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If only I could make a living as a professional student, I'd be set! Next best thing; work in a field that is an endless source of education, architecture. The following works are mostly highlights from my graduate studies, but a few are my favorites from undergraduate studies.
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USGBC Competition
Presentation Board 1
Presentation Board 2
Annual Energy Use Chart
Regional Site Plan
Night Flush Detail
Parti Diagrams
Natural Talent Design Competition
2009 - Studio ProjectAward: 4th Place at the Colorado USGBC - Emerging Green Builders Natural Talent Design CompetitionProject: New UCD Architecture Building, designed to be a beyond net zero energy performing building.Description:Each leaf of the building reaches out from campus to city while maximizing the north south orientation for optimal solar gain within the interstitial wall system. Floor plates spiral gently to expose exterior moments at each floor for vegetated balconies. The entire building is daylight harvested to over 95% of its usable spaces through exterior windows and a spine of diffused light runs through the core of the building, speckled with micro wind turbines that create a symbiotic relationship with the 4 mph exhaust air barreling through the light shaft producing necessary energy for the building. Air movement is optimized by angling one wall to create a natural rise in air from positive to negative pressure. The entire building uses a fresh intake system through the two wind towers at each end of the building no recycled air is put back into the system. These towers help cool or warm the air as it travels down and becomes tempered to the earth's temperature. A water piped heat exchange system is used to further warm or cool the air before it is then forced through the structure with (16) 20cfm fans (eight fans for each side of the building). The floor systems is composed of a Cupolex aerated raised floor system which allows the buildings air supply to move through the structure and store within the thermal mass of the floor plates. The occupants can open or close supply vents on the floor to adjust for their comfort level. A night flushsystem is also used to cool the building down at night which pulls the cooler night air through exterior vents and open windows of the double skin and is augmented with the air from the wind towers and then exhausted through the light atrium. The interstitial wall system on the south side of the building serves many purposes. First the hot air generated in this wall rises from the thermal gradient and is pumped back down into the basement to warm the water coils for heating in the winter and hot water supply. Extra water heat is stored in the back up boiler when needed. Second the interior south facing wall of the interstitial wall system is covered in black photovoltaic panels which help to heat the air and produce the thermal gradient to move the air up the wall system while collecting energy for electricity. Water pipes are also inside this interstitial wall to provide hot water for the building and also for storage in the basement. During summer months the hot air can be vented to the outside when not needed at the top of the wall and opened up during the night to breath in cool air. Photovoltaics are incorporated on the south roof of the building and in the interstitial wall system to provide 27.4% of the buildings electricity. A green roof is on the south roof and integrated on north building façade at each level. Native low plant species that require little or no maintenance and watering are used throughout these spaces. The building has energy efficient lighting and incorporates automatic dimming and shut off. The walls are insulated to an R value of 32 with the roof insulated to an R value of 40. The building has a 77% reduction in energy (without renewable) when compared to other conventional modern non-green buildings. This equated to 22.5 kbtuhs per square foot per year. The renewables provided another 27.2% of the buildings energy, which is 4.2% more energy than the building requires making it beyond net zero energy performing building.
Trespa Competition
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Competition Board C
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Amphitheater Roof Concept
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City Entertainment Center Competition
2009 - Studio ProjectNational Competition sponsored by Trespa & AIASProject Site: (chosen individually) Union Station North, Denver, COConcept: WeavingDescription: On the corner of 16th Street and Wewatta Street lies an undeveloped site. It is the void between the edge of the thick urban city fabric and the deconstructed industrial edge where new residences and parks are popping up. It is the point where the city meets the living and in need of a stitch to bind them. Trespa's proposal for a city entertainment center is the perfect thread to weave this urban and living disconnect. This project proposes weaving as the basis of design. Patterns, circulation, transportation, program, light, wind, vegetation, structure, skin, entertainment and community are just some of the components woven throughout the site.At the heart of downtown Denver is the 16th Street Mall, a dedicated pedestrian and free shuttle ride street, stretching from the Capitol to Union Station. The entertainment center begins by hooking onto this mall and weaving the existing pedestrian path into the core of the mixed use entertainment district. From the other side the existing vehicular path is woven into the site to enliven circulation and enhance accessibility.Details throughout the site pick up on this woven pattern, from walls to roofs and interaction with the elements. These details expand on the Trespa perspectives; depth, rhythm and character, and introduces the new categories of innovation, technology and ecology.Trespa InnovationAt the entry to the entertainment district a woven roof structure spans the amphitheater. This structure integrates Trespa panels as a no waste construction process. An entire Trespa panel is used without cutouts as to avoid excess landfill waste. This unit is than split and reattached with a hinge that allows movement from panel to panel. These connected panels are then woven throughout a steel tube structure. These panels instantly turn an open air public amphitheater into an intimate covered private space. The panels provide shielding from the elements, soften the transference of noise, reflect light back into the space to limit light pollution, provide a backdrop for added decoration and production scenery and add depth and movement to the stage and seating. When the performance is over all of the panels can be taken down stacked neatly for easy storage.Trespa TechnologyTraditional entertainment theaters require little to no daylight, but lots of drama and expression. To create this drama the theater facades have been adorned with a new Trespa technology, LED Trespa. A screen of LEDs is sandwiched between layers of perforated Trespa panels that allow the lights shine through. This LED system can then be tied back to a programmed interface that creates patterns and text that animate the entire facade with light and patterns.Trespa EcologyThe commercial program allows for another application of Trespa panels, one that can be adaptive and responsive to the environment and occupants. These panels open and close depending on temperature and comfort levels. When open, wind and sun can weave through the building allowing for natural ventilation.
Comp Studio
PROCESS DIAGRAM
Site Diagrams
Site Plan Elevation
3D Perspectives
Section Model
Floor Plans
Floor Plan + RCP
Sections
Enlarged Section
Detail
Elevations
Main Elevation
Enlarged Elevation
Facade Diagrams
Building Systems Diagrams
Model
Section Model
Section Model at stairs
Section Model at Catwalk
Section Model at stairs
Black Box Theater
2008 Studio ProjectThis project was part of the comprehensive design studio program which aims to encourage creative architectural proposals with economic decisions based on appropriateness of construction, technology, context and expression. The concept was simple, separation of public and private theater space with a thick concrete L. The site has an interesting juxtaposition of residential adjacency on one side and a busy public street on the other. The defining L was also used to keep quite, smaller scale building components toward the residential side and open, active spaces on the public street side. Along with a full set of comprehensive documents, an 1/8 scale model and ½ scale slice model was built to further explore construction.
Context
Logo
Final Jury
Concrete Text Test Samples
Installation Example 1
xylene text transer procedure
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xylene case study
Xylene Large Case Study
Rendering 2
Installation Example 2
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glass text night test
rendering 3
Retardant Procedure
Retardant Concrete Text
Concrete Text Study
Installation Example 3
Alice's Story
con(crete) text
2004Published: "Dimensions Eighteen" University of Michigan A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, 2005, pgs 158-161The Oral history, it is the story of the individual, a group, and the city. The individual and group can produce a distinct story that can easily be materialized onto paper. The city's story is not told in words, but through interactions of people, the environment, its enclosures, and the passage of time, i.e. immaterialized sources. An endless source of personal oral histories exists in many forms, a book in the library, the bytes of a computer and internet, reels of film, the Library of Congress, and infinite other sources. Each of these are limited resources that not everyone can obtain, and certainly cannot interact with. The challenge of the oral history is letting itself be heard. The city provides an amazing opportunity to display these oral histories and allow an interaction with them. By using the existing surface of the city one can coat the city with oral histories. A simple application of text only millimeters thick can display and produce these oral histories. A thin surface has the ability to fade away with wear and time. Once the surfaces of the city are covered with a story, the city can than respond with its own history through time. Sidewalks heavily traveled will reveal their constant use through the diminishing text on its surface, while sidewalks of less popularity will hold their stories longer. Patterns of transportation and usage will occur by what parts of the text remains, and what disappears. Histories will be applied, produced, altered and destroyed within the thinness of printed word.
BAS
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BAS Report
Research Paper 2010This report was put together as part of a class wide Green Building Resource Guide that our professor self publishes each year. This years guide is focused on direct energy production and control. I decided to focus on the building automation because a green building cannot exist without intelligence, which is the component BAS brings to a building. The future will be a connection of these intelligent buildings working together within a smart grid that is capable of maintaining equilibrium between energy production and consumption.Building Automation Systems (BAS) are energy management system that controls and monitors energy use throughout a building at real-time and allows owners and tenants to make better decisions about the building's energy use. Unlike simple building controls, an automation system computes, controls, manages, communicates, programs and processes a variety of functions throughout a building from a single light to an entire ventilation system.
Site Planning
Design Principles
Design Objectives
Plan Concepts
Site Plan
Site Plan-Land Use
Floor Plans
Phasing Plan
3d View
Solar Shadow Study
Rock Drill Site Planning
2011 - Site PlanningProject Vision Statement:A development designed around a regional transit hub providing a basis for expansion & integration into the urban fabric, while preserving the neighborhoods historic character.Project Narrative:The Rock Drill Site is a well-preserved architectural gem of brick, steel, and glass. Its industrial architecture gives it a feeling of authenticity that will create an identity for this growing area within Denvers Cole, Elyria Swansea, and Five Points neighborhoods. The nuances of the sites blue-collar history are retained to promote a distinct neighborhood character that integrates with its surroundings.Through adaptive re-use of existing structures, the incorporation of visual landmarks as way-finding devices, and the integration of the development within the regional transportation networks, the Rock Drill Site blends seamlessly into the citys fabric to promote the sustainable growth of the RiNo transit oriented development. The proposed 38th and Blake RTD station, less than 1/2 mile away, will allow easy access to and from the site. Public open spaces surrounded with cafés, bars, and local retailers create a commercial destination which is lacking in the area, and recharge the local economy with jobs and revenue. The residential and office spaces will offer a one-of-a-kind industrial feel unique to the site. New office and retail space will allow for local businesses to establish themselves and encourage permanent growth in the neighborhood.Design Principles:1 Capitalize upon the proposed 38th and Blake light rail stop and TOD district. The Rock Drill development will draw upon the increased circulation provided by the hub as a means of support for retail and office uses while providing residents a connection to the greater metropolitan area.2 Provide a cultural and commercial amenity to the surrounding area while exercising sensitivity to the cultural and physical character of the surrounding neighborhood through historical preservation and site layout.3 Establish connections to the existing network of regional and local circulation. Priority will be given to connections that provide alternatives to the automobile. These connections will seamlessly integrate pedestrian, bicycle and other forms of transportation networks that promote sustainable, healthy and safe development.
Pro Practice
Cover
Table of Contents
Who we are
Marketing Plan
Staff Planing Spreadsheet
Revenue Projections
Financial Plan - Pro Practice
2011 - Professional PracticeThe Professional Practice class I took allowed me to take a peak into the entrepreneurial workings behind an architectural firm. Not only did I create a business plan and marketing strategy for a proposed architectural firm, I put together a financial plan with revenue projections, overhead expense budgets, staff planning spreadsheets and a profit plan for this proposed firm. This class was a great way to learn the inner workings of small businesses, a side you rarely see as an intern architect. I am all the more excited to be involved in every aspect of a small business now.
Solar Sustainable
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Bees Report - Page 2
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Site Analysis
Conclusion
Monthly Average Energy Use
Energy Comparison
Energy Comparison 2
Psychrometric Charts
Heating Analysis
Heating Analysis
Solar & Sustainable Design
2010This report is a full analysis of a previous studio project utilizing energy modeling programs, but focusing on the details provided by Energy 10 and Ecotect. Energy 10 is used to always compare two buildings and to analyze the envelope fully, allowing us to build a super low energy design under the Low Energy Case. This approach allows us to analyze skin, windows, orientation, climate, and skin elements relating to the most efficient commercial envelope available. It allows us to simulate fresh air movement effects through Economizer Cycle and Hot/Cold Air systems. It also allows us to easily compare, contrast and select individual high performance strategies via runs, keeps and schemes. Ecotect allows an easy interface with an imported CAD model to a full analysis of one final project based on E 10s analysis. That extensive analysis includes many aspects of high performance design. Itll go as far as daylighting and super envelope design though no HVAC is available, which is great for our passive project. Other programs used in this report included revit for daylight studies, BEEs life cycle analysis for material comparisons and wind rose and psychrometric charts for passive design strategy selection.
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Sun Simulation Photo 1
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Sun Simulation Photo 3
Roof Side Elevation
Roof Front Elevation
Sun Simulation Photo 4
Overall Model Photo
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UofM Law Library Daylight Study
2003Renzo Piano's design for a new addition to the Law Quad at the University of Michigan involves an elaborate day lighting scheme of angled lamelle glass shading devices on the roof. With access to the schools sky simulator we were able to construct and test a scale model of his design. This scale model photometry allowed us to predict the amount of daylight entering the structure and discover where electrical lighting would be necessary throughout each day and the whole year. With this research we were able to produce an electrical lighting design proposal for Piano.
Design Viz
Freehand Sketch
Sketch over Sketchup Model
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Freehand Sketches
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Freehand Sketch
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Sketch over photo
Freehand Sketch
Design Visualization
2010These drawings were part of a class exploring the juxtaposition of traditional hand drawing techniques and modern digital software.
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