WORKS+PROJECTS
GENOME MANHATTAN
UMass Amherst, Spring 2011
Entry for the Saint-Gobain / Isover / CertainTeed Multi-Comfort Tower Competition. Team of Ron Bujolds, Patricia O'Flaherty and Sophat Sam.
Parametric tower designed using a combination of a Voronoi+cracking algorithm.
HELIOSTAT + ARDUINO
UMass Amherst, Fall 2010
An independent study project done with Robert Dimock to develop an array of heliostats powered and controlled by an Arduino board utilizing photoresistors and servos to control X-Y axis movement.
Photographs by Robert Dimock.
GS3 ARTIST LIVE/WORK
UMass Amherst, Fall 2010
A week-long studio project for the design of a live/work space in downtown Springfield, MA.
GS2 FACADE STUDY
UMass Amherst, Spring 2010
This project for Grad Studio II at UMass Amherst focused on a facade for a space for contemplation. Using Grasshopper for Rhino, apertures and extrusions in the facade varied in sizes according to activites within the spaces. A further light study was done using a foamcore model.
PLEXIGLAS SCULPTURES
Hampshire College, Spring 2006
A series of Plexiglas scultpures inspired by the light-modulators of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
ROBERTDIMOCK
Spring 2011
Custom plugin/theme was written for Indexhibit to display all galleries on one page.
ALLIANCE TO DEVELOP POWER
Fall 2010
CLIENT:
Alliance to Develop Power, Springfield, MA
KEVIN BRADY SPIRIT AWARD
Summer 2010
CLIENT:
Kevin Brady Spirit Award,
Cape Elizabeth, ME
F.O.B's CLOTHING
Summer 2010
Complete web site design and development for a clothing line started in Lowell, MA.
CLIENT:
F.O.B's Clothing Line, Lowell, MA
[t]CityRetail
Spring 2010
Website development for a retail development company in Boston, MA. A collaborative project with Thom Long who provided the design.
CLIENT:
[t]CityRetail, Boston, MA
RANDOM INC.
Spring 2010
Complete website design and development for a company in Billerica, MA.
CLIENT:
Random Inc., Billerica, MA
D.A.R.T.
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
A collaborative project with Thom Long, who provided the original design, to create a website for the new Design Art and Technology program at Hampshire College.
CLIENT:
Design, Art and Technology Program, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
{phatform}
Fall 2009
CLIENT:
Self
NOTES+THOUGHTS
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DESIGN...
It has been close to a year since I made any updates to the website, so here is the new look for the site! I say 'look' because this is really just a skin of the older design, which I didn't want to just throw away. You'll also find that I've added a bunch more projects that were done in the past year, including studio work from my first year in grad school. I'm still sorting through a lot more so hopefully those will be added as I find the time.
No real updates other than that. Just another year of school+work.
Otherwise, check out this Arduino-based heliostat project I am working on as well:
WHAT IS {phatform}?
{phatform} is the creative product of sophat sam, a young designer trying to find his way in this wild and strange world. in my short career, i have worked as a web designer specializing in content management systems dealing with both front-end and back-end development focusing on usability and accessibility. i have also dabbled in web server management, specifically in debian-based koha deployments for small public libraries. in the other half of my life i am an architecture nerd who loves to believe that i will one day work in architecture. this site is an aggregation of my works and projects and anything else that interests me.
the name {phatform} is a play on my own name (sophat), nothing more.
who is sophat?
i am currently in my second year of graduate school at umass amherst going for my master in architecture. i graduated from hampshire college in 2008 where my studies culminated in a thesis on german expressionist architecture in drawings and an urban reconstruction of the city of lowell, ma. you can view/play with some of my work from that year here.
i currently live in northampton, ma and have held the position of assistant in architecture at smith college for the past three years now.
i was born and raised in a redcross refugee camp in thailand until i was seven when my family moved to lowell, ma and has since settled as part of the large cambodian population.
how do you contact me?
via email: sophat@phatform.us
credits
this website was made possible with:
adobe cs5notepad++mootoolsw3schoolsmediatemple
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