Final Project

The Baltimore Harbor is home to a dynamic cultural landscape; the built environment speaks to cultural, social, and historical events. This led to a design that was both a work of art and a space that could be used as more than just a cinema. The additional program consists of a flexible exhibit space, and a ferry terminal for boat tours of the harbor. The excavated spaces of the pavilion frame views of the prominent Federal Hill and the National Aquarium, infiltrating the present cultural hub of Baltimore.

In order to create the pavilion and resulting board, I utilized a variety of programs and tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, and most importantly Rhinoceros. Without the latter program's loft, boolean, contour, and extrusion commands, the task of carving out a dynamic hybrid of programs would have been an arduous one. The capacity of Photoshop and Illustrator to make simple drawings and renderings into powerful diagrams and hybrid drawings led to the final presentation board seen above.

The presentation would not be complete without the inclusion of a scale model, one that shows the screening pavilion in the round. This model was created using the laser cutter, displaying how digital technology can expedite the construction of models.

The presentation board highlights the sectional quality of the screening pavilion, while at the same time providing a night time view of the building in action. The site context, process, and program diagrams supplement these images, completing the dialogue about the creation of a movie screening pavilion in Baltimore Harbor.

The images below were those that did not make the cut, but seemed worth showing:

Extruded Perspective Cuts of Pavilion

Interior Stair in Light

Aerial Perspective

Cinamorphic Extrusion

Dynamic Cinema

Schematic Cinema

Visual Investigation

In order to express different experiential atmospheres, a base image was manipulated in a variety of ways. The image was produced in rhino in order to create an interior lighting effect that would highlight a part of the project that would benefit from the application of atmosphere.

The winter rendering came about as a solution to a problem with my rendering; in order to make the white environment seem more realistic, snow seemed ideal. Therefore, the rendering became extremely bright, and people and color were inserted to create contrast.

In order to express a nighttime scene, lights were added both within the building and on a European car, the classic Porsche. The background image was erased lightly in order to make it fade into the night sky, a sky highlighted by the moon just behind the building.

Ohio Station

This project represents the culmination of schematic diagrams, atmospheric renderings, and other information relating to the design of a bus stop for Akron, Ohio.

Roll on Ohio

A series of three boards in preparation for a presentation on a bus stop design for Akron, Ohio. As a historical tire manufacturing city, the tire played a major role in the design of the stop. The formal nature of the stop's porosity is reminiscent of spokes, while the convexity of the form is a direct comparison to a tire. The porosity of the stop is raised to average eye level, allowing users and passers by to engage with the environment and be aware of their surroundings.

Procedural Stops

Linear Plasticity

This project was a first attempt at creating a bus stop utilizing a single surface structure. During the design process I was interested in creating a duality between occupying the bus stop and the surrounding site. The way that this was accomplished was by making unique forms that would generate interest on a normative site. 

Cubic Distortion

This project exposed the cube to a series of alterations of a diminutive and additive nature. Through the process I explored the manipulation of surfaces and objects within Rhino, gaining an understanding of the pros and cons of the program. It can create extremely complex objects, but those same objects can stand as barriers to further manipulation. Overall, I am happy with the chaos of my form because it really captured the process that I followed; a series of planned geometric distortions.