ANGELA WADLEY
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
angela WADLEY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Just Chocolate Factory
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Aegina's Daycare Center
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Chicago’s Community Performing Art Center
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Path of Experineces
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Design impacts all lives miniscule and apparent ways. From phones to chairs, every object is a function of design. Great design is more than just good aesthetics. It is the way objects are utilized and understood. A phone or chair are beautiful by themselves, but their design can’t truly be appreciated until they start being utilized. It’s only then that all the subtle touches are experienced, all things visible and invisible that make a great design. The relation between people and architecture should aim for a positive outcome and promote psychological and social well-being. It is about asking questions concerning the meaning of human habitatin, what it means to live in a built environment, and where human flourishing and social progress can best occur. Throughout my design studies, the focus is on the senses, the emotions, the mind of the user, effects of behavioral patterns and sense of place.
CONTACT INFORMATION 832.993.1141 angela_wadley@yahoo.com 22915 Westgate Village Ln. Spring, Texas 77373
JUST CHOCOLATE FACTORY Location | Eureka Springs, AR Spring 2018 | Second Year Professor | Nancy Chikaraishi Drury University Just Chocolate Factory is located in Eureka Springs, AR on the corner of Pine and Spring street. The town is tremendously hilly and somewhat a challenge with the preexisting retaining walls. Eureka Springs has an ora of corkiness, old-fashion, and artsy. Taking from the process of how chocolate is made, the introduction incorporates different components that mold and form chocolate. The walls of the chocolate factory concave and convex to create a unique experience and shape from the outside and inside. On the second level the café is cantilevered over the corner sidewalk to give emphasis of views and directionality. The chocolate factory also includes offices and working rooms where they package and ship the chocolate. The main goal is to tie the building within the context of the town. The material used for the exterior of the building relates to the stone of the retaining walls nearby. The second level connects to the park so those who want to visit the café have easier access. The chocolate factory serves as a place for people to meet for lunch and lounge, as well as tours and purchase of chocolate.
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Farmers break open cocoa pods and select ripe and disease-free beans to continue to the fermentation process.
During fermentation, the flavor and aroma potential of beans develop, and bitterness is reduced.
Finding the the most adequate farmers to harvest cocoa beans. The beans are dried out to further develop flavor prevention. It is also during this process that moisture content in the beans are reduced to improve the storability.
During roasting, the beans are brought to the right temperature, which brings out the flavors and aromas that characterize the chocolate.
The finished chocolate is tempered to allow the formation of the right cocoa butter crystals to give it a smooth and shiny appearance, and then poured into bar moulds. The Process of Making Chocolate
Defective beans and non-cacao materials (like rocks, metals, and leaves) are sorted and separated, leaving only healthy cacao beans for the roasting process.
The cocoa beans are broken into small pieces called nibs, and the shells are separated from the nibs during the winnowing process.
The nibs are ground into a paste called cocoa liquor and mixed with other ingredients such as cocoa butter and sugar. The mixture is refined to form a silky smooth chocolate.
Pedestrian and Vehicle Traffic
Sun Diagram and Wind Path
Once solidified, the bars are moved from the moulds and meticulously wrapped then packaged.
Site Plan
Purple | Noise
Red | Views
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Spatial Relationships
Packaging Mech
Shipping
Test Kitchen
Loading/ Recieving
Storage Area
General Storage Chocolate Process RR
Cafe
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1 | Entrance / Reception 2 | Chocolate Manufactoring Process 3 | Test Kitchen 4 | Packaging 5 | Shipping 6 | Storage Area 7 | General Storage 8 | Restrooms 9 | Mechanical 10 | Garden 11 | Loading / Recieving Dock 12 | CafĂŠ 13 | Offices & Conference Room 14 | Outside Patio
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Section B
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Interior Perspective
CafĂŠ
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TOTally Kids Daycare Center Location | Aegina, Greece Fall 2019 | Fourth Year Professor | Eleni Katsoufi Drury University The Daycare Center is located in Aegina, Greece 45 kms from Athens. The town is close-knit and pides itself on the community.The site sits on lat hill that overlooks the sea and neighbors an old orphange. The main obective is to create a space for child growth. The building focuses on the social, mental, physical, and emotional rentention for children in Aegina. The daycare will host 50 kids ranging from two to ive years of age. The formality of spaces are clear that make it easier or children to navigate through the space. There is a small amount of complexity of space on the second floor that creates a focal point of views. The material used are natural tones allowing the children to have easier experince for learning and playing. Each classroom is different in shape but contains the same dimesnion. The langauge of the building has a clear axis and continuty of spaces that connects the inside and outside. The main design strategy was creating spaces that are inside but feel as if the user is outside by the utilization of glass and full operable sliding doors.
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PEDESTRIAN
Clear Divison & Grid of Spaces
Conceptual Approach The different types of developements that will occur in this space. Focusing on the growth of the children to become the best verisons of themselve in a fun learning space. All four aspects are intuitive to eachother and have to work together not seperate. Physical
Emotional
Mental
Social
Circulation & Center Point
VEHICULAR
Public vs. Private
NOISE
Linearity Relationship
WIND VIEWS
SHADING
Clear axis and seperation of spaces. Creating the activity rooms more dynamic by shifting and pulling spaces in the vertical azis and horizontal axis. The activity rooms end up having more intimate niches and areas for quiet or alone time.
BUSY STREET UNBUSY STREET MULTI-PURPOSE EDUCATIONAL PEDESTRIAN
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1 | Classroom One 2 | Classroom Two 3 | Classroom Three 4 | Laundry 5 | Mechanical 6 | Library 7 | Sleep Room 8 | Clinic 9 | Office 10 | Recpetion Desk 11 | Restroom 12 | Break Room 13 | Cafeteria 14 | Outside Patio 15 | Playground 16 | Multi-Purpose 17 | Garden
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Classroom One
Section of Classroom One
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Chicago’s Community Performing Art Center Location | Goose Island, Chicago, IL Fall 2018 | Third Year Professor | Yong Huang Drury University Art is no longer easy access to the public with bulletproof boxes, ropes, "do not touch" signs, and alarms. These traditional procedures are important, however, lacks the physical interaction. The Community Art Center will serve the community as a performing arts hub and cater to the youth through the interactive spectrum of art and understanding the physical aspects. This center will activate the learning experience and host dance lessons, singing lessons, instrumental lessons, acting courses, recitals, and performances. There are three main halls containing dance, theater, choir and band.The main theater stage can serve for performances, plays, recitals and even be extended for walkways i.e. fashion shows. All of the activities take place on the second level, while the first level also has a cafÊ for those who are stopping by and want to sit in the courtyard and have views of the river. The river drops down 10 feet from ground level and will be a gathering area for people to interact and a stop for the water taxi.
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Goose Island is located northwest of downtown Chicago and is known for their craft of brewing. It is a historically industrial site that pays homage to the brick-cladded buildings of the past. The North Branch Canal that connects to the Chicago River is a part of the site. Near the site there are commercial, industrial, and residential areas. The Art Center is located at the intersection of W. Division and N. Kingsbury and shares a lot with the Garden of Books Pavilion that caters to the meainings and roles of books in our contemporary urbanism.
1 1 | Combine 2 | Extrude 3 | Unification 4 | Interlock
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Site Plan
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Theater Stage
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Exterior Perspective of Courtyard
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Path of Experiences Spring 2017 | First Year Professor | Gerard Nadeau Drury University This project focuses on landscape topography and miro-climate conditions. The intriguing path through the site includes both open and enclosed spaces with a chimney swift tower attracting chimney swift birds and visitors. The columns are placed to emphasize the connection and directionality between the spaces visibly and implied.
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Chimney Swift
Chimney Swift Tower Design
A bird best identified by the smudge-gray nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects and bathe. Its tiny body, curving wings, and stiff, shallow wingbeats give it a flight and distinctive style. Chimney Swifts are among the most aerial of birds, spending almost their entire life airborne except when roosting overnight and nesting. When they do come to rest, they never sit on perches like most birds. Their long claws are suited only for clinging to the walls of chimneys and other vertical surfaces. During migration, thousands of swifts roost together in chimneys, funneling into them at dusk in spectacular tornado-like flocks.
The tower is a long, gray stone trapezoidal prism fixture, developed to enhance the livability of the chimney swift birds. Each prism increasingly gets larger from the bottom to top to emphasize the tornado-like funneling of the birds. The opening of the structure is about 2' by 2' and narrows down to 1'5" by 1'5".
Chaetura pelagica
Air space Corner Bracing
Trapezodial Panel
Sky Gray Stone Breeding Migration
Bolts to connect each panel
North Amercian Map of Chimney Swifts
Right | Exploded Axon
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Circulation & Views
The design strategy focuses on the use of ordering principles of architecture utilizing centralization and linear orders to create both intimate and public spaces. Starting from the bottom, the main enclosed space where the chimney swift tower is located, is where obsevation of birds take place. Approaching the secondary space to the northeast, promotes views to the tower that enables an apprehensive pause. The two highest spaces frame views towards the tower. Before stepping up to the highest open space there is a cantilevered overhang to emphasize the continuity of the main bottom space. All three spaces have secondary and tertiary niches to serve as rest spots and viewpoints. The arrows portray directionallity, while the red rays illustate the views that the user will have to and from the desirable spaces. Centralization
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EDUCATION Drury University
Master of Architecture 2021 (expected) | Springfield, MO
Drury University
Minor in Business Administration 2021 (expected) | Springfield, MO
EXPERIENCE Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP (SOM) Intern | Spring Break 2019 | Chicago, IL Assisted in the design process and development and utilization of computer-assisted design software. Participated with current company leaders through mentoring high school students in the ACE Mentor Program.
Vecino Group Intern | May - August 2019 | Springfield, MO Assisted team with on going projects through design development, construction documents, and presentations. Worked with clients to solve issues in the built environment.
Vector Marketing
Branch Manager & Sales Representative June 2017 – Present | Houston, TX Owned and managed Branch Office ranked 3rd in Sales for Southwest, Texas. Recruited and trained sales representatives responsible for maximizing sales through aggressive networking, referrals, and sales presentations. Fostered strong relationships with customers and sales staff. Ranked 47th Top Sales Representative in the US of 2017.
ACHIEVEMENTS Drury University Track & Field Discuss and Shot-Put record holder 2016 – Present | Springfield, MO National Honor Society of High School Students Member | 2013 – 2016 Texas High School Track & Field Discuss Event Placed 1st in All District & All Area. 13th in State | 2016
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Tiara Hughes, NOMA Senior Urban Designer Founder of FIRST 500 Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) 224 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1000 Chicago, IL 60604 314-809-4732 tlhughes00@gmail.com
High School Basketball All District Player | 2016 Houston, TX
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & VOLUNTEER WORK National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) Founding President of Drury University Chapter | Present American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Member | 2016 - Present Design Build Club Vice President & Member | 2016- Present | Drury University
Mark Tuttle Design Director Vecino Group 444 South Campbell Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65806 417-522-8323 mtuttle@vecinogroup.com
Black United Independent Collegiates (BUIC) Vice President & Member | 2017- Present | Drury University Ozarks Food Harvest – Nonprofit Organization Volunteer | 2018 | Springfield, MO Adopt a street (Greene County) Volunteer | 2017 – Present | Springfield, MO
SKILLS Adobe Suite, Revit, CAD, Sketch Up, 3DS Max, Formit 360, Rhino, Grasshopper, Laser Cutting, Woodworking, 3D printing.
Traci Sooter, FAIA LEED Accredited Professional Drury University 900 N. Benton Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802 417-234-6405 tsooter@drury.edu
THANK YOU
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry