Architecture Portfolio Kaleb Mercer
Table of Contents Crowne Pointe
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U.S. Consulate
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Cloud City
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Urban Divide
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Brittlebank Park
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Resume
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Crowne Pointe
Spring 19’ Transportation Hub, Charleston, South Carolina Partners | Marissa Gigis & Klaire McClane This was a group project between me and two landscape architecture students. The work was split based on our majors. I covered everything to do with the four buildings and my group members covered everything to do with the landscaping and design of the courtyard. We collaborated the entire time to ensure our two designs were cohesive and made sense together. Here we were tasked with proposing a pathway for a new transportation system, while also creating spaces to entice users to occupy the surrounding spaces. At a site just north of ours, you would transfer from your vehicle onto a smaller vehicle similar to a golf cart. That smaller vehicle would then take you through our site down towards the heart of the city. In these surrounding spaces, design buildings and areas include retail space, apartments, and commercial office spaces.
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Meeting Street Elevation
Meeting Street Elevation
Mt. Pleasant Street Elevation
Mt. Pleasant Street Elevation
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Plaza Section
Plaza Section
Wall Sections
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U.S. Consulate Fall 19’ Casablanca, Morocco Partners | Dillon LeJeune
This was a group project with me and a fellow architecture student. This was an evenly split project where we both were heavily involved in the design and the drawings each other produced. Here we were tasked to design the United States Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco. With our design, we attempted to unify the two countries with our design intentions. Through the design of the courtyard we attempted to combat the hot climate through a screen system, large shade providing trees, and water elements all in effort to lower the temperature. The screen system has a traditional Islamic pattern overlayed onto it in multiple ways as shade giving and to relate back to the Morocco.
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This courtyard, within the boundaries/ of the screen is a place where the employees of the Consulate can take a break and sit outside under the native acacia trees shade in a variety of different locations through the area. These areas include sitting benches under the large trees, a sunken courtyard masked by trees and a water feature flowing through the courtyard.
Longitudinal Section
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Site Plan
Longitudinal Section: Office Building
South Elevation
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Cloud City
Fall 18’ New York City, New York Partners | Ethan Turner This was a group project with me and a fellow architecture student. This was an evenly split project where we both were heavily involved in the design and the drawings each other produced. This semester we focused on an office building design for co-working spaces and how best to connect to the highline in an effective way. Cloud City serves as a couterpoint to the typical rigid organization of many New York offices. Taking inspiration from the naturalism of the Highline that connects to the eastern facade, we created modules of curvalinear floor plates that create a manufactured cloudscape. Each module was designed to fulfill a differnet need of an office space, offering the ability for the inhabitants to work in a variety of different environments.
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Through both the sections and the elevations you can begin to see our design iniatives more clearly. The two wall sections show the curvature of the floor plates along with our waffle system structure. The elevations begin to show the modules that were created from the floor plates.
Building Sections
Building Elevations
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Urban Divide
Spring 20’ Columbia, South Carolina Partners | Hailey Krabbe, Coral Rembert, Manny Taylor This was a group project with me and three fellow architecture students. Our site was two split across two spaces on either side of a river. My immediate parter, Hailey and I mainly focused one site while Coral and Manny mainly focused on the other. We all worked together to ensure the language of both designs matched and we all worked on the conjoining bridge. We discovered that through the connectivity of communities and the two sites, it would be possible through the implementation of a series of public and green spaces that become an extension of the existing greenpath network. On the Columbia side, our building splits to allow for an existing wildlife corridor to remain. On the West Columbia side, we split our (activity full) building as an extension of the urban fabric and to provide a connection to the river for the local communities. Our pedestrian bridge acts as an extension of both buildings and acts as a connection 20
1st Floor Plan
West Columbia Site Section
2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
Columbia Render
Columbia Site Section
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Brittlebank Park Spring 19’ Charleston, SC
Brittlebank Park is swatch of land along the peninsula currently engulfed in flooding, people sitting in their cars at lunch, and a plethora of unused area. Our task was to combat the effects of flooding, create spaces to entice visitors to the park and to make it a space that is used year round rather than for festivals only a few times a year. An ampitheatre, a pavilion, a playground, and flood mitigation are the design elements I believed were the best additions to the site.. These design aspects are all ways that would bring a life to this park who’s current main useage is people sitting in their cars to eat their lunches.
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Amphitheater Section
Pavilion Elevation
Pavilion Section
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The Self Closing Flood Barrier is a self-rising flood gate that uses the approaching floodwaters to automatically raise the barrier. As the water levels rise on the outside edge of the barrier, it will fill the larger pocket and raises the foam barrier out of the ground providing up to a meter of extra flood protection.
Self Closing Flood Barrier Diagram
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Resume
Education Clemson University | August 2016 - May 2021
Experience Address Home | 320 Seaport Lane, Apt, 3212, Charleston, SC 29464
Glick-Boehm & Associates | January 2021 - Current Architectural Intern | 493 King St #100, Charleston, SC 29403 Work with clients to help understand their vision for design, produce plan and section drawings, 3D modeling and site visits
Graduate | 101 Calhoun Dr. Clemson, SC 29634 College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities Architecture Major | Travel and Tourism Minor
Clemosn Design Center Charleston (CDCC) | January
2019 - May 2019 Graduate | 101 Calhoun Dr. Clemson, SC 29634 College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities Architecture Major | Travel and Tourism Minor
Glick-Boehm & Associates | May 2019 - August 2019
Phone (843) 685 7086
Email Personal | kalebmercer14@gmail.com School | kalebm@g.clemson.edu
Intern | 493 King St #100, Charleston, SC 29403 Work with clients to help understand their vision for design, produce plan and section drawings, 3D modeling and site visits
Clemson Design Center Charleston (CDCC) | January 2019 - May 2019
Student Assistant | 701 East Bay St, Charleston, SC 29403 Assisted with tasks around the CDCC including designing exterior signage along with helping with the 30th anniversary event that semester
Involvement Creative Inquiry | August 2019 - December 2019
Clemson University Worked with KCCT and PCI to work on a design for a U.S. Consulate that met the necessary requirements while designing with the intent of a precast concrete building. 30