Portfolio V.2 by Gwen Albright

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Gwendoline Albright N.

Gwendoline Albright N. Tel: (201) 916 - 2108 email: gwendoal@yahoo.fr 2

I am gentle and caring. I am highly intuitive, tends to be artistic and creative in everything I do. Since I am not idle to dreams, I urge myself to take concrete steps towards them, I am rarely satisfied with anything before testing it and having a full logical understanding of it. I see a hidden meaning and a potential possibility in everything and I am always willing to test different options and taking risks. Overall, I am much more interested in meeting or exceeding anybody’s high standards or expectancy of me than trying to become the least. “...not idle to dreams, it urge me to take concrete steps towards them.” Whenever especially my mom needs help with something that is urgent and needs full attention like buying flight tickets, paying bills, making schedules or convince my siblings to do something. She always comes to me because she knows that whenever I am in charge of something, I am not going to look any other way until it is perfectly done. Even though it is not always perfect when I do it, she knows that she can count on me to carry on tasks that others will probably put on their last to do list because I am a perfectionist and will not stop until I get it done. “...see a hidden meaning and a potential possibility in willing to take risks.” When I come to college and decided to do architecture, I looked at the curriculum and one of the first questions I asked my advisor was if there was a possibility to minor in something. Her answer was without hesitation a solid “no” but it did not stop me from joining the honor’s program and the leadership program because I wanted to gain more than I was limited to.

Content

Multi - purpose Buildings projects ....................................... - Cultivate (Comprehensive Design studio) - Dealing with the great controvercy (Background Building studio) - The harbor hub (Place making studio)

communityDevelopment projects............................................ - The Cave of inspiration - The Morton hill barn replacement

Hand drawings, sketches and diverse projects...................... - Hand Drawings and drafting - Sketches (Europe, Jordan and Israel Trip)

Historical Studies and projects........................................... - Jordan Field school - Analytical Study

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Cultivate â&#x20AC;&#x153;A garden requires patient labor, and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.â&#x20AC;?

Project date - Aug . 2018- May. 2019 Location - Downtown South Bend, Indiana 7

Built off of the initial idea of hospitals and schools (education and health) as well as the community, this project hopes to revive the connections that lack between the people of South Bend and their environment. It aims at promoting human flourishing and connections through its architecture design and urban spaces. The project will bring back nature’s publicness in people’s environment to contribute to their well-being and development. It will cultivate human flourishing, social interaction, and human connection that the community needs through its multiple functions. And as a result, it will show the potential that the downtown north end has to revive the city’s vision for growth. Furthermore, by developing a suitable design, the project will hold qualitative difference between a place and space. Spaces that are constituted of memories and affections, through repeated encounters and complex association; have greater capacity to become meaningful places. - Premise

Principles Diversity

This will ensure variety and uniqueness in every decision made about the design. All the functions in the facility will have a unique role in bringing the community together despite any difference

Harmony

encourages relationships and encourage growth through cultivation of differences. Opportunities provided function in harmony with each other so to fullfill a common goal

Revival

The site has potential to become a hub and a place of influence to both the people and to the city. My design will therfore help stimulate the place’s potential with the goal to revive it in every way.

Connection

This will allow the facility to maximize it’s potential. It will encourage relationship and intermutual help and assistance to develope a sence of community in people using the building

Manifestation of Anology

Since my project revolves around cultivating, I based my design organisation, composition and design inspirartion on the concept of layering, a community based facility with defined places rather than just spacces in order to fullfill the goal of the cultivating aim of the project. The design has many different defined corners and surfaces that will allow peopple to realise and experience something different in every corner of the facility.

Architectural Pattern

Refreshing gardens

Dynamic composition to explorre

Site Pattern

Shapes that directes

Materials that difines

Inviting entrances

Discovery of opportunities

Process Work

Project Detail

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4th Floor Plan

5th Floor Plan

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Elevations

South Elevation

West Elevation

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Sections

North FLoodlevel line Sidewalk

Start of ramp

Section A

North FLoodlevel line Sidewalk

Start of ramp

Section B

Section C

Designed Storefront apartment building for the missionaries 14

Dealing with the Great Controvercy “It is Satan’s constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.” - Ellen G. White, Great controvercy

Junior year project II Location - Downtown Bujumbura, Burundi 15

History of the place Burundi, located in the heart of Africa, is now one of the poorest nations in the world. One of the reasons for Burundi’s current poverty is the ongoing strife from years of ethnic-based tensions and civil instability. Since its independence in 1962, it has been overwhelmed by the tension between the usually dominant Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority fights. The official civil war that sparked off in 1993, was never resolved and lead to more war outbreak. I remember growing up in a city that was never safe to walk in at any time of the day, where no one ever knew that they will make it to the next day because of the unpredictable gunshot and bombing at any time of the day.

Site Plan Sunrise

. Scale: 1”=20’ Sun at noon: Wind rose

Sunset:

Manifestation of anology This Project is designed to the population of Bujumbura in Burundi that have been dealing with civil war for many years now. The Seventh-day Adventist church being my client, I decided to use this design in dealing with what Ellen G. White calls the Great Controversy in her book published in 1858. She refers to it as to the cosmic battle between Jesus Christ and Satan on earth. My experience as an architecture student and researcher made me believe in design as a potential contributor to solving social problems. Therefore, with the opportunity I was given to design a building in the downtown of my home city, I took on the challenge to design a building with the aim of contribution to the wellbeing of the community of Bujumbura through the functions that will be found in the building.

East Elevation

. Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

South Elevation

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Building and Wall Section

Section A . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

1st floor Plan . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

Seaction B . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

2nd floor Plan . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

3rd floor Pla

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Process Work & Study Sketches. METAL PARAPET FLASHING CONCRETE INSULATION REINFORCED CONDRETE SLAB WOODEN VANENTIAN BLINDS 8” CMU WALLS Interior perspective

Exterior perspective

BALCONY RAILLING

SITECAST 2WAY

WAFLE SLAB

SLAB ON GRADE FOUNDATION

4th floor Plan . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

The Habor Hub “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” – Jean Vanier The harbor hub’s aim is to revive, rebuild and restore the community of Benton Harbor not as an individual job, but as a community effort.

Junior year project I Location - Downtown Benton Harbor, MI 21

This Project is designed for the population of Benton Harbor, MI that have been dealing with race issues, poverty and living in a neighborhood that deals with tremendous crime rates. This neighborhood was historically know to be one of the best neighborhood when it was established. Benton Harbor was mainly swampland bordered by the Paw Paw River, through which a canal was built, hence the “harbor” in the city’s name. People in the early 90’s and before have history coming to this place for variety of reasons. Some of them being how interesting and very developed it was. However after the depression, this place became a no-go place because of the crimes that are heard to happen, drug dealers and all types of insecurities. The Harbor hub was designed as a harbor hub so to revive this place, giving hope to the hopeless community of Benton harbor with the hope to bring back an identity of being a harbor for strong communities and relationship. The design is in such a way that every user would feel welcomed and given the choice of using the facility however since it houses diverse of functionality. It is also designed with the context in mind and have the aim of blending with it;s entourage naming a few: the park, the library and the main street (one of the principle route in Michigan.

1th floor Plan . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

2nd floor Plan . Scale: 3/32”=1’-0

Morton Hill Developments Projects In the pursuit of reviving the Morton hill Community, Our 2nd year craft studio took on the task to design some building facilities including a barn and artist studios that will engage the community and bring back the historical tradition of togetherness. - Ellen G. White, Great controvercy

Second Year project I - Morton Hill, Benton Harbor, MI 25

Not overly designed, the cave only was designed to house only one artist in the basement and his master pieces. Everything else that is public would happen on the 1st floor. The basement is the cave where all the inspiration happens. The cave have access to both roads but one would be more private and the other one public.

In addition to designing a cave of inspiration for a special artist, the task now was to design a barn that would benefit the community at large. The guidelines were that it should be a multi-functional type of barn to host meetings and diverse activities. An exhibition space and an archive space was also required so that this barn would serve as a place to showcase the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story and bring back the light that the place once had. Basing off of that request of this barn to be a way of rediscovering the identity of the place and of the community, I based my design off of the barn that previously existed at the same place. To it I added a component of openness and gathering spaces that would serve as an attraction to the place from a far.

While using the previous barn as the precedent study and the foundation of my inspiration, I also took into consideration the features that the museum next door have. From these two I created a space of gathering up on the second floor and designed it in a unique way (partially covered) so that the space will not feel enclosed but would rather blend in with the nature that is around it.

To maintain the initial anology of designing a barn, I designed the interior to totally feel like being in a barn (in the exhibition space) while also looking at another space that is upstairs where all the gathering happens. My aim was to create multiple spaces that are interconnected but that are unique to what they bring to the barn in terms pf what they offer. They are interconnected in such a way that people would want to explore the barn further.

Corner Model

More model construction

For studying and understanding the craft and process of framing, we were introduced and given a task to frame a small residential house. In addition to framing, this model highlights the understanding of stairs roof , opening and cantilevered balconies.

Sketches and drafting projects Coming from a background where drawing was never an encouraged skill to learn or perfection, I found myself in a necessity to learn again the skill of drawing and change my perception of it being a talent instead of a skill. After finding myself in architecture school, I decide that I was going to give my self excuses to why I can’t draw and took the initiative to learn it all over again with the help of “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. Find some of the result in this section. “It is like deciding that you shouldn’t take a Spanish class because you don’t already speak the language.” - Betty Edwards.

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Classical Architecture

â&#x20AC;&#x153;As your skills increase, you will see your unique style become firm and recognizable. Guard it, nurture it, and cherish it, for your style expresses you. As with the Zen master-archer, the target is yourself.â&#x20AC;? - Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“One of the most encouraging new discoveries that the human brain has made about itself is that it can physically change itself by changing its accustomed ways of thinking, by deliberately exposing itself to new ideas and routines, and by learning new skills.” ― Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Europe Trip Sketches and Watercolor Furthermore, with the analytical summer abroad class in summer 2018, I had the opportunity to exercise and develop my drawing and sketching skills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the global skill of drawing, the basic component skills, as I have defined them, are: The perception of edges (seeing where one thing ends and another starts) The perception of spaces (seeing what lies beside and beyond) The perception of relationships (seeing in perspective and in proportion) The perception of lights and shadows (seeing things in degrees of values) The perception of the gestalt (seeing the whole and its parts)â&#x20AC;? - Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Europe trip trip, Summer 2018 Greece, Italy, German, France& Sweeden 47

Water Color Sketches

Tell Hisban through history Reconstruction Tell Hesban, current â&#x20AC;&#x153;Al Mushalahâ&#x20AC;? has a history of more than 7000years in which it housed more than eight different group of people and civilizations. It is also known to have gone through several changes especially architecture. Tall Hesban have been an Andrews University archeological site for now 25years. The goal of archeologists at Tell Hesban is mainly to discover and study the daily lives and survival strategies of the individuals and communities that have outlasted multiple millennials of imperial dominations at Tall

Hesban. During these 7millenials, there were 4 civilisations that were mentioned by the archeologists to have dominated on the tell. The summer of 2018, with a group of local architects, I studied the different architecture remain of these four civilisations. And with some schetching and drawing tried to reconstruct them. Find some of the recontruction I made in this section.

Jordan field trip, Summer 2018 Tell Hesban, Jordan, Middle East 53

Tell Hesban Though History: 25years of exclavation. 31°52’07” N, 35°53’17” E Height: 883 m above sea level

Avg. High Temp.: 84 °F Avg. Low Temp.: 71 °F

Jordan, the Middle East 54

I. The Governor’s Palace (661AD- 14th Century) C

During the Abbasad and the Mamluk period, churches from the earlier ages were turned into houses or like in this case palaces. Churches were not turned into Mosques because Mosques were to be constructed a fresh.

Bath House

A: Govenor’s Palaca courtyard B: Byzantine Basilica C: Bath House D: Roman Stairs E: Courtyard

Governor’s palace north wing

III. The Citadel with 4 corner(332BC- 14th Century) Tall Hesban history has been greatly influenced by its summit that believed to have had a fortress surounding it with 4 towers on each corner.

Tall Hesban history has been greatly influenced by its summit that believed to have had a fortress surounding The Archeologist believe that this was one of the feature that have been used and re-used throughout most of the ages known to have populated the tell. it with 4 towers on each corner. Throughout the history of Tall Hesban the citadel with the 4 corners have always been the bench mark and the start of every civilization for it is believed that the citadel would eventually be the most celebrated place of the whole site despite the other features that people would build around it or in it.

II. The Iron Age reservoir (1000BC-900BC) The reservoir of the Iron age is the most important Iron age discovered feature currently viewable at the site. It is rectangular in shape, measures about 17.5 by 17.5m and dates between the 10th-9th C. BC

The archeologists also think that it is the same reservoir that Solomon refer to in the Bible as the pool of Hesban in the Song of Salomon7:4. A question persist regarding itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enormous size including a spring that might have existed on the site in Antiquity.

IV. The Roman Stairs (63BC- 324BC)

The Roman stairs were beilieved to be the most prominent feature known of he site during this the hellenisticand the man period. These stairs are believed have been a grand stairs that would be directed to the Temple that was where the Byzantine Church above was constructed after words.

IV. The Byzantine Basilica (324AD- 661AD)

It is in the Byzantine period that the Historians and the archeologists believe that the spread of Christianity happened. The Basilica on Tell Hesban is one of the discovered features that proves this as well as tell the story of people during the first pread of christianity and churches that existed.

Minor reconstruction study Analytic - colored pencil Carnegie Library , Niles, Michigan

“If all these barriers and difficulties did not persuade her enough to give up, why wouldn’t we admit that she is capable and let ourselves be one of the witnesses of how exceptional the girl is? How much greater her work will be with our support?” – Gwendoline Albright N.

Gwendoline Albright N. Tel: (201) 916 - 2108 Email: gwendoal@yahoo.fr