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EMILYDOBBS 1300 Varsity Lane Charlotte NC 28262 (704)222-0620 edobbs@uncc.edu issuu.com/emilydobbs
I am a third year architecture student looking to gain knowledge and experience in the design profession. I am a creative, hardworking individual who is eager to learn as much as possible about what architecture and the professional practice has to offer. I am interested in design that pushes the boundaries of what architecture is.
EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Bachelors of Arts and Architecture (2020) - GPA: 4.0
[ 2017 - present ]
Olympic Community of Schools [ 2012 - 2016 ] - High School - GPA: 4.0 Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC)
[ 2015 ]
- Industrial Safety - Application Software for Technicians
EMPLOYMENT Teaching Assistant Kumon Math and Reading Center, Charlotte NC
[ August 2013 - present ]
- work with children from the ages of 3 to 17 - help students with classwork and taught them organization skills and how to be independent - discuss with parents their child’s progress each day - 10 hrs/week
Teaching Assistant [ June 11, 2017 - June 18, 2017 ] UNCC School of Architecture Design Summer Camp, Charlotte NC - had a studio of 9 students in which they learned about design through mini projects - taught students still life drawing, precedents and site analysis - critiqued the students on their work and helped them through the process of designing a bus stop - 100 hrs/week
Manufacturing Intern [ June 2015 - July 2015 ] groninger USA, LLC, Charlotte NC - learned how to code, wire and manufacture a robot that completed a specific task - learned how to use a metal lathe and CNC milling machine - cleaned the shop floor every week - gave a presentation to the entire company - 40 hrs/week
ORGANIZATIONS SKILLS - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe InDesign - Adobe Photoshop - Rhinoceros 5 - Grasshopper - Microsoft Office - Sketch Up - Wood/Metal Shop - Hand sketching/ drafting
- AIAS 2018 - 2019 Secretary -attended AIAS Forum in Seattle - Julia Robinson Math Festival Volunteer - Lake Wylie North Star Reading Program
[ 2018 - present ] [ 2010 - present ] [ 2016 ]
HONORS - Chancellor’s List [ 2016 - 2018 ] - First Year Design Excellence Award [ 2017 ] - President’s Award for Educational Excellence [ 2016 ] - Valedictorian [ 2016 ] - People Helping People SECU Scholarship [ 2016 ] - AP Scholar [ 2015 - 2016 ]
Select Undergraduate Works
University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2016-2018
Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright goes for a drive in Seattle, 2018 Digital Media, Archival Photographs Fall Semester Studio
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untitled. [center for wooden boats] Third Year Fall Studio Professor Peter Wong Seattle, Washington
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the colors are dancing...! Second Year Fall Studio Professor Catty Dan Zhang Chicago, Illinois
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a World of Lines Second Year Spring Studio Professor Thomas Forget Site-less
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Alleyway Baths Second Year Spring Studio Professor Thomas Forget New York City, New York
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Miscellaneous
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untitled. [center for wooden boats] Fall Semester Studio | 2018 Professor Peter Wong This project began by first studying naval architecture as a precedent that could be deconstructed and translated into an architectural structure. The [center for wooden boats] uses the directionality of the site to lead people through the building and towards Lake Union. The linear form guides occupants through the process of constructing a dugout canoe. The project is untitled. because one of the requirements for the final review was that it should have a title. Thus, the project became known as untitled. as a sort of satire against the need for every project to have a two or three word title that explains the parti. The project will affect each occupant’s experiencs in different ways because of the nuances and subtly in the deisgn.
Left: Inside of the 1/16th scale model under the influence of light Above: Diagram of building dividing the site into a terraced and a natural landscape.
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By transforming the German U-Boat and reducing its three dimensional form into a series of two dimensional curves, I was able to use the submarine design to generate an occupiable structure. The premise of the project was to create three different pavilions based on three methods: repetition, syncopation, and progression. The repetition model uses a series of modular bays that create a dynamic space below.
Left: Photo of repetition pavilion under the influence of light
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The exterior cladding on the [center for wooden boats] controls the amount of daylight that enters the building based on where the program is layed out. The visitor center is at the far left and has daylight for the entire day, as it is entirely sheathed with glass. The longhouse gets a lot of light in the morning and midday, because that is when most people would be working on the dugout canoes. The exhibition space at the far right end of the building gets the most light in the evening, giving a soft glow that won’t ruin the traditional Native American artifacts on display.
Left: Southern elevation of the Center for Wooden Boats, revealing the exterior cladding and the interior bays underneath.
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exterior steel cladding
double glazed glass pane
aluminum mullions
steel joints that attach the mullions to the glulam members
36” glulam girders
2’” x 4” joists plywood panels stairs that extend from the fins steel members that make up the truss system for the fins thin fabric that clads the steel trusses
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Left: Exploded axonometric revealing the structural components of the repeatable bay. Above: Partial section showing the process of the dugout canoe being constructed in the longhouse.
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The level of the floor stays the same throughout the entire 500 foot long building so that the ceiling is what defines the spaces underneath. The fins separate the different program components from one another without ever touching the ground. The fins get thinner in section in the longhouse portion of the building to accommodate for the fire burning process and to create a lofty, ephemeral space.
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Left: View of the longhouse looking into the exhibition space Above Top Right: Detail of the interior fins Above Bottom Right: Detail of the evening lighting conditions in the exhibition space
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the colors are dancing...! Fall Semester Studio | 2017 Professor Catty Dan Zhang the colors are dancing...! project began by taking two objects (a windshield wiper and a fountain pen) and translating how they interacted with water into a formal idea. I studied how the fountain pen and windshield are both very mechanical objects and yet they produce a very fluid and dynamic product: windshield wipers spray water and fountain pens produce art. The dance and meditation studio started out as a simple wall that people would dance on one side and meditate on the other. Using the idea generated from the objects, the wall is designed so that dancers affect the amount of light coming through the apertures. The wall has panels back painted with color hanging over the apertures so that when light hits it, color is projected onto the wall, impacting the passerby and the meditators.
Left: View of the skylights in the 1/4th scale model Below: Diagram of the relationship between the dancers and the light panels
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Left (from left to right, top to bottom): photo study of how ink interacts with water and how it dissipates from a solid; study model of the concept of a solid passing through a wall and being directed somewhere else, detail of viewing platform, detail of colored panel projecting color. Above: top view of 1/16th scale model
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The dance studio opens up to a plaza that is flush with Lake Michigan, resulting in the allowance of the dancing to spill out into the public space. The landscape is a merging of natural and terracing, with the natural landscape overtaking the building and the terraces. The experience of walking through the site is one of discovery with subtle surprises at every turn. Walking into the building, begins as a linear hallway that leads to the lake and opens into a large plaza. Then by making a left into the dance and meditation studios introduces the colored panels to the occupant. How many dancers are in the studio influences how much light reaches the color.
Left : Northern elevation and section revealing how the light comes through in the skylights and hits the colored panels.
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a World of Lines Spring Semester Studio | 2018 Professor Thomas Forget a World of Lines is a series of projects that explores the possibilities of designing in section and how that impacts the final result of a project. The first experimental project was an exploration of people moving in the lateral dimension through a composition of lines. The second project explored deconstucting the section of an existing building and reconstructing it using only lines. The last project incorporated program into the design process. By working in section, I was able to design a variety of spaces that would change the experience of the user in regards to comfort, sight, and privacy.
Left: Three different stills from a World of Lines that shows the abstracted compositions of lines with moving figures superimposed on top Above: Diagram of a peron’s interaction with a composition of lines
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This project used video as a media to explore the relationship between the human body, the built environment and the frame of filtered vision. In my video I explored the movement of bodies through space in the lateral, oblique and perspectival dimensions. I overlayed the different types of movement with similar lighting conditions in order to study the people merely as silhouettes. The rhythm of the frames is similar to the rhythm of the environments that the figures are in. The eyes are a break in that rhythm. Because of the cropped frame (in which the size was determined by the original sectional video), the environments become an abstraction of vertical lines. The environments become increasingly abstract, until they are a field of lines with silhouettes passing through and over them. Thus, the combination of the lines and the moving bodies define the space.
Top: stills from the final video project Bottom: Still from 00:08 that shows the different scales of people superimposed over a composition of lines
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Left: An experimental project that dealt with the idea of designing only in section to produce a variety of spaces that people can interact with. Above: Can Walls be Lines and Lines be Walls? Collage. [first year pavilion] 2017-2019 Digital Media, Graphite, and William Adolphe Bouguereau paintings
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Alleyway Baths Second Year Spring Studio Professor Thomas Forget New York City, New York
Alleyway Baths explored the idea of having a bathhouse in the alleyways of New York City for the homeless population. The individual pods could be assembled into stacks or rows. One of the biggest complaints about the homeless shelters in NY is that they aren’t clean. The shower and changing room pods give them a clean place to bathe while at the same time giving them a sense of community with through the close proximity of the pods.
Left: Sectional drawing exploring the relationship that people can have with each other through small moments of reveal. Above: Spatial iterations of the possibilities for shower and changing room pods.
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Left: Study of a Hand, 2015. Chalk on paper. Above top left: Wire Hand Study, 2017. Graphite on paper. Above top right and below right: urban sketches in Seattle
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Emily Dobbs (704)222-0620 edobbs@uncc.edu
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