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This is the view from the street
This is what the butterfly pavilion when closed for the day
K-State's Butterfly Pavilion
This was a butterfly pavilion. It was the second project of second semester. We were given a real site placed on K-State's campus. We had to maneuver topography and design a space that is good for presentation of the history of butterfly. My design was inspired by the building already on campus. The site was right on campus so I felt that designing something that is over-designed would look out of place and actually turn into an eye-sore. For this reason I benchmarked the mide-century modern buildings built from 1950-67 on the campus. This made the building look comfortable on the site. To modernize it I went with materials. The white is actually aluminum panels and the wood louvers are actually light wood louvers. It was designed to allow for students from area elementary schools to visit. It can hold about 100 students at a time and has a circulation design to alow people to travel through by entering on one side and exit on the other. The whole site was placed right on the corner of the larger site for easy access to the busses.
Understated Complexity
This was the first design project for 2nd semester and was centered around the product design part of architecture. The project was to design a box for a butterfly to be in before it was released for a ceremony. Many people created boxes that were big, extravagant and attention grabbers. I went with a different approach. I decided to go simple and understated. the ceremony is about the butterfly's and butterfly's have a beautiful design on their wings. When it came to designing the box I decided to showcase that by simplifying the box to something that people didnt even pay attention to but once they did they would notice the complex parts of the box. For the example, the handle on the box is also the perch that the butterfly sits on. When living things are touching the same object there is a heightend connected feeling between them. The handle gives the person holding it and butterfly a connection. the slits are suplicated in the glass and the thick wood pieces have this endless wrap aroudn the box. Understated Complexity
Beguiled
This was my 2nd semester final project. The project was to design a house for a visiting artist. It was named Beguiled due to its trickery of the front end and how the eye can "pass-pleasantly" through the site. The house seems very simple from the front of the house. As one goes inside though, they see that there is so much more to offer on the inside. The building was designed with everything lined up so that the eye can travel seamlessly through the site virtually unobstructed. The lap pool aids to pull the eye completely through the house, through the outside and into the studio and out the other end of th house.
College Portfolio
This page with hold virtually all of my college architecture projects.
A main theme with many of my designs is understanding the use and designing around that. For example in a house, it shouldn't be about the imposing building but about the gatherings and experiences on the inside with the people. A building that has presentations or meetings shouldn't pull attention away from the matter at hand. A museum can't be more interesting than the artwork inside. There are times and places where things can get interesting like the exterior of an office building, a shopping center, or a main entrance. Places that need to pull interest. I try really hard to not over design a space which can create confusion but to design enough to create good use and to spark interest but not pull interest unles needed.
Betwixted
This was 1st semester final project. It was focused around the landscape part of architecture. The site was on campus but in a pretty bad area that was loud, dirty, and had unimpressive views. The project was a sculpture garden. To block all the noise and nasty I decided to wall in the garden and make it oasis. The walls are moving though with waterfalls on all walls. It was named Betwixt because that word means between. Between also means center and the focus of the space is the center. the movement of the space spirals down around into the center and all the waterfalls fall into the space facing the center.From the outside it looks like nothing more than a box but the inside, the center, is full of life.