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Media Assignment #5
I used Sketchup and Illustrator on the first two elevations and focused on line weight and texture. For the café elevation, I was thinking more about color and overall feeling of the space.
Media Assignment #4
For this assignment, I wanted to try all of the different techniques demoed during the past couple of weeks. Many of these images are loosely based on my studio project, but were chosen because they…
Media Assignment 2
For this week’s media assignment, I used SketchUp to arrange rooms as defined by the program we received. The main level didn’t change much in any of the three schemes I created and I spent more…
What is Urban?
When I was an urban studies student, I was always frustrated by statistics on urban areas. There were so many different ways to define a city’s borders — the city limits, the metropolitan…
Anatomy of the Smallest Towns
I grew up in what most people in the US would consider a small town; its population was less than 10,000 and it was 45 miles from a larger city. I never thought of my town this way, though,…
Architecture, Fall 2009
The task for this term was to design a community center/hostel/pub for fishermen in Newport, Oregon’s largest commercial fishermen’s port. The site was located directly across the street from the…
Corner Stores, Libraries, and Cafés
My wife and I often forget something when we make our weekly grocery shopping trip, and usually don’t realize it until we’re halfway through a recipe. Several times, we’ve forgotten more than one…
