shawn barron sdsu doarch masters application

EDUCATION South Dakota State University August 2011 - May 2015 (anticipated)Bachelor of Science in Architecture

TECHNICAL SKILLS Rhino3D, FormZ, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Some experience with Revit and AutoCAD

ACHIEVEMENTS 2014 Merit Award ScholarshipAmerican Institute of Architects South Dakota

The Spitznagel PrizeTSP Architects, Inc. 2014 Scholarship

Eagle ScoutBoy Scouts of AmericaAwarded in 2011

SHAWN BARRON

EXPERIENCE BluePrint Design & Print CenterMay 2013 - presentGraphic DesignerDesign large scale advertisements and posters

Walmart, Inc.March 2012 - August 2013Electronics Sales Associate

MenardsJuly 2009 - October 2011Cashier/Carryout

Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort

May 2014 - present (seasonal)Barback

REFERENCES Charles MacbrideArchitecture [email protected]

Jessica Garcia-FritzArchitecture [email protected]

Kylie VeldhuisenCurrent Student [email protected]

Washington High School - Sioux Falls, SD August 2007 - May 2011Diploma

Proficient in both Windows and Mac operating systems

FUTURE Pursuing a Masters of ArchitecturePursing a License for Architectural Practice

[email protected] 605.310.41461500 S. Perry PlaceSioux Falls, SD 57110

Shawn Matthew BarronArt | Architecture |Graphic [email protected]

This project was a vertical infill building in the historical district of Savannah, Georgia. One main component of this project was the requirement of an arcade that allowed pedestrians to easily pass through the building, maintaining the sites natural passageway uses. My design consisted of three vertical cores to contain the buildings programs. These cores were bordered by circulation paths. The cores each had a unique attribute. One was “solid” and housed all of the buildings service elements, such as the elevator, the cafe, offices, and restrooms. The next was an open space that housed the main staircase. The final core was a combination of the two, being partially open, and containing elements such as the book store, the reading room, and the restoration workshops.

Bookstore and Rare Book Restoration WorkshopSpring 2013

Instructor: Charles MacBrideSavannah, Georgia

Children’s MuseumSpring 2014

Instructors: Tad Bradley, Federico Garcia, Jessica Garcia-Fritz

Aberdeen, South Dakota

This project focused on a series of 24 massing model iterations to design a children’s museum in Aberdeen, SD. The project was done along-side Co-op, an architectural firm based in Aberdeen. I was encouraged to explore how I could design a building that created a masterly composition, complimented the site, mediated the site, or created a palimpsest condition with the site. Each student made 24 models, resulting in over 1000 models that were displayed in an exibit in Aberdeen.

Stacked CinemaSpring 2014

EquilateralWhen viewed laterally from any angle, the shape of light moving from a projector to a screen creates a triangle; the light is emitted from a small lens, and terminates on a large, flat screen. The equilateral triangle is also credited as being the strongest geometrical shape. For these reasons, I chose to use the equilateral triangle as a major form and organizing element of my design. This system of triangles is found in the plan of the spaces, as well as in the diagrid structural system.

CompressionBy isolating the building in the northwest corner of Pioneer Park, a large field was left open for recreational uses. In addition, anchoring to the corner would also serve to attract the attention of people traveling along Highway 14 and 6th street, leading them into the cinema, and into the park.

ConnectionThe cinema is made of three main chunks - the lobby, the interior screening space, and the exterior screening space. These three areas needed to be isolated from each other in order to contain the lights and sounds of each compartment, and to prevent these elements from permeating into the adjacent spaces. The three spaces are stacked on top of one another, and connected by a single triangular staircase located in the center of the building.

ProjectionThe cinema has two screening spaces; one outdoor, and one indoor.The interior and exterior screens face opposite directions, with their backs facing northwest and southeast, respectively. In order to draw more attention to the cinema, the walls behind the screens are constructed using translucent concrete. With this material, the light and colors of the film being projected are able to permeate the wall, appearing as blurred, moving shapes on the exterior surfaces of the building. The goal here was to create a facade that moved and shimered, with the intetion if inticing people to enter the building. Similarly, in order to prevent sunlight from traveling throught the translucent concrete and interfering with the dark screening room, two-way mirror panels are secured on the outside of the building, simultaneously reflecting sunlight away, while still allowing light from the projector to reach the exterior of the building.

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Instructor: Jessica Garcia-FritzBrookings, South Dakota

This project served as a study of the city grid, and an examination of the effects brought by a shift to the grid. The Flatiron building just North of the site served as a key example of how buildings react to diagonal streets and other causes of variation in the grid.

Using the ideal Omaha grid as a base point, I reduced the scale of the grid by a factor of ten and overlayed the grid onto the site. This scale change resulted in 30 foot “blocks” and 6 foot “streets”. Each of these blocks would contain a single programmatic function, and this program would vary from block to block.

From this newly established system of blocks, I drew sightlines connecting one point on the site to the Woodmen Tower, the First National Tower, Jackson Avenue, Downtown Omaha, St. Mary’s Street, and 18th Street. The point where these lines intersected would be at the center of my building. In addition, these sightlines would serve as the diagonal breaks to the grid, creating a 10 foot wide walkway across the site along each sightline, as well as slicing the building into many adjacent towers. Each diagonal cut would be assigned its own color, and this color would be replicated on the ground using various rubberized pavements.

Within each tower, as per the one-program-per-block rule that I had set up previously, one program would occupy the entirety of each tower, separeted only by floors. For example, three of the towers contain only bathrooms, five towers contain only hotel rooms, two towers contain stairwells, one tower holds the elevator, and one tower serves as the lobby/service tower for the entire hotel.

Along the sides where each tower was “cut” by the diagonal connections, the side parallel to the diagonal is glazed with a translucent glass matching the color of the rubber pavement below. By clading certian walls with this colored glass, a prismatic effect is created inside the building; the sunlight will both reflect off of the wall and into the central atrium space, as well as penetrate the glass, causing the room within to radiate with this same color. This effect will also work in reverse at night; when any given room has its lights on, the light will cause the glass exterior to illuminate, giving the towers a cell by cell, colored lantern effect.

Park as City | Hotel as PrismFall 2014

Result

Ideal grid of Omaha, NE scaled down by factor of ten

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Instructor: Robert ArltOmaha, Nebraska

Flatiron Building

With the exception of the ground floor, each level of this building is made by an alternating floor plate. Each floor plate connects to different rooms, due to the double height nature of certain spaces. This makes it possible for one bathroom tower - in which each floor is a single height space - to serve two room towers. Accessible areas on each floor plan are tinted grey. This relationship is more evident in the section drawings.

SDSU DoARCH,

This letter serves as a request to continue studying architecture at South Dakota State University, in pursuit of a Masters of Architecture.

I pride myself on my self discipline, and I focus on �lling my life with tasks and ideas that will improve my intellectual, and physical abilities. That being said, one of my next goals in self betterment is to continue studying architecture, and to make progress towards earning a Masters of Architecture, and becoming a licensed architect.

The last four years have taught me a tremendous amount about the process of design, but I still feel that I have a lifetime of studying and learning ahead of me. My untimate goal is to learn enough to make a signi�cant impact in the �eld of architecture, or at the very least, in the lives of the people who might inhabit my future designs.

I believe that continuing my education at SDSU will be a step in the right direction to achieve these goals, and I am grateful to have been a part of the development of the Department of Architecture thus far.

Thank you for the opportunity to apply for the DoARCH Masters program.

Sincerely,Shawn Barron

shawn barron sdsu doarch masters application

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