MEREDITH LAYMAN 2020 / Portfolio
MEREDITH LAYMAN Bachelor of Architecture, 2021 Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, 2020 North Carolina State University
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ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Pettigrew State Park, Creswell, NC 11
PALIMPSEST DRAWINGS
Case study of Buckhead Branch Library, Atlanta, GA 13
SWIMMER’S RETREAT
Zeagle’s Rock, Falls Lake, NC 19
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Central Park, Durham, NC 27
READING ROOM
Anywhere, America 28
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Durham, NC 39
COLLEGE OF DESIGN LIBRARY & STUDIO EXTENSION Raleigh, NC 57
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY CARTOGRAPHIC STUDY Raleigh, NC 61
INTEGRATED SCIENCES BUILDING Raleigh, NC
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Spring 2018 ARC 202, Billy Askey Pettigrew State Park is a place that attracts stargazers, bird watchers, fishers, hikers, and history buffs alike. With forests, fields, and a lake, the assignment was to find a site location and design an astronomical observatory for the park. The site I selected strattled the boundary between gridded agricultural fields and deciduous North Carolina forest. At the point where the entrance road of the park dives into the forest, this observatory would welcome visitors into the park. The design is a single swooping gesture that guides the visitor from the road, through a gallery and astronomy museum, and eventually to the telescope. It opens like a front porch to the fields, and the telescope views out from the trees.
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PALIMPSEST Fall 2018 ARC 301, Ellen Weinstein I analyzed the Buckhead Branch Library in Atlanta, GA as a case study in public library design. The series of palimpsest drawings is a method for understanding structural and design relationships.
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SWIMMER’S RETREAT Spring 2018 ARC 202, Billy Askey This assignment was to design a retreat for swimmers which included a lap pool and recreational swimming pool. Due to its location on Falls Lake, which supports boaters and fishers, my concept centered around the activities of water. Entering from the wooded side, the design steps down the hill with increasing swimming activity levels. The rooms overlooking the pools provide a quiet space for relaxation or reflection, while the most active lap pool sits just above the lake.
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The dashed circle above represents Zeagle’s Rock, once a destination along the Neuse River before the river was dammed and Falls Lake was created. In the spirit of the meandering and expanding river, the design takes cues from the topography and riverbank for its siting. To the right are diagrams abstracting the riverbank design. 01 Hillside claimed by more water 02 Stepped topography creates pools 03 Meandering circulation down the hillside 04 Design sketch for swimmer’s retreat
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DURHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall 2018 ARC 301, Ellen Weinstein Durham Central Park is already host to a number of community activities - there is a weekly Farmer’s Market, a skate park, it serves as playground for nearby schools, volunteer events, and community gathering. The task was now to design a branch public library on the southeast corner of Central Park. My concept meant to incorporate the existing community activities of the park and provide additional amenities and space for the public. In two parts, the library consists of bookstacks/reading rooms and an open multipurpose space. The design includes a main library entrance as well as establishes a fourth entrance into the park. It holds a street wall and opens up with views towards Central Park.
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READING ROOM Fall 2018 ARC 301, Ellen Weinstein With a purposefully small and ambiguously located site to work on, the task was to create a reading room and garden with Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows” to inspire our thinking. I designed a space, both shadowed and lit for a variety of reader preferences. Entering on the ground floor takes you to the largest space which holds the books. From there, you can go to the covered garden or upstairs reading loft.
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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Spring 2019 ARC 302, Edwin Harris With the possibility of a Durham light rail, there was a need to improve pedestrian connection between downtown Durham and the Durham Performing Arts Center. Between those two points are many lanes of roads, railroad tracks, and hypothetical light rail tracks. Further, I intended to provide a missing link for Durhams greenways and urban trails between the American Tobacco Trail and North/South Durham Greenway. These trails are used by pedestrians and cyclists alike. The design allows for a fast track path flanked by overlooking balconies over the train tracks, and touches down on either side into green space.
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Initial site analysis and design concepts. Exploring ideas of connecting greenspaces in Durham.
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COLLEGE OF DESIGN LIBRARY & STUDIO EXTENSION Spring 2020 ARC 402, Dana Gulling The focus of this ARC 402 studio was on learning the capabilities and pushing the limits of total pre-cast concrete design. In this two part project, I first worked in a group with six other undergraduate and graduate students from both architecture and engineering majors to design and build a full scale pre-cast concrete panel. Our panel design was initially inspired by the work of Josef Albers, whose influence in North Carolina is notable for The second part of the project involved individually designing an expansion of NC State’s College of Design to house the design library and studio space for graduate level architecture studios. We were tasked with including some element of the previous panel design into the facade of the building.
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top left Josef Albers “Study for Graphic Tectonic,� c 1941-42, used as one of the inspirations for the design of the concrete panel left process of building the molds and pouring concrete for the finished product shown above
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The first pour of the concrete panel included a mitered corner and rebar to receive the second pour. Unfortunately the project was cut short due to COVID-19 so we were unable to finish the corner.
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CARTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF NEUSE RIVER BASIN WATER SYSTEMS Spring 2020 ARC 590, Sara Queen and Tania Allen With the understanding that map making can be both a research tool to help form a question as well as one to support an argument, this course challenged us to use GIS data to deeply study a topic of our choosing in Raleigh, NC. I was initially interested in Raleigh’s relationship to the Neuse River because unlike the city I grew up in, the city of Raleigh was not planned on or around the river. I was curious as to why this was the case. I first made a series of maps understanding the spatial relationships between the city and its surrounding hydrology features. In creating maps at different scales and times, I became more interested in the complex system of public water supply for Raleigh and nearby towns and cities. The second map therefore is an abstracted network map showing the connections of all of the public ground water supply sources, water treatment plants, and cities in the Upper Neuse River Basin.
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PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY 1887-2019 By the 1950s and 60s, the city had expanded it water supply to include both the Walnut Creek and Swift Creek watersheds, and was looking to the Neuse River for more water. Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1965 and authorized the construction of Falls Lake. Growing demands have pushed the limits of Raleigh’s water supply, and the subsequent reservoirs have since become a recreational asset as well as a water supply system.
Through the first half of the 20th century, the city continuously expanded the water supply system to meet the demands of a growing population. 1925 saw the demand for water reach its 4 million gallon per day limit, and then again in 1938 demand exceeded a 5 million gallon capacity during an especially hot May. The WPA provided funds for Raleigh to build the E.B. Bain Water Treatment Plant, eventually providing 20 million gallons per day until 1987.
The earliest system to provide piped water to the city of Raleigh dates to 1815 in response to fires. The water system was soonafter deemed a disaster as the wooden pipes were frequently clogged with mud and burst. Thus, the city remained using a system of wells and pumps until 1887 when a dam and pump station was built along Walnut Creek 1.5 miles south of the city.
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CONSTRUCTED 1914 Lake Raleigh was planned on the Dorthea Dix Hospital grounds in 1909 and impounded in 1914 to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. It had a 140 million gallon capacity. Water from Lake Raleigh was still being treated at the original pump house further down Walnut Creek until the E.B. Bain Treatment Plant was built in 1940.
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14,663,300,000 GALLONS WATER SUPPLY STORAGE CAPACITY The US Army Corps of Engineers constructed Raleigh’s primary water source reservoir between 1978-1983. In 1972, a contract was signed between the City of Raleigh and the USACE indicating that Falls Lake could provide a 50-year safe yield of 67 million gallons per day. 42.3% of Falls Lake’s capacity goes to Raleigh’s water supply. The remaining 57.7% remains for downriver water quality control.
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47,000,000 GALLONS PER DAY When, in the 1960s, the Bain Treatment Plant couldn’t keep up with demand, plans were made for an additional plant along the Neuse River. The Johnson Plant was completed in 1967, first drawing water from the Falls of Neuse Reservoir and then from Falls Lake beginning in 1981. It has the ability to expand to a maximum daily capacity of 86 million gallons of water.
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20,000,000 GALLONS PER DAY In 1951, the plant expanded capacity to 13 million gallons per day to meet demand, drawing water from the Swift Creek watershed, the Bain Treatment Plant would only be in service for a few more years until 1987, exactly one century after water was first drawn from Walnut Creek at this location.
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LAKE RECREATION, 2019 Population: 423,179
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DATA SOURCES: RALEIGH.GOV / PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SOURCES, CRITICAL WATERSHEDS, WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATIONS, WAKE COUNTY HYDROLOGY, WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC OPEN SPACE, WAKE COUNTY PRIVATE OPEN SPACE, COUNTY BOUNDARY, NC DOT CITY BOUNDARIES
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PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS ON THE NEUSE RIVER Raleigh and Durham anticipate the greatest increase in water use by 2050, where the existing systems would not be able to meet demand. As demands increase, the frequency and duration of supply shortages also increase, and there is greater potential for scenarios like the 2007-2008 drought to be repeated. This map does not include reservoir data for Jordan Lake which supplies the Jones Ferry Road WTP, Cary-Apex WTP and other public water supply systems outside of the Neuse River Basin.
The public water supply systems in the Upper Neuse watershed rely heavily, if not soley, on surface water which is collected and stored in reservoirs. These reservoirs also serve the critical function of downriver flood control. Interconnections exist between water supply systems for regular or emergency use. However, according to models created for the Neuse River Basin Water Resources Plan, some of these systems may not be able to meet future water demand if population and climate trends continue.
The Neuse River Basin is the third largest river basin in North Carolina with a drainage area of 6,235 square miles. Streams merge in Falls Lake to form the start of the Neuse River, which then flows 248 miles until it merges into Pamlico Sound. This map shows the public water supply systems and interconnections of the Upper Neuse watershed. The Upper Neuse contains all but three of the surface water reservoirs in the Neuse River basin and serves some of the most populated areas in North Carolina.
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Congress passes Flood Control Act of 1965; authorizes construction of Falls Lake
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MAP 6 OF 6: PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS ON THE NEUSE RIVER // MEREDITH LAYMAN // MAY 4, 2020 // PREPARED FOR: ADN592-001/ARCH590: DIY CARTOGRAPHY: MAPPING AS A MEANS TO SYNTHESIZE, ANALYZE, AND TRANSLATE COMMUNITY HISTORIES AND FUTURES
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INTEGRATED SCIENCES BUILDING Fall 2020 ARC 501, Marshall Purnell This semester long project for a new labratory and classroom building on NC State’s campus gave us the opportunity to experience different phases of the design process—the Pre-Design stage involving site analysis, precedent research, program analysis; Concept Development, Schemadic Design, and an introduction to code analysis, structural framing, and HVAC systems. As an entirely virtual studio course, there was greater emphasis on creating digital models including a digital chunk model. The site is located at the Brickyard, one of NC State’s most iconic locations. With such a prominent location, my goals for the project included fitting within the language and scale of the campus while also serving as a new backdrop for the Brickyard. I left the ground floor adjacent the Brickyard as public as possible with the cafe and extra large flex classroom/ event space easily accesible. I lifted labratories and some classrooms to upper floors, however kept them visually connected via a central atrium. Designing sustainably was another personal goal for this project. I hoped to take advantage of the southern exposure for solar panels and stepping roof levels to increase daylighting in the building and provide views to a greenroof. Researching the LEED and Living Building Challenge standards in addition to sustainbility precedents helped form ideas on how to achieve this goal.
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1970s Vietnam War Protests
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trike Shack-a-Thon Tradition begins 1998 1983 ACC Championship Celebrations
2017 Total Solar Eclipse
2001 9/11 Memorial
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Atrium Dining DH Hill Library
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The brickyard is the largest open space in the heart of campus, and many paths cross through the brickyard.
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SUSTAINABILITY & PROGRAM PRECEDENTS
The Science Place, James Cook University // photo
AIA NC Headquarters // photo by Timothy Hursley
New Science Center, Amherst University // photo by Carol Lollis
New Science Center //
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/ photo by Carol Lollis, edited by Tara Lavrik
The Science Place, James Cook University // photos by Andrew Rankin
Discovery Elementary School // image by VMDO Architects
University of Mpmalanga // Ludwig Hansen, edited by Tara Lavrik
Sidwell Friends School // photo by Halkin Photography LLC
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coping steel channel roofing membrane sheathing green roof
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planting mineral planting medium
steel angles
root barrier
steel framing
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roofing membrane rigid insulation roof structure wide flange
composite decking
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structural steel beam
installation clips air cavity rigid insulation vapor barrier sheathing kicker 6” metal studs flashing with drip edge backer rod + sealant window header glazing
glazing window sill backer rod + sealant flashing wood cladding z-clip installation clip air cavity rigid insulation vapor barrier sheathing 6” metal studs gypsum stud track bent plate composite decking structural steel beam steel angle steel kicker flashing with drip edge backer rod + sealant window header finish ceiling
glazing window sill backer rod + sealant flashing wood cladding z-clip installation clip air cavity rigid insulation vapor barrier sheathing 6” metal studs gypsum stud track bent plate wide flange slotted steel angle curtain wall mullion
composite decking structural steel beam steel angle metal stud framing
finish ceiling glass curtain wall flashing with drip edge extruded aluminum rigid insulation EIFS soffit
curtainwall glazing window sill sealant + backer rod flashing precast sill with nonshrink grout rigid insulation
structural steel column column cover clip finish walk
6” turn down slab compacted ABC rigid insulation vapor barrier footing
compacted subgrade steel bearing plate concrete fill pile cap piles
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32’
32’
32’
32’
32’
32’
44’
32’
32’
38’
above Structural framing grid right HVAC plan and section
32’
40’
40’
38’
Chiller
Exhaust
AHU
Intake
Air Supply Air Return VAV box
Air Supply Air Return
Solar Array
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Preliminary Cost Estimate Construction Cost (Hard Costs) Building Gross Square Footage (SF) by Floor 00 - Basement
8,938
01 - Ground
23,218
02
23,075
03
23,047
04
13,251
Exterior Green Roof & Roof Patio (50%) Total Building Gross Square Footage (SF) Estimated Construction Cost per Square Footage ($/SF) Construction Cost ($) Construction Contingency Rate Construction Contingency ($) Total Estimated Construction Costs ($)
5,009 96,538 $635 $61,301,630 10% $6,130,163 $67,431,793
Soft Costs Soft Cost Rate (% of Hard Cost)
20%
Total Estimated Soft Costs ($)
$13,486,359
Total Project Costs (Hard + Soft)
$80,918,152
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48’
121’
51’
70’
92’
Occupancy Load Calculation for Floor 3 Function
Factor (SF/person)
Area (SF)
Occupancy
Research Labs
100
6,456
65
Teaching Labs
50
3,872
78
Lounge
15
1,536
103
Business
100
9,715
98
Storage
300
250
1
Outdoor
15
800
54
Total Occupancy for Floor 3
399
Floor 03 Occupant Load: 399 Corridor Width: 60 inches (0.15 inches/occupant) Building Code Requirement: 44 inches ADA Requirement: 60 inches Stair Width: 80 inches (0.2 inches/occupant) Building Code Requirement: 44 inches ADA Requirement: 48 inches
Common Path of Travel: <100’ Travel Distance: <200’
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MEREDITH LAYMAN North Carolina State University