Natalie Perri Architecture Portfolio by Natalie T. Perri

Natalie Perri Architecture Portfolio

Selected Works 2 Flow Penn Museum Philadelphia, PA

8 Frame of Mind Marketplace and Train Sation Philadelphia, PA

16 Twist Tower WeWork Office Tower Columbus, OH

24 Microcosmic Lab Energy Research Laboratory Columbus, OH

28 La Brea Tar Pits Archeological History Museum Los Angeles, CA

Miscellaneous Work 40 Design Work

Office Tower (Revit), Toy Shell Space Capsule, and Art Installation

46 Artwork Portrait of Natalie Wisnieski and Big Ben Facade

Flow Museum Expansion Instructor: Daniel Markiewicz | Autumn 2020

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 crosssectional views will introduce fragments of artifacts while the architecture simultaneously blocks the full view of the artifact. This further encourages visitors to explore and circulate through the gallery spaces. Occupants play a critical role with the building as they hold the power to explore and discover the artifacts within the museum. Regarding the construction materials, the expansion is constructed with a translucent concrete building material. This allowsfor light to diffuse in the interior spaces, which are housing fragile artifacts. The existing brick cladding delicately bleeds into the expansion. As the expansion continues, the brick dissolves into this contemporary concrete material.

This exterior render shows the diffused light leaks to the street with translucent concrete.

There are a variety of crosssectional views that introduce fragments of artifacts.

In plan, note how the architecture was intuitively designed to cultivate actions leading to discovery and exploration.

This street facade view shows the transition between the existing brickwork to the modern material. A Choisy - inspired drawing shows the dynamic quality of the expansion massing.

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.

Frame of Mind Instructor: Maya Alam | Spring 2021

Philadelphia is a liberal city, rich with culture and energy. In the 1970s the city experienced an explosion of expression through street art and building tagging. To many locals, street art and murals became a cultural spectacle, used to show Philadelphian culture. The basis of this building proposal is providing 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. The frame provides nesting spaces for the occupiable masses.

With the imposition of three framing systems, opportunities arise to explore nested masses and enclosed interior spaces juxtaposed to airy circulation systems and engaging community exterior spaces. It is an additive project with a program embedded to foster creativity, specifically with street art. Eventually, the project will be overtaken by these expressive art murals and even nature. Ultimately, the building will be taken back by members of the community, as the architecture only served to provide a foundation for expression. It will become an embedded part of West Philadelphian culture, always evolving as the community evolves.

Rendered exterior showing the intersected massings.

Seen in the oblique, the material applications and structural systems act both formally independent but also functionally dependent on one another, better illustrated in the diagram left.

Tectonically speaking, there is a 3 part framing system established. The frames provides visual structure and supports the larger architectural masses housing local businesses, marketplaces, and other community centered program.

The community can evolve how the space is defined and formed. Instead of the architecture imposing itself the neighborhood takes it back.

There are a variety of cross sectional views to allow for a more dynamic viewing of the street art. The architecture divides larger spaces and introducing new in-between environments,

all while respected the gridded system established. As you move through the section, one explores different framed views of the architecture and the murals plastered on top.

At first the architecture seems simply defined.

But as time progresses, the community can evolve how the space is defined and formed. Instead of the architecture imposing itself the neighborhood takes it back.

Twist Tower Instructor: Andrew Cruse | Spring 2019 Partner: Kristen Perng This proposed office tower, located in downtown Columbus aims to create a unique identify amongst the skyline while embracing revolutionary concepts from WeWork offices. To create its iconic identifying feature, the tower twists 45 degrees and transforms from a rectangular base to a square top. A diagrid is constructed and clads its exterior. This unique feature provides unique lighting opportunities throughout various times of the day. To encourage a more active office culture, local stairwells are designed to create a sense of transparency between various levels. It inspires movement and varied circulation routes. There is also a gymnasium, daycare,

supermarket, and restaurant incorporated and dispersed amongst the levels of the tower. The also tower aims to encourage indoor and outdoor interactions. Following the strict grid established, the exterior spaces create opportunities for employees to take creative breaks outside and refresh. The locations of these balconies also correlate to the Columbus skyline, to maximize views. The work produced in this partnership was equalized. Both Perng and I worked on the conceptual aspect, floorplans, and the digital and physical model. I produced the section drawing, and Perng produced the diagrams.

Exterior view showing the building’s diagrid.

Resturant

Co-working

Gymnasium

Cafe

Co-working

Daycare

Co-working

Cafe

Supermarket Lobby

Series of floorplans inspired by Piet Mondrian paintings’ strict grid and color palettes.

Microcosmic Laboratory Instructor: Andrew Cruse | Spring 2019

This proposal for the new energy research laboratory on Ohio State University’s west campus creates a microcosm within a distinctive research laboratory landscape. As university campuses, especially Ohio State, function similarly to a microcosm, this lab creates a microcosm within itself, emphasizing research and science. With the front of the laboratory facing the main thoroughfares, onlookers are greeted with a monumental figure, showcasing the flexible research spaces. And, if entering the laboratory from campus, plaza establish the roads

of circulation which separate the blocks of program within the building. Sectionally, the clean labs were offset and sunken within one another while the flexible laboratory spaces were open, allowing to be reorganized depending on the researcher. The joints of the laboratory were piped and separate aggregated concrete from the smooth finished concrete. This construction system serves as a theoretical connection to the strict orderliness, divisions, and coordination found within a laboratory environment.

Exterior rendering approaching from Cannon Drive.

Cafe

Main Lobby

Clean Laboratories

Flexible Laboratories

Circulation

Auditorium

Flexible Laboratories

Level 01

Level 02

In section, clean lab spaces are offset, differentiating from the flexible laboratories.

La Brea Tar Pits Instructor: Karen Lewis | Autumn 2019 Partner: David Johnson | Studio Award Recipient 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 northeast 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. The work produced in this partnership was equalized. Both Johnson and I worked on the conceptual aspect and digital model. I produced the physical models and diagrams. Johnson produced the renders and plan.

Photograph of structural model with the roof fin detail.

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-ofhouse 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

The exploded axon shows the layers of the museum, starting from the site grid lines to the varied levels of program and circulation, ending with the roof planes and fin details. 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. The render shows the laboratory exterior walkways.

The massing model placed in the site plan in Los Angeles.

Plans of the museum shows its multi-layered quality.

Miscellaneous Works

Office Tower - Revit Instructor: Patrick Morgon | Spring 2021

This Office Tower was designed using AutoDesk’s Revit. Through this project, I acquired first-hand skills in the development of Building Information Models. I also gain access to information about construction sites for synthesizing the knowledge of multi-story buildings. Furthermore, the feedback recieved, using industry-typical online red-lining technology, pushed the design toward a more successful, practical one.

The ability to produce, share, and query a building information model is what makes possible the global practice of collaborative building and integrated practice. By producing a complete set of working drawing for a multi-story commercial building, I acquired the knowledge and skills needed for the production of digital models used for the purposes of building.

Floor Plan Level 01

Floor Plan Mezzanine

Floor Plan - Typical Office - Level 03

RCP - Level 01

3D View - Exploded Axon

Exterior Details

North/South Building Section

Toy Shell Space Capsule Instructor: Zachary Snyder | Spring 2018

A toy shell to be launched into extraterrestrial space houses a slinky, spin top, and pick-upjacks. The shell was designed to complement the kinetic quality of the slinky, by abstractly articulating the Slinky’s spring. The spin top compliments the basic triangular massing of the slinky and mimics the toy’s whirling motion. Lastly, the jacks’ casing was designed to display its auditory qualities and therefore

there are no apertures revealing the toy, just the sounds made when shook. The finalized shell casing strongly contrasts with the three interior toy shells. The curvature adds an organic quality to the capsule with interesting apertures created, which can be seen in the sectional drawings. The complete enclosure loosely abstracts the geometry of the contained toy.

Sectional image of the toy shell, showing the hard geometry contrasting with the organic shell.

Finding the Ace of Spades Instructor: Emily Bell | Spring 2017

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.

Installation photograph of the deck of cards tessellations.

Personal Artwork Various Mediums

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.”

The art piece below of Big Ben was completed with micron pens. The drawing’s original size is 11” by 14”

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