academics - architecture - f shane sumsion

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architectural studies

course-work projects

digital windows allows real people in the real world to interact with virtual objects in a virtual world through a direct relationship between real-space and digital-space

actions in the real world are affected by re-actions in the virtual world

masters project

thesis project

cause + effect
between
reality + virtuality

digital windows »

the scope of digital windows was that of a prototype for a larger vision. that vision suggested the potential for digital windows to be a group of input/output nodes (located in separate, yet related places) that would allow physically distant by-passers to interact with each other

human centered design concept around the idea of pedestrians on a sky-bridge unknowingly causing light-pipe colors to mix and shift along as they traverse

theological and technical precedent to digital windows

grad research

interaction design

light pipe »

installation designed by r.fisher

investigated and demonstrated
human interaction via a light-pipe

design studio exercise informing spatial design choices through randomness of nature

grad research

design paradigm

sticks + stones »

demonstrated simulated randomness as equally valid

"we do not dwell because we have built, but we build because we dwell" (m.heidegger)

design concept as an instrument for dwelling, an architecture that mediated between site and body

undergrad design

as i lay dying - dewey

dwelling »

designed a dwelling harmonizing place with character

group-project awards

2005 design competition to rethink 'bus stop' for uta's new brt routes

3 finalists were to be selected to progress design concepts through engineering feasibility, then a single final design was to be selected for prototype production