AR C H I TECTU R E PO R T FO L I O A M A N DA CAS H L E Y
AMANDA CASHLEY More than architecture, I am fascinated with people. How people respond, how they behave and use the spaces that are created for them. I have always been curious to discover new cultures and pieces of the world that I have yet to learn. I am a person who adapts well to new environments and do my the best to achieve exemplary results. Based in Berkeley, someimes I am an amateur photographer, somtimes I am an aspiring architect. I enjoy capturing photographs, mostly on urban life, landscape and architectural structures.
PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Amanda Cashley email: amandacashley@berkeley.edu
EDUCATION BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE Regents’ & Chancellor’s Scholarship Full scholarship, Top 2% of Class 2019 UC Berkeley, CA | 2019 - 2021
ASSOCIATE IN SCIENCE DEGREE - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Diablo Valley College, CA | 2017 - 2019
SMA SANTA THERESIA High school | Jakarta, Indonesia | 2015 - 2017
RELEVANT EXPERIENCES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - VOLUNTEER MEMBER Volunteered on Muir Ridge Affordable Housing Project Martinez, CA | January 2019 - May 2019
TEACHER ASSISTANT AT DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE Class on Introduction to Architecture Pleasant Hill, CA | August 2018 - December 2018
SKILLS & INTERESTS Language: Bilingual native proficiency in spoken and written in English and Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES BAR ARCHITECTS
Beginner level in spoken and written in Mandarin.
Software Programs: Rhino, Autocad, Lumion, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Revit Autodesk
Architect Intern San Francisco, CA | June 2020 - July 2020
ARCHITECT INDOMEGAH Architectural Intern Jakarta, Indonesia | June 2019 - July 2019
Interests: Sustainable Desgins, Residential and Commerical Buildings, Photography, Travelling, Piano
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CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT 100C | Year 4 Design Studio
02 THE GATEWAY 100B | Year 3 Design Studio
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INTERSECTIONS 100A | Year 3 Design Studio
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THE RIVER 220 | Year 2 Design Studio
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JIBAN 8 Personal work | Year 4
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myGALLERY
Personal Collection Of My Photographs
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CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT
100C Design Studio | Year 4 Professor: Eleanor Pries Type: Dwelling units Site: Crockett, CA Crockett, CA is unicorporated, not a city and not a village. In fact, it is a census-designated “place” that it feels more of a company town than a typical California town. The C&H company has announced to be cooperative again in the sense that approximately four acres of the active sugar site will be converted into a mixed building. This establishment is aimed to effectively reconnect Crockett to the Bay after being barred from the water over a century.
BERKELEY AND CROCKETT
SITE PLAN
CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
EVOLUTION OF THE LOTS IN THE SETTLEMENT Despite the studio’s motive of reconnecting Crockett to the water, the elements of Crockettstood out to me was the house lots and the striking topography along Crockett. Below are images found during my research of Crockett’s settlement. The Sanborn images on the left showed that the form of the house lots varied over time and simultaneously the population of Crockett grew too. Lots that are located on topography have various forms.
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IDEOGRAMS OF ELEMENTS Eventhough Crockett is unicorporated, there are elements in the site, the town, the settlements that are potential for new spatial readings of Crockett. Ideograms is a technqiue used to analyze and understand the new spatial readings created from the elements. Elements selected for the ideogram below was the blocks of housing lots found in Crockett, streets with distinctive elevation that created “slices” of streets, the physical model of Crockett’s topography and a lot model.
02 | IDEOGRAMS AND ELEMENTS
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CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
Blocks selected from Crockett’s settlements
Slices of streets placed on streets.
Elevation model mirroring the site and factory
Physical lot model as waterfront spatial.
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CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
“CASTLE” ELEMENTS IN THE MASSING FORM
Castle form derived from the lots shape in the ideogram.
Further applying the “castle” elements into finalizing the mass of the form, I included bridges for people to move around the mass. Keep in mind, the massing form is 880 feet long and 80 feet wide. With that, it is illogical to have a building as wide as 80 feet without any openings. Constraining the circulation from utilizing both views on the edges of the mass, I created an internal linear circulation. To add to that, most castle buildings have linear circulation that are compressed internally. Lastly, I incorporated garden balconies throughout the massing for residents to use.
Bridges are recurring elements of castles.
Circulation inside the castle are typically an internal linear.
An extruded block of lots derived from the ideograms.
Castle front of the mass that I wish to keep.
“CASTLE” BUILDING FORM
Shaded in green are garden balconies for residents to enjoy.
04 | DWELLING UNITS CONCEPT AND “CASTLE” ELEMENTS
After the ideogram activity, I further analyzed and attempt to define what castle elements are in the site. Over time, Crockett was defined as “castle of factories” that occupied one side of the Carquinez Strait. Though it is implied that the C&H factory defined Crockett as a “company town”, however, the factory also assisted the town’s increase of population.
CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
THIRD FLOOR PLAN | 05
CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
DWELLING UNIT TYPE 1 The idea behind the dwelling units take after the layout of an apartment loft unit. This was intended to keep social spaces on both ends of the dwelling units outwards of the private spaces. Social spaces classify as the kitchen area, entertaintment area and the laundry; on the other hand private spaces arereserved for bedrooms. This dwelling unit type has a vertical orientation.
06 | DWELLING UNIT TYPE 1
CLUSTERS IN CROCKETT / FALL 2020
DWELLING UNIT TYPE 2 Similar to the first type of the dwelling unit, this dwelling unit has a longer span due to its horizontal orientation. This layout brought complications on organizing the social spaces and the private spaces. Changes were done on plan that does not entirely refelect the concept of the first dwelling unit type. The kitchen area had to fill up a section of the private space on the first floor. The loft is secludely used for bedrooms .
DWELLING UNIT TYPE 2 | 07
RENDERINGS | 09
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THE GATEWAY
100B Design Studio | Year 3 Professor: William Di Napoli Type: Urban Institute Site: San Francisco, CA All the programs that comprise The Urban Institute are fairly conventional, but what is less conventional is their coexistence together in a single building as a single institutional entity. The programmatic premise of the project embodies the idea that urban life provides a continually shifting set of needs and continually evolving social and cultural infrastructure which support those needs. But there are also separations required for security, independent hours of operation, different user groups and the general premise that access to different parts of the building needs to have different degrees of control. A known WPA artifact was a 1:100 scale model of every building in San Francisco. It is use as a planning tool as they city envsioned its post-WPA future. The model measures 38’ x 42’ and s made of 158 interlocking pieces wth over 6000 removable blocks.
IN A CONDENSED URBAN
VOID
ALONG THE CONDENSED URBAN ELEVATION ON BRYANT ST , THE GATEWAY PROPOSE A THRESHOLD SPACE TOWARDS THE PARK.
IN A CONDENSED URBAN
SITE PLAN
CIRCULATION
WPA MODELS
THE GATEWAY / SPRING 2020
VOID AND WPA MODELS Further developing my concept on the threshold space, I decided to settle on a void that situates in the center of the building acting as a high atrium. I decided to utilize the WPA models as “anchors” of people’s attrcaction to reach the top floor. As one walks up the building, the different pieces of the WPA models would lead them to the final piece on the top floor. With tht, they wll view both San Francisco city skyline and the whole WPA model.
FACADE AND PROGRAMS RELATION To respect the independent hours of operation and different user groups of the institute, programs are organized vertically based on how much privacy is required for each program space. Subsequently, the facade reciprocate the same idea of privacy and the amount of light to enter the building. The lecture hall occupying most of the second and third floor requires privacy however huge amount of light. The facade appliedis a systematic set of channel glass panels. Determined by the amount of light and privacy the program space behind the facade needs, the panels varies in three types.
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS DRAWINGS MEP System
HVAC Sytem
GLASS WINDOW TO PARAPET ROOF PERFORRATED METAL PANELS
TWO LAYERS OF INSULATION
CONCRETE ROOF
BUILDING SERVICES ROOM MECHANICAL SHAFT EGRESS STAIR
RESTROOMS (TWO ON THE FIRST FLOOR)
ALUMINUM TUBE MAST SUPPORT
ELEVATOR SHAFT ALUMINUM CLIP SUPPORT GLASS WINDOW
DROP DOWN CEILING
CURTAIN WALL MEETS FOUNDATION ALUMINIUM CURTAIN GLASS WALL PROFILE
GLASTER SCREEN THICKNESS LIME MORTAR INSULATION PANEL TO PREVENT THERMAL BRIDGING
The red line are pipes for warm water, blue line are pipes for cold water and the black pipes are the drain-wast-vent pipes to the roof and the public sewer.
14 | CONSTRUCTION DETAILS DRAWINGS
CONCRETE GROUND
SLATE FLOOR COVERING
THE GATEWAY / SPRING 2020
EGRESS STAIRS DETAILS
BATHROOM DETAILS
MOSITURE-TOLERANT INSULATION
17”-19”
BACK WALL
33”-36” min
15'
12” min
STONE VENEER
CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB
42” min
12”
33”-36” min
12” min
3'
36” min
FACADE SECTION
ALUMINUM WINDOW REINFORCEMENT
54” min
36” min
A LAYER OF INSULATION
11”
GLASS WINDOW TO CONCRETE FLOORS
8'
SIDE WALL
3 1/2'
GLASS WINDOW
ANCHORING DEVICE
FOUNDATION DETAILS
DRAINAGE PLANE PRODUCT 34”-38” min.
CONCRETE WALL
ANCHOR BOLTS
BACKUP WALL (CMU, CONCRETE) AND STRUCTURE
6’8” min.
2 1/2 '
EXTERIOR GRADE
3'
17'
4'
9'
INSULATION
DOWELS CONCRETE GRADE BEAM
4'
4'
44” min.
18"
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS DRAWINGS | 15
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INTERSECTION
100A Design Studio | Year 3 Professor: Max Obata Type: Community Center Site: Berkeley, CA
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A community center is a building that can not be described through a single primary use. It is not a library, thater, museum, office or a shopping center, it has small aspects of each the,. It can be understood as a social condenser menat to mix disparate programs through various formal and spatial ideas related to the concept of “intersection”. The goal is not to create one large space with all the program in it, however it is to produce a series of spaces that are partially distinct from others at times that begins to blur with others through their forced intersections. Extending the distinctive edges of the site, I reciprocated the lines and rotatedthem to parallel alongside College Ave. This was my intention to priduce series of spaces that I define as fragile threshold. These series of spaces not only start to blur with each other, instead they are series of spaces of tresholds of people’s interactions.
SOLID
Level 3 ±25’ - 0”
PROGRAMS 9
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN: 1/8” = 1’-0”
FRAGILE THRESHOLD 9
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SITE LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE DENSE RESIDENTIAL AREA OF BERKELEY
INTERSECTION OF CLAREMONT AVE AND COLLEGE AVE
ANGLED SPACE
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SECTION PLAN: 1/8”=1’-0”
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THE RIVER
220 Design Studio | Year 2 Professor: Anthony Grand Type: Arts & Architecture School Site: Oakland, CA
Established in 1949, Diablo Valley College is one of the three publicly supported two-year community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District. Between the two campuses, DVC serves more than 28,000 students with variety of program options. DVC’s decision to expand is architecture program has intentions to open a new campus in Oakland. The main objective of this proposal is to open a “stream of river” into the campus from the street with dense urban activities.
SITE IS ACROSS FROM OAKLAND’S FOX THEATER
INTERSECTION OF TELEGRAPH AVE AND 19TH ST
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JIBAN 8
Personal Work | Year 2 Type: Community CEnter Site: Jakarta, Indonesia
My first half of my life growing up was in Jakarta, thus I was not surprised when I read that the city I grew up in is one of the worstdesigned cities in the world (thrillist). I lived in a rural area, despite not living in the city itself, the area I lived in is completely densed. It has no sense of system or structure of city planning. You would find a mall in between a run-down neighbourhood and a 70-storey apartment. The small land across from my house lays uninhabited for years that I wonder what was the neighbourhood’s chief plans for it. Jiban 8 is a proposed building I designed for the neighbourhood to gather and carry out their meetings. Besides that, Jiban 8 also serves as a space of greenery and light for residents to enjoy.
THE SITE IS ACROSS FROM MY HOME I GREW UP IN JAKARTA
SITE IS LOCATED IN THE RURAL OF THE CITY
VERNACULAR BUILDINGS Concrete - Almost 40% development projects in Indonesia uses domestic concrete, hence why Indonesian government is encouraging the growing concrete industry. SITE LOT
MASSING
3-STOREY
PUSH BACK
Squeezed between a 4-storey apartment and 2-storey building, it has shaped the lot into a long narrow site.
Creating a space for the neighbourhood, it is best to maintain similar mass forms of the neighbourhood.
For a gathering space of a neighbourhood, it does not require more than 3-storey.
To fulfill the zoning code and prevent any accidents, the whole first floor is pushed back.
Wood - A material that is abundant in resource however is not utilized well for buildings facades and promoting the idea of sustainability.
JIBAN 8/ SPRING 2021
First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
JIBAN 8/ SPRING 2021
LONGITIDUNAL SECTION | 25
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myGALLERY
Series of photographs i took with main interests of urban location, patterns and parallelism.
THANK YOU. amandacashley@berkeley.edu