Uffizi Analytique

This drawing is an analytique including a plan, section, and perspective of the famous Uffizi in Florence, Italy.

Kirche Am Steinhof Analytique

The above images are 3 pages of my analytique of Otto Wagner's Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, Austria.  The first page shows a site plan and elevation, floor plan, front elevation, and a front detail.  The second page focuses on light sources inside the church, mainly in the form of stained glass windows.  A light diagram shows the strength of natural light throughout the cathedral;  a detail of the illuminated cage depicts the use of the cage to contain light above the altar.  The third page shows perspectives, structural diagrams, and an elevation of the dome.

Campus Construction 2012- Water Tower

         Our last project in first year was the Campus Construction project, where small groups are assigned sites in the State College area, and designed and constructed the requested structures.  My group was charged with the task of constructing a water distribution structure on the site of Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Sustainability.   This project will be a small part of a combined effort across disciplines to make Penn State’s Center for Sustainability a popular destination for gardeners and environmentally conscious individuals.  The water tower would store and distribute water to a work yard and a community garden in the vicinity of the site. 

I was the head of documentation for the Campus Construction project.  I created the full program and project package for the project.  Following are drawings that I personally completed.  Some of them are collaborations between me and some of my teammates. These drawings, in addition to other drawings and computer models, accompanied write-ups, site specifications, precedents, materials palettes, and an environmental plan, made up the full project package that I assembled.  Below the drawings are pictures of the completed water tower in the shop yard at the architecture building, and the water tower on site at the Center for Sustainability.

[Room]- Leprechaun House

My second project in my first semester in architecture was an exploration of what makes a room.  My professor assigned us each a mythical creature as our 'client,' for whom we designed and modeled a scale model of a dream room.  My assignment was a leprechaun, and I built him an underground all-purpose room.  The room has a bed, a kitchen area, a reading area, and is centered around his workbench, where the leprechaun spends most of his day building shoes for his forest friends.  Some requirements for the room included 2 ways to enter/ exit and at least two places to look outside.  Additionally, I modeled the surrounding area, which is a wooded forest.  The room itself is designed to be beneath a large tree.


The most interesting part of this project was my experimentation with materials.  I ended up making the room out of mud brick, which I made out of mud, leaves, and dry grass.  It was applied to a cardboard bottom and a shaped chicken wire wall and allowed to harden for days.  Many of the pieces of furniture were molded out of foam.

Park[ing] Day 2011

My first assignment in the architecture program was a collaborative project with a group of 5th-year landscape architects called Park[ing] Day. The assignment was to convert a single parking spot in downtown State College into a "park," or public use area, for a day.  Our job, as first years, was to document the initial conditions of the site in order for the older students to design more efficiently.  We developed a design with the landscape architects, and our day of work turned out very successfully.


The concept behind Park[ing] Day is to raise awareness about the amount of urban space used for parking; it also hopes to portray  the possibilities that the space could have if it were used differently.  Our Park[ing] Day installment was based around the concept of "take a tree, leave a tree."  The fences on the perimeter of the parking spot support colored cups, each holding a small tree.  Everyone who passed was invited to remove a tree from the display as long as they drew one on the board in the center of the parking spot.  The board had a rectangular base, which had sod on top.  This provided visitors a seating area and brought even more greenery to the parking spot.

 

Puffin Bird House- Rhino and Sketch Up

The above images show my group's puffin house.  We each presented our original designs to the professors, and then for our final bird house model, we chose to combine the concepts of each of our designs into a single bird house.  My individual bird house design took inspiration from John Hejduk's interdependence of spaces in The Wall House.  Another member of my group focused on the burrowing nature of a puffin and integrated that environmental condition into the design of her bird house.


For our final design, we combined the concepts of burrowing and interdependent suspended spaces.  The two suspended 'rooms' were moved closer to create a passage from one side of the central wall to the other side, as found in the prescedent house.  The larger and higher 'room' opens to the outside, while the lower room is enclosed.  This lower, closed-off room serves as a burrow for the puffin.  The only way that the burrow can be accesed is by entering the higher 'room' and moving through the wall.


The above images show, respectively, the Rhino model of our bird house, the flat pack design of the house in sketch up, and the photoshopped version of the birdhouse intact with a scale figure of the puffin.  The color coded pieces in the flat pack design corrolate to those in the photoshopped image.

Laser Cut Puffin- Rhino and Pepakura

This 'bird' project helped us to learn a modeling program called Rhino and to introduce us to the laser cutters.  The first half of the project was to create a Rhino model of a bird that was native to the location of our precedent house (The Wall House, The Netherlands).  My group of three chose the Atlantic Puffin for our bird. 

Each of us constructed a different part of the bird and then we joined the three parts together; I built the head and the beak.  The following image is a screen shot of the puffin model in Rhino.

After combining our separate parts, we brought the Rhino model into a program called Pepakura, which assessed all the faces of the bird and unfolded them into flattened polygons.  This was the file that we sent into the laser cutting program.  The screen shot of the Pepakura program is below. 

We sent the unfolded version of the bird to the laser cutting program, and set the laser cutter to cut the bird out of 4-ply bristol board.  The following images show the laser cut bird after it was fully assembled (with some difficulty, he is only about 7" tall!)

Exemplar Model- Revit Architecture

The following images are from my Revit model of my precedent building, The Wall House by John Hejduk. 

The pair of images above are the first and second floor plans of The Wall House, respectively.  The first floor plan depicts the more structural elements of the right side of the house. It shows the blocks that hold up the risen passage way and the risen auxiliary room on the right side of the wall.  This plan also shows the footprint of the wall and the spiral staircase.  On the other hand, the second floor plan is a more telling plan of what could be seen from a bird's eye view of the house.  It shows the only floor with a connection between the main rooms and the auxiliary room.  The second floor plan was chosen in order to show the risen walkway that connects the left and right sides of the house, by way of the risen passageway through the wall itself.

 


 The above image shows a lateral section through The Wall House facing north.  The darkened lines represent the elements that were directly cut with the section line and the ghosted elements show the elements on the north side of the section cut.  The cut runs through the middle of the main rooms and the risen walkway, but does not touch the auxiliary room, shown here as the red structure beyond the section cut.


 
 

The above images show the post-processed images of my rendered front and rear perspectives of the house.