ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Meaghan Whitehorn
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRICULUM VITAE
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CRU WINE BAR & MERCHANT
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CUPERTINO OFFICE UPGRADE
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SIERRA VENTURES
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CURRICULUM VITAE Meaghan Whitehorn 200 Davey Glen Road, Apt 428 • Belmont, CA • 94002 CELL (650) 861-2507 E-MAIL meaghanrw@gmail.com
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University of Oregon, Portland Campus Masters of Architecture (M.Arch)
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University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
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Strong design, organizational and creative problem-solving skills, also talented at physical model building and hand drawing. Ability to work well and thrive in a team based environment. Adept at digital arts programs and visualization media. AutoCAD Rhino Sketch Up Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Revit VectorWorks Hand Sketching Model Construction Advanced
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Hayes Group Architects | Redwood City, CA Designer, Septeber 2015 - Present • Work includes space planning and FFE selections for multiple recurring high-end tech clients to create a final optimized space. Interface with client and build team to create viable options that work with future build out scenarios. Approach designs aware of varying needs and standards including redesigns as users cycle and priorites shift. Manage multiple active projects through all phases of construction. Merryman Barnes Architects | Portland, OR Practicum Intern, April - June 2015 • Primary tasks included research on new projects, assistance with base drawings in CAD, office reorganization, design work with new projects and historic preservation research and development. Stanford Alumni Association | Stanford, CA Customer Service Assistant,, March - August 2013 • Primary customer service contact for all alumni regarding Class Book pages and book delivery. Provide high level of personal service for each alum while troubleshooting online page submission problems over the phone and via email while also maintaining multiple databases. Stanford University Architect | Stanford, CA Architect Intern,, May - November 2013
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• Work on various projects including: solar viability of campus buildings (solar energy generated by roof exposure); extensive research into possible renovation of campus Chemistry building [built1900; Director’s Board decided to renovate based on recommendation] Produced signage, models, and drawings for the Anderson Collection building (opened Fall 2014) and McMurtry Building (opened Fall 2015).
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CRU WINE BAR & MERCHANT YEAR Fall 2016 FIRM Hayes Group Architects A modern yet rustic wine bar and merchant set in the heart of Downtown Redwood City! The focus of this project was to create a warm gathering space where people could come together, surrounded by a collection of vintage European winemaking artifacts and a welcoming ambience. I completed the full drawing set for city and food service permit as well as signing off on submittals and RFIs and completing weekly site walks and final punch logs. This previously underused location is now a bustling business full of happy customers.
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CUPERTINO OFFICE UPGRADE YEAR Winter 2016 FIRM Hayes Group Architects
A high end commercial office project located at a major crossroads in Cupertino. An existing 35 year old building was brought new life and made usable for a high-tech client. The space now serves hundreds of employees a day, running at a high level of efficiency, durability and design aesthetic. I completed a majority of the drawing set, did weekly site walks, final punch walks and weekly face to face with contractors and client. The result is a revitalization of a dilapidated building into a vibrant and active hub for this technology brand.
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PASTA ARMELLINO YEAR Active Project FIRM Hayes Group Architects
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A new concept restaurant located on the main street of Downtown Saratoga. The restaurant is moving into a currently boarded over location and will feature a display kitchen with top notch chefs creating the daily menu on Italian marble counters in the main front room. A revitalized back of house will serve the newly designed dining area. I assisted with branding visualization, helped selected features and furnitures and completed 3D models that were then rendered off site. This project embodies the character of downtown Saratoga and will soon become a feature destination.
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SIERRA VENTURES YEAR Summer 2016 FIRM Hayes Group Architects
A recently completed luxury office space for a high end venture capital firm in the penthouse of a bay-side high rise in San Mateo. Existing conditions were dingy and old and the client requested bright, sunny and clean designs. I worked on providing furniture options and interior elevations of the space. Also completed punch walks and weekly face to face with contractors and client. What was once an unused office space is now a welcoming and productive working environment.
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MISSION BAY MAGNET SCHOOL DURATION 16 weeks YEAR Spring 2015 WORKS ARCH 586 Thesis | Univ. of Oregon INSTRUCTOR Gerald Gast A school on the San Francisco Peninsula designed to bring students face to face with their natural environment in the hopes that they can learn to appreciate its power and importance and become stewards of our waterfronts. San Francisco is one of California’s densest cities and is surrounded on three sides by water. In many other parts of the city, old industrial uses for the waterfront have been returned back to their natural state, creating lovely outdoor recreation areas, like Crissy Field and The Presidio, for their local communities. Mission Bay’s waterfront is poised to have quite a similar transformation, exchanging its disused port shipping piers for tidal marshes and kelp forests. Transforming and transitioning the city to meet its waters edge will require multiple catalyst sites and projects. This thesis explores one of these sites as well as the idea of ‘transition’ from a dense and tall urban environment that comes to the waters edge and how that environment meets the waves. Translating and interweaving the urban and the natural forms a moment of potential that: - explores the merger of a previously industrial area with a new community of neighborhoods in order to create a soft border between the water and our citizens. - explores ways in which water can become an integral part of design and using it for things like energy, filtration, and a tool to teach about environmentalism and the need for people to take better care of our surroundings. 14 MISSION BAY | MAGNET SCHOOL
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BUILDING CONCEPT ‘TRANSITION’ The final and more in depth concept was the idea of ‘transition’ from a dense and tall urban environment that comes right to the waters edge and how that meets the waves. This transition requires a stepping down in scale. Thinking of the project in terms of strips or zones, these very tall strips from the urban environment step down and form the concept for the building, both building up above the water line and dipping down below it. The rises and falls help to define the program shifts within the project (Science vs. Math, group vs. individual study, etc.) and at times where these strips shift horizontally, special moments occur and the strips dip down into the water and reveal to the users spaces that are neither fully in the natural environment nor in the built environment. These moments will be part of the set of tools used by teachers to educate students on the merging of these two environments and how the students can act as caretakers to help foster improved thinking on the meetings of cities and water.
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BURNSIDE HOUSING DURATION 8 weeks YEAR Fall 2014 WORKS Arch 584 | Univ. of Oregon INSTRUCTOR Don Genasci
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Street Revitalization Project Portland has made efforts over the last few years to improve the pedestrian experience on some of its major traffic streets, like W Burnside between Downtown and the wealthy NW Alphabet district. Historically, these streets were made wider for the increased automobile traffic, but today this traffic is diverted to freeways, leaving behind stark and unfriendly streetscapes for the pedestrian. Our major streets should be designed to work equally well for pedestrians, autos and public transit and encourage active use as vibrant, enjoyable places. W Burnside’s location between two vital Portland neighborhoods emphasizes its need to be a great pedestrian corridor and underlines the opportunities available. After a reinvention of the street itself, each student took on a lot on the street to design any building or program they felt were needed. My design is located near the end of the corridor right before you enter the high end neighborhoods. It is a mixed use building intended to bring families together and cluster them around a newly developed urban square that also links them to the great nearby offerings of Washington Park.
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NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY DURATION 8 weeks YEAR Fall 2013 WORKS Arch 584 | Univ. of Oregon INSTRUCTOR Gerald Gast + Suenn Ho Libraries of today have been undergoing a big transition, especially with the digitization of knowledge. Facing this new horizon where people can access information from anywhere, libraries have to be able to adapt and reinvent themselves to offer services suited to their communities and their future needs. However, losing the familiar essence of a neighborhood library isn’t ideal either. We must keep in touch with the old but also welcome the new digital and social aspects. Libraries need to transition to become the central hub of social activity and learning for their communities. This gives them a unique opportunity to be in a space that serves three services at once: a library, a community center and a place for activities and social learning. We explored ways that these libraries can change and adapt to the altered nature of our communities.
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1- Entry Vestibule 2- Help/Reference Desk 3- Self Checkout 4- Community Event Board 5- Event Room 6- Kids/Family Section 7- Family Computers 8- Teen Work Area 9- Administration 10- Casual Group Area 11- Bathrooms 12- Periodicals 13- Small Group Area 14- Individual Work Area 15- Group Reading Space 16- Bioswale
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The Rockwood neighborhood of Portland identified specific user needs. The idea of recreating some of Portland’s natural landscape that has been largely taken over by industry, strip malls and housing developments became very important. The user group of the current Rockwood branch is mainly students coming to the library after school because of the resources available there, older residents earlier in the day who come in for classes and job search help, and young families who come in to expose their children to knowledge and learning at the library. The area is majority low income and non-english speaking, so having a knowledge center where the community can congregate and learn is vital. The library will be a place where the whole community can come to feel welcomed and safe. To achieve this goal, the library has: - views to glass enclosed planted gardens to provide a connection to green space - layers for social and individual learning - planned landscaped areas outdoors for enjoyment during the better weather months
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To achieve this design, the structure of the building was considered and analyzed to be efficient but also inspirational for the community. The overall structural system of the library would be basic TGI roofing, concrete walls and flooring, with a transitioning exterior wall treatment that would progress from the busy front of the building to the calm rear side. A few interior columns will be needed where a folding glass wall opens up to unite the spaces in times when the library would want to have larger events or displays. Some of the major exterior walls, especially in the back, are perforated with large expanses of windows. Each panel is eight feet across and separated by mullions, achieving the appearance of one large opening with more cost effective sizes of glass. The exterior treatment at the front is a woven metal screen, reflecting the built up and hardscaped environment the building finds itself in. This material would be allowed to age with the building, slowly turning an aged brown/green color, reflecting the intent of this area to become more green with planned outdoor spaces. This material would be stopped at the central bar, the specific stopping point being two garden atriums that are open to the exterior, showing that nature is interrupting this man made material and bringing in something more organic. The back bar will be faced with some organic material, or a simple treatment to the structural concrete.
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APPLE STORE REDUX DURATION 10 weeks YEAR Fall 2011 WORKS ED 105 | UC Berkeley INSTRUCTOR Susan Ubbelohde
The Berkeley Apple Store resembles almost every other apple store in existence. A company that clearly values consistent uniformity, this means that none of their stores reflect or adapt to their locations and the people they serve. Tasked with adapting the Berkeley store to fit into the Berkeley lifestyle and aesthetic, teams of three took on redesigns that reflect both LEED Platinum and NetZero Energy goals. Using both regional climate research and some precedent projects, my team generated designs that not only help the building and the company use less energy and spend less money running their store, but also represent the people of Berkeley and reflect the local perspective on design and values.
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PHOTOVOLTAIC STUDY + GRAD HOUSING DURATION 4 weeks YEAR July 2012 WORKS Stanford Architects Office
PV FEASIBILITY Plan drawings were done of all the non-historic Stanford buildings to assess the feasibility of powering significant portions of the campus through photovoltaic systems (taking into account optimal roof angles, self-shading, etc). Calculations were performed that indicated almost 5 MegaWatts could be produced. Parts of the University already have PV systems implemented, and linking new systems to the current infrastructure is the next step.
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GRADUATE HOUSING Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal for a new graduate housing community also includes this design for a new Graduate Community Center. I interfaced with the architects partnered with the University to design this project to make edits to the plans and prepare the rendered elevations for the Board of Trustees approval meeting. These elevations were then approved by the board and this project is currently underway.
These renderings are of the housing units themselves. Four of these fourstory buildings will be constructed to house over 400 new students. They are collectively grouped along one side of the current graduate student housing development. While the design style may be a slight departure from Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typical red tile roof, the color palette is still there and will tie in nicely with the existing conditions.
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CENTENNIAL MILLS DURATION 4 weeks YEAR April 2015 WORKS Merryman Barnes Architects, Intern INSTRUCTOR Linda Barnes
While interning in a practicum role at Merryman Barnes Architects in Portland during my Graduate Program at the University of Oregon, our office worked on a historic rehabilitation project that transitioned this 100+ year old grain mill, Centennial Mills, into a working training center and offices for the Portland Mounted Police Department. A large issue we encountered at the outset of the project was the lack of base drawings from which to start. A vintage 1906 copy of elevations and plans and a walk through of the site with the principals were the beginnings of the project. Retaining the historic value and nature of the site while restoring it to a usable and worthwhile icon for the neighborhood were our founding goals. This project is currently underway.
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NE PORTLAND BUSINESS REVITALIZATION DURATION 4 weeks YEAR May 2015 WORKS Merryman Barnes Architects, Intern INSTRUCTOR Nancy Merryman
Another project completed while at Merryman Barnes Architects, this one focused on rehabbing this triplex of small businesses in what Portland hopes is an up and coming shopping district. The city gave grants to select businesses to give street front improvements to their businesses in order to attract pedestrians. Our job was to produce 3D models of the potential changes that could be made and worked closely with the owner to achieve the desired results.
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I produced the complete 3D model for this project simply off of photos and online mapping information. Over time the model became more and more accurate and started to reflect the clients desire for new blade signs, the color palette for the three businesses and some site context. This final rendition of the model is currently underway. BUSINESS REVITALIZATION | NE PORTLAND 45
DRAWINGS
Doe Library, UC Berkeley Pencil on Bristol 11”X22” Fall 2008 46 DRAWINGS
International House Charcoal on Bristol 11”X22” Fall 2008 DRAWINGS 47
Lamppost Ink on Paper 8” X 12” Spring 2010 48 DRAWINGS
Life Drawings China Marker on Newspaper 22”X22” Spring 2010 DRAWINGS 49
Mother and Child Pencil on Paper 8” X 8” Spring 2011 50 DRAWINGS
Friends Pencil on Bristol 24” X 24” Summer 2012 DRAWINGS 51
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