Emily Garland Portfolio

Emily Garland

emgarland14@gmail.com (937)681-4422

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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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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 separation 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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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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Second Floor

1. Storage 2. Workroom 3. Mechanical Space 4. Public Bathroom 5. Weaving Gallery 6. Conference Room 7. Offices

Interior walls within the gallery and lobby are blank, providing a surface for the shadows created by the louvres.

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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

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Niagara Falls Visitor Center Niagara Falls, New York

Natural Layers

through erosionary exploration

This design is a study in the effects of water erosion. The Niagara Falls were carved out over time through years of the river tearing through sedimentary layers, eventually creating the effect that is visible today. It is this erosionary power of the Niagara River that served as my inspiration for a structure that captures this through its form and location, as well as in its details. A visitor enters the building on Goat Island, but experiences it over the river. The simplistic linear form of the building runs parallel to the rushing water and coast line and is intended act as a platform to view the river, falls, and natural environment of the park. The building is even partially cantilevered over the river so areas like the exhibition space are right over the rushing water. Within this simplistic form, ideas of erosion are explored again through an intricate ceiling facade that gives an appearance that water has eroded out the building creating deep ravines and holes in the ceilings, exposing walls and circulation. This detail is not visible from the outside; the erosion details are all within this glassy box, visible only inside. As water runs over a surface, over time it will begin to carve out that surface. Changes in the arrangement of sedimentary layers and rocks cause the water to change direction and carve out intricate pathways and patterns. The erosive detail within the building is made up of these layers which envelope walls and expose skylights. Within the exhibition space along the water, a visitor will be able to read and learn about how the falls were carved out by water, see the powerful river right outside, all within details that imitate erosion.

Different sedimentary layers in the earth erode differently over time.

The building is positioned along the coast of the Niagara River, upstream of the Horseshoe Falls on Goat Island. This area above the falls contains intense rapids, interesting rock formations, and the sudden drop off of the falls. This area allows the viewer to experience the intensity and power of the river as it rushes by, crashes into rocks and eventually drops over the falls and out of sight

As water runs along a surface it creates channels and ravines. Over time this deepens the ravines, exposing sedimentary layers.

As a visitor approaches the river, their view is blocked by the trees, hillside, and building. Once inside the building the view is exposed and the visitor finds themselves actually cantilevered over the rushing water.

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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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Cranbrook Wall Project Cranbrook, Michigan

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.