Portfolio 2012 Laura Graden M.ARCH University of Idaho
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Cover Photo: Laura Graden, July 2011, Musee du Louvre, Paris
About me
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MREC Sustainable Laboratory
PG 04 Legacy Crossing Master Plan PG 06
BOISE Fire Station 5
PG 08 M.ARCH Project
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Travel Sketches
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Architecture
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Design Timeline
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MREC Sustainable Lab Marine Research + Education Center St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
Storage Non- Hazards lab
Bio + Chem LAb
Storage
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Dry Lab
Office
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Mech
Collections/ Research
Storage
First Floor
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Computing
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Sustainable Principles: Extensive Green Roof
A lightly seeded green roof helps mitigate solar heat gain, filters storm water for collection, and helps prevent excess stormwater runoff. The cooler temperatures can increase the efficiency of Photovoltaics, while the plantings provide habitat for native species of birds and insects.
Brise Soleil
Low energy glass allows the transmission of sunlight, but not heat. The system mimics a DoubleSkin Facade, which cools passively by circulating warm air past the facade, pulling warm air from the interior.
Occupancy Sensor Lighting
Lighting that operates only when a space is occupied prevents overuse of electricity. Lights in daylit spaces can be set to auto-dim when the lighting levels are sufficient with daylight alone.
Storm + Grey Water Re-use
Stormwater runoff can be used in toilets or for non-potable applications in a building. Grey water, such as that used for washing hands, can also be re-used or processed on-site through a wetland, preventing over dependence on the sewer system.
Radiant Floor Cooling
Except for the laboratories, which have strict air quality and humidity constraints, the building is cooled using hydronic radiant-in-floor cooling, which not only is more energy, efficient, it also improves indoor air quality.
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Facade Perforation Development
Main lab
Collections
1st floor Hall
Trabeculae: The facade pattern is derived from an image of Acropora Millepora, or Pacific Coral, a species indigenous to the Salt River Bay.
Legacy Crossing Master Plan Corner of Sixth + Jackson, Moscow, ID
Master Planning This group project was a collaborative effort to develop a master plan for a crucial junction between the University and downtown. Currently, the site is a brownfield, the site of an old rail station and grain elevators used for processing the area’s wheat. I was responsible for the design of the Legacy Circle apartments, in conjunction with rendering all the image shown, and rendering the site plan. The plan itself was a collaboration between two other Architecture students, myself, and a team of 4 Landscape Architecture students.
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Second Floor Typ.
Master Plan
Scale: 1”= 120’
Boise Fire Station 5
Idaho Concrete Masonry Association Contest Finalist 212 South 16th Street, Boise ID
View from Front St.
Lobby
Wall Detail
The Station was designed using Concrete Masonry Units as a prominent material for the Idaho Concrete Masonry Association annual design competition. The design was one of 10 finalists out of almost 50 entries. Conceptually, the design was influenced by the Greek myth of Prometheus, who steals fire from the Gods, and as a consequence, is tied to a rock and has his liver eaten by an eagle, only to have it grow back daily. The juxtaposition of the rock and the feathers of the eagle serve as an analogy for the contrast between the solids and voids of concrete and wood.
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Conference Room Offices Training Tower Vehicle Maintenance Truck bay Sleeping quarters Firefighter lounge Private Courtyard Kitchen Exercise Room Lobby
M.ARCH Thesis Project
Material Sustainability in Parametric Design: Reading Nook, Ridenbaugh Art Gallery, Moscow, ID
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Tactility: The focus for this project was to combine digital and analog media resulting in a final, buildable project. Accessibility: Universal design issues to consider include ease of construction, portability, and maneuverability of the structure or pieces of the structure, as well as universal access.
Flexibility:
Ideally, folded structures are some of the most responsive and flexible structures in regards to environmental and temporal stimuli. These issues include the range of motion of finished design, which can accommodate not only programmatic changes, but lighting, ventilation and seasonal changes as well.
Sustainability: Folded architectural forms can help prevent material and resource waste, if properly positioned and tessellated across the raw material. A larger tesselation allows more efficient material usage. Flat-packing building elements can reduce shipping bulk, waste and cost. In the case of this particular project, and area approximately 300 cubic feet can be condensed to less than 2 cubic feet when the panels are flattened. The original parameters required over 100 completely unique units, which is not sustainable. Using the geometries as the main parameter, only 4 unique panel types were required. Parametric design is a powerful generative tool, but it rarely results in materially efficient fabrication methods, which has problematic implications for sustainability, and lifetime cost of a structure.
Structure: From the folding studies, I discovered that folded paper is strongest in compression, but this design utilizes the folds in tension. While most of the structural capacity comes from the tabs, which act as structural ribs, the miscalculations in the connection angles greatly reduce the load-bearing capacity of these tabs. These gaps keep an otherwise stable structure from being completely self-supporting. I believe if the tabs were correctly calculated and able to be secured, that these stability issues would resolve. If the structure was made of wood, these issues would not occur; however the mitering and precise calculations required for each panel to fit exactly would also prevent quick or easy construction.
Tesselation Diagrams
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Folding Process
Final Grasshopper Definition
Fabrication methods
Laser Cutter Layouts These layouts show the break down of the full-scale panels as required by the max material sizes of the laser cutter used for fabrication. The paper was donated in 24x36 sheets, which were cut in half to fit the Universal 460 Laster cutter’s max dimensions of 18x24. The panels were broken down to fit these dimensions. As is evident, quite a bit of material waste is created at the panel edges.
Scale Physical Model
Lighting Module
Construction
Supplies
Creasing panels
Stacked units
Assembled base units
Hanging suspension hardware
Securing zip ties
Final Pictures
Example Setting in a Library
Securing tabs
Base unit attached
Travel Sketches
arco Delgi acetari, Rome, 6.22.10
Sacre Coeur, Paris, 6.25.11
Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin, 6.16.11
Ponte S. Cristoforo , Venice, 7.11.10
Basilica di S, Francis, Assisi, 6.27.10 Sant’Ivo Alla Sapienza, Rome, 6.16.10
Notre Dame, Paris, 7.1.11
Magdalen College, Oxford, 7.23.11
Graphic Design
Marketing Coordinator August 2011- Present Rolling Hills Derby Dames
ABOUT ME Background Growing up in a large town in Southern Idaho, my exposure to great architecture and design was limited. I was always looking for the next big project, wether it was building a table for doll tea parties, or an entire set of doll house furniture from scratch. Much of my creative inspiration came from building forts in the backyard and visiting my grandparent’s cattle ranches in Montana during the Summer. I became interested in art and design in a more concrete way in high school. I took several art classes, and was involved in band and jazz band. Sometime during the second half of my junior year, a family friend mentioned the quote “architecture is frozen music�. Seeing an opportunity to combine my love of music and art, I decided to major in architecture. I quickly fell in love with the craft and detail of the profession. I studied in Rome the summer after my 3rd year, focusing on hand sketching, design history, and Urban Morphology. After my 4th Year I took a month long study abroad session in London, focusing on sustainable strategies and green building, spending a week travelling independently in Paris and a week in the Irish country.
Design Philosophy My approach to design is very flexible, and I try to address any design problem without preconceived solutions. My designs typically focus on light, materiality, and temporality of the building as a whole entity in relation to its context. Within projects, I focus on creating material and structural details that reinforce over arching concepts with focus and clarity.
Sustainability and green technology are important to my designs and to me personally, and I hope to pursue these in a practical and affordable context professionally.
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