Daniela Neal I was born in Mexico City, but was raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. My culture and heritage have taught me the importance of context. For as long as I can remember I have always been fascinated by other cultures and what makes them unique. This diverse perspective drives my architectural process and serves as an ideology that places great importance on my surroundings. Through design, I strive to create meaningful works that people interact with physically and mentally.
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Industrial Design 54 Facial Brush
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Photography
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68 San Miguel
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72 Vernazza 74 Chicago
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Thermal Awakening Year | Fall 2018 Integrations Professors | Robert French, Kevin Stevens Location | Knoxville, TN Collaboration | Alexandra Rees- Schematic Design
No matter the circumstance, what is certain is that we are humans. Some fall on hard times while others prosper. This distinction often separates us. A bathhouse at the corner of West Depot Avenue and North Broadway in Knoxville, Tennessee serves as a common ground to bring people together. Visitors strip of their clothing, leaving nothing but different shades and tones of skin. That which is materialistic and a means of social separation dissolves. The steam from the baths encapsulates visitors and collapses the distances created by the outside world. For a moment, people are able to transcend outside of their troubles.
AIA Middle Tennessee Student Design Award, Brewer Ingram Fuller Sustainable Design Award, Gensler Diversity Scholarship
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First floor plan 1 vestibule
10 private bath
2 lobby
11 shower
3 director’s office
12 steam
4 conference room
13 sauna
5 linen laundry
14 pet bathing
6 assistant’s office
15 bath hall
7 locker
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8 guest laundry 9 bathroom
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Second oor plan 1 event space 2 juice bar 3 bathrooms 4 roof terrace
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Transparency into the public areas of the bathhouse is important to reduce the intimidation factor the homeless population may have to entering.
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Section through north facade
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flashing waterproofing membrane cant strip 3” rigid insulation rebar termination bar 10” two way joist A-51T aluminum mullion
liquid concrete water proofing 10” two way cast in place concrete joist 12x18 beam (beyond) cast in place concrete structural wall (beyond) 4x6 wood screening (beyond) 2x6 wood (horizontal support)
6“ cast in place slab 3” rigid insulation moisture barrier foundation wall 6” perforated footing drain (slope to daylight)
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West facade A main design component of the bathhouse is to use an infiltration system to cleanse the water through natural means. The gray water from the bathhouse is used to irrigate the rain garden, therefore, lowering the amount of water needed to be purchased from the city.
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North facade The bathhalls follow that of a Roman Thermae which holds healing properties in how the body responds to the changes in temperature from extremely hot, to warm, to frigid.
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Roof framing plan 12x12 concrete column 10” two-way concrete joist 18x36 concrete beam 12x18 concrete beam 2’ o.c. pan joist 2’ skylight 19.5’ skylight
Reflected ceiling plan suspended linear light compar down light downlight flood light ceiling wash light sprinkler diffuser return
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Seeding Empowerment Year | Spring 2018 Professors | Katherine Ambroziak + Andrew Godwin Location | Fond-de-blanc, Haiti Project type | Master-planning Collaboration | Alexandra Rees, Heather Shine
A model community is one that supports itself while benefiting the whole. The studio partnered with the Haiti Christian Development Fund (HCDF) in order to provide a rural alternative to Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti. The goal of this project is not only to work with the organization and those who live there to achieve this model community, but to also further build on HCDF’s philosophy of empowerment. To do so, we are designing a cooperative housing community accommodated with a guild, communal center, and laundry. The housing is modeled using indigenous planning methods. The guild is used to promote the necessary skill development of the residents to provide economic stability and increase personal satisfaction. The community center features necessary programmatic spaces such as a grocery and nursery to serve the residents. These programmatic spaces will be connected through a series of dry creeks as a way of turning storm water management into a positive social space which the residents can benefit from.
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Rainfall + ooding studies
15.57 mm rainfall
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50.12 mm rainfall
77.14 mm rainfall
95.96 mm rainfall
137.60 mm rainfall
181.91 mm rainfall
Master plan Due to the surrounding topography and Haiti’s climate, this design had to study rainfall and future erosion on the site. The area often experiences flooding during the high rain season. To mediate this, a series of dry creeks where designed to redirect the water flow from areas of high concentration, such as flooding zones, to the river.
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Housing + traditions The Lakou house typology is part of old Haitian culture. The Lakou is traditionally a cluster of five to seven homes around a central courtyard. The configuration allows for privacy within the larger community. The design for the Haitian’s homes are sensitive to the culture, availability of resources, and the cost of the materials. Therefore, the design of the homes consist of earth bags, which create the beehive form. Bamboo that is grown on site provides flexibility and shading. Concrete is used in some homes to maintain familiarity among the residents and their new homes.
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skylight polypropylene bag earth/concrete mixture barbwire plaster vent-block for cross ventilation
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Laundry pavilion
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Residents of Fond-de-Blanc regularly do their laundry at the riv-
nearer their homes, rather than walking to the river. The laundry
er, as it is the most convenient water source and part of their
pavilion creates a large amount of shading and collects rain wa-
culture. However, animals regularly use the same water source.
ter in large wells that serve as laundry stations. The pavilion is an
Relocating the laundry from the river to the center of the com-
important connector between the community buildings and the
munity creates the opportunity for residents to do their laundry
guild to unify the residents.
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The receding bamboo cover serves as a shading device and as a covered patio space.
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Dry creek-beds run through several of the lakous, making access to water more convenient.
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Flexible Re-materialization Year | Fall 2019 Professors | Katie McDonald + Kyle Shumann Location | Knoxville, TN Project type | Design build + Research Collaboration | Sarah Wheeler, Casey Hall
Flexible Re-materialization is an investigation of material manipulation techniques to best take advantage of the unique properties of selected invasive species burning bush and kudzu. Investigations also included how the species interact with each other and how to design effectively with these irregular materials, rather than standardized materials. The objective is to find novel applications for unconventional materials in order to develop more sustainable construction methods. The harvested materials are photographed and analyzed digitally to match branches of similar length and number. The branches are then steamed to remove the bark, create the arches, and lash the small ends with kudzu fibers to create a flexible joint. Rounded bases were used to allow the structure to adapt to different topographies and move across the site.
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Input and output design workow 1 burning bush 2 kudzu 3 harvesting and preparing materials 4 scanning burning bush 5 inventory of material 6 sorting script to get best fit between branches 7 selective steaming to make bush branches more pliable 8 selective bending and lashing 9 final design authored by both designer, sorting script, and material
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Rounded concrete footings allow the structure to adapt to changing topographies.
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Lashing the steamed bush limbs creates a flexible joint which contributes to the structure's overall mobility.
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Aviary at Tor Fiscale Year | Spring 2019 Professors | Francesca Riccardi Location | Rome, Italy Project type | Historic re-use This project is located in Tor Fiscale Park, a sub-park to the larger Parco de Appia Antica. The site is characterized by wide open land, a former bathhouse, and as a historical meeting point to three aqueducts, two which still partially stand, and the medieval watch tower that the park is named after. The design intervention had to represent the methodology of the park: to preserve the wild and the ancient while also educating visitors on both. The aqueduct, train, open land, and tower were the primary components the aviary would draw inspiration from. A series of four towers at varying height extrude up to serve as the bird enclosures. The heights and directionality are determined by the primary components. Visitors can go up and around the enclosures to learn more about the species being rehabilitated, while also experiencing a different perspective of the historic site from up above.
HBG International Design Competition
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Design progression
height divisions
extruding the grid
grid reduction
reinforce existing
develop skeleton
double grid structure
rigid enclosure
views
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first floor plan
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third oor plan
second oor plan
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View approaching from the aqueduct The filigree structure celebrates and reinforces the crumbling farmhouse. The farmhouse is used for visitor information on the first level and as a small quarantine on the second level.
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Connection between the restaurant and aviary The addition helps the farmhouse establish a recognizable presence once again in the ancient park and acts as a way to counter the heaviness of the aqueduct.
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Industrial Design 54 Facial Brush
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Facial Brush Year | Summer 2017 Professor | Ryann Aoukar
The facial brush design takes inspiration from a dragonfly. After listening to reviews of the product, attributes from the dragonfly's anatomy were used to make a more hygienic and comfortable facial brush.
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hygiene cap
resting spot
flex grip
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inspiration: dragonfly eyes
inspiration: dragonfly head
inspiration: dragonfly tail segments
motor
silicone rest
on/off switch
silicone ribs
battery compartment
detachable battery cap
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Hand Drawing 60 Flower 62 Hands 64 Travel
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Architecture of the City, Rome, Italy
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Prague Castle, Prague
St. Francis Church, Prague
Clock Tower, Prague
Old Town, Prague
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