CASSANDRAKYOKO KYOKOBEAUDRY BEAUDRY CASSANDRA WORK 2015-2016 SAMPLES 2016 ARCHITECTURE
CASSANDRA KYOKO BEAUDRY | B.Sc Civil Engineering | LEED GA (917) 755 - 0846 cassandrabeaudry@gmail.com www.cassandra-beaudry,com EDUCATION
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Parsons the New School of Design New York, NY M.Architecture | August 2014 - Present
Parsons the New School for Design | Teaching Assistant
Queens University Kingston, ON, Canada B.Sc in Civil Engineering | 2009-2013 GPA 3.98 University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia Study Abroad Program | Spring 2012 Architecture, Environmental Engineering
January 2016 - Present | New York City, NY - TA to Representation and Spatial Reasoning II, a course which develops more complex and intricate forms of digital and traditional forms of architectural representation, seeking to find under explored avenues of demonstration. Young Projects | Winter Internship 2016, 2015 Brooklyn, NY - Lead designer of the surface treatment for the Playa Grande Spa - Lead Designer for the Snow Queen, the architecture of fairytales, published in 2015
WORKSHOPS | COURSES Ontario College of Art and Design | Fall 2013 Web Design, Model Making, Drawing Parsons the New School for Design Summer Studies 2013 Lighting Design, Interior Design, Architecture
SKILLS
Project A-LOG | Project Manager Sept 2015 - Present | New York, NY - Manages the distribution of sales of A-LOG -Contributes to product design projects ASH NYC | Architectural Designer / Assistant Project Manager May 2015 - January 2016 | Brooklyn, NY - Contibuted to the interior design and architecture team in the design of commercial and residential projects
3D modelling, Photography, Concept Design, Rendering, Project Management, Graphic Design, Product Design, Sculpting, Illustration
Parsons Brinkerhoff | Project Associate July 2013 - July 2014 | Toronto, ON - Developed capital strategies for buildings -Participated in building investigations and contributed to technical reports
Proficient in:
OTHER EXPERIENCE | AWARDS
Rhino | Vray Autocad
Pre-Algebra Tutor | 2015-Present
Adobe Creative Suite Working knowledge of: Grasshopper
Queen’s Solar Design Team | 2009-2013 Provost Scholarship 2014 | Parsons, the New School for Design Visual Arts Award and Scholarship 2009 | Blakelock High School
CONTENT ARCHITECTURE 01 CHELSEA LIBRARY 3 02 UPK NYC 15 03 BNY HOUSING 23 04 THE KITCHEN 27 OBJECTS/DIGITAL MODELLING 04 SNOW QUEEN 30 05 MEND 39 06 PLAYA GRANDE SPA 41 REPRESENTATION
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READING ROOM NATURAL SYSTEMS STUDIO | MICROPROJECT Advisor: Kimberly Ackert Location: Chelsea, New York City Design Team: Racquel Ritcher, Desiree Casoni A sunken reading room in Chelsea with an adjoining exterior space. The objective was to sculpt a private oasis, offering controlled views to the winter courtyard. Diffused light leaks into the reading room through a faceted oculus above. Covering the entire wall on one side, the dark black walnut bookshelves rise in sharp contrast to the glazed oposing wall. The concrete reading room exists as a sanctuary.
interior perspectives collages, plaster model photography
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interior perspectives watercolor
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CHELSEA LIBRARY LIBRARY AND GALLERY SPACE | DAYLIGHTING STUDIO Studio Semester 3 Advisor: Kimberly Ackert Location: Chelsea, New York City
Inspired by the history of Chelsea, the throughway site exists as a railway, the building as a bridge, and light as the medium. As light passes through the site, the boxes shift, and sinkin relation to one another. The drag carves out an outdoor courtyard and the new adjacencies between the boxes create ambiguous relationships with light.
who embraces change, and the embraces the contrast of darkness and light. Alienated from identity, but forced into a closed community, Noguchi turned to art and design as an effort to reconfigure over-determined architecture, using a haunting sense of abstractionunreality in his work and representation. He designed imaginary spaces in the hope of preserving the arts of peace.
Natural light floods the reading areas and cafes, while controlled seeping light enters The Black Sun (1969) sits in the courtyard the theatre and the gallery. of the library. This piece represents a timeless work that would appear to move The gallery and auditorium is sunken, to as the sun does, creating a dialogue welcome southern light to into the library, between the real sun and the artwork the courtyard and the cafĂŠ. A roof skylight itself. Bringing the Black Sun into the captures and diffuses natural light through courtyard, at a depth slightly lower than a sculptural ceiling panel, which lends ground level, the visitor experiences the light downwards to the stacks below. sculpture from various angles, allowing the piece to frame the architecture, and Fitting for a site in constant flux, the the architecture to frame the piece in artist chosen as part of the permanent nature. collection is Isamu Noguchi, an artist
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concept collage , Chelsea New York
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plans
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short section
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ink sketch, the passage
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1:1.4” scale model photography
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ink sketch, cafe
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model photography, cafe and passage
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UNIVERSAL PRE-K PRE-KINDERGARDEN Studio 1 Advisor: Bryan Young Location: East Village, New York
Last year more than 40,000 4 year olds embarked on their first day of free full day citywide prekindergarten. It is an accomplishment in itself that all these children will have a head start on a lifetime of learning, exploring and playing – a milestone of education reform in New York City. Architecture in this case must act as a contributor to the actions of these children. The remarkability of children of the age in their fascination with one and other and so the concept of play was further explored was further explored through design. The objective was to create a thriving, looping environment for them, mitigating the pedagogy of an effective learning environment with a playful and exploratory one. To represent this programmatic juxtaposition volumes of program are
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pushed into one another to mutually benefit each environment. Play is suggested not only through space but also through visual connections. The resulting environments encourage moments of play voyeurism. To incorporate play into the learning environments, each learning environment contains a classroom and an interior play zone. Further interaction is encouraged through shared exterior play zones, connected directly to the learning environments. The façade is a reflection of the interior program and floods in appropriate conditions of natural light. Articulation of the façade peaks into the walls, amplifying the interior an exciting play sculpture.
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interior renders, above: interior play zone, below: classroom
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typical learning environment, plans
exterior render, facade render
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left: plan of exterior play zone, right: 1/8� model photography below: exterior play zone rennder
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long section
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BNY HOUSING HOUSING STUDIO Design Team: Kenny Garnett and Cassandra Beaudry Advisor: Brian Philips Location: Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York
The Brooklyn Navy Yard offers 2 million square feet of new space and 2500 new jobs, with a focus on adaptive reuse of the buildings. This expansion gives us an opportunity to enhance the appeal of the yard through housing the new community and creative a public inviting space.
street and landscape environment, by creating a series of multiple networks, resulting in an open developable sustainable urban model.
There is a shortage of space that meets company’s needs with the current New York City real estate supply. The rents payable by tech companies do not justify the cost of new commercial space. This creates an interesting opportunity to enhance the appeal of this harsh area into a sustainable urban model of desirable working, living and public spaces.
Who is the hacker? The hacker is our resident, a builder, a maker of things, and a solver of problems.
Our objective was to hack the standardize
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We defined hacking as “the practice of modifying a space in order to accomplish a goal outside of its original purpose.”
The culture we are creating is a shared community of experts. The users contribute and create the infrastructure, serving their community and themselves. There is a manifestation of resourcefulness, engaging our curiosity to explore and exceeding past our previous limitations.
collage, narrative of collaborative zones between duplex units
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At a macro scale, we repositioned the iconic donut form to puzzle the distribution of various programs, and create maximum flexibility for our residents. Double height transparent zones function as collaboration hubs and break zones for our residents. At the microscale, we applied the methodology into the design of the residential unit and generated one duplex, which can be modified to suit three separate tenants. The normalized unit is modified with the chosen company in mind. It is a standard two bedroom unit, but with larger shared spaces, inviting more communication and natural light to enter the unit. The un-related workers unit, functions as a live-work unit. Modifying the duplex into a quadrant, the users can now access their private and living spaces, without crossing paths with their roommate.
macro scale diagrams
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unit plans
top to bottom: site concept progress render, final exterior render
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THE KITCHEN COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO | IN PROGRESS Studio 4 Advisor: Bryan Young Location: Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Founded by Woody and Steina Vasulka in 1971, the Kitchen began as an artist collective, for emerging artists looking for a way to present their work to a public audience. Through its re-locations, it has developed from a small film projector in the Mercer Arts Center, to a loft style open space in Soho, to its current location in Meatpacking which houses a small theatre and a gallery space. This studio investigates a fourth move to Bushwick, as an opportunity for it to host a larger audience, as well as use its new proximities to re-establish itself as an artist hangout.
The programs of performance spaces are stacked, relative to their history and footprint. The film theatre descends into the site 6 ft, opening up a series of shallow steps for public seating from the street entrance. As the program spaces stack, they begin to shift away from the adjacent building, resulting in a cantilever and an intriguing experience for the visitors below. Natural light beams through the perforated steel panels at the lobby, which extends from the 3rd floor auditorium as well as the installation space above.
The shifts in program intend to bring back zones of collaborating while providing To narrate the building as an archive in itself, opportunity for growth through a larger and I began by imagining the visitors’ experience evocative space than its current location. through the program.
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diagrams: program shif to fit into the site, areas designated for artists versus the public sketches and concept models tubular steel facade manipulation
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1/16� scale 3D printed midterm model
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perforated metal panel (1 mm) 1” insulating glass air gap
6” tubular steel substructure angle cast into concrete slab edge to connect to support structural frame
3/16” elastic rubber shock pads
3/4” finished hardwood floor 1/2” plywood layer 1/2” spring layer 6” composite concrete slab with steel deck
angle fastened to truss beam
steel angles tie back wall panels to the supporting structural frame
acoustic wall panel 2 x 5/8” sheetrock 8 X 8 steel column acoustic insulation 3/4” decorative wood panels
exterior render
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THE SNOW QUEEN YOUNG PROJECTS Lead Designer: Cassandra Beaudry Design Team: Bryan Young, Sarah Mogensen
To gaze through Hans Christian Anderson’s window in “The Snow Queen” is to see a world that is shifting between the real and unreal. Neither solid nor liquid, in his words “faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognized”. It begins with a small morsel that has been conceived with intense form finding principals, which in turn suggests techniques for propagating the morsel into clusters, groupings, or in this case swarms. The solidifying resin allowed us to freeze the magnetic forces our white bees, which in our interpretation of the narrative would typically shift between phase states as an indeterminate flow around the Queen.
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This is also why in our representations of her gown, you find both moments of distinct particles and moments of blurring or melting surfaces. Considering how a Hans Christian Andersen’s “white bee” might be structured in contrast to the branching six arm crystals of snowflakes, which are geometrically determined by temperature and humidity within the immediate surroundings. Unlike snowflakes, a flurry of “white bees” grows and swarms in response to the disposition of the Snow Queen.
magnetic dust and resin
manipulated material studies
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snow bee detail
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Considering how a Hans Christian Andersen’s “white bee” might be structured in contrast to the branching six arm crystals of snowflakes, which are geometrically determined by temperature and humidity within the immediate
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top: ice experiments bottom: front and top views of swarm renders left: swarm diagram, render and material studies
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MEND ASH NYC x 1st DIBS x WOVEN ACCENTS Design Team: Will Cooper, Griffin Whitehead, Cassandra Beaudry
“Mend”, is a celebration of a new collection of repurposed tents and kilns co-hosted by 1st Dibs and ASH NYC. Textiles from the 1920’s and 1950’s, were transformed into runners, rugs and upholstery materials for contemporary furniture. The story of the Woven Accents is an intersection of social, geographic and historical threads of nomads known as the yörüks — or, the walkers. By necessity, the Yörüks expressed themselves through their food, music and dance — and their homemaking. Brilliant weavers, they wove their own homes, fashioning rectangular panels of durable, natural-hued goat’s hair and cotton that they stitched together into tent coverings.
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photos provided by 1st Dibs watercolour concept sketch
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PLAYA GRANDE SPA YOUNG PROJECTS Design Team: Noah Marciniak, Sam Eby, Marie Tasse, Cassandra Beaudry
The geometry of the Spa is broadly suggestive of formations like naturally eroded rock or strange ruins. A closer reading reveals a carefully controlled unification of the 6 discrete volumes via inverting readings of symmetry, continuity, alignment, tangency and a singular architectural cropping envelope that bounds the entirety of the program. The sparkling concrete of the forms is embedded with green quartz aggregate that is willfully revealed in areas by sandblasting. Deep scraping in the concrete adds an additional layer of texture and relates to areas of runoff from pooling water on the roofs. Together, the additional concrete color and texture serve to reinforce the shifting reading of the volumes instigated by the geometry itself.
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TOY STORIES DIGITAL MODELLING
The evolution of software and virtual making, is closely aligned with the development of the physical attributes of our world. Using acoustic measures, the process of pulling the trigger on a toy gun is documented and virutally constructed. The drawings study the internal organizationand dialogue of the interior gears.
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A FINE LINE MATERIAL STUDIES
The distortion of a line is studied through the deflation of a balloon. As a constant, all narratives began from a pure spherical form of the balloon, while changing variables included the type of string used and the binding skin existing between the balloon and the string. These experiments aim to challenge our perception of line, from our static, controlled and linear beliefs to something more organic, fluid, and dynamic. The slow death of the balloon gives immediate life to the lines, where they morph into something we perceive as not only line, but form and volume.
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THE BREATHING EYE THE MAISON TZARA, ADOLF LOOS
The drawing aims to use various windows as departure points from which the viewer enters the house, through a series of dark moments. These moments integrate the viewer narratively Through the main floor of the Tzara House. Concept Raumplan; where each architectural environment is sensitive and honest, decorated for its inhabits, allowing them to take possession of them with limits. Every interior space has its own dimension relative to its intended nature and purpose. The ceiling heigh is constant and small differences in levels with steps, communicate functionally complementary areas.� The Raumplan occurs almost exclusively on the main floor of the house.
Collage , public vs. private
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Final drawing , overlay of final model,
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Diagram of final model
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Experience in stills