Challenge Accepted

So I have a buddy who is also in the glorious field of architecture and design.  Recently he has been modeling up tons of furniture in 3D.  He came across one chair called the Baker chair.  He shared a link with me so I could view this particular chair.  He commented on how this chair was going to take some time and possibly be a little difficult to model using his current software.  He may or may not have said 'this chair is going to be impossible' but that's what I heard and I took it as a personal challenge.  For all those of you that are familiar with 'How I Met Your Mother' and Barney Stinson...

"CHALLENGE...wait for it...ACCEPTED!"

Just like Ted and Marshall (Barney's friends), my buddy is probably rolling his eyes, telling himself that he never challenged me, and that this is ridiculous.  So here is a video of me modeling up the Baker chair in 3D set to the music of my buddy's band (he plays the drums).  I sped up the video 5 times the original speed so that it fits within the length of one of his songs.  I rather enjoyed making this little video so this might become a more common element to my blog.  So until the next 'Challenge Accepted', enjoy!

La Scuola di Montessori


During my final year of undergrad (spring of 2009 if you are wondering) I was given the assignment of designing a school based off of the Montessori Method. For those of you that aren't familiar with this method, I will summarized it very briefly: Its a teaching method developed by an Italian educator named Maria Montessori. Some of the main principles are; that children learn at their own pace and have the capacity to direct their own learning, that children do not learn at the same pace as adults and that they do not use the same teaching methods. A Montessori school is very much a hands-on learning environment allowing children to interact as much as possible and, where appropriate, with all five senses in learning. You can find some more information about Maria Montessori and the Montessori Methods in the first several pages of the embedded project booklet in this post.

This booklet was handed in at the end of the project as part of a project record. I believe there are still several type-o's in the booklet - as with most of my projects, I stayed up the night before it was due to complete it; I do not recommend this particular type of work flow :)

1600 North Building, Orem Utah

Figured its about time i post something on my blog, its only be a few months :) I have been busy with a variety of projects from work, ranging from concept designs to construction administration.

This is a concept design for a five-story office building that I finished a few months ago. It's going to be located right at the 1600 North Orem exit. If you are familiar with that area the site is just west of the new Security Metrics building (which we also designed).

Here is a second image I created. You may notice the Security Metrics building in the background. Also you may notice the name of the building. Unfortunately, since the time I finished this image that particular tenant decided to move to another building in Thanksgiving Point which will work better for immediate needs.

If you ever drive by this site you will see our company sign and a project sign that is a little out-dated. Hopefully construction begins on this site in the near future.

 

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