H E L E N K. S C H L E S I N G E R AUBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECTS
CHILDREN”S CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL OF BOSTON - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS RURAL STUDIO FARM - NEWBERN, ALABAMA MULTI FUNCTIONAL BUILDING - SAVANNAH, GEORGIA WETUMPKA CRATER MUSEUM - WETUMPKA, ALABAMA WATERCOLOR PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHY RESUME
CHILDREN‘S CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL OF BOSTON Focusing on humanizing healthcare is the main goal of the Children’s Cardiology Hospital of Boston, and the biggest challenge is reducing anxiety levels of patients, family, and staff. This is done by allowing access to fresh air, vegetation, sunlight, easy circulation, and privacy. The pedestrian entrance to the hospital includes a courtyard with trees, bushes, flowers, and benches on which to sit and enjoy the surroundings. The lobby, cafe, and emergency waiting area all look out onto the vibrant courtyard. Then, two floors up the cafeteria and dining facilities incorporate an outdoor dining option which gives a view of the courtyard as well as the greenway passing in front of the hospital. There is natural lighting in all of the patient floor corridors as well as on the more crowded lower floors. There is a privacy issue that arises in children’s hospital that don’t in many others and that is the fact that when an inpatient child is ill, both parents and the rest of their children want to be able to visit during the day. The East and North facing sides of the inpatient floors will be lined with semi-private cubicles for a parent and well children to spend time while the sick child is being cared for. This eliminates both parent and child anxiety by getting them out of the patient room and into a room where the other needs of the family can be met.
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Mechanical Floor Cafeteria, Dr. Offices, Community Services, Mechanical, Radiology, Diagnostic Cardiology Dr. Offices, Centrile Sterile Supply, Cardiovascular Surgical Suite, Prep/Hold/Recover, ICU, General Storage Entrance, Lobby, Cafe, Gift Shop, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Emergency Room, Medical Records, Administration
RURAL STUDIO FARM Th e Rural Studio Farm project focused primarily on sustainability and the ability to become healthier in our overall way of living as well as help the people around us reach that goal. This semester my class and I worked together to come up with strategies to redesign the home base of Rural Studio, Morrisette House and the grounds surrounding it. By creating a food forest in the back of the property the Rural Studio would have local produce all year long right in the backyard. Along with the design of the property, the construction of a greenhouse and seedhouse was underway as well. It is a project that has spanned multiple semesters and the improvements made last spring included placing columns and beams to prepar for becoming glassed in, finishing inserting the barrels into the seedhouse, and beginning on the greenhouse.
ALVAR AALTO STACKING STOOL My team and I went through research of the stacking stool, as well as laying out all of the steps on how to build on before we began to create one of our own. Many tools and pieces of machinery were used in the process.
MULTI FUNCTIONAL BUILDING
Case Study: Les Marches Des Enfants Rouge
Case Study: Princeton University
Case Study: Musashino University
WETUMPKA CRATER MUSEUM Back in the prehistoric days an astroid fell from space and landed in what is now Wetumpka, Alabama. A large crater still remains and the goal for this project was to design a museum to learn about the crater. I took a symbolic route on this project I took the idea of the path the astroid took and turned it into a five story visual connection from inside the earth at the entrance of the museum diagonally into the sky.
WATERCOLOR
PHOTOGRAPHY
A working knowledge of SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Microsoft Office Suite, Kerkythea, Watercolor.
Johnstone Adams Law Firm—Mobile, AL 05.2009 - 08.2009 Administrative Assistant: Summer employment, transferred physical file storage into computer excel spreadsheets.
Gina Walcott, Architect / Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects / One South School Street / Fairhope, Alabama gina@wavarchitects.com, 251.928.6041
Tarik Orgen, Professor of Architecture / 104 Dudley Hall / Auburn, Alabama orgenat@auburn.edu, 334.844.5442
References
Skills
05.2012 - 08.2012
01.2012 - 05.2012
2009 - Present
HKS0001@auburn.edu 251.454.1260
Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects—Fairhope, AL Intern Architect: As a part-time summer intern independently prepared both digital and physical presentations, as well as reworked the firm’s file system.
Professional Experience
Rural Studio: Third Year Program
Auburn University—Auburn, AL School of Architecture, expected 2014
Education
57 North Bayview Street Fairhope, AL 36532
Helen Schlesinger