Joanna Frauca Portfolio 2024

JOANNA FRAUCA

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

EDUCATION

2015 - 2019

Savannah College of Art and Design

B.F.A. | Architecture Minor | Printmaking

2022 - 2024 (Expected by May)

Savannah College of Art and Design

M.Arch | Architecture

AWARDS

AIA COTE® TOP TEN Student 2023 Winner

AIA Georgia Design Awards 2024 Winner

IDA Design Awards 2023 Bronze Winner

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Revit

AutoCAD

Rhino

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom

Microsoft Suite

PROCreate

LUMION

Enscape

3Ds Max

V-RAY

JOANNA FRAUCA

EXPERIENCE

SCAD Design Group

Architectural Designer

Sep 2023 - Present | Savannah, GA

▸ Helped pick facade finishes for a few set designs for the university’s film studios (The Back Lot).

▸ Worked on construction documentation and detailing.

▸ Rendered spaces for several projects with the purposes of showing clients during the design process.

▸ Modeled several custom furniture pieces and lighting fixtures.

▸ Worked on retail, educational and residential projects.

TSW Architects

Architectural Designer

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022 | Atlanta, GA

▸ Modeled and drafted architectural projects with different levels of complexity and for different building uses.

▸ Crafted construction documents.

▸ Coordinated with consultants and clients.

▸ Surveyed sites and buildings.

▸ Produced marketing graphics for project presentation.

▸ Rendered visual imagery of projects and buildings.

▸ Researched building codes and regulations.

▸ Performed teamwork-related tasks and completing collaborative projects.

▸ Time and budget managing.

▸ Exercised creativity and problem-solving skills.

LBA Architects

Architectural Designer

Mar 2020 - Nov 2021 | Atlanta, GA

▸ Surveyed sites and buildings.

▸ Carried-out several projects from the schematic phase to the release of the Construction Documents.

▸ Coordinated and selected interior finishes and details for multiple projects.

▸ Worked on interior, residential, commercial and retail projects.

▸ Designed and rendered spaces for project proposals.

▸ Acquired extensive production knowledge and skills for expeditious design and release of Construction Documents.

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Chattahoochee

River Memorial and Park

06 - 17

This park and memorial museum intends to provide the local community with a place to remember and honor the tragic history of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site. The approach to this design included considerations based on neighborhood needs, historical context, and future green way development plans from the city along the Chattahoochee River delta. The gallery circulation utilizes indoor and outdoor experiences as a crafted pathway that tells the history of the site as one moves physically as well as chronologically down the sequence of events that transpired at the CBC. 01

Hunting Island

Marsh Climate

Research Center of Oceanography 02

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The Hunting Island Center for Oceanography is a 25,875.41 sf campus located in the Hunting Island State Park Nature Center Trail, Beaufort, South Carolina. It contains classroom buildings, an exhibition center, laboratories and an open-air auditorium. It is situated on a peninsula on the way to the Little Hunting Island beach from the Hunting Island State Park’s Nature Center trail. The site of Hunting Island is delicate and ephemeral. In about a hundred years, the shore would have receded to where the existing site will then be submerged. This project’s initiative is to exist on the site and embrace its changes: one building will stay behind collecting data even after people are no longer able to visit, and the rest of the buildings will be disassembled to have their parts re-used or recycled. The assembly of the “temporary” buildings is simple and of local materials. The idea is to take the buildings apart once the flooding of the site is imminent.

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Promenade

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Yamacraw Village of Savannah, Georgia, is one of the oldest and most disregarded affordable housing communities in the United States. With the increasing Savannah, and its continuous influx of new students and professionals, we focused our idea in finding methods to reintegrate the site into the rest of the city to accommodate both it’s existing community as well as new amenities and uses on through the site. Our proposal hopes to achieve this through the introduction of an interwoven ‘artery’ that would move about through the site, connecting various programs with one another. We hope to add density and transparency in the site to allow for seamless sense of community amongst the diverse range of people that exist on the site.

Duluth Middle School 04

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Duluth Middle School is a public institution located in the heart of suburban Duluth, Georgia. The education systems provided by this school focus on four main aspects: compulsory extracurricular involvement with the community, learning types. The building is specially designed to sustain concepts. A regular spends an average developmental stage, an educational institution has the obligation to provide the students with both an optimum environment for learning and a safe space for shaping their identity. 26

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I graduated with a minor in Printmaking in 2019. I have always liked to express myself in an artistic and conceptual manner. My visual arts work always has an element of architecture in it. The process-heavy works shown in this section reflect some of my interests and dedication to seeing a sequence of steps from beginning to end until revealing a final result that, ideally, is a product representative of the combination of planned techniques combined with some unintended, randomized outcomes; just like an architectural project.

awards

year 2023 type Institutional

- AIA Georgia Design Awards 2024

This park and memorial museum intends to provide the local community with a place to remember and honor the tragic history of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site. The approach to this design included considerations based on neighborhood needs, historical context, and future green way development plans from the city along the Chattahoochee River delta. The gallery circulation utilizes indoor and outdoor experiences as a crafted pathway that tells the history of the site as one moves physically as well as chronologically down the sequence of events that transpired at the CBC. 01

CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER MEMORIAL AND PARK

These galleries will be dedicated to the history of the Chattahoochee Brick Company. They will include site artifacts and historic accounts.

01. Sloped exhibit entrance

02. Artifact gallery

03. Bridge

04. Timeline gallery

05. Bridge

06. Brick-making process gallery

These galleries will contain the recount of the resolution to the Convict Leasing System in Atlanta and other related historic events.

01. Atlanta: built by convict leasing history and scope

02. Courtyard

03. Timeline gallery

04. Convict leasing abolishment gallery

This mural gallery will include stories of known persons affected as well as information on the community efforts to protect the future of the site.

01. Mural gallery: acknowledgment and moving forward

02. Exit back towards walkway and memorial

01. Pathway towards Proctor Creek Plaza

02. Museum auditorium park

03. Museum auditorium

04. Aluminum and ETFE canopy delineates the path of the Museum all the way through the Memorial.

05. Cafe and dining

06. Reflecting pool

07. Museum exit

08. Pathway to Memorial

09. Museum entrance

10. Community and administration building

11. Stairs follow main axis that cuts through the building and site and connects the Park’s program.

12. Lawn ramp softens procession to the Park from the CBC Museum and Community Center.

Museum auditorium. This will serve Museum activities as well as a gathering venue for the local community.

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gathering spaces

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relaxation spaces

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Cafe and Dining kitchen.

The Fifth Gallery (Mural Gallery) portraying the present and future aspirations of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site, community involvement, and environmental aspirations.

Reflection Park.

This bridge and path cut through the building and separates the Museum and educational spaces on the right, with the reflection and recreation areas on the left.

Third Gallery entry. The bridge follows the exit of the Second Gallery on the other side of the Walkway.

Classroom and meeting spaces for the community and visitors.

Third Gallery exit. Pathway leads into the Fourth and final gallery on the other side of the Walkway.

First Gallery exit. Bridge leads into the Second Gallery on the other side of the Walkway.

Main entry to Museum exhibition space. This hallway slopes down into the First Gallery.

Administration offices. Museum lobby.

year 2023 awards

- AIA COTE® Top Ten Students 2023 Winner

- IDA Design Awards 2023 Bronze Winner type

Institutional / educational

The Hunting Island Center for Oceanography is a 25,875.41 sf campus located in the Hunting Island State Park Nature Center Trail, Beaufort, South Carolina. It contains classroom buildings, an exhibition center, laboratories and an open-air auditorium. It is situated on a peninsula on the way to the Little Hunting Island beach from the Hunting Island State Park’s Nature Center trail. The site of Hunting Island is delicate and ephemeral. In about a hundred years, the shore would have receded to where the existing site will then be submerged. This project’s initiative is to exist on the site and embrace its changes: one building will stay behind collecting data even after people are no longer able to visit, and the rest of the buildings will be disassembled to have their parts re-used or recycled. The assembly of the “temporary” buildings is simple and of local materials. The idea is to take the buildings apart once the flooding of the site is imminent.

HUNTING ISLAND MARSH CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER OF OCEANOGRAPHY

south carolina

beaufort county

THE RESEARCH CENTER | CONCEPT

Apart from containing a delicate ecosystem, the site of Hunting Island is in peril of flooding due to Sea Level Rise and rapid Climate Change. The 50year and 100-year shoreline projection suggests that the majority of the project’s site will become either partially or completely flooded.

The Climatic challenges this project site will face became the primary source of its concept. The idea of acceptance of change gave birth to a building arrangement that embraces ‘isolation’ as its core essence. A clustering of buildings that face away from each other, frame the views of the visitor out towards a site that is ephemeral. The last building standing will be the Science Building, which will continue its oceanography data collection even well after its former occupants are no longer able to reach it.

Hunting Island State Park Nature Center and Parking lot (existing).

Solar panel locations

Rain water collection

Non-condition buildings and circulation

WATER + ECONOMY

The decking stairs that connect all buildings act as a visual barrier for the water collection tanks, which live underneath the buildings.

Water collection tanks

Locally sourced and site reclaimed wood

To be taken apart after site floods

To remain after site floods

CHANGE + RESOURCES

Some of the elements of this project will come from locallysourced reclaimed materials.

Permanent structure

Mid-term structures

The marsh surrounding buildings is left undisturbed.

INTEGRATION + ECOLOGY

The project attempts to integrate various sustainability strategies into its overall design to ensure successful operations of energy conserving systems.

ENERGY + DISCOVERY

Various shading strategies are being used to deal with site conditions. Furthermore, each building is individually designed to deal with their share of the site.

The Southern Summer wind is allowed through the site with little obstruction.

Shading devices.

Outdoor/nonconditioned spaces

Views towards maritime forest

Views towards marsh

Educational facilities

Spaces for gathering

Trails

WELLNESS + COMMUNITY

The project site exists inside a State Park. There are trails and beaches in close proximity for users to visit.

The area at grade level is located at a portion of the Hunting Island State Park trail. This space becomes an informal gathering area for the community.

Existing Hunting Island State Park trail.

The Northern wind is blocked by the vegetation during Winter.

Views towards beach

The classroom buildings sit at the edge of the peninsula’s maritime forest. They are tucked in just barely to ensure minimal disturbance to the landscape.

Towards the end of the pathway there is a roofed amphitheater facing towards the beach.

year 2022 type urban

Yamacraw Village of Savannah, Georgia, is one of the oldest and most disregarded affordable housing communities in the United States. With the increasing popularity of Savannah, and its continuous influx of new students and professionals, we focused our idea in finding methods to reintegrate the site into the rest of the city to accommodate both it’s existing community as well as new amenities and uses on through the site. Our proposal hopes to achieve this through the introduction of an interwoven ‘artery’ that would move about through the site, connecting various programs with one another. We hope to add density and transparency in the site to allow for seamless sense of community amongst the diverse range of people that exist on the site.

Project designed in collaboration with Junha Jang.

STREET HIERARCHY

PARCEL TYPES

BUILDING USE

THE PROMENADE

The centerpiece of this plan is a walkway structure that provides an alternate experience throughout the site. One of the main features of the Promenade is the City Market located at the end of the site. This area, converted into a park, will become a staple location for the members of the City of Savannah, and Yamacraw Village.

public park

homeless shelter

mixed-use / street level retail

community garden

town market

existing canal

new public amenities

public parking deck

historic First Bryan Baptist Church to remain

extended Broughton St.

event space public greenhouse plaza / public event space

First Bryan Baptist Church affordable housing

Broughton St. expansion green market space

Fahm St. activation city market community homes

HOUSING + INTERACTIVITY

Creating spaces for interaction is important to bring out people from the community. We intend to provide outdoor activities that will initiate more active environment for the housing community.

GREEN + MARKET

There is a growing interest in farmer’s markets and niche art and crafts stands that could be incorporated within this site. We intend to merge this aspect with our proposed Broughton St. expansion.

HISTORY + CELEBRATION

We intend to preserve the First Bryan Baptist Church. We intend to provide spaces for park, event spaces and public green houses as a means help celebrate the site with people.

PLAZA + SHARE

We want to propose methods to activate plazas or squares to help bring people together in such areas. We can introduce small boutique cafes and small merchant shops to attract the attention of people.

PARK + CONNECT

The park spaces become a large community amenity that serves the Yamacraw residents. The Promenade connects the site from above and gives everyone in Yamacraw direct access to the park.

CARE + TRANSPARENCY

We also intend to relocate existing homeless shelters into the site. Our promenade will weave into all communities to connect the neighborhood. We intend to close the gap between social stigmas that exist in the city.

mixed-use Promenade

community outdoor spaces

community housing

affordable housing

medical / health care

mixed-use Promenade

Fahm St. retail parking garage

community housing green markets

Fahm St. activated roundabout service buildings (post office, phone service, etc.)

mixed-use Promenade

affordable housing

affordable housing event space

public greenhouse

Broughton St. retail expansion parking garage

rotating market

View from the promenade in the direction of the Broughton St. expansion.

View from the promenade in the direction of the First Bryan Baptist Church.

public art galleries

public learning spaces

expanded pedestrian spaces

the promenade snake

community gardening

the promenade snake

parking decks

mixed-use / street level retail

the promenade snake

the promenade snake

public art galleries

pedestrian path and market

COMPULSORY EXTRACURRICULAR

INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY

INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY

There is undoubtedly numerous advantages to extracurricular education. The acquisition of practical, artistic, physical and many other skills present just a portion of the benefits activities outside of the traditional curriculum bring to a student in such a crucial developmental stage. Furthermore, there is great value to integral education where versatility of skills are put to practice in order to provide the students with a wider range of options as well as a fairer scoop of their possibilities.

COMPULSORY EXTRACURRICULAR

There is undoubtedly numerous advantages to extracurricular education. The acquisition of practical, artistic, physical and many other skills present just a portion of the benefits activities outside of the traditional curriculum bring to a student in such a crucial developmental stage. Furthermore, there is great value to integral education where versatility of skills are put to practice in order to provide the students with a wider range of options as well as a fairer scoop of their possibilities.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

There is undoubtedly numerous advantages to extracurricular education. The acquisition of practical, artistic, physical and many other skills present just a portion of the benefits activities outside of the traditional curriculum bring to a student in such a crucial developmental stage. Furthermore, there is great value to integral education where versatility of skills are put to practice in order to provide the students with a wider range of options as well as a fairer scoop of their possibilities.

There is undoubtedly numerous advantages to extracurricular education. The acquisition of practical, artistic, physical and many other skills present just a portion of the benefits activities outside of the traditional curriculum bring to a student in such a crucial developmental stage. Furthermore, there is great value to integral education where versatility of skills are put to practice in order to provide the students with a wider range of options as well as a fairer scoop of their possibilities.

There is great importance in involving the community in the education of their young ones. Also, when a community sticks together for the progress of their town, it creates a sense of pride and belonging. This project is located in the center of a heavily populated suburban area with a considerable racial diversity.

There is great importance in involving the community in the education of their young ones. Also, when a community sticks together for the progress of their town, it creates a sense of pride and belonging. This project is located in the center of a heavily populated suburban area with a considerable racial diversity.

DMS CONCEPT

DMS CONCEPT

There is great importance in involving the community in the education of their young ones. Also, when a community sticks together for the progress of their town, it creates a sense of pride and belonging. This project is located in the center of a heavily populated suburban area with a considerable racial diversity.

There is great importance in involving the community in the education of their young ones. Also, when a community sticks together for the progress of their town, it creates a sense of pride and belonging. This project is located in the center of a heavily populated suburban area with a considerable racial diversity.

A regular middle schooler spends an average of 1,195.2 hours a year in school. In such a delicate developmental stage, an educational institution has the obligation to provide the students with both an optimum environment for learning and a safe space for shaping their identity. Applying psychology to the this school is designed is a key element in creating the best environment for these students to be in.

ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

A regular middle schooler spends an average of 1,195.2 hours a year in school. In such a delicate developmental stage, an educational institution has the obligation to provide the students with both an optimum environment for learning and a safe space for shaping their identity. Applying psychology to the this school is designed is a key element in creating the best environment for these students to be in.

It is well known that there are three types of learners. The visuals, the auditories, and the kinesthetics. There is rarely an educational model that assesses all three of these, let alone a building.

It is well known that there are three types of learners. The visuals, the auditories, and the kinesthetics. There is rarely an educational model that assesses all three of these, let alone a building.

LEARNING STYLES

COMPULSORY EXTRACURRICULAR

INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY

PSYCHOLOGY OF SPACES

LEARNING STYLES

COMPULSORY EXTRACURRICULAR

COMPULSORY EXTRACURRICULAR

INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY

PSYCHOLOGY OF SPACES

LEARNING STYLES

Sound Room

Sound Room Stairs

Backstage Area

Elevator Backstage Area

AUDITORIUM

AUDITORIUM

This is the main auditorium of the institution. It is two stories high and has a lobby where student artwork is displayed. The sound room in the bottom floor is available for students with musical interest to utilize in case of a student-planned production.

This is the main auditorium of the institution. It is two stories high and has a lobby where student artwork is displayed. The sound room in the bottom floor is available for students with musical interest to utilize in case of a student-planned production.

DMS

Entrances

Entrances

Tennis Courts

Tennis Courts

Entrances

Entrances

GYMNASIUM

Gym Teacher’s Office Locker Rooms

Gym Teacher’s Office

Locker Rooms

Gym Equipment Storage

Gym Equipment Storage

Entrances

Entrances

GYMNASIUM

Physical activity is an important variant in the development of teens. Not only are athletics crucial for a good physical and mental health, they also develop teamwork and collaboration skills, as well as strategy and healthy competition.

Physical activity is an important variant in the development of teens. Not only are athletics crucial for a good physical and mental health, they also develop teamwork and collaboration skills, as well as strategy and healthy competition.

Secretary

Entrance (Ground Level)

Nurse’s Office

Psychology Department

Library Entrance (Second Level) Cafeteria Entrance

LOBBY

The entrance atrium acts more like a large vestibule where students circulate as they make their way to and from their classroo ms and other school facilities. The double height sky light expands the space and lets light in. This is a transitional space that connects the cafeteria, the lower-level courtyard and th e path to the classroom towers.

Library Entrance

Library Entrance

LIBRARY

Librarian’s Office

Office

LIBRARY

Book Shelving and Study Pods

Book Shelving and Study Pods

Study | Work Areas

Study | Work Areas

The Library is open to the public during the weekends, as long as they are family members of the students, or active member of the Duluth community. This building is equipped with multimedia zones, reading pods, study areas and more. It is important to have a space where the community and numerous families can come together and learn collectively.

The Library is open to the public during the weekends, as long as they are family members of the students, or active member of the Duluth community. This building is equipped with multimedia zones, reading pods, study areas and more. It is important to have a space where the community and numerous families can come together and learn collectively.

DMS

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 2

AUDITORIUM

This is the main auditorium of the institution. It is two stories high and has a lobby where student artwork is displayed. The sound room in the bottom floor is available for students with musical interest to utilize in case of a student-planned production.

The entrance atrium acts more like a large vestibule where students circulate as they make their way to and from their classroo ms and other school facilities. The double height sky light expands the space and lets light in. This is a transitional space that connects the cafeteria, the lower-level courtyard and th e path to the classroom towers.

The entrance atrium acts more like a large vestibule where students circulate as they make their way to and from their classrooms and other school facilities. The double height sky light expands the space and lets light in. This is a transitional space that connects the cafeteria, the lower-level courtyard, and the path to the classroom towers.

Plastic Arts

Plastic Arts

Plastic Arts

Digital Art Room

Digital Art Room

Music Band

Music Band

PLASTIC & PERFORMING ARTS FACULTY |

PLASTIC | PERFORMING ARTS

Dancing Studio

Piano Room

PLASTIC | PERFORMING ARTS

Dancing Studio

Piano Room

In some educational models found in several Northern European countries, such as Norway and Finland, a balanced curriculum that requires all students to engage in some sort of artistic discipline is compulsory. This ensures the integral formation of the student and provides them with a wider range of options pertaining their future, professional inclinations.

In some educational models found in several Northern European countries, such as Norway and Finland, a balanced curriculum that requires all students to engage in some sort of artistic discipline is compulsory. This ensures the integral formation of the student and provides them with a wider range of options pertaining their future, professional inclinations.

In some educational models found in several Northern European countries, such as Norway and Finland, a balanced curriculum that requires all students to engage in some sort of artistic discipline is compulsory. This ensures the integral formation of the student and provides them with a wider range of options pertaining their future, professional inclinations.

Faculty Admin.

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Faculty Admin.

Faculty Admin. Cafeteria

Cafeteria

Terrace (Top Level)

Terrace (Top Level)

Terrace (Top Level) Entrances

FACULTY | CAFETERIA

FACULTY | CAFETERIA

05

years 2019 - 2022

type printmaking, mixed media

I graduated with a minor in Printmaking in 2019. I have always liked to express myself in an artistic and conceptual manner. My visual arts work always has an element of architecture in it. The process-heavy works shown in this section reflect some of my interests and dedication to seeing a sequence of steps from beginning to end until revealing a final result that, ideally, is a product representative of the combination of planned techniques combined with some unintended, randomized outcomes; just like an architectural project.

WITNESS the man-made footprint

WITNESS THE MAN-MADE FOOTPRINT

Mono-type Printmaking

Monotype printmaking

2017

2017 | SCAD Lacoste Open Studio Featured Gallery

SCAD Lacoste Open Studio Featured Gallery

IMAGINE the man-made footprint

IMAGINE THE MAN-MADE FOOTPRINT

Mono-type Printmaking.

Monotype printmaking

2017

ANTHROPOCENE

ANTHROPOCENE

Etching on metal 2019

Etching on metal 2019

Anthropocene

Etching on metal 2019

Anthropocentric Etching

ANTHROPOCENTRIC Etching

Building Morphology Diagram

Screen printing on wood | 30 x 30 in 2019