Abigail Li Smith 2014-PRESENT
Abigail Li Smith abigail.l.smith@yale.edu 265 College St. Apt 8e New Haven, CT 06510 678.477.2445
Education 2016 - 2019
Yale School of Architecture | Expected Graduation May 2019 Master of Architecture I Candidate Critics: Yolande Daniels, Julie Snow, Aniket Shahane, Emily Abruzzo, Joeb Moore, Trattie Davies
2012 - 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology | May 2016 %DFKHORU RI 6FLHQFH LQ $UFKLWHFWXUH DQG &HUWLĹŚFDWH RI (QWUHSUHQHXUVKLS Critics: Charles Rudolph, Lars Spuybroek, Michelle Rinehart, Daniel Baerlecken, Volkan Alkanoglu, Linda Duncan, Joseph Minatta
Experience 2018
Architect Summer Intern, Povero & Company | New York City, New York Created drawing sets and imagery for Private Residences, Measured and documented at Site Visits, Created architectural and interior design drawing sets and proposals Rendered and drew up regional and national competition entries
2018
Robert A.M. Stern Rome Summer Seminar | Rome, Italy 5 week hand drawing seminar looking at continuity and change in Rome
2016 & 2017
Architect Summer Intern, BLUR Workshop | Atlanta, Georgia Hospitality: Hotels, Caribbean Resorts, Convention Centers Created responses to RFQ’s, Render editing team, +HOSHG FUHDWH ŌUPłV SRUWIROLR WDUJHWHG WRZDUGV IXWXUH SURMHFWV Revit modeling and drawing
2015 - 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Shape Computation Lab Georgia Institute of Technology Created drawings and 3D digital models of U.S. Court Houses Organized and reproduced architectural drawings of historical court houses Created posters and visual presentation documents 2014
History of Art and Architecture in Greece and Italy, Georgia Institute of Technology 8 weeks traveling, learning on-site from Georgia Tech Professors
Distinctions 2019
2019 & 2018
2018
2014
HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design & Planning Competition - Finalist Yale University Team with Kate Altmann, Lindsay Dow, Ben Miraz and Javier Perez San Antonio riverfront site for low to medium-income people & sustainable design RI ŌQDOLVWV Graduate Teaching Fellow - American Architecture and Urbanism Elihu Rubin, Yale College Teaches & leads discussions sections of undergraduate & master students looking at the development of architecture and urban planning within the United States starting with early Native American civilizations Graduate Teaching Fellow - Introduction to Architecture Alexander Purves, Yale College Led weekly reviews of undergraduate drawing and model assignments covering an introduction of natural light, surfaces, climate, buildings, urban patterns, and architectural theory Women in Architecture - President Georgia Institute of Technology Led group meetings, social dinners & lunches with guest lecturers Seeing the Unseen Symposium & COA women’s panel discussion
Skills Revit, AutoCad, Rhino, VRay, Adobe Creative Suite, Lumion 3D, SketchUp
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The Leatherback Trust Center Research Lab, Residency and Visitor Center
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Collective Canopy Ferry Terminal + Kitchen Incubator
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%XLOGLQJ 3URMHFW Light Wells
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The Social Arcade Library + Community Center
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Bridge Building Photography Museum
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Tripod Library Twisting Library
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Light House Community Center
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Catenary Curves Research & Design
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Tumble Tiles Handmade Digital Process
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Additional Drawings and Models
The Leatherback Trust Station An untouched site near the west coast Tamarindo beaches of Costa Rica, the Leatherback Trust works to study and preserve WKH OLIHVSDQ RI WXUWOHV )RU WKLV SURMHFW WKH /HDWKHUEDFN 7UXVW was looking to place a research laboratory, a residency for the scientists and visitors and a welcome center. Addressing the tropical climate, the main residency building aims to provide a place of rest that has a minimal interruption of this per-existing clearing in this beautiful site. Here the long bar acts as a harmonica with the natural breezes and light pass easily through. The timber structures of rests on thin columns allowing the ground to dance below. The laboratory rests within the ground insulated on three sides. The visitor center is a dog trot in the woods.
3URMHFW 7\SH Research Lab, Residency and Visitor Center Studio 14: Julie Snow & Surry Schlabs Date: Fall 2018 Location: Tamarindo, Costa Rica 6 | Smith
Study models - topography
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1/32” = 1’0” Site Model : Residency and Laboratory
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Complete Site Plan
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Residency Section Model
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1/64” = 1’0” Site Model
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Floor Plans of Residency and Laboratory 12 | Smith
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Visitor Center Floor Plan
Section Drawing - Preliminary Sketch 14 | Smith
Visitor Center Front Elevation
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Sections of Residency and Laboratory 16 | Smith
Render of Approach to Residency Smith | 17
Render of Uninhabited Upper Social Space of Residency 18 | Smith
Render of Residency’s Framed Views
Render of Back of Laboratory Space Looing South Smith | 19
Collective Canopy The structure of this building not only functions as the physically supportive components of a building, but as a water collection system. A unit is composed of a hollow column, a square funnel and a connection to a retention tank. This unit has been multiplied and scaled to create a canopy under which all of the program is located. Mini-structures make up the larger roof where the edges of these different units connect to form a frame. These mini-structures come into contact with one another through clerestory windows allowing for light to peak through the structure. Walls are formed below by connecting the columns. The building is enclosed by a wall paneling system made up of three different types of panels: transparent glass, translucent glass and opaque sip. There are two main users of the building: water and people. Water interacts with the canopy and the collection tanks below, while people interact with the space in between. These three different landscapes offer drastically different experiences of the building. The water collection tanks are used to water the garden located to the east of the building and the lavatories throughout the building.
3URMHFW 7\SH Ferry Terminal, Warehouse, Kitchen Incubator Studio 11: Emily Abruzzo Date: Fall 2018 Location: Clason Point, Bronx, New York 20 | Smith
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Single Structural and Roof Unit
Proportional units
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Site Model From Ferry Dock
Site Model From Main Entrance 24 | Smith
Site Model from Above
Site Model from Across the Water
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Daylight Study Model - Summer Solstice 28 | Smith
Main market space during rain
Daylighting Study Model - Winter Solstice Smith | 29
Building Project: Light Wells Two dwelling units: one for a single resident and one for a small family are interlocked through light wells along a central spine. A single wet wall acts as the physical connecting component of these two homes. YSoA partnered with Columbus House, a organization targeted with sheltering homeless LQGLYLGXDOV DQG KHOSLQJ WKHP ĹŚQG SHUPDQHQW KRPHV WR VWDUW WKHLU QH[W chapter within. With the opportunity to interview some individuals, there is a want for privacy and shelter while at the same time having an open space to call your own. Our house provides the residents with generous spaces that allow them multiple levels of interaction with the world around them. Play of light and views connect the inhabitants with the natural rhythms of the sun and a serenity of diffused light while affording security and privacy within. The domestic needs of the residents are carefully calibrated with these generously tall spaces creating a whole that is greater than its components. As the resident live in this house over time, they will experience this generator of small wonders of nature.
3URMHFW 7\SH Residential Studio 10: Amy Lelyveld & Joeb Moore Date: Spring 2017 Location: New Haven, CT Team A: 'LHJR $UDQJR 1LQR %RRUQD]LDQ 'DYLG %UDQVĹŚHOG 0HOLVVD 5XVVHOO Evan Sale, Abigail Smith, Christopher Tritt, Melissa Weigel, Issy Yi 30 | Smith
Light Wells
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Site Model
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Interior of Site Model - Light Well Volumes
Family Unit - Light Well Volumes
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Level 1 Floor Plan 34 | Smith
Level 2 Floor Plan Smith | 35
Section through Family Unit Living
Section through Family Unit Kitchen and Single Unit Bath
Southern Elevation 36 | Smith
Section through Single and Family Units Bedrooms
Section through Family Bedroom and Kitchen and Single Dining
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Eastern Elevation
Long Section through Single Unit
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Western Elevation
Long Section through Family Unit
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Light Model Single Person Unit from kitchen
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Light Model Family Unit from living unit
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The Social Arcade There is an apparent cultural layering on public facades of history and current day within this site. This ranges from the building facades (brick, paint, stucco) to posters or advertisements put up by locals and larger corporations. More traditional libraries, such as Yale Divinity School’s Library, utilize a bay system to create modular study spaces that inform the proportions of the space. Inspired by traditional library study carrels, this library allows for many unique individuals to use this space in their own way. Combining this traditional library unit and a visible change over time, this library seeks to be a PDMRU FRPPXQLW\ MXQFWLRQ ZLWKLQ WKLV QHLJKERUKRRG The void through the building creates a new sidewalk that displays the library’s programs. The western side of the building acts as a public book shelf with exposed spines peaking at the reading desks. The eastern side of the building holds the community center programs such as an auditorium, workshops, cafe, and retails spaces for the existing business. A secondary cut is made through the building towards the southern tip of the triangle to open XS WKLV HGJH DV D PDMRU SXEOLF HQWUDQFH
3URMHFW 7\SH Library, Community Center Studio 9: Trattie Davies Date: Fall 2017 Location: Bushwick, NYC 44 | Smith
Conceptual Diagrams Smith | 45
Axonometric drawing with exploded sections 46 | Smith
Site Model
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Ground Floor Plan
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Level 2 Floor Plan
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Interior Renders
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Interior Render of Library
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Site Model
Axonometric Sections
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Bridge Building Starting with abstract line drawings, this design originated with its plan. The art museum is located on a very narrow site within midtown Atlanta hosting a permanent exhibit and an interchangeable exhibit. This line drawing was selected for its complex densities and curves that already diagrammed movement through a space. The bridge was created by linking the main entry room and temporary exhibition space to the cafe and auditorium space. The PDLQ JDOOHU\ LV ORFDWHG RQ WKH EULGJH UHŧHFWLQJ RQ WKH PDLQ DUWLVWłV ZRUN 7KH height and volume of the space is determined by the density of the lines within the original drawing. This bridged space is anchored at two ends with the main entrance and the bar and theater located in the rear of the building. The main gallery is composed of a gridded ceiling structure that allows for the pieces to be suspended in any desired organization. The trusses of the bridge allow for transparent side walls. These side walls make the building a piece of art and an unique gallery space for the main exhibit of the photographer’s, Abelardo Morell’s, pieces.
3URMHFW 7\SH Photography Museum Studio 5: Volkan Alkanoglu Date: Fall 2014 Location: Atlanta, GA 52 | Smith
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Roof
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Looking from temporary exhibit to permanent exhibit
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From exterior balcony off permanent exhibit Smith | 61
Main permanent exhibit 62 | Smith
Exterior Render showing the bridge
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Tripod Library Visitors enter through the feet of the three legs and come to a tall triangulated atrium The triangular windows allow for a transparency of the library and its shelves without harming the books. The legs sprouted from a rectangle broken up into triangulated geometries. As the legs move vertically, this rectangle twists and complicates the facade and plans until they reach the roof. Here the original rectangle is exposed to the sky and is connected ZLWK D ลงDW \ VKDSHG URRIWRS UHDGLQJ JDUGHQ 9LVLWRUV DUH DOORZHG WR HQWHU WKH roof top space shown exploded from the rest of the building in the drawing to the right. This space is the only space other than the ground that connects all three legs. Neighboring legs have multiple doorways and hallways that connect the different volumes within the interior levels. It is a piece of sculpture; a work of art that is full of information and life. This design facilitated experiment of representation through drawing. The three legs of the building were separated and unrolled to allow IRU D ลงDW GUDZLQJ WKDW VKRZHG HYHU\ SLHFH RI WKH RXWHU IDFDGH ,W LV OLNH DQ instructional diagram, explaining how to assemble this form from a piece of paper.
3URMHFW 7\SH Library Studio 4: Zachary Porter Date: Fall 2014 Location: Atlanta, GA 64 | Smith
Conceptual Massing Diagrams Smith | 65
Axonometric Drawing with exploded roof 66 | Smith
Site Plan
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Exterior under the Library 70 | Smith
Interior render showing the windows and the massing
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Light House The community located around Martin Luther King Boulevard has been heavily affected by the local government’s decision to bring tourism and attention to $WODQWD 7KH 'RPH LV ORFDWHG MXVW HDVW RI WKH VLWH VXUURXQGHG E\ WKUHH FROOHJH campuses. This community center contains a library, a learning kitchen and an auditorium space. This community center acts as a beacon drawing the neighborhood. This building has to be accepted by the community through the process RI H[SHULHQFH 6RODU ŌQV DOORZ IRU WKH EXLOGLQJ WR KDYH D UDQJH RI SULYDF\ depending on the interior program. A traditional light house has a central spiral staircase and a lantern. The program is laid out in order of public to private space starting with the public gallery and lobby space and ending with a roof top garden. The main spiral staircase is placed on display and acts as viewing platforms for the layers of the building. At night, the building will light up the sidewalks and areas around the site in proportion to the interior program: the more public the program, the more light. This building serves as an invitation to the community to learn and grow from each other and the surrounding opportunities.
3URMHFW 7\SH &RPPXQLW\ &HQWHU Studio 6: Michelle Rinehart Date: Spring 2015 Location: Atlanta, GA 72 | Smith
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Exploded Axonometric - Structure 74 | Smith
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Catenary Curves A catenary curve is a curve that accounts for the self weight of a hanging material. This research and design studio began with studying Frei Otto’s work of remodeling Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. We then began to study the curve using simple metal chain which has the necessary weight, length of links DQG ŧH[LELOLW\ WR EH DQ LQWURGXFWRU\ PRGHOLQJ PDWHULDO 7KLV DOORZHG IRU TXLFN studies of the limitations and trends of volumes. The next step was to transform the model from pure tension to pure compression. Designing a machine transitioned into the machine designing WKH IRUP &KLSERDUG ZDV WKH VHOHFWHG PDWHULDO FRQQHFWHG ZLWK ZLUH SLQW MRLQWV The intricate process included manufacturing the chipboard chain, hanging WKH FKDLQ DQG IUHH]LQJ WKH FKDLQ ZLWK JOXH 7KH ŦQDO PRGHO ORRNV DW WKH XVH RI four tiers of chains to create a large, multilevel space.
3URMHFW Research and Design Studio 7: Lars Spuybroek Date: Fall 2015 Partner: William Moore 82 | Smith
Final Model- Chipboard on top and Metal Chain Below Smith | 83
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Side View of Final Model 84 | Smith
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Tumble Tiles These plaster tiles sit beside 3d printed tiles (on the bottom). The design starts with a 1) 3D printed toy that has turned into a tool. A cube cut with many different angles. This is then rolled into 2) plastilina which is then used as a mold for a 3) plaster cast. This original cast is then 4) digitally scanned and exaggerated in the computer. The digital model is then 5) 3D printed and used to create a 6) silicon mold. 7KLV LV XVHG WR FUHDWH WKH ŦQDO SODVWHU FDVWV &RQVWDQWO\ ŧLSSLQJ EHWZHHQ WKH GLJLWDO WR KDQGPDGH WR GLJLWDO WR KDQGPDGH OHDYHV EHKLQG ŦQJHUSULQWV RI WKH SURFHVV ,Q WKH ŦQDO tiles, the stepping of the 3D prints has been recorded in the plaster, but because of air bubbles has an additional texture unique to the plaster.
3URMHFW Handmade digital tiles Custom Crafted Components: Kevin Rotheroe Date: Spring 2018 88 | Smith
Final Tiles
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Comparison between 3D print and Plaster
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3D printed tool
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Additional Drawings & Models 9DULRXV PHGLXPV ZLWK GLIIHUHQW SURMHFWV $ collection of studies of details and scales. 7KH ŌUVW GUDZLQJ LV D FRPELQDWLRQ RI FKDUFRDO and pastel pencil looking at the various parts of the same plant study with a focus on light and shadow. The following spread (88-89) contains 2 drawings that were part of Peter Eisenman’s class Formal Analysis. The drawing on the left looks at the spatial qualities of San Lorenzo compared to those of Santo Spirito. The two buildings are designed by Brunelleschi located in Florence, Italy. San Lorenzo has a strong vertical axis, while Santo Spirito has a strong horizontal axis emphasized by the multiple aisles. The drawing on the right is a composite drawing of some of Rome’s public spaces and their relative axes. The images on the next spread (90-91) are part of a group SURMHFW WKDW ORRNV DW PRGHUQ DUW LQ WKH H[SDQVLYH ŌHOG 3UHFHGHQWV RI Richard Serra and Michael Heizer inform these tiny model studies. Through the medium of photography, these simple landscapes transport into a misunderstanding of scale and place.
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Charcoal and Pastel Pencil Drawing Smith | 93
Formal Analysis Drawing - San Lorenzeo and San Spirito 94 | Smith
Formal Analysis Drawing - Rome’s Urban Axes and Public Sp Smith | 95
3URMHFW 6LWH 6SHFLŦF $UW DQG WKH ([SDQGHG )LHOG Exhibitionism with Joel Sanders Partners: Ryan Hughes and Polina Vasilyeva 96 | Smith
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