ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Abigail Charles UNDERGRADUATE 2009-2014
CONTENTS 01 Main Street médiathèque | public facilities - Mixed Use Office, Retail, Digital Arts Space
02 Fayetteville Arkansas Botanical Gardens | public facilities - Event Center
03 School Avenue Lightscape | public facilities - Artscape
04 Architecture of the City - Ways of Seeing | Sketches, Diagrams, Notes, Observations
05 Hantz House | Historic American Building Survey Documentation Seminar, Research Project
MAIN STREET MÉDIATHÈQUE
FALL 2012 TYPE | PUBLIC FACILITIES MIXED USE OFFICE RETAIL MÉDIATHÈQUE LOCATION | LITTLE ROCK, AR PROFESSOR | TAHAR MESSADI ALSION TURNER
FINALIST FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO DESIGN COMPETITION
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The design for the new Little Rock facility integrates the combined retail, médiathèque and office program that it houses. The interlocking masses allow for opportunities for ambient lighting and dramatic views. On a larger scale this project is able to reconnect both the Artist District along Main Street and the Business faculties along Main Street. Through the use of this sequence and material intent, this important gathering place displays and the facility’s exciting activities to the larger community. What links the public and private, in some cases, is just visual is an internal atrium that extends from the theatre space up to some of the lower level offices. Open stairways and meeting spaces along with lounge areas capitalize on the surrounding views and lighting available. Exterior materials strive to represent the building’s organization and form diagrammatic relationships that can be read at an urban scale. Channel glass panels, terra-cotta rain screen slats and shear walls make up the aesthetic language. The vertical mechanical shafts serving the office tower and roof top lounge area are left untreated to reinforce the diagrammatic relationship to the whole. B
Detailed Ground Floor Plan
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Elevation along Markham St. B
View to Theatre from Stairs along Main St.
Interior Library View
Exploded Axon Diagram showing Spatial Organization & Structural Systems
Rooftop Garden Detail Section
Channel Glass Detail Section
Diagram showing MEP & Structural Systems
Elevation along Main St.
Plan showing the médiathèque & Theatre
Plan showing the typical office & Rooftop Garden
Interior view of Theatre Lobby
Plan showing the Typical Large office plan
Plan showing the Rooftop Bar & Lounge
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View Along Markham Street
FAYETTEVILLE SPRING 2013 ARKANSAS BOTANICAL GARDENS ARBORETUM
TYPE | PUBLIC FACILITIES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LOCATION | FAYETTEVILLE, AR PROFESSOR | MARC MANACK
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dedicating the land to the arboretum
The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (BGSO) seeks to provide a place for educational, recreational and entertainment purposes that facilitate an appreciation for nature. The Fayetteville Arkansas Botanical Gardens project intends to serve as an extension of the event center currently on site at the BGSO. With all of the amenities being proposed, it was the BGSO’s desire to create an environment that focused on the natural environment. The proposed interventions attempts to call attention to the site of the BGSO by positioning different architectural ‘lanterns’ throughout the site, with the two main spaces being positioned on Lake Fayetteville. During the day, the architecture in effect blends into its context creating a more landscape focused environment. At night however, while in use, the buildings act as way finders for the BGSO.
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Analysis Diagrams
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1 | AMPHITHEATRE & SUPPORT SPACES 2| BRIDAL HALL 1
3| GROOM’S HALL 4| RECEPTION HALL 5| MULTI–FUNCTION SPACE
Cross Section of Multi-Function Spaces
Overall View at Night
Bride and Groom’s Halls at Night
Multi-function Space interior
Green Roof
Concrete Beams
Structural Steel Columns
Marine Grade Flotation Pipe
1 | Stage Manager’s Office
Longitudinal Section Across the Site
2 | Dressing Room
Amphitheatre Amenities
3 | Projection 1
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Reception Hall 6
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4 | Ticketing 5 | Restrooms 6 | Concession Storage
SCHOOL AVENUE LIGHTSCAPE
FALL 2014 TYPE | PUBLIC FACILITIES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LOCATION | FAYETTEVILLE, AR PROFESSOR | STEPHEN LUONI JEFFERY HUBER
PROJECT COMPLETED IN COLLABORATION WITH MOLLY VANLANDINGHAN AND BRITTANY CUSANEK SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE STUDIO AT END OF YEAR SUPER JURY
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episodic interventions using light
Aerial View of School Avenue Lightscape
Episodic interventions facilitated by various lighting conditions, surface treatment, and vegetation formalize different uses along School Avenue. The organizational framework for the project is an abstraction of Stacy Levy’s art installation which documents the path of stormwater runoff in a series enlarged circles. Spaces of repose and progression are made by the aggregation and dispersion of lights and surface pavers throughout the project. A canopy of lights designates a gateway at the Walton Arts Center as well as the Fayetteville Public Library. Lighting along the street is a necessity to ensure the safety of visitors travelling between both institutions. This streetscape utilizes different qualities of light, vegetation, and surface material to create multiple environments along the street. The implementation of these components allow for the opportunity to improve School Avenue in a unique way. Episodic interventions blur the boundary between the street and pedestrian way along School Avenue to create a visionary streetscape for the city of Fayetteville.
Analysis Diagrams
Cross Section of School Avenue
View from the Fayetteville Public Library along School Avenue
Section at Fayetteville Public Library
Detailed plan at the Fayetteville Public Library
View along School Avenue facing Hillcrest Garden Terrace
Cross Section Through Garden Terrace at Hillcrest
Site Plan
Detailed Plan of Garden Terrace at Hillcrest
View along Dickson St facing the Rose Garden
Cross Section Through Rose Garden Detailed Plan of Spring St Intersection
Detailed Plan of Rose Garden Lighting Scheme
ARCHITECTURE SPRING 2013 OF THE CITY TYPE | URBAN DESIGN TRAVEL SKETCHING LOCATION | ROME, ITALY
PROFESSOR | DAVIDE VITALE
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becoming aware of the city’s palimpsest
SUMMER 2011 TYPE | PUBLICATION HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY LOCATION | FAYETTEVILLE, AR PROFESSOR | GREG HERMAN
EXERPTS FROM THE 2012 SUBMISSION FOR THE CHARLES E. PETERSON PRIZE COMPETITION drawings and model completed in collaboration with Esteban Ayala-Medel and Spencer S. Curtis
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HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY HANTZ HOUSE HABS No. AR - 54 Location: 855 West Fairview Drive, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. The Hantz House is located at latitude: 36.064126, longitude -94.172525 The coordinate was taken near the front door, in 2012; using Google maps. The Hantz House’s location has no restriction on its release to the public. Present Owner /Occupant: The residence is the property of the Dana Durst Lawrence. However, it is currently being leased out to students at the University of Arkansas. Present Use: Private residence. Significance: Constructed in 1951, this was the first house and built by E. Fay Jones and Ernest E. Jacks. Conceptualized while Jones and Jacks were still students in their final year of architecture school at the University of Arkansas, they rejected the common Beaux Arts style that was still being taught at most architecture schools. Instead, they chose to embrace an avant-garde approach that was slowly being developed within the university. This house has been lauded as one of the purest examples of “Jones being Jones”1 as he integrates functionality and “and an openness and honesty of materials and design”2. Both Jones and Jacks’ engineering background and eye for detail are clearly on display in this house with the exposed detailed beams. It is also an example of the mid-century modern style that developed as a product of the post-war Modernist movement and is similar to some of the ‘Case Study Houses’ designed and built in California at about the same time. This house is also significant because it was designed prior Jones meeting one of his lifelong mentors Frank Lloyd Wright and Jacks prior to meeting and working with Edward Durrell Stone. This house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Historian: Abigail Charles (BArch, University of Arkansas, 2014), 2012.
...the Hantzes request in order to facilitate the placement of one of the son’s (Edward’s) piano. As a result, the doors were offset 6-0” from the bathroom’s wall, its current location. There were also plans to include a larger master bathroom off of the master bedroom (where the current smaller deck is located). Again at the Hantzes request, this was removed from the project for budgetary reasons. The design was the changed to provide access to what was made a deck from the children’s bedroom. There were also plans to have a garden wall along the front of the house constructed of local fieldstone. One can interpret this as Jones attempting to include natural elements in the design, which would later on become one of his signature design elements. This however was eliminated due to the budgetary restrictions imposed by the Hantzes.
B. Historical Context: Euine Fay Jones was born on January 31st, 1921 during the Great Depression in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. As a family, they moved from Pine Bluff, to Little Rock and finally settled in El Dorado. It was there that Jones’ father opened up a small restaurant that he and his mother worked in – developing a particular family oriented work ethic in the younger Jones. While it doesn’t appear that he had much time to draw (even though his talent was realized from an early age) he did however have time to build. He would take whatever scrap materials he could and combine them to create an elaborate tree house. Fay Jones’ first eye opening encounter with architecture happened on a visit to a movie theatre which was adjacent to his parents’ restaurant. It was there that he saw a short “Popular Science” film on the Johnson’s Wax headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin – in his mind art and building became one and the realm of architecture had acquired another dimension. In 1938, Jones enrolled at the University of Arkansas and signed up for the civil engineering program. After only being able to complete two and a half years in college, he applied (for the second time) to the Navy as a test pilot. He completed the flight training and was stationed in San Francisco, California (an experience that would later expose him to designers such as Richard Neutra, Walter Gropius, and his Modernist ideas, and Frank Lloyd Wright, who would later become one of his biggest influences). Having completed this tour, Jones returned to the University of Arkansas.