selected works

Jackson Hole, WY, USA

collection of work v.i 2012-2013

sam-naylor.com

Building Arts Institute Igualada Visitors Center Mapping New Orleans Global Architecture Brigades MImeo AWKND 2013 A Walking Table

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New Orleans Building Arts Institute

Professor: Charles Jones

BUILDING AS LANDSCAPE

CREATING PUBLIC AMENITIES

CULTURAL CENTER + FABRICATION SHOP

Identifying issues within the community of St. Roch and within the greater New Orleans Area led to this project, which houses the only archive and gallery of traditional building arts in the city. As well a fabrication shop which will serve as the stagging grounds for all new building trades. The building form resulted from a need to redevelop the community park and t this program on the site. These conicting ideas led the design of a folding landscape that houses the program while preserving the park, and forms a strong cultural icon as the focal point.

render thru workzone - under canopy

ST. ROCH
District 7 : Bywater 1.25 sq miles elevation : 0 population: 3,255 295906N 900313W
EDUCATION PROGRAM
> EDUCATE COMMUNITY > INVIGORATE ECONOMY > PROMOTE ART >FOSTER INNOVATION >SELL PRODUCTS > CREATE + PRESERVE PUBLIC SPACE > STENGTHEN COMMUNITY > PROMOTE OLD BUILDING TECHNIQUES > SHARE AND PROMOTE HISTORY > CREATE ARTIST COMMUNITY

GREEN SPACE

BUILDING TRADES

SCHOOLS

RELIGIOUS CENTERS

TRANSPORTATION

EDUCATION

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY CULTURE UTILITY

All students in public school, which the only high school has a ranking of 4/10 55% of population has graduated high school

CULTURE

LOCATED IN ONE OF THE EARLIEST DEVELOPED REGIONS OF NEW ORLEANS OVER 20% DECLINE IN POPULATION SINCE 2000
Medium Home Value = $100,000

38% of homes Vacant

Median Household Income = $19,600 /yr. ~right along poverty line

view from top of archive / fractured cube

With the proximity of the St. Roch Neighborhood to the historic center of New Orleans it would have benefited from a prevalence of master craftsmen. Downtown was not only the center of commerce but the center for Jazz which was the nighttime activity for many of these artisans.

wall section / elevation / plan detail of archive

Igualada Cemetery
Professor: Scott Ruff

A TOWER
VISITORS CENTER + RESIDENCE
The project was to create a visitors center for Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos Igualada Cemetery in Spain. Through research and personal accounts it was clear that Igualada Cemetery has far been forgotten by most of the town. It now resides behind the new industrial sector of Igualada. My scheme was to create a beacon or tower to mark the location as well as serve as a memorial to the deceased.

must be erected, strongly opposed to the existing language, but in contrast it can signal the significance of an

important cemetery without competing.

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view into arhive

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site plan

view from re pit up into tower

The tower is consists of two planes rising from the landscape. A series of steel rods placed irregularly emphasizes their rigidity. At the human scale an eternal ame is burning in the ground. This space is the most public, where locals visiting their family members can burn the old owers on their tombs while they replace them with new ones.

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To control water ow and drain out the swamps the city originally had to construct many irrigation canals. Over time these were covered and converted to underground pipes. Similarly levees have been raised and thus even the view of water was cut off from most people in New Orleans. Much of this disconnect with water has led to ignorance of the systems that sustain the city.

Mapping New Orleans

Professor: Sarah Howell

OLD - CURRENT CANALS

Before the modenization of the New Orelans drainage system canals used to run alongside every street which gave people more interaction with the water every day; whether it was in the form of an obsticle or observational element. As the city progressed canals were covered and underground pipes did most of the work. Unfortunatly even in the canals that remain, public access to them became limited. Perhaps this situation, a consequence of industrialization led the people who live here to neglect the aquatic forcesthat so shape their built enviroment.

THE CITY CHANGES OVER TIME

Through intensive research I was able to collect a series of maps and create diagrams to start understanding more about the city and its history. This research led to two seperate preoccupations with the city. The rst being a lack of access to water, and the second being substantial land subsidence that has affected the fabric of the city.

CONNECTION TO WATER // PATHWAYS

Our city used to be more defined by the river and lake, this diagram hopes to show the lack of current access to the waterways. It is clear in contrast to the linear water model overlaid, that compared to the amount of water present the ability for the public to interact with it is minimal.

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Central City
As the research project progressed I zoomed in on a section of New Orleans, the Central City precinct. I started to understand how Central City related to its neighboring urban centers. Central city differs greatly in its block subdivision than the business district next to it. The neighborhoods were split when Interstate 10 was built, but art centers still connect the two.

SECTION OVER TIME

At first the city developed along the natural elevations in the river basin, but when the time came to expand, the swamps were drained and the wetland became a popular suburban retreat. On which the ground slowly subsided over time and led to New Orleans having places below sea level particularly where specific building types lie, in part because of their foundation systems.

A SINKING CITY
Without water to provide density in the soil the land started to sink. The diagram below represents where there is the highest velocity of subsidence, as well as the urban form around those areas. The city was first developed in areas where subsidence occurs at a slow pace. Parallels can be drawn between where the highest velocity of subsidence occurs and building age and type that rest on that ground.

The resulting model snythasises two disconnected art districs that lie in close geographic proximity.

Through looking at the city ground levels over time it is clear that certain areas of the city have sunk more than others. Some of this is due to foundation types, and areas in which there were once swamps. By looking as subsidence maps and diagramming the occupation of the city over time I synthasised information deeply connected by shared urgencies.

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Global Architecture Brigades

Professor: Emily Taylor

HEALTH CENTER COMPETITION

Global Brigades is the largest student led international development organization. I have been working with them extensively over the past two years. This project was part of a large team design competition to create a health center in rural Honduras. Our project utilized local materials and sustainable local building practices. The project also lifted the building off the ground to minimize excavation and ood damage.

LA ARquITECTURA DE EL PARAiSO
a manual on the architecture and construction techniques in rural Honduras

The second part of this project was to travel in country and start work on the foundations. Even though our design did not win, we broke ground on a different teams design, as well as working on past ongoing projects in country.

Advisor: Hazel Mealy

VERNACULAR RESEARCH BOOKLET

During a month long internship in Honduras with Global Architecture Brigades I conducted intensive hands on research in the local area. My focus was on getting to know families and their homes in an effort to understand the vernacular. I documented construction practices as well as building types. This booklet is a manifestation of that research. It is meant to serve as an educational guide to those traveling to the area (for use by Global Brigades). As well as the only document existing that records and analyses the vernacular architecture in rural Honduras. The research portrays a built environment free from considerations beyond basic shelter and protection, and a personal history/engagement with structures that is rare in the more deveoped world.

mixing concrete

foundataion layout

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Professor: Charles Jones + David Merlin

Mimeo

AGGREGATED UNIT
A prototypical structure that was derived from research and case study of aggregations - kit of parts architecture. Building from Sanchez and Andreseks Bloom Game, we created an aggregated system of units each with 15 different potential points of connection, allowing for almost unlimited manifestations of form and gure. Just as well, when constrained with multiple of the same connections it can self assemble into a strong aggregated form. Created for the advanced digital fabrication class with Charles Jones and David Merlin, using a 3-axis CNC router. CREDIT: Sara Conner, Kyle Graham, Emily Hayden, mimeo [mimeograph] a machine for making copies from a stencil, a duplicate

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Architects Weekend 2013

Visiting Professional: Andrew Kudless

GRIDSHELL
This three day design build project focused on using grasshopper for rhino and other plug-ins to create a 3d surface. Using geodesic curves we were able to contour the surface into members. Grasshopper programming allowed us to set a conned length for the wood and bending strength, leading to a close connection between the digital and physical. Andrew Kudless was the faculty advisor who helped our team learn the advanced technologies and complete the project. CREDIT: Charles Boyne, Jack Waterman, Kyle Graham, Sarah Cumming, Dennis Palmadessa, Elizabeth Kovacevic, Lauren Evans

maimum curvature analysis

labeling members

drilling holes

layout

fastening

human scaffolding

bolt detail

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WHY SHOULD A TABLE STAND

WHEN IT CAN

WALK

A Walking Table
Professor: Charles Jones + David Merlin

CANTILEAVERD MASS + MOVEMENT

A ve week furniture project utilizing Rhino, RhinoCAM, a 3-axis MultiCAM CNC router, and various shop tools. Meant to explore the anthropomorphic qualities of a stereotomic mass cantilevered to imply motion, instability and momentum. CREDIT: Emily Hayden, Kyle Graham

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Observations
SKETCH + WATERCOLOR + PHOTO

El Paraiso, Honduras

Austin, TX, USA

Shaker Heights, OH, USA

I Build.
Verticality Urbanism Connections Distrations Living Making EMOTION fear happiness confusion wonder arousal Landscape People Time Monuments Research Collaboration Movement

A digital drawing as part of a workshop lead by Morphosis