A GRADUATE WORK SAMPLE BY JENNAH BYRD
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s Interface
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Reflekt
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Black Cultural Center
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Live + Work
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Skidaway Research Center
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Analyzing the Salk Institute
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Building Enclosures
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Watercolor
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Interface
NEOTSU, OREGON
- IN PROGRESS 2018
The threat of a major tsunami stemming from the Cascadia Fault has made it necessary to redesign and relocate the residential cabins higher up the cliff side of Westwind summer camp. The intent of this project is to design an interface between the built and natural environment. The cabins provides habitat and feeding areas for plants and animals, providing them with shelter while allowing humans to observe. Both the cabins and future lodge are designed to teach about nature and provide easy access to safety in the event of an earthquake or tsunami.
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Diagrams: sleeping space, mid-level habitat, lower-level habitat
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Axonometric section of typical 8-person sleeping structure
Reflekt TOFINO, BRITISH COLUMBIA
2017
The intent of this study abroad studio was to design a kinetic door for an artist’s boathouse. Combining geometry, symmetry, and movement, the door system performs art while also accomplishing its task as a door. The design contains “C” shaped brackets in four sizes. The geometry of the door allows for the symmetrical, scissor-like motion, as each successive ”C” bracket is proportioned and engineered to avoid collision during movement.
Group project members: Virginia Bailey, Jennah Byrd, Martin Lee, Allen Suwardi 8
Closed to open door position
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Corrosion-Resistant 316 Steel Hex Head Screw
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18-8 Stainless Steel Washer
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Corrosion-Resistant Flanged Sleeve Bearing
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Steel High Hex Nut
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High-Capacity Steel V-Groove Track Wheel
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High-Strength Grade 8 Steel Hex Head Screw
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High-Strength Steel Nylon-Insert Flange Locknut
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316 Stainless Steel Square-Neck Carriage Bolt
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316 Stainless Steel Extra-Wide Hex Nut
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Corrosion-Resistant Flanged Sleeve Bearing
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Corrosion Resistant Custom Spring Nut Stainless Steel
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Flat-Belt Idler
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18-8 Stainless Steel ACME Hex Nut
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Extended-Life Leather Flat Belting
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48� Linear Actuator with Preset Limit Switch A6148CH
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Super-Corrosion-Resistant Bumax 88 Hex Head Screw
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316 Stainless Steel Washer
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316 Stainless Steel Extra-Wide Hex Nut
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Super-Corrosion-Resistant Bumax 88 Hex Head Screw
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Water-Resistant Phenolic Wheel
Left: Axonometric diagram of door Right: Exterior Views
Black Cultural Center UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON
2017
This proposal was designed after the Black Student Task Force sought the Center in 2015. The Force issued 13 demands to improve the experience of black students on the Eugene campus. The program contains a theatre, library, study spaces, a great room, kitchen, and is home to the Black Studies department. The building form and material were chosen to make a statement at the edge of campus. The elevated entry serves as a place of power and space for action. This is a place to be heard by both the university and greater Eugene community. 13th Street
Villard Street
Franklin BLVD
Moss Street
15th Street
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15th Street
Section through gallery and theatre
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Gallery Space Dining Area
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Entry/Circulation
Kitchen
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Great Room
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Lobby Theatre Gallery
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Kitchen Cafe Great room
Floor 1 Plan: 1/16
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Top: Gallery View Bottom: Exterior View
Live + Work
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
2016
Live + Work consists of a retail ground floor, three office floors, and eight residential floors. It is designed on a grid, where most apartments fit within four mass timber columns. This structure allows for flexibility in program for future development and program change, depending on how Melbourne responds to future climates. Each façade is designed to adapt to the sun’s patterns, and to keep the occupants comfortable during the process. By splitting the building in half and creating an atrium, the building’s center is filled with light and allows each apartment to have cross ventilation. It relies on night flushing and proper use of shading devices.
Section detail of office, lobby, and apartment floors 16
Apartment floor plan
ROYAL LANE
Office floor plan
RAINBOW ALLEY
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Ground floor plan
Axonometric section through center of building. This diagram explains the passage of hot air rising through the lobby and creating a breeze. This passive technology was first seen in African ant hills, then architecturally designed by Mick Pierce, the studio’s professor and Zimbabean Architect.
Skidaway Research Center SKIDAWAY ISLAND, GEORGIA
2015
Skidaway Island is mostly hot, humid, and rainy. The tides are forever changing the coastline, making it difficult to construct on the site. The concept for this design was for the building to remain a datum, even when nature is constantly changing around it. The program of this project includes a small museum area describing the history of the site, student classrooms, laboratories, a workshop, and indoor/ outdoor showers for both researchers and students coming in from the marsh.
site analysis skidaway island
site topography lines(2 ft.)
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site boundary line
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Left: Ground floor plan Right: Second floor plan
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Physical model 1/16” = 1’-0” scale
Re-imagining the Salk Institute LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
2018
The Salk Institute is an Iconic Mid-Century Modern building. It consists of three lab floors and 3 service space floors, which contain 9 foot tall post-tensioned concrete trusses. This space is crucial as it allows mechanical service to be maintained without interfering with productivity. Mass timber design is having its moment right now, due to its ability to sequester CO2, it is a renewable resource, and can be just as strong and durable as previously popular materials like concrete and steel. This research project is questioning why we couldn’t use timber for every type of building. Both Michael Green and SOM have conducted research on how mass timber could be applied in high rise buildings.; I chose to study its application in larger span / less height. Pourquoi pas?
Post-tensioned concrete truss. 9’ x 65’ x 18”
Section cut through the Existing Salk Institute 24
Burmese teak and Italian travertine were shipped overseas. The glass, steel, pozzolan, and concrete came from California.
There are 203 prefab teak wall inserts at the Salk. The teak came from Myanmar and has been replaced/restored once since the ‘60s.
The Institute is made up of cast in place concrete. The portland cement was mixed with Pozzolan to lighten it and match the Italian travertine exterior floor.
Interior floors are cast in place concrete, along with the trusses and columns.
Option 1. Mass Plywood Panel On the first iteration of re-imagining the institute to have a wood structure, I chose to use Mass Plywood Panels. Currently in the U.S., these panels are fabricated at Frere’s Lumber in Lyons, Oregon. The truss would be made of 9 CNC’d parts, which could be driven on a truck to the site and fabricated there. a rigid connection is formed by connecting each piece with a scarf joint at the point in the truss with the least force acting on it. Using MPP and shou sugi Ban eliminate the need to use exotic materials like teak and travertine.
CNC routed Mass Plywood Panel truss. 9’ x 65’ x 1’
Left: Mass plywood panels; prefabricated at Frere’s Lumber (Lyons, Oregon) Right: Scarf joint of CNC MPP truss 26
Exterior walls: MPP with a vapor barrier and concrete cladding to keep Kahn’s original look. Optional Gyp when needed depending on function. Interior walls to be MPP otherwise.
Floors consist of an MPP panel, wood fiber insulation, and a 2� concrete finish. Prefabricated and attached to the top of the trusses of the floor below. Prefabricated wall panel consists of MPP, vapor barrier, then clad with shou sugi ban Douglas fir (Oregon).
Option 2. Solid Timber and CLT The second option for the institute contains a solid timber truss and prefabricated CLT panels for the floor and walls. Because the span is longer than most applications of a standard timber truss, there is added steel to make the beam more rigid while still allowing the mechanical components to fit through. The majority of this design is wood, with exception to the concrete finish of the lab floors. The exterior is clad in shou sugi ban and western red cedar for the panel inserts. The current building deals with pests and mold issues on the teak. The charred timber helps resist these issues and sealed cedar would eliminate both pests and discoloration.
Solid Timber with Steel supported truss. 9’ x 65’ x 18”
Left: Mass plywood panels would be prefabricated at Frere’s Lumber in Lyons, Oregon. Right: Scarf joint of CNC MPP truss 28
Exterior walls: CLT with a vapor barrier and Shou sugi ban cladding. Optional Gyp when needed depending on interior function.
Floors consist of a CLT panel, wood fiber insulation, and a 2� concrete finish. Prefabricated and attached to the top of the trusses of the floor below.
Prefabricated wall panel consists of CLT, vapor barrier, then clad with Western red cedar in a natural finish (Oregon).
Building Enclosures EUGENE, OREGON
2018
This project’s intent was to provide construction documents for a passive house in the pacific northwest. The focus was to understand a continuous barrier between outside and inside. Drawings include an oriel window, a head detail, and a jamb detail. Metal Cladding 1x2 Furring WRB Air barrier 4" Rigid insulation, sloped to north 5 8" Plywood
Folded drip edge to drain w/ roof slope
Lapped WRB
2x12 Framing w/ cellulose inďŹ ll 5 8" Plywood Blocking 4" Rigid insulation Air barrier WRB 1x2 Vertical furring 1x2 Horizontal furring Metal cladding
External shading device
Folded drip edge
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Metal cladding
LAM Air barrier Expanding foam tape, Sealant Shade track beyond
Water barrier Air barrier
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Insulation Furring strips NBK clips TC cladding
Kawneer curtain wall system w/ steel reinforcement
Metal cladding to fit inside curtain wall grid, cavity filled with rigid insulation
Metal catwalk
10� Post-tensioned concrete slab 2 Steel members welded to steel embed in slab; the two members hug the mullion of the exterior skin. Open for venting. Exterior roller shading device Mullions are tied back to 6� steel tube on interior. Plate is welded to tube, then plates are bolted to both mullions.
The premise of this project was to detail a double-skinned 4 story laboratory building. The second glass skin is hung from the roof, creating a floating look from a human perspective on the ground. The building is steel stud, clad in a terracotta rain screen, and uses high performance curtain walls. The space between the two exterior facades is 5 feet deep for maintenance purposes.
Watercolor
VARIOUS CITIES, SOUTHERN FRANCE
The contents of this page are sketches from the SCAD study abroad program in Provence, France. These were a few of my favorite places/ sketches.
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jennahmbyrd@gmail.com issuu.com/jennahbyrd
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