DANA ELLIOT WORK SAMPLE
ORA ET LABORA URBAN MONASTERY AND HOMELESS OUTREACH CENTER SPRING 2018 PROF. IRENE KEIL
A respite in the middle of New Orleans’ dense downtown district, the new home of the St. Joseph’s Monastery provides not only worship and study spaces for the monks, but public workshop and personal service spaces for the large homeless population in the city. Public passage on the ground floor connects two historic streets and allows the monks to engage the public in their work. The program increases in privacy as users ascend, but maintains a level of connection to the rest of the monastery in the flexible, occupiable exterior scaffold. Two concrete masses act as sound breaks and areas of transition for visitors into the peaceful quiet of the monastery. To suit the lifestyle of the monks, building systems were chosen to accommodate the frequent prayer services and workshop needs.
ORA ET LABORA
SECTION-ELEVATION THROUGH PUBLIC PATHWAY
TRANSVERSE SECTION
TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH WORKSHOPS AND MONK CELLS
ORA ET LABORA SYSTEMS DETAILS
24-HOUR USE PLAN ISOMETRIC DIAGRAMS THE LIFE OF BENEDICTINE MONKS IS DETERMINED BY A SCHEDULE, ENGAGING DIFFERENT PARKS OF THE BUILDING THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
ORA - PRAYER
ORA - PRAYER
UPLIFT
A PLACE AT THE TABLE
PUBLIC PASSAGE
EARTH LAB OUTDOOR CLASSROOM DESIGN-BUILD FOR GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS FALL 2018 PROF. ADAM MODESITT NICK JENISCH, PROJECT MANAGER COLLABORATIVE STUDIO WITH 14 TEAM MEMBERS
Groundwork New Orleans is a non-profit that provides environmental education and job training to high schoolers and young adults, water management consulting, and plant propagation. Through a design-build studio, we created hierarchy and identity on the site, a connection with the street, as well as new furniture and usable work areas, all emphasizing the tenets of the organization. In addition to the everyday building, I was responsible for the work plan, site organization, and the planters.
PROJECT RENDERING BY KAY CURTIS
EARTH LAB
PLAN OBLIQUE BY MAX WARSHAW AND MICHELLE BARRETT
ENTRY PHOTOS BY ALEX MARKS PHOTOGRAPHY
PROCESS PHOTOS BY CLAY HAKES
EARTH LAB To engage the high school job training program, Green Team, I designed simple planters that could be built in a day. With assistance from Tulane students, the Green Team learned new construction skills and constructed planters that will last many years.
GREEN TEAM USING NEW PLANTERS AND COMPOST - PHOTO BY JOSE COTTO
PROCESS PHOTOS BY CLAY HAKES
WOODLAWN GATEWAY TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT EMPHASIZING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY SPRING AND FALL 2018 PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN COLLABORATION FOR NOMAS-TU TEAM COMPETITION ENTRY TEAM MEMBERS: MICHELLE BARRETT, KEKELI DAWES, BRUNA AOKI GANDUR KHALED, WILLIAM MCCOLLUM
Woodlawn, like much of Chicago’s South Side, is undergoing a lot of changes, in large part due to the Obama Library site and the University of Chicago’s expanding needs for building space. These changes are happening to Woodlawn, but the NOMAS TU team saw an opportunity for the neighborhood to grow in healthy, supported ways. Taking inspiration from the strengths and culture of the neighborhood, the Woodlawn Gateway development provides opportunities for neighborhood members to grow and strengthen their community. As a core member of the design team, I was involved in the full design process, from site analysis, parti, massing, visualization, and final production.
PROJECT RENDERING BY WILL MCCOLLUM, MODEL BY PROJECT TEAM
WOODLAWN GATEWAY A key component in promoting the overall health of the building and its users is the use of locally sourced materials, building/program siting to optimize solar gain and water capture, as well as more advanced technologies such as geothermal pilings and air quality improvements as a result of the working farm on the first 4 floors and the vertical gardens integrated into the residential floors. The systems of the building work harmoniously to reduce ecological impact and improve the health of its occupants.
In between the walls of the building, the program creates opportunity for Woodlawn residents of all ages to strengthen their community’s voices, engage with each other, learn new skills, and foster healthy growth for themselves and future residents. The urban farm provides work opportunities for teens and adults, as well as locally grown food for the restaurants and grocery.
CO-WORKING
RESIDENTIAL LOBBY
YOUTH SERVICES, COMMERCIAL, CULINARY
NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS AND BUILDING ELEMENTS DIAGRAMS
PLAN VISUALS BY BRUNA AOKI, LINEWORK BY DANA ELLIOT AND MICHELLE BARRETT
RESIDENTIAL TOWER (TO ROOF)
A QUEER DISPLAY RECONCEPTUALIZING SPACES FOR QUEER MEMORY AND EXHIBITION MASTERS THESIS PROF. GRAHAM OWEN
Beginning with the problem of how we memorialize, display, and commemorate marginalized people, my thesis work centered around the question of who, how, and where memorializing happens. Particularly in queer communities, normative modes of display and spaces of memory (e.g. museums, monuments, archives, memorials) do not suit a transgressive existence. Taking cues from queer theory, architects and designers working transgressively, as well as queer infrastructure built up over time in cities, the thesis proposed a network of spaces that guide and encourage would-be transgressors on a mission of creation and destruction.
A QUEER DISPLAY To disrupt the normative locus of power-knowledge, a series of spaces intervene on the power-infused landscape of Washington, DC, linked together by a path. A vehicle powered by transgressive human motion can be driven along the path, displaying archival material or performers. Disused spaces act as a backdrop for interventionists to respond to power structures and reconstruct their environment to better convey their identities. The project becomes a series of intergenerational/long-term building and landscape projects designed for learning and remembering transgression and encouraging more of it.
The project explored methods of queer spatial creation with the intent of both creating a connection to the past and ensuring a queer future through transgressive acts. Akin to Tschumi’s ideas on eROTicism, with an emphasis on ROT, the project emphasized beauty in all parts of life, including decay. One of the major outputs of the thesis was a nontraditional, coded style of representation. The result was a series of two- and three-dimensional drawings, spatial collages, and diagrams created from models and altered materials.
LAYERED COLLAGES (SELECTIONS FROM A SERIES OF 8)
VIGNETTES DEPICTING THE FOUR THEMATIC FOCI OF THE PROPOSAL SPACES
CONCEPTUAL MODELS (NETWORK, ARCHIVE, VEHICLE, PRIVATE EXHIBITION)
SMALL CENTER DESIGN AND RESEARCH COMMUNITY-BASED DESIGN AND ADVOCACY DESIGN AND RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Image Layout: “Sites of Resistance: Exploring the Geographies + Histories of Social Change in New Orleans” Exhibition, Fall 2017 Graphic Design, Archival Research and Procurement
Public Interest Design Fellowship: Advocacy Proposals Summer 2018 Left - What’s Your Water Story?: Mobile story collection Center - Gentilly Crossings: Rain Garden Demonstration Right - Boat in a Bucket: Re-engaging water outside of emergencies
Terrytown Community-Engaged Development Proposals Spring 2019
The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design is The Tulane School of Architecture’s community design center. Over the course of three years, I provided design and research assistance on many projects and exhibitions, including schematic design and small build projects, graphic advocacy, and charrettes with community partners. In the summer of 2018, I was a fellow at the Small Center, working to kick off projects with a focus on community engagement around water infrastructure in the Greater New Orleans area. Other projects I worked on include: • Workbook for neighborhood water management • Schematic Proposals for Grow Dat Youth Farm Expansion • Progressive Prison research and report • Engagement session preparation • Graphic advocacy for housing rights organization
PROFESSIONAL WORK Image Layout:
Geremia Design Furniture Mock-Up Residential Client
Geremia Design Client Selection Layout Residential Client
Aetypic Roof Area Takeoff Plan Local Government Client
Aetypic Site Plan Fed. Government
Aetypic Building Section Detail Federal Government Client
Geremia Design Finish Rendering Restaurant Client Aetypic Restroom Elevations Fed. Government Client
Aetypic Restroom Section Detail Federal Government Client
My work in professional practice has consisted of an internship with Geremia Design, an interior design firm specializing in small scale residential and commercial projects, and as a junior designer at Aetypic, the architecture division of AGS/Aetypic, an architecture and engineering practice working mainly in government renovations. In these roles, I assisted with the design process and project management work. These projects required me to use: • Revit • AutoCAD • Sketchup • Rhino • Bluebeam • Adobe Creative Suite
ART PRACTICE Image Layout:
“Ghost” Site-Specific Installation, West Whately, MA Ice West Whately, MA
“Pins and Needles”
“Everything We Surrender To”
“Going Green?”
Mixed Media Scultpure Taxus Baccata, Sewing Needles
Mixed Media Installation Hand-made Paper, Found Branches
Mixed Media Film Installation Hand-made costume, green acrylic paint, paper, digital film
“Growth” Worn Sculpture Maple Wood
Important in my approach to architecture and creating space is a critical view of the built environment, which is manifest in the fine art practice I cultivated during my undergraduate degree in fine art and museum studies. Mainly focused on representations of nature, the body, and domesticity, my art practice propelled an interest in intervention in built environment. These issues continue into my design work, where I see a potential for new experiences of space influenced by tenets of installation art and sculpture.
THANK YOU Dana Elliot dana.elliot@gmail.com