Kayla Smith
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Austin New Music Center
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Star Archive
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Alamo Landscape
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Austin Swim Center
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Pinhole Camera
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Kinder Havana
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Runaway Folding Shelter
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Homeless Family Center
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Illustrations Samples
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Resume
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Austin New Music Center Loc: Program:
1114 E 11th, Austin, TX Music performance, practice, and recording Instructor: Michael Benedict Semester: Fall 2011 This center for an avante-garde community of musicians, situated across the highway from Downtown Austin in a growing neighborhood, holds two indoor performance spaces, an outdoor performance space INSERT classrooms, INSERT practice room, a recording studio, offices, and snack bar. The building is a concrete structure with stucco finish and a glazed brick rainscreen exterior skin. The performance spaces can be seen from the courtyard as pods All rooms in this space are designed based on a 3-5-8 ratio, which allows for optimal acoustics.
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12’ x 9’ x 15’ blocks carved from the original L-shaped form
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Slits in form’s face where performance space “pods” push into the courtyard
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Fenestration cuts through outer skin alone; all cuts wrap an edge of the form
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Star Archive
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Program: Archive Space Instructor: Charlton Lewis Semester: Fall 2008 In this design, the building is literally the object archived. The spherical shell houses a life-size armillary sphere charting the astrological constellations and the earth’s equatorial plane. The 12 ft tall sundial, archive, and stargazing platform are arranged along a symmetrical axis, emulating processions to temples of ancient times.
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Alamo Landscape Location: 300 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX Program: Plaza before Historic Alamo Instructor: Judy Birdsong Semester: Fall 2010 Redesign of the Alamo Plaza, focused on memory of the land. Swelled landscape and a wall hides the row of tourist shops visually and acoustically. Stone pavings trace former structures of the mission, military compound, and later park.
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Swim Center Location: Ladybird Lake, Austin, TX Program: Natatorium Instructor: John Blood Semester: Spring ‘11
This project consists of two schemes: an indoor olympic sized natatorium for swimming and diving competitions, and an outdoor recreational pool with wading zone, cafe, and waterslide.
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Competition v. Recreation The competition pool addresses the downtown district as an event node; the recreational pool greets the park as a communal gathering space. The competition pool boasts an intricate roof structure of leaping diagonals, the recreational pool an overlapping system of pathways exploring the space around these two zones. Connection Through At the shaded cafe space, a window peers into the underwater world of the competition pool above, bridging the barrier between these two spaces as onlookerser watch swimmers and divers from an uncommon viewpoint. 18
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Pinhole Camera
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Three-Part Exploration Build:
Create working pinhole camera of original design
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Photograph instances of light over time
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Analyze photographic explorations threedimensionally
Kinder Havana
Location: Program: Instructor: Semester: Collaboration With:
Havana, Cuba Kindergarten Cisco Gomes Spring 2012 Jodie Golla
site plan This kindergarten lies across the bay from Havana’s city center, near a historic military fort garding the port city. It is secluded in a cove within the larger port.
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The school was designed with the idea of learning by exploring. The main program of the building is below the entrance level inside a cove; a world known only to the young students. All classrooms have direct access to the outdoors, and to the courtyard playground through a raised brise soleil gallery.
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Room Study The lunchroom and classrooms were of particular focus for this project. The lunchroom is enveloped in translucent channel glass, and opens out directly onto the playground. It is the only room that breaks the square form of the building. Pendant lights trace the level change in this room. All classrooms are grouped in pairs, sharing a bathroom. The interior is divided into activity zones. Each room opens out to a screened breezeway on the courtyard side.
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Irregularly 13.5% Regularly 31.5%
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individual + pair plan BF/GF 8.8% Other Int. 3.7%
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Shelter 3.7% Hospital 1.2% Rooftop 2.4% Abandoned Bldg. 3.7%
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Where They Stay
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Transportable Shelter for Homeless Teen Instructor: Ellizabeth Danze w/ Sarah Dooling & Steve Sonnenberg Semester: Spring 2013
A runaway teen is disconnected from all social resources at a critical stage in development. In response, this shelter promotes camaraderie and intimacy by becominng a room when two or more are connected. The entire system folds out from a backpack such that the users are inside the shelter once assembled., and find solace in each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company.
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Program: Center for Homeless Families Location: 502 Pampa Drive, Austin, Texas Instructor: Ellizabeth Danze w/ Sarah Dooling & Steve Sonnenberg
Semester: Spring 2013
This center was designed with the aim of fostering community, within each family, between all residing families, and between these families and those living in the adjacent neighborhood.
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Close attention was paid to the courtyard as a primary social node. All housing units face the courtyard, with a wall that opens up onto a porch shared between two pods. Children have plenty of space to play outdoors in a safe place. Pathways and pockets of seating allow moments of conversation.
A center for homeless families requires many more services outside of housing. Case managersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offices, medical services, job training, a library, and child care are all housed in a separate building, with each service open to the public as well. The childcare spaces in particular are anticipated to serve the larger community. Through this service, residents will find a place in a community once more and gain the confidence to nurture a successful family.
Illustration Samples Digital Painting
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restaurant tower
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Analysis Sketches
Illustration Samples Louisiana Art Museum Section
Loc: Studio: Instructor: Year:
HumlebĂŚk, Denmark Europe Study Abroad Visual Communications John Blood | Elizabeth Danze Fall 2012
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Stockholm, Sweden Europe Study Abroad Visual Communications John Blood | Elizabeth Danze Fall 2012
Stockholm in Section
Illustration Samples Game Artwork
Game Title: Platform: Collaboration with: Release Date:
“Sundial” Windows Phone Stuart Holland of Sergeus Studios August 2013
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Instructor: Semester:
Life Drawing
Laura Sturtz Fall 2009
Resume Work Experience: • •
Pfluger Associates Architects, Austin, Tx., Jan 2008- Aug 2012 Sentech Architectural Solutions, Austin, Tx, June - Nov 2010
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Pfluger Associates Projects: • • • • • • •
Designed library space for new Leander High School Created Revit model for Monastery project Prepared presentation drawings of various projects Created library of construction details in Revit Worked in project files in AutoCAD Organized project Spec Book Visited construction sites to carry out punch list
Sentech Architectural Solutions Projects: • • •
Created library of glass fitting details in AutoCad Created drawing sets for various projects to send to Project Architect Created company project presentations
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Senior Student Assistant for Professor Elizabeth Danze with Overland Architects, compiling book on homelessness
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Design Assistant for Design 4 studio under Professor Charlton Lewis, Spring 2013 University of Texas Music & Architecture Symposium Stage Design/Build with team of three, Fall 2011 Mural Projects Designer and Supervisor at Pearl Street Cooperative Housing, Fall 2009 - Summer 2011 AIAS member Fall 2010, Officer 2011 - 2012
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Independent Research Travel on Case Study Houses in Los Angeles, California, Summer 2012 Producing all artwork for cell phone game start-up,
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas; Class of 2013 _ École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - Belleville; International Student, Fall 2012 NYOS Charter School, Austin, Texas; Class of 2008; Salutatorian The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, Summer of Architecture, Summer 2007
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Recent graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture seeking full-time employment with an architectural firm aimed at bettering their clients lives by bettering the setting for life.
11900 Doubloon Cove #A Austin, Texas, 78759
23901 Lakeside Drive Marble Falls, Texas, 78654
C: (512) 740 - 0642 E: kaylasmithg@gmail.com
artbykla.tumblr.com
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Autodesk Revit Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Rhino
highly proficient proficient highly proficient proficient moderate novice
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Mebane Travel Scholarship Recipient, Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient,
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AIAS Beaux Arts Ball Planning Committee, 2011 & 2012 AIAS Pump Project Design Contest 1st Place, Fall 2010 Life Drawing piece selected for display at Dougherty Arts Center, Spring 2010 UTSOA Scholarship Recipient, Fall 2009 Devourer of books Avid Cook Amateur Guitarist Elementary understanding of French
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