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FALL 2025 - ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
JAX LAB - CITY LAB
JAX LAB - CITY LAB
Core Students are first year graduate students with no necessary prior experience in Architecture or design. The following work is from the small studio of five students, of which two were primarily remote.
This studio looked to establish and expand students' "technical," tacit skills with maximum agency; to learn rules (of thumb) in order to take a position or even deviate from them.
PROJECT 01 MOMENTS IN A FIELD
Moments in a Field is designed to afford substantial agency to each student. The students were first tasked with exploring the rhizome of Wikipedia to select a series of images which were specific and loaded enough to lead into subsequent phases.
The phases for this brief are analogical to an air compressor:
01 Intake (of information & analysis)
02 Compression (distillation)
03 Release (manifestation into space)
02 Compression (distillation)
03 Release (manifestation into space)
These base images were dissected and researched using collage to suggest space and gesture. These analyses boiled down into relief models, which still operated diagrammatically. These relief models were then made to intersect into a final construct - at this point, scaleless and program-less.
PROJECT 02 SCALED FIGURES
Scaled Figures is a direct sequel to the first project. It first assigns scale to the previously “final” construct and prompts students to choose three distinct and conceptually loaded moments from their model. From these distinct moments, they were assigned a corresponding scale and to galvanize a program which was referential (though deviated) to their base image.
Each of these moments were represented with one corresponding plan and section (three moments, three sections, three plans).
Accompanying these plans and sections were detail drawings and/or models which were indicative of a tectonic or spatial logic which permeate their thesis.
