EKY Graduate Architecture Portfolio

ELISE YOUNG ELISE K. YOUNG

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

RESUME

ELISE K. YOUNG

eyoung01@alumni.risd.edu

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 2022, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN BACHLEORS OF ART 2016, Humanities, with focus in Literature & Visual Art, SCRIPPS COLLEGE

KIRBY ARCHITECTURE, SAN CARLOS, CA

Architectural Intern

June - August 2021

Assisted principal architect on five private residence projects. Learned and trouble-shot softwares (Fieldwire and Lightroom), compared and presented systems for solar panelpowered water heating, cross-checked building codes on occupancy and ADUs, drafted interior elevations for renovation project, measured and drafted ground-level floor plan. Took minutes for client meetings, visited construction sites, delivered drawings to planning office. Supervised by principal architect and founder, Kirby Lee.

BRINTON YOUNG, FREELAND, PA; NANTUCKET, MA

Construction Worker (Contract)

November 2016- May 2017

Worked construction for Brinton Young on a two-bedroom cottage in Freeland, PA, and a basement remodel in Nantucket, MA; loaded/unloaded building materials, operated large powered machinery and equipment, ran wiring, and installed switches, outlets and light fixtures. Installed insulation (fiberglass, rigid and spray foam, blown cellulose), rough plumbing, drywall, doors and windows. Drafted a space-plan for the kitchen in Freeland cottage, which was overseen by a professional architect, Ray Kinoshita Mann.

IL TEATRO BOUTIQUE, PASADENA, CA

Cashier + Sales Associate + Photographer

July -October 2016

Designed window-displays, organized inventory and incoming merchandise, served customers and handled sale transactions. Promoted store’s social media by independently planning and photo-shooting merchandise. Supervised by boutique owner, Janet Chiu.

SCRIPPS COLLEGE GREEN BIKE PROGRAM

Bike Technician

March 2012-May 2013

Educated students on bicycle maintenance through repairs, which included inner tube replacement, wheel truing, brake-adjusting, and lubing, inspecting and adjusting of drivetrain parts. Supervisors included Kristen Piepgrass, Devon Gorman, and Deborah Gisvold.

CONTENTS

CONTINUOUS BOUNDARIES COLLEGE CAMPUS 01

ELECTIVE STUDIO

HANS TURSACK

SPRING 2021

The campus is best defined by its borders, which in this case, is the continuous paved road for bikers and pedestrians. The pavement remains level but the surrounding ground dramatically rises and falls, as if traveling through a natural landscape.

If you imagine the entire site as a giant grid, areas of dwelling and areas of circulation are treated with different formal rules.

Protrusions erected from ground level (campus buildings) are defined by three levels of square grids. Depending on the building’s use, the modules are scaled or combined.

Spaces designated to circulation, or treated as “ground” are expressed through controlled curves. The contoured forms of the surrounding landscape are also conforming to the site’s grid.

Large outdoor gathering and recreational spaces are are typically impressed into the ground to control noise and maximize visibility of the sculpted landscape.

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

A) Grids- Extrude from Pt to PT

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

B) Grids- Extrude + Boolean

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

C) Fold From Inside

Site paths adhere to overall grid, but grow more rounded as they stray from the campus center.

PAVILION INTO HIGH-RISE

SHEARED GRIDS

SPRING 2020

The pavilion is translated into vertical dimension through methods of stacking.

When designing the original pavilion project, the rules that altered the square grid were derived from changes in the landscape (i.e.. elevation); would not these rules hold less relevancy once the project moves up?

As the stacked pavilion ascends, its grid becomes less warped and returns to a pure square at the top. The pavilion’s lateral circulation is best understood as a crossing. Vertical circulation for the stacked pavilion is about transitioning between warped to normal.

The lack of true vertical walls disrupts our default assumptions about wall and floor. When it was a single story pavilion, the frames evoked a mesh roofed shelter. In our stacked pavilion, inhabitants experience the frames as a thicket of abnormal columns. While each shape is different, the floor plates serve the same narrow purpose, to guide the inhabitants across the lot from S. Main street to Water Street. Located in downtown Providence, the combined office building and performance hall with a substantial public component open 24 hours a day.

What if we appeared to adhere to traditional notions of boundaries, while also subverting them? What if our “center stage” and “back stage” inverted the relationship between a public space to its urban context?

ONE-LEVEL PAVILION

STACKED PAVILION

PERFORMANCE + OFFICE

HIGH-RISE

BETWEEN BUILDINGS Across the masonry core.

CIRCULATION RULES

WITHIN BUILDINGS : Along facade corners.

GROUND LEVEL: Between buildings

MASRONY FACADE + CORE Opaque

TINTED GLASS FACADE Transparent Solid

GYPSUM WALLS Opaque Perceived Thickness

HOME FOR THE BLIND 03

HIDE + SEEK RESIDENCE

ELECTIVE STUDIO

KYNA LESKI FALL 2021

The competition called to design a residence for a single blind occupant. The tensile interior walls are pulled taut by their connections to the neighboring exterior walls, like sails in the wind. These interior walls are to act like a senstive and responsive membrane between the activity of the outside world and the inside of the house.

The site is a 13 foot wide alleyway. The nested placement of this residence conceals the occupant at street-level, with the openings in the walls to provide snapshots inside.

The house does not just act as a shelter, but as a sensory transmitter with veins into its surroundings. It’s a concealed hideout that allows the blind occupant to “see” into the outside world through sensing.

FLEXING BOUNDARIES 04

TECTONIC STRATEGIES FOR THE MULTIGENERATIONAL HOME

GRADUATE THESIS

ANNE TATE

FALL 2021 - SPRING 2022

Climate changes in the near and distant futures will spur human populations to relocate and re-settle, spurring short-term and long-term housing needs. To support this shift, our cities must modify their current use of spaces to accommodate an increasing population of occupants, whose circumstances and needs are subject to flux. How can we, as architects, design homes to make increased population density not only bearable, but enjoyable? Can architecture minimize its material footprint while answering maximal spatial conditions?

This project seeks to design freestanding modular units that provide both partitions and furniture; the units should be easy to manipulate, giving the occupants freedom to readapt and shape their spaces to meet their changing needs.

PRINCIPLES:

FOLDING + UNFOLDING : Components that take up crucial space but only used several times a day.

SLIDING : Components that need to be frequently reconfigured.

ORIENTATION : Non-kinetic units must be usable in more than one way or available from multiple sides.

TWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE W/HANDRAIL DEFINING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SOCIAL AND SOLITARY

STUDIES CATALOG

SOCIALLY ACTIVE BOUNDARIES

PLANES + MOVEMENT

PRACTICE

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM INUITING TRANSITIONS THROUGH SHIFTING PLANES

TWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE WITH HANDRAIL

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM

TRIPOD PARITION + TABLE

FULL SCALE PROTOYPE

MAPLE HARDWOOD AND PLYWOOD

Can adjust height of desks and shelving with lattice.

5:1 BEDROOM NOOKTWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE WITH HANDRAIL

Sound-Proof Privacy Booth

Bedroom Nook provides full-sized mattress on top and twin-size on the bottom bunk. The nook has a built-in desk and closet space.

Handrail built into opposite side of lattice.

Murphy Bed unfolded

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM

Bed has two mattresses. Bottom mattress serves as sofa seating as top mattress is folded up.

Top mattress unfolded to make platform bed. This is made possible by “expanding” the wall unit.

Steel Vertical I - Beam

5/8” Gypsum Board

1” Plywood Sheathing

Vapor Barrier

Steel I - Stud Cut

4” Batt Insulation

Exterior Sheathing

Finished Floor

Mesh Reinforcement

Cast-In Place Concrete

Steel Sheeting

Joist

Girder

Metal Channel

Aluminum Flashing

Metal Soffit

Triple Glazed IGU

Mullion Head

Weather Proofing

Sill

Weather Proofing

Z- Stud Cut

Rigid Insulation

Metal Channel

Aluminum Wind Clip

Corrugated Aluminum Siding

U-Shaped Glass Rainscreen

Steel Angle Supports

Pour Stop

Steel Stud Track

Continuous Steel Supportive Tubing

Channel Glass Support Frame

Continuous Aluminum Flashing

Web Stiffener

Ledger Track