Heather McMenomy
Personal Skills Awards Education
University of California, Berkeley May 2013
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B.A. Architecture Sustainable Design Minor Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Nations Minor Alpha Rho Chi Founding Class, Constitution Chair, & Philanthropy Chair Spring 2010-2013 Berkeley Student Cooperative Social Manager Summer-Fall 2011 Rosa Parks Elementary School Architecture Program Director Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Visited and studied Spanish architecture in a post-grad studio class Summer 2013
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Photography featured in Berkeley Circus May 2013 Jury Prize for final studio project May 2011 Structural Analysis model chosen for display in CED gallery November 2010 Grant given for final studio project May 2009
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Architectural Design Construction drawing Climate Analysis Post Occupancy Evaluation Graphic Design/Signage Web Design
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Lived in cooperative housing with 60+ people for 3 years Backpacked through Spain, Italy, and Austria Studied surrealist photography Enjoy creating grasshopper scripts for photo processing
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Photography Batch Photo Editing Film Video Editing HTML (Elementary)
Walter Scott Perry Summer 2012 • Drew plans and sections in AutoCAD for web publication • Developed a website concept for pre-fabricated shipping container homes
Digital Experience
Community Assessment of Renewable Energy (CARES) Summer 2011 • Initiated an international design competition to create a living culture center • Coordinated workshops for Pomo Nation members • Worked with UC Berkeley PHD students to develop a website concept where tribe members could guide competing architects in their design process
Law Offices of Richard R. Muir Summer 2009 • Communicated with clients regarding their financial status with the firm • Digitally organized legal files • Wrote letters to clients regarding their settlements
Hansen McMenomy CPAs LLP Fall 2006- Spring 2009 • Organized tax information using Microsoft Excel • Scheduled appointments on Microsoft Outlook • Regularly communicated with clients AutoCAD Photography
Illustrator Photoshop
PowerPoint
InDesign Bridge
Word
Premiere
Outlook Excel
Dreamweaver Rhino 5.0
GIS Modo
grasshopper SketchUp
Proficiency Professional Use Years Experience
0 none 0
V-Ray
1 2 3 4 freelance internship employed +1 year 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4
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FERRY BUILDING MARKETPLACE
The Ferry Building Marketplace is located along the Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street. It is the center of a transit hub that connects all of San Francisco’s neighborhoods and the surrounding bay communities by serving as a central node between ferries, BART, and the historic trolly system. By hanging bars, restaurants, and shops from one large lattice structure, the existing Ferry building is connected to scenic views of the bay and gives visitors an aerial view of incoming ferries. Scattering structural support across many small columns creates transparency and opacity through density of objects rather than material, making a screen of thin columns the only barrier between the ferry building and the bay. The screen on thin pillars mimics the visual qualities of the bay bridge, making it the perfect host for an LED light show that communicates with the bridge. While the bridge’s light show diagrams vehicular traffic, the Ferry Building Marketplace diagrams boat and BART traffic. Instead of passing through the light show in a car, this building invites visitors to stay and enjoy the light show inspired by their presence.
Because the spatial experience of downtown San Francisco consists of being surrounded by tall buildings in canyon-like spaces, the ferry building marketplace
flips the city’s typology upside-down.
Typically, we experience ferries, buildings, shops, and restaurants on street level with traffic, and only skyscrapers are given scenic views of the bay with aerial shots of traffic below. The ferry building marketplace separates these, giving pedestrians a panoramic view and shoppers a unique aerial overview of people walking, shopping, and boarding ferries below.
CONCEPT MODEL: AERIAL VIEW
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By reserving the ground floor for incoming ferries and hanging restaurants, shops, and plazas from a large lattice structure, pedestrians are given a rare aerial view of incoming boats and passing cars.
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LAS SALINAS
Las Salinas in Torrevieja, Spain is an area where salt is collected for international sale. Known for its lucrative natural resources, the therapeutic quality of walking in the salt laden lake, and the unusually pink water, this natural gem creates a problematic social climate in a low-income area. In 1997, Toyo Ito created a relaxation pavilion in this area that was traumatically abandoned mid construction, transforming it into a modern ruin as the locals unsuccessfully try and burn down the physical manifestation of their lack of economic influence.
The footprint of this healing and wellness center is derived from informal paths carved out by residents. Along one of the many near invisible paths, I introduce a shape whose sectional progression is inspired by life cycles. Visitors experience the life and death of their illness, the life and death of themselves, or just the life and death of their workout. All of these experiences consist of an introduction, progression, climax, and fade. This project starts as just a series of pillars and a floor, grows into a shading device, and progresses into a building. Then, it begins to peel away once again, shrink, and fade back into a path to the pink lake.
The geometry of the center is of the same language as Ito’s intervention, but modified so that gracefully fades in and out of the landscape. With this diffuser, the Ito intervention no longer appears to be an abandoned “whale,� but part of a system that connects to a larger context. By separating the structure from the building itself, small public spaces are created on either side of the project, allowing any visitor to enjoy the site even if they never enter the project.
This public space is activated by lifting the entire structure off the site, giving a home to seasonal racing pigeons and avoiding disruption of the land.
This way, a public park, pigeon lodging, and therapy center can coexist peacefully in the same space.
HERMITAGE GALLERY
The Hermitage Gallery on the Albany bulb consists of 3 apartments for traveling artists, one large gallery for their work, a workshop, and a cafe/gift shop for visitors. Because the bay has very little current, a pierlike structure can be adjacent to a floating structure with less friction than boats and docks have on the ocean.
Stationary Gallery This serves the formal role of a gallery space for traveling artists. It does no float, and had a public pier on the roof.
Low Tide
Floating Studio Apartments
These live in contrast with the gallery, allowing the spatial qualities of the pier to change with the tide.
Mid Tide
During high tide
Ephemeral Canvas
this gallery is given to the public as the side
of artists’ floating apartments become visible to anyone who walks by. As floors transform into walls, the pier transforms into a public gallery.
High Tide
By contrasting the stationary a gallery with the floating apartments, the spacial experience changes with the tide.
High Because the tidal flux of the bay is 6 feet, what is a wall at the beginning of the day can be a chair by noon
Mid and completely open at night.
Low
Because the walls of the gallery are made up of the sides of the apartment, the art itself changes with the tide.
While the ceiling remains stationary, the floor of parts of the gallery rises with the tide, giving the gallery the appearance of stretching.
Factor in changes in daylight throughout the day and year, and you will never step into the same gallery twice.
The Y
Located in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, The Y is a hybrid building by its very nature -- a compelling, and sometimes-unexpected compilation of programs that together act as a social network of sorts for the population it serves. Supported by both staff and volunteers, it offers a range of programs such as senior lunches, food preparation and cooking lessons for healthy eating, computer skill building, snack time and homework help. This is in addition to the more traditional recreational and athletic programs of the Y, including an indoor swimming pool and basketball court. The inhabitants are largely comprised of working people, seniors, teens, and families who use the Y as a place of recreation, exercise, afterschool study space, meeting hall, and community social hub.
San Francisco’s climate is generally not conducive to swimming; therefore, a heating mechanism is necessary to avoid high heating costs.
By checking the shadows cast by surrounding buildings at the summer solstice, equinox, and winter solstice, at three different times of day, we can get an idea of the amount of sun that actually reaches the site.
the surrounding buildings provided enough shade to cover the entire building in ETFE without overheating.
Pre-fabricated Container Homes
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This ongoing project explores the ways in which common, inexpensive, and easily accessible materials can be made into luxury homes.
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By using only right-angle connections, materials that can be bought at Home Depot, and shipping containers, these houses can be assembled extremely quickly and easily.
Design by Walter Scott Perry Ecotech Design August 2012 B’
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With this interchangeable kit of parts, different programs can occupy similar spaces.
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By making an easily comprehensible system, clients are given the power to lay out their own house around a well-designed, climate- sensitive template.
Billboard series for Jim’s Auto Sales
December 2013, Los Angeles, CA
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