design portfolio
ELIZABETH L. COONEY
design philosophy Design is a delicate balance between the scientist and the artist. It is the scientst’s role to address real-world issues of the architectural discipline with an exploratory, yet grounded attitude. The scientist retains accountability, while it is the artist’s duty to imagine the ideal and challenge the conventional practices. Architecture must embody the values of the scientist and the artist in order to create a better future. As an architect and designer of the future human condition, I strive to be balanced between both ends of the ideological spectrum.
table of contents Everson Cinema Park Fall 2012 | ARC 604 Syracuse University
Porous House Fall 2013 | Studio III Clemson University
Digital Library Pods Spring 2014 | Studio IV Clemson University
Line of Ancestry Fall 2014 | Studio V Clemson University
Fraxel Digital Performance Theater Spring 2015 | Comprehensive Clemson University
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Project Snapshots
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RĂŠsumĂŠ / CV
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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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process programs: rhinoceros, auto cad, illustrator, photoshop, photography, v-ray, hand models
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Micro Scale
Micro Scale
Rectangular Insertions
figure ground My analysis of the city and specific site focused on the different types of subtractions from the city Figure-Ground at varying scales.The Everson Museum of Art is an object lost in the “field,� and does not participate in the city fabric.
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Everson Museum
Site Analysis
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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the plaza
longitudinal section
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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Grand Entry
Roof Cinema Park
Projection Tower
Cantilever
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.
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porous house Clemson University fall 2013 ARCH 8510 | team-taught 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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process programs: rhinoceros, sketchup, auto cad, grasshopper, illustrator, photoshop, podiium, hand models
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The spirit passes lightly through the porous hearth, blurring boundaries.
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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.
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.
reshaping “home” disintigrate solid boundary between interior and exterior address specific site climate and resource needs challenge traditional southern home design live holistically with environment
solar decathlon priorities 1
ARCHITECTURE
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ENERGY BALANCE
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PI MARKETING
MEADOW SITE - CLEMSON, SC
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OCCUPANT COMFORT
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ENTERTAINMENT
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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 east-west axis provide porosity relative to the context, visually and spatially. Wall in the north-south axis provide porosity relative to circulation, as well as provide utility use for occupancy comfort.
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formation grid
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define home components
define connections
define walls
understand porosity
refine porosity
Most Ambient Light Most Porous Collective Least Ambient Light Least Porous Private
Entrance Ramp Entrance Deck Kitchen Outdoor Living + Dogtrot #1 Living Bathroom Laundry Bedroom Dogtrot #2 Master Bedroom Master Bathroom Rear Entrance
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. 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.”
strategies Systems responsive to solar conditions Systems responsive to wind conditions
front elevation
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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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porous wall 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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OTOTYPE
Suntube Skylights
suntube skylights
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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.
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
EVENING
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 separated kitchen
CEILING SCREW CAPS
MORNING Bedroom Sun Study The separation of spaces allows for a newDIAGRAM: ritual.Master It is to pass through boundaries, to feel and live in nature, and to live a more connected way with our world.
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.
“SUN DOME TUBULAR SKYLIGHT” DETAIL 3/4” = 1’
side elevation
TION: STANDARD POROUS-WALL CONSTRUCTION TRANSVERSE SECTION: NORTHWEST-FACING 1/4” = 1’
INSULATION CEILING MATERIAL
1/2” GYPSUM
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Digital Library Pods Clemson University spring 2014 ARCH 8520 | green Due to the rate of technological advancement in recent years, developing nations such as Nigeria have proceeded directly into the era of mobile technology. Without its previous physical constraints, technology is easily integrated into everyday living. This situation provides the unique opportunity to rethink the learning process in emerging countries. While we are meant to learn with our minds and bodies operating in tandem, technology has separated the learning process from the haptic body. However, with mobile and wearable technology, learning can freely move beyond the constraints of a classroom and into the world, resulting in more profound education. Innovation comes from collaboration and expands through global digital networking.
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process programs: rhinoceros, illustrator, photoshop, v-ray, hand models
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site - ottutulu, nigeria + lokoja, nigeria These site provide varying opportunities for the implementation of a digital library pod. Ottutlu is a rural village within Nigeria; here, mission workers from America teach and care for orphan children that often have health issues. Lokoja, Nigeria is a state capital that provides more a more urban condition for the library pod; the system has the resources to expand its size and connect to exisiting education centers.
architecture and culture intelligent / creative use of vernacular resouces address specific site climate and resource needs bring learning experience into everday activities place education and technology at cultural center
branding: HelioLearning
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ottutulu, nigeria The form that covers each library pod is unique to its corresponding cultural and environmental settings. Ottutulu, Nigeria, is a small village where one pod meets the needs of the local orphanage. The single canopy structure shape is influenced by the need to utilize the vernacular industries and resources in this rural area. Local wood and textiles form prefabricated panels that are easily assembled into a unique form that accommodates water collection and thermal comfort. This addresses a social necessity in a climate with a six-month dry season. Fabric panels may also be replaced with photovoltaic panels for power generation.
site plan Ministry of Mercy Orphanage
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lokoja, nigeria In Lokoja, the capital of Kogi state, Nigeria, the increased accessibility of resources provides the opportunity to expand the canopy into a complex form. Here, education and technology are placed as a cultural center that collectively shares, teaches, and connects.
frame detail
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Ground Plan 1/8" = 1 cultural ar et la a er or anc e s ace landsca e atc
longitudinal section 1/8" = 1
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the plaza The single canopy structure proliferates in the large plaza space adjacent to the college campus. Triangular infill connects each single canopy in a manner that is inspired by, but doesn’t necessarily emulate the cantenary curve. The plaza places education, technology, and local industry at the forefront of cultural celebration.
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vernacular industry wooden stacked trusses, fabric or PV infill
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tiered masonry construction
wooden mezzanine level
wooden stacked trusses, fabric or PV infill tiered masonry construction wooden mezzanine level
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Line of Ancestry Clemson University fall 2014 ARCH 8570 | montilla The traditional museum typology must be redefined as spaces of active inclusion and interaction with its patrons and context. This proposal for a culturally and spatially sensitive museum of immigration fragments and rearranges the monumentality of traditional museum architecture in order to regain the intimate human scale of experience. It responds to the culture of movement and time for its given context; including considerations of environmental and geographic change that prominently delineate spatial experience. As such, the museum responds to indetermination created by the capricious climatic conditions and projected geographic change. The inhabitable space of the museum is elevated into the air, removing the restrictions of space, and integrated into future plans for a monorail system to connect the city to Miami Beach, as means of programmatic activation.
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process programs: rhinoceros, hand drawing, illustrator, photoshop, v-ray, hand models
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20-50 years
site - miami, florida The project site is located on Watson Island within the Biscayne Bay. Our specific proposal situates itself adjacent to the Macarthur causeway, elevated 15’ above ground. By tying into a future proposal for a monorail system to pass through the island, the Museum of Immigration, or Line of Ancestry, can activate the currently underused space.
design priorities museum as contemplation museum as ecological restoration museum as blended environments museum as organized and navigable
climate + ecological concerns
25.7905º N 80.3163º W
open water clearances MIN. VERTICAL CLEARANCE
12.0’
MIN. VERTICAL CLEARANCE
9.4’ 8.4’
FOR BRIDGES SPANNING BODIES OF WATER
ACCOUNTING FOR STORM SURGE STORM SURGE HEIGHT
MEAN HIGHER HIGH WATER
5.8’
SEA LEVEL
0.0’
(IE. HIGH TIDE*)
Miami, Florida
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form generation
placing permanent architecture within indeterminate spatial array
alternate arrangments of temporal spaces permanent exhibits
pop-up exhibits 1
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the grid The design process simultaneously organizes an array of inhabitable spaces and customized digital data within the boundaries of an indeterminate three-dimensional grid, in which the experience of moving through this retains navigable linearity in both its physical and digital paths. Desirable spatial arrangements for permanent and temporal exhibition spaces define the precise structural grid. The grid allows an organized linear procession through the various immigration exhibitions.
infrastructure The future monorail system proposes a station at the northeast corner of Watson Island. The museum is located directly off the station, and provides access to the ground level. The ground level incorporates a plaza that may be used to facilitate large events. A bus stop is incorporated for convenience.
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exhibition technology Three exhibition conditions utilize digital media to convey general historical immigration information across world cultures. Modern smart phone applications create a more personalized experience, where genealogical information relative to your own history is curated and displayed within the exhibits. Blending digital information and physical space creates an augmented reality aimed at unifying multicultural populations.
Seed Stations allow visitors to view their genealogical histories between immigration exhibits.
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Section A: Through permanent exhibits 1, 4, 5
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LED mesh screens depict your personal information alongside immigration information pertient to your history. Exhibits circulate over time and cover all world histories.
Section B: Through permanent exhibits 2, 3
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Fraxel Digital Performance Theater Clemson University spring 2015 comprehensive studio | Green partner: Alyx McCarthey
The typical performance theater typology is fragmented and reconnected to create a diverse and activated complex; this complex is a forum to unite graduate students of STEM focuses with students of performing arts focuses. The union provides a unique opportunity for cross-programming seemingly disconnected fields. The studio is the final course in the graduate architecture curriculum. The project is still in progress, and will be comprehensively resolved throughout the semester. At this point, the project is past the schematic design phase and is moving into technical resolution.
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process programs: rhinoceros, auto cad, illustrator, photoshop, hand models
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site - altanta, georgia
The project site is located on Freedom Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia. The concrete overpass at the highlighted point presents a unique urban transition between highly regulated built density to more organic residential / rural built density..
the client - Georgia Technical College Our client is the Georgia Tech University. This college has a close relationship to the city, and provides a unique cross-programming element to the traditioal performance theater typology. As such, our group proposes a digital performance theater, allowing us to transform the spaces of performance to accomodate flexibile technological adaptations.
fragmentation of site The conditions of the site, on both the city scale and site scale, indicate a level of urban fragmentation. Nodes of public activity are dispersed across the area, and create a large network of interconnected spaces. Our proposal for the digital performance theater wishes to fragment the program to create nodes of activity along the active infrastructure of Freedom parkway; thereby connected communties transversely as well as longitudinally. `
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concept development An exploration of fragmentation discovered the benefits and conflicts of a performance theater which is either monolithic, stacked, or scattered. A scattered scheme is the most successful intervention, because it allows the architecture to better integrate with the landscape, built density, and culture of movement across the site. Shards of program push through the ground and are connected by an ephemeral fissure line.
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5 design rules
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shards as transluscent nodes
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fissure connection as light
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horizontal moves as digital
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vertical moves as vegetation
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circulation as complete system
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site plan This site plan shows treatment of the concrete horizontal elements and access to the site from the ground.
parking Surface parking is provided to the north west of the site, handicap accessible parking directly provided to the south west, and existing parking garages to the south east will assist with excess need.
services Services are provided with private access to the rear of both the dormitory node and workshop node. Services may back into the black box vertical core as well as the studio vertical core.
fiber-optic concrete The surface of the concrete overpass will act as an illuminatory surface that utilizes fiber optic technology. As such, the ground acts as a responsive screen for events and wayfinding. P
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studio node
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ramp + plaza entrance
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residence floor A
dormitory node
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lobby
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residence floor B
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residence floor C
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computer + visualization lab
proscenium node
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set + costume shop
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shop storage
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mid-level plaza
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lobby
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offices + ticketing
black box node
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studio + catwalk mezzanine
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cafĂŠ + studio overlook
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catwalk mezzanine
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lobby + catwalk mezzanine
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proscenium theater
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stage + performer support
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black box theater
double-height space
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sky plaza
upper stage support
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experiences
By playing with transparency, transluscency, and solidity, a variety of ephemeral experiences tie the nodes together. Light catwalks direct people between buildings and different levels of enclosure.
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project snapshots
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tube,” or network which sustains the new generation of transportationby reducing costs and better serving the public’s health needs.
Los Angeles, California
Diagram
L.A. Sun Patterns
Interstate Highways The proposed SolarCanopy is a superstructure that stretches over the highway system of Los Angeles. The photovoltaic cells collect solar energy, which actively charges the vehicular traffic underneath it, and passively stores extra energy back into the grid.
Winter Soltice December 21 Max Angle: 33
Summer Solstice June 21 Max Angle: 79
Latitude: 34.0522° N Longitude: 118.2428° W
Pacific
Horizontally Vertically
Through the analysis of the sun angle to the normals of each cell’s respective centroid, cells with optimal sun exposure remain closed. The remaining cells are opened to allow for lighting and visual Oceanindirect connectivity with the exterior of the highway.
Translate Vertically Mirror Horizontally
Electrical Vehicle Charging Station Densest Urban condition (approximation) Winter Soltice
Alternate Translate + Mirror Horizontally Image and data source: Google Maps. Drawn by author.
Body of water
Plan-View of Sun Movement (in reation to north axis) DGS has much involvement Summer Solstice in “green” energy and sustainable initiatives in education, business, and construction. With the removal of previously sun diagram reference image: http://ccas11bijagos.pbexisting services for works.com/f/44014464.jpg [fossil-fuel consuming] LA sun pattern data: vehicles, the future cultivahttp://solardat.uoregon.edu-Sun*sources tion of renewable energy ChartProgram.html could provide the “feeding EV Charge Stations + tube,” or network which Interstate Highways sustains the new generation The proposed SolarCanopy is a superstructure that stretches over of transportationby reducing the highway system of Los Angeles. The photovoltaic cells collect costs and better serving the solar energy, which actively charges the vehicular traffic underneath it, public’s health needs. and passively stores extra energy back into the grid.
Year 2060. Tokyo, Japan. Our heroes wander aimlessly through the ‘wilderness’...
What the heck???
Ooooohhh....
It's easy to get lost in the city...
Winter Soltice
Diagram
December 21 Max Angle: 33
L.A. Sun Patterns Latitude: 34.0522° N Longitude: 118.2428° W
New York City, United states
Sydney, Australia
in the mid 20th century, the population explosion and rise of the “International Style’ dictated the then-contemproary design and architecture.
Berlin, Germany
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.
Allegedly, It would allow for organic growth of the city and a total utlization of space for housing complexes.
Barcelona, spain
beijing, CHina
Personal and national identity was lost in the vastness of globalized urbanism...cities and high density housing removed any spirit.
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. You’re being dramatic. Seriously, though! You and I can’t even find the bank.
Winter Soltice
we’ve reached the precipice...it’s time for change.
Plan-View of Sun Movement (in reation to north axis) Summer Solstice 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.
The unit is adjustable and unique, just as one’s own DNA. While maintaining individuality, the unit retains the values of community connections.
June 21 Max Angle: 79
how did it get this way?
Through the analysis of the sun angle to the normals of each cell’s respective centroid, cells with optimal sun exposure remain closed. The remaining cells are opened to allow for indirect lighting and visual connectivity with the exterior of the highway.
It has happened, time and time again...
Summer Solstice
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.
Currently, the city is based off a regular hexagonal grid. each increminent is of equal size.
Scale of plan needs to be treated in such a way that natural hierarchies exist within the whole.
Winter Soltice Lower sun angle, therefore fewer closed cells. Open cells expand.
Infrastructure’s organic growth can be maintained, but give the connections between places meaning.
Diversity within the city will create new part-whole relationships and identities for the people.
Summer Solstice Higher sun angle, therefore more closed cells. Closed cells condense.
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rĂŠsumĂŠ / CV
elizabeth l. cooney
architectural intern + designer 803.448.9222 ecooney@g.clemson.edu
education 4.00
Clemson University School of Architecture Master of architecture expected in spring 2015. + Certificate of Digital Ecologies
Syracuse University School of Architecture
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Clemson University School of Architecture
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Graduate studies in architecure
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Minor: Modern Languages (Spanish)
Ranked 1 out of 2242 students in the Clemson University graduating class of 2012.
employment McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture Position: Architecture Intern Supervisor: Meghan Teague, community studio
Summer 2014
Responsibilities: various tasks partaining to pre-design, schematic design, and construction administration.
Clemson University
June 2013 - May 2015
Position: Graduate Assistantship Supervisor: Dina Battisto (2013-2014), Rob Silance (2014-2015)
Responsibilities: various tasks partaining to pre-design, schematic design, and construction diagrams for publications, digital tools tutorials.
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skills developed Photoshop Revit
Hand Drawing
Illustrator
AutoCad
Maya
InDesign
Rhinoceros
Grasshopper
V-Ray
Dreamweaver Processing
Podium
Sketchup
Zbrush
awards + recognition CU Grads Awards - 2nd Place For excellence in research relating to the College of Arts, Architecture, and Humanities.
Faculty Scholarship Award For excellent academic success.
Spring 2014
Visualization
Spring 2012
Computation Electronics Structures
Spring 2012
SC Chapter AIA Award
design interests
For academic achievement, highest quality of design ability, professional promise, and service.
Tectonics Theory Sustainability
affiliations Tau Sigma Delta - Architecture School Honor Society GASP - Clemson University Graduate Architecture Student Partnership
Fall 2014 - Present Spring 2013 - Present
Position - Communications Co-Chair
AIAS - Clemson Chapter
Spring 2012
Workshop Leader Volunteer - Taught photshop to first and second year undergraduate architecture students. Mentor Program - Advised younger architecture student.
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