Undergraduate Portfolio from the Univesity of Arkansas

s. austin ward | portfolio undergrad | 2008-2013

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elevated systemshighline nyc, new york

john g. williams distinguished visiting professorship studio

urban mausoleumchicago, illinois

museum of the hardwood treefort smith, arkansas

surface + structuresalt flats, utah

comprehensive design studiolittle rock, arkansas

w e r | comprehensive design studio competition

international travelinternational study | rome, italy: 2012

gts | china + tibet: 2011

1817- First Euro-American settlement.

1803 - Cherokee and Eastern American resettlement to AR River Valley.

Early 1900s - peak of hardwood industry output18000 wagons a year

1893 - Furniture produced in Fort Smith was exhibited at the Columbi-an World Exposition in Chicago.

1851 - Sebastian County established.

1941 - Groundbreaking of Camp Chaffee.

2005 - ground broken for the Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center, which now sits on 170 acres that was previously a part of Fort Chaffee

Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority was established to begin redeveloping the 6,000 acres that were turned over to the state.

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museum of the hardwood tree | fort smith, arkansas

prof. greg herman

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Fort Smith, Arkansas was once the foremost manufacturing center for finished wood products in the country. In its hay day Fort Smith was a booming economic center with a grow-ing population and extensive industry. Today the history of that great past is almost non existent as the town has decreased in population and the industry like the trees that produced it have gone. This project came about from a small council of Fort Smith natives that whish to build a museum of the hardwood tree to embody the essence of that time and place. It will display remains of the great industry, time, and their products. Additionally it would serve as a cultural learning center for the region. This project developed as pair of terraced gallery spaces in the hillside surrounding a courtyard. The courtyard being the center for education as the artifacts of history wrap around in the two galleries. All while being immersed in the native ozark forest.

images, left to right: site photos, heritage/ concpet photos, histori-cal timeline, ft. smith arieal, state map.

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trail connection reforestation views

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janet huckabee nature center

images, left to right: plan concepts, site plan, site section.

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janet huckabee nature center

wells lake road

shared parking

museum of the hardwood tree

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images, left to right: process drawings, elevations.

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images, left to right: persepctive of theater, and courtyard.

cast in place concrete retaining wall

duratherm wood mullion/ drip ashing

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linear air diuser

standing seam metal

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aluminum mullion/ ashing capglazed sky light

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standing seam metal roofroong membrane

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steel framingfrosted glass

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ground slab

cast in place concrete retaining wall

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concrete slab footing

linear air diuser

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systems and organization|

images, left to right: model in site 1/32, exploded systems axon.

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museum of the hardwood tree|

images, left to right: perspective on approach.

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urban mausoleum | chicago, illinois

images, left to right: view of site from street along w. illinois st. aerial view of site north of river.

prof. korydon smith

This project focused on the issue of death and burial within an urban center. Challenging the normative condition, could there be an alternative burial practice to accommodate the loss of land consumed by city sprawl. As a shift in traditional practice, the proj-ect proposes burial in an urban high-rise mausoleum within the city. The scale and program of the project having to accommodate for some 4000 loculi and 6000 niches for cremation urns, as well as funeral space, and housing for a caretaker. The site for this project resided in downtown Chicago, a midblock condition on W. Illinois near State St.

west illinois. & state st.

chicago river

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urban mausoleum |

images, left to right: process sketches, interior perspective of main burial space, w. illinois st.

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burial crypts

views of downtown chicago

second level of crypts above

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crypt space |

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funeral space |

images, left to right: longitudinal section full building, interior perspective of funeral space, full building axon in context.

site 10th ave. & 20th st. view from site

After an international design competition, a design team led by field operations with Dilliard, Scofidio, and Renfro made plans for the High Line transformation to a public park.

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saint johns park terminal

view north from seventeenth street

national buscuit company

opens to trains 1934Rail traffic declines and a portion of the Line is torn down.

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2002 The city decides to support Friends of the High Line.2005 June 13 The project is approved.

2001 September11 Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Complex

2009 Phase one of the High Line as a public park is completed

high linetime line

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primary narrative text

secondary narrative text

historical context

opens to trains1934

2002 The city decides to support Friends of the High Line.2005 June 13 The project is approved.

2009 Phase one of the High Line as a public park is completed

to present

Rail traffic declines and a portion of the Line is torn down.

The last train ran down the High Line the day before Thanksgiving in 1980 with three box cars full of frozen turkeys. It sat dormant for about thirty years. A layer of soil built up on the track during this time;

trees and vegetation began to grow. Property owners began to lobby the city wanting the High Line

town down, calling it, a blight and, an eye sore.

The High Line cuts through the heart of the meat packing district in east Chelsea.It was once an active railroad in the industrial fabric of manhattans westside. In

the 1800s, the railroad track ran down the west side water front bringing goods tothe factories and warehouses. The trains caused so many accidents the west avenue

was nicknamed, death avenue.

In 1847, the city of New York authorized street-level railroad tracks down Manhattans West Side

The High Line was built in the 1930s as a massive infrastructure project called,

the West Side improvement.The High Line carred meat to the meatpacking district, baking supplies to the national biscuit company (Nebisco),

now Chelsea Market and many other goods to the West Side.The train passes underneath the Western Electric complex, seen from Washington Street in 1936. This section still exists.

the city hired men to ride in front of the trains to wave flags as a warning for pedestrians.It was designed to run throught the center of blocks, rather than overthe avenue to avoid the drawbacks of elevated trains and access the

buildings it served more directly.

In 1999, two neiborhood residents, Robert Hammond and Joshua Davis met at a community meeting about the future of the High Line. They heard the structure

was going to be torn down and wanted to see if anyone

was wanting to try and save it; no one was, so they started a nonprofit group called Friends of the High Line.Over the next few years, Friends of the High Line brought together artists, architects, business owners, and civicleaders to rally for the High Line.

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elevated systems | highline nyc, new york

images, left to right: highline panorama, highline historical diagram

highline

john g. williams distinguished visiting professorship studioprof. vincent james, jennifer yoos & santiago perez

The highline in New York City is the product of a re-envi-sioned and repurposed abandoned rail line on the lower west side of Manhattan. Today it is another example of elevated pedestrian conditions developing in major urban areas around the globe. The studio focused on the ideas of these elevated systems and their potential for catalyst for new development within the city. The studio used the highline as site for ex-ploring new urban transformations, analyzing the system and its effects on the surrounding area. The project developed as a series of interventions along a larger interconnected system. From the whole a single node in the system developed as a representative to the ideas of the larger system.

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highline analysis |

current highline interface

terraceddevelopment

hudson river

hudson yards

residential neighborhoodmeat packing district

10th ave.

art gallery district

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whitney/ hudson yard developments

new urban nodes

private development around nodes

30th st.

images, left to right: process of development dia-grams, process massing models, site model 1/40 final.

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22nd st.

24th st.

28th st.

20th st.

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individual node

18th st. 22nd st. 24th st.

20th st.18th st.

22nd st. 24th st.28th st. 30th st.

images, left to right:site model plan, plan sketches, perspective vingette of each individual site.

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private programs

public space

integration with urban fabric

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tower podium|

podium tower process

images: podium tower process models mid term models

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chelsea arts center |

images, left to right: plan highline level, final model 1/16.

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19th st. 20th st.street level gallery

artists loftschelsea pier

section/ elevation looking west

images, left to right: cross section, interior perspectives of studio and artists loft.

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multi level connection|

art school studios

highline plaza

lower plaza

10th ave

view of empire state bld.

section/ elevation looking north

images, left to right: longitudinal section, exterior perspective of entry at ground level.

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images: exterior perspective of public plaza level

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speed week car musuem

cantilever

surface + structure | salt flats, utah

images, left to right: model photo 1-1 scale cantilever, total length 6perspective of car museum in desert landscape.

prof. lynn fitzpatrickcolaboration | calli verkamp + austin ward

In this semester the studio focused specifically to the use of structural systems as a vehicle for speculative design, using wood systems primarily. The cantilever project had two intentions, one being the use and de-velopment of parametric constraint based digital design, and the building and testing of a 1-1 mockup of the design. Next, using the logics and ides learned in the cantilever study. Students transitioned into the design of a car museum in the salt flats of Utah. This project continued the use of parametric modeling as specula-tive generator. The tessellation in the cantilever project used density of tessellation to counter the compression effects under load. In the car museum the same tes-sellation idea transitioned to a means of deflecting di-rect sunlight away from key interior spaces where rare cars would be stored. Allowing for a range of lighting conditions within, but programed to protect the museum artifacts.

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cantilever |

images, left to right: model photo 1-1 scale cantilever, total length 6, construction drawing set for fabrication, study models, model photo cantilever

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speed week museum |

images: exterior perspective from the south east

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images, left to right: cross section, floor and roof plans, exterior perspective from road underneath canopy.

site boyle bld.blass bld.

images, left to right: panorama of site, site plan areial.

comprehensive design studio | little rock, arkansasw e r | comprehensive design studio competitionprof. marlon blackwell & tahar messadi

The capital city of Arkansas, Little Rock has seen a radical decline in urban development within the downtown portion of the city over the last 60 years. The downtown area is covered with abandoned mixed use buildings and more parking spaces than cars to occupy them. The city is proposing a new creative corridor project to help restore new life to the downtown. The project proposes using a series of arts related pro-posals along the Main St. axis. This would become the new arts district for the city and act as a link between the river market district which is vibrant with food and entertainment, and Capitol Ave. the major business and political zone. The project for the comprehensive design studio is to develop a multi-program arts / office building within the downtown along this new creative corridor. The concept is that this would be a model for future development to come as the arts program would be supported by the office programs. The hope is that the two divergent programs would have mutual benefit from one another, and that this project would foster community and give back public amenity and space to the city as well.

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Heavy Base Plynths

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river marketcapitol ave. main st. creative corridor urban intersection

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images, left to right: urban analysis diagrams, large site map of creative corridor.

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images, left to right: process model iterations, concept drawings.

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images, left to right: east / south elevations, process facades, final model 1/16 scale.

urban courtyard |

boyle bld.

capitol ave.

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black box theater exterior courtyard

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tectonics and skin |

section/ elevation looking north main st.ar. regional

union plaza

offices.

images, left to right: cross section, exploded details, detail section iso.72

1. Exterior Glazing/ Translucent Glass 5/7 panels2. Clamped Glazing3. Cable support/ horizontal tie back4. Internal Transparent double glazing5. Spandrel Glass6. Extruded aluminum mullion8. Steel w-section/ welded steel plate7. Insulation/ fire cap9. Concrete slab/ metal decking



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images, left to right: interior perspective main office level, 3rd level lounge.

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systems & detail |

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images: drawings and watercolors from my travels

international travel | drawings + photography

international travel drawings: 2012rome, italy

The University of Arkansas Rome Center provided edu-cational opportunities ranging from architectural design, urban theory, architectural history, historic preservation, and italian culture. All within a comprehensive program based in the heart of Rome, Italy.

international travel photography: 2011china + tibet

The GTS or Global Training School was a two and a half month global imersion in a foreign country. Goals of the program were to break down global barriers, train students to operate in diverse situations, and to expose young professionals to a variety of opportunites within foreign countries. With the hopes of preparing young professionals for future long term work overseas.

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travel photography| china + tibet 2011

plateau | tibet

yellow river | china

golog | tibet

door | china glacier fields| tibet street market | china fields | china

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images: the family farm

information|

contact | e. [email protected] w. saustinward.viewbook.com p. 9032801416

education | - university of arkansas, fay jones school of architecture, 2008-2013 -professional bachelors of architecture (b.arch) -gpa: 3.3 -international study | university of arkansas rome center (uarc), spring:2012 (gpa: 3.9) -international study | gts china + tibet, (global training school) summer: 2011 -john g. williams distinguished visiting profesorship | (vincent james &jennifer yoos of vjaa) fall: 2012 - genoa central high, 2004 - 2008 -gpa: 3.7 -national honors society -brenda bryant memorial scholar athlete

honors + awards| -finalist for photographers forum best of college photography: 2013 (published) -recipient of the noland blass jr. scholarship: 2012-2013 -recipient of the james d. looney travel scholarship: 2011-2012 -deans list for university of arkansas | spring 2012, fall 2012 -work on exhibition at studio main gallery, little rock ar, summer | 2012 -short listed for comprehensive design studio competition sponsored by wer| witsell + evans + rasco | architects/ planners, little rock ar, fall | 2011 -work selected for national superjury at fjsoa | 2011 (critics: wendy redfield/ coleman coker) -work selected for national superjury at fjsoa | 2010 (critics: robert mccarter/ robert somol) -work selected for national superjury at fjsoa | 2013 (critics: michael rotondi/ grace la/ bill massie) -work selected for fjsoa winter gallery | 2010, 2012 -work selected for fjsoa summer gallery | 2009, 2010

technical skills | analog | -hand sketching, rendering, drafting, charcoal/ graphite, and watercolor digital | -autocad 2011-13, revit 2012-13, 3ds max 2013, mcneil rhino 4, grasshopper, vray, sketch-up, (adobe cs3-cs6: photoshop, illustrator, in-design), lightroom 3 & 4 (microsoft office: word, power point, excel), dslr photography making | -physical models, experience operating laser cutters, 3 & 5 axis cnc milling

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Undergraduate Portfolio from the Univesity of Arkansas