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IAN SHELTONVirginia Tech

School of Architecture + Design




+ contact | [email protected]

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FIRE STATIONVirginia Society AIA 2013 competition

Alexandria, Virginia

+ select works 2009 - 2014

ENTRANCE TO THE CITYtransit station

Richmond, Virginia

MASONIC AMPHITHEATREdesign-build project

Clifton Forge, Virginia

WATCHTOWERBlue Ridge Mountains

HOTEL + SPAFloyd County, Virginia

ART GALLERYNorthern Virginia

MIXED-USE PROJECTACSA Timber in the City Competition

Brooklyn, New York

BEACH ACCESS3rd year Competion

Seaside, Florida

SKETCHES + PHOTOSEurope

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ENTRANCE TO THE CITY5th year | fall 2013 - spring 2014

Advisors | Keith Zawistowski, Marie Zawistowski

Transit Stat ion | R ichmond, Virgin ia

Entrance is the initiation of the constructed experience, the first encounter with a mental and physical space. This encounter is emphasized by its role in the architecture. It is a gateway, a destination, a reference point for identity. Entrance is a sequential, intentional process rather than a simple threshold. It removes the individual from the urban condition while delivering him to the architecture. This extended sequence of entry brings the frame of reference to the foreground. The building itself becomes a marker of arrival, an architectural encounter with the process of entering. Through this process the individual projects himself into the identity of the building and in turn the building is projected into the identity of the city.

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The transit station rises up next to the interstate to frame a threshold that clearly marks the entrance to the city. The monolithic form and placement on the site in proximity to the interstate enforce the station as a marker of arrival. The building extends the sequence of entering through the architecture as a procession through a series of paths and thresholds. This process takes the individual up into the building, obscuring them from the city before they are returned. A perforated metal skin veils concrete core towers that create a glowing box to further enforce the entrance as a reference point in the city.

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MASONIC AMPHITHEATRE3rd year | fall 2011 - summer 2012

Professors | Keith Zawistowski, Marie Zawistowski

+ d e s i g n / b u i l d L A B

design/buildLAB is a third year architecture studio at Virginia Tech focused on research, development, and implementation of innovative construction methods and architectural designs. We collaborated with the community of Clifton Forge, VA and expert consultants to design and build an amphitheatre. The design process began with working with our clients in Clifton Forge extensively and analyzing the site to develop a program for our proposal. Our project was on the site of an old tire warehouse that was torn down, leaving behind a large unused concrete slab in the middle of downtown. We were to design an amphitheatre that could be largely prefabricated off-site with a program that included a bandshell, backstage and park while using the existing concrete slab. Schematic design began in October 2011.

+ d e s i g n

We worked in three groups of five people to develop initial schematic design proposals. My group proposed a project that would be built entirely on the existing slab using a decked floor that peeled up off the concrete to create the form of the bandshell and stage.

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The final design for our studio was developed from the three group design proposals. The final design incorporated the bandshell design from my group’s proposal with a floor that peeled up from the ground to form the walls and roof. The site was sculpted into a series of terraced lawns with benches for audience seating.

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Prefabrication in Blacksburg began in late March 2012 while site work started in Clifton Forge. Prefab wood-framed segments were then transported to the site and on-site construction started in May with erection of the steel frame and assembly of the prefab segments. The amphitheatre was completed and opened on June 23, 2012. This project has provided the experience of realizing what it actually takes to have a project designed to completion and built under real world constraints.

+ a w a r d s

Building of the Year | american-architects.com

One Prize | honorable mention

SEED Award | honorable mention

AIA Blue Ridge Design Excellence Award

+ f e a t u r e d o n

Metropolis Magazine

archdaily.com

american-architects.com

publicinterestdesign.org

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All Masonic Amphitheatre photos copyright Jeff Goldberg/ESTO

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MIXED-USE PROJECTACSA Timber in the City competition

4th year | spring 2013Professor | Heinrich Schnoedt

+ p r o j e c t

Design a mixed use building in the Red Hook Neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The program includes residential apartment units, a woodworking shop and a bike shop with a public bike-sharing hub. The structure should be primarily wood.

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The entire builing is comprised of repetitive wood frames that create the form of the building. The roofline rises up over Red Hook to create an iconic image overlooking the water. The building is split into two halves separating the residential and commercial programs with a public pedestrian street. The repeating wood frames pull up to form the entrances to the building off of this pedestrian street.

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The form separates the disparate functions of residential and commercial program with a pedestrian street that splits the block, while the repetitive frames maintain a coherent whole. The individual frames acknowledge the scale of the person as the building as a whole works at the scale of the city and is a landmark and an entrance to the neighborhood.

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FIRE STATIONVirginia Society AIA 2013 Competition

Duration | Two days

+ p r o j e c t

Design a fire station for Alexandria, Virginia that also includes a residential program for twelve apartment units as well as a community center and shop.

+ d e s i g n

The mixed-use fire station is split into two buildings centered around a semi-private courtyard. The buildings present a hard brick facade outward to the street while the facades to the courtyard are opened up with glass. The courtyard is dug into the ground as a place of refuge from the city.

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BEACH ACCESS3rd year competition

Team Entry with Taylor Terrill and Leah SchafferDuration | One week

+ p r o j e c t

Design a pedestrian bridge to access the beach in Seaside, Florida that provides a lookout point and requires minimal disturbance of the surrounding sand dunes.

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A series of wood screens are staggered along a walkway like the changing dunes. The rythm of the screens frames a series of views out to the surrounding beach. Each screen is supported off the main columns of the walkway to reduce disturbance of the dunes.

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WATCHTOWER4th year | February 2013

Duration | Two weeksProfessor | Heinrich Schnoedt

+ p r o j e c t

Use existing ruins of a civil war watchtower in the blue ridge mountains to design a new watchtower either on or around the existing ruins. The new intervention should use wood or other easy to transport materials in order to build on the remote mountain site.

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A wooden structure is built on top of the ruin to mirror and complete the old watchtower. The new watchtower looks out to the horizon but it is a watchtower for the sky. After entering the tower through the door of the ruin and walking around the perimeter you come to the central core that reaches up to frame the sky.

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HOTEL + SPA2nd year | spring 2011

Duration | Two monthsProfessor | Markus Breitschmid

+ p r o j e c t

Design a small hotel and spa in the mountains of southwest Virginia.

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The building is a path carved out of the landscape with individual rooms set to look out on the mountains. A shifting wall cuts through the mountainside to create the form of the building. This continuous pathway makes a new landscape as it moves through the building while the hotel rooms frame views outward.

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ART GALLERY2nd year | winter 2010/2011

Duration | Two monthsProfessor | Markus Breitschmid

+ p r o j e c t

Design an art gallery in Northern Virginia to display a collection of Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s paintings and sculptures.

+ d e s i g n

The focal point of the gallery is the individual artwork. Long corridors move the visitor through the building and deliver them to a single art piece framed by a window. The long corridors make the gallery a procession and provide a measured approach to the art. Each piece becomes a destination as it is revealed, drawing the visitor to the art.

rising in youth

four women

bather

pensive woman

depressed woman

torso of a girl

seated girl

praying girl

mother and child

pieta sketch

pensive youth

male nude

pieta sketch

mother and child

head of the rising youth

kneeling woman

bust of a girl

fallen warrior

seated youth

pieta

abduction

wounded genius

grieving woman

exhausted warrior

rising in youth

four women

bather

pensive woman

depressed woman

torso of a girl

seated girl

praying girl

mother and child

pieta sketch

pensive youth

male nude

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SKETCHES + PHOTOS4th year | fall 2012

+ d o c u m e n t a t i o n

I did a study abroad program traveling through Europe for ten weeks in the fall of 2012. I visited over twenty cities in eight countries. This is a selection of the sketches and photographs I took while in Europe.

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