Elizabeth Radtke Work Samples

Elizabeth Radtke AIA LICENSED ARCHITECT IN CALIFORNIA

TECH TI | MPK

POP-UP GALLERY | NOMADIC ICEBURGS

TEMPLE OF THE HEART

MOUNTAIN RESIDENCE

TECH TI CAMPUS | DUMBARTON

GLASS INSTITUE OF CHARLESTON

CORE + SHELL | 88 BLUXOME

GRAD THESIS | CONVENIENT REAL FOOD

870 HERMOSA

VERTICAL CITIES

RADIO HOUSE OF RAIN

TECH TI | PANDORA

TECH TI | WILDSTAR

INSTALLATION | CANOPY

MANHATTAN HIGH RISE

MIXED USE CAMPUS | SANTANA WEST

PAVILION OF WIND

TI CAMPUS ARBOR BLOCKS

TECH

MPK 58

Designer SD thru CA

Firm | Studios 2016 Menlo Park | CA

MPK 58 was the first Facebook project for Studios; it led to a handful more, much larger projects. Simple bold moves organize in a hacker aesthetic, provide opportunities to come in and make the space thier own.

NOMADIC NORDICA ICEBURG GALLERY

Institution | UCBerkeley

Critic | Edwin Chan Grad Studio | Fall 2012

Shaping from within and without, this Studio’s focus was on forms, shapes, sketching, light, texture, and massive amounts of iteration, in the practice of Frank Ghery’s Studio. Art gallery spaces that can move and pop-up again and again, inspired by Shigeru Ban’s Nomadic Museums.

from the inside out : - stitching together a sequence of flow - arranging objects of interest in space, giving them

space to float

artwork to be displayed inspires the iceberg formations and textures

from

the outside in : folding and molding paper into ice carving interstitial spaces

TEMPLE OF THE HEART

Executive Architect + Build lead roles

Through the building of an incrediblly talented team, we created this spiritual sanctuary amid the chaos of burning man, a place to feel love, grief, celebration, community. Inspired by a desert rose, the roof embraces the temple heart chamber with dappled light through the lacy CNC plywood paneling. Engineered to withstand 70mph winds, the 80ft diameter, 40ft tall structure stood steady through the desert winds.

Artist Volunteer 2023 Black Rock City | NV

Mountain Residence

drafter, junior designer roles

Firm | ASDS 2014- 2015 Park City | UT

This residence rests upon the hilside, with embracing courtyards, decks that stretch out into to the landscape, and a tower node that lifts the gaze upward. The spaces are formed in a painting of rich materiality, with exquisitely thoughtful detailing.

DUMBARTON CAMPUS

Tech Campus Project Architect TI, LEED Gold Firm | Studios 2018- 2022 Fremont | CA

A vibrant verdant campus grows out of isolated defunct buildings. DMB is designed for 8,000 employees, distributed across 17 buildings. Strategically distributed amenities provide convenient access, while concentrating at the central hub, to generate collegiality and inspiration with cafes, events, shops, sports, and arts. Hacker culture is celebrated with open-ended, interactive ways to engage.

FRE 122 (PH 1)

FRE 124 (PH 5)

FRE 123 (PH 5)

VISION & CONCEPT

Create a green, pedestrian inegrated campus from what was a car-centric office park

connecting interiors with the landscape, psychologically, visually, and physically each building and landscape neighborhood has it’s own identity and unique character

amenities are shared and draw people across campus

environment to feel inspiring, light, airy, colorful, bold, and bright

prioritize wellness for humans and the planet

empowering and hackable space

THERMAL | GLASS INSTITUTE

Materiality, Scale, Harmony, Heat

Critic | Bradley Walters Studio 5 | Fall 2009 leston, SC

The “ displays the spectacle of the glassmaking from within the Studios the courtyard.

Charleston grounds this project in its site. The street edges are layered with skins of smooth translucent transparent glass and rough porous opaque bricks of pumice and clay; small pedestrial passageways link the interior courtyard with the street; the courtyard provides semi private outdoor space that invites the city in; the roof deck provides a vantage point to view out onto the city as well as inward to the institute itself.

MAKER OBJECT

release the heat, rhythmically protruding upwards into the skyline

The

There are 2 basic components involved in the process of glass-making: the tecturalize this concept, there are two volumes in the project, components. The “Maker” volume contains the studios, where the spectacle is the fire, the glassmakers with the glowing hot glass; while the “Object” volume contains the Galle glass pieces that become animated by the controlled sunlight an

The

rotating doors breathe the cool courtyard air in....`

The “Object” volume boasts the Gallery, dis-

“Maker” displays the spectacle of the glassmaking from within the Studios to the courtyard.

“Maker” displays the spectacle of the glassmaking from within the Studios to the courtyard. chimney’s

88 BLUXOME

Designer, BIM lead, and LEED coordination roles

Firm | Studios LEED V4 Gold 2019-2020 San Francisco | CA

Studios was the Executive Architect on this Core and Shell Mixed-Use project, partnered with Iwomoto Scott as Design Architect. TMG and Alexandria led development, with Instagram as the anchor tenant. 88 Bluxome is comprised of two towers in conversation, one darker with windows as apertures, one light and rhythmic, connected with transparent interstitial space. There would be light industrial and retail at ground level, office above, with the Bay club tennis courts below grade in the larger 2 towers. Across the pedestrian plaza there would be a Community Center at street level, stretching downward to a public swimming pool, providing the plinth for future affordable housing above.

ARBOR BLOCKS

studies, daylight views, location

CONVENIENT REAL FOOD

Vegetation, Flexibility, Desire, Phenomenology, Thermal Delight, Water, Economics, Health, Culture, Cuisine, Obesity

Institution | UCBerkeley Grad Thesis | 2012-2013 Critics | Paz Gutierez , Jill Stoner

Articulated walls form collectives, of recipes, and of foodsheds, featuring the spectacle of growing real food, for a hyper-local farm to store experience. With the increasing problems of cancer, obesity, food insecurity, and the omnivore’s dilemma, how can we reshape the food system to inspire change?

“We will make the new sustainable ways more compelling, more attractive, more exciting and more delightful than the old, destructive, shortterm ways.

We will compete with beauty, and make the smart things sexy”. - Bruce Mau

water drips down to irrigate

pump water up to drip cistern by the lever double acting piston pump

twist the spigot to let the water

ll the base cistern in the walls

slope the roof to channels at store front

collect rain water on roof

Looking at the Big Picture

Thinking of architecture as a tool to solve real world problems, in the sense of Bruce Mau, this thesis focuses on the issues of Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Health. Widespread obesity is a novel phenomenon, primarily caused by the industrial food chain that makes up the majority of hte American diet. A system overly focused on shelf-life, transportability, and sugar. This food system must change - on a large scale- with a system that can compete with the vastness of the industrial, but with the resilience of an ecosystem, a robust system of multiplicity. This thesis explores how architectural elements could promote desirability and culture around real food, where it’s most needed, to make the greatest impact.

To bridge this gap, the shape of the architectural solution hybridizes the convenience store and the farm. Through the act of carving away from a solid mass, space for the crops themselves, and the elements they require to survive and thrive - soil, water, light, air. In order to form the basis of a dish, each wall supports three plant types that are specific to each store. `celebration of that nexus where society and nature meet, of local cultures and place making through food.

870 HERMOSA

Project Architect + BIM lead roles

Firm | Studios 2022-2023 Sunnyvale | CA

Since Covid, commercial spaces have been grappling with existential questions of the workplace. What value does it provide people and companies, what can make it a desirable place to be? How can we reconfigure this 1970’s funky, brutalist building into an inspirational, light-filled space people want to work in?

In this repositioning with Irvine Co, we proposed lightening and brightening the entry, from a heavy dark overhang, to a tall canopy of glass and mass timber, with a roof punctuated with skylights, roof insulation added, opaque walls replaced with full height high performance glazing, and slathered in solar panels. Not only would it be Net-Zero energy, it would feel light, airy, cool and tie into the existing material pallette.

Installation| Graduation Canopy

full scale fabrication, weaving mylar with grommets

Critic | Lisa Iwamoto Class | Spring 2012 Class Project Wurster Courtyard

PANDORA

Designer role

Firm | Studios 2015 Oakland, CA

Where do you listen to music? On a roadtrip, in a treehouse, or at a DJ booth? Whimsical vignettes characterize Pandora’s workplace Interiors in downtown Oakland.

Consult the DJ for IT help

Climb into the treehouse to get perspective from the trees

strum the strings of the staircase...

tap, tap, tap the drum of the plinth

Collect | HOUSE OF RAIN

Semperian Hut

Podium, Structure, Skin, Roof, and Hearth

Institution | UFlorida Critic | Alfonzo Perez Studio| Spring 2010

Just about every summer day in Florida brings an afternoon rain shower, regular enough to set a watch to it. This house gathers and celebrates this beautiful phenomenon, the thunderstorm.

The gentle percussion of droplets falling onto the roof give the first indication of the rains that gather. The rain then waterfalls, zigzagging down the articulated walls refracting and reflecting light, aerosoling the scent of fresh rain. Whooshing into the cistern, the rain will stay until it’s next journey, up into the plumbing systems of the house.

Collector Channel

Cistern

WILDSTAR

Project Architect + Designer roles

Firm | Studios 2019-2021 Redmond | WA

Infuse bright, bold colors into the Pacific Northwest greys to create a vibrant joyful workplace, expanding to the exterior with a protected outdoor deck. This 80,000 sf Meta workplace included open desking, labs, a library, and a cafe.

CITY, SUBJECT, LANGUAGE

Institution | UFlorida

Critic | Bradley Walters Studio | Fall 2009

Partner | Donna Imparato New York City

8:00 amstopfora coffee alongthe rising wall guiding you throughthe park

...strumthewaterwallinyourrighthand

followtheguidingdatumabove,inthroughthemarket

10:00 am wander

intoagalleryforsome inspiration

12:00 noon find a sunny spot on the roof garden to eat lunch

meetaclient forhappyhourdrinksinthe

sunkenplaza

6:00pm

findyourwaytothespaforayogasession

7:00pm

watchthesunsetatthefountain

Rocky towers appear to be solid, in fact there is nuanced opacity to quiet the visual noise of the city, with veining of solid, transluscent, and clear allowing views outward, and calm within.

SANTANA WEST

Designer + Drafter roles

Firm | Studios 2014 San Jose | CA

Rezoning and Schematic Design of this Mixed Use Commercial Campus for Federal Realty Developers. 6 buildings proposed for EIR expand the commercial district of Santana Row while retaining historic character of the dome theater.

PAVILION OF THE WIND

The Semperian Hut, Calligraphy, Language, Materiality, Construction, Pre-fabrication, Siteless Architecture, Bamboo Wrapping

Institution | UFlorida Studio | Spring 2010

Critic | Alfonzo Perez

The archetype of Pavilion requires the architecture to be “about itself” in terms of materiality, construction, and experience - not about context. This pavilion took it’s inspiration from the wind; of experiencing the flow of fabrics in light and shadow, billowing in through the skin pushing and pulling on the stiffened fabrics, whispering audiblly as it blows, of light filtering in through the ribbon canopy above. There is an inviting harmony and energy captured by the material, an awareness of caressing movement perceptible with your eyes closed, feeling ribbons of warmth and light move across your skin and eyelids.

CONTINUOUS CITY

Urban Planning, City Scale Buildings, Mediating Old City+ New City, City Systems, Transportation, Roof Gardens, Living Architecture

Critic | Rene Davids Graduate Studio 2 | Spring 2012

Partners | Jongsun Lee, Alice Cao Vertical Cities Competition

Seoul, South Korea

STRATEGIES OF GROWTH FOR A CONTINUOUS CITY

The richness and memory of the old city is not lost in this 2 sq km urban design proposal. Instead of the typical practice of razing the exisitng in favor of a clean slate, we build density into the existing fabric by taking those smaller, discrete volumes and programs and folding them upwards to form towers. These towers are therefore not a solid volume, but let light through, allowing green spaces and roof gardens to thrive and weave over the smaller volumes.

ARBOR BLOCKS

Lead Designer + Project Architect roles WellFit LEED Gold

Firm | Studios 2016- 2018 Seattle | WA

In tandem with Graphite Design Group, Studios designed the interior architecture of this mid-rise duo in South Lake Union, for 2,000 employees in 400,000 sf of office space. To inspire inter-floor and inter-building cominging, creating a sense of hearth, we located the vertical axis of activity with MK’s and stairs at the center, cutting large commuter stair wells penetrating the PT slabs, leading up to roof decks, and grounding at the entries.

Gradients, inspired by the reflections and refractions of rain and light drove the design of building 333. While building 300 is characterized by bold colors and big programmatic elements.

Across both buildings the more public, transitory areas are accentuated with vibrant colors, speaking to each other across the Woornerf, createding one central heart. Work areas are kept calm and muted, both visually and acoustically.

materiality

repetition of the blackened brick creates cohesion from the street up to the top level cafe. while the Edison tubes provide hovering candle-like light and warm atmosphere

the library space extends to the outdoor terrace, with the repeating rhythm of posts