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draw+idea.....................................1

build+light......................................3

build+repetition..............................5

build+necessity................................7

think+abstract..................................11

build+program...................................15

draw+ideaEarly on in my architectural education, we focused greatly on learning how to communicate an idea or concept visually and through drawing. In one project we were given a small slice of a larger image of a building and told to draw what we thought the rest of the image would look like. In another, we were told to document and draw a depiction of a certain set of movements. ie. running down a couple flights of stairs.

1.1drawing to communicate

build+lightMoving forward, we experimented on how to control and respond to light through 3-dimensional form and repetition. Using paper as the main building material we created small parti modesl that cap-tured light in a certain way. Then, we created a decorative wall system using small folded pieces of paper and attaching them to a wooden frame.

1.1light experiments

Continuing our exploration with light and repetition, my partner and I took it one step further by turning a simple 2-dimensional shape and repeating and warping it in a way that would capture light effectively as well as create a conceptually occupiable 3-di-mensional space.

build+repetitionlight box

1.1

build+necessityIn my first year final project my partner and I were given the as-signment to redesign the practice rooms that are currently in use at the KU musical education building, Murphy Hall. The concept here was to not interfere with the existing building structure hardly at all while still providing programatic value. We achieved this by implementing three large glass prisms that would attach to the west side of the existing stair structure, with smaller interior rooms to act as practice rooms as well as public gathering space.

murphy hall practice room addition1.2

think+abstractDuring the beginning of my second year, I took a very abstract approach to building design. We were given the assignment to design a new building for the currently gentrifying area of East Lawrence. We were told to evolve our design from a very basic programatic strcutural concept, to an actual occupiable building, and then finally evolve it one more time by interjecting a mass of some sort into the existing building. During this whole process we were also told to create a set of paintings and sculptures that communicated the concept as well as evolved with the building design.

east lawrence building(s)2.1

build+programFor my final project during my second year we were given the assignment of designing a culinary institute in New Orleans. This was the first time I designed using a very programatic approach. The concept is of the duality of a private and public courtyard, with the corresponding programatic areas branching off of each. This was the first project I really moved from conceptual ideas and designs to a more concrete and grounded approach to attacking a design challenge.

2.2new orleans culinary institute

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