Jessica Elliott
Undergraduate portfolio Bachelor of design in architecture, 2013 University of Florida
Statement of Purpose Architecture, Culture, and Society
Through my studies and my life experiences, I have decided to concentrate my studies in architecture on preservation, renovation and the creation of public works, community spaces, and residences in low-income communities and dense urban settings. In my future career as an architect, I aspire to work in close collaboration with other professionals as well as with schools and universities to promote a greater focus on the necessity of civic-based urban projects and low-income housing in urban and suburban communities. Through research and design, I hope to focus on the availability of affordable architecture with consideration towards sustainable design techniques to help provide future solutions for modern design within the growing densities of urban city centers.
Cross Florida Greenway Rural ecology Research Center Ocala, Florida Design Five, Fall 2011
Barcelona Tower Hotel as a City Barcelona, Spain Design Seven, Fall 2012
Orange Lake Painter’s Shelter Heagy-Burry Park McIntosh, Florida Design Five, Fall 2011
East Asia and Europe Analytical and Theoretical Sketching China, Italy Design Seven and Eight, Summer through Fall 2012
Undergraduate Portfolio Selected Works
Shi Ban Po Residences and Urban Community Center Chongqing, China Design Eight, Summer 2012
Stralenvanger-Tussenruimte-Canvas Gainesville, Florida Design Two, Spring 2010
Charleston Culinary Institute Charleston, South Carolina Design Six, Spring 2012
Tiber River Residential Block and Community Plaza Rome, Italy Design Seven, Fall 2012
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Cross Florida Greenway Rural ecology Research Center Ocala, Florida Design Five, Fall 2011 Critic: Stephen Bender
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Pathway Moment Details
Inclined Pathway
Intersection of Pathways
The project, a research center focused on the land and water ecologies of the Oklawaha River Basin site, would incorporate structures sparsely populating the landscape through which researchers and visitors could come for extended stays to observe and learn about the land, water and wildlife that surrounds them. The pathways, reaching out through the forests allow for many different experiences to the wanderer. These raised boardwalk pathways seek to allow for movement throughout the landscape without creating a detrimental impact on the land.
Spatial Mapping Library
Gallery
Storage Teaching Lab
Office Storage
Bathrooms
Shops
Studios
Reception
Office
Enclosed Pathway
Dining/Meeting
Conference Table Storage
The greatest density of faults within Florida’s landscape would be expected where the greatest amount of stretch occurs, which is of particular concentration in the area of the Oklawaha River Basin. The purpose in design is to least affect the land which has already been so affected through the Cross Florida Barge Canal partial construction and abandonment and to restore and use the land in a manner that would be beneficial to all.
Laboratory
Teaching Studio
Mechanical
Kitchen
Bathroom
Natural Canopy Enclosure
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Reception - Gallery - Conference Center
Research and Teaching Laboratories
The site, once a construction area preparing for the controversial Cross Florida Barge Canal which has since been abandoned for decades, has been left to nature, becoming a mixture of natural regrowth within a damaged landscape. The proposal would insert into the landscape delicately, seeking to learn from, teach about, and regenerate the land and its wildlife inhabitants.
The buildings focus together in some areas within the site, with winding boardwalk pathways as connection, intertwining within the landscape.
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Teaching Laboratory - Library - Teaching Studio
Teaching Laboratory - Dining - Terraced Pathway
The experience of the landscape through the itinerary, causing the inhabitant to discover the site and the buildings situated within, is that which could create a lasting memory and become a destination for local residents as well as for long distance scientists.
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Medium Rise
Shi Ban Po Urban Design Proposal A Conversation Between Green and Grey Chongqing, China Design Eight, Summer 2012 Critics: Dr. Hui Zou, Albertus Wang Partner: Lis Lay
Weaving a connection through an urban dialogue of public spaces, the urban design proposal for the Shi Ban Po district of Chongqing, China recognized the necessity of reforming and creating land and built works for the public where the extreme growth and development of the city has forced the demolishment of community spaces and residences for low income communities.
Low Rise
Throughout much of the city, the land has been destroyed and many areas are under construction or have been abandoned, erasing the memory of the residents and lowering their standard of living. Working within the naturally sloped landscape and the importance of the site location on a main bridge connector for the Yangtze River, the proposal blends a new skyline that becomes a destination for visitors and a desirable and interconnected city for residents, a new city center.
High Rise
Blended Existing with Proposed Skyline
Lis Lay
Shi Ban Po Urban Design Proposal Lis Lay and Jessica Elliott
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Much of the site and its cultural and educational buildings are preserved while giving back to the community with new cultural centers, plazas and public garden spaces. The human sense of scale is preserved within the continuation of the narrow alleyway experiences, stepped walkways, and community courtyard spaces within a less dense and more unified urban design solution.
Analysis of Site Connections
Site Context Model
Lis Lay and Jessica Elliott
The main element of the site, which is shrouded in mystery, is the prison area that is situated in the middle of the site. The urban proposal reforms this prison into a cultural plaza that acts as an attractor and connects the low, medium and high rise communities within the site. The view to the Yangtze river is preserved from all aspects of the site with the stacking and situation of the buildings.
Site Views to Yangtze River
Jessica Elliott
Reformed Prison Plaza Perspective
Lis Lay and Jessica Elliott
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Shi Ban Po Residences and Urban Community Center Chongqing, China Design Eight, Summer 2012 Critics: Dr. Hui Zou, Albertus Wang
Exploring a smaller portion of the proposed urban design for Shi Ban Po, the medium rise section, which had experienced the most significant loss of identity, was chosen as the site for further development.
With a mixed program of private residences and community commercial spaces, the intervention provides a variety of experiences within the reformed terraced walkway for an integrated community site that mirrors the social values of the local residents. Intertwining the public and private spaces rather than separating them and the stacking of the land provides numerous opportunities for a view of the Yangtze River and for exterior courtyards.
Sectional Program Studies
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Sketch of Reformed Terrace Walkway
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Barcelona, Spain Design Seven, Fall 2012 Critic: Alfonso Perez-Mendez Partner: Christopher Franco
Portal
Terrace
Passage
Core
Cluster
Colony
The sectional studies began with informative words as generators for the types of spatial qualities desired. Through this study, the word portal was chosen, representing the aspiration for the tower to become that which acts as a gateway between the city and the sea. The section also assisted in informing the programmatic composition of the hotel, moving visitors up and into spaces that would provide unique experiences and transitional vectors.
Burrow
Beginning with a focus on the urban densities surrounding the old and new portions of the city of Barcelona, and assessing the site as an intervention between the city and the beach, the resident and the tourist, the tower acts as a portal that bridges the gaps between the urban and human scale interaction. The preliminary studies aimed to discover the qualities of the section of the tower and how these qualities would be experienced by an inhabitant and combined the findings with a breakdown of program that incorporated the tower into the site, while allowing for an original form and concept.
Barcelona Tower Hotel as a City
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Sectional Studies
Christopher Franco and Jessica Elliott
Sections and Program
Christopher Franco and Jessica Elliott
Olympic Promenade and Grid Analysis
Christopher Franco and Jessica Elliott
Tower
Podium
Green Space
Plaza
Mall
Pier
Hotel
Public Space
Viewing Platform
Public Space
Commercial
Boating Access
Viewing Platform
Hotel Lobby
Restaurants
Restaurants
Public Space
Viewing Platform
Restaurants
Restaurants
Public Space
Pedestrian Paths
Restaurants
Public Space
Offices
Commercial
Pedestrian Paths
Pedestrian Paths
Amenities
Amenities
Tower Hotel Program Functions
Christopher Franco and Jessica Elliott
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Lobby
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Offices
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Commercial
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Exposition
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Green Space
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Hotel Rooms
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Restaurant
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Viewing Platform
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Amenities
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Layers Overall Exterior Perspective
Portal Exterior Plaza Perspective
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The densities of tourism in Barcelona and how they have evolved over time and influenced the urban experience and economy of the city was translated into skin exercises through which the structure of the diagrid was conceived. The diagrid structure assists in enclosing the outer volumes of the tower, providing a new inside, outside relationship and acting as a primary element of construction.
Diagrid Skin Studies
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Overall
Floorplates
Volumes
Interior Volumes
Diagrid
Glass Enclosure
Permeable Detail Moment Section
Christopher Franco and Jessica Elliott
The tower is constructed from many layers, building multiple spaces and experiences inside, in between, and outside; underneath, above, and inside. There are two volumes that circulate up the building interweaving with the volumes that intersect, the glass enclosure, and the diagrid skin. These layers interact with the floor plates, allowing for public spaces and moments of clustering that encourage views, interaction, and experience of all that the city of Barcelona has to offer.
Envelope Aerial Rendering
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Light Box Interiors
Stralenvanger-Tussenruimte-Canvas Gainesville, Florida Design Two, Spring 2010
The Stralenvangers or “light wells� were designed to develop the ideas of itinerary, movement, and to control light and shadow. The three pillars, the light wells, are inserted into the ground and became the joint that elevated a system of translucent and opaque undulating planes, the Tussenruimte, that formed an itinerary circulating above the ground while creating shadow and reflections of light upon the ground, the Canvas. Inside the light wells, the light is reflected through the elevated and through the interiors of the wells to create dramatic light and shadow experiences.
Hand Rendered Section
Physical Model
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Skin
Atrium
Site Sketches
Structure
Inserted into the cultural city of Charleston, the Culinary Institute seeks to develop a sense of discovery and experience within the urban city center. Inspired by the alleyway paths that intertwine within the city, the building features a winding alleyway that penetrates the site, allowing for the spaces between and above to undulate within the enclosed atrium.
Circulation
Enclosure
Rendering in Site
Intervention
State Street Rendering
Charleston Culinary Institute Charleston, South Carolina Design Six, Spring 2012 Critic: Guy Peterson
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Providing for vertical and horizontal itineraries, the Charleston Culinary Institute allows for a visitor to weave through its design, encouraging the interaction between the public and private spaces. This sense of connection acts as a reminder to the students, along with the program of the school, that it is for the people of the city of Charleston for which their passion exists. State Street Elevation
Section A
Bay Street Elevation
Enclosing the lobby and vertical circulation spaces within an airy glass atrium space, the interior of the building becomes a multi story volume that receives a wealth of sunlight while maintaining the invaluable connection between the students and the visitors. To reach the top floor restaurant, wine bar and outdoor patio providing a view of the city and the bay, the visitor is able to walk by and observe the students in their teaching kitchens and demonstration labs. The winding path through the alley way also provides the ability for visitors to walk through the site from Bay Street to State Street. As they turn the corner, the welcoming, bright atrium lobby, smells from the bake shop and undulating scales help to give the inhabitant a unique and inviting experience.
Section B
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3rd Floor
2nd Floor
1st Floor
Ground Floor
Bay Street Rendering
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Orange Lake Painter’s Shelter Heagy-Burry Park
Spatial Programmatic Mapping
McIntosh, Florida Design Five, Fall 2011 Critic: Stephen Bender
Site Plan
Threshold
Gallery Space
The shelter, designed for and around the necessities and desires of a painter is that which requires spaces that function for either one or many purposes. Investigating the problems that might arise for our Peter in his haven, the spaces are more clearly defined and assist in providing more functional spaces in which a painter could inhabit this shelter.
Living Space
Outdoor Space
Painting Studio
Resting Space
Cleaning Space
Storage Space
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Peter captures the essence of his surroundings for his painting that lapse over hours, days and even months or years. His presence in this shelter will be long stays of entire days and even nights as he aspires to create his individual recreation of the beauty and landscape that surrounds Orange Lake.
Hand Rendered Section
Site Plan
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Perspective Hand Rendering
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The city of Rome offers a considerable amount of urban public space, ranging in intensity and scale, providing both urban city residents and tourists with spaces to interact and become integrated within the city culture. After studying the ranges of intensities and scales of urban community spaces, the residential block and community plaza was developed to become an attractor within the city, but to also remain a moderately intense place for interaction between residents and visitors.
Tiber River Residential Block and Community Plaza Rome, Italy Design Seven, Fall 2012 Critic: Alfonso Perez-Mendez Partner: Christopher Franco
Studying the relationships of people within urban community spaces, a list of desired spaces was developed surrounding the needs of each group of people and how they would interact within the spaces, forming a composition for the building arrangements and providing a number of amenities, such as a school, library, offices, commercial shops, a market place, as well as a viewing platform that connects the site to the Tiber River.
Experiences Together
Family
Couple
Solitary
School Playground Commercial Market Plaza Park Library
Commercial Market Plaza Park Library
Commercial Commercial Market Market Plaza Plaza Park Library
Densities of Context
Most dense areas are concentrated along road edges and public plazas
Group
Christopher Franco
Analysis of Urban Public Spaces and Intensities
Jessica Elliott
School/Library Studying Learning Meeting Social Interaction
Piazza Del Popolo
Large Scale Public Plaza
Market
Plaza
Shopping Social Interaction Walking Eating
Social Interaction Meeting Walking Maret
Activities
Park
Residential
Characteristics
Resting Walking Reflecting Studying
Living Eating Sleeping Studying
Playground
Commercial
Social Interaction Playing Walking Meeting
Shopping Social Interaction Meeting Eating
Typologies of People and Spaces
Sociological Analysis of Types of Spaces, Use, and Relationships
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Walking Viewing Gathering
Monument Intersection of Roads Expansiveness
Spanish Steps
Piazza Polverone
Piazza Arenula
Sitting Viewing Gathering
Sitting Resting Walking
Sitting Viewing Resting
Monuments Commercial Intersection Elevated Platforms
Monuments Residential Enclosure Green Space
Monument Walled Enclosure Green Space
Large Scale Public Plaza
Commercial
Small Scale Residential Plaza
Parking
Small Scale Private Piazza
Walking
Typologies of Urban Public Space
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Operating on a sloped ground condition, the public space lifts up to a platform with a connecting bridge that links the site to the water. Underneath the slope is a commercial space that allows movement through underground and then up into the public space. The floor planes are perforated to provide a canopy for the spaces below while the bridge offers a space to rest just above the river.
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The main programmatic elements: the library, school, and the residential towers, provide the main organizational gestures surrounding the sloped plaza, which is intended to be the most intense space and an attractor for the city. The oasis within the plaza space is contrasted with the viewing platform, a belvedere space with linkage to the river.
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Section Construction and Program Jessica Elliott, Christopher Franco
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Site Plan and Building Composition Christopher Franco, Jessica Elliott
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The two systems of building construction, shell and blades, create an integrated system with the exterior glass and assist in the joints between each floor. The buildings are also interlocked, providing a distinction between program within a cohesive structure. Linked together by a system of columns, floor plates and an exterior grid system, the two systems collectively define the individual buildings and allow for dynamic interior and exterior spaces.
Street Render in Site Jessica Elliott
Exploded Construction Axonometric Jessica Elliott, Christopher Franco
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Elevation Across Tiber River Jessica Elliott
The urban plaza space becomes the most important space within the Residential Block, providing an area within the built environment where both visitors and residents can come to relax, interact and enjoy. The slight slope of the plane that creates the plaza allows for a gradual incline leading to a viewing platform that extends out of the site. Across the glass bridge, the double layer viewing platform allows access to the street and to the river below. The overhead canopy and platform mimic the sloped plaza and blade construction. Underneath the plaza, there is a commercial space that is penetrated by light through the perforations in the floor of the plaza and allows for an entrance to the plaza from the street. The space becomes a place for social interaction, shopping, eating and enjoying the view of the Tiber River.
Sloped Plaza Interior View Jessica Elliott
Overall Aerial View
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Unfolded China Sketchbook Forbidden City, Beijing
East Asia Theoretical Sketching Throughout China Design Eight, Summer 2012
Experiencing China through sketching and analysis of architecture and public space assisted in providing a more in depth grasp of the culture while studying abroad during the East Asia Program. Exploring both modern and traditional architecture, public space, and gardens, the Chinese sketchbook unfolds to reveal the experiences as felt and discussed throughout the study abroad experience. The essential interaction between the people within China’s urban cities is of extreme importance in order to maintain strongly interconnected communities and social and cultural expression which these public gardens, parks, courtyards, and squares help to provide. Problematically, the availability of urban public spaces is growing smaller and more inadequate in many Chinese cities, as the rapid achievements of urban development and display of government power overshadow the necessities of the citizens. As cities expand and skylines grow ever taller, the place for respite and reflection within an urban setting is forgotten. The memory of the sense of peacefulness and connection to the metaphysical begins to diminish and the struggle to preserve and develop new spaces for public enjoyment has become a main consideration and challenge for local Chinese architects and international architects alike.
Water Cube, Bird’s Nest, Beijing
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Europe Analytical Sketching Throughout Italy and Europe Design Seven, Fall 2012
With a focus on analysis through sketching, the Italian sketching methods were utilized through exposure to the European urban environment to better understand the composition of European cities as well as the composition of a building. Analyzing the parts of a building to better understand the structure as a whole is completed through axonometric, section and plan sketching. The spatial, formal, organizational, and constructive systems utilized are broken down and discussed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the built environment in Europe and as a whole.
“When one travels and works with visual things - architecture, painting or sculpture - one uses one’s eyes and draws, so as to fix deep down in one’s experience what is seen. Once the impression has been recorded by the pencil, it stays for good, entered, registered, inscribed.” -Le Corbusier, Creation Is a Patient Search
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East Asian Architecture, Summer 2012
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Rapid Urban Expansion and the Deterioration of Public Spaces
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In the rapidly urbanizing cities of China, the necessity of maintaining and creating additional public spaces is an issue that requires more thoughtful consideration as these cities continue to grow at the expense of the people. The essential interaction between the people within China’s urban cities is of extreme importance in order to maintain strongly interconnected communities and social and cultural expression which these public gardens, parks, courtyards, and squares help to provide. Problematically, the availability of urban public spaces is growing smaller and more inadequate in many Chinese cities, as the rapid achievements of urban development and display of government power overshadow the necessities of the citizens. As cities expand and skylines grow ever taller, the place for respite and reflection within an urban setting is forgotten. The memory of the sense of peacefulness and connection to the metaphysical begins to diminish with the loss of these public spaces within growing urban landscapes, and the struggle to preserve and develop new spaces for public enjoyment has become a main consideration and challenge for local Chinese architects and international architects alike. In Chinese culture, the sense of community and the source of interaction within an urban setting are developed most completely within the public spaces of urban parks and gardens. In Chinese philosophy, the phrase “tian ren he yi” – harmony between man, nature, and the universe -- postulates that there is a total interdependence between humans and nature, since the cognitive subject and the object both belong to the universe.” Believed to be incomplete without the presence of nature and its metaphysical harmony, the body would be at a loss in an existence devoid of the beauty and spirituality of the garden. These natural public spaces are of heightened value in an urban setting, where the people of the city have very limited access to garden spaces and have encountered such a significant loss of memory due to the stifling enclosure of the city skyline and the drastically changing environments in which they live. Constantly displaced and living at the mercy of urban expansion, the citizens of these growing Chinese cities retreat to these public spaces when they exist or quickly develop their own within the urban environment to withdraw from the stresses and confinements of daily life (Figure 1).
“Upon entering an urban park, one immediately senses the relative tranquility and slower pace of activity… While the parks are public spaces (gong yuan), these sites are also arenas where urban dwellers seek refuge and attain a semblance of privacy in anonymity from work or home.” It is within these urban public spaces where the atmosphere encouraging cultural expression through dance, games, and the conglomeration of the people within an open public environment is harbored (Figure 2). Beijing, the capitol city of the People’s Republic of China is strongly lacking a sense of peacefulness in its public spaces. The purposefulness of the urban public spaces and the ability to relax and enjoy the nature and culture seems to be absent within its large courtyards and vast spaces such as those found in the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, where the feeling of freedom is disoriented underneath memories of government oppression (Figure 3). There is strong political control over the populace and the ability to exercise leisurely activities, “thus ‘free time’ is only ‘free’ in the sense that time at one’s command is free of duties. Like everything else, the ‘free’ time is more or less regulated” and the suppression of the people can be felt even in the spaces that should be meant to harbor recreation. The squares are overpowering symbols of the power of the government, providing the unsettling feeling of constantly being watched and it is instead within Beijing’s park and garden spaces where the missing serenity and spirituality can be found (Figure 4). Parks and sacred sites such as the Temple of Heaven are the true public spaces that now belong to the people of China, rather than an emperor and are where the people flock to celebrate in Beijing. These vast parks and gardens allow for the wanderers to free themselves and become completely surrounded by nature; “being lost in remote landscapes is good for enhancement of virtues… withdrawing from the bustling world and moving into remote nature.” In Chongqing, public spaces such as those experienced in Beijing are dwindling. Chongqing residents have a single public park that is growing smaller due to the constant expansion of the public sector. The loss of these spaces symbolically demonstrates a momentous loss of peacefulness and cultural unity in China’s urban environments. Shenzhen is a new, rapidly growing city whose existence as an urban center has only been a matter of decades.
Although Shenzhen is a clean slate in which to design a more perfect city for expansion as well as for the culture of the people, the city does not offer much to its citizens in the ways of enjoyable public space. The city of Chengdu, however, experiences the opposite of most Chinese cities. Whereas in many Chinese urban public spaces the people are not allowed to touch the grass or ride their bikes in the public park, the people in Chengdu enjoy much more of the urban spaces. “Despite being planned by the government and bounded by fences and admission gates, the park remains a place where popular and personal healing can occur.” The older, traditional architecture of China is in many ways more readily expressive of the values and beliefs of Chinese culture. Whereas the architecture of China in the present sense seems to aspire primarily to seek attention in individual design and monumentality, the architectural theory of more traditional Chinese values sought to achieve much greater purposes. In traditional Chinese architecture, “the original natural conditions were respected and the optimal conditions for harmoniously combining buildings with nature were sought.” With the unwavering pressure of maintaining an amazing speed to design and the growth of its urban centers, “many architectural designs today lack a respect for and sensitivity towards nature and the environment, whereas in the past landscaping was an area in which the ancient Chinese were masters.” The deterioration of this connection with garden spaces as they were originally designed in conjunction with the built environment is becoming more apparent to the Chinese architects as they begin to more heavily urge the importance of these public spaces within new architecture. Architects designing in China, whether local or international have begun to recognize the importance of this preservation and seek to incorporate public spaces within urban buildings and larger scale projects to better provide for the people and to give back to the culture amidst change. Projects such as Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid and Horizontal Skyscraper in China seek to design buildings around vast areas of open outdoor spaces and to provide a strong correlation between indoor and outdoor spaces, fostering an interaction between the body and the landscape (Figure 5).
Though designing urban projects in China as a foreign architect, Holl’s ideals that “the reciprocal insertion of the body – oneself – in the interwoven landscapes of architecture yields identity and difference,” reflect similar ideals embraced by Chinese philosophy. It is within projects such as Linked Hybrid and Horizontal Skyscraper that the resuscitation of urban public space is assisted and the preservation of the sense of community within an urban work is defended. Although the over indulgence in Western culture has greatly masked Chinese culture behind the search of identity within a globalized world, the presence of international architecture within China’s era of rapid urbanization can also seek to revive the ideals of Chinese culture. While there has grown to become a strong lacking of public spaces provided by the government to the people of China, the realization and constant efforts of national and international architects hope to revive the urban culture and to provide more for the public through architecture and urban design. With the rapid and unbelievable growth of the cities of China, it is a difficulty that worries the people and local architects alike: how to provide for the culture of the people and maintain the memory of the past in an ever-changing built environment. The necessity of the involvement and integration of nature within the lives of the people living in China’s cities is that which has been lost through the development of cities and the deterioration of public space yet is a strong cultural element which requires preservation. Through China’s rapid urbanization, the pressure to assert the growing power of China has in turn developed “the emotionless state in Chinese mega cities, (which) starts from not even realizing what essential aspect has been lost,” namely the sense of culture and poetic unity between the people and nature within a public urban environment.
1 Xin Lu, China, China... Western Architects and City Planners in China (Stuttgart, Germany: HAtje Cantz Verlag, 2008), 64. 2 Deborah Davis, Urban Spaces in Contemporary China (New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995), 351.
3 Ibid., 150. 4 Hui Zou, “The Idea of Labyrinth (migong) in Chinese Building Tradition,” forthcoming in The Journal of Aesthetic Education: 10-11.
5 Davis, 352. 6 Lu, 54. 7 Ibid.
8 Steven Holl, “Intertwining,” Intertwining: Selected Projects 1989-1995 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), 11-16. 9 Hui Zou, “Jing: A Phenomenological Reflection on Chinese Landscape and Qing,” Jounal of Chinese Philosophy 35.2 (June 2008): 365.
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Awards and Experiences Study abroad
Simpson Strong-Tie Company Scholarship
University Scholars Program
Stovall Scholarship
China - Summer 2012 - Design 8 UF in East Asia Study in collaboration with Chongqing University
A Comparative Study of the Urban Community Spaces of China, Italy and Southern Florida.
Undergraduate Research
UFIC Study Abroad Scholarship Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholarship NEWH Sunshine gold award John R. Ross Scholarship Alpha Rho Chi Brother of the Year Award Institute of International Education’s Open Doors publication
Artwork Chosen for Cover
Through comparative research conducted during my study abroad programs in China and Italy this Project seeks to analyze and compare the public spaces and the effects on the people and their cultural values in community space. Following the research, an urban community project will be completed for my Hometown of Sarasota, FL. This research and project will be published in the 2013 University of Florida Journal of Undergraduate Research. Pedagogy
Artwork published on the cover of Open Doors
Dean’s List 2010-2013
Provided support as a teaching assistant and Student mentor to the Design Two class led by Professor John Maze in the Summer of 2011. Spent hours in and out of the classroom to help the lower division students in my class succeed and understand the design process.
Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
College of design, construction and planning
Travelled throughout China to experience the culture and architecture of a nation experiencing dramatic urban expansion. Collaborated with the students and Faculty of Chongqing University’s School of Architecture to propose an urban design solution for the Shi Ban Po District of Chongqing. Following the group project in China, an individual project was Completed in Gainesville, FL. Italy and Europe - Fall 2012 - Design 7 Vicenza Institute of Architecture
Travelled throughout Europe including Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, France, and the Czech Republic studying both modern and traditional architecture and urban public space. Completed a project for an urban Tower hotel for Barcelona, Spain and a urban Housing block for Rome, Italy. While abroad, I Studied Italian language and took a graduate Level lighting course with professors from Italy.
Hong Kong, China
Professional Organizations and leadership Alpha Rho Chi (APX) Professional fraternity for architecture
Work Experience
Involvement
The Collier Companies
Professional
President 2011-2012 Social Director 2010-2011 Pledge Class Vice President 2009-2010
Gainesville, FL
Organized and ran numerous professional, service and social events for our school and our community.
Operated the office of an apartment community. Provided information and gave tours to future residents. Signed leases and collected rent. Maintained relationships with residents and organized community events. Recognized for team work and dedication.
Delta epsilon iota (DEI)
Academic Honor Society
2011-2012
Customer service specialist
2010-Current
NEWH student member
Texas Hold’em Poker Tours, LLC
American Institute of Architecture Students
Area Manager
2010-2012 American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Nominated for the ACI Foundation Student Fellowship Program 2012 As a leader within the student organizations, I worked closely with faculty, students and other leaders to promote school events, lectures and programs.
Gainesville, FL
2009-2012 Successfully started a business that branched out from Orlando, FL. Organized and managed a business that promoted local venues. Managed employee schedules. Documented charges and payments. Maintained relationships with business owners, employees and customers. Gained experience with sales and marketing.
Alpha Rho Chi National Convention 2012
I helped to organize and run events such as lectures, work shops and question&answer seminars for students within our college. Working closely with faculty, we also helped to promote college events and guest lectures. service
Worked with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and March of Dimes, raising money during APX’s annual Halloween Extravaganza. Volunteered with Project Makeover to help renovate local schools in my community. Social
Organized events for students such as smore’s night and campus tours to help integrate new students into studio culture. Halloween extravaganza benefitting relay for life
Independent Study
China gallery exhibition
Scholarships and awards