Architecture Design Portfolio 2020/2021
Selected works by
Alyssa Hess 441 Sandwich Rd • East Falmouth Massachusetts • 02536 • USA
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Architecture Design
Personal Statement
I consider Architecture to be a technical art which takes many years to hone. In this respect, I am looking for a firm which will give me the opportunity and vision to continue to grow and truly master all aspects of architectural design practice. I am fascinated with the idea of highly detailed sustainable design which focuses not only on the human experience but also on the study of site and environment. Creating designs which are uniquely cohesive and beautiful and seeing them come to fruition, is exciting and inspiring to me. I am passionate about working collaboratively with colleagues and clients to achieve common goals while soliciting input by genuinely valuing other’s ideas and expertise and have a willingness to learn from others.
“Additive Manufacturing “- RWU Arch.588 Assignment 2 | Alyssa Hess with Professor Olga Mesa
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Resume Education
Roger Williams University | Bristol, RI School of Art, Architecture and Historic Preservation
December 2020 3.8 GPA May 2019 3.2 GPA
Masters of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Minors: Sustainability | History of Art and Architecture
Skills
Language: Fluent in German, Proficient in French Technical: Model Making, Drafting, Rending, Cnc Routing, 3d Printing, Laser Cutting Software:
Drafting:
Modeling:
Rendering:
Manufacturing:
AutoCad Revit
SketchUp Rhino Revit
Podium V-Ray Lumion Oculus medium ADOBE Creative Suite
V-Carve CNC Ultimaker Cura 3D Printing PLS Laser Software
Photoshop | Indesign | Illustrator | Acrobat
Relevant Experience Vision 3 Architects | Providence, RI
Summer 2019
The DUAL Studio | Providence, RI Summer Architectural Intern • Standardized project drawings and layouts through AutoCad, Explored
Summer 2018
Summer Architectural Intern • Collaborated with various project teams to facilitate project development, Standardized project drawings, models and layouts through AutoCad, Revit and Adobe Illustrator, Created Visuals for project proposals and client communication, participated in Site visits, Site surveying as well as inspecting and completing punch lists.
resources for grant project “Slice”, Designed Proposals for Office art Installation
Other Experience Model Shop Monitor Graduate Assistant | Bristol, RI
Roger Williams University School of Art, Architecture and Historic Preservation
Jan. -Dec. 2020
Supervision the use of laser cutting, 3d printing and CNC Equipment, Repairing laser cutting, 3d printing and CNC equipment, Assisting in Model shop related curriculum and material preparation
AIAS Student Mentor | Bristol, RI
Acting as a resource for Students enrolled in the Studio curriculum, Assisting in technical problems as well as providing project and presentation advice, Supporting educational experience through office hours, Representing Roger Williams University School of Art, Architecture and Historic Preservation during official University events
Summer Conference Administrative Assistant | Bristol, RI
Roger Williams University Department of Residence Life and Housing Acted as direct University and Conference Liaison in form of holding meetings and on call assistance, developed Solutions to more efficiently distribute ID access and keys to staff campers, Organized check-ins for CTY & Hoop Mountain (30 - 500 kids/ camp)
Spring 2018
Summer 2017
Awards Architecture Freshman Design Award | Roger Williams University Marion Huse Barstor 1915 Art Prize | Cushing Academy
2016 2015
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Designing Blue
Graduate Thesis Proposal located in Bamako, Mali focused on Re-Masterplanning UN Peacekeeping Compound Housing. 2020
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A Place of Connectivity
Firm in Residence Hacin+Assoc. taught Studio, designing archaeological in situ lab/ housing Located in Montreal, CA. 2018
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A PLACE OF CONNECTIVITY THE ARCHEOLOGY PAC -IN-SITU CENTER FOR RESIDENCY AND RESEARCH WILL BE A SHARED LIVING AND LAB PROGRAM WHICH IS BUILT ON THE IDEAS OF COLLABORATION AND CONNECTIVITY. THIS IS ACHIEVED BY VARYING LIVING AND LAB FLOORS AS WELL AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSITIONAL CIRCULATION “ZONES” THAT BLUR PROGRAM AND MAY PROMOTE ACTIVE COLLABORATION. AS AN URBAN RESPONSE, THE SITE BECOMES PERMEABLE BY THE CREATION OF AN ACTIVE ALLEY WHICH CONNECTS THE PARK D’YOUVILLE BLOCK OF MONTREAL TO THE ADJACENT SAINT PAUL STREET WEST SIDE STREET, PULLING THE PARK THROUGH. THIS CONCEPT OF THE“GREEN ALLYS” IS A WIDELY POPULAR IDEA THROUGHOUT MONTREAL, AS IT PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SPACES.
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Ocean Conservation in the Urban Realm Aquarium and Waterfront Masterplan redesign located in Trieste, Italy. 2019
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EL CHAMIZAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The Performing Arts Center of El Chamizal aims to connect communities not only through various sensory cues but most importantly throught the practice of the performing arts. Music, Theatre and Dance bond us through experience and trust. In an effort to relieve tension between the boarder of Mexico and the United States, the Performing Arts Center aims to reconnect communites and break down boarders.
Infastructure
Green Space
Land Uses
“Exploring Site - Oahu, Hawaii “- RWU Arch.530 Assignment 0 | Alyssa Hess with Professor Leonard Yui
Residential Commercial Educational
River Locations
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El Chamizal Performing Arts Center
Re-Masterplanning the El Chamizal interstitial Boarder Zone of Mexico and the USA, creating connectivity through performing arts. 2018
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A Remnant of Place OF BOARDERS AND TRAVERSES / ARCH.415.01 ALYSSA KAY HESS ANTHONY PIERMARINI
A Historical intervention of an abandoned Monastery in Antigua, Guatemala creating a new public space and winery within the UNESCO world Heritage site. 2019
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Fabrication
Highlighting various projects in Digital Fabrication and Advanced Computer Application. 2019-2020
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Office/ Public Area Axon
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Brick Module Axon
Water Collection System
Portfolio 2020/2021 Project
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Designing Blue Graduate Thesis
Project Data 2020 / MINUSMA Location
Bamako, Mali (Active since 2013)
Proposed Client
The United Nations (3,000 Persons)
Site Area
4.2 Mill. SqFt.
Available Budget
$1.2 Billion (UN Data)
Overview
The objective of this thesis proposal is to create a set of guidelines and regulations for a standard of design within compounds throughout the United Nations peacekeeping framework. These standards are intended to adhere to not only the wellness of staff, but also the integration of community representation and sustainable practices. This project intends to challenge methods of prefabrication in terms of scale and application. Creating an adaptable modular prefabrication system which allows for multitude of uses as well as structural and material changes while also being sustainable and climate resilient. Adaptive reuse pre planning allows compounds being constructed to plan for the future use of the infrastructure created by the footprint of the UN Compound. This will ensure that once the UN mission is dissolved, the compound infrastructure remaining can be re-purposed for the surrounding community. By studying local methods of construction, materials and architectural vernacular of the final chosen site, the adaptation of traditional building methods can be applied to the prefabrication system, in an attempt to create a new type of architecture which learns from the past but adapts to future and more modern uses.
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Brick Module - Perspective
Market- Perspective
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A Place of Connectivity Pointe-A-Calliere & Hacin+ Assoc.
Project Data 2018 Location
Place D’Youville - Montreal, Canada
Proposed Client
Pointe-A-Calliere : Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History
Site Area 37,000 SqFt.
Overview
Re-Visioning Heritage: Contemporary interventions in a Historic City in Partnership with Graduate Firm in Residence Hacin + Associates The Archeology Pac-In-Situ center for residency and research will be a shared living and lab program which is built on the ideas of collaboration and connectivity. This is achieved by varying living and lab floors as well as the implementation of transitional circulation “zones” that blur the program and may promote active collaboration. Contextually, the site becomes permeable by theRE-ENVISIONING creation HERITAGE: of an active alley which CONTEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS IN A HISTORIC CITY - Graduate Firm in Rresidency HACIN & ASSSOCIATES connects the Park D’Youville block of Montreal to the adjacent Saint Paul Street West Side Street.
A PLACE OF CONNECTIVITY - MONTREAL
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Portfolio 2020/2021 PROGRAM WHICH IS BUILT ON THE IDEAS OF COLLABORATION AND CONNECTIVITY. THIS IS ACHIEVED BY VARYING LIVING
AND LAB FLOORS AS WELL AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSITIONAL CIRCULATION “ZONES” THAT BLUR PROGRAM AND MAY PROMOTE ACTIVE COLLABORATION. AS AN URBAN RESPONSE, THE SITE BECOMES PERMEABLE BY THE CREATION OF AN ACTIVE ALLEY WHICH CONNECTS THE PARK D’YOUVILLE BLOCK OF MONTREAL TO THE ADJACENT SAINT PAUL STREET WEST SIDE STREET, PULLING THE PARK THROUGH. THIS CONCEPT OF THE“GREEN ALLYS” IS A WIDELY POPULAR IDEA THROUGHOUT MONTREAL, AS IT PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SPACES.
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River Exhibit
Portfolio 2020/2021 Project
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Ocean Conservation in the Urban Realm Aquarium Design as an Ecological Narrative
Project Data 2019 Location Trieste, Italy Proposed Client
The Trieste Aquarium & City
Site Area 164,000 SqFt.
Overview
The Trieste Aquarium aims to bring conservation awareness through the use of comparative exhibits in which local species are contrasted with tropical species from around the world. Because this sight has a large urban footprint, its approach design as well as building masses are strategically cut to allow for no visual barriers between approach and the destinations of waterfront and the La Lanterna lighthouse. View corridors lead site visitors towards major intersections while allowing for a separate approach for aquarium visitors by means of a through site ramp, which introduces the experience of the interior exhibits, which are located mainly underground, allowing for adjustment of the visitor. Once in the interior, one becomes immersed in the below ground habitat seemingly immersed with light in cave like environments. Three main exhibition spaces focus primarily on tributaries, rivers and local ocean species with contrasting tropical exhibits.
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EL CHAMIZAL - PERFORMING ARTS CENT Project
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El Chamizal Performing Arts Center
Alyssa Kay Hess - CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL AND ASSMEMBLIES II
Of Boarders and Traverses
Project Data 2018 Location
El Chamizal, Mexico/ USA Boarder
Proposed Client Boarder Communities Site Area 60,000 SqFt. EL CHAMIZAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The Performing Arts Center of El Chamizal aims to connect communities not only through various sensory cues but most importantly throught the practice of the performing arts. Music, Theatre and Dance bond us through experience and trust. In an effort to relieve tension between the boarder of Mexico and the United States, the Performing Arts Center aims to reconnect Theand Performing Arts Center of El Chamizal aims to connect communities not only communites break down boarders.
Overview
through various sensory cues but most importantly through the practice of the performing arts. Music, Theatre and Dance bond us through experience and trust. In an effort to relieve tension between the boarder of Mexico and the United States, the Performing Arts Center aims to reconnect communities and break down boarders.
Infastructure
Green Space
Land Uses Residential Commercial Educational
River Locations
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Infastructure
Green Space
Land Uses Residential Commercial Educational
River Locations
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STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC 3/32"=1'
Bristol, Rhode Island
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
SANTA TERESA WINERY Drawn by: Alyssa Hess
Designed by: Alyssa Hess
DATE: 11- 05 -19
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Checked by: Roberto Viola Ochoa
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A Remnants of Place Historical Intervention
Project Data 2019 Location Antigua, Guatemala Proposed Client
Santa Teresa Convent
Site Area 40,000 SqFt.
Overview
Twenty-first century architecture design theory is largely based on context; a sites condition dictates design. This type of research-based design has largely contributed to the architectural practice of sustainability as well as historic preservation. When considering context, environmental and historical components often take precedent. A strong historical context can pose many obstacles in design, potentially limiting movement, expansion or construction as a whole. Though considered a difficult task, a successful union of context and architecture can yield not only smart but also empathetic designs. In this studio, we will be exploring interventions of architecture and historical contexts that aim to enhance historical relevance, promote present awareness and ensure future preservation. To achieve this, we will study Antigua, Guatemala. One of only a few well preserved historic cities to remain in Central America. A remnants of place has become the defining resemblance of the project. The history of the site in combination of a new identity is the inspiration behind the concept of the design and the spirit of the architecture. Centrally located, the Santa Teresa convent has a rich history of ownership and use. While we study its context and past life, we will aim to re-imagine the site as it once was. Recently restored, it is now open to the public for viewing. The Santa Teresa Convent is located in the original grid of the city, on the main north south axis of the city.
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Fabrication
Production through Digital Fabrication & Computer Applications
Grasshopper Pavilion
This Dynamic Geometry was created by generating a Rhino Grasshopper Definition which allows for a Catenary Vault with Permeability created by an attraction/repulsion line. Intended to be imagined in a utopia, as a monolithic concrete structure with seemingly dissolving supports.
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Bench for 2 Initial Geometry was generated through Rhino and then Contoured to created a waffle structure. Creating notches in the Vertical and Horizontal pieces allows for the pieces to come together without needing any nails or glue
The Geometry was loaded into V-Carve to create a CNC file which can be read by the machine. There is a total of 16 pieces: 9-X 7-X The cut time was a total of 4 1/2 hours
The final bench is a comfortable and unique seat, allowing for two persons to sit simultaneously and face each other, encouraging conversation. The bench was exhibited in the Architectural studios of Roger Williams University for 8 Months and was used during Crits and Reviews deemed a success by teachers and students.
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Architecutral Design Portfolio • Selected Works by Alyssa Hess • 2020/2021