CO NTENTS 01. ST UD IO N A R R ATIV E 02
M o n s t er | Ur ba n H ou s in g H y br id
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Li t t le Tibet a n In n
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M ic ro c lim a [c ]t ic Od ys s ey
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reCOV E R S ou t h A fr ic a 02 . PRO FES S IO N A L
Emily Ashby
EM I LY ASHBY MArch I Candidate m a rc h 1 ap p lic ant p or tfolio
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Za m bo n i Pav ilio n
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Lo c k Pa r k
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Na nt a s ket Wa t er fro nt 03 . ACA D EMIC S A MPL E
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I n fin ity K n o t
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Hur r ic a n e H ou s e
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Pa ra s it ic H yd ro lo gy
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St u d io Clay
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Vo r t ex | La n d fill t o La n d fo r m
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Ve n ic e Unveiled
E m i l y As h by eashby@gsd.harvard.edu 940 595 6380
education + honor
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Harvard Graduate School of Design MArch I Candidate
experience
Harvey Fellows Program Fellow, 2016
6.14-8.15
Utile, Architecture and Urban Design, Boston, MA - designer .10-.14
design and graphic on projects such as developement and resiliency strategy for Nantasket Beach, Living with Water competition, Parcel 13 mixed-use proposal, Greenway off/on-ramps bridging design, Union Square Somerville planning, housing development in Hartford, CT 3.16
Minor in Architectural History Studio [4.0/4.0] Overall [3.9/4.0]
Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, Architecture, Boston, MA - intern
Sean Steel-Nicholson Memorial Award [2014]
spring break competition, worked on schematic design for a 100,000 sm science center in Hunan Province, China 1.16
Certificate of Design Excellence [2014] The Raven Society [2013-2014]
Supernormal, Architecture and Urban Design, Boston, MA - designer
Bobby Newman Scholarship [2012-2014]
design prototyping and graphics for preschool startup, website graphics, urban design analysis in Charlotte, NC 1.14
BS Architecture with High Honors, University of Virginia
UVA Architecture Yearbook Publication [2011-2014]
Studio Luz Architects, Architecture, Boston, MA - extern
Dean’s List [2010-2014]
digitally model a single-family residence, detail drawing, produce representational graphics
Jefferson Public Citizen’s Journal Research Publication [2013] Intermediate Honors in the School of Architecture [2012]
6.13-7.13
Cunningham Architects, Architecture, Dallas, TX - intern
AIAS - student member
urban and architectural projects in and around Boston, such as developement and resiliency strategy for Nantasket Beach, Living with
9.13-12.13
Water compedigitally model, fabricate schematic models, graphic representation for commercial project, detail drawings (DD + CD)
UVA Study Abroad, Venice, Italy Venice Program includes extensive study travel as well as design studio and courses in freehand drawing, Venetian
8.13-9.13
Dripps+Phinney Studio, Batesville, VA - designer
architectural history and materials, and Italian language and culture
reconstruct, catalog, edit grasshopper definitions for online tutorial website, parametric design explorations for hurricane-proof residence 1.14-5.14
6.11-8.11
Focus International study abroad includes courses in Chinese language and culture
ARCH 1010: Lessons of the Lawn, UVA - Peter Waldman - teaching assistant lead weekly discussion group, grade weekly essays and diagrams, hold office hours, mentor
extra
ARCH 1030: Foundations Studio, UVA - Anselmo Canfora - teaching assistant
3.14
Habitat for Humanity Spring Break, Atlanta, GA - trip leader led group of twenty students on week-long housing renovation project
lead weekly workshop sessions for development of technical skills, design collaboration, hold office hours
ARCH 4020: Design Studio, UVA - Lucia Phinney - teaching assistant
Study Abroad, Bo Hai University, China
8.10-5.13
Chi Alpha Fellowship - group leader lead weekly discussions, coordinate social events, mentor
teach grasshopper 3d and advise during seminar workshop and studio course, continue research of teaching methods and integrated parametric workflow
Faculty Research, UVA - Schaeffer Somers - research assistant
2.11-5.11
food equity research for design of a garden box instructional guide and community workshop
develop advanced analytical tools (GIS, parametric, and agent-based modeling) to support modeling and visualization of human mobility in project coursework 8.10-5.14
Global Sustainability Community Project, Charlottesville, VA - graphic designer
8.10-5.11
Initiative reCOVER, UVA - Anselmo Canfora - project manager
Madison House Program - tutor tutor 5th grade students in math
Jefferson Public Citizens grant-funded reCOVER team collaboration with Mukondeni Pottery Cooperative to design and publish building reference set for a ceramic water filter factory, community center, and productive landscape
skill
2.11-5.14
CCC Babysitter Connection - creator / manager connect UVA students to community via childcare services
Software autocad, adobe suite, microsoft office, rhino, sketchup, maxwell, vray, grasshopper + assorted plugins, arcgis, mastercam
Digital Fabrication 3d printing, laser-cutting, cnc routing, digital photography
Manual Fabrication sketching, drafting, shop machinary, sewing, casting, soldering, model-making
4.11
Charlottesville Marathon - race competitor
1.14
Route US29 Vortex - Xaveer de Geyter award
1.13
Rivanna River Vortex - team leader - exhibited d3 Natural Systems Competition - Initiative reCOVER - exhibited Belmont Bridge Gait-way - student choice award
competition
Website Design
6.12
https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/
1.12
The Club
Spring 2016, 5 weeks Jeffry Burchard structural bay sinusoidal wavy wall program guilt-free relaxation club aggregate grain, scale, mirror, clip wall as structure, facade, aperture, circulation agitate aggregation peel figural light well activate edges material contextual brick
club in context
level 4 courtyard
The Hidden Room Fall 2015, 2 weeks Cameron Wu
hidden via mis-map form minimal surface rules levels, axes, divisions, slopes enclosure perceptual inversion circulate skip, shortcut space continuous
grade change across length
entrance on street
Supernormal Splash Image January 2016, 1 week Elizabeth Christoforetti
urban block-scale design process model, illustrate, entourage rules roof, streetscape, variation, future graphic tones, texture, objective, playful
Perimeter / Plan Fall 2015, 4 weeks Cameron Wu
rules given unfolded facade, stair challenge coordinate sectional resolution program dormitory typology singe/double-loaded adapt traditional bar, social separation stair as 1/3 sectional shift, trajectory form bending bar, stretch, fracture
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W/C
W/C
W/C
CR 2
W/C
CR 3
AGGREGATION
TAXONOMY Solid - Hidden - Solid (above)
MODULE MODULE
KIT OF PARTS KIT OF PARTS Solid - Hidden - Solid (below)
Hidden - Solid - Hidden (below)
Concave/Convex Vault Concave/Convex Vault Scissor Vault
Scissor Suspended Vault Vault
SuspendedInverted Vault Vault
Inverted Vault Section Opening
Section Opening Arch
ArchFloor | Sloped Seating Floor | Sloped Seating
Hidden - Solid - Hidden (above)
Solid - Solid - Solid
Solid - Solid - Hidden
LOFT
TUNNEL (translate)
CANYON (rotate exterior)
MOUNTAIN (rotate interior)
RIVER (reflect)
LOFT
XY
XY
YZ
YZ
XZ
XZ
Hidden - Hidden - Solid
Stepped Platforms Stepped Platforms Ribbon Rotation
AGGREGATION AGGREGATION
TAXONOMY TAXONOMY Solid - Hidden - Solid Solid (above) - Hidden - Solid (above)
Solid - Hidden - Solid Solid (below) - Hidden - Solid (below)
Hidden - Solid - Hidden Hidden (below) - Solid - Hidden (below)
Hidden - Solid - Hidden Hidden (above) - Solid - Hidden (above)
Solid - Solid - Solid Solid - Solid - Solid
Solid - Solid - Hidden Solid - Solid - Hidden
TUNNEL (translate)
Between Incompatible Plans Fall 2015, 2 weeks Cameron Wu
rules given basic ground, upper plans challenge interpret 2d, invent intermediate plans form hyperbolic paraboloid plan oblique section hyperbola extend language beyond given plan
TUNNEL (translate)
CANYON CANYON (rotate exterior) (rotate exterior)
MOUNTAIN (rotate interior)
MOUNTAIN (rotate interior)
RIVER (reflect)
RIVER (reflect)
Hidden - Hidden - Solid Hidden - Hidden - Solid
Ribbon Rotation Oblique Translation Oblique Translation Wall | Repeated Skylight Wall | Repeated Skylight Wall | Structural WithWall | Structural With Opening Opening
Floor | Wrapping
Floor | Wrapping
Residential complexes have not seen significant shifts in program and type in over half a century. Housing is inherently modular, and typically produces a homogenous typology. Larger, more figural programs, such as gyms, theaters, and libraries, have more formal freedom and variation. By combining programs, part-modular and part-exceptional, into a building hybrid, housing functions as public space and integrates more fluidly with the urban fabric. “Hybrid” can be understood in three metaphors: “centaur,” “manimal,” and “cyborg.” The centaur is half-man, halfbeast, preserving typological distinction. The manimal negotiates both typologies into a new merged form. The cyborg is something other entirely, and does not necessarily rely on previous models or precedent.
SINGULAR CONNECTION
SINGULAR CONNECTION
MONSTER | Urban Housing Hybrid [ spring 2014 \ research studio \ washington dc critics - robin dripps + ghazal abbasy ] omit oblique intersection
omit oblique intersection
A web of transformations begins to describe the possible relationships between process operations. The resulting spatial taxonomy acts as precedent and reference to aid in formal generation and aggregation. Moreover, awareness of families and strains aids in the development of a formal language to describe the monster.
plan disturbances understood through surface and volume
aggregation [grid]
Physical parameters adopted from zoning restrictions, unit dimensions, circulation grades, sunlight requirements, and site-specific pressures serve as the “grid” from which to introduce deviation. Systematic deviations, or disturbances, locate secondary program within the modular housing field. Exceptions to the
disturbance [field]
system and normal deviation occur as “the monster.” This unpredictable formal “slip” requires the system to temporarily break and reassemble. “Monster” moves acknowledge diversity and specificity of site and design intention, becoming signature places, the identifiable landmarks within a landscape.
monster [figure]
ground interaction - floor 2
interlocking systems - floor 6
tower levels - floor 12
Lower density housing modules with a higher ratio of public space and accessibility hover over the edges of the site, built on a ramping circulation logic. This low-density model intersects with and plugs-in to the high-density tower module, defining key formal and programmatic “monster� moments.
[left] lower-density units - woven aggregation [below] facade interplay with high-density unit aggregation
[top left] Public programs and parks at ground level encourage interactions between residents and the surrounding community. [top right] Housing integrates with recreational programs, sharing circulation and street frontage, forming relationships through shared amentities. [lower left] Shared circulation at the intersection of housing types and recreational program space. [lower right] The agitated ground plane invites, through directional cues, visitors and residents to cross paths and explore the site.
u rban ana lys is p ara met r i c s t u dy c o n c e pt s Each residential building study explores an urban consideration such as sunlight, views, circulation, and activating the street level. Iteratively diagramming abstract responses to address these parameters generates formal and organizational design ideas.
sequential sections
Health, defined not as the absence of sickness, but as a holistic mind and body wellness, changes the way we consider healthcare. Eastern medical pracices, specifically in Tibet, have a long tradition of addressing more than just physical wellness. Western medicine is in constant flux, and leads in innovation. These two approaches to medicine integrate on a smallscale in the Little Tibetan Inn, a community for visiting Tibetan scholars and monks to interact with Charlottesville community partners through healthful practices and engagement.
“Alternative� forms of healing are offered in the form of massage therapy, acupuncture, chiiropractic, and spa treatment.
The Westover Estate, in Charlottesville, Virginia, is the site for an intended Tibetan integrated medical complex. The formerly productive landscape has roots in agrarian culture. A drastic topographic range is defined by a prominent central hill, surrounded by slighter mounds and swails. This relative topography has both systematic and phenomeno-
logical implications - from vegetation patterns and circulation to buzzing insects. An underlying mapping of zones determined by topographic slope describes a gradient of qualitative data, including relative warmth, vegetation, views, and sounds. These zones outline a network of paths, in which each path straddles two distinct conditions.
[top] CNC sewing maps the build-up of thread to describe density of vegetation on site. [middle] A diagrammatic model of the site topography provides a guide to designing accessible paths with a gradient of incline. [bottom] A wire diagram translates an idea, that relative topography is correlated to the measured amplitude of insects, into a spatial representation.
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Plan Level 1
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Plan Level 2
Plan Level 3
The three regions of Tibet have distinct cultural and geographic characteristics. These characteristics are overlaid in plan and section to initiate programmatic and formal relationships. The Yarlung Tsangpo canyon is the deepest in the world, and Mount Everest is the highest peak. I imagine that the affects of these nat-
tonically, forcing the ground up, creating an ethereal peak and a jagged canyon in the Little Tibetan Inn. Barley, the number one grain in both Tibet and Virginia, is cultivated on terraces and brought into the kitchen so that residents and visitors can share recipes and cook together. These dishes and collaborations are served ural phenomena have in the restaurant above. aftershocks as far as Charlottesville, and plates shift tec-
Plan Level 4
egy of a ceramic water filter
factory and landscape design prototype. The design is a product of cultural immersion, environmental sensitivity, and resource propogation.
FUTURE FACTORY ++ NETWORK NETWORK FUTURE FACTORIES
sites that serve as possible locations for filter factories based on the outlined criteria
URBAN AREAS URBAN AREAS
regions of South Africa with the building supplies, populations, and market for a filter factory’s success
LATASOL CLAYDEPOSITS DEPOSITS + + WATERWAYS LATASOL CLAY WATERWAYS areas framed by access to raw materials
MUKONDENI
LIMPOPO REGION, SOUTH AFRICA
CONTEXT MAPS
LOUIS TRICHARDT
reCOVER SOUTH AFRICA
MUKONDENI
POLOKWANE
POPULATION - 5,439,600
73.5 + HP6
GPS - EAST 30.1084, SOUTH -23.2540
MUKONDENI POTTERY COOPERATIVE
Arup Cause Program, the reCOVER team of four undergraduate students focused on a multi-phased, multi-sectorial limpopo hamashamba implementation strategy of a ceramic water filter factory and landscape design prototype. The design is a product of cultural immersion, environmental sensitivity, and resource propagation. MUKONDENI POTTERY COLLECTIVE
The reCOVER Initiative, under a Jefferson Public Citizen Grant, brings together academic, civic, and professional south africa organizations to address tangible needs through design. In partnership with the University of Virginia’s Water and Health in Limpopo project; the University of Venda in Thohoyandou, South Africa; the Mukondeni Pottery Cooperative; and the
GPS - EAST 30.1084, SOUTH -23.2540 POPULATION - 2,375
MUKONDENI, SOUTH AFRICA
POPULATION - 49,991,300
SOUTH AFRICA
[ summer 2012 \ anselmo canfora \ erin root, irene preciado, timothy morris, luke gates ]
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JOJO TANK
672
POTTERY CO-OP
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670
RONDOVALS
FACTORY SHED
669
FISH POND
668
667
CLAY DEPOSIT
666
5 P66 +L
mukondeni
The initial site strategy derives from a spatial timeline delineating the process of ceramic water filter manufacturing. The intention is to identify and logically support workflows across the site, from clay deposit to factory to display and shipping areas, while accounting for water use through the process. The workflow considers how the individuals or groups of potters work during isolated and collective tasks.
timeline of pottery-production
The roof collection system redirects all the rainwater to header tanks, which are placed below the roof and utilize gravity to distribute the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and pottery production. During heavy rains, the overflow of roof water runoff bypasses the header tank and travels directly to a large secured, partially in-ground concrete cistern.
Calculations have shown that the total water collected over the span of one year from roof runoff will be sufficient to support the Mukondeni Pottery Cooperative based on a daily 20-liter-consumption for each of the 45 women of the Cooperative. In addition, the collected water would support the production of ceramic filters, which require four liters per filter.
[top] view from community center to studio and factory [right] view from pottery studio onto terraced landscape
Since 1947, accomplished craftswomen from the fillage of Ha-Mashamba in Limpopo, South Africa have been using a local clay deposit to create a varety of functional and decorative pottery. In 1998, forty of the original potters formed the Mukondeni Pottery Cooperative and began to work in a facility built by the municipal government. The cooperative provides the potters of HaMashamba with a livelihood while the region benefits from the continued production of an iconic symbol of local culture.
view from community center to studio and factory
The Folly
Evolved Shed Form
Surface / Volume Pavilion
ZA M B O N I PAV I L I O N [ Fall 2014 \ Utile \ designer \ Elizabeth Christoforetti ]
A zamboni functions as the star in the unique spectacle of ice-resurfacing. Seasonal outdoor iceskating is a community favorite in Kendall Square, and the current shed housing this object of utility and entertainment is an uninspired eyesore. The design concept for a zamboni pavilion is to incorporate storage with an iconic public space and art amenity. Four design “families� find inspiration from garden follies, scandanavian household glass, ice scuptures, and graphic floral wallpaper.
Urban Igloo
Urban design considerations, either prioritize the existing landscape form or emphasizing a relationship to adjacent lobby entrances.
I N FI NI T Y K N OT [ ARCH2010 Foundations Studio \ Mara Marcu \ Fall 2011 ]
An abstracted exploration of a spatial diagram becomes applicable to organization in inhabitable architecture. Hybrid modeling techniques and materials translates diagram to design- in the understanding of material properties and joinery, gradients of transparency, both literal and phenomenal, and structural system logics.
roof material by orientation
redirect runoff in pattern of birm, mound and swail
HURRI CA NE HO U S E [ Dripps + Phinney Studio \ Summer 2013 ] Dripps + Phinney Residence is situated at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, nestled amidst vineyards, rolling hills, and forest. The existing structures are aligned with a geologic ridge and fault line, placing it in the direct path of most storms. A concept for a safe house emerges, with its formal qualities derived from an intersection of the landform with the existing residence, gardens, and microclimates.
intersect logics
inhabit ground
circulate