Kelli Cunningham Reinhardt
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kreinhardt.lsuwebdesign.org
Education
2012-2016 Louisiana State University
Seeking Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees. Current Cumulative GPA 3.964
2009-2012 University of South Florida Received a BA in Economics Spring 2012. Cumulative GPA of 3.72
Program Proficiency Adobe CC Suite [ Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, After Effects, Media Encoder] Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCad, Rhino Terrain ArcMap, TextWrangler [HTML, CSS, Java Script]
Employment
2015 Externship at BJARKE INGELS GROUP December 7-18th Externship at BIG’s New York office.
2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant at LSU School of Architecture
Assisted in creating the ARCH 2003 Architectural Techniques Course. Taught Adobe [illustrator, photoshop, indesign, aftereffect, media encoder] Rhino, Rhino Terrain, ArcMap and digital fabrication techniques. Worked with graduate coordinator on graduate school admissions.
2015 Fabricating the Delta Editor
Created website and print book for work and research produced in the ARCH 7004 studio as well as ARCH 4993, digital fabrication elective. fabricatingthedelta.wordpress.com/
2014-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant at LSU School of Architecture
Assisted in creating the ARCH 2003 Architectural Techniques Course. Taught Adobe [illustrator, photoshop, indesign, aftereffect, media encoder] Rhino, Rhino Terrain, ArcMap and digital fabrication techniques. Worked with graduate coordinator on graduate school admissions.
2014 Losing Ground Editor
Created website and print book for work produced in the ARCH 7004 Spring 2014 studio. Managed Video Files and created contemplation video. methodsforleeville.wordpress.com/
2013-2014 Graduate Assistant at LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio
Assisted with design and research on the Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program. Graphic design work on the Resiliency guidebook. Worked on the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s Water Campus Exhibits.
2012-2013 Graduate Assistant at LSU School of Architecture
Worked in the communication cross curriculum studio, tutoring students on presentation and writing skills. Recorded all College of Art + Design lectures and assisted Director Erdman with administrative tasks.
Study Abroad
2013 Art + Design Rome Program Professor Ursula Emery McClure + Kristi Dykema Cheramie Summer semester studio abroad, 12 credit hours
2014 LSU School of Architecture Amsterdam Program Professor Greg Watson Spring intercession independent research course abroad, 3 credits
Awards
2014 Faculty Design Award
Louisiana State University School of Architecture Academic Achievement Award
2013 Faculty Design Award Louisiana State University School of Architecture Academic Achievement Award
2013 LSU School Service Award 2016
Exhibitions
2015 Landscape Relationships Louisiana State University Foster Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Conference Proceedings, University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, Houston, Texas
Curriculum Vitae
2015 Engaging Media Exhibition, Poster
2015 COAD Atrium Wall Exhibit Louisiana State University College of Art and Design, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2014 Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture:
Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design book by Bradley Cantrell + Wes Michaels
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2015 Losing Ground: Urban Sacrifice Zones in the Mississippi River Basin
ACSA The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center Conference Proceedings paper by Shelby Doyle
Invited Critic
2015 LA 3302 Technology III: Construction Documentation
Instructor Cheryl Lough Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Construction Course based on 1:1 design build project
2015 ARCH 2002: Undergraduate Studio Instructor Kristen Kelsch Second year undergraduate architecture studio course final review
2015 Arch 4002: Undergraduate Studio
Instructor Robert Zwirn Fourth year undergraduate architecture studio course final review
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BEGINNING DESIGN Terra Mutare Fall 2012, Professors Emery McClure + Cheramie Parts and Spring 2012,Pieces Professor Stanley Russell WeFallare2013,Thirsty Professor Wes Michaels
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The Terrain| plan in motion Professors Emery McClure + Cheramie| Fall 2012
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In the primary exploratory issues of craft, light, surface movement and dynamic structures, the construction of the project centers around creating a box with three voids based on three found objects. The balance of mass and void derives from the characteristics of the found objects in situ. The box is then opened by a series of apertures, illuminating the void and offering an experience to the occupant. Finally, the box is given a real world site with dynamic conditions, in this case Lake Mono, California, with an active lake and tufu formations. The box interacts with the process at the bottom of the lake, resulting in an armature resembling the creation of a landscape for tufu formation. Project two, begins with the study of body parts and casting feet in two positions representing the beginning and end point of a movement with seven steps overall. The surface movement is subsequently diagrammed and translated into a machine with a surface, subsurface structure and activators. The creation of a moving landscape was the focus of the studio. Issues of craft in movement, materiality, and translation of a diagram were tackled. After the creation of this space of the movement through the action of stringing, we were asked in build an intervention in an alien landscape using our action verb, to string. These final drawings are featured on page 3. Through intense study of the creation of the alien landscape tectonic connections were developed as a means of surviving in a moving landscape.
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The Box| image of small void exposed | box elevation | axonometric study of apertures Professors Emery McClure + Cheramie| Fall 2012
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1. to put (things) together on a string, thread, chain, etc. 2. to place or hang (things) in a line or series 3. to tie, hang, or fasten (something) with string
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The Machine|detail images, terrain cast Professors Emery McClure + Cheramie| Fall 2012
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Door & Window|Axonometric Phase Study Professor Stanley Russell| Spring 2012
Parts & Pieces
This introductory studio challenged the notion of building components. Taking the architect’s kit of parts and reexamining each piece. Under Stanley Russell, University of South Florida school of architecture and community design associate professor, the studio focused on tectonic connections and proportions related to function. Study parts included the corner, floor, ceiling, window, door, and facade. The studio culminated in the design of a live work space on Miami Beach for orchestral musicians. The site is located in Miami beach at the junction of the two city grids. This joint within the city and the connection of music to cultural life in Miami was the bases of the parti. The building consists of two volumes wedged into one another within the triangle lot.
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Houston Flickr Map Professor Wesley Michaels | Fall 2013
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Team William Reinhardt + Jescelle Major + Kelli C. Reinhardt We have always been thirsty, for water knowledge, for water as a commodity and for life. A water museum in Houston should catalog and curate the water conditions that its residents will face. Because of the scale of the water challenges we hoped to use architecture that would physically record the water data through material choices. As a way of working we decided to test ideas of procession through a site as a method for distilling all of the problems, the data or the water catalog. As a group we felt visceral approach would be the most successful in introducing the water situation to Houstonians. Defining the most basic, rather, fundamental properties of water and presenting them in a way that would appeal to our primal connection, our thirst was paramount. These decisions led us to material investigations with copper as a poetic yet physical record, study models exploring form and addressed procession. We also conducted digital investigations into an online water discussion; areas with high levels of social activity and photo documentation to help us later engage the digital realm. The exhibit on display would be both physical and digital and would show the tracings the water conditions left behind on the site elements as we as those of the people visiting the museum. The user passes through the social plaza to enter the site and is guided through the exhibits to the contemplative garden in the back of the site. These exhibits showcase the poetic inseparability humans have with water. The spaces draw attention to water through the design focuses of each space. The experience within the spaces of the site are meant to be photographed and spread online, this connection to social media can begin to bring a conversation about water to Houston.
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques + Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design Second Edition Bradley Cantrell + Wes Michaels Pages ix, 257-258
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Mosque of Caracalla Summer 2013, Professor Emery McClure Retreat: New Orleans Spring 2015, Professor Mossop Seward Park Fall 2014, Professor Robert Zwirn Leeville Realigned Spring 2014, Professor Shelby Doyle Harm Reduction Denver Fall 2015, Professor Bruce Sharky
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane | mixed media field drawing Professor Kristi Dykema Cheramie| Rome | Summer 2013
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Mosque of Caracalla | cross sections | north elevation Professor Ursula Emery McClure| Rome | Summer 2013
Mosque of Caracalla
Inserting a radically different program into the Baths of Caracalla demands a transition between the antica and the nuova. Through the palimpsest of the site, past occupancies have created a temporal gradient that speaks to how the site has reacted to each occupation. The nuova occupancy will focus on bringing a prayerful patron to the site, and this user will come to the site for transition from the temporal world to the spiritual. The transition to the spiritual should be gradual allowing spatial time for spiritual preparation. The historical temporal gradient helps to establish the new rhythm of occupation’s relationship to the site, a nuova addition to the palimpsest. The insertion of the nuova occupancy creates a disconnection between the tourist user and the faithful that mimics the historic disconnections between contemporary users, living and dead, slave and bather. This disconnect creates a primary and secondary user on the site. By prioritizing the experience of the ruins, the tourist is therefore also prioritized. The antica site is prioritized to preserve the historical significance of the site. By maintaining this condition the Roman palimpsest grows. The mosque must yield to the prioritized ruins to allow the hierarchy of the ruins to be read.
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Mosque of Caracalla | south east elevation | below collage Professor Ursula Emery McClure| Rome | Summer 2013
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Retreat | system phases map Professor Elizabeth Mossop | Spring 2015
Retreat: New Orleans Park System
In negotiating a reassessment of funds and development of the New Orleans park system, this scheme took a stance on the broader unavoidable context of resettlement of the city. New Orleans is a city 49% below sea level, and at great risk in the next big storm, global climate change or even heavy rain. The viability of the city as a whole must be considered in re-envisioning the park system, as the city can no longer afford to lose funds in low-lying areas. In this sense, the scheme uses topography as the lens with which to make decisions for the system as a whole. This scheme must interact with the current political context of the city of Post Katrina New Orleans. Since 2005, there have been a lot of conversations about a smaller more sustainable footprint for the city. The method of achieving this, can never gain any political traction. Take for example, the green dot plan, its release caused city wide outrage and panic, without ever being understood. The idea that people have a right to return to their homes, even at an unsafe elevation, outweighed the ideas of social justice and long-term city resiliency. People have a right to better public space. The shrinking tax base of a sprawling city cannot support improvements to any park at the current scale of the system. The system and the city must be condensed in order to save New Orleans. As several city case studies have shown there must be a big enough tax base to support these networks or they will fail within financial cycles. The project presented uses topography as a means of restricting the footprint of the city but is in no way mandatory, quick or absolute. Based on topography, the city is negotiated under three different conditions for redevelopment. The resulting scheme uses parks as temporary water storage in flash events, while also creating a place for water to go in longer term flooding conditions. In doing this economic market mechanisms are used to encourage redevelopment of settlement in the high ground, densifying safer areas of the city and allowing for decreased infrastructural pressure. Over the course of several decades, this will condense the footprint of the city and allow for a more reasonable tax base reflective of viable high ground.
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Seward Park Co-op| 1/32� Model | Diagrams Professor Robert Zwirn | Fall 2014
Seward Park
New York City has a complicated history with immigrant and factory worker housing. Moving away for the dark tenement buildings, clothing unions created cooperatives in which people had better ventilation, light and more space to raise their families within the densely populated Lower East Side of Manhattan. Herman Jessor was instrumental in the prototyping of this form of dwelling within New York. His goals were better natural ventilation, natural light, and in house kitchens and bathrooms. Building upon these ideas two residential towers were added to the co-op’s site taking into account light in the existing buildings. Added to the 400 unit program parks were inserted with in building to minimize the footprint of the building and give residents more access to green space. Water is collected from these park spaces and used in irrigation. Theses spaces also act as more insulation, lowering residents energy bills. All Units have wide views along the perimeter. The lobby space opens into a newly designed courtyard on the blocks side streets to create a more intimate entry to a large residential building. This project was an exercise in thesis for a large tower and the ability to organize units while maintaining the thesis. This is the first project within school where both discipline show in my choice of thesis and balance of work. The planting palette was chosen just a carefully as the building facades.
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Open Green Space [Manhattan] very little green space, in the way of public parks exists considering the scale and density of new york city
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Realigning Leeville| final timeline rendering Professor Shelby Doyle | Spring 2014
Leeville Realigned
Louisiana’s oil industry’s has destroyed access to other resources within the lower deltaic region.. Big oil, canalization, and the elevated highway have deformed the landscape of Leeville, starving it of resources, impeding its ability to survive. The architectural intervention within Leeville will realign to provide equal access to the resources found within this industrial landscape. This realignment will visualize the inequality within the infrastructural landscape that has destroyed the economic welfare of Leeville. The urban design of this project deploys the historic precedent of the arpent system which spatialized resource allotment as a method for land division and use. This new arpent is a three dimensional architecturalization of resource access in the current deltaic landscape.
The elevated highway has cut Leeville off from the economic pipeline of lower Louisiana. The lower Mississippi river corridor has become the sacrifice zone for the oil industry. Traditionally a sacrifice zone refers to the agricultural practice of deliberately degrading one area of land to increase productivity in another, but scholars have begun using the term in explicitly accusatory ways to refer to areas degraded by modern industrial societies in pursuit of economic gain. Transportation and resources has shaped French land development in this area of Louisiana. The arpent system equalized access to all resources found within the landscape. A reorientation of the public land system of Leeville, realignment of its access and stability of the bridge, the marsh for fishing habitats, ice industry of Leeville, the old road bed of La-1, the navigable water channels, current oil wells and the current oyster communities. This reaction is within the tools of building a new deltaic region of Louisiana, and dose not inhibit peoples natural claim on resources. This visualization of resources within Leeville is a warning to the future in which people are forced to fend for themselves producing an ad hoc architecture that responds only to the individuals need for resources.
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Realigning Leeville| realigned arpent section Professor Shelby Doyle | Spring 2014
Realigning Leeville| resource model with 3d printed arpents Professor Shelby Doyle | Spring 2014
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Harm Reduction Denver | system node map Professor Bruce Sharky | Fall 2015
Harm Reduction Denver Yifu Liu + Ramneek Bajwa + Ziding Liu + Kelli C Reinhardt
Denver is a city in flux, with a booming economy and real estate market. Despite many new multi-family housing units, Denver is facing a huge homeless population. Because of this problem many homeless are forced to camp along the South Platte River running through Denver. In the summer of 2015, several homeless people died due to flash flooding while camping along these recreational trails. Starting with a group master plan, We aimed to create a more usable river bank for all users including these illegal campers. Our scheme was comprised of two anchors, the downtown node and the NOREC Node (North Recreational Node). The central node would be located in the RiNo (River North) District, a redeveloping industrial neighborhood. Further personal investigation into the area just south of RiNo lead to a proposal to create a safer zone for homeless people to occupy. This idea is based on pulling the commuter trail away from the river bank and regrading the site for a safe and quick access to high ground. This scheme does not have any mandatory components in response to homeless occupation and could be employed in several places along the South Platte River and other river corridors facing similar problems. By pulling the commuter trail into the RiNo neighborhood there is more incentive to add mixed use residential buildings and create a welcoming condition to the area. This would spur economic growth while also providing needed infrastructure for homeless. This scheme follows the Harm Reduction approach typically seen in treatment of drug addicts. Reduce the potential harm of a behavior rather than try to limit the behavior itself. By reorganizing and regrading the site, harm to the commuter and homeless users are lessened.
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OTHER PROJECTS Delta | Time Fall 2014, Professor Shelby Doyle FiskSpring Map 2014, Professor Forbes Lipschitz Planting Design Spring 2014, Professor Richard Hindle
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Karl Schmidt + Landon Pugh + Kelli C Reinhardt Prompt : how to represent changing bathymetry / topography over time? The installation shows topographic and bathymetric changes in Wax Lake Delta between 1941 and 2012. While topography and bathymetry datasets are represented as continuous, this data is extrapolated from collections of point data; in addition, a continuous method of representation is not well attuned to the characteristics of deltaic environments. As such, topography [ air / land ] and bathymetry [ land / water ] are shown via a point cloud representing the changes in elevation and depth at the intersection of a nominal grid and the Wax Lake Delta. In addition to the altered means of representation, the use of a point cloud also imbues an ephemerality and the suggestion of continual movement and change. This kiosk design was created to be a functional terrain, with several position programmed using arduino. This work was featured in two exhibits, Landscape Relationships (2015) + CoAD Atrium Exhibit (2015)
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Delta over Time| Kiosk + details Professor Shelby Doyle | Fall 2014
AREA_01 HYRDROLOGY TO PASTURAL LANDSCAPE
AREA_02 HYRDROLOGY TO URBAN POCKETS
AREA_03 TOPOGRAPHY TO URBAN POCKETS
Fisk Map Plate 22_03 Professor Forbes Lipschitz | Spring 2014
Fisk Map: Plate 22_03
The Fisk Map was produced by Cartographer Harold Fisk in 1994 by order of the United States Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi River Commission, as part of the report, “Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River.� This map shows the historic flow channels of the Mississippi River as reflected in the geology of the region. This plate extends through the boarders of Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky. Tracing the historic paths of the Mississippi River, using guidance from cartographer Harold Fisk, begins to link the idea of hydrology and human settlement, this is further strengthened by overlaying the topography of the region. The addition of levees binds the course of the river within this plate of the Fisk map. The observation that the natural meanders of the river extending past this imposed boundary can be supported. Three dimensional topographic models enable conclusions to be drawn between hydrology, topography, agricultural land and urban density. Most of the agricultural land in this region of the Mississippi flood plain is located in the higher elevations. The urbanized pockets however are located along the river showing the need for transportation of goods. In abstracting the flow of sediment through this portion of the River, the shifting patterns of land are marked. Over time large swaths of land shifted from the west bank to the east. This was noted through time with the faintest lines being the oldest shifts.
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Green Roof Prototypical Site _01 | Louisiana Art and Science Museum Professor Richard Hindle |Spring 2014
Planting Design Karl Schmidt + Kelli Wong + Kelli C Reinhardt
This investigation called for creating lightweight movable planters for rooftop installation on various under used rooftops in downtown Baton Rouge. The use of vegetation on the surfaces of buildings can increase energy efficiency by serving as insulation. Beyond enhancing building performance, building surface vegetations can also improve water quality and slow stormwater runoff. Plant material can retain and filter stormwater that would otherwise flow in great velocity and volume off the impermeable hard surfaces. Roof planting specifically can provide much needed green space access in an urban environment. Green roofs have positive aesthetic values. By implementing a modular shallow and lightweight technology a habitat can be reconfigured for multiple programs to take place on a roof surface and can be manipulated easily to fit the programmatic space requirements. We will utilize the Louisiana prairie as the planting palette to create a native habitat along the mississippi river. The modular system utilizes different scales of plants to create boundaries, and surface to create and enhance usable space within the public urban context of Baton Rouge. The built environment of Downtown Baton Rouge mostly consist of vertical and hard surfaces, which is distinctly different than the original habitats it replaced. Species that would have thrived in the original habitat type may no longer prefer the current state. By reclaiming the rooftop surfaces, the native habitat can be allowed to interact within the urban context. To effectively incorporate building surface vegetations, the built environment needs to be regarded as a habitat template it most resembles. Although mimicking the vegetation features of a not necessarily native natural habitat can be beneficial to the performance of the plant community, native plant species will also be considered to attract local wildlife and pollinators.
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