WORK SAMPLES - FEBRUARY 2013
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(background image: design for new entry for the School of Architecture, UNC Charlotte, Spring 2009)
Work Samples Format: Image Description Course / Professional Position | Instructor / Organization | Semester | Project Notes (all collaborations are noted)
Software Program(s) or Method of Representation
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Central Ave Housing Complex, [physical] Schematic Model @ 1/32”=1’ UNCC Pre-Fab Studio | Larry Scarpa | Fall 2006
Corrugated Cardobard, Chipboard, Colored Pencil
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Central Ave Housing Complex Plan UNCC Pre-Fab Studio | Larry Scarpa | Fall 2006
Autocad 2004, Photoshop CS, Colored-Pencil
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
“Waste-Landscapes” -- inspired by t.s. eliot GSD 2241 Representation | Andrea Hansen | Fall 2010
Rhino v.4, Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
“Waste-Landscapes” -- inspired by t.s. eliot GSD 2241 Representation | Andrea Hansen | Fall 2010
Rhino v.4, Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5
tower / gallery
Jaffa Wedge
live - work
Vertical Garden Intervention [4]
Terraced Garden
library [3]
school / fabrication
Aerial Site Plan GSD 1504 Jerusalem Studio | Alex Krieger | Fall 2012
Rhino v.4, Photoshop CS5.5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Vertical Garden Intervention [5]
Section thru Terrace Garden (w/ Reference Plan) GSD 1504 Jerusalem Studio | Alex Krieger | Fall 2012
Rhino v.4, Photoshop CS5.5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Analysis [left] and Proposal [right] for Arsenic Remediation of Residential Property in Weston, MA GSD 1908 Phytoremediation Research Seminar | Niall Kirkwoord and Kathryn Kennen | Spring 2012
Rhino v.4, Illustrator CS5.5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
9” o.c. Frame, galvanized steel 2” wide x 0.5” thick
Wood Screws, steel 0.75” long Surface Boards, wood 2 x 4’s 1.5” x 3.5” Frame, galvanized steel 0.5” x 0.19”
Grating, galvanized steel Horizontal members - 0.25” x 0.19” Vertical members - 0.25” x 0.13”
0.75” o.c.
0% slope
4” o.c.
Durability Study for Folding Benches at Harvard Business School Courtyard, Allston GSD 6242 Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies | Niall Kirkwood | Spring 2010
5% slope
Rhino v.4, Illustrator CS5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Rainwater Filtration Center, Interior View from Elevator shaft into cafe UVA Undergraduate Architecture Studio | Jason Johnson | Spring 2005
Maya v.5, Watercolor, Photoshop CS
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Weaving [left] Folding [right]; Explorations in Materiality UNCC “Materiality: Hybrid Spatial Tectonics” Seminar | James Reitinger | Spring 2006
Wood Sheets, Bent Rod Steel [left], Melted Plexi-glass, Piano wire [right], Photoshop CS
Chronology of Farm Equipment Technology and US Farm-Owning Population over the 20th Century GSD 1406 The Garden in the Machine | Peter Osler | Spring 2012 | Collaboration with Alex DelVecchio, MLA 1 ‘12
AutoCAD 2013, Adobe Illustrator CS 5.5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Chronology of Archetypal Depictions of Landscapes: Prairie, Forest, Farm and Water and US Population over the 20th Century GSD 1406 The Garden in the Machine| Peter Osler | Spring 2012 | Collaboration with Alex DelVecchio, MLA 1 ‘12
AutoCAD 2013, Adobe Illustrator CS 5.5
St. Louis County Watersheds: Hydro-Topo installation proposal
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Image Source : St. Louis County, Department of Planning, 2002; Metropolitan Sewer District, 2002.
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Graphics from “Hydro-Topo“ Installation Proposal for the Camp Out Exhibition at the Laumeier Sculpture Park Design Intern for Creative Exchange Lab | In collaboration w/ artist Kim Yasuda & Sarah Moore, WashU MArch Student ‘13 | Summer 2012
Adobe Illustrator CS5.5
COMPOST
PLAY Preserved Hardscape Sub-Surface Flow Wetlands (left) Surface Flow Wetlands (right) Aquatic Plants
Waste Water Treatment
MANAGE
Meadow
Aquaculture Ponds
Wet Meadow
Forest
Vernal Pools
Water Courses
GATHER HARVEST
Land Cover Plan and Use Calendars for Aquaculture and Sewage Treatment Facility, South Weymouth Naval Air Station , MA GSD 1211 Core Landscape Studio | Christian Werthman, Pierre Belanger | Fall 2010 | Collaboration with Judith Rodriguez MLA 1 AP ‘13 and Kenya Endo MLA 1 ‘13
AutoCAD 2010, Watercolor, Photoshop CS5
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
FISH
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Physical Model of Sparta Teapot Museum and Landscape @ 1/16”=1’ UNCC Comprehensive MArch Studio | Kelly Carlson-Reddig | Fall 2005
Autocad 2004 (laser cut), Chipboard, Plexi-glass, Patinaed Copper Sheets
[original collage]
Analysis of Richard Meier Collage UNCC MArch Thesis | Linda Samuels| Spring 2007
Sharpies, Watercolour, Photoshop
Christine Abbott | GSD MLA 1 AP 2013 | UNCC MArch 2007 | UVA Architecuture BS 2005
Sketch of Parliament Building Vienna [left] and Parthenon, Paris [right] UNCC Teaching Fellowship | Research Trip to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands | Summer 2008
Graphite Pencil (on-site)
Sketch of Justi Gardens, Verona, Italy UVA Vicenza Sketching Course | Charles Menefee III| Summer 2004
Graphite Pencil (on-site)