Minton Portfolio

Katie Minton Bachelor of Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Katie Minton

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North Carolina Dance Theater, Charlotte, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2007 Academic

A building for The North Carolina Dance Theater would need to house both professional companies and instructional programs. The building the dance theater was in was one they had occupied only a few years. After talking to one of the administrative staff about their accommodations, it seemed they had already outgrown it. I noticed during my visit with the theater that some spaces were not being used all the time. Also, small classes were occupying very large spaces. I felt the building needed to be more exible, like the dancers. The main idea of my design was to create a building that could grow with them and adapt to their needs.

The circular scheme would allow the use of pivoting and rotating walls. This way the occupants of the dance theater could customize their own spaces, allowing the interior to form fit to their needs at any given point. Also, the circular scheme would allow for future additions to the building without interruption to the overall design.

View of downtown Charlotte

The site for this project was chosen by the studio for it’s view of downtown Charlotte, and its proximity to the city center.

View of site

DANCE STUDIO DIAGRAMS

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STAFF TOILETS WORK ROOMS CONFERENCE KITCHEN

LOUNGE DANCER’S TOILETS SHOWERS COMP. LOCKERS

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Site analysis diagrams DANCE STUDIO DIAGRAMS

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LOUNGE DANCER’S TOILETS SHOWERS COMP. LOCKERS

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STAFF OFFICES DIRECTOR’S OFFICE

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LARGE STUDIOS

DANCE PLACE WAITING

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First floor organization

Second floor organization

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STAFF OFFICES DIRECTOR’S OFFICE

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LARGE STUDIOS

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Northwest Elevation

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North Carolina Dance Theater, Charlotte, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2007 Academic

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Northeast Elevation

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North Carolina Dance Theater, Charlotte, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2007 Academic

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North Carolina Dance Theater, Charlotte, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2007 Academic

Housing For A New Cultural District, Greensboro, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic

Currently, downtown Greensboro is not very pedestrian friendly. It seems to consist mostly of parking lots and is lacking in great family friendly sidewalks and green spaces. Center City Park is one shining gem of Greensboro, and it is located across from my site. With a high rise housing complex, I hoped to frame urban living within a new urban design plan created through a collaboration with my peers.

My design for this housing establishment consisted of retail at the bottom and a housing tower on top. The building would need to incorporate a historic building existing on the site. The height of the housing structure, in conjunction with the other tall structures surrounding Center City Park, would help to frame the green space, creating an outdoor room. The parking would be housed in a deck behind the building and away from the main street, where several other parking decks are already located. Ample green space, sidewalks, and attractions would help to bring more people to this area of Greensboro.

Design Composition

Historic Building on site

Greensboro skyline from site

Center city Park

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Kite Pavilion Installation, Central Park, NY Katie Minton Spring Semester ‘09 Academic

Streetscape Render Housing For A New Cultural District, Greensboro, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic

Framing Views Render Housing For A New Cultural District, Greensboro, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic 15

Site Section Housing For A New Cultural District, Greensboro, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic

View From Center City Park Render Housing For A New Cultural District, Greensboro, NC Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic 17

Digital Fabrication Form Studies Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic

I was assigned this project in my digital fabrication class to teach the basics of form fabrication. I created a surface in Rhinoceros, then offset it to give it thickness. From this form, I extracted curves to create pieces I could assemble using egg crate construction. The basswood and clear plexi model and white and clear plexi model were created using this method. These models were laser cut to fit snugly so no glue was used. The all-basswood model was created by extracting curves at increments equal to the thickness of the basswood material and glueing them to adjacent pieces.

The skin model was created by rebuilding the surface to create triangular panels. Strips of panels were cut, while the triangulations were scored. The panels could then be folded along score lines, limiting the amount of glue needed for construction.

Basswood and Clear Plexi

White and Clear Plexi

All-Basswood

Chipboard Skin

Laser cut layouts

Initial Form

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College of Arts and Architecture Pavilion Installation Katie Minton Fall Semester 2008 Academic

What once was the College of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is now part of a greater whole. In 2008 it became a part of the university’s new College of Arts and Architecture. This pavilion was erected in a courtyard surrounded by buildings that house these programs in the hopes that each school within the college could create an installation that would represent the new dynamic. The architecture group decided to use boxes that people could move through and interact with. Each box would represent a school. We divided into groups of three to design organizational schemes that the group would vote on and my team’s design was chosen. Each box in the chosen scheme was assigned to groups in the class to design fully.

The box my group worked with was the architecture box. My group and I decided that architecture would be represented by the idea of connections. Each group chose a different method of designing their box, which in the end resulted in a stimulating play of light and shadows between the boxes.

College of Arts and Archtiecture Pavilion

Architecture box design

Pavilion location

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Art Fund Pavilion, London, UK Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

This project was a competition entry sponsored by the Art Fund in London. I worked on this project with two other group members. Our approach to the design of the pavilion was to find the main visual axes on the site. We used the method of weaving CNC-routed plywood panels to frame views along these axes. The panels would intersect at joints held together by wood ‘staples’ that could be removed by hand for easy assembly and disassembly. The pavilion needed to include seating as well as plinths and hanging space for presentations.

Thinner wood panels would be attached together at joints and separate in the middle to allow a perpendicular panel to pass between them, allowing for strategic weaving for structural stability. The width of the panels was sized to be able to cut exactly two panels out of a sheet of plywood, leaving little waste during the fabrication process. The metric system was used throughout the design process. I had the most digital fabrication experience in the group so I was most active in implementing a sizing system for material efficiency, designing the structural joints, and creating the computer models and renders.

Strategic views in site

Parallels from views to site

View implication to form

Connection Detail

Seating (blue), pin-up (green), plinth (orange)

Sketch Book Process Excerpts

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Art Fund Pavilion, London, UK Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

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Night Render in Front of Light Box (rendered by group member) Art Fund Pavilion, London, UK Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic 25

Exterior and Interior Space Renders Art Fund Pavilion, London, UK Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

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FlyNY Kite Design, Central Park, NY Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

This project was for participation in FlyNY’s kite competition. The idea was to create a correlation between the kite design and skyline at the location where the kite would be flown.

I worked with two other people on this project. After making a few prototypes of simple kite designs, we decided to utilize the design of a pocket kite in our project. We created a two-dimensional composition based on the skyline, and then used that to create a series of three-dimensional iterations. To give the kite a balanced geometry we mirror-imaged the composition in two directions, then proceeded to distill the design down to its basic geometries. We were one of only two groups in the class to create a study prototype that would fly, but unfortunately our final kite was not as successful. From this project, I learned that pocket kites do well individually. With the addition of more structure that comes with more pocket components the ratio of structure to wind-catching surface can become too great for flight.

Site of kite flying competition and pavilion

Organization of composition developed from site photograph

Design Process Iterations

Sketch Book Process Excerpts

Kite Design Prototype

Team member test ying kite iteration

Team member test ying early kite prototype

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Kite Pavilion Installation, Central Park, NY Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

This project was meant to correlate with the previous kite design project. It was a pavilion that would house the winning kites from the FlyNY kite competition, and allow people to walk through and view them. It was to be located in the same area of Central Park as where the kites were own. This exercise was meant to focus on the process of design. We were instructed to design this pavilion using the same methods as our kites. Thus, this design started out as a compositional piece that was mirror imaged and condensed down to a main idea.

The main idea became to frame the kites and the views from the site around the pavilion.

Fabric was to be tunneled through the frames, pulling the eye to the kites and landscape beyond. The pavilion was to be located along a prominent path on the site, allowing people to catch glimpses of kites as they walk through, however each component of this pavilion would provide seating to the side for observation and reection if desired. This project was done with the same group as the kite design. All members of the group gave feedback about the design iterations. Based on those ideas I created all the digital models and renders shown here.

Design Process Iterations

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Kite Pavilion Installation, Central Park, NY Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

Visual tunneling studies

Visual tunneling study

Design Process Iterations

Rhino model of pavilion component pieces

Iteration model

Final model of kite pavilion

Final model of kite pavilion

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Pavilion in Site Render Kite Pavilion Installation, Central Park, NY Katie Minton Spring Semester 2009 Academic

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Glass Blowing Studio, Burnsville, NC Katie Minton Spring Semester 2010 Academic Beginning my fifth year in architecture, I knew I wanted to more deeply explore the fundamentals of digital design and digital fabrication. I wanted particularly to focus on what might constitute an appropriate balance between man and machine. I wanted to use technology to bridge the gap that often occurs between the birth of an idea and its final constructed form. I chose to design a Glass Blowing Studio because I felt the form for such a program should inspire the artists within, and I felt technology was the best way to create such an inspiring form. When deciding how to incorporate technology into my design process, I decided to let the idea come from a more poetic notion and use technology to fully express that notion. I strayed away from parametric design methods in the early design process. The design concept came from the act of glass stretching. I found it inspiring the way both orbs of hot glass give and take from each other. I wanted to create a form with two elements that could communicate similarly.

The design consists of a rolled metal tubing structure clad in metal panels. The wall panels could be solid or opaque and interchangeable. Some of the panels could swivel open and an oversized hood would let the hot shops within be cooled by the stack effect. There is an occupiable green roof over some of the shop support spaces that would allow students to observe the work happening in the outdoor work space beyond.

Entry to site

Views of site

Existing forrestation

Site Analysis

Evolution of Form

Glass stretching demonstration

Parti Model

Formal Language

Digital iteration of concept

Partial Site Panorama

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East Elevation Glass Blowing Studio, Burnsville, NC Katie Minton Spring Semester 2010 Academic

Wall Section Details

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Elevation and Section Glass Blowing Studio, Burnsville, NC Katie Minton Spring Semester 2010 Academic

South Building Elevation

North Building Section

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Render Glass Blowing Studio, Burnsville, NC Katie Minton Spring Semester 2010 Academic

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Katie Minton

Professional

First Baptist Church Additions, Charlotte, NC Katie Minton Summer 2008 Professional

This is one of the projects I worked on while interning at Adams Group Architects in Charlotte, NC. This was a proposal that consisted of a new parking deck, a new structure attached to the church to aid in an expansion of people and services, and a youth activity center across the street. I was required to use photographs and old oor plans of the existing church to create a digital model. I was then asked to create the additions in that model based on descriptions and hand drawings. This model was used to propose these additions to the client in a way that they could truly visualize so they could make a more educated decision when choosing which additions they preferred.

First Floor Programming Diagram

Second Floor Programming Diagram

Aerial view of site plan

Third Floor Programming Diagram

First Baptist Church , Charlotte, NC

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Gateway Commons Upfit, Wells Fargo, Chapel Hill, NC Katie Minton July 2014 Professional

This LEED compliant upfit transformed a video rental store into a Wells Fargo bank without a drive-thru. I served as Project Manager, seeing to the client’s needs at this location, preparing permit drawings with the assistance of other team members, reviewing shop drawings and LEED submittals, and providing construction administration. I also worked directly with the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural engineers as well as the specification department to assure a cohesive design.

Some of the challenges of this project included the specialty design and detailing of a large piece of millwork behind the teller line and the accommodation of additional bank equipment after construction had begun.

Finish Plan

Marketing Plan

Front Elevation

Floor plan

Proposed Facades

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Existing Facades

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State Street Upfit, Wells Fargo, Bristol, VA Katie Minton November 2014 Professional

This LEED compliant project was an upfit of the bottom level of a historic building in Bristol, VA into a Wells Fargo bank. We attempted to keep as much of the historical value of the building as possible by preserving the original decorative tin ceilings and making only minimal changes to the facade. Challenges at this location included an existing variation in floor level due to flood plains. The floor slab under the ATM and Night Deposit had to be lowered for ADA approach from the sidewalk, so a concrete curb was designed into the new section of wall to prevent future flooding hazards.

I served as project manager, working with two other team members, MEP and structural engineers, and the specifications department to produce the permit drawings.

Exterior Detail at Marketing Panels

Exterior Wall Section

Interior Vestibule Wall Section

Aerial view of site plan

Third Floor Programming Diagram Floor Plan

Front Elevation

Proposed Facade Existing Facade

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Katie Minton

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Jewelry Box Concept Katie Minton Summer 2007 Personal

The idea of designing a new modern jewelry box came to me when I realized how many people have alternative piercings in current generations. I thought it would be nice to have a modern jewelry box that would cater to the types of jewelry being worn. This jewelry box has two main pieces held together by a ‘key’. When the key is removed the top of the box can lift and turn allowing one access to the jewelry bars being held in the holes of the now removed piece. The key can then be replaced in this alternative jewelry holder and the added support would let it stand like a display (see next page for diagrams). The box would be made of plexi and basswood, materials that would allow it to be cut by a low wattage laser cutter.

Front Perspective View

Back Perspective View

Christmas Box Katie Minton Winter Break 2009 Personal

This box was designed as a Christmas gift for my mother. I was considering the act of receiving and opening a present while sketching in my sketch book. The box starts out as a regular christmas box, it conceals what is inside, it acts as a support piece for the journey to retrieving the gift from within. This box has a unique process. The act of opening the gift is defined differently than a customary present where you remove the tape and bow. The sticks hold the inner box within the outer box, so the sticks are first removed. Then the inner box can be lifted to reveal the gift, in this case a small terrarium in an ornament. This box is also unique in that after the present is revealed the box serves as a display for the gift. When the sticks are replaced through the holes in the outer box, the inner box can use it as a plinth to sit upon and display the terrarium.

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Box pieces

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Terrarium Form Study Katie Minton Winter Break 2009 Personal

As a hobby, I like to grow plants. I maintain a balcony garden at my apartment. During the winter however I am often without any plants because its too cold outside for growing and it is not safe inside for them because a cat that lives here likes to eat the foliage. This year I decided the perfect solution would be a terrarium. I decided to make this project a form study. I created a configuration of spheres and then draped them to create a uid surface. I then extracted a grid from that surface and triangulated that grid. I cut the pieces out of clear plexi, scoring numbers onto each triangle based on its location within a row. I then organized each row into groups which were stored in separate containers for easy handling during the building process. Starting at the base, I taped each triangle to its adjacent pieces letting the shape naturally take form based on the other pieces around it before gluing each joint.

I left a section at the top unattached to allow me access into the terrarium for maintenance.

Initial Shape Configuration

Draped Surface

Grid Extraction