C A ROLINE C ORBETT A R C H ITECTURE P O RTFOLIO CORNELL UNIVERSTY B.ARCH 2012
Caroline Corbett cgc56@cornell.edu 503.476.4905
PERMANENT ADDRESS August 2012 0933 SW Powers Ct. Portland, Oregon 97219 CURRENT ADDRESS Febuary 2012 - August 2012 207 Kelvin Pl. Apt 2 Ithaca, New York 14850
EDUCATION Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning Ithaca, New York B.Arch May 2012 Concentration in Architectural Theory Studied in New York City (Fall 2010) and Rome (Spring 2011) Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego, Oregon Graduated June 2007 ADDITIONAL SKILLS AutoCad, Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop/ Indesign/ Illustrator, PowerCad, Sketchup, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel Hand Drafting, Sketching, Watercolors, Model Making Linguistics Korean (Basic) Spanish (Basic)
WORK EXPERIENCE Rice-Lipka Architects New York City Fall 2010 - Intern Built 3D Rhino models for presentations Measured existing space and updated drawings for remodel Researched and edited furniture package Ordered signage KMD Architects San Francisco Summer 2010 - Intern Built 3D sketchup models Created presentation graphics for potential job Created design diagrams for initial stages in project Worked with construction documentation team to organize files and approve sample submission Participated in intern project Skylab Architects Portland, Oregon Summer 2009 - Intern Created physical presentation models and 3D Rhino models for projects Created various study models Researched future jobs Ethos Development Portland, Oregon Summer 2008 - Intern Attended Owner, Architect, Contractor meetings Walked job site with owner, architect and contractor Took construction photos for weekly update publication Created excel spreadsheets for scheduling and project organization Organized office’s filing system
ASE (Apprentiships in Science and Engineering Carleton Hart Architecure / Multnomah County Facilities Management) Portland, Oregon Summer 2005 - Apprentice
Carleton Hart: Built models fo projects, visited job sites
Multnomah County Facilities Management: Visited and studied project sites with mentor Attended meeting relating to facilities management Focus on green roof function and maintenance
H Y P E RLINK: A M A L L FOR A M A Z O N.COM ADVISORS : DAVID SALOMON AMBER BARTOSH THESIS SPRING 2012 - ARCH 502
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1 Preliminary study model with mall overlay
Online shopping led to decline of the suburban mall. As a corollary to the rise of the modern highway system the analog mall typology emerged. The development of the box store further lead to the requirement of distribution centers, also dependent on the highway system. Both architectural objects are designed for site-less conditions. Highways produce junkspace that is inevitably created by its efficient design. While the need for physical interaction of merchandise remains, the traditional mall typology requires a new customer-product interface to combat the digital revolution. In creating a physical location for an online shopping center, a new interface is designed that allows for the seamless interaction between customer, merchandise, and distribution system. How can you combine the driver and object of sprawl to create something that is neither, where one creates a site but has no object and one is an object without a site? The product of sprawl is the typology of the American shopping mall. The driver of sprawl is the highway system because it allows for the easy transport of people into the city center for work. More specifically, the site is created by the inefficiency created by an overly efficient design of the highway system, or the junkspace within a highway interchange. The highway becomes the mold to create the site of junkspace.
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6J4 Initial strategies massing model Cast
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6J4 Initial strategies massing model Mold - Before and after pour
This beginning scheme shows the potential of access through the center of a massing structure, leaving the exterior walls of the program to define the highway bounds. In this model, the existing groundscape is ignored the most.
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6J4 Initial strategies massing model Cast
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6J4 Initial strategies massing model Mold - Before and after pour
In this model, the existing highway, ground relationships are still represented. Locations where the highway rests directly on the ground are left void, whereas the locations of an elevated highway overpass are still represented with rockite because the space beneath is still available for use. This scheme still places importance on the already existing groundscape.
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6J4 Southeast offramp Artifically built mound
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Initial programing diagram based on highway speed, sight lines, and elevation
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If the program was split preferencing the fulfillment center functions, then the truck traffic would have priority of access on the perimeter of the building structure. The shipping stage of the fulfillment center is no longer required because of the direct interaction with the customers, who occupy the center corridor of the building.
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Mall typology diagram
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If the program is split so that the customer traffic takes precedent over the perimeter of the building, then the internal circulation of the building is reserved for the deliver of merchandise from trucks. Once again all interaction between customer and product occurs between the picking program of the fulfillment center and the customer interface.
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Fulfillment center typology diagram
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Ideal hybrid form splitting diagram
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Facade system analysis of the different interfaces between the picking and boutique shopping program
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Facade system analysis as a bridge in which a car passes under, looking up at the advertising
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Facade analysis of the advertising interface as cars of varying distances and speeds pass
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Facade analysis of the advertising interface. Facade becomes the walls of a store for passing cars
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Sections of final design
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Lower level warehouse floorplan of final design
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Upper level warehouse floorplan of final design
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Final Model
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Final Model
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Final Model
K OREA T R AVELING O PTION S TUDIO PROFESSOR : YEHRE SUH PARTNER: CHRISTINE KIM FALL 2011 - ARCH 501
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1 Map of the Two Koreas Site is Located within the Circle
This studio looked into the delicate interaction between North and South Korea and the potential of a hypothetical increased interaction between the two countries based on their shared ecology. Currently the peninsula is divided in two by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a heavily patrolled and mined region of 2km on either side of the official border of the two countries. Once the border line hits the Han River Estuary, in the west of either country, the line becomes blurred because of the wording of the 1953 Armistice agreement, which states that the width of the river will become the border line and no DMZ zone will exist. The width of the river also theoretically becomes a neutral zone, freely accessible by either country (although this does not happen in practice). Our project also incorporated the large tidal differences that are visible in the region to produce an architecture whose accessibility changes with the tides. When it is high tide, the other country will be able to access the joint meeting rooms, however in low tide, the country, whose border the building straddles, is given sole control over the building and it’s program.
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Large Scale Site Plan Han River Estuary Field condition of both the balloon probes online and the water probes in the water mimic the on-land rice fields. Clam cultures ring the partially exposed sand banks in the center.
Within the estuary, monitoring devices will be deployed both on land and within the estuary waters. Water probes monitor runoff pollution levels from both South and North Korea. Weather balloons as well as ground water probes monitor the ecology of the surrounding land. The balloon probes assess the local weather pollution that comes from Seoul and Asian Brown Cloud (ABC) effect, while the land probes measure the heavy metal content of the soil, which is a major pollutant from abandoned coal mines.
Agriculture practices are monitored through a joint program which emphasizes sustainable agriculture through education. This sustainable agricultural zone is defined by an 2 km offset in North Korea and the existing Civilian Control Line in South Korea. Further cooperation is developed in the creation of a clam culture system situated in the center of the estuary on a sandbar in the intertidal zone.
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Representational Site Section Through the Han River Estuary Shows the surrounding landscape as well as the sandbanks formed in the center of the estuary.
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This model shows the relationship between the site and the objects added to it.
This model shows the movement of the probes in the water as well as the balloons on land.
This model shows the movement of the probes in the water as well as the balloons on land.
Site Model Laser scored plexi with black paint and quilting pins
Representational Model Rockite, piano wire and multicolored beads
Representational Model Rockite, piano wire and multicolored beads
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Side Distribution Center 2nd Floor Plan High Tide Program: Lecture Room DPRK Admin.
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Side Distribution Center 2nd Floor Plan Low Tide Program: DPRK Admin.
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Side Distribution Center Ground Floor Plan Low Tide Program: Clam Storage Market/ Distribution Center
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ROME O PTION S TUDIO PROFESSORS : CLAUDIA CLAMENTE FRANCISCO ISODORI SPRING 2011 - ARCH 402
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This project is sited outside the traditional city walls of Rome, in a neighborhood that was created without planning and thus has developed as sprawl without a clear center. As an arts cultural center for Rome, the various “islands” create nodes of centers in an otherwise unused stretch of land to bring residents and tourists to the historic cinematic site of Cinecittà, located adjacently to the site. The various nodes have different functions that correspond to their location within the green space and also to the surrounding program that exists in the urban fabric. Their forms are created based on their relative private or public space. 1 Detailed Site Plan of the Central Museum Building
The central “island” was then developed further with massing and access studies. It’s program is that of a museum because of its close proximity to Cinecittà and includes direct circulation to the film studios. This project was done during my semester in Rome as part of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning semester in Rome program.
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Large Site Plan
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Museum Building Digital Model
Museum Building Physical Model
Museum Building Physical Model
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Museum Building Digital Model
N Y C STUDIO N ATURAL D I SASTER S H ELTERS PROFESSORS : SHIGURU BAN + DEAN MALTZ PARTNER: NATALYA MALIYEVA FALL 2010 - ARCH 501
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This project started as a case study research project concerning the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and in particular the reconstruction efforts in one of the hardest hit locations on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. It evolved into a dual shelter and multi-religious community space to house the residents of the uniquely multi-religious town of Kalmunai, one of the hardest to be hit by the waves. Local building materials and methods were explored to create a building that could easily be built and managed by the native population.
1 Interior Render of Shelter
This project was done during my semester in New York City as part of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning semester in New York City program under the study of guest professor Shiguru Ban.
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Map of the Required Number of Shelters for the Region Chosen on the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka for Project Implementation
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R OME/ I TALY O N SITE S K ETCHES PROFESSOR : STAN TAFT SPRING 2011 - ART
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This is a series of sketches scanned from my sketchbook during my semester in Italy. The drawings are done in Rome and various other Italian cities and were drawn on site using pencil on paper. They were drawn in part for a drawing class, and part for individual exploration.
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On-site Sketch Loggia - Rome Pencil on Paper
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On-site Sketch Pantheon - Rome Pencil on Paper
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On-site Sketch St. Ivo - Rome Pencil on Paper
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On-site Sketch Vittorio Emanuele II Monument Lion - Rome Pencil on Paper
G A L ZIGBAHN S T R UCTURAL M ODEL PROFESSOR : BRETT SCHNIDER PARTNER: YEUNG SHIN SPRING 2010 - STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
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The assignment was to analyze and build a structural model of a recent architectural building. This model is of a cable way station in St. Anton am Arlberg, designed by driendl*architects. In the model we focused on the main structural roof system, which incorporated various trusses and cable systems with the goal to maintain a light feeling structure. The internal structure, supporting the cable wheels and the cable car, was made of frosted plexiglas as part of a separate structural system.
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The top roof system was modeled in various thickness of piano wire and soldered together and the base was poured using Rockite.
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Side View of the Model
Back View Of the Model
Front View of the Model
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Detail of Metalwork
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Detail of Trusses
I T H ACA GYM C O M P REHENSIVE D E S I GN STUDIO PROFESSOR : ARTHUR OVASKA FALL 2009 - ARCH 301
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This project integrated multiple classes in a very thorough design of a gym, located in downtown Ithaca on a currently empty lot. The gym was meant for the community as well as a local small school. A passageway “agora� through the building connects two major streets on either side of the gym in addition to an exterior walkway on the side of the building.
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Key issues addressed in the project were ideas of environmental systems, as seen in ideas shown in wall sections and air circulation, as well as structure. The assigned structural material to be explored was wood.
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Plan of the Entry/ First Floor Basketball Court and Public Program
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Detail of the Outer wall and Structure
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Long Section through the Entry and the Major Circulation
Detail of model
Detail of Model
Model with Roof Off
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P E R CEPTUAL G ENIUS T HEORY I N S TALLATION PROFESSOR : CAROLINE O’DONNELL SPRING 2009 - THEORY ELECTIVE
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This installation was located in Rand Hall, the architecture studio space on campus (the only one at the time). It looked at the information and assumptions gathered and stored by people based on the known of the familiar.
1 Student Walking through the First Landing Installation Extended End cap
I took a space that is well known and traveled by its occupants and made slight adjustments to the known in order to determine if people would recognize and act around a small change to their environment. In particular it played on aspects of touch and touchability. By altering the end posts of the stairwell, as something that most occupants typically automatically touch as they round the corner of the stair landing. Most people did not notice by visually seeing the change, but rather by touching an object they though was familiar and then noticing the change.
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3rd Landing End post Prior to Installation
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Flat Cap to the End post
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3rd Landing End post during Installation
2nd Landing End post during Installation
1st Landing End post during Installation
I T HACA H O USE FOR A D I VORCED C OUPLE PROFESSOR : CAROLINE O’DONNELL SPRING 2009 - ARCH 202
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This project created a unique opportunity of designing a double house for a couple, who are divorced, yet still live together because of a shared element. In this case, the couple shared the environment around them. Sited on Cayuga Lake, the house makes use of chimneys for heat and water collection for cooling, each element is collected by one member of the couple and shared by both.
1 Massing Model of the House
The idea of sharing originated with an initial study of interaction between two dis alike objects of fire and ice. A cast of ice was created, which incorporated a indentation for the placement of sterno, a flammable jelly. When the sterno was lit on fire, the heat from the fire melts the ice around it, eventually resulting in a pool of water, which then extinguishes the flame.
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Initial Study Shown in its Various Stages
Ice and Sterno (Flammable Jelly) when Sterno was First Lit
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Ice and Sterno after Fire was Extinguished by Pooled Water
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Exploded Axon of House Showing the Flow and Storage of Water
H O TEL ON T H E ITHACA C O MMONS PROFESSOR : DAVID SALOMON PARTNER: JARMAN ACEVEDO FALL 2008 - ARCH 201
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The hotel evolved conceptually as a floating mass that rests on a protrusion of the earth. The mass’ shape originated from the dimensions of the site, flipped, and stretched to prioritize the views and accommodate the required number of rooms. The punch from the ground creates a void that is maintained from the roof down to the lower programmatic elements, resulting in a shallow reflecting pool. The skin of the building is channel glass oriented horizontally, which results in a glowing object at night, re-emphasizing the geometric mass within the site.
1 Final Model of the Hotel out if its Site
The program is split between three elements. The public is able to freely walk through the main lobby space as an extension of the Ithaca Commons, the public thoroughfare adjacent to the site. The lower floors function as a public bathhouse, while the upper floors are the private hotel floors. The roof floor is the public restaurant space.
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I NTERN E X P ERIENCE SHOWN: WORK FROM RICELIPKA ARCHITECTS, KMD ARCHITECTS AND SKYLAB ARCHITECTURE
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These projects show some of the various tasks that I have preformed at my previous internships. They range from a self-designed intern project while I was working for KMD to both physical and digital 3D models. While at KMD, the interns were encouraged to create a urban project along the San Francisco waterfront addressing the needs of San Francisco. My project was to create a bicycle storage garage and public transportation center.
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At Rice-Lipka Architects, I built several 3D models using Rhino, as well as worked on an exhibit design. Shown is an example of the 3D models of an art museum used to present to the client.
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Skylab Architecture Physical Model
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Rice-Lipka 3D Art Museum Model
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Rice-Lipka 3D Art Museum Model