Architecture Grad School Potfolio

PORTFOLIO ASHLEY HICKMAN

1 CONVENTION CENTER

UC Berkeley, Critic Andrew Atwood, Fall 2016

Design for a 1.8 million sqaure foot addition to the Las Vegas Convetion Center. Program requires one million square feet of uninterrupted exhibit hall space. The follies contain meeting rooms, bathrooms, offices, and large ballrooms which plug into various locations providing relief from the mundane, repetitive, exhbit hall space below. Color is meant to add confusion to the follies and allow them to contrast in some areas and blend in others. Image above is first floor plan showing uninterrupted exhibit hall space.

Roof plan showing the follies in the site context. Site is just off of Las Vegas Boulevard.

Zoomed in birds eye plan oblique.

Worms eye plan oblique showing feet of follies poking through exhibit hall.

Interior renderings of uninterrupted exhibit hall space.

Interior renderings of uninterrupted exhibit hall space.

2 GOOD FOOD

UC Berkeley, Critic Bill DiNapoli, Spring 2016

Construction section and elevation detail for food hall in San Francisco, California.

Section of food hallf showing eating space, rental kitchens, auditorium, vertical farm, and main stair.

3 THE STAIR

UC Berkeley, Critic Dominique Price, Fall 2015

interior perspectives

east elevation

20TH STREET

A preliminary project on which the following library project is based. Program calls for a building that is a public stair that bridges from 20th street down the slope. Program includes stairs, observation points, and enclosed personal reflection rooms.

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admin offices

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reading nook reading room community meeting room teens stacks and reading childrens stacks and reading

4 LIBRARY

UC Berkeley, Critic Dominique Price, Fall 2015

The library is located in Potrero Hill in San Francisco, CA and builds upon the earlier stair project. It includes book stacks, reading rooms, children’s specific rooms, meeting rooms, a roof top terrace, and offices. The site is entirely public and allows passage through the block.

Physical model.

5 CURVED CREASES

2013-2014

This page contains models I made for Duks Koschitz’ M IT dissertation on David Huffman’s curved crease paper folding. Models on this page are all Huffman’s designs folded by me. All models on the following pages are my own designs using the logic of Huffman. All pieces are made from a single sheet of paper and all folds with no cuts to the paper.

inkjet paper model 2 unfolded, design by Ashley Hickman using David Huffman’s rules of curved creases, 2014

inkjet paper model 1 in a tight fold, design by Ashley Hickman using David Huffman’s rules of curved creases, 2014

Physical model made of single sheet of elephant hyde paper. Approximately 15” by 15”.

Detail view of same model.

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6 ARCHIVE

Pratt Institute, Design I I I I, Critic Karen Bausman, Spring 2014

Proposal for a library, archive storage for the Weir Collection of glass flowers, meeting rooms, offices, and an auditorium located in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York. Image above is a site context collage studying neighborhood advertisement practices.

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Diagram studying site conditions, food selling context, and travel of people on sidewalk surrounding site.

Diagram studying the movement of the neighborhood, analyzes both car and foot traffic around the site.

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Roof plan showing roof garden and neighborhood context including stairs from a subway stop.

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Forth Floor Plan

Diagram studying site conditions, food selling context, and travel of people on sidewalk surrounding site.

Longitudinal perspective section looking toward street. with collage study of site behind

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Longitudinal section showing book stacks, main stair, auditorium, roof garden, and meeting rooms.

7 WAVE HILL

Pratt Institute, Design I I I, Critic Frank Gesauldi, Fall 2013

Gallery, classrooms, and artist’s studios at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York. Project sits on a steeply sloped hill near the Hudson River. Design is inspired by a series of tectonic studies using square frames sandwiched between pieces of wood which creates a forced curvature of the wood..

Tectonic studies in wood.

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8 DWELLING

Pratt Institute Design I I Critic Duks Koschitz,, Spring 2013

The dwelling is located in residential Brooklyn, New York. It’s client is a single, very active young woman. The project sits in an urban infill lot between two brownstones. The above diagram explains the transformation of the project from drawing to form. The project is meant to have as many stairs as possible in order to turn the long and tall site into a jogging track, forcing the client to exercise as she goes about her daily life.

Physical model.

Perspective rendering showing neighborhood context.

Three dimensional section showing main stair, rock climbing wall, sleeping area, and watching area.

9 GUARDIOLA

Pratt Insstitute, Critic Nathan Hume, Spring 2013

Final drawing using Peter Eisenman’s Guardiola House as the basis for a proposal of two new objects.

1 0 SCATTERTIME

Pratt Institute Design I Critic Che Wei Wang Fall 2012

Design studio project for first semester at Pratt Institute. Diagram above explains process from a two dimensional paper model to a three dimensional proposal for an programmed building. The following images include a model of the entire project extents and zoomed in sectional chunk models of small portions of the building. Each individual pieces of the model is made of the same number of pieces and is focused around a central void. The center is void but all pieces point toward this empty space. The smaller pieces are arranged around a larger central void and again all point toward the center.

Physical model made of wood.

Physical section chunk models meant to exist within landscape on previous page.

Top: axonometric drawing. Bottom: elevation drawing.

1 1 BLOCKS

Pratt Institute, Representation I, Critic Anthony Buccellato, Fall 2012

Final drawing for semester using contstructed drawing technique to show decay of blocks over time.