Undergrad Portfolio

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clouds

revitalize

charcoal

blobitecture

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I was assigned to design a toy inspired by the architectural movement “biometric blobism”, a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. After several experiments on materiality I created silicone forms that bond together.

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My first attempt to create a toy was inspired by the divisions of a tennis ball. I dissected the ball and worked with the shapes relationships to each other.

Experimenting with clay-plaster-magnets-and rubbers I created a sequence of different silicone shapes created from a plaster mold. They connected to each other with magnets centered within each shape.

A form that shapes and resizes to the inhibitors needs and movements

Using my refined mixture of silicone rubber I found a rubber that would stick yet be dry enough to be enjoyable to play with. I formed the shapes with a cupcake pan and experimented with different scales and colors.

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The class assignment started with exploring a patent design. I was given the patent of a French Press. Therefore my buildings design was inspired by the workings of the French Press, and the elements that help the machine produce the “perfect cup of coffee”.

I explored the tangible; the coffee beans (solid), the water (liquid), and the steam (gas). The intangible elements involved are time, speed, temperature and proportion. I paralleled the creation of the perfect cup of coffee with the serendipitous formation of the planet, Earth. Where for one speck in the whole universe where molecules of liquid, and gas and solid where stirred into accidental life. Boiling at the perfect temperature just like the perfect cup of coffee.

Experiencing the perfect cup of coffee is enlightening; it’s a deep satisfying breath out. The building is designed to dissolve to the back, where the moment of a deep satisfying breath out would occur. You enter the building into cold darkness and see a path to the back of the building where the most illuminated spot is.

When look back at the building when the warm sunlight is illuminating

you also feel illuminated. The apparatus provides a location for awe,

a place to be astonished at existence. The purpose is to experience

wonder and marvel at the simple things, like a sip of the perfect coffee.

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Our class was assigned to design a building for a site in downtown Geneva that would attract people while using our personal patent.

clouds

This is the original photograph that inspired the project, a picture in nature.

Here I created physical clouds that one could inhabit and move through various levels of privacy. I studied the clouds levels of transparency, evaporation and formation, and incorporated it into my work.

private space

private/public space

public space

revitalize

Worked in a four person group and adopted social, economic, and environmental cosciousness practices that applied to develop short and long term design interventions to enhance the environmental quality and community well being in their area of down-town Geneva: along South Exchange Street and Franklin Street.

site plan

pictures to see the problems and potential of the site.

siting area + chalkboard wall grass seating walk down to amphitheater

site proposal

solar garden powered amphitheater to host all various performing arts

(music, dance, and theater)

charcoal

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