Architecture Portfolio
Beau Brady Auburn University B.Arch
CONTENTS
24 Travel Sketches & Hand Drawings
Resume
21 PROJECTS
4th Year Studio: Fall 2012
Boston Children’s Hospital
2nd Year Studio: Spring 2011
Wetumpka Crater & Science Center
4th Year Studio: Spring 2013
Live Work Lofts
HAND DRAWINGS
Piazza del Colosseo Intervention
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Study Abroad Studio: Spring 2012
DESIGN + WORK
CHILDREN’S CARDIAC HOSPITAL Location: Boston, MA Semester: Fall 2012 Duration: 16 weeks
Urban Revival. The Children’s Cardiac Hospital, representing the heart of the North End and Downtown, attempts to spark an urban connection that encourages pedestrian friendly traffic to the hospital site and beyond. By employing a contemporary language of its own, the Children’s Hospital becomes the focal point of the North End and creates a lasting relationship to the rest of the city.
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FLOOR PLANS
Ground Floor Plan
Typical Patient Care Floor Plan
1. Patient/Visitor Entrance 2. Information 3. Central Lobby 4. Public Auditorium 5. Community Service Wing 6. Admitting 7. Gift Shop 8. Nurse Station 9. Triage 10. Typical Exam Room 11. Clean Supply 12. Soiled Utility 13. Staff Lounge 14. Conference Room 15. Critical E.R. Wing 16. Walk-In E.R. Wing 17. Ambulance Drop-Off 18. Patient Drop-Off
1. Elevator Lobby 2. Nursing Station 3. Family Lounge 4. Staff Lounge 5. Conference Room 6. Clean Supply 7. Soiled Utility 8. Medication 9. Nourishment 10. Typical Patient Room 11. Isolation Room 12. Janitor Storage
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SECTION DIAGRAMS
The hospital section expresses the building’s relation to the surrounding context. The auditorium piece is in scale with the residential apartments to the left while the L-shaped patient floors contrast the underground tunnel adjacent to the site. The upper level green space extends the greenery of the adjacent park to create a connection across the highway.
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Doctor’s Office & Administration -
Patient Care Units -
Intensive Care Dietary Services & Medical Records Prep/Hold/Recover, Diagnostics, Radiology, Pharmacy & Lab
Surgical Suite & Central Sterile Supply Emergency Room & Lobby Public Auditorium & Community -
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PERSPECTIVES
The ground floor lobby offers a centralized waiting area for visitors to relax and socialize. The first floor uses glass curtain walls to flood the space with light and offer views of the nearby park and Boston skyline. The lobby also contains two glass elevators that provide views of the whole site as you elevate.
The patient room implements organic elements such as wood, plantlife, and light, to expose the young patient to a natural healing environment. Mechanical louvers control the amount of light that enters the patient room while still enabling the patient to view out the floor to ceiling window. An overhead light shelf diffuses the artifical light from direct exposure to the child.
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IMPACT CRATER AND SCIENCE CENTER Location: Wetumpka, AL Semester: Spring 2011 Duration: 8 weeks
The Crater and Science Center encompasses a symbolic representation of the Wetumpka Impact Crater that hit the area 83 million years ago. Functioning as an educational museum, science facility, and recreational park, the crater center not only exploits the beauty of the surrounding scenery, but also becomes an intruiging tourist hot spot for Wetumpka and the state of Alabama.
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Floor Plan 1. Entry Plaza 2. Reception 3. Gallery 4. Temporary Gallery 5. Black Box Gallery 6. Patio Space 7. Kitchen 8. Storage 9. Catering Space 10. Classroom 11. Classroom 12. Restrooms 13. Office 14. Office 15. Central Pubic Space
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BUILDING EVOLUTION The crater center’s circular shape and diverging retaining walls symbolize the impact of the meteor that hit present day Wetumpka. The large public space of the site maximizes views of the surrounding area and encourages pedestrian movement. The three perimeter buildings have their own function, but are able to supplement each other to optimize the crater center.
Initial Design.
The first building houses gallery space for fossils and artifacts within the impact crater. The second building is flexible, offering catering space for large events as well as a small cafe where visitors can grab food and sit around the pubic space. The final building becomes both public and private, allowing lab and office space for the science center workers and a viewing corridor for visitors to see what new pieces have been discovered around the area. All the crater centers spaces function in a holistic manner in order to create a processional and fluent circulation throughout the site.
Formation of Public Space.
Simplify to Three Building Nodes
Offer Views to the Surrounding Site. Introduce Green Space and Water Feature.
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PERSPECTIVES The centralized public space of the crater center provides the ease of access to all three buildings. A built up green space offers seating to the public. Finally the central space is surrounded by a water feature that is symbolic to the once aquatic site.
The viewing patios are shaded by double height pergolas. Transluscent solar panels are mounted on the lattice work of the pergolas, powering many of the mechanical systems of the crater center.
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The intermediate wing offers a flexible space for the crater center as it can host a conference room for small presentations, a dining hall, to cater small events, as well as a convention space to promote new discoveries in the area.
The main gallery wing uses multiple curved walls that partition the spaces and separates the individual exhibits. This creates a processional circulation throughout the galleries.
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LIVE WORK LOFTS Location: Columbus, IN Semester: Spring 2013 Duration: 12 weeks
The Live Work Lofts are part of a master plan aiming to revitilize the downtown of Columbus. The design promotes new retail shops and galleries on the ground floor with loft apartments on the upper floors. The implementation of this new shopping space will create a catalyst that will bring the residents of Columbus back into the downtown area and occupy the central green park of the city.
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The residential floor contains 16 loft units and provides a sitting area on the perimeter of the atrium space. The third floor offers a communal space with a pool, tennis court, shaded awnings, and green space for the residents to occupy.
FLOOR PLANS
The ground floor offers 19 retails units that function as local shops, galleries, cafe, and restaurant space. The central artery of the building cuts right through and continues the axis of the master plan. The U-shaped design is able to house a parking garage for the residents to safely park their cars and keep the streets free of parking.
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Residential F scale: 1/32”=1’-0”
These three newly designed blocks serve as the hub of city, both providing a significance to the entrance to the city as well as supplementing the green park of downtown. There is a clear axis that is formed from the art pavilion (left) through the loft apartments (middle) and to the courthouse and Veteran’s Memorial.
MASTER PLAN The new axis enables pedestian movement from the riverwalk that runs on the outskirts of the city to the central green space. By encouraging residents to circulate to a common meeting place, the green park can finally be an iconic peice that people will want to visit and relax.
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PERSPECTIVES The central artery of the building creates a shopping center for the downtown area. The rusticated panels rotate up and down to allow light into the shops as well as protect them from burglary when they close. The walkway becomes an extension of the main axis that runs from the neighboring art pavilion to the Veteran’s Memorial.
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As you cross over the main bridge to downtown Columbus the corner of the building acts as a tower peice that is symbolic of a gateway to the city.
The modernized loft apartment offers great views of the nearby courhouse and provides adequate daylighting that fills the space.
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COLOSSEUM INTERVENTION
Location: Rome, Italy
Semester: Spring 2012 Duration: 8 weeks Rome has opened my mind to drawing, whether it was quickly sketching a building or sitting down and drawing the details, being in Rome has broaden my horizons. This study abroad project was rendered completely in graphite and water color. The fine detailing, both in the plan and perspective drawings shows my ability to draw presentation quality work.to the downtown area and occupy the central green park of the city.
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As one of the most visited sites in the world, the Colosseum is a symbol for Rome and its history. Yet with all the tourist traffic it produces, the Colosseum does not convey a clear entrance, nor is there appropriate circulation to its far side. The major highway adjacent to the Colosseum hinders pedestrian traffic causing a break in the Via Papalis and limiting it significance as it continues on to the Lateran. By implementing a visitor center on the backside of the piazza, tourists are able to enjoy a more processional entry into the Colosseum as well as reconnect them to the Via Papalis. The intervention meets the slope of the site as it wraps around the Colosseum, making the piazza more pedestrian friendly. The final piece to the intervention is a viewing tower that glorifies the Colosseum’s monumentality. Its form resembles that of an obelisk as it defines an important monument along the Via Papalis.
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TRAVEL SKETCHES & HAND DRAWING
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“We shape buildings, thereafter they shape us”. -Winston Churchill
Physical Models
Function.
Form.
Connection.
Thank You.
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Beau Brady
2300 Singingwoods Lane, Richmond, VA, 23233 bmb0015@auburn.edu 804.678.9585
EDUCATION Auburn University School of Architecture: Auburn, AL Major: Architecture American Institute of Architecture Students Architecture Foreign Study Scholarship University of Arkansas Rome Center: Rome, Italy Study Abroad Mills E. Godwin High School: Richmond, VA Earned Advanced Diploma
2009 - Present 2010 - Present 2011 2012 2005 - 2009
WORK EXPERIENCE Lathan Associates: Birmingham, Alabama Intern for the architecture firm. Responsibilities included producing and red-lining construction documents, schematic designing, and understanding code and regulations through site and building analysis. The Emerson Group: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Intern for the marketing team. Responsibilities included producing and analyzing marketing data, designing digital presentations, and participating in client presentation visits.
05.2013 - 08.2013
06.2012 - 08.2012
SKILLS Design Programs: Proficient in Revit, Autocad, Ecotect, Rhinoceros 3D, Google Sketchup. Basics in 3DS Max, Maya, Microstation Editing and General Programs: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite Design and Representation: Researching, Diagramming, Drafting, Sketching, Writing, Model Construction, Laser Cutter Machine REFERENCES W. Lee Bryant Lathan Associates, P.C. Senior Vice President AIA lbryant@rnlarch.com 205.988.9110
Scott Emerson The Emerson Group President emersct@aol.com 610.971.9600
Christian Dagg Auburn University Professor Architecture, Architecture, AIA daggcgr@auburn.edu 334.844.4519
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