Lauren Boyd Portfolio 2020

LAUREN BOYD

2018-20 PORTFOLIO

University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Architecture 2022 L_Boyd@utexas.edu 281-673-7135

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Fighting Global Warming Network

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Cinema Towers

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Subconscious in Section

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Laveno Youth & Community Complex

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Geometric Extraction

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Holly’s Wood on 5th

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FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING NETWORK

Professor Mike McCall.

Fall 2019.

Design Excellence Nominee In current times, architecture no longer responds to the past - a past interpreted by cultural tradition, rich history, and defining achievements. Architecture now is defined by its moral obligation to respond to the present and more consequentially, the future. Buildings need to sustain through the sensitivities of its climate, of its users, and of its community. Austin Chapter Headquarters for the Fighting Global Warming Network serves as a civic institution that meets the needs of the future.

Environmental Studio. Professor Dean Almy.

Education & Research Center | Austin, Texas This design contains programs for education, research, and public exhibtions. Public ammenites include gallery spaces, native plant gardens, and a community green space to the right of the building. Native plant gardens rest along the south facade in the gallery space and balconies. These native plants, such as sage, yellow roses, and sandankwa viburnum shrubs, push the agenda of incorporating the local, natural environment into the built one. The circular appetures represent porthole-like windows which encourage the user to view out beyond their interior surroundings.

This proposal aligns to the vision of Fighting Global Warming Network through the use of sustainable practices.

These practices are embedded in all aspects of the design including form, construction, and space planning. The orthogonal geometry as well as varying space planning density are optimal for future repairs and adapting to new programs. The structure is also sustainably driven, comprised of carbon-suquesting glulam and CLT column and beam system.

Program

Light Density

Circulation Density

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1-8” Scale Model

1-16” Massing Model

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The site has a huge affinity with Waterloo Park and the nature that resides there. This led to a design which utilizes the symbology of trees and its universal reference to life. The design pushes the building to align with the leftmost edge of the site to create an urban, street edge on one side, and a more public, monumental presence on the other.

At the center of the site is a Mexican White Oak, framed by the building, which cares for and protects it - both literally and metaphorically. The framing also enforces the importance of the tree as a symbol of life and a carbon sequester to the users and viewers who pass by.

1-8” Scale Model

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Site Context Map with Program Analysis

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Administrative Offices Conference Room Educational Offices Classrooms

Ground Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

Sixth Floor

First Floor Administrative & Educational Offices - Conference Room - Classrooms Second Floor Cafe - Kitchen - Gallery - Seminar Rooms - Private Library Third Floor Bar - Gallery - Phone booths - Offices - Private Library Fourth Floor Maker Space - Phone booths Fifth Floor Research - Phone booths Sixth Floor Condos - Kitchen - Communal Space

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Rather than the site belonging to just the client, it belongs to the community, to the future, and to the Earth.

CINEMA TOWERS Professor Blood.

Spring 2020.

Design Excellence Award The project explores pairing the "celebrated" with the "mundane" by attaching a mixed-use movie theater to an existing parking garage. The design activates the garage into a celebrated public space by adding “towers,” which house the cinema spaces, and allowing space for gathering between these towers and the street facade.

Cinema Towers is a place for neighboring residents to come together to interact and preform as a community.

Design IV Environmental Studio. Professor Dean Almy.

Existing Green Trellis Facade

Movie Theater Addition | Austin, Texas This existing parking structure sits on the busy intersection of West MLK Blvd and North Lamar Blvd.

It's very distinct greenscape trellis facade links the garage with the steep, green hilly slope of the site. The garage has a helical structure which is amplified by an open central atrium enclosed by vertical cables.

To maintain the integrity of the landscape lattice facade, my design scatters theaters on the opposing side which demarcates a new space for the public. Between the existing street facade and the new cinema spaces, there will be a communal space where people can gather, eat and drink, watch performances, or gaze at the vista beyond. The community can access the building from West MLK Blvd or from the newly designed footpath connecting North Lamar Blvd to the site. The first two floors will remain parking and the next two will be converted into communal support spaces for the theater.

Existing Lightwell Condition

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Site Map - N. Lamar & MLK Intersection

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Study Model

Movie-goers can go to the main floor to dine at the bar and cafe while they wait for their showtime. The theaters have both general seating and a private viewing suite in the rear for a more “at home” feel. Once the movie is over, viewers can exit to the rooftop to catch a live performance from the rooftop stage or watch the sunset over the hills of West Austin from the viewing deck or the amphitheater style seating. The existing rain garden irrigates the surrounding landscape and rooftop greenery.

01 Circulation Circulation 02 Parking Parking 03 Vertical Circulation Vertical Circulation HubHub [Antechamber] [Antechamber]

Theaters Theaters[Gems] [Tower] Outdoor OutdoorPatio Patio Kitchen Kitchen Water Collection Water CollectionGarden Garden

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Organization Diagram

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01 Crafted Volumes

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Existing vs New Massing Diagram

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Main Floor Plan

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Above: Rooftop Performance - Below: Bar & Dining

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Spatial Study Derived From Animation

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Section A - Facing North

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SUBCONSCIOUS IN SECTION Professor Blood.

Spring 2020.

This project involves two sets of work. Both apply narratives to generate contextual, abstract sections. The first, seen here, is titled Grief v. Relief, and the following titled A Tale of Four Dreams. Inspired by Dino Buzzati’s Seven Floors, Grief v. Relief explores the emotions and experiences of the four stages of grief and the four stages of relief within seven floors. Though seemingly contradictory, both paths start with denial which is the first floor. The stages of grief sink lower into the ground, eventually leading to a somber acceptance; while the stages of relief rise towards the clouds into a peaceful acceptance.

Stages of Grief 25

Denial- Shared between grief and relief. A roller coaster of emotions.

Anger- Intense feeling charged with rage and desire for destruction. A brief moment in time.

Depression- Deals with bargaining and slow realization of the inevitable. Figurative connection to the church.

Acceptance- Stairs inside a hidden glass box. A long path upwards not seen by others.

Grief v. Relief Section Model

Denial

Anger 26

Depression

Acceptance

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Denial- Shared between grief and relief. A roller coaster of emotions.

Elation- Intense feeling charged with energy and movement. Brief moment in time.

Enlightenment- Big, open space where light is free to enter.

Acceptance- The space above the model.

Figurative reference to above the clouds.

Grief v. Relief Section Model

Denial

Elation 28

Enlightenment

Acceptance

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This section is about the common experience of reoccurring dreams. The most common of which invlove: falling/drowning, getting lost in a maze, being chased, and going to school or church. The lighthouses signify the locations of each of the reoccurring dreams in the subconsciousness, while the ground they rest upon symbolizes the REM sleep when the dreams occur.

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A Tale of Four Dreams

LAVENO YOUTH & COMMUNITY COMPLEX Professor Almy.

Spring 2019.

This project interrogates the issues of cultural preservation and sustainability. Through large-scale intervention, the Laveno Youth & Community Complex takes an historic structure and carries it into contemporary culture. The (re)inhabitation of the former pottery factory in LavenoMombello, Italy, hopes to curb the country's daunting aging population statistics by creating an open and versatile educational program for the surrounding community.

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Environmental Studio. Professor Dean Almy.

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Large-Scale Adaptive Reuse | Laveno, Italy One of the biggest issues facing Laveno-Mombello is an aging population. This issue has led to youth unemployment, job instability, and lack of investment and innovation in technology and education. Due to growing financial pressures, the average Italian leaves their childhood home at the age of 31, five years after the average European. This has led to a diminishing number of families in the community.

The new educational complex aims to combat these issues by providing opportunities for the youth to engage with technology and art, such as computational labs and pottery studios. Programs aimed at empowering the future work force with vocational classes will be held with the intention of boosting the culinary and automotive sector.

The complex is set up to connect the whole community through the surveillance of different generations. The first floor centers around the auditorium with half of the floor dedicated to student and the other half utilized by the public.

The second floor houses the classrooms, and the third floor contains a community library, start-up office space, and a community daycare where the elderly may volunteer.

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01 Front Office 02 Clinic 03 Playground

01 Research Labs 04 Auditorium 07 Coding 02 Cafeteria 05 Back of House 08 Carpentry 03 Garden 06 Black Box 09 Auto Mechanics

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01 Vocational Studios 04 Kitchen 02 Wellness Studios 05 Cafe 03 Art Studios 06 Farmer’s Market

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01 Recreation Hut 02 Gymnasium with Locker Rooms

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02 Structural Grid

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03 Walls

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Ground Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

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Existing vs New Spatial Study 38

Section A

Section B

GEOMETRIC EXTRACTION Professor Aroso.

Fall 2018.

Partner: Kaavya Chhatrapati This precedent exercise examined the Tama Art University Library’s concrete arches by Toyo Ito. This model represents the strategy used in the Library to arrange the arches which follow along curved lines that cross at several points. Through analysis, a formula can be derived to understand these curved lines which led to the modeling of circles in 2D and spheres in 3D. These spheres were then used to carve out of a stereotomic concrete cube. In the casted model, a smaller set of spheres were added to represent the spheres used to sculpt the cubic form.

Data Rendered as Spheres Derived from Toyo Ito Plan

Precedent Study | Tama Art University Library Toyo Ito’s building is marked by a grid of arches. Following the arches’ paths in plan can lead to several circles that contain a linear relationship between the radius of a circle and the distance between its centerpoint and the centroid of the floor plan. This allowed for the pairing of circles due to the close nature of their size. Inputting this information into a grasshopper definition allowed for the generation of new arrangements of these circles under the same relationship.

Data Recorded

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Data Rendered as 2D Circles Derived from Toyo Ito Plan

CNC Routed Formwork

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The concrete cast was made in two parts. The formwork was made from plywood and CNC routed blue insulation foam. The overall model is 18” long in all directions. The material choice represents the stereotomic mass.

Casting Process

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Tectonic Spheres Suspended by String

HOLLY’S WOOD ON 5TH

Professor Haettasch.

Fall 2021.

Partner: Avery Tenorio This housing proposal is centered on negotiating the juxtaposing ideas of collectivism and individualism. These ideas spur from the inherent desire for a sense of ownership and identity among a residence, and from the effects of gentrification within the changing Holly neighborhood.

Holly’s Wood on 5th works to achieve a balance of these ideas by creating a space that is intimate and communal for the homeowner through scale, landscaping, and materiality.

Medium Density Housing | Austin, Texas Holly’s Wood on 5th utilizes a shear wall system to provide a sense of connected living, while employing patio house vernacular to allow the individual to have ownership of outdoor spaces. Parts of the site, including the main road, innermost courtyard, and bottom row of houses, are 6 feet below grade. The grade change allows limited visibility of vehicular circulation and parking. It also creates a more intimate, sunken courtyard for the residents to use as a community, compared to the higher courtyard pavilion that is more open for public activities like farmer’s markets or art fairs.

There are three rows of housing that contain two, three, and four bedroom units. Each unit has their own personal outdoor spaces including green patios where residents can personalize a garden. Concrete and wood are used for construction to provide unique qualities not common in single-family homes. The shear walls are made of concrete, while a timber-concrete composite is used for the flooring. With this type of floor, wooden beams are placed first with wooden decking above and then concrete is poured on top. This provides the same thickness as a concrete-only floor while also bringing the aesthetical and inherent residential vernacular that the material wood conveys for the ceiling.

01 01 Large Scale Circulation & Public Green Space

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Calles St

E 6th St

N Pleasant Valley Rd

E 5th St Pace St

San Saba St Santa Rosa St

Site Map - 5th St & Pleasant Valley Intersection

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1-32” Massing Model

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Ground Floor Plan

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Section A - Facing East 52

Section B - Facing West

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The materiality of the concrete floors and wooden beams provide both structural and aesthetic qualities.

Exploded Floor Plans - 3 units

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01 01 4 Bedroom Unit 02 02 2 Bedroom Unit 03 03 3 Bedroom Unit Second Floor Plan - 3 units

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Latitudinal Wall Section - 2BD Unit

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Elevation

Systems Diagram - 2BD Unit - Axon, Plan, Section

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Structural Axon

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Structural Details

Lauren Boyd

281-673-7135 L_Boyd@utexas.edu

Education

University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Architecture, Business Minor (Anticipated) May 2022 McCombs Summer Institute 15 Hours, Intensive 8-Week Program Summer 2020

Recognition

Design Excellence Nominee Fall 2019 Design Excellence Winner Spring 2020 George Hamman Foundation Scholar Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholar University of Texas President’s Horizon Scholarship Recipient Ted Freedman Endowed Scholar

Social

www.linkedin.com/in/Boyd-Lauren

Leadership

Alpha Rho Chi Vice President, Athletics Coordinator 2017 - present NCARB Student Licensing Advisor Nominated by Alpha Rho Chi 2019 - present Undergraduate Architecture Student Council Mentorship Coordinator 2019 - present American Institute of Architecture Students Vice President, AIA Student Liaison 2020- present

Work

Sales Associate Old Navy, Stafford, TX March – August 2017 Delivery Driver Papa Johns, Austin, TX May – August 2019

Skills

AutoCAD Adobe Creative Suite Enscape Lumion Rhino Revit

Reference

Mike McCall, UTSOA Professor

Adobe Creative Suite Includes: Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Lightroom

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