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I began my architectural education at Clemson University with the intention of changing the face of the world. Now I recognize architecture’s impact expanses far beyond the face and physically translates societal values and lifestyles. My intentions are to better the world’s connective communications and health by producing pragmatic design solutions to enhance the lives of the individual client and the societal whole. There is a deep responsibility in design to be a holistic orchestration of cyclic systems and complete integration of the client, the useres, the public, and the environment. This responsibility is one that will require a greater depth of creativity than ever before as our is on the cusp of an evolutionary movement; a movement from oblivious environment consumption to a joining of regional and global ecological and economical systems to survive. At the heart of this transition is our architecture. My portfolio is one of space, experience, preservation, and innovation. Your time and consideration of my work is graciously appreciated.
elizabeth harpe
2110 Baldwin St. apt 3121 Houston, TX 77002
betsyharpe@gmail.com
270.302.4426
2012
Catalyzing Community Design Build Healthcare Project Arch 452 with Prof. Lynn Craig
2011
Green Roof Topography Collaborative Landscape Project Arch 352 with Prof. Toni Montes
2011
Sculpting Water High Rise Design for Research Arch 352 with Prof. Lynn Craig
2011
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Extending the Rural Origin An Impact on Our Home Burrowing Bike Borough Projecting Topography to Built World Arch 351 with Prof. Martha Skinner
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Fueling a City with Trash 2011 Charette Competition with Prof. Stephen Verderber
2010
Thinking in Color Color Studies
Arch 499 with Prof. Harry Harritos
Catalyzing a Community’s Wellness An Urban Health Clinic in Greenville, SC
This was a collaborative design build studio project with a fellow architecture student and construction science student who contributed to the design.
Intent To create a health clinic to catalyze health environment and active living for the community. Our client owned a piece of land across from a historic school that is currently being renovated from an old mill in an underprivileged neighborhood in Greenville, South Carolina Through regional aesthetics, local materials, natural indirect light, expansive outdoor space and flexible design systems we created a center for all wellness needs.
We created an ideal master plan to give our client a peak into the potential uses of their land to continue the develop the community with interactive educational programs such as educational and community vegetable gardens, indoor courtyard for exercise classes, a centering room for educational classes, and links to already established bike paths in the city.
The health clinic embraces both the school and community and serve as a catalyst for healthy living throughout the area. Therefore both facades facing the school and main street are treated in the same manner.
To facilitate efficiency within the clinic we found it important to strongly zone the faculty’s program from the patients’ program. In the section below patients are represented in blue and the faculty is represented in green. The render on the right shows the visual connection to the courtyard and ample natural light flooding the lobby.
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The wall section model and drawing are an example of the wall design in the clinic’s lobby. Here the pitched roof’s structure is exposed painted steel at an angle that leads toward the courtyard space. The aluminum perforated wall separating the lobby from the exam room circulation allows for visual connection with the courtyard and outdoor lighting while differentiating public and private zones.
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The roof plan of the building shows the drainage plans and where the two HVAC units will be placed. By creating a detention pond in our masterplan we are able to collect rain water for landscape drip irrigation
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A Collaborative Landscape Project in Barcelona, Spain This was a collaborative studio project with a landscape architecture student who contributed to the design.
Intent This project was a response to our environment in Barcelona as we sought to interact with the historical city structure while inserting a modern programmatic need. Our program was a residential park with a fluid language that conversed with an established rigidity of the city plan. We intended to design a sprawling space within a very limited geometry.
To preserve the block from destruction of neighborhood homes, we decided to construct this park ontop of the roofs while keeping the existing structures below.This project consisted of a large sprawling recreation area for the neighborhood block’s residents and potentially public access in the heart of Barcelona, Spain.
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These are sections of the circulation, vegetation, and sports courts respectively, which show how our design custom fits the existing structure. By building ontop of the existing, we could braid our vegetation,program,and circulation systems while providing superb views of the surrounding neighborhood to the parks users.
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A High Rise for Graduate Research in Charleston, SC This was a collaborative studio project with a fellow architecture student who contributed to the design.
Intent North Charleston’s naval industry was the origin of the region’s growth and prosperity. Throughout our process, we kept our focus on the historical impacts of its naval context. Our design seeks to express the erosive qualities of watert through the structure’s ammorphic form. This organicism allowed us to create a condition in which the program of the graduate engineering center can be semi -emerged with the corporate tenant’s program. By embedding the academic and professional while maintaining their privacy , a productive collaborative space is sculpted
The project required a great amount of both academic and professional programs for the graduate engineering center as well as an engineering corporation tenant space. To make the space appealing for the tenant their program is facing the waterfront. However to provide views for the academic programs and an ample amount of additional outdoor space, the floors are cut away creating organic terraces towards the waterfront along with a spacious green rooftop. This building stands out as a focal point for the former naval base and surrounding dry docks.
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An approach view of the building and proposed surrounding landscaping from the entrance to the dry docks.
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This interior render of the cafe and atrium on the first floor the spectacular views of the ocean can be seen as the curving walls accentuate the movement of the water. A covered atrium provides light throughout the entire building as well as create a central vertical circulation route for both academic and professional users.
Thinking in Color Color Studies
This studio used pencil, pen, marker, and digital enhancements to create multiple color effects.
Intent By studying color and hand sketching techniques I was able to capture the same subject with various personalities. The intent with these sketch color drawings is to convey quickly the meaning and emotion of an architectural project with a minimal amount of time and technology. In doing so, the client’s intent can immediately be understood and interpreted for the betterment of the project.
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