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Sketch of Hut on sleds (Crossan clarke carnachan architects) for Cabin Competition submission
ABOUT “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it” - Thomas Jefferson
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EDUCATION B.Arch ‘25 Jefferson University, PHiladelphia, pa
ELIZABETH VOSS
Contact: emmievoss@gmail.com (301)-456-9803 Final Map of Sharswood (-Creating narrative: missed opportunities)
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VISUALIZATiON MODELING TECHNOLOGY FRAMING DESIGN CREATING
Small OBJECTs SMALL SPACE CABIN COMPETITION
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY C ABE CABIN COMPETITION 2021 Hut on Sleds - Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects the hut on sleds was designed to move. when faced with the limitation of creating a luxury cabin that had to be removeable from its intended site, The crosson architect team came up with this structure that can be moved with a simple tractor. another unique aspect of this design is the concept of being able to shutter itself away from the world, yet still have the ability to be open to the beauty of nature. With the crank of a non-descript wheel, wood panels rise and reveal an array of of windows including a pair of giant glass doors that open up the interior. This way, the cabin is able to create a seamless transition from indoors to the great outdoors of pennsylvania.
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NESHAMINY STATE PARK
Main Floor Plan
Loft Plan
Roof Plan
Closed to the Outdoors
Opening Up
Integrated with the Outdoors
Elevation (As pulled by a Tractor)
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WOOD STEEL CONCRETE
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NARRATIVES
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MODELING small objects This visualization project was our first step into the digital modelling world. the premise was to choose three geometrical objects and put them through iterations to create something that looks nothing like the original. Starting with sketches, we utilized a wide variety of rhino commands to learn the program and create a completely new design never seen before.
three sequences of small modifications changing a simple shape into a complex form. modeled in Rhino
(page) Sketches and digital models of iterations for object 1 (a rectangular prism)- done in rhino
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(page) Sketches and digital models of iterations for object 2 (a PYRAMID)- done in rhino
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(SPREAD) Sketches and digital models of iterations for object 3 (a sphere)- done in rhino
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MODELING small space This visualization project was our first step into the digital rendering world. we were allowed to choose any space that we wanted; so I chose a treehouse designed by Pete Neleson, owner of nelson treehouse and supply. it was difficult to model on a massing on one program, rhino, and render the layers on another, enscape. We also learned how to pull plans, sections, elevations, perspectives, and more other Rendered view of Grace technical drawing elements from both Vanderwaal’s treehouse- programs. (Nelson treehouse and supply) modeled in rhino and enscape
FRONTAL ELEVATION
SIDE ELEVATION
(SPREAD) Technical drawings of GRACE VANDERWAAL Treehouse (NELSON TREEHOUSE AND SUPPLY)- done in rhino and illustrator RHINO MODEL
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LOFT FLOOR PLAN
MAIN FLOOR PLAN
MASSING
CIRCULATION
ambience
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(aBOVE) Section perspective of interior (OPPOSITE) interior perspective
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The Hut on Sleds was designed to Move. When faced with the limitation of creating a luxury cabin that had to be removeable from its intended site, the crosson architect team came up with this structure that can be moved with a simple tractor. Another unique aspect of this design is the concept of being able to shutter itself away from the world, yet still have the ability to be open to the beauty of nature. With the crank of a non-descript wheel,
MODELING cabin competiton
Park location in Pennslyvania (indicated by the tree)
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Rendered view of HUt on Sleds (Crosson clarke carnachan Architects)- modeled in rhino and enscape
NESHAMINY STATE PARK
wood panels rise and reveal an array of windows including a pair of of giant glass doors that open up the interior. This way, the cabin is able to create a seamless transtion from indoors to the great outdoors of pennslyvania. This is my submission to the Thomas Jefferson University C_ABE Cabin Competition.
Sketch of Hut on Sleds
CABIN INTERIOR
Main Floor Plan
Loft Plan
Roof Plan
Closed to the Outdoors
Opening Up
Integrated with the Outdoors
CABIN EXTERIOR
exploded axon perspective
Elevation (As pulled by a Tractor)
(SPREAD) Technical drawings of HUt on Sleds (Crosson clarke carnachan Architects)- done in rhino and illustrator
FRAMING wood
In technology class, a project was to focus on wood framing when constructing a house. the premise was to diagram, calculate, and construct a section model of a single story gable house. There was a lot of trial and error when it came to the actual construction of the model, due to still-developing craftmanship. I am grateful for this project to work on those skills and understand the processes OVERHEAD view of the roof that go into calculating on a small-scale framing and wall detail of the construction job. wooden house section model
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(ABOVE) Notes and diagrams for determining the wooden form work for the section model
(LEFT) Frontal view of the wooden house section model Constructed from basswood sticks and chiphoard
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FRAMING steel
The farnsworth house, designed by ludwig mies van der rohe, is one of the most iconic steel-framed homes in architecture. For this technology project, we had to study the primary and secondary beam structure of the house by detailing it in a rhino model in order to make a board with bolting and other joinery details. The entire building is structured with i-beams so it was fairly simple to model, just as it was fairly simple a study of the steel framing of ludwig to construct the building. mies van der rohe’s farnsworth house Done in Rhino and illustrator
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(left and below) Axonmetrice with magnified points for detailed views- done in illustrator (ABOVE) Axonmetrice view from beneath the structure (right) Wall section slicing through the main building and the attached platform (Below) The final board submission for the steel framing project
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FRAMING concrete In this last project for technology class, we used concrete. there was a lot of structural studies on rebar and form building, environmental impact of making concrete with portland concrete, and how to best use this material when it comes to design and construction. similar to the other tech projects, the main idea was to fundmentally understand concrete as a building material.
On opposite: The three pictures show the before, during, and after a burn attempt
BUCKET FORMWORK
FREESTANDING FORMWORK
ALCOHOL FIRE
WHAT IS THIS? In order to experiment with concrete, the project was to use a formwork (such as a propped sock in a bucket) to understand the flexibility of concrete as a building material. We were given complete and total creative freedom; the only limitations were that 1) the finished structure had to be standing at or over 12” tall, 2) The fabric or other formwork was to be removed, and 3) some creativity to be used in the process. I chose an ambitious formwork- three socks braided together, with the intention to have three separate concrete pillars that would only be ‘attached’ with their intertwining shape. The form was easy enough to make, but getting the fabric off... Not so much.
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Gasoline fire
Final Pillar
IS IT A FAILURE? I do not consider this as a failure, as many people (including myself) have been intrigued by the end result that is this bizarre-shaped and weirdly-colored structure. The making of the form was simple and straightforward, but the process of getting the formwork off the concrete has been quite the adventure. I took the concrete masonist’s words of “burn it” to heart, and have proceeded to light this concrete pillar on blazing fire for several nights since this form was made. I also used some brute force to try and rip off the fabric. The final result is this shredded, cracked, and dark-with-ash form. If I had to make this pillar again, I would have a different fabric that is much more flammable than polyester, and would actually burn away.
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PROJECT 00 CODEX OF “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS” CAGED BIRD CODEX: The Life and Story of Maya Angelou
PROJECT 01 ANALYSIS OF SHARSWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD MISSED OPPORTUNITIES OF SHARSWOOD
PROJECT 02 ROWHOUSE FOR CLIENT: MISS ALICE WRIGHT A HOME FOR THE ULTIMATE SHARSWOOD CAPTAIN
PROJECT 03 Amplification of Athletic Recreation Center Amplification through enhancement (ARC ENTRANCE)
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In Design 3, I was placed into a strictly digital class to animate, how to use projections, and especailly to learn how to create a narrative. We were thrown into a radically different approach to design: deliverables, usually a concrete list, were now a suggestion for quality work (instead of quantity.) In the digital world, there were no limits to our ideas, but we had to learn how to choose a story, a thesis, and stick with it. On top of the thesis, we had to layer information to create a narrative and to push our design ideas to the forefront
CREATING NARRATIVEs for our clients and audience. THroughout the semester, we focused on a specific neighborhood in philadelphia: sharswood, going from macro- an overall analysis of the neighborhood- to micro- taking a clientbased approach to designing a rowhome and an amplification to the recreation center within the neighborhooD. We developed a narrative around a big move (the thesis within the design) and how the design relates to the surrounding area as well as how the clients (and/or audience) would interact with the space.
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Contact: emmievoss@gmail.com (301)-456-9803