PORTFOLIO JESSICA LAUGHRIDGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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THE BRIDGE
MUSEUM FOR THE CULTURES OF BODIES
ALESSANDRINO COMMUNITY CENTER
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TIMBER IN THE CITY
KINGS CROSS STATION MODELING
TWO X TWO
THE BRIDGE ARCH 403 | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
The Bridge is a university tower in the south loop of Chicago. It combines 8 universities in the Chicago area and provides a university union, classrooms, and dormitories that connect them all. With skyscraper housing having a bad reputation for isolation in the surrounding city, our concept focused on bringing the spirit of the public to every floor, in the middle of the classrooms, union, and residential halls. This bridges the public and private so that the spirit of the city is alive within the tower, even at the very top. The goal of the residential areas for the students was to have a scaling outwards from one dorm to connections of shared restrooms and study spaces with the two adjacent bedrooms, out to the rest of the floor, or block through the bridge, and because the bridge makes up three levels of the housing, those three floors become a neighborhood. These neighborhoods collectively make up the university city.
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MUSEUM FOR THE CULTURES OF BODIES ARCH 401 | MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
Miami Beach: an area known for its rich and glamorous residents, boat shows, and being vulnerable to climate change. With rising sea levels threatening the lives and livelihoods of it’s citizens, the city pumps millions of dollars in funding of engineering projects and additional sand to keep water at bay. To show people who frequent the Miami Beach Convention Center what this change might bring, on an environmental and societal level, we propose the Museum for the Cultures of Bodies. Our museum will take place in the center of the convention space and will extract from the porous limestone underneath the structure of the convention center to build up walls for different exhibit spaces. These exhibit spaces will range in varying heights, visibility from the convention center, amount of light, and levels of water that will naturally arise from the limestone. In these exhibit spaces, patrons will observe artifacts for restrictions of bodies throughout history, particularly from the Victorian era. Patrons will also be encouraged to use the water that seeps in from the limestone below. The patrons also become a part of the exhibit in this way, as the exhibit shows the current evolution of cultures of bodies. The juxtaposition of convention center with a natural topography will showcase the current contradiction Miami and cities around the world find themselves in. By making climate change real and tangible, and by revisiting the change of bodily cultures throughout history, we, as a society, may begin to create meaningful dialogue about how to react to climate change beyond delaying the inevitable.
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ALESSANDRINO COMMUNITY CENTER ARCH 402 | ROME, ITALY
Aqueducts were one of ancient Rome’s most successful inventions; bringing water into the city from the countryside via elevated pipes to retain cleanliness. As Rome grew and sprawled outwards from the historic city, many neighborhoods and suburbs occupy what used to be countryside. Alessandrino is one of those communities, and is marked by one of the many aqueducts of Rome. As part of many projects and workshops done during my study abroad semester in Rome, the Alessandrino Community Center combined ancient Roman ruins, landscape design, and contemporary architecture. Our community center’s site is shared by an aqueduct, and is at the intersection of various green spaces within the urban residences and businesses. The site is also at a crossroads between shack communities and towers of apartments, largely rented or owned by working class families or young people. We intended to restore the site to a rolling countryside that was known for accompanying the aqueducts, and build our community center into the existing topography. The community center includes a gym, cafe, gallery space for exhibits, auditorium, and party room for community members. The programs are divided into two buildings to allow for an outdoor atrium between the two. Our center attempts to create a low profile on the site by partially submerging the programs underground using a cut and fill landscape design scheme, and offer entrances from the many communities of the area, to be a central circulation point. The community can also walk from the hills to the rooftop of the building to see the landscape from the aqueduct point of view, or witness the adjacent excavated portion of the aqueduct that currently fades into the landscape.
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TIMBER IN THE CITY ARCH 302 | NEW YORK CITY
The site of the “Timber in the City” Project is in the Lower East Side of NYC, at the bustling street corner of Essex and Delancey. Once a hub for tenements, developments in the late 1900’s to the south of the site rise above the landscape created by the shorter tenements to the north. Within the surrounding urban fabric, the two blocks we plan to build on are at a crossroads between the two types of housing, and would be helped with a new location for the nearby Essex Street Market and an Andy Warhol museum, as this area is known for being Warhol’s neighborhood. The market was given the most accessible and urban portion of the site (the long stretch of Delancey) to draw in people from the street and encourage a busy, diverse environment of meeting and exchanging culture. All stalls are allotted and divided through the structure of columns and girders. The museum needed advertisement and a public identity, but with much less street presence than did the market, so it stayed on the first level but behind the market on a quiet corner of the site. The remainder of the museum is below grade, as controlled, bright lighting is the best way to display Warhol’s work The atriums to the housing give the galleries some visibility and the water feature guides guests toward the entrance. Our intention for the housing was to create neighborhoods through the walkup concept that the tenements preserved. We broke down the scale of the complex by creating a core containing an elevator and interlocking stair that allowed four units on each floor. These modules of one core and four units stack directly on top of each other and create towers. The north side of the building has six towers, and the south does as well, creating a second level courtyard between the two areas just for the residents. By getting rid of long hallways and breaking down the scale of such a large housing project, residents feel like they’re in a neighborhood rather than just another big hall within a huge city.
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KINGS CROSS STATION MODELING ARCH 534 | LONDON, ENGLAND
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This was a practice in parametric design, where I modeled the Kings Cross Station by John McAslan + Partners. To do this, I used Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, and Python softwares. I chose this building as my project because of the interesting structure and it’s relationship to the historic station. Our class first learned to do our whole project in Rhinoceros 3D, then I learned how to make the umbrella structure using Grasshopper, and finally learning how to code a Grasshopper algorithm in Python. Each time we learned new networks to do things in parametric design, they became more adaptable and customizable for the specifics of what the project needed.
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TWO X TWO ARCH 202 | AMES, IA
Two x Two was a design + build project the entire second year architecture students at Iowa State University worked on collectively. The challenge we were aiming to tackle was the lack of public interaction in the atrium space in the College of Design at Iowa State University. We combined 5 different studio’s takes on this solution and used two x two boards in a scissor pattern to make new public spaces that could be used by a single person, small group, or large group. After constructing, the users of the space asked us to keep the installation in the atrium for longer, and Rieman Gardens asked us to use it at their gardens. Additionally, our build was on ArchDaily’s “The Best Student Design-Build Projects Worldwide 2016”. (https://www.archdaily.com/794566/the-best-student-design-build-projects-worldwide-2016) Photos: Chris Gannon, Derek Quam, Kevin Larson, Nick Senske, Kayla Duncan
JESSICA LAUGHRIDGE Architecture Student | Iowa State University Email: jessical@iastate.edu |
Phone: (515)418-0108
http://laughridgejessie.wixsite.com/mysite
EDUCATION Iowa State University (B. Arch Professional Program) Currently a fifth-year Architecture student College of Design Rome Program (Spring 2018)
Fall 2014-Present GPA: 3.62/4.0
WORK EXPERIENCE Iowa State University Department of Residence
Fall 2015 - Present
Iowa Department of Transportation
May 2018 - Present
Community Adviser (RA) • Creates an inclusive, welcoming environment for 80+ residents of Iowa State • Collaborates with peers to plan events and facilitate crisis management • Learns how to lead, problem solve, and manage time and tasks effectively
Architecture Intern • Interprets old plans and construction documents to model in Revit • Compiles sets of construction documents and specifications compliant with code • Accompanies architects on site visits to review work with contractors and sub contractors
Legat Architects Summer 2017
Associate (Intern) • Brainstormed with colleagues and clients in initial and intermediate design stages • Prepared details and documents for construction • Generated facility assessments and field reports based on site visits
SKILLS
• Proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup, Speclink-e, Grasshopper, Python • Experience in fabricating various small-scale residential projects • Experience in assisting clients and collaborating with other designers
REFERENCES
References available upon request