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Skin Form: Advanced Design Studio

Poured Light: Industrial Design

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Crane Decay: Installation

Skin form was my final design studio at the Rhode Island School of Design. The project work presented is the concluding six weeks of class in which we developed a public library for the Baton Rouge Central Library.

Using a CnC machine, molds, and concrete I constructed a concrete pendant light fixture.

In the winter of 2011 I installed and photographed a 5’ tall paper crane in a vacant and abandoned night club on the edge of Providence, RI.

Belo Residence: Maxwell Designs

My first built project as an independent freelance designer located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil for a client that wanted a master suite addition to their home.

Penthouse: Lacuna Design

A set of drawings for the development of three penthouse apartments on the top two floors of a high-rise building in Providence, RI.

Arbor: Lacuna Design

In the winter of 2014 we designed an architectural arbor to provide and aesthetic relief in an otherwise banal asphalt parking lot in downtown Providence, RI.

Pavilion: Lacuna Design

Lacuna Design participated in the pavilion competition for the Louisville Kentucky Riverboat Festival.

Design Studio:Rhode Island

School of Design

Baton Rouge. The central library, a building constructed in the 1970’s was in need of replacement. We were given the task of designing a new library with a very specific set of program. However, the new library needed to provide the community with a place to access information in all its forms. From 3D printing to book stacks the program detailed a new library that was as much a community center as a container to house books.

I approached the program and form as intrinsically linked. I arrange the multiplicity of parts in distinct sections and divided use by demographic use. This created a simple stacked form. However, as a means of bringing interest and programmatic distinction to the different floors I cracked the form to create an atrium that ran through the center of the building.

The project unfolded from an understanding that I was skinning a more generic form that was lifted at one more to allow for a primary entrance that accepted the public from the surrounding park. This entrance eventually became the point of the split and the skin cracked leaving space for circulation and atrium.

Skin FormAdvanced Design Studio: Fall 2013Warren Schwartz & Laura Briggs

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Skinned Form Block Formed Curved Form

Diagram: form and skin. The user is accepted and drawn to the roof to view the surround.

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The plans and elevations were created for my midterm proposal. The skin in this iteration was a concrete skin that was draped over the form. It was then manipulated through a series of cuts or cracks in the skins surface.

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Process single for sectional model of exterior skin and window condition.

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REFERENCE& MEETING

Circulation & Work Area

Reference Work Room

Reference O�ce

Foundation Center

Group Study Rooms

Storage Room

Meeting Room

Pantry & Concessions

Patio

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Public Lobby

Maker Rooms

Literary Center

Publc Restrooms

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Skin and form:

The conclusion is found in the process.

As a means of creating imagery, the project explored the possibilities of moving between analog and digital while attempting to define human inhabitation of space. This balance between creation of the image and simultaneously creating spatial possibilities.

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Personal Projects

The paper crane is an icon. A symbol of peace, hope, and tranquility. For me personally, the act of creating the delicate paper bird is cathartic, calming, and meditative. I find it a moment of serenity to stop, fold, and create an object of such implied importance so quickly. So what then happens when this icon is no longer small, no longer delicate. What is the power of the icon? Does its size play a role? Does its loca-tion empower the paper or the space? It seems this conversation between object and space is integral to the understanding that we seek in de-sign. Thus, my project is defined by the juxtapo-sition of its extremes. The icon becomes magni-fied, empowered with size, and intentional, but inhabits a space crippled. Crippled by abandon-ment and neglect.

So the question stands:

What is the created moment when extremes intersect?

Crane DecayPersonal Project: Fall 2011Location: Shooters, vacant restaurantType: Installation

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While at the Rhode Island School of Design I had access to hardware and software I had never used before. One of these pieces of hardware that fascinated me was the CnC machine. I was able to use the machine several times over the course of my three years at RISD, but it was the creation of this light that I was the most impressed with. I love concrete and to be able to form it into nearly any shape through the use of a mold fueled my interest to create a light that accentuated the plastic nature of concrete.

Poured LightPersonal Project: Fall 2011Location: Providence, RIType: Industrial Design

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MaxwellArchitecture & Design

In the fall of 2014 I received my first independent architectural client and job. What started as simple ideas about the plans for a house transformed into a real project that is currently under construction.

I was commissioned to create a full set of drawings that included plans, elevations, sections, and mill work drawings for closets throughout the house. In November of 2014 I traveled to Brazil to see the house, take measurements, sit down with the clients, and record any details that I would need when I returned home to the US.

Belo ResidenceProfessional Project # 1: Fall 2014Project Type: Residential AdditionLocation: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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Remanent of existing carport after removal

Panorama of the full site

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Walls going up on the new house.

Garage under construction.

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Lacuna Design:Architectural Designer

PenthouseLacuna Design: Summer / Fall 2013Location: Providence, RIType: Penthouse Design

The Penthouses was a series of three apartments designed of a Providence developer that was developing the top two floors of a downtown high-rise. During the design of the apartments we completed plans, full mill work set, specifications for high end fixtures and hardware, renderings, and marketing package for the client.

As a member of the design team I was involved with nearly all phases of design and development.

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ArborLacuna Design Project: Winter 2014Location: Providence, RIType: Penthouse Design

What started as a simple parking lot arrangement plan turned into an interesting and challenging design opportunity for an arbor in a downtown condo parking lot. The clients wanted an addition to their parking lot that is adjacent to what has become the primary entrance.

Lacuna Design developed a plan that fit both the parking lot requirements and our own design intentions for the arbor. Our design intention was to design a static element that appeared to move across the asphalt. The final design is essentially a simple arbor, but the two exterior rails bend and curve to the pace of a user running, jogging, and walking to or from the door at its terminus.

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Pavilion CompetitionLacuna Design Project: Spring 2014Location: Louisville, KTType: Public

While working at Lacuna Design we participated in a competition to design a multi use pavilion for the Louisville Riverboat Festival.

Our concept was based on developing a pavilion that could easily be transformed for a variety of uses. The form was derived from using a penrose triangle as the base and building up the triangulated form vertically from the deck.

This design approached allowed for an interesting form that appears to fold up from the deck and wrap the space created under the wooden panels.

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Folded Rose Pavilion

14'-4"

Our conceptual strategy for Centennial Festival of Riverboat Pavilion was to utilize a set of geometries capable of becoming both form and

Our fabrication strategy employs basic wood framed construction techniques in order to allow for ease of construction and assembly. A primary structural frame and deck platform are constructed on each

pavilions determined function a series of related panels are attached to create various levels of enclosure and surface. Panels can vary between being solid or transparent for each pavilion.

The end result creates a versatile pavilion designed appropriately for a performance, gallery, beverage service, or gathering. Complete with seating areas and well proportioned shelter the pavilions will be the jewel of the festival.

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8” DIAMETER POST/PILE GNIMARF KCED OTNI DERUCES

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SIMPSON STRONG TIE LSSU HANGER OR EQUAL LIGHT SLOPE CONNECTOR

5/4” X 6” SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE2” SDW SCREWS

(2) 3/4” MDO PLYWOOD GUSSETS1 1/2” SDS SCREWS2 ROWS 3” O.C.

SUGGESTED PANEL MATERIALPERFORATED METAL AND/ORCORRUGATED PLASTIC

2” X 6” & 2” X 4” SOUTHERN YELLOW PINEFASTENED W/ SIMPSON STRUCTURALWOOD SCREW, TYP.


5/4” X 6” SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE2X TREATED DECK FRAMING2” v SCREWS

5/4” X 6” SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE2X TREATED DECK FRAMING2” z SCREWS

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REMOVABLE BENCH & FRONT PANELFOR PERFORMANCES

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