Analytical
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Uploaded:
3/2/2007
1:08:37 PM

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Analytical
Collage
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Drawing
Bluefly Prototype
 

With the growth of web-based shopping and digital media, Bluefly finds itself at the cutting edge of browser based shopping. No longer will people find themselves packing malls and shopping centers, rummaging through countless piles of inventory. Digging through the mad house of marked down clothing has been made simple with the help of Bluefly’s internet database of fine clothing. The only drawback to Bluefly’s operation is the problem of fitting the clothing to individual levels of comfort – both in physique and persona. With this project, I designed Fitting Centers where potential Bluefly customers can test-fit clothing to their unique body and personality. After doing so, they can order the clothes in the Fitting Center, or back at home online. The customer will then receive their garments directly at their doorstep. If the clothes don’t work out, just return them to your local Fitting Center for a refund or exchange.

 View: 5th yr Projects
Uploaded:
8/31/2006
1:10:51 PM

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Analytical
Concepts
Variations
Highland Custom Homes Logo
 

Occasionally I get the opportunity to do graphics. When that chance presents itself I use techniques similar to my architectural design process. While the disciplines of design are different, the principles are universal. The major difference between the logo and a building is that a logo is a singular composition, supporting itself without context. It has a graphic language instead of a materials language. It has form, both relative to the overarching whole and the disparate components. And perhaps most critical to a successful design composition, the logo can carry a communicative intent. Highland Custom Homes wanted there logo to embody the selling points of there company. The logo should be solid, able to stand on its own. The logo should be easy to relate to, which I translated as being easy to understand. The design should not be too complicated, but should not boring either. And finally, the logo should be adaptable.

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Uploaded:
3/29/2006
9:38:46 PM

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Analytical
Collage
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Technical
Native American Indian Museum Case Study
 

Buildings are usually complex wholes made of disparate things – materials, technologies, concepts, knowledge, etc – brought under the auspiciousness of a singular intent. As a cohesive whole, the architecture does not indicate an aesthetic but rather, a regulating intent. To understand a building as an architecture one must undergo some form of analysis. Between the intention of the author (very difficult to find out and frequently irrelevant to the interpretation of the text) and the intention of the interpreter (who simply beats texts into a shape which serves their purpose), there is a third possibility – the intention of the text. This assignment asked students to analyze a building in its present state and to argue whether or not the building itself is effective in achieving its desired meaning.

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Uploaded:
3/11/2004
12:08:34 PM

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Analytical
Drawing
Physical Models
Pre-Visualization
Crematorium
 

The final project of second year studio asked students to design a crematorium, a place where the deceased are cremated. The project site was located between the civic center and industrial manufacturing areas along a linear lake in Baton Rouge. Given our studio’s emphasis on design process, materials theory, site inventory, and the analysis and impacts of place, the unfamiliarity of the crematorium’s use would help students focus on the studio’s themes rather than the building itself.

 View: 2nd yr Projects
Uploaded:
12/7/2003
6:01:16 PM

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Analytical
Drawing
Freehand Drawing Class
 

Focused entirely on freehand drawing, the work presented here was done for a class that taught students traditional types of two- and three-dimensional projection drawings. With an understanding of the value of these different types of drawings, students could then use these techniques in their studio design process. Weekly assignments asked students to construct accurate projections of objects and or spaces, learn the terms used in drawing, successfully develop a control of line weight and paper usage, to explain the strengths and weaknesses of various orthographic and perspective drawing, and to select the best drawing type for a given problem.

 View: 2nd yr Projects
Uploaded:
10/20/2002
1:10:36 PM

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Analytical
Movies
Corridor Movie
 

An aspiring architect’s ability to interpret, discuss and understand architectural space begins in first year studio. What is Architecture? What is beyond the scope of Architecture? Early studio projects force students to question the common notion that architecture is the backstage and that what's backstage is architecture. This project looks at the architecture of the urban environment through a map of motion and sensorial experiences, begging the question “where do fact and fiction merge?”

 View: 1st yr Projects
Uploaded:
8/29/2002
2:21:19 PM

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Analytical
Drawing
Motion Drawing
 

In the first years of architectural study students are challenged to develop their ability to perceive the World around them. As an analytical exercise, students were asked to capture movement in a drawing. Whereas traditional architectural graphics represent a still, static thing, the motion drawing is conceived as a multi-relational, disjointed composition. These disjunctions imply what we, the students, were meant to learn: that no singular instance can be understood without looking at the others; each part has a relationship to the rest; and, every construction is off-balance because of the traces of another construction.

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