katelyn keen architecture portfolio
2020
curriculum vitae katelyn keen email // keen.k@husky.neu.edu phone // +1.949.616.0901 permanent address // 12 High Bluff Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 references available on request
EDUCATION | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | Boston, MA | Graduation May 2021 Candidate for Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture Candidate for Minor in Architectural Engineering IE UNIVERSITY SEGOVIA | Segovia, Spain | Spring 2019 Visiting Student Program in Architecture DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: Sustainable Energy in Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil | May 2018 Studied myriad forms of implementing renewable energy systems in existing infrastructure and strategies for practicing sustainable architectural design.
DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: Italian Architecture and Urbanism | Rome, Italy | May 2018 Analyzed the embodied time and aggregation of styles of architecture and urbanism in Florence, Siena, and Rome through freehand drawing and written investigation.
EXPERIENCE | GENSLER | Newport Beach, CA | June - Aug. 2019 Architectural Intern Assisted in the SD and DD phases of an outdoor plaza deck and all-inclusive updated conference center for Pacific Life’s headquarters in Newport Beach by compiling design presentations, designing rendered plans, and developing finish plans. Collaborated on the conceptual design for luxury single family residences in Abu Dhabi through SketchUp modeling and Enscape rendering.
UTILE | Boston, MA | July-Dec. 2018 Architecture Design Co-op Assisted as part of three project teams throughout various stages of the design process. Produced digital models and renderings with V-Ray and Rhino, compiled presentations for client meetings, used Revit to contribute to DD and CD drawing sets, and aided in construction administration.
KEVIN L. CROOK ARCHITECTS, INC. | Irvine, CA | June-Aug. 2017 Architectural Intern Updated client plan books, construction documents, and design layouts on AutoCAD under instruction from project managers and head designers.
SKILLS | SOFTWARE Autodesk Revit | AutoCAD | Rhino | V-Ray | SketchUp | Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign | Microsoft Office MANUAL Model Making | Laser Cutting | 3D Printing | Hand Sketching | Photography EXTRA-DISCIPLINARY Intermediate Spanish | Classical Piano | Vocal Jazz | Opera Performer HONORS | ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS Cumulative GPA: 3.8 Achieved Dean’s List - All Semesters University Scholar with Full Tuition Scholarship Second Year Design Excellence Award, Northeastern University SoA ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES American Institute of Architecture Students Northeastern University Sustainable Building Organization Northeastern University Civic Engagement Program VOLUNTEER | STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS Field Trip Co-coordinator | Fall 2018
Planned, coordinated, and facilitated the fall field trip to Northeastern campus for 100 girls and 60 mentors. Collaborated with 5 different organizations on campus to facilitate the activity rotations during the day. Handled logistics for paperwork, budgeting, supply orders, and mentor training for the day of the field trip.
content PROFESSIONAL WORK
HUDAYRIYAT HILLS SAHL VILLA // Gensler 2019
INTERIOR OFFICE SPACE FITOUT // Utile 2018
luxury residential architecture + interiors competition
design process and construction documentation
EDUCATIONAL WORK
SWAN LAKE URBAN MARKET // NEU 2019
CENTRO DE TENIS DE MADRID // IE 2019
URBAN PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL // NU 2018
ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM // NU 2017
structural market design and industrial site urban design
cultural and athletic hub for the vibrant downtown
civic engagement versus private program
freehand sketching and analysis
MODON | HUDAYRIYAT ISLAND RESIDENTIAL HILLS: 6 BEDROOM SAHL VILLA, ABU DHABI, UAE
The Hudayriyat Hill Villa design was a competition for Modon, a prominent developer in Abu Dhabi, looking for interior and exterior residential architecture displaying extravagence and luxury in every detail. As part of the Gensler team from the Lifestyle studio, I assisted with the design of the Select villa and Sahl villa by drawing plans in AutoCad and building complete sketchup models which were then enhanced by professional renderers. Our proposal focused on creating clean transitions between indoor and outdoor living to bring aspects of Southern California living to Abu Dhabi.
rendering courtesy of Gensler Newport Beach
OPPOSITE: FRONT YARD RENDERING ABOVE: VILLA SITE PLAN
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rendering courtesy of Gensler Newport Beach
OPPOSITE: REAR YARD RENDERING ABOVE: GROUND FLOOR PLAN
INTERIOR OFFICE SPACE FITOUT: AUTODESK BOSTON OFFICE EXPANSION
image courtesy of Utile, Inc.
OPPOSITE: FINISHES AXON ABOVE: “GLOWY BOX” PHOTOGRAPH
The second of Utile’s projects with the Autodesk office space in Boston’s Seaport, this office expansion is designed to hold over one hundred Autodesk Boston employees. While the requirements for programming the space were relatively strict, the design team at Utile found many ways to incorporate innovative design into the former drydock building. Upon entry, the user is confronted by a perforated screen wall defining the workspace, as well as a view of the “glowy box” of meeting rooms behind - translucent polycarbonate with an interior metal honeycomb structure that reflects the light and color projected behind it. Working on the Autodesk office expansion included a myriad of design
tasks, from curating color palettes for the interior meeting rooms to creating charettes of collaborative “breakout” spaces, to designing iterations of storage solutions and space dividers. For the graphics displayed, the programs used were Revit for building the base model, and Rhino and V-Ray for rendering. The Autodesk project also involved a substantial amount of work on SD, DD, and CD sets in the Revit file. Tasks included detailing wall sections, millwork sections, kitchenette design and layout, carpet design floor plans, furniture plans, and enlarged interior elevations. This required coordination with the Utile design team, as well as with the consultant engineers and the client.
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OPPOSITE: FINISHED FLOOR PLAN ABOVE: BREAKOUT SPACE CHARETTE STUDY // STORAGE + WASTE SOLUTION DESIGN
SWAN LAKE URBAN MARKET: FOURTH YEAR STUDIO // FALL 2019 A combined venture with the urbanism studio and structural systems course, the urban market project involved an extensive, sophisticated urban analysis and urban design strategy proposition, as well as a comprehensive structural design exercise. The curved roof structure is a metal grid shell system, where it is supported by bundled columns in some locations, and branching columns in others. The design includes a mezzanine under the taller roof with a glass floor for additional patron seating. Overall, the structural system was chosen for its efficiency in creating curved shapes, its uniqueness in acting like a mesh in tension and compression, and its beauty and weightless quality. The market is a long hall that filters pedestrians from the transportation hub to the industrial and commercial district along Columbus Avenue. Swan Lake market is located directly across from the Jackson Square station, and sits on an industrially zoned site. The area around the Jackson Square MBTA station is dominated by heavy and light industrial zoning that is immediately adjacent to single-family homes, social housing developments, neighborhood community centers, and recreational green spaces. Even though these sites provide essential services and jobs for Boston residents, the close proximity of such industrial zoning hinders the residential developments in fostering safe, welcoming neighborhoods that are accessible to all residents. More thoughtful integration of the industrial plots in Jackson Square would allow the area’s vibrant community to flourish and overcome the divisive border that separates Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. The industrial urban design toolkit outlines strategies to activate and connect these industrial sites by increasing community engagement, attracting pedestrian flow, and rearranging industrial program to mitigate its presence in the neighborhood. By incorporating community program such as local food vendors and wholesale produce suppliers the Swan Lake market augments the existing vibrancy of Jackson Square.
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CENTRO DE TENIS DE MADRID THIRD YEAR STUDIO // SPRING 2019 Grass. Clay. Rubber. Each material represents a different type of tennis court, and with each type comes a different kind of player, a different kind of spectator, a different kind of game play. Beginning at the ground floor, a topography of clay amenities surrounds the sunken stadium court. Turfcovered terraces spill up under the vertical volume to the street above, accounting for the site’s change in grade. Accounting for the hard court surfaces is the rectilinear volume containing two full size courts, two pickleball courts, and four half-size practice courts. It is an ordered, repeating massing that mimics hard court players’ rhythyms. To design a tennis center for Madrid, a city not so crazy about tennis as it is about fútbol, despite their country’s superstar player Rafael Nadal, meant incorporating adjacent program that would draw the Madrileùos to the site. The project is designed around the spectators, creating myriad ways of watching and participating in the game, since tennis can only involve two or four players at a time. Primarily, the target group of spectators needs spaces to socialize and mingle. Whether it be on the grassy knolls observing the stadium court match, on the rooftop bar watching the sunset over Malasaùa, or in the Tennis Hub catching up on international matches over a round of tapas. Next, places for contemplative relaxation and perhaps, a siesta. Madrileùos can enjoy the green entrance corridor while walking their perros, or lounge on the terraced public plaza flanking the exterior court. They can also engage the walkable, suspended net that spans the 3rd and 4th floor to perceive a new vantage point of the courts. Arguably the most important programs, the draw of the fitness center, training rooms, and practice court areas will appeal to the active-minded Madrileùo. The relaxed Spanish lifestyle is not just about cervezas!
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BELOW: SOUTH ELEVATION AND CLADDING SYSTEM In conceptualizing the facade for this tennis center, it was important that there were varying degrees of transparency and openness based on programmatic relationships. The rooftop pickleball courts are entirely open except for wall-height nets, just as are customary at municipal tennis courts. Mimicking this facade style is the rooftop bar, where the net cladding allows visitors to enjoy the Spanish sun all year round. Three glazing conditions, creating an overall gradient of opacity, are created by a modular cladding system on the rest of the elevation. Each panel shown on the exterior walls is 2 meters high by 3 meters wide. The base facade material is an oxidized metal cladding, and the first condition includes glazing with a perforated version of that metal facade in front of the window. The second condition is glazing only, which is placed in locations that maximum transparency is ideal, such as at the indoor courts for maximum sunlight and public viewing. The third facade condition is glazing with a cotton net, akin to the net you would find on a tennis court placed on the exterior. This net material pays homage to the concept of this tennis center - as a hub for afficionados of tennis and beginners alike. This facade also shows the unique juxtaposition against the original Palacio de Santa Barbara that has been reconfigured on the interior to serve as one of the “legs� of the tennis center. Since undergoing a recent restoration, the palace facade has a beautiful golden plaster texture that compliments the warm hue of the rusted metal facade in the new building addition.
OPPOSITE: PERSPECTIVE 2 // PICKLEBALL COURT + ROOFTOP SEATING ABOVE: PERSPECTIVE 3 // STADIUM COURT VIEWING
PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL SECOND YEAR STUDIO // SPRING 2018
OPPOSITE: EXTERIOR SCHOOL RENDERING
The driving program for the project is a performing arts school, which contains traditional academic facilities as well as programming in the disciplines of dance, music, and theater. The school occupies the buildings that abut the southern edge of the site, along Washington St. A principal organization strategy is the terracing of social and integration spaces that promotes increased socialization throughout the school. This interior terracing is reflected by the stepping of the school’s exterior mass, culminating with the multipurpose theater - floating high above the intersection of Washington St. and West Dedham St. as a beacon of entry to the site. Its facade is almost entirely glass to allow the public to have a view into the activity of the performing arts school. Under the theater, a large passageway cuts through the built fabric to allow for entrances for both to the performing arts school and the interior courtyard shared by all the blocks’ inhabitants. The task addressed design at multiple scales: on an urban, block level as well as specific programatic design. More traditional housing, such as townhomes and duplexes, line the northern edge of the site in order to continue the intimate neighborhood feeling that persists in the area. The residential and commercial buildings step up and grow in scale until they reach the mixeduse tower, which integrates the public entrance to the elevated auditorium and has a scale more aligned with that of the high-rise condominiums popping up in the South End. The gradient of grayscale in the site plan address the changes in elevation with each mass; lightest gray is the tallest building, while dark gray is the lowest building.
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ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM STUDIES THROUGH HAND SKETCHING As part of a two-course series in Florence, Siena, and Rome, Italy, I was able to interact with and learn from Italian architecture and urbanism through a creative, interpretive, and precise method of analyses. Using freehand drawing as an analytical tool yielded greater understanding of the surrounding urban environment. The process of active looking through pencil drawings is a strategy of urban engagement that helps form a more complex understanding of cities. All sketching was completed within the urban fabric and serves as a more interpretive form of architectural representation than photography or film. I produced a variety of drawing styles, such as elevation, one-point perspective, two-point perspective, orthographic axonometric, and plan. The choice of what drawing technique to utilize was dependent upon on the most important aspect of the building represented. This set of drawings of remarkable Italian architecture further explores techniques of shading, lineweight differentiation, and ornamentation detail. Creating these drawings was part of the process of building the fundamentals of representation and exploring the built environment of Italian cities and architecture in greater depth.
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