A brief look back at more undergraduate work, this time a mixed use development situated near Dupont Circle in Washington DC.
01/23: The Urban Realm
01/22: Sophomore Year
Two projects from back in sophomore year, fall semester, the first full time studio offered in at CUArch for undergrads. (They have since shuffled around the curriculum so as to offer more studio in the first year. I haven't seen recent student work but the administration is sticking to that schedule and seem satisfied with... Continue Reading →
01/21: The CUArchive
This daily blog was intended to allow me to break up the creation of a portfolio into manageable pieces, and to that end I will show a few projects from my time as an undergraduate student at CUArch in Washington DC (under the guidance of studio critic and Assistant Dean Michelle Rinehart). This first project... Continue Reading →
01/12: Map versus Plan
A brief post today, wrapping up documentation for the Medellin armature project. First, a bit of site analysis. At a certain scale the world plan seems inappropriate. Map would seen to indicate a bit more freedom, a bit more looseness resulting from trying to represent a territorial scale. Even design moves, taken at this scale,... Continue Reading →
01/11: The Writing of Place
A few weeks ago I visited a reservoir in Virginia, an artificial lake created to cool a nearby nuclear power plant. What the dam accomplished was to drastically raise the water level, creating a horizontal plane which cuts across the landscape and registers the topography as defined by the shoreline. As the water level rises... Continue Reading →
01/10: Concave Urbanism Pt 2
A few more photographs of a model representing an informal armature situated on a former mining operation site.
01/09: Concave Urbanism
This past fall's semester culminated in the design of an armature, covering anywhere from a neighborhood to many square miles. I focused on a small quarry right on the border between Belen, a neighborhood in Medellin, and Altavista. The site is located directly adjacent to an Adventist University, a seminary, and middle class apartments. My... Continue Reading →
01/06: Mine Sites and Informal Growth in Medellin
To continue on the same theme as yesterday, the poorest people in Medellin look to build their homes on the cheapest land, often free land or land illegally occupied. On the Southwestern fringe of Medellin much of the land is currently used for material exploitation, mineral exploration or strip mining. Sometimes these two forces converge... Continue Reading →
01/04: Ines Table by Enric Miralles
Enric Miralles was a Catalan architect whose projects were defined by (I would argue, perhaps wrongly) a deconstructivist style greatly influenced by an intricate sense of whimsy and whose work spanned many continents and many scales. Arguably best known for the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and the Mercat Santa Caterina in Barcelona (both with partner Benedetta... Continue Reading →
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