Katie Ubben SELECTED WORKS
Contents
Food Building
integrated studio, fall 2017
Restaurant
option studio, spring 2017
LACMA
urbanism studio, fall 2016
Professional Work
utile, october 2014 - july 2016
Representation
various projects/techniques, 2016 - present
Food Building
110 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA Fall 2017, Integrated Studio Studio Overview Food Building is a mixed-use urban building located in San Francisco, organized around the common subject of urban food. The primary elements of the program include a large, flexible ground floor market hall, a vertical urban farm using Skygreens (an existing system from Singapore), and commissary kitchens for local food entrepreneurs to rent in the production of food. The site lies at the nexus of Hayes Valley, Mid-Market and Civic Center, which respectively, are local centers for food, technology and many of the city’s premier civic and cultural institutions.
This project is located at a highly visible corner at the nexus of Civic Center, SOMA and the Hayes Valley neighborhood. The goal for this project is to take advantage of this visibility through both internal and external porosity.
FRANKLIN STREET
HICKORY STREET
OAK STREET
FRANKLIN STREET
HICKORY STREET
Ground Floor
Second Floor
OAK STREET
In plan, the farm is positioned as a strip that runs along Franklin Street on the second level. The urban room, event the farms from any point in the building
Third Floor
Fourth Floor
t space, commissary kitchens and building servies are located along the adjacent strip, allowing for a view of
Kitchens
Event Space
Internal porosity is created though the double height space of the Urban Room allowing you to see into the farm from the ground floor. From here, you ascend a terrazzo stair that brings you up to the second level of the Urban Room.
Third Floor 1/8” = 1’-0”
Cross Section A
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Urban Room
Porosity was also used as a concept for the facade strategy, in which a series of vertical aluminum louvers wrap the building. To variate the facade, the louvers range in depth from 4 to 8 to 12 inches. They are operable in the zone that wraps around the farm, in order to allow for better control of south-western sunlight.
Mechanical Systems
Plumbing + Sprinkler Systems
Operable clerestory louvers allow for passive ventilation in the Farm Glazed roof maximizes daylight for the Farm, while also providing daylight to middle bar of Kitchens, Event Space and Urban Room
Operable louver can be positioned for optimal shading for the Farm
Operable louvers allow for fresh air to passively ventilate the Farm Pivot doors allow for an indoor/outdoor space at the Urban Room
Environmental Diagram
There are two areas in which the vertical louvers are interrupted: a double height opening on the South Facade that corresp single-height opening on the West Facade at the viewing platform in the farm. The louvers and the urban room are finished create a contrast between dark and light that emphasizes the porosity from both outside looking in and inside looking out.
ponds with the event space and a d in a charcoal black color in order to
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Viewing Platform at Farm
Restaurant
Performance at Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA Spring 2017, Option Studio with Spencer Collom, Chris Gomez, Liza Karimova, Sun Kwon, Honglin Li, Zhaoxuan Wang
Studio Overview We are opening a restaurant. Will we serve something? Definitely. Will it be food? Possibly. But this studio is not about food. The consideration of where we eat, what we eat, how we eat it, and in whose company is profoundly human. Today “eating out,” as it is colloquially known, has become a basic fact of daily urban living. Whether in an environment that is fast or considered, solo or social, the typology of the “restaurant” seems ripe for investigation. The restaurant cannot be separated from the thing served, the arrangement of its space, the graphic translation of information, and the performance of the service. And so, at its core, the restaurant is still a space of everyday performance and ritual and a scaled system of architecture and design. It is this scaled system of design from environment to object that is of primary interest to this studio. We will use the staging of ritual and performance and the attendant objects and spaces that make it possible to examine culture, and architecture and design’s role in producing it, reinforcing, reordering, and remaking it.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Fall 2016, Urbanism Studio in collaboration with Jing Qian
Studio Overview This studio will be for a major urban project to offer alternative proposals for the redesign of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA is located near the midpoint of Wilshire Boulevard, a corridor that stretches roughly 16 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, in a section dubbed the Miracle Mile. LACMA has been on this site for 55 years, during which time a host of architects, from Mies Van der Rohe to OMA to Renzo Piano have been involved (or at least considered) for its development. LACMA is sited in a large park that it shares with the La Brea tar pits (an ecologically and historically sensitive area) and has expanded incrementally over the years. The studio will use the brief from this most recent project for a new building for the permanent collection.
Program Distribution
Circulation Entry Coat Cafe Theater Gallery Storage Conservation/Archives Education Library Administration Mechanical/Bathrooms
Site Model
Site Plan
Our proposal involves a series of buildings that relates to the rhythm of the existing campus plan and tha of outdoor circulation.
at connects to the existing axis
The Plans are organized to create moments of compression and release through th galleries on the ground floor, to medium, rectangular galleries on the second floor, up
Ground Level (0’-0”)
Plaza Level (+14’-0”)
From the central Renzo Piano designed entrance pavilion (west), one continues through a ramped path that provides access to galleries, a courtyard, and then leads up to a plaza that serves as a public amenity and a platform for social activity.
From the Plaza, one can enter galler something to eat from one of the v space.
he circulation. There is a gradation in scale with the gallery spaces, from small, square p to large, temporary exhibition galleries on the third floor.
ries, the educational center, or grab vendors at the indoor/outdoor cafe
Bridge Level (+28’-0�) The Plaza also provides access up to a bridge that crosses Wilshire Boulevard that connects to an auditorium/theater, featuring additional galleries and a moment that dips down and faces west, with a perfect spot to watch the sunset down the busy thoroughfare.
Section through axis of circulation connecting to existing LACMA campus
Section through Wilshire Boulevard bridge
The museum is designed to foster a sense of softness in the spatial experience through color, form, and light.
Composite Plan
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West Entrance
Soft Color Softness in the museum experience begins with color. A soft pink is used in the connecting exterior circulation to accentuate the path, wrapping up vertical surfaces and ceilings.
Soft Form Softness is formally explored in plan and section. Curves are placed along the exterior path to beckon visitors to continue to move through he sequence of public spaces.
East Entrance
Wilshire Boulevard Bridge at sunset.
Soft Light Soft light is explored through a daylighting strategy of curved translucent light filters that act as skylights and as sidelights, wrapping the walls of the large gallery spaces on the third floor. At night, the soft lighting effect would reverse to be visible on the exterior facade, glowing on Wilshire Boulevard.
Gallery Model, 1/2” = 1’0”
Professional Work
Utile Architecture & Planning, Boston, MA October 2014 - July 2016 role: designer Professional Role While studying at Northeastern University, I worked for seven months at Utile as an intern during co-op. After graduating in August 2014, I returned to work at Utile as a designer. With the exception of two master planning projects (St. Andrews School in Austin, Texas and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), I have primarily worked on interiors projects, such as the renovation of Belmont Day School’s dining hall, a neighborhood center at Northeastern crossing, the renovation/addition to Jamaica Plain Branch Library, MetroMark at Forest Hills Apartments, and the renovation of Cumnock Hall at Harvard Business School.
Project Location Year Type
St. Andrews Episcopal School Austin, TX 2015 (Jan. - Apr.) Master Plan for Lower and Upper School campuses Team Tim Love, Mimi Love, Chris Genter, Steven Greenberger, Katie Ubben Role Created axonometric program distribution diagrams for each building type - both Upper and Lower Schools; test fit building program layouts on site; created plan diagrams for Upper School and Lower School; Created build-up site plan diagrams showing proposed interventions; assisted with setting up and editing client presentations; coordinated site plan backgrounds with Reed Hilderbrand (landscape architect) and attended project workshops
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Master
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Photo by Utile/Reed Hilderbrand
Lower School Proposed Site Plan
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Project Location Year Type
Belmont Day School, Coolidge Hall Belmont, MA 2014 - 2015 (Oct. - July) Interior renovation of existing dining hall and entry vestibule Team Mimi Love, Chris Genter, Katie Ubben Role Assisted with development and construction administration of project from schematic design to project completion; created concept diagrams for client meetings; 3D modeled proposed interventions; assisted with set-up/edit of client presentations; attended client meetings; attended meetings with consultants and coordinated drawings
Photos by Flagship Photo / Gustav Hoiland
Photos by Flagship Photo / Gustav Hoiland
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Project Location Year Type
Search Engine Cambridge, MA Nov. 2015 - July 2016 Interior renovation of existing office, cafe and lounge space Team Project by Utile (project architect) in collaboration with Merge Architects (design architect); Mimi Love, Chris Genter, Katie Ubben, Carmine D’Alessandro, Steven Greenberger Role Assisted with development of construction documents; attended meetings with consultants and coordinated background drawings
Photos by Flagship Photo / Gustav Hoiland
Photos by Flagship Photo / Gustav Hoiland
Representation various projects/techniques 2016-Present
@ktubben
Katie Ubben
2337 Prince Street, Berkeley, CA 94705 (251) 769-7714 katieginn10@gmail.com katieginnubben.com EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Min Day, San Francisco, CA [designer] Produced FF&E plans, spreadsheets, and specifications sheets Produced drawings/graphics for client presentations Set up and edited digital presentations for client meetings Produced physical models for client/consultant meetings NEMESTUDIO, Berkeley, CA [professor’s assistant/designer] Produced drawings/models for Storefront NYC, MoMA PS1 YAP, LA Forum Assisted with the construction of canvas-stretched frames and podiums for the 18 Drawings, 7 Models exhibition in Wurster Gallery
2017 Mar; Sept; Oct 2018 Jan
Utile, Boston, MA [designer] Produced graphics for public meetings, client presentations, competitions Created graphic diagrams for design standards and master planning guides Construction Administration for interior renovation projects Managed set up and production of CD sets for interior renovation projects Produced FF&E plans, spreadsheets, and specifications sheets Managed layouts and proofread documents for RFP’s and RFQ’s Set up and edited PowerPoint presentations for client/consultant meetings
2014 Oct - 2016 July 2013 June - Dec
University of California, Berkeley Candidate for Master of Architecture [expected graduation May 2018] HONORS
HONORS
REFERENCES
2012 Sept - 2014 Aug
Highest Overall GPA for School of Architecture Class of 2014 Cumulative GPA: 3.94, summa cum laude Northeastern University Dean’s List
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Candidate for Bachelor of Architecture + Interior Architecture [transferred] HONORS
2016 Aug - Present
Selected to participate in Spring 2017 CED Circus presentations Winner of Spring 2018 CED Circus for ARCH 203 Integrated Studio 2017-18 Eisner Award for Architecture
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Bachelor of Science in Architecture
SKILLS
2017 May - Aug; Dec 2018 Jan
2008 May - 2011 Apr
Book Award - Most Outstanding Third Year Interior Architecture Student AL Forestry Association Wood Design Competition - Honorable Mention
Revit Rhino SketchUp Enscape Maxwell V-Ray AutoCAD Vectorworks Adobe Suite Bluebeam Available upon request.
Katie Ubben 2337 Prince Street Berkeley, CA 94705 katieginn10@gmail.com www.katieginnubben.com