Allie Ward Chamberlain - Portfolio 2021

PORTFOLIO.

ALLIE CHAMBERLAIN [ 2021 ]

ALLIE CHAMBERLAIN University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design recent graduate.

Passionate and experienced in community engagement and activism in design.

CONTACT EMAIL PHONE ADDRESS

award43@vols.utk.edu 864.552.0029 3614 martin luther king jr ave knoxville, tn 37914

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[ 2017 ] PERSPECTIVE - HUSOY, NORWAY

ALTERNATIVE URBANISM COLLECTIVE SPATIAL AGENCY Distinguished Design Award for best undergraduate project - winner Gold Award Faculty Award of Design Merit best project Year 05 Spring 2021 Jennifer Akerman Thesis Project Burlington, Knoxville, Tennessee

This project identifies crucial aspects of cultural, social, and historical implications on the built environment through understanding how identity can be curated at a variety of scales – from the garment to the urban fabric. This thesis questions the traditional role of the “Architect,” and how this normative top-down approach to design could be more beneficial in the hands of the community, or grassroots approach.

With a primary focus in the Knoxville neighborhood of Burlington, the research of this project predominantly takes a “boots on the ground” approach, consisting of in-person interviews, digital surveys within the neighborhood, localized observation, and a deep understanding of local history.

It is imperative that this project creates a framework that questions and restructures the role of the Architect within marginalized communities. This project seeks to understand how flipping Architecture to maintain a grassroots activism approach could create more beneficial, desired, and equitable built environments for the future.

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Contextualized Overlay Axonometric

Burlington Neighborhood Observations

ALTERNATIVE URBANISM

Documentation of Field Guide

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Field Guide - Tactics

Field Guide - Program

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Field Guide - Materials

Survey Responses & Interviews

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Field Guide - Materials

Spatialized Interview

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Contextualized Overlay Axonometric

Market Perspective

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Pharmacy Perspective

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BRIDGING DIVIDE Year 05 Fall 2020 David Fox South Pittsburg, Tennessee

Over time, different industries have come and gone within South Pittsburg - his has created lower income levels and high rates of government dependency, along with a community that remains extremely racially divided.

Second street acts as the divide, with the predominately black community, just north of second street - with an immense lack of funding and different care of streets and sidewalks.

This design proposes a home that borders second street, creating an environment that bridges the public and private, and seeks to provide additional income through an accessory dwelling unit that can be rented out for the upcoming tourism industry, can become an entrepreneurial space, or a home for extended family members in multigenerational households.

Incorporating strategies of sustinability, this home merges affordability, sustainable practices, public spaces, and generating income for a family, all while seeking to bridge the racial divide in South Pittsburg.

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Perspective from Second Street

Perspective from Magnolia Ave.

BRIDING DIVIDE

SECOND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

INT MAIN: 769 SF

GREEN ROOF: 500 SF

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MAIN LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

INT MAIN: 758 SF

INT ADU: 144 SF

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KITCHEN | DINING | LIVING | STORAGE | ADU | OUTDOOR LIVING

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Section Perspective Facing Southwest

Exploded Structural Axon

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Perspective from Permeable Sidewalk

INNOVATION TRACK Bruher Ingram Fuller Sustainability Award finalist 2020 AIA Middle Tennessee Design Award finalist 2020 Year 04 Integrations - Spring 2020 James Rose Local Motors Knoxville, Tennessee Collaboration with: Watts Brown

Within the structure of the Local Motors Innovation Center & Test track is a conceptual program that we are labeling “box of rocks.”

This program seeks to take a flexible, open space, and beging to divide it with 3D printed objects that begin to associate program with spacial components. These forms begin to maintain an open plan, while creating obvious divisions.

As they protrude through the facade they begin to define pathway, and entry, guiding visitors inside of the building, while also using a 3D printed “wow” factor that draws visitors into the interest and innovation of the fabrication potentials within the company of Local Motors.

These conceptual studies start to combine the innovation of 3D printing, with paramteric curvature that is unable to be produced through other methods - and starts to become systems.

A system of objects is formed that starts to be used as planter, bench, or rail. This system can then be translated to a gridded roof system, where each space can be filled with PV panels, adjustable concrete panels, or a green roof system that cna integrate the facade, allow for needed transformation, and meet the system needs of a Local Motors testing and innovation center - while showing off their unique fabrication skills.

Perspective from Pedestrian Approach

TRACK ASSEMBLY 1.5” CONCRETE PAVERS 4” PLASTIC RISER MOISTURE BARRIER 0.5” PLYWOOD 8” CONCRETE SLAB 6” SPRAY INSULATION

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ROOF ASSEMBLY 3” GREEN ROOF TRAY 4” PLASTIC RISER MOISTURE BARRIER 6” RIGID INSULATION 1.5” CORRUGATED STEEL DECKING

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OBJECT ASSEMBLY 1.2” 3D PRINT 0.5” PLYWOOD 6” BATT INSULATION 0.5” PLYWOOD

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ROOF ASSEMBLY 3” GREEN ROOF TRAY 4” PLASTIC RISER MOISTURE BARRIER 6” RIGID INSULATION 1.5” CORRUGATED STEEL DECKING

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TRACK ASSEMBLY 1.5” CONCRETE PAVERS 4” PLASTIC RISER MOISTURE BARRIER 0.5” PLYWOOD 8” CONCRETE SLAB 6” SPRAY INSULATION

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STOREFRONT ASSEMBLY DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOWS ALUMINUM SPACER

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RETAINING WALL ASSEMBLY 0 1 2

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6” CONCRETE SLAB 2” RIGID INSULATION 2” CONCRETE SLAB MOISTURE BARRIER

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INNOVATION TRACK

Axonometric Site Plan

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Interior Perspective

Cross Section Perspactive

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HAITAIN HOUSING ACSA International Housing Competition Third Place EUReCA Silver Award Award of Excellence Year 03 Spring 2019 Katherine Ambroziak Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti Haiti Christian Development Fund ( HCDF ) Collaboration with: Grayson Word Nicole Hamel

This project identifies crucial aspects of cultural, social, and individual transition, designing in a way that promotes transformative action and social mentorship in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti. The typical Haitian family occupies their home in spaces of black and white – where exterior spaces are seen as communal, while interior spaces are for intimate living.

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Through a comprehension of this local vernacular and the emboldened desires of the Haiti Christian Development Fund (HCDF), a new typology is formed – one that introduces a grey, intermediary space, seeking to create a new model of community through the built environment.

This new housing model promotes the individual ability to adapt, familial growth and generational involvement within the household, and larger scale social interaction and societal evolvement, all evoking a sense of welcomed familiarity while proposing new ways of communal living.

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Section Through Housing

Perspective from Communal Garden

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passive ventilation system

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black / intimate spaces

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gray / screen transition

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white / social exterior

Perspective from Interior Porch

Section Through Housing

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Perspective from Interior Kitchen

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VISCOUS FEEDBACK Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Year 04 Fall 2019 Rodrigo Aguirre Mar Bella, Barcelona Collaboration with: Ashley Beard Kari Essary Michael Kowalsky

Situated between beaches Nova Mar Bella and Mar Bella and adjacent to Barcelona’s coastal bike path, Viscous Feedback explores the interaction between designed objects and uncontrolled materials in search of a nature-mediated architecture.

Using a beeswax and pine resin mixture of a 3:10 ratio, which offers simultaneous rigidity and flexibility, we investigated the creation of minimal surfaces that form at the centerlines of profile geometries to generate optimized forms that were then translated into rooms, walls, and columns. Our experiments create a three-dimensional extrusion that relates to the initial, designed geometries, offering a level of unpredictability in terms of final form making. Given the opportunity for future, full scale development, we would be using a construction process that employs 3D printing to generate the minimal surface geometries identified in our experiments.

This project functions as a cafe that responds to surrounding circulatory patterns, noise levels, and is oriented to provide occupants with ocean views. The structural elements within the project, which would be 3d printed at full scale, mimic the behavior of the beeswax and pine resin mixture as it relates to the process of being manipulated or extruded with a designed object. The project represents the complex relationship between the architectural desire to design a specific form and a competing interest in allowing uncontrollable materials to become authors of space.

Model Images

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VIEWS, CIRCULATION, NOISE

Circulation

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Puncture

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PRESERVING MCKEE EUReCA Award of Excellence Year 03 Fall 2018 Tricia Stuth Knoxville College Knoxville, TN

A preservation of McKee Hall, on the previous campus of Knoxville College, as a schematic proposition to address circulation, structure, and space. Through influencing the relationship between the community of Mechanicsville and higher-ed institution of Knoxville College, this project seeks to preserve the influences of the HBCU, the Civil War, and Civil Rights movement.

Through a deep understanding of these local narratives, the historical significance, monumentality of landscape, and cultural importance, a deeper perspective is formed that promotes identity, dignity, and empowerment amongst the community and institution.

This project seeks to question and understand the psychology of architectural negatives, the maintenance of permanence, and the potential of constructing citizenship.

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Historic Knoxville College Collage

Main Entrance Approach

PRESERVING MCKEE

exploring narratives through the form of tangible library

understanding the visual transition of the persisting physical boundary

Third Floor Circulation

001: EXISTING CONDITIONS

002: EARLY TRANSFORMATION

003: EXTINGUISHING BOUNDARY

004: INCORPORATED LANDSCAPE

college st., fencing methods, and green overgrowth act as harsh divide between the dwellings of mechanicsville and the institution of knoxville college.

college st. as a buffer zone as opposed to a boundary. additional sidewalks, greenery, and a pedestrian friendly artery between western heights and mechanicsville

removing fencing and clearing overgrowth along college st. will create a diminished boundary. there exists a confusion as to what is for community and what is for institution.

ground broken, soil transformed, hill accessibe. space that allows people to circulate the hill and approachable campus and an inviting neighborhood.

Section Perspective // Site Operation

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A P PA LAC H I A N FA B R I C AT I O N Year 02 Spring 2018 John McRae Manchester, Kentucky Collaboration with: Mike Stone

Aware of weatherization needs and a lack of insulation throughout the home, our team could quickly propose design solutions. What was unexpected were the immense issues that lie beyond the surface of the home - the smell of kerosene, implying the use of a toxic heater, and an open oven as the secondary source of heat for the home.

The seven month old baby recently underwent an open-heart surgery, came home and got pneumonia, most likely caused by the conditions of the home.

With a complete destruction almost necessary, we were forced to design the most immediate solution, thus developing a completely customizable and pre-fabricated window system.

One that fully insulates in the winter, and allows for ventilation during the summer.

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Complete Assembly

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AQUEOUS SHEATH Year 03 Spring 2019 Maged Guerguis Student Aquatic Center Knoxville, TN Collaboration with: Grayson Word

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Re-envisioning the potential of the UTK Student Aquatic Center through redefining the building roof structure. Using vector- active system and karamba assistance, we understand how this system might distribute loads, interact with daylight, and engage with the surrounding context. Our design allows for those passing by or on the volleyball court to engage with the pool, breaking down a solid wall and allowing for more visual transparency between spaces.

The space truss system allowed for three overlapping modules that created two prominent clerestory spaces- providing the majority of the natural light into the indoor pool space.

The movement of the wave like form is intended to mimic the movements of a swimmer and waves made throughout the pool. Taking inspiration from the structure of Zaha Hadid’s Heydar aliyev Center, this system allowed for the most amounts of wave movement and patterns. Through Karamba, we were able to analyze patterns within the structure and understand where structural members needed to be.

Karamba Force Distribution

Physical Representation

Exploded Section

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[ 2018 ] MODEL MAKING - GANDO PRIMARY SCHOOL

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LASER CUTTING / WAFFLE BASSWOOD

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CNC MILLING / GRASSHOPPER 80 MM FOAM

DIGITAL FABRICATION

6 AXIS ROBOT SIMULATING RHINO & GRASSHOPPER

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6 AXIS ROBOT CONTROLLING KUKA ROBOT

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6 AXIS ROBOT PRODUCT PEN & PAPER

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[ 2019 ] RETHINKING A+A

DAILY DOCUMENTATION

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[ 2021 ] BOOK MAKING - RECLAIM CREATIVE

taking old, found, and recycled materials and giving them a new identity as a sketchbook, planner, or journal. a space for others to create and express themselves. repurposing waste. collaborating with local artists to reuse & repurpose their waste.

BOOK MAKING

folding. binding. designing. sewing.

Contemporary Arts Center // Cincinnati, OH

IMAGE MAKING

Farnsworth House // Plano, IL 35mm film

The Broad Museum // Los Angeles, CA 35mm film

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The Colosseum // Rome, Italy 35mm film

Calatrava Bridge // Bilbao, Spain 35mm film

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Sagrada Familia // Barcelona, Spain 35mm film