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Elizabeth Cooney Clemson university Graduate school of architecture
design philosophy Design is a delicate balance between the realist and the artist. It is the realist’s duty to address the participants’ and users’ needs with responsibility and accountability, while it is the artist’s needs to imagine the ideal and challenge the conventional. Architecture must embody the values of the realist and the artist in order to be relevant and “good.” Great change may begin with great ideas, but for architecture to create any transformations, it must be built. It is an art that is solidly rooted in physical reality. As an architect of the future, I strive to be balanced between both ends of the ideological spectrum.
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everson cinema park
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Solar canopy
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Manufactured Landscapes
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Helix city: a critical comic
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Spatial stimulation
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Porous home
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light-emitting sound baffle
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new Urban topographies
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sketches
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paintings
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resume
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contact me
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architecture/urban
architecture/urban architecture/urban
architecture/utopia
architecture/urban/community
architecture/residential material study/programming
urban analysis/programming
form, value
pattern, tone
everson cinema park Syracuse university fall 2012 Arc 604 | brown + haettasch The architectural project builds upon previously pursued inquiries regarding site, formal structure, spatial strategy, and operation. In order to generate a successful architectural project, it is necessary to focus all components towards a spatial, programmatic, and/or urban ‘ambition’. The site rests within downtown Syracuse, New York, and the plaza area of the Everson Museum of Art designed by I. M. Pei in 1968. In approaching the project, I tried to understand how the existing architecture affected the urban figure-ground and how the implications of an addition to the museum could improve the urban landscape of Syracuse.
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Analysis 1
macro cuts
“Negative Space” Macro Scale Important carved moments in the grander site plan.
Analysis 1
micro cuts
Analysis 2
“Negative Space” Micro Scale Important carved moments from blocks and buildings.
“Negative Space” Micro Scale Important carved moments from blocks and buildings.
“Negative Space” Macro Scale Important carved moments in the grander site plan.
Analysis 2
“Negative Space” Micro Scale Important carved moments from blocks and buildings.
rectangular insertions
Analysis 2
Analysis 3
“Negative Space” Public Squares Dispersal of seemingly public areas in downtown city area.
Analysis 3
figure-ground
“Negative Space” Public Squares Dispersal of seemingly public areas in downtown city area.
My analysis of the city and specific site focused on the different types of subtractions from the city Figure-Ground at varying scales: Macro Cuts- important “edges” formed in the overall city plan, Micro Cuts- subtraction from individual buildings or blocks, and Rectangular Insertions- “fields” formed by voids between the edges of buildings.
The Everson Museum of Art is an object lost in the “field,” and does not participate in the city fabric.
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Analysis 3
“Negative Space” Public Squares Dispersal of seemingly public areas in
Everson museum
figure-ground site analysis
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Formal Sequence
Circulation
Final Form
Axonometric Diagrams The spatial divisions derived from the original Everson create a formal sequence: edge, joint, object; in which all of these parts relate directly back to the site and change the conditions of the urban field. The circulation paths between levels are created by the same logic of the micro cuts. These cuts are either diagonal or vertical.
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form generation In order to reduce the green field and keep a relationship between “edge” and “object,” I extrapolated spatial divisions from the Everson to determine the proportions of the proposal’s form. The micro cuts then create inhabitable void and circulation.
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PROGRAM VOLUME EXPLOSION
layers EXpLOSION
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everson cinema park
cinema park projection tower
the plaza
perspective B
Perspective B: The plaza level of the proposed addition has very little programmed space. Rather, the surfaces of the building will be used for projections, creating a cinema park as an extension of Syracuse’s Urban Video project. Terraced seating and landscaped benches supplement the park.
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the cantilever
perspective C
Perspective C: plaza view of the floating object and cantilevered joint. The edge, joint, object sequence create the illusion of a floating box that acts as a beacon and provides a variety of inhabitable spatial moments.
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longitudinal section A
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Interior levels
Level 0
Below-grade exhibition hall, auditorium spaces and workshop wing.
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Level 1
Plaza-level entry into the Everson Cinema Park addition.
Lobby Exhibition Bookstore Storage Workshops Classrooms Administration Auditorium CafĂŠ/Bar
Level 2
Academic and administration level, with roof access.
Level 3
Roof-level park..
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the result The scale of the new Everson Cinema Park is designed to fit within the architectural scale of the plaza, as well as the city. The new edge, as provided by the proposal, creates a special relationship to the street, and a new spatial relationship between the existing and new.
longitudinal section A
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Overall, these “micro-cuts� that influenced the form of the proposal create inhabitable voids, as well as spatial relationships between the exterior and interior--thereby resulting in an architectural intervention that addresses the relationship between the city and the user to the building.
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Solar Canopy Syracuse university Spring 2013 Arc 604 | larson + lonsway This short-term project instructed us to consider a future where current vehicles dependent on fossilfuel energy was nonexistent. We were to design a new infrastructural landscape that would address the needs of future transportation, while looking through the “lens” of a California public department. The Department of General Services has much involvement in “green” energy and sustainable initiatives in education, business, and construction. With the removal of previously existing services for fossil-fuel consuming vehicles, the future cultivation of renewable energy could provide the “feeding tube,” or network which sustains the new generation of transportation by reducing costs and better serving the publics health needs.
Los Angeles, California
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Electrical Vehicle Charging Station Densest Urban condition (approximation) Body of water
Pacific Ocean
Image and data source: Google Maps. Drawn by author.
diagram L.A. Sun Patterns
plan view of sun movement (in relation to north axis)
Latitude: 34.0522째 N Longitude: 118.2428째 W
An analysis of the sun pattern helps to understand how the solar energy will be collected in the proposal.
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solar canopy
Winter Soltice December 21 Max Angle: 33
Summer Solstice June 21 Max Angle: 79
solar behaviors section cut
winter solstice
summer solstice
The proposed Solar Canopy is a superstructure that stretches over the highway system of Los Angeles. The Winter Soltice photo-voltaic cells collect solar energy, Lower sun angle, therefore which actively charges the vehicular fewer closed cells. Open traffic underneath it, and passively cells expand. stores extra energy back into the grid. The cells behavior changes due to the position of the sun. When the sun angle to the normals of each cell’s respective centroid is within a determined range, Summer Solstice cellstherefore with optimal sun exposure remain Higher sun angle, Closed cells collect solar more closed closed. cells. Closed energy. The remaining cells are opened cells condense. to allow for indirect lighting and visual connectivity with the exterior of the highway. Elizabeth cooney | design portfolio
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winter solstice
summer solstice
The Solar Canopy addresses the need for sustainable energy generation and storage, and adapts itself to existing transportation infrastructure. This system is flexible enough to facilitate the constantly changing modes of transportation.
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manufactured landscapes Syracuse university Spring 2013 Arc 604 | larson + lonsway partner project This project is an extension of the concept from the previous proposal, Solar Canopy. In this studio were instructed to consider a future where fossil-fuel-based transportation has been rendered obsolete. Personal transportation is only for the wealthy due to the rising costs of energy, thus a new form of public transportation has to be implemented to meet the demand. I partnered with Alex Phillips to design a new public transportation interface that adapted a bike-share system in underutilized spaces around Los Angeles. We chose to fully develop a bike-share hub underneath the Whittier bridge (also known as 6th Street bridge). We chose this location because the bridge is in disrepair and has plans to be structurally retrofitted in the near future. It also has direct access to downtown L.A. and other cultural communities.
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In a proposed future where the rising costs of fossil feuls have made personal automobiles obsolete, the adaptation of existing infrastructure to support new transportation needs and systems of energy generation become paramount. The e-Bike Share proposes a fully integrated system between energy generation and transportation infrastructure, using the London Garden Bicycle as it’s primary vehicle. This model can serve as an urban model for all bridges that connect to the nearby neighborhoods and expand across the Los Angeles River. Proposed site: 6th Street Bridge (Whittier Blvd). This underutilized space beneath the bridge has sufficient area for bicycle storage, and can help connect the community to this abandoned industrial riverbed.
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Urban Park
e-Bicycle share
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step 1 Fold bike into condensed form.
London Garden Bicycle Originally designed by: Marten Wallgren, Il Choi, David Seesing, Miika Hekkinen
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step 2 Insert into bike storage interface
step 3 Bicycles cycle through pick-up and drop-off.
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Bridge Deck
Shadow Patterns Summer Solstice only
8 a.m. 1 p.m. 5 p.m.
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Bicycle path The bicycle path’s placement takes the summer shadows into consideration in order to create the most thermally comfortable experience. Above: the diagram shows the shadow cast by the bridge at different points during the longest day in the year. Los angeles Primary site: 6th Street Bridge (Whittier Blvd.)
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The “Urban Park� creates a relationship between the nearby neighborhoods and the highly industrial (and previously inaccessible) river front. Elizabeth cooney | design portfolio
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The motif of the module continues past the hub and serves as a structural frame which supports the elevated path and connects it to the bridge.
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The skin itself acts as support for the elevated bike path, with the additional help of cables to suspend the path. The twisting pattern connects to the columns and undercarriage, therefore acting as a beam. Elizabeth cooney | design portfolio
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Helix city: a critical comic Syracuse university Spring 2013 arc 681 | larson ARC 861 is a digital media course that focused on developing new methods of representation in order to express architectural concepts, theories and strategies. This assignment instructed the class to pick a recent historical Utopian ideal and develop a contemporary critique of the concepts proposed by the original author. After developing the critique, we were to create a response or new solution. I chose to analyze the Helix City proposed by Kisho Kurokawa in a comic strip format. My proposal at the end suggests that spaces should be customizable by the user, within a given format. Authoritative architecture, that does not provide social empathy or ownership, will result in a lost architecture.
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Configuration 1
Year 2060. Tokyo, Japan. Our heroes wander aimlessly through the ‘wilderness’...
What the heck???
Ooooohhh....
It's easy to get lost in the city...
Configuration 2
how did it get this way?
Configuration 3Sydney, Australia
New York City, United states
It has happened, time and time again...
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Berlin, Germany
in the mid 20th century, the population explosion and rise of the “International Style’ dictated the then-contemproary design and architecture.
helix city: a critical comic
Followincrease, these steps to construct As a response to the population eachahousing configuration. GO! Kisho Kurokawa had conceived new plan for the city based on the building blocks of life
Barcelona, spain
beijing, CHina
Personal and national identity was lost in the vastness of globalized urbanism...cities and high density housing removed any spirit.
It has happened, time and time again...
in the mid 20th century, the population explosion and rise of the “International Style’ dictated the then-contemproary design and architecture.
Personal and national identity was lost in the vastness of globalized urbanism...cities and high density housing removed any spirit.
As a response to the population increase, Kisho Kurokawa had conceived a new plan for the city based on the building blocks of life --our Dna. It was first realized here, in tokyo, japan.
Currently, the city is based off a regular hexagonal grid. each increminent is of equal size.
Allegedly, It would allow for organic growth of the city and a total utlization of space for housing complexes.
Wilderness Other
Public
The idea of life carries through the terracing, as well...nearly half of the ‘new’ city’s land area was filled with wild gardens, creating spaces too dense for public use. This unruly mess has made the man-made and natural indistinguishable from one another...
But how do we change it?
But As you can see, we are still left with a city with a monotonous and illegible face.
Scale of plan needs to be treated in such a way that natural hierarchies exist within the whole.
Infrastructure’s organic growth can be maintained, but give the connections between places meaning.
You’re being dramatic. Seriously, though! You and I can’t even find the bank.
The individual will not be lost in the collective. A person can create a home, that relates to the surrounding contex--the hexagonal motif in the helix city is presented in the individual unit in the sectional sense.
we’ve reached the precipice...it’s time for change.
The unit is adjustable and unique, just as one’s own DNA. While maintaining individuality, the unit retains the values of community connections.
Diversity within the city will create new part-whole relationships and identities for the people.
Surfaces between homes become a public topography. There will be moments of density and reas of void to aid the the hierarchical development of the new proposed city.
The possibilities for a new city are endless. herp derp.
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spatial stimulation Clemson University Spring 2011 study abroad studio | Toni montes Partner project This semester-long project addresses the need for urban revitalization in the old 22@ district of Barcelona, Spain. The grid conceived by Ildefons Cerdรก has deteriorated in the past decades with the loss of industrial activity in the district. My partner, Nick Burger, and I chose to intervene with a topographical sports park that utilizes natural light and the presently existing built structures. The concept is to socially and economically stimulate the space using contextual factors, primarily the climate and solar patterns.
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The site: 22@ District Site: block in the 22@ District of Barcelona, Spain. This district of Barcelona used to be an industrial neighborhood, but that activity has since left this portion of the city. With the loss of industry, the urban grid lost population density as well. In order to restore social and economic activity in this area, our team chose to design a community sports park. The goal of the design is to form a topographically continuous sports park in conjunction with a transparent screen which creates a stimulated space. Through an extensive series of sun and continuity studies, our aim was to connect and restore the open space within the center of the block in the 22@ District in Barcelona.
our block
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shadow study Summer Solstice
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Altitude Angle: 69.14 degrees
Winter Solstice Altitude Angle: 20.70 degrees
In order to analyze the quality of light within the existing site, we studied the sun patterns during the summer solstice and winter solstice.
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spatial stimulation
Winter Solstice
Combined light and surface
Highlight Darkest surfaces
results
The observed result was a discontinuous plane with irregular sunlight throughout the day. To resolve the issue of discontinuity between the light and available surfaces for program, we chose to intervene in an area including three spaces with ideal sun exposure. Summer Solstice
Winter Solstice
Combined
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formation
circulation
spaces
fields
connections
pool and spa
final topography
screen
Three spaces with optimal sun exposure were connected to the center through a series of ramps, varying between 5%8% grade. These spaces, with an additional platform at the northwestern edge, were used as areas for the badminton courts. The resulting topography serves as a connection to the upper fitness areas and the below-grade pool and spa.
The screen, acts as a connection between the verticality of the urban context to the lower public sports park in the center of the block. It is mostly composed of transparent and semitransparent materials that allow for the maximum amount of sunlight to pass through and reach the lower levels.
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program Badminton Courts Program: 1 - Reception 2 - Dressing Rooms / Showers 3 - Pool 4 - Pool Dressing Rooms / Showers (Male) 5 - Sauna 6 - Spa 7 - Pool Dressing Rooms / Showers (Female) 8 - Mechanical / Storage
Overall, the public sports park addresses the existing conditions concerning light within the block and creates an urban response to Cerdå’s plan of Barcelona. The public sports park receives optimal sunlight during the winter and summer seasons, provoking stimulation and allowing for activity throughout all parts of the year.
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components explosion
floorplans below-grade pool/spa
grade-level topography and dressing rooms
above-grade topography and badminton courts
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POROUS HOUSE Clemson University Fall 2013 arch 8510 | Team-taught by Dan harding, Dustin Albright, ufuk ursoy, Carlos barrios-hernandez This approached the residential project through the lens of the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, in that the primary goals are to create an environmentally sustainable dwelling and economic single-family home. The direction of the studio wanted to incorporate these ideals with a more poetic approach, and asked the students to define their personal statement for what a home is in the form of a haiku. The haiku developed into an architectural concepts that led the design formally and figuratively. In my approach to designing the home, I focused more on challenging what it means to live in a home and tried to design a house that shapes the way in which people interact with their spaces. I believe the current standards for homes seclude families from neighbors, their community, and the environment.
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The spirit passes lightly through the porous hearth, blurring boundaries. The Porous House recognizes the importance of preexisting conditions, and encourages the user to actively integrate his or herself with the environment. The porous boundaries between interior and exterior, the collective and private, blur the boundaries between habitats while maintaining a sense of security where necessary.
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site - southeast piedmont Lowlands part of a plateau region called the Piedmont Province. This region stretches along the eastern coast between New Jersey and Alabama, bordered by the Appalachian Mountain Chain to the west and the Coastal Plains towards the east. The terrain is marked by “foothills,” low, rolling hills with elevations between 200 ft-800 ft. and 1000 ft.
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BRANDING/ COMMUNICATION HOT WATER PRODUCTION
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DIAGRAM: SEASONAL WINDS + IDEAL ORIENTATION
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allowable range (oriented about North axis)
The relationship of spaces shows a gradient of public to private spatial sequences. Walls running along the eastwest axis provide porosity relative to the context, visually and spatially. Wall in the northsouth axis provide porosity relative to circulation, as well as provide utility use for occupancy comfort.
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define home components
porous house
define connections
define walls
understand porosity
refine porosity
Most Ambient Light Most Porous Collective
Entrance Ramp Entrance Deck Kitchen Outdoor Living + Dogtrot #1 Living Bathroom Laundry Bedroom Dogtrot #2 Master Bedroom Master Bathroom Rear Entrance
Least Ambient Light Least Porous Private
LIGHT GRADIENT POROSITY GRADIENT PRIVACY GRADIENT
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The design focuses on making the original schematic concept (porous living), a comfortable living environment by implementing many techniques to control heat and humidity, as well as provide functionality in the wall system.
strategies
The main physical components of the concept entail: Dogtrot Vernacular, Porous/Operable Wall System, Suntube Skylights. These pieces pertain to systems that are either “responsive to solar conditions,” or “responsive to wind conditions.”
Systems responsive to solar conditions Systems responsive to wind conditions
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back elevation
prototyping Each room is a separate module that has all of its components pre-fabricated and assembled off-site, while another construction team simultaneously builds the foundations and rails for the modules to be attached to. The modules are composed of light wood framing, clad by gypsum board on the utility walls (for economy and flexibility), while the porous walls are made of operable curtain walls with aluminum perforated panels as sunshading.
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INSULATION CEILING MATERIAL
1/2” GYPSUM
0.32” PANEL
ALUMINUM
OPERABLE INSULATED GLASS CURTAIN WALL
PERFORATED (MANUFACTURED BY ZAHNER)
PLYWOOD SHEATHING PLYWOOD SHEATHING MODULE FLOOR STRUCTURE CONTINUOUS PRESSURE-TREATED PANEL CONTINUOUS WALL FOUNDATION
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porous wall
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FOUNDATIONS: On-site. Continuous Wall Footings are poured with columns that support the modular rooms. Continuous pressured treated plates span the longitudinal axis of the framework.
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DECKING: On-site. Decking and Boardwalks are supported by joists, connecting the separate modules.
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MODULES: Off-site. Each room is pre-fabricated before being brought to the construction site. Modules use light wood framing, clad with gypsum board on the utility walls and operable curtain walls on the por ous walls.
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ROOF: Off-site. 5V Crimp metal panels, pre-painted white for reflectivity and energy savings, are cut off-site. They are then assembled, along with the suntubes on-site, upon pre-fabricated monoslope wooden trusses.
Suntube Skylights
PRODUCT EXAMPLE: “Sun Dome Tubular Skylights” Source: http://www.sun-dome.com/tubular_skylight_features.html
POLYCARBONATE 0.125” CLEAR DOME 0.040” ALUMINUM ROOF FLASHING 2-1/2” S.S. FLASHING SCREWS
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ROOFING CEMENT EXISTING ROOF MATERIAL + PLYWOOD SHEATHING ROOF TRUSS ROUGH-CUT HOLE IN ROOF, 1/2” LARGER THAN THE MARKED HOLE
TOP ADJUSTABLE TUBE
EXTENSION TUBE
AFTERNOON BOTTOM ADJUSTABLE TUBE CEILING MATERIAL CEILING ANCHORS 1” CEILING SCREWS (ZINC)
MODULE EXPLOSION
CEILING SCREW CAPS
MORNING DIAGRAM: Master Bedroom Sun Study
“SUN DOME TUBULAR SKYLIGHT” DETAIL 3/4” = 1’
Each room is a separate module that has all of its components pre-fabricated and assembled off-site, while another construction team simultaneously builds the foundations and rails for the modules to be attached to. The modules are composed of light wood framing, clad by gypsum board on the utility walls (for economy and flexibility), while the porous walls are made of operable curtain walls with aluminum perforated panels as sun-shading.
longitudinal section
POROUS-WALL CONSTRUCTION TRANSVERSE SECTION: NORTHWEST-FACING 1/4” = 1’
INSULATION CEILING MATERIAL
1/2” GYPSUM
OPERABLE INSULATED GLASS CURATIN WALL
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separated kitchen The separation of spaces allows for a new ritual. It is to pass through boundaries, to feel and live in nature, and to live a more connected way with our world.
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Light-emitting sound baffle Clemson University Fall 2013 arch 8510 | team taught by Dan harding, Dustin Albright, ufuk ursoy, Carlos barrios-hernandez The studio focus for this project was a material study for new applications, methods, and means for precast concrete units. I chose to investigate digital integration into tessellations of concrete units to create a new “smart� concrete wall. In this particular application, the Light-emitting Sound Baffle harnesses the free vibrations of passing people, automobiles, and trains, and then transforms this energy into light. Piezoelectric sensors placed within the concrete unit have the ability to detect vibrations from passing traffic, and turn on embedded LED lights once the vibrations pass predetermined thresholds. This system can help reduce costs for exterior lighting at night, as well as light pollution.
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about the unit The design of the baffle is composed of individual precast concrete masonry units that are embedded with fiber optics to transmit light, and has a relief on the face that will create a variety of two-dimensional tessellations when it is either translated, or rotated. The relief of the face on the unit will break up the sound waves of passing trains, thereby regaining wasted energy and transforming it into a sustainable community beacon.
POUR 2
cross-section Fiber Optics
CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1” = 1’ PVC Enclosure
LED
CIRCUITRY
Material Barrier
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circuitry The capacity for electrical wiring embedded in the concrete, with the addition of light-transmitting fiber optics provides countless opportunities for “smart walls.� This examples shows how a vibrationsensitive wall could work. Piezoelectric Vibration sensors can detect minute or large vibrations passing through the wall, and send the signal to an LED once the reading has passed a preordained threshold. The light from the LED can then be transmitted through the concrete wall, illuminating the exterior space.
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This would be a sustainable application for exterior lighting at train stations. The walls could detect when people are passing by the building, and illuminate the space only when necessary-reducing costs for exterior lighting.
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lighting prototype
The original block was cast with concrete in an layered acrylic form-work. The layers were held in place with 5� aluminum bolts. Once the concrete had cured, the layers were individually removed. Once fiber optics were introduced, a clay bottom layer and top wire mesh were necessary to hold the fibers in place.
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new urban topographies syracuse university Fall 2012 arc 572 | lonsway This class, “Coding Drawing,” utilized computational thinking and programming to thinking about architectural drawing. The following example is a project that directed us to think about diagramming architecture in a dynamic way, incorporating the skills we had learned over the course of the semester. The goal of this program is to analyze the pixels an image source that had formerly been manipulated to show contrast between built and open space and store the coordinates of any points which surpass a brightness threshold. The program then uses the stored coordinates as vertices in a shape construct to create the new urban “topography” for the city of Syracuse, New York.
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processing code I used object oriented programming to control the image analysis and interface interaction. I created object classes for the Y-axis lines, X-axis lines, “Power Buttons,� and labels. The user controls what they see by clicking on the appropriate button to hide or show certain aspects of the drawing.
visual customization
brightness threshold = 100
The code has switches that allow the user to view the different aspects of the code individually, including: points, lines with X-axis directionality, and lines with Y-axis directionality. Clicking the export label will export a .PDF of the current screen to the processing folder.
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Syracuse Area, New York brightness threshold = 160
Variable threshold s Changing the threshold variable in the code will change the program output. In the examples below, I experimented with a brightness threshold of 100 and 160. A threshold of 160 yields fewer line connections because fewer points exceed a brightness of 160.
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Personal Art drawings, paintings Developed over the course of my education, the following examples of artistic explorations with two of my favorite mediums. In my free time I enjoy practicing different techniques of representation.
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Portraits I take time to draw from both life and still images. The drawing on the left uses a technique by dividing the canvas and the still image into a grid. Below is portrait drawn from life.
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cut here 12” x 12” Acrylic on Canvas. Exploration of rhythm and symmetry. Elizabeth cooney | design portfolio
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resume | elizabeth cooney EDUCATION 2013-2015
Clemson University
2012-2013
Syracuse University School of Architecture
2008-2012
Master of Architecture Master of Architecture
Clemson University
Bachelor of Architecture Minor: Modern Languages (Spanish)
relevant experience August 2013- Present
Graduate Assistantship; Clemson University
Supervisor: Dr. Dina Battisto Responsibilities: Assisted professor with class assignment mock-ups, created research posters for exhibitions, and generated diagrams for professor’s upcoming publication.
August 2012- May 2013
Research Internship; Syracuse University
Supervisor: Mark Linder Responsibilities: Scripted images into a slideshow for supervisor’s exhibition. Collected, organized, and edited class materials.
Summer 2010
Watershed Studio Architecture, LLC
Responsibilities: Designed a marketing brochure for the firm. Edited photographs for firm’s advertisement in Builder+Architect.
employment Summer 2013
Clemson University
Supervisor: Dr. Dina Battisto Responsibilities: Generated diagrams to explain concepts in Dr. Battisto’s upcoming publication.
Summer 2012
River Valley Club
Responsibilities: Greeted, checked in, and assisted guests and members. Handled monetary transactions and emergency situations.
SKILLS Presentation Drafting Modeling Rendering Scripting Office Languages
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver AutoCAD, Hand Drawing Google SketchUp, Rhinoceros, Maya, Grasshopper, ZBrush V-Ray, Podium Processing Windows and Macintosh platforms Spanish (basic)
AWARDS + RECOGNITION Spring 2012
Faculty Scholarship Award
For excellent academic success.
Spring 2012
SC Chapter AIA Award
For academic achievement, highest quality of design ability, professional promise, and service.
AFFILIATIONS Spring 2012
AIAS Clemson Chapter
Workshop Leader Volunteer- Taught photoshop to first and second year students. Mentor Program- Advised a younger architecture student.
Spring 2012
University Dance Company
Selective dance group that dances at university basketball games and an annual recital.
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contact 803-448-9222 cell phone
ecooney@g.clemson.edu email address
119 Fern Circle, Clemson sc 29631 mailing address
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