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KYLE JORDAN SMITH
application for M.Arch 1_Charlotte SOA

KYLE JORDAN SMITH
M.Arch 1 applicant_Clemson University

KYLE JORDAN SMITH
M.Arch 1 applicant_Clemson University

DEGREE PLANNING ARCHITECTURE E X P L O R AT I O N

B.A . E n v i r o n m e n t a l De sig n Intro to Urban Studies Design Studio 1 Basic Digital Arts
M i n o r i n A r c hite ctu r e
Urban & Environmental Planning Design Studio 2 Christian Apologetics

T h e S ta te U n i ve rsi ty o f New Yor k Buffalo Niagara by Design Design Studio 3 Intro to Christian Ethics
a t B u ffa l o H o n o rs College
Community Branding Architecture History 1 Biblical Interpretation
S c h o o l o f A rch i te ctu re & Planning
|Ancient-1450 |
2 0 11 Land Use & Development University Concert Band
Architecture History 2
Design of Cities |1450-present | Honors American Pluralism

School Planning & Development Building Technology Programming for the Web

Historic Preservation Structures 1

Environmental Design Workshop 1 Structures 2
| Information Analysis |
Environmental Behavior
Environmental Design Workshop 2
| Design and Communication | American Diversity & Design

Environmental Design Workshop 3 Professional Practice
| Design and Communication |
CAD 1

CONTENTS

Fort Niagara Site Study

Second Skin

Buffalo Scaled

Twin House

Faith|Space

Photography

forts exist in two distinct states

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FORT NIAGARA
Site Analysis
Fall 2007

peace or war. static or dynamic organized or chaotic

M.Arch 1 applicant portfolio

Sight lines define reference points for artillery fire

SIGHT LINE 1 SIGHT LINE 2 SIGHT LINE 3

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SIGHT LINE 4 SIGHT LINE 5 SIGHT LINE 6

assembling artillery fire lines creates fields of activity and density


PEACE WAR
In stasis, artillery lines Chaos erupts and artillery
are geometrically parallel lines extend their full range
and organized, forming of motion. Lines become
clear moire patterns and broken, disorganized and
densities limited only by physical
boundaries.

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RESOLVE

Resolution of these two
conditions begins to create
various densities and
fragments of physical space.

hand drawn - ink on mylar
inverted colors


density accumulates under static conditions, forming mass

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war erupts and these densities become dispursed fragments


Interior view of structure and construction system.

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*Design and Construction - Kyle Smith
Construction - Steven Luu

SECOND SKIN
SPRING 2007
Studio 2
In collaboration with Steven Luu*

To consider the concept of the body in
relation to mediating the connection
between a lying body and a standing body.
To explore how the body moves from
standing to lying. To practice economy of
means during the design and construction
process.


A separate form to index the body was created by each group member.
These forms came together by adopting one construction process which
met the restrictions and limitations determined by material, body position,
and economy of means.

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hand fabricated brackets hinged joints

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six different configurations only 2, 4’ by 8’ plywood sheets used


TO SYSTEMATICALLY EXPERIENCE DESIGN PROCESS AND CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCING

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BUFFALO SCALED
FALL 2006
studio 1

Through choosing a person and
a business from the phonebook
a narrative was created in which
a concept was derived. Spaces
were created in the phonebook
using the concept formed from the
narrative. These spaces developed
into masses, framed structures, and
programmatic elements.

TO UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SITE, INTERIOR SPACE AND EXTERIOR SPACE


Rear view of exterior structure

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Front view of structure


Experimentation with reinforced
hydrocal resulted in thin planes
extruding from the phonebook
structure.

Rear view of exterior structure

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Structure egress


The relationships established are based off of the specific
twin type. Differing from other twins, conjoined twins must be
separated through an unnatural process. Program and circulation
are formed through a choreography that brings the twins from an
unnatural separation and into a natural conjoinery
Front facing view of residential structure.

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TWIN HOUSE
Spring 2007
studio 2

To explore architectural concepts and
tectonics derived from the dual logics of
twinning . This investigation will take form
through the development of a house for
identical twins.


Formworks for molds were
incorporated into the design of
structure to reinforce economy
of means and twinning
processes.

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Reinforced hydrocal and
ultracal define primary
elements of structure


Single pour hyrdocal center
structure with inset wood
patterning and plexiglass
divider.

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Exploded Axonometric
Ink on Stonehenge


“Almost every church demolished…is a tombstone to a
scattered and dismembered community.”
- M. Binney and P Burman
.
The reduction in population and
housing density in the Fillmore District
will continue to decrease as vacant
structures deteriorate. Utilizing vacant
or under-used faith based institutions
as a cataylst for redevelopment, new
settlement patterns willl form.

2010 2020

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FA I T H | S PA C E
FALL 2010
Independent Research
Broadway/Fillmore District

2040


CHARITY MODEL: CURRENT

CHURCH SPONSORED
AGENCIES, NGOs, Etc..

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shelter -clo

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PERSON MONEY VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS Services
INDIVIDUAL The giving of
money by

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individuals foo are
MACRO

PUBLIC GOVERNMENT
BUREAUCRACIES Professionals Clients
Those distributing Those receiving
STATE FEDERAL services/goods services/goods
become a part of the become a part of an
paid service industry - economy of charity.
A major shift from the Often no personal
voluntary (or freely connection to source
participatory) goodwill of assistance -limited
of communities. accountability.

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The impact of faith based institutions within distressed
urban communities has become increasingly obscured
and replaced by pseudo-government/political institutions
and corporate structures.

1. Edgell Becker and Pawan Dhingra, “Religious It is not disputed that church consolidation on scales both large and small have
Involvement and Volunteering: Implications some effect on their respective communities. What is disputed, and perhaps justly
for Civil Society,” Sociology of Religion 62, no. so, is how these churches should be used in the future. The debate is both a
3 (2001): 318.
human issue and a theological one. Terms such as “social justice” and “com-
2. Nile Harper, Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Be munity” have long been associated with the mission of the Catholic Church; in
yond Charity Toward Justice (Cambridge, part, the Catholic Church has helped define what these terms mean to Americans.
U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999), The meaning and interpretation of these words, however, has gone through an
299. evolution – people’s perception of community and social justice has not changed,
necessarily, but the mechanisms by which they are accomplished have. “Even
3. Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin and Ronald Thie those who do not think civic life is in decline feel that people’s style of commitment
man, Who Will Provide? The Changing Role
to social institutions has changed and, as a result, institutions themselves have
of Religion in American Social Welfare. Center
for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard become restructured.”1
Divinity School. (Boulder: Westview Press,
2000) 84. Historically, the urban catholic community provided necessary services and goods
for those under its geographic influence. Members of the church community had
an active role in charity and ensuring “social justice.” Over time, however, this type
of active participation changed, and increasing separation between the institution of
the church and social justice occurred.

Gradually, there was a transition toward charity meaning simply the giving of
money to support organizations, which were expected to provide aid to those who
needed it. In this process, services --- food, shelter, clothing, counseling, health
care – were provided to people in need, who became clients, by social workers,
who became professionals. This developed on a massive scale in the public sector
through government bureaucracies, and on a smaller scale in church-sponsored
social service agencies. The operative motivation became service…The goal
became the providing of social services to needy people on a regular basis in an
efficient, coordinated manner.2

In short, there was a shift from “social justice” in the personal and participatory
sense to “charity” in the corporate sense. The difference between the terms charity
and social justice is important to understanding how this shift manifests itself in
very real physical forms. Mary Jo Bane, author of Who Will Provide describes
justice as being “not a univocal or unambiguous concept that can be simply com-
pared to charity. Conceptions of justice differ in the degree of valence that they
attribute to a principle of entitlement or to a principle of equality of opportunity.”3 In
essence, the realization of social justice involves processes far more complex and
demanding than charity or welfare – it involves community.


By reintroducting faith based structures, and the
services that they provide, as catalysts to new patterns
of development the community renews its potential to
become stable and self sufficient.
Patterns of development can occur in a structured way or they can occur quite organically

LINEAR CONCENTRIC

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COMBINED


CONCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT

LIGHT URBANISM
Temporal, but organized.

Until settlement patterns can be
better defined, small organized
communities will center around
the former faith based institutions.
LINEAR DEVELOPMENT Once patterns are established,
more collective and permanent
developments can be made.

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defense - collective living
in the calm...settlers spread
|THIRD WORLD
|ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Patterns of development will
be defined by constant change
and temporary structures. The
church will remain the epicenter of
respective communities. Residents
will return to more agrarian methods
of survival.

small, separated groups

PHOTOGRAPHY


GRAIN ELEVATOR - LAKE ERIE SHORE

Published: Artvoice Magazine
v7n35 (circulation 60,000)


BUFFALO CENTRAL TERMINAL
Fall 2010


Thank you for your consideration.

ITALIAN FESTIVAL - BUFFALO, NY
2009


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