Avignon Greene
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AG Manifesto
Architecture is an ecosystem. In its most primitive form it provides the basic necessity of shelter. When connected with analogous mechanisms, architecture creates a complete system that works seamlessly within the biosphere. The success of the system is dependent upon the integration of the components. Thus, each building should be treated as an ecosystem; connected to its surroundings and components, as well as being responsible for its behavior. By maintaining sustainability, community engagement, functionality and inspiration in design, architecture has the power to inuence individuals to think differently about the way in which we live. These elements come together to create designs that function as an ecosystem; interactive and dependent upon one another, while also enriching the overall design of a space. When architecture acts in this manner it creates an organic response to the cultural systems at work in the world.
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AMALGAM The New Rosedale School Studio Instructor Location Completed Partner
Advanced Studio Francisco Gomes Austin, TX Fall 2017 T. Mitch Avitt
Amalgam: The New Rosedale School is a reinterpretation of grade school typology and accessibility. The Rosedale School is a K-12 Austin Independent School District (AISD) public school for students with severe disabilities. Currently situated in the north Austin neighborhood of Rosedale, the school plans to build a new complex in the neighborhood of Allendale to support their future growth and student needs. As part of their proposed expansion, the Rosedale School hopes to connect with the surrounding community even more than they currently do by expanding the vocational program for students and designing a more engaging campus.
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The building consists of a thickened wall of public program providing a threshold between the surrounding neighborhood and the private classroom space. Nestled beyond this occupiable wall of program lay three school villages’ divided by age group, each with a centralized courtyard.
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Classroom and sensory spaces were designed to accommodate the varying needs of the students. Building circulation was treated as informal gathering areas and places to foster social interaction.
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The project team has proposed a building that would act as a micro community with school villages for each age group and a thickened “wall” of occupiable public program to support both students and the community.
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BUILDING The Pedestrian Infrastructure Vertical Studio BLOCKS Studio Instructor Location Completed
Sarah Gamble Austin, TX Spring 2016
Our movement though and experience of the landscape impacts our understanding of place and the relationship between our bodies and the environment, both highly constructed and seemingly natural. Our understanding is both personal and collective, being shaped by our itineraries, cultural perspectives, planned moments, and chance encounters. Building Blocks is an intervention in the urban environment of downtown Austin. Positioned at the end of a choreographed route and designed for inhabitation, Building Blocks goal is to encourage pedestrians to explore the city along various horizon lines. With the vehicle still being the most popular mode of transportation in Austin, the aim of the project was to allow pedestrians to experience various sight lines, particularly those that are normally reserved for vehicles.
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RESETTLE Center for Food Innovation Studio Instructor Location Completed
Advanced Studio Kevin Alter Hofsós, Iceland Spring 2018
The history of the West Fjords and northern coastal regions of Iceland involves the birthplace of 8th century Norse settlements. The unstable landscape of extreme climate and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions on the edge of the Arctic Circle made settlement difficult, and by the mid1870’s, impossible. Large numbers of emigrants from this region left for other countries. Today, much of rural Iceland continues to suffer from depopulation. Can we effectively model the Northern Atlantic landscape as a social harbor in its infancy and imagine a renaissance of stable communities in the region? Resettle focuses on Icelandic food culture and the greenhouse as a genesis for growth in the region. Allowing for an architectural response that reflects the exploration and curiosity of its occupants, the Center for Food Innovation interacts with its overwhelming landscape, acting both enigmatically and ambiguously within its context.
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Resettle explores the concept of line in a landscape, providing a datum to reveal and intensify the sublimity of natural landscape. The building bifurcates the site to provide a passive edge against the mountains and an active edge adjacent to the fjord. The structure consists of a concrete foundation with a series of Glulam moment frames encased in a translucent polycarbonate shroud. The lightweight shroud obscures the interior of the greenhouse during daylight hours but is activated at night, creating a lighthouse for the fjord. 27
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ASCEND Waller Creek Recreation Center Studio Instructor Location Completed
Vertical Studio Sarah Gamble Austin, TX Spring 2016
The new site of the Waller Creek Recreation Center is at the intersection of Cesar Chavez Street and the Waller Creek walking path: the object of a recent multimillion dollar international design competition for a new conservancy. Ascend serves to act as a community hub in this new vital area in downtown Austin. With a unique opportunity to address both the urban core of downtown Austin and reinforcement of the redeveloped natural creek edge, Ascend concentrates on the spatial and relational connections between the varying street and creek elevations and the diversity of user groups. By sloping the building from the creek to the street, Ascend explores the civic nature of the recreation center as a community hub while trying to strengthen the latent urban-landscape connection imbued within the site.
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NEXUS Austin Energy Headquarters Studio Instructor Location Completed
Vertical Studio Michael Garrison Austin, TX Spring 2017
Nexus: The Austin Energy Green Building Program Headquarters is a mixed use ofďŹ ce building located on the main paseo in the Mueller Development in Austin. The building was designed as an exercise in phenomenological transparency and the choreography of different users along the central thoroughfare of the Mueller Development, an active and social hub in the community. The program is arranged by changes in elevation with public spaces on the ground level, laboratories on the second level, and ofďŹ ces on the third level. As occupants circulate through the building they encounter various views into adjacent spaces allowing them to understand and interpret the systems and innovations taking place within the building.
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Double Glazing Vertical Louver Exhaust Grille Glulam Beam Concrete Fill Steel Decking Rigid Insulation Radiant Tubing Acoustic Ceiling Tile Glulam Joist Glulam Beam
The main structure of the building is enclosed in a double-glazed envelope on the facade allowing for visual reference to the structural system for viewers and occupants while also functioning as partitions for the cavity exhaust system in the facade. This shaft box facade, with vertical shafts separated by the structural columns, allow for natural stack-effect ventilation. The double-skin facade operates as an external air curtain, exhausting hot air through the cavity to the parapet wall on the roof. 42
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INHABIT Galveston Education Pavilion Awards Studio Instructor Location Completed Partners
ACSA Design Build Award AIA Forth Worth Student Merit Award Advanced Studio Coleman Coker Galveston, TX Summer 2017 Andrea Manrique Becker, Andre Boudreaux, Brooke Burnside, Rebecca Kennedy, Whitney Moore, Hugo Reynolds, Sean Reynolds, Joey Rocha, Ui Jun Song, Anthony Vannette
In 2017 the studio partnered with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to design and build a shade structure at the Galveston Island State Park, one of the most visited parks in the state. The shade structure will be used by the environmental educator focusing on middle and high schools in the region. These students will use the shade pavilion for an orientation talk before they begin a bay walk. The shade pavilion is expected to serve between three and four thousand students and park visitors throughout the year who will use the built facility through the spring, winter, and fall when school is typically in session, and in the summer when the park offers bay tours for the public.
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1. begin tour 2. explore sea creatures 3. ecological adaptations 4. wetlands’ value, end tour build site
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GALVANIZED STEEL STRUCTURE WOOD LOUVER SCREEN Level 2 9' - 6"
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The four-hundred and fifty square foot structure sits on the bay’s edge nestled between yaupon holly sculpted by southwest winds. A short walk along an informal path from the parking through the hollies leads to the structure.
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Avignon Greene Education
Resume University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Master of Architecture Candidate | Austin, TX | 2015 - Present Agnes Scott College Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art & Environmental Studies | Decatur, GA | 2009 - 2013
Work Experience
Perkins+Will Architectural Intern Austin, TX | January 2019 - Present • Assisting with schematic design and construction documents • Preparing BIM files for upcoming renovation projects PGAL Architects Architectural Intern Austin, TX | June 2018 - December 2018 • Assisting with design development, construction, and permitting documents • Creating project design options and rendered visualizations for client review • Preparing presentation materials for weekly client meetings • Managing and organizing project files and BIM software for coordination with consultants • Developing files for 3D printed models The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Graduate Research Assistant for Coleman Coker Austin, TX | January 2018 - June 2018 • Researched resilient design strategies and case studies for coastal communities • Conducted community outreach initiatives to enhance the Gulf Coast DesignLab’s impact in coastal regions Agnes Scott College Sustainability Fellow, Consultant & Office Manager Decatur, GA | 2013 - 2015 • Assisted with successful LEED Gold submittal process for the Campbell Hall renovation • Wrote and created environmental policies and programs for Agnes Scott College • Engaged with campus community to expand sustainability initiatives and education • Successfully applied for Georgia Power energy rebates and area sustainability grants • Created Green Education Program for Campbell Hall Autocad Rhino • Created theRevit Sustainability Plan for theAdobe college, outlining all of theMicrosoft college's Office Suite sustainability initiatives, policies, and plans
Software Skills 3DS Max
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Adobe Creative Cloud
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office
Revit
Rhinoceros
Contact agreene@utexas.edu +1 (914) 715-7601
Awards/Honors
ACSA Architectural Education Awards Design Build Award | Gulf Coast DesignLab Team Recipient | January 2019 •• Recognizing projects that demonstrate how faculty, students, and schools work to realize design-build projects AIA Fort Worth Excellence in Architecture Design Awards Student Merit Award | Gulf Coast DesignLab Team Recipient | January 2019 •• Honoring exceptional student design projects across Texas UTSOA Mebane Travel Scholarship Iceland Studio Recipient | January 2018 •• Awarded to School of Architecture students for international travel research Dean's Ambassador Member, appointed | January 2017 - Present •• Recognizing student leaders in the School of Architecture who reflect a positive image of the school Texas Masonry Council Masonry Days First Place | January - March 2016 •• Masonry design-build competition among Construction II students at UTSOA UTSOA Drawing Show Honorable Mention | December 2015 •• Bi-annual drawing exhibition showcasing graduate student drawings in the School of Architecture The Georgia Trust Preservation Awards Excellence in Sustainable Rehabilitation | Agnes Scott Team Recipient | 2015 •• Awarded to a rehabilitation project for exemplary conservation and sustainable treatments while preserving features that convey the buildings historic significance
Related Experience
UTSOA ISSUE XV Editorial Team Publication Editor | September 2018 - Present AIAS Austin Member | August 2018 - Present ARC Graduate Studies Committee Student Representative | January 2018 - Present
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Avignon Greene
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