worksamples
DEVIL’S MILLHOPPER |6,500 ft2 University of Florida | Design 5| Professor Stephen Belton
interior lighting conditions
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Devil’s Millhopper is a naturally occurring sinkhole located in Gainesville, Florida. It is 120 ft. deep with exposure to several geological layers of the territory. Several unique-fossil remains and shark teeth have been extracted from these layers. Access to these layers has provided valuable information and understanding about the area’s history. The striated layers also create 3 specific ecological environments. The upper-levels have a sandhill environment consisting of pine tree vegetation. The lower level is a swamp environment only
sustaining vegetation that persists in constant wet conditions. The canopy provides shade and drops in height create a cooler climate than that of the top of the sinkhole. The canopy lighting conditions inspire the light studies addressed in the intervention. The roof has apertures and exposed joints at the corners that allow light to penetrate into the space. Light filtration density is used in collaboration with the program to create appropriate direct or indirect light in the spaces. The roof landscape also has carved troughs for engaging with the
existing water movement propelled by gravity. The water moves through the articulate roof and enters the construct at the interior corner. The water engages with the intervention at this moment as it falls from the roof into a built-in basin and continues to flow through a trough below the floor. The water re-enters the natural earth at this point. The water moves through the layers of the site and the construct.
roof landscape
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plan
IL FORNO |3,400 ft2 University of Florida | Design 8| Professor Lisa Huang
VI AL E
DA NT E
Team: Cory Heck, Caleb Generoso, Rachel Willliamson
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Il Forno reintroduces the historical uses of a community oven to the present residents of the local Vicenza area. It provides a publicly accessible and enclosed oven for the baking and sharing of pre-prepared family recipes. Placed on a slope overlooking Vicenza’s city centre, the oven attracts locals from its placement as the focal point in the project. It is both revealed and hidden behind layers of a glazed facade and wood cladding but its light is constantly glowing against surrounding stone surfaces of columns and load bearing walls. The oven doubles its use as a central furnace, using heat pipes to transfer exhaust heat into the floor as a radiant heating system for the community dining space directly above it. Extending from this dining space are exterior garden spaces which allow entry directly into it. Further placing the building into its context is a vine roof which acts as a sun shade during the summer at full growth but also allows sunlight to enter the dining space during the winter.
foundation plan
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ground plan
first floor plan
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IL FORNO
floor opening detail
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stair garden detail
floor/ wall detail
IL FORNO
HOTEL LINA |15.000 ft2 Dawson Architects |Savannah, Georgia
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Hotel Lina is a medium scale commercial project. Considering the hotel program, the governing design consideration is the maximization of floor plan to accommodate the most profitable room count. Located in downtown Savannah, this hotel is cleverly designed to maintain the historic aesthetic while resolving its functional needs. The first study was the circulation in conjunction with the layout of different room sizes, then accommodation for ADA accessible rooms (with variety), and lastly, the rest of the required facilities were plugged in accordingly. This approach resulted in a clear concise plan where the circulation is intuitive and the rooms are rhythmic. The varying rooms sizes are organized to read as shifts in the building’s exterior while not invading the interior layout of the building - causing the exterior to also inherit the rhythmic quality. The floor plan for the first floor is mostly public spaces with a few offices located in a concentrated area. The typical upper level floors are a mirror in terms of room dimensions, but slight alterations between room content occur. This resolved approach of laying out the space allowed the spaces to be obvious and simple. This project also required intensive code comprehension and application.
material study
roof garden plan
JD
PENTHOUSE PLAN
A1
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upper levels plan
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
A1
B1
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first floor plan
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
JD
A1
MEZZANINE PLAN
HONEYCOMB SHELF|3.5ft2 SFDShop
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New
York,
New
York
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2015
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Cairo pentagon is a pentagon with varying sides that proportionally lends itself to tiling in a unique manner. Four of the sides are equal and one side is shorter than the rest. These proportions create an apparent directionality to the shape of the pentagon. The pentagon consists of 120, 120, 90, 120, 90 degree series of angles, and its shape resembles a honeycomb. Four pentagons can be arranged to create an unequal hexagonal tiling; when two of the hexagons meet, there exist a moment of 4 adjacent right angles. These tiles are commonly found in Cairo’s street, which is where the name derives from. This shape was chosen and preferred over an equal-sided pentagon to exaggerate itself in a more directional - in this example, horizontal - manner. The shelf is used during training sessions for the client, It holds books and pamphlet material. This project was milled on a CNC machine.
individual pentagon
tiling web
arrangement
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POROUS INTERFACE |3.000 ft2 University of Florida | Advance Digital| Professor Lee-Su Huang
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entrance
interior render
3d print model
plan
The atrium is an active part of the architecture building. It is a space that welcomes occupants to gather and socialize while outside. The space is outdoors but still maintains an intimate feeling with implied enclosure from the structure. The existing circulation suffers from rigidity which conflict with the intention of the atrium. This intervention engages with the atrium directly and creates an alternative circulation from the atrium to the second floor. The bridge is a ramp wrapped in a porous skin. This skin is a voronoi surface with attractors deriving from a population density analysis of the space. The skin embodies the same outdoor feeling as the atrium with the exposure to light and wind movement but also maintains the implied enclosure in the porous skin.
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Photos |inside iPhone | VSCOcam
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outside
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