PORTFOLIO
ARCHITECTURE
ELISE CAUTLEY
THREE SELECTED WORKS
2017/2018
HERE’S WHAT’S INSIDE:
playground
farm
installation
thesis
group work
outside the studio
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a frolick in the forest: the playground on Kapiti master’s thesis research 2017
re:search, re:farm, re:present fourth year studio at the pennsylvania state university april 2016
plug-in poetry park:ing day sannz collaboration march 2017
` I’ve always had a thing for designing architecture for play; grouping this with a love for nature and an urge to paint and draw, this project proposes a way that ecotourism can rekindle a strong, playful relationship can the New Zealand forest. The project uses various analogue media to understand the relationship of painting and architecture, as a way to formulate and discover a language of play in the forest.
I’d been in The States less than a week when our studio launched headfirst into an ongoing project initiated a local couple and their architect. the group were looking to expand their current farm-tofork restaurant franchise with a Living Building Challenge qualifier; they envisioned a destination café/restaurant, cidery and research/education centre, located just south of the University town of State College, Pennsylvania.
As a SANNZ coordinator for VUW in 2017, we collected to a group of volunteers to enter an installation to Wellington’s annual PARK:ing Day 2017. The wall was an attempt to not only bring a range of SANNZ students together - from all year levels and abilities - before we kicked off for the year, but to craft a fun, interactive space where strangers could create active interactions using words.
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playground
a frolick in the forest
2017 an adventure on kapiti island supervised by sam kebbell 4
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Section of a zipline/treehouse pavilion
A Frolick in the Forest proposes a playground in the deep forest of Kapiti Island Nature Reserve. It provokes the idea that nature and culture can rekindle a strong, playful relationship. The process, driven by painting, develops a system of structures that intimately understands the trees, the birds and the land and a way people can play in it.
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Axonometric of a slide and obstacle < course < Site plan of the playground 5
Poster advertisement for a zipline
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Paintings of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ziplineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pavilion structure (Render on previous page)
I was able to use the thesis as process of developing my own skills in watercolour and pencil drawing, and understand its correllation to the architecture that evolved from it.
Talking to locals at an exhibition for the project (Sept 2017)
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axonometric concept for playground pencil, ink and watercolour july 2017 I was able to use the thesis as process of developing my own skills in watercolour and pencil drawing, and understand its correllation to the architecture that evolved from it.
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2016 restaurant, gallery and research centre on a rural site in state college, pa,usa in collaboration with ashton amspacker and ayman tafeeq 10
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY/ STATE COLLEGE
smoothing out the concrete in the mould of a 1:20 model
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been in The States less than a week when our studio launched headfirst into an ongoing project initiated a local couple and their architect. the group were looking to expand their current farm-to-fork restaurant franchise with a Living Building Challenge qualifier; they envisioned a destination cafĂŠ/restaurant, cidery and research/education centre, located just south of the University town of State College, Pennsylvania.
our full presentation, with the 1:20 model
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The project responds to the absence of community platforms within State College area, and surrounding counties. Resulting is an architecture that is deeply rooted in the local culture, providing opportunities and destinations tailored to a specic set of the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characteristics.
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research centre, wall section model
research centre, laser cut model
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plug-in poetry
2017 sannz x park:ing day in collaboration with tyler harlen, seb elsen, will hope, with help by the volunteers of sannz
Plug-in Poetry was an urban and architectural response to the classic fridge magnet poetry. Taking it’s namesake from Archigram’s Plug-in City, the temporary installation provoked interaction and engagement amongst passers-by, challenging how we construct and use urban space. Each poetry block was of different length and of a curated range of colours, each given an individual word at one end. The project encouraged collaborations between strangers, and developed a ‘neighbourhood’ through a creative and engaging play.
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second language students learning through the structure
sannz poster advertising the event day
the sannz team (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me in the front)
see you soon!
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