A Place to Dine

Wall Section including lighting detail. The recessed lighting in the ceiling perimeter had to be changed. Track canister lights were added in lieu of the canted mounts shown here; they can be seen in the computer renderings.
Elevation of dining space including circulation pathways.
This exploded view shows the table used in the space. It is the table that can be seen in the White advertisement for visual communications.
Floorplan
Reflected ceiling plan, again the canister lights on the perimeter have been changed.
FF&E Schedule.

Urban Pathways

This was a very cool scene however, blogger is a dirty dirty wench and would not load the image without changing the colors. This is a work in progress.

Visual Communication Ad/Poster

Spring Studio Final Project

This project was to take an existing warehouse space, and convert it into studio apartments. Needless to say this project required volumes of drawings, diagrams, pictures, and charts to finish; far more than would be appropriate for this venue, thus the most salient examples were included in this post.


These two tables are the Materials and finishes schedule for my loft design. It is included in this instance with some of the process work due to the fact that materials consideration was a very important starting point for the development of my project.

These two charts are from The University of Oregan's solar research laboratory, they show the path the sun takes through the sky including elevation through the year. Sun exposure is a critical factor to consider needless to say. Especially since there were presentations where the orientation of the building as well as the sun exposure was presented incorrectly.
Given the nature of the cement floor, and massive square footage of gypsum wall space, acoustics of the space needed to be calculated to an acceptable range. The ceiling of my space is covered with acoustic tiles for this reason. This acoustics chart came from ATS Acoustics which provided the raw data needed to calculate the number of necessary tiles to provide adequate die-off time.

Loft Building Plan/ Lighting

The floorplan of the building has the apartments on the edges, to provide windows, while community spaces, art exhibition/venue space, workshops and studios, as well as storage are all kept on the interior where windows are not required by code.




This is documentation from an electrical engineer I consulted for help with the lighting. It provides the specifications for the floor lighting from the recessed lights in the ceiling. This information was very helpful in knowing exactly what kind of lights and how many would be needed for the appropriate foot candles dispersed across the floor.

Loft Orthographics

3D perspective of the space as designed. Note that some elements of the design including the walls of the loft as well as the stove vent were omitted for clarity.
Plan view of loft.

Section view of Loft.

Loft Renderings

View upon entering front door.

View from the living space to the kitchen, as well as the stairs.

Living space.

View looking down the stairs into the living space.

Reading nook incorporated into the stairs.

Master bathroom.

Loft.

View through the slat wall in the loft, overlooking the living space.

3DS Max Rendering

These images are a little washed out, the light became too intense but I didn't have the nearest clue how to fix it, more instruction on this program would have been awesome. This whole situation is incredibly frustrating... I will leave it at that.

Scene of discourse

Pattern from Cityscape

Mens Sana in Corpore Sana

This spa was designed to serve wounded and traumatized veterans possibly being seriously disabled from their service. It consists of a large, heated, aerated pool with individual adjustable hot tub spaces lining the outer perimiter. Zero entry ramps provide 100 percent accessibility throughout.


Birds Eye view of the Spa pool and pavilion.
Perspective standing in the water in one of the individual hot tubs.
Plan View: The red arrows represent zero entrance ramps into the pool.

The entire pool is aerated from the floor. Bubbles come from below in the same fashion a fish tank aerator works. These bubbles taper off in density as one moves closer to the ramped surfaces.

Walls and planters are constructed of stratified fieldstone in Sand, Dark Brown, and Grey.
Outdoor patio tiling is White sandstone 24"x 24" set on a 45 degree angle
Pool surfaces are poured cement with applied dark blue chlorinated rubber paint with aggregate added.
Pavilion Flooring is composite cedar over a poured cement pad.
Pavilion Roofing is Ceramic tile, Brown.

Artifact

This is my artifact to represent design for me. What is so critical about design in my opinion is the integration of the many different parts. A well designed object or space can have no extraneous parts; each piece plays some role in the function of several others on multiple levels. This is my concept with my artifact. Each piece is bent to create tension which in turn, supports the stresses of other parts. If one piece were to be removed, the whole thing would come apart. Good design is like a puzzle, one in which we shape the pieces ourselves, but they still have to fit together just right nonetheless.

Sketchup/Podium renderings