GA Tech M.Arch. Portfolio

Meredith Blakeley North Carolina State University Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture 2013 Georgia Institute of Technology Master of Architecture 2016

Table of Contents Project

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1 - Savannah Station 2- School of the Arts Study 3 - Charter School for the Arts 4 - Federal Courthouse 5 - Atlanta 2041

Savannah Station, 601 Cohen Street Savannah, Georgia Options I Studio - Historic Preservation GA Tech Fall 2014 Jack Pyburn Savannah Station is a historic building blocked from the city by an interstate fly-over. The removal of the flyover will allow the area to be reorganized and better connected to the city. Through analysis of the area, I determined local children could benefit from an interactive learning center. School curriculums for ages 4-10 and their connections to the building were the basis for the exhibits. Historical elements are celebrated and original materials are displayed to allow visitors to see the connection between the activities and the building.

Entry, Exhibit Space, Lecture Classroom, Lab Classroom

Physical models completed by myself (top left), Vanessa Lira and Joanna Bledsoe (top right), and Tracie Cabler and Sun Yifeng (left). Original digital model of the building by Carly Smith and Geoffrey Rees.

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Age appropriate exhibit activities are split into two categories - materials and transportation. The path through the exhibits follows the curve of the skylight and starts with materials. Present in the building and studied through activities are brick, mortar, steel, wood, and glass. Friction and Lifting exhibits overlap the transportation and materials categories bringing the pieces together.

The building was historically used to operate various means of transportation, hence the exhibit topic. Means of transportation studied include water (boats, sailing), air (planes, hot air balloon, hovercraft), and land (train, automobile).

Space for a travelling exhibit is included to provide visitors with a new experience each time they come. Lecture and lab space are available for presentations and further exploration.

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Plan details of reveals used between old and new materials to respect the building’s historic features.

Skylight Section Detail - The curve of the skylight and the front desk evoke a relaxed atmosphere, a place of fun and excitement.

The skylight also highlights the roof structure, a key element of the building.

Entry View (top left) shows new curved desk, new stairs and ramps, and the new elevator to make the building accessible, Second Level View (top right) shows the library and adult space through which the suspension cables project, Exhibit Space View (bottom right) depicts some of the exhibit activities, the opening of the barn doors, treatment of the new materials against the old materials, and the lighting from the skylight.

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PAINTED BRICK: strip paint from brick using a nonabrasive method such as a chemical paint remover, repoint mortar joints with matching mortar as needed, seal brick with clear paint if needed to maintain integrity VOLUME - DIVIDED

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BRICK: repoint mortar joints with matching mortar as needed, seal brick with clear paint if needed to maintain integrity STRUCTURE

DOOR OPENING: fill opening with new storefront or curtain-wall windows and doors BARN DOOR

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HISTORIC WINDOW: repair and restore historic windows

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PAINTED BARN DOORS: strip paint using nonabrasive methods, clear sealant, make operable

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PAINTED STRUCTURE: keep structure exposed, strip paint using a nonabrasive method, clear sealant

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VOLUME - DIVIDED: maintain volume by keeping new walls below structure

PAINTED BRICK

PAINTED BRICK: strip paint from brick using a nonabrasive method such as a chemical paint remover, repoint mortar joints with matching mortar as needed, seal brick with clear paint if needed to maintain integrity

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BRICKED OPENING: VOLUME: fill opening with new maintain volume window

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VOLUME - DIVIDED: maintain volume by keeping new walls below structure

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STRUCTURE: PAINTED BRICK: keep structure strip paint from brick using a nonabrasive exposed method such as a chemical paint remover, repoint mortar joints with matching mortar as needed, seal brick with clear paint if needed to maintain integrity

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School for the Arts: Study Options II Studio - Portman Prize Competition GA Tech Spring 2015 Charles Rudolph This project is a study of the main spaces in a school for the arts: studio, classroom, and exhibit space. To display the studio as the special element of the school, it was placed above where it will also get the best natural light. The exhibit space is below the studio at the corner to give the public easy access. The classroom is placed in the back of the site with a courtyard to maintain the needed privacy. A bar of circulation and services connect the spaces together.

Physical model made from bass wood, cardboard, acrylic, and museum board.

Lounge Space (above left), Studio Space (below), Primary Corner View (above right)

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Charter School for the Arts Options II Studio - Portman Prize Competition Spring 2015 Charles Rudolph Located in Atlanta, GA, this project was a charter school for the arts intended to promote interaction between the community, the students, and the spaces.

The classrooms are organized by subject to promoted student interaction. The library, gym, gallery, exterior courts, and auditorium are able to be open to the community after school hours. The school front on North Ave. is primarily glass so the students can be seen moving through the halls and in their classrooms.

Context Plan

Program Diagram

Circulation Diagram

Exterior Spaces Diagram

Structure Diagram

Mechanical Systems Diagram

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Section Model Through Lobby Space made from acrylic, bass wood, and cardboard using the laser cutter.

Final Context Model made with bristol paper and chipboard.

Federal Courthouse Mobile, Alabama Research + Design Studio I - Courthouses GA Tech Fall 2015 Thanos Economou From a precedent study, I created a module for courthouse design. This project is an example of the module in a particular site with a specified program. The module consists of three separate circulation paths and two staggered courtrooms. The aggregation of the module I chose for the site was four courtrooms per floor. The parameters I set for my design include natural light into all spaces and having the staggered courtrooms displayed on the facade.

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6 The module I created was originally a two dimensional drawing that I manipulated to determine how well it worked and how many different schemes could exist. I first tried a module that mimicked the courthouse in St. Louis. I saw where that module broke and modified the module to allow for balconies in the courtrooms.

This allowed the module to be much more flexible. To determine the best options for the Mobile courthouse, other criteria were set. Using those criteria and the number of courtrooms needed (7), I determined that two, four, and six courtrooms per floor would work on the site. I modeled the options in three dimensions to begin to really see how the circulation patterns would work. I was also able to see what the overall form of the building would be. These models told me that two courtrooms per floor would make a building much taller than I felt was good for the area. Six courtrooms per floor created complicated public circulation was is undesirable in a place that already fills people with anxiety. One of the four courtrooms per floor option had a cleaner circulation path than the other and so it was chosen as the best solution.

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The St. Louis courthouse plan is four double height courtrooms per floor with two at the entry level and two at the upper level. This allowed the overall height of the building to be much shorter than had the courtrooms been simply stacked. The back and forth nature of the courtrooms allows the secured circulation to work with two alternating courtrooms. This means that instead of the secured circulation blocking paths through the building, the paths switches from one side to the other towards the courtroom with entry on the floor below. This organization gives more flexibility to the other spaces needed in the courthouse.

The facade starts to tell the story of what is happening inside. The lobby space is treated one way, the judges’ chambers another, and the courtrooms are treated with frosted glass but have the same fins as most of the building. Visibility of the courtrooms was a key idea, however, with that idea comes many concerns. The courtrooms do not need to have visions glass for the protection of those inside from outsiders and views outside have potential to be disruptive to courtroom proceedings.

There is a need for security for much of the functions of a federal courthouse and this makes the facade difficult as the spaces that want the most natural light are also the spaces that need to most security.

Organization: Level 1: Lobby, Jury Assembly, District Clerk Offices Level 2: Probation and Pretrial Offices Level 3: 2 Courtrooms and associated spaces, Jury room, Grand Jury Suite Level 4-5: 4 Courtrooms and associated spaces, Jury room Level 6: 2 Courtrooms and associated spaces, Library, Office Space Level 7: 1 Courtroom (upper floor) and associated spaces, Office Space Level 8-9: Judges Chambers Level 10: US Marshalls

Courtroom Views (bottom & left)

Main Entry View

Atlanta 2041 Research + Design Studio II - Urban Design Spring 2016 Ellen Dunham-Jones This studio was a request from the City of Atlanta’s new commissioner, Tim Keane. It was a study of downtown to envision what Downtown could be like in 25 years. This 25 year vision included considering the possibility of driverless cars and primarily increasing the number of residents in Downtown. The studio chose four key areas based on early research to work on in teams. My team consisted of myself, Animesh Shrestha (AS), and Lu Pang (LP).

Our area for the vision was South Downtown at the Garnett MARTA Station.

The area around Garnett Station in South Downtown is currently mostly surface parking lots. There are many jobs in the area but the employees are commuting from other areas of the city. The primary goal of the revival of this area is to bring in residents. With the arrival of autonomous vehicles (AVs), the parking lots can be redeveloped into residential units and commercial space. To address the needs of family residents green space and a school are included in our proposal. The green space provides water purification and activity space. To connect the area to its Context Plan (LP)

surroundings the secondary focus of the revival is to include the arts. The proposed school is an arts school with facilities that are open to the community. Providing affordable housing and work space for artists is part of the reason for keeping the building scale low. One hindrance to development currently is the small lot size and the requirement for parking. With AVs and the public transportation system in the area this requirement can be eliminated and each parcel can be developed individually.

The MARTA station plaza, sided by commercial space and residential units, is

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Proposed Public Transportation (AS)

Propsed New Lanes Proposed by City AV only lane

Proposed Bike Lanes (AS)

Bio-Swales Water Cistern Green Space Storm Water Flow Living Machine

New Proposed Parcels

Existing Parcels (LP)

Proposed Parcels (LP)

Water Flow Diagram (AS)

Master Plan (LP); Proposed Massing (Right)

Art School with shared community facilities Adaptive Reuse

Mid-block Green Space

Affordable Retail and Workspace (for Artists)

Market Rate Residential Units Adaptive Reuse

Residential Units for Families

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Existing Offices : 900,000 sq ft Existing No. of jobs: 3,600 Office Area: 453,055 sq ft Commercial Area: 401,315 sq ft Institutional Area: 356,781 sq ft Total Proposed Jobs: 4,495 Existing Residential Area: 110,000 sq ft Existing Residents: 220 Proposed Residential Area: 2,425,057 sq ft Proposed New residents: 4,850 Total Future Population: 13,165

Creative Office Space - Replacing bus station when buses are moved to Multi-Model Station

Restaurant Row Plaza - Existing buildings to be removed

Affordable Housing (For Artists)

Creative Office Space

Affordable Housing, Office, and Retail Space (for Artists)

Institutional Office Residential Commercial

Green Space at MARTA Station Rendering (Above); Plaza Rendering (Below)

Section Perspective Through Forsyth Street (AS)

Waiting Space Problems and Solutions (LP)

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Ted Turner Drive Before & After Street Sections (AS)

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Music Park Music Theatre

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Expertise Tools -AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign -Laser cutting, sketches, hand drafting Communication Construction Documents, Academic and Institutional Reports, Architecture Design Reviews and Presentations

Education Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia Master of Architecture, May 2016, 3.83/4.0 North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, May 2013, 3.51/4.0 Cum Laude

Projects 601 Cohen Street in Savannah, Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2014 -Historic Preservation studio studying a local building in Savannah. Focus was on maintaining and respecting the existing building fabric while giving the building a new function.

-Designed an interactive science museum for young children with activities that related to their school curriculum and to the history and fabric of the building Charter School for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology Spring 2015 -Issue was to design a charter school in a way that could involve the community -Importance was place on bridging the various elements of the school together while maintaining the privacy needed during the school day and openness needed for community functions.

Federal Courthouse in Mobile, Alabama Georgia Institute of Technology Fall 2015 -Designed a federal courthouse based on a module derived from an existing federal courthouse (St. Louis) -Primary concerns were with efficiency of the plan and the sectional organization of three specific paths of circulation and the courtrooms

Experience Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio Atlanta, Georgia Architecture Intern: April 2015 - present -Prepared and edited sets of construction documents for various projects using AutoCAD -Maintained documentation of cut sheets -Worked on drawings for unit plans, elevations, wall sections, plan details, stair plans and sections, and RCPs -Maintained records of changes made to previous document issuances for new issuance

Pond & Company Norcross, Georgia Architecture Intern: June 2014 -December 2014 -Prepared and edited sets of construction documents with minimal supervision using AutoCAD -Completed tasks associated with wall types, room tags, keynotes, ceiling grids, ADA compliance, dimensioning, elevations, and details using Revit and AutoCAD -Scanned construction documents for firm and client records -Edited and assisted with concept plans for various projects using SketchUp and Revit Stein Mart Raleigh, North Carolina Customer Service, Ladies Department, Gifts and Linens Department: May 2012 - May 2013 -Conducted sales transactions -Assisted customers -Arranged and organized merchandise for purchase Carolina Country Club Raleigh, North Carolina Pool Cantina: May 2012 - September 2012 -Poolside waitressing -Worked on customer service and teamwork skills as a member of the customer service team A Step of Class Dance Studio Goldsboro, North Carolina Administrative Assistant, Teacher Assistant, Teach: Fall 2007 - Spring 2008, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 -Prepared newsletters each month using Microsoft Publisher -Designed advertisements for the yearly recital program for four recitals -Kept attendance records using CompuDance -Taught dance classes for kinderdance, jazz, tap, ballet, and acrobatics for ages 4 to 10 years -Choreographed dances for the recital -Utilized leadership, teaching, and customer service skills

Skills, Knowledge, & Interests Digital Microsoft Office - Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, Excel; AutoCAD; Revit; Adobe Creative Suites - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; SketchUp; Kerkythea, Analog Laser cutting, Hand Drafting, Scale Modeling Knowledge Architectural Design, Environmental Control Systems, Structural Systems, Marketing AEC Services, Architectural History Interests Reading, Hiking, Painting, Travelling