Alexandra Donovan Portfolio 2017

ALEXANDRA

DONOVAN

Cor nell University Bachelor of Architectur e 2018

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Cor nell University Bachelor of Architectur e 2018

EDUCATION

SKILLS & ABILITIES

CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NY B. ARCH 2013-2018 College of Architecture, Art, & Planning

Revit, Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Maxwell, AutoCAD, ArchGIS, Ecotect, Sketch Up, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Microsoft Office

PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER, MA HIGH SCHOOL 2009-2013

Strong visual skills, including graphic design, computer rendering, hand drawing, drafting, painting, printmaking, and model making (wood, metal, casting, digital fabrication)

Honor roll – 12 consecutive semesters Year-long intensive art studio 2011-2012 Academic Summer Program in Spain 2012 Architecture Fall 2011

Languages English ‑ Fluent Spanish – Fluent French – Intermediate Italian - Intermediate Strong people skills, teamwork, organization, problem-solving, creativity and critical thinking

amd287@cornell.edu 617.459.3384 368 Main St. Lynnfield, MA, 01940 109 Barton Place Ithaca NY, 14850

EXPERIENCE SASAKI ASSOCIATES WATERTOWN, MA Architecture Internship Summer 2016 The internship kicked off with a two week design charrette; sixteen interns from different disciplines collaborately designed an innovative playscape. Following the charrette, work included a [confidential] university campus residential complex for 1100 students, sited on steep topography. From massing, physical models, schematic design, to presentation drawings and renderings, Sasaki’s interdisciplinary approach provided opportunities to collaborate with landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers.

Contact: Katia Lucic klucic@sasaki.com

STEFFIAN BRADLEY ARCHITECTS BOSTON, MA Architecture Internship Summer 2015 As a member of multiple project teams, contributed to various design phases, including programming, siteanalysis, and construction documents. Obtained exposure in specialized medical and hospital design, through project work, on-site visits, client meetings, and interaction with experienced designers and upper management. Gained experience in Revit and furthered experience in AutoCAD and Adobe suite. Notable projects include Boston Children’s Hospital (Brookline and Peabody campuses), Harvard University Health Services Renovation, and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Renovation.

Contact: Ai Kurakowa aik@steffian.com

Marketing Internship Summer 2014 Assisted Marketing Director in project proposals, award submissions, social media management, and website design, primarily using InDesign and other Adobe Suite programs. Collaborated with principals of the firm on a regular basis.

Contact: Ziomara Ayala-Mendoza zayala-mendoza@hshassoc.com

AAP MATERIAL PRACTICE FACILITIES ITHACA, NY Shop Assistant 2014-current Maintain and supervise the wood, metal, and fabrication shops at Cornell University, including training new students in machine use and safety. Requires a thorough knowledge of the management, care, and use of the facility.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY Community Center Marketing Team 2015 Cornell Annual Fund Student Caller 2014-2015

LEADERSHIP ANABEL’S GROCERY ITHACA, NY Project Coordinator 2015-Current Head of Design 2014-2015 Student-led initiative to establish a grocery store on campus that will provide affordable, accessible, healthy groceries to combat food insecurity among students. The design team is responsible for the design of the interior fitout for the new grocery store and will see it through construction in 2017. Additionally, the team produced logo designs, branding materials, and presentation renderings to secure funding for the project. More recently, the project coordinator oversees the project, especially the relationships between Anabel’s Grocery, our nonprofit incubator, and advisory board of field experts and community members.

WORTHY JERKY ITHACA, NY Head of Design 2014-2015 Designed new packaging for student-run beef jerky business and ran marketing campaign for product launch at Cornell Dining.

THUMBNAIL ITHACA, NY Event Committee 2014-current Assist in graphic design and planning for semi-annual Pecha Kucha event.

DRAGON DAY ITHACA, NY Advertising Co-head Spring 2014 Led marketing campaign to promote Cornell’s 114-yearold tradition of Dragon Day. Directed logo design, mural design and assembly, print media, and social media to promote the event and fundraise for the construction of a 100-foot-long steel dragon.

ALIANZA LATINA Co-President 2012-2013 Cultural group at Phillips Academy that celebrated and supported the Latino community on campus through events, exhibitions, and publications.

DESTINATION IMAGINATION Team Member 2000-2013 Team Manager 2011-2013 - Elementary Level COMMUNITY SERVICE ARTWORK EXHIBITION Curator Phillips Academy, Fall 2012

SELECTED WORKS

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CONSTRUCTS OF EXCHANGE FALL 2016 Urban Art and Agriculture | Havana, Cuba RESIDENTIAL

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GROUNDSWELL SUMMER 2016 Sasaki Internship Charrette | Watertown, MA CAFE MEZZANINE

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CENTRAL ATRIUM

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LIBRARY OF RESILIENCE SPRING 2016 Public Library | Long Island City, NY

BIBLIOTECH ANALYSIS SPRING 2016 Stuttgart Bibliotek | Stuttgart, Germany

LIGAMENT FALL 2015 Mixed-Use Marketplace | Rome, Italy

STRUCTURAL MODEL FALL 2014 Serpentine Pavilion 2007 | London, UK RETAIL HUB

SLOPESCAPE SPRING 2015 Comprehensive Design: Cast Museum | Ithaca, NY

STAIR SPRING 2017 Small Scale, Site Specific Interventions | Ithaca, NY

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railroad lines

CONSTRUCTS OF EXCHANGE: A TOPOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE

In the dawn of rampant land speculation in Havana, Brace territorializes interstitial space in the chaotic urban fabric, reclaiming the semi-public and preserving space through civic use.

The project stems from an investigation of two parallel systems of exchange in Cuba—art and urban agriculture—that have been able to operate within the confines of a socialist society and economy.

Havana’s particular urban agricultural system is itself a triumph--a reaction to unprecedented food shortages in the Special Period, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Cuban art, like music, has enjoyed a rich history, as it is a facet of Cuban culture that has been exported in some way. Each system has experienced varying levels of state support, and both allow for notions of private enterprise.

Privatization within a socialist economic structure is fertile ground for cultural and personal autonomy.

FALL 2016 PROFESSOR TAO DUFOUR

Havana After Nature HAVANA, CUBA

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The premise of the project anticipates a loosening of the embargo and the impending wave of land speculation that may occur. The Cuban’s relationship with ownership is about to experience yet another evolution. Brace begins deep within the vulnerable, decaying building fabric of Centro Havana, anchored by an existing organopónico, a small co-operative farm. At the crux of two systems of exchange, the project looks to expand communal space without impeding on personal space, animating the semipublic via civic activity. The program juxtaposes the cultivation of food and exhibition of art, as well as opportunities that arise at their intersection.

Ring-lock scaffolding is employed for formal and utilitarian reasons, acting as an armature that may expand and contract, occupying often ambiguous interstitial space to host program with its own organic potential. Enclosable volumes that exist among the scaffolding elevate the visitor, shelter exhibition spaces, and bridge the program through the consumption of food and the visual connection to the cultivation occurring at roof-level. Brace is participatory; the civic activity within its frames remediates otherwise ambiguous property, creating a topography of resistance and recreating value for Cubans themselves.

Fabrica de Arte Cubano

ART SCENE APPROPRIATING INDUSTRIAL FALLOWS SPATIALIZATION OF EXCHANGE AGRICULTURE INTEGRATED INTO URBAN LIVING

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THRESHOLDS FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

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Manifest imagines a proliferation of the system, occupying vulnerable urban fabric in available interstitial space throughout the city, The result is a topography of resistance.

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GROUNDSWELL

The 2016 Sasaki Intern Charrette explored the future of play through research, site visits, design, and play itself. Between sixteen interns and two weeks of intensive investigation, the team developed a vision to reactivate a portion of the Charles River park in Watertown, MA. Groundswell is an undulating landscape that hosts play for all ages and creates meaningful interaction through the riverfront park.

The forms mimic and sweep towards the river, fostering accessible circulation and user engagement throughout.

Through parametric design, Groundswell is easily produced from sheet material to be replicated in a wide spectrum of contexts, while remaining absolutely customizable to any site. This work was proudly presented alongside exhibitions that profile playscapes at Sasaki Associates and the Design Museum Boston and contributes to the growing discourse of how design can take a leading role in fostering play.

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Groundswell’s flexible structure and materials are endlessly adaptable to different contexts. Customizing Groundswell to a new context is a simple process of design, production, assembly and selecting add-ons to entrich user experience.

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LIBRARY OF RESILIENCE

The role of the library in the digital age is in flux. Libraries of the future must meet needs beyond the physical book. Along Long Island City’s waterfront, this library is a living, breathing heart of the city’s library system and the education system more broadly. To present the storage of books and the programs within as openly as possible, double layered walls of shelving create a 7-story atrium. The density of books in the collection acts as a meter of the presence of the physical book; the importance placed on printed material will translate into the physical conditions of the library as the changing porosity affects light and visibility from the interior and exterior. The building is infinitismally layered, susceptible to changes in atmosphere and light. As sea levels inevitably rise, the ground floor of the library may flood, transitioning to wetlands before becoming completely submerged, and the entrance readapts on the second level. Programmed spaces focus on intergenerational community enrichment.

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BIBLIOTECH ANALYSIS

To commence a studio about the library and its evolving role in the age of digital technology and revolutions in information storage and dissemination, an existing library was critically investigated. The Stuttgart Stadtbibliotek operates with a hybrid system of human and mechanized components. An automated book delivery core distributes books between floors, from which library staff manually facilitate book circulation to the stacks.

One drawing explores this system through the lens of service circulation, while the second drawing speculates about the performative, theatre-like nature of the central atrium. The visitors’ voyeuristic experience is defined by browsing for books as a means “to see and be seen,” narrowing your focus to the introverted space within and the sky above.

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LIGAMENT

At a time when our food economy is still unnaturally global and ambitious, Ligament chooses to acknowledge and reveal unnatural elements of the market and highlight better alternative practices.

It is a pivotal design, meant to add to the current discourse of the role of the market and food in our contemporary lives. It deconstructs the idea of the market and makes it transparent; cultivation of food is brought to the stage. Transparency is pervasive throughout, in its structure, infrastructure, preparation, and education.

This architectural language communicates the simultaneous fragility and strength of our food system and the site itself, and the oncoming flexibility and instability of the global food economy.

SPRING 2015 PROFESSORS DAVIDE MARCHETTI & GEORGE HASCUP

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The global food system is a series of unnatural interventions. It is greedy, but connective; a collection of fragments that exploits resources. It incurs unnatural, often consumer driven juxtapositions, posed to us in our everyday lives at the supermarket, restaurants serving international cuisine, and even outdoor marketplaces. At the same time, the former industrial site along Via Portuense is a collection of artifacts of human needs. The premise of this project is the opportunity to capitalize on the structural bones of the existing site and implement continuity--continued use, appreciation, growth, and vitality--a process of rejuvenation that is familiar to Rome.

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The 2007 Serpentine Pavilion boasts three stories of self-supporting steel lattice held together by pinned connections, forming a central performance space that is circumnavigated by a spiral ramp on the exterior.

In order to model the structural shell, 16 unique plexiglass connections were fabricated to join wooden I-beam components. Lasercut plans of the past Serpentine Pavilions provide site orientation below the stepped seating of the central gathering space. The structural model was a collaborative, 6-week endeavor based on only a simple plan and section from the architect.

FALL 2014 PROFESSOR MARK CRUVELIER

Structures II SERPENTINE PAVILION, 2007

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SLOPESCAPE

Slopescape, nestled in the steep slope towards Beebe Lake, pulls you off the hill behind and onto an extended landscape.

Bold structure acts as a means of stitching and manipulating the conceptually soft ground, drawing out surfaces that bring you into the thick of the site— the drama of seclusion—something that the observatory echoes behind it.

Slopescape is a continuous landscape that counteracts the datum of the trees around it, providing a range of relationships between the visitor, the exterior context, and the interior content. The program entails a home for the preservation, restoration, storage, and exhibition of the A.D. White Plaster Cast Collection. The program is likewise stitched throughout the project; the process of restoration is visible to visitors, storage at times melds with exhibition, and educational spaces crossover with research. This project was a collaboration with Shiwoo Yu, B.Arch ‘18.

SPRING 2015 PROFESSOR SASA ZIVKOVIC

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STAIR DOWN AND OUT

To compliment the existing heavy, organic, meandering path from the street down to Fall Creek Gorge, the intervention presents a vertical and light way down the steep drop and out into the gorge. This creates a duality between heavy ground, which is dramatic in its own rite, and an elevated drama up above.

The construction is prosthetic in quality– light and translucent wherever possible to maintain maximum contact with the context. Key existing features anchor the stair; a stone wall acts as a backdrop for a bench where the structure comes to meet it, and the path passes below. The result is a space for reflection that pulls you away from the busy street and into the coveted isolation of Ithaca’s majestic gorge.

SPRING 2017 PROFESSORS MARK CRUVELIER DAGGUR EGGERTSON & SAMI RINTALA

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