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Intersecting VoidsCOVER: Bryant Vock

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Austin, TX 30.3 North

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STATEMENT: Eshleman Hall is the headquarters for the university’s many student or-ganizations. This Eshleman Hall is located at the University of Texas at Austin. Because of the climate, the biggest challenge in resolving the design was fig-uring out how to cool the building and achieve ther-mal comfort while still using the sun to provide natu-ral daylighting. The frequency of use for each of the different programmatic elements can inform where they should be located in the building and how much daylight they should receive. My groups group’s re-sponse to the program was to design a project that could provide the needed thermal comforts and en-vironments needed in the interior in a simple and af-fordable way for the university’s budget. In a building that houses the many student organizations, we also wanted to provide a building which represented the school pride of the students inside with Longhorn or-ange accents across the facade and the interior.

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Canal KayaK CEntER

STATEMENT: This kayak center was located at the intersection of Winders Canal and Christianshavns Canal in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the design process I looked at the ‘forces’ already existing on the site (pedestian traffic along the canal and sunlight hitting the site) as well as the ‘forces’ being created by my project (the movement in and out of kayaks). Using these forces I created a series of study models that pushed and peeled at the existing site. The result was a building whose interior cascaded down to the water level, offering a protected area for the entrance of kayaks. The main area for entering your kayak would continually flood and recede with the tide, offering an ever changing interior environ-ment. The roof of the building, inspired by the nearby Maritime Youth House by BIG Architects, was pushed up by the flow of pedestian traffic into a walkable area the came to its peak overlooking the intersection of the busy canals.

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Copenhagen, Denmark 55.4 North

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stRuCtuRal span - Group Project with Tina Dinh

STATEMENT: This structural span was designed to span three feet, clear a height of eighteen inches, and support 250 lbs at the center of the span before failing. My group’s design was based on the use of tension throughout the span to support the load at the center. The only spot of compression was at the central edge of each column. Using SAP we calculated the forces flowing through our model with a load of 250 lbs. The tension tie-downs at the back of each column took most stress with a maximum force of 61.33 lbs at one point. To achieve a fail-ure at 250 lbs we built the physical model with 20 lbs test sinew wrapped three times at the tension tie-downs, for a total of a 60 lbs tie-down. In our physical model test our design reached its failure at a load of 265 lbs. The failure occured, as predicted, at the tie-downs of the columns.7

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1/4” masoniteWe used masonite over basswood to avoid imperfections in wood that would cause the pillars to break before our predicted failure.

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STATEMENT: The San Francisco Poetry Plaza is a memorial to the Beat Movement. I drew my inspiration from David Riesman’s book The Lonely Crowd. In this 1950’s so-cialogical study, Riesman described outcasts in society as indi-viduals who tend to feel alone and lost in the ‘crowd’ of society. Contrary to this study, the Beats, who were outcasts in their time, were able to break through the feeling of being alone and came together, gaining strength from each other. They were also able to look back and reflect on their own stuggles and the struggles of others and write about it in their work. This memorial is designed as a maze of seven foot by twenty inch columns to allow the visi-tor to experience the feeling of being lost in a crowd. However, once one works their way through the maze, they are led to an elevated platform where they can look back on where they have come from. From here they can recount their own jouney as well as witness the struggles of those who are still in the maze.