kyle johnsonundergraduate works
table of contents
projects
chicago children’s hospital
vine city walk
recrafting interiors and social space
trastevere ludoteca
rural studio strategic masterplan and greenhouse
auburn university arboretum
lake martin house
other works
materials and methods
rural studio watercolor
rome: ways of seeing
alvar aalto stool
concrete table
concrete facade panels
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chicago childrens hospitalFall 2011
Located at the intersection of Clark and Harrison in downtown Chicago, this proposal for the Children’s Specialty Hospital addresses the idea of “public-ness” and visual interaction between the interior enviroment of the building and the exterior public realm of the city. Rather than being and a completely internalized, isolated entity, this proposal addresses the urban fabric of Chi-cago’s Printer’s Row area with a “public wrapper” that starts at the base of the northern face of the building, wrapping up along the façade, through the large public floor, and up once more along a northern face. The wrapper steps back from the site property line to provide a small northern porch, covered by undulating, faceted glass which visually draws attention to the dietary and community services floor, the main floor of public interaction between users of the hospital. Once on this floor, people have access to an outdoor patio overlooking Clark Street. Once again, the faceted public wrapper reveals it-self, climbing on the northern facing façade which encloses one set of family waiting areas. There is also an additional set of family rooms area that sits separately from the wrapper as its own volume. However, its placement allows for a very public visual interaction with the patio area and street below. The patient floor plan reveals it self to be a kinked “z” shape, with a focus on a long axis across the site which conclude in public areas that allow views outward. The kink allows for small reading/play areas to exist on either end, allowing the long corridor to be both a means of circulation and a place of inhabitation.
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Public Wrapper and Northern Porch
Visual Connectivity of the Public Realm Patient Privacy with Outward Visual Public Engagement
The hospital program within an urban context calls for need to address the project at multiple scales. The first two are the scale of the city and the building in regards as to how the building responds to surrounding context. This is addressed primarily through the public wrapper that at-tempts to visually engage users of the building with the exterior, while also allowing user to not become too isolated within. The third is the scale of the hospital room. While the goal of the public volumes of the building is to be connected and engaged, the hospital room must do just the opposite. It is important that patients within the room maintain a sense of privacy and comfort, leading to the use of vertical fins along the southern and western faces of the building. These fins not only provide shade to the interior, but also enough visual privacy that people from the street and adjacent family rooms have very litte visibility to the interior while still allowing patients and their visitors a view out into the city.
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Outdoor Patio looking towards Family Room Tower
Family Room Overlooking Outdoor Patio and out towards the Loop
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Floor 9 Nursing Units
Floor 2
Cardio Suite, Prep/Hold/Recover
Floor 3
Dietary and Community Services
Floor 4
Doctor’s Office and Business Admin
Floor 5 ICU,Radiology, Pharmacy, Lab
Floor 6
Nursing Units
Floor 7 Nursing Units
Floor 8 Nursing Units
Floor 1 Patient Entry andER
Floor 10
Mechanical
Patient Room
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Patient Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
1.Reading and Play
2. Nursing
3. Nourishment
4. Family Room
5. Supply
6. Trash Holding
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2. Cafe
3. Information Desk
4.Fire Command 5.General Waiting
6. Admitting
7. Emergency Waiting
8. Emergency Room Section
9. Exam Rooms
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Longitudinal Section
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Lobby Space along Northern Edge
Southern Facade and view down Clark Street
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Gypsum Board with metal stud framing
Metal box section
Spray foam insulation
1/4” Steel Channell at edge of floor plate
Aluminum spandrel panel
Steel angle sleeve
T- section steel frame
Perforated metal screen
3” rigid insulation frame
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Summer and Fall 2011
As part of a four person team representing the Auburn University chapter of the National Organization of Minor-ity Architecture student organization, this project was entered into and won the 2011 NOMA student design competition. Situated in the Ashby and Vine City neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia, the project called for a sort of business center which would house a sustainble grocery store, retail spaces, a visitor center with gallery space, MARTA station, and a 500 car parking garage. Our team sought a unique approach to the project, see-ing the demanding call for the 500 car parking garage as an opportunity rather than an obstacle. Rather than hiding the parking underground, we designed the parking area in such a way that it could easily accommodate future programmatic uses.
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The urban fabric in the Ashby and Vine City neighborhoods has often been punctuated by what Dana Cuff would call “convulsive” change throughout its history. War, weather, and slum clearance have been three factors that have fuelled this discontinuous pattern of development. There was always a shortage of affordable housing in Atlanta – the neighborhood itself was the product of westward expansion. But large events and large projects disproportionally affected African-American communities. Smaller projects do not have enough weight to respond to such larger-scale shifts in community needs; larger developments do. However, the tendency of large-scale developments to move towards functional specialization restricts them from being able to adapt to the neigh-borhood’s needs in the future. A typical structure for a “big box” supermarket doesn’t easily convert to housing; a typical parking garage layout doesn’t easily convert to local retail. As a result, larger projects fall harder. Often, these large projects are torn down and rebuilt en masse. This causes significant disruptions of the community, and in the end resulted in fewer housing units, retail, and institutions. Each rebuilding cycle actu-ally exacerbates the underlying problems. Even if the individual buildings of a large proj-ect are relatively small, the total project degrades uniformly and each building expires at the same time. Recent Large Scale Changes in Time and Space
A community Village Walk Center hopes to serve as a “community incubator” by providing the best of both worlds – the economic impact of a large-scale development plus the adaptability of smaller-scale projects. The superimposition of multiple future building scenarios creates for a project that can be renovated into various functions as the community needs change. Parking for the MARTA station can be renovated into housing, retail, or even offices. In addition to the quantitative issues such as egress and floor plate dimensions, there are qualitative aspects that allow the parking to superimpose functions. The “big box” facing Lena Street and adjacent to the grocery store offers the potential to become a farmer’s market over the weekend. Double-height spaces on upper levels of parking may be partitioned off for private events without disrupting access to parking for the event. In addition to meeting practical needs over time, the facility anticipates the cultural aspirations of a resilient community, educating visitors on where the neighborhood has been and where it might possibly go in the future.The result is a building that reflects the movement of its community at two levels – movement in space as the pleasure of everyday comings and goings, and movement in time as the progress of the community over time.
IncubationEnergy generation provides subsidies for fledgling offices and retail. Small businesses are organized into a destination to host markets and festivals, activating the corner park and the Kipp Academy playground. Once established, growing businesses move into the neighborhood.
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College Boom
In the case of a dramatic increase in enroll-ment of nearby colleges, the parking struc-ture can be adapted to accomodate single bedroom apartments parking.
Post Oil World
In the future, where the use of cars becomes less common, and public transporation becomes prevalent, the structure can accom-modate dense housing units.
Bull Market
Should business in the Vine City area expand, additional retail and office spaces can be accomodated with some parking remaingin.
“Movement in Time”Potential Adaptive Reuses
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Movement in PlaceSeparate system of ramps opens Village Walk to future scenarios by avoiding large sloping floors.The ramps turn the civic porch into a pleasurableand moving experience from multiple levels.
photovoltaics
green roof for future office/housing
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Fourth Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
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Anticipation of Future UseTo reinforce the idea of movement in time and potential reuse, details must be considered to anticipate adaptation to future uses. The present proposal displays a second floor parking area above retail spaces. However, the edge of this parking slab is detailed to accomodate drainage for future outdoor patios coupled with future housing.
Parking and Retail (Present Proposal)
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Housing and Retail (Future Adaptive Reuse)
Aluminum fins help define the edge of the slab and future patio, with a light, steel rod safety handrail behind. Wood planks would replace steel grate from the parking proposal, still allowing water to pass through to drainage systems that run between the bottom of the slab and metal grate, that floats above the ground floor to conceal the drain.
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Transverse Section through MARTA stop, ramp, and open market area
Northeast Corner
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Porches with small retail spaces
Interior view of ramp circulation system
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This design proposal was for the existing industrial building located at 2405 First Avenue South, Birmingham, AL. The building, constructed in 1910, was originally used as a flourmill and seed shop, later used by a glass company to construct and stock custom windows and doors. The hypothetical client, new owner of the 2405 First Avenue South loft, was a designer and business entrepreneur with expertise in contemporary craft culture who founded the Utilitarian Craft Lab. The Lab, located at 2405 First Avenue South combined with the adjacent empty lot, houses workshop/lec-ture/meeting spaces, gallery/retail space, studios for craftsmen, artists, and designers to work and collaborate, shared workshop/equipment spaces, office to facilitate social network partnerships, outdoor studio/meeting/gathering spaces with a sheltered market space for community members to sell utilitarian craft works. The relationship of this proposal with nearby Railroad Park, due to its proximity and the possible expansion of the park in the northeastern direction, as shown to the far left, is also essential.
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Manifold OperationPrior to the recrafting interiors project, the studio was as-signed the Manifold Operations project. This premise of this project was to redesign the interior of what was for-merly a factory building to accomodate three different pro-gram types: a restaurant, a metal fabrication shop, and a live/work facility. These program types were to be thought of independently yet simultaneously: that is to say that the building envelope would house each of these programs in different “lives” yet should be capable of adapting to house each of the program types with minimal change to the inte-rior. Considerations that contribute to the universal adapta-tion of the proposal between the program was addressed not only through spatial sequence and qualitative experi-ence, but also practical issues such as plumbing, circula-tion, and exit locations.With a primary focus on the restaurant, this proposal im-plements a set of courtyards that was intended to reduce the vast open space of the warehouse to smaller, intimate dining areas that were directly adjacent to the exterior. In-creasing natural daylight to the interior, these court yards also have the capacity to grow food for use by the restau-rant, so a person may experience the process of food preparation from the field to the plate.
View down ramped corrider between kitchen and courtyard
View from bar area across dining area
Inserted permanent walls
Inserted temporary program-specific walls
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Live/WorkThe hypothetical designer of the facility was Petra Blaisse, an interior and landscape architect. The inserted courtyards have the capacity to serve as outdoor testing grounds for the her work.
Metal FabricationThe inserted courtyards have the potential to serve as outdoor work areas. The intimate dining spaces from the restaurant serve as smaller work stations within the shop so that the shop may have an assembly line functionality.
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Building on the previous iteration, the recrafting interiors and so-cial space project implements the much of the same interior spatial organization. However, with the adjacent exterior lot now a factor, this proposal attempts to blur the boundary between the interior and exterior. Given the program of this proposal and the previ-ously mentioned possible Railroad Park expansion, there was was an attempt to create as much social interaction at the street edge of the site as possible in order to engage possible users of the park with the social interaction of the park. Therefore, an outdoor market space supporting an installation gallery as well as the in-door retail space are placed as the edge to attract users to the site.
Street Edge with outdoo market under outdoor installation gallery
Outdoor shaded working space patio looking South
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Retail Space alonge street edge looking through outdoor courtyard toward studio spaces beyond
Upstair gallery looking through outdoor courtyard into studio spaces beyond
Exisintg Materials
Proposed Materials
Rusted Steel Brick Heart Pine
Gravel Concrete Aluminum
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Metal Working
Wood Working
Multicraft Studio
Ceramics PaintBooth
ChemicalKitchen
Studio space
Artist Entry
Retail
Outdoor Market
Outdoor Patio Workspace
Community Gardens
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Section A through indoor retail space and gallery, and outdoor market and gallery
Section B through ceramics area, studio space, outdoor workspace, and community garden
Gallery
Meeting
Outdoor InstallationGallery
Office
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Section detail through studio space and patio workspace looking toward courtyard
Ronan and Erwan BouroullecJoyn Table Osso Chair
In order to help develop the project to become more specific and realistic, the studio was en-couraged to select specfici crafts. Designer Stephen Burks was selected for this proposal. His design philosophy of developing local craft to become something of worldwide quailty is something that would contribute well to the overall creative environment of the craft lab. The studio was designed in particular for the craft of Senegalese basket weaving, which helped to inform storage and furniture needs. The Joyn tables of the Bouroullec brother were selected due to the durability of the aluminum and te flexibility of partions. The Osso chair was also selected from these designers due to the high level of craftsmanship. Furthermore, hydraulic equipment of Schweiss Inc was selected for the opening door between the studio space and out-door work space.
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Schweiss IncHydraulic Door
Stephen BurksSenegalese Basket
Weaving
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Adjacent to Piazza Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, this ludoteca or “place of play” sits on a long, narrow site sandwich between the church of Santa Cecilia and and elementary school. The program, intended to also be and children’s edu-cational center, includes a visitor’s desk, gymnasium. outdoor play area, library, classrooms. small cafeteria, and infant care. Given the historic nature of the site, there was a special emphasis on the idea of the “piano nobile” that is so prevalent in Roman archicture. The piano nobile, or main floor, is where the out-door play area occurs, intending to be an open, free flowing space that breaks through the free standing screen of the facade to allow views out into the street and piazza.
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The proposal for the ludoteca resonds to two major site condi-tions: the Via del Porto and the corner facing Piazza Santa Ceci-lia. its is at these places that the two point of entry are placed in order to give some natural sense of an entry sequence. It is here that the facade of the project, perceived as a free standing ve-neer, steps back and punctures to mark these entries. the facade is also pierced to allow natural light to enter into the piano nobile of outdoor play area. Behind the facade sits three volumes of program connected by a vertical circulation anda bridge, which all define the free flowing, organic geometry of the outdoor play area. The free form plane also begins to spill out through the punctures of the facade to create balcony conditons that over-look the street and piazza.
The projcet was conceived as three programmatic volumes with an inserted organic plane, enclosed by a facade that addresses thmajor site conditions
Main entry aligned with Via del Porto axis
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Main corridor at main entrance looking toward gallery and gymnasium
View of corner looking across Piazza Santa Cecilia
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Section through library, gymnasium, and playground
Section through bridge, gallery corridor, and playground
Section through entry and staircase
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Playground looking south
Playroudn looking southwest with library above
Playground above entry with cafeteria and infant care above
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Cafeteria
Infant care and Oiffice
Reception Gallery
Gymnasium
Library“Piano Nobile” Outdoor Playground
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Arcade alone street edge between facade and gymnasium
Gymnasium looking toward gallery corridor
Bridge connecting to library with playground belw
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rural studio masterplan
For the past 20 years, the Rural Studio has helped develop Newbern, Greens-boro, and sourround areas of Hale County. Now it is time that the Rural Studio help itself. As part of the Rural Studio Revolution, our twelve person team de-veloped a strategic masterplan to utilize our resources to become self-sufficient in food, energy and material production. After evaluating our resoruces, we de-termined the first course of action was development of food production. Looking to local experts and drawing on professional consultation, the first step was the establishment of a greenhouse structure that would allow for longterm, year-round food production.
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The first step in beginning the Rural Studio Revo-lution was to evaluate our resources in order to maximize their potential. Production of food, en-ergy, and building materials can potential occur on all properties, both owned and rented. Assuming that future acquisiton of rented properties, we dia-grammed which properties would best be utilized as centers of production. Once determining this, we outlined possible production schedules over the next five years.
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Building MaterialsProduction Timeline
FoodProduction Timeline
EnergyProduction Timeline
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Determining that food production would be the first step in the journey toward self-sufficiency, Morrisette House was chosen as the center of food production. In order to expand upon an al-ready existing kitchen garden, we redeisgned the campus by moving vehicular circlation to allow space for more planting space and placement of the greenhouse. After multiple iterations, we de-termined the optimal sectional profile to maximize efficiency. In order to prevent waste, the green-house and accompanying seedhouse are modular and capable of being duplicated to increase the overall size of the structure.
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Culvert-North Roof Connection
Ridge Connection
South Wall-South Roof Connection
Culvert Foundation
Working personally with the construction supervi-sor and engineering consultant, I had a great deal of involvment in the detailing of the mockup struc-ture. The structure was designed to be framed of standard cedar members supported by a concrete water collecting troth at the south and heat storing metal culverts and the north.
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Construction of the mock-up took place over the course of approximately two weeks. The proposed materials of metal culverts, con-crete, and polgyal were used, with pine sub-stituting for the cedar framing.
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auburn university arboretum
Located on the southeastern edge of Auburn University’s campus, the arboretum acts a place of natural preservation to hundreds of species of plants native to Alabama. This beautiful yet fairly unknown part of the campus also acts as an educational center to visiting elementary, middle, and high school kids, while also being a vast testing ground for the agricultural and associated departments. However, the current office/educational facility is failing to properly meet the needs of the managers of the arboretum, lacking sufficient classroom and laboratory space for visitors. Therefore, our studio was asked to each develop a proposal for a 5,000 square foot facility that would house two large classrooms, office space, laboratory space, and an outdoor classroom/event space. Given the site of the arboreturm, the idea of creating a biomimetic structure seemed appropriate.
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This proposal’s roof and ceiling composition performs similiarly to that of a tree canopy. Primary structural col-umns support secondary girders, which then support ter-tiary structural members. The beams overlap each other in such a way to create natural shading, yet still allow light to pass through. In between these layers, photovol-taic glazing is inserted to not only harvest solar energy, similar to the photosynthetic process of the leaves of a tree, but to create a translucent shading effect.
Primary and Secondary
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Photovoltaic Glazing and Wood Roof
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Eastern Auditorium Classroom
Southern View
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Western Flexible Classroom
Entry Lobby looking toward outdoor Patio
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Eastern edge of learning center
Ramp leading to outdoor patio/classroom area
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Western edge of learning center
Front entry and ramp
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Lake Martin House
Located on steeply sloping site along the edges of Lake Martin, Alabama, this 2,500 square foot house responds to the site by both working with and against the slope in section. The as one enters the house, the options are presented to either move up the stairs to the master bedroom suite, or down the stairs to the main level or interaction. Perceiving each piece of program as a volume, the house was also organized to create blocks and voids of inhabitable outdoor space. Furthermore based on a structural and construction idea of four load-bearing walls, the house is spatially organized to act within these constraints while some volumes break through the rigidity of the walls as necessary.
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Volumetric organization about a central circulation volume where the staircase is located. Dotted lines indicate voids of inhabitable outdoor spaces.
With the development of the project, a structural and con-struction idea developed of four main load bearing walls.
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Top Floor
First Floor
Main Floor
Top Floor
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Southeast facade
Double height view of living room and central stairView from living room looking to outdoor patio and lake
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As part of a longstanding tradition, in addition to tests and research assign-ments, students are also required to do handconstructed drawings of buildings that utilize materials of current class discussions. The two drawings shown are both of buildings by Tadao Ando. The Japanese Pavilion to the left is an beauti-ful example of wood construction, while the above drawing is one of Ando’s many masterpieces of concrete.
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rural studio watercolor
To promote the idea of hand craft, student who participate in the rural studio pro-gram in third year are required to compose a watercolor rendering of an existing building of choice in Hale County area. This is an existing residence on Main Street in Greensboro, Alabama, completed over the course of the semester.
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In order to fully take advantage of the lessons Rome has to teach, we were encouraged to see with more than just our eyes. Through drawing, we had the opportunity to understand relationships and discover anomalies that one would otherwise fails to recognize.
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Spanish Steps
Piazza NavonaBorromini Cupola
Vittorio Emanuale
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Church of Quattro Fontane
Piazza del Popolo
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Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale
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In continuing the idea of handcraft, our Rural Studio Revolution team was also the first to establish a now ongoing tradition of the exploration and understand-ing of famous furniture pieces. Similar to drawing in Rome, by attempting to reproduce these pieces, we began to truly understand issues of proportional relationships and construction techniques. Attempting to reproduce these in-dustrially made pieces with basic woodshop tools presented an interesting yet engaging challenge.
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1. Glue planks together to make legs. 2. Cut 1/8” notches in the legs.
3. Make Jig. 4. Cut 1/8” strips.
5. Steam leg with strips. 6. Glue strips into leg and bend around jig.
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7. Trim legs to final dimensions. 8. Make seat.
9. Glue 1/16” strip to edge of seat. 10. Screw legs into bottom of seat.
11. Apply finish.
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detail of laminated, bent leg
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other iterations of the alvar aalto stacked on top of my iteration
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As part of a structures class, this project was constructed as a group project with 2 other team members. Inspired in form directly by the simplest moment diagram as also adapted by many engineered bridge designs, this project was a useful way of beginning to test and understand the capabilites and limits of concrete.
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Originally, the table was designed to be a bench. In its simplest form, the bench would have utilized a curved support to counteract bending in the middle.
Initial plan of the table top integrating pervious concrete.
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Wood inlays hold reinforcement
Detail sketch of notched wood inlay
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Wood inlays of the table top and leg supports align
Required pervious concrete and wood inlays. in the table top.
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Edge of wood inlays and concrete
Legs are screwed into the table tops via wood inlaysSmall concrete shelf supports the wood shelf which counter-acts the tension of cables below
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concrete facade panels
Given a hypothecitcal site in Auburn, AL, this project consisted of the design of prefabricated concrete panels to com-pose the facade of a bare, five story concrete structure. As leader of a team of four, the intention was to use maximize prefabrication methods by using only two types of panels, while allowing depth and undulation in the overall design of the elevation. In order to allow for ease of installation, each panel is approximately 8 feet in length and width, with 2 feet depth. Two panels cover the 16 foot floor to floor height. Each panel is connected as three corners, allowing the fourth corner to have a floating effect inspired by Tadao Ando’s Church of Light.
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Section at parapet, typical floor connection, and store-front glass detail
Plan- typical column connection
The thermal enclosure is separate from the concrete panel, composed of glazing that sits between columns
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Plan- Corner Detail
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The main body of the facade is composed of one type of panel, while the parapet and storefront are a different tpye.
Construction Diagram
Each panel is connected at three points to a steel bracket. Each steel bracket is essentially identical with varying dimmension only in the length of the central I-beam section. This allows for easier fabrication yet allows accounts for the undulation of the kinked concrete panels.
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Kyle Johnson245 East Glenn Ave, Apt 245BAuburn, AL 36830
Work Experience Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction - Auburn University Summer 2010, Summer 2011-Present Student Employee: Responsible for circulation of incoming and outgoing material, book reshelving, and operating the library on week nights.
Education Auburn University - Auburn, AL 2008-Present School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture GPA 3.89 Architecture and Interior Architecture Study Abroad: University of Arkansas, Rome Center, Rome, Italy Spring 2011 Rural Studio: Strategic Masterplan Fall 2010
Murphy High School - Mobile, AL 2004-2008 International Baccalaureate Program GPA 4.35
Activities and Honors National Organization of Minority Architects 2008-Present Web Design Chair 2009-2010 AIAS 2008-Present Dog Days Fundraising Chair 2009-2010
Scholarships Spirit of Auburn Scholarship Walmart Community Scholarship Architecture Departmental Scholarship Homer B. Tasker Scholarship W. S. Ball Scholarship Cooper Carry Scholarship Honors 1st Place National Organization of Minority Architects Student Competition 2011 Part of a team of four responsible for designing the winning proposal for the Vine City Walk, incorporating retail spaces, grocery store, visitor center, and 500 car parking deck that can be adapted to meet future housing needs.
Skills Drafting, Model-making, Watercolor Proficient in Sketchup, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, 3DS Max Working knowledge of Revit, Rhino, Ecotect, IES CFD, Vasari
References Rusty Smith, 104 Dudley Hall, Auburn, AL, [email protected], 334.844.5444 Chrisitan Dagg, 311 Dudley Hall, Auburn, AL, [email protected], 334.844.4519 Justin Miller, 104 Dudley Hall, Auburn, AL, [email protected], 334.844.5171 Sarah Anderson, [email protected], 334.844.1751