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GEOMETREE ROOTS

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Thematic Moments

Chair

Light and Shade

Corners

Artwork

SEED DIGEST

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Introduction

It’s been a long time coming. But there’s still a ways to go. I decided at 8 years that I was going to become an architect after reading a gatefold portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. Every sucessive exploration of the field strengthened this desire, from teaching my 5th grade teacher how to make a hip roof, to mastering autocad drafting classes, to my first architecture internship my senior year of high school. Throughout college I’ve realized that I want to change the world through the built en-vironment, and that I’m most inspired by natural geometries and natural systems because of their perfect blend of form and function that makes existance on earth dumbfoundingly beauti-ful. The first space enclosers, the original architectural element, were the trees. The way they take hold of a foundation with their roots, the way they are able to support wide cantilever canopy loads and disperse them through one column to the roots, and in turn move nutrients and water the entire opposite direction to facilitate energy production and growth is incredible. These beings taught us the basics of creating space, and further, shelter, and even further, beauty. They still have so much to teach, as I’ve gathered in undergraduate study. This portfolio outlines ways in which I have understood these system and have applied them to projects. With growing technologies and innovation, we’re closer than we have ever been to being able to copy nature’s perfection. I hope to continue this discovery process, among many oth-ers, at Clemson University. Let’s change the world through design.

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THEMATIC MOMENTSARCH 251FALL 2nd YearDAVE LEE

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We were given the task of creating three architec-tural moments, through a common theme, that were tied together by challenging the typology of the door, the window, and the stair. My theme was the Greek god Artemis, so ideas like the forest, hunting, and the constellations that relate to Artemis drove the programs and forms of the moments. The overall structure was vigorously modeled after the trees’ own structure, with the adj roots below, the thresh-old of the grounds surface, and then the trunks and branches that support a canopy of spaces. The root moments represent “hunt,” a voyeristic space where you can look out, but are sheilded from view your-self. The top of the canopy holds a space where you can contemplate the mysteries of the universe in “star watching.” The “forest” moments that tie them together create a euphoria of soaring up above the tree tops as you scale the various ramps and are surrounded by the complexity of the canopy.

Process Models

Moment Inspiration

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Process

Final Model

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Canopy planes

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CHAIRARCH PRODUCT DESIGNFALL 3rd YearROB SILANCE

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Plywood Cut Lines

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A design should ideally be able to adapt; to its envi-ronment, to different functions, to people. Just as a tree’s column provides structure and transports water and nutrients, this chair has two adaptations: task and recline to suit the different needs of the setting or peo-ple using the adapt chair. The form is taken from the most efficient way to fit the two chair type geometries together without changing the seat angles of the chairs. The result is a chair that can easily and simply tilt one way to become a task chair, fold in the legs and tilt it the opposite direction, and you can enjoy a reclining chair.

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LIGHT AND SHADEARCH 352 (Barcelona)SPRING 3rd YEARTONI MONTEZPartner: MARC MEDDAUGH(Landscape Architecture Major)

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Barcelona has many abandoned or poorly utilized industrial buildings from the turn of the century. We cre-ated a prototype design for the city, a way to integrate public space and program space into these typologies. This involves removing and restruc-turing the roof so that a public space can be created above, leaving the interior of the existing building open for programatic use. For this site, the program inserted was a commu-nity center, and the public space’s focus was to generate shadows that responded the the ephemeral nature of the sunlight that traversed it us-ing sculptural rib structures. Even-tually, this prototype system would expand towards the other side of the eixample block, and beyond the block to create a raised public space system throughout poblenou.

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Massing and lighting diagrams by Mark Meddaugh (above)

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CORNERSARCH 351SFall 4th YearLYNN CRAIGBeaufort, SC

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The Lowcountry of SC is a place dominated by the landscape of trees and the waterbodies that scupt it from the soil. The Corners Community there is a crossroads that deserves to be a destination. Oak trees and marshgrass forms combined with conclusions from analyses created a new zoning construction of the comunity with new commercial, open air market space, and a boardwalk. These all work together to promote pedestrian and vehicular circulation, as well as make the saltwater marsh more accessable. I took the idea of the live oak tree as the formal and circulational influence for the market structure, and the grass-es that grow in the marsh as the structural and formal system for the boardwalks. Various analyses led to the final scheme, which creates a new sub-urban density at this crossroads.

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Phasing

Modular Design

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Sustainability Systems

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Technical Section of Column Structure

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ARTWORK

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PAINTINGSI was commisioned to paint large window murals by my organizations, and have even served as the painting director in one of them. These were both to promote the Tigerama pep ral-ly for 2011 above, and 2012 below.

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GRAPHIC DESIGNTrees are able to express their identities in one design move-ment; their leaves. These small statements help us easily iden-tify them, like the maple leaf, for example. In the same way, a designer can express an entity’s identity through a graphi-cal statement. These marks and the T-shirt design were all developed to speak about the essence of an identity, and in this case also match Clemson’s branding policies. The bottom two are designed to strengthen the Central Spirit sub-brand.

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These are various marks I’ve created that are about branding people and other organizations. Two were commissioned by my fraternity’s district advisor. The top is for a friend James Raymond Cormany the Fourth, a proud sandlapper and a large Crimson Tide fan. One is my own, which reflects my main inspiration that I’ve threaded throughout this portfolio, natural systems.

KAPPA SIGMA DISTRICT 16

South Carolina

UHRINEICHAEL J.

illiamosey

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HOMECOMING FLOATAn old Clemson tradition for homecoming week, fra-ternities construct large displays on Bowman Field that speak to the week’s theme. I designed my fra-ternity’s innaugural float for the theme “The Spir-it of ‘89” around the will of Thomas Green Clem-son, which the university wouldn’t exist without. I worked closely with my contractor (the float chair) and sub contractors(the pledges) to make sure the vi-sion became a reality. We tied for 3rd our first year in competition in the week long design/build project.

30These have not been edited in any way. I took them while studying abroad in Germany, Spain, and Italy respectively. (above: Berlin Olympic Stadium. Below: afternoon cape storm in San Sebastian)

31(Above: Madrid Train bombing memorial. Below: Duomo in Firenze morning)

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William Josey Craig

109 Summerfield Drive (803) 673-4842Lexington, South Carolina 29072 wjcraig@g.clemson.edu

ObjectiveTo obtain admission into the Clemson University Graduate School of Architecture. I’m very passionate about architecture and it would be an honor to refine my education at Clemson on my way to becoming a licensed architect.

EducationClemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Aug 2009 - May 2013Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Minor in Sociology

Study Abroad ExperienceBarcelona Architecture Center, Barcelona, Spain Jan 2012 – May 2012Focus on Contemporary European Urbanism and public space.

Related ExperienceJenkins, Hankock & Sides Architects: Integrated Design Columbia, South CarolinaIntern May 2012-August 2012

Talmage Architects Incorporated Columbia, South CarolinaIntern January 2009 - May 2009

Work ExperienceTopspin Racquet and Swim Club Lexington, South CarolinaLife Guard and Swim Team Coach May 2007 – Present

Leadership ExperienceKappa Sigma Fraternity, Kappa Upsilon Chapter, Re-founder March 2011 - Present Positions Held: Public Relations Chair, Historian, T-Shirt Design Committee

Central Spirit, Member August 2009 – PresentPositions Held: Painting Director, Marketing Director (2 terms)

Blue Key National Honor Society, MemberPositions Held: Internal Marketing Director September 2011 – Present

OrganizationsThe Order of Omega, Chapter Correspondent November 2011 – PresentClemson American Institute of Architecture Students, Member September 2010 – PresentStudent-Faculty Advisory Board for the Dean of Architecture, Member Sept 2011 – December 2011

Technical/Computer SkillsSoftware Proficiencies: Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD, Sketchup, Prezi, Microsoft Office, Some web site design experience