A Short Portfolio
Emily McGowan
Designer. Creative Thinker. Explorer 1
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Designing a Healthy Community College Avenue Urban Design Study
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Clemson Transit Hub Desisgn Charette
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Muncie Children’s Tot Spot Design, Build, Brand
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Julia Carson Community Center Design, Build, Brand
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Kaiser Permanente MOB Fitout
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Interpretations Portraits of People & Place
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“Transit-oriented district that deals with the physical and vehicular constraints of the corridor and is a good neighbor to surrounding residential neighborhood.”
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Public Forum The work in the Fall 2014 engaged the community both physically and otherwise, by proposing a redevelopment of College Avenue. It became a natural extension of the existing community, recognizing healthy patterns of contemporary living for all the citizens of our community, and establishing patterns for building that can be replicated in multiple ways, given a variety of conditions. Our response and design had to be conditional to this place, and represented through out the semester in various presentations and public forums
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Urban Design During the Fall Semester of 2014, the graduate program of Architecture + Health was involved in a vertical studio that explored the dimensions of examining local community planning and design and how it impacts our local community, physically as well as community life, health and wellbeing in Clemson. The central question in defining the College Avenue Corridor for Clemson is how to accommodate inevitable growth and economic development while creating a higher density, mixed-足use, walk-足able and bike-足 able, transit-足oriented district that deals with the physical and vehicular constraints of the corridor and is a good neighbor to surrounding residential neighborhoods. This Urban design proposal was one of three exploring alternative futures for the College Avenue Corridor and downtown.
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Public Forum and Zoning Model
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Old Town Node
Node Development This second phase envisioned alternate Urban Design scenarios for the future development along the downtown heart of Clemson; including possibilities for physical implications of healthy community planning and design practices that are more sensitive to the unique conditions and issues facing this community. This Urban design proposal was one of three exploring alternative futures for the College Avenue Corridor and downtown. After working with the regulatory analysis group, it became clear that defining and developing three districts, or nodes, was a natural approach that formed a narrative of place: Old Town Node City Center Transportation Hub
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City Center Node
Transportation Node
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“Transit-oriented district that deals with the physical and vehicular constraints of the corridor and is a good neighbor to surrounding residential neighborhood.” 13
Transit Hub The Clemson Transit Hub provides a unique opportunity to develop the third and final node along College Ave, driven by its strategic location and in one of five major guiding principles for healthy community development as identified in the initial Urban Design Phase Exploration. This was a four week charrette to establish test these principles of a healthy master plan against the zoning codes with gestural suggestions of design. By providing transit as a “portal�, residents and students are able to connect to downtown and the greater context of the city in a healthy way -- promoting options for all transit users to safety walk, bike, carpool or bus and easily exchange these means in a central, landmark location.
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Urban Design This “Gateway� generates movement; links interfaces between various nodes of transit and fosters connectivity with place making and identity. This design further utilizes the unique conditions of topography to further weave the relationship of a now-disconnected site with its surrounding context. Bridging the gaps through key design moves, this design seeks to provide a sense of place through a supergraphic, green screen wall, provide continued movement by bridging pedestrians over and HW123, and improved flow around the railroad through infrastructure changes linking neighborhood streets to commercial avenues. By elevating the program, dynamic urban spaces are created both above and below the plaza.
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parti - concept Split, Bridge. Connect. Create.
This “Gateway� generates movement; links interfaces between various nodes of transit and fosters connectivity with place making and identity..
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“This is an investment that will continue to give back to the community for a long, long time.� -Pam Harwood, Ball State University
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Caterpillar Bench Muncie’s Children’s Museum partnered with our third year architecture studio to create a space for toddlers. My team was responsible for fashioning an interactive play bench and manipulative block station. Using Ball State University’s expertise in Digital Fabrication methods, our team took the Caterpillar and the maniuplative table project from design development to construction documents.
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The Caterpillar Play object was one of rhe first in the design sequence to be constructed in 2011.
Furthering a previously developed schematic design, we explored the idea of digital fabrication to create playful, undulating surfaces for sitting, storage and explorative play. This project was taken through all levels of design from concept in 2010 to built product in 2012.
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MCM Brand In conjunction, worked with my Visual Communication’s studio to develop a branding and marketing campaign strategy for the Museum highlighting this effort and promoting the tot spot. Whimsical, versatile and geared to attract our “tot-sized” audience, the branding extended to manipulative play blocks, gift shop items, billboard design and a letterhead campaign all combined into creating a successful identity system for the new toddler spot in Muncie.
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Logo & Letterhead The branding identity plays off of the iconic caterpillar while incorporating a simplified graphic of the Muncie Children’s Museum’s existing logo.
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“Julia Carson’s national and global vision of a just and inclusive society, commitment to community, and love of family..” -Legacy of Love Foundation
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Parti-Concept
J.C.C.C. The Julia Carson Community Center’s mission represents the best of the late Congresswoman’s national and global vision of a just and inclusive society, commitment to community, and love of family. The primary purpose of the Center is to provide compassionate support for the success of families, youth and seniors. It will be visible catalyst for community health and well-being providing social networking, family services, and recreational programs. The “core datum” creates a spine of a foundation program; structuring both buildings along a grid that is responsive to the site and indicative of where specialty the Julia Carson Community Center program “breaks free” - (embodying her spirit and delight in the diversity of community). Contextually responsive. Break from the Grid. Facilitate Community
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Site Plan
Floor Plans
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Foster Community In general, the site is located in the midst of the most distressed portion of the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood. Thus, “Urban Prairie” conditions are present to the west, east, and north of the site. Much of the community could be classified as “Fourth World” based on the criteria outlined above. It will be visible catalyst for community health and well being providing social networking, family services, and recreational programs. The JCCC is a principal recreational center for the surrounding community. This includes recreation and wellness programs including dietary health, pre- and postnatal health, exercise facilities, and sports programs. The community identified the need for having a place for senior, family and youth programs and networking. An integral part of the JCCC mission is to provide that “central place” for the community for meetings, after school programs for youth, and activities for seniors
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Kaiser Permanente During my time at SmithgroupJJR, one of the major projects I was involved in was a Kaiser Permanente project in Glenlake, GA MOB Fit out. It was a valuable experience to be a project teammember involved in SD, DD and CD phases. Design Team: Bill Kline, Karthik Ramadurai, Sylvia Frayne, Ted Manos, Emily McGowan, Kerri FireBaugh These drawings and photographs are the property of SmithgroupJJR and displayed in this educational portfolio to show the areas of involvement I had on the project. All rights reserved.
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MOB Fit-Out The 4-story Kaiser Glenlake CMC at 20 Glenlake Parkway was constructed in 1993 and has been a center of specialty care. After the MOB fit up is completed the second, third and fourth floor were completely renovated to house the high priority services of: ophthalmology, optometry, procedure rooms and associated support areas, a multidisciplinary clinic, and a pain clinic. As a teammember of this project, a lot of my time was spent in the design development phase working on the medical equipment layouts, the department plans and the interior finishes & furnishings.
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The exterior design also respond to the reprogramming of the existing drop-off as handicap parking.
Exterior & Canopy The exterior building design of the new canopy and vestibule will be compatible with the Eastern full glass curtain wall of the existing building.
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Total Health Environment The top priority is to provide the fastest access to an exam room for a member as possible. This has led to the exam rooms being grouped adjacent to the waiting area under the supervision of medical assistant stations. The original building planning had more space for the waiting area so building exam room space in this portion of the building is a way to get greater efficiency within the existing building envelope. Support spaces and procedure rooms as well as providers offices are generally to be found at the “back� of the clinical module.
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Interpretations I am always sketching. Experiencing great public spaces, architectures, landscapes and cities through my sketchbook, I discovered that, universally among countries and cultures, architecture is an experiential synthesis of earth, place, people and material. I have come to understand it as a manifesto to create meaningful environments that serve both as an extension of human values as well as the context for valued place making. Seeing and understanding our environment reinforces one of the most essential experiences in life; it formulates the sense of space and time that is crucial to an intellectual ordering of life. I spent a large part of my journeys sketching in order to understand the people, places and systems that honor sustainable environments.
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“Footprint of Places” Lithograph Print, Giclee Interchangable Plates Mapmaking Series 18”x 24”
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“Manarola” Watercolor, Ink on Paper Italy Series 7”x 5”
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Aegina, Greece
Riga, Latvia
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Aegina, Greece
Capelle Medici
Riga, Latvia
Sestri Levanti, Italy
Vilnius, Lithuania
Vatican City
Datong, China
Cordoba, Spain
Venice, Italy
Cinque Terra, Italy
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