LAMB
KT
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//education
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville Bachelor of Architecture with a minor in Industrial Design// Graduating May 2019 Suma Cum Laude
Aalto University, UTK Summer Institute Semester abroad in Helsinki, Finland// May-August 2017
7449 Magnolia Valley Drive Eagleville, TN 37060
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resume
kt lamb //experience
HMK Architects Intern // May-August 2018
University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design
Teaching Assistant// Janurary 2018- present// Arch 122 + Arch 221 Research Assistant for Professor TK Davis, FAIA// September 2017-present Assistant to Professor David Matthews// May- September 2016
//honors
Work exhibited from industrial design // 2016 Work exhibited from Finland // 2017 Received the Bullock Smith Scholarship// 2017 Won 1st place in the Middle Tennessee AIA Jury// 2017 Received The National Association of Women in Construction Scholarship// 2018 Received The General Shale Brick Scholarship// 2018 Received Summer Undergraduate Research Grant from The University of Tennessee// 2018 Accepted to present abstract submission at National Council on Undergraduate Research// 2019 Class Representative at Graduation// 2019
//leadership
TAAST 2018- present Co-director// September 2018-present Tau Sigma Delta President 2018- present President// May 2018- present Alpha Rho Chi 2015- present President//2017- 2018 Professional Chair// 2016-2017
//service
College of Architecture + Design: Liam Young Exhibition// 2016 Liquid Kingdoms Exhibition// 2017
Alpha Rho Chi: Design Time// 2016 Beardsley Farms// 2017 Habitat for Humanity// 2017 Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries// 2018 Keep Knoxville Beautiful// 2018
statement// A dedicated student and worker, wanting to learn and experience through the world of architecture. Looking for an entry level position at an architecture firm where I can push boundaries, question norms, and learn throughout the process.
//skills Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator AutoCad Grasshopper Rhino Revit Model making: laser cutter, welding, water jet, cnc, woodworking, 3d printing Sustainable design Team collaboration Time management Leadership
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Thank you to everyone in my life who has continuously supported me and my endeavors.
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thesis My wish when entering into this profession is to continue pushing myself. Whether it is through professional motives, continuing education , traveling, teaching, or all of the above.
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thesis 01 04 industrial design
Fast forward 14 years, now in my fifth year of architecture school and I am realizing how lucky I was to know what I wanted to be when I grew up. To be apart of such a collaborative and expansive profession, one that the people willingly push themselves to their breaking point.
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There were many moments in my life leading to the answer of the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?� Moments of sitting in a cold garage at a makeshift table hammering two pieces of wood together and calling it a skyscraper or drawing floor plans of my future dream home. One could chalk it up to keeping warm from the harsh winter breaks spent in northern Canada, but I felt an excitement by this type of making.
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fifth year thesis prep. jennifer akerman. fall 2018
Collective memory is always being questioned and added to by the individuals who seek pleasure in this new art form of sharing. Qualities from digital uploads include things like: erasure, fake news, the ability to go “viral�, and an infinite life cycle. A time line begins to construct forming digital glitches within the history of this realm. How does digital media meet infrastructure? Will it always have an ethereal connotation like the Internet? An ideal landscape created within our individual profiles where we construct our memories through a series of likes, hashtags, and followers. Never having a site perfect enough for physical manifestation of one’s digital record because of the rapid change it undergoes.
Following the rules presented by the digital world with its limited privacy but ability to translate to an international language. Digital glitches providing a veil of comfort and self-obsession. Allowing the digital realm to aid in globalization of design, beliefs, and efficiency. A filtered truth in the loss of democracy.
of memory
surrogate
Digital glitches meaning the omission of truth, allowing the user to edit memories to continue in their vanity. Creating a unified digital glitch by creating a filter that begins to extract the color red. Abstracting the image, and continuing to the process of spatializing through a parametric form, as well as creating elementary three-dimensional forms.
The hope is to relay the concepts forged by Instagram and other social media platforms to expose the loss of democracy within elements in the city, and begin to uncover an urban environment addressing the issues created by those glitches, as well as promoting other characteristics of social media like speed, transparency, and a globalization.
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fourth year integrations. james rose. fall 2017 collaboration with: dylan palmer + joesph platt jr
M.I.R.A, modular inclusive research architecture, located in Cherokee Farms, Knoxville Tennessee, is geared towards the company of Ernst and Young. The program is designed for four tenants, three geared towards the inhabitants of the research campus and the other being for the workers of Ernst and Young. Research, inclusive, and showcase are just some characteristics to describe EY, and are three key design tactics taken into designing M.I.R.A.
With a focus on using local products and lower construction footprint, wood is utilized on a module of 20’ by 20’ , with other materials like glass, concrete, and steel wrapping around the structure acting as a protective shell, promoting transparency
Between the workers and visitors of the research campus, and allowing views and natural daylight to penetrate into the two major zones of research and office program. The building, along with the rest of the research campus promotes Cherokee Farms as a lead research campus facilitating values that could influence future design of Knoxville.
research architecture
m.i.r.a
With energy generated from the pv panels, lights, emergency signs, and backup generators will be powered off of these systems. The use of a geothermal pump, design for daylighting, LED light fixtures, high performance appliances, using local materials, pv panel energy generation, and re-use of water, M.I.R.A is reduced from the ASHRAE baseline by 91%.
We meet guidelines under COTE, through the use of location and transportation sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environment qualities. This project one first place in the AIA East Tennessee Competition.
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study abroad. scott wall + mark stanley. summer 2017
36 days begins our first stretch in Helsinki. Transplanting a home base from 35.9606째 N, 83.9207째 W to 60.1699째 N, 24.9384째 E. Home base meaning a place to sleep, a place to eat, a place to discuss, and a place to work. Therefore our home base being the city of Helsinki, begin to break up into major zones needed for mental being of camouflaging within the new culture. Starting with the understanding of the sauna. Cleaning and constructing a fire, that you can later experience within a small wooded room. Sputtering water along the hot stones, feeling the heat radiate through your person, toxins being peeled off, jumping into a ice cold lake, and then repeating the process.
The importance of understanding the process of a Finn was our goal within this studio, along with assimilating ourselves with Finnish culture. Within each drawing, each carved plane, and each particle of saw dust there was a purpose of re-creating what we saw in France into something tangible and visible for others to see.
exploration of finlandia
väylä
Within each drawing, each carved plane, and each particle of saw dust there was a purpose of re-creating what we saw in France into something tangible and visible for others to see. A slow process, what one might expect within a fourteen person project, but throughout the process learned the history of Finnish architecture and a great Finn architect.
The perception of a reindeer is different depending on who you ask. If you ask a child to describe a reindeer, they would describe a myth, a story told to them every year describing a brilliant animal floating through the sky, with their main purpose in life to bring happiness to children around the world.
Hidden in plain sight, carving away pieces of granite , replacing with cold concrete walls and USB plug-ins. A place that echoes, the sound of shoes hitting the floor, amplified pings coming from phones, and the clicking keys on keyboards. Sounds replacing the sunlight guided by fluorescent colorful bulbs weaving in and out of circulation.
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industrial design. ryann aoukar. summer
The importance of learning a different craft within the design field and focusing on a micro scale rather than a macro. This eight week long program was focused on hand drawing, modeling both digitally and physically, and understanding human scale through design. The hairdryer something used everyday ,has stayed relatively the same throughout the time span of fifty years. Beginning with a bee, abstracting its body, importance to the environment, and the emotions evoked. Translating the bee into a hairdryer, creating something playful with an underlying sense of danger. A bubbly shaped handle formed to the comfort of the hand. Abstracting the bumble bee, into a playful and useful tool for everyday life.
Avata means open, describing the essence of the hair dryer. The chosen font is aerial black because it is assertive and purposeful like a bumblebee. The coil is tightly wounded aluminum wire, creating a hot red when heated. The double plastic encasing allows heat to stay within the coils and a small gap allowing cool air to come out from the outer circle.
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redefining the hairdryer
avata
The abstraction of the bumblebee into a hairdryer is done in both shape, color, and structure. The transparent pieces show the inside of the hairdryer, creating something playful with an underlying sense of danger. A bubbly shaped handle formed to the comfort of the hand.
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research project. tk davis. summer collaboration with: professor tk
The Plan of Nashville was a three-year urban design community assessment and visioning process engaging over 800 individual citizens in circa 50 public meetings. This initiative culminated in the publication by Vanderbilt University Press of the book The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City. This publication documents that the number one priority of Nashvillians was to reconnect its neighborhoods to the Cumberland River, which flows through the downtown. Considerable progress has been made in this regard, with the pedestrianization of the Shelby Street Bridge, the partial realization of the Hargreaves Nashville Riverfront Plan, the completion of the Ascend Amphitheater, and ongoing conversion of
Formerly industrial sites in East Germantown just north of downtown into high density, mid-rise housing with mixed-uses. The Centurion Village located along the Cumberland River in East Germantown, just three blocks from the Historic Germantown neighborhood. We assumed a six block urban design for the site. E
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riverfront development
centurion
The site immediately to its south is now under mixed-use, principally residential development, with the Historic Neuhoff Meat Packing Plant adjacent. Directly across the river is proposed development of mixeduse high rise buildings named River North, with a master plan designed by Hastings Architecture Associates.
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furniture
An exploration of hardwood, joints, and human experience. This chair is a transitional piece, made for laying and sitting on a single spine wrapped with a series of rib like structures. The process began by taking the maple plank, and cncing the body as well as the slots for the ribs . The ribs where a total of thirty inches in length and an inch thick. The ribs were slowly cut to form the connection between the rib and the spine.
Continuing into the seat, the plywood was glued in layers and vacuum formed onto the spine and ribs. This process took twenty-four hours, and screwed into the spine for additional support.
The design and build process of this project took in total five weeks. The hopes for this chair is to create a new rocking chair. A piece in constant movement depending on human interaction.
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nick
stawinski.
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2018
a study of material
selkä
The interlocking parts of this chair was important within both the metaphor of a spine as well as the structural capability. With the thirty inch long ribs moving off of the spine, the cuts were in different angles, trying to create a better autonomy for one to sit.
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third year. collaboration
The revolution of the industrial making of steel began in the late 1800s in Braddock, PA. As many cities when a new industry is created, it blooms to accommodate the workers, the families of the workers, and the industry itself. The landscape adopted the threads of train tracks, and shelled out large sites to the typhoons of industry to accommodate their growing economy. Yet, the demand of steel began to weaken, creating a domino effect of Braddock’s economy, pushing industries to move to other countries for cheaper labor and costs. Leaving relics of the once booming economy to pollute the city and the large steel plant to slowly decay into a memory.
The future of Braddock is unknown, yet the building proposed is designed to implement the fluxes in economy, whether that be the removal of all program and transforming it into one large parking lot or our economy will flourish and our building can be used as a precedent to continue through Braddock.
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stevens. spring 2017 alexander holloway
relics of the past
metamorphosis
SECTION 1.0
mechanical circulation
below grade parking
vertical circulation of relics
LEVEL 1
bleeding of landscape into program
vertical circulation of people
Addressing the renewal of the river front by creating a precedent through our super structure. In order to assert dominance to compete with the size of the industrial landscape, our superstructure spans 2,000 ft long and 150’ in width. The first level shows bleeding of the landscape to create a connection between the river and the industry that was not there before.
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The University of Virgina brings the context of honesty, accessibility to higher knowledge, and new beginnings. These ideas are something that Thomas Jefferson, held close when constructing the campus, by making the library the center point allowing the other buildings like dormitories and classrooms to surround its parameters, showing the importance of education. All the values that Jefferson built on was something that Edgar Allen Poe challenged in his day-to-day practices, especially in his fictional writings. One of his short stories, The Balloon Hoax, describes a journey including two men and a hot air balloon flying over the Atlantic. Poe went into different details like how the balloon was constructed.
The idea of wind directing the mens travel and the genuine fear that they had throughout the flight, written as if it were a factual article. All to discover in the end is that Poe constructed a beautiful lie. Combining the ideas of program and distortion of light through the medium of water created spatial consequences representing Poe’s lies.
year. katherine
ambroziak. spring
2016
spectacle
displaced
Even though the majority of the program is underground, it follows a datum connecting the two buildings as one. First instance occurs above ground by a bridge connecting the plinth and range together. Underneath it repeats the same pattern by the water connecting the archive and scholar’s room together.
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fourth year. marshall prado. spring 2018 collaboration with: laura haun + dylan palmer
Throughout this semester our studio questioned the fabrication of carbon fiber and glass fiber, and how the applications are usually geared towards 2 dimensional shells.
In order to apply carbon and fiber winding into an architectural application, we wanted to question the norms of the use of the material in question and the ways of using it within construction. Things that we are investigating within this project includes: geometric freedom through various frame constructions, not limited by a surface mold, reducing material, and creating an automated method for industrialization. Through a series of investigations, we began with wrapping points together.
Beginning with 6 points and 11 hooks, the lightweight structure is bolted into a base. Components are wrapped to thickness potential is reached, removed from the structure and is bolted to another component. In order to make said application work, the need for a 5 axis robot is important due to the need of precision when drilling the light-weight structure into place.
fibrous systems
proto-architecture
The winding syntax wasn’t necessarily dependent of points, but their heights. Wrapping low to high on a bottom layer, connecting low points to higher points to create a connection between the lower surface and the higher surface, and then finished with wrapping the higher surface. This allowed a volumetric surface to be formed.