ANDREW DAVISARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

“Beauty is the harmony of function and form.” - Alvar Aalto

CLASSIC LANDSCAPES - A BOTANICAL GARDEN & CONFERENCE CENTER Edmonton, Canada

This project was in conjunction with Brandley Payne (a grad landscape architecture student) completing his thesis project, which was redesigning a botanical garden. Within the garden there is a proposed convention center, hotel, restaurant and offices space. The question that I was trying to solve during this project was, How can architecture influence the landscape? The solutions that were implemented were highlighting significant views into the botanical garden from the building. The main focus was to the living corridor where native vegetation in Edmonton would be in the interior of the building where it could be enjoyed throughout the year.

SITE MODEL - Davis

PROCEES SKETCH - Payne SKETCH OF MASTER PLAN - Payne

PROGRAM DIAGRAM - Davis

Rooftop Garden Overview - Payne/Davis Main Lobby - Payne/Davis

SECTION - Payne/Davis

Conference Center Main Room- Payne/Davis

Living Corridor- Payne/Davis

Garden View- Payne/Davis

FLOOR PLAN

UNIVERSITY IDAHO VISITOR CENTER MOSCOW IDAHO

The University of Idaho Visitor Center expresses architectural form on many different levels. The glulam column capped with a steel com-ponent supports the entire structure. At times this structural system can give the appearance of a floating roof anchored by a central mass that erects out of the building that functions as a light well from the interior.

FLOOR PLAN

SECTION

LIGHTWELL WALL

SCHITSU’USH CULTURAL CENTER PLUMER IDAHO

This project was completed with a group: Ben Millett, Geoffery VonZ, Andre’a Bachman and myself. We were designing head quarters for the Coeur d’ Alene tribe. The buildings that we designed were a cultural center/museum, a raptor center and an equestrian center. Our approach was to have the buildings become one with the landscape.

SITE MODEL - Millet/ Davis MASTER PLAN SKETCH - Bachman drawing

STRUCTURAL MODEL OF CULTURAL CENTER - Millet/ Davis

RAPTOR CENTER SECTION - BACHMAN/DAVIS

RAPTOR CENTER - BACHMAN/DAVIS

EQUESTRAIN CENTER - BACHMAN/DAVIS

MASTER PLAN - BACHMAN

EQUESTRAIN CENTER SECTION - BACHMAN/DAVIS

FLOOR PLAN 1 - MILLET

CULTURAL CENTER - VonZ

EMBRACE LAKESIDE SAUNA - VIRRAT FINLAND

62 m²

Lounge

6 m²

W Storage11 m

²

Kitc

hen

3 m²

Tech Space

4 m²

WC

7 m

²

Cloa

kroo

m

15 m²

Sauna

4 m²

WC

10 m²

Entry

67 m²

Outdoor Terrace

15 m²

Sauna

21 m²

Technical

9 m²

Showers

10 m²

Dressing

5 m²

WC5 m²

WC10 m²

Dressing

9 m²

Showers

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The building is for a youth camp in Virrat Finland. The camp is open year around to the youth of Finland. The intention of the sauna design is to have the youth at the camp embrace nature and interact with other people throughout the building. The form of the building was derived from human arms embracing one another. Likewise the form of the building is embracing nature and highlighting significant views of the scenic landscape.

FLOOR PLAN

SITE MODEL LOUNGE

REFUGEE CENTER Boise Idaho

This project was for the Idaho CMU competition; The Building was a new Refugee Center for the City of Boise. The goal of the competition was to challenge CMU as a material and to express it’s structural strengths. This was achieved by using a CMU pilaster with steel I-beams to suspend the roof which allowed CMU walls to not touch the roof. This created a more naturally lit building by letting in more daylight, while also challenging the CMU as a structural material.

WALL DETAIL CMU PILASTERELEVATION

3RD FLOOR LOBBY

FLOOR PLAN

SECTION

INTERIOR EXHIBIT SPACE

STREET VIEW