Kaitlin Frankforter
architecture por tfolio
“binary alphabet” 26 concrete sculptures, fishing line 101”x10”(1”x10”) 2014
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architecture school year 04
specter
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enclosure
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binary alphabet
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light
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hollow
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fragment
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photography
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big omaha year 03
urban seed bank year 03 making year 04
pavillion year 03 parking day year 02 house year 02
year 05
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who am i? i am a maker a traveler a student a photographer a bartender a designer an architect (ure student)
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I am interested in the potential of architecture, and what it can become past a drawing on a page or a building. I believe that architecture does not have a determinant form and relies on the role of the experience. I am interested in the role that art and design play into our everyday lives and how architecture becomes a mediator for ideas. The past five years in design school I have been exploring of these ideas through different tools and mediums. This portfolio is a brief example of these ideas.
E D U C AT I O N :
University of Nebraska-Lincoln : Masters of Architecture : expected graduation May 2017 Bachelors of Design - Architecture, minors in Art + Mathematics : May 2015 with distinction
EXPERIENCE :
UNL Graduate Teaching Assistant : 2016 Dr. Peter Olshavsky
will teach a 2nd year architecture design studio
2015 Professor Robert Trempe
taught a 2nd year architecture studio, helped with grading and helped students come to projects realizations
2015 Architecture Intern : BVH Architects
worked on multiple phases of projects ranging from small historical preservation to large K-12 schools. IDP Hours completed : 540
2014 Research Assistant + graphic designer : Professor Steven Hardy 2014
created layout and graphic work alongside code research for a book exploring the parametric nature of architectural typologies.
UCARE Research Assistant : Professor Peter Hind preformed research over healthcare forms in architecture
PUBLISHED WORK : 2015 2015 2015 2014
Finalist in Archistart international competition
project selected as finalist in carpineto mountain reserve competition
Currents : Prescott Gallery Juried Exhibition
photographs selected for sale to be part of a group exhibition
7:1 : Medici Gallery Juried Exhibition
I N V O LV E M E N T :
2011 - current AIAS : 2015 - current marketing director created poster to help promote activities 2014 - 2015 vice president set up all travel to conferences and stepping in for duties to assist president 2013 - 2014
treasurer
2012 - 2013
freedom by design project manager
designed an installation with three friends over water usage that was exhibited at a national conference.
2014 - KANEKO Gallery : permanent collection current site history and inventory model over KANEKO Gallery site retained
managed all club accounts
co-chaired a community project to build a playground for a wheelchair
2016
2013 - 2014
2012
2010 - 2014 2012 - 2014
SKILLS : Computer :
Rhinoceros Revit Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Lightroom Microsoft Office
Machining Abilities :
Laser cutter Wood working CNC 3-axil router
bound girl
Language :
Study Abroad :
INTERESTS :
2011 -current freedom by design member designed and built a ramp for a 2011 - 2012 woman with multiple sclerosis
photographs selected to be part of a group exhibition
Big Omaha Conference
contact : kaitlin.frankforter@icloud.com 308.390.7625
London Graduate Studio
UNL Peer Mentor :
worked with undergraduate architecture students to help them with the transition into architecture school
UNL Parking Day Installation : an outdoor instillation completed with three architecture friends bringing awareness to green space vs car space.
spanish german
Film Photography Traveling Live Music Bartending Language Tennis Art
UNL Club Tennis : treasurer
managed all club accounts 004
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architecture school kansas city, mo fall 2014 professor : Joyce Raybruck partner : Allison Fejfar
brief : to design an architecture school on the kansas city art institute campus and create construction documents.
narrative : after researching the campus, we understood that we were imputing the most technical program on campus. we saw an opportunity to create a research center that would investigate the re-purposing of consumed materials and explore conventional material applications. a cross disciplinary studio allows for the creative expansion of material applications and representations in art and architecture at every scale and discipline. this research will establish new material initiatives within the Kansas City community, integrate recycled materials within everyday practice that will make a measurable decrease of material waste within KC. with a focus on spacial connections based off of program and site analysis utilizing sustainable strategies; our architecture hall utilized passive ventilation, reused materials, and a large open circulation space. 005
specter
installation spring 2014 omaha, ne partners : Sean Coffey, Zoe Cope, Katie Horn
the scale of reality. your engagement is not optional. narrative : This installation was selected and featured at Big Omaha, an entrepreneurial conference that invokes discussion about design, stainability, and community. We used 100 glass balls to represent water usage intermixed between light to multiply and shadow our future on consumption if we do not recognize our use.
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enclosure
urban seed bank spring 2014 lincoln, ne professor : David Karle partner : Allison Fejfar
brief : design a seed bank in downtown in Lincoln, NE, with a focus on the building within the site.
narrative : this project began to look at desired moments of enclosures for the user as a way to introduce them to this building from the bustle of downtown. these different enclosures were highlighted using different spacing of a cedar rain screen as well as specific moments of frosted glass. structure became an emphasis with the large cantilever that utilizes air rights. this allowed for the building to fit within the natural envelope as well as create and courtyard that moved up throughout the entire building, and also give access to planting, a necessary program for a seed bank. this project began to focus on technical details and wall sections.
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binary alphabet
discovering process fall 2014 professor : Brian Kelly cast-in-place concrete
brief : to create a representation that illustrates the relationship between the maker and the made. this project should be based in issues relating to translation and projection, and the role of both analog and digital media narrative : some understand letters through text and sound. other understand letters through touch. the computer understands letters as a binary code. through these translations of letters we each still have a different understand of the weight of these letters put together. when you take the digital process of letters and translate it into an analog process you create objects of letters. each with their own weight and history, another understanding of each letter is created.
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light
effects box + pavilion fall 2013 hyde park, london, england professor : Noah Ives
brief : translate a sculpture into an effects box, and from there design a pavilion using the knowledge of your effects box and sculpture. narrative : the sculpture piece chosen was untitled 10 + 11 by Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. this piece utilizes implied lines to create a sense of depth, as well as the opposition of framed light space next to enclosed dark space. I took this idea of an opening constricting into nothing and used it as the basis for my effects box. Composed of three small concrete sculptures that hung and required the user to interact and move around the object. Unrealized shadows were created that began inspiration for the pavilion. The pavilion used Judds use of inhuman scale and the idea of light and shadows along with looking within and looking outward. two environments were created that would overpower the users senses and force them to look 01. outward and 02. inward. 021
Hollow
parking day spring 2013 partners : Zoe Cope, Madeline Horner, Zeb Lund
take a parking space and convert it into green space for one day. narrative : the intent of the space is to create a snapshot of the moment at which nature has been so artificially manicured that it has come to the point where nature itself has disappeared almost entirely. this leaves behind the shell; the ghost of what it once was. as society moves in the direction of overwhelming consumption and artificiality, will nature find itself caught in a bubble, trapped as simply as an idea...the hollow fossil of itself?
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fragment house
spring 2013 professor : Brian Kelly
brief : design an extremely user specific house about a millenial
narrative : intensive research over Margaret the milenial’s daily schedule and desired amenities was used as a basis for design. a wrapping strategy was used to bring programs together, while a change in materiality was able to separate these spaces. the gradient through the house utilized warm materials at the entrance to invoke a blending of intimate space into the front yard. while moving through the house each change in material is met with a slice of glass-- this allows for light to brought down within the building as well as begin to fragment these open spaces.
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untitled 04 silver gelatin print 14�x11� 2015
photography
silver gelatin prints fall 2015 professor : Dana Fritz
I am interested in manipulating space, light, and perspective through photography. I find myself drawn to layers of patterns that are created through light and shadow found in the built environment. I take these observed patterns and forms of light and through the manipulation and arrangement of film in a negative carrier, I am able to shape a new light while printing in the darkroom. My work is inspired through the act of making photographs and experimentation done in the dark room. While working, I find that the process of making begins to challenge the way I look at and understand the world. These ideas grew from my background in architecture and how an architect looks at light, combined with the role of the viewer. Light has the ability to diffuse, reflect, refract, and space itself around and reveal form. The role of the viewer is incorporated into the work through the use of an ambiguous figure contrasted with the built or natural world. With photography I hope to create a break in space, an image that graphically draws attention, and then traps it through movement, composition, and the confusion of form and figure. With this work, I find the process and the stages of making to influence each other and allow for it to be a highly iterative process. 031
thank you.
Kaitlin Frankforter kaitlin.frankforter@icloud.com 308.390.7625