TABLE OF CONTENTS
Resume
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Infrastructural Catalyst
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MEMENTO meMORIam
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Show Off! Atlanta
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Turner Field Redevelopment
Reconciling Death, Society and the Environment
Re-Branding the Atlanta Streetcar
DAMARI WEAVER 950 Hudson Rd., Marietta, GA w.damari@gmail.com 678-651-6797
EDUCATION Kennesaw State University Bachelors of Architecture
MAY 2017
RELATED COURSEWORK Design Studios I-VII, Structures I-III, Environmental Tech I-III, Professional Practice I-III, Urban Planning and Design Theory
ACADEMIC PROJECTS • • • •
Ponce City Market Shed – Adaptive Reuse Urban Incubator – Mid-Rise Office Turner Field Redevelopment – Urban Planning Atlanta Streetcar Revitalization – Performance Hall
SKILLS • Graphic and Modeling Software: Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros3D, V-Ray, SoftPlan • Office Applications: Word, PowerPoint, Excel • Hand sketching/drawing, communication/presentation skills, meeting deadlines, efficient performance in team setting
EXPERIENCE O’Dwyer Homes, Alpharetta, GA Architectural Assistant • Revised redlines, corrections and redesigns using SoftPlan
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JUNE 2016 - AUG. 2016
Lightroom Studio, Decatur, GA Designer
JUNE 2015 - AUG. 2015
• Contacted potential clients and acquired project write-ups in many publications including The Decatur Focus and Dwell Magazine • Designed project submissions for AIA Design Awards High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Intern
JUNE 2011- AUG. 2011
• Planned and orchestrated parties to increase young adult interest in museum culture • Aided with adolescent students’ summer program
ORGANIZATIONS • • • •
Alpha Rho Chi NOMAS AIAS Association of Energy Engineers
AWARDS • Studio Design Award (2016) • 3-Minute Thesis First Place • Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal for Leadership
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CATALYST Turner Field Redevelopment
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This master plan proposal seeks to reclaim the destitute Turner Field site and its adjoining parking lot megablocks. Flanked by I-85 and I-20 interstates, Atlanta’s node of connectivity is cut off by a highway junction that divides its adjacent neighborhoods. This dismemberment has resulted in the formation of contrasting urban typologies and segregated demographics within each quadrant. This urban proposal is a bottom-up reaction to a YST: landscape of highways, Infrastructure Infrastructure Landmark Infrastructure Landmark Landmark Community Diversity Sustainability Sustainability Community Community Diversity Diversity Sustainability Transit abric and forest that Urban Studio pavement intends to serve as a catalyst to unify LYST: L CATALYST: ATALYST: Infrastructure Infrastructure Landmark Landmark Infrastructure Landmark Community Community Diversity Diversity Sustainability Sustainability Community Diversity Sustainability Diversity Atlanta’s severed dFabric Urban Fabric ban Fabric 16 en Farooq | Urban 2016 | Urban Studio Spring 2016| Studio |Spring Urban Studio urban fabric. a kind of of habitation, nd hin of carpet a kind of
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URBAN PROPOSAL
HISTORY: The Impact of the Interstates PAST
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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION MIXED-USE
FUTURE
1 000 000 FT2
RETAIL (GROUND LEVEL) RESIDENTIAL (UPPER LEVELS)
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CULTURAL
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2 040 000 FT2
TURNER FIELD MUSEUM / GARDENS ENERGY PARK COMMERCIAL
15%
COMMERCIAL PLINTHS
OFFICE
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2 550 000 FT2
FIRST FLOOR MIXED USE COMMERCIAL
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OFFICE TOWERS ALONG INTERSTATE
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HOTEL + SERVICES GREEN SPACE
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Energy Park Complex
URBAN BLOCK: Foundations of Life and Activity Define Urban Block
Carve Public Way
Introduce Variety
Turner Field 、 、、、、Revisited
New urban blocks are derived from existing grid language. Larger blocks are subdivided according to the ideal block size of 260-360 feet (Siksna, 1997)
Pedestrian accessibility and walkability is integrated by splitting urban edge and providing public space on street corners.
Identity and spontaneity are expressed through architectural variety. The units hold urban edge yet are allowed to create spatial variety in the courtyard.
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Park Bridge & “Woonerf”
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Typical Block’s Interior Courtyard
MEMENTO MEMORIAM
UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES OF DEATH
Reconciling Death, Society and the Environment
Grief is a spectrum and this thesis aims to address this by creating an environment that allows us to confront the intricacies of death. Like our society, the customs and rituals surrounding the dead continually endure change and this thesis ultimate acts as a structural critique of the industry through an architecture lens. It suggests the difficulties of the emotional burden, the physical act of burying, the sudden financial strains, and the social distancing death causes can be managed and confronted by addressing these issues in a manner that caters to the varying ways in which we grieve.
COST $790 1965 $983 1971 $1285 1975 $1809 1980 $2737 1985 $3742 1991 $4626 1995 $5180 2000 $5582 2004 $6195 2006 $6550 2009 $7000 2012
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$7181 2014
THE RISING COST OF FUNERALS IN AMERICA (WITHOUT VAULT)
SUSTAINABILITY
CULTURAL TABOO
SITE The site is located on the southern edge of the Pittsburgh neighborhood in Atlanta. This site was chosen because its characteristics allow me to address the key issues categorized in my thesis: Finanacially, using a site within a underdeveloped neighborhood helps drive my proposal to be financial viability . Environmentally, the 27.5 acre brownfield could benefit from the introduction of a “green� burial landscape through bioremediation techniques and the introduction of native flora. Culturally, by reintroducing the cemetery as an active part of the community, it can actively addresses the issues and stigma of death in a public manner.
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Lobby/Lounge/Offices Private Courtyard Body Handling/Resomation Service Hall
I-85
5. Dining/Kitchen 6. Museum of Death Education & Cafe 7. Spots of Solitude
8. Memorial Scattering Garden* 9. Green Burial Grounds/Arboretum 10. Active Park Zone 11. Memorial Wall*
12. Sculpture Garden 13. Passive Park Zone 14. Pillars Installation
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There seems to be a dichotomy that exists within the realm of grief and mourning in terms of the range of emotions the bereaved exhibit. This coincides with the “sublime”, a concept which is somewhat selfcontradictory; an attraction to that which is frightening. A vast untamed quality that causes one to be “rapt” and “ravished” by the vast, the grand, and the majestic. The qualities that these spaces have are ones of contrast, exhibiting the range of emotions that one feels and environments one might inhabit when mourning.
VS Beauty attractive pretty alluring symmetrical appealing proportional comforting gorgeous perfect
Sublime majestic grand vast asymmetric natural awe-inspiring terrifying divine transcendent
“Atmospheres of Grief”
SUBLIME PROGRAM
Plotting Program on Sublime-Beauty/Public-Private Spectrum SUBLIME
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
BEAUTY
Mapping Public-Private on Site
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Mapping “Atmospheres” on Site
Spot of Solitude 1
Chapel Over Water
Spot of Solitude 2
Hallway
SHOW OFF! ATLANTA Re-branding the Atlanta Streetcar
To revamp the street car’s image, my intervention promotes the performing arts by utilizing adaptive reuse and tactical urbanism strategies to create locations throughout the city that are linked to the streetcar, turning the area into a theatre district filled with a richer street life, active community, and identity. The final building form approaches theater from a grassroots approach being designed as a small, open campus with plaza, amphitheater and separate buildings allowing for site permeability, while unifying separate programs under one In order to revamp roof.
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the street car’s image, my intervention promotes the performing arts as a “theatre crawl”, by utilizing adaptive reuse and tactical urbanism strategies to create small, but numerous, locations throughout the city that are linked to the streetcar, like a common thread, turning the area into a theatre district that filled with a richer street life, active community, citizen involvement, and identity.
Streetcar Revitalization Proposal
6 Library 7 Dance Studios
On a larger scale, the adaptive reuse of abandoned buildings into new theaters, concert venues, dance halls, and other performancebased location could be placed strategically throughout the street car line, providing the opportunity for discovery and spontaneous interactions.
Top Level
8 Classrooms 9 Balconies
View from Performance Courtyard 1 Lobby
Ground Level
2 Cafe
The anchors of this theatrical proposal would be existing buildings located at both ends of the street car line. At the western side of the line sits The Tabernacle, a well renown concert venue, and the Rialto Center for the Arts, a part of Georgia State University. At the eastern end, would be a new, proposed design with performance related program that would act as an hub for performance in the community.
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Mid-Sub-Level
View Under Amphitheater Canopy
Sub-Level
On a small scale, small platforms designed for performance could be placed at various, underutilized spots in the city to continue the performance outside the theater, bringing the stage outside and making the streets just as valid a spot for entertainment as the box office.
3 Offices
10 “White Box� Theater
11 Black Box Theater
12 Recording Studios
View from Inner Balcony
View of Performance Couryard
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View from Across Street