CAROLINE GUINN Architecture | Design Portfolio K e y W o r k s , 2012-2016
PROJECTS 01 HOUSING AND THE CITY Los Angeles, CA | 2016
02 URBAN RUINS Rome, Italy | 2015
03 TANZAKADEMIE
New Orleans, LA | 2015
04 POETICS OF MATERIALITY New Orleans, LA | 2014
05 SURFACE MEDIATION New Orleans, LA | 2014
06 MUSEUM OF THE CITY PT. 1 & PT. 2 New Orleans, LA | 2013
07 FASHION ATELIER New York, NY | 2012
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HOUSING AND THE CITY West Hollywood Mixed-Use | Los Angeles, CA
Tulane University Spring 2016 Critic: Judith Kinnard Located on the well known strip of Santa Monica Boulevard, this half block mixed-use project boasts itself on its public plaza and residential courtyard to offer luscious, open spaces to adhere to the busy city life of Los Angeles while still enjoying the perfect climate through exterior spaces. The mixed-use building contains seven retails spaces on the ground level with 87 one and two-bedroom apartments all equipped with private exterior balconies. The design principles leading this project were relationships from interior to exterior formed through transparent surfaces along with open spaces all circulating around a ‘residential courtyard’ that takes the form of a heavily planted landscape.
site investigations
project volume
courtyard removal
plaza removal
expanding pedestrian flow
visual enhancement
shifting community space
academic work
level two plans
level one plans
latitudinal section
project 0I
santa monic
ca blvd & n harper ave
academic work
plaza activity
massing model in site
project 0I
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URBAN RUINS Mixed-Use | Rome, Italy
Pantheon Institute Fall 2015 Critic: Giovanna Galfione-Cox Located in the heart of Rome, Italy along the Tiber River, this project embraces the culture of preservation that is prevelant amongst Roman architecture. Urban Ruins is a proposal for a mixed use program including a community center, museum, and apartment housing that utilizes the existing roman ruins located on the site by enveloping them into the design. The design principles that drove this project was a central axis that was discovered through the unfolding of historic maps of this area. This axis and its strong relationship to the Tiber River as well as the existing building fabric was enhanced through the final building design in order to preserve the rich history of this area.
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N level one plans
academic work
site with ruins
ruin park exposure
new built fabric
project 02
ruins and axis
via guilia elevation
axis joiner
lungotevere elevation
academic work
via guilia entrance
project 02
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TANZAKADEMIE Dance Academy | New Orleans, LA Tulane University Spring 2015 Critic: Marianne Desmarais Comprehensive Studio Tanzakademie is the proposal of a dance studio located in the Central Business District of New Orleans. This dance studio served as the requirement for the graduate comprehensive studio. The goal of this studio was to allow the student to practice all skills to date including site, program, circulation, structure, mechanical systems, sustainable practices, facade strategies, life safety, and materiality. This academy incorporates uses for both practice and performance, embracing the idea of movement and dance as the conceptual basis. The design principals that drove this project focused on redifining public and private spaces by blurring the lines between the audience and the performers.
ground level plans
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STUDIO CAFE/BAR
BOOKSTORE/ LIBRARY
STUDIO
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SCENE SHOP THEATRE
STUDIO THEATRE (BLACK BOX)
ENTRANCE LOBBY
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DRESSING ROOM
SCENE STORAGE GREEN ROOM
DRESSING ROOM
STUDIO
TEACHERS ROOMS
DRESSING ROOM DRESSING ROOM COSTUME SHOP/ LAUNDRY
DRESSING ROOM
STORAGE LECTURE ROOM
STUDIO
WC-F ADMIN + SECRETARY
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TEACHERS ROOMS
DRESSING ROOM
LECTURE ROOM
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massing process
academic work
section a
lobby entrance
project 03
side street view
academic work
massing model depicting form
project 03
section perspective
academic work
roof assembly- epdm roofing over sloped insulation on top of composite lightweight concrete/steel deck facade roof assembly- waterproofing membrane on top with metal decking and 3” concrete topping upper operable ventilation- glass louver exhaust vents girder- 18” depth, fireproofed, span 18’9”, bay size 18’9” x 26’ composite beam- 10” depth, fireproofed, span 18’9” bay size 18’9” x 26’ steel structural ladder frame
suspended ceiling- to house lighting and air ducts
exploded facade
shading device- 1’ operable aluminum louvers lighting- recessed can lights spaces spaced 5’ apart
return air duct- centralized all-air system with vavs floor finish material- wood panels aid in acoustics
outer skin- double layer of low iron u-profile glass units with translucent insulation inner skin- single layer laminated glass wall system maintenance catwalk- welded catwalk assembly anchored to structural stay for horizontal load resistance
3’0” deep air space- provides added insulating depth and enables maintenance access
lower operable ventilation- operable damper vents concrete pile cap
foundation- 18” depth concrete slab with concrete grade beams
double-facade plan, section, and elevation
project 03
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POETICS OF MATERIALS Building Arts Institute | New Orleans, LA
Tulane University Spring 2014 Critic: Kentaro Tsubaki The Building Arts Institute is a community building for local artisans in the New Orleans area. Its mission is to ensure that the public understanding and appreciation of the building trades as an art form continues to evolve over time. The site of the institute is a city block located in uptown New Orleans. The project focused on siting strategies, programming, and material articulation and assemblage details. My project evolved from the three different ideas at three different scales. The large idea deals with the site. I chose to place the institutue in an old and thriving neighborhood as a way to join a network thats already established. The medium idea deals with site strategy within the block. I chose to place the education program on a street that already houses two schools as a way to link the existing schools and create an education corridor. The campus style layout of my design allows for maintainig the foot print and scale of the existing neighborhood. The overall program creates a solid/void axial alignment with the surrounding building fabric. The small idea deals with the perimeter entrance wall that was designed out of brick. This wall system, comprised of brick panels, expands and creates new limits with an old material through the use of steel and brick while creating a threshold condition as the entrance to the institute.
level two
site plan
educate perform fabricate
fabricate
perform
fabricate fabricate
diagram depicting program and circulation
level one plans
academic work
longitudinal section
latitudinal section
main entrance (east) elevation
project 04
north elevation
south elevation
west elevation
academic work
brick wall panel system plan view
wall section at entrance
basswood model of brick wall panel system at entrance
project 04
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SURFACE MEDIATION Stair Design | New Orleans, LA
Tulane University Fall 2014 Critic: David Merlin The intention behind the design of the “floating staircase� is that it acts as a subtle floating sculpurtal object. The staircase achieves this by its hallowness design. Made from a dark stone, the staircase is suspended from the ceiling by a system of steel cables to obtain this floating effect. The bottom of one stair extends out to form the top of the next, creating a continuous surface from the first level to the second.
academic work
stair detail
perspective
section perspective
project 05
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M U S E U M O F T H E C I TY P T. 1 Urban Analysis | New Orleans, LA
Tulane University Fall 2013 Critic: Tom Holloman A study was done to observe and analyze the city of New Orleans through a series of diagrams. These diagrams looked at its region, its overall form, history, structure, and its constituent neighborhoods. From these examinations, the built environment of New Orleans began to unravel. After discoveries were revealed, these analysis served as architectural and tectonic base elements from which the Museum of the City was developed. The diagram to the right zooms in to observe the immediate context that surrounds the building site through studies of built fabric, road conditions, and a shifting grid structure.
academic work
project 06
area above sea level
built fabric along river
synthesizing topography
academic work
side view synthesis model
synthesis model
plan view synthesis model
project 06
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M U S E U M O F T H E C I TY P T. 2 Museum | New Orleans, LA
Tulane University Fall 2013 Critic: Tom Holloman The site for the Museum of the City was located at 619 Frenchman Street, current home of the Frenchman Street Art Market. The area of the site was 23’ x 160’. My design themes when developing the Museum of the City stemmed from analyzing the city of New Orleans as well as the Marigny neighborhood. The themes that drove the design were overlapping spaces, the ways a certain view can change ones experience, this idea of the center of the city block serving as an anchor, and disolving boundaries between indoor and outdoor space. Transitioning from the busy street into the museum is achieved through an outdoor breezeway leading you into the Museum of the City. As you circulate throughout the museum on these linear paths, you arrive at the outdoor courtyard (pictured on the right ) to end the museum visit with the famous New Orleans Jazz tunes.
site plan of 619 frenchman street and surrounding area
SITE PL AN SCALE : 1/32” = 1’ - 0”
academic work
basswood model
basswood model in site
project 06
exterior perspective
academic work
linear gallery
cube: gallery extension
main entrance
project 06
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FASHION ATELIER Installation | New York, NY
New York/Paris Columbia University Fall 2012 Critic: Jane Kim My project manifested through an obsession with reflection. From captured reflection in windows of the Opera House and the Theatre at Lincoln Center, I diagrammed circulation of light and virtual construction of perceived space. Forms that were created in this diagram served as construction guides to my Fashion Atelier. I then continued my Fashion Atelier explorations through a digital media class a few years later. The design that was earlier achieved by hand was transformed and manipulated into a computer model. The rendering to the right shows the 3-dimensional explorations placed in Marfa, TX as a roadside installation.
diagram showing virtual construction of perceived spaces
academic work
longitudinal section of model
fashion atelier constructed from woven bristol board
project 07
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