PORTFOLIO JILL FALLON
WRIGHT MEMORIAL MUSEUM
CITY RESEARCH
WRAPPER HOUSE
MUSEUM OF THE CITY
WELLNESS CENTER
CULINARY INSTITUTE
WTCC ADMINISTRATION
WYLY THEATRE
CHANNEL HOUSE
FIGURE DRAWINGS
ROUDNICE CASTLE
WORKS IN CLAY
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WRIGHT MEMORIAL MUSEUM design project site: kill devil hills, nc instructors: matt griffith, wayne place
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in order to design a new museum to commemorate the wright brother’s famous flight, i first sought to understand the true importance of the event that took place there. i thought about how flying is a regular part of many peoples lives, how it has revolutionized the way we are able to communicate and explore the world, and how it paved the way for space exploration. i realized that the wright brothers did so much more than simply take the first flight. it marked the moment in time where humans went from an earthbound species into occupiers of the sky as well. in order to express this idea, i decided to begin the voyage into the museum by having visitors walk over a pond and through a cantilevered building into a dark, stony corridor surrounded by earth. in order to achieve this, a giant mound would be created by scooping out the land for the pond and displacing the earth in a large dune resting against the exhibition space. visitors would have a moment in the middle of this sequence where the mound separates to the outside, and they are met with the original flight path, a place for contemplation, before they continue down the dark corridor. Emerging from inside the mound, visitors arrive in the great exhibition space, where light washes down from a sawtooth roof and planes are displayed all around. the visitor then can experience flight simulators and explore the restoration area in the wing of the building. next, they travel upstairs to a balcony hovering above the planes of the exhibition room. they then travel outside on the second floor, across their original path and emerge atop the entry building, cantilevered over the pond. the effect of being suspended over water, high up in the air, at the end of this circulation sequence, would hopefully remind the visitor of flying, and reinforce the importance and true meaning of this historical site.
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sustainability was a major consideration in this design. the mound of earth acts as a thermal regulator to four major rooms inside of it and to the east wall of the of the exhibition space. in the exhibition hall, the large room is daylit through the use of the sawtooth roof. the south facing facade has a generous overhang which allows winter light in, and keeps summer light out. the east facade is almost entirely closed off to avoid solar heat gain. the west facade was treated with vertical, mechanized louvres to respond to the sun’s path throughout the day, and the north facade has generous openings to allow for soft diffused light. additionally, the created pond is used for water runoff from the parking areas and building, and helps passively cool the building.
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WRAPPER HOUSE design project site: raleigh, nc instructor: david hill
the wrapper house is designed to bring the outside in and the inside out.
inspired by the simple beauty of light shining through trees, the house is wrapped in a framework of wooden slats which creates dappled, streaming light and provides a sense of both openness and privacy.
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outdoor living front porch privacy: low exposure to elements: low other: allows street viewing and helps encourage neighborly interaction back patio privacy: high exposure to elements: high rooftop patio privacy: medium exposure to elements: medium (slats in wrapper allow varying levels of exposure)
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sustainability the wrapper house is designed to take advantage of passive solar heating and cooling. south facade: summer - high sunlight largely deflected by wrapper winter - low sunlight can stream into large expanses of glass north facade: expansive glass for diffused light east/west facade: completely solid to avoid overheating 13 WRAPPER HOUSE
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WELLNESS CENTER for individuals living with lupus
design project site: raleigh, nc instructors: laura battaglia, katrina stoll
the wellness center was designed to sit on a semi-industrial site in downtown raleigh. the site has an irregular shape bound by train tracks on one side and capital boulevard (a major roadway) on the other. a former factory exists on the site and was incorporated into the building design. the newer buildings are elongated to capture north and south light and provide daylighting and passive solar heating and cooling. we were asked to focus on a specific audience who would use our facility. i chose individuals living with lupus for my target group, because i have vast knowledge of this topic from working at the lupus foundation of america, and also because the symptoms of lupus pose some interesting challenges. design considerations for individuals living with lupus: photosensitivity - peeled back roofs towards the north to allow diffused light to enter the space, rather than harsh south or east light severe joint pain - very limited changes in elevation 90% women - created larger changing areas, sauna, and steam rooms for women than for men fatigue - frequent rest areas throughout circulation route to allow for breaks cognitive dysfunction - clear circulation paths depression - spaces for mental health activities including alternative medicine: group & individual therapy, meditation, and hypnosis
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the circulation path brings a visitor through the existing building first where they can change and prepare for their therapies. they continue through until they reach a long axis where they can go forward to the body wing or left to the mind wing. the program called for wet and dry spaces. the wet spaces were further divided into a fast pools and slow pools. i created a wet zone which featured two slow pools for relaxing, a jacuzzi and warm pool. the fast pool which could be used for water exercise has a swim-through corridor to the outdoor pool.
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WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION + CLASSROOM BUILDING professional work during summer internship little diversified architectrual consulting
the administration and classroom building is meant to symbolize the future of the college as a driving force in innovation, technology, and sustainability. as a summer intern, i was involved with the project in many capacities. i created a physical model of the building within my first week and spent much of the summer editing various aspects of the building model in revit. the design for the building developed throughout my time as an intern. in my last two weeks i was asked to create a presentation quality site map of the main campus and a plan of the building.
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CHANNEL HOUSE design project site: raleigh, nc instructor: david hill
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the channel house was designed as a response to solar orientation and prevailing winds and was influenced by the southern vernacular house form of the dogtrot. the form, which originated around 1800, was popular in the southeast because of its effectiveness in passive cooling by providing a large open space in the center of the house through which air can flow. accordingly, the central volume of the channel house is characterized by large operable doors perpendicular to raleigh’s prevailing southwest winds that can be opened to cross ventilate the entire volume. the rooms on either side of the opening are cross-ventilated through suction created by operable doors and windows at either end. in addition, the opening provides an outdoor/indoor space to gather the family together and enjoy fresh air and expansive outdoor views.
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the form of the house was also strongly influenced by the site’s solar orientation. since southern light hits the front façade of the house at a 30-degree angle, large lshaped overhangs were placed to minimize harsh east and west solar gain in the summer, while allowing solar penetration during the winter. the result of this configuration is a form that is reminiscent of metal extrusions and steel channels; this in turn prompted our decision to use extrusions as our aesthetic expression. extruding the private spaces from the central volume followed, with the main building standing as the giver of form to the smaller spaces. the central volume also serves as the point of origin in many other ways including rainwater collection, natural ventilation, photovoltaic panels producing solar energy, heating and cooling pipes, plumbing, and the electrical system.
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while the channel form worked well for our solar orientation, it left a significant amount open space to be covered in glass. because of the angles of our overhangs, the amount of insulation on non-glazed surfaces, and the use of low-e glazing, we were able to avoid enormous amounts of heat loss/gain, but we were left with the problem of privacy in glazed areas. to respond to this we incorporated channel glass, a translucent recycled glass product rolled into a channel shape. channel glass provides greater privacy, and is also a better insulator than standard glass.
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the second iteration of the channel house was an opportunity to test the flexibility of the scheme. having been assigned a new solar orientation with north toward the street and south facing the backyard, we were also told to increase the floor area by adding a third bedroom and a study. in order to accommodate these changes, we extended the back extrusion to hold an additional bedroom and added a small extrusion on the north for the study, with the roof extending to the master bedroom to create a covered front porch. in order to capture the prevailing winds from the southwest (integral to our passive cooling strategy), the extrusions were switched to opposite sides so that the wind would be channeled through the center of the house.
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ROUDNICE CASTLE
university master plan + castle renovation/library addition urban planning & design project site: roudnice nad labem, czech republic instructor: thomas bitnar
during my semester abroad, i had the opportunity to reinvision roudnice castle, which dates back to the 12th century and is located 45 miles north of prague. the castle, surrounding buildings and land are virtually unused today. the location, however, would make it an ideal place for a university. it sits next to an active rail line, a navigable river, and a small, but active town square. creating clearer connections to the town square, rail line, and river were of chief importance in the university master plan. large stepped terraces funnel circulation to the campus where strong axes direct both students and the public through a variety of spaces on and off campus. the new university buildings outline an ‘energy quad’, which is a reinterpretation of a french garden and is designed to harness green energy, produce fresh food, and provide education on sustainability.
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in the past, the central plaza of the castle was a manicured french garden. currently, it is used as a parking lot for castle events. it was important to reintroduce green space into the plaza. in order to achieve this, the library was inserted at the ground level with a green roof creating a plaza at the +1 level. four mixed use cubes rise from each corner of the library.
another import aspect of the intervention was to create better connections between the riverside, the town square, the campus, and the castle itself. in order to achieve this, larger openings were created in the center of each facade with improved paths connecting various points of interest.
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a partially covered path wraps around the castle at the parking level (-1) allowing a public shortcut to the town square with entry along it into the castle. cutting in to the interior of the castle plaza, bisecting paths on the library (0) level and plaza level (+1) create connections to the larger campus and bring public visitors into the green spaces, coffee shop, public computers, and three story parking garage.
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CITY DIAGRAMS/MODELS
research site: charleston, sc instructors: don kranbuehl, jessica johnson moore
the charleston peninsula was researched and diagrammed in terms of: physical characteristics: landforms, topography, rivers, marshes, etc. city fabric: location of built structures circulation: major/minor routes, highways and waterways history: as related to landform, where marshes were filled in to create more land mass
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CITY MODEL the city model (previous page) is a three dimensional representation of the diagrams representing the charleston peninsula. topography is represented on both land and sea. areas of river are shown in plexiglass with marsh areas represented with a frosty texture. the top layer of topography on the actual peninsula shows the original shape of the peninsula, before marsh areas were filled in. additionally, the city fabric is incised onto the landforms and the two main circulation paths are represented with bent metal. PRECINCT MODEL the precinct model shows an area of downtown charleston containing the site for our ‘museum of the city’ project. this precinct contains some important historical buildings including the daughters of the confederacy building and the market. we went to charleston and measured each building for height, width, setbacks, and reconstructed the area to get an overall feeling of the texture of the city. the precinct sat on the waters edge and was partially filled-in marshland. the ground plane expresses where former marshland existed through an open weave texture, which also pays tribute to the woven baskets popularly sold in the market.
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MUSEUM OF THE CITY
design project site: charleston, sc instructors: don kranbuehl, jessica johnson moore
after extensive site research at the city and precinct level, we were given an assignment to create a museum based on an abstract program of one cube, one long rectangular box, and 4 major walls. wall wall wall wall
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NC INSTITUTE OF CULINARY ARTS design project site: raleigh, nc instructors: frank harmon, susan cannon
the culinary institute is a place for students to learn how to cook and cultivate food. it is designed so that the public can reap the rewards of the students’ education. the location is in the warehouse district of downtown raleigh. the existing site is series of three parking lots, each with a different elevation. the design for the institute follows these elevation changes with openings shifted to engage the public at all three levels. the heart of the institute is along the west facade where students and faculty enter into a large atrium. the lobby, library, demonstration kitchen, recreation room, and auditorium open up to the atrium. the lines between auditorium, lobby, and lounge are blurred so that different arrangements could offer many possibilities of use in these spaces. the library would be a place for students and public to learn recipes, study by a fireplace, or even check out exotic spices or tools for their own experimentation.
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the restaurant is located at the intersection of two city streets. the kitchen stretches along the street side in order to allow views of cooking from the street and from within the restaurant. a greenhouse sits atop the dining area of the restaurant and wraps over the front of the building. this forms the entry to the restaurant as well as a place for the public to buy fresh produce throughout the day. the greenhouse and rooftop gardens would yield much of the produce used in the demonstration kitchen, restaurant, and produce shop. an outdoor/indoor agricultural classroom would be connected to the greenhouse and adjacent to one of the rooftop gardens. traditional farming practices could be taught in the two plots at either end of the facility. the plants in the greenhouse would be grown hydroponically in long tubes of nutrient rich water. the use of hydroponics within a greenhouse allows year round food production, zero transportation costs and associated carbon emissions, the freshest possible produce, greater variety in plant species grown, and less water use and higher yield than traditional farming. the restaurant would showcase this high-tech garden with a clear glass ceiling open to the greenhouse.
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WYLY THEATRE
precedent study site: dallas, tx instructors: matt griffith, wayne place
the wyly theatre was chosen as a precedent study because of its innovative use of structure which allows for an unconventional theatre design in which all facilities are stacked above - and below - house. this design allows for ample flexibility in theatre configuration, giving the directors ultimate artistic freedom. visitors descend into the underbelly of this cube-like building only to emerge up into an enormous and entirely flexible performance space surrounded by expansive views of downtown dallas.
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FIGURE DRAWINGS undergraduate work tulane university instructor: sandy chism
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WORKS IN CLAY undergraduate work tulane university instructor: jeremy jernegan
when assigned to represent an aspect of human anatomy through clay, i chose to represent the sound processing center of the inner ear, the cochlea. the piece evolved into a larger symbol of the music of new orleans (where i attended school). through repetition of this form and variations in size and shape, i sought to create visual rhythm. the clay was mixed with gold vermiculite, a shimmering material, and then painted with a blue-green glaze and a copper wash yielding a colorful but gritty surface.
the dove sculpture is meant to express different interpretations of the same object. biologically, a dove and a pigeon are the exact same. the difference is our perception of them. the sculpture is enscrawled with images of pigeons, but guides the viewer to see the dove as a larger symbol. a symbol of promise, hope, and auspiciousness.
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