architecture
portfolio Natalie Perri
contents 04 Frame of Mind
Public Station in Urban Context Professor Maya Alam | Spring 2021
studio work
12 Flow
Penn Museum Expansion Professor Daniel Markiewicz | Fall 2020
18 agRUGculture
Housing with Urban Farming Professor Scott Erdy | Fall 2021
28 La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Tar Pits Museum Renewal Professor Karen Lewis | Fall 2019
32 Artwork
misc. work
Various explorations in the artistic field Mediums include graphite, microns, & more
34 Ace of Spades Installation
A temporary art installation crafted with a deck of playing cards
36 Point Cloud Translations
Translating Point Cloud Data into AutoDesk Revit Models | Professional Work
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Frame of Mind Professor Maya Alam | Spring 2021 Philadelphia, PA
Frame of Mind provides a space for the community to express themselves. The structure itself incorporates the method of framing tectonics. Not only does the frame provide visual structure, but abstractly a frame can shape one’s perceptions of the world. The politics of seeing is legitimized by this framing mentality. Architectural devices employed in spaces determine how occupants view spaces and construct their understanding of surroundings. The frame provides nesting spaces for the occupiable masses. With the imposition of three framing systems, opportunities arise to explore nested masses and enclosed interiorspaces juxtaposed to airy circulation systems and engaging community exterior spaces. The structure provides the visual and mental framework to do so. It is an additive project with a program embedded to foster creativity, specifically with street art. Unique blank canvases made with concrete and wood are created on the site itself, begging for the community to further add to its beautification through street art. Eventually, the project will be overtaken by these expressive art murals and even nature.
The system in place, provides a space for the community, to then evolve the architecture and expression over time. Architectural devices employed in spaces determine how occupants view spaces and construct their understanding of surroundings.
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Left: This 52nd street train station and marketplace proposal incorporates two core concepts: layered framing tectonics and spaces for neighborhood expression.
1. Entry 1.1 Visitor’s Center 1.2 Circulation Core 2. Transportation Hub 2.1 Subway Platform 2.2 Restrooms 2.3 Public Seating (outdoor) 2.4 Public Seating (indoor) 3. Community Space 3.1 Painting Studios 3.2 Community Meeting Space 3.3 Welcome Center 3.4 Community Workshop Space 4. Marketplace 4.1 Nooks for Vendors 5. Public Space 5.1 Patio Space 5.2 Roof Deck Space
Looking at the station in plan, the program is interlocked with each other. The established structure explores the qualities of interstitial spaces.
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There will be wonderful opportunities for the expressions to evolve with the seasons and events held at the station. The building provides an environment for the community to come together and celebrate their own culture rather than me as the architect imposing one on them.
At first the architecture seems simply defined.
As time progresses, the community can evolve how the space is defined and formed. Nature takes over the architecture. Instead of the architecture imposing itself to the neighborhood, the neighborhood takes it back.
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It is a balance and relationship, between the tectonic system employed, with the community, to beautify the blank walls.
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To combat graffiti, the city began sponsoring city murals throughout its districts, resulting in 3,000 murals that still paint the walls ofthe city today. To many locals, street artand muralsbecame a cultural spectacle, used to show Philadelphian culture.
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Flow Professor Daniel Markiewicz | Fall 2020 Philadelphia, PA
The typical museum experience consists of a very static interaction between a visitor and the displayed exhibition, where one simply just views the encased artifacts. Penn Museum’s mission has been slowly transitioning to craft a more unique experiential environment. The concept for this proposal is to foster a unique experience that is directly influenced by physical movement. An adventure can be generated if the architecture responded to human gestures and rhythmic movement. The architecture itself will encourage this exploration of spaces, guiding visitors to a relic. This questions the assumption that one’s personal movement in spaces is irrelevant. The architectural forms are derived from the flow of circulation. There are a variety of cross-sectional views. These cross-sectional views will introduce fragments of artifacts while the architecture simultaneously blocks the full view of the artifact. Occupants play a critical role with the building as they hold the power to explore and discover the artifacts within the museum.
In the elevation, note the transition of materials. The existing gable roof is displaced as the museum expansion of flow occurs between the existing and displaced facade.
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There are a variety of cross-sectional views that introduce fragments of artifacts. In plan, note how the architecture was intuitively designed to cultivate actions leading to discovery and exploration.
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A Choisy - inspired drawing shows the dynamic quality of the expansion massing. Below, note how the street facade view shows the transition between the existing brickwork to the modern material.
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agrugculture Professor Scott Erdy | Fall 2021 Philadelphia, PA
Embedded within West Philadelphia, agRUGculture merges housing units with a traditional and vertical farming scape with the existing Enterprise Center. This center has faithfully served the Walnut Hill community for decades. Within the Enterprise Center, the larger studios have been converted into aquaponics food production system. This aquaculture with smaller aquatic animals will fertilize nearby plants with this nutrient-rich aquaculture water. The urban housing box is elevated from the traditional farming plane. This building mass and its orientation mimics neighboring social housing towers, across the SEPTA trainline. On the east and west facing facade, layers of vertical gardens encompass the ongoing public circulation route and private balcony spaces in each housing unit. This enables residents to grow their own food, but the green garden space also capitalizes on passive cooling strategies.
This program diagram shows the layering quality of the building, and how people progress to the traditional farming plane.
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Existing Enterprise Center mass
Top traditional farming plane
Trellis design system that dips into the aquaponics portion
Rice paddy field dipping toward the entry point
Elegant structural components to hold the upper housing
Upper housing block
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Westside egress coridoor
Shows the displaced traditional farming plane with rice paddy fields
1/40” scale massing model in West Philadelphia
Interior details showcasing modular housing layouts with a double glazed system
Pictured here is a trellis design system that dips into the aquaponics portion
Massing in the site at 1:40” scale
Shows the repurposed aquaponics section
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The urban housing box is elevated from the traditional farming plane. This building mass and its orientation mimics neighboring social housing towers, across the SEPTA trainline.
Interior aquaponics program in which fish waste fertilizes the farming landscapes.
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Exterior render from Market Street
AgRUGculture’s new public commons space is this progression through a new landscape that’s embedded within an existing community resource. It enables the community to partake in events and better their health. The Walnut Hill community shows a higher rate of health disparities, directly related to the lower-income and food desert quality of this region. AgRUGculture provides the missing resources all while functioning as a self-sustaining structure.
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On the east and west facing facade, layers of vertical gardens encompass the ongoing public circulation route and private balcony spaces in each housing unit. This enables residents to grow their own food, but the green garden space also capitalizes on passive cooling strategies. When one circulates through this block on the west side, these catwalks can move left to right, to better service the public vertical gardenscapes.
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Every housing unit has access to an open-air terrance with the capacity of a personal vertical garden. This provides residents with the capability to grow their own food, not grown in the community garden. It also passively cools the spaces in the hot summers and frames views toward center city in green.
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These larger sections in the Enterprise Center are covered by a series of catwalks. Community members are welcomed to circulate through the remnants of this structure and slowly progress to the traditional farming landscape, slightly offset from the existing Enterprise Center roof.
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28 | La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Tar Pits Professor Karen Lewis | Fall 2019 Los Angeles, CA | Partner David Johnson
La Brea was designed to establish a fluid relationship between park and museum, with a strong sense of transparency. This ambiguous relationship challenges the traditional typology of museums. After networking the site, connecting the tar pits to the park’s main entry points, a continuous spine with respective cross axes established the general form of the museum. The heart of the building flowed across this spine and housed the collection space. Sheer walls and woven exhibition spaces prompted pedestrians to loop through everchanging pathways. The private spaces face north-east and are raised above the south-west public spine. The back of house operations are able to continue unimpeded by pedestrian traffic. The laboratory space becomes the lifted physical inverse of the collection space, giving mass where the collection space removed it. It also gives the museum height, while the collection space gave depth. The heavy yet elegant mass of the laboratory space visually guides the public level below, establishing and marking the main entry points. The graceful bends in the form also shows the intertwining cross-axis points below.
Photograph of the structural model, joined to one another via roof fins. Shows the slops of the roofs and the dynamic quality of the museum.
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Shows an aerial photograph of the 1’:1/16” model of La Brea Museum, crafted with 3D prints.
The diagrams shows the private and public circulation routes which correlate to the public and private blocks of program. The public axis is translated as the primary collection space and the private axis houses the back-of-house operations of La Brea. The public bar of program is exterior and encourages movement and weaving between the architecture and museum’s artifacts.
Public Private
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This program diagram shows the layering quality of the building, and how people progress to the traditional farming plane.
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To the left is a graphite portrait of my grandmother Natalie Wisniewski. The piece was done with graphite pencils. The original size of the graphite drawing is 11” by 14.”
Below is an exploration of color and texture completed with oil paints on a streched canvas.
Big Ben on 11” by 17” bristol completed with micron pens.
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Personal ARTWORK Self Taught Various Mediums
For years, I have attempted to grow my technical art skills and capture the soul of buildings, people, color, animals and so on. Living with beautiful objects inspire me to capture them in a different medium and explore subjects in a new, personal way.
North American grey wolves completed on a 48” by 24” stretched canvas with acrylic paints.
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Finding the Ace of Spaces Instructor Emily Bell | Spring 2017 Columbus, OH
Through experimentation, the installation aimed to create a dynamic relationship between the constructed forms and environment. To do this, the card deck flows haphazardly outward, creating transitional moments from two dimensional to three dimensional. Other details add to the dynamic quality, such as the hanging elements, light features, and viewer-installation interaction. The location of the installation is by an exit door, causing a rush of air in the space when opened. The hanging three dimensional sculpted objects sway with when someone enters the space. This is appropriate because there is also a bulletin board, with a plethora of flyers hanging about, and mimics the same sounds and motions as the hanging elements. Secondly, the backlight on the installation draws the viewer toward the center, brightening up the dark corner. Lastly, the title of the installation serves a purpose. The viewer is encouraged to discover and view the installation from different angles to find the ace of spades. This is suitable, given the purpose of playing cards.
In the elevation, note the transition of materials. The existing gable roof is displaced as the museum expansion of flow occurs between the existing and displaced facade.
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Point cloud Translations Robotic Imaging Philadelphia, PA
Robotic Imaging is a start-up company located in Philadelphia, PA. At this company, LiDAR scanners extract specific point cloud data which is later translated into a BIM format. AutoDesk Revit is favored by most. Here are some of the BIM projects worked on with the team, and how the point cloud translation process works. As an intern, I assist or lead a translation process. Occassionally, I will scan a site itself with a Matterport or LiDAR scanner. I also am responsible for creating marketing content for the company.
This project used a Matterport and LiDAR scan to translate into a AutoDesk Revit model
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Original point cloud
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Final Revit model with point cloud underlaid
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