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Cal Poly Design Competition

SDSU Engineering Building

Hand+AutoCAD+SketchUp

Study Abroad

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1.STEEL CONNECTION PLATE2. STRUCTURAL BEAM3. OPERABLE WINDOWS4. SUSPENDED CEILING5. 7’ WIDE CATWALK DECK6. CONCRETE SLAB7. WELDED CONNECTION8. 6” STEEL TUBE9. 1’ STEEL COLUMNS10. STEEL SUPPORT11. THERMAL BIMETAL PANELS12. ALUMINUM FRAME

Currently located within the SDSU campus, the existing engineering building expresses room for improvement. By pealing back the facade, and replacing the interior walls systems, the redesign allows for more interior lighting, natural ventilation, and visual connections to occur between interior and exterior. The new facade utilizes the folding of form to capture light through a thermal bimetal system. This material combines with a metal mesh, and openings to form an entire skin system that engages the user while allowing light to diffuse into the core of the building. Fully closed Interior walls have been replaced by sliding glass doors and nana walls, opening up the interior for creativity, engagement, and innovation.

SDSU Engineering Facade Renovation & Building Addition

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ENGINEERING BUILDING

ENGINEERING LABRATORY

LIFE SCIENCE NORTH

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CAM LABHYDRAULICS/FLUIDMECHANICS LAB

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The Proposed SDSU Engineering building’s central focus is on the ground level where work spaces are used by researchers of the Engineering department. The ground floor offers a cafe’ for gathering to happen under a one roof concept. A green wall blocks Southern light in the summer and allows light in during the winter. A flat truss system hoists up solar panels that capture energy for the campus. Insulating glass with a copper inset also act as insulation, protecting against sun and glare.

Specialty SpacesExterior SpacesTeaching Labs

The interpolation of splines led to the form of the torus and the study of its strength at full scale production. Designed for a San Diego gallery show as a space to pull you into a place for absorbing the essence of a singular structure from within. This was later modified for the Cal Poly Design Competition to transform into a space used for camping. The northern light entering in, and the western side being framed by the sunset.

Cal Poly Design Competition+Landscape Study

Entry Elevation1’ 5’

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waterrecreation

walking/bike path

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Exercising the freedom of landscape manipulation for the design of food trucks.

Balboa Park, San Diego offers a unique location for housing. Just across from the park, a housing designed for students enhances a main courtyard space, and allows each student their own unique as well as common social spaces.

Hand+AutoCAD+SketchupBalboa Park Studio+Case Study 21B

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Case Study House #21B, used CNC to route a walk through experiential space display of a laser cut representation, and AutoCAD drawings mixed with layers of hand drawings.

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At the Pathfinder Academy in Western Kenya, a school quickly growing in number was in need of a sports complex for children from Elementary School to High School. Using local materials from the town of Kitale, the design gives room for many different sports to be played. The only school in the town with a soccer team, meant a field for hosting games, locker rooms for changing, and seating for locals. Other aspects included a life size chess board, and a gabion wall system. The project began construction right after the design completion.

Study AbroadKenya & Copenhagen

PLANTER BOXES

FOUNDATION

COLUMNS

WALL SYSTEMS

TRUSS SYSTEMS

ROOFING MEMBRANEGABION BLOCK SYSTEM

MATERIALS:14 GADGE WELDED WIRE MESH 1 1/2” SQUARE16 GADGE WIRE APROXIMETLY 5”x5” CRUSHED RECYCLED CONCRETEWELDED

SINGLE UNIT CONNECTION:16 GADGE WIRE TIES & SPOT WELD AT ALL CONNECTION POINTS

CONNECTING MULTIPLE UNITS:FASTEN TOGETHER WITH WIRE TIES AND WELD FOR EXTRA STRENGTH

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Kitale, Kenya

Copenhagen, Denmark

A place where many would rather spend more time at than in their own living room; this pavilion pulls in the essence of the waterfront location of Copenhagen into the King’s Gardens by maintaining a continuous form within a single gesture.

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