Here: fundamental surfboard design characteristics in outline and profile Right: boards awaiting installation of fin systems Wings:

allow looser turns due to pivot point created by reduced width Stringer: establishes flex characteristics across length of board

Nose: shape effects wave entry, varies depending upon general curvature of local wave

Outline Curve: defines amount of submerged board during turns, affecting turning quality (drag)

Widepoint: primary basis for buoyancy, with nose & tail width establishes primary curve for turns

Swallow Tail: more surface area rail to rail increases planing & lift

I worked as a craftsman building, testing, and eventually designing surfboards prior to studying architecture. The fixed shapes of the boards I crafted was a great challenge in understanding their relationship to the dynamic variables of wave shape and energy, wind, bathymetry, and tide.

Nose Rocker: shaped to fit entry curve of wave

Thickness: defines buoyancy in section

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Project as Part of B. Arch Thesis, Cal Poly SLO PROFESSOR: Karen Lange TIME FRAME: Winter 2009 - Spring 2009 LOCATION: Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, CA; a sliver between the Interstate 5 freeway connecting San Diego and Orange Counties. DELIVERABLES: 1/4 scale model, renderings, plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, and 350 page book ABSTRACT: How does infrastructure affect the democratic nature of space? The terrain vague of the freeway, a sliver of earth, located along an endangered species management zone, is loosely looked after by multiple jurisdictions (plan above). This overlapping caretaking informs the spatial and envelope responses of the tower while also provoking an investigation of the formal affect of the facade to passersby (see material experiment). PROGRAM: The Caretaker Tower and associated sliver program combine public amenities, private research labs, and autonomous monitoring devices to remediate the sites physical and cultural conditions. Office capsules provide closely linked work spaces for the overlapping governing jurisdictions in order to improve communication among all parties. Public event spaces mingle with private scientific endeavors.

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Camp Pendleton is the breath between the continuous suburban surfaces of Orange and San Diego Counties. Despite the void of development, 130,000 people drive through Camp Pendleton each day. A series of overlapping jurisdictions allow a unique public/private relationship to exist. Oddities have developed on this sensitive site such as nudism, water fowl hunting, animal trapping, and pesticide laced water disposal.

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Below (left to right): Site/tower circulation gesture; early site model places a perpendicular loop plane to the interstate; a creature on the adjacent railroad tracks gathers and sends data to the tower; 20,000 train passengers pass by the sliver each day.

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SITE PROCESS

Program: (12-15) 150 sf jurisdictional offices 1300 sf horizon meeting space 2,000 sf spectators theater (6) 1,500 sf research laboratory clusters (3) 400-600 sf conference rooms (3) 500 sf communal lounge areas 150 sf cold room per research floor 5,000 sf botany research center 1,250 sf lobby public entry 5,000 sf observatory penthouse 2,000 sf lounge with kitchen 1,000 sf hi-tech media and tele-conference 1,000 sf library 1,000 sf audio room 800 sf lecture hall (3) armatures for plant remediation reach onto the river bed (plan above)
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PortS LA/LB, CA
Partial Completion of B. Arch Thesis, Cal Poly SLO LOCATION: N. Meyler St, San Pedro--->Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach, CA DELIVERABLES: Historical photographic timeline embedded within political context + Physical artifact furthering knowledge of the area ABSTRACT: My beginning thesis questions - how does infrastructure affect the democratic nature of place and how is democratic participation experienced amidst infrastructure? ; first led me to heavily infrastructural sites. In this spread a historical timeline is set against the backdrop of a nearby neighborhood with views to the port. TOPOGRAPHIC LIGHT BOX, ARTIFACT (Next page): Slides placed on the 3 dimensional surface of the San Pedro site open new entryways despite their initial isolation by light, image capture, and shutter speed. Slide locations correspond with their geographic locations and establish make connections between different areas of the city of San Pedro as a whole and the port complex. Holes bored through selected 2 x 2s create cavities to place leds within. Electrical wiring runs along the back surface and slides sit atop 4 pins Exploded Axon of 2 x 2. each tapped into a Primary Parts

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Above: Entry from existing landscape Spread: East Elevation, office capsules in blue Model - 1/4 = 1-0

PROCEDURE 1: 1. Cut stems from open system of plant of 6-7 in length 2. Place cut plant matter in glass jars 3. Fill jar with refrigerated water 4. Allow xylem to absorb water, let stand 18 hours in refrigerator away from light 5. Pour water out repeatedly twice a day 6. Repeat over series of days until ball forms PROCEDURE 2: 1. Procedure of Experiment 1 2. Make small cut in plant stem, exposing phloem and xylem, but not severing 3. Apply Rootone (artificial rooting hormone) 4. Place 2 specimens in humidifier (high humidity, warm temperature environment); leave other 2 in typical green house environment 5. Compare effects of different environments after 1 week 6. Place successful roots in Jiffy pots (soil rooting medium) 7. Provide water and nutrients for newly rooted plants

Rooting points

PLANT BECOMES BALL - PLANT REGROWS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES

GROWTH & FORM EXPERIMENT

Experiment as Part of B. Arch Thesis, Cal Poly SLO PROFESSOR: Karen Lange TIME FRAME: Fall 2009 EXPERIMENT: The basic state of the cell and the organism is a steady state. Compared to the closed systems of equilibrium, the organism continually maintains itself through the exchange of materials in its environment. This system acts equifinally, meaning the system may reach the same final state from varying initial conditions.1 The idea for these experiments came unintentionally. As the result of preparing herb water in a cylindrical container, I noticed the mint stems providing the flavor were balling up after multiple pours. Together, the shape of the container, gravity, and the repeated pours balled the cut stems into one semi-rigid pliable and self-organized structure. OUTCOMES: As the growth options became exhausted the experiment shifted to problems of translation across mediums, primarily working between digital representations of form and physical artefacts. Eventually, the results shifted towards producing appropriate affect on the western facade of the Caretaker Tower.

Right: After dessication occurs the resultant systems are dropped in boiling wax

Theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology. Ludwig Van Bertanlaffy. Science, New Series, Vol. 111, No. 2872

FREEZE SYSTEM TO OBSERVE STRUCTURE

PROCEDURE 3: 1. Scan frozen plant balls on a 2D flatbed scanner 2. Anaylze and experiment with images through operations of rotation, translation, scale, copy. 3. Derive line drawings via Live Trace function in Illustrator. Change threshold of Live Trace function to produce section cuts.

INTERPRET PHYSICAL INTO DIGITAL (2D)

PRODUCE 3D REPRESENTATIONS PROCEDURE 4: 1. Loft section drawings together producing 3D surfaces. 2. Anaylze & experiment with 3D surfaces through operations of rotation, translation, scale, copy. 3. Prep millable surface and CNC 4. Thermoform CNC milled surface 5. Experiment with qualities of light through PETG thermoformed surface through painting, thickness, and sanding.

TOWER IMPLEMENTATION

Surface Affect: the experiment was initially a means to study growth and form. As it progressed and the program requirements of the Caretaker tower became clear, the latter half of the experiments questioned the sensation the west facade could produce to passersby.

Establishing a topographical premise for a city that winds up and away from the most important port in the US. >

Fig 3.6 North Meyler St., San Pedro, CA

As the streets rise from the Pacific, the culdesacs and gaps between houses offer reminders of the port below. >

1907: Port of San Pedro becomes part of Port of Los Angeles

5000-2000 B.C.: Chumash inhabit greater Los Angeles area. Experience a reliable maritime economy for centuries based on gathering and fishing. 1542: Spaniard Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands on California coast. At this point there are 300,00 Native Americans in California. During
the colonial era this figure drops by two-thirds due to European diseases. 1851: Phinaes Banning constructs a small wharf and warehouse in San Pedro

20th Ce: Container s t a n d a r d i z a t i o n revolutionizes logistics. Containers become the visual 1800s: Asian immigrants spur California commercial depiction of capitalism in fishing industry. motion.
Turn of 19th Ce.: Abalone diving at depths less than 20 feet is banned due to over-exploitation.
1910s: Immigrants from all over arrive with their own fishing secrets. Develop alliances where common culture and mother language is shared.

1970s political context leads to elections of neoliberals Ronald Reagan (US) and Margaret Thatcher in 1980. A period of deregulation, attacks on the welfare state, and Retailers like Wal-Mart increased free-trade follows.
rise to power because fair-trade rules are broken down in order to minimize government interference becoming monopsonies. Specifically, manufacturers no longer set the prices of their products and thus can no longer account for increased production costs due to innovation.

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Fig 3.7 Cranes Between Capital looks for best deal in world, but labor is local.

Late 1700s: Development of L.A. with San Pedro at the heart begins under Spanish rule.

1871: In response to lumber and coal boom, Congress calls for the dredging of the main channel to a depth of 10 feet and the construction of a breakwater. Great Depression: Commerce declines WWII: Port thrives again due to shipping military equipment
Pre-WWI: San Pedro constructs the first submarine base on the west coast.

1900s: The town of San Pedro is essentially built by monies brought from the fishing industry. By 1970s: Fishing has waned in the area as competitors in Asia and Latin America offer cheaper prices due to less regulations. This same global shift leads to the Port of LA/LB Complex as the leading US port.
* * * Most common container sizes used in international commerce: 20, 28, 40, and 48. Other sizes 10 (used in Europe and by military). *Trailer length restrictions in many areas regulate container sizes. Typical ht: 8-6. High-cube containers: 9-6. Containers of less than 8 in ht are used for the triple-stack shipment of automobiles. The standard width (int. commerce): 8 Domestic container used only for land transport (rail or road) 53 long by 102 (built to lighter standards, as they are not designed to be exposed to the elements of the sea). * * *

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Fig 3.8 Rising along Meyler St., San Pedro, Ca Approximate Elevation: 53 above sea level

Mid-80s rise in LA/LB ports can be contributed to the size of Southern Californias market; its geographic location in relation to East and Southeast Asia; the large number of industrial warehouses to serve as distribution centers; and Californias established land infrastructure (primarily Interstate 5, and the railroads, the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe)

Ports LA/LB, CA

Wal-Mart is currently the 6th largest trading partner with China.1 Argument between flexible production advocated by neoliberalism and mass-production by welfare state begins.
Flexible production = production based on consumer needs. = unstable production work leading to decreased standard of living of production workers due to piece-rate, temporary, part-time, and independent contracted work Mass-production = stable work = risk at retailer level who must interpret consumer needs = unions promoting consumer market democracy.

1 http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leading green/2008/10/ walmarts-new-sustainability-ma.html

Site/Culture Research as Part of B. Arch Thesis, Cal Poly SLO

PROFESSOR: Karen Lange TIME FRAME: Fall 2009 LOCATION: Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach, CA; N. Meyler St, San Pedro DELIVERABLES: Historical timeline of politics and economy embedded within topographical context (this page), physical artifact furthering knowledge of the area (next page) ABSTRACT: My beginning thesis questions - how does infrastructure affect the democratic nature of place and how is democratic participation experienced amidst infrastructure?; first led me to heavily infrastructural sites. In this spread a historical timeline is set against the backdrop of a nearby neighborhood with views to the port. TOPOGRAPHIC LIGHT BOX, ARTIFACT (next page): Slides placed on the 3 dimensional surface of the San Pedro site open new entryways despite their initial isolation by light, image capture, and shutter speed. Slide locations correspond with their geographic locations and establish connections between different areas of the city of San Pedro as a whole and the port complex.
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Giant contractors seeking to make production flexible take over role of inventory management through use of computer models and digital infrastructure. The distance between production and R&D facilities is decreased to save time and labor.

Carriers are in charge of transporting goods. Shippers own the goods to be shipped. Shippers have the power to dictate terms both for their suppliers and their transportation providers.1
1 Bonavich, Edna and Jake B. Wilson. Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Fig 3.9 Rising along Meyler St., San Pedro, Ca Approximate Elevation: 89 above sea level

PortS LA/LB, CA
Partial Completion of B. Arch Thesis, Cal Poly SLO LOCATION: N. Meyler St, San Pedro--->Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach, CA DELIVERABLES: Historical photographic timeline embedded within political context + Physical artifact furthering knowledge of the area ABSTRACT: My beginning thesis questions - how does infrastructure affect the democratic nature of place and how is democratic participation experienced amidst infrastructure? ; first led me to heavily infrastructural sites. In this spread a historical timeline is set against the backdrop of a nearby neighborhood with views to the port. TOPOGRAPHIC LIGHT BOX, ARTIFACT (Next page): Slides placed on the 3 dimensional surface of the San Pedro site open new entryways despite their initial isolation by light, image capture, and shutter speed. Slide locations correspond with their geographic locations and establish make connections between different areas of the city of San Pedro as a whole and the port complex. Holes bored through selected 2 x 2s create cavities to place leds within. Electrical wiring runs along the back surface and slides sit atop 4 pins each tapped into a 2 x 2. Topographic Light Box: Site Study

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URBAN LUNG

Architectural Association BioDynamic Structures Workshop

TUTORS: Andrew Payne & Jason Johnson TIME FRAME: 12 days, July 2011 LOCATION: Installed in California College of the Arts, San Francisco TEAM: Andrea Solk, David Pearson, and Gennifer Muoz My primary role was developing the surface physically and electronically. FORMAT: The workshop consisted of hands on tutorials in digital, electronic, and physical tools as well as multiple lectures by invited guests. Lessons in mechanical concepts of cams, linkages, inclined planes, and gears were coupled with principles of electronics. ABSTRACT: Urban lung is a responsive surface tuned to a steady stream of traffic data. Cellular units arrayed upon a central spine open and close mimicking the behavior of a plant stomata. Users may recalibrate the surface through exhaling into an iPhone equipped with a Breath OSC sensor. The 2 behaviors are overlaid on each other in a real time 3 dimensional kinetic assembly. To be published in an AA publication documenting three years of workshops investigating responsive environments. VIDEO LINK: https://vimeo.com/28337140

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Clockwise from top left: Early concept sketch of contracting lung surface; Diagramming curvature accrued in series; Functioning prototype using Arduino microprocessor technology and Servo motors; Arduino LED fade diagram

PARAMETERS Number of Columns (Units) Scissor End Points Scissor Pivot Point End Position Leg Length Servo Location, Pivot Axis Spacing (Height) Sensor Data

Mechanical principles of linkages, gear ratios, and asymmetry over parts allowed efficient use of electronics and battery power to deliver complexity.

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Co-Designer | Project Manager @ Jorge Ozorno Studio

LOCATION: La Jolla, CA PROJECT COST: $5.5M TIME FRAME: July 2010 - August 2012 RESPONSIBILITIES: all design/construction drawings, presentations and models for a 4500 sf interior, 3500 sf exterior home on a challenging hillside. Coordination of permits, scheduling, and costs. Co-Designer during schematic design, design development, and interior design. SD, DD, CD, (70%) CA. 2 person office including myself. INTENTIONS: the house extends the existing steeply sloped site through a pattern of solid and void. Primary spaces gesture to the views of the Pacific Ocean. At the sub level, the living spaces open onto the pool and the exterior deck. The upper floors continue this condition through a series of roof decks of various degrees of privacy. Initially exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego as part of Mix: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers.
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LOCATION: La Jolla, CA PROJECT COST: $10,000 TIME FRAME: November 2010 - February 2012 RESPONSIBILITIES: While developing the design for the RR House, a spec home, the client requested we design an outdoor space to better augment one of his current homes. Schematic Design - (100%) Construction Administration. 2 person office including myself. INTENTIONS: To transform an existing grass lawn into a terrace complementing the existing home. To provide durable space suitable for entertaining, cooking, eating, and placing various sculptures by Jorge Yazpik.

4 Terrace Floor Plan 1 IPE Decking to match House Siding 2 Sparks Modern Fire w/Concrete Volume 3 Chairs & Sofa by Gandia Blasco 4 3-5 Diameter Cobblestone 5 Virgo Constellation formed by Lights 6 Sculpture by Jorge Yazpik 7 Outdoor Dining by Gandia Blasco 8 Grill by FireMagic 9 Gate to Beach 10 Existing Home by Sebastian Mariscal

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Third Year Undergrad PROFESSOR: Terry Hargave, Emeritus TIME FRAME: 10 weeks, Spring 2008 LOCATION: Wave Organ Jetty, San Francisco Bay, CA DELIVERABLES: Thorough process materials in graphic, model, and text form. 1/8 scale model, plans, sections, and wall detail. ABSTRACT: A hospice to serve whomever chooses. The hospice as the ultimate act of freewill. Death, being solely an individual act, does not classify. A hospice for seven people of various backgrounds, the temptation that two very different people in life, can share in death. A simple volume elevated above the jetty contains individual private rooms. The common areas unfold into the water in multiple ways. The two primary volumes are linked by a stair bridge.
Explorations in different mediums: (clockwise from top): Perception of time-painting, light study w/ different opacity and louver systems, spaces for Kubler Ross 5 Stages of Grief, and a comfortable place to lie simulating the light.

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HYPER TEXT ARGUMENT:

2M items in over 20k truckloads is leaving Iraq. It is essentially a military invasion in reverse. <bloomberg.com> US Military Rushes to Ship out 8 years of Iraq War Gear. 12.14.11. Caterpillars, bulldozers, all-terrain vehicles, and advanced firefighting equipment has already been given to US cities in what is less than $11M dollars in equipment/yr. Yet $580M worth is leaving Iraq. + The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) was responsible for receiving and documenting $498.5M of decommissioned equipment in 2011. <pbs.org/newshour> As Troops Leave Iraq , What Happens to Military Bases, Equipment <dla.mil> Over the next 5 yrs the Army alone will reduce its numbers by 80,000 adding to the already 250k soldiers that leave the military/year on average. <nytimes> As Army Prepares to Shrink, Its Chief Tries to Reassure His Soldiers <info. helmetstohardhats.org> The unemployment rate of veterans 18-24 is 29.1%. Of those working 1/5 are employed in public service. <bls.gov/news.release/vet.nr0. htm>The public sector is shrinking. <http://media.lclark.edu/> These service members are adept at both Kinetic Operations (where the firefigthing takes place) and Stability Operations (the complicated and often hostile act of rebuilding an area). A steady incoming and flexible labor pool is available. <theatlantic.com> Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving The 21st Ce. labor markets vitality directly correlates with the residential mobility and innovative capital of a population. Flexibility/mobility is a basic tenet of the armed forces. Labor Markets in the 21st Ce: Skills and Mobility Proceedings of a Joint US and EU Conference <US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs> Many examples of military might and intellectual ingenuity in combination have proven their ability to produce multi-billon dollar and growing communities. i.e. Silicon Valley tech, San Diego bio-tech. <quora.com> Why has Silicon Valley proved difficult to copy? A number of intersections exist between blighted cities in the US and historically military friendly cities. <RealtyTrac><military. com> IF WE DONT TAKE CARE OF OUR TROOPS NOW, NOT ONLY WILL WE FAIL THEM, BUT FUTURE CONSEQUENCES COULD FURTHER DAMAGE OUR LABOR MARKET.

FINALIST 2012 ONE PRIZE

OP.en Design Research Group Entry (w/Mikaela Pearson & Ian Slover)

LOCATION: Rust Belt cities DELIVERABLES: (2) competition boards DATES: 2 months, May - June 2012 + Ongoing Research & engagement with military from service member focus groups to its inclusion in a presentation at the Pentagon CREDITS: Equal contributions by each group member ABSTRACT: The outdated factories, resources, and organizations of Rust Belt cities have lead to shrinking economies. This reduction has left chaos and waste in its wake. This blight occurs in the face of a specific political climate that has lead to a massive increase, and now draw down of the American military population and equipment. We find ourselves with a population of military men and women well trained in strategic planning and construction tactics. These skills can be leveraged to revitalize blighted neighborhoods - to achieve order through the creative implementation of strategic tactics, and bring back a sense of community. The Innovation Ambition Matrix served as a guide for strategy development and implementation (Harvard Business Review May 2012). CHAOS ZONE 3 HOUSING PATHWAY: REMNANTS BEYOND

through the creative implementation of strategic tactics...

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THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND... HE BUILDS FOR FREEDOM!

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LOCATION: 5 Boroughs of NYC. DELIVERABLES: (2) competition boards TIME FRAME: 6 weeks, May 2011 CREDITS: All drawings by David j Pearson unless noted.

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ABSTRACT: The initial objective is to reduce overall transit time, length, and fuel expended. Recognizing the possibilities of transit over a fluid surface (water) and the crowd sourcing capabilities of current technology, a generative transit system for NYCs 5 boroughs is proposed. Swarm Transit leverages the fluid surface tendencies of water and GPS enabled smart phones to integrate the individual into the public transit system. Multiple users with similar destinations form flocks where water vessels can easily accommodate instantaneous demand. Routes are not predetermined, but bottom-up. To further increase efficiency, the water displaced by large boats becomes energy to propel smaller swarming vessels. To further enhance the water borne strategies, three transit strip water canals with multi-modal green paths flow across Manhattans width. A series of slips penetrate each borough. These strips bring the field conditions to the peninsula itself. To be published as Swarm Transit in CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data by Actar-Birkhauser

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STATEN ISLAND: HALL OF CIVILIZATION SIEDC GREEN ZONE 1,100 ACRES

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Clockwise from Above: 1. Transit strip section vignette at street level (Credit: Mikaela Pearson) 2. Flocking transit between Lower Manhattan & Brooklyn (Credit: Ian Slover) 3. Waterway cut through city fabric (Credit: David Pearson & Ian Slover) 4. Urban program was initially analyzed in physical terms of field, field linear, linear, point-container, and point-nodal and organized in program matrices placed at the transit map scale. Below - Central Park Transit Strip depicting an array of program of varying physical conditions.

1 BUILT WORK
Work as part of commissions, and personal interests 1. Skate Ramp: One of many ramps built during my childhood, this was my crowning achievement. (Summer 2002) 2. Loft Bed: developed for a young fashion photographers loft in Brooklyn. Designed to be built with minimal cuts and no scraps. (September 2009) 3. Art Produce: one of three solar/shade structures designed for the backyard of an existing art gallery and studio (Lynn Susholtz). The site improvements including the structures were awarded a 2011 Orchid by the San Diego Architectural Foundation for Sustainable Design. (November 2010 - June 2011) 4. FLUXX: storefront exhibit for night club. (July 2010) 5. Wall Street Journal: VP+C Partners, a design firm commissioned me to develop an interior design proposal for WSJs NYC office. DD pending. 6. Artist Anne Mudge: spatial, fabrication, and 3D modeling consult for installation (Installed January 2012) 7. Parents Deck: after years of wanting a deck linked to a dining room, my wife and I designed and built a 200 sf deck as a gift. (July 2012)

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Canopy width 8 Length approx. 5-3

There are a total of 8 Ribs , each measuring > 9. 8 x 9 = 72