PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVE WORKSCOLIN FISHBAUGH

PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVE WORKColin Fishbaugh | Undergraduate + Graduate Work

The work displayed in this portfolio exhibits the advancement of my design philosophy over the six years of my education, in chronological order. Within this portfolio is architectural design, urban design, conceptual design, and photography.

KINEMATICS BOX[Conceptual Design] Fall 2009

The kinematics box represents how an object can change its materials and form as it moves across a surface. In this instance, the box becomes more and more irregular until it seems to melt off the surface itself.

The box starts as a simple cube, varying in materiality on each side. As the box moves along the surface, the materiality changes along with the form until it falls off the edge of the surface, ending the movement along the surface. It leaves the mind to wonder what is the next form it will take as it continues off the surface.

SAN LORENZO FACADE[Florence, Italy] Spring 2012

San Lorenzo Basilica currently has a blank facade due to lack of funding during the original construction in 1419. During this week long facade exercise, the design is intended to re-skin a classical building with a contemporary facade while still preserving the renaissance elements of the original design.

The facade design emphasizes the verticality of the basilica, an idea which was a primary design element during the Renaissance Era, while giving the facade a more contemporary nature.

PRIVATE RESIDENCE[Key West, FL] Fall 2012

The Private Residence revolves around the dichotomy between art vs. architecture. The residence was designed for an artist who designs sail boats and their sails. Although designing sail boats is not considered traditional art, a great design such as a sail boat is a piece of beauty when finished. This concept is translated into the design of the house and workshop for the designer.

The Private Residence is placed on Wisteria Island in key west, in a spot where sail boat traffic is heavy. Since the space was to be designed for an artist to design sail boats and sails, the design of the space needed to reflect this. The form is an abstraction from the shape of a catamaran boat. To extend this idea, a large mast is placed between the residence and workshop with two sails attached on either side. This move was designed to catch the southwest winds and redistribute them throughout the two spaces, providing the residence with passive cooling.

With the concept of a passive house in mind, the Private Residence strives to achieve a higher level of sustainability. With this being said, all of the glazing on the residence opens up to the exterior using a simple centralized pulley system, allowing natural ventilation to occur throughout.

HABITAT HOUSE[Lisbon, Ohio] Fall 2012 - Spring 2013

The Habitat House is a single story, single family housing concept proposed for Habitat for Humanity. The project initially started as a short, two week design charrette with a partner of choice, Joseph Max Wagner. The task was to develop a contemporary and traditional skin assembled around one plan based on the specified residential parcel. Due to the size restrictions of our parcel, we chose to design the house with the concept of a shotgun-style house. The rendering on the left display our initial designs.

Our design was then chosen by Habitat for Humanity as the new prototype design for narrow residential parcels. From here, I was chosen to further the design to blend the two envelope styles into a third and final design for this plan in an independent study. Through this process, I was able to focus on the details of the house and design it in a way to be easy to build as well as be a space the family wanted to occupy for the rest of their lives.

During the independent study, the plan changed from a single story residence with an additional lofted space above the kitchen, to a two story residence with a master bedroom on the second floor to maximize the amount of bedrooms available to the residents. By doing this, the design became more efficient in the space being utilized by the residents and allowed for an additional bedroom and bathroom to be placed within the house.

The exterior of the house began to push the paradigm of traditional house design by using more modern materials and detailing to create a residence which addresses its climactic context.

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

West Elevation

East Elevation

North Elevation

South Elevation

INTEGRATED DESIGN COMPETITION[Cleveland, OH] Spring 2013

The Integrated Design Competition is a studio-wide competition which takes place over the course of the final semester in the undergraduate program at Kent State University. The project brief called for a design for an office headquarters for a sustainable company looking to move to Cleveland, Ohio along the waterfront of Lake Erie. This project was a partner project, with my partner being Ryan Sampson.

The design of this office headquarters included the overall building form, high performance building envelope, site layout, a 4,000 sqft office tenant space, the structure of the building, the mechanical system conditioning the building, the electrical system of the building, and the plumbing system of the building.

Our client was a fictional prestigious coffee company, Roots Coffee, who desired a high performance building which housed office space, ground floor restaurant, retail, and a cafe. They also required an additional coffee bean growing lab where coffee plants of various strains were grown and tested to see which beans would be best for their next product line.

The Roots Coffee Headquarters incorporates the idea of a multi-modal approach to the site plan, with access to the site by land, water and air. Being located right off E. 9th St, which is one of the main access routes through Cleveland, access by car, bicycle and on foot is easily done. By dissolving the hard boundary created by the lake and bringing that element of water into the site, a water taxi drop-off as well as a small marina was created. This site is also one piece of the design overhaul being done to the Burke Lakefront Airport which is set to make the airport a high-tech terminal for more private access to Cleveland.

The Roots Coffee Headquarters strives to create an iconic building within the Cleveland skyline by incorporating sustainable design and the company’s values into the design. The design does so by pushing the limits on traditional office design while responding to the ever changing climate caused by Lake Erie. The Roots Coffee Headquarters houses a variety of programmatic pieces including an urban farm which is used to grow coffee beans to develop a new way of growing coffee beans in climates in which coffee beans are not suitable to grow. By doing this, Roots Coffee will be pioneering a new system of growing, processing and brewing their coffee as they strive for an excellent product, all within this new headquarters. This idea is made possible through the integration of the various passive and active systems, all responding to the changing climate.

The office tenant space, within the Roots Coffee Headquarters, is open to any clientele. This space is designed to accommodate a variety of different clientele, making it a very simple and flexible space. Since Roots Coffee has a variety of companies and organizations it has developed a relationship with, this space will most likely be associated with one of these partners to allow for collaboration between the two companies.

The space was designed with a central circulation corridor running the span of the office, allowing for easy movement for the employees through the space. While there is this ease of movement, there is also a distinct separation between the executive space and the general employee space, which is defined by the lobby space. Within the space, systems are exposed in more open areas and concealed in others, playing on this idea of public versus private.

This space is located on the fourth floor, with rentable space occupying the floor as well as the fifth floor.

OVERALL SQUARE FOOTAGE: 4,365 SF

STATZIONE OSTIENSE MASTER PLAN[Rome, Italy] Fall 2013

The Master Plan of the Statzione Ostiense called for a redevelopment of the immediate context outside of the train station in Rome. The program called for a design which introduced offices, apartments, housing, a hotel, and retail. Through this process, the identity of the area could be shaped into an active space to replace the current “dead” zone lying between the train station and the metro line to the Northwest.

The concept revolves around the idea of introducing small piazzas within the dense urban fabric proposed in this space. These piazzas allow for the possibility for various social interactions to occur for those who want to leisurely walk through the space, while allowing for those in a hurry to go straight from the metro line to the train station without interruption. Circulation through the space is the key element which shapes the master plan, giving it an enticing feel as the user travels through the space. Based primarily on the existing circulation encompassing the site, the master plan allows for seamless integration into the urban fabric of Rome.

BRECKSVILLE RESERVATION MASTER PLAN[Brecksville, Ohio] Spring 2014

The Brecksville Reservation is a region within the Cuyahoga County National Park, where the suburban lifestyle meets the National Park along the Cuyahoga River in Brecksville, Ohio. The proposed brief for this project aimed to achieve a design which created a strong connection between the Cuyahoga River and the downtown of Brecksville. During this partner project, Kevin Goodlett and I proposed a master plan to connect the two entities as the brief described, but also to redefine the identity of a National Park. By thinking of the National Park as an ecological education center, we introduced new program into the national park to use it as a testing grounds for new and innovative technologies to improve the natural ecological services. In doing so, we implemented a series of townhomes with differing hydrological design tactics built into the structures. This is to test the various ways to passively treat water which is introduced into the site. We also developed a new downtown master plan to address the ecological problems in the city which is caused by flooding as well as introduced a more interactive way of experiencing the national park.

The Brecksville Reservation Master Plan can be broken out into a few implementations: the Downtown master plan, the Townhome master plan, and the Canopy Trails master plan. In Brecksville, flooding is a major issue due to the amount of impervious surfaces within the city. To address this, the Downtown master plan proposes a complete overhaul in ecological design, in which the land is carved out and slopes down towards the adjacent creek. By implementing two additional streams, acting as culverts, as well as increasing the tree canopy, more water can be absorbed into the ground to nearly eliminate the problem of flooding.

This same concept is carried into the design of the townhomes within the National Park. The design is catered towards homes that function as water infiltration systems, passively absorbing and filtering water which enters the sites. This is done to educate the public about wastewater treatment in the urban and suburban environments.

The Canopy Trails connects the downtown to the river through a series of lily pad destination points. What makes the canopy trail so intriguing is the fact that the trail elevates the user into the tree canopies, giving the user a closer experience with the natural setting. The Canopy Trails take you through the national park as well as to the townhomes within the gorges and direct your attention to the ecological services happening within the structure of the townhomes. Upon reaching the river, the trail raises out of the tree canopy and onto a helix-structure which gives you a panoramic view of the river and the valley it lies within.

OHIO CITY RETREAT CENTER[Ohio City, OH] Summer 2014

The Ohio City Retreat Center is a religious facility where the mind, body and soul can be released from the stresses of the world and be centered around a deep connection with God. Located in the heart of Ohio City, the Retreat Center occupies two city blocks within a diverse religious community. This location provides a space for the community to have a place to go for a retreat or simply a single user to spend the weekend in reflection. The campus-style plan allows for a more private experience without shutting the user out from the outside world completely. With the Retreat Center being placed into a transitional space between a light urban fabric and a suburban residential neighborhood, it presented the opportunity to fill a void in the urban fabric. The composition of the facades of the residential suites presents a new identity to the neighborhood which is slowly beginning to shift away from traditional housing and towards a simple, modern look. While the exteriors of the buildings in the Retreat Center have a minimalist design, the interiors focus on making the user feel warm and comforted by allowing optimal natural daylighting as well as introducing various scales of vegetation, ranging from the vast central garden to the more intimate rooftop terrace, blanketed by a trellis filled with ivy. The goal of the Ohio City Retreat Center is to bring the user into the void of “sacred emptiness” (the metaphorical space which separates the Earth and the Heavens) to become closer to God while also bringing these spiritual experiences together to create a stronger community of people within Cleveland.

Ohio City

OHIO CITY RETREAT CENTERColin Fishbaugh | summer 2014 | Professor GravesThe Ohio City Retreat Center is a religious facility where the mind, body and soul can be released from the stresses of the world and be centered around a deep connection with God. Located in the heart of Ohio City, the Retreat Center occupies two city blocks within a diverse religious community. This location provides a space for the community to have a place to go for a retreat or simply a single user to spend the weekend in reflection. The campus-style plan allows for a more private experience without shutting the user out from the outside world completely. With the Retreat Center being placed into a transitional space between a light urban fabric and a suburban residential neighborhood, it presented the opportunity to fill a void in the urban fabric. The composition of the facades of the residential suites presents a new identity to the neighborhood which is slowly beginning to shift away from traditional housing and towards a simple, modern look. While the exteriors of the buildings in the Retreat Center have a minimalist design, the interiors focus on making the user feel warm and comforted by allowing optimal natural daylighting as well as introducing various scales of vegetation, ranging from the vast central garden to the more intimate rooftop terrace, blanketed by a trellis filled with ivy. The goal of the Ohio City Retreat Center is to bring the user into the void of “sacred emptiness” (the metaphorical space which separates the Earth and the Heavens) to become closer to God while also bringing these spiritual experiences together to create a stronger community of people within Cleveland.

Site Plan | OHIO CITY

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Second Floor Plan | HOUSING Interior Perspective | HOUSING

Section Perspective | GARDEN + HOUSING

Perspective | GARDEN

Circulation Boundaries Program Array Surrounding Churches “Courtyard” Context Form Diagram Create Openings Create Object in Space Create Open Landscape

THE BIOPHILIC CITY: An Urban Landscape Through Atmospheric Manipulation

[Cleveland, OH] Spring 2015

Cleveland is being reborn into an era where urban landscapes are playing a greater role in the definition of the sustainable city. As Cleveland begins its transformation into a city demanding more from its urban environment, the need for an improved integration with its urban landscape becomes crucial. The issue which arises in Cleveland is the lack of interaction between the city and its landscape. Existing parks and green spaces are present within the city but act simply as individual, heterogeneous spaces, offering little to no uniformity or ecological benefits to the urban environment. The spaces do not function together as a network of landscape infrastructure but rather each act visially as individual units holding spaces within the urban fabric. As the city begins to advance towards a more sustainable, biophilic city, the urban landscape needs to function as a machine for the city, bringing with it not only aesthetic value but also provide ecological and human health services to the city, creating a healthier, multi-sensory environment for its users to inhabit. The Biophilic City provides a deep physological connection with the inhabitants through the everyday interaction with the natural world, allowing for the landscape to improve the overall health of the inhabitant while acting as a vital cog in the its mechanistic biological system. This can be achieved by designing the “spaces in-between” (spaces which are otherwise used as purely circulation) and manipulating the thermal properties of the micro-climates within these spaces to extend the growing cycle of the plants within the sites. This will create areas of enhanced landscape experiences which can be inhabited during times which were previously thought to be “dead periods” for the natural environment. By viewing the landscape as an urban infrastructure and a biophilic environment, the city can begin to advance and adapt to time and become deeply integrated with its context.

The concept of thermal atmospheric manipulation is derived from the design of a traditional steam radiator, which utilizes radiative steam energy to heat the indoor environment. This concept is applied to an exterior, freestanding wall with the end result of the wall acting as a radiator for the exterior environment. The radiative heat coming into the site at 366 degrees Fahrenheit will be emitted from the wall will begin to manipulate the atmospheric conditions of the micro-climate within the site, allowing for plants of a varying regional quality to be implemented into the urban landscape. By doing so, the heat generated by the steam will allow for an extended growing season within the urban landscape of 66 days, adding a month of frost free days on either end of winter. This will also extend the psychological biophilic benefits of a bio-diverse landscape into the winter months, when it is needed the most.

The walls are constructed of a non-reflective, dark metal cladding with piping running through them to supply heat to the wall. Green Wall panels are then added to the walls to allow for vegetation to grow on the walls year round.

The manipulation of thermal properties within an urban landscape provide the opportunity to impliment a variety of unique plant species which are not native to this climate. Because of this, certain plant qualities and characteristics can be achieved in this new type of urban landscape. Since these vegetative walls radiate heat as well as increase the moisture in the atmosphere, due to increased condensation, plants with a more tropical quality can exist in this new space. As the heat begins to dissipate due to increased distance from the heat source, the thermal atmospheric properties change, allowing for a different plant to reside, more tolerant to lower temperature levels but not tolerant to frost and lower temperatures. Finally, at points the furthest away from the heat source, the thermal atmospheric properties are considered to be unchanged, calling for native plants which are tolerate of the natural climate.

The concept of thermal atmospheric manipulation is derived from the design of a traditional steam radiator found in most older apartment buildings, which utilizes radiative steam energy to heat the indoor environment. The steam runs through the metal enclosure of the radiator which takes advantage of the conductive nature of the material to emit heat into the room. This concept is applied to an exterior, freestanding wall with the end result of the wall acting as a radiator for the exterior environment. The radiative heat coming into the site at 366 degrees Fahrenheit will be emitted from the wall will begin to manipulate the atmospheric conditions of the micro-climate within the site, allowing for plants of a varying regional quality to be implemented into the urban landscape. By doing so, the heat generated by the steam will allow for an extended growing season within the urban landscape of 66 days, adding a month of frost free days on either end of winter. This will also extend the psychological biophilic benefits of a bio-diverse landscape into the winter months, where it is needed the most.

The walls themselves are constructed of a non-reflective, dark metal cladding with piping running through them to supply heat to the wall. Green Wall panels are then added to the walls to allow for vegetation to grow on the walls year round.

The manipulation of thermal properties within an urban landscape provide the opportunity to impliment a variety of unique plant species which are not native to this climate due to the weather conditions in Cleveland. Because of this, certain plant qualities and characteristics can be achieved in this new type of urban landscape. Since these vegetative walls radiate heat as well as increase the moisture in the atmosphere, due to the increased condensation caused by the steam, plants with a more tropical quality can reside in this new space. As the heat begins to dissipate as distance is increased from the heat source, the thermal atmospheric properties change again, allowing for a different plant to reside in this region, more tolerant to lower temperature levels but not tolerant to frost and lower temperatures. Finally, at points the furthest away from the heat source, the thermal atmospheric properties are considered to be unchanged, calling for native plants which are tolerate of the natural climate. Below are the listed qualities of the plants based on their “hardiness zones” outlined in the diagrams above and to the left.

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The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties similar to native plants in the Northwest Pacific Temperate Rainforest, where lush, dense landscapes of green ivy, ferns, mosses, and lichen inhabit the ground plane. Supplementing this with bright, exotic colors, include flowers from a slightly more tropic region, to allow for the visual senses to be saturated with luxurious green textures and deep, rich colors.

The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties similar to native plants in a plant hardiness zone of states such as Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. These plants are able to tolerate some degrees of temperature change but still allow for plants with a slight tropical feel and colors. Since they are not native to the region, they create a visual stimulant unfamiliar and unexpected to the eye.

The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties of native plants to this region. These plants will tend to be more on the outer edges of the sites, these textures need to be ones which draw people into the site, such as flowing prairie grasses and wild flowers. These plants will be able to withstand the harsher temperature changes and continue to hold form into the frequent frost days of the Cleveland winter.

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The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties similar to native plants in the Northwest Pacific Temperate Rainforest, where lush, dense landscapes of green ivy, ferns, mosses, and lichen inhabit the ground plane. Supplementing this with bright, exotic colors, include flowers from a slightly more tropic region, to allow for the visual senses to be saturated with luxurious green textures and deep, rich colors.

The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties similar to native plants in a plant hardiness zone of states such as Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. These plants are able to tolerate some degrees of temperature change but still allow for plants with a slight tropical feel and colors. Since they are not native to the region, they create a visual stimulant unfamiliar and unexpected to the eye.

The qualities of the plants in this zone take on properties of native plants to this region. These plants will tend to be more on the outer edges of the sites, these textures need to be ones which draw people into the site, such as flowing prairie grasses and wild flowers. These plants will be able to withstand the harsher temperature changes and continue to hold form into the frequent frost days of the Cleveland winter.

FILM PHOTOGRAPHYThe pictures in the coming section have not been altered in any digital format. They are scans of the original prints. These images were shot on film, then the film was developed by myself, and finally once the film was developed, the images were projected onto photographic paper in the dark room. From here the images were developed through a specific chemical process and are shown as following.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHYThe pictures in the coming section have been altered from their original state. This was done to show varying artistic effects which can alter the reality of the image.