Occupy (2013) // museum board // We were given the task to create spaces using planes within the given dimensions of a box. These series of models all follow an idea of angular and faceted planes and how they divide the space inside the cube creating various pockets of space.

Houston Inhabitation (2013) // photoshop // Taking the models from the “Occupy” project, I stacked them into a tower and placed them in between the two Allen Center buildings in downtown Houston. I imagine the space to act as a connecting area between the two buildings. Compression and verticality is a prominent factor in this model and as shown in the night view of the structure there are varied levels of depth in the space.

Precedent Study // House in Oporto by Alvaro Leite Siza // graphite on vellum

Negative Space (2013) // plaster // The negative space between my two previously made “two directional aggregation” models created a three dimensional shape from within. Mainly influenced by the basic outline of the negative space, I followed that form and expanded it into a model using triangular planes. Based on the zig-zag energy of the space, I believed that the triangular shapes would mimic and emphasize that concept.