collin c. cope undergraduate portfolio
table of contents 05_Appalachia Haven [thesis work] 11_Sunset Limited Brewpub + Garden [net-zero] 17_Barberini Metro Pavillion [study abroad rome] 23_Knoxville Rowing Association [integrations] 35_Casa de Sara Esculita 39_Sobro Primary School 43_International Student Center 45_Interfaith Chapel 49_Record Store 51_Woodland Cemetery Visistors Center 53_Travel Sketches
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies. - Le Corbusier
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Fifth Year Studio
Thesis in process
Appalachia hia Haven
site: Rural Clay County, Kentucky date: Spring 2014 advisor: John McRae
Nature of the Proposal chia that supports To design a haven in rural Appalachia an assisted living community coexisting xisting alongside a new kind of health and wellness center nter for the abused and rescued animals of the surrounding ounding area. an architecture of healing: a place of rest, acceptance, and recovery. Nature of Place
an architecture of healing: a place off rest, acceptance, and recovery The haven is a place where elderly find care, companionship, and rest. Here, new families are iving and healing created between the old folk, arriving animals, and the staff. Often timess we hear of the issues in Appalachia regarding its aging population g compassion and as being lonely, fragile, and lacking e haven provides a companionship late in their lives. The place where they can be cared for, and in turn care for the rescued dogs and cats brought into the veterinary clinic.
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Together the two symbiotically heal one another. what is architecture’s role in this? Too many times we are self indulgent as architects - the haven beckons for an architecture for humanity. It must generate the feelings of safety and reprieve, evoke a sense of timelessness, while honoring the needs of a new veterinary clinic, and foremost, it should grow organically as a new community into a sanctuary of relief and recovery. The nature of the place embodies the ideas of health and wellness, ease and comfort, and familiarity and freshness. Appalachia is deeply rooted in tradition: the haven creates a sense of progress while maintaining the strong cultural values of the love and resiliency of a people that have an abundance of heart and character.
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The site rests delicately in a valley along a winding river, the scene offers a quiet reminder of the simplicity of the close natural world and the land that is loved so dearly. The elderly walk the animals and the two heal one another as the rest of the world floats into a far away, distant past.
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Fifth Year Studio
Net-Zero
Sunset Limited Brewpub + Garden
site: Marfa, Texas date: Fall 2013 professor: Mark DeKay
Marfa is a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far West Texas, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. Today, Marfa is a tourist destination and a major center for Minimalist art attractions include Building 98, the Chinati Foundation, artisan shops, historical architecture, a classic Texas town square, modern art installments, art galleries, and the Marfa lights. One critic called the town, “cowboy zen.� The overall goal of the design was to conceptualize, program, and ultimately create and prove a net-zero brewpub and garden that was both a fully functioning sustainable brewery and restauraunt. The design includes many passive strategies to achieve net-zero status: cross + stack ventilation, reused materials, operable windows creating a permeable envelope, an evaporative cooling tower, evaporative cooling ponds, night cooled mass, and layers of shades. The Sunset Limited Brewpub and Garden is located along an arroyo. This zone plays host to a greenway system and connects points of interest within Marfa, including the brewery itself.
natural ventilation plays a lead design: here the air is brought from channels underneath the
ys a lead role in the efficiency of the brought un and through the brewery eath the slab
evaporative cooling pond washes cool breezes into the dining and drinking areas, offering reprive from the harsh Texas sun
brewing tunnel shelters and protects against harsh environment
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The Chinati Foundation, an art center, serves as an important precedent for the connection between architecture and culture in Marfa.
Donald Judd was a point of interest, where architecture, art, and sculpture come into play.
One intention was to create a delicate and structured green way through the city that runs perpendicular to the railroad offering new paths of access and connection.
brewing tunnel
The brew shed is an open air pavilion releasing heat directly outside during the brewing process easing the loads on the rest of the building
Marfa was originally a small west Texas railroad town, today there is no train stop, however the Sunset Limited Amtrak line from New Orleans to Los Angeles runs through Marfa, a design goal was to create a railroad stop attached to the brewery.
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03 lobby space show cases polished fermenters and storage tanks and provides a fi rst glimpse of the brewing process as soon as patrons enter the brewpub
02 the entrance gives patrons a sense of mystery during the approach and opens the conversation of differing progrmatic scales
01 the approach offers two routes: one into the brew pub on the left, or two, to follow along the green way to the train stop beyond
section through brew tunnel
elevation
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Study Abroad
Rome Studio
Barberini Metro Pavilion
site: Rome, Italy date: Spring 2013 professor: Davide Vitali + Francesco Bedeschi
Pope Sixtus V created an idea - a vision of a Christian Rome ordered through a series of virtual thresholds and hallways connected between points of significance marked by various vertical elements throughout the city. In relation to such a grand scheme - the design works to enhance and restore an area along the Via Sistina and the surrounding site of Piazza Tritone and the Palazzo Barberini. The conecpt is to create a catalyst for new thinking regarding the way the city and it’s monuments of heroic instances of architecture, such as the Palazzo Barberini, can be expressed and celebrated further. The concept revolves around the design of a new metro entrance below the Palazzo as a transparent threshold that celebrates the large and once incredibly important facade, while better connecting the palazzo to the piazza below. The intention is to create a space that feels light and airy, yet comfortable and encouraging of movement. The design goal to create a space that has a sense of timelessness - closely related to the ancient temples of Rome and Greece, where natural beauty and the simple idea of columns and trees holding up roofs and canopies, relates us back to our beginings, our roots.
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site plan
floor plan
elevation + section
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sections
Classical Rome was a collection of monumental architectural structures that did not consider spatial relationships or circulation issues, leaving the city in a patchwork of streets and disorder. Pope Sixtus V introduced a new way of thinking about the city by articulating circulation as an organizational, religous, and pilgrimatic structural experience. Cardinal Monalto, an exiled religous leader, developed ideas for reorganizing Rome before he became Pope Sixtus V. His vision was to reinvigorate the city and create suitable routes throughout Rome, suiting the center of the Christian world. Using the entire city, he overlaid an organizational structure of circulation routes that connected the major spaces and buildings by means of placing elements in space as landmarks that anchored important vistas along the processional routes. Palazzo Barberini and Piazza Tritone, situated between Piazza d’Espagna and the Quatro Fontana have the opportunity to become a major catalyst for rediscovering such ideas about city planning and circulation throughout the city.
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Fourth Year Studio
Integrations
Knoxville Rowing Association
site: Knoxville, TN date: Fall 2012 professor: Paul Bielicki + Lisa Hoskins
The project focuses on designing a space that is both energy effi cient and functionally applicable to the program of a rowing boathouse. The design was awarded the score of LEED Platinum achieving a score of 87 LEED points granted by the Integrations professors, gaining the highest amount in the class. The semester was catered to rigorously testing our philosophies of sustainable design and the many facets that go into it. The design incorporates large series of green roofs, photovoltaeic panels as shading devices over parking spaces, efficient water collection + redistribution systems, glue laminated timber systems and SIP, structurally insulated panels, high effi ciency glazing and optimal sun, wind, and light orientation. The project offers and exhibits optimal views of the Tennessee River, Neyland Stadium, and the downtown skyline beyond. The parti of the project focuses on the revolving nature of character and performance, function and poetry and how each works with one another to create a seemless combination of use and experience.
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site plan
upper floor plan
lower floor plan
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elevation
elevation
detail 01
detail 02
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specific tectonics
green roof
revolving oars in a fluid motion cut and push through the water upper HVAC
Rowing is by nature a public event due to its openess and outwardly visible interactions of sport, however, ripples of privacy and a sense of elitism composes the environment desired and created by the crew the sport is both recreational, focusing on learning the various techniques required to crew, and competitive, holding extensive training in the early hours, and overall physical fitness at high esteem and prowess. discipline plays a large role in both the indvividual’s and team’s success. Both of which come together to create a simple, yet straightforward result: a seemless combination of character and performance design intent + concept I believe and am forever striving to create an architecture that is best expirienced without truly recognizing its existence, simply put, the best architecture is not what you notice, but more of what seems to fit in so well it simply feels honest to the place. As we progress, the project for the new boat house will revolve over and over again until that seemless combination achieved by elite rowers, is not only perceived in our studies of how buildings integrate with site, people and function - but, by also cutting deeper into the character of it all, will begin to push forward and create a doubtless sense of poetry and honesty about a place for, through and within the mindset of the rowing crews that will expirience it.
reclaimed wooden siding
sip pannel floors
lower HVAC
lockers
ergonomic machines
concrete foundations
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sequential + temporal The design revolves around the idea of the seemless integrations of concept and form, function and poetry, so the structure plays a lead roll in making this idea apparent. Wood is one of the oldest materials and has a certain character that reflects many of the ideals associated with rowing and is often incoporated with Riparian landscape designs. It is also readily available in our area. It relates to the concept in regards to original boats, oars, etc. The long horizontal beams and thin vertical joists will create resemblances to the shells, oars and the linear nature of both. Glue Laminated beams and joists give the opportunity for increased spans heavy timber beams do not always allow. This also opens the door to more organic shapes and specific instances of curvatures that may resemble the ties to the nearby shoreline and water charcterisitics. Glulam bridges these possibilities while maintaining a similar character as heavy timber but with a more performance attitude about it in creating that contemporary and integrated sense the concept strives to subtly make evident.
glue-laminated framing elements
SIP walls and floors
tertiary materials
green roof seed mix
structurally insulated pannels [SIP]
green roof substrate filter layer drainage resevoir protection layer water proof membranes plywood sheathing
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view from the north
boomsday celebration
night entrance
dining space
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Third Year Studio
Earth Materials
Casa de Sara Esculita
site: Santa Cruz, Bolivia date: Spring 2012 professor: Robert French
The Casa de Sara Primary School in La Guardia, Bolivia will act as a beacon of konwledge + progression, community + restoration, and solidarity + timelessness. The design seeks to harness and express a “sense of place.” “genius loci” It is used to describe places that are deeply memorable for their architectural and expiriential qualities. In essence the school looks to create a place that evokes knowledge, curiosity and community while fostering all the basic neccessities that come with an elementary school in a place like Santa Cruz.
knowledge
curiosity + creativity
community
the interior courtyard space will act as a place of gathering and interaction, much like traditional quads of old universities, where the ebbs and flow of social connection define a space that evokes a sense of learning, curiosity and community.
operable panels and louvers are strategically placed to enable adequate daylight shading during the hot summer days, and have the flexibility to let in warm sun during the cold winter season
mesh screen allows light and breezes to pass through while deffering mosquitos and other bugs bamboo acts as mullions, defense, and creates an interesting aesthetic appeal
carefully landscaped green areas create buffer zones appropriate for the space enclosing the exterior of the school from the street out front, meanwhile creating a pleasant walkway near the front wall for students to make their way down the site.
rammed earth knee walls sit on top of concrete stem wall foundations, providing a sense of solidity and permanence in the childrens often uncertain life
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thick rammed earth walls shape the circulation zones
timber construtcion interacts with the concrete and rammed earth walls as a functional and aesthetic expression
typical rammed earth construction careful mixing of soils and aggregates and tamping the earth into form work
concrete foundations give relief from high flood waters as well as maintain a strong base that the rest of the architecture sits on and interacts with
a key feature of the design revolved around the idea that the locals would build the school in hopes of becoming a cataylst for future growth and such building techniques would carry on
a key design intention focused on community and seeing others learn and play throughout the school grounds
layers of large overhangs protect against the hot sun
mesh clerestory provides dappled natural light
rammed earth soothing interiors
walls
provide
student work space
concrete foundation walls prevent flooding from reaching precious rammed earth structures
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Third Year Studio
Color + Scale
SoBro Primary School
site: Downtown Nashville, TN date: Fall 2011 professor: Barbara Klinkhammer
The school is designed to become an integral part of the newly blooming area south of Broadway in the lower portion of downtown Nashville, known as “SoBro.” The neighborhood and surrounding mixed-use site are in dire need of rejuvination. Our design goal was to create a meaningful catalyst for growth and prosperity by introducing a new, fresh architecture and create a place of learning for young minds from all walks of life. By providing public functions as well, the school looks to bring people together in a way the area previously can not provide for them. Inside the building, the school’s design seeks to evoke a new way of thinking. By seperating traditional parts of school from the more hands-on activities, the design encourages movement and interaction. The primary classrooms are located across the large atrium-like hallway from the multi colored “learning pods.” This idea provokes a fun nature and curiosity in the student’s minds. Each pod, different in size and color, hosts a unique learning enviornment. The exterior and surrounding site look to foster a sense of welcoming while also creating a protective enviornment appropriate for elementary aged students.
‘Schools are part of everyday life. Good schools are essential in attracting middle-income families to live nearby. The catalytic effect is social, economic, and physical.”
- John Lang
classroom
corner presence
hallway_01
hallway_02
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It has a powerful urban corner presence on the northwest, anchored by the light filled library, while providing an open and flowing park on the southeast of the site, adjacent to the new housing developments. Like wise, the movement into and through the school represents freedom and transparency while promoting security and shelter necessary in a school’s design. The primary goal is to create a sense of place that encourages learning and growth. In a way the building acts as a learning tool itself that responds to and influences the basic necessities of young minds in a new urban culture.
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Third Year ear Studio
Resonance onance
International Student Center at UVA
site: The e Dell, University of Virginia pring 2011 date: Spring or: William Martella professor:
The International Student Center at The University of nia resonates in the minds of new and old students Virginia as a place of connectivity, cross-cultural interaction, and a nod to the ideas of Thomas Jefferson’s iconic iconi nc academic emic environment. The design looks to bring g people le together through an open floor plan that offers viewss in, out, and through the spaces it defines. Here, uilding is neither closed nor open, always allowing the building for the e energetic movement and passing g of of the th he students studen e ts s to transfer nsfer into the interior spaces sp pac a ess of the design. design g . Wood, Wood Wo od, steel plates, and clean crisp white w itte ceilings wh ce and columns evoke e a sense of a cross materialization in design that reflects cts the ever changing patron’s heritage that visits the center. enter.
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Third Year Studio
Interfaith
Chapel at UVA
site: The Dell, University of Virginia date: Spring 2011 professor: William Martella
The Interfaith Chapel at the University of Virginia stands as a place where students from all walks of faith can come pray, think, and meditate during the school year. The site is nestled into a valley in an area of the college campus called the Dell. Here, a small brook winds its way through the narrow site past the concrete and wood chapel. The intention of the design is that as time progresses and the woods and various vegetation grow on the site, the chapel itself will become engulfed in nature and the raw natural materialism of the spaces will further connect one to his or her surroundings and spirituality. The large green roof garden provides views of the surrounding environment and reminds us of our connection to the world we live in.
floor plan
axonometric
“One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both our happiness and misery is the quality of our environment.� -The Architecture of Happiness
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Overtime the concrete and wood chapel will mesh into the valley’s natural environment creating a “building in the woods” where students can go to think, pray, and meditate.
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the meditation space is fi lled with diffused and playful natural light that fi lters through a large ivy covered roof and structure
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Second Year Studio
Stereophonics Music Venue + Record Store site: Gay Street, Knoxville, TN date: Fall 2010 professor: Chuck Draper
Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of directionality and audible perspective. Much like the Stereoscopic Institute, the building works to convey ideas in its materials and forms. Here, the building is a home to a store, a recording studio and a loft apartment for the owner. Various ramps and angled walls at specific instances imply direction of travel and the flowing nature of certain spaces. The site, on Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville is in need of fixing up and rest between a more contemporary building by Sanders Pace Architects, and an older early masonry building to the right. Given this juxtaposition, the design looks to further the gap by creating yet another kind of architecture. One that almost feels like music itself. Out back of the site is intended to be used as a small outdoor concert area with a stepped ampitheatre and a stage flanked by a bar. The recording studio below is specially outfitted for accoustical supremacy for young fledgling groups who would in turn hold shows out back. The design intent overall is to create a place downtown unlike any other that influences community through music, whether that be recorded or live, but most of all experiential.
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street side elevation
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First Year Studio
Lines + Planes Woodlands Cemetery site: Woodlands Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden date: Spring 2010 professor: Matthew Hall
The Woodlands Cemetery is a place of sublime beauty and poetry, intertwined with sorrow and hope. It is considered one of the most important works of the modernists, it evokes a Nordic philosophy on nature, life, and death. Our design goal was to create a new Woodlands Cemetery focusing on the movements and styles we studied as precedents. De Stjil, primarily Gerrit Ritveld and the Schroeder House, was the movement I chose to study early on in the semester. In turn, the proposed Visitors Center conveys ideas of movement and intersection through different material planes passing one another or meeting one another. The idea most prevalent in the design is that all partitions going along the path of travel to the Chapel are solid cut stone, signifying linear progression, while those in the perpendicular direction are glass, signifying openness and hope.
floor plan
The long walk to the Chapel
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Santa Maria, Trastevere, Rome
Piazza Navona, Rome
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Temple ruins in Agrigento, Sicily
Temple ruins in Agrigento, Sicily
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Aqua Paula and Bramante’s Tempietto
Temple ruins in Agrigento, Sicily
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Ponte Sisto over the Tiber River, Rome
Ruins at the Piazza Argentina, Rome
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Temple at Agrigento, Sicily
The Pantheon, Rome
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Collin Creswell Cope, Jr. a_ 8423 Thornbury Court, Knoxville TN p_ 865.603.2735 e_ collinccope@gmail.com
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