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Kiss My Rear-endering

Well, another dazed late night/early morning day for me!

Today is my final review, of my final semester, of my final year in college. Wow. Today is just one of those days I look back in pride of all I have accomplished, all I have become, and what true, rare, and amazing experiences I have been fortunate enough to have while enrolled at Iowa State University.

Boom, now look at this.

Mad props go out to my partner Britt (and her man Chris), and my ol ball and chain Abby for making this rendering amazing.

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YangYang

My good friend Darian (YangYang) Lu  recently entertained the College of Design with her final project in the atrium. Her independent study this semester was researching the connection between food and architecture and she decided to design an environment in which a person can eat and react to food in a space, think about what it is they are eating deeply and being served by a (what I would call) a representative of this idea. Forms of nature and animals surrounded this experience and environment and the moment(s) within and throughout it. I thought it was a very interesting project and thought I would share it.

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Project Funny

Every now and then when I am thinking about my house project and its concept, my mind keeps running back to this clip from Step Brothers, hilarious -- so much room for activities!

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Previous Review

Well, I had a review last Wednesday, though it did not go so well. We did not present his project the way we should have. Too many 'I's' and not enough 'We's'. Also got the jury way off track with our ideas and they never seemed to recover to talk about the things I wanted them to. I am also not very happy with the way our graphic layout of our boards look at this point, We need to figure out how to propose our non-traditional idea in a more non-traditional way. It seems to run-of-the-mill in terms of graphics thus far...

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Habitat For Humanity

Wow - haven't updated this in awhile! Well, school is coming along, studio is starting to take shape. My partner Britt and I are designing a sustainable home for Habitat for Humanity, for a national design competition. Thought I had posted pics from some of our review stuff, we have critiques almost every week so i have a few presentation boards, I'll show you all the updated ones soon. All I have for you now Is some perspective shots that I made tonight.

Our design concept for our house came from the idea of flexible and economic spaces, using the home constantly in a 24 hour period, not leaving any space 'dead'. The design guidelines for the competition ask for a house that is 1,070 square foot home with 3 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bath. Our home, with our flexible economic space strategy is only 648 square feet. The thought is that during the night you can pull your beds and bedrooms out to sleep in, in the morning the beds and bedrooms slide out of the way and that floor space that was the bedrooms now becomes the living and dining areas. In my head it works, and it adds up to that 1,070 square feet, even though it isn't. I believe that if you can use a 300 square foot space in two different functions, that makes it like a 600 square foot space. This is how our home came to be so small.

Soon enough I will post some floor plans to show how this idea works on the interior, but right now you just get exterior views, sorry suckers. To give you some sort of proportion, the home is 18' x 36'

Working with a flexible facade system that can slide and flip up and transform spaces outside of the home. Check er out. Still not all finalized, but the ideas are there.

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Flickr

Found out today my old and favorite architecture professor Samantha Krukowski posted some of my work from my semester with her on flickr, thought I would share -- also included on this link are other student projects from that same semester.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/isu-collegeofdesign/4423303108/in/set-72157623594204248/