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
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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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