LOWEARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN INTERIORS RENOVATIONS

INTERIORS RENOVATIONS

SCAD Arch Studio IVSCAD Arch Studio IIISCAD Arch Studio ISCAD Arch Studio IISCAD Fundamentals Arch Studio IIISCAD Fundamentals Arch Studio ISCAD Fundamentals Arch Studio II

AP D Studio ArtFISD Practicum in Arch (IV)FISD Arch (III)

320 EAST 31th. Street, Savannah Georgia

ARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN

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Arch Studio IV

This studio we attempted to create an ‘invisible’ building that at pedestrian street level the eight story apartment building would not be visible from most vantage points in the city of Charleston South Carolina. My building attempts to use historical proportioning and ordering systems to further blend in with the beautiful surroundings of Charleston. The buildings massing’s are broken up and are at different heights because they are mimicking the heights found by the existing buildings surrounding it. My Project employs urban design principles by creating a pedestrian thurofare and a shopping destination like no other in Charleston. The proposal calls for a renovation of the neglected back side of the historic Charleston king street shores and shops and either expanding the existing stores located in the front or creating new retail and restaurant space in back of the existing king street site, my projects retail aspect mimic these king street back side buildings in scale, detail, and massing in a contemporary way. The pedestrian street ties these two retail areas together and creates and outdoor shopping experience, as well a beautiful place to live or have an office above. Proper egress fire code and ADA is applied as well as the strict City of Charleston Parking, height, and massing rules. My proposal King lane is an excellent expansion of public and private space continuing the walkable charm of the historic City of Charleston.

Arch Studio III

In this Studio our program was to create a halfway house for the City of Savannah. We visited a state of Georgia penitentiary and talked to actual inmates about what their life was like and witnessed what a real prison was like in the United states. My project other goal was to restore Liberty Square one of Savannah's two ‘lost’ squares due to urban renewal in the 1960s and a highway that was porously built to disperse the black community out of their homes. My proposal restores the square by demolishing the above ground parking garage and moving it under the square as well as under the halfway house. The project restores the street and grid pattern by placing a pedestrian street and public space splitting the building into two halves. The two halves are significant as well the larger more northerly one is the residence of the halfway house and the other half is the education center and study space. The design of the form draws on southern Gothic rod iron local vernacular architecture and re interpenetrates it into a contemporary form.

Arch Studio III

Arch Studio I

This Studio we solved simple architectural design problems. The course concentrated on how basic human factors affect and inform architectural design, we learned about how people react to buildings and in part attempted to create solutions based on our findings. Our specific studio had the program of creating a Narratorium for the City of Savannah, a Narratorium is a place where stories are recorded, archived, listened to, and auditory told live. Parts of the program were up to us to create. My project objectives included a major urban design aspect and connection. My project as well as being a Narrarorium also created a pedestrian thru fare and floating park complete with water feature that stepped down with the land on the historic edge east broad street down 40’ off the savannah bluff down on top of factors walk a street that goes between and under buildings in and down to the savannah river connecting bay street on top to the river below all while keeping the existing streets open and simple building on top of them floating in the nation’s largest national historic landmark district. My project ‘connection’ structure in the roof was emblematic of large 18th century sea schooners that use to moor up in large numbers to the port of savannah (now river street) harkening back to the past all in a contemporary manner.

Arch Studio II

In this studio we explored sustainability and its implication on creating a net zero building. We wanted to create a center for the city of savannahs residents could come and get educated on practices they could employ to be more sustainable. My proposals massing and site orientation in the east west elongated position create an ideal environment in which the minimum heating and cooling is necessary. This is achieved based on its location in the northern hemisphere and its coordinate that follow sun path diagrams that say at the site in the winter the sun will be low in the sky and you will get more sun in southerly exposed facade, while in the summer the sin will travel higher in the sky and go due east west. By making the building elongated east west and applying large overhangs self-shading is created on the building significantly reducing its cooling needs. During the winter my Sothern facade has the most amount of glazing allowing for internal heat gain significantly reducing its energy needs. The building also employs a night air retention system that during key months can take in cool air or warm air depending on the season night or day and store that air inside the attic and recirculate it when needed that night or day in to the hvac system greatly reducing its peak heating and cooling loads. The form and design of the building draw on historic presidents of the National Historic Landmark district in the City of Savannah. My proposal also employs major urban design implications reconnecting and reconfiguring key streets in order to connect to a massive development taking shape next door to our site. Doing this creates friendlier street and an easier walkable urban area rather than making things easy for the care further promoting the sustainable aspect of this sustainable center.

Fund. III

This studio we investigated the perceptual and experiential order and dynamics of choreographed movement through sequences of architectural space which impact the visual haptic and auditory senses. My specific studio professors project program was to create a public gathering space inside the SCAD Museum of art ruins, what’s left of an 1853 Georgia central rail warehouse. Reacting to contemporary and historic buildings on the sight I proposed a student event and social center, a safe place to enjoy with your friends on campus. Given the historic structure existing on the site I decided to celebrate its existing architectural elements and extenuate them in a contemporary way. The building was expanded above and below creating exiting circulation space in and outdoors that celebrate the arrival of every person entering and exiting. The socializing becomes the show. In addition, the space contains two bars, ADA bathrooms enough to accommodate the maximum capacity and proper coded modern egress all while not destroying the shell of the historic warehouse, continuing with SCADS beautiful tradition of adaptive reuse. The tower pictured in the plan section and elevation and renderings of the building Is very purposefully designed to be a calling of not only the place of entry but also paying respects and giving hedence to the SCAD moa’s lantern like tower that is the center of the SCAD museum of art.

Fund. III

Fund. I

Form, Space, and Order. In this Studio I was introduced to model-building and diagramming skills. This first studio taught me how to be a designer by teaching us formal typological orders of architecture with emphasis on the comprehension of delineation of space as abstract entities and on the theoretical development of design concepts. We began by doing a sequence of exercises guides that transformed our basic organization of space into an architectural design progression from one space to many, we then thru the process of iteration arranged the spaces function. This studio was not based on the program, site, or client that the building was going to be used for, rather this first studio helped us at SCAD begin investigation what it means to go thru a design process by solving problems based on the elements and principals of design.

Fund. II

Design based on surrounding use and meaning, was what I focused on in this second fundamental studio. Our studio’s specific program was an addition and annex to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. This studio opened our eyes to avant-garde and cutting edge new kinds of ultra-contemporary architecture. We began by taking an everyday object just as Andy Warhol took every day ordinary objects and celebrated them, we took our object, I chose a face mask representing the many portraits of pop icons any Warhol painted, by distorting the face masks I created a physical model. After tweaking it to address the site and existing buildings in its urban contexts I and my studio then began using untraditional new 3d modeling software such as Maya, ZBrush and Keyshot to further develop our concept.

AP D Studio3

In this rigorous college level studio art course I partook in, in Frisco independent school district’s Wakeland High school the serious of projects were self-directed and guided the end goal submitting a portfolio full of lots of related work based on a concentration as well as standalone pieces called breadth. This project was one of the many pieces in the portfolio and it is my first attempt at creating a proposal for a walkable, small town based on the concept of new urbanism. At the time in High school knowing little about urban principals and architecture I created a proposed beachfront town that had key strategic cuts in the grid and block pattern allowing all residents and visitor views of the ocean even while being in town. The model of the town has many trails urban and natural along the beach and throughout it offering lots of green space and places for recreation. The model also is true to urban design and new urbanism principals and offers a wide variety of mixed income and mixed type housing allowing for a more vibrant town composed of many people and individuals

FISD Practicum in Architecutre (IV)

This advanced level architecture course offered by Frisco Texas’s specialty career and technology high school (CTE) allowed me to get a very brief taste of architecture before deciding to attend undergrad and grad school. This was the final year of the architecture courses and me and my colleagues worked for the City of Frisco’s Heritage Center Creating Professional Plans Sections and Elevations of Their Historic buildings located behind the museum. We measured every inch inside and out of the Lebanon First baptized Church, and created construction documents allowing for a record of the building in case in gets damaged or destroyed insomuch that they may be able to have a detailed document to rebuild. The document was created by me and my colleagues in the newspaper article and is currently in the City of Frisco History museum archives.

FISD Architecutre (III)

This Course was year three of four in the career and technology high school offered by the city of Frisco independent school district and is evidence of proficiency in creating properly labeled constructions documents and basic floor-plans during high school, very primitive renderings were also produced during this time and was my first attempt at doing anything in Auto desks Revit (circa 2011)

Interiors

With simply moving the original china cabinet to a new location and the addition of new glass front cabinets, the space is reground and transformed further by a custom hand made one of a kind wood counter top new paint, under bar lighting and a few Edison bulbs makes the space more exciting.

Interiors

Interiors

Interiors

Interiors

What was once old ugly cabinets housing junk now with the removal of a door, new hard ware, under cabinet lighting, and some paint is now a quick and inexpensive contemporary update that suits the space well.