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CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS

BOOK END 2-Practical Application

Subtext: Poetics of the Utopian Narrative

Practical Application of Human Centered Design Combining Architecture, Art, and Psychology including:

spatial synonyms(architecture) for empathy, aspiration, acceptance, stoic acceptance, and hope(psychology)

Artist(Empathy)

HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests original thought(psychology) by designing the building with off-center and tangential spaces.(architecture)

SOUTHWEST DESERT(art)

Sculpture Garden

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests empathy(psychology) by designing the building as a series of interlocking spaces.(architecture)

ISLAND(art)

A Live/Work Mixed Use Facility in Ryde, Australia

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create a social space that suggests empathy(psychology) by designing the building with an open plaza of interlocking spaces on the 1st and 2nd stories.(architecture)

OASIS(art)

Housing for Migrant Farm Workers in Coachella Valley

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests belonging and permanence(psychology) by designing the individual buildings with an anchor space.(architecture)

Idealist(aspiration)
HOUSE FOR AN IDEALIST
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests aspiration(psychology) by designing the building with elevated, suspended spaces.(architecture)
SKYLINE(art)
An Installation for a Courtyard
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests empathy(psychology) and altruism by surrounding interlocking spaces with an expanding space.(architecture)
THEATER OF ABSTRACTION 1 & 2(art)
Bauhaus Museum
Form and Space Narrative:
The interior incorporates the ideas of an Ambulatory Architecture(architecture) to suggest the sense of empathy and altruism(psychology) of the teachers and the utopian ideals of the Bauhaus.
ASSEMBLY(art)
An Installation for a City Plaza
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests empathy and tolerance(psychology) by surrounding interlocking spaces with a contracting space.(architecture)
SIDELINE(art)
An Installation for a Building Facade
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests empathy and humility(psychology) by surrounding interlocking spaces with an off-center space.(architecture)
HARBOR(art)
An Installation for a City Park
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests empathy and equality(psychology) by surrounding interlocking spaces with a static space.(architecture)
common ground(art)
Peace Corps Commemorative Work
Form and Space Narrative:
The intent of the design is to suggest the ideals(psychology) of The Peace Corps by designing the building as an elevated plane of primary forms.(architecture)

Realist(acceptance)

HOUSE FOR A REALIST

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests acceptance(psychology) by designing the building with static spaces.(architecture)

TABULA RASA(art)

A Field School in Africa

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests security(psychology) by designing the building as a series of enclosed, concentric space.(architecture)

MY HOUSE(art)

Group Home for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests low stress(psychology) by designing the building as an abstraction of the neurophysiology of someone with autism.(architecture)

Philosopher(stoic acceptance)

HOUSE FOR A PHILOSOPHER

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests stoic acceptance(psychology) by designing the building with elevated, connected spaces.(architecture)

OVER THERE(art)

World War One Memorial

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create a sense of the infinite(psychology) by designing the building as a perspective with a vanishing point off of the physical site.(architecture)

Optimist(hope)

HOUSE FOR AN OPTIMIST

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests hope(psychology) by designing the building with connected, expanding spaces.(architecture)

CLOUD FOREST(art)

Collaborative Artists’ Colony in a Community Garden in Busan, Korea

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create a sense of optimism(psychology) by designing the building as a series of interconnected expanding spaces by extruding the barrel vault form of the bunker area.(architecture)

THE MOON(art)

Satellite Facility of the Hayden Planetarium

Form and Space Narrative:

The intent of the design is to create an environment that suggests optimism(psychology) by designing the building as a series of connected, expanding spaces.(architecture)

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