ASHLEIGH DANIEL Architectural Design Portfolio selected works
ASHLEIGH DANIEL
+1 210.854.8687 asheigh.t.daniel@gmail.com
EDUCATION Spring 2017 - Dec 2018
Texas Tech University [Lubbock, TX] Master of Architecture Certificate in Urban Design & Planning Current GPA: 3.5 December 2018
Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2016
Texas Tech University [Lubbock, TX] Bachelor of Science in Architecture Cumulative GPA: 3.344
Aug. 2009 - June 2013
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School Cumulative GPA: 4.0
Study Abroad Experience
Summer 2016 | Verona, Italy March 2018 | São Paulo, Brazil
EMPLOYMENT May 2017 - July 2017
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects [Midland, TX] Architectural Intern
October 2017 - August 2018
WCA Design Studio [Lubbock, TX] Architectural Intern
June 2018 - August 2018
Studio Gang Architects [New York City, NY] Architectural Intern
January 2019 - February 2020
GFF Architects [Dallas, TX] Team Member
ORGANIZATIONS August 2014 - December 2018
AIAS | American Institute of Architecture Students
August 2014 - present
Alpha Lambda Delta & Phi Eta Sigma Honor Societies
HONORS + AWARDS Fall 2013
Dean’s List
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
Mike Moss Endowment
Fall 2013 - Fall 2016
Presidential Scholarship
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
AIA Lubbock Endownment + Graduate Grants
Fall 2018
Graduate Barrich Architecture Scholarship
2019
GFF Texas Architectural Firm of the Year
SCHOLARSHIP + PUBLICATION Fall 2014
Folly Device Motion study of the human body condition with and without a folly device that henders a daily activity, diagraming motion in space. Further studies investigate the body within permanent space.
Fall 2016
The Poetic Potential of Computers Explorations of digital media + physical material as interchangeable instruments in a design environment. Emphasis on experiential and sensorial perception.
Fall 2016
Watercolor Explorations Water color study exploring spatial constructs of invented realities.
Fall 2017
Atmosphere of Transparencies Constructed forms of light and transparency, mixed media.
[09-19] March 2018
Brazil Studio | 50 Units in 50 Hours Collaborate Studio: TTU_CoA + FAU Mackenzie | São Paulo, Brazil www.area--x.org
March 2018
Housing as Infrastructure: São Paulo’s Tamanduatei District AULA Symposium: Porous Borders | El Paso, TX, USA
2019
CROP 08 Publication in Crop 08 | TTU CoA
14 April 2019
Metropolitan America Exhibition Centre de design de l'UQAM | Ontario, Canada https://www.be-pi.ca/inventories https://centrededesign.smugmug.com/Saison-2018-2019/INVENTAIRES-URBAINS-Exposition/i-SGjndFB
RESEARCH + COLLABORATION Summer 2016
Urban Studio | Verona Lab Zoning Process + Public Space Verona, Italy
Fall 2017
Urban Theory | Cyclical Urbanity Manifesto + Catalytic Mapping Studies
Spring 2018
Brazil Studio | Housing Line Tamanduaei District, São Paulo, Brazil www.area--x.org
Fall 2018
KSE Studio | Metropolitan America Urban Explorations https://ksestudio.com/
DIGITAL LITERACY Autodesk: AutoCAD, Revit Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, Premier Rhinoceros SketchUp Lumion (Intermediate) Vray for Rhinoceros Grasshopper (Intermediate) Microsoft Suites Form Z Physical Modeling
Undergraduate Work 2013 - 2016
ZONING PROCESS //
Verona Studio Summer 2016
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DEVICE + FIELD // Lubbock Bathhouse Spring 2015
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TENSILE MECHANISM // Observation and Convention Center Spring 2017
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Graduate Work 2016 - 2018
LINEAR INTERFACE //
A Building that Exhibits Itself Fall 2017
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HOUSING LINE // p.31 - 48 Infrastructural Design + Social Housing Spring 2018
METROPOLITAN AMERICA // Oil Production + Energy Fall 2018
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ZONING PROCESS //
// LOCATION: Verona, Italy // COLLABORATOR: Dianze Wu // PROFESSOR: David Isern // STUDY: Urban Design // PROGRAM: Public Space // YEAR: Summer 2016
VERONA STUDY ABROAD
The Verona Lab focuses on the conditions of the urban city in the 21st century, especially those cities like Verona that have a significant historic heritage and now face the transition to new urban conditions. The program operates as a form of design-based critical inquiry. It emphasizes a re-assessment as a multi-scale approach to the historic urban site (local, neighborhood, metropolitan, regional and global scales) relative to questions of program, infrastructure, contest and cultural changes in order to project proposals as an innovative reflection of our current information society. Re-designing portions of existing structures with insertions for public use, and including the public space relative to the context. The architectural scale is integrated to the urban conditions and environment. Emphasis on analysis of architectural and urban layers as related to changes and transformations over time. The Verona Lab initiates with a reflection on the urban site and how transformational processes determine the quality of site conditions; interpretations of the city of Verona's past will facilitate projections of its futures. Finally, the generation of formal and programmatic solutions based on strategic cultural and site analysis leads to the design of new urban and architectural presences at several levels.
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INFORMATIONAL SCANNING // Individual zones are scanned for qualities that define each zone: Activity, Scale, Crossings, Edges, Connections, and Levels. Theseindividualized zones of interest are then hybridized and transformed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional diagrams in order to realize the inherent spacial qualities within the urban context and relations of each zone. The end result, the final hybridized form created from connections between zones and integration into the site, generates the three layers that result in a system of distinguished functionality for the programmatic organization: Transition, Collective, and Program.
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VERONA, ITALY //
The historical city of Verona has layers of infrastucture resting ontop of each other throughout the city, and the evidence of different eras of history are evident throughoutthe town. The main focus of the livelyhood of the people of Verona is the Adige River in whichthe city was built upon. Through figure-ground drawings and diagrams of Piazzas, the city isfurther understood from an urban perspective.
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SHIFTING SIEVE // // LOCATION: Lubbock, TX, USA // PROFESSOR: Mari Michael Glassell // STUDY: Device // PROGRAM: Seeve + Matter // YEAR: Spring 2015
DEVICE + FIELD
“WHEREAS WHEN YOU START TO LOOK AT VARIATIONS IN A FIELD, DIFFERENCE IS NO LONGER ISOLATED BUT FORMS EMERGENT WHOLES NOT REDUCIBLE TO THE SUM OF THEIR PARTS.” -ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS A device is constructed from the outcomes of an experiement of diagnostic testing through pouring three different materials with varying viscocities through a kitchen seeve. The three liquids [ink, soap and glue] are clearly seen through evidence of interactions between device and field in the pour. These trajectories seen on the field are then mapped into three categories: Matter, Tempo, and Substrate. Hybridizing these diagrams, the mapping produces a continuing process of shifting within the materials on the field. These investigations lead to the generation of an operable device, in which the same three viscocities are tested to judge the preformance. The device shifts the three materials in all directions, while ending in a final collection at the terminus.
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SIEVE // The device is derivative of the original pour of three materials with different viscocities, which are poured through a common kitchen utensil, the seeve. The diagrams above analyze the operations of the tool when it is in use, therefore give greater insight on how the materials might react when poured.
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FIELD // The pour, showed above, is then diagrammed with three systems that show the relationship between device and field. This diagnostic mapping shows the result of the operations performed by the device, as well as the density and direction of each viscocity and their relationship to each other.
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DEVICE // The device constructed to perform a similar movement of the diagnostic testing, shifting, is shown on the right. This device is used to direct the three viscocities in the same manner as the original household mechanism, but reinvented to challenge the notion of the device and field.
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LUBBOCK BATH HOUSE // // LOCATION: Lubbock, TX, USA // PROFESSOR: Mari Michael Glassell // STUDY: Device + Field // PROGRAM: Bath House // YEAR: Spring 2015
DEVICE + FIELD
Investigating how architecture can perform, through integration of site, program, and device. Internal relationships engage in a choregraphed performance of the site, space, and object. Focusing on the act of bathing, the project addresses the many different ways and sequences that bathing can be programmed to perform. Object and field from the previous stages start to integrate themselves into building and context through utilization of the system of shifting developed in the earlier stages.
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SITE PLAN | RHIZOME MAP // Collective information is gathered and superimposed into a rhizome map over the site and surrounding context. The planar programmatic opacities are then integrated onto the site.
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TENSILE MECHANISM // A THOUSAND SPHERES
// LOCATION: White Sands, NM, USA // PROFESSOR: Ben Shacklette // STUDY: Urban Design // PROGRAM: Conservatory | Conference Center // YEAR: Spring 2017
dunes
projected area
Stereographic projection is mapping function which projects a sphere onto a two dimensional plane. Through processes this tool is used as a mechanism to locate points of interest and importance within the volume of a sphere. Utilizing the points, a network is created that define relations within the boundary of a sphere relative to it’s internal geometry. This evolves into the framework for a generative system that produces infinite connections in which a tensile structure can be formed.
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STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION // In geometry, stereographic projection is a particular mapping function that projects a sphere onto a plant. The projection is defined on the entire sphere, except at one point: the projection point. Where it is definted, the mapping is smooth and bijective. It is conformal, preserving angles. It is neither isometric nor area-preserving: that is, it preserves neither distances not the area of figures. 22
LINEAR INTERFACE // A BUILDING THAT EXHIBITS ITSELF
// LOCATION: Site undeclared // PROFESSOR: Bennett Nieman // STUDY: Poetics // PROGRAM: A Building that Exhibits Itself // YEAR: Fall 2017
The building which exhibits itself is an architectonic sequence facility. Linear elements are layered and laminated upon each other to generate phenomenal spaces with a sense of movement and direction. Blurring interior and exterior spaces with the use of transparent and opaque materials, interactions between the user and the space are put on display. With this notion of the performer and the audience, the building is set as a stage for activity.
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ARCHITECTONIC ASSEMBLAGES // Iterations utiized the notion of constants and variables as a formal ordering system. Size, shape, treatment, and orientation are the underlying formal frameworks that generates spatial construction and sequences of experiences.
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HOUSING LINE //
BRAZIL STUDIO
// LOCATION: Tamanduatei District, São Paulo, Brazil // PROFESSOR: Kristine Stiphany // STUDY: Infrastructural Design + Social Housing // PROGRAM: Housing Line // YEAR: Spring 2018
This advanced studio examines the redevelopment of urban industrial corridors for social housing. It problematizes how human migration coevolves densly-packed settlements and barren, underutilized sites across the Latin Global South, and in this case within the last of São Paulo’s industrial districts. The multiscalar analysis of these patterns along five coupled sites at the margin of the Tamanduatei District - five favelas and five factory ruins - form the basis of the studio’s primary objective of putting low-income families at the front of São Paulo’s housing line. Displacement by way of corridor development is by no means endimic to São Paulo nor Latin America. Unique inthe case of São Paulo is that existing and proposed development corridors parallel an industrial zone that has long supported a succession in the city’s oldest informal settlements, as well as a series of factory ruins that, taken together, form a corridor that is neither acknowledged nor privileged for improvements. No longer geared towards just economic development, the transformation of infrastructure must catalyze relationships that better connect favelas and factories. This studio takes as a parti the notion of infrastructure coupling, and the potential of formal and informally-settled industrial sites to interact and reinforce one another - rather than just the outright displacement of the latter, as is growing increasingly typical once again. Utilizing Global and Brazilian precedents as an analysis to create an urban strategy, the concept of obduracy that catalyzes malleability and calibration of phenomenon, activity, and program is generated. Static aggregates of historical preservation give basis to obdurate forms, which catalyzes the manipulation of social housing and communitiy programs as a tool of revitilization.
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// LAT : (22.892224 S) // LONG : (43.233152 W) // 41,000 SQ METERS // 272 UNITS // 2 TYPOLOGIES // 2 VARIATIONS
BUILDING ANALYSIS // Ashleigh Daniel | ARCH 5502
Pedregulho [Affonso Eduardo Riedy]
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MOVEMENT //
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PARAMETRIC PROCESSES // The utilizatiom of 3D parametric tools generates form relative to typologies found to be emergent within precedent studies. Commonality found between both the Global precedent and Brazilian precedent are three areas of public and private spaces - the unit aggregate, corridor of ciruclation, and courtyard of public space. Examining these attributes at multiple scales give insight to systems within social housing and the larger informally settled corridor of the Tamanduatei District.
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METROPOLITAN AMERICA // OIL PRODUCTION + ENERGY // LOCATION: Denver City, TX, USA //COLLABORATOR: Jorge Ituarte-Arreola // PROFESSOR: Sofia Krimizi + Kyriakos Kyriakou // STUDY: Urbanism // PROGRAM: Metropolitan America // YEAR: Fall 2018
Our Metropolitan America is the physical representation of oil production and energy. Aiming to create a utopia of the oil industry in West Texas and takes it to a whole new level that capitalizes on economic gain for a town based on precedented research. The project gives an in depth analysis of the industrial energies and the scars they leave on the landscape. The analysis produces a palimpsest which underlies the project. Oil production and energy seeks to represent the future of oil in a small town in Texas. The town returns economic gain back into the creation a mountain of pleasurable programs that benefit the town and renewable resources.
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125 USD 1991 - Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait The Bush administration releases thirty-four million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in anticipation of an oil shock, but contrary to predictions, oil prices drop from about $30 per barrel in September to less than $20 in January.
1973 - The Arab Embargo is announced, creating gas lines, concerns about energy supplies and the beginning of a rise in crude oil prices from $4 a barrel to $25 a barrel by 1979, when the shah of Iran was overthrown, causing renewed turmoil in the oil markets.
2006 - Skyrocketing Oil Prices In 2006, a time of near record-high U.S. oil consumption and imports, oil prices begin to rise steadily, topping a record $147 a barrel in the summer of 2008.
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1986 - U.S. Diversifies Energy Consumption Oil prices had remained above $25 a barrel until early 1986, when they collapsed to $10 a barrel, sending shock waves through the economies of Midland and Texas.
1948: The European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan, helps war-torn Europe get access to petroleum imports.
20XX - Future of West Texas The future of oil will continue to increase as the years progress. Rent will begin to level out with the projection of the oil.
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1959: Cap on U.S. Oil Imports In 1959, the world once again faces an oversupply of oil and prices are slashed.
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1998 - Birth of the Super Majors Prices again sank to $10 a barrel, sending new shockwaves through the Midland economy and leading to the loss of thousands of jobs.
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2018 - Level out Oil The oil begins to level out. A boom will mostly like be in the near future.
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EXPLORATIONS + RESEARCH // The trip route commences by focusing on mapping the production and energy sources in the landscape of West Texas and New Mexico. Within this exploration, we came across a few different conditions. Some towns illustrated a perforation of energy, illustrated in black, in the town’s fabric while others kept it on the outskirts of city limits. If the town was created before the energy was introduced, the black does not pierce the city limits, as shown in the following drawings. Soon after these analysis of these mappings, our focus shifted to oil production in the landscape.
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DENSITY STUDIES // The design commences through a series of density studies and research allowing us to find the ideal percentage of oil [black] against the rest of the town, which comes to 30%. This percentage leads to a series of proposal options that explore arrangements based off of those density studies. Proposal 01 explores a centered perforation of the city fabric. Proposal 02 explores a centered cluster of oil production in the town. Proposal 03 explores a pirephery wall condition of oil. The final iteration explores a combination of 02 + 03, creating a wall-mountain condition.
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DENVER CITY EXPODED AXO // The following drawing illustrate the series of layers within the mountain scheme. Above Mountain: Recreation Education Renewable Energy - Windmills Mountain Surface Renewable Energy - Solar Panel Screens
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Below Mountain: Structure Oil Rigs Oil Pump Jacks Oil Refineries Oil Storage
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ASHLEIGH DANIEL
+1 210.854.8687 asheigh.t.daniel@gmail.com