KATIE BARMORE-MCCOLLUM
an architectural design portfolio
cover photo of a digitally fabricated and then laminated chair
Katie Barmore-McCollum BA of Science in Architecture at Portland State University katiembm@gmail.com 503.327.5118
CONTENTS
list of projects staggered courtyard trajectory of the soul the industrial sidestep descending new roots the projection theater orienteering center
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experiential perspective of courtyard activities
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STAGGERED COURTYARD multi-family housing While working with Central City Concern, a design was needed to create family housing for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction and who have been recently reunited with their children. Based on the importance of both community support and privacy in the recovery process, this project was formed by creating a safe courtyard for the residents while giving each unit a private balcony or yard. This allows for children and adults to spend time outside together and develop a community with one another. Units are staggered to create individual homes that are distinguishable from the other units. This activates a space in front of and behind units that can be identified as “their yard.” This staggering creates different outdoor “rooms” in which community interaction is encouraged. The units are pushed towards the park, away from the street and community rooms to extend the buffer zone, making room for parking and giving the community room some outdoor space to untilize. experiential perspective of se 122nd ave entrance
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The courtyard layout creates outdo or spaces shared by the community. This allows for children and adults to spend
Units are staggard to create individual homes that are distinguishable from the other units. This allows for the units to
parti diagram
The units are pushed towards the park, away from the street and community ro oms to extend the buffer zone, make
bird’s eye view of project
experiential perspective from balcony
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experiential perspective of community room exterior and yard
SE 122nd st
Mill Park
west facing section through courtyard
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one and two bedroom unit plans
site plan
south facing elevation
projected surfaces on interior of installation
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TRAJECTORY OF THE SOUL design-build art installation The Cascades AIDS Project hosts an art auction every year where funds are raised to help people affected by the disease. For the 2013 event, we collaborated with Jennifer Porter of Chroma LLP through a design-build process to create an art installation that would be featured at the entrance. This piece was to convey the journey that an individual faces who has been infected with HIV or AIDS. The structure was composed of seven pavilions made up of a column, a roof, and a lantern that were positioned in a tunnel-like sequence and each featured a prism that symbolically represented a significant member within the CAP organization. Heights, order and layout of the pavilions were varied to induce a feeling of disorder as well as the intensity of the “fractured� effect on the column sheathing. A projector displaying a video with an assigned color of the rainbow was placed in the column of each pavilion which was reflected off the ceiling onto the lantern. Each pavilion contained its own unique atmosphere ending in a pavilion bathed in white light and an even height to represent the unity that the CAP organization instills in individuals living with HIV or AIDS.
exterior of installation
conceptual model
exploring refracted light
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the LED illuminated prisms
process model exploring light [built in collaboration with Michael Coon]
construction photographs
experiential perspective of the touch point
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THEurban INDUSTRIAL SIDESTEP planning and development After studying the Willamette River, a touch point site was selected next to the Oregon Museum of Science Industry. Here, my intervention is a dock-like structure that allows people to walk on, sit and relax on, and even jump from it into the river’s recreational waters. The idea is that if people see others having a good time more people will begin to question the water’s assumed toxicity. Leading up to this touch point a corridor was designed in response to the anticipated Orange line Max stop; people will need a path to reach it. The central east side is considered an asset to the city of Portland and this corridor is essential in protecting the local businesses and to relieve the pressure of gentrification that will be given to the surrounding industrial area. Along this corridor there will be mixed-use buildings that will have workshops, studio spaces, and galleries on the ground floor. Space will be available for the observation of crafts being made as well as places to sell products. The street is narrowed, converted to one-way traffic and parking is taken away which allows for miniparks and seating to take up that extra area and promote pedestrian usage.
Max Stop and Streetcar Stop OMSI Touch Point
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the corridor site map
concept diagram using watercolor
experiential perspective of planted spaces
experiential perspective of work spaces and galleries
concept model
early corridor sketch
experiential perspective approaching the touch point
the approach street section
experiential perspective from ground floor
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DESCENDING NEW ROOTS interior interventions Street Roots is biweekly newspaper in Portland, OR that provides an income opportunity to the homeless and poverty stricken. People come to buy newspapers for 25¢ each and sell them for $1 as way to help provide self-sufficiency. At the time of this project, the Street Roots headquarters had expanded their office space and wanted to work with our class to generate ideas of what could be done to improve the conditions and functionality of the space. The space they had acquired was an awkward T-shape with a large basement underneath. This basement presented a great opportunity to create a studio space where these people can come to learn new skills and to supplement their income. Also, there was a unexposed light well directly above the new space and in order to make this basement inhabitable, daylight needed to be able to reach it. In this project the light well was opened up and a large staircase was added beneath it. The staircase being the main intervention, not only provided a means of getting to the basement, but it also served as benched seated area where classes could be held and meeting could take place.
south facing section
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ground floor plan
basement floor plan
charcoal drawing of exterior
experiential perspective of stair system from basement
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axon of both basement and ground floor
physical model
exterior perspective
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THE PROJECTION THEATER arts in the community In North Portland, a growing area with a young demographic and priority given to the development of the arts, I designed a restaurant and theater inspired by the thought of how human projection intersects with movie projection. My interpretation of this intersection is the human collective or in other words, the gathering of people in the theater room. I celebrated the human collective by assigning the theater as a ‘jeweled box’ isolated inside a building within a building, giving the spaces a nested hierarchy. The project features other interventions taken from a framing concept that gives the project tall, slender windows which separate programmatically different spaces with vertical bands of light. The exterior envelop is poured formed concrete and the ‘jeweled box’ is built of warm wood to be contrasting and to emphasize its difference. physical model in context
concept model
parti diagram
pin-hole camera used for site exploration
pin-hole camera photographs
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summer and winter sun angle diagram
experiential perspective of restaurant
experiential perspective of hallway leading to theater
section perspective looking west
basement floor plan
ground floor plan
second floor plan
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experiential perspective of the back exterior
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layers used to construct perspective to the left
ORIENTEERING CENTER
landscape and the natural orders
Orienteering is a navigational sport that uses a map and a compass to find hidden markers in unknown terrain and is a race against both the clock and opponents to find all the markers. Located in a field in Forest Park of Portland, OR, an Orienteering Center was designed to serve as gathering space and map resource center. The focus of this project was finding a connection between the natural environment and the manmade interventions. This idea was assembled by exploring land topography, water, and natural light and shadow. The specific site location was chosen to take advantage of the steep topography, allowing for the programs to be split up into different buildings positioned to mimic the shape of the land. Watersheds are an important and protected natural condition in Oregon and this is celebrated by overlapping the roofs. Water can then cascade down the sloping roofs, pouring in a shallow pool that overflows and is then returned to the tributary. Light was used to indicate the passage of time through louvers on the outside of the building. These same louvers control both the view inside the building as well as the view out of the building.
section displaying water drainage looking east
diagrammatic sketch
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plan: 1 gathering space, 2 offices, 3 temporal pool
experiential perspective using graphite
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physical model looking north west
experiential exploration collage of the gathering space
physical model