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Menil Cafe is being built!

Hey everyone,

I was in the Rice Building Workshop studio last spring and we worked on a cafe design for the Menil Collection in Houston. The press release just came out that they are moving forward with the cafe, and it will be constructed in 2012. Check it out in the Houston Chronicle link below.

http://www.chron.com/default/article/Students-designing-Menil-cafe-2164588.php

Portfolio Updated

Open publication - Free publishing - More 2011

After reviewing the first test print from Blurb, there were a few things I needed to change:

_Solid color blocks, like the previous cover show slight imperfections when printed
_Images that bleed across two pages are pinched in the middle, so you don't see the whole image very well. To counter I tried duplicating and separating the images to account for this gap.
_Rearranged the order of projects and edited/deleted a few things

Portfolio & other news

Been a while since I have posted anything. Recently I was featured on SuckerPunchDaily.com (http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/tag/jon-martin/) as well as Urukia Architecture and Design Magazine (http://www.urukia.com/hybrid-tower-jon-martin/) for my Hybrid Tower project in Steve's studio.

Kind of cool; I wasn't trying to get featured on Urukia (never heard of them), but they must have found my images from SuckerPunch and I got featured right next to Zaha.

I received my first copy of my portfolio today from Blurb. I like the quality of the book. There are a few things to change, but overall not bad.

Studio project

This was a 2.5 week urbanism project that will hopefully be shown during an exhibition highlighting our professors work along with some of our studio work as well. He is the current guest professor here. There will also be a lecture this Wednesday which I will post the link once it is put up online.

Platform bed

I decided after 6 years of sleeping with my bed on the floor, That I could used a bit of design to make my life better.

Post thesis pin-up

Here are some images of a quick pin-up we had to do for the alumni committee. We were told last minute, so the organization is a bit chaotic, still I was able to get all of the new work displayed. I'll post more images when I get a chance.

RURAL IN(Flux) / Negotiating between radical change and a history of stasis

This semester I have been taking Pre-Thesis and developing a proposal for my thesis which I will be working on until January. We had a "Science Fair" yesterday to show where our proposal is currently at. This is the board that I presented for the discussion. The feedback I received was really helpful for me, and I think I know where I will be moving forward. At this point I have to figure out how this doesn't just become an Urban project, but how I can use architecture as an agency for change.

I am sorry if the image is not of high quality; I had to save it down to fit.

Here is my latest attempt any thoughts?

New portfolio website

I updated my portfolio to the following website. Let me know your opinions or if something isn't working.

http://www.arch-jm.com/

Platform bed

Here is some ideas for my bed I am designing for product design

Updates on thesis

Got a review in a few hours. Wish I could work at this pace all the time. I almost like the raw renders more than the montage versions.

Website Example

Here's a website from a critic I had last quarter and a candidate for tenure as OSU. It's simple and clean.

http://www.andrewlantzdoesstuff.com/

portfolio

Hey guys, if you have some time and want to give me some feedback. I still have a lot to finish, but wanted to get some feedback.

http://www.wix.com/martinjon/architecture-portfolio

thanks

Thesis - not sure where this is going

scale model studies

subterranean volume tests

morph studies

Reference book to buy

You should buy this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Materials-Structures-Standards-Details-Architects/dp/1592531938/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296350820&sr=8-1

It's like a mini-time saver standards book. I just got it and it is as advertised.

Very handy.

Freetime in 3ds Max

These are just some random experiments within 3ds max.

This is a sss (sub-surface-scattering) material test. Kind of like skin, or gel of some sort. Looks nice, but takes a while to render and setup.

This is an Ivy grower from guruware.at. Very cool and easy to use. Setup is fast and it generates quickly.

This is a grass test using the particle systems (which are incredibly powerful and pretty easy). Basically model a few blades of grass as simple poly's and scatter them on a surface using a particle system. This can be done for trees, rocks, basically anything.