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JULIET MCCOOEY
JULIET MCCOOEY
JMcCooey@design.upenn.edu | (516) 281-5068 https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-mccooey
EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania | Master of Architecture Candidate | Expected: May 2022 -Ecological Architecture Certificate -Cumulative GPA: 3.86 -Stewart Weitzman School of Design Merit Scholar | 2019-2022 -Albert F. Schenk-Henry Gillette Woodman Scholarship | Spring 2020 -Installation in the Penn Museum’s Stoner Courtyard | Fall 2019 Lehigh University | Bachelor of Arts in Architecture & Engineering Minor | May 2019 -Cumulative GPA: 3.64 -High Honors Diploma -Dean’s List: Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Mark Anthony Architects | Architecture Internship | Bellmore, NY | Summer 2017, 2018 + 2019 -Designed proposed plans for single and multi-family residential and commercial projects in Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn -Conducted site surveys of existing conditions -Facilitated weekly meetings with clients to discuss project plans -Prepared construction contract documents, including plans, details, sections, elevations, and schedules -Conducted periodic on-site observation of work during construction to monitor compliance with detailed design documents -Generated submission documents for local municipalities and attended project variance hearings Gouck Architects | Architecture Externship | Allentown, PA | January 2017 -Awarded out of competitive application process by Lehigh University -Worked under registered architects on residential and commercial projects and completed site visits to check conformance with construction documents University of Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Social Media Manager | Philadelphia, PA | August 2020-Present -Manage social media presence and content on multiple platforms -Design new, engaging content utilizing the Adobe Suite Signature Premier Properties | Real Estate Internship | Garden City, NY | Summer 2016 -Designed weekly corporate ads for sold and for sale residential and commercial properties and advertised open houses -Redesigned company website
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Urban Housing Studio | University of Pennsylvania | Fall 2020 -Developed hybrid typologies for low-income and luxury housing with public common space, on a 70,500 SF site in Brooklyn, NY -Researched the influence of sea level rising due to global warming on architecture in coastal cities -Analyzed how adaptive reuse projects influence the existing building and its surrounding community -Produced comprehensive sections and plans for a variety of apartment types and proper egress Architecture Studio | University of Pennsylvania | Spring 2020 -Designed an athletic and community center on a 57,000 SF site connected to a viaduct rail park -Researched alternative forms of energy, concentrated on human generated energy Construction II | University of Pennsylvania | Spring 2020 -Quickly gained knowledge of Revit to design and produce construction drawings of a nine-story commercial building in Philadelphia Architecture Studio | University of Pennsylvania | Fall 2019 -Reinterpreted the 30,000 SF Penn Museum Courtyard utilizing the fractional space created by photogrammetry scans Inquiry Into Biomaterial Architectures | University of Pennsylvania | Spring 2021 -Currently researching more environmental and economical solutions to traditional building materials Architecture Studio | Temple University Rome | Spring 2018 -Explored how to apply new designs strategies in a historic city, while preserving and reinterpreting existing ruins Apprentice Teacher for Two-Dimensional Design Studio | Lehigh University | Fall 2018 -Taught architecture students Adobe Suite and critiqued students’ designs Design Mentor for Health Systems Engineering Graduate Students | Lehigh University | Fall 2017 -Facilitated Adobe Suite workshops for development of research materials
SKILLS 3D Modeling Rhino | Revit | Maya | SketchUp | AutoCAD | 3D Scanning | Grasshopper | ZBrush Adobe Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | AfterEffects | KeyShot | V-Ray | Bluebeam Graphics Fabrication Laser Cutting | 3D Printing | CNC Milling | Model Making | Woodworking ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS Involvement Interests
Penn Women in Design | Alpha Phi | AIAS | Association of Student Alumni Skiing | Travel | Hiking | Drawing | Painting | Photography
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JULIET MCCOOEY University of Pennsylvania - Weitzman School of Design M. Arch Candidate, Class of 2022
Selected Works 6-17 RESILIENT COMMUNITY LoLux Urban Housing | Fall 2020
18-31 PHILADELPHIA POWER PARK Urban Market | Spring 2020
32-41 WELLNESS NETWORK Competition: Market + Clinic | Spring 2021
42-51 FRACTIONAL MANIPULATION Museum Archive Extension | Fall 2019
52-55 TRANS-MUTATIONAL MATTER Cabinet Installation | Fall 2019
56-59 THE EDGE Climbing Folly | Summer 2019
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RESILIENT COMMUNITY Fall 2020 Urban Housing Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Jonas Coersmeier Site: Brooklyn, NY
Material Study Utilized for Textures
The design studio LoLux Commons developed hybrid typologies for lowincome and luxury housing, and it proposed a new kind of public common space in Brooklyn, New York. LoLux Commons simultaneously focused on the two primary growth markets of New York City’s real estate: luxury condominiums and affordable housing. It discussed these two extreme segments in context, probed into their interaction and systematically worked out areas of synergy in order to add value for various stakeholders and for the community at large. My urban research analyzed the influence of the sea level rising due to global warming on coastal cities. My research inspired me to address its influence on architecture, especially housing. In a few years, the sea level will rise and begin to alter the area surrounding the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including our current site. Therefore, I propose a new,
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elevated ground level supporting this community that will help combat and adapt to the effects of the rising sea levels, storms like hurricane Sandy and, flooding. This new ground is aligned with the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. To create this space the first two levels of the existing building will be removed, making it apart of the elevated ground. The entrances are now located under the cantilever of the existing building. The communities’ public program incorporates growth and education of Coral. Coral reefs are important and relevant because they protect coastlines from storms and erosion and the Algae produces oxygen. Coral will be grown in nurseries that are in the base of the new ground. This will provide jobs for local community, bring in students from surrounding schools and welcome biologists as well as offer opportunities for recreation.
Urban Corridor As the sea level rises, the resilient community will have the ability to expand across the urban landscape. The goal is to not isolate and only protect itself but help benefit the greater community. The new ground has and will continue to expand into the site creating a new landscape with passages to help mediate the flooding in the surrounding area.
Urban Expansion Study
Cluster Section
The community contains studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments and well as a dorm style living apartments. These apartments have three to four bedrooms, a common living space and kitchen. Additionally, there are one story, one and a half story, and two-story units. On each floor residents have access to common study rooms that are located between the dorm style living spaces and access to shared balcony spaces. 8 | Resilient Community
Building Section
01 New Ground Level 02 Sea Level Raised 15 ft 03 Sea Level Raised 10 ft 04 Sea Level Raised 5ft 05 Prior Ground level
06 Public Cafe 07 Public Education Center 08 Public Roof Top 09 Communal Balconies 10 Proposed Housing 11 Existing Building Height 12 Adapted Existing Housing 13 Pedestrian Bridge Across BQE 14 Public Courtyard 15 Coral Research Laboratory 16 Flood Mitigation 17 Coral NJursery uliet McCooey | 9
01 Public Cafe 02 Public Education Center 03 Public Roof Top 04 Communal Study Rooms 05 Communal Balconies 06 Proposed Housing 07 Existing Building Height
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08 Adapted Existing Housing 09 Pedestrian Bridge Across BQE 10 Public Courtyard 11 Flood Mitigation 12 Coral Nursery 13 Coral Research Laboratory 14 Coral Habitat
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Proposed Addition Plan 01
Circulation Diagram
Shared balconies act as an additional form of egress, connecting the entire floor.
Apartment Types
Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom Two-Story - One Bedroom Two-Story - Three Bedroom Two-Story - Four Bedroom Dorm / Communal Living Common Study Room 12 | Resilient Community
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Circulation Diagram
Shared balconies act as an additional form of egress, connecting the entire floor.
Apartment Types
Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom Two-Story - One Bedroom Two-Story - Three Bedroom Two-Story - Four Bedroom Dorm / Communal Living Common Study Room 14 | Resilient Community
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THE PHILADELPHIA POWER PARK Spring 2020 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Andrew Saunders Site: Callowhill, Philadelphia, PA
Urban Artifact Site Relief
Throughout the new digital age, urban artifacts have developed the ability to transform their formal functions. The site relief defamiliarizes urban artifacts found on and surrounding the existing site from the past and present by giving them a new scale and function on the site. The Philadelphia Power Park is a power station that takes on a new public face by incorporating the value of human generated energy. The energy the visitor exerts can be collected and generated into revenue in the form of cryptocurrency. The Philadelphia Power Park will supply power to the community and help improve citizens’ health and finances.
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Callowhill is experiencing a great wave of gentrification, forcing many residents relocate. This market will provide the neighborhood with a cheaper source of energy and help residents stay in their homes by offering a way to generate additional revenue by translating their physical movements into a tangible value. Power Park will welcome people from all demographics in an innovative way. Whether a visitor wants to do a serious physical work out or just relax and have fun with their family or friends. The Power Park will give back to the city of Philadelphia as it juxtaposes traditional power plants through the incorporation of leisure and public activity.
Kit of Urban Artifacts
High Relief
Stone Wall Under Viaduct
Figural Relief
Defamiliarized Wall Study
Our studio gathered a kit of urban artifacts for our reliefs. After researching the work by Louise Nevelson, I was inspired by the compositional qualities of her reliefs and her utilization of different of islands of density. These are highly populated clusters that contrast the subtle surrounding bas relief. Therefore, the center of each ring to appears more populated as it opens up to the courtyards below. The ring’s form is generated from the manipulation of one of the original artifacts. They become an extension of the viaduct since it is another ring on the urban scale. The rings are held up by a series of trusses and only intersect the ground at one point, giving the illusion that they are floating. 20 | The Philadelphia Power Park
Bas Relief
Defamiliarized Wall in Context
Through the defamiliarization of the stone wall found underneath the existing viaduct, I was able to reinterpret the relationship between solid load bearing plinths and light industrial structures. The existing stone has a dense and heavy materiality, so I gave it a new life by making it light, and transparent. The glass facade allows the building to glow, providing the neighborhood with additional lighting at night. The glass blocks are not completely transparent, creating clouded views to the outside. Additional frame windows break the order of the facade and frame different views of the neighborhood.
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The organization of my market stems off the idea of Constant’s New Babylon project where he imagined that in the near future, automation would free human life to dedicate itself to collectivity and play. Therefore, the market’s rings are inhabited by leisurely activities as they hover above a below ground labyrinth, where the machines work to collect the energy. But, unlike New Babylon, the above and below elements of the market have a symbiotic relationship. The visitors power the building and the crypto mining machines through leisure activities and then receive compensation.
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Every time we move, we exert some form of energy on to the surfaces around us. The market will have spaces for various physical activities like walking and running tracks, a velodrome, roller blading ring and a trampoline gym.
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Vignette of Running Track
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Vignette of Velodrome
These spaces are lined with sensors that record the visitor’s movement and energy. For example, as a visitor runs across the track, the power of each step is collected. Then this can be exchanged for cryptocurrency in the lobby when his or her workout is complete. This Power Park breaks the order of the conventional marketplace by placing visitors into both roles of the vendor and customer. This market will provide the neighborhood with a cheaper source of energy and help residents stay in their homes by offering a way to generate additional revenue by translating their physical movements into a tangible value. Vignette of Entrance View
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WELLNESS NETWORK HOK Futures Design Competition 2021 Collaboration: Elisabeth Machielse Site: Mill Creek, Philadelphia, PA Aerial Perspective in Site
This project focuses on improving the physical, social, and environmental health of the surrounding community. In addition to the market and maternal health clinic, our proposal includes a greenhouse, shading design to reduce solar heat gain, and a ‘pop-up’ community space that can be used as a vaccination clinic, soup kitchen, or for other community events. The layout emphasizes circular focal points that encourage movement and connect the site’s program together, thereby bringing people together into the central spaces. Additionally, the central courtyard includes a plays-space for children to interact and acts as an extension of the park across the street. Market’s canopy is a perforated metal system that helps prevent solar heat gain. Panels are laid out in a geometric pattern, which is inspired by the geometric ornamentation found in Islamic mosques. There are three different types of markets allowing a variety of vendors. The farmer’s market is a flexible space that allows vendors to bring healthy, locally grown food daily since
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there are not many healthy options in the area. The open market vendor stalls provide a small kitchen, storage area and window counter for takeout service. The enclosed food and vendor space offers a larger space for vendors that wish to stay at the market for a longer period of time. Additionally, the Café on site is an educational and non-profit restaurant. It includes a fullservice kitchen and a demonstration kitchen, to teach at risk youth occupational skills. The community greenhouse provides the cafe staff and local residents a place to grow their own food. Extra food from the greenhouse and cafe can be used in the pop- up soup kitchen to help community and reduce food waste. The maternal health clinic is a privately run clinic offering residents of the neighborhood prenatal clinical services that is convenient, comfortable, and familiar. Programs will be run by midwives and nurse practitioners, as opposed to physicians. The clinic will have a direct relationship with a local hospital in case of emergencies.
Project Diagrams 1. Pathways to enter site from surroundings 2. Pathways converging on site 3. Derived pathways and building forms 4. Intersections and program shaping 5. Curve study to connect spaces
Site Plan
1. Philadelphia Masjid 2. Clara Muhammad Square 3. Fast Food Takeout Restaurant 4. Gas Station 5. Quba Institute Day School 6. Islamic Learning Tree Academy 34 | Wellness Network
Exploded Axonometric
Market Canopy Market Type 1: Farmer’s Market Market Type 2: Open Market Vendor Stalls Cafe: Education + Non-Profit Restaurant Pop-Up Space for Community Events Market Type 3: Large Food + Vendor Space Playground Maternal Health Clinic Community Greenhouse
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FRACTIONAL MANIPULATION Fall 2019 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Maya Alam Site: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Interpretation of Various 3D Site Scans
As objects move through the translational process from physical to digital, they are inevitably losing parts of themselves. The article, Ripping Reality: Blind Spots and Wrecked Data in 3D by Hito Steyerl, evaluates how modeling processes are driven by interpretation. The proposed archive extension gives the Penn Museum Archive a new public face. The public will have a new opportunity to experience history that is usually hidden away in private storage. Through the exploration photogrammetry, I learned how three-dimensional scans result in a display of fractional space. Each physical disruption and imperfection are transformed into a new sense of space. Therefore, through a series of interpretation and replication, these objects become a former illustrated version of themselves. Our studio also explored casting. Through these studies I discovered that a cast is a translated
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copy of an object, since it interprets the mold and produces a new language through a set of discrepancies and mutations, that is impossible repeat identically. The form of the proposed archive is a result of the introduction of manipulated digital casts to normative geometry. The digital casts are taken from distinctive moments of three-dimensional scans of the existing museum courtyard. When you make a cast of an object, you are disassociating it from its original time. Even though the cast originated from the current site, it takes on its own identity and purpose. The main street entrance breaks through the mesh and invites the visitor into the large exhibition space. The interior is an oscillating response to the surface below. The ramping floors are utilized as an archive exhibition space. The top right volume of the building intersects the existing on the second and third floors. This space will operate as additional office spaces.
Courtyard Scans
Form Development
Digital Casts The form was discovered through the manipulation of the normative geometry with digital casts from various photogrammetry scans of the existing museum courtyard.
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Exhibition Space Street Entrance Public Courtyard Private Archive Storage
Existing Museum Classrooms Additional Offices Sculpture Garden
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TRANS-MUTATIONAL MATTER Fall 2019 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Maya Alam Site: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA Collaboration: Danny Ortega + Helen Han
Cabinet Axon
Trans-Mutational Matter is a proposed cabinet to house artifacts from the Penn Museum. The article Ripping Reality by Hito Steyerl describes how translated objects from the real to the digital are inevitably losing parts of themselves through the translational process. These translated objects are then only a former illustrated version of themselves, thus making us no longer an exhibitor to these pieces, but the performer. Our project “Trans-Mutational Matter” takes a similar approach in context to the artifacts that we are given by the Penn Museum and tries to invoke a conversation
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in what it means to replace representation with replication. Artifacts in museums are often displayed on pedestals. The proposed cabinet absorbs the artifacts, presenting them in a new light. The form was developed by breaking down the shapes and slowing making something new, while leaving something behind, reminding itself of its formal self. Then we introduced the scanned manipulations to create a dynamic relationship with the normative, creating a new perception with the conflicting objects languages.
Top View
Front Elevation
Exploded Axon
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THE EDGE Summer 2019 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Danielle Willems + Ezio Blasetti Site: Schuylkill River Trail, Philadelphia, PA
Close-up Vertical Perspective
The Edge is a proposed monolithic climbing wall located in Paine’s Park in Philadelphia, adjacent to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This project examines the geometry and relationships that were a derived from photogrammetry of a variety of household objects. A photogrammetry scan of a handmade clay bust generated the geometric forms. Through the exploration of the broken down forms that were extracted from the scan and introduced into a 24’ x 24’ x 36’ box, the form was achieved. Then the result was multiplied and
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joined to create the final climbing wall. The bust’s texture reveals remnants of the artist’s fingers prints from when she worked and shaped the piece of clay. Therefore, the object was chosen and resulted in creating relationship between the hand and physical materiality and nature of the climbing wall. The climbing wall has a variety of levels of difficulty, welcoming climbers of all skill levels. The wall will bring a new destination to the area. Inviting visitors of all ages to climb or sit back and enjoy the view.
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Vertical Sections of Single Component
Horizontal Sections of Single Component
Top View of Combined Structure
Horizontal Section of Combined Structure
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RITTENHOUSE TOWER Spring 2020 Construction II School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Franca Trubiano + Patrick Morgan Site: Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
Street View
Throughout the semester, I developed a full set of construction drawings for a nine -story typical office building to be built on 19th and Walnut in Center City, Philadelphia. This was a great opportunity to gain greater knowledge of the software and how to construct an entire building from the ground up. Starting with a conceptual mass, we established the foundation and worked
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our way up the structure. I learned about the appropriate structural layers for floors, walls, outdoor spaces, circulation cores, stairs, and more. I also learned about the construction differences and details of curtain walls, double-curtain walls, and masonry walls. It was exciting to gain a greater understanding of the entire process of developing a set of drawings. The set included Floor Plans, Sections, Elevations, RCPs, and details.
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Level 01 Floor Plan
Building Transverse Section - Facing North
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Mezzanine Floor Plan
Building Transverse Section - Facing South
Level 05 Floor Plan
Level 06 Floor Plan
Wall Sections - Facing North
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JULIET MCCOOEY JMcCooey@design.upenn.edu (516) 281-5068
Dedicated to my father, who endlessly supports me through all of my struggles and achievements. Thank you for teaching me the value of hard work and dedication. I would not be the person I am without you.