CAROLINE STACEY 2018
Index STUDIO WORK
C A R O L I N E S TA C E Y
From Pantin to Paris
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The New Age Cinema
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Housing Miguel Aleman
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Library Tower in NYC
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OTHER WORK Border Bathhouse
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Visual Communication
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Resume
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From Pantin to Paris Fall 2017 | Paris, France Pantin to Paris is about the exploration of what it means to be a block in a changing urban context. The Around the Block studio at Ecole Nationale Superior Architecture Paris Belleville aimed to analyze different live, work, culture, and leisure typologies as a way of approaching the challenge of urban growth. Pantin to Paris is not a project but rather a working set of buildings and interior spaces, a block, derived from different typologies, processes, and research that allows for individuality within a collective site. The methods of the studio allowed for a layered approach to defining the block. Resisting the urge to master plan, an emphasis on modeling at all scales was used to conceive different approaches to the site. Pantin to Paris explores live work typologies by looking at the types of housing that are suitable to the site, the types of work that are needed, the boundaries that communities need between live and work, and the density of the two. The next layer to the block was adding a series of culture leisure typologies exploring different scales and the degree of public and private. Using the existing architectural conditions, the urban infrastructure, and the developing typologies, the concept of the block began to make itself clear- a system of structures that are defined as a group externally, but that function within an adaptable urban interior. A series of human-scaled buildings and multiple platforms create different ways for the private and public to use the block. The exterior of the small buildings become the interior of the block, creating different zones for circulation, privacy, entrance, and views. Small buildings allow for lots of variation and more ownership, and the interstitial space provides more communal interactions. At the level of individual units and the different typologies explored, it is important for both the residents and the public to have boundaries, and to have the ability to create ownership. At the larger scale of building form and the block, it is important to facilitate a cultural warmth, a mixing of people, connections and typologies. The Pantin to Paris block is about using architectural tools- structure, heights, and the site- to explore a new type of block. Done in collaboration with Natalie Boverman, Aksel Borgen, Maggie Gaudio, Lucas Monnerau and Theo Mullard
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Shift of buildings to accommodate views, air circulation, foot traffic, and public plazas
Serial sections through the site showing the relationship of the building aggregation to the highway
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Different housing typologies that can be integrated into the structural system Early facade studies on the building typologies, looking at how sunlight can be controlled, namely in the residential units
An analysis of the structural system and the different components that make up the building
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Looking at the life of one of the buildings. There is an exploration of live and work within one building, and how the two programs are able to interact. It also uses the adjustable structural system to create variations within the overall form of the building.
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The New Age Cinema Spring 2017 | Austin, Texas The cinema is not simply for movies, but for a movie going experience. Creating an environment for single movie goers and groups alike that transcends ones home experience is becoming more vital to the industry. Engaging nostalgia and creating a sensual, vibrant experience is key to successful movie experiences being built currently across the country, and here the task was to redefine again what it means to go to the cinema. Here, it is adding the vintage touch of a drive in movie theater, activating American car culture and a warm feeling of past traditions. This aspect is then seamlessly integrated with an indoor movie going venue, which utilizes its location in a blank field to make a bold statement about the development to come in this rapidly urbanizing area of Austin. The cinema itself is extruded from the ground in large monolithic pieces, each piece representing the different programs. The theaters are represented individually as pieces that work together to create a cohesive space. They connect almost as joints to show a unified building, while the circulation remains tectonic as an outdoor means of egress. One of the focuses of this project was on arrival. Currently situated in an open field, a sense of presence and becoming became necessary in defining what this project was. Here it was developed that both scales represented in this space, the scale of the human versus the scale of the car, would experience a sense of belonging. To enter the drive in, a separate path was created that meanders across the landscape, using elevation changes to create a procession for the drive in movie goer. In contrast, the users of the indoor cinema arrive from the parking lot onto a rolling bridge that brings them to the lower and upper theater hallways. One challenge of the project was to integrate the indoor venue with the outdoor movie experience. Using the voids created by the theaters, seating for the outdoor cinema was integrated into the overall form of the indoor theaters, allowing for both programs to intersect and interact. It speaks to the overall intent of integrating both scales, that of the human and of the car, in one cohesive environment meant to create a movie destination.
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Housing Miguel Aleman Spring 2016 | Miguel Aleman, Mexico The border between Mexico and the United States has elicited a severe amount of tension in current events. The idea of boundary increased greatly within the United States with talks of physical barriers between the two countries. However, it is on the border that exchanges are desired by citizens of both sides, whether it be goods, services or ideas. Here, the two countries can more easily coexist, for trade and proximity unite them, as well as a desire for peaceful lives. Here citizens see the perils, but more importantly the triumphs of two cultures intersecting, and establish a precedent for easing this tension between the two sides. The idea behind this proposal is to impart the border’s need for integration and exchange on housing for those in Miguel Aleman, Mexico. This bustling town in on the border of Taumalipas and Texas has a desperate need for housing to host both white and blue collar workers moving to the area. Its proximity to the United States provides a robust economy that only wants to capitalize more on its location. Here four plots of land are divided to differentiate housing typologies that would fit within the culture and burgeoning urban fabric already existing in Miguel Aleman. These typologies would be under 100 meters squared, but more importantly, are open to expansion. This fits with the current culture of expansion with need in the majority of households, increasing individuality and pride in one’s home.
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Small Scale Commercial
60 m2 Apartment Typologies, Typology 2
30 m2 Apartment Typologies
100 m2 Apartment Typologies, Typology 1
In this grouping of housing there is a distribution of low, middle, and high income housing. These low rise, high density options mimick the neighborhoods around the plot of land, and allow for limited small scale commercial properties to provide for the community.
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Plans for the first typology, as well as its aggregation
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Plans for the second typology, as well as its aggregation
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Renderings of the first typology
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Renderings of the second typology
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Library Tower in NYC Fall 2016 | New York City, New York With the decline of the library present in the United States, the goal of this space was to not simply house books. The nature of public space has shifted to one of interactiveness as well as recluse. People like to discover as well as embrace new exciting places, one that is informal and welcoming. This project aims to assimilate into the atmosphere of New York by creating an intricate vertical footprint within this vibrant Morningside Heights neighborhood which in turn provides a cultural icon for the community. In this library, the concept started as movement from the street to the terrace, however it evolved into movement vertically. Vertical ascension is key to identity in New York, and while this building doesn’t soar like those downtown, instead in separates itself from the existing monotonous height of the neighboring buildings and perches over them for views. Climbing up this building provides more access to space and removes the user from the hustle and bustle of the streets below. In order to emphasize the ascension up through the building, bold red stairs cut through the slabs creating a winding path up through the spaces. These stairs are twisted around a glass tower completely separated from the overall building system, where within the stacks are housed. This challenges the existing functionality of library systems, where stacks are often removed from overall public programmatic spaces, where here the idea of reading and knowledge is physically integrated with the vertical circulation. The books are encased in glass to impart their function on the user, who are encouraged to move up through each of the levels to the reading room. As one transcends up these stairs, each floor leaves opportunities for informal meetings or private working space, trying to capture the feel of a coffee shop or collegiate union space. This library strives to be a place of learning and interaction with the knowledge associated with reading, focusing on the people in the community and the information it can provide to them.
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Circulation Desk Stacks Computer Training Area Work Area
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Community Room Stacks Pantry & Storage Courtyard
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Teen Center Stacks
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Exploding the different formal and structural components of the building
Metal Flashing Cap Gravel Roof Membrane Steel Bearing Plate Metal Roof Decking Fiber Cement Panels Air Space Gyp Board
Metal Decking Open Web Steel Joists Barrier Insulation Drop Ceiling
Thermal Glazing Acoustic Insulation Vapor Barrier Wide Flange Steel Beam Flush Bracket System
Flooring
Concrete Footing Vapor Barrier
Drawings Done In Collaboration With Construction IV
Rigid Insulation
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Border Bathhouse Winter 2016 Competition | Korean Demilitarized Zone A bathhouse pushed between the borders of North and South Korea does not attempt to succumb to the ordinary and mundane, for the premise defies what is thought to be possible. With tensions high in this demilitarized zone, a radical push towards unity is the only way to respect this barren landscape. This intervention is pushed to the depths of the earth, where a monumental form arises and takes cues from the circle, a gesture of peace. This bathhouse is not meant to blend with the setting, but rather be a bold intervention into a severely tense environment, an unrelenting approach to try to begin the formation of order. Two entrances from each country transcend an outer ring of water to ease down the landscape, a process which connects the users to the depths of the earth to foster peace and unity. Tunnels are used during this procession in a manner of connecting users to an inner peaceful environment, and challenge their typical connotation of war. Procession through the locker rooms lead citizens of both countries together to grand bathing spaces for all, where North and South Koreans, men and women, can co-habitate. But more than that these occupants can coexist in a soothing and calm environment, being wrapped in natural stone and separated only by the flow of water that acts and spacial boundaries of each program. This bathhouse is not meant to follow its predecessors, rather it defies the need for boundaries, and pushes for a completely open bathing experience to ease tensions in these countries. Done in collaboration with Brandon Tharp and Ui Jun Song
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Visual Communication Fall 2014 - 2015 Using analog and computer based methods to create drawings and forms that focus on light and movement
Tone drawing focusing on light and shadow
Formal waffle study made with Rhino, Grasshopper and 123D Make
Hand drawing of drill focusing on lines of extension and motion
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E XPERIENCE
E D U C AT I O N
LEADERSHIP
Gensler (Dallas T X )
Universit y of Tex as at Austin School of Architec ture B. Arch May 2019
Student A ssistant UTSOA Europe Study Abroad
Spor ts + Enter tainment Studio Intern May - August 2017
Apar t of the team creating the schematic design of the new Universit y of Tex as B asketball Arena and event s center. In addition, was able to contribute to preliminar y designs for client s considering future expansion projec t s, as well as as sist with the present ation.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architec ture de Paris-Belleville Study Abroad Fall 2017
August 2017 - November 2017
Had the oppor tunit y to help profes sors plan a 5 week travel schedule around Europe, and was able to as sist in an 8 week studio in Paris.
Mentor ACE Austin Januar y 2015 - Present
RECOGNITION
June - August 2016
Design E xcellence Nomination
Par ticipated in SD/DD drawings on a Big 10 softball st adium with an emphasis on interiors material selec tion and rendering. A lso had the oppor tunit y as an intern group to deliver a design for Element Hotel in Trinit y Groves, which included a full SD set .
November 2017
Was apar t of the first ACE (Architec ture, Construc tion, Engineering) group of Austin, having the oppor tunit y to mentor high school student s in the area interested in these disciplines. Was appointed Team Leader t wo years in a row.
President ’s Leadership Award Nomination
UTSOA Undergraduate Curriculum Committee & Coordinating Committee
November 2017
Student Member
UT School of Architec ture Student A ssistant
Student Mentor of the Year ACE Austin
Januar y - March 2018
May 2017
Gensler (Dallas T X ) Spor ts + Enter tainment Studio Intern
November 2016 - May 2017
Par ticipated in School of Architec ture administrative meetings in order to ensure that the student voice was expres sed in topics such as curriculum changes
A s sisted in NA AB accredit ation preparation
Universit y Honors Leo A Daly (Washington DC)
August 2014 - Present
Intern May - August 2015
Non Resident Tuition E xemption
Model building for adaptive reuse projec t s. Graphics for present ations. Organizing construc tion administration submitt als
South River Golf Club (Edgewater MD) Pro Shop A ssistant May - August 2015
Design Review Board (Birmingham MI) Student Member Januar y - December 2013
Co-President & Treasurer Architec ture Student Council August 2016 - May 2017
May 2014 - Present
SKILLS Revit . Rhino. Grasshopper. Adobe Creative Cloud. Photoshop. Illustrator. InDesign. L ightroom. Bridge. Sketchup. 3DS Max . AutoCad. Bluebeam. 123D Make
Lead student council meetings within the School of Architec ture, organized the annual B eaux Ar t s B all celebration, spearheaded a merchandise s ale within the school, and managed council finances.
President Universit y of Tex as Women’s Club Volleyball November 2014 - June 2016
Organized travel schedules, planned and hosted home tournament s, created budget s for universit y approval, administered payroll to coaches, as well as played middle blocker.