ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Connor Byrne
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 About Me 2 Experience & Skills 3 Lavapies Community Center Fall 2015 7 Neighborhood Health Station Spring 2015 11 The Sharing Economy Master Plan Spring 2016 15 Piazza Brunelleschi Master Plan Spring 2014 19 New Bedford Wind Energy Research Facility Fall 2014 23 RWU Visual Arts Center Fall 2013 27 Boston Back Bay Townhouse Spring 2013 31 RWU Tennis Center Fall 2013 35 Sketches & Travels
ABOUT ME I am a recent graduate of Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. I received my Master of Architecture in December 2016 and am seeking an entry level architecture position. My time at Roger Williams has given me the technical and creative skills needed to design buildings that respond to their context and the environment in creative and thoughtful ways. I am passionate about travelling and visiting famous buildings, and was fortunate to have studied abroad twice, in Germany and Italy. These experiences have enabled me to see and learn about different cultures and architectural styles which I try to incorporate into my designs. My work experience includes three summers of internship work which has taught me how to work in an architecture office, collaborating with professionals and clients. I enjoy working with others and look forward to the challenges and rewards of continuing my growth as an architect.
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SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE TRO, a healthcare design firm. Architecture Intern Summer 2016 Brown, Lindquist, Fenuccio & Raber Architects, Inc. Architecture Intern Summer 2014 & 2015 Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Multiframe, Model Making, Laser Cutting, Hand Drafting Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society 2014-15 RWU Corporate Scholars Program 2014-15 Work Published in AND Magazine - and-architettura.it Spring 2014 Work Published in AREA Magazine - area.arch.it Spring 2014
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LAVAPIÉS COMMUNITY CENTER Fall 2015
Madrid, Spain
Prof. Roberto Viola Ochoa rviolaochoa@rwu.edu
The Lavapies Community Center in Madrid, Spain was designed to integrate into the long working-class history of Lavapies. The project site lay abandoned for nearly fifty years before community activists came together to transform the vacant lot into a park. Done with simple and modest materials, it reflected the hard working people of Lavapies. The hybrid program gives the neighborhood a dignified but modest place to enjoy nature and hold many different community activities. Treated as a room within the building, a central courtyard preserves the greenery of the original plaza, while the massing is sensitive to scale. Materially and structurally, the building is built of board-formed concrete to both relate to its context and to remain modest in design. The project was for comprehensive studio, which requires students to develop designs beyond the conceptual stage to integrate structural and mechanical systems.
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Site Connection
Program
Greenspace
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Mechanical Axonometric
Structural Axonometric
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NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH STATION Spring 2015
Providence, RI
MASS Design Group Resident Teaching Firm
The design of the Neighborhood Health Station acts as a catalyst for economic development in Olneyville Square. Its large plaza and garden spaces allow the community to engage the building in a civic manner. The plaza is a multifunctional space which can host farmers markets, carnivals, gatherings and an ice rink in the winter, bringing the pedestrian aspect back to Olneyville Square. Acting as a beacon, the view of the gym is framed above the lobby to inspire good health. Connecting the beacon to the theater and gardens is a galleria which acts as both the access to the medical pods and the processional link between the medical and wellness programs. The building is clad in concrete and red steel which relates back to the mill buildings that are so prevalent in Olneyville, as well as glass to allow the spaces to be well lit during the day.
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Olneyville, Providence, Catchment Area
Building Form
Galleria
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THE SHARING ECONOMY MASTER PLAN Spring 2016
Boston, MA
CBT Resident Teaching Firm
This studio taught by Kishore Varanasi and Sae Kim of CBT focussed on creating a futuristic masterplan of the South Bay area of Boston that embraces the notion of the sharing economy. The design argues that the city of the future embraces the technology of driverless cars to effectively reduce automobile traffic by 80 percent while eliminating the need for parking lots. These reclaimed spaces become the platform on which the sharing economy is built. These now public vehicles can freely flow throughout the city, picking up passengers without ever needing large parking lots to lay dormant when empty. The form most efficient to this freeflowing idea is the circle. A system of circles containing well-designed urban areas makes up the city of the future, with driverless vehicles restricted to the perimeter to ensure the walkability inside the nodes, promoting a hierarchy of transportation.
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Master Plan Concept
Connection of Nodes
Scale of Development
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PIAZZA BRUNELLESCHI MASTER PLAN Spring 2014
Florence, Italy
Prof. Carlo Achilli achillic@hotmail.com
Working with another student while studying abroad in Florence, the Piazza Brunelleschi master plan redevelops the piazza from an ordinary parking lot to a vibrant urban square. Its purpose is to highlight the entry to the University of Florence campus, and contains a new building containing a library and dormitories. The concept behind the design focusses on making a quintessential Florentine building, but in a contemporary way. This is achieved through the use of courtyards, pietra serena and pietra forte local stone, and an open piazza at the front with plenty of space for socializing. These design elements, combined with the use of corten steel louvers, a media mesh display, and double skin faรงade, create to make a modern and sustainable Florentine intervention.
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Neighborhood Analysis - Green Space
Site Figure/ Ground
Building Form
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NEW BEDFORD WIND ENERGY RESEARCH FACILITY Fall 2014
New Bedford, MA
Prof. Robert Dermody rdermody@rwu.edu
The design of the New Bedford Wind Energy Research Facility will become the face of New Bedford’s attempt to leap into a new economy based on renewable wind energy that will create new jobs and opportunities. The design makes an equally powerful statement by harnessing the power of wind in innovative ways. Wind is utilized for electrical generation with on-site turbines, natural ventilation through a large wind scoop, and as a design element on the dynamic double skin façade. This double skin façade provides sun shading for the compact design, further helping the building to be very energy efficient.
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RWU VISUAL ARTS CENTER Fall 2013
Bristol, RI
Prof. Bill McQueen wmcqueen@rwu.edu
The design of the Visual Arts Center preserves existing site movement and incorporates the large rock outcroppings on the site by spanning over them and integrating them into the structure. This is done by cantilevering the studio spaces over the rock outcroppings, while integrating the rocks into the concrete walls in the exhibition hall.
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Parti Diagram
Site Movement
Concept Section
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BOSTON BACK BAY TOWNHOUSE Spring 2013
Boston, MA
Prof. David Corbin dcorbin@rwu.edu
A modern take on the townhouse, the design incorporates the vernacular brick of Boston with the more contemporary aluminum. The angle in the faรงade draws from the angled extrusions of its neighbors in plan, and is then executed in section. A light well brings natural light inside. The program is divided into three units: two single-level flats on the first two levels and a three story apartment on the remaining floors. The triplex unit has main living spaces on the upper two levels and a roof garden to maximize views of Boston.
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Unit Organization
Light Well
Vertical Circulation
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RWU TENNIS CENTER Fall 2013
Bristol, RI
Prof. Bill McQueen wmcqueen@rwu.edu
The main movement spine of the building divides the existing tennis courts in the east from the new indoor courts in the west. The new courts are organized into a bar that has been broken into two pieces, one larger than the other. The public program is located inside masses that plug into the spine. The site is located in the northern portion of the RWU campus, and is along the main circulation axis of the campus that links the parking garage with the center of the university. The main structure of the tennis court enclosure is a 3-pin frame with an extension that angles up toward the bay.
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Parti Diagram
Structure Diagram
Exploded Axonometric
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TRAVEL PHOTOS & SKETCHES 2011-2016
USA, Europe
Photos and sketches from studying and travelling in the US and abroad.
Munich, Germany
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Rome, Italy
Dublin, Ireland
Los Angeles, CA
Turin, Italy
Chicago, IL
Lucerne, Switzerland
Barcelona, Spain
New York, NY
San Diego, CA
Madrid, Spain
Fallingwater, PA
Dresden, Germany
Augsburg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Ulm, Germany
San Francisco, CA
Stuttgart, Germany
Plano, IL
London, England
Milan, Italy
Florence, Italy
Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy
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