THERON HOBBS

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

SPRING 2015

WILMINGTON MARKET

ASHEVILLE BREW INSTITUTE

PORTLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

BROOKLYN DANCE CO-OP

CATAWBA PUMP STATION

CHARLOTTE CHURCH INQUIRY

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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THE ART OF MAKING

PHOTOGRAPHY 56

COMPETITIONS 60

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WILMINGTON MARKET

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FALL 2014

The premise of Wilmington Market derives from the following inquiry:

How can a farmers’ market retainits typological integrity

while diversifying its programmatic capabilities?

It is a combination of two programs: (1) traditional public market

(2) contemporary public space

A Case for Urban Farming

There are 6,100 farmers’ markets in America today. 1,400 of them were

established in the last two years.

Food is so much more than business. There’s great value found in the story

behind each item. There’s value found in the interaction between

the farmer and the consumer.

While restaurants and bars are common, sources of healthy food are scarce.

Downtown Wilmington shows a need for healthy food options within walking distance.

Farmers’ Markets increase community cohesion and social capital−a quality especially valuable

to Wilmington, a community in transition.

Residential

Commercial Grocery Store

Restaurant

Civic

Wilmington Market facilitates a program of eighteen grocery stalls,

four grocery stalls, urban farming components, administrative offices,

as well as amble public space.

What is Urban Farming?

Means of growingand producing food.

Moves from the growerto the consumer.

Increases public accessto locally grown produce.

Urban farming exists through three variations within the design,

with varying degrees of technological involvement.

Vertical Green Walls

Roof Terrace Garden

Learning Studio

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Site Plan

Diagrams

Market Stalls

Diagrams

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Plans

Sections | Elevations

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Sections | Elevations

Aerial Isometrics

Structural Model

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ASHEVILLE BREW INSTITUTE

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SPRING 2014

Located along the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina, this project fulfills a rather unique program of a brewing institute, including a large public bar, three gravity-propelled brewing operations, and six studio apartments. Three brewmasters reside in the apartments while tending to their experimental brews, while three additional brewmasters stay in the remaining apartments and serve their creations to the public at the on-site bar.

The project is a design of two distinct yet interactive flows: brew and bar. This can be seen in the diagram on the right. The brewing process exists to encourage public engagement, which enriches the experimental atmosphere of the institute. The bottom diagram is the parti of the design.

Site Plan

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To enable a gravity-fed brewing process, the brewing machinery is placed within a sloping truss, anchored by circulation cores on each end. To reaffirm the brewing process as a public operation, a parallel sloping truss holds a public walkway.The public can either view theprocess alongside the brewmaster inthis second truss or directly engagethe brewing machinery during guided tours.

The public bar is a large space capable of holding community events. The bar is envisioned as a linear flow toward the river, just as the linear flow of the brewing process aims downward to the bar.

Plans

Sections | Elevations

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Structural Details

Model

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PORTLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

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FALL 2013

Located in Portland, Oregon’s Washington Park, this addition to the Portland Children’s Museum continues the museum’s legacy as a vibrant center for young learning and interactive play. An incorporation and expansion of the museum’s existing 1970s facilities, this addition seeks to house programmatic needs with sound environmental principles, such as daylighting and natural ventilation. Physical modeling was an important method of development during the schematic design phase of the project.

In addition to the museum, Washington Park holds Oregon Zoo and the World Forestry Center. A MAX subway station is located across a large central parking lot from the museum site. In a master planning effort, the museum addition bridges over the existing road and converts much of the existing parking lot into landscaped park space.

Site Plan

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The addition houses two levels of hyperlobbies, or exhibition spaces, as well as learning classroomsand activity studios. Flexible space for visiting exhibitions is a key component of the desired program.

Seen in these sections and elevations, much attention is given to daylighting, with multiple windows that open to allow for natural ventilaton, such as the three sawtooth clerestories. The solar orientation of the building has also been strategically planned to minimize unwanted solar heat gainin the summer months.

East Elevation

West Elevation

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Structure

Site Model

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BROOKLYN DANCE CO-OP

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SPRING 2013

Located in the historic Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Dance Co-Op features a large public theatre, dance studios, restaurant, and twenty-four studio apartments for residing dancers. Rich with history and cultural precedent, Dumbo sparks much dialogue with lower Manahattan right across the East River.

At the intersection of Fulton and Everit Streets, the site boundary measures seventy feet square. Thus the placement of the public theatre is of great importance. To connect the theatre with the privileged view of the lower Manhattan skyline across the East River, the theatre is positioned above the neighboring building. Arranged as a series of balconies, it occupies the eleventh through fourteenth floors. Performers on the stage have their back turned to the river, allowing the background of the stage to be animated by the exterior environment.

The model to the left illustrates the system of vertical circulation used in the building, consisting of a public atrium, which takes theatre visitors to a skylobby on the ninth floor.

Physical modeling was the primary mode of study for massing analysis and the schematic design phase.

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The four levels of the theater are shown here. The stage and orchestra pit are arranged at a corner, thus challenging the normative organization of performing arts centers.

The axonometric drawing on the right highlights the building’s exterior facade, which showcases exposed structural elements−drawing precedent from nearby Brooklyn Bridge, with its diagonal “fenestrations.”

This section-perspective drawing allows one to see the program organization and vertical circulation scheme. The groud floor lobby holds a restaurant on a mezzanine level. Twenty-four studio apartments are located on floors three through six. Floors seven and eight contain amenities and supporting administrative offices. The public skylobby is on the ninth floor, where the public navigates to the theatre on the tenth through fourteenth floors. The top two levels of the building are dedicated to a private dance studio, with the ultimate privileged view.

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CATAWBA PUMP STATION

SPRING 2012

This project during the spring semester of the first year undergraduate program stemmed from a precedent analysis of Andrea Palladio’s Villa Foscari of 1560. Through entirely analog means of drafting and modeling, a spatial analysis of the villa evolved into the spatial logic of the design for the Catawba Pump Station, located on the banks of the Catawba River in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

The diagrams on the left illustrate the parti of Villa Foscari, while the figure-ground drawing to its right expresses a derived spatial motif from the precedent that is carried forward in the design.

There is great value found in the process of working in hand-drawing and physical modeling simultaneously.

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The program for the project included a pump house with several floor spaces for machinery and water storage. The site plan includes a dock at the river’s edge.

Site Section, Site Plan, and Building Plan

Axonometric

Physical Model at 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

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CHARLOTTE CHURCH INQUIRY

The Charlotte church inquiry began in the summer of 2012, as I became interested in the dynamic nature of Charlotte’s churches, cathedrals, and other places of worship. It has been said that Charlotte has the most number of churches per capital of any city in the world, as one can be found on practically every major street corner in the city. Whether Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, or Methodist, the churches of Charlotte contain a wide variety of architectural styles. During this ongoing inquiry, I have been documenting well over fifty places of worship within the Charlotte area, studying their organization, scale, and relation to the surrounding community. I have been researching the subtle differences in the architecture of various protestant denominations. The documentation has been realized in both hand sketches and photography.

Myers Park Baptist Church

Hickory Grove Baptist Church

Providence Baptist Church

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Myers Park Presbyterian Church

Covenant Presbyterian Church

Central Church of God

Calvary Church

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THE ART OF MAKING

Form + Motion

This abbreviated project at the beginning of the spring semester of the second year of the undergraduate program accentuates the scale of the human figure in relation to architectural space. Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring was analyzed and diagrammed. These diagrams eventually led to the program of a public art installation, in which one could crawl through the interior of the form to experience an open central space−drawing precedent from the artist James Turrell.

Shadow Box

Designed and constructed during the spring of 2014, this piece combines wood, concrete, and steel to create an artistic composition. The concrete pyramid is suspended by a slender steel rod, which enables the form to serve as a swinging pendulum. The two-foot tall construction is currently used as a night stand.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

As an active member of Crosspoint Worship Center, a local church in Charlotte, North Carolina, I have had the opportunity to lead the creative and production teams. I have gained much experience in Adobe Creative Suite, from videos to innovative motion graphics, from church marketing materials to general logo branding.

The series of logos on the right correspond to a certain ministry team or department within the church, such as Small Groups or Kids.

These graphics to the left are examples of event promotional materials or logos. I also regularly design message series art.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Reflections

EMP Museum + Space Needle

Seattle, Washington

Urban Direction

Bank of America Plaza

Atlanta, Georgia

Photography Contest Grand Prize WinnerAIAS South Quad ConferenceSpring 2014

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COMPETITIONS

SoA − Northwood Ravin Housing Inquiry Design Competition

Grand Prize Winner

Spring 2015

With Rebecca Devlin

This weekend charrette was prompted by Northwood-Ravin to address the often unused interstitial spaces between multifamily housing blocks, such as Morningside Village near the historic Plaza-Midwood neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina.

UNC Charlotte AIAS Photography Competition

Spring 2014

Architecture + Color

First Prize

Avenue of the Americas, NYC.

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