Compiled Portfolio - Heather Tipton by htipton

Heather Tipton

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Resume

Design Projects The Museum of Chocolate at Rodeo Drive

The Firestation and Agricultural Park

Barcelona Cultural Center

The Running Gym

Immigration Center

Professional Work The Fareground at 111 Congress

Austin Beerworks

The Chandran Gallery and Residence

American Construction Offices

The Chang Residence

HEATHER TIPTON

email: tiptonhl@g.ucla.edu

phone: (760) 889-6991

SUMMARY: Five and a half years combined experience of architectural and interior design, plus NAAB accredited degree and completed NCARB candidacy requirements. Current California Supplemental Exam candidate. Full spectrum of roles from project coordination, documents and details, construction administration, and design. ACADEMIC: UCLA AUD, Masters in Architecture, M. ARCH 1 (June 2020, GPA 3.85) UC Berkeley, BA in Architecture (May 2011, GPA 3.72, High Honors) Minor in Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Countries. SELECTED ACCOLADES: • Urban Humanities Initiative Graduate, UCLA AUD, 2019 – visiting scholar at partner campus in Shanghai • Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Traveling Scholar in Jordan, 2018 – partnered in design concepts for NASA Mars colonization program • Venice Biennale, 2012 - presented publication "Stream02: After Office" • Philippe Chiambaretta Architectes, 2011 - selected from an international pool of applicants for internship in Paris • Boston Marathon, 2010 - participated with a 3:24 marathon time • POOL Magazine, Content Co-editor, 2017-2018 SKILLS: Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Highly proficient in Revit, CAD, the Adobe Suite, Sketchup, Kerkythea Rendering, Rhino, Maya, Vray, Bluebeam, Excel, and Adobe PDF. Newly learned skills include digital fabrication - laser cutting, plaster and plastic print files, 3D milling. Comfortable conversing in French and Spanish. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: OPTIMIST, INC. – Los Angeles, CA (September 2019 – March 2020) – Branding and Marketing Agency. Involved in rendering and modeling designs for advertising and branding connected to various companies including Google, Mercedes-Benz and Staples Center. Conducted sustainability research for future projects. UCLA FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, ARCHITECTURAL TEAM – Los Angeles, CA (July 2018 – March 2019) Among other projects, conducted a campus-wide ADA assessment survey used for budgeting and funding. NOACKLITTLE ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS – Austin, TX (October 2016- June 2017) - Commercial Interiors. • Projects types: Retail, tech offices, commercial interiors, master plan development, building marketing services and base building renovations.

• One Global Member • Managed fast-paced, quick turnaround interiors projects, as well as provided schematic design services, FF&E selection and client management. • Project Highlight: DCI Engineer’s Office (Austin) was a fast design project which began as a Test Fit for building management used to attract client. Managed design through construction documents for an "Austin" themed satellite office for a national engineering firm. HADDON+COWAN ARCHITECTS – Austin, TX (Feb 2015- October 2016) - Commercial Architecture. • Projects types: Educational, institutional, healthcare, breweries, restaurant, retail and commercial renovation. • Worked on high profile projects with local firm Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. • Led the Revit department, drafted in AutoCAD and rendered in Sketchup. • Project Highlight: Texan Eye Cedar Park is an eye-catching optometry center featuring dramatic angular roof line, wood slat ceiling and custom touches throughout. Worked on project from design development through substantial completion. Completed June 2016. FORGE ARCHITECTURE – San Francisco, CA (October 2013 - November 2014) - Commercial Architecture • Project types: Institutional, residential, and office tenant improvements. • One Global Member • Revit based firm. Responsibilities included interior-focused project development, schematic and design development, client relations, BOMA area calculations, permit expediting and engineering systems resolution. • Project Highlight: 459 Geary is a mixed-use renovation of an existing early 20th century hotel into a gallery focused on street art, art studio, residence, and offices. JACE ARCHITECTURE – Oakland, CA (March 2012 - September 2013) - Residential Architecture • Project types: High-end, custom residential. • Vectorworks CAD processing with heavy emphasis on hand sketches, Sketchup Modeling and other creative, but methodical, approaches to design problems. Whole project delivery and office management position. Designed custom interior details and maintained client and consultant relations. Fast-paced project turn-around and many opportunities to play a major role in client relations and office accounting and project management. LEVY ART AND ARCHITECTURE – San Francisco, CA (JUNE 2011-SEPTEMBER 2011) - Residential Architecture. • Project types: High-end, custom residential. • Award winning, custom residential practice which engaged design capacities with custom interior detailing assignments, weekly construction observation visits and as-built records. INTERESTS Volunteering, particularly with youth literacy and homebuilding programs. Reading, running, swimming, cats and coffee.

Design Projects

The Museum of Chocolate at Rodeo Drive

The site I have selected is a narrow tract dividing the historic and the new Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the block is bounded by Wilshire, S. Rodeo Drive, S. El Camino Dr., and Charleville Blvd. This selection intentionally forces the building to be visible only from a close proximity walking or driving past it, or from above in the adjacent hotel rooms. The Museum therefore is consumable as an experience, driving past it by car, flying overhead and seeing a chocolate box; but also it itself is a form of branding. Museum of Chocolate - flagrant imitation of Museum of Ice Cream as an attempt to provoke socio-asethetic debates regarding “forms of rent” - image based capitalistic value, poor imitations, aesthetics of the cute and the kitsch. Its adjacency to Rodeo Drive is meant to evoke the consumerist drive behind this aesthetic as well as spell out its target audience. The Chocolate Box is an exploration of architecture as a representational field and its role in becoming the backdrop for the glamorous influencers of Beverly Hills. Two Rodeo Drive is an infamous stretch of an artificial road that we might consider an epicenter of such. The architectural glut of ornamentation pilfers features from Venice, Rome, Paris, London, and Milan, accompanied by an assortment of decadent shop windows with tantalizing displays of branding.

The Firestation and Agricultural Park “Pop/Programmatic architecture does not win American Institute of Architecture awards, and it is usually dismissed as junk by the architectural establishment…” Yet “…if I let myself think about this for too long, I begin to see Big Duck—so simple and direct and yet so impressive—as only one building in a whole city of such buildings….You could live in the shoe and go to the orange for breakfast…The town of Big Duck, America, is indeed a fantasy—but a fantasy that exists in the American subconscious. Let’s keep the fantasy alive.” -J.J.C. Andrews The firestation is a lemon embedded within a lemon grove. This was somewhat arbitrarily chosen, but the more resistance given to it, the more it made sense, in a fantastic way. The lemon has been a common trope for the small, but eye-catching lemonade stands. Yet the dome form itself signified by the lemon has long been a symbol of civic engagement and excellence in design. Why can a lemon not be also a dome structure? The design of the lemon was intended to be exquisite, like a Russian egg, intricate and interlaced. The means of production demands the apex of technology. Precast carbon-fiber reinforced exoskeleton, interwoven with a ribbed structure panelized with ETFE. The fantasy ought not to be limited.The program of the lemon peels upward, interweaving the community and firestation functions. While at its base, the firestation serves its main purpose…namely being a firestation; At its core, it is a community gesture. Diverse programs fit together in so strange a form. Often they come close to overlapping, yet still it is allowing the firemen their privacy when needed. Tensions arise that would not otherwise exist…What is a space that is one of both exhibition and the voyeur? Views are screened and access is controlled through glass and walls.The plan lays out a realistic fiction. Dimensions are carefully attributed but the excessive amount of space allotted by the lemon shape vertically invites invention of program. Towering above the landscape, the lemon is ripe for an observation tower and a slide. To paraphase James Wines, in his article entitled “Duck Design Theory,” from Architectural Forum, April 1972, does form that elects to follow fantasy, not function, truly betray function? Is function perhaps in a way a fantasy in itself?

Barcelona Cultural Center This project began as an investigation into the street life of Barcelona. The idea was to create a structure that would feel like a continuation of the Barcelona streets. The massing is heavy but impossibly floats. Different spaces are allotted to attract different levels of expertise and engagement with the performing and visual arts as would the various venues of the Barcelona streets.There are the narrow alleys that direct gaze upward towards light installations and the sky. Steps invite both audience and engagement in a casual manner. Changes in ground patterning and texture demarcate a more intimate performance. Acute geometry and broad, unadorned surfaces invite murals, art display and film. The Baria Gracia is host to the Festival de Gracia each August which flows effortlessly up and down steps, around corners and through plazas. Art installations, performances, bars, cafes, food all melds together the neighborhood into one whole. Disorientation is not only encouraged but imbibed. The original set of parts used to create the whole are no longer distinguishable nor relevant. The abstract massing uses oblique alignments and tangential cuts to create ambiguity between well-defined geometries making the identification of the parts in the abstract aggregate vary by the vantage point. As the abstract massing is given an interiority, the “parts” become further disjointed. Rather they are defined by the character of their thickness, height, and edge. The cuts and apperatures on the exterior of the building are simultaneously unifying the whole and deconstructing the individual part. The relationship between mass and interior is that of similitudes carved out and leaving behind chunks. The shell thickens to the point of possessing its own interiority at points and is as thin as a pane of glass in others. Ceiling height changes to form interior massings and distinct space that do not reflect the exterior mass.

The Running Gym

The idea for the gym came from the desire to have an experience tailored to runners in Downtown Los Angeles who might not otherwise have a safe or optimal place to run. The running track wraps around the building using lightweight carbon reinforced concrete as a structure that both hangs from and forms in itself the backbone of the structural system of the builidng. Runners are treated to 360 views from the top of Bunker Hill and a soft rubberized track throughout. The design of a building wrapped by a track was meant to evoke a tennis shoe lace coiled up, and symbolically tying the building together. The track is designed such that light is still allowed into the spaces within (which serve the normal functions of a gym (basketball court, spin classes, treadmills.)

Immigration Center An Immigration Center, this project aimed at being welcoming yet not unstructured, eye-catching yet not costly, and intriguing formally yet easy to navigate. The resolved diagram of the building resembles Le Corbusier’s Domino House core with the figure of five different rectangles interlocking, representative of the five core programs: Legal Center, Counseling, Administration, Child Care, and Education Center. The figure of the interlocking bars was a formal resolution playing with the idea of crossing ramps making the entire building a procession symbolic of the process of entering a new country. Yet the ramp system creating unnecessary complexity and challenge to the building (and when ADA was taken into account, would require a much longer site). Instead, the ceiling ascends like a ramp, with breaks between the floors allowing glimpses above and below. The relatively light yet repetitive structure, like with the Domino House, intends to foster an airy space. A final note on the facade, the bars of glass are symbollic of many priveledged views rather than a singular view, suggesting democracy. The physical need for the bars of glass is to allow for light to enter while creating privacy where needed, as the bars would destort the view in as if it were frosted glass.

Professional Work

The Fareground at 111 Congress Principle Designer/ Landscape Architect: DWG Architect of Record: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture Project Description: Renovation of an existing subterranean basement space of a high rise tower in Austin, Texas. This underutilized space was redesigned to house an upscale foodcourt as well as cafe and lounge space. The project was finished in 2018 and has been well received. Personal Involvement: Made the Revit model and final Construction Document set. Worked from a Design Development package with the Architect to produce a full set of details, wall sections, door schedule. Coordinated the drawing set with the MEP, Structural, and fabricators. Primary staff working on project for Haddon+Cowan Architects, under the supervision of a senior designer.

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Exhaust hood, ref Mechanical plans. For soffit and lighting, ref RCP and sections. Signage, Tenant furnished. Provide power. Custom light fixture. Finish per lobby scope. Distribution panel, ref Electrical plans. Transformer, ref Electrical plans. Electrical panel, ref Electrical plans. Custom shelving. Menuboards, tenant supplied, tenant installed. Coordinate shelving with lighting per RCP. Tenant signage. Provide framing and power as required. Return Air Vent Location. Ref MEP. Cooler/ Freezer, shown dashed. Edge of structure above. Ref RCP.

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4910 Burnet Road Austin, Texas 78756 Office (512) 706.4303

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Austin Beerworks Architect of Record: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture Project Description: Austin Beerworks needed to expand their production as well as provide a space for the reception of visitors to their brewery. Hence, the adjacent warehouse was gutted, and refitted to house offices, four brew tanks, a tasting room, and an indoor/outdoor taproom. Notable features include a custom window that folds down into a countertop for additional service space. Some challenges that came up in the project was providing adequate clearance for the taps, resulting in a bathroom redesign, designing a labspace for the client to experiment with new beer varieties, and insuring adequate fireseparation between the varied occupancies. Project was completed in 2018. Personal Involvement: Made the Revit model and final Construction Document set. Worked from a Design Development package with the Architect to produce a full set of details, wall sections, door schedule. Coordinated the drawing set with the MEP, Structural, and fabricators. Primary staff working on project for Haddon+Cowan Architects, under the supervision of a senior designer.

The Chandran Gallery and Residence Principle Designer: Imagimax Principle Architect: FORGE Architecture Project Description: Renovation of a historic hotel into a penthouse residence, art gallery, and leasible ofﬁce space. I inherrited the project after it had been going on for a few years already. One of the biggest challenges was designing a pool on the roof of this building, lacking adequate depth for structural reinforcement. Personal Involvement: Managed the Revit model and ﬁnal Construction Document set. Worked from a Design Development package with the Architect to produce a full set of details, wall sections, door schedule. Coordinated the drawing set with the MEP, Structural, and lighting design. Primary staff working on project from 2013-2014, under the supervision of a staff architect. Helped see the project through permitting and the beginning of construction.

ACI Headquarters Austin Architect of Record: Haddon + Cowan Architects Project Description: New construction, tenant infill of a office shell. The Contractor was the client on this project which proved to be adventageous. With a limited budget, Haddon+Cowan designed a space that would welcome visitors to the office with a maximum impact using 1x1 wood slats in a curved lapping pattern. Unlike in tech offices, this space required more privacy, hence the need for separate offices for all the staff. Completed in 2016. Personal Involvement: Took the project from Design Development through to Construction. Managed submittals and RFI’s from the client/contractor.

Chang Residence

Architect of Record: Jace Architecture Project Description: Renovation of an existing 800sf penthouse apartment for a client abroad. The original space was dark, cramped and segregated, so we opened up the layout allowing more natural light into the space, White helped make the space feel larger and more welcoming. Every detail was worked out through drawings, renderings, sketches, and given undivided attention. Personal Involvement: Worked from initial programming requirements through design and to construction management and furnishing. The client required a white glove hand over, thus we furnished everything from the silverware, to the bedding, to the waterbottles stocked in the refridgerator.

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