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Master's 1st Year
Fall 2022
Virginia Tech
CHAPEL // CAPPELLA
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Location: Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
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Experience: Wander; peace; challenge; reflect
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Program: A place to die
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Professor: Mario Cortez
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RiverE Boat House
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Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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Experience: Wander; peace; high tech
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Program: A boat house for kayak storage
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Professor: Clive Voster and Stefan Al, Virginia Tech
As one arrives to the RiverE Center Site, you begin by parking and walking. You wander through the botanical gardens, learn at the outdoor learning centers, visit the main RiverE Center, and enjoy the natural surroundings. To access the river, you wander down the path, which switchbacks through the trees and down the steep slope. When you get closer to the water, a walkway appears that takes you to the top floor of the boat livery as you walk through the treetops.
You can enter the second floor or continue down the ramp to the river access.
If you choose to go into the 2nd floor, you enter through a greenhouse on the South side of the façade, to benefit from the sunlight. You can exit straight out onto the outdoor deck on the South-West side, which is the perfect place to catch the sunset, and host a BBQ or a calming yoga class on the river. Or you can enter into a space with a kitchenette, desk space, lockers, bathrooms, and a fireplace with a masonry wall that provides thermal mass to help delay the heat dissipation from the Southern light.
If you choose to continue the path to the river, you enter and exit multiple thresholds house in the media mesh that surrounds the building. There are no stairs, only the ramp that takes you around the perimeter of the building. There is a place to pause on the west side and a threshold of storage you enter through on the East side. You enter towards the back of the deck. The Media mesh surrounds you; kayaks and nets are stored next to you and above you with pulleys. The media mesh is opened like a garage bi-fold door that breaks its protection of the building from debris and possible intruders to let you access the wonderful Rappahannock River.
The Rappahannock River moves up and down by close to a foot depending on the water levels. The bottom deck floats on the river, with the structure being secured by the post and beam structure. The last part of the ramp is on a hinge that lets the slope change with the rise and fall of the deck. The water from the roof is captured by the butterfly roof.
The media mesh will be its own photovoltaic system able to harness the sun to power itself as well as the electrical systems in the building. It has LED lights integrated into it that allow you to project videos and lighting schemes. It can project information about the Rappahannock, or blend into its surroundings. The structure for the mesh is made of 2’6’’ x 4’ OR 2’6’’ x 8’ panels that can be premanufactured.
Pavillion
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Location: Virginia Tech Campus, Blacksburg, VA
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Experience: Shade; interesting construction method
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Program: A small pavilion to be built to promote clever architecture and computer-aided design
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Professors: Stefan Al and Clive Vorster
A place for gathering, providing shade, seating, and interactivity. The structure is made from 4'x8' Plywood that is CNCed and scrap OSB from job sites ripped to 6" wide. The plywood pieces and OSB will be glued and screwed with overlapping joints to create a glulam column/beam. The route of the CNC machine is made efficient as shown in the drawings leaving very few scrap pieces.
Year 4
2019 - 2020
Perth, Australia : Bozeman, MT
Black Lava Visitor Center
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Location: Dimmuborgir, Iceland
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Program: Information center, cafe, terrace, kitchen, staff offices, car park for 10 campers, 20 buses, 100 cars.
Added program: Hostel
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Professor: Lara Pinho​​​​​​​ at The University of Western Australia
Ranfandi means "wandering" in Icelandic. Travelers of Iceland are there to experience nature and Iceland's moon-like topography, a world of mysterious and exotic landscapes.
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Dimmuborgir, Iceland is a place for walking, hiking, and frolicking in this beautiful land. Upon arrival, visitors will journey up from the parking lot, up the west side of the hill and continuing towards the views. The shape of the building evolved from the surrounding topography including the decision to bury the building to take less. The entry that spirals down into the hill once walked on, takes you to enjoy a coffee and learn more about Iceland. The ramp allows all people to enter and travel vertically the same way and also allows natural light to pierce through the underground building as well as providing a place to learn about the local plants in the sacred center space.
Multiuse Skyscraper
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Location: Chicago, IL
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Program: Connection to public transportation, up-cycling center, parking for rideshare, autonomous cars, and handicap only, maker space, community event center, shared living and hostel, offices, community gardens, hotel, rentals, luxury apartments
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Professor: Jack Smith​​​​​​​ at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
A skyscraper in Chicago that focuses on ease of access and third space. This skyscraper connects to the metra-electric line then continues to the lake providing needed access to the lake and reduced traffic. To encourage the use of public transportation and walking there is no public car access on site. Rideshares, autonomous cars, delivery cars, and emergency vehicles are free to come and go as needed.
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The trash produced from the building would be directed to an up-cycling plant inside the building which would provide jobs and lessen the abundance of trash trucks needed to commute to the vicinity. In this facility, people can watch as their trash is recycled into new, useful material and can then be sold back to the public.
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The 2nd and 3rd levels provide maker spaces along with flexible community areas.
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When moving up the building, sensitivity to the NBC tower directly behind the site influenced the form of the overall building. It is split into two separate buildings to allow sunlight and views to be allotted to the NBC tower. The two towers are connected every 20 floors to allow mechanical floors and sky lobbies filled with greenery and community gardens providing a local food source. The pods that connect the towers are tensegrity structures that would provide further structural stability to the two towers.
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The elevators used would be magnetic - traversing up the exterior of the building giving a different kind of experience than being pulled by a rope. Mag-lev elevators also allow the elevators to move side to side and harness artificial intellegence providing more efficient elevator service and vertical trasportation.
Year 3
2018 - 2019
Bozeman, MT
Lindley Center
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Location: Bozeman, MT
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Program: Tower, observation/viewing deck, kitchen, gathering space, exhibit space.
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Professor: Jack Smith at Montana State University
A cabin that sits among the tops of the trees, an aedicula. A journey up the tower that allows a pause wherever one may want. ADA accessible for anyone. A community gathering space in the sky.
Construction Details
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Location: Bozeman, MT
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Professor: Chris Livingston at Montana State University
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Students: Hannah Riley and Sina Seyedian
Each student in this class created a schematic design (mine is above) for a new Lindley Community Center in Bozeman, MT. Afterward, teams of two chose a design that is not their own and created the details and construction documents.
Museum of Fishing and Industry
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Location: Seattle, WA
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Program: Exhibit space, gear storage, auditorium, lobby, workshop, offices, restaurant
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Professor: Barry Newton at Montana State University
Before starting this project we read the book ‘Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings’ by Jonathan Raban. He describes the ocean as being full of different scales, experiences, and landscapes different from land. With this project, I wanted to play with the user experience. The entrance is through a crevasse that is 8’ wide by 80’ tall. I wanted to expose the person to a totally different feeling before entering the building. Upon entrance on the second floor, you are greeted by a lobby and reflective pool that reflects the sky above and any sightsee-er looking down from the roof. To get to the museum, you travel across a bridge through the crevasse. The wall separating you from the exterior is a thin fish tank. You can see through the fish tank at the view and of people on the pier below.
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The exhibit features two identically shaped rooms. One room has an old canoe that was used before the fishing industry that is 10’ long. The other room contains a purse seiner that is 50’ long. The object of the two rooms is to show a sense of scale and how drastically different experiences the Native Americans had compared to present-day fishers. Can you imagine fishing for a whale in a canoe?
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To get to the restaurant on the third floor, you must travel under a free-form surface that you can also walk on top of to mimic walking on a boat in the ocean. The roof has green space with benches for people to pause, reflect and enjoy the pier.
Resilient Housing
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Location: Paradise, CA
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Program: At least 100 units, orchards, greenhouse, tool shed, garden plots, food prep area,
Added program: bike path, fractal sculpture park, marketplace, 50-200 additional units.
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Professor: Jack Smith at Montana State University
Modular Model
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Location: NA
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Professor: Kelly Olinger at Montana State University
Exploring with parameters.
Materials: 1.25" sticks and squares.
Big Sky Youth Empowerment
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Location: Bozeman, MT
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Professor: Brad Engelsman at Montana State University
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Program: Classrooms, event space, outdoor space, offices
The Big Sky Youth Empowerment Program is a program for k-12 kids after school and during the summer. This is a design for a new facility in Bozeman, MT that is a skate-able, playable building, even of the roof, a kid's dream play place.
Two Travelers
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Location: Coast of Seattle, WA
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Program: Dwelling, sun phenomena, cistern
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Professor: Brad Engelsman at Montana State University
A design for two travelers to meet and relax on their summer off. The design is to have a phenomenon that happens on the summer equinox that tells the travelers when to return home.