologies without encroaching upon the necessities of a library. The facade design is derived from the wheat fields of the Palouse.

moscow, Idaho city library

ProjectDescription

The Project was to design a public aquatic center for Moscow, Idaho. It needed to have leisure pools as well as a competition pool and diving boards. The site is located on a south facing slope overlooking the rolling hills of the Palouse.The Inspiration for this building comes from the beautiful surrounding landscape. The building tries to mimic the landscape as it gradually roles out of the ground to open up on the southern facade providing views of the Palouse. The ribbed skin of the building would be designed to allow for even natural light to penetrate the building without causing glare or blinding the swimmers.This project shows my hand drafting skills.

Top Left: view looking southeast, and site plan.

Top Right: hand drafted floor plan.

Below: hand drafted sections of the swim-ming pool.

moscow, Idaho aquatic center

Mexico city architectureCourse

DescriptionThis was a half a semester class in which we studied Mexico architecture and over spring break we traveled to Mexico City learing about the architecture of Mexico City. While there we visited Teotihuacan the site of some ancient pyramids, Camino Real Hotel, the Paseo de la Reforma, the Zocalo, and some various Mexican plazas. We also got to visit the office of Legorreta + Legorreta Architects. Then after returning we had a gallery show of some of our photographs and sketches.

The Project was to design a public aquatic center for Moscow, Idaho. It needed to have leisure pools as well as a competition pool and diving boards. The site is located on a south facing slope overlooking the rolling hills of the Palouse.The Inspiration for this building comes from the beautiful surrounding landscape. The building tries to mimic the landscape as it gradually roles out of the ground to open up on the southern facade providing views of the Palouse. The ribbed skin of the building would be designed to allow for even natural light to penetrate the building without causing glare or blinding the swimmers.This project shows my hand drafting skills.

ProjectDescription

This Project was to take a well daylit space and build a daylight model of it. Its goals were to study well daylit spaces and practice building realistic daylight models. This is the Church of Santa Monica, Vicens & Ramos in Madrid, Spain. The real images were taken form <http://www.archdaily.com/26101/parish-church-of-santa-monica-vicens-ramos/>

Real Photograph

Model Photograph

ProjectDescription

This project was to use Ecotect and Radience to evaluate the same space, we designed using physical modeling, digitally.

daylighting design

ProjectDescription

This project was designed to practice drawing perspectives by hand using only floor plans and elevations. This is the Einstein Turm in Postdam Germany

ProjectDescription

This project was designed to study the tectonics of architecture using sticks and stones. We used 12 Sticks and 12 Stones.

Isu Pre-architecture

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Semester

Course

Location

Summer 2005

Arches & Canyonlands Work-

shop & Show

Arches National Park, Moab,

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CourseDescription

While at Idaho State University I was asked to participate in the Arches & Canyonlands Work-shop. This involved traveling to Arches National Park near Moab, Utah and spending a week down there exploring and creating art. Afterwards we continued to work on art that was inspired by this beautiful landscape, and at the begin-ning of the fall semester we had a gallery showing of our pieces. These are some the pieces that were displayed in the show, along with some photographs that I took while on the trip.

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i nteractive literacy center i nteractive literacy center

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Course

ProjectLocation

ProjectDescription

Fall 2009

Architectural Design V

Boise, Idaho

To design a Interactive Children's Literacy Center that was to be inspired by a child's playfulness. The goal was to create an inspira-tional learning environment for kids. It needed to include a children's library, classrooms, play spaces, interactive museum, bookstore, and cafe.

DesignConcept &

Solution

The ultimate goal for this space was to improve to community by strengthening the children within the community. It took many cues from the site, which is located at the edge of down-town Boise. 8th Street which is located on one edge of the of the site is a very pedestrian friendly street, while 9th Street, on the other side, is one of the main roads in downtown Boise. The design tries to reflect this by creating an urban edge on the 9th Street side and a pedestrian plaza on the 8th Street side. The unique western facade responds to the need to provide views while shading the glass to help with overheating. It, also, has a very fun childlike design to it while providing structure for the building.

View From Pedestrian Plaza

Above: view of the corner at 9th and River streets. It shows the horizontal shading with none on the northern side and as it gets close to the western side they start to increase.

Bottom: section running along the western side.

First Floor Second Floor

Muesum, Bookstore, and Cafe

Children’s Theater, Play Space and Classrooms

Library, offices, and Research center

Steel Tie Rods Double Skin Curtain Wall

Above: detail views of the structural elements and shading devices.

Below: section cutting through the children's theater, and library.

Top left: view of the pathway between the building and the structural ribs.

Middle left: an interior view from the second floor computer area over looking the book-store.

Bottom Left: view of the children's theater area.

Right: my building model placed on a site model we built as a class.

Opposite PageLeft: exploded axonometric that shows the roof, shading, struc-ture, and glass facade.

Right: structural bay model.

b oise sustainability center b oise sustainability center

Semester

Course

ProjectLocation

ProjectDescription

DesignConcept &

Solution

Fall 2010

Architectural Design VII

Boise, Idaho

To design a educational center for Boise that focuses on sustainability while complying with the design guidelines for the Living Building Challenge. It needed to foster collaborative learning between students, professionals and other members of the public who are interested in being more sustainable. It also needed to provide spaces to house the IDL (Integrated Design Lab), and provide areas for study, product display and experimenting.

Urban Oasis: The concept comes from the idea that parks are urban oases, which also serve the purpose of public gather-ing places throughout the city. Boise is a city with an excellent park system. This idea was carried throughout the building by creating urban oasis Pods that are set apart from the rest of the building by placing them as mid level floors and by extrud-ing them from the building. This makes them visible from both inside and outside the building. Like parks are the places where people come together in our communities, the urban oasis pods are designated as special places for collaborative learning where people come together within the building. This building is designed to be a place of collaborative learning helping us learn from each other about sustainable practices.

Design Process Massing Models

View From Front Street and 5th

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan

Left: view of the main entrance to the building from 5th Street

Below : view of the interior atrium space from the second floor. This space can be accessed as you enter the building.

Fourth Floor Plan

Left: two site analysis diagrams and a Site Plan showing vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Above: view of the building from Front Street.

Below: view looking out from the entrance of an Oasis Pod.

Radiance Daylighting

Modelsof Main Gallery Space

Overcast Sky

Sunny Sky

Above: section cut diagram showing the water filtration system and passive ventilation system.

Below: diagram showing the structure of the main gallery atrium, the oasis pods, and the main program areas of the building. Also, a diagram showing the cooling system.

Space Frame structureover main exhibit area

Wall Truss structurefor Oasis pods

Steel columns

Cavity floor system

Open web trusssupport floors

Double glazing withmetal mesh shadingintegrated

False-ColorRendering

Hot Air RecirculatingFilter Bed Water Tank

Left: view of the main Gallery and atrium space.

Below: a structural diagram highlighting the different structural systems of the build-ing.

Main structural system Steel columns and trusses

Atrium structure Reinforced concrete columns and space frame roof support

Pod Structure Steel wall trusses

Mechanical & vertical circulation core Shear wall construction

Ecotect Daylighting

Modelsof Main Gallery Space

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<[email protected]>

University of IdahoCollege of Art & ArchitectureDepartment of Architecture & Interior Design

801.597.5809