Krisandrah Crall Architecture Portfolio
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The projects in this document are an eclectic assortment of style, function, and social experiments that are designed to have a positive impact on the potential user and or its environment. The work shown here is both applied and theoretical and has been produced in a variety of settings with differing levels of professional oversight. Each project has its own learning outcome and purpose, so I invite you to peruse through and find something to take away.
Contents Building Analysis 4-5 Library 606
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Berlin Blocks 8-11 Convergence 12-13 Creative Works 14-15 ShuÄ ibiĂ n 16-19
and Recreation
Textures
Building Analysis Casa Batllo Barcelona, Spain Antoni Gaudi Photo: Gaudi Sketch
Walking through Casa Batllo is like walking along the ocean shore, every surface and texture are carefully crafted to suit it’s purpose. The walk up the staircase, from the entrance to the first floor was completely satisfying, feeling the wood rail in my hand and transitioning up from a cave-like room into a high-ceilinged hall with wood accents all around, every human sensation is designed for.
Geometry
Building Analysis
Military History Museum Dresden, Germany Libeskind Photo: Hufton+Crow Photography
The original section is quite beautiful and rich with traditional architectural features while the new section is a wealth of abstract angles and dizzying shifts. While in the new section it is easy to forget that just a moment before you were standing in a classical and wholly symmetrical building. Libeskind’s design intentionally makes the occupants feel slightly uncomfortable and off center, the tilt of the walls reference the crookedness of the displays inside. The texture, smell, and weight of the conflicts are on display to be experienced.
Library 606
Solid Void
Solid Void was a process of understanding space and volume that would guide the design of the major semester project, the library in Chicago. Working with new concepts and materials to interpret the moment and significance of a space drove the creation of the sculpturelike blocks to the right. Through photography, a montage that communicates and emphasizes the moment of pause along the circulation path was the first of many steps in the solid void process.
Third Year Undergraduate Studio 2015
Library 606
Solid Void
The site is located next to the Bloomingdale trail/line 606 and the blue train line, a loud and pedestrian-heavy intersection. Designed to connect the library to the 606 pedestrian trail and the local community while providing a traditional resource with a modern take on what a library could be, the Library 606 creates moments of pause along the circulation path. The rotunda over the accessible lower roof and the courtyard are patterned after the cityscape itself. The space creates a unique atmosphere of quiet and pause in the middle of this busy city.
Berlin Blocks
Fourth Year Future Cities Studio 2016
Designing a process As a social response to the DoIt-Yourself and Do-It-Together communities that are common in Berlin, Germany, this project seeks to design a process or system for such communities to build on. This process is a platform for communication, small and large group gatherings and many other programmatic uses the community may have.
Using a diamond rhomboid shape instead of a simple cube allows for a more dynamic appearance. The slope of the vertical panels creates a relaxed feeling in the space and encourages reclining and climbing. The panels can also be arranged horizontally for a terrain or vertically as a wall.
GY DIY DIT TYPEOLOGY
GARDEN & GREEN SPACE
PRIVATE SPACE
CES
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PUBLIC & COMMUNIAL SPACES
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CIRCULATION
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TYPICAL URBAN CONTEXT
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Berlin Blocks
Form and Sight Finding Berlin 2nd Nature Conference Display
Berlin Blocks
Flat packing &Transportation
The rhomboids can be clustered in whatever configuration suits the group the best. The complexity of the form creates visual movement and can be used to direct movement of the participants through the space.
The panels can be fitted together with a notching system. Panels could potentially be made at a public fabrication lab or wood shop with a CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machine. The notches make for easy and fast assembly on site and allow the blocks to be taken apart during transport. Christiania Bikes (shown to the left) are common in Germany and are a great way to transport goods around the city.
Berlin Blocks
Site for Berlin Blocks
The top right graphic shows the Gardens of Allmende surrounding a large central cluster while the center graphic shows the blocks disseminating through the gardens when they are not needed in the center. The top right graphics are parties of cluster types with the use of a wall as a supportive and space defining device. dieausloeser.net
The example site for this project is Allmende Kontor in Templehof Park, Berlin. Allmende already has a mixed use as a public garden and as a gathering area for large or small groups.
The goal of this study was to design a flexible system that would help promote a scene of community on an open site. This would allow anyone to quickly and easily build a gathering space to suit the needs of a pop-up community.
Convergence
Second Year Undergraduate Studio 2014
Second Year Architecture Studio 2014
This project started with an analysis of the given Andrew Hopper painting. The first phase was to assess the rest of the room that is not in the painting. Second the analysis extended to the building that the office would reside in. The building was designed around the room. The convergence between the building that was designed based on the painting and an existing architectural work.
The office in the painting
“Office in a Small City” By: Andrew Hopper
Building for the office
Benlin Warehouse Buffalo,NY 1930’s
Synthesis
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center By: Renzo Piano
From the painting, I designed a simple functional room for the man at the desk (in the upper right-hand corner of the plan). The project expanded to the building that the building existed in. I designed an abstract atrium that extended beyond the roof and structural walls.
The synthesis of Renzo Piano’s JeanMarie Tjibaou Cultural Center and my office building design. I brought the ribbing style from the Tjibaou building into the interior vertical circulation as well as onto the exterior of the building.
Process sketches, and some detailed planning. Much of the design work for this project was done by hand.
Creative Works
ShuÄ ibiĂ n
and Recreation Advanced Architecture Studio 2017
Bremerton is home to the most important military shipyard on the west coast of the United States, this ship yard is an industrial complex that is a model of efficiency and human innovation. This city is also a beautiful resource for nature and all it has to offer located on every street, between the homes, schools and businesses, even tucked in among the massive ships on the water.
The hard industrial nature of the shipyard and city rests amongst a beautiful natural landscape that meets the salt waters of the ocean. Bremerton is a place where the passage of time is marked by the coming and going of the Seattle ferry and the navel vessels through the harbor. Any man made objects left neglected or forgotten in this environment is reclaimed by nature where a natural process of decay breaks the steel, wood, and rubber down to smaller components every day.
Shuāibiàn
and Recreation
Conceptual Design Development
“How should the reconstructed buildings and spaces for living incorporate the social, physiological, cultural, political, and economic change?” - Lebbeus Woods
Above is a sketch inspired by Lebbeus Woods demonstrating his concept of rebuilding a decaying or damaged structure to create a new form and function. He did this while considering the social hierarchy/heterarchy structure.
Second Roof Garden Plan Scale1:1/8
Shuāibiàn
AA
STAFF LOCKER AND SHOWER STAFF ROOMS
Conceptual Design Development
URGENT CARE AMBULENCE PICKUP ROOM
LOADING DOCK AND RECEVING
BACK GARDEN
STAFF ROOMS
STAFF OFFICES
STAFF QUIET ROOMS WC
STAFF OFFICES RESIDENCY D2
STAFF ROOMS GROCERY AND PHARMACY
OUTDOOR WALKWAY
MEETING AND CONFRENCE ROOMS
WC
WC
D3
WC
WC LAB
BB
WC D1 PUBLIC SPACE AND CAFE RECEPTION
URGENT CARE STAFF ROOMS
STAFF ROOMS WC
RECEPTION WC
First Floor Plan Scale1:1/8
STAIR DETAIL D1
PHLEBOTOMY STATIONS-CHAIR
PHLEBOTOMY STATIONS-CHAIR
PHLEBOTOMY
PHLEBOTOMY
GEN RAD
STATIONS-STRETCHER SPECIMEN COLLECTION
LAB
LIGHT WELL DETAIL D2
LEAD RN
CONTROL GENERAL RADIOGRAPHY EXAM
TEMPLATE COORDINATOR
LOADING DOCK CALL CENTER
PATIENT
Green Walkway DETAIL D3
PA/NP OFFICE
TOILET, PA/NP OFFICE
STAFF LOUNGE/LOCKERS
CARE COORDINATOR
DRESSING,
HOUSE KEEPING CLOSET
ADA READING
STATIONS-CHAIR
TOILET
TOILET
BEHAVIORAL /MENTAL HEALTH
AREA
CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE
ROOMS
ROOMS
CHANGING
CHANGING
BOOTHS
BOOTHS
CLASSROOM
RESIDENCY ADMIN
GYM
TOILET
LOCKEKRS/SHOWER
CAFE WINDOW
TOILET TOILET
CAFE
PHARMACY TOILET
CLINIC POD FM
TOILET
ART
CLINIC POD FM CLINIC POD FM
GROCERY
TOILET
RECEPTION
TOILET
BB
ART WAITING AREA
ART
URGENT CARE POD
RECEPTION/LOBBY RECEPTION ART
North First Floor Plan 3/32 scale
Section BB 1/16 Scale
TOILET
TOILET
AA
and Recreation
The three plans here are design iterations for this project, beginning with a more literal interpretation of decay and subtraction. Each design has green veins running through it, these veins are three foot wide spaces open to the sky with some planting and textured glass. Second the plan became more organized and the circulation easier to negotiate. In the third plan the green veins become organizing elements to guide patients through the space.
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.� - Libeskind