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ELIZABETH WEISS

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO


ELIZABETH WEISS

270 W. STEELS CORNERS RD, CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH

eweiss2@kent.edu

330-808-3653


ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE

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SANDUSKY CYCLE

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BLACKACRES FARM

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SANDUSKY ADAPTIVE REUSE

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TREMONT RECREATION CENTER

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PIAZZA ANNIGONI GASTRONOMIA

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CLEVELAND MEDIA HOUSE

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HIGHLINE CONNECTION

PHOTOGRAPHY

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EUROPEAN DESTINATIONS


SANDUSKY CYCLE

Downtown Sandusky is a city that is in need of sprucing up and attracting people into it. It has many tourist attractions located around the downtown, which mainly keeps people out of the city.

The charge for this design is to create a new construction building with a program that is appropriate for the city to attract people downtown which also takes into account the importance of green building design. This is also based off of the previous adaptive reuse project done and the pedestrian promenade design charette done in downtown Sandusky.


Fall 2014 | 4th Year Studio | Professor C. Harker | Sandusky, Ohio

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Site Plan

With the growing bike culture within cities throughout the United States and the developing re-design of Sandusky’s downtown, the Sandusky Bicycle Basecamp aims to facilitate the community of the bike culture and the movement of people throughout the city and space. Based off of the Shoreline Drive promenade design done within the studio, the paths along the grounds of the building flow off of the bike path and turn-around located at the front of the site. Foot pedestrians and cyclists meet at the front edge of the building, where their needs also combine in the form of the buildings program.

Program Distribution


View of Bike Shop

View Into Units

SUSTAINABILITY 1 - Sun Fins - shade the hotel units southern windows, where the trees cannot reach. 2 - Trees - shade the lower windows during the summer. As they lose their leaves in the winter, they allow the areas to gain heat. 3 - Permeable Pavers - allow stormwater run off permeate the vast amounts of walkable surfaces that cover the sight. 4 - Facade - the envelope allows for the heating and cooling of the room to be kept inside during the seasons. 5 - Roof - the sloped roof allows for rainwater run off to water the plants below, reducing the need for more water and the excess stormwater runoff.


First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

SITE CIRCULATION STUDY CYCLIST USING BIKE PULL-UP CHECK-IN CYCLIST VISITING SHOP AND GROUNDS HOTEL EMPLOYEE FOOT PEDESTRIAN VISITING GROUNDS FOOT PEDESTRIAN VISITING FIRE PIT AND UNITS CYCLIST TOURING GROUNDS AND SHOP BIKING THROUGH SITE TO THE MARINA FOOT PEDESTRIAN VISITING SHOP AND FACILITIES VISITORS UTILIZING COMMUNAL GATHERING SPOTS


WATER QUALITY RESEARCH CENTER

Downtown Sandusky is a city that is in need of sprucing up and attracting people into it. It has many tourist attractions located around the downtown, which mainly keeps people out of the city. The charge for this design is to take an older, unused or run-down building and create a new program for the building that is appropriate for the placement of the building and that would benefit the city in terms of the citizens and tourists.


Fall 2014 | 4th Year Studio | Professor C. Harker | Sandusky, Ohio

Program

Site Plan

Laboratory Testing Laboratory Incubator Room Media Prep Room Tested Sample Room Sample Receipt Room Water Quality Treatment Lab Laboratory Workspace Storage Off-Site Equipment Storage Educational Classrooms (2) Demonstration Lab Administrative Large Conference Room Small Conference Room Copy / Work Room Reception Staff Room Miscelaneous Main Lobby / Reception Restrooms General Storage Total

The adaptive reuse focuses on the integration of the city through the building. Introducing a water quality research facility and water quality educational center integrates the city, the community, and the natural environment. This will be executed through its adaptation of a small scale water treatment unit used for study within the laboratories, the green wall that also utilizes the rainwater, and the sustainable facades that implements solar gain and ventilation currents.

Optimal Room Shape Area (sf) 21’x15’ 6.5’x5’ 6.5’x5’ 6.5’x5’ 6.5’x5’ 37’x25’ 300 sf 9’x8’ 10’x15’

315 33 33 33 33 925 1200 72 150

20’x22’ 12’x18’ 9’x11’

440 216 99 300 924 900 504

20’x15’ 18’x24’

11’X12’ 15’x20’ 21’x24’ 13’x10’ 6’x9’

600 432

600 1040 54

8,903

Program Distribution


View Into Laboratory

Main Lobby View

South View Down Fulton St.


First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

SUN | WIND

Trombe Wall Detail

• The South façade curtain wall system replaces the existing curtain wall, adding more efficiency and copious amounts of daylighting into the main work space of the laboratory. • The West façade curtain wall system (depicted) is designed to utilize wind circulation on and solar gain on the site to allow for comfort throughout the different seasons Sandusky is subject to. • The North façade is located on an atrium, utilizing the Northern light to allow for optimal daylighting and opening views to the bay.

Trombe Wall Detail


PIAZZA ANNIGONI GASTRONOMIA

Piazza Annigoni is a square in Florence, Italy that is located across from one of the major markets in the city, adjacent to city’s architecture university, and on top of an underground parking structure. Though it is located in a prime spot, it is severely underutilized. The design charge comes in two parts: redesign the piazza as a public space to accommodate for daily use and cultural events, and design a new Gastronomy Center that promotes the cultural Italian gastronomy.


Spring 2014 | 3rd Year Studio | Professor P. Giaconia | Florence, Italy

Site Plan

The form of the building was conceived to bring more traffic to the outer regions of the piazza, and to more effectively use the occupied portions of the piazza. By occupying the previously heavily used portions of the piazza, the pedestrian is encouraged into areas used minimally in the past. They are also inclined to pass through the green space, connecting with the school of architecture adjacent to the site; causing the pedestrian to slow as they transition from the concrete pavers on the piazza to the grass, allowing them to experience the other realm that occurs on the “hidden� side of the building. The layout of the building was developed to both engage the users within the building, but also to engage them with the surrounding city. The program of the building is separated into the two portions of the building; one for the culinary school and the other for the public. Few walls and rooms allow for a free flow of visitors throughout.


View South Toward Site

Site Circulation, View, and Sun Studies

Form Iterations

First Floor Plan


View Past Market

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan


HIGHLINE CONNECTION

Highline Access

Elevator&Stair / Stair Patterning

The New York Highline is a revitalization and historic project that has taken the old raised rail line and turned it into a public park for the city. The charge for this design is to intellectually choose a point on the highline that placing a stair and elevator would be beneficial, and to then design the stair and elevator in a way to attract visitors to the highline. The placement chosen for this stair and elevator follows the pattern of the previous stairs and elevators. It also follows the vernacular of the highline’s building material. This pays homage to the rail line’s history and the physical properties that are also being preserved. View East Down 30th St.


Fall 2013 | 3rd Year Studio | Professor C. Graves | 11th Ave. & W. 30th St. New York City, New York

Location Within Highline Sections

Site Plan

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

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Rivet Detailing

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Connection to Highline

Main Plan

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT


BLACKACRES FARM

View Inside Extension

Blackacres is a farm in the Cuyahoga Valley National Parks. Throughout the years it has been used for various different things, and recently it has changed ownership so that it can become a learning farm for the community. This would educate others on the history of farming in Ohio, ways to farm at home, and green farming techniques. The design charge has two parts: create a master plan for the property that facilitates all of the land usage for gardens and animals, and redesign the interior of the existing historical barn and an extension to house the visitor center and cooking programs.


Fall 2013 | 3rd Year Studio | Professor C. Graves | Peninsula, Ohio

Basement Floor Plan

Main Floor Plan

The design of the barn extension comes from a study of the history of Ohio barns merged with a modern take. The form of the extension signifies the separation from the historical barn and the modern addition. The roof structure also shifts along the long axis of the building, continuing the separation from historic and modern.

Barn Extension Transformation


TREMONT RECREATION CENTER

Deformation Diagram

Tremont is a community in the Cleveland area that is home to people of all ages, a thriving art scene, and a thriving restaurant area. The charge for this design is to create a recreation center that facilitates the diverse community as well as a variety of different recreational activities.

The design of this building focuses on urban deformation, which is the displacement of the part of a city/town without a breach of the existing community. For this project it means inserting elements that aren’t found within Tremont, and creating elements within the building that aren’t initially required, without destroying the focus of the building or city. This is executed through the building programmatically, through the experience, and through the material and structure.


Spring 2013 | 2nd Year Studio | Professor G. Stroh | Tremont, Ohio

Basement Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Site Plan


CLEVELAND MEDIA HOUSE

Site Plan

The media house design in Cleveland is to be linked with both the community and the Cleveland State University campus. With this need, it is located within the CSU campus area, which is a very urban and very active area. The charge of this design is to design a building to facilitate working environments, meeting places for exchanges between disciplines, and public events for the display of art and other artistic media.

The design of this building is in pursuit of studying cultural access, which is defined as the ability to interact with a specific “cultural� or intellectual pursuit. The engagement of the building to the preexisting conditions is being executed through the addition of public gathering and interacting spaces that touch and overlook the social edge, or where the new and old social spaces meet, which blur the social edge while also merging the use of the building into the program of the city.


Spring 2013 | 2nd Year Studio | Professor G. Stroh | Cleveland, Ohio

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Entry / Community Connections

Social Edge Development

Performance Space Relations


PHOTOGRAPHY

Florence, Italy

Paris, France

Siena, Italy


Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy

Budapest, Hungary


Siena, Italy

Milan, Italy

Siena, Italy


Castiglione del Lago, Italy

Castiglione del Lago, Italy

Florence, Italy


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