Sam Florance Portfolio

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Samuel E. [email protected](817) 996-4854______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Education:

B.S. in Environmental Design, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Expected Graduation Date: May 2013 Cumulative GPR: 3.771

Honors: Texas A&M Department of Architecture Celbration of Excellence - Best Integrated Studio Projects_______________________________________________________ 2013 Sondra and Ronald L. Skaggs 65 Endowed Scholarship _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2012 Deans List ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2011-2012 Robert O. Travis 32 Endowed Memorial Scholarship Recipient __________________________________________________________________________________ 2010 Phi Eta Sigma ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2009 American Airlines Credit Union Scholarship Recipient _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2009 State of Texas Top 10% Scholarship Recipient _______________________________________________________________________________________________2009

Work Experience:

Gould Evans Research Fellowship Intern - A multidisciplinary, research-based studio. The research will be investigating the role of research in the design and construction of our built environment. The project will aim to challenge an entire typology, specifically the corporate office environment. ___________________________________________________________________________2014-Present

ARCH 600: Digital Fabrication - Lead a class teaching the basics of designing for laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC routing. The class shows students how to use digital fabrication as a tool in design communication, as well as provide information and resources for proper file preparation and execution. __________________________________________________________2014-Present

Osowski Project - Working closely with a client to design and produce construction drawings for a timber frame home in Colorado which began construction in summer 2013 and is currently under construction. _________________________________________2013-Present

Digital Fabrication Shop Technician - Develop 2D concepts into 3D architectural structures using CNC milling, Plasma CNC, Laser printer, and 3D printer. Maintain and operate woodworking and metalworking equipment. ________________________________________________________ 2012-Present

Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley Exhibits Intern - Maintaining, refurbishing, and building exhibits, furniture and installations for the museum. ____________________________________________________ 2012

TAMU Incubator Project - Designing and building a 4000 sq. ft. interior for a business accelerator in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. ________________________ 2012

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Custom Furniture Fabrication - - Commissioned by the Texas A&M baseball team to build tables for the media room of the new Blue Bell Park at Olsen Field. - Commissioned by Athletes in Action staff member to build a coffee table out of tennis racquets. - Commissioned by Texas A&M Residence Life to build custom furniture for new dorms currently under construction. ___________________________ 2010-2012

Artemis Institute Remote studio (Design Build) - Worked with an engineer and county officials to design and build a pavilion for the community park in Wilson, Wyoming. ______________________________2011

Texas A&M Baseball Team Student Manager - Fix equipment, catch bull pens, constructed tables for the clubhouse, and clean laundry. __________________________________________________2009-2011

Skills AutoCAD Maya & Maya animation Maxwell Render Rhino Basic Revit Basic Grasshopper Adobe Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) CNC milling (MasterCAM/RhinoCAM) Laser & 3D printer operations Community and Public Service:

Texas A&M Baseball Paint-A-Thon - Improved the home of a member of our community living in an underprivileged neighborhood. __________________________________________________ 2010 The Big Event - Community renovation. ________________________________________________________________________________________________2010-2011

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ResumeTable of ContentsBryan Fitness Lab

Truss AnalysisJFK Youth Build Workshop

Start Up AggielandOwen Bircher Pavilion - Artemis Institute:Remote Studio

Osowski ProjectMonumental Design - Fly Wheel Fuel Station

The LinkThe Cave

Row HouseArchitectural BodiesPortfolio CD Display

Park FollyHeidi Weber Pavilion - Le Corbusier

Interpretive Spacial AnalysisIndustrial Design

Hullabaloo Hall Furniture DesignBlue Bell Park Table Design

Tennis Racquet Table DesignAutomobile Restoration - 1996 Ford F-150

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Bryan Fitness LabBryan, Texas.Rhino, Maya, Maxwell Render, Photoshop, IllustratorThis fitness center redefines public space by centering the programming around an outdoor court yard and giving people 24 hour access to it. The court yard is sunken to separate public activity from traffic and the earth displaced from this is used to build up a berm through witch people can enter the building. This berm is mirrored in the built structure giving the design an interesting play between building and nature. Programmatic spaces include: weight room, sports courts, yoga rooms, pool, ping-pong/foosball gaming area, smoothie shop, retail space, and music venue. I worked with one partner on this project.

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Bryan Fitness Lab - Structural SystemBryan, Texas.Rhino, Maya, Maxwell Render, Photoshop, IllustratorColumn bays are set at 25x25 which gives each column a 625 sq. ft. tributary area. To give the building the necessary structure to support a high level of physical activity W12 steels beams were selected, at 12x12 (nominal dimension). The 25x25 spacing was chosen because it offers the ability to divide spacial activity. A goal of this gym was to house many different activities in order to have an attraction for everyone in the community. The square 25x25 grid is a good medium between a large open space and enclosed space and it allowed for the spaces to interact with each other, but not be limited to surrounding activity. Where larger spans are needed, such as in the gym or pool area, the loads are transferred to structural concrete shear walls.

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Bryan Fitness LabBryan, Texas.AutoCAD, Rhino, IllustratorRed - The sunken court yard is the center of all activity. There are many areas where people can view this space to encourage community involvement.Blue - The roof slopes down to three feet at the north end of the building. The roof assembly gives passerbyers a view through louvers into the pool area.Yellow - Similar to the roof assembly, the wall assembly gives people inside an elevated view outside and people outside can see activity ensuing inside to provoke their involvement.

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NBryan Fitness LabBryan, Texas.AutoCAD, IllustratorThe track appears to run from outside to inside in the floor plan, but there is actually a void in the building that is screened by louvers giving the building a solid look from the south, but an open look when viewed from the court yard. This also adds an interesting spacial quality which invites people to explore the building.

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Renzo Pianos II Sole 24 ORE in Milan is the inspiration for the mega trusses. In Renzos project the trusses are used in the cafeteria/break area where they can be observed by the occupants. In the Fitness Lab, these trusses are used in the pool area and above the entry foyer where they create a dynamic silhouette against the ambient light of the roof system. This will bring further animation to the roof system as well as the structural system as a whole by drawing occupant attention to the ceiling and the structural details of the building.

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JFK Youth Build Work ShoopKansas City, Kansas.Revit, Rhino, IllustratorThis will be a Center offering educational programs on carpentry, gardening and cooking to those in the neighbordhood and provide partnerships to support skill-building by working on neighborhood projects and events. The Center will also offer a tool lending library16 to give people the necessary resources to carry out independent projects. The goal is to educate youth in the area by the management and production of community improvement projects and thereby installing a sense of leadership and place for the youth. The shop will offer carpentry and construction classes, which will promote education of a skill set. To further develop the skills learned in the shop, the kids will build community improvement projects to be installed in the parks and underutilized space. The tool lending library will further supplement the availability for locals to build and reshape their own community. There will also be gardening and cooking classes, which promote education and healthy eating, along with a kitchen and dining area where events or cook outs could be held.

This is a section cut through the steep hill to understand the issue in scale. It is evident that this has the potential to create water drainage issues and would make the space muddy and not inviting to pedestrians.

JFKCC is made of a series of structural bents running along the north/south axis of the building (refer to figure 5.8). The simple structure allows for opportunity to work between the bents for additions to the building.

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The second floor porch will offer an elevated view of the lake and the cirrculation activity that occurs because of the new paths around the building.

An operable door on the north facade of the building opens to shade the side walk and give pedestrians a view of the activity inside the shop. The door is insulated so it can be closed during closed during cold seasons to keep the shop warm.

The tall garage doors allow for easy loading and unloading into the shop space. The second floor porch overlooks this area so people can view this activity.

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Start Up Aggieland - Collaboration TankCollege Station, TexasMaya, Maxwell Render, PhotoshopThis is an off-studio project I participated in with five classmates. We were asked to design the interior space for a business accelerator that was in its beginning phases. The space was about 4000 sq. ft. and resided on the west side of Texas A&Ms campus. The clients wanted this space to be a hub for creative activity. We looked at Google and Red Bull as precedence studies of innovative office spaces. The space you are looking at here is the main area, the collaboration tank. There is a soft surface ergonomic foam floor material to immediately let those who walk into this space know that it is a relaxed and creative room. The desks are made of whiteboard material and can be folded up to serve as dividers or presentation boards. We proposed that an existing divider wall be removed and transparent doors be put in the offices to allow natural light to come into the collaboration tank. The wall on the left in the rendering above is an interactive wall with magnet coat hangers.

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The existing space is clean and simple, which are characteristics that we build upon in our design. There are some inherent flaws though. One of the main ones is the absence of natural light in the spaces that are not along the perimeter. One of the major spaces, the collaboration tank, falls into this category. To solve this, we have changed the walls bordering the offices to an electric glass that can turn translucent or fully transparent on demand. We also eliminated the wall that divides the collaboration tank from the corridor. These two major changes solved another problem which was the compartmentalized nature of the whole space. Now the space has an openness to it which is essential to a collaborative environmnet. People will feel as if anything they need is just a few steps away. It also eliminates the need for doorways and hallways, which are wasted space.

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Start Up Aggieland - Entry and ReceptionCollege Station, TexasMaya, Maxwell Render, Photoshop, CNC routerThe entry way includes a custom built reception desk, moveable couch units to give the space multiple uses, an artistic sign up/info board that will be designed by an artist using only whiteboard paint where people can sign up for meetings or confirm their meeting time, and a custom lighting unit that leads from the wall logo up the ceiling and down the hall way to entice people to enter the collaboration tank. There is also custom ceiling tile work which we prototyped using the CNC router. This was a cheap design move to enhance the quality of the space. The entry way contains elements from every room and serves to introduce newcomers to all the design elements.

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Start Up Aggieland - Conference RoomCollege Station, TexasMaya, Maxwell Render, PhotoshopThe conference room is the most static element in the Start Up because it is an explicitly functional space. There is a custom conference table meant to give the room a feeling of authority. The table has camera mounts for video conferencing and there is a projector built into the lighting element hanging from the ceiling. Each wall will be covered to a full whiteboard surface. This allows users to communicate many ideas that may be confusing when spoken but clear when drawn. Notes, group pin-ups, schedules and many other uses can be delivered from this permanently available resource.

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Start Up Aggieland - OfficesCollege Station, TexasMaya, Maxwell Render, PhotoshopWhile the main function of these spaces is to house Entrepreneurs in Residence and/or Entrepreneurship related groups, these spaces are also adaptable to circumstance. Some days these rooms will house an individual person, other days they will house interview-like meetings, and still others they will hold small conferences. The furniture and walls of this room have been designed to respond to these multiple facets. The corridor facing wall is of key importance to these spaces since it acts both as a barrier and a connection to the collaboration tank. Utilizing electronically activated glass panels, which can be altered from transparent to translucent at the operators whim, we grant the office user power to choose between interaction and isolation while also supplying a natural light source to the collaboration tank.

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Owen Bircher PavilionArtemis Institute - Remote StudioWilson, WyomingAutoCAD, Maya, Rhino, Construction Tools and MachineryArtemis Institute is a non-profit organization whose focus is educational programs, forums, and activities that help people to explore and understand the relationship that exists between nature and culture. From concept to built structure, this project was overseen all the way to fruition by myself and six classmates. Working closely with the community and an engineer we worked as a team to draft a full set of construction documents, acquire a stamp and building permit, and build the structure. The design features two fire pits lined up on an axis seen by the ridge beam and derived from the circulation path of people walking through the park. There are five bents that pivot slightly using an existing tree as its pivot point. This serves to ground the design into the site and give it a feeling of place. The site backs up against a wet lands area where we could not build so we created a heavy back structure with wood slats that opens up in the front to take in the view of the mountains. All the pavers, back slats, and wood board walk were made of recycled material.

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Owen Bircher Pavilion, Artemis Institute - From left to right: Sam Florance, David Roe, Josh Cristy, Dustin Adler, Daniel Kelly

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Osowski ProjectBuena Vista, ColoradoAutoCAD, Maya, Rhino, Construction Tools and MachineryThis is a for profit project that I under took with four friends of mine. In December 2012 I was approached by a coworker of my fathers about designing a timber frame retirement home in Buena Vista, Colorado. I brought four close friends of mine into the project as well and we formed a design team with myself acting as the lead. Together we worked with a licensed engineer to draft the construction documents and submit them for a building permit. After the permit was obtained we inquired the client to allow us to drive up to Colorado where we would spend the entire summer building the house. We contracted out the foundation and the timber frame, although we offered labor to both building aspects. What you are looking at here is only phase one of the project which includes the garage and an up stairs apartment. Phase two will be built at a later date and will include the main house. The total design is 4000 sq.ft. - 3000 sq. ft. house, 300 sq. ft. connecting piece, and 1700 sq. ft. garage apartment. The garage apartment features handicapped friendly circulation, open ceiling expressing the beauty of the timber frame, dynamic views of the mountains, a kids play loft, two beds rooms, two baths, a kitchen that looks out into the living room, an office, a utility room, a four car garage, and a wood shop. (from left to right: Dustin Adler, Ben Wilde, Josh Cristy, Daniel Kelly, Sam Florance)

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Osowski Project - Ben Wilde and Daniel Kelly guiding a rafter into place.

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Monumental Design - Fly Wheel Fuel StationBryan, TexasMaya, Hand ModelThe design prompt was to create a fuel station that does not use petroleum. I chose to work with fly wheel technology. The idea is that a car will run of rotational kinetic energy produced by an extremely dense spinning object within their car. The entire system is mechanical. The spinning object will have so much momentum that it will be able to spin for a week or two and power a car. When the object starts to slow down people will pull into this flywheel fuel station to have it re-spun. People will be charged by the RPM as opposed to the gallon or kilowatt. This design is meant to be a monument to this new clean energy technology as well as a functioning fuel station.

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The LinkCollege Station, TexasAutoCAD, Graphite Pencil, Ink PenThe Langford architecture buildings were surveyed, blue printed, and a computer 3-D model was drafted. The design prompt was to create a circulating space that complements the existing buildings. The structure is made of heavy timbers that reach out to meet the building and allow sunlight into the usually dark corridor. The structure also flattens out to allow people to walk out onto the roof and get an elevated view of campus.

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The CaveTampa Bay, FloridaMaya, Mental Ray RenderThis project was meant to take advantage of the freedom the modeling software Maya offers with form and to create a building that embodies the essence of a cave. Research and exploration of actual caves was done to fuel design concepts. I worked with one partner on this project.

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Row HouseCollege Station, TexasMaya, Maxwell RenderThis design was constrained to a 20 foot wide site. The clients were three young engineers who were rooming together and they wanted a space they could live in as well as do their work. My design intent was to create spaces to provoke creative thought and give energy to its inhabitants. The floating orbs are symbolic or ideas. The living space is sunken and surrounded with seating to invite group discussion and collaboration.

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Architectural BodiesAutoCAD, Hand ModelFrom delicate simplicity spawns structured chaos. No adhesive material could be employed. Using dowel rods, zip ties, and fishing line a tensegrity module was created and then repeated to fabricate what you see. Tensegrity: A structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members do not touch each other and the tensioned members delineate the system spatially.

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Portfolio CD DisplayAutoCAD, Laser CutterIf you have taken a minute to explore this model then it has served its purpose. It is meant to catch the attention of a potential employer and be something they might want to display on a shelf. A CD fits onto the nose of the airplane and there is a switch in the cockpit that turns on a motor inside the plane to spin the CD.

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Park FollyHand ModelThis is an exploration of space. The design prompt was to provoke people to move through space without ornamentation.

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Heidi Weber Pavilion - Le CorbusierGraphite PencilArchitectural hand renderings

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Interpretive spacial analysisGraphite Pencil, Ink Pen, Hand ModelThe three pieces are meant to embody the word whimsical - fanciful, erratic, unpredictable.

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Industrial DesignAutoCAD, CNC RouterLie down, sit, or behold. Conjoint functions are programed into this project. The arms of this bench pivot to suit multiple purposes. The entire piece was cut from one sheet of plywood and no nails, screws, or bolts were used.

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Hullabaloo Hall Furniture DesignAutoCAD, Maya, Rhino, CNC Router, Laser Cutter, Wood ShopMyself along with three class mates of mine were approached about building custom furniture for the new dorms that were recently built on the north side of A&Ms campus. During the construction of these dorms there were some old live oak trees that had to be uprooted. This made the Former Students Organization a little upset, so in an effort to make peace Residence Life had the trees milled into planks, kiln dried, and began looking for students to build custom furniture. A former professor of ours approached us with the opportunity and we gladly accepted. There are four main pieces, a 10 fireplace mantle, a 15 bar top, a bench, and several small end tables. The designs needed to adapt to a modern look to fit in with the dorm design but also embody the essence of aggie tradition and express the natural aspect of the old wood.

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Hullaboloo Hall Furniture Design - Bar TopAutoCAD, CNC Router, Wood ShopThe two branches you see are actual silhouettes of a famous tree on Texas A&Ms campus known as the Century Tree. We took photos of some the branches that we could trace in autoCAD and then use to recess the image into the table with a CNC router. We then filled the space with bark pulled from the live edges of the oak wood to give the appearance that there are tree branches growing through the table. To seal this we poured several layers of epoxy resin. From left to right: Josh Cristy, Sam Florance, Michael Krenz (Res Life), Dustin Adler, Daniel Kelly, Rodney Hill (professor)

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Hullaboloo Hall Furniture Design - Mantel PieceAutoCAD, Maya, Rhino, CNC Router, Wood ShopWith the mantel piece we wanted to maintain a traditional crown molding form but give it a modern look with the twisting ridges.

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Hullaboloo Hall Furniture Design - BenchAutoCAD, Maya, Rhino, CNC Router, Wood ShopThe bench is meant to reflect the mantel piece. The pipe that the slates wrap around was obtained from the local iron and metal junk yard.

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Hullaboloo Hall Furniture Design - End TableWood ShopWe decided to each individually design and build an end table instead of making several of the same design. Each table needed to express the natural edges of the wood to reinforce the recycled nature of the project. I found two pieces that had a similar edge and folded them to create a table with storage underneath.

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Blue Bell Park Table DesignAutoCAD, Laser Cutter, CNC router, Wood ShopFreshmen year I worked part time as a student manager for the Texas A&M baseball team. During my time there I noticed their locker room tables were falling apart so I approached the coach about building them some new ones. I brought a friend of mine in on the project and together we made two tables. A year later when Texas A&M was building a new stadium the coach approached me about building six more tables for the media room that will be in the new stadium. I took the oppertunity and these tables are now featured in the media room of Blue Bell Park at Olsen Field. The table legs are made of reinforced wood baseball bats, the base is a replica of home plate, and the top features team logos and sayings that have been laser etched and painted.

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Tennis Racquet Table DesignWood ShopAfter completing the table job for the Texas A&M baseball team I was approached by an Athletes in Action staff member. Athletes in Action is a Christian organization that works with Texas A&M athletics. The client had collected antique tennis racquets all his life and he has always wanted to build a table out of them but doesnt know how so he offered me the job. I undertook this on my own. I did not want to cut any of the racquets and I wanted the table to serve as a display case form them. The most challenging aspect was that no two racquets were the same.

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Automobile Restoration - 1996 Ford F-150Auto ShopThis is a 1996 For F-150 that was salvaged and restored by my father and I. The entire interior was replaced with new or salvaged parts from a junk yard. The design is meant to be reminiscent of a 1950s Ford pickup with the advantages of modern vehicle engineering

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Osowski Project - Ben Wilde putting up rafters

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Sam Florance - Mt. Harvard ascent 14,423

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2/28/13 Student designers tackle local projects - ArchONE

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A team of senior environmental design majors who bonded in a freshman studio is

leaving its mark at Texas A&M after tackling projects as entrepreneurs and

designers.

During the summer of 2012, trees were axed to make room for the construction of

new dorms on the campus north side, a move that prompted some former

students to register complaints with the Department of Residence Life.

After a recommendation from Rodney Hill, professor of architecture, residence life

hired the group, Daniel Kelly of Pearland, Dustin Adler of Brenham, Ben Wilde of

San Antonio, Sam Florance of Fort Worth and Josh Cristy of Shallowater, to design

and build lobby furniture for the new dorm from the felled trees.

Its a win-win situation because we operate cheaper than any contractor could, we

get the experience and they get a good product, said group member Daniel Kelly.

He and his colleagues worked with Michael Krenz, associate director of residence

life, to create the pieces.

Using the CNC mill at the colleges Digital Fabrication Facility, the group weaved

design elements borrowed from Texas A&Ms Century Oak into a 15-foot long, two-

feet wide bar top.

We took a photo of the tree, used Photoshop to trace one of its limbs, converted it

to a vector graphic, cut it on the CNC router, and put it on the bar top said Adler.

The group is also designing and building a mantle, end tables and smaller pieces

with the felled trees.

The students, who met in a studio led by Hill in their freshmen year, have also

created a design proposal for Startup Aggieland, a student-operated working

space in Texas A&Ms Research Park offering free entrepreneurship resources for

students.

The proposal for the 4,000 square-foot space was created in a design research

course led by Hill.

It features a futuristic look for the center, which university president R. Bowen

Loftin touted Oct. 1 at a Department of Commerce forum in Washington, D.C. as a

national model for student-led entrepreneurship and innovation.

The students also did their study abroad semester last fall as a group, attending

the Artemis Institute in Jackson Hole, Wyo., led by Lori Ryker, an outstanding

alumna of Texas A&Ms College of Architecture.

It was a great experience, and it was the first time wed worked together as a

Entrepreneurial design groupleaving its mark at Texas A&M

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Vote (https://safoodbank.wufoo.com/forms/canstruction-2012-peoples-choice/) for Canosaur, the canned fooddinosaur sculpture created by Texas A&M students and Overland Partners for the San Antonio AIA Canstruction fooddrive competition.

1 / 7 Completed Canosaur sculpture.

Environmental design students at Texas A&M partnered with a San Antonio design firm to fabricate plates supporting agiant dinosaur sculpture made from canned goods that will eventually provide hunger relief to south Texans as part of aunique annual food drive contest.

The plates, created by students at the colleges Digital Fabrication Facility(http://www.arch.tamu.edu/inside/services/digital-fabrication/) at Texas A&M's Riverside campus, provided structuralsupport for an 11-foot tall canned food dinosaur designed by Overland Partners | Architects(http://www.overlandpartners.com) for "Canstruction," (http://www.aiasa.org/index.php/canstruction) an annual fooddrive sponsored by the San Antonio Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

At the competition, teams of architects, engineers, contractors and university students designed and built giganticstructures made from canned food, showcasing the creativity of the design and construction industry. After thecompetition, the food will be donated to the San Antonio Food Bank.

The Aggie partnership with Overland was initiated during a tour of the award-winning San Antonio architecture firm, when students Dustin Adler, Ben Wilde, Sam Florance, Josh Cristy, Daniel Kelly and Stephen Renard, met Patrick Winn,an Overland architect who earned an environmental design degree at Texas A&M in 2002.

Winn, a former student employee at the fabrication facility, known by students as the "Architecture Ranch," asked thestudents to partner with the firm and help produce the plates needed for their dinosaur Canstruction project using theRanch's computer numerical control (CNC) mill.

The 7 annual Canstruction sculptures are on exhibit at San Antonios North Star Mall (http://www.northstarmall.com)through Sept. 29. A video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzT2h3wH8GY&feature=youtu.be&hd=1) of the students'building the giant "Canosaur" is available on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzT2h3wH8GY&feature=youtu.be&hd=1).

Online voting (https://safoodbank.wufoo.com/forms/canstruction-2012-peoples-choice/) for the best Canstructionsculpture is under way on the event website. (https://safoodbank.wufoo.com/forms/canstruction-2012-peoples-choice/)

Overland Partners | Architects, incorporated in 1987, has grown from four friends working on small remodeling projectsto more than 50 professionals working on significant public buildings around the world.

Overland designer (https://safoodbank.wufoo.com/forms/canstruction-2012-peoples-choice/)Robert Shemwell(http://www.arch.tamu.edu/community/formerstudents/outstanding-alumni/past-honorees/72/), who earned aBachelor of Environmental Design degree at Texas A&M in 1982 and is an outstanding alumnus of the College of

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Architecture, was the lead architect of the team that designed the Bonfire Memorial, hailed as one of the U.S. mostsignificant memorials in a 2007 book (http://www.amazon.com/Monuments-Americas-History-Art-Memory/dp/1400065828) by architectural historian Judith Dupr.

posted September 12, 2012

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