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Table of Contents
01_HIDA Downtown Phx Campus
02_Schrader Hotel
03_Broadway Avenue
04_Desert Pearl Inn
Comprehensive Plans Dorchester County Comprehensive Plan, click here. City of Lakeway Comprehensive Plan 2020, click here. Midtown Houston Strategic Plan, click here.
Graduate Thesis Women’s Insecurity and Exclusion in Public Spaces: A Call to Action and Initial Response, click here. Graphic examples begin on page 67.
05_Reclaiming Teltow
ACADEMIC 05 - 08
06_The Art of Extraction
07_Phx Fire Station no.9
08_Staccato Avian Habitat
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HIDA Downtown Phx Campus Phoenix, Arizona Professional_October - December 2015 Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU Director_Michael Underhill
Working with an associate dean of the Design School, we assembled a successful presentation to the University President’s Office advocating for new HIDA facilities. We focused on a vacant site along downtown Phoenix’s 1st Avenue across from Civic Space Park. The project utilized a variety of urban design strategies to investigate how the site connects and contributes to surrounding green space, interacts and attracts pedestrian traffic, and enables interplay between various creative studies. The presentation secured funding and ASU is building new HIDA facilities. My contributions: design and graphics. A similar study for updating existing HIDA facilities at the Tempe campus was conducted by Angela Lufkin.
Phoenix HIDA new facility HIDA existing facility ASU existing facilities
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connect create visibility
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develop the street
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Schrader Hotel
Los Angeles
Hollywood, California Professional_Lake | Flato Architects_2016 Directors_Bob Harris, FAIA & Todd Wascher, AIA
The Schrader Hotel is an eleven-story micro-unit hotel in Hollywood, California that also provides active ground floor programming to encourage public engagement and connection. The carefully crafted building form enables views to the Hollywood Hills and breaks down the massing on the street. My contributions: assisted with design, computer modeling, graphics (renderings and drawings), and final submittal package.
loading space
outdoor bike storage
Schrader Blvd
kitchen & storage
bar + storage
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hotel lobby
restaurant
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courtyard mezzanine w/ seating
coffee dn
Selma Ave
connect to the adjacent park
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shade the street
bring cafe seating out to the street
carve out a courtyard
provide exterior coffee shop access
disguise / bury parking
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Broadway Avenue
The Broadway Avenue masterplan redevelops an area of mostly vacant warehouses and parking lots in San Antonio’s downtown district. Spanning several blocks, the redevelopment emphasizes the human scale and offers pedestrian friendly avenues of office space, public green space, various retail/food vendors, music venues, and more. Furthermore, the masterplan links the San Antonio River to Broadway Avenue while its green streets extend onward to the East Side’s Dignowity Park. My contributions: assisted with design, computer modeling, graphics/rendering, and package assembly.
San Antonio, Texas Professional_Lake | Flato Architects_2016 Directors_David Lake, FAIA & Todd Wascher, AIA
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Desert Pearl Inn
The Desert Pearl Inn is an eco-resort located at the entrance of Zion National Park in Springdale, Utah. Spanning several acres and across the Virgin River, the project draws from environmental and geological studies to focus development near the street and preserve land eastward of the river. The design offers a variety of accommodations and venues as well as ecological education opportunities for all ages. My contributions: assisted with design, all computer modeling (including canyon studies), ecological/geologic site studies, other graphics, and package assembly.
Springdale, Utah Professional_Lake | Flato Architects with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects_2016 - 2017 Directors_Bob Harris, FAIA & Michael Britt, AIA
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5500’ navajo sandstone kayenta 5000’ moenave 4500’ chinle
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agricultural + arid grasslands
upland canyons
conservation
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agricultural + arid grassland
upland canyons
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SITE PLAN Desert Pearl Inn | Springdale, UT 05.16.2017
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Lobby River Venue While conducting site research, we discovered the land once supported an orchard prior to 1993 (see first page Google Earth maps). It is unknown why the orchard disappeared but the new masterplan resurrects it as a main organizational device and local amenity.
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Reclaiming Teltow
By 2030, Berlin’s population will grow by 400,000 new residents. This demands roughly 250,000 new housing units to accommodate the growing population. The studio prompt asked the following question: Where should these housing units go? Our team discovered the Teltow Canal during a studio trip to Berlin and felt the forgotten waterway was an ideal location for new housing and much more. We proposed to reclaim and enhance the canal to become a vital ecological corridor and green infrastructure element; keystone linkage within a larger blue, green, and public transit network; dynamic, inclusive, and community-driven public space; as well as place-making and development catalyst for positive social impact that provides the necessary 250,000 new dwellings.
Berlin, Germany Spring 2019_Academic_Group Studio Professor_Barbara Hoidn Design Collaboration_Laura Atlas + Ivan Xing
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new housing units at 60 units per hectare
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city limits major roads railway / tram line waterbody Teltow Canal green space
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Teltow Canal redevelopment masterplan
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As a part of the redevelopment masterplan, we provided a tool-kit of typologies to be used by various developers along the canal. This toolkit included various concepts for the canal waterway, immediate edge, and adjacent lands. existing canal typology
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CANAL
soft edge - basic replanting
taxi
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boat
soft edge - dock + water taxi
soft edge - elevated boardwalk
soft edge -dock + house boat
soft edge - floating gardens
special condition - beach front entry
ADJACENT LAND
views to canal
GROW
LIVE SHOP
proposed canal typology
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flat - marsh + flood retention
flat - rowing dock + storage
minimal slope - replanting + path (also applies to extreme slope)
minimal slope - amphitheater (also applies to extreme slope)
minimal slope - ramp + switchback
extreme slope - terraced gardens
extreme slope - shops and studios
extreme slope - stair case
MARATHON
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extreme slope - multi-use path
CAFE
bridge - path, public art + access
harbor -cafe + seating
EXPRESS row (dock) house
canal extension
LIVE + WORK
COEXIST cycle street
existing neighborhood
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The Art of Extraction Superior, Arizona Spring 2015_Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis Director_Christian Stayner Second Reader_Catherine P. Harris Design Collaboration_Joshua Fletcher
Anthropocentric society faces a multiplicity of environmental challenges –catalyzed and perpetuated by urban-industrial culture. Many of today’s perspectives and sustainable strategies cannot accommodate the challenges’ inherent complexity. A potential setting in which to frame this exploration is the intersection of urbanism, landscape, and ecology. The related methodologies of Landscape Urbanism & Ecological Urbanism acknowledge artists and the visual arts as invaluable tools for realizing, communicating, and inspiring the new perspectives and modes of intervention needed to address such urban complexity. Engaging the artist’s mindset, The Art of Extraction is an installation that explores the current and complex issue of resource extraction within Superior, Arizona: a topic at the core of urbanism, landscape, and ecology. Specifically, it addresses the recent and controversial Resolution Copper Mine —along with the land displacement, water depletion, and spread of technologically enhanced radioactive materials that could be left in its wake. The design process and line-weights for all technical drawings were completed with Joshua Fletcher.
Apache Leap Escarpment
Superior
2 mi proposed mine
Groundwater Retention Zone
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum
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Apache Indian Sacred Land
What are the spatial, scaler, temporal, and thus invisible forces at play? If made visible and lucid, will people experience a shift in perspective?
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proposed mine Apache Leap Escarpment
Superior, Arizona
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glass sheet (or shroud) operates as the threshold for the installation and is etched with the names of Arizona's 1400+ currently active mineral mines.
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Inversely positioned beneath a potentially familiar landscape, viewers weave in-and-out of illuminated "wells" and puddles of water. A constant drip fills the air and a fluctuating temperature creates a sensation similar to a muted fever: a common symptom of radiation poisoning.
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Gaps along the edges allow viewers to gaze above where an aluminum sheet mirrors the topography's surface, simultaneously revealing it as Superior. The landscape then plunges downward as sand trickles into piles on the floor. An entry into this plunged space allows the viewer to gaze up at themselves within the void: a reminder that he or she plays a part in the process.
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After viewers are released from the landscape, they are confronted with four suspended objects representing proportioned amounts of total ore, extracted copper, radioactive material exposed/transformed, and water used. On the back wall, photographs of Superior reaffirm the town as the site of study. 22
longitudinal section perspective
LED tube light
hydrophobic coating
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cloud chamber
Thompson Boyce Arboretum
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ventilation system: cold air
ventilation system: warm + humid air with grills to direct air
longitudinal detail section
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existing packaged unit mechanical system
MDG atmosphere hazer that connects hot + humid system
1" floor radiant cooling system
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Phx Fire Station no.9 Phoenix, Arizona Fall 2014_Academic_Group Studio Professor_Scott Murff Design Collaboration_Sara Alavizadeh
Because of its location in Phoenix’s emerging downtown, the new Phoenix Firestation no. 9 necessitates a facility that can grow with future development, connect with the downtown community, and respond to a variety of calls –including both residential and high-rise situations. A strict and logical program constraint ensures the functionality of the station and methodical flow of circulation; thus, firefighters can quickly and safely get from anywhere in the facility to the bay for immediate emergency response. Furthermore, the station provides a variety of different spaces for firefighters to recover from their often stressful and traumatic job experiences. Interviews and visits to existing stations revealed the importance of community space (both with the public and among the firefighters themselves) as well as an emphasis on mental health amenities.
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waste event/gathering space community garden public parking green roof solar photovoltaics ecological zone
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second floor plan
ground floor plan
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ecological zone: water conserving landscape
vegetal screen
internal air quality improvement
solar photovoltaics
outdoor space
cross & stack ventilation through operable windows
hvac units
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south section: passive design strategies
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1 concrete column 2 aluminum window frame 3 double glazed window 4 bolted connection to the structure 5 perforated aluminum panels 6 steel support structure for louvres 7 perforated metal platform 8 tapered wide flange beam 9 glass bay door 10 rainscreen
public basketball training tower
ecological zones flexible public space public garden
tactical training tower
underground rainwater storage tank
pervious pavers: storm water retention
shaded parking
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Staccato avian habitat Tempe, Arizona Fall 2012_Academic_Individual Studio Professor_Byron Simpson Landscape Studio
The Staccato avian habitat is located in Mouer Park, or a subset of the greater Papago Park in Tempe, Arizona. Specifically designed for Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna), the habitat functions as a desert sanctuary for the small birds as well as the visitors who hope to view them in a natural setting. The design was inspired by Calypte anna’s abrupt and choppy flight pattern, with the ability to sporadically change direction and quickly shift from one elevation to another. Weathered steel planks of varying heights (to imitate such a flight pattern) pierce upward from the earth and curve around to create a more intimate vegetated space. Flowering desert plants grow amid the planks while the overall organic form creates moments of closure or reveal depending on the angle of the viewer. chilean palo verde
flame honeysuckle
black dalea
mexican bird of paradise
brittle bush
baja fairy duster
chihuahuan sage chuparosa red justicia ocotillo
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staccato: 1_n. a form of musical articulation that signifies a note of abrupt, sharp, and clean-cut manner. 2_adv. or adj. with each sound or note sharply detached from the others.
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Desirable views to surrounding mountains dictate the curvature of the weathered steel planks and subsequent moments of exposure.
wind = whistle
varying widths and heights to mimic staccato movement
vegetation growing through the planks
The avian habitat also serves as a unique tool for surrounding schools to educate students in desert ecology.
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Thank you!
Emilie Twilling emilie.twilling@utexas.edu 602.312.1621
Please see the Table of Contents for links to additional work.