Buildings: Free-Hand Renderings

1. Rendering. Reflection of direct sunlight on a glass balcony half-wall. Pencil.
2. Rendering. Reflections on a polished black granite floor. White on Black Paper. Pastel, Chalk, Color Pencil.

Design Fundamentals

1) Choose a knot, and make a wire sculptural representation of it.

2) Make a volumetric/massing model based on the wire model of the same knot.

3) Draw a plan and two elevations. Use a sun chart for a select day to depict shadows on plan and elevations at a latitude of 46 degrees.

4) Draw an axonometric image of the volumentric model and depic the shadows found in step 3 in 3D. Decipher between shadow, shade and sun.

Textile Designs: Nature

Entry

Rapson Hall

This structure was built in the moat surrounding Rapson Hall's interior courtyard for Charlie Lazor's Material Architecture Studio at the University of Minnesota.

The assignment was to use only cardboard and it's inherent properties to construct a much needed addition

to the architecture building... a napping space.

The cardboard has been folded, scored, sliced, ripped, separated compressed, laminated and twisted to create a space that allows the napper to be shielded from passers by in all direction, while still letting in light for ambiance. Everything in this 12' x 4' x 7' structure was created by hand in a three week time period.

The structure beneath the "bed" so to speak is often referred to as an "egg crate" or grid like structure. To reinforce the glue-less foundation, There are diagonal pieces that fit exactly inside the squares of the grid.

The bed itself is a giant piece of cardboard that has been scored at 6 inch intervals so it forms to the contour of the structure.

The top, shielding layer and the bottom bed layer are connected. The top is sliced and lifted from the bottom to reflect the contour of the bed while being a single flowing piece. Essentially the goal was to of give an inherently stiff and angular material the image of a soft flowing comfortable appeal. The functional purpose of the top layer is to shield the napper while repeating the curved form, thus giving the napping enclosure an aesthetically pleasing, finished appeal.

Roller Coaster, favorite ride

An ode to the nostalgia, wonder and intensity of childhood.

Mom

When I was young you used to tell me that when you were my age the Foshay Tower used to be the tallest building in Minneapolis. I used to try to edit the skyline in my mind. I used to try to make myself see from your eyes when they were 25 years younger... This is how I've always imagined it.