Conor Wood: Portfolio of Architectural Works (Winter-Summer 2011)

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PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURAL WORKS /

WINTER - SUMMER 2011

314 E SUMMIT ST ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN 48104 / 970 393 3917 / [email protected] / [email protected]

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+ ALUMINUM INSTALLATION

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(n)arrborologicalmorphologies

ARCH571 / DIGITAL FABRICATIONS /

ARCH509 / ADV. COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRIES / INSTRUCTION /

M. KACZYNSKI, D. PIGRAM / COLLABORATION / R. JONES, B.

WILLIAMS, A. AULERICH / FALL 2010 /

8 WEEKS / INSTITUTION / TCAUP, UM

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The said {cuina de la topografía} will be not so much as a BLDG as a FIELD for

_INDIVIDUALS / CROWDS / CONSUMERS / PRODUCERS / COMMUNITIES_ to _ARRIVE / STAY / LEAVE / PARTY_ with ease where they may _LEARN / TEACH / EAT / DRINK / DANCE / RELAX / REFLECT_ upon where after, they are left with an arousal of _TASTE / WONDER / EXCITEMENT / INTELLIGENCE / LOVE_

So may the success of this venture be tested by its ability to provide, unconditionally, physical and psychological comfort to the ciudad de Barcelona and its población, visitors from every culture and place, and to the ecology where this {field} will be taking residency.

Call Main()

Sub Main()

Dim strStartLine : strStartLine = Rhino.GetObject(“Select the start line”, 4)

Dim strStartSection : strStartSection = Rhino.GetObject(“Select the start section”, 4)

Dim arrStartLineStartPt : arrStartLineStartPt = Rhino.CurveStartPoint(strStartLine)

Dim arrStartLineEndPt : arrStartLineEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint(strStartLine)

Dim strCopiedLine1 : strCopiedLine1 = Rhino.CopyObject(strStartLine, arrStartLineStartPt, arrStartLineEndPt)

Dim arrCopiedLineStartPt : arrCopiedLineStartPt = Rhino.CurveStartPoint(strCopiedLine1)

Dim arrCopiedLineEndPt : arrCopiedLineEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint(strCopiedLine1)

Dim strCopiedLine1Scaled : strCopiedLine1Scaled = Rhino.ScaleObject(strCopiedLine1, arrCopiedLineStartPt, array(.7, .7, .7))

Dim arrCopiedLine1ScaledEndPt : arrCopiedLine1ScaledEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint(strCopiedLine1Scaled)

Dim arrLastCopiedLine : arrLastCopiedLine = Rhino.CopyObject(strCopiedLine1Scaled, arrCopiedLineStartPt, arrCopiedLine1ScaledEndPt)

Dim arrLastCopiedLineEndPt : arrLastCopiedLineEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint(arrLastCopiedLine)

Dim strCopiedSection : strCopiedSection = Rhino.CopyObject(strStartSection, arrStartLineEndPt, arrLastCopiedLineEndPt)

Dim arrSectionScale : arrSectionScale = array(5.0, 5.0, 5.0)

Dim arrSectionScaled : arrSectionScaled = Rhino.ScaleObject(strCopiedSection, arrLastCopiedLineEndPt, arrSectionScale)

Dim arrSectionPts : arrSectionPts = Rhino.CurvePoints(arrSectionScaled)

Dim i, arrBranchesDrawn

For i = 0 To ubound (arrSectionPts)

arrBranchesDrawn = Rhino.AddLine(arrCopiedLine1ScaledEndPt, arrSectionPts(i))

Next

Call Rhino.DeleteObject (arrLastCopiedLine)

Call Rhino.DeleteObject (arrSectionScaled)

End Sub

Call Main()

Sub Main()

Dim strLine : strLine = Rhino.GetObject(“Select 1 input lines”, 4)

If isNull (strLine) Then Exit Sub

Dim arrLines : arrLines = Rhino.GetObjects(“Select 3 other input lines”, 4)

If isNull (strLine) Then Exit Sub

Call makeThick( strLine, arrLines, 5.0 )

End Sub

Function makeThick( ByVal arrOriginalBranch, ByVal arrNewBranches, ByVal dblThickness )

Dim i, j

Dim strFirstLineReversed : strFirstLineReversed = Rhino.AddLine(Rhino.CurveEndPoint(arrOriginalBranch),Rhino.CurveStartPoint(arrOriginalBranch))

Dim arrAllSimilarBranches(3), arrCrossSectionTriangles(3), arrCrossSectionPts(3)

Dim arrScaledSection(3)

Dim arrScale : arrScale = array(.2,.2,.2)

arrAllSimilarBranches(0) = strFirstLineReversed

arrAllSimilarBranches(1) = arrNewBranches(0)



For i = 0 To Ubound (arrAllSimilarBranches)

Dim arrBranchCrvStartPt : arrBranchCrvStartPt = Rhino.CurveStartPoint(arrAllSimilarBranches(i))

Dim arrThisBranchNormal : arrThisBranchNormal = Rhino.VectorCreate(Rhino.CurveEndPoint(arrAllSimilarBranches(i)),arrBranchCrvStartPt)

Dim arrNormalPlane : arrNormalPlane = Rhino.PlaneFromNormal(Rhino.CurveEndPoint(arrAllSimilarBranches(i)), arrThisBranchNormal)

Dim intCounter : intCounter = 0

For j = 0 To Ubound (arrAllSimilarBranches)

If Not(i = j) Then

Dim arrBranchCrvEndPt : arrBranchCrvEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint (arrAllSimilarBranches(j))

arrCrossSectionPts(intCounter) = Rhino.PlaneClosestPoint(arrNormalPlane, arrBranchCrvEndPt)

intCounter = intCounter + 1

End If

NextarrCrossSectionPts(3) = arrCrossSectionPts(0)

arrCrossSectionTriangles(i) = Rhino.AddCurve(arrCrossSectionPts, 1)

Dim arrBranchEndPt : arrBranchEndPt = Rhino.CurveEndPoint(arrAllSimilarBranches(i))

arrScaledSection(i) = Rhino.ScaleObject(arrCrossSectionTriangles(i), arrBranchEndPt, arrScale)

Dim arrTriPts : arrTriPts = Rhino.CurvePoints(arrScaledSection(i))

Next

End Function

+ MakeThick & addBranches, function scripts.

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The (n)arrborological Morphologies installation develops from research in the scripting and fabrication of developable surface units. Each unit is comprised of four flat patterns of aluminum, that when rolled into shape, create a shape relative to the inversion of a tetrahedron. This shape is then approximated by wireframe growth algorithms, written in Rhinoscript. The algorithms generate tree-like branching, based on the input of a length line and a triangular cross-section. The script evaluates the vertices of the input cross-section, organizing a matrix of angular intervals to length values. This produces a new generation of tree branches in the inverted tetrahedral pattern. If the original input cross-section is a 60-60-60 triangle, the system will remain uniform. If any other angles comprise the triangle, the system exaggerates those differences over subsequent generations of growth. These systems eventually form pentagonal rings when growth values align on the same multiple. Thus the branching will create irregular domes within other irregular domes, if generated for long enough. The construction of the piece used .032” aluminum, cut on a CNC Routing Table. Each unit’s surface contours were pulled from surfaces in a script with an irregular triangle, making no two units the same. Each surface piece has drilled tabs that bend to meet drill holes in adjacent surfaces. Rivet connections along these intersections ensure a tight construction and precision of form, bridging the digital and the physical.

+ Unit Singular Flat Pattern with tabs, test, aluminum.

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+ RESEARCH

+ Model Iterations, Paper, Chipboard, Bristol, Aluminum.

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+ Tree Algorithm Describing Cube, script test.

+ Doubly-Curved Surface Attraction, script test.

+ Tree Algorithm Describing Arch, script test.

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+ Generated Wireframe, Installation Plan. + Typical 2-dimensional Cut Sheet, CNC Router.

+ Generated Wireframe, Installation Elevation.

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+ Surface Unit Assembly, Installation Diagram.

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+ Cut Sheet Productions, Aluminum. + Construction Operations, Aluminum.

+ FABRICATION

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+ Unit Aggregation, Aluminum. + Unit Interior, Aluminum.

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+ REALIZATION

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+ HEALTH INSTITUTION

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cranbrook academy wellness center

ARCH501 / SEC STUDIO / LOCATION /

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI / INSTRUCTION

/ R. BURNHAM / SPRING 2010 / 10 WEEKS / INSTITUTION / SAID, UC

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Cranbrook Academy’s Wellness Center provides a relaxation outlet for students, teachers, and patrons among the beauty of the wooded landscape of Eliel Saarinen’s master-planned campus. Implicitly, new construction within the campus is a precise contextual operation. A strategy of visual perception was researched according to James Corner’s essay, Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes. The theory proposes that well-made landscapes are not simply objects in a field, but instead act as a changing sequence of events, dependent upon the view and perspective from different locations in the field. The chosen site is at the east end of Cranbrook’s Grand Allee, effectively terminating the currently open-ended Allee, and de-emphasizing the road just to the north. This interception manifests itself in a singular masonry Wall, a provision of boundary and separation. This 10’-wide Wall internally becomes the datum of spatial organization. Cubic lanterns project from the Wall, responding to complex programmatic and micro-climatic parameters. To remain performative in all of these operations, the Wall is assembled in several overlapping layers of construction. A cavity for human circulation splits the Wall into two masonry-steel structures that support one another. Within each of these members is another cavity that feeds HVAC and communications systems throughout the building and into a larger plenum housing the center’s “mechanical brain”. This system keeps all spaces operating haptically separate from one another.

+ Entry Door Handle Mock-Up, Zebrawood, Steel.

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+ Allee Termination & Circulatory Interceptions.

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+ VOLUME

+ Layered Programmatic Model, Chipboard and Basswood.

+ Spiral & Woven Datum Model, Bristol and Basswood.

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+ Below Grade, Plan. + Lower Level, Plan. + Upper Level, Plan.

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+ Interconnected Systems (Looking East), Section.

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GLU-LAM JOIST

TONGUE & GROOVE DECKING

SPACERS

PLYWOOD

WOOD FLOOR

POLYCARBONATEPANEL

WOOD PANEL

PANEL CLIP

MTL. STUDFRAMING

8x16" CMU BLOCK

2" RIGIDINSULATION

WATERPROOFMEMBRANE

BRICK TIE

2" CAVITY

2 WYTHE REINFORCEDROMAN BRICK

CONCRETE FOUNDATION

WATERPROOF MEMBRANE

DRAIN

FLASHING

WEEP HOLE

STEEL ANGLE

POOL PUMP

RIGID INSULATION

CONCRETE SLAB

EXPANSION JOINT

KEY

FOOTING

CHEMICAL VALVES

DOUBLE -GLAZING

4" CAVITY

AIR DIFFUSER

GLAZING CLIP

SLIDE FITTING

GLASS FIN

ROOF DRAINFLASHING

PLYWOOD TOPPING

AIR DIFFUSERW/ WEATHER

CAP

TONGUE &GROOVECHANNEL

STEEL REINFORCEMENT

RIGID INSULATION

5/8" GYPSUM WALL BD.

+ External Climatic Analysis, Diagrams. + Full Wall Section.

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+ Lantern Climatic Control.

+ Entry From Orpheus Fountain (Looking West).

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+ Entry From Jonah Fountain (Looking South).

+ Lantern Assembly.

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+ COMMUNITY KAYAKING CENTER

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christianshavnkajak haus

COURSE / CHRISTIANSHAVN STUDIO/

LOCATION / COPENHAGEN, DK /

SUMMER 2009 / 3 WEEKS / INSTITUTION /

DIS, CPH

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Wilders PladsAerial Photo 1:1000

0 10 20 50 100 mN

Barrier is the primary concern regarding the site. If the objective of the Kajak Haus is to bring people to the water, then the barrier of water surrounding the site needs to be changed, to become a part of the design. Part of the canal’s 1.5m-high bulk-wall was cut and opened up to form a pool and courtyard in the center of the site. The building then results from iterations based on a lively, bright sur-face splashing against a dark, solemn barrier. The contrast of these two massing elements provides a relevant framework for the private and public functions of the building.

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+ Christianshavn Canal & Context Plan.

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Wilders PladsAerial Photo 1:1000

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The primary goal of the Christianshavn Kajak Haus is to establish a mediation between the street and the Wilder Canal in Copen-hagen. While many Danes and tourists already have access to the water, getting inside of a kayak is not an easy task. The Kajak Haus seeks to bring people to the water, for kayaking or otherwise, by cutting small terraces into the site. A representation of two forces at work carries throughout the building, primarily between the white, porous “arms” that form the inner court, and the rectangular wood enclosure at the north and the west site boundaries. These two dif-ferent pieces serve specifically to break up and separate the public and private domains of the building, but have other beneficial func-tions. The large box buffers the site from the taller buildings sur-rounding, while the white structure stretches outward, toward the canal. With the white piece being made of uneven, white-washed brick, its envelope will be ever-changing in the light. The box will remain a static structure, a wooden wall that holds the site. This is relative to how the canal bulk-wall holds the water, the pastoral im-age of Copenhagen. The Kajak Haus was part of the 2009 summer studio at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad.

+ Harbor Bath, Copenhagen.

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+ Massing Sketches.

+ Responsive Manipulations to Context.

+ Model Study, Private + Public Massing.

+ Iterative Study Model, Surface Perforation.

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+ Site Evaluation.

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+ Programmatic Plan. + Section, looking south-east.

+ Section, looking north-west.

+ Sequence of Kayak Training Pools.

Range of Private (blue) and Public (orange) space.

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+ Kayak Training Pools. + Interior Lobby.

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+ Show Model, Cardboard, Foam, Chipboard, Basswood.

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+ HOUSE OF GASTRONOMY

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cuina de la topografia+ cabinet of curiosity

ARCH552 / THRESHOLDS STUDIO / INSTRUCTION / S. PSARRA / LOCATION

/ BARCELONA, ES / FALL 2010 / 8 WEEKS / INSTITUTION / TCAUP, UM

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+ Topographical Landscape, Plywood.

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With Barcelona serving as an international catalyst for cultural integration, the city provides diverse options in cuisine. The Cuina de la Topografía seeks to explore cultural specifics from the perspective of culinary preparation and cooking. Sited on the plaza of the famous Boquería Market, the Cuina is a culinary institution available to the public. Kitchen space is provided for scheduled courses and open for public use at all other times. Six large kitchens sink beneath the plaza’s ground plane, preserving an urban topography populated by mysterious objects. The objects operate as windows, skylights, chimneys, and video screens for the kitchens below, while also promoting physical activity and outdoor cooking above ground. Three transparent bridges designate the over-underground condition and accommodate the studied paths of travel through the site. The Cuina explores the notion of tectonic flexibilities; the objects are static sculptures yet contain no predetermined formal use. Such flexibility encourages a variety of visitors to seek their own method of using the site. A narrative of the place is open to an individual’s own interpretation, much the same as in the case of Gaudi’s fantastic Barcelona roofscapes.

CLARIFYING culture + cuisine

As a preliminary exploration, a cabinet of curiosity was designed and built as a means of

capturing tectonic strategies for the development of the work. The cabinet work proceeds

methods of sculpting, assemblage, and literature in the construction of architectural form.

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+ Boqueria Siteplan.

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+ Invisible Cities Map, Diagram. + Invisible Cities Conceptual Model, Acrylic, Chipboard.

+ CABINET OF CURIOSITY

Studying methods of literary application to the design process, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino inspired tectonic exploration through a cabinet of curiosity. The cabinet materialized the ongoing lessons of geography between Marco Polo and Emperor Kublai Khan expressed in the novel. Polo is the traveler and collector of curiosities, revealing far more about cities than Khan has been able to empathize with. Khan sees his empire as the assemblage material wealth, whereas Polo describes the empire’s cities as harbors of conscious emotion and character. Khan describes the cities as “diamonds”; Polo describes them as collections of small objects. The cabinet is both a modeled terrain and display case of objects for this empire. Materiality contrasts the duality of Khan and Polo’s empirical perspectives, with one lens of the cabinet constructed in dense layers of plywood, and the other in perforated screens of acrylic. Tiny, “forgotten” urban objects are displayed from hooks across the plywood terrain. Hinges in the center open and close the device, as an explicit tool for interactive comparison.

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+ Geography Lessons, 1’x1’x7’.

Plywood, Acrylic, Found Objects. Built using CNC Router and Laser.

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+ DEVELOPMENT

+ Model Iterations, Chipboard.

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+ Plan Iterations, Vellum, Trace.

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+ DEVELOPMENT

+ Section in Sequence, Vellum.

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+ Programmatic Layers, Diagram.

PLAZA/ SUB-LEVEL 1

EXCAVATION/ ENTRIES

TOPOGRAPHY/ UPPER walkway

CASA gastronomía BARCELONA / CATALUNYA

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+ REPRESENTATION

+ Panorama From Boqueria, Day and Night.

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+ REPRESENTATION

+ Roof/ Terrain, Plan. + Primary Structure, Plan.

Cuina de TopografiaSCALE /// 1/32” = 1’-0”ROOF / (TOP)OGRAPHY PLAN

0 4 8 16 32

Cuina de TopografiaSCALE /// 1/32” = 1’-0”STRUCTURE PLAN

column

bearing wall

beam

bridge joist

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+ Infrastructure, Plan. + Egress, Plan.

Cuina de TopografiaSCALE /// 1/32” = 1’-0”COOKWARE APPARATUS PLAN

inventory

track

0 4 8 16 32

Cuina de TopografiaSCALE /// 1/32” = 1’-0”EGRESS PLAN

portal

0 4 8 16 32

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+ REPRESENTATION

+ Beneath the Bridges.

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+ Preparing food on the Topography.

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+ REPRESENTATION

+ Kitchen Interiors.

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+ Cuina Site Model, 2’x3.5’.

+ Plywood, Basswood, Acrylic, Steel.

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+ PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION

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work experience & qualifications

SUMMER 2007 / DENVER, CO / ACQUILANO LESLIE / SUMMER 2008 / ATLANTA, GA / RULE

TRAMMELL JOY + RUBIO / WINTER

2009 / CHICAGO, IL / DANIEL P. COFFEY ASSOCIATES / WINTER 2010 / SAN

FRANCISCO, CA / FEE MUNSON EBERT

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Working in four distinct offices has provided a diverse range of experiences off of which to build a solid professional foundation. Though many different projects have provided interesting subject matter, there is some work that best exemplifies quality experience. The first is a three-tower, 2.5 million ft2

development in Midtown Atlanta. Duties included the drafting, distribution, and assemblage of construction documents for the project, which was under construction at the time. Site visits were made to explore the process from drawing through construction. Another project in Chicago constituted the development of a master plan for a site west of The Loop. The scale continually shifted between site plan and individual buildings within the site. These schematic typologies developed digital models for townhouses, high-rise apartments, parking structures, retail centers, theaters, and transportation infrastructures. The exposure to this array of building types proved to be a vital supplement to education. The third project was an undertaking to develop an accurate BIM model of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. Working off of the original construction documents drawn by Pereira & Associates, a Revit model was built to measurable precision. Even the precast window system details were completed as a part of this evaluation. The model will be used in the future to document post-occupancy information and BOMA measurements for Pyramid Center managers and leaseholders.

+ 12th and Midtown Scaffolding, RJT+R.

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All of this experience has left a desire to pursue architecture at a higher professional level. IDP hours have been documented up to this point, preparing for entry into eventual licensure. Future opportunities to build upon this experience can be dynamic, strenuous, technical, schematic, and unpredictable. Every situation charges excitement into the field one way or another, and the path is wide open for architecture to continually improve and evolve.

+ Structural Detail Sketches, DPCA.

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+ 12th and Midtown Development, RJT+R.

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+ 4th and Hawthorne, RJT+R.

+ Clemson Research Center Competition, RJT+R.

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+ West Chicago Masterplan, DPCA. + Parking Deck & Retail Space, DPCA.

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+ Retail Center Treatments, DPCA.

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+ Train Canopy and Retail Center, DPCA.

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+ Theater & Canopy, DPCA.

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314 E SUMMIT ST ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN 48104 / 970 393 3917 / [email protected] / [email protected]

Conor Wood: Portfolio of Architectural Works (Winter-Summer 2011)

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