LIGHT
PROJECT
The Assignment was, by using only
a 24x36 white board (museum), cut and bend in origami-like fashion
a sculpture to be placed atop a light cannon. One could cut out,
but not add on to the sculpture board. The objective was to see
how much one could play with the light and an interesting form.
PORTAL,
PATH, PLACE
The program was to create a 50'x50'
city plaza. Based upon the ancient Chinese garden, the design
was meant to encircle a guest with symbols of the designer's desired
emotion. I chose to reflect Pain, Struggle, and Redemption. Upon
entry through the main "Portal" (falling concrete archways)
the "Path" of the participant is raised on see-through
metal grates wrapping through metal arches and walls over spears
and barbwire until it concludes at the "Place" of redemption
symbolized by the bridge at the top whose structure resembles
wings rising from the debris.
CREMATORIUM
This project's site was an island
on the Miss. River. The front of the island was to be covered
in Mausoleums, while the back of the island, including a huge
concrete retaining wall, was to seat a crematorium. My design
direction stemmed from the function of the building as a process
for the transition of the soul from the body. At the center of
the building, which radiated from it, would be the chimney for
cremation exhaust.
LAFAYETTE
PARK
This program called for the selection
of a development in Downtown Baton Rouge to help with the revitalization
of the area. I chose to extend the present strip of Lafayette
Park into the neighboring Water Works Facility. I presented the
project to the Downtown Development District and 2 months later
a similar development was proposed by the city.
GOVERNMENTAL
COMPLEX
To seat various components of the
St. Francesville Government, this project was split into two parts
due to it's size and function. I designed this more "Public"
half on one side of the sites' valley and creating a circular
road which joined the more restricted complex on the other side
of the valley (not shown.) The circular road symbolized the union
of the government and the people. The building's main entrance
was to be a bridge, over-passing traffic and keeping the huge
mandatory parking lot separate from the complex with a semicircular
strip of foliage. The model shown was about 5'X3'.
PUBLIC
INTERNET FACILITY - ROME, ITALY
Through the Univ. of Arkansas Architecture
Dept. (and my parents) I was able to participate in a semester
abroad. I lived in Italy for 5 months traveling thoughout it and
the Netherlands, Spain, France, and England. Our main project
was to design a government funded facility to house the computing
platform that would give the public free access to the Internet
for the year 2000. The site (pictured here) was an interesting
spot as the building previously inhabiting the site had been demolished
leaving exposed the ruins that were hidden in it's depths. Many
ruins in the historic parts of Rome are hidden from private viewing
or just plain covered up. I designed my building with two separate
parts (admin. and public) with a plaza separating the two allowing
the columns to be viewed by the people on the street as they passed
by. The two buildings were connected by a structural grid that
continued through the plaza. The grid's layout was derived from
the column grid of the old Roman pavilion that the two columns
on the site belonged to thousands of years ago. The project was
chosen along with 3 others to be presented at the Universita de
Roma by their Dean of Architecture.
LIGHT
PROJECT
The Assignment was, by using only
a 24x36 white board (museum), cut and bend in origami-like fashion
a sculpture to be placed atop a light cannon. One could cut out,
but not add on to the sculpture board. The objective was to see
how much one could play with the light and an interesting form.
PORTAL,
PATH, PLACE
The program was to create a 50'x50'
city plaza. Based upon the ancient Chinese garden, the design
was meant to encircle a guest with symbols of the designer's desired
emotion. I chose to reflect Pain, Struggle, and Redemption. Upon
entry through the main "Portal" (falling concrete archways)
the "Path" of the participant is raised on see-through
metal grates wrapping through metal arches and walls over spears
and barbwire until it concludes at the "Place" of redemption
symbolized by the bridge at the top whose structure resembles
wings rising from the debris.
CREMATORIUM
This project's site was an island
on the Miss. River. The front of the island was to be covered
in Mausoleums, while the back of the island, including a huge
concrete retaining wall, was to seat a crematorium. My design
direction stemmed from the function of the building as a process
for the transition of the soul from the body. At the center of
the building, which radiated from it, would be the chimney for
cremation exhaust.
LAFAYETTE
PARK
This program called for the selection
of a development in Downtown Baton Rouge to help with the revitalization
of the area. I chose to extend the present strip of Lafayette
Park into the neighboring Water Works Facility. I presented the
project to the Downtown Development District and 2 months later
a similar development was proposed by the city.
GOVERNMENTAL
COMPLEX
To seat various components of the
St. Francesville Government, this project was split into two parts
due to it's size and function. I designed this more "Public"
half on one side of the sites' valley and creating a circular
road which joined the more restricted complex on the other side
of the valley (not shown.) The circular road symbolized the union
of the government and the people. The building's main entrance
was to be a bridge, over-passing traffic and keeping the huge
mandatory parking lot separate from the complex with a semicircular
strip of foliage. The model shown was about 5'X3'.
PUBLIC
INTERNET FACILITY - ROME, ITALY
Through the Univ. of Arkansas Architecture
Dept. (and my parents) I was able to participate in a semester
abroad. I lived in Italy for 5 months traveling thoughout it and
the Netherlands, Spain, France, and England. Our main project
was to design a government funded facility to house the computing
platform that would give the public free access to the Internet
for the year 2000. The site (pictured here) was an interesting
spot as the building previously inhabiting the site had been demolished
leaving exposed the ruins that were hidden in it's depths. Many
ruins in the historic parts of Rome are hidden from private viewing
or just plain covered up. I designed my building with two separate
parts (admin. and public) with a plaza separating the two allowing
the columns to be viewed by the people on the street as they passed
by. The two buildings were connected by a structural grid that
continued through the plaza. The grid's layout was derived from
the column grid of the old Roman pavilion that the two columns
on the site belonged to thousands of years ago. The project was
chosen along with 3 others to be presented at the Universita de
Roma by their Dean of Architecture.
The Assignment was, by using only a 24x36 white board (museum), cut and bend in origami-like fashion a sculpture to be placed atop a light cannon. One could cut out, but not add on to the sculpture board. The objective was to see how much one could play with the light and an interesting form.
The program was to create a 50'x50' city plaza. Based upon the ancient Chinese garden, the design was meant to encircle a guest with symbols of the designer's desired emotion. I chose to reflect Pain, Struggle, and Redemption. Upon entry through the main "Portal" (falling concrete archways) the "Path" of the participant is raised on see-through metal grates wrapping through metal arches and walls over spears and barbwire until it concludes at the "Place" of redemption symbolized by the bridge at the top whose structure resembles wings rising from the debris.
This project's site was an island on the Miss. River. The front of the island was to be covered in Mausoleums, while the back of the island, including a huge concrete retaining wall, was to seat a crematorium. My design direction stemmed from the function of the building as a process for the transition of the soul from the body. At the center of the building, which radiated from it, would be the chimney for cremation exhaust.
This program called for the selection of a development in Downtown Baton Rouge to help with the revitalization of the area. I chose to extend the present strip of Lafayette Park into the neighboring Water Works Facility. I presented the project to the Downtown Development District and 2 months later a similar development was proposed by the city.
To seat various components of the St. Francesville Government, this project was split into two parts due to it's size and function. I designed this more "Public" half on one side of the sites' valley and creating a circular road which joined the more restricted complex on the other side of the valley (not shown.) The circular road symbolized the union of the government and the people. The building's main entrance was to be a bridge, over-passing traffic and keeping the huge mandatory parking lot separate from the complex with a semicircular strip of foliage. The model shown was about 5'X3'.
Through the Univ. of Arkansas Architecture Dept. (and my parents) I was able to participate in a semester abroad. I lived in Italy for 5 months traveling thoughout it and the Netherlands, Spain, France, and England. Our main project was to design a government funded facility to house the computing platform that would give the public free access to the Internet for the year 2000. The site (pictured here) was an interesting spot as the building previously inhabiting the site had been demolished leaving exposed the ruins that were hidden in it's depths. Many ruins in the historic parts of Rome are hidden from private viewing or just plain covered up. I designed my building with two separate parts (admin. and public) with a plaza separating the two allowing the columns to be viewed by the people on the street as they passed by. The two buildings were connected by a structural grid that continued through the plaza. The grid's layout was derived from the column grid of the old Roman pavilion that the two columns on the site belonged to thousands of years ago. The project was chosen along with 3 others to be presented at the Universita de Roma by their Dean of Architecture.