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Bikram Yoga Studio
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Tenley Town Theatre 11
Lafayette Square Theatre
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Spatial Sequence 19
Canopy Installation 21
The Kit of Parts 23
25Bauhaus Chess Table
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HavtechSummer 2011 InternshipHelped calculate energy savings on commercial HVAC systems, site visit documentation, and phone marketing.
Education_
The Catholic University of America
Bachelors of Science in Architecture & Planning
Washington D.C. 2009-2013
The Severn School Severna Park, MD 2005-2009
410.207.2202 | [email protected] |
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Global Architecture Brigades 2012-2013 Vice President-Fundraising Chair
Traveled with a team of Catholic University architecture students to Santa Rosa, Honduras. There we constructed an academic center for the local children. The school’s design implemented passive strategies and used sustainable materials from the local area. Our group was responsible for the following construction tasks: laying CMU blocks, foundation work and mixing concrete/mortar.
DC Incarcerated Youth ProgramFall 2012 Teaching AssistantThe Incarcerated Youth Program at the District of Columbia Jail provides academic services to students between 16 and 22 years old. This opportunity allowed me to educate students about architecture, and get them interested in the fields of math, art and science.
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Recognitions_The David Snyder Leadership Award
Computer_ Autocad, Revit, Rhino 5.0, Flamingo, Grasshopper, Sketchup,AdobeSuite, iMovie, Final Cut Pro
Hand_ Model Making, Filming, Photography, Drafting, Sketching
Severn School
Mens Varsity Basketball Captain Severn Schooltylerthurston.
Established efficient and organized legal filing system. Engaged in file delivery, manual labor, and phone reception.
Crown Title2009-2011 Internship
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Brown Craig & Turner ArchitectsWinter 2012 InternshipDaily tasks consisted of Autocad, Sketch Up, detail drawings, construction document reading, conceptual design work and correcting redlines.
The initial design concept creates a structure that filters the view of the White House through a pure glass form which occupies the center of historic Lafayette Square. The cube alters the main site line down 16th Street, while providing a monumental space for people to gather.
Lafayette Square Theatre_DS+R Studio: 401
View of The Peoples Monument down 16th Street.
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LAFAYETTE
View of the urban plaza. Here tourists, locals, and skateboarders activate the space. News from the Washington Post is displayed on the facade of the People’s Monument.
Perspective of The People's Monument being occupied by protesters. The view of the White House down 16th street has now been altered by the monument’s change of color, thus indicating the protest occurring in this historical space.
SQUARE
LAFAYETTE
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Lafayette Square Theatre_
Section Perspective, looking north west. Here the 30ft. x 30ft. skylight penetrates deep into the interior spaces allowing for programming to be situated around this source of natural light.
Lafayette Square Theatre_
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The Tenley Town Theatre is located adjacent to the Tenley Town Metro in NW Washington D.C. The theatre deploys the theme of vantage within its main design strategies. The major atrium space offers split levels. Here the theatre audience can enjoy food and drink in the midst of the canyon like interior, viewing people passing up and down through the breakout spaces. The scale of this space humbles the audience as they await the main performance.
Junior Studio: 301Tenley Town Theatre_
Conceptual poster created with photos of the site to express the concept idea behind the design of the project.
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Site Plan-Basement
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Level 3.5 Level 4
Parti Geometry
View of the main atrium space where a man is on his way to the theatre.
View of the main stairwell cantilevered over the north facade.
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Bikram Yoga Studio_
The following project asked us to analyze a site along H st. in Northeast D.C., and to design a bikram yoga studio in this location. The site is a few miles from Union Station, and is at the beginning of the H st. corridor, which is an up-and-coming area of D.C.. The revitalization of this area is becoming more noticeable, and young professionals are moving into the surrounding neighborhoods.
Sophomore Studio: 202
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East Facing Section
For this assignment, our professor asked us to have a unique experience on our site. The
picture below is of us flying a homemade kite. This experience ultimately influenced the form of my
yoga studio. The design’s main focus is to harness sunlight through kite shaped planes and filter this light
backward into the interior spaces. Another focus of the design was to incorporate the theme of balance into the
exterior and interior spaces. The entire floor is slightly off balance intentionally. Once you reach the yoga studio,
here you find your balance. The two studios are the only rooms with a perfectly level floor. The circulation throughout
the building is intended to act like the string of the kite.
Sophomore Studio: 202BIKRAM YOGA STUDIO_
South Elevation
The goal of this assignment was to choose a cubist era painting, and create a model showing circulation through the artwork's layers. The painting I chose was Comic Wedlock by Francis Picabia. This work was completed in 1914, and is currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Freshman Studio: 102The Spatial Sequence_
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This group installation project followed a material study, in which we explored the effects of blow torching aluminum sheets. By heating the aluminum and puncturing holes in it, we achieved a golden brown array of colors. This allowed us to reflect the harsh natural light from above, and soften the light filtering through the canopy onto the first floor. The focus of the project was to be aesthetically pleasing as well as functional in the way it improved lighting conditions.We were paired with a team exploring plastic tubing, which provided excellent overall structural support for the Canopy surface.
Junior Studio: 301Canopy Installation_
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The concept behind this project was to choose a word to define your model’s concept. The word I chose was dialogue. We were given guidelines for the kit of parts we could use for the model, except for the roof. There were no restrictions to the type of roof we chose. My concept used the word dialogue and looked at it from internal and external perspectives.
Freshman Studio: 102The Kit of Parts_
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The interior room underneath the roof serves as a place for internal dialogue to occur. Here the three light portals reflect off the mirrored floor of the interior space to provide illumination. These light portals also create a bridge from the internal dialogue to the external world.
The two reflecting pools create an external dialogue and provide different paths to the monolith in the back corner, which represents the end or solution reached by the dialogue.
This assignment challenged us to recreate a furniture piece from an architect we learned about in class. I chose the Bauhaus Chess set, originally designed by Josef Hartwig for the Leipzig World Fair in 1924. The pieces are shaped to represent the way that they move across the board, giving a modern and unique feel to the chess set.
History of Architecture IIIBauhaus Chess Table_
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HavtechSummer 2011 InternshipHelped calculate energy savings on commercial HVAC systems, site visit documentation, and phone marketing.
Education_
The Catholic University of America
Bachelors of Science in Architecture & Planning
Washington D.C. 2009-2013
The Severn School Severna Park, MD 2005-2009
410.207.2202 | [email protected] |
Experience_
Global Architecture Brigades 2012-2013 Vice President-Fundraising Chair
Traveled with a team of Catholic University architecture students to Santa Rosa, Honduras. There we constructed an academic center for the local children. The school’s design implemented passive strategies and used sustainable materials from the local area. Our group was responsible for the following construction tasks: laying CMU blocks, foundation work and mixing concrete/mortar.
DC Incarcerated Youth ProgramFall 2012 Teaching AssistantThe Incarcerated Youth Program at the District of Columbia Jail provides academic services to students between 16 and 22 years old. This opportunity allowed me to educate students about architecture, and get them interested in the fields of math, art and science.
Skills_
Recognitions_The David Snyder Leadership Award
Computer_ Autocad, Revit, Rhino 5.0, Flamingo, Grasshopper, Sketchup,AdobeSuite, iMovie, Final Cut Pro
Hand_ Model Making, Filming, Photography, Drafting, Sketching
Severn School
Mens Varsity Basketball Captain Severn Schooltylerthurston.
Established efficient and organized legal filing system. Engaged in file delivery, manual labor, and phone reception.
Crown Title2009-2011 Internship
| t y l e r t h u r s t o n . p r o s i t e . c o m |
Brown Craig & Turner ArchitectsWinter 2012 InternshipDaily tasks consisted of Autocad, Sketch Up, detail drawings, construction document reading, conceptual design work and correcting redlines.
