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Process Models

My study model had turned into my fi nal model, as it grew into this monstonsity. The box is covered in newspaper in response to my thesis question and program: How can architecture have a presence without being seen?

Process Models (School for the Newly Blind)

I fi rst began studying the layout of spaces, organizing them in a way that the school functioned in an effi cient way that catered to the attending students.

Then I created a sptial relationship study that further emphasized the organization of spaces, the possibility of zones for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, and how structure can be organized.

The studural model helped me understand how the building actually stands up, how thick walls and fl oors need to be, circulation, and the placement of MEP.

The fi nal model is the product of all the study exercises. The spatial orga-nization, spatial relationship, and structure model led to material selec-tion, and lighting.

Process Models (School for the Newly Blind)

The lighting system in the atrium consisted of six foot coffer sys-tems. The study helped me to understand how to break geometry into its individual parts to create a structural detail. The unit be-comes a part in a whole. The ‘whole’ is the entire lighting system, that not only provides light, but also the return and supply of air in the atrium.

Final Model (School for the Newly Blind)

Final Model (School for the Newly Blind)

Final Model (School for the Newly Blind)

Final Model (School for the Newly Blind)

Final Wall Section (School for the Newly Blind)

Process Rendering (School for the Newly Blind)

Final Rendering (School for the Newly Blind)

Study Models

These are some light study models I have made, trying to understand how lght should get into the building.

Thesis Box (the touch box)

This box was created to help my understand my thesis question: How can architecture have a presence without being seen? The box is enclosed, and creates an invisible pathway on the inside, by following the steel rods with your hand. Without seeing, you navigate through form, texture, and landscape to reach the fi nal destination.

Thesis Box (the light box)

This light box helped me understand how a partially blind person might see. I used a fi lm of trace paper to create a 2-dimensional im-age of a space using light.

Diamgram/Model/Drawing

Study Abroad Models (Made of three paint brushes, wire, and one of my shirts)

While in Italy, I worked on a revitalization of a piazza overrun by cars. The model above show the interventions on the piazza, and the model below is a study model of a possible space regulator.

Welding

Sculptures

Sculptures

This sculpture was the product (and beginning) of my thesis project. I was dealing with how someone would perceive the wire bug, so i placed the sculpture on a mirror to change the angle of sight.

I was playing with the idea of attached two hard materials with a soft material. The two hard materials, books and steel rods, are atttached to one another by means of wax.

Paintings

These paintings are hard to explain, it was more just me sitting down and letting my imagi-nation just fl ow.

Paintings

Same with these paintings.

Study Abroad Sketchbook

This is sketchbook that I carried everywhere in Italy, and I mean EVERYWHERE. I drew more than I took pictures.

Study Abroad Sketchbook (Some Random book I found in Rome at a book fair)

This is a response to getting weary of analyzing archi-tecture. Its more of me just purging my imagination onto paper.

Study Abroad Printmaking

These are some of the product of the printmaking class I took while studying abroad.

My “Doo-Das”

This happens to be a thingy that dangles above my desk, that I made in one of my seminars

This is the light that I made that also hangs above my desk.

This is a late night, spur of the moment, creation. I had taped some trace paper to the door frame to test if air was moving into the room or not, and imagined an archway.

So I made one.

Design-Build Diplay Booth

Two summers ago I was commissioned to design and build some display booths in the link in our Architecture Building, Seaton Hall. The entire display is demountable, an completely customiz-able to account for all types of projects.