Architectural Design Portfolio1

LISA SMITH

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Information Matters
House and Garden for Information Theorist

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Expo 2012
Golden Rice Expo Pavilion

Envelope Loft
Shotgun Shack

Idea of Furniture
Chair-Table

Blue Cube Artist Pavilion

Calder Exhibit

Construction
Knowlton South Courtyard

Other Media
Undergraduate Work

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Bedroom 01 Bathroom 01 Bathroom 00 Bedroom 00 Kitchen Dining Living Room Foyer Screening Room Game Room Library Electronic Music Studio Garden Shed Patio Pond Garden

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Information Matters

House and Garden for Information Theorist

2012: ARCH 6410 Accelerated Architectural Design Stephen Turk

The information theorist X, who is based on a character in, Last Year at Mariendbad, commissioned a house and garden for a new sector in Constant Nieuwenhuys project, New Babylon. Using information diagrams from other disciplines, this project explores the understanding of the role of cultural context in determining meaning in representational systems. The house accomplished a direct link from exterior and interior spaces and allows X to move freely from his garden to his special rooms. Although not very social, X entertains guests with movies, because he is an avid film watcher. A, another character from the movie, lives in the detached guest house, forever unreachable by X. Yet A is closest to X when he is in his favorite space, the garden.

garden

program

structures

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garden

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Roof Plan

Program
1 2 3 4 5 6 Welcome Center Restrooms Golden Rice Introduction Cafe/Gift Shop Mechanical Space Film Screening 7 8 9 10 11 Artists Gallery Golden Rice Laboratory Exhibit White Rice Paddies Golden Rice Paddies Golden Rice Field

Expo 2012

Golden Rice Expo Pavilion

2012: ARCH 6410 Accelerated Architectural Design Stephen Turk

Expo 2012 is designed around a new technology and its effects on architectural discourse. The expo, located on an abandoned air field, includes a 144 x 144 x 72 box that contains artist exhibition pavilions. This expo pavilion is designed around the emerging technology of genetically engineered Golden Rice. Golden rice tastes Section the same as white rice yet provides the body with Vitamin A. This vitamin is 5 desperately needed in Asia to prevent millions of malnutrition related deaths. Upon arriving at the site, visitors are unable to see the full landscape until they have first entered the main building, been given an overview of Golden Rice, and then elevated over a Golden Rice paddy. Visitors can taste Golden Rice at the cafe and proceed through the expo to the artists gallery or observe the scientists at work.

Lower Level Plan

Envelope Loft
Shotgun Shack

2012: ARCH 6410 Accelerated Architectural Design Stephen Turk

Envelope Loft addresses the body in space and time and considers the rationalization and idealization of occupants inhabiting the design space with the conventional notions of program. The design is focused on an operational envelope which is based on certain actions that unfold in space and time. The shotgun shack allows for two occupants to co-inhabit an unusually dimensioned space with respect to privacy. Light floods the public spaces yet dissipates for the private spaces creating a place appropriate for sleeping.

Chair/Table(ness)

enter(ability)

Stair(ness)

step(ability)

Shelf/Lounge(ness)

walk(ability)

Floor(ness)

view(ability)

Bed(ness)

sleep(ability)

Ramp(ness)

step/exit(ability)

Wall/Rail(ness)

work(ability)

Loudness

Quietness

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Tableness

Siting-Sitability

Working-Workablitiy

Quietness

Idea of Furniture
Chair-Table
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2012: ARCH 6410 Accelerated Architectural Design Stephen Turk

The Idea of Furniture addresses the body in space and time using the works of Frank and Lillian Gilbreths Chronophotography as an example. Both noun, envelope and verb, envelop, are reevaluated to change the idea of a chair. The chair-table project combines two separate needs into one piece of furniture. Users can sit up for certain activities or lounge and let the table come to them. The table chair works with the user in real time to provide the optimum comfort and usability for the duration of its use.

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Blue Cube
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2013: ARCH 6420 Accelerated Architectural Design 2 Karen Lewis

The blue cube explores the meaning of blue and cube individually. This design encompasses the feeling blue since the cube is missing pieces and is, therefore, blue. Although the cube is not whole, it is still easily recognized as a cube. The diagrams explore different scenarios to visualize how much can be taken away and yet still have a cube emerge as the shape.

Artist Pavilion
Calder Exhibit

2012: ARCH 6410 Accelerated Architectural Design Stephen Turk

The Calder Exhibit compliments the works of Calder by changing over time. Because the shadows of the mobiles are always changing, the exhibit also changes. The walls slide or can be removed, and the stairs and table are movable allowing the visitors to have a new experience every time they come. By moving walls or ceiling plates, light enters the exhibit in new places and creates new shadows. A visitor can walk up the stairs to see the works at a new level, or observe the changing shadows as each new visitor enters.

Nothing at all of this is fixed.

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SOUTH COURTYARD CURTAINWALL KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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Aluminum coping

1" Gyp. board

1" Gyp. board Rigid insulation Rain screen 1" Low-E glass Rigid insulation Batt insulation 1'-5"
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1" Gyp. board 1" Low-E glass Batt insulation Concrete slab Weather stripping Rubber strip Sealant Hinged window for ventilation

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Concrete slab

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Rubber strip 1/4" Angle 1" Metal plate 1" Low-E glass Channel steel 6" Ext. Mtl. Column
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Upper Wall Section

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Upper Wall Plan

1'-5" Weather stripping Weather stripping Alum. cap Rubber strip 1/4" Angle 1" Metal plate 1" Low-E glass Channel steel Alum. cap Rubber strip 1/4" Angle 1" Metal plate 1" Low-E glass Channel steel 6" Ext. Mtl. Column 1" Low-E glass Channel steel Alum. cap

Middle Wall Section

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Middle Wall Plan

1" Low-E glass Weather stripping Rubber strip Channel steel 1" Metal plate 1/4" Angle 1' Concrete Slab
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1'-5" 1" Low-E glass Weather stripping Rubber strip Channel steel
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1" Low-E glass Channel steel 1" Metal plate 6" Ext. Mtl. Column

1" Metal plate 6" Ext. Mtl. Column

Lower Wall Section

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Lower Wall Plan

LISA SMITH

LAB: G1 MIKE SAUTER

SOUTH COURTYARD CURTAINWALL KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

11/20/12

LAB: G1 MIKE SAUTER

SOUTH COURTYARD CURTAINWALL KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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2011: Ceramics I
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Film: Dark Room Editing

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Introduction to Interior Design: Project board for ideal dorm room

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