A bout M e Fairbanks, AK
Army Brat My father has been a member of the US Military since I was 2 years old (20 years). During his time in the service, my family and I have been fortunate enough to have lived in over 7 different states and once overseas in Germany!
Olympia, WA
Mentor As I have found myself discouraged at times in such an intense program, I’ve found that the support of my studio-mates has helped me through. I take any opportunity I can to provide that same support to other aspiring architects.
Maker I love to make things! The process teaches me so much about the design field and gives me that sense of satisfaction of “I made that!� that I am looking forward to when my first building gets constructed.
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Fort Carson, CO Fort Hood, TX
Schofield Barracks, HI
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Stockbridge, GA Columbus, GA
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Contents Darmstadt, DE
Baltimore Antheneaum
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Mo’ Ducks
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The Heart
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House of Laughter
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Mt. Vernon Place
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The Flower
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Bubbles
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It Takes a Village
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My Smallest Parts
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B altimore ’ s A nthenaeum Middle Branch Park is a site that is troubled with noise and trash pollution. Yet, it has beautiful views of the city and an unwavering connection to the city of Baltimore and the feeling of urbanism. The Baltimore Athenaeum was created to be a reflection of the city, to embrace the positives and bring attention to the negatives.
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ARCH 202 | Form, Space & Order | Professor David Lopez | Spring 2014
Site Plan
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Downtown Baltimore
Building Site
Middle Branch Park
Trash
Cherry Hill
Connected to the Cherry Hill neighborhood by location and downtown Baltimore through views.
Baltimore’s Anthenaeum is located in an area of intense trash pollution, this portion of the site was chosen to bring attention to this issue. It also has access to views of the city, the water and the Cherry Hill community.
Section A
Section B Research Library
Deck
Atrium Theatre Service
Massing
Kitchen Rest rooms
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Upper Level Section A
Conforming of Form
Meeting room
Research Library
Section B
Offices
Vestibule
Atrium Theatre
Subtraction
Ground Level Atrium Research Library
Theatre
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Gathering
Building Use Zones
Form conforming to topography
Subtraction
East View Research Library Deck
Offices
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M o ’ D ucks I designed this bookcase to be a reflection of myself and my parents. The yellow element is very abstract and wacky like my father (nicknamed Mo’, for Maurice) and the red element is supportive and foundational like my mother (nicknamed Duck after her uncle?). The merging of these two distinct character traits make me unique and makes my furniture memorable.
Process Sketches
Final Piece and Study Models
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ARCH 428 | Design Build Studio | Professors David Lopez & Brian Stansbury |Summer 2014
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T he H eart Rhino Model
Deconstruction of Model
CNC Routing Pieces
Evening Interior
Final Piece Extra Curricular Work | Fall 2014
This stacked plywood end-table was designed to portray the heaviness and emptiness that I felt during this time. Making things helps me to focus on and think through problems within the design world and within my personal life. The fabrication of this piece involved 2-axis CNC machining, laminating, chiseling and puddy-ing.
H ouse of L aughter The House of Laughter was designed to serve as a retreat from the day to day stresses of architecture school. As a team, Lumbani, Amir, Edward, Joanie and myself researched the causes of laughter. This project took 6 weeks to design and construct in front of the CBEIS Building on campus. We had a $2,000 budget and constructed the structure of wood. My role was construction manager, builder and I provided construction documents for the building.
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ARCH 429 | Design/Build Studio | Professor Brian Stansbury and David Lopez. | Summer 2014
Uneven floor to cause nervousness which leads to laughter
Roof with slits to allow optimal lighting
Process
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Strategy
Square and Diamond Supports
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Seating: Simple geometries to allude to the architectural design process
Construction off site
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Me Ripping 2 by 4’s
Reading Construction Drawings
Making Floor Frame
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Post Hole Digging
Filling in Posts with Concrete
ADA Accessible Ramp
Transporting Floor with Crane
Sheathing Floor
Making the Diamond and Square
House of Laughter Team
M t . Vernon Place Mount Vernon Place is a Multi-use residential complex that welcomes students from the surrounding area. Due to the buildings proximity to local art schools and colleges, the entire ground floor has been dedicated to art and architecture and is home of the new AIA Baltimore Design Center and an art gallery for students. With 63 units, Mount Vernon Place is the perfect place to bring the studio culture home.
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ARCH 301 | Housing Studio | Professor Dale Green | Fall 2014
Read St.
Vestibule
Art Gallery
Manager’s Office
Lobby
Art Office Section
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AIA Bookstore
Charles Street
Art Office
AIA Meeting Room
Storage
AIA Offices
Art Office Storage AIA Meeting Room
Storage
AIA Offices
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Main Meeting Room Storage
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AIA Gallery
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Univ. Baltimore Art
Apartment
AIA Baltimore
Service AIA
Ground Floor Use Site
Baltimore Art School Studio
Washington Monument
1 BR 2 BR
Walters Art Museum
Site Context
Laundry
Typical Upper Level Use
Studio
1 Bedroom
Building Form
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2 Bedroom
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Charles St. Elevation
Connectivity & Community McElderry Park is a neighborhood in East Baltimore that is currently going through some drastic changes with the Hopkins expansion. It is a blighted neighborhood with crime and unemployment issues, yet has a very passionate community association and thriving schools in close proximity. As apart of the Resilient City Initiative, this studio focused on how to make an economically, environmentally and socially resilient neighborhood. Although I addressed all of these issues in my scheme, I focused on the social aspect, because the people are what makes or breaks a community.
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ARCH 302 | Urban Design Studio | Professor Samia Kirchner | Spring 2015
Site Location
Ashland Ave.
Tech Tillman Elementary School
Madison St.
Retail Community Association House Amazing Port St. Garden
Monument St.
Amazing Grace Church
McElddery St.. Hopkins Medical Campus Fells Point
Paterson Park
Patterson Park Ave.
Monford Ave.
Milton Ave.
Luzern St.
Site Issues
A | Site is divided between neighborhoods (McElderry Park and Milton-Monford). B | Traffic on Monument Street further divides the site. C | Limited green space and gathering spaces near site creates a strong heat island effect and forces residents to hang out in front of shops on Monument Street.
Parti of Current Condition
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Primary Gathering
Parks
Parti of Issues Neighborhood Boundaries
Milton-Monford
Parks
Traffic Density
McElderry Park
Site
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Strategy
Community Meeting
Plans for Tech Tillman Park by HCM and NDC
The McElderry Park Community Association is very active and already has plans for improvement. I plan to respect their plans as apart of my design and also connect the active McElderry Park to Milton-Monford.
The Woonerf (living street) concept was developed and implemented in the Netherlands in an effort to balance the relationship between vehicles and pedestrians. I plan to implement the following design elements in my design scheme. A | Level curbs B | Unpredictable parking C | Create bump outs This will slow down traffic and encourage movement past Monument Street
Community Association House
Woonerf
Solution
A | Connect two neighborhoods through pedestrian walkways. B | Create traffic calming elements to make pedestrians a priority. C | Add green space to give people a safe gathering space.
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Traffic Density
Parks
Parti of Proposal Pedestrian Path
Site
Parks
Pedestrian Path
Distribution of Gathering
Ariel Massing The program called for a distribution of housing types. Elderly (1 bedroom), Communal (dorm style), Starter (2 bedrooms), Full Family (3 bedrooms), Full Family Plus (4 bedrooms). Also on sight are a plethora of retail and community spaces. This is to create a diversity of income within the neighborhood and a self-sustaining one.
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Retail
Elderly 78 Communal 83
Full Family 546
Starter 198
Full Family Plus 95
Community Space
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Ashland Ave.
Madison Street Day Care Planned Parenthood Health Center Bio Retention Pond Rec. Center After School Co-Op Grocery Store Community Association House
Monument Street
Mc Elderry Street Site Plan
Madison Street Section
Amazing Grace Church
Monford Ave.
Ashland Avenue Section
Milton Ave.
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The Flower Pieces
Rendering
The Flower project was about using digital fabrication tools to quickly and accurately test how modular pieces can fit together. I designed a five pedaled flower with small notches in between each pedal in which another flower could slide into. The first prototype was with a small lasercut model. The CNC router was used to cut out larger pieces out of 1/4� acrylic for a full scale coffee table.
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ARCH 428 | Digital Fabrication | Professor Brian Stansbury | Spring 2015
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Bubbles Rendering
3D Printing
Extracurricular Work | Fall 2014
I created the Bubbles in the Fall semester as a way to experiment with the Rhino program (which was totally alien to me at the time) and 3D Printing. The bases of my design was to express my personality. I’ve been told that I am a very bubbly person so that’s what I created, bubbles. But I decided to create a void counterpart to my bubbles to express the fact that I usually don’t present myself as anything but bubbly, even though I do posses other emotions.
It Takes a Village Northwood Elementary is currently one of the last schools on the list to get rebuilt as apart of Baltimore City’s 21st Century Schools Initiative. This studio focused on ways of bringing attention to this school so that it could potentially move up the list, as well as help the community get an idea of what their new school could be. It Takes a Village is a proposal for a New Northwood Elementary that will bring the community, school and nature together. The new building will relate to the surrounding context of the site and contain two distinct connectors: a hall that will connect the community to the school and the students to each other, and a Vista that will connect the two visually to nature.
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ARCH 401 | Senior Studio | Professor Isaac Williams | Fall 2015
Precedent Analysis | Henderson Hopkins | Rogers Partners Architects The Henderson Hopkins School is a Community School, located in the neighborhood of Middle East, near Johns Hopkins Medical Campus and Patterson Park. Middle East is an unappreciated neighborhood in the city. The Henderson Hopkins school was strategically developed in this neighborhood to serve as an Urban Regenerator. Not only does it serve the needs of students, but it also serves the needs of the surrounding community with a gym, library, health center and auditorium available to them after school hours.
PK - K 1st - 4th
The idea of community heavily influenced the school’s design. The students are separated into houses based on age. Each house contains classrooms, an open learning area, commons and access to a yard. The facade of these houses and their orientation was designed to mimic rowhouses, which is a prominent building typology in this neighborhood.
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Current Conditions
Learning Space
Community
Park
Proposal
Distribution
Community Space
Connection
It Takes a Village takes the key ideas that make the Henderson Hopkins School great and integrates them into the site of Northwood Elementary School. The site considerations that were responded to were the traffic density on Loch Raven Boulevard, the surrounded residence neighborhood and the Chinquapin Park. The footprint of the case study was transformed to relate to urban morphology of the neighborhood and the plan was slightly altered to create a greater sense of community within the students body.
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Rec. Center 1
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1st Grade Organization
5th Grade Cluster
5th Grade Organization
M y S mallest Parts “Because I wanted to talk about architecture, I dismantled architecture into its smallest parts.� -Rem Koolhaas. This has served as the basis of my independent study. I researched how historically architects have used the design of furniture design as a way to strengthen their architectural work and portray their personal aesthetic. In the dresser and night stand suite, I abstracted parts of my culture to represent who I am. Through studying the correlation between architecture and furniture I have become a more refined and critical designer.
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Abstracted Braid
Allusion to African Furniture
Swiss Cross
German Mass
ARCH 499 | Independent Study | Furniture Design | Advisor Brian Stansbury | Fall 2015
T hank You ! I hope that you have enjoyed reviewing my work as I have enjoyed creating it. Your time is greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me with any questions comments or concerns. Best, Christina Schaller
e: chsch2@morgan.edu p: 360-349-9775
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