Emily Garland graduate portfolio
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Selected Works
1 Religare Institute 2 Saarinen Studio 3 Pilgrim Baptist Church 4 Toledo Urbanism 5 Corbusier Grid Study 6 Cranbrook Wall Project
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urban refuge connecting the city to nature
creating moments of separation and extension
Religare Institute Chicago, Illinois
A Retreat Within a study in separation vs connection
This project is a study in separation verses connection within a retreat environment. This building is to be a retreat within the city which embodies both seperation and connection as a place to escape and separate oneself with their daily life or as a place to connect with others. The space is designated by tall vertical shapes that are drawn from ideas of retreats and shelter. Walking between these structures is reminiscent of walking through forests, canyons, and city streets. All areas of enclosure. It is the tall steel walls that allow for these moments of separation and connection. Within the steel structure your view of outside the building is limited forcing the viewer inside, isolating the experience from the rest of Chicago. In the spaces between the structures your view is focused outside the structure toward Grant Park and Lake Michigan making a connection with the city.
Shelters created by forests, canyons, and city streets
The site is along Michigan Avenue and Grant park and serves and a connector between Wabash and Michigan. Green spaces and walkways under the structure and between the walls allow for visitors passing through the site to experience the sheltering effect of the building.
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FIRST FLOOR: Meditation Space, Lecture/Performance Hall, Retail Space, Restaurant, Loading Dock/Mechanical space SECOND FLOOR Classrooms, Music Rooms, Music Garden, Library THIRD FLOOR Spin Room, Weight Room,Yoga Room, Dance Room FOURTH FLOOR Spa Lobby, Locker Rooms, Massage Rooms FIFTH FLOOR Sauna, Cold Plunge, Hot Pool, Steam Room, Hydro Therapy Pool SIXTH FLOOR CafĂŠ/Juice Bar SEVENTH FLOOR Re-ligare Offices, Re-ligare Institute Records/Memberships, Research Laboratories, Treatment Rooms, Conference Room. EIGHTH FLOOR Rooftop Terrace.
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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context
a chair in a room
a room in a house
a house in an environment
an environment in a city plan.� - Eliel Saarinen
Saarinen Studio Cranbrook Academy of Art
Weaving Arts Building Cranbrook Academy of Art
This new weaving arts building is along the Triton Pools of the Eliel Saarinen Cranbrook campus. On the other side of the pools from the weaving building the campus undergoes a five degree shift which is mirrored and applied to the front of the building, shifting it five degrees as well. Within this area the famous five degree shift present in the campus with its own five degree shift. An exterior skin envelopes the building make of wooden lattices made to imitate the back and forward motions made by the loom as well as materials used in traditional loom. The lattice covered windows create horizontal shadows within the interior highlighting again enhancing the horizontal motions.
The five degree shift on the west side of the Triton Pools is then mirrored in the new building on the other side of the pools. Most of the weaving studio follows the same axial relationship as the fine arts building and triton pools, while the front wall is rotated out the five degrees.
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Basement
First Floor
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1. Storage 2. Workroom 3. Mechanical Space 4. Public Bathroom 5. Weaving Gallery 6. Conference Room 7. Offices
Second Floor
Interior walls within the gallery and lobby are blank, providing a surface for the shadows created by the louvres.
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Remaining walls
remind a community
interior explorations
through personal growth
embody the space
Pilgrim Baptist Church
Chicago, Illinois
Internal Exploration within an enclosed structure
Angles and movement created through yoga inspired the curves within the new structure.
The historic Pilgrim Baptist church in Chicago burned down in 2006 leaving only its brick exterior walls. The hollowed out building serves as the site for a public building that will house a gallery to the church as well as yoga and meditation spaces. The simplistic new structure boasts a completely glass facade that never touches the remaining walls of the church but allows them to be visible throughout the building, constantly reminding the visitor to the history of the site. Within the walls, the stark rectangular exterior of the new structure serves as a platform for intricate interior spaces in which these spaces and the exploration through them serves as a metaphor for personal exploration. These organic floor plans are made up of curves and angles that relate to the shapes and voids created by human movement. The organic spaces move throughout the basic cubes steel grid structure which serves as a datum and foundation.
Conceptual sketches
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1. Church Gallery 2. Meditation Rooms 3. Yoga Room 4. Office space
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The Glass city
reduced to asphault
torn up and converted
creating a patchwork of green spaces
Toledo Urbanism
Toledo, Ohio
Urban Patchwork through parking lot conversion
Toledo is a mid sized city that has experienced a large urban decay over the last 50 years which has resulted in over 30% of the downtown area being converted to parking lots. This much empty asphalt in the city leads to heat island effect as well as water runoff problems. A simple solution is tear it all up. If the current parking space population was converted into 5 story parking structures, it would free up 80% off the current city footprint taken up my parking. This space would be converted into green spaces, and would have a great effect on the local environment and sustainability of Toledo. These new proposed parking structures would be sustainable as well. Latticed skins that encourage plant growth will insulate and protect the buildings while rainwater is collected to water neighboring greenspaces.
1950 Figure Ground
1950 figure ground - population 304,000
By condensing parking lots into five story parking structures, it frees up 80% of the city footprint, which can them be converted into public green spaces.
Current Figure Ground
Parking Lots
Parking Garages
Converted Green Space
Area with dense parking lot population
Lots are condensed into a centrally located garage
Lots are then converted into public green spaces
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“I prefer drawing to talking.
Drawing is faster,
and leaves less room for lies�
- Le Corbusier
Corbusier Grid Study
Design project that took inspiration from Corbusier still lifes and grid arrangements that were then interperated into a series of ink drawings and models.
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A single wall to give structure and designate program
to connect paths and form a place of destination .
to highlight a sculpture within the nature of Cranbrook
Cranbrook Wall Project
Natural Connections a new outdoor space
This is a project to create a new outdoor space within the campus of Cranbrook by using a solitary wall, sculptures, and through forming the landscape. By re sculpting the hillside and connecting current pathways, the site is divided into three distinct areas, sculpture garden, tiered open landscape, and outdoor performance and lecture space.
There are several walking paths that meet and cross through the site which connect to several influential buildings on campus and other focal points like Cranbrook Lake. This new space connects these pathways and points which encourages the visitor to continue to explore the campus as well as working to create a destination space for someone already hiking through the campus.
Sculpted landscape creates a gradual decent towards the tree line, extending a current hiking path.
The sculpture garden is the highest area of the site, engaging people from street level, as well as visually drawing visitors up from the pathways on the lower levels.
Stairs and seating utilise the greatsest incline of the site making this area a perfomance and lecture space.