KAITLIN MYERS UNDERGRADUATE SELECTED WORKS kaitmyers@ufl.edu | (813) 541-9616 16 SW 25th Street, Gainesville, FL 32607
DESIGN-BUILD STUDIO GAINESVILLE, FL DESIGN 08 CONSTRUCTING A MULTIPURPOSE SHED FOR THE SPRING 2016 UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT GARDEN AND FOOD PANTRY
FIELD AND FORK WORK SHED
Each year, the University of Florida offers a design-build studio as an option for the final undergraduate studio. Each semester, the project is different in size, style, and client, but the purpose is always the same: to serve the local community of Gainesville and its surrounding areas. This project is the first out of dozens of design-build studios to build a permanent structure on the campus of University of Florida. The initial intent of this studio was to build a multipurpose, small building to serve Field and Fork, an on campus food pantry that grows fresh food and collects nonperishable items for the local community. The Field and Fork Work Shed's program includes a greenhouse, vegetable-washing station, working and teaching area, and a secure storage shed. Primarily cedar construction with an aluminum and polycarbonate greenhouse addition, the complete project would be approximately 400sf.
Photographs of the project site; center picture taken at one of numerous client presentations.
The class drew up a formal construction document set for the shed proposal to meet structural and code requirements; the final floor plan and longitudinal section are shown below, the model is shown above.
FIELD AND FORK SEATING PROJECT
DESIGN-BUILD STUDIO GAINESVILLE, FL DESIGN 08 SPRING 2016
About two months into developing the Field and Fork Work Shed Project, the class realized that it was necessary to switch angles due to time constraints and high demands from the University of Florida. The client asked the studio to instead build both permanent and movable seating for the students and faculty that volunteer to work the student agricultural gardens. Though not a work shed, the new project would still provide a gathering space to teach about, cook, and prepare the produce from the garden. Several benches were produced (not pictured) to be modular, light, and easily reproduced if the members of Field and Fork decided they needed more seating arrangements going forward. The permanent stadium seating project in the pictures is made of pressure-treated wood, anchored by concrete footings and 4x4 columns, shown in the top right photo. Beams span the posts and support eleven bents formed to create the comfortable seatback, shown middle right. Five taller bents were created to provide seatbacks for the second level and to allow a place for vines planted by the UF student agriculture club to grow to provide ample shade to the bench. This seating project spans 32 feet in length and took approximately four weeks to construct by a studio of fourteen students. It is the first permanently built project on University of Florida's campus constructed by undergraduate architecture students.
VICENZA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN 07, PROJECT 2 RESTORING ROME'S OUTLOOK DEC 2015 ON HOMELESSNESS
ENRICHMENT THROUGH RUIN
During my time studying abroad in Europe in the fall of 2015, I had the opportunity to study, sketch, and design works as well as live through the unique current events unfolding in Europe today. Homelessness, for example, is present everywhere in the world; coupled with the refugee crisis currently transpiring in Europe, it has become a severe problem, especially in major tourist cities. One project completed in Italy was based in Campo de Fiori, a cherished piazza in the eyes of Romans that is overrun with touristic venues at the ground level of the entire perimeter. It is a historically charged location through time; Teatro Pompey and Venus's Temple are located below a cinema at one end, and a memorial statue for condemned scholar Giordano Bruno is at the other.
Selected photos from various architectural works visited while abroad
The number of homeless people in Italy totaled 32,000 in 2014, a 26% increase from 2013. The most recent census in Rome alone reported 3,276 homeless. Roughly half (17,000) of the Italian homeless population is homeless for the first time in their lives. Additionally, about half of Rome's homeless population sleeps on the streets every night. 70% were classified as foreigners from outside the European Union. URBAN ANALYSIS: Homeless Shelter Locations in Rome in Context of Historic City Center
PERSPECTIVE: Side Street Entrance
PERSPECTIVE: Second Floor of Restaurant
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
- Emergency, transitional, & semipermanent housing
- Solar panels
- Maintain cinema and existing restaurant, transform existing store into thrift store
- Rainwater collection barrels - Resource center - Maintain existing structure - Campus workers live on site - Farmer's market in square to provide to restaurant
- Employees live on campus for free or a lower cost - Mutual economic support to market vendors
A
B
PERSPECTIVE: Resource Center
AXONOMETRIC: Programmatic Massing
Housing Resource Center
Cleanliness: Laundry/ Storage/Showers
SECTION A: North-South
Clinic Reception
Retail (Existing) Restaurant (Existing)
SECTION B: East-West
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES II LUMINAIRE PROJECT ILLUMINATING A LOCAL PIZZA RESTAURANT WITH APRIL 2016 LIGHT AND THE POWER OF REPURPOSING
PIZZA POWER
When one thinks of great food in Gainesville, a city rich in excellent food options, what is one of the first places that comes to mind? For many, Satchel's Pizza is an icon of this city, filled with pizza, brews, and wall-towall upcycled art. Inspriation for this project struck me as I was enjoying dinner one night. I realized that many of the dining areas are not lit well, so I devised a luminaire for these dim booths made of a material a pizza restaurant will never run low on: cardboard boxes. Not only does Sarchel's have iconic pizza boxes and eclectic art to fit the scene, it, like most businesses, receives numerious food and materials orders in cardboard every week. Why not reuse these boxes to improve lighting conditions instead of recycling them away? The shade for the lamp was created by cutting cardboard boxes perpendicular to the grain of the corrigation, allowing light to come through. The directionality of light from the corrigation allows for the bulb to be somewhat masked from the viewer. The corrigation limits the light that is emitted through the sides of the shade while allowing full exposure out the bottom and onto the table below. The luminaire hangs about 34 inches above the table, allowing for proper lighting but out of the way of the members seated at the table.