Architecture + Stuff
A mixed media collection of work from my time at Tulane and working in fabrication in New Orleans. Mostly adding this to prove I, much like George Costanza, could have been an architect and that the degree wasn’t a waste of time.
housing – collective housing – 3D modeling – SOPHIE – offcuts and castoffs – jefferson island
The Horizontal, Vertical, and Sectional Homes
1200 sqft homes each designed to different parameters. The Horizontal Home is inspired by Mid-Century Modern homes found in Palm Springs, CA and houses five students. The Vertical Home is inspired by New York brownstones and houses a five person family, all while having a footprint of 300 sqft. The Sectional Home has a ground floor footprint of 300 sqft and is inspired by both the Horizontal and Vertical Homes.
The Airstream
Active Village
Using the taxonomies designed in the Vertical, Horizontal, and Sectional homes, we were tasked with designing a collective housing complex on one city block in uptown New Orleans. My main reference for this project was The Life and Death of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, in which she discusses “sidewalk contacts” and the benefits of dense, walkable urbanism which leads to greater community. The community resembles that of an urban grid, with one central axis of recreation. Full programmatic diagrams are available in this PDF.
Breezeblocks
A half-broken concrete block 3D scanned and then wrapped with textures made using everyday objects/textures found throughout my house. Done using 3D scanning, Photoshop, and 3DSMax.
Renders
3D renders made using Rhino 7 and 3DSMax.
SOPHIE
A short animation inspired by musical artist SOPHIE and her Product LP.
Offcuts + Castoffs
By not killing your bad breath, you risk bad breath killing the vibe. Listerine will give the smelly masses a chance to check themselves in bars and restaurants with halimeters that quantify halitosis. If your breath is relatively fresh, you’ll be rewarded a coupon for Listerine so you can keep it that way. If it’s foul, you’ll be assessed The Breath Sentence — a complimentary mini bottle of Listerine and a urgent command to use it ASAP.
I participated in a research studio in which students closely examined the byproducts of building (think discarded pieces of lumber or broken tiles) and then reexamined the potential use they have in products or methods of construction. We first started with a vector drawing of a dumpster, indexing the materials and processes of construction. I became inspired by concrete production and wanted to create my own form of “terrazzo,” a decorative floor or wall treatment. However, I wanted to use traditional offcasts I found throughout New Orleans (glass bottles, discarded bricks, broken tiles, etc.) as the aggregate for concrete logs, which I then cut into tiles.
Jefferson Island
The Jefferson Island Visitor Center studies the salt mine disaster of Lake Peigneur on Jefferson Island, LA. The visitor center seeks to engage with historic pier and dock conditions on the lake. The physical model investigates the historic mine and the infamous sinkhole that caused the mine’s closure in 1980. South Louisiana is famously flat, and this sinkhole was so large and powerful that it actually reversed the flow of Delcambre Canal, causing saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico to flow into the lake.