Perspectival Tendencies

Landscaping....

Senior Capstone Project

This project is for my senior capstone class. It's a "design-build" project (something we design and physically build). The class isn't strictly architecture students, but open to all majors. Too bad the architecture students are still the ones doing all the work... figures. :) So, the class is doing a project for Sunnyside Elementary School. We are proposing to build a work shop for the school's environmental teacher. These are a few renderings of ideas, using recycled doors and materials. The goal of the workshop is to add more storage for his tools, and also add a chalk board wall and a cork board wall so it could be used for teaching as well. The doors would double to close the structure and also provide shelter.

Practice Renderings

Pathways

"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter." - Jean Paul Richter

Water Library

Our studio theme is a "Water Library." Each one of us had to take a stance on what exactly that is. The site is located on the South Waterfront, and we are taking into account OHSU's proposed development for the South Waterfront (the image below). Since the library is located in a medical campus, I wanted the library to relate to that. So my water library is focusing on how water relates to the human body.

Existing Location / OHSU's proposed development of the South Waterfront

Arch 381 Final Perspectives

Conceptual site analysis. (it's a map) ;)

Exterior

Dante lost in the woods

Paradise: Reflection room

Paradise

The inferno!

Confessionals

Suspended counseling rooms

Framing aspiration

against darkness

Confessionals

The building was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy..... his travels through the woods, the inferno, purgatory, and paradise was all translated architecturally.

Discovering Temporal Qualities

Eternal Time

Remembrance of Time

The House as a container for dreaming

Avoidance of past and future/distortion of present time

Abandoned Memories

Stopping Time