Kierstin Beaumont UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Architecure Portfolio
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it — lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...” Luke 14: 28-29
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New York Tower
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Vertical Programming
Scaling Wilderness
The Manhattan Block
Content of Selected Work
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Nexus at 2nd Ave.
Urban Impressions
Witters Competition 2012
Filtering Luminosity
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The Manhattan Block Partner: Kelly Shea Critic: Alfonso Perez Architectural Design Year 4
Rethinking the typology of Manhattan’s existing blocks is the generator for the form that emerged. The homogeneity of this block distinguishes its self from others. Those existing are a conglomeration of different aesthetics and tectonics. Another driver for the form was the pace of the city and the pedestrian bustle. The courtyard slice through the construct, either expediting travel, or allow for commerce and enjoyment. The block is mixed use including retail on the ground, a theatre, a commercial tower, and a raised art walk. The courtyard takes is generation from the essence of the highline that punctures the site, connecting visually from either side of the block. The constructed block engulfs the highline above and below with a residential tower to the east. The musical screen creates a uniformity to the very diverse programs and provide an operable solar filter. The grandiose stuctural concrete masses the block and contracting with the light glass and steel plinth create a sculptual effect.
The transitory essence of the highline is transferred to the courtyard. Visually the block opens up to the highline allowing pedestrians to get a glimpse of the life at the heart of the blocks just before they are encompassed my the sculptural tectonics of the housing tower that like to the raised artwalk.
Interior Theatre
Scaling Wilderness Critic: Bradley Walters Architectural Design Year 2
The desert is a barren condition not only lacking water but also scale. Programming a spatial construct with only the infinite horizon a reference to measure lends infinite decisions when intervening in such a place. Given the program of a scientific research and art laboratory, water color generators diagramming past projects gave life to form and the hierarchical organization of the spaces. The uniformity emphasizes the convergence of field and moment. This node alters its immediate context, sharing its spatial features while embracing the context that is has given definition.
Vertical Programming Critic: Bradley Walters Architectural Design Year 2
The form for this vertical promenade was generated from a visual diagram of a song. The images of the moments that make up the tower are strung together by the diagram that birthed them. The layers of varying transparencies and scales are indicative of the qualities of the song, its instruments and organization. The two nodes were designed by the use the structure of the music. The upper node is the more private, library while the lower moment is a music room and studio. Qualities from each node infiltrate the other by means of the armature that links and stabilizes the two interventions
New York Tower Partner: Kelly Shea Critic: Alfonso Perez Architectural Design Year 4
Manhattan, New York is strictly organized on two intersecting distinct grids. On a large scalar analysis this marks the city with a regimented scale and tempo. In order to address a cityscape as fast pace and pulse-like as Manhattan, one must consider the inhabitant as a unit of measure in a matrix of time and space. In a majority housing tower it is important to understand the uniformity of the housing that one the unit is solve the housing answers its own questions and can be blocked out as a given feature. Thus remain for the ground and semi-public space to organize within the framework of this accepted block. On the ground Manhattan belongs to its attractors, either place to buy or to be. The semi-public scale induces interactions between inhabitants that are often compartmentalized and segregated.
Shadow Diagram
Housing Block Morphology and Views
The interstitial semi-public spaces that weave the housing tectonically are reminiscent of the pace and technical structure of the city as these qualities are universally understood by the city’s inhabitants. This allows for further commonalities as the single and family units come together promoting diverse interaction with neighborhoods.
Massing
Structure
Glass
Push
Filtering Luminosity Critic: Thomas Smith Environmental Technology Year 4
The concept behind the design of this lamp was to explore the variability of a filter to impact the aesthetic and luminous quality of a space. The core of the lamp is a mask that diffuses light. Enveloping the mask is a filter composed of a number of mutable modules. The modules are four linear element bound together in such a way that each joint is able to be pushed or pulled individually, altering on the larger scale the entire form of the lamp in a tessellating fashion. This variability may be organized or chaotic depending on the space.
overall
adjustable filter
mask
modular morphologies
structure
section
site
Witters Competition 2012
Partner: Andrew Padron, Roland Faust, Lauren Shepard, Jake Landreneas Critic: Thomas Smith 24 Hour Student Competition Year 4
Downtown Gainesville already has a great variety of bars, clubs, restaurants, commercial office space, and boutique retail shops. However, the nature of most of this development in downtown only lends itself to a lively community atmosphere only during particular times. Bars and clubs are only lively late at night, restaurants are occupied until the late evening at most, and offices are only open during regular business hours. What downtown lacks is a true 24-hour sense of community — new development in downtown needs to provide the appropriate space for creating and sustaining a lively sense of community. Overall residential space in downtown is currently limited. Local neighborhoods just outside of the core commercial district such as Duckpond, Porters Community, and Pleasant Street have a good amount of housing stock, but it’s mostly limited to single-family housing, apartment houses, and ancillary dwellings. To make matters worse, there is a high level of economic segregation in the residential area surrounding the core commercial district – Pleasant Street and Porters Community both have low-income populations with median incomes of $16,276 and $13,284 respectively, while Duckpond has a median income of $32,559.
We aim to address the shortage of housing stock in the downtown area for families of all income levels – we want to create a larger long-term population in the neighborhood. This larger long-term population will greatly enhance the identity and sense of community. Our design incorporates a range of housing stock for different income levels tightly integrated together in one development. To further enhance the sense of community, our plan includes a mixture of commercial and residential space to encourage walkability. Included in the plan is a neighborhood market, which will serve as a focal point for constant street activity in the downtown area.
Environment: - Permeable pavers in the parking bay and alleyway provide a way to filter and absorb excess stormwater runoff - A central closed-loop vertical geothermal heat pump system will drastically re duce HVAC energy use; loop will be located under open northwest corner - Geothermal system will be much more durable than a conventional heat pump system; system will be designed to last about 50 years rather than 10-20. - Exterior screens will shade the exterior windows on the south/west/east exterior and help reduce cooling costs in warm weather - Exterior screens and non-garden rooftop areas will be painted with IR-reflective Tex-Cote paint, which will help decrease solar heat and further reduce cooling costs in warm weather - Concrete and steel will be supplied by local vendors - Steel will be reusable - Sloping loop and exterior screen lead rainwater into a collection system; rain water will be stored for watering gardens on rooftop and northwest open lot area - Building will feature a common bike storage/ changing area for commuters - Showerheads in the apartments and the bike changing area will use 30% less water than conventional showerheads - Toilets throughout the building will feature two flushing options designed to re duce water use - Low-flow aerator faucets throughout the building will further reduce water usage - The neighborhood market will provide all residents of downtown with a close, walkable option for healthy food and help eliminate the “food desert” - Energy efficient design will save 472,265 kWh over conventional “suburban” home design -– 1,311,845 vs 839,580kWh
social equity: - healthy mixture of housing stock variety and price levels helps to integrate the differing income levels of the community - more residents will help make downtown feel more like a community – the extra population will help increase the amount of street life around the entire clock, making the area feel more vibrant/feel less empty and neglected. These extra “eyes on the street” will help reduce unwanted criminal activity and make the area feel safer overall
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Triple
Urban Impressions Critic: Martin Gundersen Architectural Theory Year 4
This image construct is a layered diagrammatic representation of my experiences of the urban context of Manhattan New York. The supposition of the grid over the gestural diagram and skewed imagery emphasize the power of pace
over every aspect of the city. The transitional boundaries between black and white create a play between figure and ground of structures and create a sense of measure. This grid is significant because it is the es-
sence of organization that anchors the seemingly chaotic collage over which it is overlain. In this construct the overlaid map erases part of images depicting demand of the pulse on the city.
Nexus at 2nd Ave: Gainesville, FL Partner: Carolina Alvarez Critic: Thomas Smith Architectural Design Year 2
Nexus at 2nd Avenue is a mixed use building located in historical downtown Gainesville. The program is composed of housing, a commercial sector, and retail stores on the ground. The word nexus is defined as a means of connection. This is the very essence of this complex. It links two of the most lively parts of Gainesville: the campus and the night life of downtown. The 10 retail shops and 10 offices make it a hub of commerce and interaction. Attractors such as the central courtyard and semi-public amenities help to tie the pedestrian traffic and revitalize the Gainesville downtown area. The concept for the form of the building began with a desire to optimize daylighting with a recessed terrace concept. After research into the needs of the site and city and formal exploration came a centrifugal concept in which the floor( C-shaped floor plans) would rotate around a central courtyard. This rotation allowed for large open spaces in the 6 upper housing floors for great amenities such as a gym, pool, theatre, garden, and a roof garden that has views out to Payne’s Praire. The push and pull of the apartment units allow for every other apartment to have its own balcony space.
North-South Section
East-West Section
Retail Louvre Section South Facade
There are 6 total types of apartments: single and double story 1, 2, and 3 bedroom aparments. The balconies on every other apartment help to create musciality in the facade as well as the option for either private outdoor space or more interior space. All six types of apartments are on each floor, promoting interaction amost people of different living style and socio-econimical backgrounds. The c-shaped floor plates are replicate evey fourth floor. With each floor the apartment layouts are mirror over the eastwest and north-south axes so as to increase constructability. These qualities combined provide an a full housing experience. The amenities that the design afforded are another great aspect for increasing sense of community. The residents and their guest have a number of options for coming together and enjoying themselves. The location of these amenities make them viewable from the street emphasizing the livability of the housing. The retail on the ground combined with these semi-public areas for recreation and enjoyment make Nexus at 2nd Ave. truly a destination.
Kierstin Angelica Beaumont bball14@ufl.edu 904-414-1680
Work Experience
Education
Bachelor of Architectural Design University of Florida, May 2012
GIS Support Technician (2010-2012) Digitizing with ArcGIS
Master of Building Construction University of Florida, exp. May 2014
Skills/Software
Revit Rhinoceros Photoshop Indesign Powerpoint On Screen Takeoff
Autocad Ecotect Illustrator Excel Word
Community/Involvement
National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Vice President Haiti Disease Research Designer Habitat for Humanity AIA UF Student Chapter Member Association of Builders and Contractors (ABC) Member Bible Camp Counselor/Bible Bowl Coach